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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

Prov. 28.13 For he that covereth his Sins shall not prosper but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have Mercy SECT XIV Of the Rigour of Christ's Enemies at his Apprehension THere are Hearts of Wax capable of Divine Impression and blessed are all they that are ready to receive it and there are Hearts of Marble Rocky Hearts reverberating Minds which beat back all Kindnesses and are rather hardned than softned by 'em it being the Purpose of the Almighty That either Grace shall cure Sin or accidentally encrease it Such were the hearts of these Ravenous Wolves who now furiously storm against the Lamb of God it being their k Luk. 22.53 Hour and the Power of Darkness All Thoughts of Divinity Truth Justice and Humanity it self are in the mean time suspended by the Malice of Satan instigating their Rage who represents him to their Fancies as the worst of Mankind a most pernicious Seducer and Subverter of their Religion whose Ignominy and Punishment would be so much more grateful to their Princes by how much more Cruelty it was executed upon him With their Swords and their Staves they proclaim their Malice and there were some had hardly Patience to wait his Tryal as usually happens in popular Tumults for how should they spare him in their first heat who never after left persecuting him till he expir'd on the Cross It is in vain for the Disciples to attempt a Rescue and Peter's Zeal is here more unseasonable than ever He draws his l Joh. 18.10 Sword and strikes one of the forwardest a Servant of the High-Priest by name Malchus and cut off his Ear but is immediately rebuked for the Intemperance of his Passion and the Mischief he had done Jesus m Luk. 22.51 heals with a Touch. For the Christian Religion was not so to be Planted nor were such to be the Arms of the Catholick Church whom Tears and Prayers were to become better than any illegal Expresses of Revenge The Lord himself will now be wounded of Sinners rather than the meanest Slave shall suffer nor may the n Mat. 26.53 Angels themselves assist him who had ministred to him at all other Seasons of his o Mat. 2.13.4.11 Necessity and preserv'd the Faithful from the hand of their Enemies For the Scriptures were to be fulfill'd That thus it must be It is the p John 18.11 Cup which the Father has given him and he resolves to drink it Thus being permitted they took Jesus and q Joh. 18.12 bound him These cruel Robbers lay violent hands upon the Bishop of their Souls This degenerate of-spring rise against their Father These Children of Darkness seize the true Light These hardned Sinners captivate their God and regardless of all the Miracles and Mercies he had wrought for 'em who lent not his hand of Pity to the lapsed Angels but took on him the perishing Seed of their r Heb. 2.16 Father and daily supported them by the Arm of his Power and went about doing good They bind him with Cords as Judas had premonisht 'em That same is he hold him fast hoping thereby to secure themselves from the Å¿ John 11.48 Romans who upon pretence of some Insurrection to have been made by him might have come and taken away their Place and Nation But as Men have different Sentiments of Christ's Sufferings so have his Sufferings different Effects on them and as t Judg. 16.30 Sampson taken by the Philistines slew more at his Death than he had done in all his Life and the Captive u 1 Sam. 5.7 Ark was the Cause of great Affliction so Christ's Bonds became the Destruction of the Jews for which they were shortly after given up to the Romans and ever since have sought for a Deliverance in vain Whereas to those who look on 'em with the Eye of Faith how they were in order to our Deliverance from the Tyranny of Sin Death and the Devil they are become Liberty Redemption and Salvation Prayer O Sweetest Jesu who didst receive Judas with the Affection of a Saviour and suffer'd him to kiss thy Cheek with the Serenity of God and didst cure the wound of the Enemy with the kindness of a Parent and the tenderness of an infinite Pity and didst permit the Soldiers to bind thee with Patience exemplary to all Ages of Martyrs O kiss me with the Kisses of thy Mouth embrace me with the Entertainments of a Gracious Lord and let my Soul dwell and Feast in thee who art the Repository of eternal Sweetnesses Bind me with those Bands which tyed thee fast the Chains of Love that I may get my Liberty Cure my Wounds by the touch of thy hand and let the Breath of thy Mouth restore me to the Integrity of a holy Penitent That so I may please thee and love thee and sing Praises to thee for my Deliverance for ever and ever SECT XV. Of the sorrowful Separation of Christ and his Disciples his first Examination before Caiaphas and incomparable Clemency towards his Disciples THE Disciples terrified with the Insolence of the Multitude who were now practising all things that might signifie their Contempt and encrease their Rage towards their silent Captive b Mat. 26.56 forsook him and fled but with trembling Hearts and pierc'd through with a thousand Darts of Grief For their Condition must needs be miserable and this a lamentable Separation when having left all for him they must leave him too whom they loved better than their own Parents and that in the hands of his cruel Enemies The time past caus'd 'em to remember all the Gracious Words they had heard all the mighty Works they had seen the present with the greatest Affliction that might be represented to their Fancies all the Blessings they were to lose and that which was to come could be nothing else to 'em but a bottomless Pit of Terrour and Affrightment They apprehended both for themselves and their Master as many Dangers as there are Thorns in the Woods could promise to themselves nothing but endless Miseries Days without Comfort and Nights full of Horrour in the deep Sense of which they pour'd out their Tears frequently intermingling the most dolorous Sighs having no other Eloquence but that of their hearts On the other hand the compassionate Jesus was much more troubled to be parted from those whom he had chosen from among all Men and carried about with him as it were in his Bosom for the Prophet Isaia speaking in his Person x Isai 49 15. says Can a Woman forget her sucking Child that she should not have Compassion on the Son of her Womb Yea they may forget yet will I not forget thee Especially now he had some need of their Society being given up to the Necessities of humane Nature and to suffer whatsoever might be found to afflict it for it is not the least point of Consolation to have in our Sorrows our Friends about us by complaining to whom we

