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A43133	The precious blood of the son of God shed without the gates of Jerusalem for the redemption of lost and undone sinners: whereby his great love to mankind is undeniably manifested, in these following particulars; his agony in the garden; being betrayed by Judas, being falsly accused before Annas, Caiaphas, Herod and Pilate; his being scourged, scorned, and spitefully used; his condemnation and going to execution; how he was crucified; of his being reviled, and pardoning the thief upon the cross; and of his giving up the ghost. All which is practically applyed and improved, for the bringing of sinners out of the way of sin and hell, into wisdom's ways, whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. By that eminent divine, Mr. John Hayward.	Hayward, John.	1695 (1695)	Wing H1231F; ESTC R215936	43,769	124

have moved the hardest Heart to relent and say This is enough we desire no more But their insatiate Cruelty importuned Pilate some with Perswasions others with confuse Clamours and Cries that he might be crucified They had the Devils mind Nothing satisfie but Death no Death but the Death of the Cross Although our Saviour was accused of Blasohemy of which he was guiltless yet the Death of the Cross is not that Punishment that is due for such a C●…ime by the Law of Moses the Blasphemer was to be brought forth and stoned by the Congregation Levit. 24. 14 17. M●…ses saith Bring the Blasphemer out of the Host and let all the Congregation stone him But all this was done that the Scriptures might be fulfilled The Death of the Cross was appointed by the Father and accepted by the Son it had been prefigured and prophesied Jesus himself had foretold more than once That he should be delivered by the Jews to the Gentiles to be crucified What then shall we say but with the Church of Jerusalem acknowledge Acts 4. 27. That Herod and Pilate with the Gentiles and People of Israel assembled to do whatsoever the Hand and Counsel of God had determined Many times before when the Jews went about to apprehend our Saviour they wanted Power as John 7. 30. and 10. 30. when upon suspicion of Blasphemy they would have stoned him Joh. 8. 59. when they would have thrown him headlong from the edge of an Hill he easily escaped them Luke 4. 29. even in the day time in their popular Cities environed with the thickest Throngs because then his time was not come and also these were not the Death 's appointed for him But when the time came that the Jews should deliver him to the Gentiles to be condemned and crucified he voluntarily submitted himself into their Hands For when the time was come he would not escape nor the Jews could desire no other Death for him but the Death of the Cross. Among all that vast Multitude there was not any variety either in Voice or Opinion they all agreed to take away Life from the Son of God they all agreed he should be crucified they all agreed to prefer Barabbas who had slain the living before him who had brought the dead to life If we separate the Work of God from the Work of Man we shall find the greatest Mercy in saving Enemies and the greatest Cruelty and Malice in oppressing of a Friend This is usually two Properties of the Wicked first in Matters of Vertue to disagree so many Men so many Minds but in Wickedness and Mischief being quickned by one Spirit they all jump in one Judgment always concur in one Desire Seeing then that our Saviour ●…ound so little either Pity or Compassion amongst the Jews let us turn our Eyes upon this pitiful Object and say to our selves Behold the Man behold his B●…unty Behold his Love and behold his Distress And if we find nor feel no Compassion of those Pains and Anguishes he endured we may assure our selves we want the true Love that we ought to have for him for they who love are always truly sorrowful for the Miseries and Calamities of those they affect If we find not in us this Testimony of Love let us abhor to join in Malice with the barbarous Jews in crying against him Let him be crucified for as often as we consent to any Sin so often we cry out Crucifie him crucifie him Therefore if any evil Temptation beset us that may happen to be too strong for us and overcome us let us present this Spectacle before us and say to our selves Behold the Man which Words although they are but few and seem to contain small Matter yet if we examine them well they will put a holy Restraint upon us that will keep us from committing any Evil against our Saviour and fill us with Praises and Thanksgiving to him for all those Mercies and Favours that he hath purchased for us by his suff●…ring the Death of the Cross. Let