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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52564	Essays divine and moral by Bridgis Nanfan, Esquire.	Nanfan, Bridgis.	1680 (1680)	Wing N145; ESTC R22027	58,916	216

love but an Embrio If so many Martyrs hugg'd and kist their stakes laid them down in their flames as in their Marital beds to conserve this love to secure themselves for immortality How bright and glorious will the flame be when it shall have the fervour of a Seraphim the purity of an Angel When we shall see the Object of our love God with whom there is no change or variableness and still desire to see him To meditate on him here is to see him hereafter ESSAY ESSAY III. G. De Passione Christi in Corpore proprio LAMENT 1.12 Have ye no regard all ye that pass by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce Anger HEre 's black tinctured in the deepest die words of such transcendent Prevalency that would make stubborn Rocks relent and exact a fluency of Tears from the sealed up Fontanels of our Eyes Can any Heart though petrified to a wonder not break that brittle Mansion 't is inclosed in when it shall hear one sing his own sad Elegy ring his funeral Peals with such mournful Bells 2. Had that Tyrant Nero who sung the Ruines of Troy when inviron'd with the Flames of his Imperial City bin a spectator of this Tragedy of Tragedies heard these doleful Notes clad in so sad a Livery so attracting Sorrow and Compassion Pity would at an instant have Triumpht over cruelty and made him turn convert to the highest Commiseration For who could stifle a tributary Groan when he heard this dying Swan sluctuating on the bitter Waters of Affliction without being ever after deafe Who could with a supercilious look without suffering an absolute Ecclipse behold such innovated Punishments too grievous to answer the foulest Treason undergone by him who had not the meanest trespass to account for Or yet in this Iron-hearted Age of ours look on this sad Lamentation though superannuated and not set his sorrow to a louder Key then the doleful mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddo Quis talia fando Temperet a Lachrimis 3. But if these attendants here these words that wait upon this mournful piece of Scripture move us not or the deplorableness of our condition beget no emotion yet hear his own complaint sounded by that golden Trumpet Jeremiah we know not what an unexpected reformation it may work in us For he that out of Stones could raise up Children unto Abraham and squeeze the hardest Rocks into flowing Rivers can with the Breath of his Nostrills mould our Hearts into the softest temper and raise a right and unfeigned Lamentation for never Words were spoken more emphatically or with a truer accent of Sorrow Have ye no regard all ye that pass by c. 4 As petty Punishments become petty Offenders so an abyss of sinning calls for an abyss of Suffering 'T is no meritorious act in an Homicide to bow down his Head to the stroke of Justice for he shall but sacrifice it to the Blood of another There the Law makes it compulsory fashions the Punishment to the Offence But for the Son of God the second Person in the glorious Trinity one so free from Spot or Blemish that durst say to his critical Enemies which of you can rebuke me of Sin to bow the Heavens and come down from his Imperial Throne where he sate surrounded with Saints and Angels to approach this vile World which was before his Foot-Stool to put on the rags of human Flesh which before was cloathed with light as with a Garment and from a King of Kings to be enrolled a subject and pay Tribute to Caesar that rid on the Wings of Cherubins here in his greatest Triumph to bestride a silly Asse that thought it no robbery to be equal with the Father to make himself of no Reputation and to take upon him the form of a Servant that had so many glorious Mansions in Heaven so wholly to dethrone himself of all Pomp and State as not to have a hole to hide his Head in to be hunted like a Partridge in the Wilderness betray'd by one Servant abjurd by another forsaken by the rest and generally scorn'd and scofft at by the Multitude spat at scourg'd and delivered to a Death the most ignominious Death the most torturing Death the most prolonging Death All which summ'd up could not be endur'd by any but one that participated of the Deity or ransom less than the Sins of the whole World 5. Now our Messias could not have writ our Names in the Book of Life if he had not descended to the susception of our Infirmities So that he was made Man to suffer God that he might be able to suffer Not that the God-Head was Co-partner with the Humanity or any way attenuated his sufferings for that was invulnerable impassible But the All sufficiency of the Deity sustained and strengthened the insufficiency and weakness of the humanity Else could he not have trod the Wine-press of his Fathers Wrath drunk so deep of the Cup of his indignation That which would have torn and shatter'd the best built edifice of Flesh Christ is enabled to undergo that he might not give up the Ghost till he hath gone through what a wrackt invention of exquisite Tyrants could inflict 6. But before we go up to Mount Calvary the Scene of his Tragedy let us walk to the Mount of Olives that from that Ascendant we may take the better prospect of his doleful Passion There shall we find him labouring under such an Agony as should make him so exceedingly sweat sweat Blood drops of Blood and that trickling down Ibat purpureus niveo de pectore sanguis 7. No wonder there was such Distemper in his Body such an Ebullition of that most precious liquor when God had sent fire into all his bones If our astonishment hath not already overset our reason benighted our senses look on him in the Judgment-Hall though but with Peter afar off yet may we be neer enough to see him run the Gantlope his virgin body enduring so many stripes as some affirm wearied a whole band of souldiers Viscera mortiferis tandem contusa flagellis The Scribes and Elders had reason of state to hasten his death But that Mercenary souldiers whose short winged souls seldom soar so high as Court-Politicks and whose Commission we sind not so extensive should contrary to the nobleness of their Profession act the ignominious parts of abominated Hangmen especially when the meekness of his phrase would like softning oyl rather Mollifie their stony hearts than confirm their obduratness illustrates Gods heightned fury to sin and so consequently to Christ then the greatest sinner in the world He should not sip in the cup of his fathers wrath being now to drink a Health to the whole world but quaff off the very lees of his indignation 8 He shall not have the liberty of Job with a pot-sheard to wipe off the