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A81367 Desires after Jesus: or, Meditations upon the life and passion of our blessed saviour Jesus Christ. With short ejaculations and prayers drawn from each passage thereof. : Very proper to excite our love and affections towards him, and to help us in the expression of our desires for the imitation of his vertues, and to preserve a due and thankful remembrance of what he has done and suffered for us. 1698 (1698) Wing D1179A; ESTC R174516 21,958 60

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Desires after Jesus OR MEDITATIONS UPON THE Life and Passion Of our Blessed Saviour JESUS CHRIST WITH Short Ejaculations and Prayers drawn from each Passage thereof Very proper to excite our Love and Affections towards him and to help us in the Expression of our Desires for the Imitation of his Vertues and to preserve a due and thankful Remembrance of what he has done and suffered for us LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Sam. Keeble at the Turks Head in Fleet-street and Rich. Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard 1698. TO THE READER THE approaching Season appointed by our Church for the Commemoration of the principal Sufferings of our dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the most remarkable Instances of his Love to Mankind by which he also purchas'd for them inestimable Benefits is therefore very deservedly to be observed in the most Religious and Solemn manner by all that pretend and desire to have a share in that common Redemption But because the Ingratitude of Christians in this respect is grown so common and tho' all hope to be partakers of the Benefit of his Death yet few will bestow any Pains in the Consideration of it or at least to very little purpose It is time for those who are any way sensible of their Obligations to manifest their zeal for their crucified Saviour by appearing publickly on this Occasion to testifie their Love that others by their Examples may be put in mind stirred up and encouraged to shew him also every one of them some Signs of their Gratitude some Tears of Love Sorrow or Contrition tho' never so few This moved me to Print the following Pages and to lay before you therein a true description of the several Points and Passages of our Saviour's Life and Passion in as little compass as I could in a Method the best I could think of to move your Affections to the Love of his Goodness and to provoke your Courage and Resolutions to the Practice of his Vertues I have divided the whole into several little parts and distinguished each Passage in this manner that it may be the more useful and serviceable to ordinary Capacities who may now easily pitch upon that part of the Life of Jesus which is most suitable to their present purpose and more deliberately pause and meditate upon it to make the deeper Impression on their Minds and the better to influence their Lives and Conversations You will find herein Prayers on all the remarkable Actions and Sufferings of our Saviour's Life as well as of those near and at his Death I thought it therefore convenient to put a Title to each of them that any one may find out and pass without trouble to that which will answer his present Occasion or the reason that is ordained for the remembrance of any particular Passages of his Life or Death But since so excellent a Pattern should be the continual Meditation of every sincere Christian we should not content our selves with only such a Portion of Time for our serious Thoughts upon it but resolve and endeavour to set it always before us for our Imitation and Practice in the whole course of our Lives And indeed who can read at any time those glorious Instances of our Saviour's Love in what he did and suffer'd for us and not melt into Tears of Love Joy or Admiration Who can view the noble Examples of his admirable Vertues his profound Humility inviucible Patience and Meekness and not be moved to the Imitation of them Who can look upon the Captain of their Salvation wading through a See of Blood and bearing the weight of a heavy Cross all his Life a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and not resolve with himself if he have any Courage to take up his Cross too and follow him Did he that was the dearly beloved Son of God condescend to live a Life of Labours and Difficulties a Life of Tryals and Afflictions and at last suffer all the Torments Disgraces and Ignominies that the worst of Villains could invent And shall we that pretend to be his Disciples and Followers think of living in Ease and Pleasures in the Opinion and Favour of the World by our Treachery to him and false Complyances with its Allurements and Friendships 'T is sure the want of considering the Testament he has left us wherein all these things are so lively described that so many faint and grow Cowards and Negligent in their Spiritual Warfare and can do and suffer so little for him who has done and suffered so much for their Sakes 'T is either great Ignorance or Infidelity of these great Truths of our Religion or the greatest Disingenuity if we know believe and love them and do not set about the Practice of them Let us therefore no longer delay but begin now to shew our selves Men true Disciples of Christ such as love their Master and prove it by their Obedience to his Commands by despising and falling out with the World that hated him and all its Deceits and Vanities with a real intention to conform our selves to his humble suffering and self-denying Life and let us every day press forward to a greater measure of Love and Perfection of Obedience that finding his Yoke easie and his Burthen light by accustoming our selves to bear it we may experience more and more the fulness of our Happiness and of our Joy to be in the love and imitation of Jesus and then we shall count indeed all things in the World but loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord Phil. 3.8 Let us often be trying our selves by his example especially of that of Lowness and Meekness Mat. 11.29 and be always in the Exercise of that which was in a peculiar manner his Command that which he who was all love so often pressed and inculcated that amiable precept of loving one another John 15.12 17. and thereby we shall not only know our selves but all Men will know us to be his Disciples John 13.35 Let these three things Humility Meekness and Love the peculiar Characters of Jesus be constantly in our view let us often and diligently compare our Thoughts Words and Actions by this Rule as If we find our selves ready to think better of our selves than our fellow Christians and therefore despise those that are weak and imperfect if we slight those that are Poor and avoid going near them or conversing with them if we are full of our own Judgments and bitter censurers of others Actions we plainly shew that we are not yet humble like Jesus If we are froward and peevish and impatient of Contradiction or Reproof and justify our selves upon every little occasion if upon receiving a slight Injury we complain and are grieved at it or shew any signs or desire of Revenge If for every little Trifle we are inwardly and outwardly discomposed we may easily perceive upon an impartial view of our selves how unlike we