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A80971	An off-spring of mercy, issuing out of the womb of cruelty. or, A passion sermon preached at Christs-Church in Oxford, by that late renowned ornament of the University, William Carwright.	Cartwright, William, 1611-1643.	1652 (1652)	Wing C713; Thomason E1287_2; ESTC R208967	9,757	37

indeed had he not given up himsell too 〈◊〉 not himself as 't were been of counsell against himself and conspired to his own delivery His fathers will was so much his as that I may say his father onely did not forsake him but he himself also in a manner forsook himself for his willingnesse to die was such that his Isa 53. 11 Passion which Isaiah cals his Bruising and the Travell of his Soul he himself cals but a Baptism 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 12. 30. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He came to his death as to a holy dipping or washing something that would consecrate him and to all his sufferings as to so many Ceremonies of honour There are indeed passages in Scripture that seem to expresse a drawing back of our Saviour and a kinde of reluctance of that great Sacrifice But if we more warily consider them they shew only a large and handsome fear of the danger not any close or dishonourable desire to avoid the encounter In Saint Mathew 't is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he began to be sorrowfull and heavy words Mat. 26. 37. that expresse a greatness and weight of the danger with a just apprehension of it Not any dejection of spirit but a solemn grief and sad oppression of it such as is eminent in afflicted fortitude In Saint Mark it is said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he Ch. 14. v. 33. began to be sore amazed a word that intimates astonishment and standing agast at the danger not through any failing of courage but through a serious manage of it he had a generous horrour of the cup that was to be drunk of a noble and allowable amazement as when natures affection flies back from the face and presence of the evill but reason corrects it and thrusts on to the heat and businesse and trade or the danger These his few deliveries of himself this from their intended stoning and that from their plotted precipitation of him were not so much declinings of sufferings as reservations of himself to this kinde of suffering And this very expiring in this at last not John 19. 30. of necessity but choice for 't is said then He bowed the head and gave up the ghost not bowing because he had given it up already but bowing because he now would None of the most innocent Saints that had sleep most at command so slumbred when he would as Christ dyed when he would He expected that hour which could not compell him when it came and he resigned his life not to the law of humane nature which Socinus unadvisedly affirms but to that deliberate and definite constitution of eternal order so that His fathers fore-knowledge and counsell asserted his death from casualty His own obedience in laying his life down exempted it from necessity His expectation of suffering freed it from immaturity And his manner of suffering not how nor when they would but how and when himself would vindicated it from the conquest of malice And thus he was that most absolute sacrifice fore-known decreed obedient fitted and himself his own Priest We see hence God foresaw and from Eternity decreed the passion of his Son as being the authour of all good But the sins of those that were the Executors of it he foresaw only without decreeing as being the Authour of no evill which will somewhat appear in our consideration of The Inferiour Agents the Jews Their manner of Operation a thing of malice taking and by wicked hands crucifying and slaying The last thing to be spoken of Him being delivered c. And if delivered by the determinate counsell of God how could he not be taken or how taken by wicked hands what the Almighty foresees is it not because he foresees And what is because he foresees is it not good These Questions I must confesse are certainties in things naturall but vain doubts only in morall For that necessity of unavoidable being from the fore-sight of God bindes not in morality because man is a free and master-creature A Lord of himself and others and comes not out with a yoke upon his neck as the rest of the universe his Servants do The things of nature God foresees as the object of his knowledge and the effects of i● too but the actions of men he foresees not as the effects but the objects only Or if you will thus The foreknowledge of God causeth things not simply to be but to be as he foreknows them He then making the Agent contingent foresees his actions contingent and so is a cause that they are not necessary We may not then say because by the fore-knowledge and counsell of God Christ took flesh that what was fore-known might be done that God by that fore-knowledge and counsell caused it to be done or because God knew that the Jews would apprehend our Saviour that he arm'd them to apprehend him The will to die and the slaying of him that would die were too much enemies to come from the same inspiration Each Leo Serm. 16. on Pass action is stampt good or bad from the intent and root from which it springs God delivered Jesus out of Love the Jews took him and slew him out of Envy There the integrity of the designe made his death a sacrifice Here the blemish made it a murder thence came a Savour of life unto life hence of death unto death But whence there that chain of order Whence such aeconomy and method in their sinne Why though God be the Authour of no sinne he is yet the orderer of all who squar'd not the sinnes of his enemies to the sufferings of his Son but the sufferings of his Son to the sinnes of his enemies And so extracting good of bad when bad was used this malice of the Jews and as a Physician who is not the Authour of that poyson which he imploys made a restorative of those who had made themselves a Generation of vipers And this is that Serm. 11. on Pass which Leo saith While they were intent to serve themselves by wickednesse they ministred to one whom they thought not of God according to Saint Augustines observation fullfilling his own good purposes by the purposes of men that are not good But I consider that God hath trusted us with his Commandements and not with the order of the Universe and that our own endeavouvs are therefore to be lookt a ter by us and the unsearchablenesse of his charge to be left to himself 'T was not then out of obedience which cannot be but with knowledge of the rule which was here secret but out of malice that the Jews took our Saviour and Saint Peter here justly chargeth that whole Nation with it they being all guilty as Calvin states it either by action or consent or silence in the cause of that righteous one There were Gentiles 't is true in the plot as well as Jews but the Gentiles did not know him the Jews did The Gentiles

