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A44146	Our Saviours passion delivered in a sermon, preach'd in the cathedral church of Saint Peter in Exon. On Good Friday, the first of April, 1670. By Matthew Hole, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Exeter Colledge, Oxon.	Hole, Matthew, 1639 or 40-1730.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2411; ESTC R215768	11,909	18

of Gethsemane his Soul felt greater tortures than his body on the Cross there it was that he drunk that bitter Cup which set him in an Agony and caus'd him to sweat great drops of blood which made him pray three times most eathestly Father if it be possible let this Cup pass from me then did he appear forsaken of his friends and in his apprehension deserted of God too which made him in the anguish of his Soul to cry out My God My God why hast thou forsaken me and sure if we consider these things we must needs say that there was no death like unto his nor any sorrow like unto his sorrow But Secondly as his death was thus painful so was it no less shameful and ignominious too Our Saviour having humbled himself to the form of a servant was condemn'd to be crucified which Tacitus calls Servile supplicium a punishment inflicted onely on servants or slaves never on any freeman or cirizen but before he underwent this infamous and slavish death they kept him a while to sport themselves in his misery to that end they stript him of his clothes and in derision put on him a scarlet robe the true emblem of their crimson sins and having accus'd him as one aspiring to be King of the Jews they platted for him a Crown of Thorns setting it on his head because he should not want a Scepter they put a reed into his right hand after which they in mockery bow their head to him saying Hail King of the Jews and when they had spotted their fill with him they carried him away to be crucified where as he hung on the Cross they reproached him with all his former Miracles and Prophesies saying he saved others himself he cannot save if he be the Son of God let him now come down from the Cross and wagging their heads at him they said thou that destroyest the Temple and buildest it in three dayes save thy self Mat. 27. After all which he laid down his life and drank up this bitter Cup even to the very dregs And now one would think that these bloody instruments of his death should feel within them some sting of Conscience and conceive some remorse after so black and tragical an enterprize but these alas as if they were what was said of Tiberius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. but so many clods of earth kneaded and cemented with blood remain as senceless unrelenting after all this as the Tree on which he hung or the Grave-stone that covered him they think of nothing but casting him into the earth and securing his Grave with a Band of Souldiers however since these remorsless Jews could conceive neither sorrow nor repentance the whole Creation seem'd concern'd to lament the fall of so great a Person the Sun drew in its Light as unwilling to behold so sad a spectacle the earth trembled and quak'd as impatient of bearing up those persons that occasion'd it the heavens were all overcast and cloath'd in black as the chief mourners at his Funeral the Vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom the hard Rocks clave the Graves opened and all things but these unrelenting Jews were appall'd and confounded at the Passion of our Lord. And thus have we gone through the several acts or scenes of this direful Tragedy having seen him taken and by wicked hands crucified and slain which every one that hath heard will be ready to inquire into the cause for which he suffer'd all this For answer whereunto we must know First of all that sin is the sole meritorious cause of all sorrows and sufferings which appears not only because before sin entred into the world these things were altogether unknown and strangers to humane Nature but likewise because ever since its entrance they have ever gone hand in hand together to this purpose is that of St. Paul Rom. 5.12 As by one man sin entered into the World and death by sin even so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned But Secondly to prevent an Objection Heb. 7.26 that may be taken from the High Holy and harmless Nature of Christ separated from sinners and made higher than the Heavens who though he assum'd our Nature Heb. 4.15 Yet was sin and all kind of irregularities excepted I say to prevent this we must know that though the immaculate Son of God had no sins of his own to be laid to his charge and consequently was not liable to punishment or the displeasure of Heaven upon his own score yet when he graciously undertook to be our surety or Saviour the whole burden of our sins lay upon his shoulders and he became answerable to the justice of God for the transgressions of mankind and hence was that harsh saying of Luther who styl'd our Saviour peccatorum maximus the greatest of sinners viz. not by any actual guilt of his own but only by imputation Now since the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 And without shedding of blood there is no remission Heb. 9.22 Therefore our Saviour must and accordingly was content to die that he might become our sufficient ransom and atonement And if one sin were enough to turn Adam out of Paradise and to set up a flaming sword to prevent his return if one sin whatever it were were sufficient to throw the laps'd Angels out of Heaven and to reserve them in Chains of darkness to the judgment of the great day as we read in the Epistle of St. Jude what an unsupportable weight think we must be the concurrent guilt of all mankind's transgressions a pressure sure that must sink the stoutest Atlas and disorder the whole frame of Nature So that we may cease our wonder at the severity of Christ's sufferings when we reflect on that complicated guilt which was the cause of them 'T were our debts for which Jesus Christ was arrested and imprisoned by the Souldiers and which by his consequent sufferings he paid to the utmost farthing our sin was the Spear that pierc't his side and the nails that fasten'd him to the Cross which leads us to the Last thing to be spoken to concerning our Saviours Passion namely the end or design of his undergoing all this which was the expiation of sin and the restoring us again to the lost love and favour of God he wore a Crown of Thorns only that we might wear a Crown of Gold and those drops of blood which his enemies drew from him are turn'd into so many pearls to bestud and adorn ours that scarlet Robe which the Jews put on him dy'd as it were in his own blood serves to hide our shame and to cover for us a multitude of sins that bitter Cup which he drunk off to the very dregs is our Nectar and a glorious Potion of immortality the Vinegar and Gall which made him to faint is become our most reviving Cordial his Cross the cursed instrument of his death is to us