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A42394	The history of Christ's sufferings composed out of the prophets, evangelists, apostles, fathers, and other holy writers. With aspirations, or prayers, suitable to each section. In order to an entire resignation of the soul to the will of God, according to the example of Christ by Dudley Garenciers, rector of Waverton, near Chester.	Garencieres, Dudley, d. 1702.	1697 (1697)	Wing G252A; ESTC R215811	117,779	315

Enemies could reduce him and when they had spent all the poison of their lips that they were now reduc'd to an involuntary silence He that he might leave nothing undone which might magnifie his Mercy above all their provocations and to give an undeniable proof of his Ministery that he came to reconcile the World to God broke into this most admirable intercession for them m Luke 23.34 Father forgive them for they know not what they do O God! O Goodness O Love What Word what Speech what Voice is this He was not more sensible of the madness of the People then he was compassionate of their infirmities nor griev'd with their Malice so much as Merciful to their Sins Hitherto they had objected against his being the Messiah and now he will give them an undoubted demonstration opposing himself by Prayer to the Anger of his God Heavenly Father whose Honour I have observ'd whose Commandments I have fulfill'd and at whose Will and Pleasure I was sent into the World and being of thy substance took humane Nature to be a Pacifier Intercessor and High-Priest to make reconciliation for the Sins of the People who now hang bleeding and dying upon the Cross in the midst of so many Reproaches Torments and Griefs offering up my self to thee in Tears and Crys for the Sins of all whoever offend thee Spare thy people Good Lord spare them and wash away their Sins in my propitiatory Blood Adam transgress'd and his posterity became abominable and the whole World lies in wickedness Even thine own Inheritance which thou hast chosen out of all People and lov'd above the rest of the works of thy Hands have added this weight to the guilt of all their Sins to deny the Holy one whom thou hast sent and to spill my innocent Blood upon the Earth For how great is my Dignity which they have set at nought How infinite is thy Majesty they have despis'd in me Nevertheless tho' hitherto thou hast justly dealt with Man in shutting Heaven against his transgressions and opening Hell and sending Death into the World nor shouldst thou ever justly spare without satisfaction to thy Eternal Justice nor could all the Blood of Men make that atonement yet now behold me who am come to satisfie thee by the dignity of my Divinity joyn'd to the nature of offending Man Man's Salvation depends on me on me alone who came an exile hither from those Essential Joys I had in thy Bosom to suffer Cold and Heat Hunger and Thirst Nakedness and Weariness Watchings and Temptations Afflictions Persecutions and this cruel Death What Griefs what Torments have I not endur'd in this tender body of Flesh What Sorrow what Streights what Agonies have I not experienc'd in this frail constitution of Mortals Was there ever any grief like mine wherewith thou hast afflicted me in thy fierce anger What remains then O Father of Mercies who hast n Exod. 34.6 proclaim'd thy self Gracious Long-Suffering and abundant in Goodness and in Truth forgiving Iniquity Transgression and Sin but that thou should'st lay aside thine Anger Remit Pardon and Pour forth thn Grace My Blood crys not for Vengeance as o Gen. 4.10 Heb. 12.24 Abel's did against his Murderer nor do I appeal to thee now as a Judge but as to a Father I implore thy Mercy unless there shall be any who shall account it unholy and trample my Covenant under their Feet I have Pardon'd who Suffer'd and am Crucified Pardon thou those whom that thou mightest Pardon thou sentest me into the World thus to suffer Now all manner of Sinners which shall ever be in the World they are my Tormentors they are my Crucifiers as well as these Jews and Romans about me I Pray therefore for all as I Suffer for all and offer my self a ransom for all But more particularly for these my Brethren because no Sin can equal theirs that thou wouldst be pleased to be favourable to their Blindness for they know not what they do The vail of Darkness is over their Hearts and this covering of Flesh has clouded me that they cannot discern my Divinity but hereafter they will look on him whom they have pierced and mourn and the World shall acknowledge me their Crucified Lord. Is it not by thy permission that Satan has thus blinded them and hid from their understandings the Mystery of my Incarnation Destroy not therefore an ignorant Nation who are to fulfil the designs