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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02611	Tvvo sermons preached before the Kings most excellent Maiesty in the church of Beauly in Hampshire The first, the last of August. The second, the 9. of August. By Christopher Hampton Doctor of Diuinitie.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1609 (1609)	STC 12740; ESTC S103819	27,099	54

the reward of sinne is death and is there any gall of bitternesse in that cup whereof I haue not tasted Wherefore was all this done Was it for my selfe I will not bee a witnesse in mine owne cause Aske mine enemies that were chiefe actors in the businesse They will not be partiall Did not Pilate pronounce from his tribunall that hee found no cause of death in me Was not this a part of Caiaphas censure that it was expedient that I should die for the people Take him then good Christian brother and pay for thee and me Hee is the first fish that commeth from the sea of death Verily the first begotten amongst the dead Open his life and death and whatsoeuer punishment yee finde in the one or righteousnesse in the other take it all and pay it for thee and me What both death and life Is not the one of them sufficient There is a rule that the law doth binde either to obedience or to punishment So if the one of the disiunctiues or the other be performed the law is satisfied and come to her end This rule hath place in humane lawes amongst light offenses There if the law cannot haue obedience it hath some satisfaction by punishment but then it writes Contented and not Pleased For the chiefe end whereunto all lawes doe aime is to haue obedience and thereby to make men good which cannot bee done in humane lawes when the offense is generall and the punishment capitall In the law of God especially concerning the businesse of Iustification the rule of disiunctiues hath no place This law hath not her end vnlesse she be contented and pleased too Contented for the sins that we haue committed and pleased with the obedience that is required Christ is the end of the law therefore he hath performed both Well might the law be contented with the death of Christ because there was as much atrocitie in that as in the sinnes of the whole world I willingly vse this reason now to giue you to vnderstand that I concurre not with their opinion that thinke if the sonne of God had shed but one drop of blood it had beene price enough for all our sinnes I doubt whether the law would haue beene contented with one drop of blood Ought not Christ to suffer all these things and so to enter into glory Was not the whole burnt offring a figure of his sufferings And that must be all consumed I looke into the counsell of God what was there set downe for satisfaction of the law And I carrie and giue such reuerence to the wisdome and iustice thereof that whatsoeuer is wanting of that which is there set downe I verily beleeue to be insufficient I looke to the fact of Christ Exinaniuit seipsum He emptied himselfe And I am loth to beleeue that either the father was so prodigall of his sonnes life or that the sonne was so carelesse of his owne blood that he would haue powred out all if one drop might haue serued the turne Admit this and then Christ died in vaine But euery thing that the sonne of God did was of infinite value for the dignitie of his person The dignitie of his person is great and hath goodly vse but it may not be stretched too farre lest the buffets that he receiued on his face be reckoned price enough for our redemption Hydra peccati vno icta non tollitur Then monster of sinne will not be slaine with one blow Hee made vs indeed at a moment and with great facilitie for he spake the word and they were made he commanded and they were created But did hee redeeme vs so soone No no it cost him three and thirtie yeeres worke and O Lord what labours What sorrowes What watchings What hunger What thirst What temptations What praiers What strong cries What groanes What indignities What scourgings What agonies And after all these what a bitter death I dare bee bold to say that there was as much atrocitie in all these as in the sinnes of the whole world And therefore the law might well be contented for matter of punishment with the death of Christ Dubitas quod dabit tibi bona sua qui non dedignatus est susciperemala tua Adde then heereunto his perpetuall obedience to the law of God neuer intermitted in the whole tenor of his life and then Christ is the end and perfection of the law hee hath contented it and pleased it too Hee died indeed vpon the Crosse and in my nature and for my sinnes of humane infirmitie But he brought withall such a troupe and legion of vertues to his Crosse as might well giue righteousnesse to the whole world Time will not serue to rehearse euery one but the vertues wherewith he adorned the foure corners of his crosse are so conspicuous that I cannot omit them Supereminentior est charitas Loue takes the highest place and is set on the top of his crosse Maiorem charitatem nemo habet None can haue greater loue than to lay downe his life for his friends None verily but he himselfe that laid it downe for his enemies On the right hand of the crosse hee set obedience whereof hee was so respectiue that hee did chuse to lose his life rather than his obedience And if obedience were better than sacrifice when the chiefe worship of God was in sacrifice as Samuel telleth Saul and yet that obedience was commanded humane obedience how pleasing was the diuine obedience of the sonne of God that was neuer commanded alwaies voluntary alwaies indebita Patience standeth at the left side As a sheepe led to the slaughter so opened he not his mouth he opened it not in outcries or imprecations he contended not with them in reuenge or malice but in pietie they refused him and he died for them they contended with Pilate when hee would haue deliuered him Crucifige crucifige Crucifie him crucifie him and he contendeth with his father when hee had iust cause to destroy them Pater ignosce pater ignosce Father forgiue them father forgiue them Hee regarded more that he died for them than that he died by them In the bottome of his Crosse hee placed humilitie the foundation of all vertues that if we will not learn to be humble in the schooles of men wee may now practise it by the precedent and patterne of an humble God His quatuor v●rtutum gommis ditauit trophaeum Crucis When he had thus enriched the foure corners of his Crosse he placed himselfe in the midst of all no more now as a stone of offense but as a loadstone to draw all the world vnto it So hee sayes Ego si exaltatus f●ero omnia traham ad meipsum Draw vs O Lord vnto thee and wee shall run in the sauour of thine ointments Couer vs with the mantle of thy righteousnesse which is the true wedding garment that when the Bridegrome comes to take view of his guests we may not be cast out into vtter darknes