-Book IV. Part+ Leoking untD feftM. Cbap.2.Se~.6 ----------------~------------------------ !fa. 5J.ll. Pfai,Jxf'. ~ • . Vfe Job 4~.6. a woman in travel; fuch were the paines of J c:fus Chri£\: in death ; the Prophet calls it, the travel of his flu!; and the Pfalmift calls it the paines of hell, the forrovn of de,uh cempt~Jfed me, and the paineJ of hell gate hold up:n me: The forrows, or coards ofdeath compatfed his body, and the paines of hell gate: hold upon his foul;And thefe were they that extorted from him that paffionate cxpofiulation , my Cjod my God why haft thou .forfak_,en me? he complaines of that which was more grievous to him, than ten thoufand deaths , my qod, my God, why haft rhou withdraw11 thy wonted prefence, and Left my fo.ul ( tU it were) in p.tines of hell? And now reflect we on the fhame and paine ! 0 the curfe and bitternetfe that our fins have brought on Jefus Chrifi! when I but think on thefe bleeding veines, bruifed fhoulders, fcourged fides, furrowed back, harrowed temples, digg~d hands and feet, and then confider that my fins were the caufe ofall ; methinks I fhould need no more arguments for [elf-abhorring ! Chrifiians! would not your hearts rife againll him, that fhould kill your father, mother, brother, wife, husband, deareft relations in all the "Yorld ? 0 then how fhould your hearts and fouls rife agair.Jft fin ,? furely your fin it was that murthered Chrift, that killed him who is inftead of all relations, who is a thoufand, thoufand times dearer to you than father, mother, husband child, or whomfoever; one thought of this fhould methinlls be enough to make )OU fay as 'Job did, I abhorre my felfe and repmt in duft and ~tjbeJ"; -Oh what's that crotfe on the back of Chrift ? myjinJ; Oh what•s that crown on the head of Chrifr? my fins ; Oh what•s that nayle in the right hand, and that other in the left hand ofChrift? mJ jinJ. Oh what•s that fpeare in the fide of Chri£1:.? my fins; ·Oh wb~t are thofe nayles and wounds in the feet of Chrift ? mJ {inJ. With a fpiritual eye J fee no other engine tormenting Chrift; no other Pilate, Hered, Amw, (aiph.u condemning Chrift; no other Souldiers, Officers, Jewes, or Gentiles doing execution on Chrift, but only fin: Oh myJinnes, my jinnes, my finneJ! 2. Comfort we our felves in the end and ayme of this death of Chnfi ; tU 4fofes lijttd up the ferpent in the wildern~([P, fomuft the Sm ofman be lifted up; that whufoever be!eeveth in him fbould n1t perijh but h11ve eternal life. The end of Chrifts crucifying is the
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