8.34 Iohn 8.34 it is my Father that loveth me Ioh. 10.17 Iohn 10.17 it is my Father that dwelleth in me Ioh. 14.10 Iohn 14.10 and howsoever others forsake mee and leave me alone as himself proclaims it yet I am not alone because the Father is with mee Ioh. 16.32 Iohn 16.32 Is it so sweet Saviour whence then was that sorrowfull complaint of thine My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Matth. 27.46 Leo it is that first reconciled it and all antiquity allow of it the union was not disolved but the beames the influence was restrained Non solvit unionem sed subtraxit visionem Scotus 4. sent D. 46. Q. 4. resp ad princip argum Affectione justitiae saith Scotus he was ever united to his Father because he ever loved trusted and glorified him but affectione commodi that delight ever emergent from that divine vision was for a time suspended and therefore was it that his body drooped his soul fainted he being even as a scorched Heath-ground without any drop of dew of the divine comfort on it Yet be it that his Father now forsakes him will he forsake himself O yes he burns in the fiery furnace of affliction without all manner of refreshing and this was it that was figured in the Law by those two Goats offered for the sins of the people whereof the one was the Scape-Goat and the other was the Offering the scape-goat departed away and was sent into the wilderness but her companion was left alone in the torments and made a Sin-Offering for the people even so was this Sacrifice of God-man man-God blessed for ever the humanity was offered but the divinity escaped the humanity suffered for the sins of the world but the divinity departed away in the midst of sufferings and left her sister and companion all alone in the torments thus he purged himself himself onely in his humanity no other with him all other left him the Gentiles Jewes Disciples Apostles Mary his mother and God his Father nay he himself is bereaved of himself Levit. 16.10 the humanity of his divinity if not in respect of the union yet as touching the consolation When he had by himself in his humane nature without any comforter purged our sins Thus far you have seen Christ drink the cup of his bitter pains pure and without mixture of any manner of ease what now remains but that vve make some use of it Vse I will take the cup of salvation saith David and call upon the Name of the Lord Psal 116.13 Psal 116.13 and vvhat can vve less if our Saviour hath begun to us in pains shall not vve afford him our thanks the Cup of death could not passe from him and must the Cup of Salvation be removed from us Psal 148.2 O praise him praise him all his Hosts hovvsoever he vvas alone in his sufferings let us all bear the burdens in a song of thanksgiving and in this song let us singing vveep and vveeping sing our sins may dravv the tears vvhich vvere the cause of his sufferings and our salvation may make us sing vvhich those his sufferings did effect vvhat needs more he suffered by himself the cause our sins the effect our salvation let us mourn for the one and praise him for the other praise him and him alone for he had no partner in his sufferings nor vvill he have any in our thanks he had no comforter in his miseries nor must any share vvith him in the duty vve ovve him of praising his Name Alas have vve not reason think you to give all the glory unto him it vvas he that suffered that vvhich vve deserved he purged by himself vvhen vve our selves lay sick of sin in perill of death and damnation thus gracious is he to us that vvhen there vvas no other remedy for our recovery then he by himself in our stead came and purged our sins Thus far you have seen the Patient and order novv requires that vve prepare the Receit the Patient vvas himself the Receit is a Purge but to confect this Purge vve must crave a further time and in the mean vvhile and ever remember him in your thoughts vvho hath done all this for you and the Lord make you thankfull Had purged YOu see vvho it is that hath freed us from sin to vvit Christ our Saviour vvithout a Compurgator he purged by himself but vvhat did he by himself do vve say he purged vvhat need he to purge vvho never committed any sinn in thought vvord or deed it is vvithout doubt he needs not and yet do it he vvill not to clear himself but us But this Purge doth imply a medicine and so vve must apply it a medicine it was and many medicines he used for the curing of mans soul the first by diet when he fasted fourty days and foruty nights Matth. 4.2 Matth. 4.2 the second by Electuary when he gave his most precious body and bloud in his last Supper Matth. 26.26 Matth. 26.26 The third by sweat when great drops of bloud issued from him falling down to the ground Luk. 22.44 Luk. 22.44 The fourth by plaister when he was spit upon by the Iewes Mark 15.19 Mar. 15.19 The fifth by potion when he tasted vinegar mingled with gall Matth. 