rest sent forth some of his Souldiers who killed all the children which were in Bethlehem and in all the coast thereof from two years old and under according to the time of the Star first seen in the East concerning which he had enquired of the wise men Matth. 2. 16. After the death of Herod who had sought the life of the young Child Jesus the Angel of the Lord appeared again to Joseph in a dream whilst he was in Egypt commanding him that he should return with the young Child and his Mother into the Land of Israel for that he that sought his life was dead and accordingly when Joseph awaked he performed what was by the Angel enjoyned him Matth. 2. 19 20 21 But when he was come back into the Land of Israel he heard that Archilaus raigned in Judea in the room of his Father Herod he therefore feared to go thither and being warned of God in a dream he departed into the parts of Galilee which Tetrarchy Herod had given by Will to Antipas and there dwelt in the City of Nazareth from whence Jesus took the name of Nazarene Matth. 2. 22 23. and the Primitive Christians of Nazarenes Act. 24. 5. When Jesus was twelve years old at the Feast of the Passover he was brought to Jerusalem by his Parents Joseph and Mary and when the seven days of unleavened bread were ended his Parents returning home Jesus staid behind them But so soon as they missed him they sought him three days and at last found him in the Temple sitting in the midst of the Doctors hearing them and asking them questions so that all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers Luk. 2. 41 47. Then went Jesus down with his Parents to Nazareth and was obedient to them Luk. 2. 51. and during his minority followed his Fathers trade of a Carpenter eating his bread in the sweat of his brows as appears by the speeches of his fellow-Citizens Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Mary Mar. 6. 3. The thirtieth and the last Jubilee falling in the thirtieth year of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the beginning of his Gospel John his forerunner proclaimed in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of Lord and make his paths strait Mark 1. 12. and opening the acceptable year of the Lord or the time of his Divine pleasure in which our good God vouchsafed to manifest that Great One to the world Isa. 61. 2. Luke 4. 19. For in the 13th year of the raign of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea Herod Antipas Tetrarch of Galilee his brother Philip Tetrarch of Ituraea and the region of Trachonitis and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilene under the Priesthoods of Annas and Caiphas came the word of the Lord unto John the son of Zacharias in the Desert Luke 3. 12. according unto whose command this Nazarite both Priest and Prophet of the Lord did Baptize in the Desert of Judea in which there were many Cities which are mentioned Josh. 15. 16. preaching the Baptism of Repentance for the remssion of sins Matth. 3. 1. Mar. 1. 4. Luk. 3. 3. endeavouring that Christ that came after him might be made known to Israel John 1. 7 8 13. which that he might more certainly know this sign was given him of God that upon whom he should see the holy Ghost descending and remaining he should thereby know that it was he that should Baptize others with the holy Ghost John 1. 33. It s most probable saith the learned Doctor Usher that this his ministery began on that most convenient day the tenth of the seventh moneth about the nineteenth day of our October which was both penitential being joyned with a solemn Fast in which whosoever did not afflict his soul should be cut off from his people and also Expiatory in which the high Priest went into the Holy of Holies to expiate the sins of the People with blood that was offered and that same day in which by the sound of Trumpet the Jubilee was commanded to be proclaimed over all the Land Levit. 25. 9. So John Baptist the Preacher of repentance and remission of sins to be attained by the blood of Christ that was to come passing through every Region round about Jordan lifted up his voice like a Trumpet saying Repent ye for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand whereupon there went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region round about Jordan especially that huge multitude which returnned from Jerusalem the Feast of Tabernacles being ended about the beginning of our November and were Baptized of him in Jordan confessing their sins Matth. 3. 2 3 5 6. Mark 1. 5. And when all the People were Baptized Jesus came also from Nazareth of Galilee to Jordan to be Baptized of John Luke 3. 21. Matth. 3. 13. Mark 1. 9. which office John denied at first to perform as standing in need himself to be Baptized of Christ but the Lord urging that thus it behoved that all righteousness should be fulfilled he Baptized him Matth. 3. 14 15. Jesus then beginning to be about thirty years old Luke 3. 