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CHAP. V.

What we are to beleeve concerning. §. 1. Christs suffering under Pontius Pilat, his crucifying, death and buriall. §. 2. His resurrection. §. 3. Ascention. §. 4. Sitting at the right hand of God the Father. §. 5. His comming to judge.

1 THe humiliation of Christ is considerable. 1. In generall comprehending all that he suffered in thea forme of a servant: the whole curse of the Law; all kindes of a••••lictions both of body and soule, quae à peccato sunt, non quae ad peccatum: all the effects of sinne without sinne; as in his birth, circumci∣sion, subjection to men, temptations, blasphemousb contra∣dictons, and contumelies; desertions of friends, and most in∣jurious malice of enimies: apprehension of his fathers wrath against sinne, the paines of death and torments of hell, all that which is incident and due to sinfull man, (sin onely excepted) whereby he became thec man of sorrowes. 2. In particular that which he suffered under Pontius Pilat, the then Roman deputie for that Province.

2 Concerning the generall, we must observe.

1. That the divine nature (though personally united to the humane) suffered not, but only the humane: yet the suffering is attributed to the person: and sometimes to the deity, by rea∣son of the communication of proprieties, and union of the two natures in one person, so God is said to have purchased the Church with his own blood: because his blood who is truely God and man, was shed for the redemption of his Church. As the Athenian Codrus disrobing himselfe, and falling into the enemies quarters in the habit of a poore man with a burthen on his back, that he might steale a death, to make his people conquerers, according to the Oracle, which said, that people should overcome, whose king should be slaine in the battle. So Christ assumed the forme of a servant, and became of no re∣pute, so bare he the Crosse, that his own knew him not, but slew the Lord of life, that in his death, who so loved us, wee

might be more then Conquerers. He was impatible in his deity, therefore he assumed an humanity which could suffer that he might become a ransome and sacrifice for our sinnes; that the dignitie and merit of his passion might be vallewed according to the dignitie of the person suffering: now because the worth of his passion was to be estimated from the united deity: there¦fore his temporall and short suffering, was of infinite merit, to redeeme and free us from that which we should else have suf∣fered to eternitie.

2 That the suffering of Christ was neither accidentall or casuall, nor soly in the power of man: for though there were many actors in his sufferings, Herod, Pilat, Jewes, Gentiles, Judas and the devill, yet all these did only that, which the hand and counsaile of God determined before to be done; who would never suffer evill to be done, but that his infinite wisedome can dis∣pose, and his goodnesse overcome evill, that he can draw good out of it.

3 This suffering of Christ for us, was fully and soly satisfa∣ctory to the justice of God for all our sinnes: here in his passi∣on differed from all others: they may truly say as that happy Convert on the crosse, we are indeed righteously here: but there was no sinne in him. No passion of man ever hath beene, or ever can be meritorious, and propitiatory, or satisfactory for his own sinnes, much lesse for any others: but Christs passion was, and is satisfactory, and propitiatory for the sinnes of all the elect: if all men should have suffered the torments of Hell, for the redemption of one soule, they could never have satisfi∣ed Gods justice for that one: but Christs once suffering there∣fore fully satisfied for all, because, it was of infinite valew and merit.

4 The end of Christs suffering was our redemption of body and soule: for so much he redeemed as he assumed to redeeme: in the creation he shewed his wisedome power, & providence: but here his justice, in that he spared not his owne sonne stan∣ding in the place of our surety, and his mercy in that he spa∣red us; which is a singular comfort, when wee consider that hee dyed not in vaine.

5 The limits of Christs passion reached from his concepti∣on

to his resurrection: the more evident beginnings whereof were in his life, and the co••summation then when hee cryed upon the crosse it is finished.

