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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00785	Meditations for the passion weeke following the order of the time and story. / By N. Taylour..	Taylour, N. (Nathanael).	1627 (1627)	STC 23857.5; ESTC S95495	34,588	201

MEDITATIONS for the Passion Weeke Following the order of the Time and Story By N. TAYLOVR 1. Pet. 2.21 Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that yee should follow his steps Who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his owne body on the Tree that Wee beeing dead to sinnes should live unto righteousnes by whose stripes ye were healed Printed by the Printers to the Vniversity of CAMBRIDGE MDCXXVII To the Right Worsh Mr. Doctr. MAW Master of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge Right worthy and Worshipfull I Have no better way to shew my thankefull remembrance of your love and care over me then by sending you my thoughts that is a fewe of my better Meditations written for mine owne use and perhaps not worthy your acceptance yet such as they are I hope they will finde the same favour with you that my selfe have done which though it bee too much for me to expect yet I can hope for no lesse in regard of the gentlenesse of your nature and forwardnes to respect me before I had time to deserve of you The thing I aimed at in them was to make the Storie they belong to as orderly as it is perfect so that if they have no other use they may stand in stead of an harmony to right any doubt about our Saviours sufferings As for Devotion which I desired to stirre up in my selfe and others by them it could not bee bestowed upon a better subject howbeit if having the best I have fail'd or my affections want heate of zeale I hope nevertheles that my sparke may kindle a greater fire where it findes sewell by the light of which many may both see and bee warmed And now I have brought my worke to the fire you may doe to it as you please for I put it into your hands desiring pardon for my boldnes and so ending with my daily prayers for your daily encrease in all things that may make you an happie Governour of the Society you are in or may rise to Your Worships in all dutie NATH TAYLOVR ¶ Meditations for SUNDAY Beeing the first day in the weeke by the Iewes account EVerie Day hath his Night every Summer his Winter every Spring his Fall and every Life his Death And as some Nights are darker then other some Autumnes more unseasonable some Winters more sharpe so are some Death 's more yea much more cruell then other be Some men fall like fruite other are cut downe like trees some are pluckt up in the flower other by the roote that is some men die onely Suet. Aug. Non aliter quàm simplics morte puntit other with torment which is two or more deaths in one Yet one thing neverthelesse this diversitie findes to agree in That all men die with paine for two such friends as the soule and bodie are cannot be parted without grieving or to speake more to the quicke Two which Nature nay GOD himselfe once joyned together to make but one Person cannot be severed again without cutting neither is it an ordinary paine that divides these two but such an one as can but once be suffered and hath a name by it selfe as it hath also a nature different from other paines for we call it The Pang of Death which paine though we cannot learne what bounds it hath because it is a pain that comes not to his height till wee be past telling where it holds us yet can wee easily discerne that it is not alike in every man for the strugling in some and the quietnes in other shew either the paine to be more or the patience lesse and yet a strong patience will often out-beare a grievous extreamitie with little appearance of griefe so that this Fit hath many mervailes in it if any one could come againe like Lazarus to tel us them But among all Deaths whatsoever they bee never was any so strange as our Saviours was for in it both paine and patience met in their extremities so that paine did her worst to overcome patience and patience her best to overcome paine and yet neither paine had the upper hand though it killed nor patience lost though Christ died because he that suffered suffered but at his owne will and his suffering besides was the paine of Paine yea the death of Death it selfe yet howsoever it prevailed not so great nevertheles was this Passion so grievous as it hath nor can have none to sample it for Christs paine was such as never Creature felt neither can doe and on the other side his patience so great as for all the sorrow hee suffered on the Crosse he is not read to have uttered a groane there So that it may be easily discerned that Patience had the victorie because paine could neither make her leave the field till shee list nor bring her to any conditions but her own which were most honourable This is but one occurrence but the Death I have named containes further a Story that may take up Reader thy whole intention for in it thou shalt see wonder at it a Crosse set up to crucifie GOD on Life condemned to die Righteousnesse to suffer and which is more all this effected yet nothing done to advance the contrarie partie for through Christs Bodie Death slew it selfe and Sinne and Satan tooke their deadly wounds See againe and againe wonder at it Patience exalted upō her Throne the Crosse and crowned with Thorne whereof every point is deadly yet still unmooved and like her Selfe And as thou readst these things written with blood in stead of inke upon the wide-open Booke of the Crosse if thou apply them to thy selfe and weigh them in thy heart as Marie did they were for thee all suffered and Christs victorie is become thy hope of glory his Crosse is thy Crowne his suffering thy salvation his death thy life Here is now a Booke written in red letters laid open for thee to reade on I meane the Crosse and every word in it must be read two wayes as having a double and contrary signification When thou beginnest to reade everie thing signifies as thou seest it written but when thou commest to construe them they meane quite otherwise For at first thou shalt see scorn shame suffering death and all these laid upon Innocencie for thy Sin but this when thou hast acknowledged thou must reade every word contrarie over againe so that then shame is glorie suffering is victorie death is life both to him that bore them and to thee that beleevest And now thou hast the secret of this strange Character ply thy book hard and take out of it as much as thou canst for thy learning especially this weeke thou must do it because this is the verie time in which these things were first written not with inke as I said but with his blood that died for thee Reade then and learne and meditate and apply which all thou maist do though thou bee no scholler for he that never saw booke before may knowe

