I. His bloudy sweat in the Garden . Luke . 22.44

SWeat and blood are the two best emblemes of labour and passion , of doing and suffering , and so , the best epitomes , or ( if you will ) iournals of our Saviours life and death ; for both made vp the travayles Esai . 53 11. of his soule ; the first he wrote in sweat , the other in blood : his life ; what other was it then a continued sweat of passive action , Mat . 4.23 . Hee went about alwayes doing good ; his death , what , but as incessant a bloodshed of active passion ? Esai . 53.12 hee powred out his soule to death , nor can wee find any two things in nature that may better serue for the indexes , or rather seales , of those his two Testaments , then these two , sweat and blood ; Phil . 2.12 . that of the Law , working out in sweat saluation with feare and trembling , that of the Gospell , buying it out with blood in price and value ; in these two therefore doth he ( here ) beginne his passion , it being to bee the execution of both those Testaments ; the complement of the one , and supplement of the other : nor is it without yet further mysterie ; in these two ( Sweat and Blood ) begins this our second Adams execution , because in these two ( vpon the matter ) begins the first Adams sentence ; the Sweat of his browes , Gen. 3.19 . whereby hee must live the life ; the blood of mortality , whereby hee must dye the death : and yet further , that mans ransome and ruine might hold yet a more thorough proportion , both are in a Garden , that as in a Garden man had played the wanton with Gods bounty , so in a Garden too , this more then man might play the Champion with Gods fury ; it was in a Garden , that God sought man sold to the devill for an apple , Adam where art thou ? Gen. 3.9 . and 't is here in a Garden too , that men seeke God sold by a devill , for as very a trifle : Iohn 6.70 . Ioh . 18.4.5 . whom seeke yee ? Iesus of Nazareth . In each Garden wee read of a drawne sword , Gen. 3.24 . in that by the Cherubim , Luk . 22.50 . in this , by Peter ; that flames , but this wounds ; that but menaces , but this maimes ; what was in that Garden but threatend to the first Adam , that was in this Garden suffered by the second ; the difference is this , in that first Garden , the sword is still hostily brandished , a flaming sword that turned every way , Gen. 3.24 . in this second 't is peaceably put vp , Peter put vp thy sword ; so , Ioh . 18.11 . nor shall the difference of these two Gardens bee of lesse comfort then is their concord , though in that first Garden of Paradise , the sword still keepes the dispossessed posterity of Adam from ever ( here ) returning thither , Gen. 3.24 . wee must first passe vnder the Angels sword , the stroke of death ; yet to this latter Garden of redemption a better Paradise to vs , wee have free and safe accesse , no sword heere threatens , no Angell keepes the doore , hee who is the Angell of the Covenant , Reu . 3.7 . both doore of the Fold , and Keeper of the doore , and that with that irresistible key of David , cryes here , Isa . 55.1 . come vnto mee all , in a word , as at first in a Garden man was doom'd by God , Mat . 11 . 2● Gen. 3.19 . to earne his bread for life by his Sweat , so in a Garden here God earnes for man the bread of life by his Sweat too ; nor is it of the browes onely as that , but of the whole body , yea and soule too , Psal . 105.18 the irons entred into his soule , Rom. 5.20 . nor ( that grace might every way superabound sinnes abounding , ) shall it bee lesse then a Sweat of blood , that herein bloody murderous Caine might have bathed his purple soule as well as idle luxurious Adam his ; here 's for both , both , blood and sweat : and that in the strange abundance of a shoure ; nor is it a dewie misty one , Luk . 22.44 but of great drops running downe through his clothes to the ground : but what ? bee the pleurisy never so great , how strange is the phlebotomy ? it seemes not to consult , or where the signe lyes , or where the sicknesse : what the whole body at once ? alas , the least drop of this blood thus dignified by that enriching interest of vnion : it hath with the God-head , were of price enough , had he so pleased , to have ransomed as many worlds of men , as there bee men in this ; here seemes a better place , for Iudas his quorsum haec perditio , whitherto tends this waste , Ioh . 