3Rigtlt ~urgatorp. ---------------- hafl: which the Priefl:s ufcd in carrying ofthe Groffe, lcfl: Chrifl: ihould have died before he was crucified: every one of thefe reafons argue nn unreafonable wh1ppmg, wh1ch our Saviour endured. Bm (0 joy ofthe Angels, tmdglory ofSaints! ) who hath rhw dr{– jiguredthee? who hatb thm defiled thee wtth fo ""my bloody tlo1vs .< cc>'tainfy they were not thyfins, bJtt mine, that have thw. evp intrearcd thee:· tt tvas love and mercy that compaft rhee abom f(jr I jhouldhavejujfered, but to prevent rhu) thy mercy moveJ· rhcr, aud fo thou tak.:ft. upon thee all ~ny miferies. . . But all tills will not famfie the Jews, Eehold the man, fa~d Ptfate to them, when .he 6. thought to have pacified their wrath by that doleful fight; but this nothing moved John 19· s. them, though (prcfently after) it moved rocks and floncs to ihiver in pcices: Behold then a fixth effution of blood, when his hands and feet were pierced t~>'Oirgh wtth nade.s: he bears indeed upon his ihoulders, an heavy and weighty Croffe of fifteen foot long; which mull needs (fay fame) caufe a great and grievous wound : but to omit that wh1ch is quellionable) here be thofc woful fufferings; now come the barberous inhumane hang .men, and begin to loofe his hands that were tyccl to the pofl, to tie them to ( a worfcr pillory) the Croffe, then finp they off h1s gore-glued cloaths, wh1ch d1d fo cleave to his mangled battered back, that they pull off cloaths and skin together'; nay, yet more (and how can I fay it without tears for fin? the Crotfe is ready, and nothing wanting but a mcafure for the holes; down therefore they lay him on it,and though the print of his blood gives them a true length, yet fpitcfully they take it longer, that fo , they may firctch and rack him on the Crotfe· till you may tell his bones. And now all 1 fa/. 22 • 1 1• fitted, his hands and feet arc bored, the greatnetfe of whofc \Vounds David [dre lhcw· cd by thofc words, They digged "'Y hands ~tnd my fee;, Pfal, 22. r6. And well may we think fo, for (as Ecdcfiaflical H1fl:ory reports] fo brg were the very na!les, that Con– flantine made of them an helmet, and a bridle. 0 the!l what pain is this, when all the weight of his body mull hang on four Nailcs: And they to be dri~en (not into the lca!t fenfible parts, but) thorow his hands and feet, the Illoft liRewy, :ind therefore more fenfible parts of all other whatfoever ; yet to hang thus for a time where (it may be) fome\vhat role;able, but thus he hangs till_ he ?ies, and fo the longer he PfaJ. 22. ~~. Svcrr.t•l. 10 c.17. continues, the wider go hts Wounds, and the freiher 1s hts torture. And now (my brethren) beh,ld and fee, if there were ever any for;·ow lik; unto this forrow: ahs! Lam. I. 12. what elfe appears in him, but bleeding veines, bruifed jhoulders, feourgedJidu, ftrrrowed back._, harrowed temples, diggcd hands andfeet' diggtd, 1fay not with fmall pins, but with rongh boyflrous nailes; and how then !hot the blood from thofe hands and feet thus d>goed, and diggcd thomv ? 0, I""'""' rofe cf Shm·on, it is truly fa id of Chritt · Look._ on"'one hand, and on the other, and you may finde Rofes in both; look_ on one foot: and on the other, andyou 11MY find Rofer m mhn·: In a word, look all over his body and it is all over rofic, and ruddy in blood. ' Can we any more ? yes, after all thefe ihowcrs of blood, here is one more effufi– on; for after his clcath, ,One of theforddrers with a fplar pitrctd his fide, and forthwilh came l'hereo"t blood artd water, John 19, 3+: The Souldier that gave thiSivound (they fay) WllSrlhlmd man; but ottr Savtours blood fprzngmg oJtt on hts Eye1, rrjforcd him to his fight, a~dJo he berame a Convert, a Bijhop, an.d a ~artyr: a firange cure, where fhe Phy fi– Cian mutt bleed; hutfo full of vertue was th1s blood, that by it we are all faved. And yet (0 Savwur!) Why didft thou flow to us in fo many fireams of blood? one drop had been enough for the World, but thy love IS Without meafurc. Phyfitians arc ufu– ally ltberal of other mens blood, but fparing of their own; here it is not fo: for infl:eedof the Patients arm,_ it is the Phyticians own fide that bleeds; intleed of a lancet here 1s a fpcar, and •that 10 the hand of a blind Chirurgcon : yet as blind as he was, how nght cloth he hit the very Vein of his Heart? that heart where never dwelt deceit, fee how it runs blood and water for our fins ; here is the fountain of his Sacraments, the beginning of our happlnetfe: 0 garc of Heaven! 0 rvindo1v of Paradice! 0 place of Refuge! 0 tol~er ofStrengrh! 0 Jantlua')' ofthe 'Juf/! 0 jiourif/,ing bedtfthe Sponfc of Solomon! \Vho IS not rav1lhed at the runnmg of this tlrcam? methinks 1 fiill fee the blood gufhing out of his fides, more freihl yand fully than thofe fweet golden tlreams wh1ch run our of Eden to water the whole world. But is it his hearts blood? What_? keeps he nothing \\>hole without hini, nor Within him; his Apofl:les arc fcar'- tered m the garden, his garments at the Crotfe, his bloodhow many whcrcs? his s!{i;\ they ha_ve rent With their whips, his car with their blafphemies, his back with their. (ur• rows,h1s hand and feet with their nailes,and will they yet have his heart too dovrrt witlt Mmm ~ Cant. 2 r. lbo de. 1' •JJ. Dom.c.~'· 1' ]ohn 19 <4· Lo,·ginus Bi~ fhop o(Cappa• dooa· Tefle lle• ble Contcmpl~r(· on son ChdHJ' l 1 aftion.
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