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A85241	[Staurodidache kai stauronike] The doctrine & dominion of the crosse : in an historical narration and spiritual application of the passion of Iesus. / Written first in Latin by John Ferus ... ; now turned into English for the good of this nation by Henry Pinnell. ; Together with a preface of the translator, containing the necessity of knowing and conforming unto the cross of Christ, short considerations of predestination, redemption, free will and original sin.	Ferus, Johann, 1495-1554.; Pinnell, Henry.	1659 (1659)	Wing F820C; ESTC R177022	400,270	516

not seen his sorrows before his Death and that by plain and manifest Tokens Yet did he not shew this his sorrow to all the Disciples lest his weakness should offend them more then they could bear Therefore he lets these three only see it who had before beheld his Divinity These could not be so much troubled at it at least they ought not but should rather remember the glory they had seen before Concerning this extraordinary sorrow of the Lord Christ so exactly set down many men have written many things and have variously contended about it but for our part we shall give credit only to the bare words of the Evangelists For no man can affirm that it was more than a humane and natural sorrow which may also befall us in greatest streights and misery For the Humanity which Christ assumed could neither be without such affections nor be believed by the world He had not been a true man if his nature had not trembled at death This sorrow of Christ is by Matthew and Mark exprest by three words The first is sorrow which the Greek cals Lipe whereby the sadness and trouble of the mind is exprest The second is Fear which in the Greek is Thambos The third is most sore Amazement which in Greek is Ademonia To these Luke adds a fourth viz. Agony of which anon Thus those three Disciples saw here a far other thing than what they saw on Mount Tabor For here the Father is not heard to speak Matth. 17. The Light doth not shine from Heaven His Face doth not glitter like the Sun His Rayment is not whiter than snow Moses and Elias talk not with him But as a man altogether destitute of any help he begins to fear to be weary of his life and to be sore troubled greatly bemoaning himself as they who are but meer men use to do when such a dismall storm of trouble hangs over them And this is that which Christ himself foretold Luke 12. I have a baptism to be baptized with and how am I streightened till it be accomplished Therefore now he saith My soul is sorrowfull even unto death A most Heavenly word worthy of all observation For here we see what it is that Paul saith Who being in the form Phil. 2. that is in the Wisdom Power Majesty glory of God he made himself of no reputation How could he more deeply a base and humble himself than to be made like unto us in all things Gal. 3. yea to be made a curse for us The fear of death is the fruit of infidelity and sin and a part of the first malediction For although Christ was altogether without sin yet he transfer'd the wages of sin upon him not that we should never have a sense thereof but that he might overcome and triumph over the same and that he might teach us how to be able in him to overcome all evil by Faith He was tempted like us yet without sin Heb. 4. that he might be able to have compassion on us So that as often as we are beset with the fear of Death or any other affliction we may safely say Behold God is our salvation we will trust Isa 12.3 and not be afraid for the Lord Jehovah is our strength and song he is our salvation In that he saith my soul is sorrowfull unto death this may be understood two wayes 1. First extensively in that this sorrow and anxiety continued even till the separation of the soul from the body 2. Secondly Intensively because it was as great as was possible to be in a living man or than which never any man had greater in this life And no wonder that his sorrow was so great seeing there were more than one and they very great causes of this his sorrow For 1. He was sorrowfull and sore troubled yet according to humane nature or rather sensibility because he saw his near approaching Passion as it were before his eyes with all the shame and bitterness thereof 2. He was sore troubled and sorrowfull for the sins of all men past present and to come all which he took upon himself The Lord laid upon him the iniquity of us all Isa 53. 