on No man took it from him 1 Kings 20.11 John 10.18 21. Thus Christ when he was in the height of his perfection in perfect Glory filling all in all the fulness and end of the Law for Righteousness the Law-giver above the Law yet in the fulness of time was made of a woman made under the Law became a curse for us to redeem us from the curse of the Law Gal. 3.13 chap. 4.4 By this going back-ward of Christ unto the tenth degree of death we have hope of life to come His going back-ward was his progress to his journeyes end for his ways are not our ways but rather contrary to them Thus our true Joseph having been in prison and taken out from among men is afterward rightly called Zaphnath-paaneah i.e. a man to whom secrets are revealed or in the Egyptian tongue a Saviour of the world Gen. 41.14,45 Isa 53.8 John 3.17 chap. 12.47 Let us imitate our Lord for even hereunto are we called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2.21 Let us resist unto blood striving against sin suffering in the flesh that we may cease from sin Heb. 12.4 1 Pet. 4 1. Ponder these things seriously 6. Sixthly 22. We cannot understand nor submit unto the Gospel unless we know and conform unto the death of Christ The sum of the Gospel is Christ crucified 1 Cor. 2.2 There is a dolefull doom denounced against all those that obey not this Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Thes 1.7,8,9,10 It is not enough for us to make our boast of the Gospel except we obey it no advantage comes by it Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of the Father Mat. 7.21 He that doth the Will shall know the Doctrine John 7.17 Now we must know that every man is brutish in his knowledge and born a wild Asses Colt Jer. 10.14 Job 11.12 Psalm 92.6 Wherefore it is necessary that every man take up his Cross dayly and crucifie this brutish man which is so ignorant of the Mysterie of God and altogether uncapable to understand it and put on the new man which is created after God in Righteousness Holiness and Knowledge 1 Cor. 2.14 Eph. 4.22,23,24 Col. 3.9,10 The old must be put off before the new can be put on Obedience is the best Vsher unto knowledge 7. Seventhly 23. The grand Mysterie of iniquity worketh in the contrary Doctrine When the Devil suspected what ruine and desolation was like to come upon his kingdom by the death of Christ he did what possibly he could to save his life by Pilates wife And so he is still stirring some to be enemies to his Cross Phil 3.18 The old subtile Serpent argueth with us as he did with our first Parents Yea saith he doth God require such strictness and circumspect walking doth he think ye delight to afflict his creature the work of his hands will he have thee die mortifie and crucifie thy self Far be it from thee These things shall not happen unto thee Mat. 16.22,23 Hath not Christ suffered for thy sins hath not he made full satisfaction and done all for thee Is there any thing left for thee to do Canst thou add to the vertue of his blood Wilt thou fall back again to the Law and be justified by the works thereof Is not this flat Popery Away away with these legal and pensive thoughts they make thee melancholy dull and indisposed to good things Wilt thou separate not only from the prophane Gentile but from the outward and formal Jew also Canst thou by taking thought add one Cubit to his stature Were not the works finished from the foundation of the world Mat. 6.27 Heb. 4 3. Be not righteous overmuch neither make thy self over-wise Why shouldest thou destroy thy self Eccles 7.16 24. Look upon the high and mighty professors of the world Are not the preud among them happy and they that tempt God by Pride Ambition Covetousness Hypocrisie Perjury breach of Promises Covenants Vows Oaths and Protestations Rebellion Domineering are they not delivered delivered to do all abominations Doth not their Bull gender and faileth not have they not more then heart can wish so that pride compasseth them about as a chain and violence covereth them as a Garment Mal. 3.15 Jer. 7.9,10,11 c. Job 21.10 Psalm 73.4,5,6,7 Take thine ease eat drink and be merry to morrow shall be as this day Thus the crafty Serpent insinnateth his damnable Doctrine by his false Prophets into the minds of simple ignorant presumptuous Gospellers themselves Whereas the true Believer saith It is his meat and drink to do the Will of his Lord and Master John 4.34 To beat down his body and bring it into subjection 1 Cor 9.27 Nothing is more glory to him then such tribulation he takes pleasure in such necessity and distresses for Christs sake and is glad that he can die dayly that the world may be crucified unto him and he unto the world Rom. 5.3 2 Cor. 12.10 1 Cor. 15.31 Gal. 6.14 8. Eightly 25. Without this knowledge and conformity there can be no perseverance in Godliness The Hypocrite will not pray always he cannot many begin to run well but are driven back from obeying the Truth Gal. 5.7 They are clogd with the care of preserving the worldly life they are full yet with their youthfull lusts and the sins of their riper years These youths shall faint and such young men utterly fail because they do not eat and drink the flesh and blood of the Son of man that they might have life and strength to persevere they do not by eating and drinking incorporate the living bread and drink by a lively faith that they might grow thereby Isa 40.30 John 6.33.35,48,51 unto verse 59. 