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A47369	Sermons, preached partly before His Majesty at White-Hall and partly before Anne Dutchess of York, at the chappel at St. James / by Henry Killigrew ...; Sermons. Selections	Killigrew, Henry, 1613-1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing K449; ESTC R16786	237,079	422

should be the Reception of the Messiah the Entertainment that the Prince of Peace should find in the World when he came to offer Peace to the World And that he may set it off the more lively he does it by way of Dialogue shews it in a kind of Drama or Acted Representation introduces a Nameless Person to be astonish'd at the Strange Spectacle of an Ambassadour wounded a publick Minister invaded like a publick Enemy and the Person so used giving as strange an account of his Usage viz. that 't was not on the Road but in the City not in the Camp but in the House again not in the House of his Enemies but in the House of his Allies and Friends And one shall say unto him What are these Wounds in thy hands Then shall be answer Those with which I was wounded in the House of my Friends I am not ignorant that the Generality of Interpreters a few only excepted as well ancient as modern apply these Words to the False Prophet mentioned ver 5. and not to Christ but though I affect not to follow the Few rather than the Many yet I find it hard to resign a Picture so perfectly resembling our Lord as my Text does and allow it to be drawn for a False Prophet I shall therefore shew upon what Considerations I have been induced to understand the Words as I do and if they are not convincing content my self to handle them by way of Accommodation to the Business of the Day though not by way of Interpretation In the first Verse of the Chapter the Times of the Messiah are confessedly spoken of In that Day there shall be a Fountain opened to the house of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem for Sin and for Vncleanness In the five following Verses the things transacted preparatory to the Coming of the Messiah are set down viz. the rooting Idolatry out of the Land of Israel and the destroying of the False Prophets as at ver 2. For God having for a time determined to silence all Prophecies and to restrain all Miracles that greater Notice might be taken of his Son when he came in the Power of both with that lumine prophetico which Justin Martyr says Christ first kindled again after 't was Extinguish'd False Prophets from hence took occasion to arise and having nothing Divine to countenance their pretended Mission from Heaven they apishly imitated the Outward Garb and Austerity of the true Prophets as 't is ver 4. wore rough Garments and used boldness of Speech But God not suffering these Impostors to frustrate his Divine Counsels sent a Discerning Spirit into his People and stir'd them up to bring them to condign Punishment as at v. 3. The very Father and Mother of the False Prophet shall thrust him through and force him to confess that he spoke Lies and that he was not sent by God but was a Herdsman that had kept Cattel from his Youth And Christ at this Season entering on the Stage of Judaea in a Mean and Poor Condition far Unlike that Glorious and Warlike Prince that carnal Nation had fansy'd him the Priests and Rulers set him at nought and out of a pretence of Zeal to God's Glory as the faithful Jews had a little before laid hands upon the False Prophets did the like on the Messiah and crucifi'd him for an Impostor as these things are imply'd partly in the Words of my Text What are these Wounds in thy hands c. and partly in the Verse immediately following Awake O Sword against my Shepherd against the Man which is my Fellow says the Lord of Hosts smite the Shepherd and the Sheep shall be scattered Which last Words our Lord also applies to himself Matth. 26.31 The Prophet Zechary recounting so close together the semblable Treating of these two most Unresembling Persons the Messiah and the False Prophets and shifting his Narration from the one to the other without any transition has made it hard to distinguish which he speaks of But in Prophetick Writings this Abruptness is common as the Rabbins say lumen propheticum est lumen abruptum and S t Hierom Non curae fuit Spiritui prophetali Historiae ordinem sequi the Spirit of Prophecy is not sollicitous to observe Method but despising all Historical and Logical Contextures makes the Exits and Intrats of Persons in an unaccountable Manner And such a Freedom it uses in this Chapter that 't is impossible rightly to apply the Particulars related to the Persons they belong but by considering what was truly and indeed done to each of them And by this Rule Piercing the Hands plainly alludes to Crucifying and must belong to the Messiah this being a Punishment never practised among the Jews till they fell under the Roman Yoke Stoning being the Penalty of a False Prophet by the Law and then if we consider Wounding the Hands is not only a punishment differing from that prescribed but also an Odd one that no way comports with the Crime it being more sutable to the Offence to have bored the Tongue of the False Prophet than his Hands But the truth is the Prophet had exprest the Punishment of the False Prophet before at the third Verse namely by Thrusting him through which might be done jure Zelotarum by the Right of Zealots God exciting his own Relations against him Or else the Punishment may refer to Exod. 19.12 where God commands That if Man or Beast came within the forbidden Precincts of the holy Mount they should be Thrust through with a Dart Our Prophet threatning here the same Death to those that Uncall'd invaded the Prophetick Office which was threatned there to such as presumptuously intruded to pry into God's Mysterious and Dreadful Appearance Which things being premis'd I shall proceed to handle the Words as they are applicable to our Saviour and so they contain in them two Great Mysteries of our Faith which I shall explain by enquiring I. For what Reason the Divine Goodness so order'd it That Christ our Saviour should be a Wounded Saviour in satisfaction to this Question What are these Wounds in thy Hands II. For what Reason the Divine Goodness so order'd it That he should be wounded by those he deserved Best from in exposition of these Words Those with which I was wounded in the House of my Friends I begin with the First of these Why Christ was to be A Wounded Saviour What are these Wounds in thy Hands The Wounds in Christ's Hands do more particularly relate to the Wounds made by the Nails of the Cross but by the Figure of a Part for the Whole they may stand for the Wounds he received all his Body over and not only so but for all his Sufferings whether in Body or in Spirit from his Cradle to his Grave from the Manger at Bethlehem to his Crucifixion at Mount Calvary and the Summ Total of this Question What are these Wounds in thy Hands imports no less Than what is the meaning

