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A44026	Innocency, though under a cloud, cleared By P.H. a poor prisoner, when almost sunk under pretended friends censures in the day of his sufferings. And also, a discovery of the comforts that attends innocency in a prison. As also, twenty four usefull particulars left by him for his children and friends, and being left in a friends hand for his relations, I could not but make them publick; judging it will be no loss to the author, and great gain to the reader, and justly give offence to none.	Hobson, Paul.	1664 (1664)	Wing H2274A; ESTC R222586	80,187	179

heart toward the High-way even the Way which thou wentest turn again O Virgin of Israel turn again to these thy Cities What! is there none for me None of this is mentioned but all laid aside to accomplish this rich admirable and unexpressible Love so it was done self-denyingly The fourth thing is For whom he gave him 1. He gave him for Sinners Rom. 5.8 But God commendeth his Love towards us in that while we were yet Sinners Christ dyed for us And in 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithful Saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners of whom I am the chief 2. Ungodly Rom. 4.5 But to him that worketh not but beleiveth on him that justifieth the Ungodly his Faith is counted for Righteousness 3. For Enemies Rom. 5.10 For if while we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his Life 4. The worst of sinners 1 Tim. 1.15 This is a faithful Saying and worthy of all acceptation That Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners of whom I am chief 5. It was for the Rebellious and Blasphemers and such as caused others to blaspheme Psal 68.18 Acts 26.1 8.1 Tim. 1.13 O this heightens God's Love O rich Love God loves them that hate him The fifth thing is God's End in giving his Son 1. It was to reconcile poor lost Sinners to himself 2 Cor. 5.19 20. To wit that God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself not imputing their Trespasses unto them and hath committed unto us the Word of Reconciliation Verse 20. Now then we are Embassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us we pray you in Christ's stead be ye reconciled to God And in Col. 1.20 And having made Peace through the Blood of his Cross by him to reconcile all things unto himself by him I say whether they be things in Earth or things in Heaven Surely God doth highly prize this that he doth purchase it at so high a rate O see see poor Sinner it was not only to accomplish Reconciliation with him but us to him it was not his gain but our gain and his loss O what rich Love is here God seeks a way for us and then seeks to us 2. His End was to overcome and conquer that or them that would have destroyed us As first Sin Rom. 7.24 25. O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death and in verse 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I serve the Law of God but with the flesh the Law of sin Secondly The Law Gal. 2.19 For through the Law I am dead to the Law that I might live unto God Rom. 8.2 For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of Sin and Death Thirdly Death 1 Cor. 15.55 56. O Death where is thy sting O Grave where is thy victory The sting of Death is Sin and the strength of Sin is the Law Fourthly The World John 16.33 These things have I spoken unto you that in Me ye might have peace in the World ye shall have tribulation but be of good chear I have overcome the World Fifthly The Devil In 1 John 3.8 For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the Works of the Devil O what an End is that O reckon every End and they all end in one End for us poor Sinners 3. His End was To bring up poor Souls as into Union so into Communion with himself and Son in all their Light Life Love and Glory John 17.21 That they all may be one as thou Father art in Me and I in Thee that they also may be one in us that the World may believe that thou hast sent Me ver 22. And the Glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one as We are one verse 23. I in Them and Thou in Me that They may be made perfect in One and that the World may know that Thou hast sent Me and hast loved Them as thou hast loved Me. Apply 1 John 1.3 and 1 Pet. 1.3 4 c. 4. His End was That we might have nothing to hinder our Faith and Confidence in Him in our appeals and approaches to him Heb. 4.16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the Throne of Grace that we may obtain Mercy and find Grace to help in time of need And in Ephes 3.12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the Faith of him O mind these Scriptures poor Soul if thou wantest Faith go O go in the Faith of Jesus It is and was God's great care that poor souls though never so poor might come to him with boldness without fear If any should demand the Reasons why God takes this way to manifest his rich Love by Answer For these Reasons 1st Reason There was an absolute necessity lay upon it for there was not another way to accomplish Salvation for Sinners and satisfie divine Justice Isa 63.5 And I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own Arm shall bring Salvation c. And by this Free-Grace is displayed gloriously 2d Reason That it might appear as to be an act of God's Wisdom so singularly an act of Love which other wayes could not have been had not all other things in the world have been lost and overlooked 3d. Reason That all flesh may be silent and brought to lye down and confess it to be a work only of God in that none but God could have done it See Rom. 3. at large and see chapt 4. at large where this rich Work of Love is fully related and debated and this as a Reason asserted Now for the Improvements of this rich Soul-supporting Truth mind in these Uses 1st Use To inform us of the great Wisdom Love and Grace of God to poor Sinners which is so fully made out in this Act of God in giving his Son in this manner O go over all the Particulars and you must say with the Apostle O the heighth and depth of God's Love Ephes 3.18 19. Rom. 11.33 2dly To inform us what poor Man had been had God left him in his lost estate or left him to have found out a way to have saved himself 3dly If this be so as hath been fully proved of this rich admirable and unexpressible Love of God in giving his Son then this may assure us in general That God cannot nor will not withhold any good thing from us but with Christ will give us all things It 's the very use Paul makes of this Truth in Rom. 8.32 where he saith He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things O poor souls consider this and mind it

