What did he suffer in Caiphas his house, or in the assembly of Priests?
1. He was arraigned in the Ecclesiastical court: for it was not meet
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1. He was arraigned in the Ecclesiastical court: for it was not meet
he should be slaine in a tumult, but that for vs he should appeare in iudgement, who were subiect to the sentence of the eternall iudge, and for our sins deserued to be condemned.
2. He is mocked.
3 By false witnesses, and reproches, he is accused of attempting to destroy the Temple and worship of God.
4. He is adiured by the liuing God, to tell whether he be that Christ the sonne of God.
5. When he had confessed the trueth, straight hee is conuicted of blaspheamie, and adiudged to die: because it behooued hee shoud beare the blame and guilt of that fault by which the first Adam had sought to become equall to God.
6. He is stricken on the face by the high Priests seruant.
7. They spit in his face.
8. He is againe beaten, to the end he might take away from vs the shame of sinne.
9. His face being couered, he is strucken and bid to prophecie who it was that struck him, and is beaten with rods by the ser∣uants. Which indignities and disgraces, beeing all due vnto vs, he suffered, thereby to free vs from all shame, and to prouide for vs, who had lost our face or first Image: & that he might make vs an entrāce & accesse to the face of God. To conclude, he suffereth the shamefull deny all by his disciple, that he might beare the blame and fault of Adams revolting from God.