thieves, the one on his right hand, the other on his left. And the feripture was fulfilled which faith With the wicked he was reputed. And they that paffed by, blafphemed him, wagging their heads, and faying Vah, thou that de ftroyeft the Temple of God, and in three days buildeft it up again: fave thyfelf, come down from the crofs." In like manner alfo the chief priests with the fcribes, mocking, faid onesto another," He faved others, bimfelf he cannot fave. Let Chrift, the king of Ifrael, come down from the cross, that we may fee and believes And they that were crucified with him, reviled him. And when the fixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour; and at the ninth hour Jefus cried out with a loud voice, faying: "Eloi, eloi, lamma fabacthani?" which is, being interpreted, "my God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me?" and fome of the ftanders by hearing, faid: "Behold, he calleth Elias." And one running and filling a fpung with vinegar, and putting it upon a reed, gave him to drink, faying: " Stay, let us fee if Elias will come to take him down. And Jefus having cried out with a loud voice, gave up the ghoft. And the veil of the Temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom. And the Centurion officer who ftood over against him, feeing, that crying out in this manner, he had given up the ghoft, faid: Indeed this man was the Son of God."

Mofes. He is brought as a lamb to the flaughter; and, as a fheep before her theerers, is dumb,

Meahobrought by Ifrael to Pilate, an heathen judge, to receive the fentence of death.

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brBoy.b Pfalm 22. My God, my God, why baft thou forfaken me? why art thou so far from help.. ing me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God I cry in the day time, but thou bearest not § and in the night feafon, and am not filent. But thou art boly, O thou that inhabiteft the praises of Trael. Our fathers trufted in thee; they trusted and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trufted in thee, and were not confounded. But I am a worm and no a reproach of men, and difpifed of the people. All they that fee me, laugh me to fcorn; they fboot out the lip; they shake the head, faying, be trufted in God that he would deliver him, let bim deliver him, feeing be delighted in him. But thou art be that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breast. I was caft on thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from me; for trouble is near: there is none to help. Many bulls have compaffed: strong bulls of Bahan have befet me round. They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax, it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My frength is dried up like a pot-foerd; and my tongue cleaveth to the roof of my mouth thou hast brought me into the jaws of death. For dogs have compaffed me; the affembly of the wicked bave inclofed me: they pierced my bands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and flare upon me. They part my garments

among

among them, and caft lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, hafte thee to help me. Deliver my foul from the fword, my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praife thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praife bim: all ye the feed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the feed of Ifrael. For be bath not difpifed nor abhorred the afflictions of the afflicted: neither bath he hid bis face from bim: but when be cried to him he beard. My praife fhall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek fhall eat and be fatisfied: they shall praise the Lord that feek him: your heart fhall live for ever. All the ends of the world ball remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations fball worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations. All they that be fat upon the earth fhall eat and worship: all they that go down to the duft fhall bow before him; and none can keep alive his own foul. A feed fhall ferve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and fhall declare his righteousness unto a people that fhall be born, that he hath done this.

Mofes. "My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me?" Thefe are the words of Meffiah whilft upon the crofs, and noted by Matthew and Mark. " He trufted in God that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, feeing he delighted in him." Thefe were the words of our

chief priests, with the fcribes and antients at the crucifixion of Chrift, and mentioned in the Gofpel of Matthew. "I am a worm and no man; a reproach of men, and defpifed of the people." Never was man more derided and defpifed, vilified, and as it were an inherent hatred,' than Jefus Chrift, not only by the Jews, but every defcription of men but his own church; and this we fee verified even in this eighteenth century." They fhot out the lip, and fhake the head." This, all agree, Jefus fuffered on the crofs." Thou haft brought me into the jaws of death: for dogs have compaffed me; the affembly of the wicked have inclosed me:" And in another pfalm, "Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devifed vain things: the kings of the earth ftood up, and the princes affembled together, against the Lord, and againft. his Chrift." All these prophecies were accomplifhed at the time appointed in the prophecy of Daniel, by Herod, Pilate, Caiphas, with the other princes, rulers and whole body of people, both Jews and Gentiles, which on that great feftival had met from many diftant countries, to join the folemnity. They pierced my hands and my feet." Jefus Chrift was nailed through his hands and feet to the crofs, an ignominious fpectacle, expofed to the view, and inflicted on none but the moft vile and abandoned wretches; the nails are fhewn at this day. "They part my garments among them, and caft lots upon my vesture." All these things were accomplished, and your four Evangelifts bear record. "He was numbered with the tranfgreffors." All this prophecy

prophecy was truly verified at the crucifixion of Jefus Chrift, and recorded in your Gofpels. This was his prayer for his crucifiers,

Father,

forgive them; they know not what they do:" And for the penitent thief, "This day thou fhall be with me in Paradise."

Boy. Matthew, chapter 27.

"And when

morning was come, all the chief priests and ancients of the people took council againft Jefus," to put him to death; and they brought him bound, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Julas, who betrayed him, feeing that he was condemned, repenting himfelf, brought back the thirty pieces of filver to the chief priests and the ancients, faying, “I have finned in betraying innocent blood." But they faid: "What is that to us? look thou to it," and cafting down the pieces of filver in the temple, he departed, and went and hanged himfelf with a halter. But the chief priests having taken the pieces of filver, faid: It is not lawful to put them into the Corbona, be caufe it is the price of blood!" ~ And, after they had confulted together, they bought with them the Potter's Field, to be a burying-place for ftrangers. Wherefore that field was called Haceldama, that is, the Field of Blood, even to this day. Then was fulfilled that which was fpoken by Jeremiah the prophet, faying: "And they took the thirty pieces of filver, the price of him that was valued, whom they prized of the children of Ifrael, and they gave them unto the Potter's Field, as the Lord appointed to me. And: Jefus ftood before the governor,

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