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A10801	A sacred septenarie, or The seuen last wordes of our Sauiour Christ vttered vpon the crosse, (with the necessary circumstances of the same:) expounded by a commentary, gathered out of the holy Scriptures, the writings of the ancient fathers, and later diuines. By Alexander Roberts, Bachelour in Diuinity; and preacher of Gods word at Kings Linne, in Norfolke.	Roberts, Alexander, d. 1620.	1614 (1614)	STC 21074; ESTC S115974	219,904	265

holy stubbornenesse of the Cananitish woman who against all a●saults of hard temptations shewed an vndaunted mind and continued stiffe in her purpose and after two repulses presseth on the third time for if God doth not grant presently at our first request he doth not despise his suppliants f Augustinus in Psal 65. tractatu 6. 10 primam Iohan. epistolam but whetteth their desires at the last neareth that wished voice woman great is thy faith bee it vnto thee euen as thou wilt Matth. 15. 28. The third that he might try their constancie and as it were clense them with the g Hieronymus super Abacu● Prophetam fire of tribulation and make them appeare more pure Thus stood the case with Iob whom neither the driuing away of his flockes nor the losse of wealth in his heardes nor the sudden death of his children by the ruine of a house nor the loathsome and ouerspreading botches wherewith his body was couered could withdraw him from patience and the deuill but to no purpose and all in vaine assaulted him for by none of these calamities was hee alienated from his obedience due vnto God but stood stedfast and immoueable An example and h Tertullianus de Patientia witnesse vnto vs in the spirit and flesh in his soule and body of true patience that neither for the losse of worldly goods nor of our most dearest beloued nor for the troubles and griefes of our owne bodies wee should faint or fall from God For what a pegeant did hee in that man make of the deuill what a trophe did hee erect to his glory by him the enemie of his glory who at all the lamentable messages which were brought neuer vttered word of discontentment but euer answered blessed be the name of the Lord and reproued his wife as a foolish woman wearied with afflictions one rushing in vpon the necke of another and perswading him to vnlawfull meanes for the auoyding and ending of his suffered miseries c. As the fining pot is for siluer and the furnace for gold so the Lord tryeth the hearts Prou. 17. 3. Iam. 5. 11. Fourthly God in the slownesse of bestowing his benefits commendeth them i Augustinus Chrysost h●m 67. in cap. 20. Matthaei Afflictiones sunt 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gemistus Pletho 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et de his olimplura scripsi ad Psal 130. for such things as wee haue for a long time desired are most delightsome and pleasant vnto vs when they are obteyned in a moment and for a little season hee may hide his face from vs but in euerlasting mercy will hee haue compassion Esay 54. 8. for hee will surely come and not stay Abacuc 2. 3. the later the more comfortably therefore aske seeke knocke Matth. 7. 7. God keepeth that for thee which he will not giue at thy first demaund that thou mayest learne to be an earnest suiter and so obteine great things at his hand Vse Then let vs not vtterly bee discouraged and growe Vse heartlesse if God doe not presently when we euen with passionate and enforced prayers desire comfort and deliuerance answer and heare our petitions but defer his helpe and seeme to passe by our petitions offered For it is vsuall with the Lord to k 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theocritus recompence the slacknesse of his comming with abundance of comfort and he that is resolued to be a deuoted seruant of God must beleeue things to flesh and bloud incredible hope for things delayed and loue God though he shew himselfe an enemie and notwithstanding all these continue constant to the end Let vs therefore commit our waies vnto the Lord and trust in him and hee shall bring it to passe Psal 37. 5. And for ourselues not bee sluggish and drowsie in prayer Luke 18. 1. For God doth many times effect his determined purpose by meanes which seeme contrary So when hee will make supply of the best wine he commandeth that water should be filled Ioh. 2. 7. he first killeth then quickneth carieth downe to hel before he bringeth vp to heauen 1. Sam. 2. 