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The Practice of Piety 1602 By Lewis Bayly

The Practice of Piety 1602 By Lewis Bayly. What had you done, O our sweet Savior, that you should be pitifully scourged with whips, crowned with thorns, scoffed with flouts, reviled with words, buffeted with fists, and beaten with staves? O Lord, what did you do

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The Practice of Piety 1602 By Lewis Bayly

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  1. The Practice of Piety 1602 By Lewis Bayly

  2. What had you done, O our sweet Savior, that you should be pitifully scourged with whips, crowned with thorns, scoffed with flouts, reviled with words, buffeted with fists, and beaten with staves? O Lord, what did you do to deserve such a sea of God‘s wrath, that made you to cry out, as if you had been forsaken of God your Father?

  3. We, O Lord, we are the cause of these your sorrows; our sins wrought your shame, our iniquities are the occasion of your injuries. We committed the sins, and you suffered the death; We have done the crime, and you hang on the cross. O the unmeasurable measure of divine mercy! The wicked transgress, and the just is punished; the guilty escape, and the innocent is arraigned; what the evil man deserves, the good man suffers; the servant does the fault, the master endures the strokes. What shall we say? Man sins, and God dies.

  4. O blessed Lord, you have endured all this for our sake, what shall we render unto you for all your benefits bestowed upon us, sinful souls? Indeed, Lord, we acknowledge that we owe you already, for our creation, more than we are able to pay; And seeing that you have vouchsafed us the assistance of your Holy Spirit, suffer us, O heavenly Father, in the mediation of your Son, to speak a few words in the ears of our Lord: If you, O Father, despise us for our iniquities, as we have deserved, yet be merciful unto us for the merits of your Son, who has suffered so much for us.

  5. Though you see nothing in us but misery, which might move you to anger and passion; yet behold the merits of your Son, and you shall see enough to move you to mercy and compassion; behold the mystery of his incarnation, and remit the misery of our transgressions. And as oft as the wounds of your Son appear in your sight, O let the woes, of our sins be hid from your presence; as oft as the redness of his blood glitters in your eyes, O let the guiltiness of our sins be blotted out of your book.

  6. The wantonness of our flesh provokes you to wrath, O let the purity of His flesh persuade you to mercy; Our disobedience has deserved a great revenge, but his obedience merits a greater weight of mercy; for what can man deserve to suffer, which God, made man, cannot merit to have forgiven? The sins of all sinners are finite, the mercies of God are infinite.

  7. Seeing that you require nothing for your benefits, but that we love you in the truth of our inward hearts, create in us, O Christ, new hearts, and renew in us right spirits, and then you shall see how, mortifying old Adam and his corrupt lusts, we will serve you as your new creatures, in new life, after a new way, with new tongues, and new manners, with new words, and new works, to the glory of your name, winning other sinful souls to your faith, by our devout example.

  8. Keep us forever, O our Savior, from the torments of hell, and tyranny of the devil; and when we are to depart this life, send your holy angels to carry us, as they did the soul of Lazarus, into your kingdom; receive us into your joyful paradise. Grant this, O Christ, for your own name's sake, to whom, as is most due, we ascribe all glory, and honor, praise, and dominion, both now and forever.

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