Thus the prophesies are finished : Of the legall obseruations , with more breuity . Christ is the end of the Law : what law ? Ceremoniall , Morall . Of the Morall , it was kept perfectly by himselfe , satisfied fully for vs : Of the Ceremoniall , it was referred to him , obserued of him , fulfilled in him , abolisht by him . There were nothing more easie , then to shew you how all those Iewish Ceremonies lookt at Christ , how Circumcision , Passeouer , the Tabernacle , both outer and inner , the Temple , the Lauer , both the Altars , the tables of Shew-bread , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . the Candlestickes , the Vaile , the Holy of holies , the Arke , the Propitiatory , the potte of Manna , Aarons rod , the high Priest , his order and line , his habites , his inaugurations , his washings , annointings , sprincklings , offerings , the sacrifices , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , and what euer Iewish rite ; had their vertue from Christ , relation to him , and their end in him . This was then their last gaspe ; for , now straight they dyed with Christ , now the vayle of the Temple rent : Ex quo apparet , tunc scissum esse , cum Christus emisit spiritum . As Austen well notes out of Mathewes order ; It tore then , when Christs last breath passed : That conceit of Theophilact is witty ; that as the Iewes were wont to rend their garments , when they heard blasphemie : so the Temple not enduring these execrable blasphemies against the Sonne of God , tore his vaile in peeces . But that is not all , the vaile rent , is the obligation of the rituall law cancelled ; the way into the heauenly Sanctuarie opened ; the shadow giuing roome to the substance : in a word , it dooth that which Christ saith ; Ceremoniae sicut defuncta corpora necessariorum officijs deducenda erant ad sepulturam , non simulatè , sed religiosè , nec deserenda continuò . Augustin . Consummatum est . Euen now then the law of ceremonies died : It had along & solemne buriall , as Augustine sayeth well , perhaps figured in Moses , who died not lingringly , but was thirtie dayes mourned for : what meanes the Church of Rome to dig them vp , now rotten in their graues ? & that , not as if they had been buried , but sown , with a plenteous increase ; yea , with the inuerted vsurie of too many of you Citizens ; ten for one . Ego è contrario loquar , & reclamante mundo liberâ voce pronunciem , ceremonias Iudaeorum perniciosas esse , et mortiferas , & quicunque eas obseruauerit , siue ex Gentibus , in barathrum diaboli deuolutum . Hier. It is a graue and deep censure of that resolute Hierome ; Ego è contrario loquar . &c. I say , saith he , and in spite of all the world dare maintaine , that now the Iewish ceremonies are pernitious and deadly , and whosoeuer shall obserue them , whether he be Iew or Gentile , in barathrum Diaboli deuolutum ; shal frie in hell for it . Still Altars ? Still Priestes ? sacrifices still ? still washings ? still vnctions ? sprinkling , shauing , purifying ? still all , and more then all ? Let them heare but Augustines censure , Quisquis nunc &c. Quisquis nunc ea celebrare voluerit , tanquam sopitos cineres eruens , non erit pius , &c. Whosoeuer shall now vse them , as it were , raking them vp out of their dust ; he shal not be Pius deductor corporis , sed impius sepulturae violator ; an impious and sacrilegious wretch , that ran sackes the quiet tombes of the dead .

