{ O{theP_AssibN. Sermon); are comprifed the two maine motives, that fer all the world~; I Lo1Je, and • Hope. The LowHe bath to us, in HisPaftion on theCroffi: .The IJopewe have ofHim, inHis Seftion on theT!Jrons. Either 11f thefe alone, able to move ; but, put them together, and they will move us or nothingwill. ' · :;;_~~h~;;o 1. Lo1Je fir£1:: Whatmoveth the Mother toall the travell and toylelbe 1Love. takcth with her Cbilde ~ She!Jopes for nothing, fhe is in yeares (fi1ppofe) fhe fhall not live to receive any benefit by it : It is low and lo11e one~; izHope. Lo1Je, fidl. z. And thenHope : What moveth the MercTJant and fo theHusband: 1nan, and fo theMilitary-man, and fo all the reil? All the fharpe fhowres and ftormes they endure, they /o)!e them not : It is hopeand hope onely of a rich returne. If either of thefe will ferve us, will prevaile to move us, here it is.l Fph. 5.•: Here is Low; lol>e in theCroffi: Who lowd us and ga1!e Himftlfe for m,' -Apo,c. 3·li· a focrifice on the Crojfe. Here is hope: hope in the Throne: To him that o1Jn·cQmmeth 117illlgiw, tofit TPith me,in my Tbrone. Ifour eye be aMotbm eye here i.s Low worth the looking on. If our eye be a MerciJants eye' he;e is hope worth the looking after. I know, it is true, that rverm amo; rvires non fumit de JP e. (lt is 13mwd:) Low if it be true indeed, as in the Mother receiveth no manner ftrength from hope. Ours is not fuch. but fainta~d feeble and full ot imperfeCl:ion:Hereis bopetherefore,toflre;tgtb. en our ~eakeknees, that we may ru1me the more readily, to thehigh price. 2wh•t b• fuff<r'Jl· ofourca!ling. , . . . To begin then with His lo1Je, the lo1Je ofHis Paflion (the peculiar of this day.) In it, we firl1: looke,to~hat he fuffered; and that is oftwo forts• . J:T-he Crojft, heendured : zTheSl>ame, hedeJPifed. 3 And then with what minde: for, the mindeis worth all; aridlo1Je in it, fheweth idelfe (ifnot more) as much as in the fuffering it felfe: but certainly, more. And this is his minde; propojitojibigaudio,as cheere(ully as ifit had been fome matter ofjoy. Ofboth fi~fi joyndy under one.' Then feverally each by it fdfe. !~1~~·.1fd Two things are to us n1of1: preci~d;, t ourLife an~ • our ~putation: loymly. Pari paffu ambulant (faith the Lawyer) they J!Oe arme marme, and are of c:quall regard, both. Life isfweet : The Crojfe coil him his life. Honor IS Jeare: Shame bereft him his honour. In the race, which before tU and for titS our blejfed S A v 1 o u R ran,thefe two great blocks, 1 Death,and 'JJif– grace were in his way. Neither flayed him : to teftifie his Lo"'le, over bothhe paifed. Put his fhoulders underthe CroUe andendured it, to the loife ofhis lift. Set hisfoot uponJhame and defpifed it, to the loife of h1s bonour. Neither one nor <;>ther, lift or honottr, held he dea're, to doe u.s good. 0, ifwe fhouldhaza~dbut one ofthefe two, for any creature h· .ving, how much adoe would we make of it,' and reckon the party etcr· ~ally obliged tO.?~~ Q~ !f any fh?uld !ent~re t~em for us, ~e !hou~~
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