PHILEMON Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page HEBREWS Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 3 3  2 4 8  24 Sup. 7 2  36 9 24  293 11 13  116 Sup. Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 11 29  6 10 Sup. 11 30  22 12 1  8 Sup. JAMES Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 1 17  92 Sup. 2 25  6 7 3 10  72 4 6  190 5 7  18 1 PETER Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 1 10 11 12  71 Sup. 3 6  8 3 21  10 Sup. 4 15  12 4 18  45 Sup. 2 PETER Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 1 4  4 1 JOHN Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 2 16  27 4 8  31 Sup. 5 19  118 Sup. 2 JOHN Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 3 JOHN Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page JVDE Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page  9  119 120 Sup. REVELATION Chap. Verse Vol. 2. Page 6 2  118 Sup. 10 2 3  26 Sup. 11 13  25 13 10  25 Sup. 14 12  25 Sup. 18 2  20 21 23  3 AN Alphabetical TABLE OF THE Principal common Places contain'd in the Second Volume upon the Old Testament By Sup. is meant the Supplement before the Second Volume A A Chan Vol. 2. Page 28 29 Adversity Vol. 2. Page 124 166 179 186 Affections Vol. 2. Page 111 Sup. Affinity Vol. 2. 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Interpreter However ever since Luther there hath been a drought upon Rome's Revenues in many Reformed Countreys God forbid those Springs that have been dryed up should be suffered to run fresh again The Floud out of the Dragon's mouth shall be dryed up Rev. 12.15 Christians are from Christ that Day-spring of the East Luk. 1.78 and they are Kings and Priests by him Rev. 5.10 If we follow the Cloud the Lamb Rev. 14.4 the Rock will follow up as he did Israel 1 Cor. 10.4 with supplies of Water all their wanderings in the VVilderness If the Enemy flow in as a Floud he will lift up his Standard Isa 59.19 and lick up the Floud as 1 King 18.38 and make them bread and a breakfast to us Numb 14.9 Psal 74.14 What God hath done he can do c. Antichrist must die by degrees as he rose by degrees he must die of a Consumption Christ will consume Antichrist by the Breath of his Mouth and by the brightness of his Coming 2 Thes 2.8 as I have at large demonstrated in my Discovery of Antichrist Page 75 to 80. The next Rank of the most memorable Remarks recorded was at Israel's fifth Mansion Numb 33.8 call'd there Etham being one continued Desart on both sides of that part of the Red Sea where they passed through and which was made the more and the same while the VVaters were divided and from thence they marched to the Wilderness of Shur Exod. 15.22 where at three days Jorney's-end they met with Marah the bitter VVaters From whence take the following Remarks First This Shur was in the way to Canaan from Egypt This way Hagar fled to her Native Countrey Gen. 16.7 And this was the VVilderness where that wild-man Ishmael led his Rapacious Life Gen. 21.18 This is the doleful Desart Israel must pass thorough towards Canaan and we thorough many troubles towards Heaven Act. 14.22 2 Tim. 3.12 The second Remark is Moses with much importunity as the Hebrew word Vaiassang signifies and Shur signifies caused them to go did bring them from the Red Sea hither from the place where they took the spoil of the Egyptians and sweetly sang the high Praises of the most High God to a place which they found full of wants and temptations Therefore no wonder they had no mind to move till Moses importun'd them So long a Journey as three days into the VVilderness had been requested of Pharaoh Exod. 3.18 Here they take three days Journey till they march to Marah with Moses so must we come with our Messias from Lebanon that goodly Mountain Deut. 3.25 from pleasure to pain at his call Cant. 4.8 The third Remark is Thirst and Bitterness is Israel's first handsel in their Wilderness-wanderings and they must take great pains even three days Journey without any full pause to fetch it which carnal Reason will suggest might have found out fitter Quarters for this great Army and better than this bitter Marah a name which Moses now gave to it suitable to the nature of it Thus God is pleased to mingle his favours with our afflictions that we might not be too much puffed up with our present prosperity whereby many fools are destroyed Prov. 1.32 as proving over-strong Wine for their weak brains In this manner God dealt with his Israel here that they might not be too much puffed up with their prevailing over Pharaoh and his Host after their joyful Melody of Songs and Instruments of Musick for this miraculous