6. Ioseph must be worshipped of his brethren this God had long before so appointed but to preuent it they sell him for a slaue yet the same meanes by which they sought to l Gregor Mag. m●ralium in Iobum lib. 6. cap. 12. auoide the decree manifested by a dreame furthered the fulfilling therof and they honoured him whom they hated And this is one of Gods m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haeliodorus in Aethiopicis wonders to bury his children as it were in the graue of miseries and then to raise them vp from death to life Thus the three children are cast into the fiery furnace extraordinarily heated and Daniel into the Lyons den yet these are deliuered and aduanced to the greatest and most high places Dan. 3. 28. 6. 28. Thus God sheweth himselfe wonderfull in his Saints Psal 4. that is leadeth gouerneth and deliuereth them from dangers by admirable meanes which passe the apprehension of our reason and the deepest reach of our vnderstanding For Gods diuine helpe recouereth forelorne humane hopes and supplying grace n Philo Iudaeus apud Eusebium Historiae Eccles lib. 2. cap. 5. beginneth where heartlesse nature endeth And about the ninth houre Iesus cryed with a loude voyce Eli Eli lammah sabacthani that is my God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Cryed with a loude voice In this clause the qualitie of Christ his complaint is expressed and that it was exceeding vehement vttered with great and earnest enforcement of speech for in the daies of his flesh he did offer vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares vnto him who was able to saue him from death Heb. 5. 7. And out of question the Apostle had an especiall respect in these wordes vnto those which Christ in his passion with o Paraus in locum compassion now vttered Christ tooke vpon him in respect of the essence our whole humane nature soule and body and therewithall the blamelesse naturall and vncorrupted affections of both of the soule as naturall p Damascenus Orthodoxae fidei lib. 3. cap. 20. Nicetas in thesauro l. 3. c. 37. Ambrosius de incarnationis Dominicae sacramento cap. 7. Danaeus in Isagoges parte 1. cap. 43. Polanus in Syntagmate Theologico lib. 6. cap. 15. ignorance for he increased in wisdome and stature Luke 2. 52. And thus he knew not that there was q In hac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 explicanda multum se euercuerunt Patres sed facilis est omnium quaestionum responsio non requisiuisse Christum maturas ficus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nam non erat earum tempus sed prococes siue grossos Aretius in quaestionibus in Euangelium Marci quaest 48. de varietate fructuum ficut arboris Theophrastus de causis plantarum lib. 5. cap. 1.

thus said he gaue vp the ghost The death of Christ is expressed by three seuerall formes or manners of speech in the Gospell hee * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 breathed out the spirit in this place Christ cryed with a lowd voice and yeelded vp the Ghost Math. 27. 50. he bowed down the head and gaue vp the Ghost Which varietie of words are therfore more seriously to be weighed because in them is expressed a great difference betwixt the death of Christ and others for his alone was willing and therefore hee laid down his soule Iohn 10. 18. so that the Centurion at this wonderfull sight is mooued to beleeue and vttereth so much in plaine termes that he was the sonne of God Marc. 13. 39. Crying with a loud voice yeelded vp the Ghost Hee did not 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now speake as other men doe when the time of their dissolution is come and be ready to cast forth the last breath but of his owne accord with a loud voice calleth vpon death not daring otherwise to presume for to come hee yeelded the Ghost at his own pleasure fulfilling all the e Arnoldus Car 〈…〉 de vltimis septem Christi verbis legall sacrifices and making an end of all the darke and obscure ceremonies Who so sleepeth who so putteth off his garments who so departeth from any place when hee will as Iesus dyeth vnclotheth himselfe of the flesh and leaueth this 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 world Bowing downe f Tanl●rus de meditati●●●us vitae Iesu Chris●i cap. 51. his head giuing his last farewell and bidding adew to the earth and offering the kisse of peace In g Ge●gius Wirth in Harmoniaex Euangelijs lib. 5. cap. 59. vs it is otherwise wee first dye then dow down the head but he boweth downe his head then dyeth declaring that hee is the Lord of death and doth all things according to his owne will hee gaue vp the Ghost being obedient vnto the death Hee left to breath Hee gaue the last breath his holy soule passing out of his vndefiled body Christ died not in h Her●tici nonnulli veter●s fictè putatiuè tantum pass●●● blasphemed euerunt vt Simoniani Siturniani Basilidiani Marcionitae Manichaei Alij diuinitatem passam esse tradiderūt v● Theopaschitae Eutuchiani Seueritae Arm●niani de quibus Epiphanius Augustinus Theod●●ctus shew and a false appearance but in truth the soule being locally parted and separated from his 3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 body yet the deitie forsooke neither but continued hypostatically vnited to them both the Sonne of God died not in his Godhead but in his humanitie and flesh 1. Pet. 3. 