6 Th•• place where his last, and consummatory passion be∣gan, was a garden: there sinne invaded man, there his soule began to be heavie to the death. Math. 26. 38. while hee sweat water and blood: neither is it to be wondred at why Christ was so sorrowfull herein, whereas some of his Martyrs have rejoyced in their sufferings; for these were assured of their sinnes remission, by the sufferings of their surety Christ; but he felt at once the weight of all the sinnes of the elect: he was for a time left to the extreamest sense of his fathers an∣ger, and the intensest torments of hell: but they in the midst of their sufferings, had a comfortable sense of Gods gracious presence, assuring them of their reconciliation with God, and remission of their sinnes by Christ: now whereas we read that he freely laid downe his life for his, and none could else have taken from him (I say not Pilat, Jewes or Gentiles, bar∣red, if he had pleased, by legions of Angels) but not age, not death it selfe, to which all others were subject by sinne, but he was therefore exempt because he had no sinne: and againe, that he did in the bitternesse of his passion deprecate, and pray the cup might passe away, we must know that these flowed ex diversis principiis: though he deprecated the wrath of God, and that death, as man subject to all our infirmities without sinne, yet had he therein relation to Gods will, and so,n willingly compleated the worke of our redempti∣on: therefore foreseeing and foretelling of his passion, he o would yet goe up to Jerusalem, as Jonahs crying,p take and cast mee into the sea prefigured his voluntary passion: that he would not die was of the infirmitie of the slesh, which na∣turally and without sinneq feareth and shunneth death as destructive: that he would die, was the promptitude of spirit, for that his death was necessary for mans salvation: so said he,r the spirit is willing but the flesh infirme; relating not onely to his disciples drouzinesse.

The circumstance of this passion were suchlike. The Jewes consult to take him: the conspiracie is hatcht in the chiefe Priests house: they, the Scribes, and Elders, though they knew he was no man of violence, send out an armed compa∣ny against him: (an evill conscience is never secure) they came to take him (as a malefactour) into that place which he had chosen to pray in: that ought to have been a sanctua∣ry to him, and (as the hornes of the Altar) free from pur∣suit: Judas, à disciple, becomes their guide: his treason's sig∣nall is a kisse (as many now honour him with their lips, whose hearts and lives crucifie him afresh, and under a faire profession betray his truth) they take him who with his word could cast them downe; he causeth Peter to sheath his sword, and healeth one who came to destroy him: he will not have his cause maintained by the sword, having otherwise appointed to destroy the kingdome of sinne;s we were assigned for pastours, not smiters: theyt bind him and lead him away, to Annas first, and after to Caiphas: his disciples sled, theu shepheard smitten, the flock is scattered.

This sacred history affords us many good rules.

1 In thy places of pleasure, remember where Christs passi∣on, for thy sinnes, began.

2. As sorrowes encrease, entreat thy fervency in prayer, so did Christ. Luk: 22. 14.

3 Despaire not when God answereth not thy prayers, with that which thou desirest: Christ was heard when he wept andw offered up strong cries, yet the cup did not passe from him: if God give us something better then we aske (as he ever doth, if not that thing we aske) we are heard.

4 Submit to Gods will: so did Christ: not as I will, but as thou wilt, Mat. 26. 39. 42.x temporall a••••lictions never made any man unhappy, but the impatient and wicked: it cannot be an unhappy state in which Christ is: neither the malice of those who to the extreame danger of religion, seeme and are not religious, their conspiring against thee, their dealing dis∣spightfully as with a malefactor, bands, convention before ma∣gistrates, friends forsaking thee: malitious accusations by false witnesses, no nor unjust condemnation to death, cany make

thee unhappy: all this Christ suffered, leaving us an example of patience.