Victory and after their delightful Plunder of the drowned Egyptians whereby they abundantly furnished themselves both with Wealth and Weapons They are first sorely exercised with Thirst and then their Thirst is tortured with bitter Waters This World is a dry and bitter Wilderness to us As they thought three days would bring them to Canaan which proved a longer Journey so we think to win Heaven in a short time but 't is a long Pilgrimage exposed to wants and vexations c. The fourth Remark is They fall on murmuring at Marah Water indeed they now had but what the better they cannot drinks them ver 23. hereupon they murmure against Moses ver 24. God can curse our blessings Mal. 2.2 He gives them such a tang as no complacency can be found in them Moses the godly Magistrate must bear the blame of all Publick Persons if never so pious are sure to lead a sharp censur'd life VVell doth Paul brand this People with the style of Murmurers 1 Cor. 10.10 who wrote Marah upon every Mercy and whose Murmurings are recorded twenty times in Scripture being of three sorts 1. Either General of the whole Congregation Or 2. Special of some few Or 3. Particular of some principal Persons First Their general Murmurings were upon these occasions 1. For things which they endured as their hard Bondage augmented at Moses's first coming Exod. 5.21 Their fear to be all cut off by Pharaoh's pursuing them Exod. 14.11 Their weariness in their wandering ways Numb 11.1 Their being bitten with Serpents Numb 21 c. 2. For things they wanted as here For sweet and more potable VVater Exod. 15.24 For Bread Exod. 16.3 For VVater again in Rephidim Exod. 17. For Flesh Numb 11.4 for VVater again when Moses also offended Numb 20.5 11. 3. To their Murmuring they added Disobedience when any thing they liked not was imposed on them as twice they were disobedient about Manna both in reserving it till the morning Exod. 16. v. 19. and in gathering it upon the Sabbath ver 28. and they added to it Rebellion also when they went forth to fight with the Amalekites and Canaanites contrary to God's Command Numb 14.41 4. They likewise murmured when their Expectation was frustrated as upon Moses's long absence Exod. 32.1 when they heard a false report of Canaan that the Inhabitants thereof were invincible Numb 14.2 and when Korah Dathan and Abiram with their Adherents were suddenly destroyed Numb 16.41 These general Murmurings in all were sixteen to which may be added other four in special As 1. Of special men as Korah Dathan and Abiram c. Numb 16.3 3. Of principal persons in particular As 1. Of Aaron and Miriam against Moses Numb 12.2 2. Of Moses himself at the waters of strife Numb 20.10 11 12. And 3. Of Aaron when through discontent he neglected his Office at the death of his two Sons Levit. 10.19 N.B. This Murmuring is an Anti-providence a quarrelling with Divine Dispensations 'T is a little God that sets it self against the great God 'T was the Devil's murmuring at Man's Happiness that cast him out of Heaven and would rather be in Hell than behold Man in Paradise Irenaeus calls Murmurers ora Diaboli mouthed like the Devil The Eagle when hunger-bit makes no murmuring noise as other Fowls do 't is below his generous spirit So 't is a shame for Saints to murmure with the World as Psal 59.6 14. like Dogs c. The 5th Remark is God hath new Remedies for the new Maladies of his
600000 Soldiers Every Man entering in straight before him there was no need of the falling of the whole Wall nor could that be but Rahab's House which was built on the Wall must fall with it As the peoples shouting did shew their Faith so might it shake the Wall in Gods Hands and no doubt but as it encouraged one another so it did profoundly confound discourage and terrifie the Enemy The Second Consequent is They utterly destroy'd all Mankind young and old and all Beâ—sts c. ver 21. Some suppose this an Act of Cruelty in the Army especially the Slaughter of all the Infants Answ 1. God had expresly commanded it Deut. 20.16 17. therefore was it Obedience to the Sovereign Lord of every Man's Life and who may do what he will with his own Matth. 