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A02565	One of the sermons preacht at Westminster, on the day of the publike fast (April 5. 1628) to the Lords of the High Court of Parliament and by their appointment published. By the B. of Exceter.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1628 (1628)	STC 12692; ESTC S103757	26,047	120

he peirces his hands and feet with toylesome and painful vndertakings he drencheth himselfe with the vineger gall of discontentmēts he gores his side and wounds his heart with inward vexations Thus the man is crucified but with the world not with Christ The enuious man is crucified by his owne thoughts he needes no other gibbet then another mans prosperitie because anothers person or counsell is preferred to his he leapes to hell in his owne haltar This man is crucified but it is Achitophels crosse not Christs The desperate man is crucified with his owne distrust hee pierceth his owne heart with a deepe irremediable vnmittigable killing sorrow hee payes his wrong to Gods iustice with a greater wrong to his mercy and leapes out of an inward hell of remorse to the bottomlesse pit of damnation This man is crucified but this is Iudases crosse not Christs The superstitious man is professedly mortifyde The answer of that Hermite in the storie is famous why dost thou destroy thy body because it would destroy mee Hee vseth his body therefore not as a seruant but a slaue not as a slaue but an enemie He lies vpon thornes with the Pharisee little ease is his lodging with Simeon the Anachoret the stone is his pillow with Iacob the teares his food with exiled Dauid hee lanceth his flesh with the Baalites hee digges his graue with his nayles his meales are hunger his breathings sighes his linnen haire-cloth lined and laced with cords and wires lastly hee is his owne willing tormentor and hopes to merit heauen by selfe-murder This man is crucified but not with Christ The Felon the traitor is iustly crucified the vengeance of the law will not let him liue The Iesuiticall incendiary that cares onely to warme himselfe by the fires of States and Kingdomes cryes out of his suffering The world is too little for the noyse of our crueltie their patience whiles it iudgeth of our proceedings by our lawes not by our executions but if they did suffer what they falsly pretend as they now complaine of ease they might be crucified but not with Christ they should bleed for sedition not conscience They may steale the name of Iesus they shall not haue his society This is not Christs crosse it is the cross of Barabbas or the two malefactors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Marke 15. 7. All these and many more are crucified but not as St. Paul was here with Christ How with Christ In partnership in person In partnership of the suffering euery particularity of Christs crucifixion is reacted in vs. Christ is the modell wee the mettall the mettall takes such forme as the modell giues it so are we spread vpon the crosse of Christ in an vnanswerable extension of all parts to dye with him as the Prophet was vpon the dead childe to reuiue him Superstitious men talke of the impression of our Sauiours wounds in their Idol St. Francis This is no newes St. Paul and euery beleeuing Christian hath both the lash●● and wounds and transfixions of his Iesus wrought vpon him The crowne of thornes pierces his head when his sinfull conceits are mortified His lippes are drencht with gall vineger when sharpe feuere restraints are giuen to his tongue His hands and feet are nayled when hee is by the power of Gods Spirit disabled to the wonted courses of sinne His body is stripped when all colour and pretences are taken away from him shortly his heart is pierced when the life blood of his formerly-raigning corruptions is let out Hee is not true Christian that is not thus crucifyed with Christ Woe is me how many fashionable ones are not so much as pained with their sinnes It is no trouble to them to blaspheeme oppresse debauch Yea rather it is a death to them to thinke of parting with their deare corruptions The world hath bewitched their loue That which Erasmus saith of Paris that after a man hath acquainted himselfe with the odious sent of it hospitibus magis ac magis adlubescit it grows into his liking more and more is too true of the world and sensuall mindes Alas they rather crucifie Christ againe then are crucified with Christ Woe to them that euer they were for being not dead with Christ they are not dead in Christ and being not dead in Christ they cannot but dye eternally in themselues For the wages of sinne is death death in their person if not in their surety Honorable and beloued let vs not thinke it safe for vs to rest in this miserable and deadly condition As yee loue your soules giue no sleepe to your eyes nor peace to your hearts till ye finde the sensible effects of the death Passion of Christ your Sauiour within you mortifying all your corrupt affections and sinfull actions that yee may truly say with St. Paul I am crucified with Christ Sixe seuerall times doe wee finde that Christ shed blood In his Circumcision In his Agonie In his Crowning In his Scourging In his Affixion In his Transfixion The instrument of the first was the Knife Of the second vehemence of Passion Of the third the Thornes Of the fourth the Whips Of the fift the nailes Of the last the Speare In all these we are we must bee partners with our Sauiour In his Circumcision when we draw blood of ourselues by cutting off the foreskinne of our filthy if pleasing corruptions Colos 2. 11. In his Agony when we are deeply affected with the sense of Gods displeasure for sinne and terrified with the frownes of an angry Father In his crowning with thornes when we smart and bleed with reproches for the name of Christ when that which the world counts honor is a paine to vs for his sake when our guilty thoughts punish vs and wound our restlesse heads with the sad remembrance of our sins In his scourging when we tame our wanton and rebellious flesh with wise rigor and holy seuerity In his Affixion when all the powers of our soules and parts of our body are strictly hampered and vnremoueably fastened vpon the Royall Commandements of our Maker and Redeemer In his Transfixion when our hearts are wounded with diuine loue with the Spouse in the Canticles or our consciences with deepe sorrow In all these wee bleed with Christ and all these saue the first onely belong to his crucifying Surely as it was in the old Law 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without blood shed there was no remission Heb. 9. 22. so it is still and euer in the new If Christ had not thus bled for vs no remission If wee doe not thus bleed with Christ no remission There is no benefit where is no partnership If Christ therefore bled with his agony with his thornes with his whips with his nayles with his speare in so many thousand passages as tradition is bold to define we neuer bleed either with the agony of our sorrow for sinne or the thornes of holy cares for displeasure or the scourges of seuere Christian

