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A43133	The precious blood of the son of God shed without the gates of Jerusalem for the redemption of lost and undone sinners: whereby his great love to mankind is undeniably manifested, in these following particulars; his agony in the garden; being betrayed by Judas, being falsly accused before Annas, Caiaphas, Herod and Pilate; his being scourged, scorned, and spitefully used; his condemnation and going to execution; how he was crucified; of his being reviled, and pardoning the thief upon the cross; and of his giving up the ghost. All which is practically applyed and improved, for the bringing of sinners out of the way of sin and hell, into wisdom's ways, whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. By that eminent divine, Mr. John Hayward.	Hayward, John.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1231F; ESTC R215936	43,769	124

of them than what God shall say of them in the last day Behold from hence we may draw both Divine and Moral Comforts in all Miseries that either Malice or Unkindness can bring upon us Divine for that no greater Reproach Shame or Infamy can befal us than did our Lord and Master for our Sakes Moral for that we may see how foolish and false the Opinions of Men are prone always to judge well of the wicked and hardly of the Good For behold here Vertue is counted Vice Truth Blasphemy and Wisdom Folly Behold the Peace maker of the World is judged a seditious Person the Fulfiller of the Law a Breaker of the Law our Saviour a Sinner our God a Devil Wherefore should we murmur or repine at any Trouble that doth befal us God handleth thee no otherwise than he did his only Son no nor so bad neither and it is not only a Comfort but a Glory to be a Partner and a Fellow-sufferer with Christ he delighteth to see in us some Representation of himself How can we be Members of Christ if we will not participate with him in his Suffering Hereby we are farther taught that the business of God's Glory and the Health of Men's Souls howsoever base or ignominious it may seem to the Judgment of the World must be resolutely undertaken and performed by us from the King upon the Throne to the Peasant upon the Dunghil Of our Saviour's being spitefully used and abused Matth. 26 67. Then did they spit in his Face and buffeted him and others smote him with the Palms of their Hands NOW when Jesus was brought again from Herod to Pilate the Jews refuse to enter into the Judgment Hall lest they should be defiled and thereby made unfit to eat the Passover so scrupulous were they in an outward Ceremony when their Consciences were guilty of many bloody Pollutions especially at this time in using their uttermost endeavours to destroy the Lord of Life They had not long besore hired Judas to betray Jesus suborn'd false Witnesses against him encouraged Officers in a most unsufferable manner to abuse him yet was all this covered with an outward shew of Religion And whereas it is nothing but Justice to bring the Accusers and Accused Face to Face they did not and although they charged him with Blasphemy against God and Treason against the Emperor yet they perswaded Pilate to so much Injustice as to enquire no farther into it but to condemn him upon their Words affirming That by their Law he was worthy to die and that if he had not deserved Death they would not have brought him O cursed piece of Injustice But O blessed Saviour what great Satisfaction did he make Pilate for remaining one Night in his House by sprinkling eve●…y part thereof where he came with his most precious Blood What can we say for our selves so wretched as we are How do our Sins defile our Souls seeing they have so defiled the pure Glass of the Majesty of the Father so troubled the clear Fountain of all Beauty and Delight O blessed be this Son of Justice and Light of his Father's Glory for his being willing to receive that great Punishment that was due to us for our Sins Isa. 63. 2. Wherefore is thy Appar●… red and thy Garment like him that treadeth in the Wine press Were it not more Justice that we the Offenders should suffer for our own Deserts than that our innocent Lord should thus be tormented for them Had it not been fitter that our filthiness should have remained upon us the proper Dunghil than ●…o be cast upon him the Purity of all Beauty and Glory O let us intercede with our precious Redeemer to give us Hearts that will yield him that Obedience and Praise that is due to him for this his unspeakable Love towards us Let us beseech him not to cast us off whom he hath created for himself and redeemed with his most precious Blood Let us heartily desire and fully resolve to be his and to bear Fruit to no other but to him who hath planted us and doth continually both water and purge us Let our Hearts be so