Chrysostome saith well that some actions are parables so may I say some actions are prophesies such are all types of Christ and this with the formost Lift vp whither to the Crosse it is the prophesie hanging vpon a tree saith Moses how lift vp nayled to it so is the prophesie foderunt manus they haue pierced my hands and my feet sayth the Psalmist with what company two theeues with the wicked was hee numbred sayth Esay where without the gates saith the prophesie what becomes of his garments they cannot so much as cast the dice for his coate but it is prophesied They diuided my garments and on my vestures cast lots saith the Psalmist hee must die then on the Crosse but how voluntarily Not a bone of him shall be broken what hinders it loe there he hangs as it were neglected and at mercy yet all the raging Iewes no all the Diuels in hell cannot stirre one bone in his blessed body It was prophesied in the Easter-Lambe and it must be fulfilled in him that is the true Passeouer in spight of fiendes and men how then he must be thrust in the side behold not the very speare could touch his pretious side being dead but it must bee guided by a prophesie They shall see him whome they haue thrust thorough saith Zacharie what shall he say the while not his very words but are forespoken his complaint Eli Eli lamma sabactani as the Chalde or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Hebrew Psalme 22.2 his resignation In manus tuas Into thy bandes I commend my spirit Psalme 31.5 His request Father forgiue them Hee prayed for the transgressors sayth Esay And now when he saw al these prophesies were fulfilled knowing that one remained he said I thirst Domine quid sitis saith one O LORD what thirstest thou for A strange hearing that a man yea that GOD and MAN dying should complaine of thirst Could he endure the scorching flames of the wrath of his Father the curse of our sins those tortures of body those horrours of soule doth he shrinke at his thirst no no he could haue borne his drought he could not beare the Scripture not fulfilled It was not necessity of nature but the necessity of his Fathers decree that drew forth this word I thirst They offered it before hee refused it whether it were an ordinarie potion for the condemned to hasteÌ„ death as in the story of M. Anthonie which is the most receiued construction or whether it were that Iewish potion whereof the Rabbines speake whose tradition was that the malefactor to bee executed should after some good counsell from two of their Teachers be taught to say Let my death bee to the remission of all my sinnes and then that hee should haue giuen him a boule of mixt wine with a graine of Frankincense to bereaue him both of reason and paine I durst be confident in this latter the rather for that Saint Marke calls this draught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Myrrhe wine mingled as is like with other ingredients And Montanus agrees with me in the end ad stuporeÌ„ mentis alienationem A fashion which Galatine obserues out of the Sannedrim to bee grounded vpon Prouerbs 31.6 Giue strong drinke to him that is readie to perish I leaue it modestly in the middest let the learneder iudge whatsoeuer it were hee would not die till hee had complained of thirst and in his thirst tasted it Neither would hee haue thirsted for or tasted any but this bitter draught that the Scripture might bee fulfilled They gaue me vineger to drinke And loe now ConsuÌ„matum est all is finished If there bee any Iew amongst you that like one of Iohns vnseasonable Disciples shall aske Art thou hee or shall wee looke for another Hee hath his aunswere yee men of Israel why stand you gazing and gaping for another Messias In this alone all the Prophesies are finished and of him alone all was prophesied that was finished Paules old rule holdes still To the Jewes a stumbling blocke and that more auncient Curse of Dauid Let their table bee made a snare And Steuens two brands sticks still in the flesh of these wretched men One in their necke stiffe-necked the other in their heart vncircumcised the one Obstinacie the other Vnbeliefe stiffe neckes indeede that will not stoope and relent with the yoke of sixeteen hundred yeares iudgement and seruility vncircumcised hearts the fiâ—me of whose vnbeliefe would not be cut off with so infinit conuictions Oh mad miserable nation let them shew vs one prophesie that is not fulfilled let them shew vs one other in whome all the prophesies can be fulfilled and wee will mixe pitty with our hate If they cannot and yet resist their doome is past Those mine enemies that would not haue me to raigne ouer them bring them hither slay them before me So let thine enemies perish O Lord. But