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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

that I shall neuer bee remoued God no sooner remooueth the whippe but wee are ready to sing vnto the Carles tune Soule take thine case eate drinke and bee merry Wee haue no sooner any intermission but wee sing a Requiem to our selues and secure our selues like Babel Though others bee fatherlesse and Widdowes yet wee shall see no sorrow when indeede this world is a Sea of troubles Reul chap. 4. verse 6. And therefore as Marriners vpon the sea expect and looke for stormes and when one blast is ouer expect another so should we euer looke for crosses either losse of parents losse of children losse of goods and when one is blowne ouer be sure that another is neere Secondly our Sauior his troubles came Vse the second rowling so fast one after another that hee Let no man say that he is singular in his suffring might mee thinkes haue taken vp the Churches complaint Lamen 3. 5. 12. Thou hast compassed me with gall and filled me with bitternesse thou hast made mee a marke for thine arrowes and turned thy power against me all the day long and wherefore then is the complaint so common see and consider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow for to name no more then are there mentioned in this text Christ Marie Iohn the first the naturall sonne of God in whom he was well pleased the second a blessed woman blessed aboue women the third an Apostle beloued aboue all the Apostles and yet their First Christ crosses equalled nay exceeded thine First to beginne with Christ how many and manifold were his sufferings by hunger Math. 4. by thirst by wearinesse Iohn the fourth yea how greeuous were his sufferings when he sweat water and blood or as the new translation hath it his sweat was as it were drops of blood quasi grumi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 22. grumus signifies a clod of earth or rather a clod of curded milk in a womans breast Now his agony was so great that hee sweat if we may so speake clods of blood yea so admirable was his passion that vppon the Crosse hee cryes out like one forsaken My God my God why hast thou forsaken me rather then might our Sauiour hanging vpon the Crosse and many Diuines apply it to him haue sayd see and consider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow Secondly how great and many were ● Marie the myseries of the virgine Marie whose soule was wounded with the sword of sorrow and then especially when she beheld her sonne Christ lifted vp vpon the Crosse I remember what I read of Hagar Gen. 21. 16. when she and her sonne Ismael were cast out of Abraham his house and Hagar wanted sustenance to giue her child the story saith shee cast him down and went from him lest sayd she I should see the death of my childe and she sate downe lifted vp her voice and wept If Hagar could not endure io see the death of Ismael her sonne iudge whether the sword of sorrow must not needes pierce the soule of the sacred virgin to see her sonne Christ so cruelly murthered The Papists affirme that the virgins loue to her son exceeded the loue Anto. de Gue Hisp of all the angels in heauen this I am able to iustifie that parents doe tenderly affect loue their children you may see it by Iobs example that seemed to be little moued Iob. 1. 14. 20. at the newes of all his losses till he heard his children were slaine then he could conceale his sorrow no longer but rent his cloths shaued his head was wofully perplexed So Dauid also though hee could beare Shimei his railing other crosses patiētly yet when he heard of Absoloms death how he cries out O Absolom my son would I had dyed for thee O Absolom my 2. Sam. 11. 33. son my son Yet Dauid saw not his sonnes death nor Iob saw not his sons death but the blessed virgin did not heare of but was an eye witnesse of the cruell martyrdome of her son Christ Oh hould her sorrow but exceed to behold so rufull a spectacle yet wee are ready to imagine our selues singular in our suffrings 3. Are thy sorrows greater then the sorrowes of the Apostle S. Iohn who also was an eye witnes of his masters death If Dauid cried out when he heard of Ionathans death Wo is me for thee my brother Ionathan thou wert very kinde to me in thy life thy loue was wderfull to mee passing the loue of women Might not Iohn the beloued disciple vpō whose bosome Christ had so often leaned haue cryed out Wo is me thy loue to me was wonderfull O noble Israel hee is slaine tell it not in Gath nor publish it in Ascalon Must it not needs perplexe him think yee to see how his maister bones were stretchd out of ioynt how the dogs incōpassed him and the assembly of the wicked closed him how his hands and feete were pierced with nayles yet thou saist see cōsider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow Lay but the suffrings of eyther Christ or Marie or Ihon in one ballance and thine in another and see whether theirs will not infinitely outweigh thine If these things were considered as they ought thou wouldest be so far from such murmuring that we should prayse God with the Church and say It is Gods mercie that we are not consumed because his compassions Lamen 3. 22. faile not The next poynt is whom he seeth When 2. Quo● he saw his mother c. Luke sayth their followed him a multitude of women that bewayled and lamented him Luke 23. 27. Mathew affirmes that many women of Gallile followed him Math. 27. 55. The Euangelist Iohn testifies that many women followed him as Marie the wife of Cleophas and Marie Magdalen and the virgine Marie but it is obseruable that we reade not of one man by name that followed him except Iohn the Apostle and he also was of Gallile a countrey so meane and base that the Pharises supposed no good thing could come out of Gallile so true is that saying of the Apostle not many wise nor many mighty are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weake to confound the mighty 1. Cor. 1. 26. Peter that was so ready to offer his seruice to the death Though all men forsake thee yet wil I neuer forsake thee was now fled for feare with the rest of the Apostles and not one of the Disciples durst shew their heads except Iohn and he spake not one word that we can reade of in his maisters cause and yet there were women that openly bewayled him and neuer left him till they were separated from him by his death Thus God makes his power perfect in weakenesse but I must not stand vpon this poynt The third thing to be considered in the 3. Vbi occasion is Vbi where he seeth them and this