12.4 . why is hee thus prodigall of his blood thus precious ? why inuerts hee so that prophesie of all nations flowing vnto him , Esa . 53. by thus profusely flowing at once to all nations : alas wee had all of vs sinned , Rom. 5. and all of vs against all the whole Law , in all the whole man : and therefore so full , so proportionate shall bee the satisfaction , that hee who is all in all and for all , Coll . 3.11 . will answereably bleed throughout all the whole body ; nor will this our Eliah thinke , this his selfe-sacrifice once offered for all , 1 Kings 18. compleate enough , vnlesse he first drench it in a floud of his owne sweat and blood . Heb . 9.28 . But , nor is the cure lesse strange then the Physicke : the Method then the Medicine ; as it seemes not to aduise , where the signe lyes , so nor where the sicknesse : 't was we had surfeited , and doth hee purge ? Ours was the fever , and doth hee bleed ? oft times a bleeding in the head ( Physitians say ) is best stopt by striking a veine in the foot , but here the malady is in the foot , the remedy in the head : true , but the spirituall blood of Sin , holds a contrary course to that of the body , it flowes vpward against Heaven , the voice of thy brothers blood cries vp to Heaven : Gen. 4.10 . therefore to cure that spiritual bloody Issue of the foot , sinne , must the head thus bleed for it ; must ( I say ) not out of any necessity on his side , more then that of his owne decree and promise , all the necessity , at least the need , was ours . Saint Austine gives the distinction best , that hee was thus to bleed for vs , ( sai h hee ) it was on our side , miseranda n●c ssitas , on his but miserans voluntas , on ours a miserable necessity , on his but a commiserating mercy ; and ye● so great will hee have , both his mercy , and our sinnes , at once appeare to vs , that hee will give vs the measure of the ones merit in no lesse , then a shoure , of the others guilt in no lesse , then a Shoure of blood . If then in the midst of this Shoure , so plenteous , so precious , wee bee with Gideons fleece , Iudg . 6.40 . still dry , what else can wee blame but our owne incapacities of this heavenly raine , heres neither want of power , price , or plenty , a Shoure of blood , no nor of promise neither , Psal . 72.6 . hee shall come downe ( saies David ) like the raine into a fleece of wooll : here ( in a more heavenly sense ) is that raine of Heaven , Deut . 11.11 that the land of promise drinkes , that early and latter raine ; early to the Patriarks , latter to vs : here 's that dew of Hermon , Psal . 133.3 . that fals vpon the Hill of Sion , such as with constant Sion cannot bee removed ; here is that Balme of Gilead , that only cures tht daughter of his people ; the Oyntment of Aaron , Psal . 133.2 that runnes downe from this Head to the vttermost Skirts of his clothing , the meanest of his members ; this blo●dy balmy Sweat , it here fals in a Garden , and indeed where ever , it fals in merit and effect 't is sure to make , though of the barsennest wildernesse of sinne , a fruitfull , a fragrant Garden of grace , that hearbe of grace cannot but grow in that Garden which this Shoure waters .

It had been much , where no outward violence was offered , nor labour sustayned , specially in the cold time of night , so cold that hardier Souldiers were faine to have a Fire within doores ; abroad too in the raw aire , and on the cooler earth in any sort to have sweat at all : nor is it a thin faint Sweat , not sudor draphoreticus , ( as Physitians speake ) but grumosus , of great drops : and those so many , so violent , as they pierce not onely his skinne , but clothes too : Luk . 22 44. and that in full streames to the ground , and yet may all this fall within the compasse of a naturall possibility , and much exceeds not the fury of a Fever , but a Sweat of blood , as it puts all time and story to seeke for matter of example , so puts it nature and reason to silence too for matter of cause : might hee not well then complaine of his sweat , as of his sorrow , Lam . 1.12 . was there ever Sweat like vnto this of mine ? but , alas doth hee not complaine ? yes , and 't is that complaine ? of his ( if it bee possible let this Cup passe ) that speakes his sorrow , Mat . 