The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

To press this use a little more, I charge you brethren, as ever you had any tender love unto Jesus Christ, or any regard of your own comfort, go your ways, and be for ever cast down and humbled for those evil ways of yours, which have brought our Saviour to such a gulf of misery, and to be angry with those sins that have made God the Father angry with the Lord Jesus Christ, and take thou revenge upon that proud stubborn heart that brought all this misery upon thy Saviour: This is the course of humanity amongst men; if a man knew of any one which had murdered his father or his friend, whom he highly regarded and honoured, nature shows us thus much, that our hearts would rise against the man, and you would not be able to brook the sight of him, and you cannot endure to see him in your companies; and if law and conscience did not forbid it, you could be contented to give him his deaths wound, and to be his bane, and you would cry out against him, Oh he hath murdered my father, or my deer friend, and though you would not run upon him and kill him, yet this every one would do, he would follow the Law ⟨p. 238⟩to the uttermost, and if all the law in the land will do it, he will have him hanged; and if he might have it put to his choice what death he should die, he would choose him a death as bad as he could devise, and if he might be his Executioner, how would he mangle him, and say, thou wast the death of my father, and then he would give him one blow for this, and another blow for that; and say, thou wretch, thou hast taken away the life of my father, and I will have thy life: Now is a man thus enraged, and is the heart of a man carried with such violence unto him that hath murdered his father, or his friend, and that for the loss of the natural life; Oh then how should your hearts be transported with infinite indignation, not against the man, but even against the sin, which is the cause of all this, and which is wholly opposite against God; and not only because it hath taken away the life of the body of our Saviour, but also made him undergo the wrath of an everlasting father; your sins are they that have thus slain the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of life:

To presse this use a little more, I charge you brethren, as ever you had any tender love unto Jesus Christ, or any regard of your owne comfort, goe your wayes, and bee for ever cast downe and humbled for those evill waies of yours, which have brought our Saviour to such a gulfe of misery, and to be angry with those sinnes that have made God the Father angry with the Lord Jesus Christ, and take thou revenge upon that proud stubborne heart that brought all this misery upon thy Saviour: This is the course of humanitie amongst men; if a man knew of any one which had murthered his father or his friend, whom he highly regarded and honoured, nature shewes us thus much, that our hearts would rise against the man, and you would not bee able to brooke the sight of him, and you cannot endure to see him in your companies; and if law and conscience did not forbid it, you could be contented to give him his deaths wound, and to bee his bane, and you would cry out against him, Oh he hath murthered my father, or my deere friend, and though you would not run upon him and kil him, yet this every one would doe, he would follow the Law