7 The high Priest examined him: the officerz smote him: Annas sent him bound to Caiphas. Peter denied him: thence they lead him to the judgement hall into which his hypocriti∣call accusers,a would not enter least they should be defiled: hypocrisie straines at gnats and swallowes Camels: they made a conscience of going in among the Heathens, being to eat the Passeover, but not of murthering the Lord of life: Pilat exa∣mined him (sinfull man fitteth to judge the just Judge of all men) offered to deliver him, whom he knew deliveredb of envy: theyc preferred Barabbas ad murtherere Pilat to please the people scourgeth Jesus: the souldiers plat a crowne of thornes and put it on his head, and a purple robe on him, they mo••ke and smite him: Pilat so present's him to the peo∣ple in scorne and di••ision: the chiefe Priests and Officers, lead the peoples suffrages, ringing out their, crucify him, crucify him. Pilat startled, as by his dreaming wives admonition, so more at their mentioning his being the sonne of God, goeth againe into the Pretory, reexamineth him: seek••s to deliver him; yet for feare of complaint to Caesar (so powerfull an adversary to good conscience is the love of this world) against his often acquitting him as innocent, he once for all condemneth him, us guilty; and delivereth him to the popular rage to crucifie him.

8 They lead him away bearing his Crosse to Golgatha the place of skulls: called also Calvarie,f where some thinke Adam was buried: but others are of a contrary judgement. One thing is certaine, it was the area damnatorum, andg place of execution; and it is most likely that Gods providence so disposed, that he should there be crucified, as there to set up the Trophe of his victory on the Crosse (in that where sinne and the punishment thereof had abounded in the execution of notorious malefactors, grace should manifest it selfe in his suffering there, and that most ignominious kinde of death) so also that he might take away the curse from the elect so suffe∣ring, and that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet, he made his grave with the wicked, and was counted with

transgressours, Isai, 53. 9, 12. this place was without the city, ha∣ving a resemblance of that which was to come; that is that the maine benefit of his passion, wash not to be shut up in Je∣rusalem, but to be derived also to the Gentiles, who were with∣out: so he suffered in the place of sinners, that it might import his suffering for sinners: other moralls the Apostle openeth, as toi teach us to goe out of our carnall affections, and love of the world to Christ: and so he shewed himselfe the only satis∣factory sacrifice prefigured in all the legall sacrifices, whose bo∣dies were burnt without the gates of Jerusalem. Here they crucified him betweene two theeves, the one converting the other dying in his obstinacy: having so done they parted his garments among them, and cast lots for his seamelesse coat: thus was fulfilled that of the Psal: 22. 18. Jesus commended his mother to John; thirsting, they gave him vinegre to drinke, as was also foretold, Psal: 69. 21. having received that, he said, it is finished; that is all the types have their meaning accom∣plished, and the justice of God is satisfied: so bowing his head he gave up the ghost.

9 The certainty of his death appeared when thek ••oul∣diers comming to breake the leggs of the other two, finding him already dead, they spared him, (that thel Scripture might be fulfilled, which saith a bone of him shall not be broken) but pierced his side with a speare, so that blood and water came out. At this time the Sunne was darkned so fearefully, that some are said to have concluded, thatm either the God∣head suffered, or sympathized with that which did so.n The vaile of the Temple rent, too shew the way into the holiest made manifest: and that the stop or middle wall of partition betweene Jewes and Gentiles, is taken away. The stones clave in sunder: the graves opened: the earth trembled. And after his resurrection, many of the dead Saints arose, and were seene in the holy city: to shew that in his death, death was conque∣red, and that the vertue of his resurrection, should shortly af∣ter declare it selfe in the Saints rising from the death of sinne. Thep Centurian seeing this, acknowledged him the Sonne of God: theq multitude smote their breasts and returned home.

10 Joseph of Arimathea, begg's the body of Jesus, takes it from the Crosse: he and Nicodemus imbalme it, put it into linnen cloaths, with the spices, and bury it in a new Sepulcher in a garden nigh the place: the providence of God thus dispo∣sing, to convince their malitious cavills, who might pretend that either his resurrection was caused by the vertue of some other servant of God there formerly buried; as one wasr at the touch of Elisha's bones: or that it was some other rose a∣gaine not Jesus. He wass buried according to the Scrip∣tures, 1. Cor: 15. 4. Psal: 16. 10.t thou wilt not leave my life in grave. There were many witnesses thereof: Joseph Nicodemus, the women, the Centurian with his band, the Jewes sealing the tombe: Thus he descended to the lowest step of his humiliati∣on: that he might follow death into the heart of his domini∣on, and conquer him in his imperiall seat, destroying, as it were with his own sword the Goliah, who had the power of death: as it is written, Ou death I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction, that he might sanctifie our house of rest, ta∣king away the horrour of the grave; the curse of death being abolished, and the dead loosed from their bonds, as shall ap∣peare in the appointed houre.

