"'-~---- Chap.r.Sect.7 LoDkJng unt61tfut , Boolc·. rv. Part .3· 579 Chrift the Son ofthe fjving G~d, and there[&re it is_ l~kflJ thou .art omnifcient, thou k_nowefl all thmgs; tell now, who u tt that ftn/zes thee; rve have blindfolded thee that thou canfl net fee u.r with thy bodily eyes let thy divinity areade, gurj[e, tefl,prophejie, who is it now that jmote thee lafl? who ga-ve thee thllt blow.? 0 impiety without example! furelyifhis patienc~ bad been leffe then infinite thefe very injuries would have been greater than his patience.In way of-application. 1. Confider Chrifrians, whether we had not a hand in thefe v Je abufes, for r. They fpit in the face of Chrift who defi lll his image in their fouls, who reject: his .holy.and he.avenly motions in their h arts. -2. They buffet htm wtth thetr fifts who perfecute Chrift in.. his members, SauJ, Saul, why perfecutefl thou me ? it i.r hardfor thee to kick ~tgainft the pric~es. 3. They cover his face that do not readily and willingly confeffe their fins, that extenua e their frailties and imperfections, with counterfeit pretexts. ~4. They mock and fcoffe at Chrift that fcorne and contemne his meffengers and Miniften, he that defpifeth you, de- L k {pi[eth me, faith Chrift. 0 that we would lay thefe things to our u ' 1 o.16 • hearts, and fee and obferve wherein we fland guilty of thefe fins, that we may repent. 2. Con!ider Chriftians; and rcade Chrifti love in all thefe fufferings; 0 unheard of kindneffe, and trucly paternal boweli of pity and compaffion! who ever heard before of any that ' would be content, to be fpit upon, to wipe their filths who fpit upon him? that would be content to be beat, and buffeted, to favethemfrom buffets who were the buffeters? that would be content to be blindfolded, that he might neither take notice of, nor fee the offences of them that blindfolded him ! that would be content to be made a fcorne, to fave them from fcorne that fhall fcorne him ?-Chriftians ! you that take your name from Chrift ! how lhould you admire at ·the infinitenetfe and imrnenfity of this love ofChrift ? was it a fmall thing that the wifdome ofGod fhould become the foolifhneffe of men, and fcorne-of men, and ignominy ofmen, and contempt oftheworldfor your fins fake : 0 think of this ! And now the difmal night is done; what remaines but that we follow Chrift, and obferve him in his fufferings the Ecec 2 next
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