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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

Let them on their Knees approach him on the Cross and reverently cover his naked Body We cover him when our Charity clothes his Servants and hides the infirmities of his little ones Let them with diligence unfasten the Nails and gently draw them out of his Hands and Feet We draw them out when we freely obey his Will and loosen our Affections from cleaving to the World And when they have thus rescued their adorable Lord let them Nail themselves in his stead to the Cross And this we do when we put off the old Man and Crucifie the Flesh with its Affections and Lusts Prayer O Blessed Jesu whose Sacred Body was laid in a Sepulchre after thou hadst Suffer'd Death for the life of my Soul make me so frequently to renew in my mind the memory of thy precious Death and Burial as may put me upon a serious preparation for my own And since thou didst not design to stay any longer on Earth then till thou hadst made a way for thy ransomed to pass let not my heart be set on any condition how comfortable soever it may appear to my senses which may make my Soul desire to be absent from thee But cause me to grow daily less and less affected towards the uncertain pleasures of Life and more and more in love with thy Eternal Joys Grant me My Redeemer a true Penitent Heart for all my former neglects of Thee Deliver me from the punishment my Sins deserve and from the Sins that deserve those Punishments That when I close mine Eyes in Death I may rest in thee and being absent from the Body may be refresht in the Repositories of thy Mercy So shall my Time be govern'd with thy Grace and my Eternity Crown'd with thy Glory SECT XLIX Of the Sealing and Watching the Sepulchre of Christ NOW the Chief Priests and Pharisees upon mature Consideration revolving all the accidents of the past day and comparing the circumstances of his Words and Actions with the Predictions of the Prophets concerning the Messiah and the wonderful ways by which they were compleated and especially remembring those Mystical words which before they pretended they could not understand and z Vid. Sect. 16 r.s wrested to a seditious intent against their worship of his building again in three days the Temple they should destroy and that he had given such his restoration from the Dead as a a Luk. 14.29 30. sign at their request to convince the World of his Truth they came to Pilate early on the next day that followed the day of the Preparation being the great Sabbath of the Pascal week wherein all other People were at their devotion and Prayers so restless and industrious were the Powers of Darkness to have buryed the Gospel in the Grave of Christ and said b Mat 27.63 64 65 66. Sir we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive after three days I will rise again Command therefore that the Sepulchre be made sure until the third day lest his Disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the People he is risen from the dead So the last error shall be worse then the first Pilate said unto them ye have a watch go your way make it as sure as you can So they went and made the Sepulchre sure sealing the stone and setting a watch Thus did that obdurate and impenitent People harden themselves by those wonders which should have wrought their Faith and Conversion and justly feared the last error would be worse then the first hereby Prophesying ignorantly against themselves For their Sin became unpardonable because seeing they would not see But blessed be God all their obstinacy has been subservient to the Magistery of his Providence which orders all things prudently by the means of others They thought to have accomplished their malice against Christ and at the same time fulfill'd the determinations of his Will They thought by sealing the mouth of the Grave and setting a strict Guard over the Corps to have buried his Memory in perpetual silence and all the while were giving Testimony to his Resurrection and setting a sure seal to the Truth of his Divinity For securing and watching the Sepulchre with such diligence they have placed the Resurrection the Foundation of our Faith beyond doubt to future Ages and much firmer then if they had never watcht This is that which gives Glory to the Empire of Christ and whereby we perceive its Divine Power and the miraculous extent of its Conquests whose establishments have been so contrary to all humane ways When we consider how he was exalted by the lowest abasements glorified by his ignominies enriched by his Poverty lives by his Death and is Eterniz'd by his Sufferings And that our Religion ever oppos'd by the Wicked is nevertheless Victorious and Triumphant over impiety enricht by its Losses Glorious by its Persecutions establish'd by its Totterings and honour'd by its Wounds This is that which transports humane understanding into an admiration of the greatest of our Christian Profession Prayer O Crucified Jesu the Fountain of Love Let the wonders of thy Mysterious Incarnation and Death set all the Powers of my Soul on work that I may desire and pant after thee that I may Admire Adore and Imitate thee that I may take sweet and Heavenly delight in the Communion of thy Cross that I may with Praise and Thanksgiving receive thee into my Soul attend and watch thee till thou arise with thy Graces