We are next to beleeve the first degree of Christ's exal∣tation in that he rose againe from the dead the third day w according to the Scriptures 1. Cor: 15. 4, reckning the later part of the first day, the second entire, and the beginning of the third: (x So Christ told his Disciples, that he must goe to Jerusalem, suffer many things of the Elders and be killed and raised againe the third day: this was so publikely knowne be∣fore his death, that hisy enemies remembred and spake of it; so that this was the reason why they sealed up, and set a guard upon the Sepulchre: God so disposing that they should be made witnesses of the truth thereof, who most opposed it,

which had they not beene, they might with lesse impudency have said, his Disciples came by night and stole him away. The Angell testifying his resurrection,z referreth them to that he had told them before: the type also agreeth, asa Jonas was three daies and three nights in the Whales belly, so shall the Sonne of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth: so long he would lye in grave, to manifest the truth of his death: but no longer, becauseb he was not to see corrup∣tion; and least the faith of his Disciples should by a longer de∣lay have beene in hazard: and lastly, to fulfill his word con∣cerning the same, for the confirmation of our faith, seeing his word, concerning his own death and resurrection, came truely to passe, why should we doubt of the same word concerning our resurrection. In this three daies the Deity was the middle band betweene the body and the humane soule (that it might see corruption proper to sinners) as before the humane soule was betweene the Deity and body: in all he became a pledg of our incorruption and immortalitie in the life to come: to con∣sirme us herein, he manifested himselfe to many after his re∣surrection, by the space of forty daies. See 1. Cor: 15. 5. & Act: 1. 3.

Wee are next to beleeve his ascension into heaven: the c third heaven where God manifesteth his glory to the An∣gels, and blessed spirits: this wasd in the sight of his Disciples, when he had sufficiently instructed them, and confirmed them by his often appearing to them, and conversing with them. He ascended frome the Mount of Olives, neere Bethanie: when he had lifted up his eyes and blessed them, hee went apart from his Disciples, and while they beheld was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight: to teach us no more to seeke him with carnall eyes. The ancient Propheciesf foretold this, Psal: 68. 18. Thou hast ascended up on high, thou hast led cap∣tivity captive.g The high Priest entering into the holy of holies prefigured it. It demonstrateth the Justice of God fully satisfied, and our sinnes discharged, Heb: 9. 12. If any one sinne of the elect had beene unexpiated, hee had still remained in death: but he not only rose againe for our justification, but is ascended into heaven the first fruits,h and earnest of our as∣cen••ion,

carrying up with him a portion of our flesh & blood, as it were to take livery and seison for us, as he gave us the ear∣nest of his Spirit, thereby to make us secure of inheriting the kingdome of God.

Thus he declared himselfe the very Son of God, who came from heaven, ascending, who before had descended from thence, Eph: 4. 10. Thus became he our faithfull high Priest to appeare before God for us; to open to us the way to the holy of holies: to prepare vs place, and give us confidence against all Satans machinations.i Who shall condemne us? It is Christ who is dead for us, yea rather who is raised againe, who also sitteth at the right hand of God, and intercedeth for us: which was pre∣figured in the high Priests, bearing the names of the people en∣graven on the stones upon the shoulder, of the Ephodk for a m••moriall of the children of Israel, which he was to beare before the Lord.