1 Pet. 2.2 2 Pet. 3.18 But the righteous shall hold on his way and he that hath clean hands that hath washt them in innocency in the innocent blood of the Lamb he shall wax stronger and stronger his light shall be as the shining light which increaseth to a perfect day Job 17.9 Prov. 10.29 and chap. 4.18 But they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength and mount up with wings as Eagles Psalm 103.5 Isa 40.31 The Eagle is sharp of sight swift and lofty in flight it can soar up and look upon the Sun So do all true Believers who have anointed their eyes with the spiritual eye-salve Rev. 3.18 which maketh them quick-sighted but then like Eagles they resort unto the Carkass Mat. 24.28 They have continual Recourse unto the crucified body of Christ refreshing themselves with that heavenly food turning it into the nourishment of their inward and new man and growing up therein unto a likeness and conformity unto that food These do not miscarry nor come short of their aim 9. Ninthly 26. There can be no due performance of any acceptable service
of all things with my Divinity and I can lay hold on man the workmanship of our hands with my Mortality So that I am neither coy nor strange to man that doth desire thy Grace nor unequal or inferiour to thee who art the giver of all Grace 2. Besides I am the fittest Priest the worthiest High Priest of any for I am holy harmless undefiled separate from sinners I am made higher then the Heavens Heb. 7. I pay that I never had I have no need to start or shrink back from reconciling my Brethren no man hath any thing against me none can lay ought to my charge no not thou Father nor yet these my Brethren which crucifie me I have wronged none I owe no man a farthing I possess no mans estate I am out of debt to all the world I have no need to make satisfaction or offer Sacrifice for my self Therefore I enter the Holy place bearing the Golden Censer and carrying much incense of prayers I lay down a price for many of my own blood I offer up my very self that unspotted Sacrifice and Priest for the people For certain I am never any whole burnt offering came up before thee more holy more acceptable more successfull then this Wherefore O Father I knowing thy mercies very well that they are over all thy works in the midst of these very Sacrifices I come forth to meet thee with strong crying and tears in Faith nothing doubting I humbly crave beseech intreat and beg this at thy hands pardon thy people spare thy people blot out the iniquity of thy people with this my blood Forgive Forgive them Father forgive them q.d. I confess Adam hath sinned Gen. 3. and all his posterity is become abominable Psalm 13. it is prone to evil from their youth Gen. 6 and wickedness is multiplyed upon the earth Charity is grown cold long since and will do more and more and iniquity will abound Our own people also whom we have chosen out of all Nations hath committed a great and grievous sin in tormenting me thy only Son with so many and so great Tortures they little regard whether I be thine or do belong to thee or no although I am about to give a clear Testimony make full proof of it to which one crime and horrid offence if all their other villanous acts and all the rest of their wicked deeds were compared they would seem as little as nothing How great is thy Majesty which is despised and my Dignity which is derided That people despiseth both and do heap up horrible iniquities to their Fathers Transgressions I acknowledge thy wrath hath hitherto justly raged by the offence of that one Adam Heaven was justly shut up the jaws of Hell opened and death entered into the world Thou hast justly armed the Heavens and all the Elements for vengeance against sinners justly hath fire from Heaven burnt up some alive justly hath the distemper of the ayr and the pestilence destroyed others justly hath the Sea over flown and drowned others with all the encrease of the fruit of their Land justly hath the earth with open mouth devoured others Righteous art thou and just are thy Judgements In Justice thou mightest have continued thy displeasure till thou hadst utterly destroyed and exacted the utmost farthing for full satisfaction And if all the men that ever yet lived to this very day had never so profusely and prodigally lavished out all their blood they could not have expiated or blotted out the least transgression Such and so great is the weight and hainousness of the unspeakable wickedness that no man could make satisfaction for it but God and none ought to have done it but man who had sinned Now I am he I am God and I am man In me only the whole salvation of man dependeth For that cause I became an exile in a strange Country I have been wearied and tired out with cold heat hunger thirst nakedness watchings weariness I have been tempted oppressed afflicted What pains what torments have I not endured in this poor slender thin body What sorrows what straits what disturbances and perplexity of mind have I not had experience of Was there ever any sorrow like to this of mine when there is no soundness from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head What remaineth therefore O Father but that thou lay aside thy anger appease thy diseleasure abate thy wrath forgive them take pitty on them pour out the abundance of thy Graces upon them seeing I have and do make such abundant satisfaction for them I invocate and pray