what goe I so farre euen amongst vs to our shame this riotous age hath bred a monstrous generation I pray God I be not now in some of your bosoms that heare me this day compounded much like to the Turkish Religion of one part Christian another lew a third worldling a fourth Atheist a Christians face a Iewes heart a worldlings life and therefore Atheous in the whole that acknowledge a God and know him not that professe a Christ but doubt of him yea belieue him not The foole hath said in his heart there is no Christ What shall I say of these men they are worse then Deuils that yeelding euill spirite could say Iesus I know and these miscreants are still in the old tune of that tempting Deuil Si tu es filius Dei if thou be the Christ Oh God that after so cleare a Gospell so many miraculous confirmations so many thousand martyrdomes so many glorious victories of truth so many open confessions of Angels men diuels friendes enemies such conspirations of heauen and earth such vniuersall contestations of all ages and people there should bee left any sparke of this damnable infidelitie in the false harts of men Behold then yee despisers wonder and vanish away whome haue all the Prophets fore-told or what haue the prophesies of so many hundreds yea thousands of yeeres foresaid that is not with this word finished who could foretell these thinges but the spirite of God who could accomplish them but the Sonne of God Hee spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets saith Zacharie hee hath spoken and he hath done one true God in both none other spirit could foresay these things should be done none other power could doe these things thus fore shewed this word therefore can fit none but the mouth of God our Sauiour It is finished Wee know whome wee haue beleeued Thou art the Christ the Sonne of the liuing GOD. Let him that loues not the Lord Iesus bee accursed to the death Thus the prophesies are finished Of the legall
shall I render to the Lord for all his benefites I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. And as rauisht from thy selfe with the sweet apprehension of this mercy call all the other creatures to the fellowshippe of this ioy with that diuine Esay Reioyce O yee heauens for the Lord hath done it showte yee lower partes of the earth burst forth into prayses yee mountaines for the Lord hath redeemed Iacob and will be glorified in Israel And euen now beginne that heauenlie Song which shall neuer end with those glorified Saints Prayse and honour and glory and power be to him that sitteth vpon the throne and to the Lambe for euermore Thus our speech of Christes last wordes is finished His last act accompanied his wordes our speech must follow it let it not want your deuout carefull attention Hee bowed and gaue vp the ghost The Crosse was a slow death had more paine then speed whence a second violence must dispatch the crucified their bones must be broken that their hearts might breake Our Sauiour stayes not deaths leysure but willingly and couragiously meetes him in the way and like a Champion that scornes to be ouercome yea knowes he cannot be yeeldeth in the middest of his strength that hee might by dying vanquish death Hee bowed and gaue vp Not bowing because hee had giuen vp but because hee would Hee cried with a lowde voyce saith Matthew Nature was strong hee might haue liued but hee gaue vp the Ghost and would die to shew him selfe Lord of life and Death Oh wondrous example hee that gaue life to his enemies gaue vpp his owne hee giues them to liue that persecute and hate him and himselfe will die the whiles for those that hate him Hee bowed and gaue vp not they they might crowne his head they could not bow it they might vexe his spirite not take it away they could not doe that without leaue this they could not doe because they had no leaue Hee alone would bow his head and giue vp his Ghost I haue power to lay downe my life Man gaue him not his life man could not bereaue it No man takes it from me Alas who could The high-Priestes forces when they came against him armed he said but I am he they flee and fall backward How easie a breath disperst his enemies whom he might as easily haue bidden the earth yea hell to swallow or fire from heauen to deuoure Who commaunded the Diuels and they obeyed could not haue beene attached by men he must giue not onely leaue but power to apprehend himselfe else they had not liu'd to take him hee is laide holde of Peter fights Put vp saith Christ Thinkest thou that I cannot pray to my Father and hee will giue mee more then 12. Legions of Angels VVhat an Army were here more then threescore and twelue thousand Angels and euery Angell able to subdue a world of men hee could but