23. At this time there was made a most illustrious manifestation of the blessed Trinity For the Son of God in the humane nature that he assumed ascending out of the water and praying the Heavens were opened and the holy Ghost was seen in a bodily shape like a Dove descending upon him and the voice of the Father was heard from Heaven saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Matth. 3. 16 17. Mark 1. 10 11. Luke 3. 21 22. Jesus being now full of the holy Ghost returned from Jordan and was driven by the Spirit into the Desert where for forty days and nights being tempted by the Divel he remained amongst wild Beasts not eating any thing and when the days were ended he was an hungry Luke 4. 1 2. Matth. 4. 1 2. Mark 1 12 13. Satan taking this opportunity set upon him with a threefold Temptation all which being ended he departed from him for a season Matth. 4. 3 11. Luke 4. 3 13. and the Angels came and ministred unto him Matth. 4. 11. Mark 1. 13. After which Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee Luke 4. 14. John the Baptist the next day after Christs coming to him when the Jews from Jerusalem sent some Priests and Levites of the Sect of the Pharisees to him as he was Baptizing at Bethabara by Jordan to ask him who he was he professed clearly that he was not the Christ He denied also that he was Elias or that Prophet foretold by Moses Deut. 18. 15. the same indeed with Christ. Act. 3 22 7. 37. but by the Jews thought to be another He told them also that he was The voice of one crying in the wilderness make strait the way of the Lord and then added that testimony of Christ I Baptize with
THE BLESSED LIFE AND MERITORIOUS DEATH OF OUR LORD SAVIOUR Jesus Christ From his CONCEPTION to his CROSS and from his CROSS to his CROWN Together with the Series and Order of his Ministery and Miracles as they are Recorded by the four Evangelists wherein what is wanting in one is supplied out of the other By SAM CLARKE sometime Pastor in St Bennet-Fink London In all things it behoved him to be made like unto his Brethren that he might be a merciful and faithful high Priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the People For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted he is able to succour them that are tempted Heb. 2. 17 18. LONDON Printed for William Miller at the Sign of the Gilded-Acron St Pauls Churchyard near the little North door 1664. Imprimatur Joh. Hall R. P. D. Episc. Lond. Ã Sac. Domest April 13. 1664. THE LIFE DEATH OF OUR BLESSED LORD SAVIOUR Jesus Christ. IN the 6th moneth after John sirnamed the Baptist was conceived the Angel Gabriel who had in time past foretold to Daniel the coming of the Messias by a definite number of weeks was sent by God to Nazareth in Galilee to the blessed Virgin Mary that was betrothed to Joseph of the same Tribe of Judah with her self and of the stock of David who after salutations declared unto her that she should bring forth the Son of God and should call his Name Jesus and having more fully taught her of the admirable manner of her conception to be performed by the power of the holy Ghost overshadowing her with great Faith she said Be it to the handmaid of the Lord according to thy word Luk. 1. 26 38. Christ being thus conceived the Mother of our Lord went into the Hill Countrey with hast into a city of JIuda to wit Hebron a city of the Priests situate in the mountains of Judea Josh. 21. 10 11. where when she entred into the house of Zacharias the Priest and had saluted her cousin Elizabeth she perceiving the child to spring in her womb was filled with the holy Ghost and declared that Mary was blessed which believed and confirmed that those things should be performed that were told her of the Lord To whom for an answer the blessed Virgin imitating that song of Hannah 1 Sam. 2. 1. rehearsed that Divine Hymn My soul doth magnifie the Lord c. After which Mary tarried with her about three moneths Luke 1. 39 56. Mary Not long after Joseph finding his betrothed wife with child was willing to put her away privily but being warned of God in a dream and informed that she had conceived by the holy Ghost and should bring forth her Son Jesus who should save his people from their sins he taketh his wife Matt. 1. 18 24. When the time of Maries delivery drew neer there came forth a command from Augustus that all the Roman world should be taxed which taxing was first made when Cyrenius was Governour of Syria Luk. 2. 1 whereupon Joseph went up from Galilee from the city of Nazareth into Judea into the city of David which is called Bethlehem because he was of the House and linage of David that he might be taxed with Mary his Wife being great with childe Luk. 2. 4 5. During their abode there Jesus Christ the Son of God in the fulness of time was born of the most blessed Virgin Mary at Bethlehem Matth. 1. 25. 2. 1 5. Gal. 4. 4. in the four thousanth year of the World saith the learned Primate of Ireland Doctor Usher whom Mary rolled in swadling clothes and laid him in a manger because there was no room in the Inn. Luk. 2. 