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Consider that though this so hugely afflicted person, is he who is only said to be free and subiect to no restraint; yea he; who alone giues power to others to tye and vntye, hath often been tyed for our loue, and our libertie; as in the stable in poore clo∣thes: in the garden, and from thence to Annas, Caiphas, and Herods howses, in cordes; in the Pretorie, to the Pillo∣rie to be whipped; yet neuer was my
deare Lord, and spouse, so closely and cruelly tied and torne, as I see him here vpon the hard Racke of the Crosse, where he neither findes nor hopes for any case or libertie at all, but that which he must purchace with the price of his life; when death shall free his afflicted soule, out of his barbarously tortured body.
[Affect.] Ah, my soule! must thy deare Lord treade the wine presse alone? Must thy Master and Redeemer, who is alone free among the dead, purchace him selfe and thee libertie, by the losse of his owne life? And must the bounden slaue, liue still at libertie, and ease? Whereas indeede we are neuer free, so long as we liue vnder false libertie, which is true slauerie, and not vnder the true serui∣tude of Christ, which is true libertie. Gods seruice is a true raigne: Happie, saith your holy father, is that necessitie, or tye, which compels vs to better; vnhappie that libertie, which lyes open to our ruine.
[Resolution.] My calling is and shall be my happie Crosse, to vvhich the consi∣deration of these cords shall tye me for my
Masters loue, and honour, for euer: Hic habitabo quoniam elegi eum: Here vvill I euer dvvell, because it vvas mine ovvne choice.