would not be rescued hee is led by his owne power not by his enemies and stands now before Pilate like the scorne of men crowned robbed scourged with an Ecce homo Yet thou couldest haue no power against me vnlesse it were giuen thee from aboue Behold he himselfe must giue Pilate power against himselfe else hee could not be condemned he will be condemned lifted vp nailed yet no death without himselfe Hee shall giue his soule an offering for sinne Esay 53.10 No action that sauours of constraint can be meritorious hee would deserue therefore he would suffer and die Hee bowed his head and gaue vp the Ghost O gracious and bountifull Sauiour hee might haue kept his soule within his teeth in spight of all the world the weakenesse of God is stronger then men and if he had but spoken the word the heauens and earth should haue vanisht away before him but he would not Behold when hee saw that impotent man could not take away his soule he gaue it vp and would die that we might liue See here a Sauiour that can contemne his own life for ours cares not to be dissolued in himselfe that we might be vnited to his Father Skinne for skinne saith the Diuell and all that hee hath a man will giue for his life Loe here to proue Sathan a lyer skin and life and all hath Christ Iesus giuen for vs. We are besotted with the earth and make base shifts to liue one with a maimed bodie another with a periured soule a third with a rotten name and how many had rather neglect their soule then their life and will rather renounce and curse GOD then die It is a shame to tell many of vs Christians dote vpon life and tremble at death and shew our selues fooles in our excesse of loue Cowards in our feare Peter denies Christ thrice and forsweares him Marcellinus twice casts graines of incense into the Idolles fire Ecebolius turnes thrice Spira reuolts and despaires Oh let mee liue saith the fearefull soule Whither dost thou reserue thy selfe thou weake and timorous Creature or what wouldest thou doe with thy selfe Thou hast not thus learned Christ hee dies voluntarily for thee thou wilt not bee forced to die for him hee gaue vp the Ghost for thee thou wilt not let others take it from thee for him thou wilt not let him take it for himselfe VVhen I looke backe to the first Christians and compare their zealous contempt of death with our backewardnesse I am at once amased and ashamed I see there euen women the feebler sexe running with their little ones in their armes for the preferment of martyrdome and ambitiously striuing for the next blow I see holy and tender virgins chusing rather a sore and shamefull death then honourable Espousals I heare the blessed Martyrs intreating their Tyrants and tormentors for the honour of dying Jgnatius amongst the rest fearing least the beastes will not deuoure him and vowing the first violence to them that he might bee dispatched And what lesse courage was there in our memorable and glorious forefathers of the last of this age and doe wee their cold and feeble ofspring looke pale at the face of a faire and naturall death abhorre the violent though for Christ Alas how haue we gathered rust with our long peace Our vnwillingnesse is from inconsideration from distrust Looke but vp to Christ Iesus vpon his Crosse and see him bowing his head and breathing out his soule and these feares shall vanish he died and wouldest thou liue he gaue vpp the Ghost and wouldest thou keepe it whome wouldest thou follow if not thy Redeemer If thou die not if not willingly thou goest contrary to him and shalt neuer meete him Though thou shouldest euery day die a death for him thou couldest neuer requite his one death and doest thou sticke at one Euery word hath his force both to him thee hee died which is Lord of life and commander of death thou art but a tenant of
life a subiect of death And yet it was not a dying but a giuing vp not of a vanishing aerie breath but of a spirituall soule which after separation hath an entire life in it selfe He gaue vpp the Ghost he died that hath both ouercome and sanctified and sweetned death What fearest thou hee hath puld out the sting and malignity of death If thou bee a Christian carry it in thy bosome it hurts thee not Darest thou not trust thy Redeemer If hee had not dyed death had beene a Tyrant now hee is a slaue O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victory Yet the Spirite of God saith not he dyed but gaue vpp the Ghost The verie Heathen Poet saith Hee durst not say that a good man dies It is worth the noting mee thinkes that when Saint Luke would describe to vs the death of Ananias and Sapphira he sayeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee expired but when Saint Iohn would describe