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The Lama-sabachthani, or, Cry of the Son of God useful at all times, especially for Passion Week, and at all other times for a devout and pious soul, in its nearest approaches and addresses to its Saviour, before and after it comes to be an actual partaker of the body and blood of its Redeemer.
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THE Lama-sabachthani OR CRY OF THE Son of GOD Useful at all Times especially For PASSION Week AND At all other Times for a Devout and Pious Soul in its nearest Approaches and Addresses to its Saviour before and after it comes to be an Actual Partaker of the Body and Blood of its Redeemer The Second Edition LONDON Printed by Edw. Jones for Samuel Lowndes against Exeter-Change in the Strand 1691. To Her most Pious and Sacred MAJESTY Queen MARY The Author most Humbly Offers and Dedicates the ensuing Enchiridion of a Crucify'd Saviour Madam WHen I consider the unexpressible Honour I lately had of being frequently a partaker with You at the Throne of Grace in Your Chappel-Devotion at the Hague Where observing Your great Strength and Zeal of true Piety accompanied with a perfect Stability of Humility Meekness and Lowliness of Spirit as a compleat Follower and Imitator of our Dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ whilst on Earth it struck such a Dint upon me As St. Austin says melted down his Soul into Divine Affections and enforc'd such a Love of Religion in me that made me inspir'd to that height and Ecstacy of Devotion and Intention of Thought that did not only as it were withdraw my Soul from all Commerce with the Senses but in a manner separate it a while from the Body And made it with the Apostle Paul to have Antipasts of Heaven and a fruition of Coelestial Enjoyments Such Raptures Elevations and Influences of Anticipated Glory as the Apostle had had the Disciples of our Saviour whilst their Great Lord and Master was Predicting and Communicating his Passion to be an abiding Commemoration of himself amongst them after his Ascension into Glory as it is largely set forth by our Saviour himself throughout the 6th Chapter of John And as it was observ'd of Peter and the rest of his Brethren in the Transfiguration of our Saviour on the Mount that when he Pray'd earnestly to his Father the Fashion of his Countenance was alter'd which did beget immediately in them such a Participation of Raptures and Ejaculations that made them very unwilling to relinquish the Place where they had enjoy'd such a Beatifical Presence The like have I perceiv'd in Your Majesties Countenance as if it spake aloud the very Language of Your Divine Soul that made mine always wish in its Publick Devotion to live in the Presence of so Great and so Glorious an Exemplar No less perfect are all these Coelestial Qualifications in Your ever Ador'd and Dearly beloved Sister to enumerate them again were but Tautology they are all so essentially compact in You both that modestly and justly You are the Glory of the Vniverse The Hypostatick Council of Heaven having decreed it from all Eternity that You Two shouâ—d be Leaders and Patterns to all Sincere and Devout Subjects and Christians in all Virtue Piety and Holiness and that they be close Imitators and Followers of You as You are of Christ This makes it transcendently the Felicity of all Humble Pious Souls to have Two such Matchless Guardian Angels walk before us and to be eminent for God in Your Generations as the aforesaid Mary and Anna the Mother of Jesus and Prophetess of our Lord. How much more Glorious must the Protestant Religion necessarily appear in You Madam now You are by the All-wise Providence of the Great God most happily arriv'd at the Zenith of Sovereignty whose Sovereign Beams have already dispers'd all those Clouds and Mists nay Storms and Hurricans of Popery that of late had like to have subverted and over-whelm'd these Nations into a Bloody Deluge by Massacre and Murder had not God reserv'd Your Majesty for such a day as This and brought You safe through the dangers of the Seas and plac'd Your Royal Person with King William on the Imperial Throne of Your Ancestors whose undaunted Magnanimity and Resolution by the Omnipotent Power of the Almighty hath procur'd this re-establishment for us again That when all our hopes were sinking in the Autumn of Despair God was pleas'd through him by a stupendious Miracle to restore us again without the tedious and cruel Sieges of War or Blood to a Protestant Settlement and Blessing This is the