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A01118	Christ Iesus triumphant A fruitefull treatise, wherin is described the most glorious triumph, and conquest of Christ Iesus our sauiour, ouer sinne, death, the law, the strength and pride of Sathan, and the world, with all other enemyes whatsoeuer agaynst the poore soule of man: made too be read for spirituall comfort, by Iohn Foxe, and from Latin translated intoo English by the printer.; Christus triumphans. English. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Day, Richard, b. 1552.	1579 (1579)	STC 11231; ESTC S116950	29,170	80

Potētates of this trāsitory world what than is méete that wée yéeld vnto him who so far surmounteth obscureth the Maiestie and Grace of most mightie Monarches that they are no otherwise to be coūted happy but so farre foorth as they truly feare and serue him Wée haue now made manifest vnto you that all the tyranny of DEATH is extinguished and wée deliuered from the seruile yoke thereof by the meanes and conquest of this our Triumphant PRINCE When I say DEATH I vnderstand also thereby the whole armie or violence of mischiefes which any wayes annoy our life both those which were the cause of DEATH and thofe also that accompany and follow it For DEATH of it selfe is nothing els but the punishment wages for SINNE accordyng to Paules saying euen as the strength of SINNE is the law For where no Law is there is no Transgression but where there is Transgression there the wrath of GOD is reuealed from Heauen against all vngodlynes of mē which withhold the truth in vnrighteousnes And to this wrath wée were all sometime subiect being dead in Sinne seruing Sathan the Prince of this world vnder whose king dome wée were all wretched and miserable For what greater thrall or more extreme miserie could there happen thā that SATHAN troubling and disturbing all things as he listed should beare all the sway and alone vsurpe the kyngdome being not cōquerable by any force of Nature or power of Prince All thinges beyng thus in a desperate case the more glorious did the power of this our graund Chāpion appeare who with a maruelous victorie and singular ouerthrow by suffering subdued the Enemy and hauing vanquished the tyrannie of DEATH by Death opened the euerlastyng gate of immortalitie too all that would come and enter therein Wherfore he willing to cōmunicate the fruite of this his benefit with all who draweth all vntoo himselfe cryeth in the Gospell saying Come vnto mee all yee that labor and are heauy laden and I will refresh you And as he doth accept all sortes of mē in that he inuiteth and allureth all so he excepteth no kinde of burthē or grief who promiseth that he will refreshe vs in all and disburthen vs of them all Goe too therefore good Brother in Christ whosoeuer thou art that gronest vnder any burthē acknowlege the voyce of him that calleth thée how much the more thou art afflicted so much the more boldly hasten vntoo him who is ready to helpe all but especially he came to visite and comfort the poore afflicted If the Wrath of GOD terrifie thée thou hast there an attonement and Peacemaker who hauing slayne Hatred by his crosse and Passion offereth vnto thée a sure sanctuary too flée vntoo If his Law touch or sting thée or the féeling of thy SINN disquiet thée he hath taken away the hand writyng of ordinaunces that was agaynst vs and hath spoyled the Principalities and Powers and hath made a shew of them openly and hath triumphed ouer them in him selfe Is the feare and horror of Death dreadfull vntoo thée DEATH hath now lost his sting in him and doth now feare thée more then thou her But perhaps SATHAN the worker of all euill thoughtes and cogitations doth not a litle assault thée tush let him rage and raung as long as hee list how can he greatly hurt thée when as his Head being brused and broken he can but hisse at thy héele Peraduenture also thy Faith is shaken and tryde or some other storme of Temptation comming from some other where violently vppon thée doth disturbe the tranquilitie of thy mynde fight therefore and put on the whole armor of Christian warfare or if the battaile be ouer hot and excéede thy strēgth yet fall to Prayer or if thou canst not pray at the leastwise sigh and grone vnto the LORD The inward sighing and groning of that Hart shooting vp before the LORD is a strong harty prayer Thou must striue and labor too doe what thou canst and art able but this whiche thou art able is not of such value of it selfe as it is estéemed of GOD who both accepteth and crowneth in vs the affection of a willing hart