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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

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 LONDON Printed for Richard Royston and are to be sold by Abisha Brocas Bookseller in Exon. 1670. To the Right Worshipful William Morton Knight one of the Honourable Justices of the Kings Bench. Honoured Sir THE satisfaction that was exprest at the hearing of this Sermon and the Candid entertainment it hath found since have induc'd me to gratifie the requests of some in making it more publick which I the rather comply'd with because it gave me an opportunity to publish to your Honour and the World my grateful resentment of your great and unmerited favours I am not so vain as to imagine that any thing therein deliver'd should be thought able to present your Honour with any instruction or make the least addition to the ample stock of your present knowledge if it may prove only a remembrancer or upon any other account may be esteem'd worthy your Honours perusal or acceptance the Author hath attain'd his end and will rest satisfied in the success daea and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem be this known unto you and hearken unto my words for these men whom you thus wickedly traduce are not drunk with Wine seeing it is but the third hour of the Day and those sudden inspirations which you have heard and seen are not as you prophanely imagine the effects of Enthusiasm or intemperance but the gifts of the Holy Ghost and in them is accomplish'd that gracious promise of the plentiful effusion of knowledge that should come to pass in the last days but we need not wonder as he goes on at this your carriage towards them v. 22. since Jesus Christ himself who was a man approved of God among you by miracles signes and wonders which God did by him in the midst of you as ye your selves also know yet even him not without the determinate counsell and fore-knowledge of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain So that the words are part of that excellent and successful Sermon of St. Peter preached unto the Jews wherein he sharply rebuked them for their barbarous and inhumane carriage towards him who abundantly prov'd himself to be the true Messias and from them I shall treat 1. First of all concerning our Saviours Passion in the three stpes or degrees of it mentioned here in the Text viz. That he was taken and by wicked hands crucified and slain to which I shall add a word or two touching the cause and the design of his undergoing all this 2. Secondly I shall shew that this his Passion was not without the determinate counsell and fore-knowledge of God 3. And lastly conclude with some practical inferences from the whole I begin with the History of our Saviours Passion and there with the first step of it which is his apprehension or being taken him ye have taken this we know is the first degree of punishment that is wont to be exercis'd towards Malefactors who are first apprehended arraign'd before they are condemn'd or executed Suitable hereunto the Sons of ●iolence laid hands on our Saviour to take him which act of pretended justice was not done by any private or single person but by the counsell or rather the conspiracy of the chief Priests and Elders for we read in Mat. 26. v. 4. That they held a consultation how they might take Jesus by subtilty and carry him away though his daily presence at Jerusalem seem'd to give them fair opportunities of effecting their design yet the reputation he had with the people made them not so forward to embrace them and therefore they dealt underhand with one of his own Disciples corrupting him with the promise of a reward to betray him with the greater secrecy into their hands The Scribes and Pharisees Herod and Pilate though bitter enemies to each other and scarce agreeing in any thing else yet did conspire together in the apprehending and taking our Saviour so true was that prediction of the Psalmist in the second Psalm v. 2. The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed The place where they apprehended him was in the Garden where after the treachery of Judas in betraying him a band of Souldiers seiz'd on his Person hall'd him away before Pilate and from thence into prison where he met with no better company then an infamous Robber nam'd Barrabbas who yet by a custom of releasing one at the Feast was dismist at the request of the people whilst our Saviour was sacrificed to the clamors and crucifige's of the multitude The manner of his apprehension St. Luke informs in the 22. Chap. v. 52. They came out against him as against a thief with Swords and Staves He who was the very pattern and great exemplar of lowliness of meekness was yet thus roughly handled by the merciless Souldiers and though Peter out of a high resentment hereof offered to make resistance by drawing his sword and cutting off the ear of one of the High Priest's servants yet our Saviour sharply check't his inconsiderate zeal and rashness partly because they did all by the authority and command of the Magistrate against whom he would by no means suffer or encourage the least resistance partly because it behov'd him to suffer and to be thus handled for the compleating the work of our redemption But the jealous malice and violence of the Souldiers thought him not yet sufficiently secur'd before they had cast their cords on him and carried him away bound unto Pilate as we read Mat. 27.2 Having seiz'd on his Person they secure him in Bonds and make all haste to dispatch him away to prevent his escape or rescue which circumstance of their malice was prefigur'd in the Old Testament by tying the Sacrifices with Cords and dragging them bound to the Altar as also his being apprehended and taken was not obscurely presignified in Joseph's being taken and carried prisoner into Egypt of which we read in Gen. 39. And so much briefly for the first step or degree of our Saviours Passion namely his being taken 2. The second degree of it mention'd here in the Text is his being crucified we know a man may be apprehended and yet afterward dismist without any farther censure or infliction but the malice of the Jews towards our Saviour rested not so but proceeded further to his crucifixion Him ye have taken and by wicked hands crucified This assixing of Criminals unto a Cross was a Romane punishment inflicted only on thieves and robbers or other very notorious offenders till Constantine the first Christian Emperour out of a Pious honour and respect to Christ's death forbade any farther use of it but for the better understanding hereof we must know that the Romans to encrease the shame and