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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12815	The day of salvation, or, A homily upon the bloody sacrifice of Christ, or his death and passion written, and intended onely for private meditation of a most noble and vertuous lady, on Good-Friday last, but since thought worthy the publique view / by Anthony Stafford ...	Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 23122; ESTC S1730	20,308	192

glory of his Beauty in his creatures but the ioynt stocke of their whole life can no more expresse him then can a Gloworme the Jubar of the Sun O fixe thine Eyes here for ever and lose thy sight together with this obiect Consider O my Soule that to ransome thee this Master peece this utmost endeavour of Nature and the Holy Ghost offered himselfe a most willing Sacrifice Rise saith hee behold he is at hand that doth betray mee And in another place it is said Jesus therefore knowing all these things that should come upon him went forth and said unto them Whom seekyee They answered him Iesus of Nazareth Jesus said unto them I am hee c. Heere he meeteth sedition halfe way gazeth her in the face and fearelesse confesseth his name And some learned Devines thinke that he would not die by disease or age lest he should seeme to leave this life against his will or out of Naturall infinite Common to all But with his unvaluable Worth Ballance the Affronts and Miseries Hee Endures 1. THis Lord of Lords that frees the captiv'd and illuminates the blinde is apprehended and bound like a Theefe 2. Nay they preferre a Theefe and a Murderer before him demanding Barrabas to be released and him to be Crucified 3. Call to mind againe oh my soule that for thy Crimes hee carried his owne ponderous Crosse and groaned under the weight of it which that the other two did that suffered with him wee read not 4. Meditate also that for thee he was scourg'd in which hee underwent divers punishments due to severall offenders It was the custome amongst the Antients to strike the indocible on the head their servants which they cast out of doores on the necke those who were ordinary delinquents on the ●ace and their more heinous Criminals all over the body Christ endured all these They strucke his Head with a wande or rod his Face and necke with their fists and his whole body they whipt with rods and scourges 5. But weigh withall that the lashes given his soule by the tongues of Blasphemers and deriders were more intollerable then the former 6. Contemplate too that his Torment was much augmented by the very thought of the infamous company he suffered with for they plac't him in the middest betweene two Theeves as if hee had beene their instructer and seducer 7. Neither canst thou beleeve O my Soule but as hee had more grace so hee had more shame then other men which must needs be infinite in that hee was become a naked Spectacle to his greatest Enemies not having any vaile to cover those parts which humane Nature would have hidden from the eye 8. He suffred also in his estate goods and friends of the first of which hee was stripped even to the skinne and of the latter consisting of his owne deare Disciples forsaken 9. And hee was grieviously troubled in mind which did compassionate his fellow feelers standing under the Crosse as his Mother and others and repine at the insolent fury of his foes 10. His Fame and Reputation deare to him as his owne eyes is not onely question'd but defil'd with false and base aspersions for they termed him a Seducer Observe also ô my soule that hee suffered in regard of the place the time and the manner of his Death 11. First in respect of the place which was Hierusalem it selfe where he was once wel knowne honored for the miracles he had there performed 12. Secondly in consideration of the time of the yeare and of the Day the feast of the Passeover being then celebrated which to solemnite a great multitude ●nd concourse of people resorted thither ●● that hee had the eyes of all the World upon him Agayne it was upon the sixt houre of the day with us the twelfth when all men were up ready walking abroad 13. Thirdly in regard of the kinde of Death he did undergoe to with the Cursed Death of the Crosse 14. Remember also O my better halfe that his Passiō was aggravated by reason of the natural cōplexion of his Body for it is certaine his Body was of a most admirable and delicate Temper as being organiz'd by the Holy Ghost himselfe And hence it came to passe that being thus formed without any defect or error in Nature there was no conflict betweene his Flesh and his Spirit Wherefore his Spirit by strong consequence must love his flesh better then any other Spirit or Soule can or ought to love its body 15. And it is very worthy thy serious Meditation That his anguish was increased in respect of the quality of those members in which hee most suffered as his hands and feet which are nervous and most perceptive and most apprehensive of paine 16. Moreover consider O