27.34 Matth. 27.34 The sixth by letting of bloud when his hands and feet were pierced yea when his heart vein was stricken and his side goared with a Spear Ioh. 19.34 Joh. 19.34 the last which contains all the rest was by purge when by all his sufferings and especially by his bloud-shed he washed us from our sins Revel 1.5 Revel 1.5 Here was the cures of all cures which all the Galenists in the world may admire with reverence that our Lord and Saviour should become our surety that our soul-Physician should become our Purger how not by giving us Physick but by receiving it for us we miserable wretches lay sick of sin and he our Physician hath by himself purged and delivered us of it But that we may the better see how this Purge wrought with him we must know that purging in generall Observ is taken for any evacuation whatsoever and to say truth in a word the evacuation of Christs bloud was the right purging of our sins Hence is it that as Scriptures affirm the bloud of Christ doth redeem us cleanse us wash us justifie us sanctifie us Yee were redeemed by his bloud 1 Pet. 1.19 1 Pet. 1.19 and his bloud cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 1 Ioh. 1.7 and he washed us from our sins in his bloud Revel 1.5 Rev. 1.5 and being now justified by his bloud Rom. 5.9 Rom. 5.9 and therefore Iesus suffered that he might sanctifie the people with his own bloud Heb. 13.12 Heb. 13.12 This bloud was it that was believed by the Patriarchs witnessed by the Sacrifices shadowed in the figures of the
this be his case who will not say with Balaam Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his Num. 23 10. O let us I beseech you present unto our souls the blessed condition to come and this will be effectuall to stir us up to every good duty and to comfort us in all conditions whatsoever what will a man care for crosses and losses and disgraces in the world that thinks of an heavenly Kingdome What will a man care for ill usage in his Pilgrimâ—ge when he knows he is a King at home we are all in this time of our abâ—ence from God but even strangers upon â—â—rth here then must we suffer in dignities yet here is the comfort we have a better estate to come and all this in the mean time is nothing but a fitting of us to that heavenly Kingdome â—s Davids time between his anointing and investing was a very preparing of him that he might know himself and that he might learn fitnesse for to govern aright so we are anointed Kings as soon as we believe we have the same blessed anointing that is poured on our head and runnes down about us but we must be humbled and fitted before we are invested 〈◊〉 time and but a 〈◊〉 we have yet here to spend and let this be our comfort howsoever we 〈◊〉 here it is not long ere we inherit Alas the 〈◊〉 of this life are not worthy of the glory that shall be shewed us Rom. 8.18 Rom. 8.18 and therefore Igâ—â—â—â—â— iâ— a burnâ—â—g 〈…〉 say 〈…〉 gallows Hieron in catalogo beasts breaking of my bones quartering of â—y 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—sâ—â—ng of my body all the torments of devils let them come upon me so I may enjoy the treasure of Heaven and well â—â—gâ—â— he say it that knew what a châ—nge would be one day 〈◊〉 never was cold shadow so pleasant 〈◊〉 hot Summer never was 〈◊〉 so delightfull after â—â—â—our as shall be this â—eâ—t of heaven to an afflicted â—our coming thither out of this valley of tears O then what service should we do what pain should we suffer to attain this â—est were it to runne through fire and water were it as Augustine said to suffer every day torments you Aug. serm 31. de sanct the very torments of Hell yet should we be conâ—enâ— to aâ—â—â—e it and how much more when we may buy it without money or money-worth we need not to part with any thing for it but sin This Thief now a blessed Saint in glory * I speak of suffering and repenting as means not as the cause for a dayes suffering an half dayes repenting was thus welcomed to Heaven imitate we him in his repentance not in his delay he indeed had mercy at the last cast but this priviledge of one inferres not a common law for all one finde mercie at the last that none should despair and but one that none should presume Be then your sins as red as Scarlet you need not despair if you will but repent and lest your repentance be too late let this be the day of your conversion now abhorre sinnes past sue out a pardon call upon Christ with this Thief on the Crosse Lord remember me remember me now thou art in thy Kingdome thus would we do how blessedly should we die our consciences comforting us in deaths pangs and Christ Jesus saying to us at our last day here our day of