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A18048	Christ his last vvill, and Iohn his legacy In a sermon preached at Clare in Suffolke, by Bezaleel Carter preacher of the word of God at Canham neere to Saint Edmunds Bury.; Christ his last will, and John his legacy.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 4692; ESTC S117382	37,432	99

the honourable titles belonging to Christ to her Christ they call Lord her they call Lady Christ they call King her the Queene of heauen Yea they cal her their life hope ioy saluation and pray to her as if she could command her sonne Their Psalter called our Lady her Psalter is so full of blasphemy that I will not recite one word of it but referre you rather to the Ecclesiasticall story called the booke of Martyrs Foxe Acts and Monument where their blasphemyes are discouered to the full Yet that I might not too lightly passe ouer this poynt and that by the lesse you may iudge the more I will not passe ouer one Idolatrous prayer that I lately read Aue miserorum patrona aue caelicae matrona Tu ancillam Iesu Christi te vocari voluisti Sed vt docet lex diuina tu ipsius es domina Namius habet ratio matrem praeesse filio Ergo ora suppliciter praecipe suhlimiter Vt nos in Mundi vespera ad regna ducat supera This and a great many other like Rihmes are sung to the magnifying I was about to say the deifying of Christs mother obscuring and dimming the glory due to Christ himselfe All which I speake not to derogate from the sacred virgin whose rare vertues I dare not neglect nay dare not for my soule but reuerence and admire The Papists extoll Stulti dum vitant vitia in contraria currunt her too much many of vs esteeme her too little Her priuiledges were high and admirable aboue all the womens that were before her or shall be after her First though she had originall sinne yet the course of originall deprauation was so stayed in her by the ouershadowing of the holy Ghost that shee brought foorth a childe perfectly righteous without sinne which neuer any but shee did Secondly Shee was mother and nurse to our Sauiour Christ the sonne of the most high in whom all the nations of the earth are blessed which is so great aprerogatiue that the Prophet Isay sets it foorth with an ecce Behold a virgin shall conceiue and beare a sonne c. Thirdly the holy Angell pronounced her blessed amongst women Luke 1. 28. All generations ought to call her blessed Luke 1. 48. All which considered I cannot but grieue and haue indignation when I heare the vnconsiderate speeches that some haue aduentured to poure foorth in discoursing of the virgin Marie But to pray to her to adore her as the Antichristian rabble doe at this day that know no bounds when they prayse her nor meane when they honour her As there are many places against it so I take it none more apt then this Text where our Sauiour speaking to his mother saith not mother but woman behold thy sonne From the manner proceed we to speak of the matter of Christs speech Behold thy thy sonne as if he had sayd this is he that I appoynt and constitute to bee in place of mee thy sonne to prouide and care for and comfort thee which I know he will as carefully performe as if hee were thine naturall sonne Before I come to gather any doctrine from the words let mee assoyle two questions First it may be questioned why Christ Obiection commends the care of his mother to Iohn rather then to any other Disciple since there were more Disciples then Iohn of whose affection our Sauior litle doubted though now through frailty and infirmity they forsooke him Answer Bellarmine yeelds many reasons as first Bell. de 7. verb because Christ knew that Iohn should out liue Marie and all the rest of the Apostles Secondly he knew Iohn to be his most louing as he was the most loued Apostle Thirdly because Iohn was present with him in his greatest abasement when the other Disciples were fled for feare I thinke to these three I may adde a fourth viz. this That Christ commends her to Iohn and none other to preuent superstition Papists prate and pride of Primacie Aret. in Iohan and Princedome as if Peter had had the iurisdiction ouer and beene head of all the Apostles and yet our Sauiour euer loued and in some sort honoured and preferred Iohn and was more familiar with him then with Peter or any Disciple else Ioh. 13. 23. It is sayd that Iohn leaned vpon Christs breast and in the same chapter it is sayde that when Christ had spoke the word One of you shall betray me the Disciples looked one vpon another and Peter beckened to Iohn that hee might aske his master of whom he spake vers the 26. To which also might bee added that the Reuelation was deliuered to Iohn and not to Peter Reu. 1. 1. And here the virgin Marie is committed to Iohns custody and not to Peters yea it is remarkeable that the infirmities of Peter are more displayed in the Scriptures then the infirmities of any of all the Apostles perhaps his rashnesse whē he cut of Malchus his eare Math. 27. Certaynly his cowardise that he denyed and not once but thrise together denyed yea and forswore his owne master Marke 14. 72. and many other of his infirmities the Scripture mentions that I forbeare to rippe vp out of the reuerence I beare to so worthy an Apostle and yet could not say lesse then I haue sayde to stoppe the mouthes of such as extoll Peter as the Prince and principall of all the Apostles The second doubt to be answered is The second doubt answered why Christ commits the care of his mother to Iohn onely and not rather to all and euery one of his Apostles and to her kindered also that were then present as well as Iohn The saying is Vnita vis fortior a threefold cord is not easily broken suppose that one should haue proued vnfaythfull to the virgin Marie yet if the care of her had beene committed to many a man would thinke in reason though one should forsake her yet all would not forsake her Why then doth Christ commit her to the care of one and but one To this I answer that whatsoeuer in Answer reason wee may imagine to the contrary for the most part that is neglected of all that is committed to the care of all It was Aristotls rule whatsoeuer is regarded of al is regarded of none Yea experience confirms as much let me instance it in particulars Quod multorum fidei cnrae committitur non satis probe curatur Musc in Iohan Arist pol. lib. 2. cap. 2. it is the duty of euery towne and parish of euery particular mā woman according to their ability to feede the hungry cloath the naked but if that there were not an ouer seer or two in euery towne appointed for that end that the poore might and through their negligence it comes to passe sometimes that they are cast away for want of sustenance It is the duty of al to defend the innocent and helplesse from the mighty man and ftom the oppressor but had wee