was the Messiah: Which not being able to do with all their Art and Endeavour; All the rest that they could alledge a∣gainst him, not amounting to a Proof before Pilate, that he claimed to be King of the Jews; or that he had caused or done any thing towards a Mutiny or Insurrection among the People; (for upon these two, as we see, their whole Charge turned) Pilate again and again pronounced him innocent: For so he did a fourth, and a fifth time; bringing him out to them, after he had whip'd him, Iohn XIX. 4. 6. And after all, When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a Tumult was made, he took Water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the Blood of this just man; see you to it, Mat. XXVII. 24. Which gives us a clear reason of the cautious and wary Conduct of our Saviour; in not declaring himself, in the whole course of his Ministry, so much as to his Disciples, much less to the Multitude or the Rulers of the Jews, in express words, to be the Messiah the King: And why he kept himself always in Prophetical or Parabolical terms: (He and his Dis∣ciples 0