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B02484	Hebdomada magna, or The great weeke of Christs passion. Handled by way of exposition upon the fourth article of the Apostles Creed: He suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, buried. / By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his parish church, and now enlarged as here followes for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing C7027B; ESTC R175851	123,646	146

instructions to the Judges of our times And I will begin with that Quaere of the Holy Ghost Are your mindes set upon righteousnesse O yee Congregation and doe yee judge the things that are right O yee sonnes of men Ps 58.1 that is according to the order rightnesse straightnes of that Law of God which he set and appointed you to judge by when he sayd unto Moses that Judges and Officers he should make in all the Gates throughout the tribes of Israel and they should judge the people with just judgement Deut. 16.18 quasi dicat as an expositor upon the place non tantum in ore habeatis justitiam sed in opere as if he should say it is not enough to talke of righteousnesse with your mouthes and in your words but you must practise it also with your hands and in your works Now then let us take notice that there are many things requisite to this right and just judgement which ought therefore to concurre and be found in all Judges whatsoever whether Ecclesiasticall or civill The first whereof is this that what they require of others they practise and performe themselves because as S. Peter saith It is but just that judgement should begin at the house of God 1. Pet. 4.17 and therefore they ought not to doe as the Scribes and Pharises which our Saviour speakes of which binde heavy burthens and such as are grievous to bee borne and lay on other mens shoulders when as they themselves will not moove them with one of their fingers Matth. 23.4 but they that are Judges of the Earth ought themselves to love righteousnesse as the wiseman exhorteth them Sap. 1.1 The second is that they keepe themselves close to the prescript and order of the Law and not presume to passe the bounds of that which is to be their directour and their guide according as it is commanded them by Gods Law saying when the King sitteth upon the throne of his Kingdome he shall write him a copy of this Law in a booke which shall bee with him and hee shall reade therein all the dayes of his life that so hee may not turne aside from the Commandement to the right hand or the left Deut. 17 18 19.20 verses That they doe throughly fift the truth and depth of the matter which they have in hand as Iob professeth that hee did saying Caussam quam nesciebam diligenter investigabam I was diligent to search out the cause which I knew not Iob. 29.16 That they be no accepters of persons For qui cognoscit in judicio faciem non bene facit saith the Wise man as the vulgar Latine reads it Prov. 28.21 He that in the time of judgement knowes a difference of faces does not well for such a one will transgresse for a piece of bread as there followes in the latter part of the verse and therefore elsewhere hee saith It is not good to accept the person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgement Chap. 18.5 That they give not place to the clamors or favour of the multitude to doe contrary to law and their owne conscience as our Pilate here did for the crucifying of Christ for this likewise is flatly forbidden in Gods Law as you heard before where it sayes Thou shalt not follow the multitude to doe evill neither shalt thou speake in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgement Exod. 23.2 That they be not driven from the streightnesse and rectitude of their course of justice for feare of the mighty as another Wise man adviseth saying Seeke not to be made a Judge being not able to take away iniquity lest at any time thou feare the person of the mighty and lay a stumbling blocke in the way of thy uprightnesse Ecclus 7.6 That they be not too pitifull beyond that which is meet and fit according to that other precept of the Law Thou shalt not countenance a poore man in his cause Exod. 23. 3. i. e. in a bad cause For otherwise it is said but three verses after Thou shalt not wrest the judgement of the poore in his cause verse 6. That they be no bribe-takers as the same Law still goes on Thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous verse 8. And lastly That they admit of no intreaties and perswasions to the prejudice or dammage of any other for justice is to be executed and judgement given consilio non prece by counsell and deepe consideration in a mans selfe not by request of other men For as Bernard saith well Vbi non licet facere quod volo quis locus rogandi Where it is not lawfull for a Judge to doe what he may have a desire it may be to doe himselfe there surely can be no place left for the sutes and requests of others And these are the nine things requisite to the performance and execution of right and just judgement which whatsoever Judge shall faithfully fulfill and keepe hee need not feare the censure of any Court here or the face of an angry Judge hereafter There might much more have beene added concerning these particulars but that I am not ignorant that Verbum sapientibus sat est A word to such wise men is enough in regard whereof I have chosen rather to leave this short caution and remembrance onely to our Honourable Judges and other subordinate Magistrates than to presume to give them either larger instructions or the least reproofes And this sufficeth for Christs sufferings under Pontius Pilate John 19. vers 16.17 18. Then delivered he him unto them to be crucified And they tooke Iesus and led him away And he bearing his crosse went forth into a place called the place of a skull which is called in Hebrew Golgotha where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one and Jesus in the midst c. WHen the sentence of death against our Saviour Christ was once given Curcified then presently in all haste the crosse was prepared and the condemned person brought out and the heavie tree as it appeareth by Saint Iohns Gospel in our Text verse 17. was at the first laid upon his owne shoulders which had beene unmercifully battered with whips before whereby they tormented him not onely with the sight but with the weight also of that which was appointed to bee the instrument of his death which painfull burthen notwithstanding together with the weight of all our sinnes he refused not for our sakes to take upon him but proceeded on his way with incredible alacrity both in love towards us and in obedience to satisfie his fathers justice as a true Isaack bearing the wood for the sacrificing of himselfe For mortem non coactus sed ultro subiit Christus ut voluntarium esset sacrificium nam sine obedientia nobis expiatio parta non esset In Iob. c. 18. saith Calvin Christ suffered death willingly and not by constraint that so his

