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A51306	The life and doctrine of ovr Savior Iesvs Christ. The first part with short reflections for the help of such as desire to use mentall prayer : also 24 intertaynments of our Blessed Saviour in the most blessed sacrament : with certaine aspirations tending to the encrease of the love of God / by H.M. ...	More, Henry, 1586-1661.	1656 (1656)	Wing M2665; ESTC R32119	366,740	462

be thou opened and immediatly his eares were opened and the string of his to●gue was loosened and he spake playn● Our Saviour could with a word have cured him but he would commend vnto vs a reverent opinion of the ceremonies which were afterwards to be vsed in his Church no lesse significative then these He tooke him from the multitude a part to teach vs that whoever will be cured of his spirituall diseases must vvithdraw himself from evill companie and attend to God in private Also that synners are often to be admonished in private least shame keep● them from repentance He sighed more bewayling the invvard deafnes of the Iewes then the outward of this one man And vsed those other ceremonies to shevv that he spared no indeavour to correct them S. Gregorie by 〈◊〉 fingers vnderstands the gifts of the holy Gost infused into his soule and by his spitle heavenly vvisdone vvherby vve come to speake rightly and teacheth vs by his sighing to lift vp our harts to God and sigh for those heavenly gifts of vvhich we have so much need II. And the Pharisees and Sadduces came to him tempting him and demanded of him a signe from heaven But he answered when it is evening you say it will be fayre weather for the ●lim●nt is red and in the morning This day there will be a tempest for the sky doth glow and lowre The face of the eliment you have skill to discerne and the signes of times can you not There shall not a signe be given but the signe of Ionas the Prophet and he went away and left them So many signes and miracles our Saviour was dayly vvorking ●ād none would satisfie them desirous of some after thier owne fancy which when it had been yealded vnto would have wrought as little vvhich them For hovv oft had a voyce come from heaven declaring what he was and they never the neerer finding some other thing to impute it vnto This is a deafnes more to be commiserated then any other wearying out even our Saviour himself and causing him to forsake them vpon whome words and signes were spent in vaine Though he put them oft in mind of his resurrection by the example of Jonas who was three dayes in the whales belly yet at it when it happened they were as blind and willfull seeking new occasions and tooke no benefit by it If thou wert within good and pure then thou wouldst without hindrance see and vnderstand all things III. They came to Bethsaida and bring to him one blind and desired him that he would touch him and taking the hand of the blind he led him forth of the tow●e and spiting into his eyes and laying his hand vpon him asked him if he saw any thing and looking vp he sayed I see men as it were trees walking and againe he layed his hands vpon his eyes and 〈◊〉 began to see and was restored so that he saw all things clearly The Ceremonies are much the same the event different He cures him by peeces not for want of power but for our Instruction who must content ourselves with what God will allow vs and by our thankfulnes incite him to doe more at his owne time He saw men walking lik● trees with thier heads downwards and thier feere vp●ward groveling in the earth and alltogether busy to get roote in worldly wealth and honour and seting heavenly things at naught O tha● our Saviour would lay his hand againe and a gaine vpon our eyes that we might see all things clearly how different judgment should we make f●●o that which passeth most cōmōly for good in the world Peeter confesseth Christ to be the Sonne of the living God I. IEsus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi and asked his Disciples whome say men that the Sonne of man is And they sayed same Ihon Baptist and other-some Elias others Hierome or one of the Prophets How many ifferent opinions have there been and are still of our Second Part. Saviour For to say nothing of the Arians and such like Heretiks who denyed our Saviour to be God or to be truly man how many even among those who professe themselves Christians and Catholiks have not so reve●end opinion of him in effect as these Jewes had whose censure the Disciples did relate For either they think his doctrine foolish or harsh and impossible or shew by their actions that they beleeve not that he shall come to judge or that he hath zeale of the glorie and honour of his heave●ly Father which Elias and the P●ophets had dissembling thier iniquities and doe measure his proceedings by thier owne foote Enter into thy owne breast and aske thy soule whome it thinks Christ to be Examine thy actions and see whether thou findst not two different opinions one of thy beleefe another of thy life and beware that that of the pfalme be not true of thee deceitfull lips in hart and hart they have spoken that is in two harts one drawing one way the other to the quite contrarie II. And he sayth to them but whome doe you say I am Simon Peeter answered thou art Christ the Sonne of the living God And Iesus answering sayed to him Blessed art thou Simon Barion● because flesh and blood hath not revealid ●o thee but my Father which is in heaven And we also must shut the eyes of flesh and blood which see no further then she outside of every thing and opening the eyes of faith beleeve as we have been taught that however in the outward he is man and subject to the common miseries of mankind he is truly the Sonne of God and one God with him and reverence him accordingly what is there in the world of which we see more then the outward lineaments and yet from the effects we come to beleeve and know that there is more in it then we doe see much more of our Saviour and of all that belongs to him and to the other world ought we to be most certaine that it is otherwise then our short sight or vnderstanding can of itself discover Blessed are they who beleeve inlightened from above begge increase and strength of faith that thou mayest partake of the rewards layed vp for humble beleevers III. And I say to thee that thou art Peeter and vpo● this rock nill I buyld my Church and the gates of hell shall no● prevayle against it And I will give to thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of heaven and whatever thou shalt bind upon earth if ffiall be bound also in the heavens and whatever thou shalt loos● on earth if stetall be loosed also in the heavens God is never backward in rewarding that which is good and the mor● heroicall acts we doe the more we shall experience it Peeter signifies a rock or stone therefore alluding to the name which himself had given him before vpon designe he promiseth to buyld his Church vpon him so strongly that no attempt of hell gates

