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A88397	Christ's valedictions: or sacred observations on the last words of our savior delivered on the crosse. By Jenkin Lloyd, minister of the gospel, and rector of Llandissil in Cardigan shire	Lloyd, Jenkin, b. 1623 or 4.	1658 (1658)	Wing L2653; Thomason E1895_2; ESTC R209921	53,582	228

the patience to learn the following Article he might hear of his Triumphant Ascension into heaven and sitting there in Majesty and power on Gods right hand all the consolation of a Christian consists in this principally that after a troublesome warfare here he shall be carried to Abrahams bosome the Celestial Paradise to the durable Jerusalem to his Masters joy to an inheritance immortal undefiled reserved in the heavens to a rest from his labours and to behold the glory of God O how it behoves each man then to secure his interest in those felicities and daily and hourly commend his soul to that God that made it We are all careful enough when death approaches to put our houses in order and dispose of our temporals but few take a thought for that which is spiritual We had rather with King Asa seek to the Physitian then to the Lord 2 Chr. 16. when seized with sickness or with the Pharisees tithe mint and cummin and leave the weighty Matters of the Law undone but so we do but present God with maim not perfect with dead not living sacrifices Nothing can enter into the Kingdom of heaven but what is pure and immaculate and therefore our chiefest care should be if we desire to have admission there to prepare our souls by true faith and timely repentance without which our prayers and tears will nothing avail for without holinesse no man shall see the face of God He made our souls spirits let us not then make them carnal by feeding on corrupt lust He made them immortal let us not murder them with our sins and deprive them of eternal life He made them noble and after his own image let us not make them brutish and earthly by doting on the pleasures and vanities of this transitory world For what shal it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul TO thee therefore O thou Father of our Spirits do we make our humble addresses that thou wouldst be pleased to be a Protector of our souls and bodies both here and to all eternity Thou art our Rock and our Fortresse therefore for thy Names sake defend and guide us We have no confidence in saints or Angels for thou hast charged the best of them with folly but in the multitude of thy mercies for thou alone hast redeemed us O Lord God of truth Thou that didst shew thy power in weakness and shake the foundations of the earth when suffering on thy Cross make us to tremble through the horror of our sins and to fear thy judgments for them which we justly merit As thou didst then cleave the Rocks and rend the vail of thy sanctuary so melt our stony hearts with the beams of thy grace that they may receive the impressions of thy favors and that we may enter into the Holy of Holies above which thou hast prepared for thy chosen The height of our love is but to lay down our lives for our dearest relations but thou didst depose thy precious life for thy enemies that rebelled against thee Lord who by thy active and passive obedience wouldst leave nothing undone or unsuffered for our salvation O teach us to obey thy word to embrace thy metions to practise what thou commandest Let our wills be wholly resolved into thine and make us conformable to thee as thy saints and angels in heaven are We confess Lord that the wages of sin is deaeth and that we justly deserve to be reduced to our first nothing but O let not death which is the work of the divel have dominion over thy creatures who are the work of thine own hands Before we receive a summens to our end we pray thee furnish us with all requisite graces that we may be clothed with the wedding garment of holinesse and righteousness to meet thee the sweet Bridegroom of our souls Let us not commend unto thee foul sinful spouses but clean and sorrowful spirits for thou despisest not Lord humble and contrite hearts At the hour of death Lord speak comfortably to our souls and seal in our hearts by thy holy Spirit the pardon of all our sins Assist us with thy presence against all the assaults of our spiritual adversaries for if thou wilt be with us we shall neither fear nor feel any evil though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death And grant that though our souls and bodies be separated by death for a short space they may be re-united at thy great day and by vertue of thy Resurrection be raised to live in thy ever blessed eternity Grant this for his sake who lived and dyed and rose again for our salvation Jesus Christ Amen FINIS

27.46 My God my God why hast thou forsaken me The Explication WE have Expounded formerly the three first Words which our Saviour uttered on the Cross about the sixth hour We will proceed in the following part of this Treatise to unfold four other Words which he spake after the Eclipse and silence of three hours But it seems very material to declare first what that darknesse was and from whence and to what end it was caused Our Evangelist saies Ver. 45 From the sixth hour was there darkness over all the earth unto the ninth hour and then he cryed with a loud voice ELI ELI LAMASABACH THANI i. My God my God c. And that this darkness was produced by the defect of the Sun is elsewhere expresly noted Luk. 23.45 And the Sun was darkned But here are some difficulties to be solved 1. For the Sun was wont to be deficient in the new Moon when betwixt the Sun and the earth there was an