The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Joseph was a very eminent, holy, and good man, all the Evangelists do enlarge in his commendation, and though he had been (as John saith) timorous, yet now he taketh boldness, Mark. 14.43. and so did Nicodemus: if the Reader please to turn to these Texts, he shall see how amply the holy Ghost hath spoken of Joseph, Math. 27.57, ad 61. Mark. 15.43, ad 47. Luk. 23.50, ad 54. Joh. 19.38.

Joseph was a very eminent, holy, and good man, all the Evangelists do inlarge in his commendation, and though he had been (as John saith) timorous, yet now he taketh boldness, Mark. 14.43. and so did Nicodemus: if the Reader please to turn to these Texts, he shall see how amply the holy Ghost hath spoken of Joseph, Math. 27.57, ad 61. Mark. 15.43, ad 47. Luk. 23.50, ad 54. Joh. 19.38.

Pilate granted to Joseph at his request the dead body of Jesus Christ, these two honourable men took it down from the Cross, they prepared a fine linen burying Sheet, newly bought for this purpose, they wrapped up the body with the aromatics in decent manner, carefully laying Aromatics upon all his wounds, in hands, feet, side, back, head, or else where. They carried the body into a garden hard by, which was Josephs, where was a new Sepulchre, hewen out of a Rock, which Joseph had prepared for his own burial, in which never yet had any man been buried; there they did at present lay up the body, the approaching of the Sabbath permitting them to do no more: they rolled a great stone to the door of the Vault, which shut it close up. And so they departed.