of thy Wisdom and Mercy For did they know me they would not Crucifie me and notknowing me they are subservient thy Providence After the same goodness likewise do thou ever pardon all that offend against thee ignorantly and out of Infirmity that they may return to thee and Repent and be acceptable through the Merits of this my Sacrifice which I here offer for their Ransom Let my Death overcome their Death Let my Resurrection despoil their Hell And when I return Triumphantly to thee let me also make a way for my Ransomed to pass Prayer O Bleeding Love my Dear Intercessor who hadst the Patience thus to Pray for thine Enemies among so many Torments and Deaths wherefore didst thou not Pray thy Heavenly Father that he should mitigate thy own Griefs for thou neglected'st the Beloved of God and interceededest for his rebellious Servants Thy Hands and Feet were nailed to the Cross thy tender Flesh torn with Whips thy languishing Head pierced with Thorns and all the parts of thy Body disjoynted and strugling under inexpressible pains Why would'st thou not pitty thy Sacred Body who hadst such compassion of thy Tormentors Why would'st thou not be eas'd from temporal pains who wast so desirous to have them freed from the Eternal Art thou not bound to defend the Innocent And why dost thou not defend thy self who art most eminently and undoubtedly such by the Testimonies of thy Betrayer and Judge But thou becomst an Advocate for the guilty Thou excusest a Sin which cannot be paralel'd Without being desir'd thou Prayest for the Actors and for the love of those who kill thee art content to die And why all this Gracious Lord but for my instruction that I a Sinner should have compassion towards Sinners that I who commit so many Sins my self should not only forgive such as do offend me but also excuse and Pray for them that so I may become a Son of thy Eternal Father and a true Disciple of thy Beneficent Love O fill my Heart with thy Exuberant Charity and transform me into thine own likeness Dissolve into meekness all pittiless Spirits abolish with thy Grace all Mortal Vengeances and convert with thy Clemency those Tyrannous Souls who know not what it is to Pardon when once Offended That after thy Example we may embrace our Adversaries quench their passions with Tears of Love and become acceptable to that infinite Charity wherewith thou redeemest the the Sinning World SECT XLI Of the Penitent Thief and Christ 's Mercy towards him NO sooner had the

he withdrew a little way he y Luk. 22.41 kneel'd down he fell on his Face and z Mark 14.35.36 pray'd that if it were possible the dreadful hour might pass from him And he said Abba Father which name he ingeminates because it is of the greatest Consolation to believe him a Father in all our Afflictions and that our Troubles proceed from his Good Will by which he deals with us as with Sons All things are possible unto thee and the World might have been otherwise Redeemed than by my Death Take away this Cup from me This deadly Cup which being drunk will cast me into the Sleep of Death Nevertheless not what I will but what Thou wilt For this is the manner pre-determined from Eternity and thus it ought to be and to this end am I come He prays with an Intention great as his Sorrow and yet with a Submission so entire and a Conformity to the Divine Will so ready as if it had been the most indifferent thing in the World for him to be deliver'd to Death or from it For though his Nature did decline Death as that which has a natural Horrour and Contradiction to the present Interest of its Preservation yet when he lookt upon 't as what his Father had put into the Order of the Redemption of the World it was then the Baptism wherewith he was straitned till it were accomplisht and a thing preferrable to all the Pleasures of Life As he had truly taken the Nature of Man he had different Affections of Flesh and Spirit and different Prayers in respect of both The Flesh resolutely shunn'd the Cross as what was contradictory to its Preservation The Spirit corrected and overcame it being in Obedience to the Father of Spirits He did not deprecate Death out of Fear for how could the Son of God be afraid of Death but he pray'd according to the Affection of the Flesh that he might overcome the Prayer of the Flesh by the Prayer of the Spirit as he says in another place a John 12.27 Father save me from this Hour and presently subjoyns But for this Cause came I to this Hour He seems also to have pray'd in this manner lest by the occasion of his Passion the Condemnation of the Wicked might be the greater For he saw That by his Death Judas one of the Twelve would become the Son of Perdition and his Consanguinians the Jews cast off and the City and Temple laid wast