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A04168	The humiliation of the Sonne of God by his becomming the Son of man, by taking the forme of a servant, and by his sufferings under Pontius Pilat, &c. Or The eighth book of commentaries vpon the Apostles Creed: continued by Thomas Jackson Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine to his Majestie in ordinarie, and president of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. Divided into foure sections.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 8	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1635 (1635)	STC 14309; ESTC S107480	214,666	423

of his purpose that Sathan himself had he beene present could not have reply'd unto it 4 For that 8. Psalme as the Jews cannot deny was composed in honour of the God of Israel that it was also propheticall and to be fulfilled in time is to all Christians apparent from our Apostles allegation of another place to the like purpose Hebrews 2.6 7. of whose fulfilling hereafter The first part of the prophecie that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God their Lord which as hath beene before observed was the peculiar title of God the Sonne or of God to be manifested in the flesh was never punctually fulfilled untill the children cryed Hosanna to the Sonne of David in the Temple In these congratulations they did by divine instinct or disposition of the All-seeing providence proclaim the expected Son of David to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that very God their Lord in whose praise this Psalme was conceived The Babes then did spel the Prophets meaning not amisse But our Saviour and the present circumstances of the time did put their lisping syllables together more rightly and fully answerable to the meaning of the Propheticall vision For so it followeth in the same Psalme that this God their Lord did therefore ordain his praise out of the mouths of babes and sucklings because of his enemies that he might still the Enemie and Avenger Psalme 8.2 And so the malicious Priests and Scribes were put to a Non plus upon our Saviours allegation of this prophecie in justification of himself and of these Infants whose testimonies they sought to elevate and to impute the acceptance of it to his folly Now albeit our Saviour left them at this Non plus for the present yet within a day or two after he putteth the very Pharisees the most learned of them to a greater non plus by another testimony parallel to this of the 8. Psalme While the Pharisees saith S. Matthew were gathered together Iesus asked them saying What think ye of Christ Whose Sonne is he They say unto him The Sonne of David He saith unto them How then doth David in spirit call him Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstoole If David then call him Lord how is he his Sonne And no man was able to answer him a word neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions Matth. 22.41 42 c. All this argues a full conviction of their consciences and that unlesse they had suffered their splenatick passions to conquer their consciences for the present or had not hoodwinked their intellectuals with malicious habits of their hearts they must of necessity have confessed as much as the little children in this expression before had done to wit that he was not onely the promised Sonne of David but that the promised Sonne of David was to be Davids Lord this whole peoples God and Lord. For it is observable that David in the beginning of the 110. Psalme saith not Iehova said unto Iehova but Iehova said unto Adonai Sit thou on my right hand not thereby denying that this Adonai was to be Iehova but that he was to be as the Author of the 8. Psalme saith both his God and his Lord It is againe to my present apprehension observable that after Nehemiah had revived the solemnity of the feast of Tabernacles and moved the people to renew the Covenant which their forefathers had made for faithfull observance of Gods Laws given by Moses they nuncupate this their solemn vow unto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the Lord our God And the rest of the people to wit all besides those who had sealed to the Covenant before with Nehemiah the Priests the Levites the Porters the Singers the Nethinims and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the Lands unto the Law of God their Wives their Sonnes and their Daughters every one having knowledge and understanding They clave to their Brethren their Nobles and entred into a curse and into an oath to walk in Gods Laws which were given by Moses the servant of God and to observe and doe all the Commandements of the Lord our Lord and his judgements and his statutes Nehem. 10.28 29 c. But this solemne vow and Covenant confirmed by oath of keeping Gods Laws was more shamefully broken by this perverse and gainsaying generation then those Laws themselves had been by Antiochus or other Heathen which had never sworne vnto them For the chiefe Priests the Scribes the Elders notwithstanding the former convictions of their consciences hold on to persecute this God their Lord unto whose honour their forefathers had dedicated this vow with greater cruelties and more malicious indignities then Antiochus had used towards the meanest of his people and so at length to bring that curse annexed to the former vow upon themselves and upon their children unto this day 5. Thus much of the Prophecies or foresignifications of his triumphant ingresse into Jerusalem and of his entertainment there untill the Feast of the legall Passeover whose mystery he did accomplish by his death Points not handled either so fully or so punctually as was requisite by any Commentators Postillers or others whom I have read And this hath emboldned me to enlarge my meditations upon this small part of my Comments on the Creed As for the Prophecies types or other foresignifications of what he did or suffered from the time of his sacred Supper untill his resurrection from the dead these have been so plentifully and so punctually handled by many especially by the learned Gerard that much cannot be added without a great deale of superfluous paines And yet I know it will be expected that I say somewhat of this argument SECTION 4. The Evangelicall relations of the indignities done unto our Saviour by sinfull men and of his patience in suffering them respectively prefigured and foretold by the Prophets and other sacred Writers Or a Comment upon the Evangelicall History from the institution of his Supper unto his death and buriall CHAP. XXIII Of the betraying of our Saviour of his apprehension and dismission of his Disciples And how they were foretold or prefigured in the old Testament 1 OF the sweet Harmony betweene the institution occasion and celebration of the legall Passeover and the continuation of the Lords Supper or Sacrament of his body and blood instituted in lieu or rather in remembrance of the accomplishing of it I have in other meditations delivered my minde at large And if if it shall please the Lord God to grant mee life and health what I have either uttered in Sermons or otherwayes conceived concerning this Argument shall be communicated to this Church wherein I live if not to others in the Article of the Catholique Church which did beginne to bee on earth from our Saviours resurrection or from his ascension into heaven and descending of the Holy Ghost At the accomplishment of