disgrace I am crucified St. Paul speaks not this singularly of himselfe but in the person of the renued sinne doth not cannot liue a vitall and vigorous life in the regenerate Wherefore then say you was the Apostles complaint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. wretched man that I am who shall deliuer me from this body of death Marke I beseech you it was the body of sin not the life of sinne a body of death not the life of that body Or if this body had yet some life it was such a life as is left in the limmes when the head is struck off some dying quiuerings rather as the remainders of a life that was then any act of a life that is Or if a further life such a one as in swounds and fits of epilepsie which yeelds breath but not sense or if some kind of sense yet no motion or if it haue some kinde of motion in vs yet no manner of dominion ouer vs. What power motion sense reliques of life are in a fully crucifyed man such a one may waft vp and downe with the winde but cannot mooue out of any internall principle Sinne and grace cannot more stand together in their strength then life and death In remisse degrees all contraries may bee lodged together vnder one roofe Saint Paul sweares that he dies daily yet he liues so the best man sinnes hourely euen whiles hee obeyes but the powerfull and ouer-ruling sway of sinne is incompatible with the truth of regeneration Euery Esau would be carying away a blessing No man is willing to sit out Ye shall haue strong drinkers as Esay calls them Esay 5. 22. Neighing stallions of lust as Ieremy calls them Ier. 5. 8. Mighty hunters in oppression as Nimrod Gen. 10. 9. rotten talkers Ephesians 4. 9. which yet will be challenging as deepe a share in grace as the conscionablest Alas how many millions doe miserably delude themselues with a meere pretēce of Christianity aliter vivunt aliter loquuntur as he said of the Philosophers Vaine hypocrites they must know that euery Christian is a crucified man How are they dead to their sinnes that walke in their sins how are their sinnes dead in them in whom they stir raigne flourish Who doth not smile to heare of a dead man that walkes Who derides not the solecisme of that Actor which exprest himselfe fully dead by saying so What a mockery is this eyes full of lust itching eares scurrilous tongues bloody hands hearts full of wickednesse and yet dead Deceiue not your solues deare Christians if ye loue them This false death is the way to the true eternall incomprehensibly-wofull death of body and soule If yee will needs doe so walke on ye falsly dead in the wayes of your old sinnes be sure these pathes shall lead you downe to the chambers of euerlasting death if this be the hanging vp of your corruptions feare to hang in hell Away with this hatefull simulation God is not mocked Yee must either kill or dye Kill your sinnes or else they will bee sure to kill your soules apprehend arraigne condemne them fasten them to the tree of shame and if they be not dead already breake their legs armes disable them to all offensiue actions as was done to the theeues in the Gospell so shal you say w th our blessed Apostle I am crucified Neither is it thus onely in matter of notorious crime and grosse wickednesse but thus it must be in the vniuersall cariage of our liues and the whole habituall frame of our dispositions In both these we are we must bee crucified Bee not deceiued my brethren it is a sad and austere thing to bee a Christian This worke is not frolicke iouiall plausible there is a certaine thing call'd true mortification required to this businesse and who euer heard but there was paine in death but among all deaths in crucifying what a torture must there needs be in this act of violence what a distention of the body whose weight is racke enough to it selfe what strayning of the ioynts what nayling of hands and feet Neuer make account to bee Christians without the hard taskes of penitence It will cost you teares sighes watchings selfe-restraints selfe-struglings selfe-denyalls This word is not more harsh then true Yee delicate hypocrites what doe yee talke of Christian profession when ye will not abate a dish from your belly nor spare an houres sleepe from your eyes nor cast off an offensiue rag from your backes for your God In vaine shall the vassals of appetite challenge to be the seruants of God Were it that the Kingdome of God did consist in eating and drinking in pampering and surfets in chambering and wantonnesse in prancking and vanity in talke and ostentation Oh God how rich shouldest thou bee of subiects of Saints But if it require abstinence humiliation contrition of heart subiugation of our flesh renunciation of our wills serious impositions of laborsome deuotions O Lord what is becomne of true Christianity where shall we seeke for a crucified man Looke to our Tables there yee shall finde excesse and riot Looke to our backs there yee shall finde proud disguises looke to our conuersation there ye shall finde scurrile and obscene iollity This liberty yea this licentiousness is that which opens the mouthes of our aduersaries to the censure of our real impiety That slander which Iulian could cast vpon Constantine that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 led him to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 delicacie to intemperance the very same doe they cast vpon vs they tell vs of their strict Lents frequent fastings Canonicall houres sharpe penances their bashfull shrifts their painefull scourgings their solitatie Cells their woolward and barefoot walkes their hard and tedious pilgrimages whiles wee they say deny nothing to backe or belly fare full lie soft sit warme and make a wantō of the flesh whiles we professe to tend the spirit Brethren heare a little the words of exhortation The bragges of their penall will-worship shall no whit moue vs All this is blowne away with a Quis requisiuit Baals Priests did more then they yet were neuer the holyer But for our selues in the feare of God see that we do not iustifie their crimination whiles they are in one extreame placing all Religion in the outside In touch not taste not handle not let not vs be in the other not regarding the externall acts of due humiliation It is true that it is more easie to afflict the body then to humble the soule A dramme of remorse is more then an ounce of paine O God if whippings and haire-clothes and watchings would satisfie thy displeasure who would not sacrifice the blood of this vassall his body to expiate the sinne of his soule who would not scrub his skin to ease his conscience who would not freeze vpon an hardle that hee might not fry in hell who would not hold his eies open to auoid an eternall vnrest and torment But such sacrifices and