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death_n	heaven_n	life_n	lord_n	6,482	5	3.5158	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39839	The passion-flower a sermon preached on the 30th day of January, being the day of the martyrdom of King Charls the I. / by Christopher Flower ...	Flower, Christopher, 1621 or 2-1699.	1666 (1666)	Wing F1384; ESTC R15159	14,466	34

him die who rais'd the Dead and him be releas'd whose Trade it is to destroy the Living Let Life depart and Darkness remain The Peace-maker be dispatcht and the Seditious repriv'd How by this Action or Election of theirs did the Jewes in the saddest sense forsake the Fountain of Living waters and betake themselves to a muddy bloody dirty puddle of water They did not set free the Nocent only insteed of the Innocent but put to death Him who was a constant and faithfull Benefactor to them And thus my Discourse all along if you have observ'd it respects the business of this Day which is to be humbled for the horrid Murther of an innocent Person a good Benefactor to this Nation under whom it had flourisht many years First then in this the Jewes betray'd superlative ingratitude and high Baseness to preferr so vile a person before Him who chose them from among all Nations to be His peculiar People his choice Inclosure Secondly here was their Malice who car'd not how things went so as in this they had their wills Thirdly this argues them Blind indeed Malice is blind asking what they should have been against the death of their Saviour and the Release of a Thief and as they passionately desired so it came to pass hugging their Bane in Him whom they were so hot to have releas'd For the Vengeance which such a Choice merited did not long sleep neither would it If they had not made use of that Cabell His Bloud be upon us and our Children to pull it down more speedily upon them For Titus saith Josephus besieging Jerusalem when the Jewes pincht with Famine came forth in Multitudes to seek food for their famisht Souls he daily caus'd a number of them to be Crucified in so much that at length saith the Historian There was scarce any place to erect Crosses on nor Crosses enough to fasten their Bodiesto This this was the Crop of severity which their sinful choice yielded them And how justly were they punish'd with death who refused the Lord of life so pl●●gid by that Tyrant who cryed again Non hune Not this man but Barabbas But what had not Pilate a Finger at lest in this from the guilt of which he cleared himself would have been thought to do so by washing of his hands as if he should have said by that action I am innocent therefore look ye to it that I condemn this man O ye Jews I do it not voluntarily but being compell'd I am innocent I call Heaven to witness it is you that are Nocent and guilty of his Bloud This Hypocrite he was as Scarlet or Purple within as without in Heart as in Habit notwithstanding all that Formality of washing his hands accessary he was to the Death of the Lord of Life in a high degree being a faint-hearted Judge afraid to give Innocency its Reward Had he bore up valiantly against the stream of the multitude he had approv'd himself an honest man and a good Judge What could be more base and dirty and sinful then to confess he found no fault at all in Him and yet not to find in his heart to acquit him but to curry favour with the people adjudges him to be Crucified Thus Non rarò bonorum virorism Capitibus ut Talis aut Tesseris Ludunt saith one 'T is the Old Game of the world for the Heads and Lives of good men to be plaid with like Dice or Chess-men by Great men that they might ingratiate themselves with each other I have read of an Apologue to this purpose it run's thus The Wolf the Fox and the Ass on a time came together to Shrift The Wolf confest and was dismist the Fox did likewise and was absolv'd but the Ass confest and his fault was this that being hungry he took one straw out of the sheaf of a poor Pilgrim travelling to Rome for which he was severely punished the Fox and the Wolf straight fall upon him and devour him maintaining that the poor Asses Crime was so great as to deserve it The Fable applys it self To be sure where Pilat is Judge Barabbas shall be loos'd and the Innocent condemned I do believe unjust Sysamnes whom Cambises flead and of his Skin made a Cushion for all succeeding Judges to lean and look on was a Saint to this Judge as subtely as he carried it And yet as madd and malicious as the People were they could not hinder their Prisoner from evading a Glorious King though nothing but unworthy base usage came from them Glorious in his personal vertues Glorious in his Divine Graces but most Glorious in his Constancy and perseverance in his Charity even amidst all his Sufferings which nothing could more magnifie then this Choice of theirs Electing Barabbas and rejecting Jesus not before they had done either good or evill but after One had done all the Evill and the Other for divers years together all the Good imaginable then to elect the Robber and reject the Saviour what could more make against them and for Him Heere again how plainly through the Sufferings of the King of Saints may one see the Sufferings of that Saint of Kings Charles the first whose Murther we are this Day to lament and be humbled for I shall now descend to some suitable application I. From the Competition precedaneous to the Choice presum'd heere but exprest in Saint Matthew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which of the two will ye that I release unto you for so run the words Math. 27. 17. Let us learn that there is no office so sacred or weighty but some either through favour or fear will abuse it whom will ye that I release Corrupt wretch to bring that in Question Which it was in his power to put out of Question and sure would have done had he acted according to the Dictate either of his Wife by his side or of that Scold his Conscience within him For he knew that for Envy they they had de-deliver'd him Matth. 27. 18. Knew yet would not doe what he should have done but did forbear to acquit Christ exposing him to the mercy of the Multitude whose tenderest mercies are cruel Not to save a Man if it be in ones power is to destroy him so saith our Saviour Mark 3. 4. Job brake the jawes of the wicked and pluckt the Prey out of his Teeth 't is said I have read that Sir George Blage if I mistake not his Name one of King Henry the 8ths Privy Chamber being condemn'd for a Heretick was yet pardon'd by the King he coming afterward into the Kings presence Ah my Pig said the King for so he was wont to call him yea said he If your Majesty had not been better to me then my Judges were your Pig had been roasted e're this time for certain there is no such unsavory Salt and more becoming a Dunghill than a Pilate or a Bradshaw an unjust Judge Envy not the pomp of such a one whensoever your eyes