death our day of dissolution To day shalt thou be with me in paradise We have dispatcht with expedition this dispatch this expedition to day the next day you shall hear the happinesse of this grant which is the societie of our Saviour thou shalt be with whom with me in paradise With me ANd is he of the Societie of Jesus yes though no Jesuite neither for they were not then hatcht but what noble order is this where the Saints sing Angels minister Archangels rule Principalities triumph Powers rejoyce Dominations govern Virtues shine Thrones glitter Cherubims give light Seraphins burn in love and all that heavenly company ascribe and ever give all laud and praises unto God their Maker here is a Societie indeed I mean not of Babylon but Jerusalem whither Jesus our Saviour admits all his servants and whereto this Thief on the Crosse was invited and welcomed thou shalt be with me in paradise For if with me then with all that is with me and thus comes in that blessed company of Heaven we will onely take a view of them and in some scantling or other you may guesse at Heavens happinesse With me and therefore with my Saints blessed man that from a crew of thieves by one houres repentance became a companion of Saints and now he is a Saint amongst them what joy is that he enjoys with them O my soul couldst thou so steal Heaven by remorse for sinne then mightst thou see what all those millions of Saints that ever lived on earth and are in Heaven Heb. 12.22 there are those holy Patriarchs Adam Noah Abraham and the rest not now in their pilgrimage tossed to and fro on earth but abiding for ever on Mount Sion the City of the living God there are those goodly Prophets Esay Jeremy Ezekiel and the rest not now subject to the torments of their cruell adversaries but wearing Palms and Crowns and all other glorious Ensigneâ— of their victorious triumphs there live those glorious Apostles Peter Andrew James John and the rest not now in danger of persecution or death but arrayed in long robes washed and made white in the bloud of the Lamb Revel 7.14 there live those women-Saints Mary Martha and that Virgin-mother not now weeping at our Saviours death but singing unto him those heavenly songs of praise glory world without end there are those tender infants an hundred forty four thousand Revel 14.1 Revel 14.1 3 4. not now under Herods knife bleeding unto death but harping on their harps and following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth there lives that noble armie of Martyrs they that were slain upon the earth Revel 18.24 Revel 18.24 not now under the mercilesse hands of cruell tyrants but singing and saying their Hallelujahs salvation and glory and honour Revel 19.1 and power be unto the Lord our God tâ—ere dwell all the Saints and servants of God both small and great Revel 19.5 Revel 19.5 not now sighing in this vale of tears but singing sweet songs that eccho through the Heavens as the voice of many waters as the voice of mighty thunderings so is their voice saying Hellelujah Revel 19.6 for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth And is not here a goodly troop a sweet company a blessed societie and fellowship of Saints O my soul how happie wer't thou to be with them yea how happie will that day be to thee when thou shalt meet all the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Disciples Innocents Martyrs the Saints and servants of the King of Heaven why thus happie
washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of the bloud of this just man Matth. 27 24 Matth. 27.24 but alas did Pilate so favour him as to free him no he fears to condemn him being innocent and yet dares not absolve him being so envyed as he was by the Iewes what then can a little water what can Iordans floods what can rivers of wine and oile do towards the washing of those hands that had power to release him and would not he knew they had delivered him of envy Matth. 27.18 Matth. 27.18 he confesses I find no fault in this man Luk. 23.14 Luk. 23.14 he tells him that he had power to crucifie him and he had power to loose him Iohn 19.10 Joh. 19.10 and yet fondly would he wash away the guilt of his unjust sentence with a little water on his hands no Pilate that ceremony cannot wash away thy sin that sin I mean which thou and the Gentiles in thee committed in delivering of Jesus to the will of the Iewes Luk. 23.25 But if delivered to the Iewes sure it is well enough he is their Country-man Kinsman of the stock of Abraham of the Tribe of Juda of the Family of Ioseph but this rather aggravates then allaies his misery that his own people should degenerate into Traitors not a Gentile but a Jew to be his Executioner what torment had not been a lenitive and a recreation in comparison of this Daniels Den the