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B12232	Meditations of the whole historie of the Passion of Christ. Written by the Reuerend Father, F. Franciscus Costerus, Doctor of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. Translated out of Latine into English by R.W. Esquire; De universa historia Dominicae Passionis meditationes quinquaginta. English	Coster, Franciscus, 1532-1619.; Worthington, Lawrence.	1616 (1616)	STC 5827; ESTC S114528	155,460	681

cares and cogitations and pray vnto Christ very earnestly for his grace that we may obtaine wholsome fruite by this meditation Secondly that first of all wee read the Euangelicall text of that Meditation then th● meditation it selfe either in whole or in part Thirdly that we lay aside the booke and repeat in our memory what wee haue read and consider what affections may bee stirred vp thereby and labouring to excite and moue them in our selues Fourthly that we breake forth into some speach and prayer vnto God through that affection which is now stirred vp in vs and that we either praise or admire God or pray for the forgiuenes of our sins or for some other benefite or to bee briefe that we speake those thinges which our minde so moued shall dictate vnto vs. It will profit vs also to begin first at the beginning of these Meditations both because we shall better vnderstand the History of the Passion and also that by little and little we may proceed from the lesser to the greater Also to the end that these Meditations may bee more gratefull and profitable I haue incerted nothing which is not sound and approued because the vncertainty shall not diminish the authority nor be a hindrance to deuotiō For nothing is affirmed in this History but what the Scriptures say or the Fathers confirme or traditiō vndoubtedly deliuereth The documents thēselues which are ioyned to these meditations are for the most part taken out of the auncient Fathers or out of the later Writers which haue written best of the māner of meditating vpon the Passion of our Lord. I haue drawen out some Meditations of purpose somwhat long especially such as are either of great force to mooue our affections or may bee vsed seuerally for Sermons as namely those of the seauen words which our Lord spake vpon the Crosse For I was desirous in this Booke not onely to set foorth the manner of contemplation but also to helpe the Preachers themselues that they may teach the people profitably and stirre vp their mindes with diuers Meditations And I haue thought good to dedicate this my labour to you my best beloued brethren fellowes as to those whose peculiar institute is to honour and receiue the blessed body of Christ our Lord in the most holy Eucharist and to defend the honour thereof against the blasphemyes of wicked Heritikes that comming to Christ his most Holy table you may according to the Cōmandement of our Lord repeate in your memory his Passion Death and Buriall and make your bodyes sitt Sepulchers for the body of our Lord with your mindes render vnto him praise and thankesgiuings and to be short being inflamed with the loue of him who gaue himselfe wholy for you you may likewise imploy your selues wholy in his seruice and the helpe of your neighbours To conclude I pray you that in recompence of this my Labour yee will vouchsafe to offer vp your prayers to our Blessed Sauiour for mee that by his grace I may bee partaker of those benefites which by his Death and Passion hee hath purchased for vs. Farwell Your Seruant in Christ Francis Costerus ✚ IHS Of the Passion of our Lord. The first Meditation of his going out of the house from supper The Hymne being said Iesus went foorth beyond the torrent Cedron according to his custome Mat. 26. Mar. 14. Luc. 22. Ioan. 18. and his disciples followed him CHRIST beganne his passion first from prayer Secondly from his going out of the place of supper both because hee would not be apprehended as an eater drinker but as one praying vnto God and the patrone of man-kinde and also because his Host with whom he supped should sustaine no dammage by his passion which ought to profite all men and to hurt none Thirdly 2 Reg. 15. he went beyond the torrent Cedron by which way in old time Dauid fled from his sonne Absolon A torrent in the holy Scriptures signifieth the incōmodious things of this life as in this place My soule hath passed the torrent Psal 125 all which calamities being very great our Sauiour ouercame with exceeding constancy of minde Fourthly he went into the Mount Oliuet Mount signifieth excellency and Oliue Charity Heere do thou