Christs death hee saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee gaue vp the Ghost how how gaue hee it vpp and whither so as after a sort hee retained it his soule parted from his body his Godhead was neuer distracted eyther from soule or body this vnion is not in nature but in person If the natures of Christ could be diuided each would haue his subsistence so there should be more persons God forbid one of the natures therefore may haue a separation in it selfe the soule from the body one nature cannot be separate from other or eyther nature from the person If you cannot conceiue wonder the Sonne of GOD hath wedded vnto himselfe our humanity without all possibility of diuorce the body hangs on the Crosse the soule is yeelded the Godhead is euiternally vnited to them both acknowledges sustaines them both The soule in his agonie feeles not the presence of the God head the body vpon the Crosse feeles not the presence of the soule Yet as the Fathers of Chalcedon say truely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indiuisibly inseparably is the Godhead with both of these still and euer one and the same person The Passion of Christ as Augustine was the sleepe of his Diuinity so I may say The death of Christ was the sleepe of his humanity If hee sleepe he shall doe well said that Disciple of Lazarus Death was too weake to dissolue the eternall bonds of this heauenly coniunction Let not vs Christians go too much by sense wee may be firmely knit to God not feele it thou canst not hope to be so neare to thy God as Christ was vnited personally thou canst not feare that God should seeme more absent from thee then hee did from his owne Sonne yet was hee still one with both body and soule when they were diuided from themselues whē he was absent to sense he was present to faith when absent in vision yet in vnion one and the same so will hee be to thy soule when it is at worst Hee is thine and thou art his if thy hold seeme loosened his is not When temptations will not let thee see him hee sees thee and possesses thee only belieue thou against sense aboue hope though he kill thee yet trust in him Whither gaue hee it vp Himselfe expresses Father into thy handes and This day thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise It is iustice to restore whence wee receiue Into thy hands He knew where it should be both safe happie true hee might bee bold thou saist as the Sonne with the father The seruants haue done so Dauid before him Steuen after him And least wee should not thinke it our common right Father sayth hee I will that those thou hast giuen me may be with me euen where I am hee willes it therefore it must bee It is not presumption but faith to charge God with thy spirite neither can there euer bee any belieuing soule so meane that hee should refuse it all the feare is in thy selfe how canst thou trust thy iewell with a stranger What sodaine familiarity is this God hath beene with thee and gone by thee thou hast not saluted him and now in all the hast thou bequeathest thy soule to him On what acquaintance how desperate is this carelesnesse If thou haue but a little money whither thou keepe it thou layest it vp in the Temple of trust or whether thou let it thou art sure of good assurance sound bonds if but a litle land how carefully dost thou make firme conueyances to thy desired heires If goods thy will hath taken secure order who shall enioy them wee need not teach you Citizēs to make sure worke for your estates if Children thou disposest of them in trades with portions onely of thy soule which is thy self thou knowest not what shall become The world must haue it no more thy selfe wouldst keepe it but thou knowest thou canst not Sathan would haue it and thou knowest not whether hee shall thou wouldest haue God haue it and thou knowest not whether hee will yea thy heart is now ready with Pharaoh to say Who is the Lord O the fearefull and miserable estate of that man that must part with his soule hee knowes not whither which if thou wouldest auoide as this very warning shall iudge thee if thou doe not be acquainted with GOD in thy life that thou mayest make him the Gardian of thy soule in thy death Giuen vp it must needs be but to him that hath gouerned it if thou haue giuen it to Sathan in thy life how canst thou hope God will in thy death entertaine it Did you not hate mee and expell me out of my fathers house how then come yee to me now in this time of your tribulation said Ieptha to the men of Gilead No no eyther giue vp thy soule to God while hee calls for it in his word in the prouocations of his loue in his afflictions in the holy motions of his spirit to thine or else when thou wouldest giue it hee will none