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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88397	Christ's valedictions: or sacred observations on the last words of our savior delivered on the crosse. By Jenkin Lloyd, minister of the gospel, and rector of Llandissil in Cardigan shire	Lloyd, Jenkin, b. 1623 or 4.	1658 (1658)	Wing L2653; Thomason E1895_2; ESTC R209921	53,582	228

dayes Exod. 10.21 which was a signification of their superstitious blindness and ignorance of the true knowledg of God and the obstinacy and disobedience to Gods Commandment And as then Meses brought the Israelites from the Egyptian bondage they were in under Pharaoh so the true Moses here Jesus Christ brings all that believe in him from the bondage of Satan unto everlasting happiness Let us now come unto the words themselves My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Psal 22.1 and these we find to be taken out of the Psalmist and in them Christ complains in a voice more then ordinary that he was relinquished of God the Father at that instant For the better clearing of the sense we must observe that Christs derelictions of the Father may be understood five several wayes whereof one only is true and here meant there were five conjunctions or unions in the Son of God The first is that of Essence between the first and second Person of the Glorious Trinity and that as it is natural and eternal so it is perpetual and inseparable of which Christ himselfe speaks I and my Father are one and therefore he said not My Father Joh. 8.16 but My God why hast thou forsaken me For the Father is not called God of the Son till after and by reason of the Incarnation 2. The second is the Conjunction of the Divine and Humane nature in the second Person and this can never be dissolved for what he once took he never puts off And the Apostle saies Christ that is God and Man suffered for us 1 Pet. 2.21 The third is the union of Grace Joh. 1.14 For Christ was a Man full of Grace and truth and this doth and shall remain The just dyed for the unjust 1 Pet. 3.18 the death of Christ had nothing profited us if there had been a separation of Grace The fourth is the union of Glory for the soule of Christ saw God from its very conception Joh. 1.14 and according to its superiour part was already truely blessed Aquin. 3. p. q. 46. ar 8. and therefore this conjunction could not be dissolved because a soule once truely blessed is alwayes blessed blessednesse being the summ and compendium of all goodness There remains a fifth union which is that of Protection whereof he speaks He that sent me is with me Joh. 8.29 and hath not left me alone And this for a short time was suspended and dissolved that the oblation of a bloody sacrifice might take place for the Redemption of mankind God was able divers wayes to have protected Christ and to have withstood his Passion according to that prayer of his in the Garden Marck 14.36 Father all things are possible to thee take away this cup from me nevertheless not what I will but what thou wilt Nay Christ could have defended himselfe and commanded Legions of Angels to have guarded his Person Mat. 26.53 No man could take his life from him but he laid it down himself Joh. 10.18 and he might as well bestowed on his body the gift of impassibility as that of incorruption But it pleased the Father it pleased the Son it pleased the Holy Ghost to permit the common decree that humane cruelty should prevail against him then he told his bebetrayers the hour was come Mark 14.41 in which the Son of man should be delivered into the hands of sinners God then so left and forsook his Son that he suffered his humanity for that Space to be without any consolation to endure for our sins most bitter sorrows yea the torments of hell it self And he put himself to those unspeakable sufferings by reason of the greatnesse of mans sin which he took on his body to expiate for us that we being delivered from sin 1 Pet. 2.24 should live in righteouseness by whose stripes we are healed And as this sin was infinite as being against a person of an infinite value the Lord God so the person Satisfying was to be of an incomprehensible dignitie and excellency And though one drop of his precious blood had been an ampler ansom for all mankind yet that his passion might be esteemed by us the more meritorious and gain more Souls he shed all because he did undertake for the sins of the whole world therefore it pleased him to suffer a world of torments when he laboured under that Dereliction of his father 1. Learn hence O man how infinite and inexpresible was the love of Christ to thee when he suffered with so much patience and humilitie such wonderful torments for thy sins His soul was very heavie unto death Man 26.3 There is no Christian but will acknowledge that our Saviour was ten thousand times more able to suffer then the most Constant Martyr that hath suffered for his Name and if he were more able to bear whence could it happen that he was prest with such sorrow such heaviness and such feare but that he alone suffered more then all the martyrs ever since righteous Abel to this day this should work an imitation in us to love the bitter cup of repentance and to reject the cups of Consolation and Secular delights to rejoyce in afflictions and to trample on the seeming felicities of this world Doth God visit our land with Plague Famine War or other judgements O! remember that these Calamities are but as a drop to that vast Ocean of sorrows the Son Gof od suffered for us and that they are far less then our sins deserved for they are but temporal and reach no further then our bodies but by his sufferings we are exempted from those miseries which might justly fall on our souls and bodies eternally We then are as prisoners once condemned for capital crimes but released again with our lives and only chastized with some few stripes have we not then great cause to rejoyce that we have escaped greater judgments 2. But though God seems for a while to forsake his friends and leave them in durances and to withdraw his grace and favour from them yet his indignation cannot last for ever in the end he will return unto them and shew them the light of his gracious Countenance and be merciful unto them if they call upon his glorious name in their distresses Christ upon the Cross suffered a great dereliction his Glory was obscured his divinity seemed to be hid the light of heaven was substracted from him in stead of a Diademe he wore a Crown of thorns in stead of a Scepter a Reed in stead of a statelyretinue belonging to a King they afforded him the ignominious fellowship of two theeves thus was he dejected and scorned and exposed to all imaginable crosses but behold upon his humble expostulation and prayer to God the sence was altered and a speedy Period put to all these calamities the heavens were unmantled the light appeared his last and worst enemy Death was conquered his body and soul