consider that Christ beganne his passion with great earnest and feruent prayer with much cōstancy of mind and exceeding charitie in which vertues he was well exercised as appeareth by these wordes according to his custome He inuiteth thee likewise to the same vertues when he caried his Apostles with him For except thou beest diligent in prayer except thou auoydest the perils of euil occasions except thou makest a resolute purpose except thou beest enflamed with the loue of God and to bee briefe except thou doest diligently vse vertues thou shalt neuer ouercome thy temptations Follow then our Lord with his Apostles and pray him that he neuer leaue nor forsake thee Then he said to his Disciples all yee shall suffer scandall in me in this night Mat. 26. For it is written I will strike the Shepheard and the Sheepe of the flocke shal be scattered Mar. 14. but after I shall rise againe I will goe before you into Galilee CHrist in his passion tooke the beginning of his griefes from his Disciples who seeking to saue themselues by flight did all either wauer in faith or openly deny our Lord Consider euery word All First not one shall stand for me yee Secondly whome I haue bestowed so many benefites vpon loued so dearely shall suffer scandall that is shall sinne being estranged from me and none of you in this time of my passion shall bee free from sinne yee shall suffer scandal but I will not giue it in me of whose wordes and deedes after the sight of so many miracles ye can iustly take no manner of offence in this night that is by and by or in the night of ignorance Now call thy wits vnto thee and marke whether these same things may not happen vnto thee I say vnto thee on whome God hath bestow'd so many good things at whose counsailes deedes neuerthelesse thou takest offence for that trouble of thy vicious minde in aduersity is referred vnto Christ our lord who either sendeth them or at the least permitteth them But such kinde of scandall riseth alwaies in the night that is from thy blindnesse for if thou wouldest all at once looke vpon the benefites receaued at Gods hands the rewards prepared for thee and the euills which thou hast committed thou wouldest resolue in thy minde neuer to be moued with any aduersity Consider heere the cause of thy offence and scandall I say thine owne euil and troubled will and pray vnto God that he will lighten thy darknesse because thou hast neuer any iust cause of anger discontent Christ promiseth that he will goe before them into Galilee in which promise hee declareth his owne goodnes who neuer foretelleth any afflictions without hope of

application of them to thy selfe Thy dinner indeed is ready but thou must goe to the table and put the meate in thy mouth thy medicine is made but it is kept in the shop of the Church inclosed in seauen boxes to wit in the seauen Sacraments the price is payed for thee but not yet applyed vnto thee Doe not thou thinke that onely Faith as some Heretiques would haue thee belieue is sufficient for thee thou must goe with thy feete to dinner thou must take thy meate and medicine with thy handes thou must put them into thy mouth and receiue them into thy stomache that is thou must frequent the Sacraments and be diligent in the exercise of vertues that that which was effected giuen for all mankinde may bee accepted for thee applied to thee and profite thee Pray thou our Lord that hee who spent and consummated all his dayes with infinite merits of good works will neuer suffer thee to spend and passe away thy dayes idly and in vaine The 4● Meditation of the seauenth worde of our Lord on the Crosse And crying againe Mat. 27. Mar. 15. Luc. 23. he saide with a loude voyce COnsider first that as often as Christ spake for himselfe vnto his Father hee cryed with a loude voyce but when he spake to others or for others hee vsed a lower voyce to teach thee First that thou must alwayes deale with God with great affection To others thou openest thy griefes with teares but when thou speakest with God thou art so drye that thou hast scarce any feeling of deuotiō Secondly what grieuous paines the Son of God suffered who with the violence thereof was forced to crye out Consider secondly that Christ for diuers causes cryed out in his prayers when hee was ready to dye Ioan. 11. First to shew that he was Lord of life and death hauing power to yeeld vp his soule and to take it againe at his owne will and pleasure Therfore hee called for death as Nazianzen saith which durst not come In Christo patiente except it had been called Secondly to mooue God the Father to mercy