I say not that all Ceremonies are dead ; but the Law of Ceremonies , and of Iewish . It is a sound distinction of them , that profound Peter Martyr hath in his Epistle , to that worthy Martyr , Father , Bishop Hooper : Some are typicall , fore-signifying Christ to come : some , of order and decencie . Those are abrogated , not these : the Iewes had a fashion of prophesying in the Churches ; so the Christians from them , as Ambrose : the Iewes had an eminent pulpit of wood ; so wee : they gaue names at their Circumcision ; so wee at Baptisme : they sung Psalmes melodiously in Churches , so doe wee , they paide and receiued tithes , so do we , they wrapt their dead in linnen , with odors ; so we ; the Iewes had sureties at their admission into the church ; so we : these Instances might be infinite : the Spouse of Christ cannot be without her laces , and chaines , and borders . Christ came not to dissolue order . But thou Lorde , how long ? how long shall thy poore Church find her ornamentes , her sorrows ? and see the deare sonnes of her wombe , bleeding about these apples of strife , let me so name them not for their value ( euen small things , when they are commaunded , looke for no small respect ) but for their euent : the enemy is at the gates of our Syracuse ; how long will wee suffer our selues , taken vp with angles and circles in the dust : yee men brethren , & fathers , helpe ; for Gods sake put to your hands , to the quenching of this common flame ▪ the one side by humility & obedience ; the other , by compassion ; both by prayers and teares : who am I , that I should reuiue to you the sweete spirit of that diuine Augustine , who when he heard and saw the bitter contentions betwixt two graue & famous Diuines , Jerome and Ruffine ; Heu mihi , saith he , qui vos ali cubi simul inuenire non possum , Alas that I should neuer find you two together , how I would fall at your feete , how I would embrace them and weepe vpon them , and beseech you , eyther of you for other , and each for himselfe , both of you for the Church of God , but especially , for the weake , for whome Christ died , who not without their owne great danger , see you two fighting in this Theater of the world . Yet let me do what he said hee would doe ; begge for peace , as for life : by your filiall piety to the Church of GOD , whose ruines follow vpon our diuisions ; by your loue of Gods truth ; by the graces of that one blessed Spirite , whereby we are all enformed and quickened , by the pretious bloud of that sonne of God , which this day , and this howre , was shed for our redemption , bee enclined to peace & loue , & though our brains bee different , yet let our hearts bee one . It was , as I heard , the dying speech of our late reuerend , worthy and gracious Diocesan ; Modo me moriente viuat ac floreat Ecclesia ; Oh , yet if , when I am dead , the Church may liue and flourish .

What a spirit was here ? what a speech ? how worthy neuer to die ? how worthy of a soule so neere to his heauen ? how worthie of so happie a succession ? Yee whome God hath made inheritors of this blessed care , who do no lesse long for the prosperity of Sion , liue you to effect , what he did but liue to wish ; all peace with our selues , and warre with none but Rome and Hell . And if there bee any weyward Seperatist , whose soule professeth to hate peace ; I feare to tell him Pauls message , yet I must : Would to God those were cut off that trouble you . How cut off ? As good Theodosius saide to Demophilus , a contentious Prelate ; Si tu pacem fugis , &c. Si tu pacem fugis , ego te ab Ecclesia fugere mando . If thou flie peace , I will make thee flie the Church . Alas , they doe flie it : that which should be their punishment , they make their contentment , how are they worthy of pitty ? As Optatus of his Donatists ; they are Brethren , might be companions , and will not . Oh wilfull men ; whither do they runne ? from one Christ to another ? Is Christ diuided ? wee haue him , thanks be to our good God , and we heare him dayly ; and whither shall wee goe from thee ? thou hast the wordes of eternall life .

Thus the Ceremonies are finished , : now heare the end of his sufferings , with like patience and deuotion : his death is here included ; it was so neare , that he spake of it as done ; and when it was done , all was done . How easie is it to lose our selues in this discourse : how hard , not to be ouerwhelmed with matter of wonder ; and to find eyther beginning or end : his sufferings found an end , our thoughts cannot . Lo , with this word , hee is happily waded out of those deepes of sorrowes , whereof our conceites can finde no bottome : yet let vs with Peter , gird our coat , and cast our selues a little into this sea .