everlasting Life Now that the Comfort of these words may be discovered I shall first observe this general Truth from these words God So loved The word So is so unexpressible so admirable so matchless so that Observe Doct. The Love of God in giving Christ is a rich admirable and unexpressible Love For the opening of this mind 1. Scriptures to prove it 2. We shall by way of illustration lay down many things to make good this Truth As for Scriptures mind these Rom. 5.8 But God commendeth his Love towards us in that while we were yet Sinners Christ dyed for us Ephes 2.4 But God who is rich in Mercy for his great Love wherewith he hath loved us even when we were dead in sins c. chap. 3.19 And to know the Love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the Fulness of God In 1 John 3.1 Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the Sons of God! chap. 4.9 10. In this was manifested the Love of God towards us because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him verse 10. Herein is Love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be a Propitiation for our Sins See John 17.23 I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the World may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them as thou hast loved me And you may see what is said of Christs Love in that sence Gal. 2.20 I am crucified with Christ nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the Life which I now live in the flesh I live by the Faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me Joh. 13.14 Greater Love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his Friend Now for Illustration mind 1. Consider in what relation Christ stood with God when God gave Christ 2. Consider to what God gave him 3. How God gave him 4. For whom God gave him 5. God's Ends in that work Lastly The Improvements 1. In what relation Christ stood with God there was the bond of nature in the highest degree for he was his Son Psal 2.7 I will declare the Decree the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee Heb. 5.5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an High Priest but Him that said unto him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 2. There was the tye of singularity and peculiarity his Son nay his only Son as in this 3d of John had God had another Son in that sence though the giving up had been 〈◊〉 high token of Love yet not so much as in ●his sence his only Son 3. As there was such an high Affinity in Nature so there was an unexpressable heighth 〈◊〉 Unity of Affection See upon God's ●●de in Mat. 3.17 And loe a Voice from Hea●●en saying This is my beloved Son in whom 〈◊〉 am well pleased and chap. 12.18 Behold ●y Servant whom I have chosen my Beloved in whom my soul is well pleased I will put my Spi●it upon him and he shall shew Judgement to the Gentiles and chap. 17.5 While he yet speak ●ehold a bright Cloud overshadowed them and ●ehold a Voice out of the Cloud which said This 〈◊〉 my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased ●ear ye him and in Mark 1.11 And there ●ame a Voice from Heaven saying Thou art my ●eloved Son in whom I am well pleased and in 2 Pet. 1.17 For he received from God the Father Honour and Glory when there came such a Voice to him from the excellent Glory This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased So you may see in Christ what a high unexpressable Love he had to his Father his Fathers Will was his Will and to answer his Fathers Pleasure was so great a pleasure to him that Life and all must go as little enough to speak out his Love Now consider all this and you will see that the one might have restrained God and have tyed up his hands from giving up his Son and Christ might have pleaded on the other side Why me Father why me that am thy only Son c. but God looks over all in this act 4. There were bonds of Honour both on one Throne in one Glory It might seem in the eye of carnal reason to be below God thus to abase Christ and that in relation to a point of Honour O what Love must there be to over-look this 5. He stood related to God as the chief est and eminentest object of his Delight Prov. 8.30 Then I was by him as one brough up with him and I was dayly his Delight rejoycing alwayes before him Isa 42.1 Behol my Servant whom I uphold mine Elect in whom my Soul delighteth I have put my Spirit upon him and He shall bring forth Judgment to the Gentiles O now reason from all and you will not be able to express this Love of God in giving the Lord Jesus Christ as he did O admirable Love Secondly Consider to what God gave him 1. To Death Phil. 2.8 And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross O could not he have given him to suffering and not to death O what Love must that be that did and could cause God thus to overlook as it were the Love and care of Christ's Life and thus to give him to death 2. The Death of the Cross Phil. 2.8 And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross and Gal. 3.13 Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law being made a Curse for us as it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a Tree the most contemptible Death that could be a cursed Death a shameful dishonourable Death O see what blessed Love was here shewed in this cursed and shameful Death 3. Not only to death and the death of the Cross but to all the Aggravations that could possibly accompany either As thus 1. He suffered as a Sinner in the highest sence 1 Cor. 15.3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received How that Christ dyed for our Sins according to the Scriptures and in the 2 Cor. 5.21 For he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him Sins make suffering unsufferable else it is but a chastisment if sin be not in it but if it be then it is a punishment yet even so must our dear Christ suffer as a fruit of the Fathers Love 2d Aggravation was the exercise of God's Rage Fury and Wrath in the Law against Sin this O this in the highest of