Next we must beleeve, that Christ now sittethl at the right hand of God the Father. So Mark: 16. 19. so was it foretold, Psal: 110. 1. Math: 22. so the Scriptures evidently speak: yet must we not with the foolishm Anthropomorphites, dreame that God is like man, that he hath a right hand and a left: this is a translatitious and borrowed manner of speaking sitted to our understanding, God pleasing thus to descend to our infirmitie. Men give honour by setting others at their right hand, as Solomon set his mother, 1. King: 2. 19. but there is indeedn no le••t hand or inferiour place betweene the Fa∣ther and the Sonne: all iso equall he is neither lesse then the Father nor inferiour to him. It is said at his right hand,p in respect of the order of divine power,q not humane honour. God is not circumscribed in place nor hath the Deity any left hand. ••importeth here a wonderfull exaltation to power, au∣thoritie, and majestie: & so the Apostle expresseth it; Phil: 2. 9 He hath highly exalted him, and given him a name above every name: as also. 1 Cor: 15. 25. He must reigne till he hath put all his enemies under his fect. It importeth an entrance into, and full

possession of his kingdome over all, as he saith Luk: 24. 26. Ought not Christ to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glo∣ry? So Act: 5. 31. This Jesus hath God lifted up by his right hand to be a Prince and Saviour: farre above all principalities and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to bee the head over all things: the meaning is, that Christ doth actually reigne in heaven with the Father in infinite glory and majestie. And this ho∣nour is thus peculiar to him, that God the Father will governe all things by him: and that because he onely, and none other, is able thus to performe all parts of King and Saviour of his Church: yet must we know that in his severall acts, the Father, and holy Ghost unite and worke by him.

All serves to terrifie the enemies of Christ, and obstinate sin∣ners by his present power to destroy them▪ (could not mali∣tious s Haman prevaile against Esther and her allies, because of her interest in the kings favour, and shall the enemies of Christ and his, ever prevaile against them?) And to comfort the afflicted: could Joseph being exalted and set next unto Pha∣raoh in the kingdome of Egypt provide for all his Fathers fa∣mily, and preserve them in the famin, and shall not Christ much more be able to save and deliver us in all our necessities? when he was in his state of humiliation, and forme of a servant who ever came unto him for helpe and went away unrelieved? sicknesse, lamenesse, deafnesse, blindnesse, wants, stormes, devils, death, no difficulty could intercept his mercy: & shall we feare he hath lesse power or will to helpe and succur us now he sitts at the right hand of God in heaven no, no, make thy requests to him & feare not, he that hath hadt experience of our miseries, is both willing and able to succour us: tis he that helpeth our infirmities,u we know not what to pray us we ought: our best prayers are dull and inactive, but he is our faithfull high Priest to intercede for us. Whenw Adoniah knew he could not of himselfe prevaile, he intreated Bathsheba to speake for him, in assurance that the king would deny her nothing: how much more may we be assured of attaining, see∣ing we have such an high Priest,x if we draw neere with a

true heart, in full assurance of faith to the throne of grace by this new and living way. Court friends, likey Pharaohs but∣ler, eftsoone forget the afflictions of Joseph, but Christ can ne∣ver: he prayedz that Peters faith might not faile him, and professeda I pray not for these alone, but for them also which shall beleeve in me through thy word. I have many times feared that I have cryed, and lifted up my hands in vaine and effect∣lesse votes, till I remember that my Saviour ••itteth at Gods right hand, able to helpe; how, and when he knoweth best. I want faith, patience, and the spirit of prayer; but therefore hee is ascended up on high, that he may give these gifts unto men, and he will supply me: he will keepe me from evill. When he was in the forme of a servant the devill could not enter into the heard of Swine, before he gained leave; and shall all the powers of hell be able to hurt me, while he now in the state of glory protecteth me, he to whom all power in heaven and earth is given? Lord only give me a faithfull heart to depend on thee and thy saving health, and I shall not perish so long as thou reignest over all.

