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The Passion sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on Good-Friday. Apr. 14. 1609. By I.H.; Passion-sermon
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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life a subiect of death And yet it was not a dying but a giuing vp not of a vanishing aerie breath but of a spirituall soule which after separation hath an entire life in it selfe He gaue vpp the Ghost he died that hath both ouercome and sanctified and sweetned death What fearest thou hee hath puld out the sting and malignity of death If thou bee a Christian carry it in thy bosome it hurts thee not Darest thou not trust thy Redeemer If hee had not dyed death had beene a Tyrant now hee is a slaue O Death where is thy sting O Graue where is thy victory Yet the Spirite of God saith not he dyed but gaue vpp the Ghost The verie Heathen Poet saith Hee durst not say that a good man dies It is worth the noting mee thinkes that when Saint Luke would describe to vs the death of Ananias and Sapphira he sayeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee expired but when Saint Iohn would describe Christs death hee saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hee gaue vp the Ghost how how gaue hee it vpp and whither so as after a sort hee retained it his soule parted from his body his Godhead was neuer distracted eyther from soule or body this vnion is not in nature but in person If the natures of Christ could be diuided each would haue his subsistence so there should be more persons God forbid one of the natures therefore may haue a separation in it selfe the soule from the body one nature cannot be separate from other or eyther nature from the person If you cannot conceiue wonder the Sonne of GOD hath wedded vnto himselfe our humanity without all possibility of diuorce the body hangs on the Crosse the soule is yeelded the Godhead is euiternally vnited to them both acknowledges sustaines them both The soule in his agonie feeles not the presence of the God head the body vpon the Crosse feeles not the presence of the soule Yet as the Fathers of Chalcedon say truely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 indiuisibly inseparably is the Godhead with both of these still and euer one and the same person The Passion of Christ as Augustine was the sleepe of his Diuinity so I may say The death of Christ was the sleepe of his humanity If hee sleepe he shall doe well said that Disciple of Lazarus Death was too weake to dissolue the eternall bonds of this heauenly coniunction Let not vs Christians go too much by sense wee may be firmely knit to God not feele it thou canst not hope to be so neare to thy God as Christ was vnited personally thou canst not feare that God should seeme more absent from thee then hee did from his owne Sonne yet was hee still one with both body and soule when they were diuided from themselues whē he was absent to sense he was present to faith when absent in vision yet in vnion one and the same so will hee be to thy soule when it is at worst Hee is thine and thou art his if thy hold seeme loosened his is not When temptations will not let thee see him hee sees thee and possesses thee only belieue thou against sense aboue hope though he kill thee yet trust in him Whither gaue hee it vp Himselfe expresses Father into thy handes and This day thou shalt bee with mee in Paradise It is iustice to restore whence wee receiue Into thy hands He knew where it should be both safe happie true hee might bee bold thou saist as the Sonne with the father The seruants haue done so Dauid before him Steuen after him And least wee should not thinke it our common right Father sayth hee I will that those thou hast giuen me may be with me euen where I am hee willes it therefore it must bee It is not presumption but faith to charge God with thy spirite neither can there euer bee any belieuing soule so meane that hee should refuse it all the feare is in thy selfe how canst thou trust thy iewell with a stranger What sodaine familiarity is this God hath beene with thee and gone by thee thou hast not saluted him and now in all the hast thou bequeathest thy soule to him On what acquaintance how desperate is this carelesnesse If thou haue but a little money whither thou keepe it thou layest it vp in the Temple of trust or whether thou let it thou art sure of good assurance sound bonds if but a litle land how carefully dost thou make firme conueyances to thy desired heires If goods thy will hath taken secure order who shall enioy them wee need not teach you Citizēs to make sure worke for your estates if Children thou disposest of them in trades with portions onely of thy soule which is thy self thou knowest not what shall become The world must haue it no more thy selfe wouldst keepe it but thou knowest thou canst not Sathan would haue it and thou knowest not whether hee shall thou wouldest haue God haue it and thou knowest not whether hee will yea thy heart is now ready with Pharaoh to say Who is the Lord O the fearefull and miserable estate of that man that must part with his soule hee knowes not whither which if thou wouldest auoide as this very warning shall iudge thee if thou doe not be acquainted with GOD in thy life that thou mayest make him the Gardian of thy soule in thy death Giuen vp it must needs be but to him that hath gouerned it if thou haue giuen it to Sathan in thy life how canst thou hope God will in thy death entertaine it Did you not hate mee and expell me out of my fathers house how then come yee to me now in this time of your tribulation said Ieptha to the men of Gilead No no eyther giue vp thy soule to God while hee calls for it in his word in the prouocations of his loue in his afflictions in the holy motions of his spirit to thine or else when thou wouldest giue it hee will none of it but as a Iudge to deliuer it to the Tormentor What should God doe with an vncleane drunken prophane proud couetous soule without holinesse it is no seeing of God Depart from me yee wicked I know yee not goe to the gods you haue serued See how God is euen with men they had in the time of the Gospell saide to the holy one of Israel Depart from vs now in the time of iudgement hee sayth to them Depart from me They would not know God when they might now God will not know them when they would Now therefore beloued if thou wouldest not haue God scorne the offer of thy death-bed fit thy soule for him in thy health furnish it with grace inure it to a sweet conuersation with the God of heauen then mayest thou boldly giue it vpp and he shall as graciously receiue it yea fetch it by his Angels to his glory· He gaue vp the Ghost Wee must doe as he did not all with the