7. Christ being thus born his Nativity was revealed by an Angel of the Lord to Shepherds that were keeping their Flock by night in the neighbouring Fields which word a multitude of the Heavenly Host receiving prayed for Glory to God peace to the earth and good will to men when they were departed the Shepherds making hast to Bethlehem found Mary and Joseph and the child lying in the Manger and they published that which was told them concerning the child and so returned praising and glorifying God Luk. 2. 8 20. The eighth day after his Nativity the child was circumcised and his Name was called Jesus which was so appointed by the Angel Gabriel before he was conceived in the womb Luk. 2. 21. Presently after the Wise men from the East being guided by a new and extraordinary Star came to Herod to Jerusalem and there having learned that the Birth-place of Christ was Bethlehem of Judea they went thither and entring into the house which was pointed out to them by the Star that stood over it they found the little Child and Mary his Mother and falling down they worshipped him and opening their Treasures they offered unto him Gold Frankincense and Myrrhe Then being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod they departed into their own Countrey another way Matth. 2. 1 12. The fortieth day after her delivery Mary went up to Jerusalem to the Temple both that she might present him to the Lord according to the Law of the first-born and also that she might offer for her self a pair of Turtle Doves or two young Pigeons she being so poor that she could not offer a Lamb according to the Law concerning Women that had lain in Luk. 2. 22 23 24 27. with Levit. 1â— 2 3 4 6 8. When his Parents Joseph and Mary brought the Child Jesus into the Temple to do for him according to the custome of the Law their came in at the same time Simeon of Jerusalem to whom it was revealed by God that he should not die before he had seen the anointed of the Lord whom he took in his arms and praised the Lord adding Prophesies both concerning Christ and his Mother At the same instant also came Anna a Prophetess the daughter of Phanuel who also acknowledged the Lord openly and spake of him to all that looked for Redemption in Jerusalem Luk. 2. 25 38. Thus when Joseph and Mary had performed all things according to the Law of the Lord they returned into Galilee to their own City Nazareth Luk. 2. 39. Some time after the Angel of the Lord appeared unto Joseph in a dream warning him to fly into Egypt thereby to provide for the life of the Child and to escape the malicious designs of Herod who having by the Wise men heard that one was born King of the Jews sought to destroy him and accordingly Joseph when he awaked took the young Child and his Mother by night and went into Egypt where he remained until the death of Herod Matth. 2. 13 14 15. But Herod thinking that the young Child had been still at Bethlehem being further provoked by the Wise mens not returning to him that he might destroy him amongst the
Crucifie him and were very instant with loud voices desiring the same Mark 15. 6 15. Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him and the Souldiers platted a Crown of Thorns and put it on his Head and clothed him with Purple saying Hail King of the Jews and beat him with staves Pilate therefore went forth again unto them and said unto them Behold I bring him forth unto you that ye may know that I find no fault in him Then Jesus came forth wearing the Crown of Thorns and the Robe and Pilate said unto them Behold the man When the Chief Priests and Officers saw him they cryed out saying Crucifie him Crucifie him Pilate replyed Take ye him and Crucifie him for I find no fault in him Then said the Jews He ought to die because he made himself the Son of God When Pilate heard that he was the more afraid and went again into the Jugdement Hall and said to Jesus Whence art thou But Jesus gave him no answer Then said Pilate to him Speakest thou not unto me Knowest thou not that I have power to Crucifie thee Jesus answered Thou couldst have no power unless it were given thee from above From thence-forth Pilate sought to release him But the Jews cryed out Then art thou not Caesars friend When Pilate heard this he sate on the Judgement seat in the place called the Pavement and it was the preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour Then said he to the Jews Behold your King The chief Priests answered We have no King but Caesar. When Pilate therefore saw that he prevailed nothing but the rather a tumult was made he took water and washed his hands before the multitude saying I am innocent of the blood of this just person see you to it And all the People answered and said His blood be upon us and our children Then Pilate being willing to content the multitude released unto them Barabbas and when he had scourged Jesus he delivered him over to their will that he might be Crucified John 19. 1 16 17 30. Then the Souldiers of the Governour when they had led Jesus into the Hall called Praetonium they called together the whole band and when they had stripped him they put upon him a Skarlet Robe and platted a Crown of Thorns and put it on his Head and a Reed in his right Hand and bowing the knee they mocked him saying Hail King of Jews And when they had spat on him they took the Reed and smote him on the Head and when they had mocked him they took off the Purple and put his own clothes on him and led him out to Crucifie him Matth. 