now at the length come wee to the next Verse Then Iesus sayde to the Disciple whom hee loued c. Note in the words two things First Obseruations Christs charge Secondly Iohns obedience Before we come to the more exact handling of this text one thing would bee noted generally viz. Christs earnestnesse in the behalfe of his mother First he directed his speech to his mother Behold thy sonne And had hee sayd no more but this out of question it would haue made Iohn exceeding careful but Christ contents not himselfe with this but makes sure worke and directs his speech to Iohn also saying Behold thy mother From his example learne we to deale earnestly and zealously not carelesly and coldly in the behalfe of the distressed The Apostle telleth vs that it is good to loue earnestly in a good thing It was Salomons item that thou doest doe with all thy might exhort all with all thy might reprooue all with all thy might pleade the poore mans cause with all thy might Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God saith Christ with all thine heart and with all thy Math. 22. 29 might and thy neighbour as thy selfe A lesson that gals and wrings our lukewarme Laodeceans that happily will plead the poore mans cause but how they care not whether they speake or hold their peace whether they win or lose the day after a dead and dull and frozen and cold manner without all spirit and zeale But this obiter Come we to the words themselues and first of the charge wherein consider First Cui to whom Christ speakes Secondly Quid what he speakes First to whom namely to the beloued First Cui Apostle and heere many things are colligible I will select a two or three of them First our Sauiour commits the charge of his mother to a Disciple and none but a Disciple though there were neuer Musc in Iohn so many of her kindred according to the flesh present Non alii tamen cuipiam c Yet would our blessed Sauiour commit her to the trust of none but of a Disciple At quos Discipulos habent Euangelii ministri c. But sayth a learned man where shall a paynful and laborious Minister of Gods word finde such a Disciple to whom hee may with confidence vpon his death bed commit the care of his father mother wife or children It makes mee euen woe to consider it that when Gods Minister hath spent his strength and like a lampe wasted himselfe to giue light to others spent his body spent his substance vpon his flocke hath beene instant and earnest in season out of season not three years together as Paul was at Ephesus but tenne Act. 20. twenty thyrty fortie yeares together in labours often in trauells often in watchings often in prayers often in perrils often and when hee hath performed the duty and office of a faithfull Pastor his course beeing finished it makes my bowels euen turn within meto see his poore widdow to become a vagabond his children like Iudas his to beg their bread yet such is the ingratitude vnmercifulnes of these vnthankfull times that a Minister may spend his spirits and life blood in for a congregation yet amongst thousands of such as are or ought to be disciples not a man to bee found that wil relieue either mother wife son or daughter in lieu of al their labors They will as soone it may be sooner prouide for the wife and posterity of theyr shepheard or neatheard and thinke themselues as much bound to it as to prouide for the wife and children of their deceased Pastor Let their kindred prouide say we and what reason haue we to take our childrens bread and giue it to strangers as if the care and faithfulnesse of a Disciple ought not to exceed the care faithfulnesse of a kinsman or brother The virgin Marie had much kindred yet Christ commends her to a Disciple not to her kindred Secondly obserue that Iohn writing of Obseruation himselfe sayth not Deinde dicit mihi Then he sayd to me Behold c But thus he sayd to his Disciple whom he loued c. And so in the consequent words he sayth not Ego recepi I tooke her but ille recepit hee tooke her to his owne home Suppressit nomen Are. in Iohan. supra c. he suppressed his name before verse the twenty fifth of this chapter and here he suppresseth it againe if you would haue any reasons for his so doing I answer you First he doth it out of singular thankfulnesse R. A. in doct Euang. p. 177. to Christ for his entire and especiall affection towards him this great fauour would neuer out of his minde that his master loued him aboue all the Apostles therefore he delights to call himselfe the Disciple whom Iesus loued euen out of a thankefull minde It was no small fauour to be the best beloued Apostle the least that Iohn could returne was the sacrifise of prayse for so great a mercy to think of it speake of it write of it and as Dauid Psal 66. 20. sayth to exalt God with his tongue by acknowledgement of so admirable kindenesse It makes to the euerlasting prayse of Dauid that famous singer of Israel that he neuer receiued a new mercy but with all he would sound foorth a new song of prayse to God in one Psalme he cryes out Psal 103. 1. Psal 105. Benedic anima mea Iehouae c Soule prayse thou the Lord let all that is within mee praise his name In a second place Quid retrihuam c. What shall I render vnto the Lord for all Psal 33. 1. his benefits bestowed vpon mee In a third place Cantate iusti in Iehoua Reioyce in the Lord ye righteous prayse is comely for the vpright In a fourth Laudate Iah Praise the Lord for it is good to doe so it is a pleasant and Psal 147. 1● a comly thing In a fifth place Halaluiah laudate Iehouam laudate eam in excelsis c. Praise the Lord praise the Lord from the heauens Psal 148. 1. praise him in the height In a word his life was euen a continual recounting of Gods mercies Oh that wee were men of the same spirit in these dayes thousands millions myrriads of blessings euen the blessings of both hands hath God poured downe vpon vs right handed left handed blessings for this life and a better he hath placed peace vpon our borders enriched vs with plenty and crowned euery new yeare with new blessings delighting to do vs good as a father to his owne sonne he hath declared vnto his word and statutes shewed vs his ordinances hee hath not dealt so with any nation But where is the man that like Iohn delights to talke of Gods mercyes to him who sings with that sacred virgin Magnificat anima mea c. My soule doth magnifie the Lord and Luke ●● my spirit