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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61181	A sermon preached before the King and Queen at Whitehal, on Good-Friday, 1690 by the Lord Bishop of Rochester, Dean of Westminster.	Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing S5061; ESTC R13441	13,597	46

and Joys of Eternity it self are provided and accordingly shall be dispens'd to punish those that Reject him to reward those that Obey him These and whatever other such magnificent Expressions of Excellency the Holy Scriptures have attributed to our Lord as he is the Christ as they are all on the one side so many evident Testimonies of his Eternal Power and Godhead so on the other they ought to be esteemed as so many Marvellous Degrees and astonishing Amplifications of the Merciful Condescention of his Sufferings which is my next particular This very Christ suffer'd If any shall now inquire from what Period of Time we may justly date the Beginning of his Passion without all Question his Sufferings took their Rise from the very first Moment of his Assuming our Flesh Since for the Eternal Son of GOD only to become Man was infinitely to suffer That He who was in the Form of GOD and thought it no Robbery but his inviolable Right to be equal with GOD should be made of no Reputation and take on him the Form of a Servant and be made in the Likeness of Man He was made in the Likeness of Man Was not that an inexpressible Debasement of the Glories of his Divinity But as if that were not Obscurity and Degradation enough to that is added his stooping down to the low and abject Form of a Servant The great GOD of Heaven who is otherwise No Accepter or Respecter of Persons among Men nor does he prefer the highest before the lowest upon any inequality of our Conditions here below yet when he himself was to put on our Humanity he then became as it were an Accepter of Persons on the other side and chose to appear in the vilest and most despicable State among the Children of Men which is that of a Servant and the being made of no Reputation Thus with his very taking our Nature did his Sufferings begin and thence were continued through all the humble Circumstances of his Birth and Kindred and Conversation through a Life of Poverty Simplicity and Self-Denial and as the Evangelical Prophet describes him As a Man of Sorrows acquainted with Grief despised and rejected of Men Till he came at length to that which still deserves Emphatically to be call'd His Passion when he was also smitten of God and afflicted to his dreadful Conflict with GOD and himself in the Garden and his Sweating Drops of Blood there to the Buffetings the Revilings the Scourges the Spittings the contradiction of Sinners he endured The Cruel Insolency of his Enemies the fierce Rage of the Superstitious Jews the Tyrannous Scorn of the Romans the Theives Crucifi'd with him the Murderer preferr'd before him the Gall and Vineger given him to Drink the Nails in his Hands the Spear in his Side the very August Name of King objected to him in Contempt the Painful and Shameful Crown of Thorns put on his Head with Ignominious Mockery And at last that inutterable Torment darted into his very Soul immediately from GOD himself which compell'd him for a time almost to Despair and to sink under its Weight Surae we are it made him cry out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me In that black and dismal Moment of his expiring on the Cross what insupportable Suffering must his have been which could even appear to stagger such a Faith and eclipse his Assurance of the Presence and Love of his heavenly Father How many Deaths and extream Agonies of Death must he then have felt When as the Prophet Isaiah says The Lord laid on him the Iniquity of us all And as St. Peter here expresses it He his own self bore our Sins in his own Body on the Tree And not only ours but the Sins of the whole World since St. Paul has also taught us in his own Person that every Sinner as such carries no less a Load about with him than a whole Body of Death Certainly the bare mention of our Lord 's thus suffering though so plainly related could not but convince any indifferent and unconcern'd Person passing by that never any Sorrow was like his Sorrow But there is still something more behind that methinks should never permit any of the Sons and Daughters of Men to pass it by as indifferent and unconcern'd And that is the third part of my Text He suffer'd all this for us For us he suffer'd For himself he could not die Death is the Wages of Sin and the sting of Death is Sin Death could have no Dominion over him on that account He did no Sin But if any of us shall say so of our selves The Truth is not in us Wherefore for us or which is all one for our Sins in our place he suffer'd All Sin must be acknowledg'd to be a breach of the Wise Holy and Upright Law of GOD And for every breach of such a Law a severe Punishment is due unless some fitting Expiation be made And that He only could have perform'd Could any other Creatures for us Alas all their value bears no proportion to such a Forfeiture However such as they are we had no right to use them to that purpose since GOD alone not we had the Propriety in them before Nor could we our selves have made an Equitable Satisfaction Alas Were it not for this Redeemer we had wanted an Atonement not only for our Iniquities but for our best Righteousness Wherefore seeing neither we our selves nor any other for us could contribute any just Price towards our Redemption to whom could we have recourse Whither should we flee for Refuge but to that one GOD and one Mediator between GOD and Man the Man Christ Jesus Flee to him we did not neither Nor could we first rather he sought us out found overtook us fleeing from him In that deplorable Condition the Good Samaritan had Compassion on us weltring in our Blood in our Sins that required his Blood To bind up our Wounds and heal our Bruises and love us freely Freely it must have been or not at all Thus for us incompass'd with innumerable Frailties and Corruptions contaminated with so many Pollutions of Original and Actual Sins blacken'd with so many repeated Ingratitudes towards Heaven For us sinful Men. Men sinful Dust and Ashes Worms and no Men for so the Scripture accounts of every Sinner condemns him to have lost the very common Privilege of being a Man which at best is no great Matter to boast of as Man has made himself For Man does but walk in a vain Shadow whereas Sin makes him worse than a Shadow worse than the very Beasts that perish and of Beasts the most contemptible even a Worm of the Earth However for us in this dejected and depraved Condition Christ undertook Christ suffer'd Not only became our Intercessor our Pledge our Ransom our Surety but our Propitiatory Offering our Bloody Sacrifice to atone for us by undergoing himself the