20.15 and not Cruelty 2. Israel knew that the Sins of the Amorites were now full Gen. 15.16 They had fill'd up their Epha in Abominable wickedness therefore deserved the severest Punishments 3. As for the Infants they were guilty of Original sin whereof the wage is Death Rom. 6.23 They were at the disposal of their Creatour as the Clay is in the hands of the Potter besides seeing the Reason of God's Judgments are oft times too wonderful for our shallow Understandings Job 42.3 We must not instruct God Job 40.2 nor be his Counsellor Rom. 11.34 and suppose them wholly innocent it was a favour to die in their Infancy rather than be reserved for such Dreadful Calamities as they that survived were exposed unto 't is no true mercy but foolish pity to spare those whom God will have destroyed 1 Kings 20.42 The Third Consequent is The saving of Rahab and all in her House ver 25. according to the Command ver 17. which Exception extended as some suppose to their Goods as well as to their Lives seeing 't is said all that she had ver 23. both the Persons and the Housholdstuff were brought without the Camp as unclean until they were legally purified Numb 31.19 20. and until Rahab and the Women by Baptism saith great Grotius and the Males by Circumcision were Incorporated into the Church unto which Rahab's good Counsel and this stupendious Miracle of God had undoubtedly prepared them All these were the first fruits of the Gentiles saved alive ver 25. notwithstanding those severe Commands to shew none of those Cursed Nations any mercy Exod. 23.32 33. and 34.12.15 Deut. 7.2 which must be moderated by a Common Equity the Life of the Law and taken conditionally if they renounce not their Idolatry and return not by Repentance unto God Thus as the Lord glorify'd his Justice in rooting out the rest of the Amorites as well as this Jericho so was he graciously pleased to glorifie his mercy to Rahab and her Kinsfolk as he did afterward to the Gibeonites Chap. 9 c. in saving them from that general Deluge of Destruction And that which giveth a greater lustre to this Work of Wonder is that here so many Gentiles should be willing to take Sanctuary in the House of so Contemptible a Woman whereas on the contrary Righteous Lot a Man of the greatest figure and Authority could not perswade so much as his two Sons in Law to escape the Flames of Sodom with him though he truly forewarn'd them yet he seem'd as a Mocker to them Gen. 19.14 Nor could great Abraham himself decoy his Kindred to Canaan along with him Gen. 12.3 Acts 7.3 Rahab out shines them both in her Success This seems a Type of our Joshua or Jesus to whom when Rahab that is the Church had submitted presently the Gentiles flock'd in for Salvation The Fourth Consequent is The severe Caution against Israel's Sacrilegiously robbing God of any part of his Right and that under the Penalty of a most direful Curse if any of them perverted any of the Accursed things to their own private use ver 18. according to the Law Deut. 7.26 This was fair warning for that soul Sinner Achan but that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Silver-lover was daring and desperate as appeareth in the next Chapter c. Objection Seems not this too severe to forbid the Soldiers the Spoils of the City Answer 1. It was wonderful Continency in the Soldery now wanting all things of Country Provisions by their so long wandring in the Wilderness for 600000 Mens hands save only Achan's to be tyed up from taking Spoils and the Plunder of the Richest City in Canaan only by one little word of Command But 2. Jericho was the first fruits of that cursed Country so must wholly be devoted to God and offered up a whole Burnt-Offering 3. The hungry Soldiers might have been so glutted with the Spoils of this Rich City that it would in all likelihood have made them sitter for Idleness and Luxury than for marching forward in a Martial Conquest of Canaan 4. The whole Army being thus admonished by the prohibition and so the loss of their expected Prey might understand that the Conquest of Jericho was Accomplished solely by the Almighty Power of God and not by any of their Prowess and Valour as was afterwards done in Subduing all the other Cities 5. This Severity was Exercised upon this City at their first Landing in Canaan to strike the greater terrour upon the other Canaanitish Cities which they had to Conquer and if possible to bring them to Repentance and Submission N. B. But all the Silver and Gold except that of which Images were made that were utterly to be destroyed Exod. 32.20 Deut. 7.25 for preventing future Idolatry were purified by fire Numb 31.22 23. was wholly employ'd for Tabernacle Service and not for any private use ver 19. This Grand History of Jericho's Overthrow I cannot pass over without making some short Inferences in the Mystery thereof As First There is a Jericho within us a Law of Sin a foul Body of Corruption our unrenewed part We should go every Day once about its Walls as Israel did here and on the Sabbath Day seven times if we heartily wish the fall thereof Alas we War against our Corruptions but to half part so Conquer we but to half part Secondly