three Childrens Furnace Esays wooden Saw Israels fiery Serpents the Spanish Inquisition the Romish Purgatory are all as far short in torture as the last of them in truth to the malice of a Iew witness our Saviours death when they all conspired not onely to scourge him mock him buffet him slay him but to slay him in such a manner as to hang him on nailes and to make the Cross his Gibbet But what no comforter amongst them all do the Gentiles condemn him will the Jewes crucifie him and is there none to pity him Yes what say we of his Disciples that heard him followed him Luk. 10.1 and were sent of him by two and two into every City and place whether he himself should come Would you think that these seventy Luk. 10.17 for they were so many in number which for a time did his Embassage with joy would now have forsaken him yes if you mark it many of them went back Joh. 6.66 and would walk no more with him some stumble at his Doctrine others at his passion but all were offended as it is written I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered Matth. 26.31 Matth. 26.31 Yet if the Gentiles reject him they do but like Gentiles who were ignorant of God if the Iewes hate and maligne him Matth. 23.31 it is but their old wont of killing the Prophets if the Disciples that are weaker faint and waver in faith Matth. 8.26 it was no more then was said of them O ye of little faith but what say we to the twelve Apostles those Secretaries of his mysteries stewards of his mercies almners of his bounties will they also go away and leave him comfortless alone no can Peter say Master to whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternall life Ioh. 6.68 Joh. 6.68 or if he will have deeper protestations I am ready to go with thee saith Peter into prison and to death Luk. 22.33 Luk. 22.33 to death yes though I die with thee I will not deny thee and thus said all his Disciples Matth. 26.35 Matth 26.35 and yet like Ionas Gourd when the Sun beates hottest how soon are they all gone and vanished away loe one betrays him another forswears him all run from him and leave him alone in the midst of all his enemies And yet if his Apostles leave him what say we to Mary his mother and other his friends these indeed wait on him seeing sighing wailing weeping but alas what do those tears but increase his sorrows might he not justly say with Paul What mean yee to weep and to break my heart Act. 21.13 Acts 21.13 Pity and of all other feminine pity it is the poorest helpless salve of misery but howsoever it was to others this was so far from any salve to him as 't is one of his greatest tenderest sores about him Luk. 23.28 Daughters of Ierusalem weep not for me but weep for your selves and your children O see the wonder of compassion which he bears to others in his passion he hath more care of the women that follow him weeping then on his own mangled self that reels along fainting and bleeding even unto death the tears that drop from their eyes is more to him then all the bloud in his veins and therefore careless as it were of his own sacred person he turns about his blessed bleeding face to the weeping women Luk. 23.38 affording them looks and words too of compassion of consolation weep not for mee but weep for your selves and your children But O blessed Saviour didst thou flow unto us in showrs of Bloud and may not we drop a tear for all those purple streams of thine yes Lord thou dost not here forbid us weeping onely thou turnest the stream of our tears the right way that is to say homewards into our own bosomes pointing us to our sins the truest cause of thy sufferings But as for comfort to our Saviour whence trow ye may it come if we compass the earth the Gentiles Iewes his Disciples Apostles Mary his own Mother and all other his friends they are but as Iobs miserable comforters all but let us go up into heaven John 16.2 and there if any where be his comforters indeed alas what comforters If you imagine the Angels it is true they could attend him in the Desart and comfort him in the Garden but when he came to the main act of our Redemption not an Angell must be seen how not seen no they must not so much as look through the windows of heaven to give him any ease at all nor indeed were it to any purpose if they should for who can lift up where the Lord will cast down O yee blessed Angels how is it that your Hallelujahs cease that your songs which you warbled at his birth are finished at his death that your glorious company which are the delight of happy souls is denied to him who is the Lord and Maker both of you and them why thus it must be for our sakes I am full of heaviness said our Saviour in his type and I looked for some to take pity but there was none and for comforters but I found none Psal 69 20. Psal 69.20 And yet if the Angels be no comforters he hath a Father in heaven that is nearer to him Ioh. 10.30 I and my father are one saith our Saviour and it is my Father that honoureth mee Ioh.