much set upon him above all Let our Tongues continually praise him our Feet follow hard after him our Hands serve him our Understandings always contemplate upon him our Memories never let him go our Will always delight in him and our Souls enfolded in the Flames of his Love O Lord environ us with fiery Walls shut all the Gates thereof set the Cherubims to keep the way that nothing may enter but thy self Let us pray all the Creatures of this World and if they will not be entreated we will abjure them by virtue of that Obedience we owe to our Lord to come not near nor trample within this Garden for all is the Lord's we will observe all to serve him you shall be all meer Strangers unto us we will abandon all Creatures for the love of him who hath abandoned his Kingdom for Love towards us for this end were we created and we can make no better Recompence for all his Sufferings but to love him only and always to praise him Blessed be the Name of the most high God who is the Comfort of our Life the Light of our Eyes the End of our Desires All his Angels and Saints yea all Creatures for ever praise him for by the Merits of his unspeakable Charity and Humility he bowed his back to endure the Misery that was due to us for our Sins He hath not only freed us from all Evil but also hath given several degrees of his Graces to us and has taken upon him our Flesh and gave us of his good Spirit He took upon him our Sins and hath given us his Righteousness He took upon him the Punishment that we could not avoid and gave us that Glory which he did possess by making himself like unto us he hath in some degree made us like himself in the sight of his Father and by his suffering that which we deserved he hath procured that for us that we could not deserve So that all his Troubles have conduced to our Joy His Dishonour our Glo●…y his Misery our Merits his Sufferings our Satisfaction his Reproach hath made us without Blame his Bands hath freed us his Stripes healed us his Sorrows comfort us his Travels refresh us his Condemnation justieth us and by his Death hath brought us unto eternal Life Now when Pilate saw that Jesus looked so pitiful he thought the sight of him sufficient to break the blood Purposes of his Enemies he led him forth to the People and said Behold the Man what would you have more if it be for Malice that you are so violent against him behold how miserable he is If for fear behold how contemptible Faults he hath done none Certainly this shewing of Jesus doth plainly shew he was made a woful Spectacle so woful as Pilate did verily believe that the very sight of him would

THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF THE SON of GOD Shed without the Gates of Jerusalem For the Redemption of Lost and Undone SINNERS Whereby his great Love to Mankind is Undeniably Manifested In these following PARTICULARS His Agony in the Garden being betrayed by Judas being falsly accused before Annas Caiaphas Herod and Pilate his being Scourged Scorned and Spitefully Used his Condemnation and Going to Execution how he was Crucified of his being Reviled and Pardoning the Thief upon the Cross and of his giving up the Ghost All which is Practically Applyed and Improved for the bringing of Sinners out of the Way of Sin and Hell into Wisdom's Ways Whose Ways are Ways of Pleasantness and all her Path's are Peace By that Eminent Divine Mr. John Hayward The Tenth Edition London Printed for Robert Gifford in Old Bedlam without Bishopsgate 1699. Price bound ●●s TO THE Christian READER Dear Hearts BY the reading of this small Treatise you may in some measure be made sensible of what Christ hath done for you in order to your everlasting Salvation Wherein his great Love is manifested unto all For greater Love hath no Man than this to lay down his Life for his Friends but he hath laid it down for his greatest Enemies to redeem them from everlasting Destruction By these sad and dolorous Sufferings of our Saviour we may see also what a dreadful and Soul-destroying thing Sin is that nothing but the precious Blood of the eternal Son of God could make Satisfaction for it Oh what Cause have we then to admire and adore the mighty God of Heaven for his infinite Mercy towards us in sending his Son his only begotten Son Christ Jesus to redeem us from Death and Hell Seeing such great things have been done for us let us make it our daily Practice and Business to walk in some measure answerable to them That we may so do is and shall be the hearty Prayer of your Soul 's Cordial Friend JOHN HAYWARD OF Our Saviour's Agony IN THE GARDEN Matth. Chap. 26. Ver. 38. Then saith he unto them My Soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death tarry ye here and watch with me AND not designing to take notice of the Meanness of his Birth and that continual Course of Sorrow