All his life was but a perpetuall Passion : In that hee became man , hee suffered more then wee can doe , eyther while wee are men , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . or when we cease to be men ; hee humbled , yea , he emptied himselfe . Wee , when wee cease to bee here , are cloathed vpon . 2. Cor. 5. Wee both winne by our being , and gaine by our losse ; hee lost , by taking our more or lesse to himselfe , that is , manhood . For , though euer as God , J and my Father are one : yet as man , My Father is greater then I. That man should bee turned into a beast , into a worme , into dust , into nothing ; is not so great a disparagement , as that GOD should become man : and yet it is not finished ; it is but begunne . But what man ? If , as the absolute Monarch of the worlde , hee had commaunded the vassalage of all Emperours and Princes , and had trod on nothing but Crowns and Scepters , and the necks of Kinges , and bidden all the Potentates of the earth to attend his traine ; this had carried some port with it ; sutable to the heroicall Maiesty of Gods Sonne . No such matter , here is neither Forme nor Beautie ; vnlesse perhappes ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) the forme of a seruant : you haue made me to serue , with your sinnes . Behold , he is a man to God ; a seruant to man ; and , be it spoken with holy reuerence , a drudge to his seruantes . Hee is despised and reiected of men ; yea ( as himselfe , of himselfe ) a worme , and no man , the shame of men , and contempt of the people . Who is the King of glory ? the Lord of hoastes , Psal. 24.10 . he is the King of glory . Set these two together ; the King of glory ; the shame of men : the more honour , the more abasement . Looke backe to his Cradle , there you find him re●ected of the Bethlemites ; borne and laid , alas , how homely , how vnworthily ; sought for by Herod , exiled to Aegypt , obscurely brought vppe in the Cottage of a poore Foster-Father , transported and tempted by Sathan , derided of his kindred , blasphemously traduced by the Iewes , pinched with hunger , restlesse , harbourlesse , sorrowfull , persecuted by the Elders , and Pharisies , solde by his owne seruant , apprehended , arraigned , scourged , condemned , and yet it is not finished . Let vs , with that Disciple , follow him a far off ; and passing ouer all his contemptuous vsage in the way , see him brought to his Crosse . Still the further wee looke , the more wonder : euery thing addes to this ignominie of suffering , & triumph of ouercomming : where was it ? not in a corner , as Paul saith to Festus , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Act. 26.27 . but in Ierusalem , the eye , the heart of the world . Obscurity abateth shame : publique notice heightens it : Before all Israel and before this Sunne , saith GOD to Dauid , when he would throughly shame him : In Ierusalem , which he had honoured with his presence ; taught with his preachings , astonisht with his miracles , bewailed with his teares ; O Ierusalem , Ierusalem , how oft would I , and thou wouldest not : O yet , if in this thy day . Cruelty and vnkindnesse , after good desert , afflict so much more , as our merite hath beene greater . Where abouts ? without the gates : in Caluary , among the stinking bones of execrable Malefactors . Before , the glory of the place , bred shame , now the vilenesse of it . When ? but in the Passeouer ; a time of greatest frequence , and concourse of all Iewes and Proselites : An holy time , when they should receiue the figure , they reiect the substance : when they should kill and eate the Sacramentall Lambe , in faith , in thankefulnesse , they kill the Lambe of GOD , our true Passeouer , in cruelty and contempt . With whome ? The quality of our company , & In medio la tronum tanquam latronum ●mmanissimus . Luther . either increases or lessens shame . In the midst of thieues ( saith one ) as the Prince of thieues : there was no guile in his mouth , much lesse in his handes : yet beholde hee that thought it no robbery to be equal with God , is made equall to robbers and murderers ; yea superiour in euil . What suffered hee ? As all liues are not alike pleasant , so all deathes are not equally fearefull ▪ there is not more difference betwixt some life and death , then betwixt one death and another . See the Apostles gradation ? Hee was made obedient to the death , euen the death of the Crosse . The Crosse , a lingring , tormenting , ignominious death . The Iewes had foure kinds of death for malefactors ; the towell , the sword , fire , stones ; each of these aboue other in extremity . Strangling with the towel , they accounted easiest ▪ the sword worse then the towell ; the fire worse then the sword : stoning worse then the fire , but this Romaine death was worst of all . Cursed is euery one that hangeth on Tree . Yet ( as Ierome well ) hee is not therefore accursed , because hee hangeth ; but therefore he hangeth , because he is accursed . Hee was made ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) a Curse for vs . The curse was more then the shame : yet the shame is vnspeakable ; and yet not more then the paine . Yet all that die the same death , are not equally miserable : the very thieues fared better in their death then he . I heare of no irrision , no inscription , no taunts , no insultation on them : they had nothing but paine to incounter , he paine and scorne . An ingenuous and Noble nature , can worse brooke this then the other ; any thing rather then disdainfulnesse and derision : especially , from a base enemy . I remember , that learned Father beginnes Israels affliction , with Ismaels persecuting laughter . The Iewes , the Souldiers , yea , the very Thieues flouted him , and triumpht ouer his miserie ; his bloud cannot satisfie them , without his reproach . Which of his senses now was not a window to let in sorrow ? his eyes saw the teares of his Mother , and friends , the vnthankfull demeanure of Mankinde , the cruell despight of his enemies , his eares heard the reuilings and blasphemies of the multitude ; and ( whether the place were noysome to his sent ) his touch felt the nayles , his tast the gall . Looke vp O all ye beholders , looke vpon this pretious body , and see what part ye can find free ? that head which is adored and trembled at by the Angelicall spirits , Caput Angelicis spiritibus ●●emebundii spinis coronatur , &c. is all raked and harrowed with thorns : that face , of whome is said ; Thou art fairer then the children of men , is all besmeared with the filthy spet●le of the Iewes , and furrowed with his teares ; those eyes , clearer then the Sunne , are darkened with the shadow of death ; those eares that heare the heauenly consorts of Angels , now are filled with the cursed speakings & scoffes of wretched men : those lips that spake as neuer man spake , that commaund the spirits both of light and darkenesse , are scornfully wet with vinegar and gall : those feet that trample on all the powers of hell ( his enemies are made his footstoole ) are now nayled to the footstoole of the Crosse : those hands that freelie sway the scepter of the heauens , now carry the reede of reproach , & are nayled to the tree of reproch : that whole body , which was conceiued by the holy Ghost , was all scourged , wounded , mangled : This is the outside of his sufferings . Was his heart free ? Oh no , the inner part or soule of this paine , which was vnseene , is as farre beyond these outward and sensible , as the soule is beyond the body ; Gods wrath beyond the malice of men : these were but loue-tricks to what his soule endured . O all yee that passe by the way , behold and see , if there bee any sorrow like to my sorrow : Alas , Lord , what can we see of thy sorrows ? we cannot conceiue so much as the hainousnes and desert of one of those sinnes , which thou barest : wee can no more see thy paine , then we could vndergoe it ; onely this wee see , that what the infinite sins , of almost infinite men , committed against an infinite Maiesty , deserued in infinite continuance ; all this thou in the short time of thy passion hast sustained . We may behold and see ; but all the glorious spirites in Heauen , cannot looke into the depth of this suffering . Doe but looke yet a little into the passions of this his Passion : for , by the maner of his sufferings , we shall best see , what he suffered . Wise and resolute men do not complaine of a little ; holy Martyrs haue beene racked , and would not bee loosed ; what shall we say , if the author of their strength , God & man , bewray passions ? what would not haue ouerwhelmed men , would not haue made him shrinke ; and what made him complaine , could neuer haue beene sustained by men ▪ What shall we then thinke , if he were affrighted with terrors , perplexed with sorrowes , and distracted with both these ? And lo , he was all these : for , first , here was an amazed feare ; for millions of men to dispaire , was not so much as for him to feare : and yet it was no sleight feare : he beganne ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) to be astonished with terrour . Which in the dayes of his flesh , offered vp prayers and supplications , with strong cries and teares , to him that was able to helpe him , and was heard in that hee feared . Neuer man was so afraide of the torments of hell , as Christ ( standing in our roome ) of his fathers wrath . Feare is still sutable to apprehension . Neuer man could so perfectly apprehend this cause of feare ; hee felt the chastisements of our peace , yea , the curse of our sins ; and therefore might well say with Dauid ; I suffer thy terrours with a troubled mind ; yea , with Iob , The arrows of God are in mee , and the terrors of God fight against mee . