Joule-exalting_ humi!iation. 19 intolerable troubles which Chritt had. In his birth, hee had acommon Inne for his kingly palace, a fia· ble for his chamber, a manger for his cradle ; the bruit beafrs for his chamber. fellowes. Inhis infan– cie) he fled intov£gypt for his life fromelood~thir~ frie Herod. In his youth, he tooke paines in that poore occu– pation ofhis fuppofed father loftph, as appeareth by the quefiion ofthe people, Is not thiJ the c(lrpen– ter, MMiesJfJnne JMar. 6. 3· In his whole life, full ofhsmane affiitrions, fo . poore, thathelivedbyalmes, andhadnotthe pri-. vilegeofpoore foxes, SeeLske 8.3.and9· 58. After · hee begun to execut-e hi~;_ office, hee was grievoufly affaultedwithSathans fiercefr temptations,be fpent his life in doingwdl,and hearing ill,be doth works ofmercy, and is malicifluflycenfured ; he teacheth . the truth, and hardly efcapeth outward violence ; hisfr_iends envioufly backbite him; his eneQ~ies ma– Iicioufly flanderhim; hecannot fpeak but they are ready to intrap him; and out of the words of life and falvation, they are ready to gather matter of · his death, anddefrru~ion. Hee 'is defpitefully cetl· Ied,awine-hibber, 11 r!luttofi'Jan i111pejlou-r 1 adeceiver, a · fn:maritanr, a finntr~· and bein~ the onely natural] fon ofGod, he is faid to be ~offelfed ofadevill ; he is betrayed of his owne ApofHe, apprehended with fwords and fraves, &c. But that which was infinitely_more than all thefe, the unfupportable weight ofGods angerdue to our fins, ,-prdfed out ofhisbldfedbodie, a bloody fweat, and rhat ru1 fullcrie, myGod) my God, &c. Sothatour2-ffii– Bb 2 ltions
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