26.30 . his sufferings , yet more then either his sweat or blood ; how much lesse is it for a man ( in any sort ) to sweat , to bleed , ther for a God in the least to complaine ? 't is not indeed for a man to conceive , what it is for a God to complaine I will not therefore ( with some ) call this agony , the sleepe of his divinity , so happily I should my selfe the while but sleepe , and dreame him such a God , as Baal , 1 K●ng . 18.27 . cry aloud , for it may be hee sleepeth . Whereas hee is the Keeper of Israel , who can nor slumber nor sleepe . I dare not thinke ( with Lumba●a ) any word , much lesse prayer of his , could proceed , ex impetu naturae sine imperio rationis , nor will I with others define either the causes of this Sweat , or the ingredients of that Cup , Psal . 75.9 . ( for 't was a mixt one ) so I might easily play the vn ust Steward and write fourescore for the hundred : no , Luk . 16.7 rather let mee call this passage with Esay , the travaile of his soule , the passion of his passion , Esa . 53 11. and conclude of the cause , why hee did complaine , with David , speaking of the cause why ( in an other case ) hee himselfe did not complaine , I was dumbe , Psal . 39.10 . and not opened my mouth : because 't was thou O Lord that didst it ; and might hee not well complaine , Lam . 1 13 that God had sent his fire from above into his bones ; how truely doth it here appeare in Sweat : might hee not well complaine ( in his type ) that the Irons had entred into his soule , Psa . 105.18 how truely doth it here appeare in blood ; how iustly too might hee complaine , that his soule was powred out , Psal . 22.14 . both like Wax and like Water , here are the very streames or both , Blood , and Sweat . The spirit of a man , ( saies Solomon ) may sustaine his infirmities , but a wounded spirit who can beare , such was his : the arrowes of God dranke vp his Spirit : Iob 6 4. and therefore how well might hee say , thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind : Psal . 88.16 . and yet alas , all this 't is but the beginning of sorrowes , but the first approaches and offers of that Cup , which afterward hee dranke off , dregs and all to the last drop ; but a serious and thoughtfull pre-apprehension of what hee was to suffer , nor doubtlesse could the dexterity and keenesse of that his apprehension , of what sinne deserued , but much aggravate what hee suffered ; apprehension , if strong and active , ever gives edge , and sting to misery ; 't is the soundest body is ever most sensible of paine ; feare still and feeling too , most what take m●asure from apprehension , never any man could so fully as hee , apprehend the iust cause of this feare , sins gu●lt : and therefore no maruaile if never a●y did so fully feele the weight of this feare , sinnes horror : passions , of what kind soever , worke ever strongest , on best knowen obiects ; the apprehensiue expectation of an evill , is many times little lesse then the present sense ; sodaine vnseen evils afflict both slacker and shorter , and doe but swallow without chewing ; 't is one of the miseries of being wise , that it armes misery against it selfe , and grinds it into a sharper edge ; the edgetooles , which it lends misery to cut its owne fingers with , are ever two , expectation , and apprehension ; the first ever anticipates , the second exasperates the paine : hence is it , that men feare not hell , because their eyes of faith are not strong and apprehensive enough to foresee it ; were that pit of darkenesse , where our sins are to suffer , but in any measure of its true horror ( to the life , or rather to the death , and depth ) layd open and displayed to our apprehensions , how would our knees tremble , Dan . 5.3 , 4. and enterfeare with Baltazars ; how would our Bowels burne with those disciples , Luk . 24.32 and before hand without true repentance with Iudas's gush cut , Acts 1. to breake loose ( if possible ) from those fierce Furnaces of our anguish'd consciences : doubtlesse , no thornes , nor whips , nor nailes drew blood from him with that torture , that the sight of this Cup here doth ; it was those over-flowings of our vngodlinesse , Psal . 18 3. that made him thus affraid : But O my blessed Lord and Saviour , thou beganst thy passion in a sweat , let mine eyes ( Lord ) wait ever on thee , Psal . 