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B02484	Hebdomada magna, or The great weeke of Christs passion. Handled by way of exposition upon the fourth article of the Apostles Creed: He suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, buried. / By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his parish church, and now enlarged as here followes for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing C7027B; ESTC R175851	123,646	146

hearty Prayer unto Almightie God of Your most devoted Suppliant and humble Oratour JOHN CROMPE He suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucified Dead Buried HAving in my former Treatise Beloved discoursed at large as well concerning the conception as the birth of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ out of those two foregoing Articles of the Apost●es Creed Hee was conceived by the Holy Ghost and borne of the Vi gin Mary I am come now in the next place by the order and course of the same to treat of his suffe●ings under Pontius Pilate and his crucifying death and buriall For so speakes the fourth Article Hee suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried Where the first thing that in my judgement will require satisfaction is this Why the holy Apostles or whosoever else they were that joyned these Articles together and made a summe of beliefe of them did make so large a leape as to passe so immediately and directly from the first act of his life to the last from his being borne of the Virgin Mary to his sufferings under Pontius Pilate especially seeing the holy Evangelist speakes of many passages of his life in the interim and betwixt these that are very remarkable and worthy not onely of our observation but our contemplation also and beliefe And it is answered by one thus Optimè à nativitate ad ejus passionem mortem fit transitu ubi perfectè salutis nostrae summa sita ●st The transition from his birth to his death and passion was most fitting and convenient for this reason because therein especially consisteth and is placed the summe and substance of our Salvation Nihil enim nobis nasci profuisset nisi redemisset as he goes on out of Saint Gregory His birth would have profited us nothing if his redemption of us had not followed and succeeded So that to suffer and dye for the sinnes of mankind was a chiefe though not the onely end of his incarnation which occasioned the worthy Authors and disposers of this sh rt summe of our Christian beleife to passe from one substantiall head and point unto another especially from his conception and birth to his passion resurrection and ascension with all celerity and expedition leaving all other circumstantiall parts and passages of his life to their Sermons and other larger discourses Which course likewise Saint Paul himselfe followed as is plainely to be seene in his Epistle to the Philippians Where when hee had described and set downe Christs nativity and birth he presently thereunto adjoynes his death as fetching and deriving from thence the chiefe fruit and profit of our redemption His words speaking of Christ are these Hee made himselfe of no reputation but tooke on him the forme of a servant and was made like unto man and found in shape as a man here he speakes of his Nativity and then in the next words subjoynes He humbled himselfe and became obedient unto the death even the death of the Crosse There followes his passion Phil. 2.7 8. Verses Yea and the holy Evangelists themselves seeme not to differ much from this method and order neither in that they are so exact and punctuall in setting downe all circumstances first concerning his conception and birth and then afterwards of his sufferings and death whereas they pretermit and passe over many act●ons of his life as Saint John confesseth plainely in saying There are many other things which Jesus did the which if they should be written every one I suppose that even the World it selfe could not containe the Bookes that should be written John 21.25 As if his very Incarnation and all other actions of his life together with his preaching and entire and perfect obedience to the wh●le Law and the like tended onely to the redemption of mankinde by his death and passion as to their chiefe and last end answerable to that also of Saint Paul elsewhere When the fulnesse of time was c●me God sent forth his Son made of a woman and made under the Law where yee see his incarnation birth and obedience expressed But to what purpose why that followes in the next words viz. To redeeme them that were under the Law that is by his death and passion Gal. 4.4 5. Verses And thus you see how the conception of Christ first is directed to his birth and incarnation and that next to his death and passion as to their first and last end Primum in intentione etiamsi ultimum in executione First in intention though last in execution So that our Creed ye see passes over all the obedience of our Saviours life as being nothing else but a step onely to his death and passion by which especially our redemption is purchased