27. 27 31. Mark 15. 16 37. Then Judas which had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned repented himself and brought the thirty pieces of Silver to the chief Priests confessing his sin unto them and casting the Silver pieces into the Temple went and hanged himself and they bought with them the Potters Field that the Prophesie might be fulfilled Matth. 27. 3 c. And Jesus came forth carrying his Cross but as they were leading him they found one Simon of Cyrene as he came out of the Countrey whom they took and compelled to carry the Cross after Jesus There were also two Thieves that were led with him to be Crucified And there followed a great multitude of People and of women that lamented to whom Jesus turned and foretold the lamentable destruction of Jerusalem And when they were come into the place called Calvary but in the Hebrew Golgotha they gave him to drink Wine mingled with Myrrhe and vineger mingled with Gall and when he had tasted it he would not drink it and they Crucified him there and it was the third hour and two Thieves with him one on the right hand and the other on the left And Jesus said Father forgive them for they know not what they do And Pilate wrote a Superscription in Hebrew Greek and Latine and put it on the Cross which at the request of the chief Priests Pilate would not alter And after they had crucified him they divided his Garments into four parts to every Souldier that was imployed in his execution a part and cast Lots for his Seamless Coat whose it should be that the Scripture might be fulfilled and sitting down they watched him there and the People stood beholding him But they that passed by reviled him wagging their heads and saying Oh thou that destroyest the Temple and buildest it in three Days save thy self If thou beest the Son of God come down from the Cross. Likewise also the Chief Priests and Rulers with the People and Scribes and Elders mocking and scoffing said amongst themselves He saved others himself he cannot save If he be the King of Israel If that Christ the chosen of God let him come down from the Cross and we will believe him He trusted in God let him deliver him if he will have him For he said I am the Son of God The Souldiers also mocked him and coming to him offered him Vinegar saying If thou be the King of the Jews save thy self The Thieves also that were Crucified with him cast the same in his Teeth And one of them continuing his railing against him the other being converted rebuked him and said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom To whom Jesus answered To day shalt thou be with me in Paradise And there stood by his Cross the Mother of Jesus and his Mothers Sister Mary the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalene When Jesus therefore saw his Mother and the Disciple whom he loved standing by he said to his Mother Behold thy Son and to the Disciple Behold thy Mother And when the sixth hour was come there was darkness over all the Land or Countrey until the ninth hour and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice Eli Eli lamma saba cthani and some that stood by said he calleth Elias Luke 23. 26. 38. Matth. 27. 32 50. Luke 23. 44 45 46. After this when Jesus knew that all things were accomplished that the Scripture might be fulfilled he said I thirst Now there was set there a vessel full of Vinegar and they filled a Spunge with Vinegar and put it upon Hysop or a Reed and put it to his mouth saying with the rest Let be let us see if Elias will come to save him and take him down But Jesus when he had received the Vinegar said It is finished And then again he cryed with a loud voice Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit and bowing his head he gave up the Ghost And when the Centurion saw that he so cryed out and gave up the Ghost he Glorified God saying Truly this is a just man Truly this is the Son of God Mark 15. 38 42. And behold the vail of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottome
and the Earth did quake and the Rocks rent and the Graves were opened and many Bodies of the Saints which slept arose and came out of their Graves after his Resurrection and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many And the Centurion and they that stood over against and they that watched Jesus when they saw the Earthquake and the things that were done feared greatly saying Truly this was the Son of God And all the People that came together to that sight beholding the things that were done smote their Breasts and returned And his acquaintance and the Women which followed him from Galilee stood afar off beholding these things among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of James the Less and Mother of Joses and Salome who also when he was in Galilee followed him and ministred unto him and many other Women that came up to Jerusalem with him Luke 23. 47 48 49. Mat. 27. 