As we should every day once at the least take a full view of those strong holds of Satan in us 2 Cor. 10.4 half about is not enough to tell all its Towers as Psal 48.12 So on the Sabbath Day we should view it seven times as much as on the Week day as God did then honour his Sabbath with the fall of Jericho's Walls upon that day So now our Spiritual Enemies receive the greatest damage upon our Sabbath Day therefore then go ye seven times about and do it not negligently they are cursed that do so Jer. 48.10 God will honour his own Day with their fall and by the help of David's God thou may leap over these Walls Psal 18.29 Thirdly We must in order hereunto frequent the means Gospel Ministers are the Rams Horns that are oft sounding and
Work All these having done their Homage before came to Feast with Gedaliah pretending a friendly Visit and when they saw saith Josephus Gedaliah Merry with Wine they took this opportunity to smite and slay him and with him all his Guests the Jews that were with him and the Chaldeans also there present that his bloody Act might not be known Jer. 41. ver 3 4. Mark 6. Ishmael also flaies seventy Samaritan Proselytes such as were coming to the Feast of Tabernacles in this seventh Month wherein Solomon of old had kept the Feast of the Dedication of the Temple and sent the People with glad Hearts home 2 Chron. 7.10 1 Kings 8.66 but how is the Matter now altered These Innocent Men who had not offended Ishmael so much as by the least Word but going in the simplicity of their Hearts to worship God in Mourning for the burnt Temple c. and to wait upon Gedaliah which was Ishmael's main quarrel against them this brutish bloody Butcher falls foul upon these fourscore Men Jer. 41.5 6. whom with his Crocodile Tears and deep Dissimulation he had deceived at the first to find out how they stood affected to Gedaliah and no sooner did he understand that they did but once own him but he and his Slaughter-slaves began their Execution of the Innocent ver 7. Mark 7. But Ten of those Fourscore pleaded for their Lives and were spared ver 8. saying We have Treasures hid on the Field knowing Soldiers will do much for Money and willing enough these Men were to part with their Wealth for redeeming their Lives In this case Ishmael's Covetousness conquer'd his Cruelty preferring their Coin above their Blood and hoping to make a farther Prize of them by carrying them away Captive c. After he had cast the 70 slaughter'd Samaritans into a Trench that Asa had made to be a stop betwixt the Samaritans and himself and now 't is fill'd up with such Samaritans as were Friends to the true Religion ver 9. which before was a Fence against such as were Enemies then carry'd Ishmael away Captives all the remainder at Mizpeh even the King's Daughters ver 10. his own Kinswomen whom the Babylonians had spared Thus found they less favour from a fulse Brother than they had done from a profess'd Foe N.B. And thus Hereticks have out-done Heathens in Cruelty to the true Church in all Ages c. Mark 8. Then Johanan hearing of Gedaliah's Death went to fight against Ishmael ver 11 12 13 14 15. This Act of Fortitude like that of Abraham's for Rescuing Lot God made successful to Rescue the Captives full glad hereof But the grand wretch escaped to Ammon with disgrace for no doubt but his Defeat and disappointment of his high Design for catching the Crown would be twitted in his Teeth by Baalis King of Ammon with whom he had absconded and secured himself from the Storm during the Siege of Jerusalem Jer. 40.14 N.B. With what Honour and with what Conscience could this bloody Judas live among the Ammonites-Courtiers who would ever be reproaching him for the Miscarriage of his Arrogant and Roguish Treachery this must be more Vexation to his ambitions Mind than Death it self Remark the Seventh The Captains and Common People upon the Death of Gedaliah resolve to go down to Egypt and did so 2 Kings 25. ver 26. tho' they had promised to be Ruled by the Counsel of the Lord in the mouth of the Prophet Jeremy Jer. 42. and 43. Mark 1. Johanan and the rest feared that the King of Babylon would send his Captains to Revenge the Murder of Gedaliah and with him of many Chaldeans the Governour 's Companions 2 Kings 25.25 whom Johanan and his Captains as he might imagine should have both caution'd and better guarded They therefore were afraid that the Chaldeans would come to punish them for their Neglect Jer. 41.18 Mark 2. Hereupon they humbly pray'd the Prophet for Divine direction Jer. 42. 