there There will I Love only Love always love to entertain thee SECT L. A Reflection on the foregoing History with Thanksgiving for the Death of Christ AND now my Soul thou hast seen this Great Mystery God Incarnate dying on the Cross to make satisfaction to the infinite Justice by the dignity of his Person Suffering in the Nature which had offended whereby thou art raised to a lively hope of obtaining Heaven which otherwise thou hadst lost and been for ever miserable in Hell with what words with what Affections with what Actions wilt thou glorifie the Author of so inestimable a gift as this O depth of Love Abyss unsearchable of the infinite Mercies of God! That God should delight to make his own Son a Sacrifice who would not suffer Abraham to offer his That God should design it from the foundation of the World foreseeing we should stand in need of it and without it perish Everlastingly That God should reveal it when we no ways deserv'd it nor could on any account hope for it and command us to seek the Benefits of it and enable us to obtain them by his preventing and assisting Grace O God Eternal who hast redeemed my Soul by the precious Blood of thy dear Son I am less then the least of all thy Mercies and of all that Truth which thou hast revealed to thy Servant I praise thee I bless thee I worship thee I extol thee I give thee thanks for thine infinite Compassion O Lord God Heavenly King God the Father Almighty O Lord the only begotten Son Jesu Christ Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the Sins of the World have Mercy upon me receiv● my Prayer and unite me to thy self in the flames of Love For thou only art the Saviour thou only O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father Glory and Honour and continual Thanks be given to Thee Lord God Almighty The Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for the Redemption of the World by the Death and Passion of Christ whereby thou mightst exalt us to Eternal Life Amen FINIS

evil and pierce us through with many Sorrows till we are involv'd in a certain x Matt. 19.23 26. Impossibility of Salvation Why were ye reveal'd from your dark Repositories Why were you not suffer'd to lie buryed for ever that wanting the occasions of Injustice and Luxury we might Innocently have enjoy'd the necessaries of Life and have had our desires free to have waited on our God the only Adequate Object of our Immortal Souls But Mary has taught us the right use to convert 'em to the benefit of the Members of Christ and we cannot but think it the most excellent distribution which draws us to the nearest resemblance of our Maker whose Nature is to y Jam. 1. ● Matt. 5. 〈…〉 Give and to do good which z 1 Pet. 〈…〉 covers Sins which is a Psal 〈…〉 everlasting Righteousness and Ascends for a b Acts 〈…〉 Memorial before God an c Phil. 〈…〉 odour of a great smell and an acceptable Sacrifice which shall d Rev. 〈…〉 follow us and be e Matt. 25. 〈…〉 own'd by the Great King in the last day and f Matt. 5. 〈…〉 obtain Mercy in the Time of Judgment Ye Candidates of Eternity whose business shall be Charity in the other World when Faith and Hope shall cease the Time is coming and we know not how suddenly that Death shall disarray us to the very Bones and leave us nothing but what we have given to God g Matt. 26.11 Deut. 15.11 and to the Poor in his Absence Let us therefore commence here our Heavenly Conversation and Bless the hour wherein we have opportunity to evidence our Love to God and Man and to part with something for the sake of our Dear Saviour to buy with the Superfluities of a trifling stock an h 1 Pet. 1.4 inheritance incorruptible and undefiled in Heaven where neither i Matt. 6.9 Moth nor Rust do corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal How comfortable will the reflections of our Charity be at the Hour of Death and in the Day of Judgment when Mercy shall rejoyce against Judgment Jam. 2.13 and Love shall constitute a part of Heaven and help to make up the enjoyment of that State Prayer Amiable Jesu since we cannot pour our Grateful Odours upon thy Head nor wash thy Sacred Feet with our Tears let us reach thy Divinity and Humanity with our Faith and let our Charity diffuse it self upon thy Mystical Body the Church That we may never esteem any thing too Precious to be bestow'd for thy sake never value any thing in competition with thy Service who art the true Riches of thine Elect. SECT VI. Of the Benignity of Christ supporting his Disciples in the absence of the Betrayer against the Time of their Trial. JUdas is gone and the Holy Jesus not more streightned with the thoughts of his Passion then with the Sorrows of his Disciples begins a most Heavenly and Salutary Discourse to enlighten their Understandings and alleviate their Minds l Joh. 13.31.32 Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him If God be glorified in him God shall also glorifie him in himself and will straightway glorifie him Now he was Glorified as to his Mystical Body by the recession of the Son of Perdition from his Society Now he was Glorified by the Separation of Judas prefiguring his future Glorification when he shall separate the Just from the Unjust and his Power Truth and Justice shall appear Now he was Glorified by the beginning of his Passion upon which depended the whole Mystery of Redemption Now he was Glorified in Relation to