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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42394	The history of Christ's sufferings composed out of the prophets, evangelists, apostles, fathers, and other holy writers. With aspirations, or prayers, suitable to each section. In order to an entire resignation of the soul to the will of God, according to the example of Christ by Dudley Garenciers, rector of Waverton, near Chester.	Garencieres, Dudley, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing G252A; ESTC R215811	117,779	315

40. cloak to him that taketh away their Coat to Å¿ verse 44. love their Enemies to bless them that curse them to do good to those that hate them to pray for those who despitefully use and persecute them And can you believe these probable grounds on which may be raised the Superstructure of an Empire or that I aspire to Soveraignty by Sufferings to Riches by Poverty to Greatness by Humility and to Dethrone Cesar by preaching the Cross Pilate tho' convinc'd and almost freed from all suspition by the unlikeliness of Christ's Temporal Dominion nevertheless sticks at the name of a King A King he confest himself and of what nature soever the Title clash'd with the Imperial Dignity He therefore urges him a second time saying t John 18.37 Art thou a King then Jesus answered Thou sayest that I am a King To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the World that I should bear witness unto the Truth Every one that is of the Truth heareth my voice I repent not nor am ashamed of my Celestial and Spiritual Kingdom and would have all Men know it and even Cesar himself For the good of Mankind depends wholy upon it since I govern over the Heart to infuse Grace and Truth and the Word which is the Power of God to Salvation That I may give Righteousness for Sin Life for Death Joy for Sufferings Heaven for Hell These are the chief feudal Rights of my Crown This is the Scepter of my Kingdom and this no ways undermines Cesar's Cesar can never be unwilling that his Subjects should become Virtuous nor will it be any detriment to his Arms to have his Soldiers live Soberly and justly and his people Conscientiously and Obediently The very name of Truth is Amiable and the most Barbarous Nations have a reverence for it Prayer O God Eternal and Heavenly Father who wouldst draw us from Temporal and Earthly things which pass away or shall be consumed with Fire to the Love of Celestial and Spiritual Joys to be possest by an everlasting undefiled Inheritance and teachest us it ist he highest piece of Wisdom by despising the the World to arrive at Heaven Grant me a true sense of the Vanity of the Creature which whosoever cleaveth to shall also become vain himself and of all Worldly pleasures which whosoever seeketh will become mutable as they That I may only admire the excellency of thy Spiritual power raising my Affections above the Earth and that seeking for true Riches in thee alone when I shall go out of this World Naked and Poor I may find a Treasury in the Repositories of thy Bounty which thou hast laid up for them that serve thee SECT XXIV Of Pilate 's first Declaration of Christ 's Innocence AS v Acts 24.25 Felix trembled when he heard the Apostle reasoning of Righteousness Temperance and Judgment to come So Pilate taken with the Excellent notion of Truth either out of Admiration or Contempt of Jesus saith unto him * John 18.38 What is Truth as desirous to know what he had further to say or rebuking him for pretending to be more knowing then the Chief Priests and the expositors of the Jewish Law who had deliver'd him for an Impostor and Traitor But being unworthy to be further instructed who had heard enough already if he would have believed and because our Saviour would not hinder his passion which was now begun and to be compleated he receives no answer and being unable to condemn him for any thing he had already said or done he goes out again to the impatient Jews and says unto 'em x John 18.38 I find in him no fault at all Pilate it seems had more fear of God out of a Natural Notion and common sense of Justice then the Jewish people had out of the Law and the Prophets And notwithstanding they were very Rich and Powerful and he might expect reward or damage from 'em while Christ on the other side was alone poor forsaken of all and from whom he could neither expect profit nor detriment ye the stands up for him according to the office of a just Judge who should be free from Avarice and Partiality and proclaims him faultless as the y Matt. 27.3 Betrayer had done But the Jews were a people of whom Ezekiel complains they were z Ezek. 3.7 impudent and hard hearted And when their Reason Conscience Witnesses and and all other endeavours had failed as a furious multitude without any regard of Shame or Compassion they grew stronger in clamour and more fierce a Luke 23.5 saying he stirreth up the People teaching throughout all Jewry beginning from Galilee to this place Can this man be innocent who comes from Galilce the b Joseph de bello jud l. 3. c. 4. Nursery of Fierceness and Animosity where the Rebel c Acts 5.37 Judas began his faction so lately who taught it to be unlawful to pay tribute to strangers and to d Joseph de bello Jud. l. 2. c. 12. acknowledge Mortal Rulers after God had been their King and whose Disciples e Luke 13.1 Blood thou thy self when they refused to communicate with us and would offer part didst mingle with their Sacrifices Art thou not yet satisfied what Seditious Fellows these Preaching Galileans are Is he not sprung from that Man's Principles Does he not tend to the same end And is he not more dangerous by how much his pernicious doctrines have spread themselves throughout all Jewry O how deaf is Malice and Envy How Eternally Insatiable a misguided Zeal How restless and unwearied in its designs of cruelty from which the Judge himself is not able to deliver But how much more detestable in the Chief Priests the Scribes and Elders of the People who ought to be the Examples of the Virtues they teach Who can but tremble at the gross Stupidity to which they were given over for their Sins that f Matt. 13.3 Isai 6.9 hearing they should hear and not understand and seeing they should see and not perceive Of so little advantage are all other gifts without grace they are nothing worth they end in Licentiousness Pride and Injustice and lay us open to the indignation of God whose great work is to put down the Mighty from their Seats and to scatter the Proud in the Imagination of their Hearts Prayer O Gracious Father of Eternal Charity never let me have that affection of the Desperate and Damned that it should be ill with me when it is well with others that I should envy the Prosperity or traduce the Virtues or detract from the Merits or rejoyce at the Affliction or spitefully upbraid the Infelicities of my Neighbour But following the beautiful president of Candour shining in all the actions of the Bountiful Jesus I may joyn in the Holy Communion of Saints in the measures of Grace and Glory for ever SECT XXV Of Christ's being brought before Herod and the