1. He argues with them again, that he is their King, and will ye crucify him? Joh. 19.14, 15. this point he did the more urge. First, because the Gentiles knew that the Jews looked for a King and Saviour. And secondly, because Jesus Christ had fully asserted his kingly Office before Pilate, and so effectually as that he did believe it, viz. with an historical Faith, which appeareth by the Title he set upon the Cross of Jesus Christ, and his resolution to assert it. That Pilate had used this point of reasoning with them, before he yielded to them, is manifest, because one part of their answer to this point put them upon that plea, that overcame Pilate. Now after he is set in the judgement Seat he uses the same plea again. And it puts the Jews upon the same dreadful answer, viz. again to disclaim Jesus Christ from being their King, and to profess that they had no King but Cesar, wherein they renounced the government of God and Christ, and subjected themselves to the World and worldly Rulers; who have kicked them about the world in every place, ever since, and they put away the SCEPTRE from Judah, and never had it since restored to this day. And Pilate by this their answer, lay open to the same snare that had taken him, and still holds him, he cannot bear that word to be imputed to him, no friend to Cesar. What? not true and constant to my Sovereign? let God & Christ, & Conscience, & all go, rather then undergo that imputation.
1. He argues with them again, that he is their King, and will ye crucifie him? Joh. 19.14, 15. this point he did the more urge. First, because the Gentiles knew that the Jews looked for a King and Saviour. And secondly, because Jesus Christ had fully asserted his kingly Office before Pilate, and so effectually as that he did believe it, viz. with an historical Faith, which appeareth by the Title he set upon the Cross of Jesus Christ, and his resolution to assert it. That Pilate had used this point of reasoning with them, before he yielded to them, is manifest, because one part of their answer to this point put them upon that plea, that overcame Pilate. Now after he is set in the judgement Seat he uses the same plea again. And it puts the Jews upon the same dreadful answer, viz. again to disclaim Jesus Christ from being their King, and to profess that they had no King but Cesar, wherein they renounced the government of God and Christ, and subjected themselves to the World and worldly Rulers; who have kicked them about the world in every place, ever since, and they put away the SCEPTER from Judah, and never had it since restored to this day. And Pilate by this their answer, lay open to the same snare that had taken him, and still holds him, he cannot bear that word to be imputed to him, no friend to Cesar. What? not true and constant to my Sovereign? let God & Christ, & Conscience, & all go, rather then unndergo that imputation.
