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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02484	Hebdomada magna, or The great weeke of Christs passion. Handled by way of exposition upon the fourth article of the Apostles Creed: He suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, buried. / By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his parish church, and now enlarged as here followes for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing C7027B; ESTC R175851	123,646	146

face of the Court therefore let them speake if they know any thing that may tend to these abuses or disorders by me Then which there can be no more undoubted demonstration of the innocency of any man then when he is ready to appeale to his very enemies for testimony of the truth of that whereof he stands accused Hom. 8● ●n c. 18. Ioh. Thus farre Theophylact. And Saint Chrysostome to the same purpose Id veritatis maximum est argumentum quum quis inimicos in testimonium adducit It is the greatest argument of verity to be contented to put the tryall of a mans cause to the testimony of enmity And therefore saith Christ Why do you ask me Aske them for behold they also know what I said which is as much as if he should say thus It is but a folly for me to make answer to your demaunds For you will not beleeve me though I should speake never so much or so often the truth unto you I am content therefore that you should aske these that are of more credit amongst you For mine owne testimony is of no validity seeing you have disabled it so farre as to account no otherwise of me then as of a theefe or robber and therefore have brought me bound unto your Bench and Barre of pretended justice that so I may be punished accordingly So that Cui detraxistis famam detraxistis etiam fidem Seeing you have taken away my fame you have detracted also from my faith A tricke not altogether a stranger to these times to accuse the innocent thereby onely to discredit and disable their testimony Nam quae sit fiducia capto saith the Poet There is no trust to be given to a captive but you will be ready to suppose Dum miserum fortuna Synonem Finxit vanum etiam mendacemque improba finget Virg. 〈◊〉 1. lib. 2. Since my fate hath made me wretched and miserable it will not leave me till it have made me wicked also and a lyer like your selves and therefore aske not me but aske these mine enemies for they all know what I said But how faire and true and just and reasonable soever this answer of Christ as also that other concerning his being the Son of God related by the rest of the Evangelists may seeme to us and all others that are his friends yet they are not so unto these his malitious adversaries but at these two answers offence is taken even at all hands Scandalum acceptum as I said before though not datum which occasioned a world of injuries and indignities presently to bee put upon him in the high Priests Hall and House yea and in his very presence too For some began to spit upon him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him Prophesie unto us who it was that smote thee And the servants did strike him with the palmes of their hands and such like Marke 14.65 and John 18.22 And Saint Luke addes That many other things they spake blasphemously against him Luke 22.65 So that here you see then severall and sundry Acts not onely of force and violence but also of contempt and disgrace shamefully and undeservedly put upon our blessed Saviour As spitting upon him blind-folding him striking him with their hands and fists and lastly jearing and flouting him by saying Prophesie unto us who it was that smote thee Of the stroake with the palme of the hand or boxe on the eare I have spoken at large already I will adde a few words more concerning these other indignities and then I will proceed to their carrying and leading of him away to Pilate and his turning over to the sword of justice and temporall officers hands And first of their spitting in his face which to doe was accounted a matter of great infamy and reproach among the Jewes as is plaine and evidently that place in the booke of Numbers where God speakes unto Moses concerning his sister Miriam saying If her father had but spit in her face should she not be ashamed seaven dayes Numb 12.14 And againe The woman is allowed to spit in the face of that man as in his disgrace and infamy that will not raise up seed by her unto his brother Deut. 25.9 And even among our selves in these dayes we account it among the worst of injuries and affronts to be so serv'd And yet our Saviour yee see suffers it for our sakes answerable to that in the Prophet when he speakes as in his person saying I hid not my face from shame and spitting Esay 50.6 and Job likewise They abhorre me they flee farre from me and spare not to spit in my face Job 30.10 O let us behold then with horrour and dread that divine countenance which is so much honoured and adored in Heaven and the very aspect whereof cheeres the whole City of God how for our sinnes it is defiled and become deformed here on Earth by the contempt and scorne of sordid and shamelesse miscreants yea so farre abased and abused as that no place is thought so fit and convenient to voide their excrements in and to receive their filthy drivell as the face of the Saviour and Redeemer of mankinde And when they have fulfilled their malitious mindes in thus spitting their fill upon them then secondly they blind-fold him Vt audacius inverecundius eum percutiant saith one that so they may the more boldly and without shame smite him with their fists or as I should rather thinke with another They did it lest the admirable forme and beauty of his countenance being too long vexed and beheld amongst them should so farre at the last mollifie and lenifie the hard hearts of all beholders as that they should bee moved to mercy and drawne to take pity and have compassion upon him even whether they would or no. To prevent which inconvenience as they accounted it Faciem illam illectricem obnupsere They vayled and hood-wink't as it were that alluring and heart-winning countenance As knowing the power of 's beauty to be such To draw even iron like load-stones with the touch because Speciosus praefiliis hominum He is fairer then the children of men as you heard before out of Psal 45.2 Thirdly some thinke they might do it out of horror and shame to behold in what a pitifull plight they had made him themselves with their beastly spawling and spitting in his face as loathing and disliking any longer to looke upon him by reason nauseam etiam ipsis spectatoribus foeditas illa provocabat his foulenesse and filthinesse was such as that it made them ready to sp●● to see it But sive velarit horror sive splendor c●udelitatem certe velantium velum hoc non velat sed revelat saith one whether it were his horrour or his splendor that occasioned this vaile over his face it is most evident that it doth not vaile nor cover their cruelty towards him but rather reveale it and make it