·62:8 Book IV, Part.;. Looking unto :jeJiM. Chap.3.Sea:.z --- 10. Confider the piercing of his fide with a fpeare, whence came out a ftrcame of blood and water ; 0 fountaine of everlafting waters ! methinks I fee the blood running our of his fi de more frelhly than thofe golden ll:rea01s which ra il out of the garden of Eden, and watered th'e whole world. Confider the tak:ng of his body down by {ofeph ; r.hc buryi ng of it by {ifeph and NicGdemtu; 0 here's excellent matter to r our meditation! 0 my fpirit, go with me a lit tle ! Chrift being dead, ir. is pity but he lhould have a fune ral; accordtng to the letter let { vfeph and _ Nichodemm beare his corps ~ let the bletfed Virgin go after it fighi ng, and weeping, and at every other pace lookmg up to fieaven ; let U}fary M agdalen .follow after with a box of precious oyntment in her hand, and with her hayre hanging, ready (if needwere) to wipe his feet againe; or that in thismeditation I may be more fpiritual, let the ufurer come firft with 'j- ud& bag, and d1ftributc to the poore as he goes along; let the drunkard follow after with the fpunge that was filled wi th gall, and vinegar, and check his wanton thirlt; let the young gallant or voloptuoos man come like his Maller with bare foot, and with the crown ofthornes fet alfo upon his head; let the wamon perfon bearethe rods and whips , and wires whw:with Chrifi was fcourged, and fright his own fleih; let the ambit iousman be clad in the purple robe, the angry perfon in the feamelelfe coare; my meaning is Jet every !inner according to the nat ore of his fi nne, draw fomething or orlier fr:om the paffion of ( brill: to the mortifying of his fin; yea let all turne mourners, let all bow their heads , and be ready to give up the ghoft for theName ofChrift. And let not Chrift be buryed-without a Sermon neither, and let '] b 0 I' the text be this, the t,ood Shepherdgiveth hu lifr for the (beep, and 0 ' 1 • 1 in the er,d of the Sermon (whether it be in ufe or no) let the Preacher take occafion to fpeak a word or two in the praife of Clnr. 5. 10 . 1t; Clu·;ft , let him tliy with the \poufe, that he w..u t he chi.feft among ten thoufandJ, thdt hew& altogether lGvely; that being God a- / hove all gods, he became man beneath all men; that when he fpake be began ordinarily with v erily, v erily, Ij.ry m: to you ; that he was an holy man, that tie never finned in all his li te neither in thought, word, or deed ; that being endowed wi th the power ofmiracles, he loviu{}ly employed it in curing che l ;t me~ and blinde, and deafe, and duml.->e, in cafiing out,devils, i11 healing
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