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A33297	The blessed life and meritorious death of Our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, from His conception to His cross, and from His cross to His crown together with the series, and order of His ministery, and miracles, as they are recorded by the four Evangelists, wherein what is wanting in one is supplied out of the other / by Sam. Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1664 (1664)	Wing C4502; ESTC R15233	43,259	57

it was shewed that of the Tribe of Judah should Shiloh come but whether Male or Female nothing certain David was assured that a Son of his should sit upon his Throne for ever But till Isaias it was not known that he should be born of a pure Virgin that a woman should compass a man Isa. 7. 14. Behold a Virgin that famous Virgin the Originall sets it forth with an Accent spoken of Gen. 3. 15. shall conceive and bear a Son The very place of his Birth was not set forth till Micha did it Mich. 5. 2. Not the just time till Daniel foretold it Dan. 9. 24. Thus by degrees and piece-meal as it were God spake of old to the Fathers by his servants the Prophets Heb. 1. 1. Every age almost brought sorth some new thing touching the Babe of Bethlehem lapt up in the swathbands of the Holy Scriptures either in express and evident terms and testimonies or else in mirrors and miracles Lastly John Baptist Fibula Legis Gratiae as one calls him the Buckler of the Law and Gospel pointed him out with his finger Behold the Lamb of God c. Now this Jesus Christ is the most excellent Person in the world the fairest amongst men worth ten thousand of us as the People said of David 2 Sam. 18. 3. Look upon him as he is described Heb. 1. 1 2 3. For his Nobility He is Gods own Son For his Riches He is heir of all things For his Wisdom He made the Worlds For his Eminency He is the brightness of his Fathers Glory and the express Image of his Person For his might He upholdeth all things by the Word of his Power For his Merits He hath by himself purged our sins For his Preferment He sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on High Traps Treas The quallity and kind of Christs Death is remarkeable for three Characters which were engraven on the Death of the Cross which he died 1. For the painfulness of it The nature of that Death was painfull For Death it self is painfull no man payes that debt with ease When Asa dies he cryes Ah my feet When David dyes he complains O my cold Body When the Shunamites Child dyes he cryes Ah my pained head When ●zzah dyes he cryes Oh my Leprous skin Life is a precious Pearl But there are three things besides which made Christs Death painfull 1. Violence It 's painfull to die of any violent disease but when five deaths do all concur and strive which of them shall dispatch the poor man soonest this must needs be more painfull Such was Christs Death which made him complain Psal. 22. 16. They pierced my hands and my feet and Joh. 19. 34. One of the Souldiers with a Spear pierced his side and forthwith there came out blood and water Here are five Deaths that invaded a living man Death on each hand and on each legg and death on his side though this last came a little too late Now a violent Death it must needs be when strong and great nails did pierce the most nervous parts of his Body his hands and his feet 2. Slowness Four leasurely violent Deaths seized on him Blood is the life of the living Creature then look how long his blood was coming out his Life was dropping out as long It 's a great aggravation for a man to be long a dying and yet cannot die To have his torment quick and yet his Death slow is an Image of Hell where men seek Death and yet cannot finde it Christs slow Death was divided into four quarters Death at each hand and at each foot made his pain the greater The weight of his Body did hang upon those four tormenting nails his pierced Hands and Feet as if Death had delighted to hold Christ long at sea and to deny him it's last sad service Christ had been before dying a terrible Death in the Garden when he was boiled as it were in a bloody sweat and two circumstances shew that the two Thieves Death was nothing in slowness of torment comparable to Christs death 1. The sad and direful preparatories to Christs Death as he was the night before in a Soul-death when those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were Drops or great hail stones of blood frozen or hardened together as Stephanus thinks through extream terrour when he was scourged and Crowned with Thorns 2. He was so weakned in Body thereby that he was not able to bear his own Cross which made him complain Psal. 22. 17. I may tell all my Bones My strength is dried up like a Potsheard So that Christ began to die the night before and continued dying twenty four hours the Lords anger and curse being on him and then bodily pain with the curse of the Law all this time wrought upon him And Christ in bearing the pains of the second Death did suffer that which all the Elect should have sustained in their Souls for ever Isa. 53. 6. The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all and though Christ died but one Death for all the Elect yet in the extremity of the pain it was many Deaths to him 3. Many degrees of Life were taken from him Consider how much of Life Christ had and the removing of it by violence must be so much the more painfull Now life natural had in Christ a sweet and a peaceable dwelling the possession of life was with excellent delights It was planted besides the Glorious God-head personally and so had sweet company and that made it pleasant It had not been so much to take away the Life of a common man whose life is not priviledged with Grace and the Grace of a Personal union with God The second Character that was engraven on Christs Death was that it was shameful and reproachful Now Shame is first Fundamentally in the cause Sin and Sin acted by men against that Law of God is the onely foundation of Shame Exod. 32. 25. Aaron made the People naked to their Shame So 2 Sam. 13. 13. Shame and sin are neer a kin And thus Christ was no more capable of Shame than he was of sin He came out of the Womb clothed with the white Robe of Innocency and he never contracted one black spot on that fair Robe of the highest Image of God from the womb to the Grave and therefore there was no shame fundamentally in Christ. 2. There is Shame formally in sin and that first In being ashamed Actively Secondly In bearing of Shame Passively In the former consideration because sin is a shameful thing in itself Jer. 11. 13. There is an Internal blushing and Shame rising from sin the Conscience of the sinner if it be not cauterized thinking ill of sin and esteeming it self base in doing it Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed So Christ thought ill of sin and esteemed the Creature base in sinning 2. Christ our Lord

