Sermon I. Ofthe PAsSION. 337 b d So that we extend thispiercingof CH RI s T further, than to the 0 Y· ' · · · f l h vilible gafh in His liqe, even to aptercmgo ~~~oner nature,w ereby,not His heart onely was J1abbed, but H1s very fPmt wounded too. . The Scripture recounteth two : and o~ the~ both , exprefly fayth, . h t they bothpierce theJoule. TheApoftlelaytlut, by Sorrou> : Andpter- 'T,m.6.to. ~e~ the,n;etws through 1'Pith many forrowes : ThePropf,et, of !J(eproacf, : Pfal. 64, >i• There are, TPhofe 'fiJords are ltke the pnckmg ofafivord : an.d that, to theSoule both : for, the body feeles neither. .With thefe, even With both thefe,was the Soule of c H R I s T I E sus wounded. . For farrow: it is plaine through all foure E:JJangelifts; * undiq; trifth Withfom~ eft anima 1)lta ur;q. ad mortem. My Soul~ is invironed on every fide with M*Maat.z 6 ·3 8 1~, ' ,r,l4·34• farrow, ewn.to the deat!J : a Ccepit I E •S u s t,ede:e & p~~ere, I E s us. began •Mar., 4 .B to be diflrefled and 111 great angUJfh. bFaEhum agoma, bemg call mto an bLuc.u.44 agonie. clam turbataeftanima mea; Nowismyfouletroubled: Avowedc!oh.u.z7. , by them all; Confefl: byHimfelfe. Yea, that H.is fl:range and never elfe . heard offiveat; drops of bloud plenteoufly 1ffumg from H1m all over :'j His body, what time,no manner ofviolence was offered to His body,no man then touching Him, none bemg neere Him; that bloud came certainly ftom fome gre~tforrot~,wherwith Hisfoule was pierced. And,.that His moll: dreadfull we, wh1ch at once moved all the powers of heaven and earth, My God, My God,&c. was the voice of fome mightieAnguijh, Mat. iJ. 1 p. ,wherewith HisJoule was fmitten; and that. in other fort, than with any materiall fPeare. For, 'Derelinqui a 'Deo, the body cannot feele it, or tell what it meaneth. It is theSoules complaint; and therefore without all doubt, His Soulcwithin him was pierced, and fuffered, though not that, which (except charity be allowed to' expound it)cannot be fpoken without blafphemy; Not fo much (Go o forbid :)yet much, and very much; and much more than oth$:rs feeme to allow; or how much, it is dancre~ rous to define. 0 / _To this edge offorrow, if the other ofpiercing dejpight, be added as a With r~ poi~t (as, added it was) it will fl:rike deepe into any heart; efpecially, prMch. beemg wounded with fo many forrowes before. But, the more noble thehea;t, the deeper; Who beareth any griefe more eafily than this griefe, the gnefe of a contumelious reproaclJ. Toperficttte apoore diftreffedJoule Pfal. 69• • ~; and tofeeke to 'l!exe !lim that u already 11Jotmded at the heart, why, it is eh~ Very ~Itch of all )lJzck.ednejJe ; the very extremity that malice can doe, or aHl~ct!On can luffer. And to this pitch werechey come, when after all then·. Wretched '7Jif/anits and jpitting, and all their {avage indignities in . flvzlmgH1m mofl: oppr?brioully, He ?eing in t~e depth of a~! His di~ re!fe, and for very angmfh of foulecrymg, Elt, Elz,&c. they fl:aiedthofe }~af;o,uld have relieved Him:; an~ (void of.all ~unianity) then !corned, d Y "' •.Sta!, let alone, lettufoe, zf EL 1 As 1'Ptll now come and take Hzm Mar, 27 • 4 9 ; , ~wned fhJs barbarous and brutifh inhumanity of theirs, mull needes !'terce eepenmo His Soule, than ever did theiron into his fide. · To· •
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