The next is his comming to judge the quicke and the dead: pro∣perly annexed to the foregoing: because he so sitteth at God••s right hand, as that he both exerciseth the patience of the elect under the crosse, and long permitteth the wicked enemies to insult over them: to comfort us herein, 'tis necessary to be∣leeve, that Christ who now sitteth at God's right hand, will thence come to judge all men: those whom he shall finde sur∣viving (whob shall be changed in a moment at the sound of the last trump and the dead raised againe: all, elect and repro∣bate, c some to eternall absolution from sin and death; and others to eternall shame and destruction of bodies and soules. This judgement shall be ofd all our thoughts,e words, f and actions:g the books shall be opened, and every se∣cret thing manifested: the evidence of every fact shall speak, as h Abels blood did. The time of this judgment, shall be at the second comming of Christ: the particular yeare, or day, no cre∣ture knoweth; neitheri the son of man himselfe here knew it in the state of humiliatiō: nor need it seem strang, how being God and man in one person, the manhood could be ignorant

of any thing, the deity being omniscient, seeing he tooke on him all our infirmities (sinne excepted) amongst which, natiue ignorance was not a little one. therefore tis said, that from his childhoodk he encreased in wisedome which no infinite can doe: and why shall I not as easily beleeue that there was a vaile of the slesh betweene the deity and humane soule, intercepting some light of knowledge, as I certainly know there was, inter∣cepting the present sense of his fathers assistance and of the comfort of the deity in his passion, when he cried out,l My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee?

The signes of this judgements approach, are 1.m prea∣ching the Gospell to all Nations. 2.n revelation of the man of sinne. 3.o a generall departing from the faith. 4. Uni∣versall corruption of manners. 2 Tim. 3. 1. 5.p warres and rumours of warres: 6. hardnesse of heart, so that no im∣portunity of the lowdest sonnes of Thunder can awake men out of sinne, as it was in the dayes of Noah: 7. Calling of the Jewes: Rom. 11. 25.

The signe which shall accompany the comming of Christ, shall be the signe of the sonne of man in heaven, Math. 24. 30.

The Summe is, Christ shall come againe to judge all men. Act. 17. 31. Math. 25. 31. Jud. 14. 14. 1 Thes. 4. 16. and Math. 24. 30. where he joyneth the declaration of the judgement with the prediction of Jerusalems destruction; to the end that men might be assured of the judgement to come, by that which they saw or knew fulfilled in that City.

Concerning the place whether in the valley of Jehoshaphat, or the time and lasting of this great Assizes, the manner of proceeding, and the like; it is vaine to enquire after that which God hath not revealed; specially seeing his word directeth to make better use hereof.

1q To deterre men from sinne, in respect of the inevita∣ble terrour of that day.

2 Not to judge one another, Rom: 14. 1 Cor: 4. 5.

3 To prepare because the day is neere: fearing God, Eccles: 12. 14. Rev: 14. 7. keeping a good conscience, Act: 24. 15, 16. watching, that we may lift up our heads at that day, Luk: 22.

28. 35, 36. Repenting, Act: 17. 30, 31. Without delay. 2. Pet: 3. 2. Loving one another, 1. Joh: 3. 18. 19. That wee may assure our hearts before him, and have boldnesse in the day of judgment, 1. Joh: 4. 17. Comforting our selves in all our sufferings: our Saviour shall be our judge, and who shall condemne us, seeing he died to acquit us? He cannot butr avenge for us, though he suffer long: therefore we must be patient, expecting his sen∣tence, s Come yee blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you.

A Prayer.

O Lord God of mercy and compassion, who in thy eternall and infinite love to man gavest thy onely Sonne, to become man, to take experience of our miseries, to be tempted in all things like us, sinne onely excepted, and to suffer the severity of thy wrath against us sinners, by offering him up a living sacrifice for us who were dead in trespasses and sins, the just for the unjust, that by his stripes we might be healed: and hast revealed unto us that great mystery of godlinesse so much desired of the faithfull from the beginning, the inestimable riches of thy grace, and mercy, hid from all ages unto the fulnesse of time, God manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seene of Angells, preached unto the Gentiles, beleeved on in the world, and received up into glo∣ry: make us truly thankefull to thee for all thy unspeakeable fa∣vours: give us true faith to apprehend and finde our interest in him with assurance that he is our God and Saviour. O ever blessed Je∣sus whose name is as sweet ointment powred forth, whom the Virgin soules therefore love, draw us that we may runne after thee: let the annointing which we have received of thee (whereby we have the honour to be called▪ and to be Christians, and the happinesse to be enlightned with thy truth, and led in thy paths) abide in us and teach us all things necessary for the advancement of thy glory and our salvation let it bee like that precious nard wherewith thou wast imbalmed against the day of thy death, to fill our hearts and affections with that comfortable savour of life unto life, that thou maist wholy season us, dwell in us, and be all in all with us: that the merit of thy death and vertue of thy resurrection, may both mortify