us behold the Greatness of our Sins by the Greatness of those Sorrows our Saviour did sustain Behold how necessary it was to satisfie for Sin Behold how grievous the Satisfaction was By this we may see how abominable Sin is and the Severity of God's Justice against it and we may partly imagine what Revenge God will take upon those Sinners themselves who will neither acknowledge nor accept of the Benefit of Redemption seeing he so severely punished his most dear and innocent Son for their Sin O sweet Jesus engrave these thy Miseries and Torments thou didst endure upon our Hearts that continuing in Contemplation upon them we may not be so unthankful and luke warm in our Aff●…ctions towards thee or so careless of our own Welfa●…es as to commit that which is so painful to thee and so hurtful and dangerous to our selves Remember O Lord what we are to thee and thou to us and do not leave us or fly from us but let us find thee and lay hold on thee We make a long Journey unto thee we proceed slowly we often stay by the way often go back but do thou O Lord strengthen us do thou guide our stumbling Steps and draw us with the Line of thy Love And because our Weaknesses are so great that we do often fail either in Purpose or Power to resist Sin cease not we beseech thee to present thy fresh bleeding Wounds to the merciful Majesty of thy Father sor us and with that Love wherewith thou didst not only suffer but offer thy Body to be dishonoured for our sakes vouchsafe always to interpose the same between his Justice and us 〈◊〉 although the sight the●…eof was not 〈◊〉 ●…o appease the Hat●…ed of thy E●…ies yet will it pacifie the Wrath of thy Father because whatsoever thou didst suffer it was in obedience to his Will to restore his Honour and to satisfie his Justice O Almighty God behold here the Man whom thou hast appointed to be a Mediator between thee and us Sinners even the Man in whom thou art well pleased Matth. 3. 27. Behold the Man whose Righteousness will answer thy Justice whose Punishm●…nts are sufficient to satisfie for all the Penalties of our Sins Behold his Humility behold his Obedience ●…hold his Satisfaction O that his Suff●…rings were balanced against our Sins Certainly they would so far exceed both in weight and worth t●…at thou shou●… in Justice rather pou●… forth thy Mercies upon us for the one than to hold them from us by thy ●…pleasure 〈◊〉 the other O most just and merci●… God let this bruised Body be always in thy heavenly fight Fix thy E●… upon his Merits and have Mercy 〈◊〉 on us for his sake graciously grant us not only pardon for all our Sins but participation of his Righteousness that in the Purity thereof we may be justified in the last Day How our Saviour was condemned and led to the place of Execution Matth. 27.

the World Seeing therefore he hath been condemned for us in High Treason both against God and Man seeing he hath endured the Punishment for all our Rebellions What have we any further to answer His Obedience hath made Satisfaction for our riotous Rebellion By his Condemnation are we acquitted his Condemnation at a Tribunal on Earth has acquitted us before thy Tribunal in Heaven His Sufferings are a sufficient Discharge between us and thy Justice and his Love is a sufficient Discharge between his Sufferings and us because his Love ●…eh nothing for all hi●… Sufferings but only that we love him again O what an unspeakable Obligation is this not only to love our S●…iour but to love him above and before all one would think it were impossible to do any otherwise th●…n to love him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Glory and Majesty to suffer so much ●…sery to save us from e●…l Dam●…tion O good Jesus O Health of our Souls hav●… Mercy upon ●…s we beseech thee and help us to strike this Fire within our Hearts let our Souls be satisfied with thy sacred Love Thou art O Lord our 〈◊〉 out last End the Mark ●…hether we aim the Po●…t whereto we sa●… the Ferm the R●…t of all our Desires Wherefore then do we not love wherefore do we not desire thee with that ardency wherewith all Creatures do love and desire the place of their Rest The Fire and the Air do overthrow Mountains rend up Rocks shake the whole Earth to break forth to their Natural Places wherefore do not we break through all Impediments all Hinderances and leave all Creatures to come to thee who art the only place both of our Refuge and Rest O our Desires O our sweet solace our assured st●…ength wrap our Souls in the Flames of thy Love that all careless coldness may be consumed thereby possess our Souls so inti●…ely with that Divine Fire that we may have no sense of any worldly things Most Sweet Loving