it was Christ given up to in his Death Isa 63.3 I have trodden the Wine-Press alone and there was none to help for I will tread them in mine Anger and trample them in my Fury and their Blood shall be sprinkled upon my Garments and I will stain all my rayment 3. It was to and by the worst of Executors For First They were his Enemies Secondly Their envy was in them as Professors under the Notion of Religion Wrath covered with Zeal is implacable and such are the worst of Enemies that Envy is the worst and where that is there is no pitty no more had they of our dear Saviour Isa 50.6 I gave my back to the Smiters and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting Apply Mat. 27. 4. In the highest of his Sufferings when he was on the Cross in the sence of his Sufferings God did appear to forsake him Mat. 27.46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cryed with a loud voice Eli Eli lamasabachthani that is to say My God my God why hast thou forsaken me O to lose sight and sence of Presence is sad Suffering in it self is sufficient to sink down a soul but to lose Presence in the midst and heighth of Sufferings doth sadly aggravate it yet this must dear Christ be given up to O what Love is there in God! O unspeakable Love to poor Sinners that to accomplish their good and safety his Son must thus suffer and be thus forsaken The third thing in order is How God gave him up 1. Freely for he was not sought to by any for Christ thus to be given up nor no purchase should have been given if he had been so offered but God doth it freely In Isa 50.2 Wherefore when I came there was no man when I called there was none to answer Is my hand shortned at all that it cannot redeem or have I no power to deliver c. And chap. 63.5 And I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own Arm brought Salvation unto me and my Fury it upheld me Besides all his Tearms in his Tenders of this dear Christ are free 2. As he did it freely as to us so he did it with the greatest severity as to him and that you will see if you consider these Scriptures Isa 53.4 5 6 7 8 9 10. applyed with Mat. 27. from the 29 to the 50 verse and Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things And in that 8th of the Romans consider what it is for God not to spare his Son as the Word is He Spared not his Son 1st Not to Spare implies or signifies the highest Severity of Justice Deut. 13.8 Thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pitty him neither shalt thou Spare neither shalt thou conceal him Isa 13.18 Their Bowes also shall dash the young men to pieces and they shall have no pitty on the Fruit of the Womb their eyes shall not spare Children 2dly It 's to let out Justice upon one without the least exercise of pitty or any reluctancy or roulings of bowels of compassion See Jer. 13.14 And I will dash them one against another even the Father and the Sons together I will not pitty nor Spare nor have mercy but destroy them Ezek. 7.4 8 9. In the 4th verse And mine eye shall not Spare thee neither will I have pitty but I will recompence thy wayes upon thee and thine abomination shall be in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the Lord. In 〈…〉 Now will I shortly pour out 〈…〉 and accomplish mine Anger upon 〈…〉 ●●dge thee according to thy wayes and will recompence thee for all thy abominations In the 9th verse And mine eye shall not Spare thee neither will I pitty thee I will recompence thee according to thy wayes and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth And in Ezek. 9.5 And to the others he said in mine hearing Go ye after them through the City and smite let not your eye Spare neither have ye pitty 3dly It implies a laying aside all regard or respect to the party suffering See this word so exprest Job 30.10 They abhor me they flee far from me they Spare not to spit in my face And as it was there with Job so it was with Christ Isa 50.6 I gave my back to the S●●irters and ny cheeks to them that plucked off the hair I h●● not my face from shame and spitting Apply to this Mat. 27. From all this if you consider it you will see it was from God upon Christ with the greatest Severity that could be 3. God did not only give him unto us freely as to Christ with the greatest severity but he did it delightfully Isa 53.10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his Seed he shall prolong his dayes and the Pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand 〈…〉 to give up the Son 〈…〉 death to accomplish 〈…〉 Life for poor Sinners 4. He did it self 〈◊〉 〈…〉 himself and to Christ and he did it so as admitting of no reasoning from himself or any way of repining or minding the loss of his Sons Life and as to Christ he might have said as David O my Son my only Son O shall I give my Son for Sinners my Friend for my Enemies he never seems to give way to any such discourse or reasoning but denies all to accomplish his Love for lost Creatures Nay Christ might have said to his Father What dost thou find in me word 〈◊〉 Death if not how can it stan● 〈…〉 24.16 The Fathers 〈…〉 Death for the Children neither shall 〈…〉 put to Death for the Fathers every 〈◊〉 shall he put to Death for his own sin 2 Kings 14.6 But the Children of the Mu●●● 〈…〉 according unto that which is w●● 〈…〉 of the Law of Moses wherein 〈…〉 ●●●ded saying The Father s●●●● 〈…〉 for the Children nor th●●● 〈…〉 death for their Fathers but every man shall be put to death for his own sin Besides Father there is rouling of thy Bowels to others as in Hos 11.8 How shall I give thee up Ephraim how shall I deliver thee Israel how shall I make thee as Admah how shall I set thee as Zeboim mine heart is turned within me my repentings are kindled together And in Jer. 31.20 21. Is Ephraim my dear Son is he a pleasant Child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. Verse 21. Set thee up way-marks make thee high heaps set thine