123.2 . as the hand-maids on her mistresse , and not beginne their compassion , but in a Sweat too , a Sweat of sorrow and contrition : thine Lord was a bloody one , bee mine so too , Aug. sanguis vulnerati cordis , otherwise as is praying but from the lips outward , so is weeping but from the eyes outward , either but the sacrifice of fooles , but eye-seruice . Epes . 6.6 . O let mee not apprehend what thou suffer'dst for me without sorrow , and compassion , when as thou thy selfe , Lord , didst not apprehend what I deserued from thee , without feare and horror . Blood ( they say ) whereas nothing else , can soften the Adamant ; if my heart then doe not soften , melt , bleed in all this so plenteous a Shoure , of this so precious blood , what should be left to melt such a heart , so much harder then the nether Milstone , but the Fire of Hell ? But alas Lord , Ioh . 18.11 wilt thou not drinke of the Cup , which thy Father gives thee ? Mat . 26.39 It is not possible , that this Cup passe from thee , vnlesse it passe to mee , and so ( alas ) Fire and Brimstone , Storme and Tempest , Psal . 11.7 . this will be my portion to drinke , and my Cup will bee full ; No ( Lord ) I confesse , I am not able to drinke of this thy Cup , if thou leave but one drop for me , it will vtterly cast mee into that incurable Dropsie of Dives , after a despayred drop of water . Luk . 16. No , give mee rather here ( Lord ) with David , Psal . 42.3 . pl●n eousnesse of teares to drinke , and so , may my Cup over-flow , and spare not , bee thou but the portion of mine inheritance , and of my Cup ; Psal . 16 6. and so I shall bee able to pledge thee in this Cup too , alayed , and sugred with thy mercy : so , spare mee not from sweating with thee , and if need bee from bleeding too , at least ( with thy Apostle ) let mee never cease , both to sweat and bleed in that continuall agony of his , the good fight , in that daily martyrdome of his mortification . 2 Tim . 4.7 . 1 Cor . 15.31

This fruitfull Shoure ( Lord ) of thy blessed bloody Swear , as it fell in a Garden , so let it ever plentifully fall on the Garden of thy Church , send ever Lord this gracious raine on thine inheritance , Psal . 68.9 to refresh it when 't is weary : Let one drop ( at least ) of this so abundant , and everlasting Shoure , light on thy owne inclosure : but ( alas ! in it selfe ) a dry and barren wildernesse , Psal , 143 6. where no water is , my thorny , yet thirsty heart ; so , yet , shall it become a fruitfull , a fragrant Garden vnto thee , 't is thou ( O Lord ) that makest of the barrenest wildernesse , Can . 4.16 . a fruitfull Field . Arise O North , and come O South , and blow on this Garden , that the spices thereof may flow , in those great slaughters of thy Murderers ( O Lord ) both at Ierusalem , and Bittere , wherein so fully , both to their owne desert and wish , Math . 27.25 thy blood lay so heavily on them , and on their children : 't is said the Romanes found no such manurance for their Vines , and Gardens , as the blood of Iewes ; how much better ( in a better sense ) will thi● better blood of thine , bee for this Vine , this Garden of my soule ? How can there in this Garden , thus manured , thus watred , but grow those hearbes of grace , the purging Hysop of repentance , Psal . 51. the ever greene time of hope , fading , Leu . 14.4 . no not in the stormiest winter of aduersity ; the Cammomill of Patience , that growes the more 't is trod on , the true Marigold of Faith , that shuts and opens to none but thee , Mal . 4.2 . the Sunne of righteousnesse , the inclining stooping Violet of Humilitie , the imbracing clasping Honysuckle of Charitie , &c. How can it bee ( so dress'd ) but barren to the weeds of sinfull pleasure , the Onions and Garlike of Egypt , let no Serpent ( Lord ) ever lurke in this Garden , Gen. 3. to reach here any forbidden fruit , and so to over reach the eater ; but as in that other Garden , where thou layest entomb'd , they had a Watch and Seale , Mat . 27.59 . wherwith to make all sure , that none might steale thee thence ; so , in this Garden of my soule ( Lord ) having both , the Watch of conscience , and the Seale of faith , let me to a better purpose make all so sure , that nothing ever may steale thee hence ; but that thou mayest ever say of it , as of thy Spouse , a Garden enclosed is my Sister , Can . 4.12 a Spring shut vp , a Fountaine sealed .

