344 .4 Refpice& rrede, { Of the PASSIoN. Sermon r. bath gravmm; thathemightnot forget us. And the printof the neilrs in them, are as Capital! letters to record his love toward us. For, CH R 1 sr pierced on the Cro!fe is liber _cbaritatu, the very booke of love laid open be. fore us. And againe, this love of His wee may read in the cleft of Hi! heart,.fl.t!ja (/a"vm penetrans faEttueH: n~bu Clavu referans (laitb IBernard)ut pateant nobu -vifceraperr-vulnera. Thepoint of theSpeare ferves us intl:ead of a key, letting us, through his Tvotmds, fee his very bowels, the bowtls of tender love and mofl: kind compa!Tton, that would for us endure to be fo entreated. That,if the lewes (that flood by) faid truly of him,at Laz.aru's grave, Ecce quomod~ dilexit Em11 1when Hee fhed a few teares out of his eyes; much more truly may we fay of him, Ecce quomodo dil~xit nos~ fee. ing him !bed,bothWaterand 131ot~d,and that in greatplentie; and that,out of hisheart. Which fight ought topierce us with love too,no leffe than before it did with forrow. With one, or with both : for, both havepowerto pierce. but fpecially Low : Which except it had entred firfi andpiercedhim, no' neile orJPeare could ever have emred. Then Let this bee the third, rJ(e~ice & dilige : Looke,and bepiercedwith love of him,th~t fo lol>ed thee,thath~ gave him!elfc in this fprt to bepie~ced for thee. And foralrrtuch as it is CH R t s This owne felfe, that, refemblinghis pafsion on theCroffi to the13ra:zen Serpent lift up in the Tvilderneffi,maketh a correlpondence betweenetheir beholdingand our beleeving (for,[o it is loh. 3.14) wee cannot avoid, but mull needs make that an effetl:roo: Even rJ\!j}ice & crede. And, well may weebelee"t>e and trull him, whom looking a little before, wee have feene ro confiandy lovingus. For, the fight of thatlove maketh credible unto us,whatfoever in the wholeScrip. ture, is affirmed to us of C HR1sT, or promifed in his name : So that, beleeve it, and beleeve all. Neither is there any time, wherein with fi1ch Joh.1o: ~s. cheerefulneffe or fulneffe oHaith we crie unto him, MY LoRD and Mr G o o, as when our eye is fixed upon theprint of the neiles, and on the /;alt in tl1efide of him that waspierced for us. So that, this foutth duty CHRISt Him!i:lfe layeth upon us, and willeth us from his own mouth, ~./}ice~ Crede. · - -- ' - .. · 5 _' And, beleeving this of him; what is there, the eye of' our hope fbaU Rt/JJk• & not look for from him ?What would not he doe for us that for us would t;~.8• 31• fuffer all this? It is Saint'Paul'sargument, lfG o o ga~e bu Sonne (or !If, -- ho1v ftMll he deny IU any thing11!itl, Him ?That is, (j(eJPice & Spera. Looke upon him, and his heart opened, and from thatgate of hope promife thy felfe, and loqke for all manner of things that good are. Which our.ex· petl:ation is reduced to thefetwo: r The deliverance from the evil/ of our prefent milerie: 2 and the reftoring to tl1e good of our prunirive felicicie, 1 By ~h~ ~ea~~ ~f ~hi~ undefiled 0t_'!!_~e, il.S by theymely Pa!fe()ver,lo%~ \ ., ...
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