Benign Jesus interceeded for his Enemies but the Divine Goodness so ordered that one of the Malefactors who suffer'd with him should immediatly be converted and receive the Fruits of it for the comfort of all those who should afterwards repent and believe in the meritorious efficacy of his Death Whilst the other Thief desperate and impatient perisht in his impenitency and unbelief bearing the Figure of all hardned Sinners who tho' they have Christ never so near are ever repining and murmuring under the Cross and mistrusting the providence of God till they are Destroyed of the Destroyer For p Luke 23.39 one of the two which were hanged by him his savage nature growing furious under pain and raging against every thing that was near railed on him saying If thou be the Christ save thy self and us But the q Luke 23.40 41 42. other relenting and possest with a deep sense of all the guilt of his offences a piercing dread of future Judgment and especially with admiration of the Holy Jesus rebuk'd him answering dost thou not fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds but this Man has done nothing amiss And he said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom And Jesus r Luke 23.43 said unto him Verily I say unto thee to day shalt thou be with me in Paradise O the wonderful and unsearchable Judgments of God who is able to convert the most wicked in a Moment and would not have us rashly condemn any or ever despair of his saving Mercy Behold here a Prodigy which has nothing common in Nature a convincing Revelation in the heart of a Sinner whose lightning is like a Thunderbolt Quick and Piercing and carries away along with it whatsoever stood before it The Poor Thief confesses Christ when all his Disciples doubted and forsook him And when he had only his Heart and Tongue free yet offers both believing in his Heart and confessing with his Mouth that he was the Lord of Glory Which Miraculous Conversion Jesus entertained with a speedy promise of a very great Felicity that upon that very Day he should be with him in Paradise I know not in this Action whether I should rather admire the good fortune of the Penitent Thief or the wonderful Power of the word Incarnate of the Thief who is drawn for a Cut-throat to Prison from Prison to Judgment from Sentence to the Cross and thence goes to Paradise without needing any other gate but only the Heart of the Bountiful Jesus For on the other side what can be more admirable to our thoughts then to see a Crucified Man do an Act which belongs to the living God when the World shall end to save some and reprobate others and to judge from the Cross as if he sate upon a Throne As if he had said My only Companion and Patient Partaker in my unspeakable Griefs thou askest of me with a great Faith but a small thing in appearance that I should remember thee when I come into my Kingdom But I am not ignorant what becomes me to give or thee to recieve for such a faithful acknowledgement Nor will I reward so great a Virtue shining through all the Clouds of thy Affliction but with the Chief and greatest Good I am now forgotten as a dead Man out of Mind and mine acquaintance are hid out of my sight My Friends are become my Enemies and my Disciples fled Peter afraid of a Womans voice has deny'd me and forsworn himself and Judas for a little unprofitable lucre has sold and betray'd me the rest as Sheep without a Shepherd are scatter'd and almost destitute of all Hope and Faith But thou who art a Robber and fierce by Nature without any advantage of Religious Education art come hither to me out of the covert of the Woods and the hollow Caverns of the Mountains and meetest me in Love and the participation of my Cross more Faithful then my Friends more Constant then my Disciples and Believest and Hopest and Adorest my Abasement and Contemplatest me Triumphing over the Powers of Death and Hell in a Servile Ignominious Crucifixion Confoundest the Ingrateful Reprehendest the Blasphemous Bearest Testimony to my Innocency and Fightest for me all thou canst with thy Tongue Thou seest me here as a Malefactor and yet acknowledgest me to be thy Holy Redeemer Thou seest no other title or sign of my Kingdom but only my Body covered over with Blood and opprest with Dolours and yet thou callest upon me as reigning in Heaven Thou seest me in Misery as an Abject Person and confessest the infinite Glory of my Heavenly Dominion Flesh and Blood has not revealed this unto thee but my Father which is in Heaven nor have I found so great Faith no not in Israel it self Å¿ Gen. 22.15 Abraham believed on me speaking to him from Heaven and t Exod. 3.2 Moses speaking to him out of the midst of Fire and u Isai 6.1 Isaiah as I spake to him sitting on my Throne But thou Believest on me hanging upon this Cursed Tree Weak Fainting and Breathing my last as if I were working Miracles or riding in Triumph * John 3.2 Nicodemus and x John 1.49 Nathaniel have also believed being admonisht by the Scriptures and the y John 15.22 Canaanitish Woman led by my Miracles and my z Matt. 19.28 Disciples upon promise of Thrones But none of these things have been demonstrated to thee nor hast thou searcht the Scripture nor seen signs nor heard promises and yet thou believest and concludest my Glory out of my infirmity and my Innocence from my Condemnation Thou shalt not long expect thy Reward For tho' the Ax be laid to thy Root and thou wert ready to be cast into the Fire Yet art thou in time the door of Mercy is still open yea the Fountain of Grace flows more plentifully then ever And it shall be more Profitable and Honourable for thee thus to have hung by my side Crucified and Believing then to have sate before Cesar on Golden Arras or Triumpht before the People on an Ivory Throne And thou shalt reap more pleasure for having been partaker of these my Torments then thou couldst have done out of the spoils of Provinces or by having been Monarch of the Universe For what would it have profited thee to have gain'd the whole World and to have lost thy poor Soul or to have heap'd up all the Treasures of the Earth if they must have been follow'd with Everlasting Sorrows Verily I say unto thee and be thou secure of it even this day will I exalt thee before all Israel and thou shalt be where I am because thou hast confest and follow'd thy Saviour Thy petition was but small as thou imaginest for what is easier than to remember but truly the greatest and such as ought to be the Prayer and constant desire of every