only cause that emboldens me to present to You the following Meditations and Contemplations of the Agony and Crucifixion of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Entituled The Lamasa-bachthani or Cry of the Son of God wherein I have endeavour'd as succinctly and as perspicuously as possibly I could to set forth every Action and Transaction of the Chief Priests Scribes Elders and Soldiers towards their accomplishing of their wicked Design in perfecting of the so much hunger'd for Crucifixion of our Dear Lord and Saviour How he was hurry'd and carry'd from one Place Court and Council to another Spit on and Buffeted in one Array'd and Rob'd in another Scourg'd and Crown'd with Thorns in another mock'd and derided in all but acquitted and discharg'd by none and yet not found guilty of Death in any I have follow'd the Evangelists as close as I could and have rank'd them as well as I am able in so small a thing and have made the rough Draught as like the Original as I can possible in suitable Expressions and earnestly beg of God it may please all and displease none being all Divine Truths I most humbly present it to Your Majesty hoping it may receive a Candid and free Acceptation from You. It will lye in a little Room in Your Closet and at the Table of the Lord being more fitted for the Heart of a Devout and Pious Soul than Voluminous therefore may be as the Viand of the Soul in its nearest Addresses to its Saviour before and after it comes to be an actual partaker of the Body and Blood of a Redeemer whom I have end avour'd to Delineate as well as I am able in so small a Tract in the utmost extremity of his Crucifixion in his Agony and Bloody Sweat on his Cross and Passion in his Death and Burial and there left his most precious Body in the Grave with Holy Angels to attend his Call I may hereafter presume to write of his Glorious Resurrection and Ascension also if I can find my weak Endeavours are in any degree useful according to the Pious and Honest Intention of MADAM Your Majesties most Obedient and for ever most Devoted Humble Servant Anonymus THE Lama-sabachthani OR THE CRY OF THE Son of GOD. HEAR O Heavens and give Ear O Earth for the Lord hath spoken it O what is this I hear The Voice of the Son of God in the grievous Agony of his Soul just breathing out his last and crying to his God nay his Father to sustain and comfort him either O Holy Father take from me this bitter Cup of Vinegar and Gaul of thy high Displeasure or else forsake me not in the time of my drinking this bitter Portion Where is the Cry of the Son of God the
and abounded with all manner of Cruelty and Filthiness amongst these do I find thee Peter And had thy Soul like Righteous Lot's been troubled with the filthiness of the Sodomites as his was from day to day thou hadst not so soon so falsly and so frequently deny'd thy Master From hence we may observe what sorce and power evil Company hath quickly upon a Righteous Person Good Joseph being but a while in Pharaoh's Court came presently to that Mode of Honour to swear by the Life of Pharaoh Abraham the Father of the Faithful and friend of God twice deny'd Sarah to be his Wife The Famine being grievous in the Land Abraham takes his Wife Sarah and travels into Egypt and it came to pass when he came near to enter into Egypt that he said unto Sarah his Wife behold now I know that thou art a fair Woman to look upon therefore it shall come to pass that when the Egyptians shall see thee they shall say this is his Wife and they shall kill me and they shall save thee alive say I pray thee thou art my Sister Gen. 12.10 11 13. Again Abimelech said unto Abraham What sawest thou in me that thou hast done this thing And Abraham said because I thought surely the fear of God is not in this Place and they will slay me for my Wifes sake and yet indeed she is my Sister the Daughter of my Father though not of my Mother and she became my Wife And here Abraham though he did deny his Wife at this time out of fear and did wander from Place to Place and Country to Country yet he did not deny his God neither could Abimelech tax him with that For God had now made a Covenant with Abraham and the chiefest Article in this Covenant was That Sarah should conceive and bear him a Son in his old Age and should call his Name Isaac And said God I will continue my Covenant to him so that in thy Seed by Sarah thy Wife shall all the Nations of the World be blessed And it shall be for number as the Stars of the Heaven and as the Sands on the Sea-shoar yea Kings and Princes shall