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A04602	Our sauiours iourney to the Gadarens: or the loue of Christ vnto man. Written by I. Iones Bachelour in Diuinity, and parson of S. Nicholas Acons, London	Jones, John, 1574 or 5-1636.	1615 (1615)	STC 14720; ESTC S102837	54,929	145

cause of his double Appellation here in this place it was the feare of the Apostles that infused it selfe into them and the earnest desire that they had to be deliuered from their imminent danger was that that made them double their speeches vnto him Master Master What wee heartily wish for we often repeate Helpe Helpe we cry in time of danger Rescue Rescue in time of distresse So is it here with our Apostles in this place in this time of feare when the storme raged and the seas went high Volvuntur vt aequora montes as the Poet speakes one billow tossed them vp as high as heauen and another suddenly drenched them in the botome of the deep When life almost had quite forsaken them and death was ready to seize vpon them then they cry vnto him Master Master Qui nescit orare discat nauigare saith the Latine Prouerbe if there be any so pampred here vpon the land as I am afraid many thousands there are that haue forgot their duties vnto the Lord neuer think of him but when they borrow his name to sweare by let them go to sea and if they bee not past grace quite so that they haue not as the Apostle speakes Cauteriatam conscientiam a seared conscience that can feele no touch of remorse hee shall bee taught once a day at the least to call vpon the name of the Lord. And they came vnto him and awaked him saying Master Master we perish Our life though it be in a dangerous place as Saint Ambrose telles Quam diu in salo isto tam diu inter naufragia so long as we liue in the sea of this world so long also wee are in continuall danger of shipwrack to be spoyled and we our selues doe continually so ouercharge our soules and bodies both with sinne as that euery day we presse deeper and deeper towards the bottomlesse pit of hell Yet such is the friendship that is contracted betweene the body and the soule by the long familiarity and acquaintance each of other as that they are loath to part and leaue each others company They desire to continue longer together if longer it might be and they care not what shifts they vse for the enioying their desire That made Saint Peter to deny his Maister because hee thought it would call his life in question And all the Disciples for feare of death withdrew themselues from our Sauiours company because they saw those friends must part that had liued so long combined together Terrible and fearefull it is vnto man to thinke of the dissolution of soule and body Anima absoluitur corpus resoluitur as Saint Ambrose speakes where the soule is freed and set at libertie the body againe resolued into the first principles This is that which the natural man cannot endure to heare of and therefore vpon the very thought of it hee is ready with the Apostles to cry out for helpe Master Master wee perish indeed But yet this was not the onely cause though of their crying out in this place though that might helpe to set an accent vpon it for they knew that there was a necessity by nature laid vpon thē once for to dye Intrasti vt cocires was a condition annexed to our creation We must make roome for others as well as others before haue done for vs. And so much the Heathen Poet could say Omnes vna manet nox calcanda semel via lethi they must not thinke much to vndergoe that which all are enioyned necessarily vnto Equalitie is the chiefe ground-worke of equitie and who can complaine to be comprehended where all are contained especially when they shall consider the extraordinarie benefite that death shall bring with it viz. the taking away of sinning any further Death it was once laid vpon man as a punishment for sinning quo die comederis c. what day soeuer thou shalt eate of the forbidden fruit thou shalt certainly dye Death there is appointed as the punishment to sinne but now it is giuen as a benefite and remedy vnto man to keepe him from sinning any further Morere ne pecces dye soone that thou mayst not sinne more against thy maker Quod tunc timendum fuit vt non peccaretur nunc suscipiendum est ne peccetur saith S. Aug. what was once feared is now a benefite vnto mankinde But the feare of eternall death was that that did amaze them more then any of the other particulars spoken of before To perish both in body and in soule and that eternally too this is that that would make thē awake him quickly To perish when they were but Semi-christiani halfe Christians like Agrippa in the 26 of the Acts Act. 26.28 thou perswadest me almost saith hee to Paul to bee a Christian to perish when they were but newly initiated into the Schoole of Christ before they knew the mysteries belonging to their saluation necessarily was that that made them cry out aloud They were ignorant in the fundamentall poynts for the Holy Ghost doth testifie of them in diuers places That they knew not the Scriptures that they vnderstood not that saying of his that they knew him not yet to bee the Messias and then how fearefull a matter it was for them to dye vnresolued you your selues by your selues may easily iudge This feare here of eternall perishing made them cry so earnestly to bee deliuered from the feare of death Maister Maister we perish in our bodies but which is fearefull to be thought vpon also we perish euerlastingly in our soules in hell In our bodily conflicts here vpon the earth either the sence of paine is quite taken away by death or else if our nature bee strong and lusty it soone in wrestling ouercomes the paines of death but in this second death the death of the soule the griefe remaines for euermore that so our nature might be afflicted without any end and our nature indures also that for euer it might bee punished in the endlesse flames for transgressing against so infinite a God neither shall faile neither nature nor paine that so both may bee eternall vnto the wicked The first death doth separate the vnwilling soule from the body but the second death keepes the soule though much vnwillingly for euer in paine together with the body from which paine God for his Christ Iesus sake keepe vs all Amen And so we are come to the finall conclusion of these same words Then he arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and they ceased and there was a calme Hitherto our Sauiour hath beene patient in these troubles and rested himselfe quietly in these stormy gusts both of winde and water but now he begins to bee a Master indeed and takes vpon him both the bridling of the one and of the other he rebukes the winde and appeases the raging of the troubled water and at his rebuke they both cease and there is a calme But before we come to the appeasing of this

