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A10499	The romish Iudas A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxford the fifth of Nouember, 1610. By Iohn Ravvlinson Doctour of Diuinitie.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1611 (1611)	STC 20775; ESTC S115696	18,011	50

Gen. 27. a peece of tame and home-bred Kidde in stead of wilde Deere farre fetcht and hunted afarre off rather found than sought because the Lord my God hath brought it vnto my hand Yet is it not more ready and neere at hand than apt and apposit to the present businesse Before I am sure it was no abortiue borne out of due time for it doth but too-too-fitly sort with Tempus the generalitie of the times wherein wee liue being the same whereof the Apostle propheticallie spake g 2. Tim. 3 4 2. Tim. 3. that in the last daies should come perillous times for men should bee vngratefull vnnaturall Truce-breakers Traitors But now to the Tempestiuitas or present opportunitie of time it is as pertinent and proper as if the Holy Ghost had dictated and destinated it heereunto Onely it is my burden and my disaduantage that for want either of time or skill or both I shall not bee so well able to fit it as it the time but am faine to come as h Plutare de educ lib. Pericles excused himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not so thorowlie prepared as haplie vpon more mature warning I would haue beene Judas betraiest thou c. In which our Sauiours expostulation I haue heeretofore noted two things 1 The one is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the matter or substance of it and therein An Action Treason The Agent Iudas The Patient Christ The Instrument a Kisse 2 The other is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Style or Character of our Sauiours speach which is twofold 1 Compellatiue in this word Iudas 2 Interrogatiue in the words following Betrayest thou c. The one an Intimation of our Sauiours Lenitie and mildnesse The other an Insinuation of his Inspection and insight into the couert plot and practise of Judas These be the limmes and lineaments of this Text. Of the first limme which is the Action was framed the whole body of my last Sermon as the woman was made of one ribbe taken out of the man I should now proceede to the anatomizing and cutting vp of the Agent Thou who as I doubt not ye well remember by the iust and fearefull iudgement of God was hang'd for he hang'd himselfe at our last Session But for this time I will wholly apply my selfe to the cursed shall I say or blessed occasion of this meeting for it was both cursed of God and men in regard of the attempt but in regard of the euent blessed of God blessed and euer to be blessed of men till the world it selfe shall bee consumed with a Floud of Fire as once before it was with a Floud of Water And because I shall endeuour to fit the treason of Iudas to the Embryo or inchoate treason of this day next to it the greatest that euer was post homines natos since men began nay post diabolos incarnatos since Englishmen Italionate beganne to bee diuels incarnate I must begge this leaue that I may make a little excursion extra oleas beyond the bounds of my text and take in such other circumstances as I shall meete with in the Storie of Judas his treason the rather because indeed there is none of them but reductiuely falls into my text as doe all other Seas and Riuers into the maine Ocean i Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I must confesse that in one and that a maine materiall point which is the Patient there is an infinite disparison and disproportion betweene them for because this of Iudas was High Treason against Christ the sonne of the most high all other treasons are so infinitely short of it that compared with it they are all but as it were petite treasons And yet to make amends for that one circumstance wherein the Powder-treason falls short examine it and yee shall finde other three wherein it exceeds it 1 The extent of the Patient for the treason of Iudas was not against all the Apostles or Disciples or Frinds or Followers of Christ but against Christ alone But this was not only against his Maiesties royall person who is multis è millibus vnus such a one as is not among many thousands or rather as it was said of Dauid k 2. Sa. 18.3 2. Sam. 18. vnus solus pro decem millibus such a one as is worth ten thousand of vs in whom Maiestas amor Maiesty and Serenity are met together Mercy and Truth haue kissed each other so as neuer any King whose person might more aggrauate a treason intended against him but it was also against the Queene the Prince the rest of that Royall Stemme l Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against m 2 Re. 2.12 the Chariots and Horsemen of Israel the thousands and ten thousands of Israel Flos delibatus populi Suadaeque medulla the choicest of the Nobilitie the Clergie and the Gentry of this Land And to summe vp Jliada malorum the Iliads of all our miseries at once Ouid. I may well call it the Iliads for n Haec facies Troiae cùm caperetur erat such a fiery face had Troy when it was taken as our Troynouant should haue had it was against Rem Regem Regimen Regionem Religionem 2 The second is the Extent of the Agent In the treason of Iudas there was but one to one one Iudas against one Iesus but here it is twelue Iudasses twelue Scholars of the Priests and Iesuites against a number of the Friends and Followers of Iesus And multitudo peccantium multiplicat peccatum the multitude of offenders multiplies the offense 3 The third is the extent of the Action together with the speedinesse of the execution Iudas betraied Christ to one corporall death which because hee suffred sensìm peece-meale as it were by little and little Quot mortes in vna morte Lord how many deaths in that one death of his But these would haue betraied the King and his to two deaths at once a corporall and a spirituall death but the spirituall death which is the second death worse than ten thousand millions of corporall deaths and to both these deaths not sensìm by little and little but sine sensu at vnawares Their comming was like the comming of a theese in the night stealing vpon vs to kill vs o Horat. Vt tugulent homines surgunt de nocte Latrones Or like the comming of the Sonne of man at the last day to iudge the world with fire in a moment in ictu oculi in the twinckling of an eie p 1. Cor. 15. 1. Cor. 15. And againe in ictu at one blow I say not at the blowing or sounding of the last trumpe but at the sounding of the hollow vaur and at the blowing of the first sparke and their blow had beene like the blowing of two contrary windes at once for our bodies had been blown vp towards heauen but our vnprepared soules without the singular mercie of God whereof in so good a cause we had the lesse cause

