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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00926	The affections of a pious soule, unto our Saviour-Christ Expressed in a mixt treatise of verse and prose. By Richard Flecknoe.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1640 (1640)	STC 11032; ESTC S115106	11,653	64

28. His ears played upon from every side with whole volleyes of fearfull blasphemies as alios salvos fecit seipsum non potest salvum facere He could save others and cannot save himselfe Matth. 27. 42. Or else with such bitter scornes and taunts as these Si Rex Israel est descendat de cruce c. Let him now descend from the Crosse if he be the King of Israel Ibid. which to a man sensible of his honour had been most grievous but to a God most intolerable unlesse perhaps he were enamoured of griefe as sure he was that day even to Espouse it on the Crosse and take denomination from thence of vir dolorum the very husband of it as Esaias had prophecyed of him long before For his smelling I will not offend the nice delicate with commemorating the abhominable stench of those filthy and loathsome Crachets the very Entrails of the Jewes malice hung clottering in his face that face in quem desiderant Angeli prospicere Which so much delighted the Angels to behold of which then they might well say indeed vidimus eum non erat ei species neque decor that they had seen it and there was neither feature nor beauty in it For his taste to have nothing administred it to sweeten the bitternesse of death but Gall and Vinegar When for other Malefactors most pleasant wines were allowed provided at the publike cost O it was cruell barbarous cruell that But he foresaw it necessary for us whilst we live here where the wheele of affliction with variety of new suffering every day fetches its turne about us to have for Imitation his great Example of patiently suffering all For his feeling we have spoken of that before if it were not altogether unspeakeable what he felt But alas all this of the exterior compared to his Interior suffrings is but as a single drop of water to the whole Ocean or the Center-point of Earth unto the vast circumference of Heaven for the soule as an instrument strung with finer strings than the body is of more delicate resentment more sensible of everie little touch And how rudely did they play upon it Hee could not speake to them though nothing but sugar and honey like the Bridegroome in the Canticles but in churlish and bitter speech they repartyed againe If in soft and silken phrase he question'd them either in pure disdaine and spight they not vouchsaf'd him answer So Si interrogavero non respondebitis mihi c. Luk. 22. Or else it was in words as hard as Semai's to David were everie one accompanied with a stone so crosse so contrarie were they in words unto him But in action it goes a thought beyond imagination how contrarie they were putting sinister interpretation still to disguise the right meaning on whatsoever he did If he cured their sick it was to breake their Sabbaoth if he cast their Devils out it was in the name of Beelzebub They held him for Libertine if hee eat or drunk with them if not for Samaritan so well hee might say of them Cecinimus vobis non saltâstis lamentavimus non planxistis c. Mat. 11. but they went further yet Pericles could say of the Samians not content with courtesies they received from those of Athens that they were Infantibus similes qui cibum non nisi illachrymando admittebant c. Plutarch Like children who whilst they were benefited cryed But what should one say of these Never men borne in the disgrace of better Nature had such antipathy with their best good as they For marke how this perverse wicked and viperous generation out-doing spight it selfe requited him for love with hatred for good with ill and for honouring them with dishonouring him againe And first of their hatreds to him let this be sufficient argument that they could not so much as endure his sight and when wee once withdraw our eyes from any one 't is signe we have withdrawne our affection before but whilst he projected such right and full beames of love on them as even reflected them to his very hart the sons of Iacob never with more oblique auerted eyes beheld their brother Ioseph than they did him Now if as they say the chiefest attraction of love bee love and he holds no commercewith humanitie who will nor give nor take affection What should one think or say of this malignitie But for more ample declaration of their inhumanitie to him wee are to note how that hate and aversion from a thing which the more civill creature doth expresse by simple flight and avoydance the more savage and effe●ate doth by violent assault So Naturalists observe in the wild Bull such hatred and nocivenesse to man as but object unto it the picture of one and presently with horne hoofe it furiously sets upon it And mark now if they did not the like by him when Pilat proposing him unto them with an Ecce homo Behold the man they stantly bellowed out Crucifige crucifige eum Let him be crucified so as hee might well say of them Tauri pingues obsiderunt me that hee was encompassed with Bulls on everie side But the proofe of love consisting in action Probatio enim amoris exhibitio est operis c. Greg. Let us from thence behold his love to them as their hatreds to him againe and so consider how they rewarded him for good with ill You know wee have compassion for none but those wee have passion for and where the soyle is hate there pitie never growes Now what compassion had he for them Miserior super turbam c. and that not only in words but in effect multiplying bread for the hungrie and for the thirstie for those who were necessitous hee as we may say turned stones into water for the delicious hee turned water into wine sweetly violencing all natures but theirs the while for their sick he restored them unto health their dead unto life againe To say nothing of his spirituall benefits since they were of nature so carnall they had scarce a capacitie of them and how did they requite him Audite coeli obstupescite So little compassion had they of him as when he came to die at what time others hate leaves the condemned to pitie these pursue him farther than ever any 's did within the limits of humanitie not only to death but even after it when Unus militum lancea latus ejus aperuit et continuo exivit sanguis et aqua One of the Souldiers pierced his side with a lance and presently there streamed forth bloud and water A barbarisme and inhumanitie no water could expiate enough but that which then issued from his sacred side no fire but of that charitie which made him then shed his last drop of bloud But to proceed for his food they repayed him with the bread of dolour panem doloris c. and for his drink with gall and vinegar Their