subject unto The slave acknowledged no more Masters than this one whom if it would please but to say the word his freedome might without difficulty be obtained if the Praetor of the City would but vouchsafe by his Masters leave to lay his white rod upon him and cause him to be turned once or twice about with some few other Ceremonies he could be turned out of a slave into a free Citizen in the space of an houre whereas if his Master had been turned round till his senses had failed him in case the Praetor would have laid his rod an hundred times upon his head hee could not have wound himselfe out of those bonds of servitude wherein his lusts had insnared him This slave had observed that his Master would often commend the frugality and temperance of the ancient Romans and often desire that hee and other moderne Romans might live as they did yet if any great man or good neighbour would invite him to a luxurious feast or if any foolish pleasures with whose excesse he had been formerly stung should proffer themselves he had not so much power to resist or restraine them as this slave had to neglect his designes or commands when they did displease him And for his Master to be drawne thus every day to doe that which in his retired and sober thoughts he did most dislike and condemne was in his judgement a greater slavery than any bodily servitude If the reasons which these and other Heathens often used to prove vitious men to bee the onely true slaves had not been the dictates of the law of nature written in our hearts or reasons unanswerable the Apostles of Christ yea Christ himselfe would not have used the like Know yee not saith S. Paul Rom. 6.16 as if it were a shame in this point to be ignorant that to whom yee yeeld your selves servants to obey his servants yee are to whom yee obey whether of sinne unto death or of obedience unto righteousnesse And S. Peter tells us of some who whilest they promise liberty unto others they themselves were servants unto corruption for of whom a man is overcome of the same is hee brought into bondage 2. Pet. 2.19 So our Saviour saith Ioh. 8.34 Whosoever committeth sinne is the servant of sinne And of him no doubt our Apostle S. Iohn learned that doctrine Hee that committeth sinne is of the Devill a servant of his 3. But albeit the wiser sort of Heathens did by light of nature know that every vicious man was a slave or servant to his owne lusts or desires yet the greatest danger which they apprehended from the servitude was but feare of satyricall censure for preposterous basenesse in subjecting reason to sensuality That their owne desires lusts or affections were maintained and cherished by a forreigne enemie as so many rebells to wage warre against their immortall soules or that their consciences being subdued by lust should bee everlastingly subject to so cruell a Tyran as the Devill is were points wherein the Prince of darknesse had blinded the eyes of the wisest Heathen And would to God wee Christians to whom the Lord hath revealed thus much could see or heare so much concerning this doctrine as would make us perfectly understand or lay to heart the inestimable danger wherein wee stand whether in respect of the fast hold which this Tyran by our corrupted nature and custome hath got of us or of the miserable usage which will follow if he and sinne finally prevaile against us But this is a common place for which every man may finde a fitter Text in his owne heart then any other man can chuse for him and matter of more ample and pertinent discourse upon it than reading of many books can suggest unto him All that I have here to say concerning this point is to request the Reader to examine his owne heart and calculate his non-performances of what I presume hee often seriously intended and perhaps hath vowed His duty it is to open the wounds of his conscience either to God alone in secret or to such as God hath appointed for the Physicians of his soule and conscience My purpose is to prepare the plaister or medicine and to informe him how to apply it CHAP. VIII The Sonne of God was properly a servant to his Father yet not by birth as hee was the sonne of his handmaid but by voluntary undergoing this hard condition for the redemption of man 1 TO free us from this miserable servitude unto sinne which alone doth wound our conscience the Sonne of God did freely and voluntarily take upon him the forme of a servant The parts of his peculiar service were in generall two The one to conquer Satan who was by right of conquest our Lord The other to reconcile us to grace and favour with God to make us first servants then sonnes and lastly kings and priests to his and our heavenly Father These two parts of his peculiar service unto his Father for unto him alone hee was a servant exhibit the most admirable paterne of justice mercie and loving kindnesse as well in God the Father as God the Sonne that the wit of man or Angels can contemplate First it was a paterne of justice never after to bee parallel'd for God the Father to exact satisfaction for our sinnes at the hands of his deare and onely Sonne Unto this unmeasurable act or exercise of justice upon the Sonne of righteousnesse his mercy towards us miserable sinners was fully commensurable For whatsoever hee suffered for our sakes was from his Fathers and his owne mercy and loving kindnesse towards us Againe so infinite was the justice of our gracious God that even whilest hee shewed his mercy and loving kindnesse towards us he did vouchsafe to give as we say the Devill himselfe his due and to observe the law of Armes or Duell with this Prince of Rebels his subject by right of Creation but professed enemie by resolution Albeit this grand Rebell after his revolt from God had conquered man and made him by treachery of Gods servant and sonne a meere slave unto himselfe the righteous Lord would not deprive this mighty Lion and greedy Wolfe of his prey by any other meanes than by right of conquest gotten over him by man Hee did not arme a legion of Angels nor summon the whole host of visible creatures against him nor use his omnipotent and absolute power to destroy or annihilate him or as then to shut him up in the everlasting prison The exercises of such power whether immediatly by the omnipotent Creator himselfe or by his creatures had been more than Satans matches upon equall termes or weapons Exercise of strength was not the first way in the wisedome of God to conquer pride ambition or vaine glory though these must bee quelled with the power and strength of the Sonne of God whom it pleased the Father at the first onset to weaken by laying our first Parents infirmities and their posterities upon