of it but as a Iudge to deliuer it to the Tormentor What should God doe with an vncleane drunken prophane proud couetous soule without holinesse it is no seeing of God Depart from me yee wicked I know yee not goe to the gods you haue serued See how God is euen with men they had in the time of the Gospell saide to the holy one of Israel Depart from vs now in the time of iudgement hee sayth to them Depart from me They would not know God when they might now God will not know them when they would Now therefore beloued if thou wouldest not haue God scorne the offer of thy death-bed fit thy soule for him in thy health furnish it with grace inure it to a sweet conuersation with the God of heauen then mayest thou boldly giue it vpp and he shall as graciously receiue it yea fetch it by his Angels to his glory· He gaue vp the Ghost Wee must doe as he did not all with the
hell his enemies are made his footstoole are now nayled to the footstoole of the Crosse those hands that freelie sway the scepter of the heauens now carry the reede of reproach are nayled to the tree of reproch that whole body which was conceiued by the holy Ghost was all scourged wounded mangled This is the outside of his sufferings Was his heart free Oh no the inner part or soule of this paine which was vnseene is as farre beyond these outward and sensible as the soule is beyond the body Gods wrath beyond the malice of men these were but loue-tricks to what his soule endured O all yee that passe by the way behold and see if there bee any sorrow like to my sorrow Alas Lord what can we see of thy sorrows we cannot conceiue so much as the hainousnes and desert of one of those sinnes which thou barest wee can no more see thy paine then we could vndergoe it onely this wee see that what the infinite sins of almost infinite men committed against an infinite Maiesty deserued in infinite continuance all this thou in the short time of thy passion hast sustained We may behold and see but all the glorious spirites in Heauen cannot looke into the depth of this suffering Doe but looke yet a little into the passions of this his Passion for by the maner of his sufferings we shall best see what he suffered Wise and resolute men do not complaine of a little holy Martyrs haue beene racked and would not bee loosed what shall we say if the author of their strength God man bewray passions what would not haue ouerwhelmed men would not haue made him shrinke and what made him complaine could neuer haue beene sustained by men VVhat shall we then thinke if he were affrighted with terrors perplexed with sorrowes and distracted with both these And lo he was all these for first here was an amazed feare for millions of men to dispaire was not so much as for him to feare and yet it was no sleight feare he beganne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be astonished with terrour Which in the dayes of his flesh offered vp prayers and supplications with strong cries and teares to him that was able to helpe him and was heard in that hee feared Neuer man was so afraide of the torments of hell as Christ standing in our roome of his fathers wrath Feare is still sutable to apprehension Neuer man could so perfectly apprehend this cause of feare hee felt the chastisements of our peace yea the curse of our sins and therefore might well say with Dauid I suffer thy terrours with a troubled mind yea with Iob The arrows of God are in mee and the terrors of God fight against mee VVith feare there was a deiecting sorow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My soule is on all sides heauy to the death his strong cries his many teares are witnesses of this Passion hee had formerly shed teares of pity and teares of loue but now of anguish he had before sent foorth cries of mercy neuer of complaint til now when the Son of God weeps and cries what shall we say or thinke yet further betwixt both these and his loue what a conflict was there It is not amisse distinguished that he was alwayes in Agone but now in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a strugling passion of mixed griefe Behold this field was not without sweate and bloud yea a sweate of bloud Oh what man or Angell can conceiue the taking of that heart that without all outward violence meerely out of the extremity of his owne Passion bled thorough the flesh and skinne not some faint dew but solid droppes of bloud No thornes no nailes fetcht bloud from him with so much paine as his own thoughts he saw the fierce wrath of his Father and therefore feared he saw the heauy burden of our sinnes to bee vndertaken and thereupon besides feare iustly grieued hee saw the necessity of our eternall damnation if hee suffered not if he