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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03497	Three sermons vpon the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Sauior preached at Oxford, by Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13619; ESTC S104172	41,348	128

it is day in steed of seeing to correct their judgement made by night they confirme it leading our Sauiour from this Cleargy-censure to the Secular execution When behold the mercy of treason Iudas has a minde to bee godly and seeing his master condemned by Caiaphas he is with a swifter judgement condemned by conscience Now hee repents him of his bargaine and as if hee could as easily haue beene rid of his guilt as of his hire he brings backe the money that would not be put to vse and though it were fearefully refused in the presence and Temple of God hee throwes it downe flying from it as the Priests would haue done from death and indeed it was the wages of sinne His sinne now does acknowledge it selfe and our Sauiour's innocency This loyall Traytour betrayes his treason And would you not thinke that now againe hee hath almost vn-Iudas'd himselfe shall not Iudas also now againe bee among the Apostles Does he not seeme practised in the order of repentance He grieues he confesses he restores O would hee stay heere but Loe hee departs from the temple the God of the temple he departs and hangs himselfe He that is couetous fals into temptation and the halter of the Deuill Hee hangs himselfe and breakes asunder What could you looke for lesse but that the Dragon should breake with the pitch-ball You may remember he conceiued a sop and now behold hee brings forth a Deuill and thus by the riddle of damnation hee is both the childe and parent of the Deuill Hee breakes asunder and is deliuered of his bowels It was the wit of justice hee should lose his bowels that had lost his compassion But since Iudas hath left vs let vs leaue him and from this spectacle of justice got see our Sauiour the spectacle of injustice trauelling from Caiaphas to Pilate and from Pilate to Herod This was a Iew of a delicate Atheisme who in a reprobate joy and phansie had a most intentiue desire to see a fine miracle or two But his impietie was seuerely deluded by the silence of our Sauiour which changing the tyrants curiositie into scorne he returnes him to Pilate clad in a garment of ridiculous honour and simplicitie But Pilate desirous to free him not so much by the mercy as the custome of the Iewes proposes to the easie choice of their pardon Iesus and Barabbas a murtherer and whiles they are heere at their deliberation as he on the judgement-seate behold his loue is increased by feare His wife prompted to compassion not by a bribe but by a dreame sends to her husband to warne rather then request him to desist from judgement the trouble of a vision hauing frightned and instructed her and sure this was the best counsaile shee ere tooke of her pillow But the people possessed with the Priests demand Barabbas which was an impious yet a fit request for could there bee an apt●r fellowship then of a murtherer with murtherers As for Iesus as if they would crucifie him twice they twice cry-out Crucifie him Crucifie him Is now the voice of the people the voice of God Sure we are that the voice of this people is the voice of their Priests by whom Pilate being conquered yeelds-vp our Sauiour vnto souldiers who multiply scourges vpon him as they doe sinnes and plagues vpon themselues as if their madnesse would whip his diuinitie out of him making it ashamed to stay in so torne a carcasse But O you Souldiers how shall you wish that a happy palsie had made faint your hands And O thou Lord of glory how hath thy mercy wooed thy God-head vnto this ignominious patience O Lord of mercy we are scarce more saued by the power of thy mercy then confounded with the wonder of it the condemnation of a world being a cheaper losse then the least effusion of thy redeeming bloud Yet the mercilesse souldiers beyond this crueltie scornfully clothe him with a Purple Robe though their crueltie in this had preuented their scorne his innocent bloud clothing him with a nobler purple But now because in the art of crucifying they had no separated torment for the head by the increase of inuētion they inlarge their science of murder fixing on his head a crowne of thornes and thus as if he had a distinct soule in euery part they distinctly murder euery part And is not now the Lilly verily among the thornes This tender head of our beloued encōpassed with the affliction of a crowne A crowne neither of gold nor Roses Neither of honour nor pleasure Behold a goodly fruit The Lord planted a Vineyard and when he comes to gather grapes he receiues thornes They abuse his hand with a scepter of reede his hand the power whereof was the scepter and that their mouthes might sinne more then in wordes they spit vpon him But their owne darke eyes had more need to be touched with our Sauiours purging spittle For had they seene what they had done they would not haue spit vpon the Lord of glory This affecting spectacle softens Pilate and by an errour of humanitie taking Iewes to be men and that their eyes peraduenture might mooue their hearts he presents him to them with this preface of compassion Behold the man But alas Pilate can any man behold this man Will not all eyes bee sooner blinded with gratefull teares Or how can they heere behold a man A man lost in his owne bloud Which striues as much to obscure his body as his body his God-head Yet the vnmooued Iewes with broad eyes of crueltie gaze vpon him And shall wee yet thinke Deuealion's people a fable Sure these children were raised vnto Abraham from stones And now they are so readie to crucifie Christ that they are ready also to condemne Pilate not fearing to pronounce him a hypotheticall Traytour if hee does not crucifie Christ Wherefore through the conquest and policie of ambition he thinkes at once to satisfie the Iewes and God so to secure his estate and conscience In the presence of the people hee takes water and washes his hands protesting himselfe innocent from this innocent bloud Hee had need to rub hard that meanes to wash away guilt with so weake an element guilt neuer to be washed away but by the water of repentance and baptisme It was in his power as well as in his desire to haue set him free but he pronounces him innocent and punishes him he condemnes himselfe and crucifies Christ he deliuers 〈◊〉 beloued Barabbas to their pardon and Christ to their crosse which now he beares as afterward it beares him But in this trauaile toward mount Caluary his strength is lesse then the burden and needs must it be a heauie crosse which was laden with a world of sinnes Wherefore to hasten the execution not to ease our Sauiour they make one Simon carry the weight of the crosse our Sauiour yet carrying the weight of the sinnes Happy Simon now eases Christ of his burden but Christ hereafter will

