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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02894	The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.	Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655.; Harmar, John, 1594?-1670.	1618 (1618)	STC 13039; ESTC S115181	32,739	106

subiect vnto Passion But Oh more blessed and happie day was that whereon our Flesh being ioyned to the Deitie so died in Christ as that wee not suffering death were notwithstanding restored vnto life For as CHRIST tooke vpon him our nature in the wombe so hee vndertooke our death vpon the Crosse For whatsoeuer he suffered as man he suffered for man from whom he can be no more separated or divulsed then from his Deitie with which he ioyned our humanitie that he might saue and secure it from the hazzard of eternall death and damnation c. Oh infinite loue Oh incomprehensible mercie Oh blessed happie day wherein the head of the Serpent was brokē the Leuiathan wounded the vast Behemoth ouerturned the powers of Hell subdued the Graue conquered the sting of Death rebated Oh blessed and happie day wherein the force and guilt of Sinne was taken out of the world and the sinner taken vp into heauen O blessed and happy day wherein by our Sauiours passion the gates of heauen were opened wherein it so came to passe that wee that were once exiled and banished from the celestiall Paradise may now againe bee freely therein instated and reimpatriated Now there is no Cherubim to hinder vs no flaming sword to affright vs. Now may wee all bee easily admitted and bee made free denizens of that heauenly Ierusalem O let not our impenitent insolencie and insolent impenitency bee the cause of our exclusion Let vs consider that the incredulous and proud Pharises that challenged vnto themselues so much purity and piety were the first that were reiected their Synagogue neglected and euen theeues malefactors preferred before them And this was that that so discouraged the Diuell when hee saw those that had beene his slaues and vassals to bee rescued and absolued from death by one that was condemned to death when hee saw that Christ was more powerfull in his death then euer any Emperour was in his rule and soueraignety when he saw not from stones but from the gallowes euen from hell it selfe children raysed vp vnto Abraham When hee saw the Sonne of God after his buffets and his bonds last of all euen in his death to erect the glorious building and edifice of his Church when hee saw that blessed inheritance of Christ being but a little part and moytie of Mankind still to flourish as the Palme-tree vnder the burden and weight of its afflictions when hee saw the Church of Christ which was created by his power now redeemed by his bloud vnited by his Apostles instructed by his Prophets comforted by his Euangelists and freede from that heauy yoake of ceremonies with which it had beene long oppressed When hee saw it howsoeuer diuided in body yet combined in spirit Hauing nothing and yet possessing all things in Christ which is all in all In whose passion it gloryed whose patience it imitated Which Church of his although it seeme to wither by the heate of persecution yet doth it still grow waxe greene by the dew of grace and sappe of consolation True it is that the Saints on earth are frequently perplexed with variety of exquisite torments and yet these are not of force validity to diuert their zealous and constant resolutions to separate them from their grand-Captaine Christ Iesus whom they follow not as beeing confirmed in their purposes by the irrefragable peruersenesse of the Stoickes nor as beeing induced thereunto by the Sophistrie of Logicke or by the inchantments of Rhetoricke but as it were beeing bound by oath and deepely engaged vnto their Sauiour by whose bloud they are refreshed by whose flesh they are nourished by whose Spirit they are reuiued by whose promises they are inuited by whose precepts they are directed The chiefest scope they ayme at is that they may bee one with Christ as Christ is one with God For thou sweet Sauiour art our head and wee thy members Thou our shepheard and wee thy sheepe thou the Vine and we thy branches By thy death wee liue by thy life are we raysed from death And although wee are here sorted and mixed with the world yet our cogitations and our conuersations are in heauen whither our Sauiour is gone before Oh that wee could follow him that wee could waft our selues vnto that Hauen of ioy vnto that secure rode of felicity But seeing that as yet wee cannot follow thee sweet Iesu with our bodies yet wee pursue thee with our desires with our sighes with our affections