On the other hand he knew That by his Sufferings he should overcome the Gates of Hell and break a Way for his Redeemed to pass And therefore as unwilling they should perish by his Passion he says Father if it may be let this Cup pass from me but for the Salvation of the rest of Mankind which was to be redeemed by his Death he b Luk. 22.42 says as it were correcting his former Prayer Not my Will but Thine be done I know O Father it is the Decree of thy Will that thus it should be and thus I must suffer My Heart is ready my Heart is ready In the Volume of the c Psal 40.10 Heb. 10.7 Book it is written of me that I should fulfill thy Will O my God I am content to do it yea thy Law is within my Heart O! what a great Secret is here reveal'd which teaches us to hate our Soul that we may preserve it to despise it for a time that we may Honour it for Eternity to punish it in this Life to give it thereby a perpetual Rest in the World to come to handle it roughly that it may be establisht in all Delights and we may love it without end This is the way the blessed Jesus has taught us to arrive at the chiefest Point of our Felicity Prayer Thy Will O God is the measure of Holiness Thy Providence the great Disposer of all things tying all Events together in order to thy Glory and the Good of thy Servants by a wonderful mysterious Chain of Wisdom O let it be also the Meas●re of my Desires For I know That whatsoever thou sayst is true whatsoever thou commandest is just whatsoever thou dost is good So shall I be pleas'd with all the Accidents thou permittest patient of all the Punishment thou inflictest a Lover of all the Good thou enjoynest and a Hater of all the Evil which thou forbiddest till at last my Conformity to thy Divine Will shall arise up to the Degrees of Union with thee SECT X. Of Christ's Anxiety for the Security of his Disciples THE afflicted Jesus having in few Words exprest the innocent and harmless Desires of humane Nature is toucht at the same time with Compassion towards it and in the mid'st of his Agony returns to visit that little Flock which was so soon to be dispersed and at present liable to the Assaults of Satan But alas Grief had Surcharg'd their heavy Hearts and Sorrow had closed their weeping Eyes So far had the Tempter prevail'd upon 'em to avert 'em from Prayer the Meditation of the Passion and the Remembrance of their Frailty Finding 'em Sleeping he first Addresses himself to Peter who had always exprest most Zeal for his Interest d Maak 14.37 saying Simon Sleepest Thou Is this thy Constancy Courage and Promise and is it thus thou wilt go with me into Prison and to Death Great Promises require great cares and he that is deeply engaged must be very Vigilant or very Faithless to his Master How is it that after such Asseverations of thy Fidelity I find thee at rest while I am Sweating Blood and that this Garden is the Bed of thy Repose which is the Theatre of my inimitable Anguish Ah Simon could'st thou not watch one hour Thou hast much to learn before thou canst follow me The Nights of a Resolv'd Martyr must be spent in the Studies of Patience not in security and ease he must exercise a Holy Cruelty upon his Flesh by Crucifying the Lusts and Affections thereof before he can overcome the inventions of his Tormentors in a holy and undaunted perseverance Hadst thou watch'd with me thou mightest have received further Encouragement in thy Resolution to die for me and learnt from the extremity of my pains willingly to embrace the present opportunity of Glorifying God by a constant Death Then turning to the rest he e Luke 22.46 says Why sleep ye For sloth is reprehensible in all Christians it is not a time to rest when danger is imminent and the grand Adversary as a roaring Lion walking about to see whom he may devour He is full of Wiles his darts are fiery his insinuations subtile and undiscernable f Mark 14.38 Watch therefore and be of good courage least ye be overcome and ensnared unawares Nor is this enough for none is of himself safe without the Almighty's assistance and therefore Pray also least ye enter into Temptation the Spirit truly is ready but the Flesh is weak I know you

