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A44513	The crucified Jesus, or, A full account of the nature, end, design and benefits of the sacrament of the Lords Supper with necessary directions, prayers, praises and meditations to be used by persons who come to the Holy Communion / by Anthony Horneck ...	Horneck, Anthony, 1641-1697.	1695 (1695)	Wing H2823; ESTC R35435	411,793	617

Messiah suffer without rending their Cloaths and what is more tearing themselves for the crime they had been guilty of The Graves burst their Bands as if they were concern'd to see Men harden'd against all impressions of Compassion The Angels we may without danger of Heresie believe stopt in the midst of their Hallelujahs and if ever there was sadness in Heaven we may suppose it was at this time The upper and the nether World seem'd to go into Mourning because their Lord and Master gave up the Ghost Thus much we are told by the inspired Writer Matth. 27. 51 52. And this makes the Death of Christ Jesus surprizing beyond comparison and surely such a Death ought to be remembred 4. It is a Death whereby the Person suffering merited Eternal Life not only for himself but all his Followers too A mighty Blessing but such as was a just reward of so deep an Humiliation It was for this Death that the Everlasting Father exalted Christ's Humane Nature above Powers Angels Principalities and Spiritual Creatures and in doing so declar'd what those whose Nature he had assumed if they did follow him in the Regeneration might come to after Death viz. Eternal Life and Glory And what greater Blessing can be thought of to enjoy all Blessings at once and to all Eternity To see God and to be ravish'd with his Sight for ever to enjoy Riches Honour Glory Power Dominion Pleasure Recreation Houses Lands in a most eminent manner or to enjoy that which is beyond all these in inexpressible degrees and without interruption without ceasing without disturbance without envy without fear without danger of losing it What can be greater What can be more satisfactory What can be more comfortable This the Son of God hath purchased by his Death That Death is the Messenger of all these Glories In that Death all these Treasures are amass'd and heap'd and piled up together and then it must be worth remembring nay it is impossible not to remember it where all this is believ'd II. How this Death is to be remembred at the Table of the Lord will deserve our next consideration And most certainly a slight transient Remembrance such as we pay to our friends and acquaintance which are absent at our common Meals or at other times as we have occasion to discourse of them is not sufficient here for that 's not at all agreeable to the Greatness and Profitableness of this wondeful Death It must be such a remembrance as 1. Refreshes our Memories with that marvellous Love that shines in this Death This Love must be called to mind even the Love of God the Love that mov'd him to the Kindnesses we see and taste and feel and have experience of The Love that mov'd him to give us a Saviour the Love that mov'd him to take pity of us when we lay in our Blood when we lay in Darkness and in the shadow of Death Love Love Love must here be the Motto the Watch-word and the dear Expression And as the Martyr in Eusebius being ask'd divers Questions about his Name Kindred Relations Family Country Parents c. still answer'd That he was a Christian so if here we should be ask'd what we think what we speak what we mind what we come for what we design what our business is or what we delight in Love must be the Answer to all these Questions Love must be the burden of our Song even the Love of the Holy Trinity a Love in which our Life our Happiness and all our Hopes are wrapt up a Love which nothing above and nothing below can give us any tolerable Image of There is nothing among all the Angels in Heaven nothing in the Sun or Moon or Stars nothing among Men or Beasts or Roots or Herbs or Stons or Minerals that can be said to be truly like it all comparisons are feeble all resemblances faint no Language can reach it no Rhetorick express it no Oratory describe it no Pencil draw it it surpases our Reason transcends the brightest Understanding puzzels the very Angels in Heaven and perplexes the Spirits of Light and Glory It is all Sea all Ocean all Light it hath no Bounds no Shores no Limits and the greatest that ever was said of it or can be said of it is St. John's Expression 1 Joh. 4. 16. God is Love Love it self all Love all Charity all Goodness and nothing but such perfection could have loved such poor pitiful Worms as we are God looks upon our giving a cup of cold Water to a Righteous Man as an Act of Love O then what an Act of Love must it be in him to give us himself to give us the dearest thing he had even his own Son Jesus wept over Lazarus Joh. 11. 