with our teares In this interim whiles wee heere suruiuing seriously ponder those trāscendent afflictions of thine which for our sakes and yet not for our deserts thou sufferedst vpon thy Crosse whiles we meditate vpon those griefes and torments which were as propassions vnto thy passion how are we rapt into admiration of thy loue Then doe wee abandon all our fruitlesse and friuolous cogitations then doe wee discard all our ambitious Babel building thoughts then do wee disclaime the insolent selfe-conceites of our owne abilities then doe wee deepely lament our supine and stupid negligence then doe we grieue that wee haue beene so prodigall of our precious houres and that we haue not embarqued our selues in those actions which most of all procure our safety and indemnity Then are our eyes become fountaines of teares then cry wee out and say O Lord thou hast ascended on high thou hast ledde captiuity captiue Then crie wee out O Lord what is man that thou art so mindefull of him or the Sonne of man that thou so regardest him Oh good IESU what is man that thou so regardest him Thou hast cloathed mee with skinne and flesh and hast fenced mee with bones and sinewes sayth Iob Chapter 10 11. Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt bring mee into the dust Hast thou not powred mee out as milke and crudled mee as cheese Chapter 10. ver 9. and 10. Am I not to bee consumed as a rotten thing and as a garment that is moth-eaten How then can it be that I being of so abiect and corruptible a constitution should bee saued from death by the death of the Lord of life O strange and admirable loue as farre beyond comprehension as end and measure I haue sinned thou sweet Iesu hast suffered nay and I haue also suffered in thee which sufferedst for me Thus by thee am I lyable neither to death nor punishment My nature which I had corrupted thou hast refined that that happinesse might re-accrew vnto mee which I had lost by the fall of my first parents What now therefore shall I say How shall I sufficiently eyther admire thy power or prayse thy goodnesse Thou that art infinite thou that art neyther confined to time or place thou that art subiect neyther to death or passion didst out of thy most entire and intensiue loue vnto vs cloathe thy selfe with our fraile flesh incident to both Which flesh of ours maugre the Diuels malice and malignity thou hast highlie exalted it and placed it aboue the Angels the Archangels aboue all the glorious Hierarchies of Heauen euen at the right hand of thy Father where is the fulnesse of ioy and pleasures for euer more But before thou couldst ascend vnto that verticall point and Meridian of thy glorie with what massie loades of calamities wert thou oppressed What Hunger what Thirst what Nakednes what Iniuryes what Reuilings what Spittings what Stripes what Wounds what contumelyes what disgraces what Death and Crucifying didst thou most mildely and patiently endure for vs And therfore Oh sweete IESU giue vs grace that as thou dyedst for vs so wee may liue heere to thee and hereafter with thee Graunt wee beseech thee that thy Passion may be our perpetuall Meditation Oh let vs alwayes reflect our Eyes vpon thee and let thy sufferings take a deepe impression both in our Memories and in our affections And graunt Oh sweete Sauiour that wee may put not the bodily finger with Thomas but euen the finger of Faith into thy side and into thy wounds and with the hand of Faith apprehend thy merites Graunt that we may crucifie all the inordinate Lusts of the Flesh all our wanton and Lasciuious cogitations and that wee may be like thee in sufferings that we may be like thee in glorie That wee whom thou hast reconciled vnto thy FATHER we whom thou feedest with thy Flesh we whom thou refreshest with thy Bloud wee whome thou perpetually reuiuest by the celestiall influence of thy grace may hereafter bee one with thee as thou art one with the Father To whome with thee and the Holy Spirite bee ascribed and rendered all power might maiesty dominion and prayse both now and for euermore AMEN Gratias tibi Domine IESV FINIS LONDON Imprinted by Bernard Alsop and are to bee solde at his house by Saint Annes Church neere Aldersgate 1618. Gen. 1. 4. Gen. 27. 23. Ioh. 1. Iohn 1. 13. Cant. 3. 4. Cant. 1. 4. Esay 9. 6. Ioh 1. 1. Psa 118. 22 Ver. 14 Ver. 16. Z●p 3. 14. Iob. 11. 3. Num. 24. 17 Ps 18. 14. Iob. 1. 11. Esa 40. 12. Deut. 32. Luc. 20. 12. Cant. 2. 5. Heb. 12. 18. Luk. 1. 13. Luc. 2. Luk. 2 10. Mat. 25. 21. Ioh. 1. 29. Mat. 2. Mat. 2. 21. Mal. 4. Iohn 6. Mich. 6. 7. Iohn 4. Esa 5. 34. Ierem. 9. 1. Esay 16. 9. Esa 57 1. Ier. 2. 6. Psal 78 24. Deut 32. 10 Ier. 2. 12.