and Misery that attended the former part of his Life wherein he took upon him not only the Form of a Sinner but a Servant I shall consider the time only towards his Death wherein in a most especial manner his great love to Mankind is manifested For as every natural Motion groweth more ardent towards the end so the Love of Christ towards the true Church his Spouse Not that he loved us better in the latter part of his Life but it did then most appear As some sort of Fire the more Water is thrown upon it the hotter it burns so both the Apprehension and Presence of Death was so far from lessening his Love that it did rather encrease it Therefore as in all the Passages of his Life so more especially towards his Death all his Doctrine was Holy Just and Good Milk for the Weak Meat for the Strong Medicine for the Sick not too deep for the Simple nor too shallow for the Wise but as a Ford wherein the Lamb may wade and the Elephant swim all his Actions were the Works of Justice and Mercy Examples of all Vertues but most especially of Humility which is the Foundation of all other Vertues as Love Pity and Compassion whereof our Miseries stood most in need His Life was so Pure and Holy that by that Example he hath set us we may plainly see what is either wanting or amiss in our selves even the Book which the Prophet Ezekiel speaks of That he saw Ezek. 2. written within by Instruction without by Example of Life wherein we have what to contemplate what to imitate and what to admire So that whosoever doth not only study but like the Prophet seek he shall attain inestimable both Knowledge and Vertue When our Saviour begun his Passion in the Garden of Gethsemane he was accompanied with those three Disciples who not long before had seen his Glorious Transfiguration upon Mount Tabor to the end that seeing so great a Change they might be sensible of the greatness of God's Severity and of his Love O Treasure of Heaven O Light and Life of the World How was his Glory obscured his Strength abated his Courage appaled insomuch that he did acknowledge to his Disciples that his Soul was heavy unto death Our Saviour began his Conflict with Prayer giving Example to us in all our Troubles to do the like teaching us also in what manner we ought to pray first in that he did fall prostrate upon the Ground he did thereby instruct us that with the greatest Humility and Reverence we must present our selves before the Majesty of Almighty God Secondly by his earnest praying with what fervency of Spirit we ought to beat at Heaven Gates Thirdly by his often praying we have an Example of Perseverance until he that doth engage us to beg shall let us have his Favour so far as to obtain Lastly He hath taught us to renounce our own Wills and to resign our Desires to the pleasure of Almighty God These things if at all times we endeavour to perform but especially in the Agonies of Death the Angels will certainly come to comfort us for God will cerly send us strength to bear what he is not pleased to remove But wherefore did our Saviour pray That if it were possible this Cup might pass from him Did he not freely and voluntarily offer up himself for Sin to save Sinners yes desirously for no necessity could be cast upon him no complaint of Justice because he was innocent no necessity through weakness because he was Almighty for he had twelve Legions of Angels at his Command but it was to comfort and strengthen his weak-hearted Members that their Courage might not be cast down under any Tryal or Tribulation that God might call them to And also he did hereby declare That he did bear the natural Weaknesses of our Flesh For none can possibly imagine the greatness of those Sorrows and Miseries that he went through Lastly he would manifest to us That he did consist of two Natures and two Wills not so separate as to make two Persons nor so confounded as to make one Nature and Will but distinguish'd in their essential Properties and Operations In his Humane Will he did pray to avoid this Cup in his Divine Will he did desire it He did desire Death in regard of the end but in regard to it self he did pray to avoid it Yet his Humane Will was not contra●…y or repugnant to his Divine Will Yet being surprized with the fear of Death through the frailty of his Hamane Will he seemed not to think of that which he perfectly did know not as drawing or declining from his Father's Will but forthwith resuming his Resolution submitted himself to his Decree