ready mynde like as if it were an action or déede Otherwise that whiche the rigorous Iustice of GOD doth exact of vs too our saluation and too the vanquishyng of these foresayd Enemies were excéedyng great too too farre aboue thy strength or reach But that which thou séely mā beyng borne of mā wast not able to performe that a mā borne of GOD the Sonne of God CHRIST JESUS hath fully accōplished He hath fulfilled euery iot of the Law thorough wōderfull humility obediēce he hath abated the pride of the world opened the gates of heauē which our sinfull life had shut vp dispossessed Sathan of his kingdome vtterly weakened the power of Death takē away the sting of Sinne torments of Hell. Finally he performyng euery poynt of perfect righteousnes and being but one aunswered that for all which was required of euery one And beside that this heauenly Prince hath wrought these and so many wonderfull workes with incredible Triumph which doe amaze and astonish euen Nature it selfe it is also to be considered how much more famous and Triumphant he is not onely in that he had no fellow or mate to assiste him but in that whatsoeuer he tooke vpon him he compassed it and obtained the victory not for himselfe but for vs onely and our behalfe Wherein the Triumph of this our MONARCH séemeth farre vnlike the victories of other Princes not onely in the excellencie and valure of the things done but also in the very manner of the doyng For the victories of earthly Potentates as they are alwayes atchiued with crueltie and violence so are they oftentymes very iniurious but neuer without great daūger much manslaughter Wherby it commeth to passe that their Triumphes are nothing in the end but a publique pylage and misery of the world wherein while some do laugh many wéep and howle nether partie deseruing so to doe nether the vanquisher nor the vanquished Now albeit that vpon iust cause the warre was taken in hand it falleth out notwithstandyng in such Triumphes I cā not tell how that the victory for the most part betideth vntoo hym who did least of all in battalle For albeit Princes be sometyme present in the cōflict yet surely they are farthest from perill whose notwithstandyng the victory is sayd to be Farre otherwise stādeth the case betwene vs and our heauenly Conqueror For they to whom the matter chiefly appertained beyng frée from all daunger and at ease sat as idle lookers on an other mans labor and payne He alone who deserued nothing aboad all the perill Who if he would haue voutchsaued they also venteryng themselues to the battaile to haue bene but a partaker onely of their labor or a Captaine of their Warre or any waye but a

shadowes doe not more differ from the things themselues nor that whiche is Counterfaict from that which is True But so it falleth out that as the commoditie of the other euen so the Maiestie and incredible Benefites of this our heauenly Prince are not so hyghly esteémed of vs vnles we first perfectly know and feéle the force of those our enemies whom he hath subdued or the depth of those dangers from which weé haue beén and are dayly deliuered Wherfore I am to request all godly and true harted Christians to geue diligēt heéde and attentiue eare whilest I shall both playnly truly set before their eyes the most lamentable estate of our wretched Nature and the exceédyng might and malice of our most cruell enemies So will it come to passe that we shall more worthely accompt of and more ioyfully acknowledge the victorious power of CHRIST in workyng our saluation And that I may passe ouer with silence those lighter fleabitynges in respect I meane the commō kinde of greuances yet full of miserie and sorrow which sōdry wayes befall vs in this life that also I may omit the inward gronings of the hart and secret vexation of thoughtes and temptations wherewith euery one for the most part is inwardly tormented in himselfe for who hath not some one or other familiar Sathan attendyng at his heéles that I maye let these things passe the seuerall discourse whereof would require whole volumes long and tedious looke vpon those commō and publique Euils equally and indifferently betyding to vs all how miserable doe they make this lyfe or rather to be no lyfe at all to be touched therewith wée count it much yet they oppresse vs but to be oppressed by thē wée make a wonder yet most wonderfully and vtterly wée are thereby consumed AND first to begyn with the least lightest of these Euils consider with mée the inuincible Tyranny of Death dayly raunging raging in this world the power and force whereof not all the Monarches of