Innocents that were bimuli of two yeares old and vnder for so would they haue killed the King when hee had raigned little more than two yeares among vs though innocent as euer was Bimulus any childe of two yeares old And as Herod rather than not kill Christ caused his owne sonne to be killed among those Innocents so they rather than not kill the King would haue blowne vp some Catholikes of their owne with him to haue beene burnt as Martyrs with him for companie That 's for the third point which was the Patient 4 The Instrument The fourth and last is the Instrument with a Kisse From whence there ariseth a twofold contemplation one of the colour another of the cause of Iudas his treason the false colour and the true cause 1 For the Colour Iudas his treason had 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I may call either a goodly glosse or a faire tongue for the words signifie both it had also a faire paire of lips like the harlot in the f Pro. 30.20 Prouerbs when shee wipeth her mouth as if she had no ill thought with her For hee comes vnto Christ with Aue Rabbi All-haile Master and withall he kisseth him Both were colourable pretexts I say not to commend and honest but to cloake and couer his crueltie So had this treason also a faire tongue for who more ready than these Traitors to say Aue Rex God saue King Iames It was as familiar to them almost as their Aue Maria. And it had also a faire paire of false harlots lips offring osculum pacis a holy kisse of peace many treaties and supplications for toleration of their intolerable Religion among vs as if they forsooth had sought nothing but the pretended good of their owne soules when indeede they minded nothing so much as the internecion of Protestants body and soule 2 The true Cause and as I may say Fodina the quarry and the rocke whence this treason was hewen was two-fold 1 The one was Ambition For when g Ioh. 19.15 Pilate asked the high Priests Shall I crucifie your King meaning Christ they answered We haue no King but Caesar And afterwards h Verse 21. when Pilate had written Christs Title and set it ouer his head on the Crosse they said vnto him i Mat. 27.37 Write not The king of the Iewes but that he said I am king of the Iewes and that must be set ouer his head as the cause of his sufferings So the quarrell of the Priests Iesuites against our King was that he would bee an absolute King and head of the Church within his own dominions and not submit both his head and head-ship to the Pope They will heare of no King but Caesar no head no not of any particular Church but the Pope It were therefore to be wished that the Pope caried a mind but as gentle as it is gentleman-like for as Gentlemen many of them thinke they haue neuer elbow-roome enough till they haue shoued shoulderd out al their poore neighbours out of their housen and taken their housen into their owne hands so the Pope thinkes he hath neuer Rome enough till he haue thrust all Christian Kings that wil not stoope to his lure out of their thrones kingdomes liues and all His pretence is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he doth it for the Lords sake but the truth is that hee doth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Lordships sake that he may 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carry an imperious hand ouer the Kings of the nations 2 The other cause was Couetousnesse k Ioh. 12.5 Iudas was angry that the ointment was poured vpon Iesus his head and that mony was not made of it to his bagge So the Priests and Jesuites who are the Popes Bursars and Treasurers if not to beare yet to fill his bags were angrie that the ointment which was poured vpon King James the anointed of the Lord had not been turned into mony that 's as much to say that the King was not content to become tributarie to the Pope Againe Iudas because hee had lost 300. pence in the ointment to regaine what he had lost betraied Christ for 30. pence euery one of which as some write was equiualent to ten vsuall pence and so by that meanes he made himselfe a sauer So the Priests and Iesuites because the Pope lost somewhat that hee might haue gained by the ointment that is to say if our Anointed had beene Catholike to repaire that losse as they hoped by a successour of their owne making that might bee for their turne would haue throwne our gracious Soueraigne out of throne and life at once Thus ye see beloued how the most execrable Treason of this day doth euery way match if not master the treason of Iudas excepting onely that euer to bee excepted circumstance of the altogether vnmatchable person of the Patient Christ and that both of them so neerelie iumpe together as if that had beene the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or prime-copie of this Treason this but an extract or transcript of it with some few additions of an higher streine wherein it goes beyond it The consideration whereof should engender in vs 1 A Detestation of that shamelesse enticing sanguin-coloured Catholike common whore of Babylon who is euer in trauell with a Babel or Chaos of our confusion whose Religion is like Draco's Lawes written with bloud whose head Officina scelerum the shop where all Treasons and Villanies are forged whose heart and hands Carnificina Sanctorum the shambles of the Saints of God and among other her whorish trickes she hath this for one she is Diuaricatis tibijs as the l Ezech. 16. Prophet speakes ready to admit all commers burning with lust and lusting to burne to burne all Those that approch vnto her shee burnes in that brimstonie lake of hell and those that will not come at her shee burnes in a lake of gunpowder a borderer and next neighbour to the lake of hell 2 A Caution and Circumspection to walke wisely and warily amidst such a crooked and peruerse generation a generation that set not their heart aright towards vs and to trust neither flat Recusants that openly refuse our holy Assemblies no nor yet our monethly Popish Protestants and Protesting Papists the Moone-calues of that Lunaticke Religion hauing Fidem menstruam a faith that wexeth and weineth with the Moone comming to Church once a moneth more for feare of the Law than for loue of the Gospell and then presently hauing a moneths minde to bee out of the Church againe And to know that Hora est iam nos de somno surgere sith the Papists are so watchfull while wee sleepe and all that they may with least suspicion best aduantage be Fundi nostri calamitas the baine and bale of this Land of ours it's time high time that we now awake out of our sleepe yea that the keene sword of Iustice should now awake and sleepe