all our sinfull & corrupt affections, and raise us to the life of righ∣teousnesse, that dying to sinne, governed here by thy power (to which all things are committed in heaven and earth and hereafter acquit∣ted by thy finall sentence (when thou shalt come to judge the living and the dead) we may at last come to the perfect union with thee, in a full view, and eternall enjoying of thee and thy blessed presence, who hast suffered all these things to redeeme us, and to purchase the kingdome prepared for us from eternity; that wee may attaine that true blessednesse in the which thy holy Gospell hath preached unto us: Grant this through thy mercies, O heavenly Father, thy merits O gracious Lord Jesus, and thy assistance O holy Spirit, three persons, one onely wise, omnipotent, and immortall God, to whom be∣longeth all honour glory, praise, might, Majestie, and dominion, in heaven and earth, from this time forth, and to endlesse eternitie.

AMEN.

Notes

• Sect. I.
• a

  Phil. 2. 7.
• b

  Heb. 12. 3.
• c

  Isay 53. 3.
• Act. 20. 28.
• Plutar••.
• Rom. 8. 37.
• Act. 2 23.
• Act. 4. ••27, 28.
• Luk. 24. 26.
• Luk. 23. 41.
• 1 Jo••. 2. 2.
• Jo••. 3. 16.
• Joh. 10. 15. 17.
• n

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Cyril. Hier. Catech. 13.
• o

  Math. 20. 18.
• p

  Tollite & mit∣••ite in mar••, voluntariam Do∣mini dicat pas∣sionem. P. Chry∣sol. Ser. 37.
• q

  In quantum est quidam appetitus naturalis, refugiebat mortem. Thom. Aquin. in Hebr. 5.—& quan••um ad hoc orabat, ut ostenderet se verum homin••m, ib. Sed voluntate ••onsequente rationem delibera∣tam,—volebat mori. ib.
• r

  Math. 26. 41.
• s

  Pastores facti sumus non per∣cussores: Greg. ••p.
• t

  Joh. 18. 12.
• u

  Math. 26. 31. Zach. 13. 7.
• w

  Heb. 5. 7.
• x

  Non sunt one∣ro••a toleranti∣bus, sed ••ol••ra re nolentibus, ••ive e••im gra••ia hae••, sive levia animus toleran∣••is facit. Salvi∣an•• de gub. Dei lib. 1.
• y

  Eti•••• in c••••e∣nis, atque sup∣pl••••iis b••atum ••sse sapi••••••••m. ib. Salv.
• z

  Joh. 18. 22.
• a

  v. 28.
• b

  Math. 27. 18.
• c

  Joh. 18. 40.
• d

  Mark 15. 7.
• e

  Joh. 12. 1, 2.
• f

  Vid August. Ser. de temp. 71 Epipham haer. 46.
• Athanas. To. 2. quae••t. ad An∣tioch. Tertul. adver. Ma••t. l. 2. Chrys. in joh. 19. 17. Theop. ib.
• g

  Lev. 24. 14.
• Hieronym. in Math. 27. &c. in Ephes. 6. Rupertus & Bonoventur. in Luk. 23. 13.
• h

  Bonavent. in Luc.
• i

  Heb 13. 11, 12, 13.
• k

  Joh. 19. 33. 36.
• Exod. 12. 46.
• Num: 9. 12.
• l

  Psal. 34. 20.
• m

  Dionis. Aa∣reop. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• n

  Math. 27. 51.
• o

  Ephes. 2. 14.
• p

  Math. 27. 54.
• q

  Luk. 23. 47, 48.
• r

  2. King. 13. 22. Theophyl. in Joh. 19.
• s

  Ut officia tota mortis impleret, Chrysol. ut mors morte moveretur. ib, Ser. 59.
• t