the earth could once withstand Not that great Kyng of Macedon whose aspiryng hart the Conquest of one whole world could not content was at any tyme able too cope with her Not Hercules strength albeit the bane of most vgly Monsters was euer hable so much as too wound this byting Serpent Not that Persian Xerxes euen he that threatned fludds and mountaynes could once amaze her with all his armed troupes Not Marius the renowmed or the more renowmed Pompey Not hauty Caesar Not the most harty and valiaunt Romane Souldiors who limyted their Empire with the boundes and borders of the earth bringyng all Nations intoo subiection were at any tyme able too cast of the yoke of her subiection How many ages of this world hath this tyrannicall fury ryoted vp downe yet no mortall wight hetherto found once able too delay much lesse too delude and so escape her deadly inuasion Not the dreadfull Maiestie of Kyng or Keisar could at any tyme haue her at becke or checke No conueyaunce or deceitfull drift in Law could circumuent her No worldly Wealth could brybe her no reaching head or high look of Philosophers could teach her a tricke of new deuise in Schole No painted speach of Rhetorique could qualifie her rage No subtile Sophister could geue her the shift No brag of Stoicall Libertie could euer shake of her seruil yoke No Pharasaicall Holynes No Religion of Bishops No Monkishe Austeritie No Prayers of Priestes could intreat her No Citizens Pollicie No Handycrafts Labor could banish her of House or Towne Finally No Strength of Nature No Reason of Man could at any tyme resist and geue her the foyle What Man sayth the Prophet liueth and shall not taste of DEATH For she tyrannically sparing no one inuadeth all Estates all sexes and Ages of Men she assaulteth aswell Princes Towers as Poore Mens Cotages she separateth Wife and Husband dissolueth Frendship and which is most lamentable violently snatcheth the tender sucklyng from the Mothers teat ô most pitifull and plentifull are the teares lamentations harthreakynges which hereof haue and dayly do procéed After this manner that séely Mother in the Gospell followyng her onely sonne to buriall how thinck you did she lament and wryng her handes but the LORD most happely méetyng her on the way restored her sonne to lyfe agayne So Lazarus of his two sisters so Dorcas in the Actes is of many lamented These onely I touch by the waye for examples sake well knowyng that no house or famelie whatsoeuer but some tyme or other hath like chaunces and cause of woe Now if we were so cléere of eye as wherewith we might pearce the hart and bowels of the Earth therein taking vewe and tale of the infinite number of all those whom DEATH since the creation of the worlde hath swallowed vp good God what a wonderfull slaughter of dead Men what outragious tyrāny of deuouring DEATH should wée not onely comprehend with inwarde mynde but also behold with outwarde eye For the infinite and vnscrutable number of Men liuyng at this present houre what are they in respect of those who so many yeares since taken waye by DEATH dwel as the Poet sayth and rot in graue Howbeit such eye-sight had that most wise Prophet who by commission dyd proclayme that All flesh is grasse and the glory thereof as the flower of the field And what then shal it auayle any one in what delights pleasures power glory wisedome learning counsaile honor and pompe he liue and florishe when he shall be perforce depriued not onely of those things but of lyfe it selfe as also of light ayre and body For as the wise Preacher doth witnes The Wise-Man aswell as the Foole the learned as the vnlearned the rich aswell as the poore the Prince and Paifant all a lyke There is no difference no respect or regard of Persons one or other DEATH méeteth with all alike equally strikyng all mortall creatures For all man are borne on this condition to dye some sooner some later and though some one Mans lyfe last to extreme Old-age which now is very seldome séen yet that hindreth not a whit but that the old Prouerbe may still bée true as stéele A Man â Bubble And here first doth the TRIUMPH of CHRIST our LORD open and shew it selfe in our infirmitie by infinite degrées surpassing whatsoeuer Triumphes or stratagemes any where are or at any tyme haue bene vnder Heauen not onely in that he alone of all Men euen in that respect that he is Man is now contrary to Mans Nature and cōdition become immortall but in this also that by restoring vs miserable and mortall Men from the bondage of DEATH to immortalitie translateth vs from a wretched and frayle estate of life to eternall blisse of saluatiō there making vs coheires with him and frée Citizens of his glorious kyngdome What thing in all the world was euer comparable to this VICTORY Take good and

