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love_n	john_n	love_v	world_n	13,642	5	5.6658	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

God and verse second how shall we that are dead in sin live any longer therein was Christ bruised and wounded for our iniquities and shall we act over the same Tragedy upon him again by our repeated transgressions had he not sorrow and sufferings enough of old but by renewed offences will we tear open his wounds afresh and Crucifie him again shall we think it much to shed a few penitential tears for that which made him sweat great drops of blood when Satan or thy own corrupt heart tempt thee to the commission of any sin imagine thou sawest thy Crucified Saviour coming towards thee shewing thee his Cross and beseeching thee by all his wounds that thou wouldest not pierce his side again or drive any more nails into him yea fancy all his wounds to be so many mouths gaping for pity and begging thee not to renew their smart by any fresh acts of cruelty would not this disswade any that had but the bowels of a man from such unreasonable attempts imagine that he shewed thee his cheeks swoln with buffetings his face defil'd with spitting on his head gor'd with Thorns and his back torn with scourges and would not this be a spectacle sad enough to move compassion Sure unless we are become transform'd into wild Beasts we can never delight in the blood of our dearest friend yea we must be more savage than they if we prey upon our Keeper and wound that hand that doth but reach us our it● assistance let us not then any longer hug that Viper in our bosom which not only stung our Saviour to death but likewise gnaws upon our own Conscience and leaves the● Worm to torture us that never dies let us bury our sins in our Saviouts grave or like the Egyptians of old let them be all drowned in the Red Sea of his blood Thirdly in this story of our Saviours Passion we may read the transcendent and unexpressible love of Christ unto mankind in undergoing all this misery and torment for their sakes the greatest expression of love that ever was or could be manifested towards the Sons of men was the sending of a Saviour into the World for when all mankind lay in a forlorn undone condition unable either to bear or remove the great burden of those miseries which sin had brought upon them then to feel the gentle hand of a Redeemer taking off the weight and administring to them ease and deliverance to find their chains exchang'd for a Crown and their mourning turn'd into Jubilees and songs of Triumph this is a mercy to be exprest only with wonder and eternity it self is too little sufficiently to celebrate and admire it especially considering that the lapsed Angels those nobler and far more glorious Creatures were totally past by and neglected whilst the worthless sons of Adam became the select objects of divine love and compassion this is so high and eminent a testimony of Gods love that Saint John is at a loss how to describe it Chap. 3. verse 16. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son c. and St. Paul like one astonisht at the consideration of it cryes out O the depth and height the length and breadth of this love of God that passeth knowledge Eph. 3.18 Should any generous Monarch take some forlorn wretch from the dunghill in all his running sores and Ulcers and not only receive him into his Palace but adopt him for his son and pronounce him his heir this though it were a kindness truly great and noble is yet but a faint resemblance of the great love of God towards us Yea farther should any compassionate Prince expose his own Darling Child to the most barbarous and bloody death only to save the life of 〈◊〉 Traytor who had oftentimes forfeited it by many acts of Trea●on and Rebellion this though it come somewhat nearer doth yet come infinitely short of this unimitable instance of Gods love and goodness if we would work our hearts to some sence of it let us First meditate a while on the surpassing greatness and eminence of the person who suffer'd all this for us it being no other than the eternal and only begotten Son of God yea on● that was God blessed for evermore and might have been for over glorious though the whole World still continued miserable Secondly let us consider a little what kind of death it wa● that he underwent a death heighten'd with all the ingredien●● of pain and anguish that the most ingenious and intaged malic● could invent or execute a death wherein the wrath of God and the spite of men and the rage of all the power of darkness most fatally conspir'd Thirdly let us consider likewise the great worthlesness o● the persons for whom all this was done persons that were n●● only strangers but the greatest Enemies and Rebels to hi●… persons that never did any thing but what did 〈◊〉 highly disoblige and provoke him The serious consideratio 〈…〉 these things may help us to some small glimpses of this unp●●… lel'd mercy though the just dimensions of it can by no m●●●● be comprehended and is therefore left to be the Object of 〈◊〉 eternal praises and admiration Fourthly from our Saviours Passion we may learn patien 〈…〉 bear all the afflictions and crosses that may befall us in this 〈…〉 we may not expect better usage in the World than our 〈…〉 met with the Disciple is not above his Lord as he hath 〈…〉 before us in this hard and rugged way so hath he left 〈…〉 him a fair copy of humility and patience for us to write 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 that can happen to us of these calamities are nothing 〈…〉 with his Agonies and bitter p●ssion and shall ● actions that bear no proportion at all 〈…〉 the heavy burden of his sufferings at that 〈…〉 ing excessive weight of glory which he 〈…〉