unto thee as a Father not as a Judge I intreat thee not to punish but forgive them for my blood doth not cry for vengeance as Abels did Gen. 4. unless happily there shall be any that will not be saved by it I have forgiven them already who am now tortured for them do thou also pardon them whom that thou mighest pardon thou didst of purpose send me into the world Forgive Them those that are thine own Them whom thou didst promise to have mercy upon before the world began whom thou wilt also call and sanctifie in time Of which number are these that have crucified me and not only these Roman Souldiers and Jews and the rest of the Standers by but all men in the world besides Alam crucifieth me who sinned in Paradise David crucifieth me who offended in Jerusalem Every man crucifieth me for there is not a man but is a sinner I supplicate for all I suffer for all I sacrifice for all do thou pardon and forgive all that by my death it may appear that neither thou nor I do desire the death of sinners but rather that they should be converted and live Ezek. 18. But in a more special way of love I beseech thee for those my honest plain hearted Brethren for whose sakes thy pleasure was that I should be made a Gentile forgive them this grievous Crime The Fact I cannot excuse I confess they have sinned most exceedingly yet this I must plead for them that their mind was not so abominably mischievous They know not c. They know not what they do Wilt thou then destroy an ignorant Nation They are a blind and unthankfull people they do not yet see what they do but ere long they shall look on him whom they have peirced They cannot tell who I am they know not that I am thy Son The Devil yet by our permission and counsel hath hid from them those great Mysteries of my Divinity and Humanity Forgive them therefore for they know not what they do For had they known they would never have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2. Likewise forgive the rest too for they also know not what they do for all that work iniquity have been and are deceived In Adam they did proudly desire to know as much as we justly therefore are they become as ignorant as the bruit beasts
is that to us We bought and sold we paid what we promised Therefore there can be no flaw against us at the Law Look thou to it whom thou didst sell it nothing conterns us But hear O ye Heads and Rulers of the Synagogue Ye dealt either justly or unjustly with Christ If unjustly as t is plain enough that ye did then are ye Christ-killers that is such as murther your own Messias If ye did justly with him then ought ye to have comforted poor miserable Iudas and not have heaped all the guilt upon him and laid all the load on his back but ingenuously have confest that he was in no fault at all But whereas ye shift of the blame from your selves and lay it on Iudas certainly you acknowledge that he did very wickedly And if his Treason were a filthy fact doubtless your murther could not be lawfull nor just and so ye are manifestly convinced of unrighteousness and that out of your own mouth 1. Note here what wicked men will do against their conscience so they may but satisfie their lust They deny not but that it was guiltless blood that was betrayed Wherefore hence we may observe to whom the poor sheep may safely commit themselves These should have comforted his conscience that was driven into despair but they say what is that to us O tender hearted Shepheards Here we see little of that affection that was in Moses toward the people Exod. 32. And in Paul to his Brethren Rom. 9. They are indeed no Shepheards but Wolves rather seeking their own and not the good of the Lords Flock c. 2. Observe here that they who do evil to please men if the wind turn and things fall out contrary they shall be flouted and forsaken by those very men for whose favour they did it Let no man therefore at any time do evil to humour others c. What should Indas do now being terrified in conscience and finding no comfort from those men whose turn he had served against his own conscience What else I say should he do or what indeed could he do but despair Wherefore he cast down the pieces of silver in the Temple and went and hanged himself being forced so to do by that sorrow which is unto death 2 Cor. 2. and that by the righteous Judgement of God that so the wickedness which he fomented against the Head of all the Saints might fall on his own pate and that he should be his own judge and Executioner Now 1. He hanged himself to shew that he was hated of heaven and earth who would not only not reform and amend that sin of Treason but also added this horrid offence to be his own murtherer 2. He hung in the ayr died and burst a sunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out as Peter saith Act. 1. for he was not worthy of a burial Indeed he was not fit for the company either of Angels or men Therefore he could finde no place in heaven among the Angels because he betrayed the Lord of heaven and of the Angels nor ought he to be buried in the earth amongst men because when he was on earth he was a companion of Devils justly then did he perish in the ayr which is the place appointed for the Devils until the day of Judgement A figure of this untimely death we have in Achitophel who plotted the death and ruine of David 2 Sam. 17. who came to the same end as Judas here did for he hanged himself and for no other reason