every part of our Redeemer's Body Take a little touch of that Grief which did lie so heavy upon him whose Power sustaineth the Heavens that it made his Soul heavy unto death being so deeply drowned in the Nature of Man that he seemed to forget that he was God Let us accuse and condemn our selves of all manner of unworthiness and take up with a godly Sorrow both for love to our Saviour and in hatred to our Sins the one for suffering for our sakes and the other for being the only cause of it and let us not be like to the Disciples that were with our Saviour who fell into a sound and secure Sleep whilst their Master both watched prayed and sweat a bloody Sweat for their Redemption He was like a loving Father who spares no pains to get Bread for his Children whilst they remain free both from Trouble and Care If drowsiness of Spirit overcomes thee pray to God to awaken thee with his Heavenly Voice if that will not do to make you smart with the Rod of Affliction that so you may watch and pray lest you fall into Temptation Let us by this grievou●… Agony that vexed his Soul by that terror and trembling that wholly possess'd his Body and by all the pains wherein he was plunged for us detestable Sinners beseech him that in the last hour of our lives when Fears and Distresses come upon us that he would give us stedfast strength and confidence in his Mercy that in that hour when we are leaving the World he would not leave us and in this fearful Conflict not to forsake us but send his holy Angels to assist us and to minister Courage and Comfort to us that no Temptations of the Devil may prevail against us but that he would be pleased to arm our Hearts with Humility and Patience that they be not distracted or distempered with any fear of Grief but that in all things our Desires may be conformable to his Will Let us implore his Goodness to give us such constant courage such hope such love towards him that the weaknesses of our Flesh may not be overcome by any fear of Death but we may both safely and sweetly pass from the Society we have with thee here by Grace to the Society which the Saints enjoy with thee in Glory Mat. 26. 48. Of our Saviour's being sold betrayed and apprehended Matt. 26. 47. And while he yet spake lo Judas one of the twelve came and with him a great multitude with Swords and Staves from the Chief Priests and Elders of the People BUT when the Son of God did in so high a degree both love and value the Sons of Men that he thought nothing painful to himself that might be profitable to them yet see how the Sons of Men did either value or love the Son of God they took all Occasions first to slander him and afterwards to slay him they sold him one to another for thirty Pieces of Silver O devilish and malicious Spirits to hate the Author of our eternal Salvation As no means are thought bad enough to bring him to his Death so to undervalue the Lord of all Creatures as not many Beasts are sold at so base a Price O infinite inequality of Affection between God and Man God came to save Man and Man goeth about to destroy God God bought Man with the dearest Drops of his Blood and Man sold God for Thirty Pieces of Siver O the Love of the Lord Jesus was great when he came to redeem those that were lost and the Saviour of the Redeemed how great was his Love to come into the World when he had no need nor we any Merit to sanctifie it with his Justice to enrich it with his Grace to enstruct it with his Doctrine to confirm it by his Example to redeem it with his Blood that as by the Pride of one who being but Man did aspire to be God we were condemned so by the Humility of another who being God became Man we should be saved Being sold at the Price of Thirty Pieces of Silver to such cruel Merchants as desire no Profit by him but his Life the Traytor Judas whose Feet a little before he had washed came unto him attended with a bloody Band And how willing our Saviour was to embrace his Passion did appear by his voluntary presenting himself to them and in that he turned not away his Face from this barbarous Beast that came to kiss him But O innocent Lord What hast thou to deal with Traytors and Tormentors What Courtesie between the Lamb and the Wolf What Commerce between God and Belial Our Saviour did not only permit Judas to kiss him but he did also smite his obstinate Heart with this soft Speech Friend wherefore comest thou dost thou betray the Son of Man with a Kiss But wherefore did our Saviour call Judas Friend when he had betrayed him To testifie that altho' the Knot of Friendship was broke on his part yet on our Saviour's it remained whole and entire to reduce him again to his Friendship for if he could have said without despair with holy David I have sinned he should presently have heard I have forgiven If our Saviour had kissed Judas he should never have despaired or destroyed himself for his Kisses inspire Life and therefore the Spouse beginneth the most excellent Canticle with these Words Cant. 1. 1. Let him kiss me with the Kisses of his Mouth 1 John 4. 10. It is he that hath loved us first Ephes. 1. 4. It is he that hath chosen us and not we him Or if Judas had kissed him as the Psalmist speaks of Psalm 2. 