shall prevayle against it I say vnto thee I whose saying is doing The Keyes which he promiseth signifie wisedome to discerne and power wherby he may refuse the vnworthy and receive the worthy into the Kingdome Buyld confidently vpon this rock submit thyself to these Keyes for our Saviours word and promise cannot fayle Heaven and earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away Christ foretelleth his Passion I. FRom thence forward he began to shew his Disciples that he must go to Hierusalem and suffer many things from the Scribes and chiefe Priests and ●e Killed and the third day rise againe And Peeter taking him vnto him began to rebuke him saying Lord bee it farre from thee this ●hall not happen to thee who turning sayed to Peeter Go after me Satan thou art a scandal to me because thou savourest not the things that are of God but the things which are of men The more knowledge he imparted to them of his divinitie the more he did inculcate to them that he was to suffer that by the beleefe of his power as God they might be the lesse trobled when they should see him suffer as man but hope as then in his resurrection so ever after in thier owne aflictions for his assistance from above Peeter vnderstood not as yet how these things might stand together and out of his affection to our Saviour and naturall aversion from suffering measured his desires that they might both he happy without suffering Our Saviour ranketh him among the instruments of Satan as withdrawing him 〈…〉 ●ourse which God had appointed and teach 〈…〉 we must not only beleeve that it ought to have 〈…〉 but to find sweetnes in it in regard that it is God 〈◊〉 To whom all things savour as they are and no● 〈…〉 are sayed or esteemed to be he is truly wise and ●aught rather by God then by men II. Then Iesus sayed to his Disciples If any man will come after me let him deny himself and take vp his Crosse and follow me for he that will save his life shall loose it and he that shall loose his life for me shall find it You forbid me to suffer but I say vnto you not only if I doe not suffer it will be hurtfull for you but if you also doe not dye you cannot be saved nor any body els man or woman rich or poore and yet observe that he doth not say vnlesse a man dye whether he will or no but he that will loose his life Now what it is to deny ourselves we may easyly learne if we consider what it is to deny another and who ever by denying himself flyeth synne must labour to increase also in vertue for therfore it is added let him take vp his Crosse and follow me III. For what doth it profit a man if he gaine the whole world and sustaine damage of his soule For the Sonne of man shall come in the glorie of his Father vvith his Angels and then vvill he render to everyone according to his works For we have not another soule to put in place of that which we loose Here thou mayest give teares and almes and fasting There such things will have noe place if differred for the judge jndgeth of thingh past Doest thou feare this kind of death Harken how he promiseth glorie Doest thou feare a Crosse Behold the Angels coming to receive thee And remember that he will render to every one according to his workes there is no acception of Persons rich or poore not the man but the worke is regarded In all things have regard to the end and how thou wilt stand before the severe Judge fro● whome nothing is hidden Th. a Ke. l 1. c. 24. The seaventh Application to the most Blessed Sacrament I. THe miracle of the five loaves multiplyed so as to serve five thousand people was fore-runner to the mysterie of the most blessed Sacrament admirable in very many things and in this particular that one and the same Body of our Saviour vnder the shapes of bread and wine is distributed in the whole Christian world to millions of people at one and the self same instant oftime and consecrated in millions of places at once by the word of our Saviour pronounced by so many severall Priests but as then our Saviour by his divine power did not make of One loafe many but still multiplyed the same loaves till all were satisfyed and had notwithstanding a remaynder of twelue baskets f●ll of the fragments so now by the same divine power he gives vs his self-same body in many pleaces at once and not only while we are actually receiving as the heretiks fayne by their faith but afterwards to be reserved for the occasions of sick and dying people and for the continuall comfort of Christians that as he is ever present to the Church triumphant in heaven so the Ch●rch militant might not want the continuall comfort of his actuall and reall presence with it There be many Priests and in many places Christ is offered that the grace and love of God may appeare so much the more towards men by how much the more this holy communion is spread through the world Thanks be to thee sweete Iesus eternall pastour who hast vouchsafed to refresh vs poore banished people with thy most pretious body and blood II. They who looke no further then naturall reason and ordinarie principles of Philosophie doe lead them will be apt to say in this particular and many others concerning this blessed Sacrament with the Jewes How can this man give vs his flesh to eate And the winds and waves of contrarie arguments will rise so as to indanger to over whelme vs unlesse confident vpon our Saviours wo●d we tread them vnder foote and doe not suffer our Faith to grow cold and weake in it It is I that say it sayth our Saviour ●e not affrayd to give credit to my word in this more then in any other mysterie of your faith in which you will find full as much contrarietie to human reason as in this if you fall to questioning how can this be So Nicodemus did in the point of bapti●me● How can the●e things be done so did the Arians in the blessed Trinitie How can the Sonne be equally eternall with the Father O thou of little faith werfore didst thou doub● And by doubting experience the wind to grow stronger and stronger against thee so as to be ready to sink wheras at first vpon his word thou wert confident and didst walke without feate Lord save me that I may not perish with the incredulous III. I am not worthy ô Lord to partake of this bread of Angels it were enough for me to stand a loo●e and feed vpon the crumbs which fall from the table of that heavenly court But ● the goodnes and greatnes of our Saviour not content to feed vs with the comfort of holy Scriptures nor wi●●