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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02849	Christs prayer vpon the Crosse for his enemies Father forgiue them, for they know not what they doe / by Sir Io. Hayward ...	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1623 (1623)	STC 12989; ESTC S122571	27,936	154

CHRISTS Prayer Vpon the Crosse for his enemies FATHER forgiue them for they know not what they doe By Sir Io. HAYVVARD Knight Doctor of the Lawes Nemo beatus est qui nescit contemnere contemni LONDON ¶ Printed by IOHN BILL M.DC.XXIII TO THE HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS LADY THE LADIE ANNE CAESAR WIFE TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Ssr IVLIVS CAESAR KNIGHT MASTER OF THE ROLLES AND ONE OF HIS MAIESTIES MOST HONORABLE PRIVIE COVNSAILE Casta ad virum matrona parendo Imperat. Pub. Mim TO THE READER AS Contemplation in generall is a pure act of the soule so contemplation of diuine things is most proper vnto it This is the heauenly Manna whereon it feedeth heereby it groweth heereby it is loosened from the knots of flesh blood heereby it mounteth aboue the narrow confines and limits aboue the sordide things of this world aboue either the threats or promises thereof and both returneth to the originall from whence it came and applieth it selfe to the end whither with swift celerity it paceth And this is an inuincible argument of the diuine nature of the soule if it takes delight in matters diuine if it be busied therein not as in other mens affaires but as in the owne Assuredly in nothing else man is so much man as in contemplation of heauenly things Oh! how contemptible a thing is man if hee aduanceth not aboue humane cogitations But conceiue heere with gentle Reader that contemplation is but a fruitlesse action of the soule vnlesse it be thereby enflamed to loue Contemplation is a worke of the vnderstanding hath no perfection in it selfe but is a way and meanes to some degree of perfection by eleuating the will to a diuine loue and vnion with GOD. The vnderstanding giueth not foode to the soule but prepareth it onely for the taste of the will Good is the proper obiect of the will And therefore when the will findeth an infinite depth of goodnesse in GOD it shal be exceeding icie if it burne not like a Phoenix in the fire of diuine loue which by contemplation is therein kindled Wherefore if thou wilt contemplate sweetely and profitably erect the forces of thy will to loue that which thou doest vnderstand for otherwise thou shalt bee but a cold and curious speculator thou shalt neuer arriue at the true end of contemplation For the end of contemplating is not in speculation of the vnderstanding but in an ardent loue of the will Now because of all diuine things none is more Noble then the worke of our redemption none wherein GOD so much manifested his goodnesse and consequently none so fit to enflame our loue I haue addressed my Sabbaoth exercises this present yere to this prayer of CHRIST vpon the Crosse for his enemies Hoping notwithstanding that the residue of the penitentiall Psalmes not yet comprised in my Dauids Teares shall hereafter bee in the like manner prosecuted either by my selfe if life continue or by some other more happie and industrious hand Assuredly man is too mortall either to handle or to knowe things immortall As wee know but in part so wee can expresse but a part of what wee know and must haue many partners in our labours therein A man should so endeauour to liue as he may doe good to all But if that cannot bee yet to many and if not that yet to some and if not that at least to himselfe My desire hereby is to doe good to all euen to him whose prefrict malice hath much wronged both me and himselfe in case he hath either conscience or shame to bee wounded by a lasting memory of his dishonest dealings But albeit I esteeme both these to bee almost impossible alike yet I make no doubt but hereby I shall doe good to many and the rather because manie haue acknowledged to mee great good which they haue receiued by my former writings in this kinde But as in the same meddow the oxe seeketh grasse the hound a hare and the storke a lizard so I expect that in this worke some will hunt after conceits some after cauils but many wil find good pasture for their soules Of these I expect no other recompence but their prayers for mee of which I acknowledge I stand much in need HOM. II. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TAM grauis ille mihi nigri quam lim inaditis Ore aliud qui fert aliud sub pectore celat AS dale of death so doe I hate that kinde whose tongue from thought whose mouth dissents from minde THE PRAYER OF CHRIST VPON THE CROSSE for his enemies ¶ Father forgiue them for they know not what they doe WHen our Sauiour CHRIST had trauelled vp the high hill Golgotha loaden with his ponderous Crosse his body much enfeebled with fasting watching all the night before with the buffetting and scourging which hee endured being much exhausted thereby both of spirit and blood heere the Iewes first vnburthened him of his Crosse prepared the holes for fastening him thereto brought the hammer and the nailes before his face his enemies clustering the whilest about him and not sparing to vexe him with many opprobrious and blasphemous speeches Then they hastily pulled off his apparell which cleauing fast to his body by reason of the congealed blood that issued from him when he was scourged tore open his wounds and rent away some part of his skinne and flesh So hee stood naked and bloody a while and then they rudely threw him vpon the Altar of the Crosse lying vpon the ground And applying the backeside of one of his hands to a hole which they had prepared in the Crosse They smote the rocke and riuers gushed foorth they nayled his hand to the Crosse and blood streamed Abundantly frō the wound One hand being thus fastened they violently streyned the other to a hole that had beene prepared on the other arme of the Crosse and there in like sort fastned it with a nayle Then with great force they stretched his body downeward vntill they had drawen his feet to the lower hole and there in like maner they were fastned with a naile By which strong strayning of his body that of the Prophet Dauid was fulfilled I am powred foorth like water That is I melt away and dissolue with extremity of torments I haue no more strength to subsist then water that is powred foorth And againe All my bones are out of ioint they pierced my hands and my feet they haue numbred all my bones For his calamity was so great partly by his owne feeblenesse and ariditie and partly by the cruell stretching of his members that his ioints were loosed and pulled from their firme fastnes and seates by reason whereof his bones might haue beene numbred Then they took the woodden Altar charged with this bloudy sacrifice and set the lower end to fall with the full weight into a pit which they had prepared for erecting thereof by which fall and