12. Kiss the Son lest he be angry That is if with sincerity of Soul he had rendred him that Faith and Homage that is due to him it had gone well with him but because he was like one of those whom the Prophet speaks of Isa. 9. This People approach to me with their Mouths and their Hearts are far from me because he came with a treacherous Hypocrisie this Kiss could draw no Vertue from him but turned it to his Condemnation O cursed cruelty cursed because obstinate cruel because unjust which neither the Power of a Miracle was able to astonish nor the Kindness of a Benefit could any way appease But they proceeded notwithstanding to lay Sacrilegious Hands upon him as upon a Malefactor to bind his Holy Hands which had wrought so many Miracles among them with rough and knotty Cords his Disciples either forsaking of him or falling off from him and to lead him away in a more opprobrious manner than the Ark of the Testimony was taken and carried away by the Uncircumcised Philistines Poor and miserable Jews whom do you thus hale away Against whom have you taken up Arms Your Prisoner hath made you Captives he whom you have bound with Cords hath chained you with Fetters of Iron he hath been to you as a Bait or a Hook that taketh the Takers Never

the World Seeing therefore he hath been condemned for us in High Treason both against God and Man seeing he hath endured the Punishment for all our Rebellions What have we any further to answer His Obedience hath made Satisfaction for our riotous Rebellion By his Condemnation are we acquitted his Condemnation at a Tribunal on Earth has acquitted us before thy Tribunal in Heaven His Sufferings are a sufficient Discharge between us and thy Justice and his Love is a sufficient Discharge between his Sufferings and us because his Love ●…eh nothing for all hi●… Sufferings but only that we love him again O what an unspeakable Obligation is this not only to love our S●…iour but to love him above and before all one would think it were impossible to do any otherwise th●…n to love him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory and Majesty to suffer so much ●…sery to save us from e●…l Dam●…tion O good Jesus O Health of our Souls hav●… Mercy upon ●…s we beseech thee and help us to strike this Fire within our Hearts let our Souls be satisfied with thy sacred Love Thou art O Lord our 〈◊〉 out last End the Mark ●…hether we aim the Po●…t whereto we sa●… the Ferm the R●…t of all our Desires Wherefore then do we not love wherefore do we not desire thee with that ardency wherewith all Creatures do love and desire the place of their Rest The Fire and the Air do overthrow Mountains rend up Rocks shake the whole Earth to break forth to their Natural Places wherefore do not we break through all Impediments all Hinderances and leave all Creatures to come to thee who art the only place both of our Refuge and Rest O our Desires O our sweet solace our assured st●…ength wrap our Souls in the Flames of thy Love that all careless coldness may be consumed thereby possess our Souls so inti●…ely with that Divine Fire that we may have no sense of any worldly things Most Sweet Loving Beautiful Noble Rich Wise Glorious and worthy to be both loved and adored O life of our Soul who didst die to give us Life who didst die to kill death mortifie us wholly even our Wills and all our evil Inclinations and whatsoever is ours within us Then revive us again in thy lively Love by uniting all the Faculties of our Souls unto thee and making them obedient to thy Will Seeing we have so rich a Treasure so liberal a Distributer of the same how is it possible we should not rise in Hope Justice hath sound out a way to strike the Innocent and cannot Mercy find a means to save the Guilty Assuredly yes for it is a greater Miracle that God should be condemned and crucified than that Man should be acquitted and live If therefore we have the greater we have no cause to sear the less for Justice has executed her Severity upon the Innocent and Mercy will shew her Favour upon Offenders Yea if it was Justice that the Innocent should be condemned and executed for to make Satisfaction for Sin it is Justice also that the Offenders for whom he suffered should be discharged from that Debt that the voluntary Surety hath fully paid Therefore although Grace is not due to a Sinner as a Sinner yet it is due to him as he is redeem'd It is Mercy that a Sinner should be saved in respect of the Sinner but it is Justice in respect of Christ the Just was handled as a Sinner that Sinners might be accepted of as just fo●… it is not agreeable to Justice that one Offence should be twice punished H●… hath joyned he hath united himself to us As he cannot be condemned again so cannot we likewise be condemned except we break Union and wilfully