...,. 6%.~ BooklV. Part+ L1oking untD 1efm, Chap.3.Sectz ---being now in this plight, tho_u art-caUed on to behold tle man : doft thou fee him? is thy imagination firong ? canfi thou confid~r him at prefent, as if -thou bad'fi a view of this ve:y man ? methinks it iliould make-thee break out,and fay, 0 brightnfj]e tf th] Fat hersglory, who hath thm truelly dealt "1Vith thee? 0 unJPMt~d.,g,l.tj[e of the UWajefty of God, who hath thlf<l wholly di.<figured thee ? 0 river that flows out of the P aradife of ddigJ.rs , ·n ho hath thm troubled thee ? it u my jinJ 0 Lord, that have jo troubled thee, my jim were the thornes thllt pri,·ked thee, the kfhu thut whipped thee, the purple that clollth~d thee, ·it u I L wd th,Jt> am thy tormentor. , and__ the very caufe of ;hefe tby paines. . _ 8. ConGder Pilates fentence, tnat {efm foould ~e m :cifird M the 'few.r required. Now they had,him in their will, :nd they did to him what feemed them good. Follow h1m from qabb~~.- ~ tha to Golgotha, fee how they lay the heavy croffe upon ·h}s tender (boulders, that were fo pitifully rent and torne with whips; accompany him all the way to the execution, and help to carry his croffe to mount Calvery; And there, as if thou had,il been frozen hitherto, thaw into teares; fee hitn lifted up on that engine ofconure, the bloody croffe; he hangs on nayles, and as he hangs, his own weight becomes his own affliction ; 0 fee how hts arme~ , and legs were racked with violent pull s, his hands and fret boan~d wi h nayles, h(s whole body tome with firipes, and goared with blood; And now 0 my'foul run with all thy might into his armes held out at their full length to r~c_eive thee; · Oh weigh the matter ! becaufe lin entred by the fenfes,tberefore his head in wh ich the fenfes flourifb, is crowned with fearching tbornes; .becaufe the hands and feet are more efpecially the infiruments offin, therefore his hands and feet are nayled to the croffe for f.'ltisfaClion. 0 marveilous! what King is he, or of what country that WeJres a cro·wn of thornes? what man is he, or wherelives l1e, whofe hands and feet are not only boared, but diggcd into, as if they had been digging with fpades in a ditch ? furely ·here's matter for a fcrious meditation, be enlarged ' 0 tny thoughts, 'and dwell upon it ! confider it, and conGderit againe! - 9. ConGder the darkneffe that fpread over aU the earth ; now ·.was the Sun ailiamed to thew his bright.neffe.; conGderiog t~at - -~ ,.
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