For seeing all mankinde being oppressed with grieuous sinnes was farre off from God hee who carryed the person of all men ought to cal vpon God with a loude voyce being so farre absent Doe thou therefore knock at our Lords eares not so much with loudnes of voice as with affection of hart Thirdly that this voice being sent through the whole world might moue mens hearts and that hearing of the death of God for their sinnes they might be penitent for their offences For at this voyce the Earth was shaken the Rockes were cleft in sunder and the Monuments were opened that thy stony heart might also be broken by the force of this worde of God Not without cause did Marke say his voyce being sent forth that thou shouldst vnderstand that being sent into the world it worketh still in the heartes of men Fourthly that Hell should tremble at this voyce and euen as at the crye of our Lord calling Lazarus the soule of Lazarus returned without delay into his body so now euery one there should prepare himselfe to receiue their Lord being ready instantly to come vnto them The holy Fathers therefore in Limbo reioyced at this voyce and the Deuils in Hell trembled Fiftly to teach thee how to meditate on death not remisly or negligently as of a thing little pertaining to thee nor slowly and dully as of a thing a farre off but often and earnestly of a thing most certaine and at hand so much the more feruently because it is the onely gate to saluation Consider thirdly that in the ninth houre our Lord brake forth into this clamor in the houre I say of prayer and of the euening Sacrifice For then the true hoast was sacrificed vpon the Crosse and being cutt into two partes that is into body and soule was immolated to God the Father by the high Priest with a loud voyce and great labour Ioyne thou thy prayers with Christ his prayer that with his voice they may pierce the Fathers eares Luc. 23. O Father into thy handes I commend my spirit COnsider first that Christ prayed not vnto his Father vppon the Crosse but in the wordes of the Scripture First because hee knewe that these wordes were most acceptable to his Father beeing written by the holy Ghost to teach vs to pray Secondly to teach thee to worship God not according to thy owne fashion vnderstanding but in such manner as the Church indued with the holy Ghost hath appointed thee Consider secondly that Christ vsed this word Father onely twise vpō the Crosse in his first in his last prayer but in his middle that is in his fourth prayer hee called him not Father but God First that thou shouldest like a Son willingly accept that punishment which thy Father sendeth and in thy punishment confesse thy own basenes who art not worthy to bee called the son of God and like a poore creature call vpon God thy Creator for tribulation and aduersity doe teach good men their owne fraile estate and vnworthines and thereby perswade or rather inforce them to mend their liues that in the end hauing ouercome all aduersities thou shouldest take courage reioyce as a Son For probation worketh hope Rom. 5. which confoundeth not Secondly because the beginnings of Gods word doe most sweetly affect the minde the progresse is hard to sensuality but the fruites which are gathered are most pleasaunt The booke was in the mouth of Iohn sweete as hony Apoc. 10. but being deuoured it made his belly bitter Thirdly because in his first prayer when hee prayed for sinners hee was to gaine authority to his prayer through the loue of a Sonne for none but a sonne could bee heard for so great wickednes In the middle he complained as a man And in this last hauing fulfilled his embassage he desires as a Son to bee called home to his Father Consider thirdly that Christ made this petition to his Father not for feare of iudgment for now his Father had committed all iudgement to him nor for feare of the Deuill whose forces hee had already broken nor for feare of the paines of Hell which now hee came to take from good men and to carry away the spoyles of Hell But first to teach thee neuer to remit or slacke thy inuincible spirit from prayer Secondly that thou shouldest knowe with what confidence he went vnto his Father For hee sayeth not anxiously after the māner of a suppliant I pray thee Father but as it were of mine owne right and authority I commend my spirit Consider fourthly marke euery word of this last prayer which before had bin made by the holy Ghost to this purpose Psal 32. and is now recited by the Son to the Father with addition onely of this word Father Father First I haue remained thy Son in all these so great