fall from him O let us admire love and adore this great Love of our Lord Jesus Christ and then we shall never break Union with him or fall from him but be in●…allibly saved by him The Sentence of Death being given forth against Jesus they laid that heavy Tree upon his Shoulders that had been unmercisully battered with Whips tor●…enting him not only with the Sight but the Weight of that which was appointed to be the Instrument of his 〈◊〉 Which painful Burthen with ●…he sull Weight of all our Sins he refused 〈◊〉 to take upon him but went on his way with great Ala●…ity both in Love towards us and in Obedience to satisfie his Father's Justice as a true Isaac bearing the Wood for the Sacrificing of himself But whither doth our Lord go What has he to do upon this stinking Hill of Calvary which being a place of common Execution is tainted with pu●…rified Bodies To be sure he will find there no sick Persons to cure no Devils to cast out no Temples wherein to teach but there he will find Dead to raise and Sinners to forgive there he will find many scattered Souls of executed Offenders which expect his coming which as the true Elizeus thy dead Body should restore them to Life What should all this mean that our Saviour has not only made choice of an infamous Death but of an infamous Place the Place was infamous but the Death was accursed for cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree It did not satisfie his Love to die for us but he must die the most accu●…sed death to assure us thereby that he had delivered us from the Malediction of the Law Certainly our Saviour's Death containeth many Mysteries It is not enough for us to say that he died for us but we are further to consider how ye would die which was by the ignominious death of the Cross with whom also even with Malefactors When in the principal strength and beauty of his Age In what Year in the great Year of Jubilee Upon what Day at the great Solemnity of the Passover even when they did celebrate the Figure of him In what place on the Mount of Calvary only made glorious by his Death He was neither privily made away nor tumultuously slain he dyed not in a Corner that dyed for all the World he was condemned in the publick place of Judgment and suffered upon the common place of Execution upon a Day and a Year of the grea●…est Solemnity that could be God set him upon the Stage of the Wo●…ld to declare as well his Fury against Sin as his Love and Mercy towards Sinners O glorious Calvary where the Prince of Light did encounter and overcome the Prince of Darkness where at one instant our Life for a time ended and our Death did for ever dye Therefore let us not only seek our Saviour in the Temple but upon Mount Calvary for in the Temple he scourged Sinners but upon the Mount he died for them upon that he opened his Arms to embrace them It was objected against him that he was a Friend to Publicans and Sinners True he was a true Friend to them indeed but his Friendship did never more plainly appear than in this Action and upon this place

the God of your Fathers and have said you would have no King but Caesar since you have said His Blood be upon us and upon our Children since you have maliciously taken away his Life and reproach'd his Death your Walls have been thrown down your Temple burnt your Kingdom ruined your selves either slain or captivated or chased into strange Countries where you have been h●…ted and oppressed and never suffer to knit into one Body again which Curse shall be upon you to the end of the World As you have quitted him and delivered him to the Gentiles so hath he ever since discharged you and planted his Church especially amongst them As you have renounced your King who was so plainly prophesied and so long expected and betaken your selves only to Caesar so he hath delivered you into Caesar's Hands he hath given you your Choice but it cost you dear it cost you the Lives of eleven hundred thousand Persons in one Siege besides ninety thousand who were made Captives And because you did not only say Let this Blood be upon us but also added and upon our Children you have your Desires for your Posterity have been dispersed and despised in all Countries and in most Piaces evil-entreated So it often falleth out that the Wicked have no greater Punishment in this World than the Accomplishment of their own Desires It is the common Reward of Evil Doers to be the Instruments of their own final Ruin But with respect to our Saviour what can be sufficiently said To be so afflicted as never was any for he was despised and evil-entreated in the midst of all his Afflictions in all Calamities it is some Comfort to find some Compassion we desi●…e generally if we cannot be delivered or eased to be pittied to see some that condole our Misery who wish us well who want not the