Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

And that is our Saviours humiliation, that he was cut off in the midst of his days. If we look into the Psalm, we shall find it a curse on the bloody and deceitful man, that he shall not live out half his days. The lively part of a mans age, (from Moses his time to this day, in that Psalm of Moses, Psalm. 90.) is threescore years and ten; Half this is thirty five years; and our Saviour is taken off, before this thirty five is expired. He was to take on him all the curses due to sinners, to the bloody and deceitful man: He is cut off and cropped off in the midst of his vigour: He that is that Melchizedek, that hath neither beginning, nor end of days, was cut off as a branch, lopped off as a twig from the land of the living, Isa. 53. ver. 8. He's pulled out, so his days were few, far fewer then Jacobs: He was not suffered to live out half his days: Yet if we look upon his days they were evil too: evil enough as few as they were: Full of trouble, and full of misery: From his first coming into the World to his last going out.

And that is our Saviours humiliation, that he was cut off in the midst of his dayes. If we look into the Psalm, we shall find it a curse on the bloody and deceitful man, that he shall not live out half his dayes. The livelie part of a mans age, (from Moses his time to this day, in that Psalm of Moses, Psalm. 90.) is threescore years and ten; Half this is thirty five years; and our Saviour is taken off, before this thirty five is expired. He was to take on him all the curses due to sinners, to the bloody and deceitful man: He is cut off and cropt off in the midst of his vigour: He that is that Melchisedeck, that hath neither beginning, nor end of days, was cut off as a branch, lopt off as a twig from the land of the living, Isa. 53. ver. 8. He's pul'd out, so his dayes were few, far fewer then Jacobs: He was not suffered to live out half his dayes: Yet if we look upon his days they were evil too: evil enough as few as they were: Full of trouble, and full of misery: From his first coming into the World to his last going out.