his Christ-Crosse though hee can reade no other letter When thou hearest mee thus speake of a Crosse and suffering thou canst looke for nothing in such a booke but Tragicall and so it is a Tragedy even the wofullest argument that ever was acted The Actors in it are all great men as in Tragedies Herod a King Pilate the Romane Deputie the Rulers of the Iewes the chiefe Pharisies the High Priests all High thou seest yea the most High himselfe for GOD hath a part in it The Protasis or first part containes the Life of Death that is the furie of Christs enemies the Epitasis or second the Death of Life that is of Christ who is Life in the fountaine even The Life the Catastrophe or last part in it is the Death of Death which by Christ his dying was utterly destroyed in regard of efficacie to hurt any of those that belong unto GOD any more The beginning of this Tragedie as it falls to be is joyous but the end was bitter The first Scene of it was Christs riding as upon this day into Ierusalem in triumph The bravery of this show was not outward and yet it is a wonder to see how it affected the multitude Christ hath enough followers when he comes riding in Triumph but c. the whole Citie was mooved Men and Trees too stript thēselves to strow the way as hee went every mouth was full of Hosanna That is Heare us O Lord. even the childrens also and if they had held their peace the very stones would have spoken And who would have thought when he sawe and heard these things that Christ should have needed to have wept over this Citie or these should have bin the men that should betray him But follow on thy Saviour into the Citie and thou shalt see what entertainement he finds there not for his owne for he had none but for thy sinnes that thou maist learne to bewaile them For When thou commest into the City thou shalt see the multitude indeed follow Christ but it is the multitude even the variable unconstant multitude so that among so many followers of Christ onely his Disciples were his true followers Thou shalt see againe while the Citie is mooved with joy the Pharisies on the other side as much mooved with anger and asking even our Saviour himselfe of the Children which cryed Hosanna Hearest thou what these say When thou commest into the Temple thou shalt see the house of his glory which hee had chosen of old to put his Name there filled with buyers and sellers whom there is no way to drive out but with a whippe Therefore hee makes one and burning in zeale rests not till hee have driven out all these ungodly prophaners out of his Sanctuary throwing downe their tables and overthrowing their seates and not suffering so much as a vessell to be carried through the Temple neither had they all any power to resist him Now all these things are written for our example for the ill is written that we may learne to avoide it the good that we may imitate it But cheifly must our eye be bent on our Saviours actions in this story for that is the best copy we have to follow Follow him then as he rides and see his humility It is but an asse that he sits on that thou maist follow him the better yet is he that is thus meanly seated the King not only of Zion as the Prophet calls him Zach. 9.9 but of Heaven Earth This thou maist learne even of the children that follow him for their cry is Hosanna that is Heare us O Lord and againe they say Blessed bee the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord Take thou up this cry together with them else thou must not ioyne with this company for from the aged to the children all had these two voices in their mouth Hosanna Blessed be the King The one is the voice of praier the other of praise two workes that peculiarly belong to this Day among us which is Sunday Amongst other things S. Iohn tells us of certaine Greekes Proselites Ioh. 12.20 that comming to worship at the Feast desired as this day to see Iesus neither doth he put them backe but upon this occasion as it seemes begins to speake of his suffering which was to follow ere many daies were over Be thou ashamed that any strangers should presse neerer to heare or see him then thou and be not afraid hee will reject thee if thy desire bee to learne for he does not so unto these Especially take heede thou beest not left out when he goes into the Temple for by his behaviour in that Temple thou maist learne how to behave thy selfe in the Temple of thy Body that as he with a whip of smal cords whipped the buyers and sellers out of the Temple overthrew also the tables of the money-changers and the seats of them that sold Doves so must we make us a whipp of cords the smaller the better and whip out of the Temple and Citie too our corrupt affections neither let them so much as once looke againe into the Sanctuarie of our Soules no not though they come to sell Doves for sacrifice or would change our money into gold At least let them never have power to sell our Soules which onely Christ was able to buy but let us throwe downe their tables overthrowe their seats scatter their merchandize and not suffer any vessell that is not hallowed to come through our thoughts Thus shall wee bee fit to sanctifie this Day when wee have thus hallowed our harts anew by cleansing of them otherwise we shall justly heare the same which was spoken to these prophaners My House shall bee called a house of Prayer but yee have made it a Denne of Theeves Meditations for MONDAY FRom Bethany comes our Holy Lord this Morning to Ierusalem againe from his friends that had entertained him to his enemies that would crucifie him and that to save them if they would have beene saved This was the towne of Martha and Marie whome Christ loved therefore hee honoured it with a miracle in raising up Lazarus their Brother and with making it his retyring place And well it was howsoever that Christ had any place to retire to so neere Ierusalem howbeit his own Citie owed him a better if it had done him right yet for all that he must go to Bethanie to seek his lodgging if he will have one and pay deare for it too for he satisfied his Host to the full both for his cost and curtesie in that hee raised him out of his grave after he had lyen in it foure dayes It goes hard with our Saviour mee thinkes when hee must bee glad to raise his host out of his grave yet it is well that hee found one though hee opened the earth for him For a man may digge in many places and not find gold and Christ may often call at the graves of Mankind