of them for he made them all Dixit facta sunt saith the Psalmist he spake but the word and all things were made hee commanded and they stood all fast hee did but speake the word let the earth bring forth her increase and also the waters and presently both earth and sea they were replenished with all manner of varietie Brevis sermo sed valde vehement saith Saint Ambrose a short speech it was indeede saith hee that God spake but yet withall it was a speech that was full of power the efficacie of that speech it brought forth the greatest as well as the least creatures and in the same time too for in the same time the whole was made that hee was making of a Frogge Non laborat in maximis Deus non fastidit in minimis saith Saint Ambrose God saith hee did not labour in the making of the greatest things nor yet contemne the making of the meanest hee made all things by his power and therefore worthily is Master of all Was hee not worthy to bee Master of Man as well as of other Creatures when hee made such diuers and contrarie Elements for to meete together in one and the selfe same body and accord in one Fire and Water Aire and Earth Heate and Cold and all in one and the selfe same place and yet hath so tempered them together as that one is the defence and maintenance of the other Nay more then this saith Saint Bernard Mirabilis societas In man hee hath made a wonderfull societie for in him Heauen and Earth Maiesty and Basenesse Excellencie and Pouertie hee hath matched together What is higher then the spirit of life What is baser then the slime of the earth his soule it was infused into him the spirit of life his body it was made of the dust of the earth This was that that made Gregorie Nazianzen to break into that same exclamation of himselfe what great and wonderfull miracle was within himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I am litle and yet I am great I am humbled and yet I am exalted I am mortall and yet I am immortall I am earthly and yet I am heauenly little in body but great in soule humble as being earth but yet exalted aboue the earth mortall as he that must dye immortall as he that shall rise againe earthly as whose body was taken from the earth heauenly as whose soule was breathed feom aboue And will not all this then make him well deserue the Name and Title of Master amongst vs Yes But here hee hath a double Title Master Master What of that Why hee hath a double Mastership he was their Master Iure creationis by the right of their creation but much more Master Iure redemptionis by right and title of their redemption when man had lost himselfe and defaced that glorious image that God at the first had left within him then came our Sauiour Christ Iesus in a mercifull Redeemer and reconciled his Father and Man together againe Henceforth let vs not repine at the fall of our Grand-father for Christ our Sauiour hath made satisfaction for it Was he cast away for the price of an Apple Why yet he is redeemed for a great deale lesse he was redeemed in meere loue and pitie The sixth day of the weeke as it is thought Adam fell for it is thought that he fell the same day that hee was made the sixth day of the weeke againe Adam and his posteritie were redeemed from death The same day that he fell he was redeemed And as God in the beginning rested on the seuenth day so Christ our Sauiour saith Saint Augustine sabbatizanit in monumento kept holy the Sabboth euen in the graue to teach vs to make more account of that day then the world vsually doth in these our times For for all that belonged vnto the saluation of man he finished that vpon the crosse before his departure hence when hee cried Consummatum est all is finished Ioh. 19.30 Iohn 19. Then all was performed that was requisite for vs and hauing finished his worke he rested as securely in his graue as the most secure man of vs all doth rest in his bed And in this redemption which he so kindly performed for vs there are two things especially to bee considered of vs Modus and Fructus the manner and the fruit of our redemption The Manner it was wonderfull Exinanitio Dei saith the Apostle the emptying of God the fulnesse of all things The emptying of him I say and that in three regards First into the flesh Secondly vnto the death Thirdly lastly vnto the death of the crosse O who can worthily esteeme these three as hee ought to do his worth his humilitie his loue vnto mankinde That the God of all Maiesty should be cloathed with the garment of humane flesh That hee should consent to dye and that hee should dye so miserable and cursed a death Here speech must faile vs and our safest eloquence must bee admiration Let vs sometimes in the feare of God call our selues to account for these things and thinke what great things the Lord hath done for euery one of our soules and then let vs be ashamed at our owne vnthankfulnesse againe that he being Lord of all became obedient and seruant for the very worst of vs Of being rich in all things became poore and miserable in most that were necessary That of the word he became flesh Of the sonne of God that he should become the sonne of base and mortall man Let vs remember that though at the first we were made of nothing yet that afterwards we were not redeemed of nothing In sixe dayes at the first God made heauen and earth and all things that in them were contained but in the redemption of Man our Sauiour was three and thirty yeares and vpwards a working of it vpon the earth O how much in that time did he suffer for our sakes The necessities of the flesh the contempt and scorne of the world the temptations both of the Diuell and of mankinde Can wee thinke that pouerty in all that time did not oppresse him nor shame did not touch him nor yet the wrath and anger of his Father any whit amaze him Certainly certainly beloued the least of all these did touch him neere and the greatest that was the fury of his Father did make him make that lamentable cry vpon the Crosse the like wherof was neuer heard in Ages before nor euer shall be heard againe vnto the ending of the world My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Yet thus O Lord didst thou worke the saluation of Man and wonderfully towards him hath beene thy loue Let vs thinke of these things seriously let vs thinke of them often and then I make no question but we shall thinke we haue great reason to think him a double Master vnto vs. And they came vnto him and awaked him saying Master Master But yet the