51 56. The Jews therefore that the Bodies should not remain on the Cross on the Sabbath for that Sabbath was an high day because it was the preparation besought Pilate that their leggs might be broken and that they might be taken down The Souldiers therefore came and brake the leggs of the two Thieves but not of Jesus because he was already dead Yet one of them with a spear pierced his side and there came out Blood and Water and these things were done that the Scriptures might be fulfilled Joh. 19. 31 37. And when Even was now come because it was the preparation that is the Day before the Sabbath there came Joseph of Arimathea a Rich man and an Honourable Councellor who also looked for the Kingdom of God a good and a just man and one who had not consented to the counsell and deed of them Being a Disciple but secretly for fear of the Jews came boldly to Pilate and begged the Body of Jesus Pilate marvelled that he was already dead and calling the Centurion asked him and when he knew it he gave the Body to Joseph There came also Nicodemus which at first came to Jesus by night and brought a mixture of Myrrhe and Aloes about a hundred pound weight and they took the Body of Jesus and wrapped it in a linnen cloth with the spices as the manner of the Jews was to bury And Joseph laid it in his own new Sepulchre which he had hewen out of a Rock wherein yet never man was laid and which was in a Garden in the place where Jesus was crucified rolling a great Stone to the door of the Sepulchre and Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of Joses who came with him from Galilee beheld where they laid him sitting over against the Sepulchre and they returned and prepared spices and ointments and rested the Sabbath Day according to the Commandment Joh. 19. 38 42. Luk. 23. 50 56. Mar. 15. 42 47. Mat. 27. 57 61. The next Day April 4th the Pharisees besought Pilate that he would command the Sepulchre to be made sure untill the third Day adding their reason which when he had yeelded to they went and made the Sepulchre sure sealing the Stone and setting a Watch. In the end of the Sabbath or when the Sabbath was now past April 5th when it dawned towards the first day of the Week in the morning very early whilest it was yet dark came Mary Magdalene and Mary the Mother of James and Salome bringing Spices which they had bought that they might see the Sepulchre and annoint Jesus And they said Who shall roll away the Stone from the door for us and when the Sun was risen coming to the Sepulchre they saw the Stone rolled away For behold there was a great Earthquake For the Angel of the Lord came down from Heaven and rolled away the Stone and sate upon it and they went in but found not the Body of the Lord Jesus and it came to pass as they were much perplexed thereat behold two men came to them in shining Raiment their countenances were as lightening and their garments white as snow Matthew and Mark mention but one Angel and the Keepers for fear did shake and became as dead men And when the Women were afraid and bowed their Faces to the Earth the Angels said to them Fear not ye I know that ye seek Jesus that was Crucified But why seek ye the living amongst the Dead He is not here He is risen as he said Come and see the place where the Lord was laid and remember what he said whilest he was in Galilee with you saying The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinfull men and be Crucified and the third Day rise again But go ye quickly and tell his Disciples and Peter that he is risen from the dead and behold he goes before you into Galilee there ye shall see him behold I have told you Then the women remembred the Words of Jesus and they departed quickly out of the Sepulchre with fear and wonder and great joy and ran to tell his Disciples but they said nothing to any man as they went for they were afraid And when the Women told these things to the eleven and to all the rest their words seemed to them as idle Tales But Mary Magdalene telling Peter and the other Disciple whom Jesus loved They have taken away the Lord and we know not where they have laid him Peter and that other Disciple went out and came to the Sepulchre but that other Disciple did outrun Peter and came first to the Sepulchre and when he stooped down he saw the linnen clothes lying but went not in Then came Peter following him and went into the Sepulchre and saw the linnen clothes lye and the napkin that was about his Head not lying with them but wrapped together in a place by it self Then went in that other Disciple and saw and believed and Peter went unto his own home wondring at what was done For as yet they knew not the Scriptures that he must rise again from the Dead And the Disciples went to their own home But Mary Magdalene stood without at the Sepulchre weeping and whilest she wept she stooped down in the Sepulchre and saw two Angels in white sitting the one at the Head the other at the feet where the Body of Jesus had lain and they said unto her Woman why weepest thou She said They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have laid him and when she had thus said she turned back and saw Jesus but knew not that it was he And Jesus said to her Why weepest thou whom seekest thou She supposing that it had been the Gardiner said If thou hast born him hence tell me where thou hast laid him and I will take him away Jesus said to her Touch me not but go and tell my Brethren saying I go c. And she came and told his Disciples and those that had been with him as they were weeping