II . Hee is sold and betrayd by Iudas . Luk . 22.47

MAiesty and mercy ( in their more happy , Quam male conventunt & in vna sede — then frequent mixture in one Throne ) make vp the strongest guard 'gainst treason . Maiesty vsually so benumbs , and strikes the hand with terror , that it cannot strike , Prov. 20.8 . the Kings eye scatters treason from his Throne : Mercy so becharmes , and stroakes the heart with love , that it cannot plot , Prov. 25.8 . the Kings Throne is established by mercy ; But the best Guard is that , which needs no Guard , innocence , and yet behold ( here ) a treason , that breaks through that double Guard of maiesty , Optimum munimentum munimento non carere . of mercy , and that more privy proofie maile of innocence it selfe too , if maiesty might have daunted it , how must it have shruncke backe its accursed head into abortion ? 't is he who commits no robbery , Phil . 2. in making himselfe equall with God : And yet behold they come against him , as against a theefe , Luk . 22.52 a robber ; if mercy might have shamed it , how had it sluncke backe into that vault of darkenesse , whence it came to hide it ; 't is hee who came to seeke , to buy them with his blood , whose blood they have thus maliciously bought , and are now come thus murderously to seeke ; if innocence might have sheelded against these fierie darts of malice , Ephes . 6. let its owne confession iudge him , and it cannot but pronounce him true , a iust man , one in whom preiudice it selfe can find no fault , Mar. 12.14 . Mat . 27.24 . one against whom enuy it selfe can find no witnesse : Mar. 14.54 . and yet anger is cruell , and wrath is raging , Prov. 27.4 . but who can stand before enuy ; so prevaricatiuely froward , and vnwinnable is enuy that ever ( as the Psalmist speakes ) what might bee for her good , Psal . 69.23 . is to her an occasion of falling : maiesty , mercy , innocence , make rather but a prey to inuite , then a Guard to avoid her . But yet how ever , Iudas , what could'st thou , enuy in him ; his glory , his purse , and his power too , 't was thine , and made the devils themselues obedient to thee ; had not thine then above the rest beene a mercy-proofe , 2 Thef . 5. a Spirit-despighting heart , it must needs have melted , or recoyld from so blacke a proiect ; didst thou not cast out devils in his name , Ioh . 13.27 . out of others ? what , and now take in the devill into thine owne heart , and cast out him ? Thou once ( with the rest ) leavedst all to follow him , what and now leave him to follow the worst of that all thou hadest left , the devill ; how vnhappy , how vnthrifty a change ? No , but now thou art become a leader ; how poore , how vnworthy an ambition , to leave following such a Leader , that thou mightest lead such a raskall regiment . Ioh . 13.26 . Thou dippedst thy hand in the same Dish of fellowship with him : what , and in the same designe of blood too against him ? Thou once followedst thy master , and barest the bagge , and wilt thou now change both carriage and leader too : follow the bagge and carry thy master in it , the siluerlings ? Ioh . 11.6 . Thou barest the bagge , and what was put therin : and therefore thy old , quorsum haec perditio , may be turned backe vpon thee into a quorsum haec proditio , Mat . 26. whitherto tends this treason ? want drave thee not to this traiterous sale , as it did ( in some sort ) hungry Esau , Gen. 25. thou hadst the bagge , or had that beene empty , thou mightest have gone to thy masters other treasury , the fishes mouth for money ; Mat . 17.27 . the bagge , as it might some way incline thy covetous heart ( the Girdle of verity , Ephes . 6. for the most part drawing vsually too much that way , that the bagge hangs ) so it doth every way vpbraid thy traiterous sale , a rich man and a theefe , 't is a proverbiall agravation : nor did therein thy masters trust , but the deeper ingage thy truth ; what didst thou see in those poore siluershrines of thy idolliz'd Diana , Acts 19.27 . coveteousnesse , worth such a master , thou neededst not this craft to get thy living by ( as those Smiths of Ephesus ) thou hadst a much better in thy late seruice , hadst thou beene of later dayes , I should have thought thee some popish Merchant of the Temple , Mat . 21. one that had thought to make him a Saviour of his siluer , therewith to have bought a Pardon for this , and all thy other sinnes , but if so , the devill too seemes a better chapman for thy turne , hee had offered all the kingdomes of the earth for him , Mat . 4.9 . thou sellest him to the Iewes , and thy selfe to the devill too in the bargaine , but for thirtie pence , thy master himselfe had not long since told thee , that the whole world were all too light in scale , but against thy one soule : but alas , to such a master , as many worlds as thou hadst pence , Esay had told thee , they were all but as the dust of the scales , Esa . 