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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	new_a	old_a	testament_n	23,958	5	8.6166	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80971	An off-spring of mercy, issuing out of the womb of cruelty. or, A passion sermon preached at Christs-Church in Oxford, by that late renowned ornament of the University, William Carwright.	Cartwright, William, 1611-1643.	1652 (1652)	Wing C713; Thomason E1287_2; ESTC R208967	9,757	37

had no Law nor Scripture The Jews pretended to know and search both The Jews were inexcusable because they knew what they did the Gentiles were so farre excusable that Christ himself seem'd to pray for them as for a people not knowing what themselves did The imputation therefore of the Death is the Jews by excellence And our Saviours sufferings were in this the greater that they were from such a people For if we consider the whole Nation what were they The slaves of the Romans then and the refuse of the world ever A people as at this day hating all and hated of all A Nation that God chose as himself intimates not for any worth or bravery of spirit but that he might glorifie himself in the vile things of the earth and shew his strength in weaknesse no comfort then to our Saviour from the Authour of his passion nor the fall any way ennobled by the hand from whence it came He had that utmost of misfortune in death not to finde an honourable enemy Their behaviour then was viler then their persons The Religious and heavy malice of the Priests and Elders the solemn and severe impiety of the Scribes and Pharisees seriously advising that no tumult may disturb the feast You may think this was from the very chair of Religion The Court indeed pretended devotion but served a most impious design This fear of tumult in the solemnity as is observed by one of the Fathers was not that the people might not sin but that they might not save him They feared not Prophanation but a rescue These were wicked intentions I am sure what must the hands then be that executed them why stand a while and observe and then conclude Jesus taken if he may be said taken who came into their hands is hurried from place to place posted from Judge to Judge put over from torment to torment from the Garden to Annas from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod from Herod to Pilate again Cruelty walking the circle and impiety if ever now treading the ring His apprehending joyn'd to his Agony his accusation to his apprehending and his condemnation to that Then his condemnation received by irrision irrision by stripes stripes by crowning with thorns 'T is not to be told with the same continuation that he suffered it Then carrying his Crosse extension nayling lifting up and after all this businesse and tumult of motion his rest only upon the Crosse A rest indeed such as wity cruelty when it imploys and tasks invention to serve it would at last give A rest by which torment ceased not but was continued A rest that detain'd the soul only to make it part with more torture the strugling Spirit escaping by parcels as water out of a narrow mouth'd vessell the man dying not once but long And were not these wicked hands But there is yet something behinde to make even the Crosse more infamous more a Crosse They crucified him as it is generally observed In medio terrae in the very center and navell of the earth In medio populi in the middle channell of flouds of people In medio malefactorum between theeves as the more thief In an infamous place on high without garments in the force of day that nothing could be hidden Lastly at the Feast of their Passeover those Nundinae Religiosae those publique Wakes of Religion and generall Mart of Sacrificing were not these if any wicked hands wicked indeed to the utmost if you consider only the Action But if the intention the book of Infamy wants a name to brand them For they did this to despight the Lord of life and to grieve his Spirit who was to seal them to the day of redemption And now after these hands Is this he that is more beautifull then all the Sonnes of men This that goodly person that whosoever looked on blest the Womb that bare him and the paps that gave him suck This that face that the Angels cannot look on and yet will not look off yes I adde to this their malice hath augmented that beauty Quae dabo magis ex horrido Seneca speciosa Miseries consecrate worthy countenances and make that which entire was our pleasure broken become our worship Perdiderunt tot mala they lost all their injuries That their spunge swel'd with gall and vinegar did as that froward Painters spunge perfect that work they thought to spoil For when he had drunk He said Consummatum est It is finisht and so by a largenesse of charity freely breathing out his saving spirit into the world revived the nations dead in trespasses Here me thinks I see the Crosse set up as the bound and pillar of the Law and hear God himself saying Hitherto shalt thou come and no further and here shall thy killing letter it self die Thus was it his determinate counsell that the Old Testament should be swallowed up in the New that all those Ceremonies of sacrifice should be buried in that immaculate sacrifice that he himself delivered and that the Sepulchre of Moses so long hid from the world should be found at last in our Saviour Christ Thus did the Sun of Righteousnesse set with more grace and sweetnesse then either he did rise or run his course with and enlightning his thorns in so many pointed Rayes of that his greatest work His death made glories and circles of lustre for all the rest of his actions Thus when the Jews by divine fore-knowledge had brought the Deity to that despicablenesse that they occasioned those miracles That He should be impleaded and condemned who is Judge of all He laden with curses that scatters blessings as Sunne-beams over the face of the world That health it self languisht and the very impassible suffered God who is wont to take his rise where men stop was pleased to strike miracles out of these greater then these For behold An Off-spring of Mercy issuing out of the womb of Cruelty A bundle of new miracles as farre beyond the former as they are opposite to them A condemnation that absolves us A curse that blesseth us A sicknesse that recovers us and a death it self that quickens us So much was his love stronger then death who Heb. 5. 8 9. though He were a Son yet learn'd he obedience by the things he suffered and being made perfect he became the Authour of eternall salvation to all them that obey him Among which number O Lord write our names for his sake who this day suffered to blot out that hand-writing that was against us Amen