Will but the Power to relieve us But these Bandogs of Satan these Hell-hounds had utterly put away all sense of Humanity from them They were so far from Pity that they were mightily pleased and satisfied in seeing the unheard of Cruelty of themselves and Calamity of our Saviour Again a generous Heart is more touched with Grief to see his Enemies take pleasure in his Death than to endure it yea oftentimes a free and noble Spirit taketh not his Death from his Enemies so unkindly as one spiteful and abu●…ve Word Again these Injuries and Despites w●…re so much more sensib●…e to the Son of God by how much more than others he deserved the contrary For in all our Calamities it doth much ease the pain we endure when we compare it with the Fault we have committed But because our Saviour could compare these Contempts that were put upon him not only with his Faults nor his Innocency only but with his innumerable and inestimable Deserts he did the more grieve at them or rather at the Malice from whence they did proceed And further his Love was so great for the Salvation of Mens Souls that his Torments were not so grievous to him as to see that they did his Tormentors no good It was worse than Death to him to see his Executioners would make no profit of his Death even as a loving Friend esteemeth less his Labour for another than to find it unprofitable and not accepted or as a good Mother grieveth more at the ung●…ateful and ungracious Behaviour of her Child than at the Travails she endured at its Birth But O impudent and audacious Jews wherefore did you misreport what Jesus had said A thing well spoken may easily be corrupted by Report Jesus did never say I will destroy but destroy you this Temple He said not I will build it but I will raise it in three days not meaning your material Temple but his own Body John 2. 9. which was indeed the true Temple of God not in a Figure but really and personally Because in him dwelleth the fulness of the God-head bodily Col. 2. 9. And was it not sufficient for you to blaspheme Jesus but must you st●…etch out your Throats into high and horrid Blasphemy against the most High He trusted in God let him deliv●…r him if he favoureth him What! do you think God was not able to deliver him out of your Hands Or must he deliver whom you please or when you please or after what manner you will prescribe Did ever any trust in God and was not delivered Or did God ever finally forsake those whom he favours Or is delirance from temporal Calamities an assured Sign of God's Favour No. Certainly God delivereth the wicked out of desperate Distress many times he suffereth the Godly to sink under bo dily Oppressions but this is no concluding Argument that he favoureth the one or forsaketh the other O ye great Doctors of the Law that by Prosperity and Adversity judge of the Favour or Hatred of God tell us then whether God loved best Abel or Cain Jacob or Esau Tell us wherefore were not the Prophets delivered from Death who were murthered by your Fathers and whose Sepulchers you did build If such Deliverances be an infallible Argument both of favour from God and trust in him verily the Judgments of God are not only secret and unsearchable but for the most part counterpoint to that which the natural sense of Man would prescribe Temporal Occurrences may go and come we may flourish or we may wither in this World as God in Mercy or Judgment may see best for us But nothing makes a Man miserable or happy but that which is eternal O crucified Jesus on the Cross we love thee on the Cross we adore thee on the Cross we believe in thee who upon the Cross didst give thy self to Death for us what hath a Man more than Riches Honour and Life all which thou didst bestow upon the Cross to redeem us For thou who di●…st create all things didst hang naked upon the Cross thou who thought'st it not Robbe●…y to be equal with God wast numbered with Malefactors thou who at the Lord of Life didst suffer a most shameful Death and that we may not fall short of this great Benefit that thy precious Blood be not unprofitably shed for us we prostrate our unworthy Souls and cry unto thee not as the Jews did to come down from the Cross but which is more to raise us up and fasten us unto thee for they whom thou lovest are known by nothing more than by taking pa●…t with thee in thy Passion not to save thee but to save our selves Save us Lord from our Sins save us from the Power of all our Spi●…itual Enemies from the Decei's of this wicked World save us from the flattering force of our own Appeti●…es which is the mightiest and basest Tyrant we have to deal with defend the Dignity and Glory of our Souls from being Slaves-to our sensual Lusts that we be not captivated to the false Pleasures of this Life Deliver us from variety of worldly Desires from vain Hope from