35 36. and the Jews said See how he loved him But these Tears were but drops of Water Here the Lord Jesus is seen to weep drops of Blood for us O then see how he loved us We were blinder than Bartimaeus lamer than Mephibosheth fuller of Sores than Lazarus poorer than Job no Comliness no Beauty no Form no Excellency appear'd in us Adam's Fall had disfigurred us defaced us ruin'd us in this lamentable condition God loved us and gave his Son to die for us and shall not this Love be remembred in his Death 2. This remembrance requires calling to mind our Sins which were the cause of that Death It 's true the Love of God was the impulsive cause but our Sins were the instrumental cause these brought him to the Cross and whoever remembers his Death must necessarily remember that whereby this Death was effected and procured this was our Sin and the Infection that attended it But then if I remember my Sins in the remembrance of his Death how can I remember them without detestation How can I remember them without abhorrency How can I remember them without arming my Soul with resolution and arguments to fight against them Can I look on my neglects and not charge them with this Death Can I remember my Love to the World and not accuse it of having had a hand in buffeting and reproaching of him Can I think of my Pride and Wrath and not bid them look on the Wounds they made in that Holy Flesh Can I reflect on my wantonness and lustful Thoughts Desires Words and Gestures and Actions and not be angry with them for having struck Nails into his Hands and Feet And what is said of these particular Sins must be applied to the rest that we are either guilty of or most inclined to they must be so remembred as to be represented to our Minds in their odious shapes as having been accessory to his Death and if this be done we cannot but proclaim War against them and maintain that War all our days 3. With this there must needs be remembred the mighty Redemption procured and accomplished by this Death even our Redemption from Slavery a Slavery so much the worse because we were not

1. And the whole Multitude of them arose and led him to Pilate AMong this Multitude no doubt were some who formerly cried Hosannah to the Son of David But how variable is Mankind in their Devotion And O my Soul Dost not thou see thy self in this Glass How fickle and inconstant hast thou been in thy Religious Temper Sometimes Fire then Ice again sometimes hot then cold again sometimes diligent in Prayer then careless and supine again And is this agreeable to thy great Master's Temper who loved thee to the End Should thy God love thee at this rate love thee to Day and forsake thee to Morrow where wouldst thou hide thy Head in the Day of Battel 2. And they began to accuse him saying we found this Fellow perverting the Nation and forbidding to give Tribute to Caesar saying That he himself is Christ a King THis was nothing but a downright Lye for he had not only paid Tribute for himself and Peter but charged the Spies that were sent unto him to give to Caesar the Things that were Caesar's But their Interest is maintain'd by the Untruth and therefore they make nothing of the Sin O my Soul how little hast thou stood upon a Lye when thy Interest hath seemed to require it And to clear thy self how regardless hast thou been of speaking Truth of thy Neighbour and thy self How little hast thou regarded the God of Truth whose Eyes were upon thee and who saw the Falshood and Perverseness of thine Heart Thou hadst need for the future redeem thy Time and speak the Truth from thy Heart whatever thou sufferest and losest by it And let a good Conscience be ever dearer to thee than the Breath and good Opinion of Men For mark the perfect Man and behold the Upright the End of that Man is Peace 3. And Pilate asked him Art thou the King of the Jews And he answered him and said Thou sayest it HOW often O my Soul hath Christ asked thee this Question Am not I thy King Thou hast indeed answered with thy Lips That he is But how far hath thy Heart been from him and how loth hast thou been to be govern'd by him How boldly hast thou sometimes thrown off his Yoak and how unwilling hast thou been that this Man should reign over thee Canst thou have a better Prince to rule thy Thoughts and Words and Actions Did ever any miscarry under his Rule And canst thou think thou shalt 4. Then said Pilate to the Chief Priests and to the People I find no fault in this Man AN Heathen finds no Fault in Christ Jesus Yet Hast not thou O my Soul found fault with him when thou hast disputed his Precepts thought them hard and troublesome and his Commandments grievous Hast not thou blamed him in so doing when thou hast thought that he hath not consulted thine Ease nor considered thy Circumstances and tied thee up to hard Meat hath not this been harbouring strange Thoughts of him Can he that is the Fountain of Wisdom do any thing that is irrational Or canst thou think he did not design thy Good when he commanded that which crosses the Inclinations of Flesh and Blood And ought not this to make thee say to him for the future Speak Lord for thy Servant hears 5. And they were the more