---------------~~~~----------------~--------~ Sermon 1. Of the PAss IoN. } 3 4-7 Hilll: Etplangmt fefuper Bum omnes Gentes te.rro:. The mea~ingwhereof · Look.e u~>o11 Him here, If you will : BIIJOJIIeyourfelJies 1f you thinkc: IS, r ' . h . lr . h h [ good : Either here, or [omew ~re e •e; e1~ er now or t en, ooke ttp011 Biln you fball. And, they whtch put this fpectacle. f~rre from them here and cannot endure td look.e upon Htm 1vhom they Haw pterad; & . plangere Bum, and be grieved for Him, while it is time : a place and time iliall be, when they f1ull be enforced to look.; upon Htm, whether they will ot no, Et plangent fe fuper Bum, and be gneved for themfelves; that theyha~ no grace to doe it fooner. Better, compof~ themlel~es to alit.de mourninghere, with fome benefit to be made by theu beholdmg ;.than to bedrawne to it there, when it is too late, and when all tbeii:.lovk.mgand grieving willrrqt availea whit. For, there ~JPicienten"f.fPit:i".et, & defPi– cientes deJPiciet : His looke fhall bee amiable to them that hive reJPeEled His piercinghere; anddreadfull on the either fide; to them that have neg~ Jetted it. And,as they that have enured themlelves to'this looking 011 (here) fhall in that day, Look.e up, and lift up i:beirl>eadn"'Jitb joy, tl>e daj of tl1eir Luk. 2 i. 2 8; ~demption being at band : So, they that cannot bring thenifelves, to look.e · ·upon Him here; after they once have looked rtpon Him there, iliall not dare eo doe it the fecond time; but crie to the·n~ount:lines, Fall upon m, and to the Hills, Hide M from tlJe face of Him that fits upon the Throne. A oc. 6 • iCi~ Therefore, (j{_ejf>icient is no evill counfell. No, though it bee facient fe re-: P - --- JPicere. · . · . . . · ·_ ·. . . . ·' . . .. ,, . , - Inaword,if thustaufingour felves to fixe our eyes otrHim,weaske; how long we fball continue [o doing,and when we may give over ? Let this be the anf\ver, 1Jonec totm ftxtH in [orde, qui tot~~& fixU& in Cruce. Or . if that becoo much or too hard, yet faltem,at the leaft.,~JPice in IOum,do- Luk.zz.Cii; nee IUe te reffiexerit. Looke upon Him, till Hee looke upon you againe. For, [o He will. He did, uponPeter; and with Hislooke, meltedhim intoteares. He that once and twice beforedenied Him, and never wept> becatife CHRisT looked not on H!m; tlie11 dei1i'ed, and C rr'R1s·r looked on him, and he 1"1Jent out and 1"1Jept bitterly. And if toPeter thus Be did, and vouchfafed himfo oracious a reoard, whe~ Peter not once ' 0 0 !ooked towards Him; how much more fball.He non deny us)ik!' favou·r, 1f, by.look.i11g on Him nrft. we·provokeHim in a fort co' a [econdtbol<in.golt · magatne, With theProphet, laying; Propofui 1Jominmn coram me,I have fet PlaT.t6.8: thee, 0 L oR o, beFore me :and againe, !J(_eJPice in me, &c. 0 look.e thou Pfa.xz9.i3~ upon me, and bee merciful! unto me, ao thou ufert to doe to choje tlJat lo:ve thy Name. That love tlry Name 1 which is, J E s us a SA v' t ouR . and which !ove that ftgiJt, wherein (moH properly) thy Name appeareth,and wher: mthou chiefly lbcweft. thy fel teto be I E s u s a S A v ~~ u R. d :nd (to conclude) ifwe aske,hovv we fb'all know when CHR 1 s T d ?t .thus re.JPeEt us ? Then truly, when fixing.both the eyes of our mettatton up H. · 1 · · · h · f h 011 11n t >at ')]JM pterced (as tt were) one eye, upon t egne e; ~. e o~her, upo~~1e.lov.e. ~here~ith I:Je waspierced, .'!!_e find by both or !i pn~
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