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Parti. Kedempthn Mtid JmJhficAthM cletred, 46 V
timet from mans hand : But in the prefenc ca(e, becwcen Chrift
and the Sons of Zekedeus^ the cup or portion whcrcki they muft I
parallel each orhcr.is pcrfccurionsand death from the hand ofwick- {
cd Tyrants; yea fomrimes the Godly do not only drink a cup, but
atullcupofbitrerafflidion, Pfut. /^.lo.yeaa very great meaiure,
calkd in Kf^rrjr, Shdlifh, of three, which i& a third part the
gnat ft meafure, four times as big as the uiuall cup co drink
in : fee Ainf.mPfal. Jo. 6.
Sec ndly, He teh them thut they ntMJi be hd^i^ed with hit b^ftifrmt)
that is to fay, they muft be put to death by the malice of tyrants,
as he muft be, and this is expieffed by the metaphor ot baptifing:forbap:i{ingisa
diving, 01 drowning of the whole body
under water, andtherforc Chrift ordained baptiiing to be ulcd df U* »o-'»»»««
his people as a ty picall figne of
drowning and mortifying the bo-
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dy of fin in his blood: But baptizing by tyrants, was ukd to drown
mens bodies by death, and chcrfore Chrifl faith, lam tJttred inta -j
thedeepvattrs Pf. i^.i. i^.F/SS.i^. and in this very fence
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the Apoftlc faith, ; Elfe what Jhall they W« that srt ka^tJud f^r \
dead ( namely, that are baptized with death as Martyrs are ) If the
dead rife net at all, whj are they then haftK>edfer dead
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15.29. Godly Martyrs would never be baptized with death, if
the hope of a better refutrcfUon did not animate their fpiritsto
fuffcr death for
the truths fake, being thereby conformable to the
death of Chrift, as Paul doth intimate in Phi. 5. i«, 1 1.
By thcfetwo exprcflions,which zxtfyntminta or etjuivalenty our
Savior doth inform the two Sons i>( Zel^edewhit the true nature of
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his fuffcrings fliould be , namely , no other but fuch only as they
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fhoLild one; day fuffcr from the hands of tyrants : therefore the ^
troubled fcare which CMatthew and Markj^o afcribe unto Chrifl
a little before his apprehenfion, miifl be underflood of his naturalf
feareofdcath, and not of his fathers wrath,andfo confcquentJy,
all the fufferings ofChrifl were from mans wrath and n»^>
incited by the Dcvill ( with Gods allowance j but not from Gods
wrath : his foule was not touched with any fuffering ( from Gods
wrath at all
J except by way of fympathy from his bodily fufieiings
onely.
Tradef: I conceive yen are greatly mftaken to fay that Cbrijt
dUf^mnch troubU htmfclf with the furofhH naturaU death
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