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A18048	Christ his last vvill, and Iohn his legacy In a sermon preached at Clare in Suffolke, by Bezaleel Carter preacher of the word of God at Canham neere to Saint Edmunds Bury.; Christ his last will, and John his legacy.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1621 (1621)	STC 4692; ESTC S117382	37,432	99

that I shall neuer bee remoued God no sooner remooueth the whippe but wee are ready to sing vnto the Carles tune Soule take thine case eate drinke and bee merry Wee haue no sooner any intermission but wee sing a Requiem to our selues and secure our selues like Babel Though others bee fatherlesse and Widdowes yet wee shall see no sorrow when indeede this world is a Sea of troubles Reul chap. 4. verse 6. And therefore as Marriners vpon the sea expect and looke for stormes and when one blast is ouer expect another so should we euer looke for crosses either losse of parents losse of children losse of goods and when one is blowne ouer be sure that another is neere Secondly our Sauior his troubles came Vse the second rowling so fast one after another that hee Let no man say that he is singular in his suffring might mee thinkes haue taken vp the Churches complaint Lamen 3. 5. 12. Thou hast compassed me with gall and filled me with bitternesse thou hast made mee a marke for thine arrowes and turned thy power against me all the day long and wherefore then is the complaint so common see and consider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow for to name no more then are there mentioned in this text Christ Marie Iohn the first the naturall sonne of God in whom he was well pleased the second a blessed woman blessed aboue women the third an Apostle beloued aboue all the Apostles and yet their First Christ crosses equalled nay exceeded thine First to beginne with Christ how many and manifold were his sufferings by hunger Math. 4. by thirst by wearinesse Iohn the fourth yea how greeuous were his sufferings when he sweat water and blood or as the new translation hath it his sweat was as it were drops of blood quasi grumi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 22. grumus signifies a clod of earth or rather a clod of curded milk in a womans breast Now his agony was so great that hee sweat if we may so speake clods of blood yea so admirable was his passion that vppon the Crosse hee cryes out like one forsaken My God my God why hast thou forsaken me rather then might our Sauiour hanging vpon the Crosse and many Diuines apply it to him haue sayd see and consider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow Secondly how great and many were ● Marie the myseries of the virgine Marie whose soule was wounded with the sword of sorrow and then especially when she beheld her sonne Christ lifted vp vpon the Crosse I remember what I read of Hagar Gen. 21. 16. when she and her sonne Ismael were cast out of Abraham his house and Hagar wanted sustenance to giue her child the story saith shee cast him down and went from him lest sayd she I should see the death of my childe and she sate downe lifted vp her voice and wept If Hagar could not endure io see the death of Ismael her sonne iudge whether the sword of sorrow must not needes pierce the soule of the sacred virgin to see her sonne Christ so cruelly murthered The Papists affirme that the virgins loue to her son exceeded the loue Anto. de Gue Hisp of all the angels in heauen this I am able to iustifie that parents doe tenderly affect loue their children you may see it by Iobs example that seemed to be little moued Iob. 1. 14. 20. at the newes of all his losses till he heard his children were slaine then he could conceale his sorrow no longer but rent his cloths shaued his head was wofully perplexed So Dauid also though hee could beare Shimei his railing other crosses patiētly yet when he heard of Absoloms death how he cries out O Absolom my son would I had dyed for thee O Absolom my 2. Sam. 11. 33. son my son Yet Dauid saw not his sonnes death nor Iob saw not his sons death but the blessed virgin did not heare of but was an eye witnesse of the cruell martyrdome of her son Christ Oh hould her sorrow but exceed to behold so rufull a spectacle yet wee are ready to imagine our selues singular in our suffrings 3. Are thy sorrows greater then the sorrowes of the Apostle S. Iohn who also was an eye witnes of his masters death If Dauid cried out when he heard of Ionathans death Wo is me for thee my brother Ionathan thou wert very kinde to me in thy life thy loue was wderfull to mee passing the loue of women Might not Iohn the beloued disciple vpō whose bosome Christ had so often leaned haue cryed out Wo is me thy loue to me was wonderfull O noble Israel hee is slaine tell it not in Gath nor publish it in Ascalon Must it not needs perplexe him think yee to see how his maister bones were stretchd out of ioynt how the dogs incōpassed him and the assembly of the wicked closed him how his hands and feete were pierced with nayles yet thou saist see cōsider if euer sorrow were like my sorrow Lay but the suffrings of eyther Christ or Marie or Ihon in one ballance and thine in another and see whether theirs will not infinitely outweigh thine If these things were considered as they ought thou wouldest be so far from such murmuring that we should prayse God with the Church and say It is Gods mercie that we are not consumed because his compassions Lamen 3. 22. faile not The next poynt is whom he seeth When 2. Quo● he saw his mother c. Luke sayth their followed him a multitude of women that bewayled and lamented him Luke 23. 27. Mathew affirmes that many women of Gallile followed him Math. 27. 55. The Euangelist Iohn testifies that many women followed him as Marie the wife of Cleophas and Marie Magdalen and the virgine Marie but it is obseruable that we reade not of one man by name that followed him except Iohn the Apostle and he also was of Gallile a countrey so meane and base that the Pharises supposed no good thing could come out of Gallile so true is that saying of the Apostle not many wise nor many mighty are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and the weake to confound the mighty 1. Cor. 1. 26. Peter that was so ready to offer his seruice to the death Though all men forsake thee yet wil I neuer forsake thee was now fled for feare with the rest of the Apostles and not one of the Disciples durst shew their heads except Iohn and he spake not one word that we can reade of in his maisters cause and yet there were women that openly bewayled him and neuer left him till they were separated from him by his death Thus God makes his power perfect in weakenesse but I must not stand vpon this poynt The third thing to be considered in the 3. Vbi occasion is Vbi where he seeth them and this

