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B12232	Meditations of the whole historie of the Passion of Christ. Written by the Reuerend Father, F. Franciscus Costerus, Doctor of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. Translated out of Latine into English by R.W. Esquire; De universa historia Dominicae Passionis meditationes quinquaginta. English	Coster, Franciscus, 1532-1619.; Worthington, Lawrence.	1616 (1616)	STC 5827; ESTC S114528	155,460	681

of God without trouble Cōsider fourthly and enter with thy Lord into the counsaile of the wicked Behold heere many Calues and fatte Bulls compassing the most innocēt Lamb Psal 21. the Scribes the Doctors of the Lawe the Elders the Magistrates of the people the Pharises the religious people of the Iewes being Gluttons insolent and cruell Consent not thou to their counsaile nor their deedes but take the poore out of the hand of the mighty that God also may haue mercy vpon thee in the day of thy trouble And Simon Peter followed Iesus a farre off Ioan. 18. and another disciple and that disciple was known to the high Priest entred with Iesus into the high Priests court but Peter stood at the gate without Therefore the other disciple who was known to the high Priest went forth spake to the porter brought in Peter euen into the Court of the high Priest Mat. 26. being come in Mar. 14. the fire burning in the midest of the Court and they sitting round about it Luc. 22. Peter was in the midst of thē sate with the ministers at the fire that he might see the end and warme him selfe COnsider first whether these flying Apostles went being amazed with so great fury of the Soldiours now wauering and doubtfull in their beleefe of the diuinity of Christ For who would beleeue that God should euer suffer such things especially if according to the receiued opinion of the Iewes he thought that vertue shold be rewarded with temporall goods Behold Peter following a far off and louing more then the rest tooke some courage vnto him so as he doubted not to thrust himselfe into the cōpany of the Ministers but yet fearefully and inconstantly hoping that hee should not be knowne Consider secondly the other Disciple either Saint Iohn as the common opinion is the vnseperable companion of Peter or else some secret Christian a rich Citizen who by reason of some acquaintance with the high Priest did enter into the house whilest Peter as a poore and vnknowne man stayed without doores For poore men are not admitted to come into the houses of great men and if at any time they are permitted it is accounted a great fauour to bee placed amongst their slaues Bee not thou delighted with such a Court neither thrust thy selfe into the company of wicked men If necessity enforce thee depart assoone as thou canst least thy innocency be defiled with the familiarity of wicked mē Consider thirdly that Peter came not in directly but through the fauour of a friend and of a woman Seeke thou therefore no honour by fauour or by the loue of women nor yet by any vicious or fraudulent meanes least according to the example of Peter thou mayest expect a most certain assured downfall Also if thou chancest to get honour lawfully and art entred into the Bishops Pallace the direct way doe not ioyne thy selfe with the wicked nor followe their examples but enter into thine owne heart and set our Lord alwaies before thine eyes who hath called thee to that estate Desire these thinges of Christ and pray vnto him to drawe thee after him and not to forsake thee for euer The 13. Meditation of the blow in the house of Chayphas Then the high Priest asked Iesus of his Disciples and of his Doctrine Iesus said to him Ioan. 18 I haue spoken openly to the world I alwaies taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple whether all the Iewes assemble and in secret I haue spoken nothing Why ask you mee Aske them which heard me what I haue said vnto them behold these know what I haue spoken COnsider first that when hitherto they had obsereued nothing in all the life of Christ worthy of death nor yet of bonds the high Priest began with certaine fraudulent interrogations to draw something out of his answers which might bee obiected as a crime vnto him For the offence of Christ was not the cause of these bondes but the enuy of the Iewes of which enuy the Scripture in the booke of Wisdome numbreth fourteen causes Because hee is vnpr fitable for vs c. Secondly hee asked him of his Doctrine whether it differed nor from Moses and of his Disciples with what minde hee had chosen them what Doctrine he had taught them and what mindes they carried to the Lawe Heere inquire thou the Doctrine of Christ that thou mayst follow it and of his Disciples that thou mayest immitate their manners Thirdly Christ answeared boldly nothing fearing the high Priest nor that assembly of Noble-men that thou shouldest not bee afrayd in Gods cause But hee held his peace concerning his Disciples both because he could not commend them and accuse them hee would not that thou shouldest neuer hurt any manns fame praise if thou canst but if thou cans● not yet detract not and also because