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but what would have become of our expected blessedness by him, if he had not conflicted with shame and pain, untill it terminated in death? Would it not have been as a foundation and building without a top-stone, to which none could have joyfully shouted grace, grace? And yet, what bitter contradiction of sinners did he endure, in his effecting reconciliation for sinners? In his Person, denied to be the Son of God; in his Office, not owned to be the Messius; in his Doctrine, proclaimed to the people as a Deceiver; in his Miracles, reproached as a Conjurer; in his Life, slandered as a Glutton and Wine-bibber; in his Death, reputed the worst of Malefactors. What could men or Divels have done more, to have made him to sink under the weight of his burden? Is it not meet then, that we in Salvians phrase should be, Tam ingentis exempli parvi imitatores, in some weak measure followers of so grand an example. |
but what would have become of our expected blessedness by him, if he had not conflicted with shame and pain, until it terminated in death? Would it not have been as a Foundation and building without a topstone, to which none could have joyfully shouted grace, grace? And yet, what bitter contradiction of Sinners did he endure, in his effecting reconciliation for Sinners? In his Person, denied to be the Son of God; in his Office, not owned to be the Messius; in his Doctrine, proclaimed to the people as a Deceiver; in his Miracles, reproached as a Conjurer; in his Life, slandered as a Glutton and Winebibber; in his Death, reputed the worst of Malefactors. What could men or Devils have done more, to have made him to sink under the weight of his burden? Is it not meet then, that we in Salvians phrase should be, Tam ingentis Exempli parvi Imitators, in Some weak measure followers of so grand an Exampl. |
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