come out of thy Loyns and I will give thee the Land of Canaan for an Everlasting Possession to dwell in And I will be thy God and the God of thy Seed for ever Neither did Abraham deny his Son Isaac to God when he call'd for him as a trial of his Faith But all these Promises and Covenants concentrating together and terminating in Sarah's Womb made Abraham take such care of her for it was not in Ishmael but in Isaac shall thy Seed be called Gen. 17. and that Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews should proceed out of his Loyns But now Peter this is no excuse for thee for Abraham in saying she was his Sister did not deny her to be his Wife moreover in all Ages and all times especially in the times and places of Plague Famine or Sword it hath been allow'd to some to fly and either to equivocate or excuse the Question when propos'd by implacable Enemies Our Saviour himself before his Disciples were fully prepar'd for Persecution and found in themselves they were not able to stand the hard and severe or Fiery Trials they might be put upon and so his Name or his great Cause might suffer by it therefore to avoid such bid them If they persecuted them in one City for my Name-sake and the Gospel's sake to fly into another but this was no denying him and the Church hath always allow'd it in two Cases especially to fly and avoid Persecution The one if the Church was in its infancy and not come to full strength For this reason fled Greg. Bishop of Neocaesaria when he saw the Decian Persecution grow very hot Pr. Chr. Ch. 7. part 2. N. 17. then it might be lawful for the Ministers or Disciples of Christ to flee Persecution to the intent the Gospel might be preserv'd lest smiting the Shepherd the Sheep should be scatter'd And the other is in Case as I mention'd before they find themselves not yet strong enough or courageous enough for Persecution and so the Glory of God and the Name of our great Master and the Honour of the Church of Christ might come to be dishonour'd This as to the first St. Paul to avoid Persecution was let down the Wall in a Basket when the Governor of Damascus sought his Life and thus we find the Apostles themselves shunn'd the Storm because they were the Instruments immediately deputed by Christ to propagate and convey the Gospel to the World And thus did Primitive Saints and Martyrs who wonder'd about in Desarts and Mountains and in Dens and Caves of the Earth and so have equally avoided Rashness and Cowardliness The second only gain'd a little respit for the present that they might suffer with the greater advantage afterwards thus did Joseph and Mary from the Command of God by an Angel flee with their Child the Ever-Blessed Jesu into Egypt for fear of Herod But Peter 't was quite contrary with you you was not call'd to suffer neither to the High-Priests Hall yet thou voluntarily deny'dst thy Master thy Saviour and thy Redeemer who oft had told you what you must expect and that the time would come that he must be betrayed into the hands of Sinners and but the very night before told you that you all would be offended because of him and that the time would come and was now at hand that you all would forsake him in the time of his Dereliction and he be left alone And didst not thou thy self say This was a hard saying and who could bear it and said'st thou wouldst not be offended because of him and if all forsook him yet wouldst not thou True thou didst not so much forsake him as deny him which was worse And indeed Peter I must follow thee as thou didst thy Master the Ever-Blessed and Eternal Jesu the Saviour of the World to the High-Priests Hall And Pardon me Peter if I exactly observe every behaviour of thine there It is not out of any ill to thee Peter for I very well know the love and value thy Master hath for thee but that I may delineate thee to the Life as fully and as well as I am able in this little Enchiridion what Sorrows what Sufferings what Stripes what Indignities what Reproaches what Revilings what Dereliction what Abnegations what Wounds what Agony and what Unexpressable Torments what Extensive Convulsive Distorsive Lingring and Cruciating Death thy Lord and Master but our Christ our Saviour our Redeemer our Messias and our blessed Jesu our Advocate not only now in Heaven where he is exalted above all Principalities and Powers Thrones and Dominions but while he was here on Earth the Immaculate Lamb the most beloved Son of God beloved of the Father from all Eternity before ever the World was and Lamb of God which taketh away the Sins