may know I find no fault in him Then came Jesus forth wearing the Crown of Thorns and the Purple Robe and Pilate saith unto them Behold the Man Let it suffice O ye Jews for this Man's Punishment that he is thus miserably and opprobriously afflicted All which has been done to him more out of Necessity than for any Offence made out against him since after all our dealings with him I must confess him innocent and that I have found no fault in him Behold the Man whether he be now like a Man and much less a King for which you have so violently accus'd him Behold his Robe is it not of Mockery Behold his Scepter is it not a Reed Behold his Face is there any thing there which may induce the People to run after him and admire him Behold the Man in every part and you will find him so much less than a Man by how much he has suffer'd all these Indignities and an irreparable Disgrace among Men That truly he is now the Object of our Pity and Humanity requires us to sympathize with his Miseries which are but so many Instances of our own Mutability and silent Appeals to Mercy Let it suffice therefore and let us dismiss him If you have envy'd him the Title of a King you see it has sufficiently dejected him and brought him to shame to a ludibrious Vesture a Crown of Thorns painful Stripes odious Spittle and the Contempt of the whole Nation But alas there are some implacable Spirits in the World which seem to partake of the Nature of Devils and cannot be overcome either by Mildness or Force but grow more obstinate when excited to Pity When the Chief Priests and Officers saw Jesus in this Condition those very Motives which melted Pilate serv'd only as Incentives to their farther Rage Invidious Malice is a poysoned Gall the Root of Vices the Father of Murders and the Mother of Death It is the Rage of the Devil and the very Soul and Spirit of Apostate Nature neither to be pacified with Kindness nor satisfied with Cruelty Little Portions of Revenge do but inflame it and serve to flesh it up to a fiercer Violence Vexed that they had not yet done their Work they fall afresh upon the poor Remainders of his Life And they cried out saying e John 19.6 Crucifie him Crucifie him It is not enough to us to see the Blood of his Face but we must have that of his Heart too We are not satisfied to behold him miserable but we must see him dying on the Cross Thou hast well done in Scourging him now Crucifie him Thou hast shewn him to us wounded but we must see him dead Prayer Ah! my dear Maker thou Father of Mercies whence come these Thoughts into the Heart of Man whom at first thou madest after thine own Image And why are we given up to the Instigations of Satan the Father of Lyes and Original of Murder but because we have wickedly departed from thee and done Despite to thy Spirit of Grace O give us Mildness and Bowels of Compassion one towards another especially towards the Afflicted considering our selves Fellow Subjects in the same Misfortunes That in the last day when we must answer for what we have done and our own Mercy shall be the f Mat. 25.35 Measure of our Judgment thy Mercy may rejoyce over thy Justice and we may be received into the Joy of our Gracious Lord. SECT XXXI Of Pilate's fifth Declaration of Christ's Innocence PIlate astonish'd at their Inhumanity and Obstinacy and no longer able to restrain his Indignation says g John 19.6 Take ye him and Crucifie him your selves for I find no fault in him and desire to have nothing more to do in the matter And this was the Fifth time he proclaim'd him innocent As if he had said If ye will have him Crucified Crucifie him your selves ye blood-thirsty and insatiable Murderers Shall I because of your Malice contrary to all Laws by which I am bound to protect destroy the Innocent Shall I be accessory to your Murder terrified thereto by your Clamours Am I to be an Administrator of Hatred and Envy and to suppress the Just by my Authority I will not have my Judgment Seat nor the Roman Empire stain'd with the Blood of a guiltless Man I have too far condescended to pleasure you already by scourging this poor innocent Person and if after all he must dye take ye him and murder him since your Religion permits it and with you it is a Capital Crime to be innocent I have no Law for it and will be clear of this Injustice A Spectacle worthy of the Presence of The Almighty to see a Magistrate ardent in Zeal for the Defence of the Innocent and Just and to bend all his Endeavours and Force of Courage to strengthen his Arm against the Torrent of Iniquity to put off peculiar Interests and to defend the Truth It is this which makes Government easie and the People to rejoyce under it while wicked Justicers make sad the World Surely they had blusht at this Righteousness of the Heathen if they had had the least sense left of Goodness or Religion but resolv'd he should never escape out of their hands they begin to start a new Accusation The Jews h John 19.7 answered We have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye because he made himself the Son of God Before they had said it was not lawful for 'em to put any Man to Death but now they have a Law rather than he shall escape and whatever the Law be they will make him Guilty of it which according to their Accusation we may suppose was that of i Lev. 24.16 Blasphemy or against