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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00785	Meditations for the passion weeke following the order of the time and story. / By N. Taylour..	Taylour, N. (Nathanael).	1627 (1627)	STC 23857.5; ESTC S95495	34,588	201

strictnes of Discipline and therefore did more hurt then any other and Statesmen they were too like unto them as may appeare out of their story in Iosephus That they were such people as with great violence and heat of corrupt Zeale followed their intents and wofully prevailed by that meanes our Saviour himselfe expresses of them when hee sayes THEY compasse Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when they have him they make him twofolde the child of Hell more then themselves These false Teachers our Lord is more earnest against because they misled his owne one only chosen people at that time in regard of visible or humane knowledg for GOD had no Temple then nor Church visible in all the world save in Iury. Which makes him so tender over it that howsoever it was or had beene bent against him yet hee cannot but pitie it greive at their destruction therefore he ends the Chapter in which hee denounced so many woes against the wolves that destroyed his flocke with a pittifull lamentation over Ierusalem For heare him thou that passes by how deerly hee bewailes his owne Cities wofull madnes that forsooke him to take part with Murderers Ierusalem Ierusalem saith hee thou that killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her chickens under her winges and yee would not Much like unto Davids affection to and mourning over his dead Sonne Absalon Absalon Absalon saith hee my Sonne Absalon would God I had died for thee Thus holy David as a father laments his deere Sonne and Christ as a Saviour his deere Citie But our Saviour exceedes for his sorrow was both more deepe though it have not so many words of repetition to expresse it and more seasonable also for Absalon was past recovery when David mourn'd but Ierusalem had time to repent when our Lord wept over it It had time I say but it would not nay Christ sayes so but they knew not the time of their visitation therfore hee prophecyes of it Behold your house shal be left unto you desolate which prophecy was fulfilled in the Emperour Vespasians dayes and continues so unto our time The lesson wee have heere to take out is for Teachers that they bee not like to these Priests and Pharisies for Hearers that they bee not like Ierusalem least both Priest and People doe perish together By this time now began night to draw on and Christ therefore leaves the Temple for this day For the Treasury was at the going out of the Temple 2. Chro. 24. S. which may appeare first by the Story of the poore widdow whom hee commends for casting her whole substance which a poore widdow might soone doe into the Treasury Secondly Which must bee on the outside by his Disciples shewing him the buildings and stones of the Temple and his Prophecy upon that occasion That there was not a stone upon a stone which should not bee throwne downe which two Storyes teach us two excellent lessons First that Christ accepts of the Heart more then the Hand and of the givers affection then the riches of the gifts for the poore widdow gave but two mites Secondly that there is no worke so glorious no not building of Temples which can stand before GOD when it failes either in substance or affection for even GODS owne Temple could not please him neither might it stand after the Ceremonial Law under which it was erected was once abrogated Form the Temple assoone as Christ is come to the mount of Olives there hee sitts downe and at his Disciples request enlarges the Prophecy hee had delivered concerning the destruction of the Temple and Citie which with much efficacy of doctrine and exhortation he finishes in a whole Chapter And the more instant hee is in it because it concernes not Iury only but the whole world in generall whose fate depends upon the fate of the Church whatsoever it otherwise imagine whose destruction therefore is figured in the destruction of Ierusalem And that hee may prepare all men for his second comming the time when these things shal happen he joynes for this cause to the prophecy a Parable of the ten Virgins whereof five were wise five were foolish The wise brought oyle for their Lampes but the foolish neglecting this part of providence after they have assayed in vaine to borrow in their absence the Bridegrome comming enters into his house makes the doores bee shut and so they are excluded from the Marriage of their Soules unto GOD. This Parable that it may bee better understood there followes it a most plaine and expresse description of the last Iudgment and the rigor of it which shall bee when the world shall have an end in which Iudgment the godly shall bee received into everlasting Ioy and the wicked cast into utter darknes to inherite eternall paine prepared for the Devill and his Angells There is another Parable by Saint Matthew mixt with these and that is of the increase of the Talents which the Lord gave forth to his servants at his going to his Travaile but this in order of time belongs to the weeke before when our Lord first had a sight of Ierusalem as may appeare Luke 19.12 Now is Night already come and Christ it may be lookt for in Bethany but from this time forward hee never returnes thither nor comes in any bed till hee bee layd in the Rocke by Ioseph of Arimathea to sleepe his three dayes sleepe from which cold and hard bed hee rose but once to lie downe no more This Saint Luke hath observed Luk. 21.37 who tells us expresly that in the day time Christ taught in the Temple but at Night he went out and abode in the Mount that is called Olives which words seeing they cannot bee understoode of the Nights that are past in which hee lay in Bethany it remaines that they belong to this Night and those that follow to the time of his Passion It was but a cold lodging that Mount Olives could afford our blessed Saviour A field-bed without any other Canopy but the vault of Heaven GODS high Starre-chamber or any either Pillow or Rugge but the greene Earth yet thus hee chose to bee an example unto us in watching as it may bee hee was at the same time in praying also both in regard of his owne commandement Watch and Pray which joynes prayer with watching as also of his Practise at other times in which these two are not severed The same duties that hee might stirre up his Disciples unto also hee foretells them of his Passion Maath 26.2 after hee hath finished the sayings before mentioned to let them see what neede they had to watch and pray with him also It is not likely but that this desire of our Saviours tooke effect in his Disciples Let us suppose that it did so and then wee have a band of spirituall Souldiers watching heere or else a company