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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	good_a	life_n	sin_n	13,827	5	4.6650	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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