and procured As much as to say let men lay hold by a lively faith on these and then doubt not but all other circumstances shall and will concurre to their future blisse and happinesse eternally in the land of the living And so this question being thus resolved I proceede in the next place to the handling of the words themselves as they lye in the Article He suffered under Pontius Pilate was c●ucified dead buried In which words for methods sake I will observe onely these two circumstances Quis Quid who and what Who He or which what suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buried And I will begin with the latter first as being the larger subject reserving the former to conclude at the latter end as requiring the deeper and the longer search He suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead buryed HEre yee see beloved sundry Circumstances expressed and set downe which to handle at large according to their weight and urgency would require even the least of them more time then at the first I proportioned to my selfe for the whole But because they are the common and ordinary subjects of many if not most Sermons I shall be the briefer in them Yet I will handle each circumstance apart and begin with them according to their order in the Cre d. As fi●st of the first Hee suffered under Pontius Pilate c. And here I may for an entrance take occasion without any great digression from my intended scope to discourse of all his sufferings from his birth to his buriall f●om his Cradle to his Crosse from his very infancy till his dying day and shew how that tota ejus vita Crux fuit acerbissima his whole life was nothing else but a martyrdome a continuall suffering in one kinde or other Habens in factis observatores in verbis contradictores in tormentis illusores as Saint Bernard speakes Having envious and malicious obs●rvers of his deedes spitefull and hatefull contradictors of his words yea scornefull and reproachfull scoffers at his miseries and afflictions In regard whereof some doe apply that saying of the Spouse in the Canticles unto him when she cals and styles her beloved Fasciculum myrrhae A bundle of Myrrhe Cant. 2.12 Not onely

eternall Sabbath of rest unto his children unto which although they were at first created yet by reason of sinne and the Devils malice they had been deprived unlesse he had dyed and been thus buryed to restore it againe unto them Fifthly he was buryed to the end that he might hallow the earth by his sacred body to become a receptacle of rest for the receiving of our bodyes also Which must needs be a great comfort to the godly to know and beleeve how that by his grave and buryall he hath sweetly perfumed our graves wherein we shall be buryed and instead of stinking houses of perdition hath made them chambers of quiet rest and sleepe unto us so that as the Prophet saith Peace shall come and they shall rest in their beds that is their graves every one that walketh before him Esay 57.2 And in these respects and sundry others which might be thought upon The buryall of Christ is esteemed by some Ancient Fathers to be more h●nourable then his birth according to that of Saint Austin Gloriosior est sepuli●ra quam nativitas in Christo ista enim co●pus mor●al● genuit illa edidit immorta●e Because that brought forth a body which was mortall so that it both could and did dye whereas this restored and returned it immortall and which can dye no more but liveth and abideth now for ever And as after his birth he fell into many tortures and troubles miseries and afflictions in this life so after his buryall he hath passed immediately from death to life in the land of the living So that Religiosior plane est ista quam illa nativitas as the Father goes on This latter birth of his is more to be celebrated and held sacred then the former because in that the Lord of the whole World was kept close prisoner nine months together in his Mothers wombe whereas this detained him only three dayes in the wombe of the earth In which respect Illa cunctorum spem tardius protulit Haec omnium salutem citius suscitavit That is said but to delay our hope and this to finish more speedily our Salvation In regard whereof also the Prophet saith That Sepulchrum ejus erit gloriosum as the vulgar Latine reads it Esay 11.10 that is His Sepulcher or buriall shall be glorious not by reason of the statelinesse of his tombe or magnificence of the pompe and solemnity at his buriall For herein it is very likely that the Sepulcher and sepulture of Alexander the Great and many other earthly Princes might farre outstrippe and overgoe him exceed and excell him much but onely Quia ex morte ad vitam gloriam aeternam revixit as saith Chitraeus because herehence hee passed presently from death to life and from mortality to immortality and eternall glory whereas all those great Monarchs of the World aswell as meaner persons remaine under deaths arrest till this present day and so are like to continue to the Worlds end And therefore although these Potentates of the earth can find neither comfort