43~ t, 10, >I , q, 14, 31\.tgbt ~nrgatorp. -:----:-:-~---~ wherein every chapter is a Scene? Look through the whole book, and you read in the fir I£ Ch4prrr, Jufcph wdl not father h1m; m the fecond, Herod feekl to kill h. . in the third, John the Baptt!l: would needs out of his humility deny him ~~~: ttfm ; tn the fourth, he falls fourty daycs, and fourty n1ghts and is tempted p the Wildernefs; in .the fifth, he foretells .p~rfecutions, and ;u manner of evil~~ g310 !1: ht< Apo!l:les ; m the fixth, he teaeheth h1s Church that flrict courfe of Life · . fafling, praying, giving of almes, and forgiving of enemies; in the fevcnth, he ~0~~ . cl"dcs h1s Sermon made on the top of a mountain; in the eighth he comes do v and towards night hath no houfe to harbour in, nor pillpw to refl his head on; in. 1rh~ ninth, he IS rebuked of the Phanfees for not fafling; in the tenth, all men hate his Dtfcq>lcs for h1s fake; 10 the eleventh, they call him that knew no exceife, aglutton . and a drunkard ; '!l the twelfth, they tell him how he cafls out devils through Bel~ebub prmce of dc~tls; mthe thtrtecnth, they are offended at him, and derive his pedegrec from a Carpenter; 10 ~he fourteenth, Herodth10ks h1m to bc·John BaptijlsGhofl· in the fifttccmh, the Scrtbes reprehend h1m for the breach of their traditions. in th;fix– teenth, the Sadduccs tempt him for a token; .in the fevcmeenth, he pays tribute to Ccfar; m all the relt he fortels and executes hts paffion: .Now count not Chapters, but hours, from that hourc wherern he was fought for, unttl the fixth houre of his crucifying; one betrayes him, another apprehends him ; one binds him, another leads him bound from P,ilate to Herod, fromHerod back again to Pi/ate; thus they never leave him, till his foul leave the world, and he be a dead man amongft them. You have fecn the beginning and encreafe, and we'll now draw the Curtains, that you may beho!d the Bridegroon~ n•here he Lyeth <ft Noon-daj, to wit, in the ftatc or vtgour of h1s gnevous !ltffermgs. ; This flate, or Ak_ntcn ( fay Phyficians) invhcn rltltw·e and the difeafe are in [retiteft con– tention, rvhen aft the jymptomes are become moft -vehement; Ju that either nnwre or the inftr· Kehr SJJI· mity muft needs htwe the victory ; and although (fay Divines) all Chrifts life 1va1 full ofmi· I. 3· c. 4• [cries, yet principally and chiefly is th4t called his paffion in Scripture, which he endured t!V> dayes before death: and to this extream paJJion (faith a Moderne) is the purging of fns chiefly attributed. Come then, ye that pafs by, behold and fa, 1[ thcre Wai'C1Jtr "'1)' fw' Ltment, 1. 12 · row likt 1mto thisforrow,which is done unto him in the day ofGods anger. His infirmities at·e now at full,and the S.ymptomeswhich make it evident unto us, are fomcin\vard, foKJe outward; inward in his foul , outward in his body : we'll take a view of them both. M.urh. 26. 37· M>rk. 14· 3l· t.ul~e 12. 44· }oho 12. '7· Matth 26. <8. Jolm 1 1.27 . n . Firfl, hisfoul, It began to be forrowful, faith Matthew: To be atnt~z.ed, andvery ilea. vy, faith Mark_: To be in an agony, faith L11k.!: To be troubled, faith John: Here ·is farrow, and heavinefs, and agony, and trouble, the cflimate whereof we may take fi-oni his own words in the Garden; Myfuul is exceedi11g forrowful,cven unto dtath: Now was the time he purged, not only in his body, but his foul" too; Now is my foul trou– bled, and what .fha/1 I fay t Father, fave mefrom tbh hour, bJttfor this caufe came 1wt· to this hour. A fatal houre fure, of which it was faid before ofren, His hoir was not Jll C?me ;· bnt being come, he could theo tell his Difciples, The hour is at har~d; artd after Mmh, ,6. 4 s. tell the Jews, This is your hour, and the power of darknefs: Now was it that Chrill:' Luke,'· 5 l· yielded his foul for our fouls, to the fufception of forrow, perpdlion o( pain, and dilfolu· Heb. S 7· tion of nature: And therefore even'fick with forrow; he never left fweating, weeping and cn•in,•, till he was heard in that lvhich hefeared. . Secondly; as his fuul, fo hts body had he: fymptomcs ~f approochmg death: Our very eye will foon tdl us, no place was left m hts- body where he mtght be fmtltcn, pnd was not: His Skin was torn, h1s Flefh was rent, hts Bones un1oynrcd, hts Smnews lhcined : fhould we fum up all ·~ See that face .of his, fairer than the fons of men, how it is defiled ~~·ith fpittle, fwoln with buffets, masked with acover ofgore·blood; See that head 1vhite a; white wool, twd[now; how• 1t IS crowned wtth thornes, beaten With ~~·~~~:;·. ~~. ~reed a'nd both head and hair died in a fanguine red that iifucd from it: Sec thofe cyn . ;hat were a; a flame of fire, how they fwim with teares, arc dim with blood, and Revel. I-birl. darken at the fad approach of dreadful death: See that mouth, which fpakJ as never ma• )ohr,t i- 46. fpakt, how it is wan with flroaks, grim With death, and embtttercd wtth that tarre.lt portion of ga)] and vinegar: Should we any lower?. See thofe armes that could cm: brace all the power of the world, how they arc ltramcd and·llretch~d on the Crofs '. thofc fhoulders that could bear the frame of Heaven, how they. ~re lafllt With knotty. cords, and whips, rhofc Hands that made the world, and ~11 thercm, ho1y they are,nade~ and clenched to a piece of wpod ·,· that Heart where never dwelt dece1t nor ·fin, hol it
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