did suffer of our redemption and therefore his loue incountered both griefe and feare In it selfe hee would not drinke of that cuppe in respect of our good and his decree he would and did and while he thus striueth hee sweates and bleedes There was neuer such a combat neuer such a bloudshed and yet it is not finished I dare not say with some Schoole-men that the sorrow of his Passion was not so great as the sorrow of his compassion yet that was surely exceeding great To see the vngratious carelesnesse of mankind the slender fruit of his sufferings the sorrowes of his mother Disciples friends to foresee from the watch-tower of his Crosse the future temptations of his children desolations of his Church all these must needs strike deepe into a tender heart These hee still sees and pitties but without passion then he suffered in seeing them Can we yet say any more Loe al these sufferings are aggrauated by his fulnes of knowledge and want of comfort for he did not shut his eyes as one saith when he drunke this cuppe he saw how dreggish and knew how bitter it was Sodaine euils afflict if not lesse shorter He foresaw and foresaid euery particular he should suffer so long as he foresaw he suffered the expectation of euill is not lesse then the sense to looke long for good is a punishment but for euill is a torment No passion works vpon an vnknown obiect as no loue so no feare is of what we know not Hence men feare not hell because they foresee it not if we could see that pit opē before we come at it it would make vs tremble at our sins and our knees to knocke together as Baltazars and perhaps without faith to run mad at the horror of iudgement He saw the burden of all particular sinnes to be laid vpon him euery dramme of his fathers wrath was measured out to him ere he toucht this potion this cup was full and hee knew that it must bee wringd not a drop left it must bee finished Oh yet if as he foresaw all his sorrows so he could haue seene some mixture of refreshing But I found none to comfort me no none to pitie me And yet it is a poore comfort that arises from pitty Euen so O Lord thou treadest this wine-presse alone none to accompany none to assist thee I remember Ruffinus in his Ecclesiasticall storie reports that one Theodorus a Martyr tolde him that when he was hanging ten howres vpon the racke for religion vnder Iulians persecution his ioyntes distended and distorted his body exquisitely tortured with change of Executioners so as neuer age sayth hee could remember the like hee felt no paine at all but continued indeede all the while in the sight of all men singing and smiling for there stood a comely young man by him on his libbet an Angell rather in forme of a man which with a clean towell still wipt off his sweat and powred coole water vpon
his racked limbs wherewith he was so refreshed that it grieued him to bee let downe Euen the greatest torments are easie when they haue answerable comforts but a wounded and comfortlesse spirit who can beare If yet but the same Messenger of GOD might haue attended his Crosse that appeared in his agony and might haue giuen ease to their Lord as hee did to his seruant And yet what can the Angels helpe where God will smite Against the violence of men against the fury of Sathan they haue preuailed in the Cause of GOD for men they dare not they cannot comfort where God will afflict VVhen our Sauiour had bin wrestling with Sathan in the end of his Lent then they appeared to him and serued but now while about the same time he is wrestling with the wrath of his Father for vs not an Angell dare bee seene to looke out of the windowes of heauen to relieue him for men much lesse could they if they would but what did they Miserable comforters are yee all the Souldiers they stript him scorned him with his purple crowne reede spat on him smote him the passengers they reuiâ—ed him and insulting wagging their heads and hands at him Hey thou that destroyest the Temple come downe c The Elders and Scribes alas they haue bought his bloud suborned witnesses incensed Pilate preferred Barabbas vndertooke the guilte of his death cryed out Crucifie crucifie Ho thou that sauedst others His Disciples alas they forsooke him one of them forsweares him another runs away naked rather then hee will stay and confesse him His mother and other friendes they looke on indeed and sorrow with him but to his discomfort Where the griefe is extreame and respectes neere partnership doth but increase sorrow Paul chides this loue what doe you weeping and breaking my heart The teares of those we loue doe eyther slacken out hearts or wound them Who then shall comfort him himselfe Sometimes our owne thoughts find a way to succour vs vnknowne to others no not himselfe Doubtles as Aquinas the influence of the higher part of the soule was restrained from the aid of the inferiour My soule is filled with euils Psalm 87.4 Who then his Father here here was his hope If the Lord had not holpen me my soule had almost dwelt in silence I and my Father are one But now alas he euen he deliuers him into the hands of his enemies when he hath done turnes his backe vpon him as a stranger yea he woundeth him as an enemy The Lord would breake him Esay 53. 