no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee Holy Father, keepe through thine owne Name, those whom thou hast given me; that they may be one, as we are. While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy Name: those that thou gavest mee I kept, and none of them is lost, but the sonne of per∣dition. Either Iudas was never one of them, whom his Father had given him, or at least, at this time, had given himselfe to his Father the Devill.
5 But as one, and the same prophecy, may be often filled by events much distant in time: so may divers prophecies, much distant for time, be ac∣complisht in one and the same event, in the same point of time; as in this dismission of JESUS his Disciples, both his owne praediction (as Saint Iohn tells us) was fulfilled, and another prophecy like∣wise, as we may gather from S. Mark, or rather from our Saviours exposition recorded by the Evangelist Mark 14. Iesus saith unto them, All yee shall be offended because of me this night. For it is writ∣ten, I will smite the Shepheard, and the sheepe shall be scattered. This smiting of the Shepheard, was a∣mongst other prophecies, both foretold, and pre∣figured, (as is probable) by the death of Iosiah: unto which most referr that of Ieremiah, Lamen. 4.20. The breath of our nose-thrills, the Anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits; of whom, we said, under his shadow, we shall live among the heathen. Some there are, which referr this complaint, unto the Captivity of Zedekiah, but not so pertinently or considerately, as most other of their meditations