1 2 3. yet all this was but deep Dissimulation for they had set themselves in the way to Egypt before they came with this Request to the Prophet Jer. 41.17 yet do they promise with an Oath what they never meant to perform Jer. 42. ver 4 5 6 19 20. Mark 3. God delay'd Ten Days before he would Answer the Prophet's Prayer for Direction Jer. 42. v. 7. No doubt but these Dissemblers were impatient enough under such a long Delay yet God seemed by his silence to say to them I will not be enquir'd of by you Ezek. 20.3 unworthy of an Answer Mark 4. At last the Prophet comes and from God promiseth them protection from the Chaldeans ver 8 9 10 11 12. if still they will stay in their own Land but withal threatens Sword Famine and Pestilence to overtake them if they went down to Egypt both against God's express prohibition Deut. 17.16 and against that direful Commination Deut. 28.68 telling them such stubborn Sinners cannot run out of the reach of God's Rod Jer. 42.13 to 22. Mark 5. The Proud Men endeavour to discredit this Prophecy alledging 't was but a Juggle betwixt Jeremy and Baruch Jer. 43.1 2 3. which was notoriously improbable for what could Baruch gain by such a Colloguing Bargain in setting the Prophet against his own Country-men for a common Disturbance Mark 6. Hypocrisie will at long-run discover it self Some Mens Sins are open before-hand c. and others follow after 1 Tim. 5.24 Here Johanan shews himself an Hypocrite ver 4 5 6. than which nothing is more Audacious and Desperate when once discover'd This Desperado in despight of God's contrary Command begins his March for Egypt taking along with him all the Remnant of Judah as if he would desperately spit in the face of Heaven and daringly challenge Jehovah to a Duel as Galigula did his Jove c. Yea Jeremy and Baruch he takes with him also and not without a special Providence these wretches must still have a Prophet to make them more inexecusable Mark 7. Poor Jeremy is hurry'd down to Egypt sore against his Will Thus many of God's faithful Servants are carry'd whither they would not go as Peter Joh. 21.18 But 't is comfortable to consider as 't is no Vntrodden Path many have gone before therein so God hath some special Work for them as for Jeremy here who no sooner comes there but he Prophesies against Egypt and against them too that carry'd him thither Jer. 43.8 9 10 11 12 13. Mark 8. Now are these Remnants of the Jews settled in Egypt and in time fall to open Idolatry the Prophet Jeremy reproves them for it and for their Obstinacy c. for which by Figures joining Paradigms with his Prophecies to make more Impression he foretels both theirs and Egypt's Destruction Jer. 43.8 9. He builds an Altar of Brick and tells them how the King of Babylon shall set his Throne upon those Stones and much more amply and plainly in the following verses and in Chap. 44. throughout for
not my self but my Surety Dyeth for me c. N. B. Note well This Surety for sinfull Man Heb 7.22 must dye the worst of Deaths such as had all these Aggravations the most Accursed the most Shamefull the most Painfull most Lingring and the most Open and Exposed Death Remark 1. The most Accursed Death whereof something is said before of all other Deaths Though Stoning Burning Sawing Asunder Slaying with the Sword c. Heb. 11.37 were Torturing and Tormenting Deaths yet no Curse is Annexed by the Law of God to any one of them as there is to this of Hanging on a Tree Deut. 21.23 Gal. 3.13 So that Christ dyed the Cursed Death of the Cross to take away the Curse due to us and that we may be Blessed Oh! How should we wonder that he should Humble himself to such a Cursed Death Phil. 2.6 7 8. Did Peter wonder that he Humbled himself so far as to wash his Feet John 13.6 Sure I am we may much more at his Dying thus to Save our Souls and to pay all our Debts for us as Paul did for Onesimus Philemon ver 18. If he owe thee any thing put that upon my Account we are all Run-away Servants and have wronged our Lord much Christ saith I will pay all c. never forget that love in him Remark 2. The most shamefull and ignominious Death not only as he did Hang Naked on the Cross at which the very Heavens blushed and therefore was that Curtain of Darkness drawn over them that they might not behold his Nakedness but also as he was most rudely mocked by all sorts of Passengers and Spectators Yet he endured the Cross saith the Apostle and Despised the shame c. Heb. 12.2 Though Man's Nature be impatient of shame yet Christ shamed even shame it self as if it had been below him to take notice of it and as unworthy of any Observation in Comparison of his so Glorious a Design Hereby the most shameful Death that Saints can be put to is Sanctified to them They that dye in Faith do all dye in a