The Fountain of Life Opened

The worst and most unrighteous actions labour to cover and shroud themselves under pretensions of equity. Sin is so shameful a ⟨p. 357⟩thing, that, it cares not to own its name. Christ shall have a Table written for him also.¹ This writing one Evangelist calls the Accusation, Matth. 27.37. Another calls it the Title, Joh. 19.19. Another the Inscription, or Superscription, so the Text. And another the Superscription of his Accusation, Mark 15.26. In short, it was a fair legible writing intended to express the fact or crime, for which the person died.

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This was their usual manner,¹ though sometime we find it was published by the voice of the common Crier. As in the case of Attalus the martyr, who was led about the Amphitheatre; one proclaiming before him, This is Attalus the Christian. But it was customary and usual to express the crime in a written Table, as the Text expresses it. Wherein these three things offer themselves to your consideration.

This was their usual manner,¹ though sometime we find it was published by the voice of the common Cryer. As in the case of Attalus the martyr, who was led about the Amphitheater; one proclaiming before him, This is Attalus the Christian. But it was customary and usual to express the crime in a written Table, as the Text expresses it. Wherein these three things offer themselves to your consideration.