10. Yet any thing is light to the Soule whiles the comfortes of God sustaine it who can dismay where God will relieue But here My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee VVhat a word was here to come from the mouth of the Sonne of GOD My Disciples are men weake and fearefull No maruell if they forsake mee The Iewes are themselues cruell and obstinate Men are men gracelesse and vnthankefull Diuels are according to their nature spightfull and malitious All these doe but their kind and let them doe it but thou O Father thou that hast said This is my welbeloued sonne in whome I am well pleased thou of whome I haue said It is my father that glorifies mee what forsaken me Not onely brought me to this shame smitten me vnregarded me but as it were forgotten yea forsaken me What euen me my Father How many of thy constant seruants haue suffered heauie things yet in the multitudes of the sorrowes of their hearts thy presence and comforts haue refreshed their souls Hast thou relieued them and doest thou forsake me mee thine onely deare naturall eternall sonne O yee heauens and earth how could you stand whiles the Maker of you thus complained Yee stoode but partaking after a sort of his Passion the earth trembled and shooke her rockes tore her graues opened the heauens withdrew their light as not daring to behold this sad and fearefull spectacle Oh deare Christians how should these earthen and rocky hearts of ours shake and rend in peeces at this Meditation how should our faces be couered with darkenesse and our ioy be turned into heauinesse All these voyces and teares and sweats pangs are for vs yea from vs. Shall the Sonne of God thus smart for our sinnes yea with our sinnes and shall not we grieue for our owne shall hee weepe to vs in this Market place and shall not we mourne Nay shall â—e sweat and bleed for vs and shall not we weepe for our selues Shall he thus lamentably shrieke out vnder his Fathers wrath and shall not wee tremble Shall the heauens and earth suffer with him and we suffer nothing I call you not to a weake idle pitty of our glorious Sauiour to what purpose His iniurie was our glory No no Yee daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me but weepe for your selues for our sins that haue done this not for his sorrow that suffered it not for his pangs that were but for our own that should haue been and if wee repent not shall be Oh how grieuous how deadly are our sinnes that cost the sonne of God besides blood so much torment how farre are our soules gone that could not be ransomed with any easier price that that tooke so much of this infinite Redeemer of men God and man how can it chuse but swallow vp and confound thy soule which is but finite and sinfull If thy soule had been in his soules stead what had become of it it shall be if his were not in steade of thine This weight that lies thus heauy on the Son of God and wrung from him these teares sweat bloud and these vnconceiueable grones of his afflicted spirit how should it chuse but presse downe thy soule to the bottome of hell so it will doe if he haue not suffered it for thee thou must and shalt suffer it for thy selfe Goe now thou lewde man and make thy selfe merry with thy sins laugh at the vncleanenesses or bloodinesse of thy youth thou little knowest the price of a sinne thy soule shall do thy Sauiour did when he cryed out to the amazement of Angels horror of men My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But now no more of this It is finished the greater conflict the more happy victory Well doth he find and feele of his Father what his type said before He will not chide alwayes nor keepe his anger for euer It is fearefull but in him short eternal to sinners short to his Sonne in whome the Godhead dwelt bodily Behold this storme wherewith all the powers of the world were shaken is now ouer The Elders Pharisies Iudas the soldiers Priests witnesses Iudges thieues Executioners diuels haue all tired them selues in vaine with their owne malice and he triumphs ouer them all vpon the throne of his Crosse his enemies are vanquisht his father satisfied his soule with this word at rest and glory It is finished Now there is no more betraying