it was shewed that of the Tribe of Judah should Shiloh come but whether Male or Female nothing certain David was assured that a Son of his should sit upon his Throne for ever But till Isaias it was not known that he should be born of a pure Virgin that a woman should compass a man Isa. 7. 14. Behold a Virgin that famous Virgin the Originall sets it forth with an Accent spoken of Gen. 3. 15. shall conceive and bear a Son The very place of his Birth was not set forth till Micha did it Mich. 5. 2. Not the just time till Daniel foretold it Dan. 9. 24. Thus by degrees and piece-meal as it were God spake of old to the Fathers by his servants the Prophets Heb. 1. 1. Every age almost brought sorth some new thing touching the Babe of Bethlehem lapt up in the swathbands of the Holy Scriptures either in express and evident terms and testimonies or else in mirrors and miracles Lastly John Baptist Fibula Legis Gratiae as one calls him the Buckler of the Law and Gospel pointed him out with his finger Behold the Lamb of God c. Now this Jesus Christ is the most excellent Person in the world the fairest amongst men worth ten thousand of us as the People said of David 2 Sam. 18. 3. Look upon him as he is described Heb. 1. 1 2 3. For his Nobility He is Gods own Son For his Riches He is heir of all things For his Wisdom He made the Worlds For his Eminency He is the brightness of his Fathers Glory and the express Image of his Person For his might He upholdeth all things by the Word of his Power For his Merits He hath by himself purged our sins For his Preferment He sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on High Traps Treas The quallity and kind of Christs Death is remarkeable for three Characters which were engraven on the Death of the Cross which he died 1. For the painfulness of it The nature of that Death was painfull For Death it self is painfull no man payes that debt with ease When Asa dies he cryes Ah my feet When David dyes he complains O my cold Body When the Shunamites Child dyes he cryes Ah my pained head When â—zzah dyes he cryes Oh my Leprous skin Life is a precious Pearl But there are three things besides which made Christs Death painfull 1. Violence It 's painfull to die of any violent disease but when five deaths do all concur and strive which of them shall dispatch the poor man soonest this must needs be more painfull Such was Christs Death which made him complain Psal. 22. 16. They pierced my hands and my feet and Joh. 19. 34. One of the Souldiers with a Spear pierced his side and forthwith there came out blood and water Here are five Deaths that invaded a living man Death on each hand and on each legg and death on his side though this last came a little too late Now a violent Death it must needs be when strong and great nails did pierce the most nervous parts of his Body his hands and his feet 2. Slowness Four leasurely violent Deaths seized on him Blood is the life of the living Creature then look how long his blood was coming out his Life was dropping out as long It 's a great aggravation for a man to be long a dying and yet cannot die To have his torment quick and yet his Death slow is an Image of Hell where men seek Death and yet cannot finde it Christs slow Death was divided into four quarters Death at each hand and at each foot made his pain the greater The weight of his Body did hang upon those four tormenting nails his pierced Hands and Feet as if Death had delighted to hold Christ long at sea and to deny him it's last sad service Christ had been before dying a terrible Death in the Garden when he was boiled as it were in a bloody sweat and two circumstances shew that the two Thieves Death was nothing in slowness of torment comparable to Christs death 1. The sad and direful preparatories to Christs Death as he was the night before in a Soul-death when those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as it were Drops or great hail stones of blood frozen or hardened together as Stephanus thinks through extream terrour when he was scourged and Crowned with Thorns 2. He was so weakned in Body thereby that he was not able to bear his own Cross which made him complain Psal. 22. 17. I may tell all my Bones My strength is dried up like a Potsheard So that Christ began to die the night before and continued dying twenty four hours the Lords anger and curse being on him and then bodily pain with the curse of the Law all this time wrought upon him And Christ in bearing the pains of the second Death did suffer that which all the Elect should have sustained in their Souls for ever Isa. 53. 