Chrifts blood ought to kmuchregarded. Ofour Sauiours death. $er.4z: head, and hitting onlyhis Manhood, the Deuill was thereby taken,rnocked, ouerthrowne,amazed,and aflonifhed. InExodus, Godbeeingwillingtogiue an end tothe plagues ofÆgypt,hecommanded that euerie family of the children of Ifraell fhouldon acertaine night kill aLambe, and thatthey fhould fprinkle the poftsof the dooresof their houfes withthe blood thereof ; and,that when the Angellfhould paffe by,flaying the firftborneof /Egypt, he fhould skipoiler thepoftsthat were fprinckled withthe bloodof the Lambe , which the Ifrae- litesthat night had eaten to fupper.S.Chryfefleme faith;Thatthe Angell did fearc t heblood of that Lambe,becaufe it wasa typeand figure of that trucandmoft innocent Lambe, who was to haue his blood fprinckled on thepofts of the Croffe.If thenan Angellof Godwere affiaidof the blood of abeat/, becaufe it was a figure of that blood which was to be flied onthe Croffe for the fauing o.f finners , and filchas were Gods chofen people; What feareand terrour (hall the bloodanddeath of our Sauior Chrift,God,andMan,ftrike intoHell? Saint Paul fayth, Triumphansillos infemetipfo, Triumphingsuer themin theCrof ,fubdu- ingpowers,principalities, ¿rc. It is dnfelmes obferuation, that the triumphers of this world,make their triumph by ¡beddingthe bloodof theirenemies: but our SauiourChrifttriumphed ouerthedeuils,andouer1iinnc anddeath,by fliedding his owne properblood. God did anciently in thole times of old, take the fame courfewithhis enemies, as other triumphers in the world were woont to doe. Clorifcabor inPharaone,&e.1 willget mt honorer vponPharaob,and uponallhis Hoffe, vponhis Chariots, andhis Harfemen,that the ..,Egyptians mayknowthat Iam the Lord. God made himfelfe then tobeeknownebydeftroying, drowning,and killing of them. But now heewould get himfelfeaname, and fame,by dyinghimfelfe on the Croffe. This ftrange and new kindof vidorie, Efaypaynteth foorth by introducingour SauiourChrift,whoafcendeth all bloodie vpvntoHeauen ; and by bringingin thofe Angeliswho askethe queftion , Who is this that comes thusRained anddy'd in his owne blood,and yet isboth faire andvaliant r Who is this(asit is in theText)that comnieth fromEdona, with redgarments from Bozrah e He isglorious in his apparell,and walkethwith great ftrength.Where- fore isthine appareilred, and thy garments like him that treadeth in theWine- preffe e And the anfwereto this demandis, Ego propugnator ad faluandum , I am mightie tofaut : Ifpake in righteoufnefTe and pafi my word toflue the World and to take them out of the hard bondageof the deuill, of finne, andofdeath; and I haueperformed mypromife, and beene as good as myword, by leaning their enemiesouercome, by treading them vnderfoot, and by ftayning all my rayment withblood, and bybringing downe their ftrength to theearth . But, wareergo rubrumeftvefiimentum mum, why is thy rayment redde ? What,a Con- queror,andyet fobefmeared withblood e It is anfwered, I trodemine enemies vndermy foot,as heethat crufhing grapes treadethin the Winepreffe ; and my garmentsare fprinckled, andmy raymentftayned withtheir blood. Calcaci tos infuroremeo, Itroad them inmine anger, and troad themvnderfoot in nay wrath, for the day ofvengeance was in mine heart,andthe yeereof my redeemedwas come. And fo I was their fauiour. But how could this be faidof theDeuills, andof Sinne, beeing that they haueneitherof them blood e Tis true, But hu- maue nature bath bothfefh andblood ; Whereofthey hadmade themfelues Lords andMailers. And becaufe I had (faythChrift) put on this particular na- ture,not its regardas it was in mee, ( for fo it was impeccable andwithout finne butin regardof the reft of mankind,fromwhome it was infeparable and not tobee remooued, and fomutt neede Sinne, whilefi that was about them: Chrift was 6 47 co/op:;. The difference betwixt our S.luiours tri- umph, and thofe ofMen axoái4. r;Cay.6s.
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