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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80971	An off-spring of mercy, issuing out of the womb of cruelty. or, A passion sermon preached at Christs-Church in Oxford, by that late renowned ornament of the University, William Carwright.	Cartwright, William, 1611-1643.	1652 (1652)	Wing C713; Thomason E1287_2; ESTC R208967	9,757	37

higher then themselves and adjure by a name mightier then their own But Christ as one himself sufficing to himself made his own name the conveyance of his power and tbought it no robbery to be equall with God We reade often in the Gospel that Virtue went out of him Mar. 5. 30 Luk. 6. 19. So that he received not anothers power but used his own An Argument of his Divinity so forcible that he himself who did the works appealed from himself to his works John 10. 38. Etiamsi mihi non creditis operibus credite though ye beleeve not me beleeve the works But to shew his Divinity only by miracles was not enough Sic debuit per miracula Deitatem ostendere Leo Serm. de pass ut crederetur veritas humanitatis ipsius he was to shew his Divinity so as that his humanity might be beleeved too And this he did by many but chiefly by that greatest miracle of all his shewing that he who did these miracles could die and that so great power of God could come wrapt up in so much infirmity of the flesh You may now think that one who laboured thus by doctrine and miracles to bring the Nation of the Jews to salvation who not content with ordinary and each daies innocence lived at that rate of perfection that he reckoned lesse good among ill and thought nothing enough where there is room for more One that brought in Religion as the best policy of Kingdomes and that preached high virtues but practised higher still conquering the hardnesse of his precept by the seconding it with a more hard example You may certainly I say think that the Jews would have demanded this man of miracles this man himself a miracle greater then those he did for their King to go in and out before them But Qui vident videre nolunt though he was approved among them by miracles and they themselves also knew it they accused him of Treason and the common cry ran We have no King but Caesar Let me a●k you O ye perversest of Nations Did Angels appear at the birth of Caesar Was Glory to God on high on Earth peace good will towards men sung by them when he came into the world Was Caesar the glory of Israel and a Horn of salvation to his people But alas not to take him into the throne was not so great an ignominy To preferre a Robber a Murderer before him this was the Dregs of Scorn Away with this man and release unto us Barrabas And again Not Luk. 23. 18 21. him but Barabas What spirit of contempt is here It runs not thus Away with Jesus and not Jesus But away with this man and not him They account him so vile that as their superstition was not to name the thing they held execrable they endeavoured to abolish his memory before his person But what Barabbas O yee seeing who see not One that fed your multitudes Not one that robbed them of that which should have fed them What Barabbas One that cured your blinde or healed your halt and lame no one whose violences maimed them and by the frequency of his injury occasionally encreast the number perhaps of those miracles that Jesus wrought Did he use or deserve the whip Did Barrabas purge the Temple of theeves or make it their Denne Did he cast out Devils or do Acts by the instigation of the Prince of them A wicked generation they were to ask a signe but more wicked Matt. 12. 39. not to beleeve when they had so many given them Nor are they so quietly and civilly impious as not to beleeve that they go on to despight the Authour of Miracles by tempting him to do one upon himself If thou art the Son of God come down from the Crosse Why the very condition forbids the inference He therefore will not come down because he is the Son of God and came to obey his Father by whom he was delivered which cals me from the Patient to the superiour Agent God with his manner of Operation A thing of Providence Delivering by determinate counsell and fore-knowledge the second thing to be spoken of Him being delivered by the determinate counsell and fore-knowledge of God Secondly Superiour Agent and his operation Had not God from the beginning decreed the passion of his Son Jesus our redemption had been a thing of rashnesse altogether unworthy either the performance or acceptance of a Deity And chance being more eminent then care and love in the salvation of mankinde the death of our Saviour had been a ryot rather then a sacrifice As the devils craft projected and brought about our slavery by the labours and anxiety of malice So the wisedom of God was to exclude fortune from the businesse of our redemption by the counsell and contrivance of love By the subtlety of the Destroyer the sting of sin entring into one wounded the world and the infection of the person spread it self in equall widenesse with the nature By the wisedome then of the preserver the righteousnesse of one was to justifie the world and the merits of that person to extend themselves to the utmost skirts of nature too The Passion therefore of one Christ was purposely projected so numerous that not a single lamb was offered but the herd of the world that mankinde rather then one man suffered and so the Kingdom of that Prince of darknesse was dissolved Dissolved indeed occasionally by that which raised it sin Death destroyed death and iniquity loosed the bands of iniquity and the works of that malicious one overthrew themselves And to this stratagem was there not required the fore-knowledge and counsell and determination of the Deity The Schools have found out 3. waies by which the father is said to have delivered his Son 1. Praeordinando ejus passionem ex Aquin. p. 3. q. 47. Ar. 3 suâ voluntate by preordaining his passion from his eternall will and this is that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2. 8. that determinate counsell and foreknowledge of God in the Text. And according to this they say his thirst upon the Crosse was not of nature but decree preordained from everlasting not casuall or emergent for the time 2. Inspirando ei voluntatem patiendi by inspiring him with a willingnesse to suffer and hence it is that the Apostle saith he became 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obedient to the death even the death of the Crosse And this his thirst when he was stretch't upon it was not to fullfill any desire but that of our redemption 3. Non protegendo eum a passione by not protecting him from his sufferings but wholly exposing him to the bitternesse of them Insomuch that he who was one with the father complain'd of the fathers dereliction and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text the being given and delivered up into wicked hands But was not the Sons love the lesse in that his father thus gave him up It had been so