{ C!f the pAS S I 0 N. Sermon i. . 1 t. ' · Thd .AH followeth in thefe words:11\.qpicimtin Bum. Arequdl moft The .A£1. reafonaDle, to look..e upon Him ; but to.looke upon Him ; tci bellow but a :;rol••~••pon look.e and nothing elfe . which· ev~n of common humanitie we cannot H•m.· · denier .Q!!ja non afpicer~, d~Jpicere eft. It iugueth great contempt, notto vouchfafe it' the call of out eje ; as if it were anObject utterly.unworthy the loofi..ing toward. Truly, if\~e marke it well,.natureit felfe, ofitftlfe ~:nclineth to this a&. Whennt1.ma{a treacheroufly was flaine byJoab,and iay weltring in his bloud by the wayes fide! the florie faith, that not one :iSam.~~·U 'Of the whole Armie, then marching by, but when became at him,ftood ')P ft iOand looked onhim. · In the Gofpell, the party that going from Ierufalem to [ericTJo was/poi. kd a1id 1l>ounded and lay drawing on; though thePrieft and Le"Vite that :z,ulq 1 , 3 2 , paffed neere the place relieved him not, as the Samaritan after did :yet it is faid of them, they"ll1ent neereand looked on, and thenpa~edon thenway. Which defire is·even naturall in us : [o that evenNature it fdfe enclinech ·us to fatisfie tilePropl1et. ' , ' · · Nature cloth; and fodoth Grace too~ For, generallywe are bound to Pfal.z8,s; regard the'll>ork.e of tht L o ~- o, and tqconfider the operations ofHH ha11ds: a1;1d fpecially thisworke; iq comparifon whereofG o o Himfelfe faith, El•·43· 18 • the former workcs of His,jhall not be remembred, nor:the things done of old tmce regarded. · · Yea CHR1sT himfclfe, pierced as he is, irtviteth us ro it. For in the Prophet here, it is notln eum; butlnme :not, on I:lim; but,onMe, 11>bom they h<J"Ve pierced. But more fully ih Ieremy : for, to CH R 1sT himfelfe doe all the an-cientWriters apply(and that,moit properly) thofe words of Lam. J,I2o theLamentation : Hal!e ye no regard all ye that palfe by thu"ll1ay? 'Beholdand fee, if tT1ere be any farrow like my farrow, 1l>Mcli u done unto me, wherewitl1 the L o R D bath affiiEted me,in tl1e day of Hu fierce 'll>rath. Ourowne profit (which is \vont to per[wade well) inviteth us: for Num.2J.8· tliat, as from the braz..en Serpent no vertue iffued to heale, but unto them 9· that fieddily beheld it; fo neither doth there, from CHRIsT, but upon thofe, that with the eye of faith have their contemplation on this obje_Cl: who thereby draw life from him; ,and without it may and doe penlb, forall C Ha. 1s T and his pallion. . And, if nothing elfe move us, this !allmay : even our danger. For, the time will come, when we our felves fhall defire, that Go o looking with an angry countenanceupon our finnes, would turne his face from themand us, and lookeupon the face of his CHRIsT, that is, rej]Jictrt in Bum :which fhall juiHy be then denied us,ifwe our felves could never begotten to dcie this dmy, refpicere in Eum,. when itwas called for of us. Go o fhallnotlooke upon him, at ours whom we would notlookeup- :>n, at his requefi. . · · · !n the AEt it felte are enjoyued three things. 1.. Thatwe doe irvvith attmtiOil
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