3. He was sad for the sins and unthankfulness of Judas and the Jews whose life glory and salvation was in danger 4. He was troubled for the fall and scattering of his Disciples and other friends and most for the desolate state of his holy Mother 5. Lastly He was sorrowfull for the ingratitude that would be found in Christians in time to come He saw that his Passion would be unprofitable to many men He saw also that many Christians would forget him as one dead in their hearts and quite out of mind and that very few would be thankfull to him for so great a benefit Psalm 109. but rather with a base requitall would render him evil for his good See what great cause he had to be sorrowfull Well then might he say My soul is sorrowfull unto death This is that which he foretold by David long since My bones are vexed Psalm 6. Psalm 55. my soul also is sore vexed Again Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horrour hath overwhelmed me my heart is sore pained within me and the terrours of death are fallen upon me See what fit Plaisters Christ doth apply to our wounds Sin is born in the heart lust bringeth forth sin and brought up in act James 1. and so finished So Christ was first inwardly sorrowfull and then outwardly that he might totally take away all sin and make full satisfaction for us What then doth Christ do in this his streight Why just like those that are suddenly surpriz'd with some great amazement he desireth those three Disciples to tarry with him and watch and pray in which words he doth variously express our infirmities Those that are in misery think it no small comfort to have a friend to whom they may be bold to complain of their misery Again It is a comfort to those that are astonished and afflicted if others will but stay and stand by them It is the greatest trouble to be left alone in trouble This affection Christ here expresseth Heb. 2. See into what a low condition the Son of God humbled himself and how he would be like unto us his brethren in all things Nevertheless although he chargeth them to watch and stand by him yet he doth not neglect to pray for aid also from Heaven to shew that vain is the wisdom of the flesh and that all carnal assistance is nothing worth if God be absent Therefore he went from them to pray and commanded them to pray also who doubtless could not but hear the dolefull and affectionate cry of his Prayers though they were at some distance from him So that here he taught us both by his Word and Example what to do in times of Temptation even to have

would not hide this from ye Nor is there any cause for ye to be afraid No man will or can hurt you though they be never so mad against me For it is not your hour but mine that is come The Son of man shall be delivered In these words Christ foretold both the day and manner of his death that his Disciples when they saw it might not fear and faint in their mind as if some unexpected thing had come upon them Observe he doth not name the person The Son of man shall be delivered he doth not express who should deliver him and that not without cause For it was not one only that delivered him 1. Joh. 3.16 Rom. 8.32 Our heavenly Father moved with mercy and love delivered him for us 2. The Son out of his abundant charity delivered himself He delivered himself saith Peter 1 Epist ch 2. v. 23. to him that judged unjustly So the Vulg. Lat. hath it and then it must be understood of Pilate 3. Judas out of covetousness delivered him 4. The chief Priests full of envy delivered him to Pilate 5. Pilate out of humane fear delivered him to those that crucified him 6. We also have delivered Christ to death yea we most of all For neither had the Father delivered him for us Nor could his adversaries have done any thing against him if he had not taken our sins upon him Therefore he doth justly say to us Es 43.24 Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities Again 53.6 the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all And Paul saith 2 Cor. 5.21 He hath made him sin for us who knew no sin And Jeremy Lam. 4.20 The breath of our mouth the Lord Christ was taken in our sins Vulg. Lat. And in the Psalm he saith Psalm 69.9 The reproaches of them that reproached thee have faln on me ver 4. I restored that which I took not away Christ puts us in mind of all these when he saith The Son of man shall be delivered c. It is also to be noted that this word Passover is not taken from passion or suffering as some think but from the Hebrew word Phase which signifieth a passing over for the reason before mentioned And the same word Pascha or Passover is not alwaies taken in the same sense For sometime it signifieth the Lamb to be offered as when it is said Mar. 14.12 Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou maist eat the Passover Sometime it signifieth the feast day as Joh. 2.23 When he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Sometime it signifieth all the Paschal week as Act. 12.4 Intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people Sometime it signifieth the unleavened bread as where it is said Joh. 18.28 They themselves went not into the Judgement Hall lest they should be defiled but that they might eat the Passover Mat. 26.3,4 Then assembled together the chief Priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the people unto the Palace of the high Priest who was called Caiaphas and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him Here the