k Deut. 18.20 false Prophets for seducing the People by a pretended Revelation Now though the numerous Controversies of the Jews did not concern the Roman Governours nor were they moved with the frequent Quarrels arising from the Disputes of different Sects nevertheless when Pilate who believ'd the Descent of the Gods heard that Saying whereby they accused him for making himself the Son of God he was the more l John 19.8 afraid and knew not what to determine He had heard of his Miracles and was sensible of his Innocency and wonderfully taken with his admirable Constancy and Patience shining throughout his Sufferings and rationally concluded if he were some venerable God which all his Actions seemed to declare it were unpardonable in him to give Sentence against him and therefore he goes again into the Judgment Hall and saith unto Jesus m John 19.9 Whence art thou But Jesus gave him no Answer in so great a Mystery who against the perfect knowledge of his Innocence had ordered him to be scourged contrary to Justice And this is that Silence of which the Prophet speaks n Isai 53.7 He was oppressed and afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he was brought as a lamb to the slaughter

him mournfully afar off And the pious Women who had believ'd and abhor'd his Death would bewail him Suffering Dying and Dead Our Gracious Lord regardless of the furious Multitude and q 2 Tim. 2.19 knowing who are his turns to these saying r Luke 23.28 Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but for your selves and for your Children For behold the days are coming in which they shall say Blessed are the Barren and the Wombs that never bare and the Paps that never gave suck and so great shall be the Terror they shall begin to say to the Mountains fall on us and to the Hills cover us as if the dreadful Day of Judgment were then appearing Not that it was indecent to bewail his Passion for humanity commands a Sympathy and some pity towards the Sufferings of a real offender much more towards the misfortunes of an Innocent Person But because it was not fit to bewail him as others who died not as others die for we come to Death by Sin but Christ came to Death by Righteousness therefore he says Daughters of Jerusalem there is no necessity you should weep for me who have long since been prepar'd to go this sad procession I suffer not this for my own Sins And what you are Ignorant of this my end will bring Joy to the whole World Such Grief becomes not those who Triumph nor is Lamentation suitable to Victory But if your tenderness must vent in Tears you have reason to shed abundance for your selves and your Posterity to avert if possible those Dreadful Judgments which hang over this City and Nation For behold those adverse times are coming when Men as well as Women Young and Old Rich and Poor shall be reduc'd to such streights that they shall wish they had never been Born nor ever had Sons or Daughters Yea so great shall be the afrightment that ye shall wish your selves under the Earth rather than upon it in the Bowels of the Mountains and the Caverns of the Hills least any one should see or find you out For if they do these things in a ſ Luke 23.31 green tree in me and my Disciples What shall be done in the dry If I who have done t Heb. 4.15 no Sin who am the u John 15.1 living Vine and the * John 6.35 bread of Life pass not out of the World without this fiery tryal What shall become of those who are void of all fruit who are near to x Heb. 6.8 cursing and whose end is to be burned If Judgment begin at the House of God and all that will live Godly shall suffer persecution What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel Ah my dear Reader how Quick and Powerful how Sharp and Piercing is this word of God even to the dividing asunder the Soul and Spirit and of the Joynts and Marrow What a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the Heart How shall God punish us for our own Sins who is so wrathfully displeas'd with our Redeemer for the Sins which are none of his If Christ his Obedient Son were thus grievously Afflicted how shall his Rebellious Servants hope to escape unpunish'd And what must the Reprobate undergo in the day of Judgment if such be the sufferings of the best beloved Oh the infinite anger of God! Oh the inestimable rigour of his Justice who is thus enraged against his only Son his beloved Son his Son the partaker of his Essence And that not for his own Sin but because he interceded for Sinners What will become of the polluted Soul which continues still to go on securely in Sin when the Immaculate Jesus is thus tormented Let the Creature fear which has Crucified the Creator Let the Servant tremble who has slain his Lord. Prayer O thou