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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.

speake as inarticulately as man in his childhood and infancy Let no man therefore take on or thinke himselfe disgraced in that hee is not furnisht with the abilities of nature or not garnisht with the rules and precepts of art seeing that God that hee might disappoint those that were well seene in the points of learning made choyce to disclose himselfe vnto those that were but meane and simple It shall therefore bee best for vs not to soare too high into the mysteries of God lest at last we flag and flye low with a broken pinion Let vs beloued rather settle and rest our selues in a sober and safe ignorance which will not onely not preiudice vs but also bee much auaileable to procure our saluation Farther then this neuer aspired any of the learnedst Diuines that euer were The end of the first Homilie VPON THE PASSION OF CHRIST HOM. II. REuerend right worthy Auditors Wee solemnize a day whereunto neuer any former lge behelde the aike neuer any future time shall second it A day whereon the eternal Sonne of God hauing formerly assumed our nature that hee might thereby restore it vnto its prime and first state and as it were reimpatriate vs and inuest vs with the glory of a better Kingdome was not without the horrour and amazement both of heauen and earth most barbarously slaine and put to death by those for whose sake he came into the world by those to whom hee had often sent his Legates and Ambassadours by those whose saluation he had resolued to purchase by the effusion of his most precious bloud Such is the weight and grauity of this theame and argument which by my future discourse I determine to pursue that it may easily inaudience the Hearer and procure in him ready and fauourable attention a thing that Oratours vsually entreate in the Proeme of their Orations And therfore for my part I will not bee so prodigal of my breath or vnnecessary paines as to importune you to heare me for I am well assured that you expect not the enchanting flourishes or sugred blandishments of Rhetoricke being solely contented to entertaine a bare Discourse vpon the Passion of our Sauiour the remembrance of whom wil rather resolue vs into a stream of tears thē any way giue vs occasiō to wish for the fluent and harmonious straines of wit and eloquence For if wee duly consider all those tragicall Scenes and dolefull passages of his life euen from his cratch vnto his crosse wee shall finde them to haue beene nothing else but a Mappe of miserie or a sea of calamitie For hee was no sooner borne but hee endured the sharpenesse of a bloudy circumcision he was no sooner circumcised but by and by he was designed to the slaughter hee had no sooner published his heauenly doctrine but forth with hee was accused of sedition impiety blasphemie fury and not onely so but hee was tearmed euen a Diuell and that of those whome aboue all the Nations of the world hee had vouchsafed to stile his peculiar people Thus whither soeuer I cast mine eyes I can behold nothing but misery and reproches and pouerty and hunger and thirst and weakenesse wearinesse so that it seemeth that our blessed Sauiour vpon his Crosse made vp the full measure of that griefe and anguish with which hee laboured was perplexed all his life long then to haue sucked out euen the very dregges of that bitter cuppe which hee had but formerly tasted Insomuch that when wee meditate vpon those many troubles and torments with which he was voluntarily afflicted to the end that hee might pacifie his Fathers wrath and satisfie his Fathers iustice we may well imagine and bee ascertained that he alone is the absolute embleme patterne of patience and perseuerance The strict Stoickes that so pleased themselues in their obdurate indolency came very short of him Whom that yee may the more admire and wonder at I will endeauour with the pensill of a large and ample discourse the matter and substance whereof shall be borrowed from the Penmen and Actuaries of the holy Spirit to Limme out and Delineate him vnto you After that our Sauiour had sent vp many frequent and feruent eiaculations vnto God the Father in the behalfe of his deare distressed Church for whose sake no lesse willingly then valiantly he endured the weight of so many grieuous afflictions by and by after hauing retired himselfe into a shady priuate garden hee was most impetuously affronted by Iudas and a barbarous troupe of Souldiers And that nothing might seeme to bee done rashly or accidentally euen this very assault was prophesied by Zacharie Chapter 13. ver 7. Smite the Shepheard and the sheepe shall bee scattered And thus he being surprised by so violent a gust of furie was notwithstanding left alone by his Disciples and forsaken by all his familiars and acquaintance forsaken euen by those vnto whom not long before he had imparted the true Manna of his body and refresheth their languishing spirits with a cordiall of his most precious bloud Hee that had beene alwayes reputed his constant friend follower most basely prized him at thirty pence and as if he had beene a vile and infamous malefactour by a false and Syren-kisse deliuered him into the hands of his cruell and malignant enemies O grosse impudency O hainous impietie Now may yee behold him ledde away captiue his armes and hands being fast bound manacled Now may yee see his beloued gracious Iohn who had often leaned vpon his heauenly besome who had often learned from his sacred lippes many transcendent mysteries and oracles of wisdome and had formerly best vnderstood that the Word was in the beginning and that the Word was made flesh him I say may yee see lamentably deiected and ouerflowne with the waues of sorrow and pensiuenesse Now may yee see the blessed Saint Peter whose soule was as it were the mint of Heroicall and holy resolutions follow and pace aloofe off being much appaled and affrighted at the view of so doleful a spectacle As for the rest of our Sauiour his dependences those I meane whom he had eyther peculiarly instructed or any way releeued eyther by restoring of their sight or by staying the fluxe of a bloudy and menstruous issue or by reuniting and as it were cementing the crazed members of those that had beene possessed with a shiuering palsie All those I say whereof the multitude was almost infinite basely hide their heads and withdraw themselues cleane away Thus was our blessed Sauiour forsaken by those that should haue rescued and supported him Thus was hee exposed to so many perils and hazards By and by after hee that by the eternall decree of his Father was to become the vniuersal Iudge of quick and dead was conuented before the pettie punie Iudges of the earth being posted from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod from Herod to Pilate againe O turbulent tumultuous