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . With feare , there was a deiecting sorow ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) My soule is on all sides heauy to the death : his strong cries ; his many teares are witnesses of this Passion : hee had formerly shed teares of pity , and teares of loue , but now of anguish : he had before sent foorth cries of mercy ; neuer of complaint til now : when the Son of God weeps and cries , what shall we say or thinke ? yet further , betwixt both these and his loue , what a conflict was there ? It is not amisse distinguished , that he was alwayes in Agone ; but now in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in a strugling passion of mixed griefe . Behold , this field was not without sweate and bloud ; yea a sweate of bloud . Oh what man or Angell can conceiue the taking of that heart , that without all outward violence , meerely , out of the extremity of his owne Passion , bled ( thorough the flesh and skinne ) not some faint dew , but solid droppes of bloud ? No thornes , no nailes , fetcht bloud from him , with so much paine as his own thoughts : he saw the fierce wrath of his Father , and therefore feared : he saw the heauy burden of our sinnes to bee vndertaken ; and thereupon , besides feare , iustly grieued ; hee saw the necessity of our eternall damnation , if hee suffered not : if he did suffer , of our redemption , and therefore his loue incountered both griefe and feare . In it selfe , hee would not drinke of that cuppe : in respect of our good , and his decree , he would and did ; and while he thus striueth , hee sweates and bleedes . There was neuer such a combat , neuer such a bloudshed , and yet it is not finished ; I dare not say with some Schoole-men , that the sorrow of his Passion , was not so great as the sorrow of his compassion : yet that was surely exceeding great . To see the vngratious carelesnesse of mankind , the slender fruit of his sufferings , the sorrowes of his mother , Disciples , friends ; to foresee from the watch-tower of his Crosse , the future temptations of his children , desolations of his Church ; all these must needs strike deepe into a tender heart . These hee still sees and pitties , but without passion ; then he suffered in seeing them .

Can we yet say any more ? Loe , al these sufferings are aggrauated by his fulnes of knowledge , and want of comfort ▪ for , he did not shut his eyes , as one saith , when he drunke this cuppe : he saw how dreggish , and knew how bitter it was . Sodaine euils afflict , if not lesse , shorter . He foresaw , and foresaid euery particular he should suffer : so long as he foresaw , he suffered : the expectation of euill , is not lesse then the sense : to looke long for good , is a punishment ; but for euill is a torment . No passion works vpon an vnknown obiect : as no loue , so no feare is of what we know not . Hence men feare not hell , because they foresee it not : if we could see that pit open before we come at it , it would make vs tremble at our sins , and our knees to knocke together , as Baltazars , and perhaps , without faith , to run mad at the horror of iudgement . He saw the burden of all particular sinnes to be laid vpon him ; euery dramme of his fathers wrath , was measured out to him , ere he toucht this potion ; this cup was full , and hee knew that it must bee wringd , not a drop left : it must bee finished . Oh yet , if as he foresaw all his sorrows , so he could haue seene some mixture of refreshing . But I found none to comfort me , no , none to pitie me . And yet it is a poore comfort that arises from pitty . Euen so , O Lord , thou treadest this wine-presse alone , none to accompany , none to assist thee . I remember , Ruffinus in his Ecclesiasticall storie reports , that one Theodorus a Martyr , tolde him , that when he was hanging ten howres vpon the racke for religion , vnder Iulians persecution , his ioyntes distended