The Christian-man's calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business. Wherein the nature…

Thirdly, Meditate on thy corruptions: As his love was the inward moving cause; so thy sins were the outward procuring cause of his sufferings: He was wounded for thy transgressions, he was bruised for thine iniquities, the chastisement of thy peace was upon him, Isa. 53.5. When thou art at the Sacrament, which fitly representeth Christs sufferings, consider with thy self, What was that which brought the blessed Saviour into such a bleeding condition! It was my sin, I was the Judas which betrayed him, the Jew which apprehended him, the Pilate that condemned him, and the Gentile which crucified him: My sins were the thorns which pierced his head, the nails which pierced his hands, and the spear which pierced his heart: 'Twas! that put to death the Lord of life: He dyed for my sins; He was made sin for me, who knew no sin; his blood, is my balm; his Golgatha, is my Gilead. O what a subject is here for meditation! He suffered in my stead, he bore my sins in his body on the tree, he took that loathsome purging physic for the diseases of my soul: When he was in the Garden in his bloody agony, grovelling on the ground, there was no Judas, no Pilate, no Jew, no Gentile there, ⟨p. 301⟩to cause that unnatural sweat, or to make his soul sorrowful unto death, but my pride, my unbelief, my hypocrisy, my atheism, my blasphemy, my unthankfulness, my carnal-mindedness, they were there and caused his inward bleeding sorrows, and outward bloody sufferings, (Ah what an heavy weight was my sin to cause such a bloody sweat in a frosty night!) My dissimulation was the traitorous kiss; My ambition the thorny crown. My drinking iniquities like water made him drink Gall and Vinegar; My want of tears caused him to bleed; My forsaking my Maker, made him to be forsaken of his Father. Because the members of my body were instruments of iniquity, therefore the members of his body were objects of such cruelty; because my soul was so unholy, therefore his soul was so exceeding heavy. O my soul what hast thou done!

Thirdly, Meditate on thy corruptions: As his love vvas the invvard moving cause; so thy sins vvere the outvvard procuring cause of his sufferings: He was wounded for thy transgressions, he was bruised for thine iniquities, the chastisement of thy peace was upon him, Isa. 53.5. When thou art at the Sacrament, vvhich fitly representeth Christs sufferings, consider vvith thy self, What vvas that vvhich brought the blessed Saviour into such a bleeding condition! It vvas my sin, I vvas the Judas vvhich betrayed him, the Jew vvhich apprehended him, the Pilate that condemned him, and the Gentile vvhich crucified him: My sins vvere the thorns vvhich pierced his head, the nails vvhich pierced his hands, and the spear vvhich pierced his heart: 'Tvvas! that put to death the Lord of life: He dyed for my sins; He was made sin for me, who knew no sin; his blood, is my balm; his Golgatha, is my Gilead. O vvhat a subject is here for meditation! He suffered in my stead, he bore my sins in his body on the tree, he took that loathsome purging physick for the diseases of my soul: When he was in the Garden in his bloody agony, groveling on the ground, there was no Judas, no Pilate, no Jew, no Gentile there,