but because he foresaw that David would get the Kingdom in that Chushi Davids Friend was come over to Absolon not cordially but only personally So Judas saw that Christs name would not be forgotten in that the Apostles yet live to keep up the remembrance thereof and would survive that his memory should not perish As therefore Achitophels hanging himself was a sad presage that Absolon himself also should come to an ill end So Judas hanging himself portended the end and destruction of the Jews for unto this very day they hang yet between heaven and earth because in heaven they have no hope and on earth have not any setled place and their bowels are gushed out for they are scattered over the face of all the earth Now whereas it is here said that Judas brought back the 30. pieces of silver to the Priests into the Temple it is plain 1. That some of the Priests and Elders tarried in the Temple because of the Feast whilst others of the chief Priests and Elders accused Christ before Pilate For the Sacrifices of the Feast must be taken care of and if no other yet the morning Sacrifice which was the daily offering must be lookt after that nothing might be now left undone but that in both they might hold up the Service of God both by their Oblations in the Temple and by condemning Christ that grand Seducer who is indeed the Saviour of the world Hence we see how justly their Sacrifices were rejected Isa 1. Because your hands saith he are full of blood 2. Here also we may see what a fearfull thing it is to be forsaken of God For he that is deserted of God hath indeed a sense of his sin but he dares not hope for any mercy or pardon for his sin nor can he finde any comfort from men but must necessarily run into despair 3. We see also what a miserable end they come unto who are the persecutors of Christ they hang between heaven and earth They lose earthly things and cannot obtain heavenly 4. But let covetous men principally mark well this passage for here they may see what becomes of their covetousness For what profit or pleasure had this miserable Judas by all the money that he took Surely he got nothing but grief and sorrow of heart Riches are a perpetual vexation although thou get them with distracting care and fill all thy Store-houses therewith scraping them together by all means right or wrong What becomes of all at last Thou losest thy money bringest thy body to poverty and betrayest thy soul to the Devil And therefore O Christian take better heed and let not money master thee but if thou hast got it honestly use it soberly if dishonestly be careful to dispose of it to good uses or make restitution to those thou hast wronged But whence had Judas all this money And what became of it at last Doubtless the Jewish Prelates being in a confusion were forced to pick up the money again which he scattered in the Temple inasmuch as it came from them at first but when they had it they could not tell what in the world to do with it But it was the least of their thoughts to take care for the preservation of the Traitor when he had cleared Christs innocency They saw that Judas repented and recanted what he had done and returned again the earnest and contract of the bargain which he made But they keep the
bounds and had done more then he could answer in scourging him For if the Judge could find no fault in him surely he must needs be whipt unjustly Here then was fulfilled that of the Psalmist Thou hast tryed me and shalt find nothing Psalm 17.3 Whence it is that Christ said at Supper The Prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me Iohn 14.30 Jesus therefore went forth wearing the crown of Thorns and the purple Robe He went forth without any Imperial splendor but full of reproach He went forth indeed without any form or comliness for what comliness was it for the Son of God to be crowned with thorns and to be mocked weltring in his own blood and exposed as a gazing-stock to his enemies Who would have believed that this was the Son of God But this deformity of Christ is full of consolation unto us For hence we are assured that he made satisfaction to the utmost for us What could not so great humiliation of his Son merit for us it being voluntarily undertaken for us Go forth also O ye Daughters of Sion ye believing souls and behold King Solomon the peace-making King who reconcileth all things that are in Heaven and that are in Earth Cant. 3.11 Col. 1.20 Behold I say your King with a crown of thorns a crown of grief and misery with a ludibrious Robe and reproaches wherewith his mother crowned him yet not his mother but his step-mother the wicked Synagogue Here is truly a most wonderfull spectacle indeed to be seen He that goeth forth hath indeed some likeness of a King yet is he over-loaden with the confusion of a most despicable servant he went along crowned but his crown was his torture wounding his glorious Head with a thousand prickles He is cloathed in Royal Purple not for honour but disgrace He bears a Scepter in his hand but is smitten with it on his head They worship and bow the knee to him and cry him up for a King but presently chase him to the Cross Think upon these things O Christian look on Christ in this hue and never despair of his Grace and Favour For doubtless as long as thou dost trust in him he will never forsake thee who hath already suffered so much for thee that didst not deserve the same at his hands To this