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A44146	Our Saviours passion delivered in a sermon, preach'd in the cathedral church of Saint Peter in Exon. On Good Friday, the first of April, 1670. By Matthew Hole, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Exeter Colledge, Oxon.	Hole, Matthew, 1639 or 40-1730.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2411; ESTC R215768	11,909	18

a Tree of life which bears no other fruit than that of knowledge and eternal happiness his agonies are our triumphs and his bloody sweat the most Soveraign Balsam to cure our wounds the Spear that pierc't our Saviours side open'd there a Fountain for sin and for uncleanness he liv'd and died with thieves and robbers and was numbred among transgressors only that we might live with Saints and sing forth his praises with Myriads of Angels thus did every part of this Tragedy relate wholly to our benefit and advancement and so much may suffice for the first thing propounded to be spoken to the Second is to shew that all this was done by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God which truth beside the express words of the Text is as fully set forth Acts 4.27 28. Of a truth against the Holy Child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and people of Israel were gathered together to do whatsoever thy hand and thy Counsel determin'd before to be done for the clearing and evincing whereof we must know First that there was from all eternity a certain covenant and agreement between the Father and the Son concerning what and how he should suffer for Almighty God foreseeing the Apostacy and fall of mankind did from eternity at least for some of them decree a ransom and redemption to effect which because justice demanded satisfaction for the violation of that positive Law that was to be given to them the Son as a surety interpos'd and promis'd satisfaction whereupon it was determin'd and agreed between them what should be the manner and measure of his sufferings in order to the procuring pardon and redemption for them of this Covenant on God the Fathers part we read Isai 53.10 If he shall make his soul an Offering for sin he shall see his seed and prolong his dayes Of the Sons acceptation and undertaking hereof we read Psal 40.7 8. Then said I loe I come in the volume of thy Book it is written of me to do thy will O God and hence is our Saviour said to be the Lamb slain before the Foundations of the World Revel 13.8 viz. in Gods eternal decree and determination which makes it evident that every circumstance of Christs Passion was done by the counsel and fore-knowledge of God which will yet further appear if we consider Secondly That as these things were from eternity transacted and resolved upon between the Father and the Son so likewise were they by the Spirit of God reveal'd unto the Prophets and by them delivered unto the World long before the incarnation of Jesus Christ Hence St. Paul in the defence of this doctrine told Agrippa that he said none other things then those which Moses and the Prophets did say should come that Christ should suffer Act. 26.22 23. yea if we compare the Prophecies of the Old Testament with the History of the New we shall find that exact correspondence of the event with the predictions and the punctual accomplishment of every circumstance even in that way and manner as it was fore-told will make it clearly to appear that all this was done by the determinate Counsel and fore-knowledge of God which will be yet more plain if we consider Thirdly that these things were not only punctually fore-told by the Prophets but likewise prefigur'd in Types and in a previous manner acted over in the sacrifices long before our Saviours coming in the flesh the slaying of the Paschal Lamb in the Passeover clearly represents the slaughter of this Lamb of God who was to take away the sins of the world the lifting up of the brazen Serpent in the wilderness betoken'd and is accordingly by the Apostle apply'd to the lifting up of the Messias upon the Cross yea all the Sacrifices under the Law which were offer'd and purg'd with blood are but so many Types and Representations of the death of the Messias signifying to us that only through his blood we must look for the remission of sins and through the vail of his flesh alone hope for the admission into the Holy of Holies all which without having recourse to the infinity of his wisdom knownledge make it more particularly and unquestionably certain that our Saviours Passi●on as to all the Modes and Circumstances of it was done by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God The practical inferences by way of Application our last particular now follow and First of all from the several steps of our Saviours Passion together with the infamy and severity of them all we may learn the hainous and pernicious nature of sin which could be no otherwise expiated then by the blood of the Son of God the sins of lost man cry'd so loud in the ears ' of Heaven that Jesus Christ must descend thence er'e he could stop the clamour and when he came down nothing could silence it but the sweeter voice of that blood that speaketh better things than that of Abel If any can be so dangerously mistaken as to think sin but a slight matter let him enter into the High Priests Palace the Judgment Hall and Mount Calvary and there see what it cost our Saviour to do it away let him take a walk in the Garden of Gethsemane and then give his sins a prospect of what they drew upon a bleeding and Crucified Christ there maist thou see what a dismall night of affliction thou hast made him to suffer by thy luxury and night-revellings there maist thou behold those sad wounds and bruises which thy sins have made upon his body and how he groans under that at which thou dost but sport thy self call upon thy deep draughts and riotous excess to see what a cup of wrath and trembling they have made him to drink off for their sake shew thy drunkenness the Gall and Worm-wood which he was forc't to swallow for its atonement call hither thy lewd embraces and sinfull dalliances shew them a naked Christ all over bath'd in tears and blood to wash off their impurities bid thy oaths and cursing look yonder and see the blood and wounds which they have so often plaid withal view those bitter pangs throws and Agonies which sin hath made him to labour under and then see whether it be so light and inconsiderable a matter as thou wouldst fain perswade thy self it is certainly if there be any pressure in that which crackt the very heart-strings of Nature and made the whole Creation groan if there be any weight in that which sank the Lord of Heaven and Earth into the Grave then is sin one of the heaviest and most intolerable burdens in the World Secondly this discourse of our Saviours Passion bids us to conform unto his death by dying unto sin and crucifying the the flesh with the affections and lusts this is the use which the Apostle makes of it Rom. 6.4 that as Christ dyed and rose again so should we dye unto sin and live unto