6. The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all and though Christ died but one Death for all the Elect yet in the extremity of the pain it was many Deaths to him 3. Many degrees of Life were taken from him Consider how much of Life Christ had and the removing of it by violence must be so much the more painfull Now life natural had in Christ a sweet and a peaceable dwelling the possession of life was with excellent delights It was planted besides the Glorious God-head personally and so had sweet company and that made it pleasant It had not been so much to take away the Life of a common man whose life is not priviledged with Grace and the Grace of a Personal union with God The second Character that was engraven on Christs Death was that it was shameful and reproachful Now Shame is first Fundamentally in the cause Sin and Sin acted by men against that Law of God is the onely foundation of Shame Exod. 32. 25. Aaron made the People naked to their Shame So 2 Sam. 13. 13. Shame and sin are neer a kin And thus Christ was no more capable of Shame than he was of sin He came out of the Womb clothed with the white Robe of Innocency and he never contracted one black spot on that fair Robe of the highest Image of God from the womb to the Grave and therefore there was no shame fundamentally in Christ. 2. There is Shame formally in sin and that first In being ashamed Actively Secondly In bearing of Shame Passively In the former consideration because sin is a shameful thing in itself Jer. 11. 13. There is an Internal blushing and Shame rising from sin the Conscience of the sinner if it be not cauterized thinking ill of sin and esteeming it self base in doing it Rom. 6. 21. What fruit had you in those things whereof you are now ashamed So Christ thought ill of sin and esteemed the Creature base in sinning 2. Christ our Lord
being our surety though he could not be ashamed of any sin he did himself Yet being made a sin for us he did bear the shame of our sin and thus he was not free from shame passively as it 's a punishment of sin 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 Heb. 12. 2. He endured the Cross despising the shame So then in these respects Christ did bear our Shame 1. In that though he was the Lord of Glory and thought it no robbery to be equal with the Father yet he abased himself to become man yea the lowest of men a Servant Phil. 2. 6 7 8. Matth. 20. 28. Isa. 49. 7. 2. All the tokens of reproach and shame were on his sufferings As 1. In Gestures they put a Crown of Thorns on his head and a Reed for a Scepter in his hand to mock his Kingly Power They saluted him with mocks and bowing the knee to him 2. In words They cried out Hail King of the Jews They scorned his Prophetical dignity when they blindfolded him saying Prophesie who it is that smote thee And to deride his Priesthood they put a Robe on him and when he was on the Cross offering himself as our Priest in a Sacrifice to God all that passed by wagged their Heads and shot out their Lips saying He trusted in God let him deliver him c. Then did they spit in his face which in the Law was a great shame Deut. 25. 9 50. Job 30. 10. 3. His Death was shameful the Death of a thief and robber So it 's called Christs reproach Heb. 13. 13. Let us go forth bearing his reproach It was a shameful thing to see the Lord of Glory bearing his own Cross on his back and all the children and base ones of the City wondring at him and crying out upon him This is called the reproach or Shame of Christ. Heb. 11. 26. Psal. 22. 7. 4. They shamed him in pulling off his Garments and scourging him As Jer. 13. 26. They brought him bound to Pilate as if he had been a Common Thief Matth. 26. 2. Hence Isa. 53. 3. He was despised and rejected of men and we hid as it were our faces from him He had all shame put upon him He was branded as the greatest Thief of the three He went out at the Gate of life bleeding pained cursed shamed forsaken despised and mocked Even the Sun seemed to be ashamed to see its Creator in so painful and shameful a condition and therefore hid its head The third Character which was engraven on Christs Death was the curse of God Now the Curse that Christ was made Was 1. The Lords pronouncing him a Curse Deut. 21. 23. Cursed is he that hangeth on a Tree which Paul applies to Christ. Gal. 3. 10 13. This indeed was a Ceremonial curse but had a special Relation to Christ who was under a real and Moral Curse 2. Gods devoting and setting him apart in his eternal Counsel for suffering the punishment of sin 3. The dishonour that was put upon him and so was Christ under a curse Psal. 22. 7. He was a worm and no man Isa. 53. 3. The least of men the contempt and refuse of men Act. 4. 11. The Stone rejected by the builders Hanging is the death of the poorest and basest of men and thus was Christ used Act. 5. 30. Whom ye slew and hanged on a Tree Act. 2. 