Great God of Power and Mercy whose Lightning Flashes preceed the Thunder to give warning of thy Wrath and Terror to the Universe and who never punishest Sinners without premonition let thy sore judgments threatned against others and at last inflicted on 'em because of their Obstinacy waken our Souls out of their Sinful security to a due consideration of those means which may avoid them that we turning from our Sins thou mayest turn from thy fierce anger and leave a blessing and we Perish not For if the present punishments of the Impenitent are the fore-runners of the Eternal Torments to be inflicted on 'em in Hell thy Temporal Mercies towards returning Sinners shall be their assurances of they everlasting Favours SECT XXXV Of the Bitter Potion given to Christ at Golgotha WHile Jesus was thus painfully Travelling in the way either because they thought he went too slowly under the weight and their fury was impatient of any delay or that they fear'd he might Faint and Die and Frustrate the cruel end shame they had designed or that they would reserve his Spirits for his greater Torture having found a man of Cyrene y Matt. 27.32 Simon by name him they compell'd to bear his Cross a person by Providence z Mark 15.21 passing the road at this juncture and his name by interpretation signifying Obedient as if God would thereby teach us that none can bear it profitably but such as are attentive and submissive to his Will and that he will not suffer the faithful to be tempteà a 1 Cor. 10.13 above their ability but together with the temptation give a means to escape There were also two Malefactors led with him to be put to Death for his greater disgrace and increase of Grief by dying in their Company after he had first seen them struggle in the pangs of Death before him At last they came to b Mark 15.22 Golgotha which is the same with c Luke 23.33 Calvary a mount on the West side of the City and by signification the place of a Scull for being the common place of Execution there lay the Bones of such as before had Suffered the Frightful remains of what the ravenous Birds or Beasts had left of their devoured Carcasses a place among the Jews of the greatest impurity for none might touch a dead body and be d Num. 19.11 clean much less the Bones of a cursed Malefactor and such was every one that e Deut. 21.23 hanged upon a tree nor was any thing thought by 'em to give a greater Contagion of Pollution then the f 1 King 13.2 2 King 23.16 burning Mens Bones upon what they intended to prophane Nevertheless our Saviour who had himself also g Matt. 23.27 represented the abominations of the Hypocrites by these Emblems of defilement would descend himself to the extreamest impurities that the might sanctifie and cleanse whatsoever was impure and by humbling himself teach us the true way to Glory So different are the ways of Christ from those of the World which aims at high things by hasty ascents and the more it is lifted up falls with the greater

for you from the beginning of the world For I was thirsty and ye gave me Drink But instead of it they prepared a Vessel of c John 19.29 Vinegar such as might mock his intolerable Thirst and by retaining his Spirits only prolong his Torments wherewith they filled a Spunge and put it upon Hysop and put it to his Mouth They had before afflicted him in all other Parts his Head with Thorns his Face with Buffets his Back with Scourges his Hands and Feet with Nails his Body with shame and in all other Senses his Feeling with Pain his Hearing with phemies his Sight with Abominations his Smelling with the Ordure of their Infernal Mouths And now as if they intended the last Sense he should suffer in should be the same in which d Gen. 3.6 Eve first offended and Providence would make use of them to fulfil the e Psal 69.21 Scripture they gave him Vinegar to drink This was all the Kindness the Son of God received at their hands for whom he died This was all the Refreshment the Beloved of the Father was allowed while he thirsted for the Redemption of Sinners And he who feeds the Earth with the Dew of Heaven and fills all things living with Plentifulness wanted himself that we might enjoy Rivers of Pleasures in the coelestial and eternal Paradise Thus he suffer'd for our Ebriety and Intemperance in all Senses for all our Sins and dried up himself who says in the Gospel f John 7.37 If any man thirst let him come to me and drink Prayer O my dear Jesu Life of my Life and unexhausted Fountain of Mercy which can never be drawn dry to what sort of Sufferings has not thy Love Subjected thee for my sake that thou might'st purifie my Soul and present me unblamable to thy Heavenly Father To what sort of Gratitude should this induce me who know thy Blood to have been