my Soule that his passion was exacerbated in regard of the diuturnity or long continuance of it The Holy Martyres who have perish't by fire water or the sword have quickly finish't their Martyrdome which the same howre or the same Sunne hath seene begunne and ended But the passion of thy Redeemer endured from the very instant as it were of his conception to the houre of his Death For hee certainly foreknew what his Humanity was to suffer the very imagination whereof made him sweatblood Finde if thou canst what particle of his life was free from persecution But more eminently it endured from that dismall houre after Supper to the Ninth houre of the Sixt Holy day● Wonder not therefore that his Soule was sad and heavy since he was most cruelly tor●ur'd in all his senses His eyes on the other side saw the grim and fierce lookes of his Executioners on the other the amiable countena●ce of his Mother and his other female Votaries together with his beloved Disciple all which as he was man he was loath to part with His Eares heard nothing but insulting and deriding Blasphemies His Taste was distasted with ● most bitter and loathsome potion being a compound of Vineger and Gall. The paine he endured in his feeling was diffus'd cleane through his body his Nostrills drew in nothing but Noysome stinks and dampes arising from putrified Carkasses for it was the common place design'd both for the Execution and buriall of Malefactors which is implied in the name they gave it God gotha in our Tongue the place of Dead men sculls And if wee follow some of the Hebrew Interpreters this is the very place wherein Adam longsince was buried for the truth o● which I wish I had some better authority then that of a Jew But if it bee true it is questionlesse not without the speciall providence of God that sinne might first lose his force there ●here hee first gathered strength And this is the Master-comfort of a Christian without which ●ee were lesse happy ●hen the Heathen that ●t the second comming ●f Christ hee shall rise in Glory in despite of Death whose sting shall be taken out and hee ●ive with GOD for ever And this infinite benefit is an effect of his Passion O Hasten Lord Jesu● that ioyfull day which all thy Elect have an● doe still long to see whe● Death and Time sh●l● l●● their Scepters as I d●● now my selfe prostrat● before thee Then shall I and neuer till then b●● truely blessed in singin● with all the Saints and Angells Halleluias eternally to thy most glorie● name AMEN FINIS * The Schoole of Aristotle neere Athens * Though parentation commonly signifies the performance of any office due to the deceased Parents yet here it signifies the slaying of those Enemies or any of their race who flew our Parents or any of our blood ● Bishop An●●●●● on the 〈…〉 * They brib'd K. Pr●sias to betray Hanniball being his guest Oamici amicus nemo See M. de Pless●● in his Tract of the Iewes * Proselites were such Heathen people as disclayming Paganisme became converts and ioyened themselves unto the Church of the Iewes A Iew by father or mother was called an Hebrew but he who was a Iew both by father and mother was stiled an Hebrew of Hebrews and such I here speak of Lib. 3 de civil Dei cap. 15 Athanas de incar Thomas 3 Sum.

which to procure he insinuated himselfe into the good graces of the Wisemen and besought them to acquaint him with the abode of the child that hee also might come and Worship him But they knowing by Divine Revelation his bloody meaning gave him the slip and returned into their own Countrey another way Seeing this plot frustrated hee makes a Massacre of all the male● from two yeares olde and under hoping inclusively to cut off his new born Prince whose immaculate soules ●lew backe to their Maker adornd with their Primitive beauty and their innocent blood cryed for Uengeance at his hands Here also the cruel intentions of this Tyrant were deluded for the poverty of this holy Lambe was his security which did so Eclipse him that hee could not by his owne lustre be discerned and betrayed Moreover the quiet of his parents by day and their sleep by night were continually disturbed with divine Dreames and Visions touching his preservation Alas what had this pretty one done that could incite this bloody monster to study his ruine He had slaine none of the Herodian family or the Iewish race that hee should be made a Parentation It was Love not Malice invited him to descend from his heavenly habitation His comming was to shed no blood but his owne and that for the Salvation of others Yet was his incomparable Mother forced to flie as farre as Aegypt to save the deare life of this sweete one guilty neither in thought word nor act Long was he banded to and fro betweene the Ministers of the divell who now easeth his servants and becomes himselfe in person his Tormentor He first leads him into the Wildernesse hoping either to starve him or that hunger would provoke him to Blaspheme After he had fasted fortie Dayes and fortie Nights hee