the question of his Disciples was mixed with the question of his Doctrine the answeare whereunto satisfied the high Priest Consider fourthly the purity of the doctrine of Christ which our Lord propounded to bee examined by his enemies I haue spoken openly Which is a signe of the purity of his Doctrine To the world no man is barred from the hearing thereof Nothing in secr●t nothing impure which neede to hate or flye the light For those things which I said in priuate I would haue published to all men preached in all places Consider fiftly that it was accounted a fault in the high Priest to be ignorant of those thinges which Christ had taught so openly In the same manner many great and learned men will not goe to Sermons either because they will not be pricked in conscience or else because they are so ouerwhelmed with worldly cares that they esteeme all things cōcerning their soules vnnecessary Doe thou meditate continually vppon the wordes of our Lord and pray him that hee will alwaies put thee in minde of his wordes When hee had spoken this Ioan. 18. one of the seruants gaue a blowe to Iesus saying doest thou answere the high Priest so COnsider first that this blowe was giuen both because these very Seruantes were secretly pricked which being sent to apprehend Iesus returned home saying Neuer did man speake so Ioan. 18. And also of flattery because it seemed not to be reuerently spoken to the high Priest Why doe you aske me Proud and high minded men desire to bee dealt honorably withall and will loose none of their titles yet they violate the name of God with many oathes periuries blasphemies Learne thou hereby that there are many ready to reuenge the wronges of rich and mighty men but no man wil defend the cause of Christ and of the poore Consider secondly the iniquity of this Iudgment where euery one had power to hurt freely with applause and allowance of the Iudges Thirdly that this blowe was of great cruelty because particuler mention is made thereof aboue all other being

Christ But Iesus said COnsider first what thy Lord in these great paines of the Crosse did doe say or thinke when as amongst all those torments he found no comfort neither outwardly by men nor inwardly in his owne soule Yf he moued his body the woundes of the nayles tormented him if his head the thorns ranne in deeper and pricked him if he stirred not at all his torment was intollerable ouer his whole wearied body Thinke thou yppon these things in all thy labours and afflictions which thou sufferest for thy Lord. Hee reproued no man although he were slaundered diuers wayes But because the mouth speaketh from the aboundance of the hart his wordes euen vppon the Crosse were directed to thy profite and saluation and doe declare most manyfestly that he prayed to his Father incessantly for thee when by reason of his torments he was not able to vtter one word Consider secondly his swan-like song and note the last words of thy Lord which he spake to thee at the poynt of death For euen as the voyce of the Serpent hyssing out of the Tree of the knowledge of good and euill instilled the poyson of sinne so the last wordes of Christ from the Tree of the Crosse were very effectuall for our saluation and full of burning feruour as proceeding from the depth of infinite charitie Hee spake with a loud voyce and weeping teares with great affectiō and deepe sighes in fewe words but with many teares mixed with bloud streaming downe from his head His teares watered his prayers Heb. 5 and his bloud adorned them his eyes pierced his Fathers eares his sighes moued his heart Doe thou listen to these wordes marke them diligently and gather the fruite thereof For by these seauen wordes the wordes and formes of the seauen Sacraments are sanctified the seauen guiftes of the holy Ghost are obtained and the seauen deadly sinnes are driuen away Consider thirdly but Iesus said First whilst the Iewes were busie in crucifying tormenting mocking him Iesus as if he had not marked these thinges yea rather that he migh render good for euill said Secondly hee who hetherto in his owne cause to the admiration of all men held his peace and could not be brought to speake but being adiudged and had also abstayned from the most iust defence of himselfe now in the middest of his torments is not silent in thy most vniust cause but being not intreated intreateth yea and intreateth with most effectuall wordes Iesus said who the Sonne of God To whome to God the Father Where vpon the Crosse When being ready to dye and his vitall spirits being spent How not sitting nor lying easily but vpright vpon his feete with his hands lift vp and spread abroad like Moses in former times Ezo 17. and all bleeding For whome for sinners who were carelesse of their owne saluation for Christ and his frtends pray for sinners Heb. 5. before sinners pray for themselues What he craueth mercy offring his prayers and supplications appealing from this cruell sentence of the Iewes his bloud be vpon vs and vpon our children to a better sentence and full of mercy and desiring that this cruell sentence might be made frustrate Before whome openly in the