670 Book IV. Part. 3. Lo~Hng UrJt6 1-efus. Chap.3.Sect.8 ]oh\18.36, Joh.6,I rt Phil.z.S, Joh. 5 ·30• buy us, and none might out-bid him in the market ofour fouls. 0 we under-bid, and under- value the mercy ofGod, who over: valued us ; we will not ft'll all to buy him, buc be fould all he bad and himfelte too to buy us, indeed if he had not done it: we had been damned ; and to fave our foules he cared not what he did, or futfered. 0 the mercy of Cbriil:! 5. His meekneffe was palling great; in all the procelfe of his paffion, he {hewed not the leaft paffion of wrath or anger ; he fuffered 'himfdfe gently and quietly to be carryed like a fhecp to the butchery ,and M a Iambe before the foeartr is dumbe, fo opened he not hi« meuth : a Iambe is a moil: meek and innocent creature, and therefore is Chrift called, the l«mbe ofGd which t11k!th awaJ the jins.of the "~¥or/d.~- And he WM bro~tght M a Iambe to the Jlaughter; why, a Iambe goes as quietly to the fhambles, as if it were going to theJold, or to the pafture-field where its damme feedeth: and fo went Chrift to hts croffe. 0 the rneekneffe of Chrift ! 6. His contempt of the world· was co admiration; he tells them, hu Kingdorne w.u not ~f 1hu world. When a crown was offered him, and forced upon him, he refufed it; but above aU, behold the bed where the bridgroome lyeth and · fl eep~th ac noone-day ; here's but an hard flock and narrow roome; 0 bleffed head of a deare Redeemer ! how is it that tbou hail: not a pillow where to reft thy feife? he hang• on the croffe all naked, 'few Kings do fo; he hath n.o crown for his head, but one of thornes; he hath no delicates, but gall and vinegar; he is leaving the.world, and he hath no other legacies to give his friends but fpiritual thingJ, pr11ce Jlem'e with you+ my pe{jce Igive unto you, not a; the world . giveth , giw I ~tnto you. He had fo contemned the world, that he had not a leg11cy in all the worl·d to give, n&t as the wor/Jgi'Nth, give I unt9 you. 7· His obed~nce was confiant; he bec{jme obedient unto death, ·evm the deattJ cf the croJTe. ---he fought not h!J own will, but the will of rim th,u fent him. There was a comma~1d that the Father laid on Chrift from all eternity, 0 my Son, my only begotten Son, t hou m11ft go do-wn, mtd leave he111Hn, and empty thyfelfe, and dye the death, even the de.~~th of the crof[e, andgo and 6ri11g up thefallen fonJ
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