40.15 . as a drop of the Bucket , thou se●lest thy master to his death , that would have sold himself● for thy life , thou betrayest him vnto his enemies for thy gaine , that would have rescued thee from thine with his blood . But is this all ? No , thou sellest that inualuable pearle , which the wise Merchant sold all he had to buy , Mat . 13.44 . and that for a needlesse , a vselesse trifle ; and this makes thy treachery folly , thy gaine losse , thy avarice vnthriftinesse ; who , Iudas vnthriftie , that would make money of all , of the oyntment of his master , nay by by a Popish kind of Alchimy , of his God ? yes , vnthrifty , banckrupted , beggered Iudas : how quickly without either master or money , how vselesse , how restlesse is either thy money or thy selfe , without ●hy master , how soone art thou as weary of it , as ever ●hou wert greedy ? How much more ( anon ) weary of it , then of thy master ? How much more doth it now vpbraid thee , then ever before inuite thee ? can it buy thee such another master , can it all buy thee an houres sleepe , can it bribe thy clamorous tongue of conscience , to a minuts silence ? Nay , it will no● so much as buy thee a haltar , Mat . 27.5 . to put a false promising end to thy present miseries , though thou couldest not misse of one else where , to put a true beginning to thy greater tortures ; but as if i● were doom'd only to the hands of murder , it will no where but whence it came as if it tooke an accursed infection from the fingers it passed through , it may not into the Sanctuary , but must bee ever the price of blood : Mat . 27.8 . nor hath it but ever since left this infectious cankar to all ill gotten wealth , 't is all quick siluer , it will not stay , it will not inrich , it buyes nothing , Acts 1.19 . but Aceldama's , fields of blood , and of confusion , so truely treacherous prove ever the worldlings , not onely hopes , bu● heapes : Iudas did not so much betray his first master Iesus , as this his second master , money , did betray Iudas ; Iudas betrayed his master , but into the hands of malice , but gaine betrayed Iudas into the haltar of despaire ; coueteousnesse proues ever in the end most its owne traytor ; desire , and hope are still but Bawds , when towards that painted Strumpet , the world : But I cannot so passe ( Iudas ) the basenesse of thy sale , or blacknesse of thy treason , what , but for thirtie pence : didst thou not value the Box of oyntment at three hundred pence , Mar. 14.5 . Io . 11.5 . what and thy master but at thirtie ? was the womans oyntment so much more worth then the Lords anoynted ? Psa . 105.15 couldst thou then hold it lost , that was bestowed vpon thy master , or if thou didst , hadst thou no way to redeeme that losse , but by selling the Redeemer ? But no maruell , if ( when thou once beganst to grudge thy master , ano●hers charity ) thou didst not at length sticke to sell him , for thine owne gaine ; hee that holds that waste , which is bestowed on God , his seruice or members , 't is to be seared , hee would fell his God too ; but that the world affords but a few chapmen in such a purchase ; and yet how much , yet cheaper , viler art thou , in the offer then the price ? what will yee give me , Luk . 22. as if the commodity lay vpon thy hands , as if thy master were some peece of vnfashionable Shop-rid ware , which thou wouldest faine be rid of at any hand ; never fell there such a iewell into the hands of such a Pedler , that so basely way-layes Customers , and prostitutes at once , both his will , and ware with , what will yee give ? and I will , &c. Mat 26.15 . And then no sooner an offer , but a price , no sooner a price , but a sale , no sooner a sale , but a delivery ; how soone strikes he it vp a bargaine ? and as if hee were yet affraid they might draw back , that hee may bee yet more sure , to put all beyond the benefit of error or mistake , hee gives them a signe , whomsoever I shall kisse , Mat . 26.48 . that 's hee , lay hold of him .

It had beene somtime our Saviours complaint : Simon since I came , Luk . 7.45 . thou gauest mee no kisse ; but can he find that fault with this sonne of Simon . Luk 22 4● . Hee drawes neere and kisses him . But alas 't is but with the lips hee drawes neere him , Heb 10. the heart is farre from him , and so better hee had with Peter , followed him a farre off , or with the Prodigall , gone farre from him . Luk . 15.13 . Nay , had it beene against him , if openly ( as Paul at first ) hee himselfe saies , Psal . 55.12 . he could more easily have borne it : no , but it was thou my owne familiar friend , whom I trusted , Psal 41.9 . which did also eat of my bread , that hath layd great wait for mee : what , Iudas betrayest thou the Sonne of man ? what thou , my companion , my choice , my charge , my trust , my treasurer : Luk . 