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let Him deliver Him: let Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted . 21, in Him. Likewise in the same place, My strength is dried up 22] 15. t V. like a potsherd, and My tongue cleaveth to My jaws. Likewise ch. 3, in Zechariah, And the Lord shewed me Jesus, that great Priest, ot V. standing before the face of the Angel of the Lord, and the Devil stood at His right hand to resist Him. And Jesus was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the face of the Angel himself, and answered, and spake unto those that stood before His face, saying, Take away the filthy garments from Him; and He said unto Him, Behold, I have taken away thine iniquities: and put on Him an alb, and set ye a fair mitre upon His head. il. 2, Likewise Paul to the Philippians; Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but emptied Himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in likeness of men; and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath exalted Him, and given Him a Name which is above every name: that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and of things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, in the glory of God the Father.

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14. That He was the Just, whom the Jews should kill.

In the Wisdom of Solomon, Let us lie in wait for the V. Righteous, because He is unacceptable to us, and is clean contrary to our doings, and upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to us the transgressings of the law. He professeth to have the knowledge of God, and calleth Himself the Son of God. He is made to us for a reproof of our thoughts, He is grievous unto us, even to behold: for His life is not like other men's, His ways are of another fashion. We are esteemed of Him as empty men, and He abstaineth from our ways as from filthiness; He praiseth the last end of the just, and maketh His boast that God is His Father. Let us see therefore if His words be true, and let us prove what shall happen unto Him. Let us examine Him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know His meekness,

Sacraments of God. Likewise in Isaiah, See ye, how the righteous perisheth', and no man understandeth it; and righteous men are taken away, and no man considereth it. For the righteous is taken from the face of unrighteousness, and His burial shall be in peace. Concerning this same thing it was fore-spoken in Exodus, The innocent and the righteous slay thou not. Likewise in the Gospel, Judas, led by penitence, said to the Chief Priests and Elders, I have sinned, in that I have betrayed the innocent: blood.

15. That Christ was a Sheep and a Lamb, who was to be killed; and concerning the Sacrament of His Passion.

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In Isaiah, He was led as a Sheep to the slaughter, and like a 1 Lamb dumb before her shearer, so opened He not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; and who shall declare His generation? For His life shall be taken from the earth; for the transgressions of My people He was led unto death, and I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich themselves for His death: because He hath done no wickedness, neither was there any deceit in His mouth. Wherefore He shall be gainer of many, and shall divide the spoils of the strong, because His soul was delivered unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and Himself bare the sins of many, and was delivered for their transgressions. Likewise in Jeremiah, Lord, give Mes knowledge, and I shall know; then I saw their devices. I was led as a Lamb without malice to the slaughter. They devised devices against Me, saying, Come, let us cast the tree into His bread", and let us blot out His Name from the earth, and His Name shall be no more remembered. Likewise in Exodus, God E said unto Moses, They shall take to them every man a sheep through the houses of their tribes, a sheep without blemish, perfect, a male of a year old shall it be unto you. From the lambs and from the goats shall ye take it out, and the whole assembly of the children of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of its blood, and place it upon the two side-posts and the

1 This is applied to our Lord by Justin M. (in Apol. 1, 48.) Irenæus, (Hær. iv. 34. §. 4.) Tertullian, (in Marc. iii. 22.) Jerome, (in loc.)

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and the inner parts. Ye shall let nothing of them remain until the morning, neither shall ye break a bone thereof; and that which remaineth of it until the morning shall be burnt with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye shall eat it in 1. 5, haste; it is the Lord's Passover. Likewise in the Revelation, And I beheld in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the Elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. And He came and took the book out of the right hand of God that sat upon the throne. And when He had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty Elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours of supplications, which are the prayers of the Saints; and they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open the seals thereof, for Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us by Thy blood, out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation; and hast made us a Kingdom unto our God, and hast made us Priests: and they n1, shall reign on the earth. Likewise in the Gospel, The next day not John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, and behold Him, which taketh away the sins of the world.

16. That Christ is likewise called a stone.

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honoured; and he that believeth on Him shall not be confounded. 117, Likewise in the hundred and seventeenth Psalm, The Stone 3which the builders refused is become the Head-stone of the corner. V. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save therefore, O Lord; O Lord, direct therefore. Blessed be He that cometh in the Name of the Lord. Likewise 1.3, in Zechariah, Behold, I bring forth My Servant, the East is His Name; for the Stone which I have placed before the face of Joshua, upon this one Stone are seven eyes. Likewise in Deute

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unto the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us, for it
hath heard all the things which were spoken by the Lord, which
He hath spoken unto you to-day; and it shall be for a testimony
unto you at the end of days, when ye shall have departed from
your God. Likewise Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, Ye A
Rulers of the people and Elders of Israel, hear; Behold, we are
this day examined by you of the good deed done to the impotent
man, by what means he is made whole; be it known unto you all,
and to all the people of Israel, that by the Name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,
even by Him doth this man stand whole before you all, and
by none other.
This is the stone which was set at nought of you
builders, which is become the head of the corner. For there
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must be saved. This is the stone in Genesis, which Jacob put G
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the Lord stood, and the Angels ascended on it; which stone
he consecrated and anointed, by the sacrament of unction,
signifying Christ. This is the stone in Exodus, on which E
Moses sat on the top of an hill, when Jesus the son of Nave
fought against Amalek, and by the sacrament of the Stone,
and the constancy of sitting, Amalek was overcome by Jesus,
that is, the Devil was overcome by Christ. This is the great
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head of Goliath, and slew him; signifying that the Devil and tim
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part of the head, which they have not had sealed; by which no
seal we are both ever safe, and live. This is the stone which,
when Israel had conquered the aliens, Samuel set up, and is
called its name Ebenezer, that is, the stone that helpeth.

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the hands of them that cut it; and smote the Image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces, and the iron and the clay was broken together, and the brass and the silver and the gold, and became small like chaff, or like dust of the summer threshing floors, and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them; and the Stone that smote the Image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

18. That in the last times that same mountain should be revealed, upon which the Gentiles should come, and by which all the just should go up.

In Isaiah, It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, and the house of God upon the tops of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come over it, and many shall walk and say, Come ye, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and He shall teach us His way, and we will walk in it. For out of Sion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; neither shall they learn war any more. Likewise in the twenty-third 23, Psalm; Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean V. hands, and a pure heart, who hath not received his life by a

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falsehood, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour; He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

19. That Christ is a Bridegroom, having the Church for a Bride, of whom children should be spiritually born.

In Joel, Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a V. recovering, gather the people, sanctify the Church, assemble the Elders, gather the children that suck the breast; let the Bridegroom go forth of His chamber, and the Bride out of