Ayr shall be wholly distempered and disordered when the Sun shall threaten with mourning the Moon with blood the Stars with their falling yea when all the heavens shall shrink and pass away as a paper scroule who then dares eat or drink or sleep or take a minutes rest Be sure these dayes shall come and the signes shall pass Ioel 1.5 13 15. Awake yee Drunkards and weep all ye drinkers of Wine because of the new wine for it shall be pulled from your mouthes Gird your selves and lament ye Priests howle ye Ministers of the Altar alas for the day for the day of the Lord is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come What are ye insensible of these signes the imprisoned thiefe fears at the news of the assize and is the sinner so impudent that he fears nothing The day shall come when the men of earth shall fear and be full of fear every sign shall breed a wonder and ever sight shall breed a wondrous terrour men shall hide themselves in the caves of beasts and the beasts seek shall to save themselves in the houses of men where then shal the wicked stand when all the world shal be thus in uprore Vse 2 Yet a word for us all we have all warning and we had best to provide yet the weather is fair we may frame an Ark to save us from the flood yet are the Angels at the gates of Sodom yet is Jonas in the streets of Nineveh yet the Prophet wooes Hos 6.4 O Iudah how should I entreat thee yet the Apostle prayes nay we pray you in Christs stead that yee will be reconciled unto God 2 Cor. 5.20 to conclude yet the Bride-groom stayes the Virgins leisure Lord that they would make speed seeing the joyes of heaven tarry for them This Tearm is at hand and is it not time to petition to the Judg of heaven what a dangerous course is it never to call to minde that Time of Times until we see the Earth flaming the Heavens melting the Iudgment hastning the Iudg with all his Angels comming in the Clouds to denounce the last doom upon all flesh which shall be unto some Woe woe when they shall call to the mountains to cover them and for shame of their sins hide themselves if it were possible in hell fire if we have any fear this should move fear if we have any care this should move us all to be carefull indeed We have not two souls that we may hazard one neither have we two lives that we may trust to another but as thy last day leaves thee so will this Doomes-day finde thee Who would not but axcept the fatherly fore-warning of Christ our Saviour See you not how many signes as the Heralds and fore runners of his glorious comming Matth. 24.7 12. The abounding of iniquity the waxing cold of charity the rising up of Nation against Nation Was there ever lesse love was there ever more hatred Where is that Jonathan that loves David as his own soul nay where is not that Joab that can imbrace friendly but carryes a malicious heart towards Abner sure we are near the end indeed when charity is grown thus cold You then that would have the comfort of the day take these signs for warnings provide for him who hath thus long waited for you 2 Pet. 3.14 and seeing you look for such things be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace without spot and blamless Who would indanger their souls for a little sin busie Clients heed nothing but their cause and if you would recover heaven be sure that ye mark this Tearm The time draws on now the Writs are out anon comes the Iudge and Then is the day Then he shall reward every man according to his work You see the Tearm and now you may exspect to view the Judge the Tearm is Then the Judge is He. Stay a while and the next time you shall see him in his judgment seat He. HE who if you look at the fore-going words you may see who he is The son of man shall come in the glory of his father and it is he that shall reward us according to our works hoc facit ut ad infimam se sortem hominum abjiciat Musculus in Matth. cap. 8. Psal 8.4 This title of the Son of man denotes unto us the humility of the Son of God what is the Son of man but man and this tels us how humble he was for us that being God was made man or the Son of Man which is as all one according to that Psal 8.4 What is man that thou art mindful of him or the Son of man that visitest him It is true God is the Judg of all Heb. 12.23 Heb. 12.23 and yet it is as true this God is man Acts 17.31 Acts 17.31 God saith Paul will judge the world but it is by that man whom he hath ordained God hath the power but God as man hath onely the Commission He who is God hath given him Authority to execute judgment And would you know the reason it is onely because he