22.48 what and betrayest thou the Sonne of man , thy friend , thy master , thy God , one who ; though the Son of God , stucke not to become the Sonne of man to live with thee , & for ought thou knowest to die for thee , what , and with a kisse , the pledge of friendship , made the gin of falshood ; loves gage become treasons snare ; every word is a degree in treason , and both vpbraids the deed , and brands the Doer , the price , the offer , the instrument , the Author , the subiect , doe each of them swell , and heighten the treason still to a greater measure , or rather mysterie of iniquity : did hee among the rest of the Apostles , Ioh . 13. wash his feet too , what and presently so nimble in the devils errand , Rom. 3.15 . so swift to shed blood ? The outward act ( I see ) then of one , greater then a popish Priest , confers no grace at all ; Iudas that hath his feet washd , hath yet his hand , his heart in blood . How farre doth hypocrisie ( often times ) goe with , yet short of truth in piety . Luk . 22. Psal . 2.12 . David will draw neere vnto the Lord , & so doth Iudas , David will kisse the Son , least he be angry , and so doth Iudas , Iudas hath his haile , as well as David his haleluiah ; Psal . 51.4 . I have sinned is Davids confession , after that his sinfull arithmetike , and I have sinned , Mat . 27.4 . 't is Iudas his confession too , after this his accursed treason ; the one yet layes hold on the Altar , the other on the Haltar , Mat . 27.5 . 't is not the tongue nor hand , 't is the heart that seasons devotion ; nay how farre in the outward offices of piety doth hypocrisie out-doe the truth it selfe ; Io 12. doth Mary thinke it much to kisse his feet , that other woman to touch but the hemme of his M●rke ● . garment : but Iudas will goe on to touch , to kisse his lips , and that with a haile of gratulation in his mouth , though there bee a Hell of treason in his heart : Comets blaze more a while then fixed Stars , the vnfruited Bough mostly hath the most leafes . How stupid too , how sottish is hypocrisie , even in the wisest worldling ? Else , how could Iudas , having harbour'd such a purpose , but easily conceive , how easily his master would perceive this devill of treason , though vnder the likest outside of an Angell of light , 2 Cor . 11.14 he chose indeed the fittest time the night ; but alas ! what , what is the darkest night to those eyes , to which the darknes and light are both alike , the darker night was in his heart , yet , nor is that a vaile to ●hose eyes of his , whose faculty is To search the heart it selfe , and can see into Pharoahs , more inscrutable hardned heart , Exod . 7.13 through that double cloud of Egypts darknesse , and its own : with such over-reaching folly , doth God vsually punish hypocrisies , overweening fraud , that from first deceiving the world , but most it selfe , God suffers it to goe on at length , to foole it selfe into a hope of deceiving him too , hast thou not taught in our streets , and have wee not in thy name done miracles , Mat . 25. and cast out devils ; shall be the hypocrites plea , as if they might possibly deceive God , as they had done men : as if the kingdome of Heaven would suffer cousanage , Mat . 11.12 . as well as violence , Ier . 17.9 . no , the heart ( indeed ) is deceitfull above all things , and towards all things , save onely him who made it : gifts may blind the eyes of the wise , Iere . 17.11 . and hee that gathereth gaine , and not by right , he shall leave it ere hee dies , and at his end shall be a foole ( as it fares with Iudas , here ) with God 't is otherwise , he cannot be either blinded with guile , or bribed with gifts ; as he hath his Throne in Heaven , so he hath his Theater in the heart , where happily hee may be sometimes vnseene , but never vnseeing .

And now his master is sold , how well may he cry out with Reuben , when they had sold Ioseph , Gen. 37.30 as for me whither shall I goe ? Goe hee to them that put him a worke , they ( with a carelesse , Matt . 27.4 . what is that to vs , see thou to that ) send him to the Sanctuary of those his siluer Gods , his hire , that will not steed him neither , he is now more weary of it , then ever greedy , more weary of it , then of his master , that leaves him too ; but 't is to one , who will bee sure never to leave him , the devill , nor is hee willing to stay long for him , ( no more then he for his hire ) but how soone ( as Iael to Sisera ) iuggler-like doth he change hands from Iudg . 4. the milke , to the ham●●r from the hire , to the 〈◇〉 , and that leads him to his owne place : Acts 1.2 . Poena damni . Poena sensus . Where if that the punishment of losse be the greater of the two ( as Divines are of opinion ) then how can his bee but the greatest of all other ? to see his sometimes fellow Apostles on their seates , iudging the twelue Tribes of Israel , Mat . 