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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	abraham_n	according_a	nation_n	1,151	4	7.1950	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44003	Contemplations moral and divine by a person of great learning and judgment.	Hale, Matthew, Sir, 1609-1676.	1676 (1676)	Wing H225; ESTC R4366	178,882	429

corruption and ariseth and thereby proclaimed the completing of our Redemption and therefore not possible he should be longer holden of it Acts 2.24 his victory over death and the grave for us 1 Cor. 15. When our Lord raised up Lazarus he came forth of the grave bound hand and foot with grave-cloaths Joh. 11.44 though he was for the present rescued from death by the power of Christ yet he must still be a subject to it he is revived but yet riseth with the bonds of death about him he must dye again But when our Lord riseth he shakes off his grave-cloaths the linnen that wrapped his body in one place and the linnen that bound his head in another Joh. 20.6 7. Our Lord being risen dieth no more death hath no more power over him Rom. 6.9 And thus we have considered the History of Christ's Passion and Resurrection the first and second general Consideration Who it was that suffered and What it was he suffered The Third Consideration follows 3. From whom he suffered all these things the consideration of which doth highly advance the Sufferings of Christ 1. He suffered this from the hands of his Own Father it was he that bruised him put him to grief made his soul an Offering for Sin Isa 53.10 it was he that reached him out this bitter cup to drink Joh. 18.11 The cup which my Father hath given me shall I not drink it was he that bound that burden so close upon him that made him sweat great drops of blood in the garden and though thrice importuned for a dispensation from it yet would not grant it it was he that when the greatest extremity of pain and sorrow lay upon him to add thereunto withdrew the sense of his presence from him which wrung from him that bitter cry My God my God why hast thou forsaken me The injuries of an Enemy are easily born but the forsakings of a Father are intollerable 2. The immediate Instruments and Contrivers of his suffrerings were such as had a nearness of relation to him people of the same Nation and his kinsmen according to the flesh the seed to Abraham people of his own Religion that worshipped the same God acknowledged the same Seripture the visible Church of God and chief representatives of that Church most eminent in place reputation and pretence of holiness the chief Priests and Elders and Scribes people that he had never injured in his life but obliged them with his many miraculous cures his precious and heavenly instructions his tenderest and dearest love and compassion That very Jerusalem which he wept over and would have gathered as a hen gathereth her Chicken under her wings is now that brood that seeks the destruction of him that came to save them and in that vile competition offered to them between their Redeemer and a murderer chose rather to save a malefactor and to deliver their innocent and merciful Saviour And these were they that beyond the examples even of common humanity pursued their Kinsman their Benefactor their Redeemer with such exact bitterness and malice and scorn and cruelty that as it seemed barbarous to the heathen Judge so it hath out-gone the practice of the heathenish Tyrants Psal 55.12 It was not an enemy that reproached me then could I have born it but it was thou mine acquaintance 4. Let us consider How he suffered all these things and this doth infinitely advance the Excellence and Value of his Suffering 3. He Suffered Innocently Isa 53.9 he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him 2 Cor. 5.21 he made him to be sin for us who knew no sin the companions of his suffering justifie him Luk. 23.41 We indeed justly but this man hath done nothing amiss his Persecutors justifie him and yet their malice rested not but sought out false witness against him Math. 26.60 and when they themselves were convinced of their own injustice in prosecution of an innocent yet what they could not avouch upon the account of justice they do upon the point of expedience Joh. 18.14 Caiaphas gives them counsel that it was expedient that one should dye for the people Judas that betrayed him justified him Matth. 24.4 I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood his Judge acquits him and in a signal testimony of his judgment Matth. 27.24 He took water and washed his hands before the multitude saving I am innocent of the blood of this just person and yet though in testimony of the satisfaction of his judgment he washeth his hands in water before them yet he condemns the person that he acquits and stains those hands in the blood of our Lord whom yet he pronounceth innocent And this Innocence of our Saviour was not only a Negative Innocence an absence of guilt but a Positive Innocence he suffered that had not only done no ill but that had done nothing but good he healed their sick cured their lame their blind their deaf their lepers cast out their devils and which was more than all this shewed them the way to Eternal Life to the saving of the Souls of many and the convincing of the Consciences of all that heard him Joh. 7.46 Never man spake like this man And well might he ask as once he did upon another occasion For which of all my good works do ye stone me do ye crucifie me Blessed Lord they crucifie thee for all thy good works if thou hadst been guilty possibly thou mightest have been spared in the stead of Barabbas nay if thou hadst been only innocent it is possible thy persecutors might not have been altogether so violent against thee but thou sufferedst for the very good thou diddest it was not only an act of injustice that spared not thy innocence but an improvement of envy that did malign thy very goodness Math. 27.18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him 2. He suffered all Patiently Isa 53.7 He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearer is dumb so he openeth not his mouth Betrayed by his Disciples hurried away by the black guard that apprehended him reproached and vilified by the high Priests and Elders forsaken and denied by his followers stricken spit upon and basely injured by the abjects in the high Priests Hall derided by Herod insulted upon by Pilate Knowest thou not that I have power to condemn thee whipt cloathed in scorn with purple and crowned with a crown of thorns and in that disguise saluted in scorn with Hail King of the Jews forced to bear his burdensom Cross which must afterwards bear him and then as one of the basest of men and vilest of malefactors nailed to the Cross with most exquisite torment and then by one of his companions in death by the general rabble that were about him by the superstitious Scribes and Elders reproached