end therefore is Christ held forth and set before thy eyes that thou shouldest not despair Whensoever therefore thou art in any tribulation either of body or conscience or mind look this way turn thine eyes toward Christ and thou shalt be comforted But Pilate the better to asswage these savage beasts and move them to some pity knowing what compassion there is in nature whereby as every creature loves its like so also doth every one naturally take compassion on its like Therefore he cryes out to them with a loud voyce Behold the man as if he had said O ye Jews be satisfied with the scourging of this man which yet I was forced to inflict rather out of necessity then any offence of his Behold what a man ye have made of him see how he is used mark if he doth look but like a man The sight of him is enough to melt and break an iron or flinty heart Ye see there is no whole skin left in all his body from top to toe No part or member of his body is free ye see nothing but wounds and gore blood all over him Have compassion therefore and take some pity upon him for he is not a dog but a man as ye are although indeed he hath been used worse then one would use a dog Let this punishment suffice be ye satisfied with what he hath suffered already and le ts dismiss him and send him going For if he hath formerly erred in matter of Faith this whipping will be a perpetual warning to him that he never more broach the like errours again If ye envy him as King yet forbear for ye see him abased and dejected the name of King is vanisht from him into the basest penance and highest mulct that can be exacted he hath been whipt crowned with Thorns put into a mock-habit scorned with bitter revilings beaten and buffeted sufficiently let his shame abound and let your envy abate All this Pilate spake very civilly indeed and religiously unto them but to little or no purpose with these men Most truly doth he say Behold the man Hearken Hereticks ye that deny the Humanity of Christ Behold the Man saith Pilate Hear this O Christian what did Pilate here see but a man If thou canst not see God yet behold this man who became so despicable for thy sake Hear it too thou sinner Behold the man See what man merited see how miserable man is made see what God-man suffered for thee that thou be not found unthankfull Take heed thou be not like the Iews who were more enraged at that miserable Spectacle of Christ and that whereby they should have been moved to compassion therewith was their wrath and malice more enflamed They cry out Crucifie him Crucifie him q.d. proceed and go on as thou hast begun If thou hast scourged him crucifie also T is not enough to have him whipt we are not contented with that we long to see him dying upon the Cross Thou dost shew us his wounds but we must have his life too We shall never be at quiet till we see him dead He shall never scape alive out of our hands though it cost us all that ever we have It shall be so thou cursed cruell wicked Jew It shall be as thou sayest but not because thou wouldest have it so but because God hath so disposed it Thou shalt see him on the Cross and there dying too But it had been better for thee to have suffered him to preach in the Temple and that Barabbas had been hanged on the gallows The Evangelist doth justly tax their impiety saying 1. When they saw him they cryed out Therefore they cannot excuse their sin For they have seen saith Christ and yet have hated both me and the Father Joh. 15. 2. Those wicked Blasphemers of Christs Passion are here taxed who have seen and do see know and confess that Christ did suffer all these things for us and yet will not cease still to blaspheme 3. It is spoken Emphatically that the chief Priests did cry out for happily the rest of the multitude might be moved with some natural pity and piety and begin to think upon the Miracles which he wrought among them and so might be a little ashamed of what was so wickedly done unto Christ The chief Priests therefore at least with their Officers cry out Servants are easily perswaded to do as their Masters do supposing that they shall be excused if they do but imitate their Lords In these High Priests was fulfilled that of Jeremy The Pastors are become bruitish and have not sought the Lord therefore they shall not prosper and all the flocks shall be
gore blood and rankled wounds My hands still work wickedness as if I could never sin enough whilst thy most harmless hands are fastened to the Cross for me O ingratitude worthy of all manner of punishment to be inflicted Do we return thanks after this fashion How ought this crucifying of Christ to terrifie us from sin For what hope can we have of pardon if we be not only unthankfull here but do moreover crucifie Christ again with our sins Now there may be many reasons given why Christ would be crucified For 1. Being thus set between Heaven and Earth he might shew that he was the true Mediator of God and Man 2. Because sin was first committed by eating of the fruit of the Tree therefore would he expiate sin upon the Tree 3. Because the Devil overcame man by the Tree therefore would Christ conquer him upon the Tree 4. Christ would be crucified after this manner that by the very posture and form of his crucified body we might learn what we are to expect from him He stretched out his hands to shew that the way to his Heart and tender Love was open to us He let his feet be fastened to shew