19.28 and himselfe among his now fellow devils , Ioh . 6.70 . trembling at the Barre ; to heare his master , who once so kindly gave him the Sop , Ioh . 13.26 . and washed his feet , now giving him his sentence to be bound hands and feet , Mat . 10. and cast into vtter darknesse , to see those devils , which before hee had power to cast out , now to have power to cast him into endlesse torments , where to leave him as his proper place . Acts 1. Let vs cast ( at least ) a glance of gratulation at our blessed Saviours victorious patience , even in this passage of his passion , whereof what fuller heartier proofe , then that difference of language , which hee vses to those his two Apostles , Peter and Iudas , Peters compassionate pittie , because it looked with a more tender eye towards his masters life , then mans redemption ; him he cals devill for 't , Mat . 16.23 . get thee behind mee Satan , thou savourest not the things of God , but man , whereas Iudas his treason , though savoring the things of neither God , nor man , but all divell , yet because it caried though an vnwitting bent to mans purposd redemption , and that though through so much blood and torment , yet doth hee call him friend : Mat . 26.50 . friend wherefore art thou come , and refuses neither his complement , nor kisse ; so well might his Spouse say , that hee came skipping on the hils , Cant . 2.8 . and leaping on the mountaines , 't is not the lesser hils of his enemies malice , nor the greater mountaines of his fathers wrath can stop him , but that as a Giant , Psal . 19.5 . he will reioyce to run his course , though of blood and death ; and that with such alacrity and swiftnesse , that even Iudas , who no doubt made no small haste , for ( as they say ) the devill drave him : Ioh . 13.2 . yet him doth hee seeme to tax of sloth , vers . 27. what thou doest doe quickly . But , O my blessed Sauiour , the ransome of my soule , 1 Cor . 6. the price of my saluation , how infinitly a greater price did my poore wretched worthlesse soule cost , that was but a lost Great , not worth the sweeping for , Luke 15. a mite scarce worth the casting into thy treasury , Mar. 12. then did thine owne inestimable selfe , who art the treasury it selfe , Coll . 2.3 . the treasuries of wisedome ? was not I bought vnder the stocke of Heaven , and wouldest thou bee bought with a few crumms of earth ; well mightest thou call it ( in way of ironie ) a goodly price that thou wert prized at : Zach. 11.13 but how well mightest thou say of vs ; 1 Cor . 6.20 . yee are bought with a great price ; how truely mightest thou call vs , 1 Pet . 1.18 . a deare , a precious people ? And yet ( alas ) how farre art thou from grudging to vs , even this , thy so much vnderualued cheapnesse ? ( would wee buy , buy thee but the right way , so farre , that thou becomest to vs thine owne , yet cheaper Merchant , and Cryer too . Esa . 55.1 . Hoe yee that passe by , come and buy without money . David ( Lord ) then needs not much complaine , that thou sellest thy people for nought , Psal . 44.13 . and takest no money for them ; when as thou settest no higher price vpon thy selfe ; and yet how infinitly hast thou improved this thy so much misualued sale , to a ransome great enough for the whole world : how mercifully hast thou entitled mee ( Lord ) who was sold vnder sinne , Rom. 7.14 . to this enriching sale and purchase of thy inualuable selfe : and made the Iewes and Iudas in it , but my vnwitting vnthrifty Factors , and me the happy gainer , by this their vndoeing bargaine ? And yet alas , Lord doe I not still ( with Iudas ) sell thee , still betray thee ? if thou be ( as thine Apostle cals thee ) love , 1 Ioh . 4 8. incharitable avarice still sels thee ; if thou be , as thou callest thy selfe , truth , Ioh . 14.6 . false hypocrisie stil betraies thee , when I make gaine my godlinesse , 1 Tim 6.6 . I must confesse ( Lord ) I sell thee ; when I make godlinesse but my gaine & worldly aduantage , then I must confesse , I doe but betray thee . O let mee never , though ( with Iudas ) betray as well thy mercy by despaire , as thy truth by hypocrisie : But as when I had sold my selfe vnder sinne , Rom. 7. thou did'st mercifully redeem me by thy blood , and merit ; so grant ( Lord ) that when ever I shall sell thee for sinne , I may as often redeeme , Esay 55.1 . regaine thee by my faith , and repentance : had Iudas himselfe but found them , hee had found thee , and not lost himselfe : hee did not sinne , no not wrong thee so much by betraying thee ( Lord ) as himselfe to death ; nor his kisse , nor haile , did so much betray , as his either hire or haltar : his despaire more betrayed himselfe , than his treason thee , and that of a better life vnto a worse death , and no maruell , for treason ever in the end proves more the Traytors , then the trusters Traitor .