drain'd for me but a thankful Remembrance of thy Death and after thy Example an universal Charity to all that stand in need of it Yea I will receive the Cup of Salvation and I will call upon the Name of the Lord. I will magnifie his Mercy in shewing forth his Death and with confident Expectation of his coming again to Crown me with the Purchase of his precious Blood And though I am unworthy through my manifold Sins to offer unto him any Sacrifice at all yet will I present my Soul and Body to be a reasonable holy and lively Oblation not doubting but in Mercy he will accept my Service and with the same Affection wherewith he thirsted for me SECT XLV Of those Words of Christ It is finished and the Resignation of his Spirit to the Father WHen Jesus therefore had received the Vinegar all Prophecies being then fulfill'd as far as belong'd to the Life of the Messiah he said g John 19.30 It is finished or now is compleated whatsoever was predicted in the Scriptures of my Person to the end that Men might believe that I am he who was ordain'd by the eternal Wisdom and Mercy to be the Saviour of the World and so believing escape Hell and Death and be adopted into the Inheritance of the Son A dreadful Speech to the Powers of Darkness and to the Enemy of our Salvation and God's Glory the Devil all whose Desires tend to Damnation and whose Prey are the Souls of Men As if he had said Satan Thou hast hitherto tried all thy Wits to destroy me and my Gospel and frustrate the Happiness of all that should embrace it Thou hast sow'd thy Tares and the Seeds of Ingratitude in the Hearts of this People to whom I was h Matt. 15.24 first sent as the chosen of God exalted their Fury blinded their Judges animated their false Witnesses extorted my Death By thy Instinct one of my Disciples betray'd me another deny'd me the rest have forsaken me and all my Friends stand afar off or dare not own me in this ignominious place By thy Stratagems the Jews have rejected me my Followers despised and these Infidel Soldiers to consummate thy Malice nail'd me to this Tree But now the Quiver of thy Rage is empty and all thy Mischiefs shall return upon thee Nor shalt thou only have nothing in me but shalt lose many Millions of Souls by me Thy Force shall be abated Thy Kingdom wasted thy Wickedness restrained thy Acts ridicul'd For behold by me is finished what the Father hath appointed by me is finished what the Law required by me is finished what the Prophets have foretold as necessary and circumstantial to the Work of Redemption The Types are compleated The Shadows are abolished The Malice and Violence of the Enemy endured And the Sacrifice offer'd which God has requir'd Sin has an end Righteousness begins The Law is fulfill'd and the Gospel Succeeds God is reconciled and Man redeemed Thus did he terrifie the Infernal Powers with the same Word which supports the Faithful with the highest Consolation that Heaven can give or Earth is capable to receive For if all be finished there is no room for Fear A Shield is given us against all Evils The Lust of Sin the Sting of Death the Power of the Grave and the Fiery Darts of the Devil all are vanquished and we are more than Conquerors through him that has loved us and not we alone but his precious Blood is sprinkled backwards to our first Parents and forwards to the last Man that shall be upon Earth though not fully in Possession yet in hope and there is now no i Rom. 8.1 Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus After this there remain'd only the Recommendation of himself and of all those whose Reconciliation he had wrought to the Divine Majesty to be accepted protected govern'd and preserv'd till they might be glorified in his Heavenly Kingdom Which made him seal up his dying Lips with a loud Cry uttering these Words k Luk. 23.46 Father into thy hands I commend my Spirit My God my God my eternal Father behold me on this Pile Sacrificed to thy Justice according to thy Will pre-determin'd of me and my Desire from the first Moment of my Conception thy Pleasure having ever been engraven in my Heart with a Chizzel of Fire and an eternal Character so that I have wisht it I ever would it and I will protest it with my last Breath while my Soul shall be upon my Lips To have but one only Desire in the World to accomplish what thou hast pre-ordained to be done by my Obedience for the Salvation of Men. And now O Father I have endur'd with Patience all the Storms of thy just Indignation I come to thee who art the desirable Haven of all that obey thee and seek for Rest I have manifested thy Name I have glorified thee on Earth I have finished the Work thou gavest me to do I now return offering up my self upon this Altar of the Cross a full perfect and sufficient