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

for if the body of the Sun be darkened, the Moon and Stars that receive their light therefrom, must needs be also in a like proportion darkened & obscured. Some holy Divines say that this darkening of the sun, was a visible sign of Gods desertion, and hiding his face from Jesus Christ all the time of his suffering upon the Cross.

for if the body of the Sun be darkened, the Moon and Stars that receive their light therefrom, must needs be also in a like proportion darkned & obscured. Some holy Divines say that this darkning of the sun, was a visible sign of Gods desertion, and hiding his face from Jesus Christ all the time of his suffering upon the Cross.

3. The wicked Murderers are undaunted, they go on with their work they had in hand, they strip off his garments, and crucify him naked, (unless they had so much modesty as to cover shame) for all the Evangelists put the parting of his garments, at or about the beginning of the time of his hanging on the Cross: If they had his garments, he was naked, putting upon him as much indignity & shame as they could.

3. The wicked Murderers are undaunted, they goe on with their work they had in hand, they strip off his garments, and crucifie him naked, (unless they had so much modesty as to cover shame) for all the Evangelists put the parting of his garments, at or about the beginning of the time of his hanging on the Cross: If they had his garments, he was naked, putting upon him as much indignity & shame as they could.

4. They lifted him up on high, that they might fasten him to the cross. This was typified by lifting up the brazen serpent in the wilderness, as Jesus Christ himself testifieth,