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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36270	A sermon preached before His Majesty on Good-Friday at Whitehall, March 24, 1664/5 by J. Dolben ...	Dolben, John, 1625-1686.	1665 (1665)	Wing D1831; ESTC R5322	28,655	60

A SERMON Preached before HIS MAJESTY on GOOD-FRIDAY at Whitehall March 24. 1664 5. By J. DOLBEN D. D. Dean of WESTMINSTER and Clerk of the CLOSET Published by His Majesties special Command London Printed for Timothy Garthwait 1665. Out of the Gospel 19. Ch. St. JOHN part of the 19. Vers Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews ALthough I am by my Place and the honor usually vouchsafed me to appear here on Good Fryday a Preacher of ill Omen and abode one engaged 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be an Evangelist of sad uncomfortable things And you may expect from me at least a Tragical doleful representation of our Saviours Crucifixion That I shall call you to contemplate all the bloudy stages of his conflict with Sin and Death to meditate on the several aggravations of his sufferings and consider if ever any sorrow were like unto his sorrow wherewith the Lord afflicted him in the day of his fierce anger And not shew you those things as in a Scene or Landscape but with a vehement astonishing Rhetorick such as the Subject will furnish to the meanest Orator force and drive them home into your souls recollect all the sad thoughts which have been fermenting in your breasts during the Lent past and actuate them in one pungent amazing sorrow able not onely to fetch tears from your eyes but even to repeat his Agonies and draw showers of Bloud from every heart that is not more infidel then Judas or Pilate more insensate then the earth it self and harder then the rocks and stones about Jerusalem Nay further yet you may justly look that I should this day come up with a Discipline in my hand turn all the whips and thornes and nailes upon my Auditory launce and wound your Consciences by convincing you that your selves have inflicted and daily by your sins do inflict those pains which you bewaile act those Treasons which ye condemn and abhor execute those inhumane Butcheries which you tremble at are confounded and ready to dye at their very apprehension Though to do all this and so make it your Passion day as well as your Saviours would be most sutable to my office and apposite to the business of our present meeting Yet I have now chosen to put on another Person Not to lament the shame and cruelties but to Celebrate the Triumphs and Glory of Christs Passion to do Homage to the King of sufferings and adore the Majesty of our Lords abasement Discovering to you not onely that the Contumelious addresses of Honor the mock Purple the counterfeit Scepter and the Bloody Diadem of Thornes were as St. Chrysostome phraseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mystical representations of a real Kingdome while they upbraided his vain affecting a false one But that this whole Treatment so entertain'd by Christ as it was did directly signifie and declare him to be Messiah the King both of Jews and Gentiles and that having already punctually fulfill'd what the Prophets of old had spoken concerning his Birth and life there remains now nothing to compleat the Demonstration but that he answer all the Types and Prophecies of his Death too That the Captain of our salvation be made perfect by sufferings Perfect in the whole latitude of the original word consecrated and inaugurated upon the Altar and Throne of the Cross while the souldiers are busily anointing him with the most Precious ointment which the world ever saw his own inestimable Blood and Pilate becomes both his Herald and his Champion proclaiming him with defiance to his enemies King of the Jews THat his Title may appear good and well cleared and justified by this procedure I will set it forth 2. By opening to you what this Magnificent Stile King of the Jews imports what Royalty and Dominion was by God design'd to Messiah challenged and exercised by our Saviour Christ 2. Shew you that this shameful cruel Death did apply all that honour and power to Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated him to be the very person promised by God represented by Types described by Prophesies expected by the whole Nation of the Jews under the Names of Shilo the coming King Messiah the Prince THe First Part of my Text is to declare the Nature of Christs Kingdom And this we are therefore concern'd carefully to examine because from their mistaking this fancying a temporal in stead of a spiritual Messiah arose the Fundamental Errour of the Jews and all their prejudice against Christ That God would one day raise up unto them out of their Brethren a Prophet like and superiour to Moses a Prince whose Dominion should extend from one Sea to the other to whose Scepter the Kings of the Earth should submit their Majesty They were at all times so confident that this conceit made them triumph in the midst of their Captivities Despise and in their own thoughts reign over their Masters and Conquerors nay even yet after so many Defeats of their desires so long and dreadful Desolation makes them threaten and design to ruine all Kingdoms where they are dispersed That about the time of our Saviours Incarnation this Great Person should discover himself their sollicitous examining the Records of Scripture had assured them they had computed diligently the Periods of Daniels Chronology compared all coincidences of Affairs which answered his Predictions and from thence setled in themselves a seeming pregnant hope and spread even among the Gentiles an expectation of a mighty and happy Prince now to arise in Judea who should Govern the World This alarm'd Herods Jealousie at the arrival of the Magi And this Tradition help'd to interpret unto those wise men the portent of that New Star which their skill in Astronomy had made them observe This made the Jews take fire on every little occasion run into war at the call of every Rascal that was bold and wicked enough to head their Rebellions And therefore it was no wonder when the Fame of Christs Miracles reported him a man like to answer the largest of their wishes that they flock'd about him with importunate Eagerness Nor was it the light and giddy multitude alone that fix'd their hopes on him even the most sage and cautious of their Rulers had a vehement surmise that he should redeem Israel But when he open'd himself fully preaching only Innocence Obedience Poverty of Spirit Contempt of worldly Advantages and embracing Affliction When he lived poor and conversed with them that were so declined respect and honour and refus'd the offer of a Kingdom When in stead of freeing his Countrey from Roman Tributes and Exactions he determined in favour of Caesars right and was so far from undertaking a war to deliver himself or others from oppressing Power that he instructs his Scholars to offer their left Cheek to him that should strike them on the right and make no other return to their most injurious persecuters beside blessings and prayers these were so contrary to the Jews Hypothesis