fierce saying He stirreth up the People teaching throughout all Jury beginning from Galilee to this place AND must thy stirring up the Souls of Men to love their God my dearest Lord be called Sedition Oh then let there be such Sedition and such Uproars in my Soul Let there be a perpetual Contrariety betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit in me that my Spirit may never yield to the evil Motions of the Flesh Stir up my Soul to stand up for thy Honour and Glory Commence a War within me whereby I may be engaged to fight for him who hath redeemed me from the Power of the Grave and given me a Title to Immortality 6. When Pilate heard of Galilee he asked whether the Man were a Galilean A Galilean was a Nick-name And when the Jews called one a Galilean they meant an inconsiderable Person How meanly doth Pilate speak of thee my Blessed Jesus But he knew thee not Had he been sensible of thy Divinity he would not only have spoken of thee with the highest Respect and Veneration and fallen down before thee but wonder'd at the Mystery that the Creator should thus suffer himself to be abused by his Creatures and be content to be made an Object of their Scorn whose Souls and Bodies he might have lash'd with Eternal Fire Ignorance wanders in the Dark and passes by that Medicine which is of greatest Use and yields the greatest Comfort Oh drive that Darkness from my Mind and let me know nothing with that Delight and Satisfaction as I do thee my Jesus thee my Crucified Redeemer 7. And as soon as he knew that he belonged to Herod's Jurisdiction he sent him to Herod who himself was also at Jerusalem at that time PIlate intended to have Herod's Opinion of Christ. Which was just as if two blind Men should judge of Colours or pretend to guide one another by which Attempt they both fall into the Ditch O Jesu What could Herod judge of thee that knew not thy glorious Designs nor had any Knowledge of thy Spiritual Kingdom The Things of the Spirit are Foolishness to the Natural Man So they have been to me Before I knew what the Riches of thy Grace were I had strange Thoughts of Holiness and looked upon it as a needless thing I prize it now Thanks be to thee who hast open'd mine Eyes and not suffer'd me to continue in the Shadow and Valley of Death 8. And when Herod saw Jesus he was exceeding glad for he was desirous to see him of a long Season because he had heard many things of him and he hoped to have seen some Miracle done by him SUre this Man knew not what a Miracle was nor the End for which those wonderful Works were wrought Could the vain King think my blessed Lord that thou didst work Miracles to make Men Sport which were the Seals of Heaven affixed to thy sacred Doctrine O Lord I long not to see thy former Miracles wrought over again only one Miracle I beg thou wouldst work in me and turn my Heart of Stone into an Heart of Flesh and expel the Leprosie of Sin out of my Soul which if thou wilt grant I will speak of thy marvellous Acts and my Mouth shall shew forth thy Praise In the Congregations of the Saints will I bless thee 9. Then he questioned with him in many Words but but he answered him nothing NO doubt the Questions were trivial and below the Gravity and Holiness of my Saviour Had he asked What he should do to be saved None would have given a speedier Answer O my Jesus How wouldst thou have embraced the Opportunity and received the inquisitive Man with the same Tenderness

call his Friends the Angels together saying Rejoyce with me for I have found him that was lost He saw what it was for God to humble himself and take upon him the Nature of Man a Thing infinitely below him and to advance it above all Heavens above Angels Powers Ceraphim and Cherubim and place it at the Right Hand of God He saw what it was for Infinite Majesty to fall in love with Misery and for him that was adored by all the Host of Heaven to make himself of no Reputation on purpose to magnifie his Mercy in the greatest Misery He saw the happy Strife and Contention that was betwixt God's Justice and Mercy He saw how these Twins struggled in the Womb of Eternity and Mercy got the better and triumph'd over the Almighty's Rods and Axes He saw the Beginning Progress Order and Beauty of that Love He could measure the vast Distance betwixt Heaven and Earth betwixt God and Man betwixt the Judge and the Malefactor betwixt Infinite Purity and extream Wretchedness betwixt Righteousness and Sin betwixt perfect Innocence and perfect Misery And what a Paradox it must be to the holy Angels to see that Light which lights every Man that comes into the World submit to the Darkness of the Grave that some of Adam's Posterity might be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light This he saw and as a Man who was to shew his Church an Example he gave Thanks VI. Christ's Actions as they were intended for our Instruction so we cannot think that his Giving of Thanks was only to express his own Devotion as Mediator but that it was designed to teach us 1. Never to sit down at our common or ordinary Meals without praising God for the Blessings his bountiful Hand hath vouchsafed unto us This it seems is so necessary that the Holy Ghost reckons those Men among the Workers of Iniquity that sit down to Meat and praise not the Creator for the Provision he hath made for them Psal. 14. 