hearing of his enemies to teach them mercy sweetnesse and in the presence of his Mother and of his friends both because they should bee witnesses of his pardoning them also that they should neuer pray for the reuenge of this sinne O excellent speach of highest merite and worthy to be imitated by all men full of labour charity mercy and piety Haue confidence then in Christ and pray him who by speaking first for sinners before he spake for his Mother left to vs a testimonye how much he esteemeth the saluation of sinners that hee will vouchsafe to haue continuall care of thee now in Heauen Luc. 23 Father forgiue them PAuse vpon euery word Father he doth not say Lord which is a name of seuerity and iustice but Father which is a name of mercy and of the newe Testamēt giuen vnto vs in this place by the bloud merites of Christ that euen as he would be our Brother so we should haue all one father in Heauen He saith therefore O Father knowe me thy Sonne the Father will denye nothing to his sonne I came into the world to this end that thou shouldest receiue thine enemies for thy children Heare me then praying for them For euen as the prayers of the Priestes in the Church shall hereafter be very effectuall which shall conclude in my name in these wordes through Christ our Lord so I doe now pray vnto thee my Father thorough me thy onely begotten Sonne Therefore as thou louest mee thy Son so receiue these my prayers For I ascended this crosse haue suffred all these stripes that I might obtaine mercy and pardon for them If therefore thou doest reiect the prayers of thy sonne and not hear thy sonne thou shalt impose a greater torment on mee then the Crosse it selfe which I suffer that I might take away a greater euill that is that I might turne away thy wrath from them Spare therfore the great dolors of thy Son least he seeme to haue indured them in vaine Thou giuest reward to others labours I desire onely this reward for my paines that thou wilt forgiue these men Forgiue heer our Lord doth the office of a Priest for he prayeth for the sinnes of the people and he cryeth Heb. 5. not only as a Priest but as a sacrifice desiring not a free pardon but offering a full satisfaction His wounds crye his bloud cryeth his spittings his paines and all his members crye Forgiue accept of these torments for their sinnes I haue paied their debtes I giue my bloud for the pryce my paines for the ransom my life in satisfaction my body soule for a sacrifice Be thou therfore merciful for this is a copious redemption A hard thing is required to wit that the Father should forget the death of his onely begotten Sonne and of such and so gteat a Sonne but the Sonne beggeth and hee beggeth with his bloud Secondly hee asketh it not conditionally as he praied for himselfe in the Garden If it bee possible if thou wilt if it may bee done but absolutely Forgiue Both that thou mayest learne to pray to God for pardon of thy sinnes and for his diuine grace without any cōdition because that hath alwayes relation to Gods honour And also that thou shouldest freely forgiue thy neighbours faultes without any condition Thirdly hee prayeth to haue them forgiuē presently and not to bee deferred till after his death For hee would not leaue this life till peace was made with God Parents when they are dying doe often leaue vnto their children small store of goods and those intangled with many difficulties charges debts and contentions But Christ before his death payed all debts with his owne bloud took away all difficulties and charges

chooseth the worst things hateth a benefactor and imbraceth an enemy Take thou heed least for a small gaine or humane fauour thou dost betray Christ against thine own cōscience least the same happen to thee which fell vnto the Iewes to whom in stead of the Messias which they expected so many yeares at last reiected condemned came Barrabas which signifieth the sonne of the Father a Murtherer a Rayser of sedition a Deuill by whose will they are ruled that they which refused to heare Christ comming in the name of his Father might heare Antechrist speaking in the name of his Father the Deuill Consider 3. the fearfull speach of Pilate What shall I doe with Iesus the wicked Iudge seeketh the allowance of the people Bende thou thy minde in all thy iudgments and actions not to the will or manners of the people but to the Commaundements of God Consider fourthly For what euill hath hee done the innocency of Christ so often repeated That thou mayst euer remember that Christ dyed not for his owne sinnes but for thine this worde shall condemne all sinners at the last Iudgement Why will our Lord say haue yee forsaken mee and fled vnto the Deuill For what euill haue I done What haue you found in my manners Doctrine that is not pure and agreeable to reason What euill haue yee had from me or what good haue you found in the seruice of the Deuill Doe thou now meditate vpō these thinges and perseuere in the faith of Christ Consider lastly howe these clamours did wound the heart of Christ and how hee was more grieued for this so great and heynous a sinne of his beloued people then for the torment