Of the PAss 1 oN. Sermon 2. ~~1i-ch very flay of His, fheweth it to be fomeimportantmatter,in tb.atltJs, ofall. For as for fame to be ltaied, and rhofe the greater fame there may be reafon; the moll: part of thofe thatgoe thus to .andfra,may well intend ir, they have little elfe to doe. But to except none, not fame fpeciallPerfon)s hard. What know we their hafl:e? Theiroccafions may befilch, and fo urgent; as they cannot fl:ay. Well, what hafl:e, what bufi. veffe{o ever,paJle not by, flay though. As much to fay, as, Be they never lo great, your oceafions; they are not, they cannot bee fo great as this: How urgent foever, this is more, and more to be intended. The regard of this, is worthy the fl:aying of a journey. It is worth the confideringof ~hofe,that have never fo great affaires in hand. So material! isthis fight in His account. Which ferveth to !hew the exigence of this duty. Butas for this point,it needetH not be fl:ood upon to us here at this time: we are not going by, we need not beftaied; we have fl:aied all other our _affaires, to come hither, and here we are all prefem before GoD, to havcltfetbe. fore us, that wemay confider it. Thither then let us come. That whichwe a_ re called tobeholdand con lider, is HuSorrow : An1 So'tro,r. I)" q Sorrow is a thingwhich of it felfe Natureindineth us tobehold, as being ~,b.13. 3• our ldves i11 the body, which may bee one day in the like forrowfull cafe. Therefore will every good eye turne it felfe, and looke upon them that Behold. lie in difl:reffe. Thofe t1vo in the Gojpell, that paOed by the "'ll>ounded man, luk. ro.p. before they paffed by him, (though they helped him not, 2s theSamari. Ioh. 3 • 14 . tane did) yet they looked upon him as he lay. But, this party (here) lietb not, He is lift up, M t/Je Serpent in the "~Pildmzejfe,rhat unleffe we turne our eyes away purpofely, we can neither will nor choofe, but behold Him. Ach r.n· But becaufe, to 'BelJold, and not toconfider, is burtoga-'e; andga'\il~ the Angel blameth inthe.Apofllesthe\llfelves,we mufl: do both: bothbehold, 2 CoPjidrr. and confider : looke upon, with the eye .of the body~ that is,behold; and louke into, with the eye of the mind, that is, Confider. So faith thePrc>· phet here. And the ver}! fame cloth theApoflleadvife us to doe. Firfl:,•1•Ff• Heb. u.: 3 . CO look.e 11ponhim (tqat ls,to 'Be/,o/d) and then<va.w>'l(o.:lw,to think. 11pon Him, that is, toConfider His Sorro1v : Sorrow ((tii:e) would be confidercd. The quality, Now then, becaufe, .a\ the qualitie of the Sorrow is, accordingly_ic If mr thr would beconfidered, (for If It be but acommon farrow, the leffewdl ilk!_. ferve, but if it be fome fpeciall,fome very_ heavy cafe, the more wouldbe .allowed it: for, proP.ortionably with theJujfering,the cDnjideration is to a– rife : ) To raife our confideratioll to the full, and to elevate it cothe highe!! point, there is upon his Sorrow fet aSi {iteritficut, a note of highdt eminency : for,SifuFrit jimt,an: words that have life in them,and areable to quicken our confideration, if it benot quite dead : For by themwe are provoked (as it were) toConfider, and confidering, to fee whether ever. anySicut may be found, to fet by it, \-)'herher ever any like ir. For if never any, Our nature is,.to regard rhingsexceedingrareao~ fhange; and fuch a~ t~e li~e ~hereof is :flOC elfe w _be feene. Vpont~lS · · ·· pomt
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