Heauen or that shall descend into Hell no I will bryng thée into an other place euen into thy selfe thou shalt néede no long voyage or Ulisses trauailes onely consider with good aduisement those thynges that are within thée so shalt thou easely perceaue that thou dayly cariest a world about thée in thy Hart. For what is Man els than a certaine world in respect of his bignesse smale but if thou regard his maruelous workemanship valor personage and the image of GOD according whereunto he was made he is in many respects of greater estimation and excellencie than this visible world the most precious thinges whereof are but trifles too the surpassing dignitie of the other which is inuisible Wilt thou haue a sight of the wonderfull workmanship and riches of this thy inuisible world The beholdyng of this Sunne this light this life doth I know greatly please thine eyes but how much superexcellent is the sunne within thy body the sincere Eye of the Minde illuminated with the light of JESUS CHRIST the brightnesse wherof cleareth and cheareth the whole mynde of Man Glytering gold plentie of siluer great landes and rich possessiōs delight thée but how more brighter shineth the most precious pearle of a feruent Fayth sought in the fruitfull and most pleasaunt fieldes of the Euangelistes which when thou hast founde thou sellest all other things setting them at naught for desire of this The visible worlde hath his Peace Tranquillitie Libertie neither doth this world also want his Peace and Libertie yea and it so wanteth them not that if wée can distinguish truth from falshood they are no where els to be foūd but here Thou callest that Peace when there is no priuie grudge or malice betwene thée and thy neighbor but how more excellent a Peace is a true hart a clear conscience before GOD and a quiet mynde beyng at vnitie with it selfe and with GOD Moreouer thou makest much of Libertie whiche is but fréedome from the bondage of men but rather estéeme of that Libertie when as neither the violence of DEATH nor the power of SYNNE nor the tyranny of SATHAN when as neither the gates of HELL nor the frowardnesse of Fortune nor the crueltie of Enemies finally that I may yet speake more confidently in CHRIST whē as neither the very wrath and curse of GOD nor the obligatorie sentence of the LAW nor thinges to come nor heigth nor depth nor the whole Hoast of Heauen haue any Law or power agaynst thée But thou art a Courtier perhaps and thou canst not be without company or resort of men thine old mates and fellowes sporte play riot idlenes and by your leaue chambering is thy repast thou déemest it a Gentlemans lyfe to spend whole dayes and yeares in dauncing drincking dicing hunting in foolish pastimes and more foolish talke and for such a yoncker as thou art to betake himselfe to Prayer thou takest him for a doting and frensie foole Thou thinkest it an honorable thing to be conuersaunt among great Personages thou féedest thy fancie with an Italian grace with the Spanishe fashion and the French curtesie very seruiceable iu spéech à vostre commaundement Monsieur then if hapely it chaunce that thou art in very good place about thy Prince or wear his coate or be often in his presence or if by some meanes thou créepest into his fauor and art knowen of him and spoken too with affabilitie and receiuest some commoditie at his handes for this is the ende of Courtly Philosophers then thou persuadest thy selfe that thou art in most perfect and blessed ioy To be short discouer this thy whole world vnto vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Anathomy therof open all the veynes of all the vayne pleasures and delightes therof paint them out to the purpose amplifie them asmuch as thou list and imagine that all the felicities of the worlde did light together vpon one Polycrates namely the fauor of the Prince the pleasures of the Court Degrées of Honor Nobtlitie of byrth varietie of delightes sumptuous buildings frendes Gold Precions stones farmes Clients the fauor of the Cominaltie the contemplation of this visible light gaming mirth victories Triumphes or whatsoeuer els of like kinde of trash Let vs now lay together and compare the benefites of the inuisible world whiche make thy soule within thée most happy and blessed And that I may beginne with that which is most worthely of greatest estimation namely the Fauor of GOD the souereigne PRINCE of all