18. for otherwise neither could the iustice of God haue been satisfied nor his truth answered as hath been more fully handled in the first word Vse The benefit and fruit which wee receiue from this his death is manifold 1. First Iustification and the pardon of our sinnes that they come no more into the sight of God Christ is exalted and lifted vp vnto the i Leo primus depassione Domserm 10. crosse and so turned death vpon the author of death and by opposing his passible flesh hath broken all principalitie and aduerse power being content to admit the boldnesse of that ancient enemie against himselfe raging against that nature which was obnoxious vnto him and presuming there to bee a challenger of the debt where he could not find the least signe or token of any sin Therefore that generall and deadly hand-writing of our thraldome and misery is cancelled and the bond of our captiuitie is come into the hand of the Re●eemer whom the Father sent to bee a propitiation for our offences 1. Ioh. 4. 10. 2. Secondly deliuerance from the power of the deuill for the seed of the woman hath broken the head of the serpent Gen. 3. 15. and loosed the workes of the deuill 1. Ioh. 3. 8. 3 Thirdly the restitution of our peace for by his bloud we are reconciled Coloss 1. 19. and he hath broken down the partition wall Ephes 2. 14. and tasted of the deadly cup for our sakes The bloud of the k Augustinus de 5. heresibus Phisitian is shed and made the curing medicine of the phrentique patient 4 Fourthly the destruction of death and feare therof so that it is to the godly no more but a bare name yea the birth-day of life the entrance into heauen Threfore the Apostle tryumphingly asketh O death where is thy victorie O graue where is thy sting The sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law but thanks be vnto God who hath giuen vs victorie through our Lord Iesus Christ Osea 13. 14. I. Cor. 15. 54 For hee tooke vpon him the nature of mankind that the l Cyrillus lib. 4. in Iohan. cap. 12. Leo primus serm 2 de Natiuitate hac similitudine videntur multùm delectari Patres nam ea ●si sunt Nazianzenus cratione de Paschate Gregor Magnus hom 25. in Euangelia Damascenorth dexae fidei lib. 3. cap. 27. c. deuill the first author of death might bee ouercome by his owne invention for swallowing the baite of his manhood hee is strucken with the hooke of his Godhead Heb. 2. 14. 5 Fiftly the regeneration and restitution of our nature by the holy spirit for Christ hath not onely by his death obteined the pardon but the purging also of our sins and is made vnto vs wisdome righteousnesse redemption and sanctification 1. Corinth 1. 30. Once dead that wee might for euer dye vnto sinne Rom. 6. 6. and liue now no more according to our owne will but his who hath died for vs 2. Cor. 5. 17. m De his vide plura in Dictionario pauperū Thus haue I finished the n Augustinus de Ciuit. Dei lib. 22. cap. 30. taske of this worke such as it is small in volume great in labour If any thinke I haue spoken too much let him pardon that if sufficient giue thanks not to me but to God Amen CERTAINE RVLES and directions teaching euery Christian how to die well according to these seuen last words of Christ. Vt of these last words of Christ some very denoute and religious persons haue collected framed an Art how to die well which I will as it were in a little table Christian o Fredericus tertius Imperator aliquando interrogatus q●● in 〈◊〉 prae●ip●am operam ●om● in hac ●●ta ponere deberet respondit in agnitione Dei ●●arte mori 〈…〉 Reader represent vnto thy sight that we may learne to number our dayes aright Psal 90. 12. and end our liues with comfort Therefore 1. Let vs forgiue our enemies as Christ here did for if we doe not neither will our hea●e●ly father forgiue vs Matth. 18. 35. And it is not enough thus to doe in word but the tongue and the heart must concurre in one 2 Let vs take order for