propounds to him a tryall of his Godhead If saith hee thou be the Son of God command that these Stones be made Bread Now though Christs Omnipotency could not onely have turned those stones into bread but the whole Globe of the Earth into one Loafe yet at the divels instigation he would not do it neither did his owne necessity require it and therefore he gave him to understand that his food was supernaturall to wit the Word of his Father a dyet which his scorcht pallat could not rellish Next he sets him on a Pinacle of the Holy Temple where hee makes another experiment of his Deity If saith he thou be the Sonne of God cast thy selfe downe c. Here againe though Christ could have walked or flowne in the Aire or stood fixt in it a thing no way difficult to him yet having taken our flesh upon him hee would in all things doe like a man and therefore there being a paire of staires hee would not neglect the ordinary meanes of descending Moreover he was not ignorant that Sathan had impaired the Text which sayes that God should give his Angels charge over him in all his waies but a desperate precipitation becomes not a Christian much lesse Christ himselfe and therefore could be none of his waies Last of all hee placeth him on the top of an exceeding high Mountaine where he makes a third proofe of his Divinity Having thence shewed him all the Kingdomes of the Earth and the glory of them he maks him this large promise All these things saith he will I give thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship mee This last Test hee knew to bee infallible for if hee were the Lord of Light he would never abase himselfe so far as to worship the Prince of darknes But heere I cannot wonder enough how a spirit not dull'd by actuating a fleshy body should bee so foolish as to propound that as a reward of Christs worship which was his owne before for hee could not but know that Christs Dominion extended not onely over both the Globes but even his owne Hell it selfe Finding at length our blessed Saviour in all things unanswerable hee left him and gave him over once againe into the hands of his Damned Agents whom hee had furnisht with full instructions how to torture and afflict him After a long consultation the 1. thing their inveteterate malice excepted against was his Preaching which though it had made others Saints turned them into Furies an evident proofe that the doctrine of Salvation is loath some to soules full gorged with the surfeits of sinne Truth of her selfe is perswasive but passing through that mouth and delivered with so sweet an Eloquution so gratious a Countenance mee thinks shee should Civilize Barbarisme it selfe penetrate the most obdurate hearts and Force Attention from the very Divels But these Spiders suck venome from this Rose and seeke to roote it up Here the saying is verisied that there can be no society much lesse a friendship between Truth and Falsehood They throw stones at him drive him out of their Citty with a resolution to cast him downe from a high Mountaine You barbarous Infidels hath he upon mature consideration of all the Nations of the Earth chosen you for his people and doe you refuse him that elected you Are you of humane race and can you butcher Innocency it selfe Shall the Sacrifice for your sinnes fall a Sacrifice to your Malice Sure you were borne without bowells or the Rockes ingendred and brought you forth their flinty natur'd issue to infect Mankind with a savage cruelty Why this is the Corner-stone which taken away the whole Frame of your wel being here and your Salvation hereafter consequently totters and falls into an irreparable and eternall ruine But God hath given you over to a reprobate sense and your Reason and Religion have left you to be guided by your evill Destiny You will I see cast your Saviour with your rubbish out of his owne Citty over which he weepes the divining teares of her neare approaching destruction When your Temple and your Houses burnt round about you then did Titus whom the Romans stil'd deliciae humani generis the delight of humane kinde out of a noble and a manly pitty beseech you to save your selves yet being the brood of obstinacy you would not move a foote but saw your owne bodies consume in fire made with your owne hands And Iesus who hath a style above Titus as being deliciae coelestium incolarum the delight of the heavenly Inhabitants with his eyes drown'd in water like the Sunne looking through a rainy Cloud beheld you with Compassion and wooed you to make him the happy means of your preservation from the never dying flames now ready to imbrace you Notwithstanding this his mercifull offer you ingratefull Monsters at once excluded him ●●● of the earthly Hie●●salem and your ●●lves out of the heaven●● But the very dis●ursing with you is con●●gious and therefore I ●●ll leave to speake fur●●er to your persons and ●●oceed to your horrid ●●actices and strata●●ms against our mee●●st Master in the as●●ming of whose name upon us we are asmuc● honour'd as he