nor glory in their grave though they goe with never so much pompe and glory to it Yet wee which are Christians doe expect and looke for both by reason of the buryall of this our Saviour who as you have heard hath hereby sanctifyed our graves to be unto us as our beds wherein our bodyes rest from th●ir labours till the generall resurrection at the the latter day and further hath opened unto us a way from thence to eternall glory So that although we dye and be buryed as other men yet we shall rise againe with him from the earth to life everlasting And lastly to conclude we may from this buryall and sepulture of Christ learne and note the civill use of the grave to be necessary and fitting for all persons and people whatsoever to bury their dead out of sight and from annoyance and offence that they may otherwise come from their deceased bodyes It being reckoned among the blessings of God to be decently and comely brought unto our graves and so layd and put into them and not to be cast out as wile carkasses to the beasts of the field or foules of the ayre as it was threatned and imposed as a curse upon Jeconiah to be buryed as an Asse is buryed even drawne and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem Jer. 22.19 And therefore Diogenes is too currish and uncivill to say Cast me out and lay a staffe by me as seeming to take no thought for seemely buryall at all whereas the Saints of God have alwayes had a speciall care of it Abraham purchasing a possession of buryall the first purchase that we read of in the booke of God wherein to bury his dead out of his sight as yee may see Gen. 23.4 And the Sonne of God himselfe the subject of our discourse at this time submitting and permitting his body after his death to be put into a decent and comely grave as here you see But yet if it so fall out as oftentimes in warres in pestilence in drowning and the like it doth That the godly happen to be deprived of seemely and Christian buryall as the two witnesses of Christ through the rage and inhumane cruelty of their persecutors were as it appeares Revel 11.8 9. Let all men know that this is no hurt or detriment unto them either in the resurrection of their bodyes or salvation of their soules No more then the st●tely and pompous tombes and buryall of the wicked can benefit or profit th●m either of these wayes For all the pompe and honour done unto their bodyes cannot keepe their name and fame from shame and dishonour no● their soules from the fire of hell torments and confusion Luke 16.22 23. The rich glutton dyed and was buryed richly no doubt and sumptuously but his soule for all that went to hell where it was tormented Lazarus dyed likewise and no mention is made of his buryall but yet it is expresly said That his soule was carryed by Angels into Abrahams bosome What profit then had the rich man in that his body was buryed or what disprofit or hurt was it to Lazarus though his body were not Let us not be carelesse then of the decent and comely buriall of our bodies nor neglect to hew us out a Tombe as Joseph here had done or to provide Coffins or Graves for them but above and before all let us be carefull to provide that our soules may be carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome And this sufficeth for the buriall of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I will conclude the whole discourse with Saint Augustines Prayer upon the Passion in this manner O thou most gratious God which for the redemption of the world didst vouchsafe to be borne into the world to be circumcised as a Jew and yet to be rejected by the Jewes thy Countrey-men and Kinsmen according to the flesh to be betrayed by thine owne Apostle Judas the Traytor and that with a kisse the signe and pledge of love Yea to be bound with Cordes and so led as an innocent and harmelesse Lambe unto the slaughter to bee undecently and uncivilly presented and offered to the sight and view of Annas Caiaphas Pilate and Herod to be accused by false witnesses to have thy sacred body tormented with scourges and thy blessed soule tortured and afflicted with revilings and reproaches to be besmeared with filthy spittle and to be crowned with piercing and pricking Thornes to bee beaten and buffeted with fists stricken with rods blindfolded in thy face despoyled of thy garments fastened to the Crosse with nayles and so lifted up upon the Crosse naked in the wide and open aire To be accounted and crucified among theeves to be offered Vineger and Gall to drinke and lastly to have thy sides wounded and broken pierced and launced with a speare Thou most gratious Lord I say by these most holy and sacred sufferings of thine which I though most unworthy doe thus recount and recollect as also by thy holy Crosse and death deliver me and set me free from the punishments and paines of Hell and vouchsafe to carry me with thee to that blessed place of rest and Paradise of pleasure whither thou carryedst that good theefe that was crucified with thee who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen Soli Deo Gloria