J>hiiip.:8. r.mfe anclformv for your fins: Our Saviour labours in .the extreamity of pangs h. foul is fick, his body faints, and would you know the reafon? Why, thus is the hea~ wounded that h<: mtght renue health to all the body; we fin, and Chrill: jcfus is hea. vy,~nd fore,and ftck,and dtcs for •:: Hts foul was 10 our foulsfiead, his body endured a lurs,atory for us, that we both 10 body and foul might efcape hell-fire, which our fins had dcfcrvcd : Who but confiders what cvtls our fins have done, that will n~n grieve and mourn at the fin he hath commttted? 0 that "IJ hCIId were a fountain ofTe . that I might weep day and nifihtfw the fim of the Daughters of my People ! We hav:;:: ncd, rwdwhatjhalltvcfayto thee, 0 Savwur of men?_ Alas! Our fins have whipped tbee, fr:onrged rhee, <NJVned thee, crucified thee; and rf 1have no compa!fion to l!'ecp for tfJcc, )e~, OLord,._gzvcm:zracetowcepfo~ ~J.fclf, rvho have done ~htt.$,torhee; 0 ,, 11 ~aVJonr . 0 myfir~s ! it tJ I that offend> tt u thou rhat muft {mart fort!. ~ Fourthly,wc may yet learn another Leffon,Chrift(faith Paul) hr<mbled himfelf,and became obed;enc to the death, even the death •f the Crofs, Phtl. 2. 8. and is it not our prts to be_ obcdttnt t~ htm who became thus obedient for us.' \Vcmay gather Humility from hts Btrth, and 1t<rtcue from hts Ltfe, and Remwfe from hts Paflion, and to make up the Pofic, here is one flower more, Obedimce, which that Tree alfo yielded where– on he fuffercd. If yo" love me (faith our Saviour) /zeep my Comm~ndmenrs. How bleffcd Saviour 1 Ifyott love"'' 1 Who will not l•ve thee, who h"ft fo dearly loved 11 ,' as togive up thy dearrft hfefoYJhe ra;if'ome of ourfouls i Butto tell us that there is n~ better tellimony of our love, than to obey his commands, he wooes us with there fuCan:. s. '3· . gared woras, (whofe Lips hk$ Lihes, are dropping down pure Myrrhe) Ifyau lave me: ifyott love me, learn Obedience of me, kpep my Commandments: and to move us the more, (if all this cannot) what love and obcdimce was there in him think you i Con– fider, and wonder! That the Son of God would bannifh hlmfelf thirty years from his f<!!J d,[cendit bu'11illtas?Aug. mdit. 7· Cant. 2. 8· Grcg./;;m 39· T. MJrk rS• 39• glorious Majelly; and what more i would be born man; and what more? would be the meanell amongft men;& what more? would endure the mifcriesoflife;and what more? would come to the bitter pangs of death; and what more i would be made obedient totbe death,even the death ofthe Crofs; a degree beyond death. 0 So~ ofGod, tvhether doth thy humility defcond1 but thus tt m111l be,the Prophets had foretold tt,and accordmg to their prophecies the daycs were accomplifhed, When he him{elf muft be purged: he was b"""' he lived, he fitjfmd: he died, and thus run roimd the wheels of thofe miferable times; When}he had byhimfcifpurgedo~tr fins. - , You fee the Tum's pall, and , a new Time mull give you the remainder of the Text; the Time is When] the Perfon He] and He it is that in order will next come after; oncly have you the patience, till we have the leifure to draw out his . l'itl:urc, and then you fhall fee him in fame mean proportiqn, Who had by himfclf purged our fins. He] VV . Ehave obfcrved the time VVhen he purged, and no\~ time it_is .that r.ou know the Phyfition who adminifl:ers it: the Apollle tells you tt ts He] th~t JS, Chrift our Saviour, who fceing us labour in the pains and pangs of fin, he bowcJ the H eavens and comes down· he takes upon him our frailty, that we through htm nught have rhe'rcmedy to cfc'apc\ell fire. Come th~n, and behald the mrm, who undertakes this cure of fouls· He cometh leaping upon the Mountams, skJpptag upon the htlh, fatth Solomon in his Song: and wotJld yo~< k_;,.w his !raps, faithCrcgory i Sec thca hoJV he leaps from his 1 h;·one to his Cratch, from his Cratch to hiJ Crofs, from hu Crofi· to h~s Crown.; downwords and upward~, Lik$ a Roe or a you~g Heart upon tl.e lt1omltt.lns of Sp- ~ . f His firll leap daw·. n·ards was from Heaven, . and this tells us_how he was Cod ron~ e– vcrlalling: fo faid the Ceuturion, Surely.thu Man 1\'fls the Son of (,od, Mark ' 5· ,g. How clfc? the fin of man could no otherwtfe be exptatcd,but by the Son of God; Matt had finned, and God was offended, therefore God became man, to ~cconctlc man to God: Had he been man alone not God, he might have fuffcrcd, bm he could not have fJtisficd · therefore this m;n was God, that in his manhood he might fulfcr, and by his God-hc?,d he might fatisfie: 0 wonderful Redemption, that God mu/1 take up- ' t f ' ' h . e ould on him our frailty t Had we thus far run upon the fcorc o vengeance, t at non c fatisfie but God l;imfelf? could not he have made his Anf.els Ambaffadours, but he I S · d · h ~ erogate · but himfelf l mull: come in perfon .?. no - Ange s or amts cou nett er up 'I' ... if God will fave us God himfdf mull come and die for us: It w.ere fure 110 b tttfiret 1 . enc
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