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| Seri: Es . Of the Passion. 233
“Yet have we not all ive thould, For, what of all this? What good? Cai bono? That, that is it ou, Benefie
(indeed) that we will regard, if any thing: as being matter of Benefit, the onely thing (ina manner) by it, Pertaid
the world regardeth: which bringeth us about to the very firftwords again. . For, the very firft words # tot to xs ?
_. Which we read, Have ye no regard? arein the Original, TODONN lo alechens, which the Seventy
turn (word for word # weds vuats s andthe Latinelikewife, Nesne ad vos, pertiner ? Pertains it not to
you, that you regarditno better ? For thefe two; (Pertaining and Regarding) are folded one in ano
ther, and go together fo commonly, as one is taken often for the other. Then to be fure tobring us to
Regard, heurgeth this: Pertains not all this to you? Is itnotfor your good? Is not the benefit yours?
Mattets of benefit they pertainto you, and without them, Love, and all the reft may pertain to whom
they will.
_ Confider then, the ineftimable benefit thatgroweth unto you from this incomparable Love, It is
‘not impertinent this; Even this; That tous hereby, allis turned about clean contrary : That by His
fripes we are healed: by his fweat, we refrefhed : By hisforfaking, awe received to Grace, That, this
day (to Him, the day of the fiercene{s of Gods wrath) is tousthe day of the fulnels of Gods favour, (as 2 Cor. 6, 4,
the Apoffle called it) A day of falvation, In refpeét of that he fuffered, (I deny not) an evil day 3 a day
of heavynefs : But,in refpect of that,which he,by it hath obtained for us,it is, (as we truly call it, )A good :
day, a. day of joy and Fubilee, For it doth not only tidus of that wrath, which pertaineth to us for our
fins ; but further, it maketh that pertain to us, whereto we had no manner of wright at all.
'~For,’ not only by his death, as by the death of our facrifice, by the blood of his Crofs, as by the blood
of the Pafchal Lamb, the De/troyer paffeth over us, and we fhall not perifh But alfo by his death,asby Exo. 12. 15,
the death of our High Prie/? (for heis Prie/? and Sacrifice both) we are reftoréd from our exile, even to Nam, 15,28
our former forfeited eftate in the Land of Promife ; Or rather (asthe Apoftle faith) Now frcut deliflum Rom, 8. 195
fre donum: Not to the fame eitate, but to one nothing like it: (that, is) one far better, than the eftate,
“our fins bereftus, “For they deprived us of Paradife, a place on earth : but by the purchafe of his blood,
We are intituled to a far higher, even the Kixgdom of Heaven: And his blood, not only the blood of Re= Mat, 26. 28,
miffion, to acquit us of our fins ; but the blood of the Te/tansent too, to bequeath us and giveus eftate, +in
that heaven! ly inheritance,’ de we ny
~~ Now whatfoever elfe, this (I am fure) is a Nox /rcut : as that, which the eye, by all it can fee, the ear,
by all it can hear, the heart by all it can conceive, cannot pattern it; or fet the like by it. Pertains not
this visto us neither ? * Is not this worth the Regard ?-Sure, if any thing be worth the Regard, ‘this is moft
* worthy of our very worthieft and belt Regard,
ine, if his Comsplaixt be not juft, and his requelt moft reafonable; »:
. COYLE Tet ys Ue Coohee . MRiacd tary: ‘
~ Thus have we confidered arid fer, not fo imuch asin this fight we'might or flould, but. as much asthe rp, 4, spitul
time will give ws leave, And now,lay.all thefe before you, (every one of them a Mon ficut of it felf) the sion of all,
pains of his body, efteemed by Pilates Ecce ; the forrows of his fol; by his fweat in the Garden; the com-
fortlefs eltate of his Sorrows, by his ery ‘on the Crofs: “And with thefe, his Perfor, as being the Soa of the
great aid Eternal God,’ Then joyh to thefe, the caufe : In God: ‘his fierce wrath : In us, ‘our heinous fins
deferving it: In Him, his exceeding great Love, both fuffering that for us, which we had deferved ; and
procuring for us, that we could never deferve ; Making that to appertain to himfelf, which: of right per-
tained tots; and making that pertain tous, which pertainéd to him only, and not to us at all, but by his
fmeans alone. And after' their view infeveral, lay them all together, fo many Won fics’s into one, and tell
in .
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“+ Yesfure, his Complaint is jult, Have ye no regard? | Norte? .’and: yet ‘never the like? -Nones and it phe complains,
pertains unto you? No regard? Asif itwerefome common ordinary matter,and thelike never was?> Vo The matter
regard? Asif itconcern’d you’ not awhit, andit toucheth youfo near? Asif he fhould fay: Rare jujs
things jo regard, yea, though they no Wayes pertain to you: this isexceeding rare, and will you not
regard it? Again, things that xeér/y touch you, you regard, though they be not rare at all; this toucheth
you exceeding neer, éven as neer as your {oul toucheth you, andwill younot regard it? Will neither of
thefe by it felf move you? Will not both thefe together move you ?- What will move you? Will Pi-
ty? Hereis Diftre/s, never the likes Will Duty ? Here is a Perfos,never thelike: Will Fear ? Here
is wrath, never the like : Will Remorfe? Here are fins, never the like: Will Kindnefs? Here is Love,
never the like: Will Bounty ?. Here are Benefits, never the like: Will all thefe ? Here they be all, afl
above any Sicat, allin the highe(t degree, : ;
Truly the complaint is jult, it may move us; it wantethnoreafon, it may move:
affection in the delivery of it to us, on his part to move us, Sure it moved him exceeding much: For a- ,
mong all the deadly forrows of his moft bitter Paffion ; this, evén this feemeth to be his greateft ofall, and
that which did moft affect him, even the grief of the lender reckoning moft mien have it in; as little refpe-
Gting him, as if he had done, or fuffered nothing at all for them, For lo, of all the fharp pains he endureth;
he'complaineth not, but of this he complaineth, of No recard : That which grieveth him moft,that which
moft he moaneth is this. It is ftrange he fhould be in pains, fuch pains, as never any Was, and not
complain himfelf of them; But of want of regard only.» Strange, he fhould not make requeft, O deli-
and it wanteth no -
The manast
arn ff,
- wer me, or relieve me : But only, O confider and regard we, In effect, as if he had faid ; None,no delive~
rance, norelief dol feek: . Regard Ifeek, And all that I fuffer, Iam content with it: Tregard it not :
"I fuffer molt willingly, if this T may find at ycur hands, Regard. . a . Tlie tegdrd of
Truly, This fo palfionate a Complaint may move us ; it moved all but'us¢ For miolt Atranige of all che. ertanirtt
it w, thatall the Creatures in Heaven and Earth, feemed to hear this hismournful Consplaint , and int off
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