is the Son of man Joh 5.27 Iohn 5.27 In a word God shall judg the whole Trinity by prescription Christ onely in execution the Father judgeth but by the Son or as the Evangelist John the Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgment to the Son Iohn 5.22 Iohn 5.22 But because as man there appears in him a double form as humbled as glorified wee 'l discusse these questions which resolve all doubts 1. Whether Christ as man shall appear unto us when he will reward us 2. Whether man as glorified shall appear unto us when he will reward us To the first we say that onely as man he will appear our judge who as man appeared when himself was judged what better reason to express the benefit of our redemption then so to judg us as he did redeem us Tunc manifestus veniet inter justos judicaturus qui occultè venerat judicandus ab injustis August de civit dei was he not man that suffered died and was buried and is he not man that one day shall come to judg both the quick and dead he that came obscurely to be judged by the unjust shall then appear openly to judg all the just the same man who is God and man shall be our judge in his humane nature by his divine power Thus we say God who is the ancient of daies hath the power originall but man who is the Son of God hath the power traduced and therefore saith Daniel One like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him here before him Dan. 7.13 14. and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdome Vse Consider this yee that are going to the Bar what a sight will this be to the faithless
true length yet spitefully they take it longer that so they may stretch and rack him on the cross till you may tell his bones Psal 22.17 And now all fitted his hands and feet are bored the greatness of whose wounds David fore-shewed by those words They digged my hands and my feet Psal 22.16 Psal 22.16 Socrat. l. 1. c. 17. And well may we think so for as Ecclesiasticall History reports so big were the very nailes that Constantine made of them an helmet and a bridle O then what pain is this when all the weight of his body must hang on four nailes and they â—o be driven not into the least sensible parts but thorow his hands and his feet the most sinew it and therefore more sensible pâ—rts of all other whatsoever yet to hang thus for a time were it may be somewhat tollerable but thus he hangs till he dies and so the longer he continues the wider go his wounds and the fresher is his torture And now my brethren behold and see Lam. 1.12 if there were ever any sorrow like unto this sorrow alas what else appears in him but bleeding veins bruised shoulders scourged sides furrowed back harrowed temples digged hands and feet digged I say not with small pins but with rough boystrous nailes and how then shot the bloud from those hands and feet thus digged Cant. 2.1 Bern. de pass Dom. c. 41. and digged thorow O I am the rose of Sharon it is truly said of Christ Look on one hand and on the other and you may find roses in both look on one foot and on the other and you may find roses in either In a word look all over his body and it is all over rosie and ruddy in bloud Can we any more yes after all these showrs of bloud here is one more effusion for after his death Longinus Bishop of Cappadocia Teste Herle Contemplations on Christs passion One of the souldiers with a spear pierced his side and forthwith came there â—â—t bloud and water Ioh. 19.34 Joh. 19.34 The Souldier that gave this wound they say was a blind man but our Saviours bloud springing out on his eyes restored him to his sight and so he became a Convert a Bishop and a Martyr a strange cure where the Physician must bleed but so full of virtue was this bloud that by it we are all saved And yet O Saviour why didst thou flow to us in so many streams of bloud one drop had been enough for the world but thy love is without measure Physicians are usually liberall of other mens bloud but sparing of their own here it is not so for in stead of the Patients arm it is the Physicians own side that bleeds in stead of a lancet here is a spear and that in the hand of a blind Chirurgeon yet as blind as he was how right doth he hit the very vein of his heart that heart where never dwelt deceit see how how it runs bloud and water for our sinnes here is the fountain of his Sacraments the beginning of our happinesse O gate of heaven O window of Paradise O place of refuge O tower of strength O sanctuary of the just O flourishing bed of the Spouse of Solomon who is not ravished at the running of this stream me thinks I still see the bloud gushing out of his sides more freshly and fully then those sweet golden streams which run out of Eden to water the whole world But is it his hearts bloud what keeps he nothing whole without