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John Trapp on Matthew 27:31

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Matthew27:31

Verse 31. Put his own raiment on him] Gods hand was in this, that all men seeing him to suffer in his own habit, might acknowledge that it was very he, and not another that suffered in his stead. Mahomet in his Alchoran speaks very honourably of Christ, except only in two things. 1. He took up the Arrian heresie, to deny his Deity. 2. He denied that he was crucified, but that some one was crucified for him. But what saith S. Peter? He his own self bare our sinnes in his own body on the tree, &c. 1 Pet. 2. 24. They led him away] Quite out of the City, Ut vera piaculavis victima & [non-Latin text not transcribed] pro nobis fieret, Heb. 13. 12, 13. This was a mystery hardly understood by any of the faithfull afore Christ: neither could we well have told what to make of it, but that the [illegible: 1 word] hath there opened it to us, by the instinct of the holy Ghost. Let us therefore (as he adviseth) goe forth unto Act. 5. 41. him without the camp, bearing his reproach, accounting it our Est & consu, on is gloria, & gloriosa consusio. Ambr. crown, as those Apostles did that rejoyced in their new dignity of [illegible: 2 words] shame for Christs name. It was their grace to be so disgraced.

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