was iuxta erucem neere the Crosse here of necessity a question must be asked and answered to reconcile Scripture to Mat. 27. 55. Mark 15. 40. Luke 23. 29 Scripture for Mathew sayth the women stood a farre of so say Marke and Luke also And many Diuines haue collected much matter from their standing a farre of one gathers that in the best actions we bewray infirmitie these women sayth Aretius he follow Christ to the Crosse and yet euen in this worthy act they bewray infirmity for as much as they follow with Bullenger Peter a farre of Another perswades women to modesty by an argument drawne from the women standing a farre of for saith he though many women followed Christ Nihil tamen faciunt contra Decorum yet they do nothing that is vnseemly not rushing amongst the souldiers men of warre but kept themselues backe and beheld e longinquo a farre of a good item for our brazen faced harlots that run without all shame to Bearebaitings Playhouses thrust themselues into the thickest throngs these and other collections I could well like of so bee they were built vpon a good foundation For my Text sayth that they stood neere the Crosse But still it may bee obiected how then reconcile wee one place to another how sayth Iohn they stood neere the Crosse the other Euangelists that they stood a farre of There be diuers answers Some answer it thus that Iohn and the three Maries stood neere the Crosse the other women which lamented him stood further of and hence also they haue gathered that euen amongst those that loue God there are degrees of loue as amongst Christs followers some followed him neere and ventured themselues more others a farr of and ventured themselues lesse yet all loued him This answer as I reiect it not so neither doe I embrace it because Saint Luke sayth that a great many women followed him and the vvord in the originall notes as I sayd a neere follovving of Christ and it appears indeed that they follovved him neere because our Sauiour preached to them that diuine Sermon as he vvas going tovvards his ex●●ution Daughters of Ierusalem Luke 23. vveepe not for me but for your selues and for your children the daies shall come c. And if they vvere not afraid to follovv him as hee vvas going to tovvards his execution and heare his doctrine it may be coniectured also that they vvere as little afrayd to stand by him during the time of his execution abode vpon the Crosse Secondly others answer that at the first these women might stand a farre of Bellarm. de 7. verbis Christi Impediente turba militibus beeing hindered by the souldiers and the multitude that pressed neere to see and heare what was done but afterwards when that Christ was lifted vp and many were returned home that then they drew neere to the Crosse else quoth Bellarmine how could Marie know that he spake to her or Iohn that he spake to him when their was such a multitude present and Christ calleth neither of both by their names But this cannot be for euen after our Sauiour had giuen vp the Ghost it is sayde that the women that followed him from Gallile beheld him a farre of so as it was not at the first but afterward th●● they Mat. 27. stood a farre of And though there were present neuer so many people and Christ named neither Marie nor Iohn yet hee might so fasten his eye vpon them as they might well know to whom hee spake Thirdly therefore I take this for the best answer that at the first they stood neerer the crosse till such time as Christ had commended his mother to Iohn his care and custody but after that they departed out of the presse and stood and beheld a farre of all the time of his passion And thus hauing cleared this doubt bee pleased to obserue with me two things out of this third poynt First the louing faithfulnesse of Iohn and Marie to Christ that followed him euen to the last till they came vnder his Crosse Secondly Christs care ouer them beholding them with pitty and compassion from his Crosse The first of these mindes me of Aretius Aret. in Iohn Obser his note Veri amici libenter adsunt morituris iuuant c. A true friend will not forsake his friend in his greatest aduersity not in the prison not in bands not at the place of execution it selfe Intreate me not to leaue thee sayd Ruth to Naomi where thou Ruth 1. goest I will goe where thou dyest I will dye nothing but death shall separate vs asunder False and flattering friends are like a mans shaddow that is seene to follow a man so long as the Sunne shines but as soone as the Sunne is ouerclowded it vanisheth away Donec eris felix c. So long as a mā is in prosperity so long as the Sun shines as it were so long a man shall haue abundance of friends where the carkasse is thither will the Eagles resort But if there come cloudy and tempestuous time Tempora si fuerint nubula solus eris Ouid. If the world frowne neuer so little our credits are ecclipsed our names put out as euill if times of persecution come vpon vs then shall you see false friends vanish away Nay what speake I of vanishing it may be they will verifie Micha his saying Micha 3. 5. If you fill not their mouth with bread they will prepare warre against you Or me thinkes I may fitly resemble them to little brookes or riuers that when wee haue water enough in the winter season are brimme full and like Iordan ouerflow their blankes but in the drought of Sommer when ponds and wels and springs are dryed vp are so empty that they will not affoorde one droppe of water to the weary passenger you may easily apply the resemblance The wealthy want no well willers when corne wine and oyle abound friends wil abound but saith Salomon if a man bee poore his owne Prou. 19. brethren will hate him how much more will his friends goe farre from him they will pursue him with their wordes but they will not helpe him Thus it is with false friendes but true loue is like wilde-fire Cantic 8. 7. that burnes euen the water it selfe much water cannot quench loue nor floods drowne it True loue Oh it is like mighty wine strong as death what can quench it The Scribes and Pharises endeuoured euen with all their might by lyes slanders false reports to alienate the peoples affections from our blessed Sauiour they sayde he was a Drunkard a diuel that he cast out diuels by the diuel they sayd hee was a seditious person an enemy to Caesar c. and yet all this water could not quench their loue yea though after they had slandered him they scourged and crucified him yet sayth Iosephus Antiquit. lib. 8 they that followed him frō the