and distorted , his body exquisitely tortured with change of Executioners ; Vt nulla vnquam aetas similem meminerit . so as neuer age ( sayth hee ) could remember the like : hee felt no paine at all , but continued indeede , all the while in the sight of all men , singing and smiling ▪ for there stood a comely young man by him on his libbet ( an Angell rather , in forme of a man ) which with a clean towell , still wipt off his sweat , and powred coole water vpon his racked limbs ▪ wherewith he was so refreshed , that it grieued him to bee let downe . Euen the greatest torments are easie , when they haue answerable comforts : but a wounded and comfortlesse spirit , who can beare ? If yet but the same Messenger of GOD , might haue attended his Crosse , that appeared in his agony ; and might haue giuen ease to their Lord , as hee did to his seruant . And yet , what can the Angels helpe , where God will smite ? Against the violence of men , against the fury of Sathan , they haue preuailed in the Cause of GOD , for men : they dare not , they cannot comfort , where God will afflict . When our Sauiour had bin wrestling with Sathan in the end of his Lent , then they appeared to him , and serued ; but now , while about the same time ; he is wrestling with the wrath of his Father for vs , not an Angell dare bee seene , to looke out of the windowes of heauen to relieue him ; for men , much lesse could they , if they would ; but what did they ? Miserable comforters are yee all : the Souldiers , they stript him , scorned him with his purple , crowne , reede , spat on him , smote him ; the passengers , they reuiued him , and insulting , wagging their heads and hands at him ; Hey , thou that destroyest the Temple , come downe , &c The Elders and Scribes ; alas , they haue bought his bloud , suborned witnesses , incensed Pilate preferred Barabbas , vndertooke the guilte of his death , cryed out , Crucifie , crucifie : Ho , thou that sauedst others . His Disciples , alas : they forsooke him , one of them forsweares him ; another runs away naked , rather then hee will stay and confesse him . His mother and other friendes : they looke on indeed , and sorrow with him ; but to his discomfort . Where the griefe is extreame , and respectes neere , partnership doth but increase sorrow . Paul chides this loue : what doe you weeping and breaking my heart ? The teares of those we loue , doe eyther slacken out hearts , or wound them . Who then shall comfort him ? himselfe ? Sometimes our owne thoughts find a way to succour vs , vnknowne to others : no , not himselfe . Doubtles ( as Aquinas ) the influence of the higher part of the soule , was restrained from the aid of the inferiour : My soule is filled with euils . Psalm. 87.4 . Who then ? his Father ? here , here ; was his hope : If the Lord had not holpen me , my soule had almost dwelt in silence : I and my Father are one . But now ( alas , ) he , euen he , deliuers him into the hands of his enemies ; when he hath done , turnes his backe vpon him as a stranger ; yea ; he woundeth him as an enemy . The Lord would breake him . Esay , 53. 10. Yet any thing is light to the Soule , whiles the comfortes of God sustaine it : who can dismay , where God will relieue ? But here , My God , my God , why hast thou forsaken mee ? What a word was here , to come from the mouth of the Sonne of GOD ? My Disciples are men , weake and fearefull ; No maruell , if they forsake mee . The Iewes are themselues , cruell and obstinate . Men are men , gracelesse , and vnthankefull . Diuels are according to their nature , spightfull and malitious . All these doe but their kind ; and let them doe it : but thou , O Father , thou that hast said ; This is my welbeloued sonne , in whome I am well pleased : thou of whome I haue said , It is my father that glorifies mee , what ? forsaken me ? Not onely brought me to this shame , smitten me , vnregarded me ; but , as it were , forgotten , yea , forsaken me ? What , euen me , my Father ? How many of thy constant seruants haue suffered heauie things : yet in the multitudes of the sorrowes of their hearts , thy presence and comforts haue refreshed their souls . Hast thou relieued them , and doest thou forsake me ? mee , thine onely , deare , naturall , eternall sonne . O yee heauens and earth , how could you stand , whiles the Maker of you thus complained . Yee stoode ; but partaking after a sort of his Passion : the earth trembled and shooke , her rockes tore , her graues opened , the heauens withdrew their light , as not daring to behold this sad and fearefull spectacle .