Princes let vs cal to minde the singular Graces springing and Procéedyng hereof as a good Conscience Peace Life eternall Saluation Ioye in the HOLY GHOST Patience of Mynde against al Aduersity Victory ouer Death Remission of SINNE Fayth the subuerter of SATHANS Kyngdome a Confident hart voyde of all feare Contempt of thinges present Certaintie of thinges to come the Riches of Uertue and Wisedome more precious than all treasure the Repressing of immoderat Affectiōs diuerses signes and Tokens of GODS SPIRITE the Light of Reason like vnto the Sunne whose excaédyng bright beames shyne through the whole worlde adde hereunto also the giftes of Learning and Knowledge and Tounges fixed in this World as certain Starres to conclude you can sée nothing almost in all this world outwardly the like whereof is not done in that inward world spiritually yet more effectually so that this world may be well termed no other than a shadow or dead Image of a Man as Man is the liuely Image of god Finally sith that this outward world séemeth to be ordeined of God onely to the vse of outward things and the other to blessednes and felicitie truly they which gape after far greater aboundance than is sufficient and necessarie for sustenaunce of their lyfe being seduced and bewitched with a preposterous error and false opinion doe hunt after and finde shadowes for true thynges transitorte wealth for euerla sting ioy and heape vp coales in stead of rich treasure For true Happines is no where to be found but in that Celestiall world of the mynde whiche not Caesar though he were thrice Augustus or more then a Potētate nor all the Kings and Princes of the Earth are able too geue thée as they are not able to take it from thée it procéedeth onely from this one PRINCE and LORD of all CHRIST JESUS the eternall Sonne of GOD. Goe foreward now and embrace this present worlde whiche thou hast in such great admiration and addict thy selfe asmuch as thou list soo the seruice of temporall Princes I know that Christian Religion and true Discipline doth geue vnto Princes their due honor and obedience neither do I enuie or grutch thereat nay rather I wish the greater encrease thereof so that it be iust lawfull and right No man more truly honoreth Superior Powers than he which doth honor them in the LORD But if the diuine Law of GOD by authoritie admit so much reuerēce and worship to be geuē to the

auoydeth and escapeth punishment whiche GOD els would haue layed vpon vs but it doth not purchase Saluation and eternall lyfe Looke therefore what place Nature doth holde in the Heyre that very same holdeth Fayth in the case of Iustification by the GOSPELL For in this one thyng is offered vntoo vs the whole gift of perfect Saluation grace and blessednes onely that wee apprehēd CHRIST JESUS our LORD the eternall Sonne of god Neither let any man therefore thinke that this matter concernyng our saluation is to narrowly and straightly comprised of mée as if I should hold a Dolphin in a basen for that I require nothyng els hereuntoo but fayth onely in CHRIST I know that eternall lyfe is a difficulte thyng and not proper too our Nature and therefore I say it consisteth onely in apprehending CHRIST JESUS for that nothing in this world is hard or difficult but onely Fayth in christ As no Man hath euer pleased the Father beside Christ so in him the Father is so wel pleased that for his sake he dearely loueth all those who are of christ Let no woorkes therefore althogh neuer so godly pufe vp a man as if he were pure or rather not vnpure and vnprofitable euen in his most holy Woorkes Christ onely is great and mighty in through his Workes Workes therefore properly pertaine too Christ Fayth properly vntoo vs whiche surely is of force before GOD. But by this meanes a window is opened thou sayest of ouermuch libertie too some who by Nature are tootoo much prone and geuen to allkynde of licentious lyfe Nay rather whatsoeuer is opened here God of his singular mercy hath opened it the Gospell of Christ Jesus hath opened it not wée who are but witnesses onely and Ministers of the Doctrine You must debate the matter with him if any thing herein displeaseth your Iudgementes He openeth not the window of wickednes but the gates of the Kyngdome of Heauen If any Man be of such a froward and ill disposed Nature that of a ioyfull and blessed doore he will make to himselfe a window or way of wickednesse the fault is not in him that doth rightly open but in him that doth crookedly enter It was neuer otherwise yet among men but that the greater parte alway dyd most wickedly abuse the