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A13819 Saint Peters rocke vnder which title is deciphered the faith of Peter, the foundation of the church, Christs sacrificehood, and the comfort of the holy Spirit. Done by Alexander Top Gent. Top, Alexander. 1597 (1597) STC 24122; ESTC S102450 49,647 124

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are meant all the Babylonians Medes Persians and Assyrians his posterity So vnder Heber is signified all his posterity the Hebrues and consequently the Iewes of whom Christ rose a naturall branch So from time to time their policy hath been to erect an earthly monarch by daily persecutions of the Church against their own spirituall consciences and by a catholike persecution of the church to exalt their catholike tyranny in steed of the Church Neither can I see them iustly called Catholiks except for the vniforme massaker of true Christians Now therfore least we should mistake this Christ by ignorance of his death our beleef is a consonant speech most diuinely composed for our vnderstanding that we may as well perceiue the certainty of his passion as of his incarnation wherfore it is necessarily mentioned in our beleef his conception his incarnation his passion the manner of his passion and the end therof Touching his conception and incarnation I haue before spoken touching the certainty of his passion his very enimies confesse that such a Christ came according to the prophets and suffered for their chronicles and ancient monuments of time say no lesse Notwithstanding they wilfully mistook him and abandoned him for a false Christ. That Pilate was a Roman the Romans themselues confesse and that he had such an office they do not deny and that such a Christ at the same very time suffered vnder his hands for their owne sakes they must conclude if they at all hope for saluation in him Hitherto I find not one idle word to be spared as friuolous or improper concerning our Christian faith and it is most euident that if any of these words had been omitted or for breuity sake not penned of necessity they must had beene deliuered and taught for the better vnderstanding of our beleefe HE WAS CRVCIFIED This was the manner of death that he was put vnto by Pilate the curse of the law for by the Iewes owne law Cursed is he that hangeth on the true Deut. 21. 23. But Christ bought vs from the curse Gal. 3. 13. being made a curse for vs that now in the true seed of Abraham all nations of the earth the sonnes of Iaphet might be blessed by the God of Sem and that Iaphet and Sem might now dwell togither Nay the Iewes made this curse more reprochfull in Christ than by the law otherwise could be deuised For the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be fastened to the crosse far and very hainously exceedeth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be hanged Gal. 3. 13. as Saint Paul vseth it to the Galathians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hanged vpon a tree and according to Saint Mathewes exposition Math. 22. 40. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by these two commandements hang the law and the prophets But to shew their most outragious malice they cried crucify him crucify him which is to say Naile him naile him to the tree Neither can the washing of Pilats hands before the people Math. 27. 24. make his guiltines vnguilty they thought that they could not vse him too hardly For they made account heerby to see him do many great miracles as he had done before insomuch that they assaied him with all temptations not considering that his time was finished and that he was to enter the Ark of saluation as a new Noah sauiour of the world Neither did they regard the limits of his manhood but scourged him buffeted him spit on him and pierced his sides They mocked him Math. 27. 40. saying He that destroied the temple and built it againe in three daies let him saue himself their blindnes did not comprehend the temple of a second Salomon the body of Christ a second Adam which should within three daies be destroied and built againe to stand for euer and euer iust the distance of old Adams natural yeeres from the foundation of the first temple so proceeded they still to tempt him euen with extremity of anguish to his soule and mortall torments to his body when most patiently he crieth Math. 27. 46. ELI ELI LAMMA SABACTA NI My God Psal. 22. 2. my God why hast thou forsaken me but they vnderstood him not and soon after he gaue vp the ghost * and died And his soule left the vaile of his fleshly body at the consummation of all Math. 27. 51. the vaile of the temple rent from the top to the bottom 2. Chron. 3. 14. shewing that the high sacrificer was not from thencefoorth yeerly to enter in to make oblation and attonement for the sinnes of the people but that Christ being once offered vp for all was made high sacrificer for al to abrogate all ceremoniall priesthood of the law and therfore was he called a high sacrificer for euer Psal. 110. 4. after the order of Melchizedek Hebr. 7. his office was so far aboue the Leuites as Melchizedek excelled Aaron the one being only high sacrificer vnder the law the other an old paterne of priesthood before the law whom Christ was to imitate that in the appointed time he might take away and abolish the ceremonies of the law and make reconciliation for the sins of the people by his death Hebr. 2. 17. seeing he was sent as another Moses a brief expositor of the law that they that beleeued not in him their condemnation might bee iust DEAD This word sheweth the end of his passion that it was euen vnto death neither might this word be spared for he might suffer vnder Pontius Pilate and be crucified yet not vnto death and might had been by the interruption of passion void of death at all Wherfore this is necessarily added WAS CRVCIFIED DEAD That we cannot think he suffered fantastically or that he suffered in vaine for at his expiration he was said to be dead He died that day wherin Adam fell being with vs a friday which was the Iewes saboth euen that he might performe and finish to vs the long promised and liuely saboth which through the fall of Adam we had need of A most fine note that we became bound and free in one day the interruption of time being 3960 yeeres or therabouts Heer we may wel perceiue the eternity yea the euerlasting memory of the Lords counsell and prouidence What end is there of his wisedom Who can imagine a greater wisedom than this which is to search the tokens and figures of this Christ his most certaine comming It is a true pathway to Gods knowledge and teacheth vs to imitate him in spirit and truth and to ground our beleef according to that knowledge of him now com Verily it is much to be lamented that these things are so smoothly ouerpassed of many and so little regarded of any by the which the Lord had such pleasure to foreshew his sonne vnto the Iewes now for our aedification insomuch that by most diligent obseruation of the same they haue continually penned large volumes in the