him nor within him his Apostles are scattered in the garden his garments at the crosse his bloud how many wheres his skin they have rent with their whips his ears with their blasphemies his back with their furrows his hands and feet with their nails and will they yet have his heart too cloven with a spear what a wonderfull thing is this that after all those sufferings he must have one wound more why Lord what means this open cleft and wound within thee what means this stream and river of thy hearts-bloud O it is I that sinned and to wash it away his heart runs bloud and water in abundance Lo here those seven effusions of our Saviours bloud the first at his circumcision the second in the garden the rest when his cheeks were nipped his head crowned his back scourged his hands and feet nailed his side opened with a spear whence came out an issue of bloud and water Vse And be our sinnes thus purged Lord in what miserable case lay we that Christ our Saviour must endure all this for us were our sinnes infinite for which none could satisfie but our infinite God were not our iniquities as the sands for which no lesse then an Ocean of bloud could serve to cover them sure here is a motive if nothing else to draw from us the confession of our manifold sins Lord we have sinned we have sinned grievously heavily and with a mighty hand and what now remains but that we never cease weeping crying praying beseeching till we get our pardon sealed in the bloud of Christ O beloved let me entreat you for Christs sake for his blouds sake for his deaths sake that you will repent you of your sinnes which have put him to these torments and to this end I shall entreat you thus to order your repentance First after confession of your manifold sinnes look upon him whom you have pierced and by your meditation supposing him to lie afore you weep and weep over him whom you see by your sinnes thus clothed in his bloud Why thus shall it be with the house of David Zach. 12.10 Zach. 12.10 11. I will poure upon the house of David saith God and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications and they shall look upon him whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one that mourneth for his onely sonne and be sorrie for him as one that is sorry for his first-born in that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon What is the house of David and what are the inhabitants of Jerusalem but the elect people of God and if you be of that number then do you look on him whom you have pierced and mourn for him or mourn over him as one that mourneth for his onely sonne yea be sorrie for him or be in bitternesse for him as one that is in bitternesse for his first-born Is it not time think you do you not see how every part of our Saviour bleeds afore you his head bleeds his face bleeds his arms bleed his hands bleed his heart bleeds his back bleeds his belly bleeds his thighs bleed his legs bleed his feet bleed and what makes all this bloud-shed but our sinnes our sinnes O that this day for this cause we would make a great mourning as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley
of Megiddon O weep or if you will not weep for him yet weep for your selves and your own sinnes alas have you not cause your sins were his murtherers and your hands by your sins were imbrued in his bloud Secondly stay not here but when you have mourned and wept over your Saviour then hate those sinnes that wrought this evil on your Saviour Which that you may do effectually send your thoughts a far off and see your Saviour in his circumcision in the garden and when you have done so then follow him a little further behold the tears in his eies and the clodded bloud that came from him when his cheeks were nipped his head crowned his back scourged his hands and feet nailed his side opened and then O then see if you can love those sins that have done all this villany love them said I no if you have any share in Christ I hope you will rather be revenged on your sins rather you will every one say O my pride and my stubbornness and my looseness and my uncleanness and my drunkenness these were the nailes and the whips and the spear that drew bloud from my Saviour therefore let me be for ever revenged of this proud subborn rebellious heart of mine own let me for ever loath my sin because it brought all this sorrow on my Saviour Is not this ordinary with men should any one murther your Father or friend whom you highly regarded and honoured would you brook his sight or endure his company nay would not your hearts rise against him would you not prosecute the Law to the uttermost and if you might be the Executioner would you not wound him and mangle him and at every stroak cry out Thou wast the death of my Father thou wast the death of my