hearty Prayer unto Almightie God of Your most devoted Suppliant and humble Oratour JOHN CROMPE He suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead Buried HAving in my former Treatise Beloved discoursed at large as well concerning the conception as the birth of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ out of those two foregoing Articles of the Apost●es Creed Hee was conceived by the Holy Ghost and borne of the Vi gin Mary I am come now in the next place by the order and course of the same to treat of his suffe●ings under Pontius Pilate and his crucifying death and buriall For so speakes the fourth Article Hee suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried Where the first thing that in my judgement will require satisfaction is this Why the holy Apostles or whosoever else they were that joyned these Articles together and made a summe of beliefe of them did make so large a leape as to passe so immediately and directly from the first act of his life to the last from his being borne of the Virgin Mary to his sufferings under Pontius Pilate especially seeing the holy Evangelist speakes of many passages of his life in the interim and betwixt these that are very remarkable and worthy not onely of our observation but our contemplation also and beliefe And it is answered by one thus Optimè à nativitate ad ejus passionem mortem fit transitu ubi perfectè salutis nostrae summa sita ●st The transition from his birth to his death and passion was most fitting and convenient for this reason because therein especially consisteth and is placed the summe and substance of our Salvation Nihil enim nobis nasci profuisset nisi redemisset as he goes on out of Saint Gregory His birth would have profited us nothing if his redemption of us had not followed and succeeded So that to suffer and dye for the sinnes of mankind was a chiefe though not the onely end of his incarnation which occasioned the worthy Authors and disposers of this sh rt summe of our Christian beleife to passe from one substantiall head and point unto another especially from his conception and birth to his passion resurrection and ascension with all celerity and expedition leaving all other circumstantiall parts and passages of his life to their Sermons and other larger discourses Which course likewise Saint Paul himselfe followed as is plainely to be seene in his Epistle to the Philippians Where when hee had described and set downe Christs nativity and birth he presently thereunto adjoynes his death as fetching and deriving from thence the chiefe fruit and profit of our redemption His words speaking of Christ are these Hee made himselfe of no reputation but tooke on him the forme of a servant and was made like unto man and found in shape as a man here he speakes of his Nativity and then in the next words subjoynes He humbled himselfe and became obedient unto the death even the death of the Crosse There followes his passion Phil. 2.7 8. Verses Yea and the holy Evangelists themselves seeme not to differ much from this method and order neither in that they are so exact and punctuall in setting downe all circumstances first concerning his conception and birth and then afterwards of his sufferings and death whereas they pretermit and passe over many act●ons of his life as Saint John confesseth plainely in saying There are many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be written every one I suppose that even the World it selfe could not containe the Bookes that should be written John 21.25 As if his very Incarnation and all other actions of his life together with his preaching and entire and perfect obedience to the wh●le Law and the like tended onely to the redemption of mankinde by his death and passion as to their chiefe and last end answerable to that also of Saint Paul elsewhere When the fulnesse of time was c●me God sent forth his Son made of a woman and made under the Law where yee see his incarnation birth and obedience expressed But to what purpose why that followes in the next words viz. To redeeme them that were under the Law that is by his death and passion Gal. 4.4 5. Verses And thus you see how the conception of Christ first is directed to his birth and incarnation and that next to his death and passion as to their first and last end Primum in intentione etiamsi ultimum in executione First in intention though last in execution So that our Creed ye see passes over all the obedience of our Saviours life as being nothing else but a step onely to his death and passion by which especially our redemption is purchased and procured As much as to say let men lay hold by a lively faith on these and then doubt not but all other circumstances shall and will concurre to their future blisse and happinesse eternally in the land of the living And so this question being thus resolved I proceede in the next place to the handling of the words themselves as they lye in the Article He suffered under Pontius Pilate was c●ucified dead buried In which words for methods sake I will observe onely these two circumstances Quis Quid who and what Who He or which what suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried And I will begin with the latter first as being the larger subject reserving the former to conclude at the latter end as requiring the deeper and the longer search He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buryed HEre yee see beloved sundry Circumstances expressed and set downe which to handle at large according to their weight and urgency would require even the least of them more time then at the first I proportioned to my selfe for the whole But because they are the common and ordinary subjects of many if not most Sermons I shall be the briefer in them Yet I will handle each circumstance apart and begin with them according to their order in the Cre d. As fi●st of the first Hee suffered under Pontius Pilate c. And here I may for an entrance take occasion without any great digression from my intended scope to discourse of all his sufferings from his birth to his buriall f●om his Cradle to his Crosse from his very infancy till his dying day and shew how that tota ejus vita Crux fuit acerbissima his whole life was nothing else but a martyrdome a continuall suffering in one kinde or other Habens in factis observatores in verbis contradictores in tormentis illusores as Saint Bernard speakes Having envious and malicious obs●rvers of his deedes spitefull and hatefull contradictors of his words yea scornefull and reproachfull scoffers at his miseries and afflictions In regard whereof some doe apply that saying of the Spouse in the Canticles unto him when she cals and styles her beloved Fasciculum myrrhae A bundle of Myrrhe Cant. 2.12 Not onely