Evangelist discovereth what kind of men they were who for envy could not endure to see or suffer the Lord Christ to live He calleth them Priests Scribes and Elders of the people as also Princes and principal men from whom nothing less should have been expected For they were they that had the knowledge of the Law To them the predictions of the Prophets were known They I say were they whom one of them Nicodemus by name personated and said Joh. 3.2 Master we know that thou art a Teacher come from God for no man can do these Miracles that thou dost except God be with him Yet their envy so quelled all these things in them that they chiefly yea they alone were they that hunted Christ to the Cross Who can but wonder at such gross blindness of so many wise men Yea who can but tremble at that terrible judgement of God whereby he blinded them Esa 6.10 that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not hear yea that they should both shut their eyes and stop their ears against a most clear truth Observat Whence we may learn that the free gifts of God do more hurt then good to them that believe not Thus knowledge without faith puffeth up 1 Cor. 8.1 power without faith gives liberty to all wickedness It is not enough then to have knowledge or power unless there be also those justifying gifts Faith Hope and Charity Observat Hence also we see that the wise and great men of this world are for the most part nothing but vessels of Gods anger Thus Paul saith of the wise ones God gave them over to a reprobate sense Pharoah was therefore blinded that God might shew his power in him Boast not therefore of wisdom or power but fear It is one of Gods greatest works to Luke 1.51,52 scatter the proud in the imagination of their hearts and to put down the mighty from their seat The Evangelist doth neatly pile up their sin malice and blindness even in every word Then He begins first with an Emphasis when he saith Then were gathered together Then I say when Christ had omitted nothing that might make them happy Then when they had often seen the excellent doctrine and wonderful miracles of Christ Then I say when he came with godly works to be prepared worthily to celebrate the feast of the Paschal solemnity Thus wicked men have no regard of any Thing or Time but only how to fulfill their own lusts Assembled together But what did they They assembled together This had been no new or strange thing if this had not been added that they gathered themselves against Jesus nor simply so but that they might take him by subtilty and kill him They are truly evil that gather together againist Jesus Happy had they been if they had met together for Jesus to search the Scriptures Whether he were indeed the Messias as the first believers did Acts 17. And for what cause did they desire to take and kill Iesus the true Saviour who saved so many miserable men in body and soul Nothing is here exprest But it may be plainly collected out of John where when they consulted they said John 11.47,48 What do we for this man doth many miracles If we let him alone c. But more fully out of the Book of Wisdom where it is said Wisd 2.12 The wicked assembled against the righteous saying Let us lye in wait for him because he is clean contrary to our doings he upbraideth us with our offending the Law he was made to reprove our thoughts he is grievous unto us even to behold c. You see what they hated in him even the Light and Truth John

before the egress of Christ out of Jerusalem here we have his progress He came to the Village Gethsemane which is by interpretation the Vale of farness by reason of the abundance of Olives that grew there Here was a garden into which Jesus entred that he might begin to make satisfaction in a garden as sin was first committed in the Garden of Paradise For when Adam abused his liberty or rather the leave which was given him in that garden be then delivered us up captives to Satan and to all manner of evil for to what mischief is not man now exposed it was most fit that Christ by his captivity in the Garden should free us from our captivity Compare what was first done in Paradise with what is here done 1. In the garden of Paradise Adam became disobedient in this garden Christ obeyed unto bonds 2. There Adam merited bondage by his Liberty here Christ recovered liberty by his bonds 3. There he pronounced the sentence of condemnation against man here doth compassionately take the same sentence upon himself That so we may see how that Mercy exalts it self above Judgement and that his Mercies are over all his works Psalm 145. But lest any man should think that Christ desired the privacy of a garden that so he might the better escape and hide himself John saith that the Traytor knew this very place well enough as that into which Christ often resorted It might have been a great advantage of his salvation to this wretched man that he knew where Jesus was and might be found for else why doth the Spouse desire