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A42525
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A sermon of the passion of our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ preached on Good-Friday, in His Excellencies the Spanish Ambassador's chappel / by J.G., D.D.
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J. G., D.D.
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1686
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answer the proportion and distances of the holes they had bor'd before which done the doleful and dismal musick begins to play the strokes of the Hammers on the Nailes and the Nailes thro' the Sacred Hands and Feet of our Crucified JESUS For now I may so style Him being now fastned on the Cross O Blessed JESUS Whatsoever may be the sentiments of those that put Thee to this Torment howsoever they may undervalue and vilify Thy Person I adore Thee with all Humility imaginable and in my thoughts prostrate before Thee tender Thee all the acknowledgments of a Creature of a Vassal of a Slave The more vile Thou hast made Thy Self for my sake the greater and fuller in all duty ought to be my return and therefore with lower submissions do I throw my self at the foot of Thy Cross whilst bearing thy Divine Self then at the Throne of Thy Tryumphant Majesty in Heaven Anatomists and Chyrurgeons to whom the Mysteries of Humane bodyes lie open and discover'd are harmonious in this Truth that the Nerves and Sinews do more abound and centre in the Feet and Hands than in any other part of the Body whatsoever Perforations therefore and all violent Impressions must be much more quick and sensible in those Parts the Pain much more Intollerable yet were our Blessed JESUS both Hands and Feet pierced and bor'd thro' with Nailes of such a magnitude as were able not only to secure him to the Wood of the Cross but even to bare up and support the weight of all his Body when erected into the Air And where the weight of his own Blessed Self alwayes pressing on his Wounds must be a continual widening of them and so every moments renewing of the Torment of the Nailes first forcing entry I omit to tell you how the letting fall of the Cross into the case previously made ready in the ground to secure its standing firm could not but be terrible and convulsive of the whole Fabrick shaking all that at once of which not one part wanted its particular Torment And now He is on the Cross all bloody all torn to pieces a frightful spectacle to behold is he now free from the malice and fury of his Enemies Nothing less 'T is true he is now no more in their hands to be farther buffetted and beaten with either open or clinched fists But they still prosecute him with what weapons they are able to make use of For his greater defamation and reproach they hang a Thief at each hand of him and then let flie their envenom'd Tongues against Him What scurrilous mocks and sarcasms do they not make use of What jeers flouts and scoffings do they forbear to throw at him Not satisfied with his precedent mockeries and derisions from the Jewes in the House of Caiphas From Herod and his Battallions From Pilates Souldiers after his delivery to them as if nothing had yet passed in that kind they begin a fresh First the common Jewes with a Vah qui destruis templum Dei in triduo aedificas illud salva temetipsum Thou who destroyest the Temple of God and rebuildest it in three dayes save thy self Again the High Priests Principes sacerdotum illudentes cum scribis senioribus dicebant alios salvos fecit seipsum non potest salvum facere The Princes of the Priests illuding with the Scribes and Seniors said He has saved others himself he cannot save The very Thieves that hanged with him Improperabant ei And the Roman Souldiers would not be out Illudebant autem ei milites From all sorts and degrees he was pursued to his end who suffer'd and died for Persons of all degrees and conditions Much longer he cannot bare their Calumnies and Injuries his nature is almost spent and a drought from the loss of so much Blood seizes him all over and to such an excess as forced from him Sitio I am thirsty He was overcome with a double thirst The one Corporal in his Body for want of Moisture The other yet more Violent in his Soul by which he thirsted after the Good and Salvation of Mankind Which thirst was the occasion of the other and of giving up his Life as soon after you will hear he did The first was but ill Answer'd for instead of some comfort for his now drooping and decaying Spirits they give him Gaul aâ—◠〈◊〉 Vineger to Drink that his very tast might not lonâ— priviledged above his other Sences But I hope all you here present will supply the latter be more grateful unto him and charitable to your selves Apply his warm Blood and scatter'd Flesh unto your Souls they are all Soveraign for your Wounds and no Balsom like to them Having no refreshment nor recruit of Forces from that bitter Potion a general failure and total dejectedness of Spirits work on his inferiour part and makes it cry out My God! My God! Why hast thou deserted