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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02266	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle on Munday in Easter weeke the fourteenth day of Aprill, anno Dom. 1623. By Walter Bancanqual ...	Balcanquhall, Walter, 1586?-1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 1240; ESTC S100541	40,503	108

hee was called by the Prophet Uir dolorum a man of sorrowes so he might aswell haue been called Uir lachrymarum a man of teares so giuen to them as that no worldly nor diuine ioy could make him refraine from them Foure times we know hee wept and they were all foure such times as others were either reioycing for him or laughing at him at his birth no question he wept as all other men doe then were the Angels singing at Lazarus his raising the multitude was laughing because hee said he slept this Man of teares weeping Ierusalem in triumph shouting out Hosanna for ioy this Man of teares weeping vpon the Crosse the beholders mocking and shaking their heads at him this man of teares praying and weeping for the Fathers expound that place of the Apostle in the Epistle to the Heb. 5. 7. Who offered vp prayers and supplications with strong cryings and teares of our Sauiours prayer on the Crosse. What shall no mirth keepe him from mourning No solemnitie keepe him from sorrowing for vs and shall wee euer forget to shed our teares for this man of teares which is my onely apologie vnto you for thus mentioning his passion at this Easter solemnitie But why weepe for him In these two regards first for griefe that he should suffer so much secondly for griefe that we should bee the cause of this his so grieuous sufferings First whose eyes can be dry when wee remember the measure of his suffering that the Sonne of God should bee humbled so low as to be borne of a woman The earth is but a center to the heauen and a man or woman but as a center to the earth and yet that a centers center should containe him whō the whole circumference that is to say the heauen of heauens cannot cōtaine that at his birth his bed should be no better thē a cratch a bed nothing so well furnished as that bed which the poore Shunamite made for Elisha 2. Kings 4. 10. for there was neither a table nor a stoole nor Candlesticke by it O that He who made the World and spred the heauens like a curtaine should bee cast in such a bed as was neither made nor had curtaine hanging about it that he should flie by banishment into Egypt vnto whom God gaue the ends of the earth for his proper possession that he should be put to fast who filleth the hungrie with good things and was that Bread of life which came downe from heauen to giue life vnto the World that he should be tempted of the Deuill whom hee did vsually throw out of the possessed by the word of his mouth that he should weepe for Ierusalem who at his passion would not suffer the daughters of Ierusalem to weepe for him Weepe not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem that he should bee subiect to wearinesse who is the refresher of all those that be loaden and wearied that he through sense of Gods wrath vpon him for sinne in the Garden should sweat water and blood who neuer knew sinne but was that immaculate Lambe of God who taketh away the sinnes of the world that hee should bee mocked and scoffed at who one day shall haue the sinners in derision that hee should be spit vpon who one day shall spit and spue the wicked out of his mouth as it is Reuelat. 3. 16. That they durst scourge him with rods who with a whip of cords not long before had scourged out the prophaners of the Temple that they durst bind him who bindeth Kings in chaines and Princes in linkes of Irons that they durst set a Crowne of thornes vpon his head at whose right hand as the Apostle telleth vs there standeth a Crowne of immortall glory That they durst put a rod for a Scepter in his hand Who with a Scepter of Yron shall crush the wicked and breake them in pieces like a potters vessell Psal. 2. 9. That he should die who was the Resurrection and the life That he should die so accursed a death as to bee crucified who was the blessed of the Lord and hee in whom all the Nations on the earth were to be blessed That he should be crucified betweene two theeues who was the truest man that euer was borne nay was Truth it selfe That hee on the Crosse should thirst who in the 55. of Esay calleth vnto euery one that thirsteth to come vnto him That hee should haue Vineger offered him to drinke who was that tree that sweetened the waters of Marah That he should be wounded in the side who healeth the Nations and bindeth vp our wounds That hee who was God himselfe should aske why God had forsaken him Can wee remember these things and not sowe teares Can we remember that his blessed Head was pricked with Thornes and yet doe not our hearts pricke vs at the remembrance of it That our Sauiours hands and feete were smitten thorow with nayles and his side with a lance and yet we not so much as smite our brest at it That with the spittings of his enemies and his owne precious blood and teares his beautifull face was all marred and yet our faces not wet with so much as one teare for it That his face for faintnesse lost the colour and yet no mans cheekes grow pale at it That he should bee thus offered a pure Virgin as a sacrifice and yet we not doe so much as the Daughters of Israel did in remembrance of Iphtaphs daughter bewaile it with teares and lamentations You know the senselesse creatures could not hold but testifie their griefe the Sunne put on as it were a mourning robe for the death of his elder brother the Sonne of righteousnesse the Vayle of the Temple rent it selfe in two for griefe to see it's Lord so dishonoured the stones in the streete claue asunder to see that Stone refused of the builders which was the head of the corner and shall wee now bee sparing of our teares Dearely beloued in the Lord when I consider how at the passion of the Sonne of God the rest of the creatures did testifie their griefe but yet our hard hearts cannot send foorth a sigh nor our eyes a teare I am ready to allow of the force and strength of Bonauentures Meditation on Ezech. 36. 26. and almost begin to say Amen to his petition The Lord there thus promiseth to his people I will take from you your hearts of stone and giue you hearts of flesh No Lord saith he I will haue none of that change giue me rather a heart of stone then a heart of flesh for in the 1 King 13. 5. at the voyce of the Prophet the stones of the Altar went asunder but the heart of Jeroboam remained vntouched and when thy Sonne my blessed Sauiour suffered The Vayle of the Temple rent it selfe in two and the stones of the streete did cleaue themselues asunder Matth. 27. 51. yet the hearts of