Beautiful Noble Rich Wise Glorious and worthy to be both loved and adored O life of our Soul who didst die to give us Life who didst die to kill death mortifie us wholly even our Wills and all our evil Inclinations and whatsoever is ours within us Then revive us again in thy lively Love by uniting all the Faculties of our Souls unto thee and making them obedient to thy Will Seeing we have so rich a Treasure so liberal a Distributer of the same how is it possible we should not rise in Hope Justice hath sound out a way to strike the Innocent and cannot Mercy find a means to save the Guilty Assuredly yes for it is a greater Miracle that God should be condemned and crucified than that Man should be acquitted and live If therefore we have the greater we have no cause to sear the less for Justice has executed her Severity upon the Innocent and Mercy will shew her Favour upon Offenders Yea if it was Justice that the Innocent should be condemned and executed for to make Satisfaction for Sin it is Justice also that the Offenders for whom he suffered should be discharged from that Debt that the voluntary Surety hath fully paid Therefore although Grace is not due to a Sinner as a Sinner yet it is due to him as he is redeem'd It is Mercy that a Sinner should be saved in respect of the Sinner but it is Justice in respect of Christ the Just was handled as a Sinner that Sinners might be accepted of as just fo●… it is not agreeable to Justice that one Offence should be twice punished H●… hath joyned he hath united himself to us As he cannot be condemned again so cannot we likewise be condemned except we break Union and wilfully fall from him O let us admire love and adore this great Love of our Lord Jesus Christ and then we shall never break Union with him or fall from him but be in●…allibly saved by him The Sentence of Death being given forth against Jesus they laid that heavy Tree upon his Shoulders that had been unmercisully battered with Whips tor●…enting him not only with the Sight but the Weight of that which was appointed to be the Instrument of his 〈◊〉 Which painful Burthen with ●…he sull Weight of all our Sins he refused 〈◊〉 to take upon him but went on his way with great Ala●…ity both in Love towards us and in Obedience to satisfie his Father's Justice as a true Isaac bearing the Wood for the Sacrificing of himself But whither doth our Lord go What has he to do upon this stinking Hill of Calvary which being a place of common Execution is tainted with pu●…rified Bodies To be sure he will find there no sick Persons to cure no Devils to cast out no Temples wherein to teach but there he will find Dead to raise and Sinners to forgive there he will find many scattered Souls of executed Offenders which expect his coming which as the true Elizeus thy dead Body should restore them to Life What should all this mean that our Saviour has not only made choice of an infamous Death but of an infamous Place the Place was infamous but the Death was accursed for cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree It did not satisfie his Love to die for us but he must die the most accu●…sed death to assure us thereby that he had delivered us from the Malediction of the Law Certainly our Saviour's Death containeth many Mysteries It is not enough for us to say that he died for us but we are further to consider how ye would die which was by the ignominious death of the Cross with whom also even with Malefactors When in the principal strength and beauty of his Age In what Year in the great Year of Jubilee Upon what Day at the great Solemnity of the Passover even when they did celebrate the Figure of him In what place on the Mount of Calvary only made glorious by his Death He was neither privily made away nor tumultuously slain he dyed not in a Corner that dyed for all the World he was condemned in the publick place of Judgment and suffered upon the common place of Execution upon a Day and a Year of the grea●…est Solemnity that could be God set him upon the Stage of the Wo●…ld to declare as well his Fury against Sin as his Love and Mercy towards Sinners O glorious Calvary where the Prince of Light did encounter and overcome the Prince of Darkness where at one instant our Life for a time ended and our Death did for ever dye Therefore let us not only seek our Saviour in the Temple but upon Mount Calvary for in the Temple he scourged Sinners but upon the Mount he died for them upon that he opened his Arms to embrace them It was objected against him that he was a Friend to Publicans and Sinners True he was a true Friend to them indeed but his Friendship did never more plainly appear than in this Action and upon this place