Jews sought to kill him Now the Feast of Tabernacles was at hand and Jesus went not up to the Feast as his Brethren would have him do who as yet believed not on him but he went up after them not openly but as it were in secret John 7. 1 10. And it came to pass that when the time was come that he should be received he set his face to go to Jerusalem and he sent messengers before his face and they went into a Village of the Samaritans to make ready for him But they would not receive him wherefore they went into another City and Jesus rebuked his Disciples who would have commanded fire to come down from Heaven upon them Luke 7. 51 56. And as they were passing in the way Jesus gave an answer particularly to some that would follow him Luke 7. 57 62. After these things Jesus sent seventy Disciples by two and two into every City and place where he himself would come giving them instructions and arming them with power Mark 10. 1 16. The multitude enquiring after Jesus at the Feast and murmuring concerning him Jesus in the midst of the Feast taught in the Temple and they wondring at his Doctrine he answered that his Doctrine was not his own but his that sent him He also answered many things to them who reproached and objected against him and Officers were sent to apprehend him In the last and great day of the Feast Jesus crying out concerning Faith in him there was a division concerning him amongst the People but the Officers which were sent and Nicodemus defended both his person and cause before the Pharisees that spake against him John 7. 11 53. Then went Jesus unto the mount of Olives and early in the morning he sate and taught in the Temple where being not willing to condemn the woman that was taken in Adultery he warned her to sin no more As he was teaching in the Treasury of the Temple he affirmed that he was the light of the world and defended his bearing record of himself He taught many things concerning the Father himself and told them whether he goes and who he is Also of their Father Abraham Of the servitude of Sin and of the Devil Of himself that he had not a Divel as they supposed That whosoever kept his sayings should not tast of Death concluding with these words Before Abraham was I am whereupon they took up stones to throw at him But Jesus hid himself and went out of the Temple going through the midst of them and so passed by John 8. 1 59. As Jesus passed on the way he saw one begging that was blind from his youth who being made to see after many examinations both of himself and of his Parents he was cast out of the Synagogue who afterwards meeting Jesus he worshipped him John 9. 1 41. Then Preached Jesus that he is the door of the sheep and that good shepherd as also concerning Thieves and Hirelings and there was again a division amongst the Jews for those sayings John 10. 1 21. At this time the Seventy returned to him with joy whom Jesus further warned and instructed and rejoyceing in spirit he told them privately that their eyes were happy Luke 10. 17 24. Then came to him a certain Lawyer asking him what he must do to inherit eternal life Jesus sent him to the Law and by the Parable of the man that fell amongst Thieves taught him who was his Neighbour Luke 10. 25 37. Afterwards it came to pass that as he went he came to a certain Town and was received into the house of Martha she her self ministring to him whilst Mary heard the words of Jesus for which she was preferred before Martha Luke 10. 38 42. And it came to pass as he was praying in a certain place when he ceased one of his Disciples said unto him Lord teach us to Pray as John taught his Disciples Whereupon he the second time prescribed to them the Lords Prayer using arguments also to stir them up to constancy in Prayer and for the confirmation of their Faith in obtaining their sutes Luke 11. 1 13. Then cast Jesus a Divel out that was dumb and the multitude marvelled and he confirmed against some blasphemers that he did not cast out Divels through Beelzebub Luke 11. 14 26. And it came to pass as he spake these things that a certain woman of the company said unto him Blessed is the womb that bare thee c. to whom he replied Luke 11. 27 28. And when the multitude were gathered thick together he began to say This Generation seeks a sign but there shall be none given but that of Jonas Adding that the Queen of the South and the Ninivites should condemn that Generation charging them to take heed that the light which was in them were not darkness Luke 11. 29 36. When Jesus had spoken these things a certain Pharisee desired him that he would dine with him and wondring that Jesus had not first washed he was severly reprehended with the rest of the Pharisees by Jesus for their outward holiness or simulation and for their inward wickedness covetousness and pride and he pronounced a Wo likewise to the Lawyers Luke 11. 37 54. In the mean time when there was gathered together an innumerable company Jesus said to his Disciples Take heed of the Leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisie and fear not them which kill the body Luke 12. 1 12. And one of the company said to him Master speak to my Brother that he divide the Inheritance with me To whom Jesus said who made me a Judge And upon this occasion he preached against Covetousness in the Parable of the rich man that would build great Barns as also against all anxious distrustful and unprofitable carking about the necessaries of this life commanding them rather to seek the Kingdom of God and to be like them that wait for the coming of their Lord as becomes every faithful and wise Steward Telling them that he would send the fire of division into the earth and upbraided them that they could not find out that that was the appointed time Luke 12. 13 59. There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their Sacrifices from which occasion he preached Repentance and propounded to them the Parable of the Fig-tree that had no fruit Luke 13. 1 9. As he taught in one of the Synagogues on the Sabbath day behold there was a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed together whom Jesus healed and defended his deed against the Ruler of the Synagogue that was full of indignation Then did he liken the Kingdom of Heaven to a Grain of Mustardseed and to Leaven Luke 13. 10 21. Then went he through all the Cities and villages teaching and journying towards Jerusalem to wit to the Feast of Dedication Luke