4. Have the Workers of Iniquity no Knowledge who eat Bread and call not upon the Lord We render the Words As they eat Bread our Translators thinking the Expression to be a Similitude to express the Greediness of Persecutors who make a Prey of God's Servants but the Particle As being left out in the Original the Words denote another Sin of those Men that do eat Bread and call not upon the Lord at their Eating 'T is true the Duty seems to be observed by most People and there are few so profane as not to say Grace at their Meals but it is for the most part done so slovenly and so carelesly without any Sense of the Greatness of the Duty and of the Goodness of God that it is made a mere Formality which is as bad as the total Omission of it The Giving of Thanks before and after Meals must be performed with a Sense of our Unworthiness and God's Charity This is to be thought and taken notice of as much as the Meat that is set before us and Admiration of God's Compassion in feeding us will add to the Relish of the Victuals set upon the Table and that is to eat to the Glory of God as the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 10. 32. 2. It was also to teach us Gratitude to our Benefactors here on Earth Though Men are but the Instruments whereby the Almighty's Blessings are conveyed to us yet there is a Gratitude due to them and such Gratitude as is expressed in kind Offices and Readiness to assist and help them when they stand in need of our Services But then this Gratitude must not be stretched to assisting of them in their Sins or complying with them in their Viciousness and Debaucheries or flattering them in their sickly Passions Man must not be pleased to the Dishonour of God And where Dust and Ashes is loved more than he he protests we are not worthy of him But to pray for them to honour them to study and embrace all lawful Opportunities to express our Respect and Esteem of them to requite their Kindnesses with equal Civilities or spiritual Advice and Counsel and Consolation is to act like Persons prompted by Christ's Example to be thankful 3. It was more particularly to direct us in our Praises and Thanksgivings when we come to the Table of our dearest Lord Here certainly if any where our Hearts ought to be fixed and ready to sing and give Praise 1. For putting us in a Way of being pardon'd and happy for ever We were all concern'd in Adam's Fall had all forfeited our Right to God's Favour and the Happiness we might have expected at his Hands God might have lock'd up the Gate of Mercy and made the Access to it impossible Having desperately turned our Backs upon him he might have let the Rebels sink deeper and deeper till they had come into the bottomless Gulf of Eternal Misery and no doubt all the Host of Heaven would have applauded his Justice And for him who was cloathed with Majesty and Honour unexpectedly and of his own accord to turn the Stream and to promise a Saviour and instead of making a Way to his Anger shew Men a Way to his Bosom and in the midst of all this Confusion and Perplexity to proclaim the acceptable Year to the poor Prisoners How can this be thought of in the holy Sacrament without Praise and Admiration 2 For revealing this wonderful Love to us A Favour Thousands of Heathens and Infidels enjoy not at this Day nay are wholly ignorant of A Love which is a Mystery that puzzles the Understandings of the wisest Men. How God intends to deal with Heathens and Mahometant is hard to determine only in general we are told that those who have sinned without Law shall be judged without Law Rom. 2. 12. Nor can we assign a just and satisfactory Reason why he makes not these Nations Partakers of the glad Tidings of the Gospel much less why he continues these Revelations to the Christian World though corrupt and debauched to a Prodigy But this we know That if any Thing in the World deserves our Praises this that we have such a Treasure communicated to us deserves it and more especially in this Sacrament where this Mystery of Reconciliation is a most proper Object of our Meditation 3. For passing by the Apostate Spirits and offering the Mercy of Reconciliation to the Children of Men. The evil Angels sinned as well as we yet the Son of God took not upon him the Nature of Angels ●ut took the Seed of Abraham 'T is true there was more to be said for Adam's Fall than that of Lucifer That Son of the Morning was all Spirit and Understanding and Man had a Body of Earth about him which though not troublesom in Paradise yet was the apter to receive Impressions of Sin from external Objects The rebellious Angels were the first that made a Breach betwixt God and the Creature and Man was seduced by them