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FOurthly, did Christ when he came into the Temple looke round about all things; Mark. 11.11. Did Christ cast out all them who bought and sold in the Temple, and overthrow the Tables of the money-changers, and the seates of them that sold Doves, Mat. 21.12? Did Christ (more than ever he did before) make a scourge of small cords, and drive the prophaners of the Temple, all of them out of the Temple, and the sheepe and the Oxen, Ioh. 2.15? Was Christ so zealous for
the purification of the materiall Temple; and shall wee not thinke hee did looke round about, before he admitted any to his most sacred Table: In this circumspe∣ction he saw Iudas, and cast him out.
They who bought, and sold in the Temple, are held by divers, to have meant well; and to prepare the businesses the better, for the sooner and better accommo∣ding of the sacrifices, for the service of the Temple; yet did Christ, cast out all these. Now let any man say, if he can, that Christ admitted Iudas, to better things than the Temple, even to his owne sacred body and blood, that Iudas who had no intentions, even Iudas, whom the devill before had entred into, even Judas, who had sold innocent humane blood: or rather, the blood of the Son of God. Would Christ suffer the first institution of his last Divine Supper, to be polluted, by the presence of a Traytor? Or did Iudas eate of that body, which he murthered? Or drinke of that blood which he caused to be shed?
—Procul, ô proculite profani.
Away, away, farre hence depart, Each one that harbors a profane heart.Profane Iudas was executed.