that Glory of which he had said m John 12.32 When I am lift up I will draw all men to me He had before been glorified by his Miracles when the People were astonished and n Mark 7.37 said he had done all things well when upon his satisfying Five Thousand with five Loaves they would have taken him and made him a o John 6.14.15 King when upon his suppressing the Winds and Waves they began to adore him as the p Matt. 14.13 Son of God when upon his restoring Lazarus to Life they receiv'd him publickly into Jerusalem with Psalms and q John 12.13 Acclamations due to the Eternal God But the Consummation of his Glory was to be raised from his Passion the r Phil. 2.9 ground-work of his Exaltation and Adorable Name Let then the Wicked One do what he can Sell Betray and incense even the whole World The Glory of the Son of Man is his Cross He is ravisht by the object of his Death and transported by the Idea of his Sufferings He encourages himself to the Combat with the Prospect of Glory He looks upon the Cross as the Fountain of his Happiness and Plants his Elevation upon the lowest Abasement He teaches us that Treachery Calumny and Death how horrible soever they seem in this World yet to a just Man are desirable or at least easily to be born by him forasmuch as there is no other way to Glory Let us never think then to be worthy of him till we bear the Ensigns of his War as well as the Ornaments of his Peace Every thing is a Paradise to him that knows how to love the Cross and every thing is a Hell to them that fly from it tho' no body flys from it but shall find it It is the Gate of our Mortality through which we needs must pass before we can ſ Acts 14.22 enter into the Kingdom of God Behold when the Sovereign Love comforts what Rivers of Balm flow from his Tongue and spread themselves with admirable Sweetnesses and refreshments into the wounds of afflicted hearts He gives as it were a foretaste of the Glory to be reveal'd hereafter and to which all present Sufferings are not worthy to be compar'd that we should ever have respect unto the recompence of Reward and repose our whole confidence in him that has promis'd He speaks of his Death in so desirable a manner that he draws his Disciples into the highest Consolation at the same time that he humbles them in the depth of Sorrow t John 13.33 Little Children The very Appellation bespeaks a Paternal Favour and Providence and that now by his Death and Sufferings for them they should be call'd and be the Son of God Nor do we read in the Holy Gospel they were ever stil'd before by this Name Whereby he seems to show an extraordinary affection because of the Tenderness of his Love and the infirm Infancy of their Understanding and Faith t John 13.33 Yet a little while I am with you A very little while but while Judas can go to the Jews and return again and then I shall be no longer with you unless that for a short space I shall see you again Not that he was to leave them and be no more with his Church For as when he

so great as for a Man to conquer his Passion under Affronts and Injuries suffers it with absolute composedness of mind and as much Clemency and Commiseration opening his Mouth with the greatest Sweetness while his Face is smitten with a servile Hand If I have spoken evil bear Witness of the evil but if well why smitest thou me That I have well answered thou thy self confessest in that thou canst object nothing against my Words and therefore I admonish thee to be more wary for the future and not to act contrary to undeniable Truth Thou strikest me who hast nothing to lay to my Charge Thou strikest me who art not Judge over me Thou strikest me whom once thou didst admire Thou strikest me who have done thee no injury at all And yet I rail not against thee I revenge not my self but freely pardon thee and advise thee to be sorry Ah Christian Such are thy Saviour's Sentiments and shall the least word of disdain raise a storm in thy mind and every rash action a clap of Thunder how long wilt thou say he has injur'd me he has struck me I cannot put it up I will have his Life Knowest thou not that Revenge is only proper to weak minds and that Clemency resides always in a strong Spirit that Cruelty is Tyranny but Meekness a true Empire That to want power of retaining any bad Resentment is to be truly Invulnerable but Malice cherished fills the Soul with Darts Wounds and Putrifying Ulcers that neither God nor Man have any compassion for those who cannot grant a Pardon to an inconsiderate Action but sooner or later there are Treasures of Graces bestow'd upon those amiable Inclinations which are Mortal Enemies to Revenge and Cruelty Prayer O Dearest Lord who wast smitten Extrajudicialy with the circumstances of Despite in the Presence of a Judge yet barest the Insolency and Cruelty of the Affront with an Admirable Compassion towards the rashness of the Transgressour Give me the like Temper that I may look on Injury with the mildness which arises from a sense of my own frailty That tho' I be not able to bear it with Joy yet I may take it with Patience and pardon it and turn my eye to thee who wer't afflicted for me and wilt have me to be afflicted for thee and not to the man that persecuted and troubled me Then shall I be capable of that inestimable Benefit which thou hast propos'd on this condition the Forgiveness of my Debts as I forgive my Debtors