Bed of Honour Heb. 11.2 13. Remark 3. The most Painfull and Dolorous Death This must be so because he was 1. Sore Racked when his Hands were Nail'd wide asunder upon the Head-post and his Feet wide asunder also upon the Foot post not as Papists falsely Picture Christ in their Crucifixes with one Nail only in his Feet whereas two Nails were necessary to Nail his two Feet unless they do absurdly suppose that one Foot only was fast and the other loose but if both were Nailed one upon another according to their Images then the Souldiers could not break both the Leggs of the Thieves but only the outmost because one of them if so lay upon the other besides where shall we find if so the five Wounds of Christ so much spoke off by both Antient and Modern Authors The Popish Picture whereof a great Jesuit was the first Founder Represents Christ with one only Nail in his Feet placed one upon the other Then our Lord had said Amiss in saying to his Disciples behold my Hands and my Feet Luke 24.39 and to unbelieving Thomas behold the print of the Nails c John 20.27 If both his Feet had not been Nailed upon the lower overthwart wide asunder as his side was pierced with the Spear c. This is the 1. Evidence that Christ's Death was exceeding Dolorous and Painful being so extreamly Racked both in his Hands and Feet forcibly stretched wide asunder each from other to the utmost straining of all those Joints 2. Which is the 2d Evidence his four Wounds with the four Nails were made in the Hollow of his Hands and Feet which shews that Christ suffered most Exquisite Torments in those most Sensible Parts being quickest and fullest of Sense as they are fullest of Sinews that as Anatomists Demonstrate all make their meeting together in those places this must needs be most unexpressibly painfull especially in so fine a Body as God had fitted him with Hebr. 10.5 Undoubtedly of the finest Constitution God made his Sons Body that was to be joyned with the Deity and was to be the grand Expiatory Sacrifice for the sins of the World Remark 4. The most Lingring Death those Malefactors whom the Romans Crucified commonly remained many days alive upon the Cross they were two or three days at the leaft a dying Therefore were the Souldiers sent to dispatch those three that were here Crucified by breaking their Leggs that they might not hang so long as was usual because it was the preparation for the Seventh day Sabbath which began at three a Clock on that Afternoon an High Day not only as the Sabbath but also one of the Seven Passover days John 7.37 19 31 32. And this would not consist with the Solemnity of that double Sabbath to have them Roaring under their Tortures therefore their Law provided contrary to the Roman Custom that their Bodies should not Remain all Night upon the Tree but Bury them that Day that their Land might not be Defiled Deut. 21.23 otherwise it was a Lingring as well as a painfull Death a Death that might have lingred and lasted many Days Praestat Semel Mori quà m semper metuere sentire Mortem 'T is better to dye at once than to dye by Inches and to lye long under the smarting Sense and Horrour of a protracted Dying 'T was the Language of a bloody Beast to a Martyr thou shalt not only dye but thou shalt feel thy self a long time to be a Dying The Cruelty of the Cross the weight of the Body hanging by the Hands till Death and practised by the Roman Tyrants upon the Christians was so Inhumane that good Constantine the Great Abolished it out of the Empire never to use it more c. Remark 5. The most Publick Open and Exposed Death not like the fore-runner John Baptist's Death whose Head was taken off privately in Prison without any more ado or observation But Christ's Death was Apparent to be seen Those cruel Crucifiers of Christ do daringly outface not only the Sun of the Firmament but also the God of Heaven both with this Execution and with their preparations to it For 1. Their causing Christ to bear his own Cross till he tyred which comported not with their hast for his Execution to Golgotha 2. Their throwing the Cross upon the ground there in order to its Erection while all requisites were prepared 3. Their drawing forth all their dreadful Instruments for their Crucifying cruelty 4. Their stripping Christ of his own wearing Apparel that he might dye naked c. 5. Their laying his naked Body upon the Cross as it lay along with his Face forward on his Back 6. Their stretching out his Hands and Feet with their utmost strength as upon a Rack of the Spanish Inquisition 7. Their Nailing his Hands and Feet thus extremely Racked out to the Upper and Lower overthwart of the Cross And