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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39680	Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture wherein believers are assisted in preparing their hearts, and exciting their affections and graces, when they draw nigh to God in that most awful and solemn ordinance of the Lords Supper / by Jo. Flavel ...	Flavel, John, 1630?-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing F1183; ESTC R6003	82,969	246

Divine Justice to Christ appeared And this will manifest it self in the consideration of the following particulars First Let us consider what Christ suffered and we shall see the severity of Justice in his sufferings for he suffered all kinds of miseries an●…●…at in the most intense degrees of them His sufferings were from all hands from Heaven Earth and Hell From his EneEnemies who Condemned him Buffeted him Reviled Scourged and Crucified him From his own Disciples and followers one of whom perfidiously betray'd him another openly deny'd him and all in the hour of his greatest trouble forsook and abandoned him He suffered in his Body the most exquisite torments the Cross was a cruel Engine of torment and more so to him than any other by reason of the excellent Crasis and temperament of his Body and his most acute and delicate sense for as the School-men truly say He was optime complectionatus of the most exact and exquisite Complexion and his senses remained acute and vigorous no way blunted during the whole time of his sufferings but full of life and sense to the last gasp as may be gather'd from Mark 15. 39. When the Centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out and gave up the ghost he said Truly this was the Son of God He suffered in his soul yea the sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings he felt in his inner man the exquisite torments and inexpressible anguish of the wrath of God Hence was that preternatural bloody sweat in the Garden and hence that heart-rending out-cry upon the Cross My God my God why hast thou forsaken me In all which sufferings from Heaven from Earth from Hell from Friends from Enemies there was no allay or abatement of the least degree of misery God spared not his own Son saith the Text but delivered him up Wherein the severity of Divine Justice to Jesus Christ is displayed in these five remarkable considerations following First God spared not If mercy pity and forbearance might be expected from any hand surely it might be expected from God He is the Fountain of mercy The Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy saith the Apostle Jam. 5. 11. The most melting and tender compassions of a Mother to her Sucking Child are but cruelty in comparison with divine tenderness and mercy Isa. 49. 15. Can a Woman forget her sucking Child that she should not have compassion upon the Son of her Womb yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee Can a Woman the more affectionate Sex forget her sucking Child her own Child and not a Nursing child only her own Child whilst it hangs on her breast and with the Milk from her breast draws love from her heart Can such a thing as this be in Nature Possibly it may some such cruel Mothers may be found but yet I will not forget thee saith God Though humane corrupt Nature may be so vitiated yet from the Divine nature compassion and mercy are inseparable It flows as waters flow from their Fountain only here it restrained it self and let not out one drop to Jesus Christ in the day of his sufferings God the God of mercy spared not Secondly God spared not saith the Text i. e. he abated not any thing which Justice could inflict Christ was not spared one stroke one tear one groan one drop one sigh one shame one circumstance no not the least which Justice could demand as satisfaction for mans sin There be divers kinds of mercy in God there is in him preventing mercy delivering mercy and sparing mercy Now sparing mercy as one well observes is the lowest mercy of all the three 'T is less mercy to be spared or abated some degree or circumstance of misery than to have misery prevented by mercies stepping in betwixt us and it It 's less also than to be wholly delivered out of the hand of misery Either of these are greater acts of mercy than to abate a degree or shorten an hour of our trouble the least abatement of any one circumstance of misery had been sparing mercy though it had been but the least and lowest act of mercy and yet even this was denyed to Christ he was not abated one minute of time or the least degree of sorrow God spared not Thirdly He spared not his own Son 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So stiled Signanter his own or his proper Son in a special and peculiar manner nearer and dearer to him than the Angels who are his Sons by Creation Jo●… 1. 6. or any of the Saints who are his Sons by grace in the way of Regeneration and Adoption Joh. 1. 12 13. This was his own Son by Nature a Son of an higher rank and order Psal. 2. 7. begotten in an ineffable manner from all Eternity in his own divine essence and so is his Son by Nature having the same Essence and Nature with the Father being co-equal co-essential and co-eternal with the Father No relation in nature is so intimate strict and dear as this our Children are not so much our own Children our bodies are not so much our own bodies as Christ was Gods own Son and yet though he were so dear to him his other Self his express Image his own dear Son he spared him not God spared not his own Son Fourthly And that which makes a farther discovery of Divine severity towards Jesus Christ is this that God spared not his own Son in the day of his greatest distress when he cryed to his Father in an Agony that if it were possible the cup might pass from him For of that day this Scripture is mainly to be understood the day when he fell to the ground and pray'd That if it were possible the hour might pass When he said Abba Father all things are possible to thee take away this Cup from me Mark 14. 35 36. He beheld his own dear Son sweltering under the heaviest pressure of his wrath sweating great drops of Blood crying If it be possible let this hour this cup pass and yet it could not be granted O the severity of God! He heard the cry of Ahab and spared him he heard the Ninevites cry and spared them He heard the cries of Hagar and Ishmael and spared them Yea he hears the young Ravens when they cry and feeds them But when his own Son cryed with the most vehement cry that the Cup might pass he cannot be excused he must drink it up even the very dregs of the Cup of trembling and that to the last drop O the Justice and Severity of God! Fifthly and lastly Consider what the Father of mercies did instead of sparing the Son of his love and the Text will inform you that he delivered him up for us all So 't is noted in Act. 2. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate Counsel and fore-knowledge of God ye have taken and with wicked hands have Crucified and Slain There was