and shall be acceptable to my Heavenly Father SECT XVI Of the False Witnesses that arose against Christ and the Wickedness of the High Priest ONE of the greatest Tragedies in the life of Man which makes the Curious to Question the Wise to Wonder the Good to Groan and the Wicked to Rejoyce is to see a Magistrate willfully pervert judgment and the Innocent opprest under colour of Justice Yet such was the Judge and the case of the Holy Jesus who being resolv'd to espouse our Miseries to the utmost would pass through the Rigors and Formalities of the Wicked cover'd with a pretext of Judgment and Equity m Matt. 26.59 The Chief Priests and Elders and all the Counsel sought false Witness against him to put him to Death Cajaphas had examin'd him about his Disciples and his Doctrine and because he had answered otherwise then he expected because he had so answered that he could lay no hold on it he resolves now to patch together an accusation out of the flying rumours of the People and therefore commanded that whatsoever they could say they should alledge against the Prisoner He had so much tenderness for his own Reputation as not to sentence him without cause but so much Wickedness as to be contented with a pretended one rather then he should escape out of his hands So there be but some Witnesses true or false he hopes it may excuse his Tyranny and Oppression Nevertheless tho' many n Matt. 26.60 false Witnesses came and according to the Psalmist o Psal 35.11 rose up against him and laid to his Charge things that he knew not yet found they p Matt. 26.60 none that is no sufficient Testimony upon which they might ground the least plausible accusation for whatsoever one spoke the next deliver'd it otherwise their Witness did not q Mark 14.56 agree together Such had been the Excellency exemplary Piety and Prudence of the Life of the Immaculate Jesus that if they pretended against him Questions of their Law they were not Capital in a Roman Court if they affirm'd he mov'd the people to Sedition and Affected the Kingdom they saw that all the World wou'd convince 'em of the Untruth At last after many attempts that his Innocency might more fully appear came two false Witnesses near the same and accuse him of a Trope or Figurative Speech which they neither understood nor his Intention when he spake it One said This Fellow r Matt. 26.61 said I am able to destroy the Temple of God and to build it in three days The Å¿ Mark 14.58 other I heard him say I will destroy this Temple that is made with hands and within three days I will build another made without hands But neither so did their Witness t Mark 14.59 agree together He had said indeed when the Jews desir'd a Sign u John 2.19 Destroy this Temple and in three dayes I will raise it up meaning the Resurrection of his Body the third day after his Death should be the Sign of his Veracity to the Whole World but the Witnesses both perverted it and added to it affirming it to be threatned against the Temple at Jerusalem and that he had a design to subvert their Worship Nor did the wiser Jews understand it otherwise which is plain from their words to Pilate after his Death * Matt. 27.63 Sir we remember that deceiver said while he was yet alive after three days I will rise again Only the Ignorant supposed it to be of the Temple and the Council willingly let it pass having no other occasion of accusation against him The High Priest being frustrated by this faultring of all the Witnesses and silence of Christ which prevented him the opportunity of laying hold on any thing from himself against him rises up in Passion his malice making him uneasie and x Mark 14.60 says answerest thou nothing What is it that these Witness against thee But there needed no reply for what should the Innocent answer against such lying and disagreeing Testimonies They had born false Witness out of his true sayings adding and diminishing what they pleas'd and yet the most Subtile and Industrious of his Enemies could not make it out that the Temple was in any danger from him Jesus therefore y Matt. 26.63 held his peace For as was the Judge such were the Witnesses as was the Council so was the Auditory they carry'd the Face of a Court

only begotten and beloved Son O! my God who can be able to comprehend the force of thine Anger but he that feels it or even feeling it among so many Perplexities to recount the Effects of thy just Indignation O thy admirable and ineffable Love which in this method of Wisdom and Mercy thou hast declar'd towards the unworthy Sons of Men Thou wantest not the Good of all the Creatures being compleatly happy in thy self nor is thy Glory encreas'd by their Haleluja's or diminish'd by their Blasphemies yet thou exposest me thy Son thy only Son the only Son of thy Love the Darling of thy Bosom and the Delight of Angels for sinful Man for Dust and Ashes for a thing of nought and makest me in his stead a k Psal 22.6 worm and no man the very outcast and off-scouring of the people But so it has pleas'd thee Eternal Father Lord of Heaven and Earth and I thank thee And if there be any thing more lay it upon me I gratefully accept it I am ready to suffer it My God my God our Will is the same Mine is That thine may be done thine is That I should save Man Great is the Power of the Pains I suffer But much more violent are the Ardours of my Love That though thou should'st