Success The Life of a Christian is full of Difficulties and Troubles many Lusts are to be mortifi'd many Affections to be rectifi'd many Vices to be rooted out and many Vertuous Habits to be acquir'd which things are not Easie even to the best of Men again Persecutions and Evils loss of Goods of Liberty and Life it self are the Lot often of the most Righteous and for their Righteousness So that there was need of a Great Encouragement and a Generous Precedent to excite Men to undertake the Heroick Duties of Christianity God therefore afforded them his Own Son clothed in our Nature to go before them his Own Son I say to add the Greater Authority to his Example and cloathed in our Flesh to remove all Objections which Sloth might otherwise make against the Possibility of following his Steps I am not Equal says one to the Burdens and Dangers required in a Christian Life able to undergo Imprisonment Beggary Martyrdom c. Behold my Hands and my Feet says Christ these Wounds I suffered for thy Salvation and canst not thou who art framed of the same Flesh and Bloud endure as much for thy Self as another could endure for thee Says another I cannot digest Injuries and Affronts my Temper my Profession of Life are inconsistent with these things Learn of me says Christ I am lowly and meek and when I was enthron'd in the highest Heavens I disdained not to descend into this World in the form of a Servant and to bear Indignities and Outrages when the Wisdom of God so order'd it and well then mayst thou submit to the like whose Original is but from the Earth These things are too plain to be long insisted on let thus much suffice to be said in Satisfaction to this Question What are these Wounds in thy Hands viz. they signifie first Malum culpae the Evil Demerit of Sin which Christ suffered that we might be excused Secondly Malum poenae the Toleration of Evil which Christ underwent to leave us an Example to follow him I proceed to shew For what Reason the Divine Wisdom so order'd it that Christ should be wounded by those be deserved Best from in Explanation of these Words Those with which I was wounded in the House of my Friends Of whom do the Kings of the Earth take Tribute says Christ Of their Children or of Strangers Not of their Children but of Strangers So again Who are those Men usually Wound and Kill their Friends or their Enemies certainly not their Friends but their Enemies Yet so it was that the Messiah was wounded and murthered by his Own Nation and Kindred The Gentiles bore him no Malice Herod laid nothing to his Charge Pilate would have set him free Am I a Jew says he thine own Nation and the Chief Priests have delivered thee unto me all Strangers honoured him but as S t John says He came unto his Own and his Own received him not Received him not is a Meiosis or mitigated Expression for the Worst of Usages they Persecuted him with the highest Malice and Hatred the more to disgrace him they hung him between two Thieves and put him to Death in their Capital City But though the Nation of the Jews were not his Friends de facto yet they are so called because they ought to have been his Friends de jure for they were his Compatriots and Kindred he chose to be born of their Stock before any other he preacht the Gospel to them first made Palestine the Scene of his Holy Life and Miracles design'd their whole Nation the Honour of being his Apostles at large to be the Preachers of Salvation to the rest of the World and by how much the more they ought to have been his Friends for these Obligations the more unpardonable was their Barbarity not only to make him so Strange a Spectacle as Saint Paul says himself was made Legatus in vinculis an Ambassadour in Bonds but also Legatus cum vulneribus an Ambassadour wounded and crucified What Malice besides the Jews was ever so Great as to destroy so much Vertue and Goodness What Envy so black and rancorous to persecute so much Meekness and Humility What Wickedness ever so unfortunate and unhappy as to cut off the Saviour of their Nation and of the World to the Salvation of others and to their own only Destruction It appears at first hearing the most Mysterious and unaccountable the most Strange and amazing Event that ever the Wisdom of God produced in the World That he should permit his Own People of all the People of the Earth to be the Murderers of his Son Acts 2.23 says S t Peter Him being delivered by the determinate Counsel and Foreknowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain But the wonder of this will vanish as soon as the Reason appears for if we consider the Blindness and Hardness of the Jews Hearts after so many Glorious Revelations their Uncorrigible Lives under so many holy Laws their high Ingratitude after so many Benefits Who deserved to be condemned to such a Prodigious Punishment but those who were the Greatest Prodigies of Stubbornness and Impiety From this wonderful and dreadful Judgment of God I shall reflect upon two things for our Edification First The Wickedness of Mens Hearts when they are void of the Spirit of Grace For upon such no Reason no Benefits no Miracles whether of Power or Goodness can effect any thing but those very Means and Endeavours which are employed for their Salvation serve only for their greater Obduration those that are their chiefest Friends and of whom it may be said as of the Apostles These Men are the Servants of the most High God which shew the Way of Salvation if they rebuke them for their Sins seek to instruct their Ignorance or to confute their Folly they will look upon them as the Worst of Enemies Am I become your Enemy says S t Paul because I tell you the Truth Yes Blessed Apostle there 's nothing more certain nothing turns Friends sooner into Foes than an Unwelcome Truth they that will not be reformed will not be taught and to instruct one that loves his Sins is like the bringing a Candle upon him when he is retir'd to commit it And 't is observable in all times that those Persons who mov'd by an Heroick Piety have attempted to reform the Errours and Vices of a Nation have found as hostile a Reception as those who have sought to Enslave it men defending their long-wedded Opinions as passionately as their Riches their Hereditary Corruptions as their Hereditary Country In the Parable in which our Lord set forth his own Ill Success in seeking to convert Sinners when he liv'd upon the Earth he introduces certain Husbandmen saying Come this is the Heir let us kill him and the Inheritance shall be our own For such was the Consultation of the Sanhedrim or principal Council of the Jews concerning him Come let us rid our selves