23. Whom by wicked hands ye have Crucified and slain Hanging is more then slaying It 's putting him to a base Death that is cursed of God and man and this to be inflicted on a King lineally descended of the Blood Royal the Kingly Tribe of Judah the onely man on Earth that by birth and Law had Title to the Crown of Judea was the worst that men or Devils could do Triuni Deo Gloria To the Reader THere is lately published by Mr Sam. Clarke a new piece of Lives containing the Lives of ten eminent Divines with some other private Christians the Divines being as follow Mr John Carter Mr Sam. Crook Mr John Cotton Dr Tho Hill Dr Will. Gouge Mr Tho. Gataker Mr Jeremy Whitaker and Bishop James Usher Mr Rich. Capel and Dr Rob. Harris c. There is also another piece of Mr Clarkes Newly published it being the wicked Life and wosul death of Herod the Great a stranger by nation yet by the Romans made King of the Jews Taking in also the Story of the Jews during all the time of his Reign which was about thirty seven years whereof thirty five were before the Incarnation of Christ and two after whereby much light is given to many passages in the Evangelists c. Both sold by William Miller at the Gilded Acorn near the little North door in St Pauls Church-yard Christs conception foretold Mary goes to her Cousin Elizabeth Joseph is warned not to put away his wife Joseph and Mary go to be taxed Jesus Christ is born His birth is revealed to the shepherds Christ is circumcised Wisemen come to Jerusalem Mary goes to be purified Simeon and Anna prophesie of Christ. Joseph is warned to fly into Egypt The Babes of Bethlehem are slain Joseph returns into Judea He goes to the city of Nazareth Jesus is found in the Temple His private Life John Christs forerunner John preaches and Baptizech Jesus is Baptized A manifestation of the Trinity Jesus tempted of the Devil Johns testimony of Jesus Simon named Cephas Christs first Miracle Dr Ushers Annals Jesus went to the passover He works miracles He instructed Nicodemus Johns last testimony of him Jesus went into Galilee He preaches with great applause He preaches and works miracles He heals all Diseases A great draught of Fishes A Leper healed He forgives sins He called Levi. And defends his practice He heals on the Sabbath They seek to destroy him He chooses twelve Apostles He is judged to be mad His Sermon on the Mount Raises a dead man to life Jesus his testimony of John One washed his feet Casts out a Divel He shews who are his kinsmen He teaches by Parables He calms the Tempest He casts out the Legion of Divels He answers Johns Disciples Raises Jairus's daughter Cures blind men He casts out a dumb Divel He is scorned â— His compassion to Souls He sent out his Disciples Sejanus killed at Rome John beheaded Multitudes follow Jesus He sed five thousand men c. He walked on the Sea Many go back from him He condemned their Traditions Heals the Cananitish womans daughter He heals many Feeds four thousand Denies a Sign to the Pharisees Warns his Disciples of their Leaven Who Christ was judged to be His transfiguration Heals the Lunatick Foretel's his Death and Resurrection Pays Tribute Teaches Humility Darling sins must not be spared They sought to kill him He sent out seventy Disciples He preached at the Feast And in the Temple They attempt to stone him He cures the blind man He is the Door of the sheep Of Martha and Mary He teaches the Lords Prayer Of the Queen of the South and the Ninivites He resuses to be a Judge Exhorts to Repentance Few to be saved Life to be laid down for Christ The parable of the lost sheep c. Of Dives and Lazarus Of offences The power of faith Cures ten Lepers To pray always The Pharisee and Publican Preaches and heals About Divorce He blesses little children Against Covetousness Lazarus's sickness and death Jesus raises him He foretells his sufferings He cures the blind man Calls Zacheus Ten pounds given to ten servants He rides into Jerusalem He wept over Jerusalem Children cry Hosanna A voice from heaven He curses the Fig-Tree Power of Faith Parable of the vineyard and wedding Feast They lay snares for him He proves the Resurrection Eight woes against the Pharisees The poor widows charity He foretels the de struction of the Temple and the end of the World Foretells his death And is anointed The Passover is prepared Judas the Traytor The Lords Supperinstituted He washes his Disciples feet Faith shall not fail He comforts his Disciples The Parable of the vine and branches His Divine Prayer He foretells Peters denial Jesus in his Agony He is betrayed by Judas He is sent bound to Caiphas False witnesses against him He is judged guilty of death and abused Peter denies him And Repents Jesus is sent to Pilate Pilate cleers him He is sent to Herod who abuses him Pilate again cleers him Jesus is scourged and Crowned with Thorns Pilate condemns him He is mocked Judas hangs himself Jesus carries his cross He is Crucified And mocked The good Thief He gives up the Ghost The Vail of the Temple is rent His side is pierced His Body is given to Joseph And buried His Sepulchre is sealed His Resurrection Jesus appears to Mary M. And to other Women And to two going to Emaus And to his Disciples His speeches to them Thomas his incredulity His Faith is confirmed He appeared again And again His Ascension The Promises of him to the Fathers Chrysolog His excellency His painfull Death His violent Death His slow Death 2. His shame full death 3. His cursed Death