were received in a glorious and triumphant manner into the highest heavens where now he reigns King for evermore And the reasons why God sometimes withdrawes his presence from his People and deferres their deliverance from afflictions are to humble them throughly to bring them to an utter denial of themselves to learn patience that they might acknowledg whence their deliverance and all benefits they enjoy do proceed namely not from themselves nor any creature but from the All-merciful God and that accordingly they might learn to value and prize his gifts at their deserved excellency for we find this generally verified that benefits easily obtained are lightly regarded and soon forgotten the children of Israel were in captivity about four hundred and thirty yeares in Egypt but after they had expected the salvation of the Lord they were brought safely through the Red sea Exod. 12. by the conduct of Moses David had a promise to be King of Jerusalem and Judea but the Lord exercised him by many and grievous afflictions before he came to the Crown Psal 119.82 in so much that he saies his eyes failed with waiting upon his God Zachary and Elizabeth desired of God both of them in their youth and many years after for issue but their request was not granted untill they were old Luk. 1.18 the Church Militant for some hundreds of yeares after Christs Resurrection seemed to be forsaken and rejected of him when she was so battered by Tyrants and so undermined by Hereticks that she was like to be crushed and stifled in her very cradle she was tryed ten times in the fire by ten several and distinct persecutions wherein God seemed to equal the ten plagues of Egypt and to lay as much on his people for their probation as he had laid upon others on their behalfe More Christian blood effused then in the Sacrifices of the old Law for so we read many a hundred many a thousand made Martyrs in one day a whole City a whole Army destroyed at one time for the Gospels sake so that as the Israelites formerly went through the red Sea towards the land of Canaan these through an Ocean of blood past to a Kingdom of bliss And when the Church had prayed and fasted and suffered so many years God in the end hearkned to the voice of her lamentation took her in his Armes wiped all teares from her eyes took away all occasion of complaint made Kings and Queens to be her Nurses and so made her Glorious in the eyes of man acceptable in his and cheerful in her own sight This ought to work a confidence in all Gods afflicted servants that he will not quite desert them their deliverance will be seasonable enough if they will wait and depend upon him a cloud on the skie may for a while ecclipse the light of heaven but that will soon be dissipated and the Sun will appear 3. We are further taught by this desertion of our Saviour to fear to sin and to bewail our offences the only cause of his great sufferings What Stoick is so void of motion but will be sensible to see a friend suffer for him what he was himself was justly guilty of what Christian so flint-hearted that will dare commit a sin if he does but cast a serious thought on him who suffered so much not for his own but our sins The Passion of Christ if rightly considered may be stiled a Schoole where all Martyrs and Saints are made who would complain of doing too much of suffering too much of being too much abased or despised if he do but behold his Saviour delivered over and abandoned for him to such horrible confusions such insupportable torments O my God my wounded God! as long as I shall see thy wounds Nolo vive te fine vulnere cum te video vulneratum Bonaventum I will never live without a wound who will be clothed with purple and costly silks and used to softness and delicacy and see his Redeemer crowned with thorns and fixed to the Cross who will not withhold his hands from violences and rapines and see Christ's armes distended on the Cross who will not fetter his feet and hinder them from running after the unbridled desires of his heart if he but viewes Christ's feet pierced through with nailes who will not make bitter his tongue in subduing the pleasures of the taste and see Christ have nothing but gall and vinegar to drink who will not contemn the ayerie honours of the world when he beholds him that is able to walk upon the wings of Cherubims take upon him the forme of a servant and creep among us like a little worm of the Earth who can delight in any sinful joy and behold him so sad so pain'd so dejected this then is a sovereign antidote against the venome of our sins to have our Saviours Image dayly in our hearts and to reflect our thoughts upon him Crucified in all our actions When the forty Martyrs were in the frozen lake Basil or●t in 40 mar thirty nine of them had their mindes wholly bent upon the future Crown and one of them unhappily thought of nothing but of his punishment All of them remained victorious except this wretched creature who soiling the glory of his patience came out of the poole to dye presently after in his infidelity So if our suffering Saviour be before our eyes in all our tribulations and temptations we shall be more then Conquerours Rom. 8. but if pleasure or profit be our objects we turn our backs to Christ and shall have no share in the benefits of his Cross MY God My God! in what an extasie is my soul when it contemplates what thou didst in those three houres silence when horrour and darkness involved the universe when thou wert not in a chair of State but on thy Cross full of sorrowes full of sufferings Thou Lord who only knowest the extremities of thy own Passion teach thy servants how much they owe to thee and in a religious dejection of themselves to give thee only the glory of their salvation We know not Lord whether we shall more admire the greatness of thy love or the greatness of thy Passion both exceed our merits both surpass our apprehensions but since thy goodness hath thus acted for us we should be unthankfull if we did not spend some of those houres which thou hast given us in a sweet recordation of those thy blessings and not only so but imprint them in our actions Thou didst not so expostulate with thy Father for relinquishing of thee as not knowing the Cause for of what canst thou be ignorant who knowest all things and in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg but that thou mightest exhort us to seek and learn things necessary and profitable for our soules There was no separation between thee and thy God in matter of Essence or grace or affection but only in the point of present