that he would not go back till we were fully Redeemed He stretched out his right hand because he came to bestow good things upon us and his left hand that he might take away all evil from us He let his right foot be nailed because he came to confirm and establish the good and his left because he would suppress all evil thoughts 5. He would be crucified to shew the fruit of his sufferings by the very fashion of the cross For as the cross hath four corners so there are four principal effects and fruits of the Lords Passion The upper end which points towards Heaven signifieth that the Angelical Ruin was repaired by the Passion of Christ and that Heaven was open for us The lower end signifieth that thereby the Fathers were redeemed out of Limbo Let not this expression offend thee but attend the weightier things or from the borders of hell The right corner sheweth that the dispersed children of God were by it gathered together in the world The left horn shews that by the cross even his enemies were reconciled 6. Christ would be crucified thereby to shew of what fashion the Christian life is to be For as the cross hath those four Dimensions to wit Length Breadth Height and Depth Thereby are signified the four principal Virtues in which the Life of Christianity doth consist By the Depth is signified Faith which is laid first in the bottom of the heart as a Foundation in Gods building by the secret and hidden Call of the Divine Will Perseverance is intimated by the Length by the Height is Hope signified and by the Breadth Charity For of these may that of the Apostle be understood Ephes 3. That ye may be able to comprehend what is the length breadth height and depth c. 7. He would be crucified to teach us that our whole body should be put forth to the utmost in the service of God and that we should crucifie the flesh as Paul saith I am crucified with Christ Gal. 2. Again I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus Gal. 6. To offer up a mans self is the most acceptable service unto God Rom. 12. Thus much for the fastening of Christ to the cross which when they had so done they rear up the cross with great shoutings with most bitter railings and revilings There was a hole cut out of the Rock to fasten the foot of the cross in Into which place they do not let the cross slide gently in but they jolt it in with great violence on a sudden that they might add one more and that the greatest torture too to all his other sufferings to shake his very entrails and to widen the wounds of his hands and feet again with so great and sudden a jogg which were filled before with the bluntness of the Nails causing those full and fertile Rivolets of his blood to gush out and overflow again Thus that Spring of Paradise the Fountain of Christs blood brake out from that pleasant Garden the place of pleasure even the body of the Lord dividing it self into four parts to wit into the clefts and holes of his hands and feet Gen. 2. By its plentifull and most abundant flowing it watered the whole earth washing away the sins of all Believers Here then was fulfilled that of Christ And I saith he when I am lifted from the earth will draw all unto me John 12. Again As Moses lifted the Serpent in the Wilderness so must the son of Man be lifted up John 3. that whosoever believed in him might not perish but have everlasting life Here that figure of the Brazen Serpent was fulfilled Numb 21. Here was Christ standing before God as the true Mediator between God and man as the High Priest offering himself for us and taking up that saying in Psalm 40. Sacrifice and offering for sin thou wouldest not then said I Lo I come in the Volume of the book it is written of me that I should do thy will as if he had said inasmuch as no other Sacrifices have hitherto been able to Reconcile thee unto man Behold I thine only begotten Son do offer up my self unto thee for man And we Brethren let us stand close to our High Priest with great devotion whilest he offereth himself for us Let us lift up the eyes of our mind and look upon his Sacrifice and from the bottom of our heart let us say Holy Father look down we beseech thee from thy Sanctuary and holy Place and from the height of thy heavenly Habitation Behold this sacred Sacrifice and Oblation which our great High Priest thy Holy child Jesus offereth unto thee for the sins of his Brethren and be thou appeased for the multitude of our wickedness which we have committed Behold the blood of our brother cryeth to thee from the cross Gen. 4. Behold the spotless Lamb which was dumb before the shearers Behold he that did no sin he hath born and taken away our sins Behold Lord the face of thine Anointed thy Christ who was obedient to thee even to the death and never do thou turn thine eyes away from beholding the marks of his wounds that thou mayest never forget what great and full satisfaction thou hast received from him for our sins Look O most mercifull Father upon him that doth suffer and remember gracious Father for whom he suffereth Most meek Maker look upon the Humanity of thy beloved Off-spring and take pity on the frailty of thy feeble workmanship Have respect to the torn members of thy most tender and acceptable Progeny and remember whereof I am made and what my substance is Look upon the penance and take notice of the sufferings of God and Man and relieve the misery of thy poor creature man Consider the Torment of