best thynges Finally if all other men whosoeuer would abuse this doctrine and I knew but ten onely in the whole world whom this consolation would comfort I would to speake vnfaynedly for their sakes testifie and professe confidently this that I haue sayd For it is necessary that this Doctrine should be retained and preached in the CHURCH whiche beyng of long time hiddē from Christians and almost extinguished the heroicall and mightie spirite of CHRIST by the ministerie and preachyng of Martin Luther hath kyndled and raysed vp agayne in the CHURCH Yet such is the mischief and miserie of these wicked dayes through the suttle practising of SATHAN that all Christēdome is in an vprore about bymatters of contentions sects schismes and in the meane time all regarde of that whiche is the most principall point of our saluatiō is set at nought almost brought agayne to vtter decay But Christ Jesus liueth the stronger Man and mightier who will neuer forsake his deare and welbeloued Spouse to whom be all honor all glory all Triumph all dominion in Heauen and Earth world without end AMEN ¶ A very Godly and hartie prayer vpon the mynde of Christ his bitter Passion O Lord Iesu Christ the euerlastyng swéetnesse and Triumph of them that loue thée excéedyng all ioye and longyng thou sauer and louer of repentaunt sinners whiche auowest that thy delight is to be among the children of Men and therefore in the end of tymes becamest man for Mens sakes remember all the foretast and gréefe of sorrow whiche thou didst endure euen from the instant of thy conception in the humaine Nature forth on but most of all when the tyme of thy most healthfull Passion was at hand accordyng too the eternall ordinaunce which God had purposed in his mynde before all worldes Remember the gréefe and bitternesse whiche thou feltst in thy hart euen by thine owne record when thou saydst My soule is heauy euen vnto the Death And at such tyme as thou gauest thy body and bloud to thy Disciples at thy last Supper didst washe their féete and comfortyng them swéetly toldest them of thy Passion that was at hand Remember the sorrow anguish and gréefe whiche thou didst suffer throughout thy whole tender body before thy suffering vpon the Crosse at such tyme as after thrice praying thou diddest sweat water like too bloud wast betrayed by one of thine owne Disciples apprehended by thine owne chosen people accused by false witnesses condemned wrongfully by thrée Iudges in thy chosen Citie at the tyme of the Passeouer in the florishyng youth of thy body and being vtterly giltlesse wast deliuered too the Gentils bespitted stript out of thy owne garment clothed with another bodies apparell buffeted blindfolded bobbed with fistes tyed to a poste whipped and crowned with thornes O most swéete Iesu I beséech thée make me myndefull of these thy paynes and sufferinges whiche thou abodest for my finnes that I might be discharged and set frée from them and mine attonement be made with thy Father through thy chastisement Make me to abhorre my so detestable cursednesse which could not be put away but by thy so gréeuous punishmentes Make me to be hartely sory for my sinnefulnesse and to eschue my offences whiche draw thée to the suffering of so great tormentes Make me myndefull of thy great loue too me and too all mankynde and let the infinitenes thereof kindle an vnfayned loue in me towardes thée and my neighbor Let this thy vnmeasurable goodnesse bréede in me a willing mynde and desire to abyde all thynges patiently for thy sake and for the truth of thy Gospell And let it ingender in me a despising of all worldly and earthly thynges and an earnest longyng and indeuour too attayne too the Heauenly heritage for the purchassing whereof vntoo me and for the bringyng of me thereunto thou hast endured these and all other thy most bitter and intollerable tormentes Wherefore I beséech thée graunt me true repentaunce amendement of lyfe perseueraunce in all goodnesse a stedfast fayth and a happy death through the merites of thy sufferings that I may also be made partaker of thy blessed Resurrection AMEN ¶ An other of the same WHat man is this whom I behold all bloudy with skinne all too torne with knubs and wales of stripes hangyng downe his head for weakenes toowards his shoulder crowned with a garland of Thornes prickyng through his skull to the hard brayne and nayled too a Crosse What so haynous fault could he doe too deserue it What Iudge could be so cruell as too put him too it What hāgmen could haue so butcherly mynds as too deale so outragiously with hym Now I bethinke my selfe