innocencie making him confident to aske them whom they seeke when their businesse and authoritie strait-wayes answer Iesus of Nazareth They had vntowardly learned to make no difference of persons Hee with a mild courage replies I am hee and immediately as if hee had come to apprehend Them they fall downe backward they fall from Christ The blowing-downe of the wals of Iericho with Rams-hornes though it was no lesse wonderfull yet it was lesse speedy And where is now the conspiracie of their ambition Where is now the strength of their inuasion Where is now the prouision of their armour Is it not all made the triumph of his meeknesse Heere is no heauenly army to ouerthrow this legion of Deuils but with a victorious mildnesse they are strucke downe their bodies acknowledging his power which their soules denied their vnderstanding bodies beeing vnwilling to act what their senslesse soules prompted them vnto Yet does his pardon giue them strength to rise againe and againe he askes them whom they seeke and they dare answere Iesus of Nazareth Before they spake to his humanitie and his diuinitie answer'd them but now hee answers them with the patience of his humanitie which suffers the sacriledge of their hands and malice When Peter's zeale at the captiuity of his master vnsheathes his sword and cutting-off the High Priest's seruant 's eare makes him learne a new Circumcision which was no Sacrament but a punishment But againe appeares the diuinitie and mercy of our Sauiour who corrects Peter and his fact replanting the seruant 's eare which straight acknowledges and enjoyes his power Yet they persist in their impietie and when hee by his power has prooued himselfe a God they by his patience will prooue him to be a man And being in the hands of very Iewes his Disciples forgetting their master and their protestations runne all away euen bold Saint Peter runnes away with his courage and his sword euen his beloued Iohn runnes away breaking the bonds of loue with the strength of feare O heere I cannot but stay and grieue that his beloued Iohn also doth forsake him Sure there is some friend for whom some friend will lay downe a life and sure there neuer were such friends as Christ and his Apostles and sure of his Apostles there was none so neere him as his beloued John The rest were in his company but hee in his bosome and does his beloued Iohn also forsake him Me thinkes the protestation and perswasion of Saint Paul would haue admirably become the mouth and practice of Saint Iohn Neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor heigth nor depth nor any other creature no not a very Iew shall euer be able to force mee from the loue and bosome of my Iesus Yet euen beloued Iohn also does forsake his Iesus Whose miraculous hands they bind the greatest miracle of which was at this time not their power but their patience They bind his hands foolishly forgetting that if any of them should lose another eare as much as in them lay they hindred him from healing of it Indeed happy had it beene if Adam and Eue's hands had beene bound thus in Paradise But see the bonds of our sinnes that are able to captiue the hands of Christ Who is led by the blind malice of his Iewes vnto iudgement And is there no good man's eye who will with an easie teare follow his trauelling affliction Is there none that will goe after him though not to be a partaker yet but a witnesse of his injurie Yes there is one of more loue then age couered rather then clothed with meere linnen who being hastily come and as hastily apprehended chooses rather to leaue his linnen then his life and slipping from their hands runnes as hastily backe againe and indeed hee runnes away so fast that I cannot tell you who he is Yet if the curious please to runne after him they may peraduenture find him to be the sonne of that man of the village Gethsemane at the foot of mount Oliuet who owned the Garden where our Sauiour prayed The tumult of the night might easily awake him to this vndressed speed which whiles hee vses in running backe the Iewes goe forward in their way and malice leading our Sauiour first to Annas They were to passe by his reuerend doore at which by way of honour they present their shew and he sends him to be presented to the High-priest Caiaphas his sonne in law this was the kindred of these honourable murderers But whiles this troupe is with our Sauiour you may looke back and behold Peter following afarre off full of loue and shame and sorrow Yet alas hee returnes but to forsweare himselfe and his master In a curious desire he enters the High-priest's hall a place of temptation and blasphemie where with as much danger as dissimulation he mixes with Christ's persecutors whom as already he accompanies so anon by an vnhappy proficiencie he must imitate Conuersation is the last concoction of loue and does by a secret friendship of nature intimately assimilate Now the High-priest with an assisting tumult of Scribes and Pharisies does not examine our Sauiour but tempt him and when at their importunitie he has acknowledged himselfe the Christ he is made guiltie of being God and straight they practice vpon him the wantonnesse of scorne They prophane his sacred face with the blasphemy of spittle they blindfold him in execrable sport and then striking him in jesting inhumanitie they aske who strikes him Whiles Christ is thus condemned Peter is examined and straight commits an easie deniall of his master and straight the Cocke crowes but yet not lowd enough to awake his guilt Hee is persecuted againe and too wretchedly sweares an ignorance A third tempter vexes him being both an accuser and a witnesse and this is Malchus his cousin whose eare Peter had cut off which makes Peter feare more then the proportion of the Iewish Law an eare for an eare He suspects that this eare will bring in danger his whole head And hauing but one euasion though worse then his entrance he wishes himselfe accursed if he knowes our Sauiour when alas he knowes that he were accursed if hee did not know him And now the Cocke as if instructed to our Sauiour's prophesie in his just time crowes the second time with the repeated diligence of his wing and voice not more awaking himselfe then the heauy memory of Peter's conscience which thus raised before day makes him vnderstand and bewaile his night of sinne nor does hee more hasten out of doores then doe the teares out of his eyes Where marke the apt degrees as of his fault so of his sorrow The hast of his repentance begg'd pardon for his deniall the teares of his repentance begg'd pardon for his oath the bitternesse of his repentance beg'd pardon for his curse But now the Iewes are not auoiding but prouoking a greater curse and as soone as