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Sermons preached
Sermons preached by the late reverend and learned divine, Thomas Manton ...
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SERMON IX.
MAT. 27. 46. And about the ninth Hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani; that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
MAT. 27. 46. And about the ninth Hour, Iesus cryed with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabacthani; that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
IN the History of the Passion you will find, that our Lord Jesus was exercised with all kind of Temptations, affronted by Men, assaulted by the Powers of Darkness, deserted by his own Disciples, one of them denied him, another betrayed him, but all fled. And thus he was not only rejected of Men, but was stricken, and smitten, and forsaken of God. This was as Gall and Vinegar to his Wounds, the Passion of his Passion. The World's Cruelty, and Satan's Rage had been nothing, if the Brightness of the Divine Presence had not been eclipsed. When the People were set against him, (his Blood be upon us, and our Children) he complained not of that: When Friend and Lover were afar off, he doth not complain of that: Judas, why hast thou betrayed me? Peter, why hast thou denied me? Disciples, why have ye forsaken me? But when God was withdrawn; My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? This is his bitter Complaint now.
IN the History of the Passion you will find, that our Lord Jesus was exercised with all kind of Temptations, affronted by Men, assaulted by the Powers of Darkness, deserted by his own Disciples, one of them denied him, another betrayed him, but all fled. And thus he was not only rejected of Men, but was stricken, and smitten, and forsaken of God. This was as Gall and Vinegar to his Wounds, the Passion of his Passion. The World's Cruelty, and Satan's Rage had been nothing, if the Brightness of the Divine Presence had not been eclipsed. When the People were set against him, (his Blood be upon us, and our Children) he complained not of that: When Friend and Lover were afar off, he doth not complain of that: Iudas, why hast thou betrayed me? Peter, why hast thou denied me? Disciples, why have ye forsaken me? But when God was withdrawn; My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? This is his bitter Complaint now.