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Part I. Redemption and Jufiificathn cieered.
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Chrift was not condemned to death by the Scribes an J Pharifcs,
but by Pilat the Roman Deputy. lohn 18.51.
The Jews had no power in their hands at that time to put any
man 10 death, for if they had had the poorer of Jifc and death in
their own hands at that time, they would lirfl have ftoncd our Savior
to death, bccaufe they made him guilty of Blj/phemy and
Witchcraft, lohn 19. 7. /#/;» 10. ; 5. which (ins were punilhed by
ftqning to death by Mofes Law. Bjt the Jews own Writers do teftifie
that the Romans had taken away the power of Lifw and
Death from them before this time, nam \j forty yeer>; btioxt the
Deftrudionofjerufal.m, which was about two yeers before the
death of Chrift ;
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That thefaying $f Jefns might be fu lulled, fig^iifjing
What death hejhutild dy
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John 8.52. Vor Jefus had told his
Diidples in Aiatth. 10. 19. That the Priefis r.nd Scribes JhcdJ deliver
him to the Gentiles^ to mock.^ andtofcoarge, and to crticife
him : and juft fo it fell out, for the Scrib.s and Pharifes could not
condemn him to death, therefore they delivered him to Pila the
Roman Deputy, to be condemned and crucified ^ and th«n the Roman
Souldiers^ took him, and led him to the Croii they did
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mock him, and crown him with thorns, they whipt him with
whips, and nayled him to the Crofs. This kind of Roman death
was ufed by them for the punifhment of notorious malefactors,
cfpicially for the punifhment of thi-'ves, and fugitive llaves; as
GoodW'ifi notcth in his Rom^n Ar.ticj. lib. 5. r. 4.
In thefc particulars you fee there was a great difference between
the Roman Crucifying, and the Hanging upon a Tree among the
Jews.
And yet there was (ome likeneG in this kind of death,
for both
Jews and Romans did hang the bafert Malefadors upon a Tree,for
a figne of their greater infamy, and fo confequcntJy, for a fi^nc of
thtif greater outward cuife.
Hence I rea'on thus, when the Romans did put Chrif: to that
kind of death which they ufed to infli(^ upon their bafj fugitive
Have.*; they made him curfed in his dea:h in the highcft degree
they could.
And yet at that very felf fame time ChriH: did redeem us
horn chrifl dvfdiioih
the Curfe of the Law, even from the Hternal Curfe, bcc.ure Chriil jj.iil'-tjl^j;;.
dyed not only as a malefaiftor by th^ power of the R.omanSoul- tot at one and
\- the lame time
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