yet further desert me and wicked Men become never so ungrateful yet will I not be separated from the Love of thee or from the Love of those whom thou hast given me No thou hast forsaken me lest thou should'st forsake me Thou hast humbled me that thou mayst exalt me Thou hast cast me away to receive me more honourably Hear therefore thy chastised Son who languishes under thy Wrath for the Guilt of others and cries for Mercy upon their Souls Hear O hear who hast sent me to this end that thou mightst accept my Sufferings for them My God my God I know thou hast forsaken me for a sure Token thou wilt never forsake them for whose Pardon and Salvation Behold I dye Prayer Propitious Wonder forsaken of God that I should never be forsaken and dying upon the Cross with unconceivable Pains commensurate to thy Love and the Misery of Mankind that I should live with thee eternally By what Names shall I adore thee By what Title shall I magnifie thee All are too short too scanty to express thee Love only Love nothing but Love will reach thee my Jesu thou art all Love No Sufferings no Love has ever been like thine for me No Grief no Love but thy own should ever exceed mine for thee O purest tenderest dearest Love refine soften sweeten and love me into all Love like thy self Let me live O my Saviour by the Love of thy Cross let me glory in it let me study it above all things In the Love of thy Cross let me take up my Cross daily and crucifie my sinful Lusts and Affections which persecuted tormented and crucified thee SECT XLIV Of Christ's Thirst upon the Cross BY this time the external Injuries of Wind and Heat the internal Violence of incessant Pains the continual Distillation of his precious Blood together with the intensive Longings of his Soul after the Salvation of the Nature in which he suffer'd above all his Sorrow for the present Desertion had reduc'd the holy Jesus to a Feaverish Drought and the last Struglings of an exhausted Life by declaring of which he might move their Humanity as well as signifie his infinite Affection towards it And therefore knowing that all things were now accomplished that the l Psal 69.22 Scripture might be fulfilled he saith I m John 19.28 thirst And surely since they had heard That whosoever should give a n Matt. 10.42 Mark 9.41 Cup of cold Water to drink in his Name to the meanest of his Servants should in no wise lose his Reward and seen so lately how bountifully he had remunerated the poor Thief for a Verbal Acknowledgment we might justly expect so small a Kindness would easily be granted in his last Extremity which was impossible to restore his flying Spirits but graciously accepted might be rewarded with everlasting Comforts in his Heavenly Kingdom Let us see then what Commiseration this so beloved People have for this excessive Lover of their Salvation that for the Love of it would be deserted of God and purchase it at the Effusion of his inestimable Blood Let us see whether first their Hands will administer Water to cool and moisten his parched Tongue according to the o Psal 22.15 Prophet now cleaving to his Gums or their Eyes yield Tears to refresh his Soul He thirsts for their Redemption through intolerable Anguish but calls 'em not to partake in his Sufferings for it Nor does he propose an Oblation for their Iniquities to be procur'd with Pains or Cost at the Expence of dissolv'd Pearle or Diamonds but gives an Opportunity by shewing his Necessity for that so remunerable Refreshment of a little Water He had pass'd the sorrowful Night without Sleep in Travels Reproaches and bloody Sweats In the Morning he had been hurried a second time to the Council thence to Pilate from him to Herod from Herod again to Pilate and there scourged and immediately thence to Golgotha with a ponderous Cross He had now been above three hours nail'd to it his Blood and Vital Humour continually distilling till his natural Powers were quite drained his Strength p Psal 22.15 dried up like a Potsherd and his Heart in the midst of his Body like melting Wax And is there none of those who have applauded his q John 7.46 Doctrine admir'd his r Matt. 9.33 Miracles administred to him of their Å¿ Luke 8.3 Substance confess'd and own'd him to be a t Matt. 21.11 Prophet in Israel and the u Matt. 14.33 Son of the eternal God that will relieve him with the common Element which Providence has prepar'd for every Creature and not deny'd to the x Matt. 5.45 Unjust The Water is not here to be fetch'd this Son of David with the same Peril it was brought his y 1 Chron. 11.18 Father through the Camp of the Philistines from the Gates of Beth-lehem Nor is there any great Gulf between him and them as in the z Luke 16.26 Parable between Dives and Lazarus but it is every where ready at hand and such as we are commanded not to deny an a Rom. 12.20 Enemy Besides is not the Cause of this Necessity the Travel and Pains he has endur'd for them lest any thing should be wanting to their Salvation Is it not his immense Desire of their Welfare which has reduced him to this sad Extremity Is it not the last they can give or he will ask being now ready to depart out of the World Is it not that which he will infinitely remunerate in the general day of Retribution when he shall say to them that gave it b Matt. 25.35 Come ye blessed receive the kingdom prepared

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