his strength fainting his heart panting his voyce fayling and euen drops doe I say nay flouds of water and bloud springing from all the pores and passages of his body doth notwithstanding vouchsafe to direct his deiected countenance and languishing eyes vnto vs miserable and most vnthankeful caitifes that neyther sympathize with him in his calamity nor so much as remember that hee himselfe stood in the vantguard of the battell and with his helmet of Patience sheltred vs from the gunneshot of his Fathers indignation And as his eyes are directed vnto vs so is his voice also Let vs suppose him speaking vnto vs with these words O my people what haue I done vnto thee and wherein haue I wearied thee testifie against mee When I created thee of the dust of the earth I made thee like vnto my selfe But thou by the allurement instigation of the Diuell diddest most disobediently desire to be like vnto mee in what was not fitte thou shouldest and so becamest like vnto the Deuill that arch-lyer of the world the patronizer and abettour of thy ambitious enterprise Thou sinfull as thou art hast almost razed out the sacred impresse of my Diuinity set with mine owne finger in the chrystall table of thy soule and yet notwithstanding I so much disparaged my selfe as to take vpon me the forme shape of thine abiect and contemptible nature For thy flesh I assumed and yet not its impurity but as it were in its prime integrity refined and purged from that drosse and menstruous corruption which resided in it And yet for al this I affected no state or pompe in my comming vnto thee howsoeuer the Fathers and Patriarks in the Nonage and infancie of the World longed for it and the Prophets after thē often mentioned it Moses did foresee it Dauid did did fore sing it Salomon did foresay it The Euangelicall Prophet Esay did most plainely and punctually expresse it hauing then no other meanes to relieue the discon solate mindes of the Iewes but onely by assuring them of my comming But when I came I found my entertainement not squaring to my expectation Where I looked for amity I found enmity I receyued hatred for my good will and for casting out of Diuels I was accounted one for my labour O senselesse ingratitude Thus was my humilitie no lesse misconceyued then my maiesty vnconceiued and yet notwithstanding it was my dayly endeauour to doe good vnto all men Eyther I cured the bleeding wounds of an afflicted conscience with the balme of consolation or I reclaimed the stragling sinner and brought him againe vnto my folde or I gaue eyes vnto the blind or feer to the lame or speech to the dumbe or health to the diseased or bread to the hungrie and if at any time bread were wanting there neuer wanted a myracle to supplie it If a mother lamented the death of her onely sonne eyther I restored life to the dead or consolation to the suruiuing If any woman wanted water I gaue her better then she thought Euen the water of life I abhorred not so much as Publicans and Sinners I was familiarly conuersant with all men Now therefore O Inhabitants of Hierusalem and men of Iudah Iudge I pray you betwixt me and my Vineyard What could haue been done more vnto my Vineyard that I haue not done vnto it Wherefore when I looked it should haue brought foorth grapes beought it foorth thornes with which now the Temples of my head are wounded Wherefore when I looked for Wine brought it foorth vinegar to offend my taste Why had shee nothing but myrrhe and gall to quench the thirst of her drooping Lord These and the like dolefull complaints the Iewes had both heard and read they had noted and obserued all the holy actions of our Sauiour whiles he breathed vpon this Theater of earth They had often heard him teaching in the Temple teaching in the Synagogue teaching vpon the Mount teaching in the high-wayes and thorow-fares His goodnesse would not suffer him to conceale or masque vs any thing in darknesse and silence that might make any way to the safety of the hearer For now the time was come wherein God had determined to dispell the thicke fogges of errour from the mindes of his people and clearely to instruct them in the mysteries of his truth And not onely so but he had also decreede by one sole Hilasticall and propitiatorie Sacrifice to purge and expiate the sinnes of the whole world This was that pure and vnblemished oblation free from all staines of corruption and impiety Thus much euen the very aduersaries of our Sauiour could not but auerre who continually yeelded vnto him honor regard sutable vnto his person For indeed nothing was done in vaine nothing by chance or accidentally nothing without the directing hand of him that was afflicted Who as he stood bound and in the hands and power of others yet notwithstanding hee himselfe disposeth whatsoeuer he suffereth O the hidden secresie and prouidence of God! whatsoeuer appellation or title the Church doth seriously giue vnto Christ the same doe the Iewes attribute vnto him by way of mockerie and illusion The prophane Souldier derideth our Lord and Sauiour and yet in the mean time he adoreth him bowing his knees vnto him Unto whom euery knee shall bow He denyeth Christ to bee a King and yet by and by he crowneth him After hee had crowned him hee gaue him a reede for a scepter and that nothing might be wanting they put a purple garment vpon him the chiefe ornament of Kings and Princes Lastly whiles rhe people play vppon him and contemne him yet notwithstanding they confesse him to be a Prophet for by that name they saluted him Thus the enemies of Christ acknowledge him to be both God a King and a Prophet But by what meanes I wonder came the Romanes to know thus much of our Sauiour Certainely to say no more it was the will and wisdome of God so to dispose It was also by his iust permission that the false accusation of Christ who was truth it selfe and the iniurious condemnation of Christ who was innonocency it selfe should bee reuenged by the desperate and voluntarie death of that debosht Stigmaticke Iudas who had formerly engaged himselfe to betray his Lord and Master with a kisse O how was that candide Diuell that varnisht hypocrisie that outside of a friend that coppergilt Apostle tortured in soule by the racke of his raging conscience How earnestly did hee desire to set a period to a couetous base life by an infamous and miserable death Pontius Pilate vnto whom the iudgement and arbitrating of the cause was assigned had oftentimes witnessed auerred that our Sauiour had not deserued any punishment at all And that he might the better confirme his assertion hee endeauours to cleare himselfe from the aspersion and imputation of iniustice by washing his hands in the viewe of the multitude By and by after hee constantly affirmeth that Christ