AN Off-spring of MERCY Issuing out of the Womb of CRUELTY OR A Passion SERMON PREACHED AT Christs-Church in Oxford By that late Renowned Ornament of the University William Cartwright ACTS 2. 36. Let all the House of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ LONDON Printed by A. M. and are to be sold by Iohn Brown at the guilded Acorn in Pauls-Church-yard 1652. THE PUBLISHER TO THE Ingenuous Reader READER THe best description I can make of Oxfords Cartwright will be but as an heap of noysome dirt before the Gates of the Stately None-such My silence then as to this great Subject may be excusable but my offer to characterize him will be unexpiable besides it will be as needlesse to discourse to the major part of men and Scholars in this Land of the admirable qualifications of W. C. as laboriously to inform the People that England was once governed by Kings and that Government is now dismissed I may adde that the most comprehensive and sifting headpieces will finde it an hard task to produce an Adequate description of the Authour wherein he shall neither be undervalued nor idolized For my own part I would not offer to detain thee for a single moment by the interposition of these gross lines from the immediate Survey of this criticall piece were it not to assure thee that it is no bastard Posthume because it s printed according to a Copy written with the Authours own hand Reade one pause and then I beleeve thou wilt have no more power to leave off till thou hast through read him then he that runnes down an hill hath to stop himself till he come to the bottome However I am sure that upon a serious and candid view of the whole thou wilt freely declare that this Childe is very like his Father William Cartwr An Off-spring of MERCY Issuing out of the Womb of CRUELTY ACTS 2. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsell and fore-knowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain THe words present unto us St Peters charging the Jews with our Saviours death You may therefore observe in them First The Patient or Person put to death together with his quality implied in this word Him by its relation to the precedent verse Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among you by miracles wonders and signs which God did by him Secondly The Agents or Contrivers of his death and these of two sorts 1. The supernaturall Agent God together with his manner of operation a thing of providence in these words Being delivered by the determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God 2. The inferiour Agents the Jews together with their manner of operation A thing of malice in these words Ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain So now if you will consider the Patient as God and man but united the Agents God and Man but separated they and their operations so disposed that one answers the other for God there man here for delivering there taking and crucifying and slaying here And for determinate counsell and fore-knowledge there wicked hands here I begin with the Patient and his quality imply'd Jesus of Nazereth c. 1. The Patient and his quality The guilt of the world was now such that for its originall and propriety as it came from us and was ours none but a man ought to make satisfaction and for its object and bound as it was immense against the immense none but a God could because the nature in which this infinite offence was was of it self finite and so bore no proportion to that immensity of Majesty which it injured He therefore that was to make the satisfaction had a necessity laid upon him to be both God and Man As man only his sufferings were unprofitable for he that hath need of a Mediator himself how could he perform the office of one to himself and others As God only his sufferings were impossible for he that hath nothing to suffer in how can he suffer Both natures therfore met or rather the God of nature took our nature into himself that he might both suffer by the flesh he assumed and give a price to these sufferings by the Divinity which assumed it And of this that he was both God and man his life and death sufficiently convinced the Jews For they were both such as if he that was himself the truth had came to bear witnesse of it That he was God appeared by his miracles he was Man by his sufferings Operatus ut fortis passus ut infirmus August de Pass Serm. 1. They saw the power of the Son of God combined and twisted with the infirmities of the Son of man One part priviledged and guarded by miracles the other unsheltred and liable to injuries He changed the course of nature by his actions and confessed the weaknesse of it in his passion To have done so and suffered so the Apostle thinks here demonstration enough to leave the Jews inexcusable of this slaughter As for doing of miracles his power was such that when he said Come forth the grave could no longer hold her dead Death it self grew impotent and never suffered him to call twice When he said receive thy sight or be ye opened immediatly the veil flew from the eyes and the barres fell from the ears with the word the blinde saw the man that wrought the cure and with the word the de●● heard the tongue that made him hear I do not say that all miracles prove the authour a God for I know some are reserved for the demonstration of Antichrist that man of sinne But the miracles of our Saviour were all of that stamp that if we consider either the actions themselves or his manner of doing them they must needs shew a personall presence of the Deity and a grace beyond that of Adoption A grace of union with the father For the miracles themselves they were such deeds as were both deeds and signs wonders in which the wonder was the least wonders that clouded the marvell with the mystery wonders that shewed more then was conceived and hid more then they shewed He knew what they said and what they said not and answered them when as yet they had but made the question in their hearts To go further His works were such devils obeyed him not out of will that they desired to do so But out of Impotence that they could not do otherwise they tried to resist and found themselves unable legions of them doubted him and legions when they had doubted him confessed him and did the office of Apostles without Apostles mindes But if you will not beleeve but the same works may be done by a limited power yet certainly they cannot the same way His manner of doing them must evidence him the Son of God however Those who work with depandance and in anothers power use to invoke some