of the Crosse Doe thou comfort him with thy deuoute prayer and forsaking the Deuill and his pompes yeild thy selfe wholy a slaue and seruant vnto Christ The 24. Meditation of the whipping of our Lord. Then Pilate apprehended him and whipped him Then the Soldiours of the President taking Iesus carryed him into the Pretors court and they gathered together all the company vnto him COnsider first that the spouse of thy soule that hee might betroth himselfe vnto thee was diuers waies mocked spit vpon pulled and beaten but nowe hee is come to woundes and bloud that hee which gaue vnto thee his honors liberty and other corporall goods and suffered himselfe to bee spoyled of all these for thy sake might now in like manner plentifully shed his bloud and powre out his bowels that hee might see what liberality thou wilt vse towards him againe Consider secondly two causes why Pilate vsed this whipping The one was that by the sight of the body of Christ torne with so many stripes hee might somewhat pacifie the fury of the Iewes and stay them from the desire of the Crosse The other was that if neuerthelesse they persisted in their fury this whipping should goe before his crucifying For by the lawes of the Romanes such as were to be crucified were first whipped But the true cause of the whipping of Christ according to the will of his Father Luc. 23. was first that thou which wert sicke in euery part of thy body mightest bee wholy cured by the woundes of his whole body Secondly that he might receiue thee wholy who gaue himselfe wholy for thee Thirdly that thou shouldest open the bowels of thy loue towards him who by these stripes opened his body to thee Consider thirdly that Pilate deliuered Christ to the Pretorian Soldiours who assembled their whole band which was the tenth part of a Legion to wit Sixe hundred sixty sixe Soldiours by whom hee was carried into the court of the Pretor that is into a more spacious roome forsaken of all friends was exposed vnto the prey like a Lambe in the midst of Wolues Enter thou into this Court mark attentiuely the cruell wantonnes of the Soldiours and the modesty of Christ in all these miseryes his cleare and amiable countenance and his incredible patience First they despoyled him of all his cloathes set him naked amōgst them Consider the shamefastnes of thy most chast Lord set naked before so great a company of men and keepe the clothes which hee put off to couer thy nakednes Then they tyed his holy body to a piller with his armes stretched vp that his whole body might bee subiect to stripes Then euery one made a whip either with roddes brought thither of purpose or else of cordes for this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which wee call a whip as Euthemius noteth Cap. 67. in Mat. is a scourge wouen with little cordes or leather thongs and euery one fell to worke Pray thou thy Lord that this his nakednesse may couer thy soule with his heauenly grace and vertues and these his bonds free thee from sinnes and this his being alone amongst his cruell enemyes may deliuer thee from the handes of thy enemyes Secondly of the whipping it selfe COnsider first how cruell it was By the auncient Law the Iewes were forbidden to giue any man aboue forty stripes this being added for the cause of the Commaundement Least thy brother should depart before thine eyes fowly torne with so many stripes Deut. 25. But the Gentiles who were neither tyed by the Iewes Law nor moued with any commiseration exceeded this number so farre St. Gert. lib. 4 diuinam insumationū Cap. 35. as it was reuealed vnto some Saints that hee receiued to the number of 5. thousand 4. hundred stripes which will not seem improbable if these few things be diligently cōsidered 1. The Law of beating by which it was decreed that the guilty person should bee stricken by euery one of the Soldiours a Free-man with staues and a Bond-man with whippes By which Law thou dost learn that thy Lord Christ was beaten with whips like a Bond-slaue that hee might restore thee to liberty and that hee was beaten by Sixe hundred and threescore Soldiours according to the will of euery one Secondly the cause of the Lawe of this whipping of thē which were cōdemned to the punishment of the Crosse to wit that the body of him that was to bee crucified should bee so disfigured that the nakednes should not moue the beholders to any dishonest thoughtes when they should see nothing pleasing or beautiful but al things torne and full of commiseration Thirdly the purpose of Pilate who hoped to spare his life by this so great cruelty vsed against him Hee would therefore that this correction should bee most sharpe by which hee might pacifie the desire of reuenge in his most cruell and inhumane enemies Fourthly the hatred of the Priestes whome to please the Soldiours vsed all extremityes against Christ Fiftly the great care and hast which the Priests vsed in the carrying of the Crosse of Christ least Christ should dye before hee was crucified Which doth plainly shew that he was beaten with so many stripes that hee could not long continue Consider secondly the māner obserued in this whipping For