TheCnj{t. Vcrfq . { OfthePAssxo.N. Sermon i· them, as bee fhewes them. Enduring istheaC\:ofpatience;andpatience bathpaine for her objeCt 'Dej}ijingjhame is the propertie of hnntility, even of the highell bumilitie; not only./}ernere fe, bur fpernere fe .f}mi. Firfi then wee mull fee the paine, Hispatience endured ; that is me;<nt by the croOe: and then fee the defPiftpg, His humility, His humilit,Y dej}ijed; that is meant by thefhame. Firffchen of His C;offi. . . . It is well knowne, that C HR 1sT and HisCrofle were never parted; but that, all his life long was acontinuall Croffe. At the vcryCratch,his Cro./Je firll began. There, Merod fought to doe that whichPilate did. even to 'end his life before it began. All his life after(faith theApojllei~ the next Verfe) was nothing but a perpetuallgain-fayingofjinners-: which wecall crofting; and profelfe we cannot abide, in any uf our fpeeches or purpofescobecroffed. He was. In thePJalme of the1 Paf?ion (theXXll) in the Yery front or infcripcion of it, hee is fet forth unto us under the terme of a Hart, Cer'VI~ matutinm, a morning Hart (that is) alkrt rowfod early in th~ morning: As, from his birth hee w;ts byHerod, and hunted and chafed all his life long ; and this day brought to his end, and as the poore 'Deere llricken and wounded to the heart: This was his lafi. laftand wodl : and, this we properly call his Crojfe, even thisdaye's (Hjfi: ring. To keepe us then to our da)', and theCro,Oe of the day. He endured tbe CroUe. . · He endured. Very enduringit felfe, is Jurum : 'Durum pati. Efp~cially; for Per(ons .of high p8wer or place;as the s 0 N NE of G 0 nwas. For great Perfonstodoegreat things,is no great wonder. Their veryGenisu na. turally enclineth to it. But, to j~tffir any fma!J thirzg,for them, is morechart to doe many great. Therefore, the 1 Prophet placeth his morallfortitude; and the 'Di11ine,his Chrijlian obedimce,rather in (ujfering than indoing. SufJt• ring is(fure)themorehardof thetwaine. He endured. If it be hard toendure,itmu!l: be more hard toindure T~ard tlJings: Ana ofall things bard tobe endured, the hardefi is death. Of rhe Philolopher's ..<vn f'' 'fa, ji11e fearefu!J things, it is moll: fearefu/1 : And what will not a man ; Nay, what will notaTlloman weake and tender, inPlryjicke, in Chi. rurgerieindure,not to endure death ~He endured df11f.h. And, that, if heendured, and no more but that, it rr.ightfulfice; it is worth all we have; for, all we have, we will give for our life. But,not death only, but the kind of death is it. Mortem, morttm aufem Cruci! (faith the Apojlle, doubling the point:) 'Deatb heendured, even,thedeath of the Cro,Oe. The·Croj]e is but a little word; but ofgreaJ: contents: but few letters; but inthofe few letters, are conteined, multa ditfr,gra1Jia, perpeduajper4, Tiea'liy to bee named, more hea'Vy to bee en,dured. I take butahe fourethings a(cribed by the HoLY GHosT to theCro.Oe, an{•NeraLJe to the fou:e ends or 9narters of it. t Sanguir Crucis (Colof. 1. 2o.) a 'Do/ores crtiCif (A~. 1. z.) 3 Scandalum Cru,is (Gal.J.ll-) 4 MalediElum Crucif (Gal.3.1l.) · · -·- · · ·" - chat
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