interposition of the Moon which at the death of Christ could not happen whilest the Moon was not joyned with the Sun which is usuall in the new Moon but was opposite to the Sun and in its fulnesse for then was the Passeover of the Jewes which according to the Law began the fourt eenth day of the first month 2. Besides if the Moon was joyned with the Sun at the passion of our Lord that darkness could not continue for three houres for the eclipse of the Sun cannot last long especially if it be a plenarie Eclipse and abscond the whole Sun for the Moon moves swifter then the Sun according to its proper motion and according to this it could not shadow the whole Sun unless it were for a very short Space for beginning to recede forthwith it leaves the Sun free that it might illuminate the earth with its accustomed fulgour as you might observe by the last greatest Eclipse that happened in our Horrizon in the year 16. And lastly there could never be an Universal darkeness occasioned through any conjunction of the Sun with the Moon for the Moon according to the judgment of all Astronomers is lesse then the Sun or the earth and therefore cannot by the interposition of its body so mantle the Sun that the whole earth should be darkned But if some do object That the evangelists meant this darkness to extend to the whole land of Palestina only and not absolutely to the universall earth That opinion might be easily refelled through the testimonie of Dionysius Arecpagita who in his Epistle to Polycarpus witnesseth himself to have seen that defection of the Sun and that horrible darknesse in the City of Heliopolis which is in Aegypt And Phl●gon a Greek Historian and an Heathen doth remember this Eclipse in these words Quarto anno ducentisimae secundae Olympiadis Lib. 2 magna excellent inter omnes quae antea acciderant defectio Solis est facta dies hora sexta ita in tenebrosam noctem versus est ut stellae in caeto visae sunt Among those great and famous things which fell out in the Annalls of the Olympiads there was such an Ecclipse of the Sun that the day about the sixth hour was turned into darknight that the Stars were seen And this Historian writ not in Judea Of this Author look Origen against Celsus Eus Chron ad annun Christ 30.3 and Eusebius in his Chronicle the same is testified by Lucian Martyr saying * search the Annalls and you shall find that in the times of Pilate the Sun being fled the day was interrupted with darkness these words of Lucian are quoted by Russiarus in his translation of the Ecclesiasticall History of Eusebius into Latin Tertullian also in his Apolegetick and Osorius in his History with others lib. 7. c. 4 do speak not only of Judea but of other parts of the world These things being premised we may conclude that though the Eclipse when it is natural is wont to happen in the new Moon and not in the ful but that at the death of Christ was singular and Prodigious and caused only by him who made Sun Moon and earth it proceeded not from any natural causes but from the hand of an omnipotent God who as he was able to bring the Moon after an insolite manner from the East by a most swift course to the Sun and after three houres be reduced to its place again so he could effect that the Moon should as it were stand unmoved under the Sun for that space so that it should not move flower nor swifter then the Sun And whereas it is said that this deficiency of the Sun could not be universall over the whole world by reason the Moon is lesser then the earth and much lesser then the Sun it is granted that what the Moon could not do the Creatour of Sun and Moon did supply only by not co-operating with the Sun in its illustration for without his aid and influence things Created have no power of themselves to be more Neither was this darkness occasioned from some extraordinary black and thick mists as some have imagined for the Ancients affirm that the stars were then seen in their proper Spheares whereas thick clouds would not only have obscurd the Sun but also those orbes of lesser lustre as the Moon and the stars Why God would have this darkness to be so Remarkable divers reasons are given but two especially the first was to signifie the marvellous excaecation of the Jewes Leo in Ser. 10. de● passion● Dem. which does to this day and shall endure according to the vaticinations of Esay who speaks thus of the beginning of the Gospel Arise O Jerusalem be bright for thy sight is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee for behold darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the people the other cause was to demonstrate the greatness of the Jewes offence as Jerome teacheth Heretofore saith he evil men did persecute Jerom Comentar in Matth. vex and kill the good now God himselfe descending to be cloathed in Humane flesh they dare persecute and Crucifie Heretofore Citizens had discords with Citizens and from discords fell to chidings from chidings to wounds from wounds at length to murderous executions but now servants and slaves have risen against the King of Men and Angels and with an incredible audacity have nayled him to a Cross Therefore the whole world did tremble and the Sun it selfe drew back it's beames and hid its face as detesting so fowl so facinorous an Act as to put the Lord of Life to death and the darkness then was so terrible that it made a Pagan Philosopher cry out Aut deus naturae patitur aut mundi machina dissolvitur Dion Areop either the God of Nature suffers or the whole World is at an end And this was formerly typified in the daye of Pharaoh when there was a great darkness over the land of Egypt for three