  Non relinque•• 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the 70. Chry∣stom. Oecu∣menius, &c. give it by 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as we read Act. 2 31. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. which may be taken for the whole man, as Rom. 13. 1. So Gen. 1. 30. Genes. 9. 4. Exod. 21. 23. Levit. 17. 14. and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 though the Rhemists and Jesuites of Deway translate that hell and in their margent Limbo patrum, yet doth it properly signifie the grave, and some∣times cannot reasonably be translated hell, as may appeare Job. 17. 13. James 37. 35. where the same word is used.
• u

  Hos. 13. 14.
• Sect. II.
• w

  1 Cor. 15. 4.
• x

  Math. 16. 21.
• Mark. 9. 31. & 10. 34.
• Luk. 9. 31. & 18. 33.
• Act. 10 40.
• y

  Math. 27. 62. &c.
• Math. 17. 23.
• z

  Luk. 24. 6, 7,
• a

  Math. 12. 40.
• b

  Act. 2 5. ••sal. 16. 9.
• Sect. III.
• c

  2 Cor. 12.
• Heb. 6. 20.
• d

  Act. 1. 2. 9, 10.
• e

  Luk. 24. 50. Act. 1. 9.
• f

  Eph. 4. 8.
• g

  Heb. 9. 7.
• h

  Quemadmodii enim nobis ar∣r••abonem spiri∣tus reliquit, it a & à nobis ar∣rhabonem ••arnis accepit, & vexit in ••••lum pignus totius summaeil∣lu•• qua•• ••oqu redigendae: se∣curae estote caro & sanguis, usur pastis enim & regnum Dei in Christo Tertul. de resur. carn. c. 51. Heb. 10. 19.
• i

  Rom. 8. 34.
• k

  Exod. 28. 9.
• Sect. IV.
• l

  Hebr. 1. 3.
• Act. 5. 31.
• m

  Vid. Socrat. Eccles: hist. l. 6. c. 7.
• n

  Nihil erit in regno tuo sini∣s••rum. Hieron.
• o

  In ho•• appare bit majestatis equalitas, sin•••• inferiorem pa∣tre, nec post••rio∣rem suspexeris. Bern. sup. Cant. Serm 76.
• Sedet ad dex∣tr••m quia patris & filii una d••i∣t••s, par potest••s, Ch••ysost. Ser. 6.
• p

  Divinae virtutis ordine, non honor is humani. ib. Serm. 62. Deus loc•• nescit, divinit•• recipit nil si••istrum. ib. Ser. 75.
• q

  Nazianz. orat. 37. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Supra modum e••exit.
• ••phes. 1. 20.
• s

  ••sther. 6. 13.
• t

  Heb. 4▪ 15.
• u

  Rom. 8. 26.
• w

  1. King. 2. 14. 17.
• x

  Heb. 10. 21, 22.
• y

  Genes. 40. 23.
• z

  Luk. 22. 32.
• a

  Joh. 17. 23.
• Sect. ••.
• b

  1. Cor: 15. 51
• c

  Dan. 12. 2.
• d

  Eccl. 12. 14.
• e

  Math. 12. 36.
• f

  2. Cor. 5. 10. 1. Cor. 4. 5.
• g

  Rev. 20. 12.
• h

  Gen. 4. 10.
• i

  Math 24. 36. Act. 1. 7.
• k

  Luk. 2. 52.
• l

  Math 27. 46.
• m

  Math. 24. 14.
• n

  2 Thes. 2. 3.
• o

  Luk. 18. 8.
• p

  Math. 24. 6. 7.
• q

  2. Cor. 5. 11.
• r

  Luk 18. 7.
• s

  Math. 25. 34.
• Mark. 14. 3.