Cant. 1. Shew me saith she where thou feedest and where thou lyest down O thou whom my soul loveth But this miserable man most abominably abusing this Knowledge to his own destruction became so much more wicked than all other men as the Serpent was more subtil than the rest of the creatures Gen. 3. and for this cause he became a more convenient catch-pole for the Devil the destroyer of mankind as the Serpent was the most proper lurking place for the same Devil to deceive the first man For as then the Devil made use of the Serpent to destroy the earthy man in his soul so now he employed this Traytor to kill the new and Heavenly man in his body And as there the Serpent being the Devils instrument was curst above all creatures so here Judas for the same reason became obnoxious to most grievous maledictions as hath been shewed before Observe further that Christ with his Disciples often resorted to this garden Our Lord was wont to chuse solitary and private places especially when he had any Mysterie to impart A retired place is most fit for prayer and instruction Here we learn that Christ prayed often Luke 18. as also he commandeth us to do likewise He did not seek privacy for his own part for nothing could disturb him but for our example as he saith elswhere When thou prayest enter into thy closet Matth 6. Whereas he with his Disciples frequented no place like the garden it sheweth that he delighteth in the flourishing growth of Vertue and the fruit of Grace and Faith there he doth willingly abide and may be found But not so where all things wither and are unfruitfull such as was that barren Synagogue which he cursed under the Type of the fruitless fig-tree Matth. 21. Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever When he came to the garden he commanded his Disciples to sit still i. e. to be quiet and not troubled in mind not to be disquieted at those things which should befall him He bids them stay till he had prayed alone for them all and for all others for his prayer is our Redemption It followeth And he took with him Peter and James and John Mat. 26.37 Mar. 14.33 Luke 22.40 the two sons of Zebedee and he began to be amazed sorrowfull and very heavy And saith unto them my soul is exceeding sorrowfull unto death tarry yee here and watch with me and pray that ye enter not into temptation And he went forward a little and was withdrawn from them about a stones cast and he kneeled down fell on his face upon the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him And he said Abba Father All things are possible unto thee if it be possible let this Cup pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt From these words we way plainly perceive that this was not a garden of solace to Christ but of greatest sorrow Here Christ began to give up himself to sufferings here he opened the door to terrours and horrours Now the Godhead withdrew its shining Rayes and the meek and most innocent humanity was left to it self For there were two things in Christ most different one from the other to wit the Divine Majesty than which nothing is more Sublime and the humane weakness than which nothing is more low and abject Now because he had given some taste of his Sublimity to these three Apostles in his Transfiguration Matth. 17. he would have them also to be witnesses of his exceeding great abasement that thereby they might learn what they were to follow after and what they might expect They had seen his glory in the Mount now they see his sorrow in the garden from that they had proof of his Divinity by this they were fully assured of his humanity that afterward they might give clear Testimony of both The Lord knew that there would Hereticks arise who out of their wanton brain would affirm that he did not suffer really and indeed but only held out an image or figure of sorrow and suffering as Manichaeus that wicked man forged of him Wherefore that he might clear it to all Ages that he did not fantastically but truly grieve for us and endured a most bitter Passion for us he makes it appear by most evident signs to wit sorrow fear long prayer Angelical Consolation and sweat of blood To this agreeth that of Isaiah Surely he hath born our griefs Isa 53. Psalm 88.3 and carried our so rows So in the Psalms Repleta est malis anima mea my soul is full of troubles He doth not say of Vice and Sin but of humane evils i. e. my soul is full of grief and anguish For in that he took upon him the whole man with his natural conditions he must needs have natural sadness and vexation Christus minus nobis contulerat si non nostrum suscepisset affectum Hence saith Ambrose Christ had not done us so much good if he had not taken our affections upon him Nor was he delusively incarnate but truly and properly so How else could we follow him if not as a man if we believe not that he dyed if we had not seen his Wounds Or how should the very Disciples themselves have believed that he dyed indeed if they had