Father and is the heart of a man thus inraged against him that hath but murthered his friend or his father O then how should your hearts be transported with infinite indignation not against the man but against sinne that hath shed the precious bloud of your father your Master your God your King your Saviour O follow follow after these sins with an Hue and Cry bring them to the Bar set them be-the Tribunall of that great Judge of heaven and cry Iustice Lord justice against these sins of mine these slew my Saviour Lord slay them these crucified my Saviour Lord crucifie them Why thus persue and never leave them untill if it possible may may you see these sins bleed their last never think you have done enough but still give your corruptions one hack more confess your sins once more and say Lord this pride and this stubbornness and this looseness of heart these are they that killed my Saviour and I will be revenged of them Thirdly stay not here neither but when you have mourned for your sins and sought revenge on them then by Faith cast them all on the Lord Jesus Christ ease your own souls of them and hurle your care on him that careth for you all Certainly there is no way to wash you clean from your sin but onely by Christs blood and how must you apply this but by Faith now then in the last place have faith rence your soul as it were in the bloud of this immaculate Lamb and though you are polluted and defied yet questionless the bloud of Jesus Christ will purge you from all sin Heb. 9.13 14. If the bloud of Buls and Goats saith the Apostle and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the bloud of Christ who through the eternall Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your consciences from dead works to serve the living God You may talk of a Purgatory why here is the Purgatory that true Purgatory the fountain that is laid open for the house of Iudah to wash in and I pray you mark it it is not onely for justification but being applyed by faith as effectuall for sanctification not onely for the expiation of sin that it be not laid to your charge but withall to purge your Consciences from dead works to serve the living God O then as you tender your souls believe and cast your selves upon Christ for salvation and for pardon of sins Do you not see him bleeding on the Cross Do you not hear him graciously offering to receive your sin-wearied souls into his bleeding wounds what should you do then but cast your selves with all the spirituall strength that you can at least with infinite longings and most hearty desires into the bosome of your Saviour say with your selves the fountain is opened and here will we bathe for ever Come life or come death come heaven or come hell come what come can here will we stick for ever nay if you must perish tell God and man Angels and devils they shall pluck you out of the hands and rent you from between the armes of your blessed bleeding Redeemer your soul-purging Saviour Thus if you believe you need not to droop for your sins but to go on with comfort to everlasting happiness the bloud of Christ no question will make way for you into heaven Yea saith the Apostle by the bloud of Iesus we may boldly enter into the holy places by the new and living way which he hath prepared for us Heb. 10.19.20 through the veile which is his flesh Such is the blessed fruit of this bloud and the Lord make it effectuall unto us to bring us into heaven even for his sake who by himself thus purged our sins You see the Purge given and taken onely a time it must have and then follows the Evacuation Hee purged What the ill humour is Sin the extent of it Our sin of both these together at our next meeting Now the Lord so prepare us that this Purge may work in us the everlasting wel-fare and health of our souls Our sins SIn is our sickness and to cure us of it the Law yields corrasives the Gospell lenitives but especially Christ yields that Physick Purgative which evacuates sin To consider Christ as a man of sorrows and not a Saviour of sinners were but a melancholick contemplation to behold his wounds and not so to think on 'em as they were our selves addes but more sorrows to our other miseries but when we call to mind that his bloud was our ransome that his stripes were our cures then with all our hearts we pray his bloud be upon us and our children And why not this bloud saith the Apostle speaks better things then the bloud of Abel Heb. 12.24 For Ables bloud cryed revenge but Christs bloud speaks mercy and to our comfort be it spoken if God heard the servant he will much rather hear the son yea if he heard his servant for spilling how much more will he hear his Son for saving and regaining our souls In the words are two parts 1. The ill huâ—our evacuated Sin 2. The extent