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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03497	Three sermons vpon the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Sauior preached at Oxford, by Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13619; ESTC S104172	41,348	128

His diuinitie which was acknowledged by the Deuils whom he dispossessed who for a moment did by a greater miracle leaue their lying then their habitation and being tormented vnto truth admirably confessed him the Sonne of God His diuinitie which at his Baptisme Heauen reuealed vnto the Baptist which reuelation he likewise reuealed vnto the Iewes the best of whom esteem'd him as a man of God the worst of whom fear'd him as a man of God And he told them what he saw not in the contriuance of phancie or by the fallacie of a glasse And hee did see the veile of Heauen diuided as if the diuine persons who neuer had beene vndiuided would now sensibly appeare vnited at this the Synod of their Trinitie And hee did see the mild embleme of the Holy Ghost descend vpon him and he heard the voyce of the Almighty who was both the father and the witnesse at this great Christning And shall we yet say that this light of the World was so obscured in the cloud of flesh that it was not cleerely presented to the eyes of the world shall we yet say that we doe not sufficiently vnderstand whether or no the Iewes did sufficiently vnderstand shall wee yet say with a bold compassion Had they knowne it and yet wee must say with a safe compassion Had they knowne it they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory The common Iew was the common sense of that politique bodie his outward soule was able to see the Law but for Prophesie hee was as farre from the vnderstanding of it as from the gift of it Hee could with enough ignorance gaze at the wonders of our Sauiour but it was a greater wonder to worke in a Iew a beliefe of these wonders then to worke these wonders Yet some did beleeue them and abuse them vilely apprehending these demonstrations as the impotent perswasions of probabilitie And some thus thought him to bee the Christ yet durst not reueale this cheape opinion least they should bee excommunicated to saluation by being cast-out of the Synagogue to Christ and his Disciples It is the property of a wiseman not to haue his heart in his tongue but neuer was it the property of a wise man to haue a heart without a tongue The mercie of our Sauiour made the dumbe to speake but the feare of the Rulers made these speakers dumbe thus were their consciences tongue-tied by authoritie And the Rulers themselues did not more impose this silence vpon others then vpon themselues but striuing as much to exceed the people in peruersenesse as in authoritie vnto their ignorance they added fury Indeed they could not by the sharpest discretion of their eye distinguish an incarnate God nor was the Critique Gamaliel able to instruct his Disciple Saul in the Catechisme of this mystery though Saul's vnwilling ignorance admitted him neerer to pardon and conuersion But the chiefe of the Iewes to whom the Gospell was a schisme politiquely rejoycing in their wisdome and honour scorn'd the imputation of leuity by a change and a suspected dejection by this change whereby the High-priest of Ierusalem should be abused into an obscure Christian Wherefore arm'd thus with the affectation of ignorance and the malice of ambition at what thunder would these startle at what vnconceiued almightinesse would this fury turne dastard Yet had they knowne it they would not haue crucified the Lord of glory And yet by an vnmoued decree this passion was sealed to a necessitie and can we then make this predestinated execution depend vpon the will of the vncertaine Iewes This dazles the eye and is a wheele turning in a wheele a spheare wrapt in a spheare the lowest against the order of Heauen and nature seeming to giue motion to the highest the will of the Iewes to the decree of God Had Festus vpon his judgement-seate heard holy Paul preach this seeming opposition wee may easily beleeue that without the manners of deliberation he would once more haue cryed-out to our Apostle Much learning has made thee mad But wee leaue him to his owne ignorance and an other judgement-seate● and without being rapt to the third Heauen wee know that Those things which are necessary in respect of the first cause admit vncertainty in respect of second causes The crucifying of our Sauiour was necessary cōpared to Gods decree but it was contingent cōpared to the libertie of the Iewes will in whom it was choice and not necessitie to will or not to will the death of Christ If the Iewes had knowne it then both the causes of this action and the action it selfe might haue not beene and had not beene But this condition the knowledge of our Sauiour which if it had beene our Sauiour could not haue suffer'd could not be because the first cause God had decree he should suffer And as God by this decree of his Passion did not with an actiue concurrence lay a necessity guilt vpon the will of the Iewes no more did hee impose any necessitie vpon the humane will of Christ but our Sauiour made himselfe a free sacrifice with as much mercy as affliction For though there were in his humane will a necessitie of obedience to the decree of his Passion yet was there also a true indifference this necessity being extrinsecall to his humane will precisely considered as it was intrinsecall and naturall to his person But his humane will suffering no violence did for our sake in the libertie of choice offer-vp his person to the violence of the Iewes Who were so glad of their ignorance and ambition that rather then they would fall from their Cleargy-monarchy they would not feare to set vpon God The brauest sinne that euer was was ventred in Heauen by an Angell and the basest sinne that euer was was committed on earth by a Disciple A Disciple who had he beene of an intire faith had beene euen yet of an intire fame in our sacred Kalendar enjoyed the place and title of Saint Iudas Hee was Christ's purse-bearer whose office vnder such a Master was in all likelihood of too narrow a commoditie for a large Knaue yet louing this more then his master hee bargaines with the Priests and takes earnest to be a conuenient Traitor But heere I must not forget one thing because our Sauiour has commanded mee to remember it and that is thy piety O happy woman who didst bestow vpon our Sauiour's head and feete a precious oyntment With thy beautifull haire thou didst wipe his beautifull feete from which thy oyntment returned sanctified to thine owne head and by a commanded anniuersary of thy pietie he hath poured vpon thee the oyntment of a religious fame Iustly doe I heere remember her her liberality being the vnjust cause of Iudas his murmuring and it was he whose thrift did chide at the spending of this oyntment Now therefore as if hee had vowed a repaire of this losse he finds a policie to sell the oyntment which was already spent by selling his