me And now even withdrawn thy all-supporting Hand by the Virtue and Power of which alone I have hitherto with courage run thro' all my now-past Sufferings After which finding an immediate dissolution of his Corporal being coming on he Published to the World he had now drank the Chalice his Father gave him and compleated the Work of Mans Redemption with a Consummatum est And then commending himself to his same dear Father with a Pater in manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum He delivered up the Ghost O dearest JESVS art thou gon from us Hast thou now left us Could we not secure Thee to our selves even fastned on the Cross Our past and daily sins have bin the occasion of this thy retirement for our sins brought Thee from Heaven cast Thee into a sweat of Blood and then betrayed Thee Our sins bound Thee fast drag'd Thee along to Annas then Caiphas Pallace there buffetted beat Thee and spit in Thy Face Our sins produced false Witnesses and gave sentence of Thy Death Our sins farthermore delivered Thee into the Hands oâ— Gentiles there with reiterated Crucifigatures presseâ—â—â—â—d urged the Execution of the Judgment rendred Our Sins Scourged Crowned and Derided Thee Our Sins so Oppressed Thee that Thou couldst no longer support the heaviness of the Cross Our Sins afterwards nailed Thee fast on the same Cross drew upon Thee an excessive Drought and forced that Separation of Soul and Body we have just now taken Notice of But most blessed and dearest JESVS as our Sins have made Thee for a time with-draw may our Duty our Observance soon bring Thee back again the very inanimate and dumb Creatures have given Us our Lesson in their Language they were not silent Pray hearken to St. Matthew behold the Veil of the Temple was rent into pieces from the top to the bottom the Earth did quake the Rocks parted asunder But Did not the Heavens also Testify their Resentments Yes yes and that to the Admiration of the World St. Luke proclaims for a certainty That Darkness over-spread the Face of the Earth and the Sun denyed its Light willing to Expire at the same time with the SON of Justice When Men had lost all Sense of what they were doing the Earth the Rocks the Temple as if bursting with inward Grief could contain themselves no longer The Sun the Stars ashamed at their Proceedings not only hang the Universe with the deepest Mourning but cover'd all the Elements with the blackest and profoundest Darkness that they might not be Witnesses of Mans Actions May our hitherto hardned Hearts like the Rocks and Temple burst asunder in compliance with the Desires of our now dead SAVIOVR May the Old Man of Sin within us like the Earth now Tremble to think he must part from so long and continued a Possession let the SON that illuminateth every Man coming into this World so Dispell all inward darkness of our Souls that we may clearly and distinctly see what He hath suffer'd for us and what He expecteth from us Let the favourable Influences of Heaven so Dispose us that we may fully Answer all his Expectations Think but think seriously if you can do too much for Him that has done so much for you What were all your Lives tho' I must confess you have nothing dearer and more pretious if put in Ballance with His Yet He spared it not for you He prodigally spilt his Blood that He might Purchase you a plentiful Redemption He abounded in his Mercies that you might see the Fulness of his Heart He has bought you at such a Price that the World cannot afford the like Permit not then such a Purchase to become void let not such Mercies be thrown away nor such a Price be slighted Run run unto his Body yet hanging on the Cross Embrace it with all the Affections of your Souls Offer up all your Vows Promise to Crucifie Him no more Consecrate your selves His most devoted and faithful Servants from this Moment and for ever and you will crown his Sufferings this his voluntary and frank Oblation of himself to Death with a no less joyful than happy Resurrection FINIS A Catalogue of BOOKS Printed for and Sold by Matthew Turner THe Speeches of all the Priests that Dyed for Religion Folio A Letter to a Baron of England touching his then Royal-Highness Folio Tryal of Mr. David Lewis a Jesuit and his last Speech Folio Tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson a Franciscan and his last Speech Folio An Abstract of the Tryal of Sir Thomas Gascoigne Fol. Mr. Richard Langhorn's Memoires and his last Speech Fol. A Narrative of the late pretended Popish Plot to the Tune of Packington's Pound Engraved and Represented on Copper-Plates in two Parts Counsels of Wisdom or the Maxims of Solomon Done out of French Twelves Christian Thoughts for every Day in the Month. Twenty-Fours The Papist Misrepresented and Represented Quarto Acts of the Clergy of France Quarto An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholique Church by the Reverend Bishop of Meaux done out of French Quarto A Sermon preached before Their Majesties on the Annunciation of the B. V. Mary by John Betham Doctor of Sorbonne Publish'd by His Majesties Command