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A10801	A sacred septenarie, or The seuen last wordes of our Sauiour Christ vttered vpon the crosse, (with the necessary circumstances of the same:) expounded by a commentary, gathered out of the holy Scriptures, the writings of the ancient fathers, and later diuines. By Alexander Roberts, Bachelour in Diuinity; and preacher of Gods word at Kings Linne, in Norfolke.	Roberts, Alexander, d. 1620.	1614 (1614)	STC 21074; ESTC S115974	219,904	265

is the Apostles constant resolution that all who will liue godly in Christ Iesus must suffer afflictions 2. Tim. 3. 12. yea our Sauiour Christ telleth his Church what they are to looke for in the world euen many tribulations Iohn 16. 33. The Church herevpon earth is a l Tertullianus Apologet. cap. 1. pilgrime and stranger and therefore findeth but hard entertainment knowing that no better can bee looked for amongst enemies poore and subiect to all kind of wrongs and iniuries and therefore is compared to a doue dwelling in the rockes Cant. 2. 14. to a ship tossed with the raging waues of the sea but not ouerwhelmed to a house builded vpon a rocke against which the flouds beate the stormes fall with violence but cannot be ouerthrowen Math. 7. 25. Also she is said to flie into the wildernesse and there hide her selfe for a time and vtterly to loose her beauty Apoc. 12. 14 And m Aduersus Auxentium Saint Hillaris tells vs that we must seeke her rather lying in caues and dens thereby to auoyd the tempest of persecutions then shining in high places aboue others so that if there were not another life besides this then should wee Christians be more miserable than all the rest 1. Corinth 15. 19. This argument of Bellarmine is the very same and all one Vse 3. with that which the Pagans vsed against the ancient Christians and by this reason the same note should agree as well to the heathenish as to the Christian Church For n Lib. 10. epist. 54. cui respondet Ambrosius epist duabus 30. 31. lib. 5. Et Prudentius Christianus poeta duobus libris Symachus alledged none other wherby to perswade Theodosius the Emperour that he should continue in the old religion of the Romanes then this how their ciuill estate and common-wealth was most abundant in riches and large in dominions when they worshipped Iupiter Apollo and their other Gods Wherefore let vs serue the Lord in feare and reioyce before him in trembling Psal 2. 11. 12. and both in prosperitie and aduersitie continue stedfast in saith and be thankefull Iob 1. 21. For as well euill as good proceed from the mouth of God Lament 3. 38. and both are his gifts the one o Augustinus epist ad Rusticit Foelicitatem comforting the other chastising neither ought wee to haue our eyes too much dazeled with the glittering of worldly prosperitie which we see the vnrighteous doe for the most part enioy nor accompt aduersitie absolutely and without p Augustinus de ciuitate Dei lib. 1. cap. 23. Neminem moueat magis impiorum faelicitas quàm mouere debe principatus Diaeboli in mundo P●●rus de la Caualleria in tractatu qui insoribitur Zelus Christi exception euill wherewith the Saints and deere children of God are enwrapped For it hath pleased the diuine prouidence to prouide hereafter good things for the righteous which the wicked shall neuer enioy and euill for the wicked wherewith the righteous shall not be tormented But for these outward and temporall goods and euils God would haue them indifferently common to both least wee should too greedily desire the one which the wicked doe obteyne or ouer basely seeke to auoide the other which falleth in the lot of the most q These reasons more of the same sort hath that worthy professor of Diuinitie Doctor Whitakers gathered against Bellarmine holy Then stood by the Crosse of Iesus his mother and his mothers sister Mary the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalen Controuersia de Ecclesiae notis quaestione 5. cap. 16. This narration doth greatly set forth and manifest the grieuousnesse of Christs death that he suffered so terrible and shameful a punishment in the sight and beholding of his deare Mother and beloued friends who all out of qnestion did exceedingly sorrow at the same and with melting hearts followed him But so it must be that no kinde of extremity should be wanting in his death who was to be the sacrifice for the sinnes of the world And to this end that he might sanctifie vnto those who are his all yea euen the most grieuous sufferings These women accompanied him glorious in working miracles and teaching with the astonishment of the hearers and now forsake him not apprehended condemned whipped crucified Also great multitudes of people and women of Ierusalem came forth of the Citie to see what should bee done which bewayled and lamented him Luc. 23. 27. As God in the creation hath engrafted in the mindes of men naturall affections and would haue them resemblances and as it were pictures of his loue toward vs so doth he not disallo●● or condemne them in any so long as they doe abide and are confined within their bounds and limits And therefore the Apostle commandeth that we should weepe with them that weepe and reioyce with them that r Affici nos dolore vult Pater coelestis in nostris proximorum afflictionibus quo in nostris patientes in alienis benigni ergae fratres ac misericordes simus In prosperis gaudio laetitia exultare quae indicat nos nec invidere aliorum faelicitati nec insolentes esse reioyce Rom. 12. 15. which precept he giueth in respect of the double condition of man prosperous and aduerse and vrgeth the performance thereof by an argument taken from comparison of the like that sympathy and mutuall compassion which is between the members one toward another of the same naturall body 1. Corinth 12. 25. 26. For if the head doe ake all the rest of the parts doe suffer with it yea if the s Chrysostomus in 12. caput 1. epist ad Cor. foot be pricked with a throne the griefe is spred ouer the whole body the head boweth it selfe downe the eyes looke carefully where the hurt is the hand maketh haste to pulle it out the tongue asketh for a medecine to apply vnto it and to ease the paine The same affection and fellow-feeling ought thereto bee between the members of one and the same mystical body the Church For first wee haue all one beginning and are brethren of one t Tertull. Apologes cap. 19. Minutius Faelix in Octauio Father the heauenly God the earthly Adam all framed of the same clay wherof we are named the sonnes of Adam with whom the world was replenished Deut. 32. 8. and that which is greater than this so many as doe beleue in Christ haue drunke of one spirit of u Tertull. Apolog cap. 39. sanctification and haue breathed from out of one wombe of the same ignorance vnto one light of truth 1. Corinth 12. 13. Ephes 4. 5. 6. Secondly there is in all a conformitie and participation of the same nature from which ground ariseth that exhortation of the Prophet Breake thy bread vnto the hungry bring y Quod cuiquis contigit cuiui● potest contingere Cùm mimu● recitaret hac verba Iulius Caesar largas

his crosse for the trappe his bloud for the baite and so was taken Therefore farre be it from vs and God forbid that we should reioyce in any thing but in the crosse of Christ Gal. 6. 14. Now this reioycing is two fould The one of faith the other of patience of faith when we are perswaded in our heartes notwithstanding the greatnesse and number of our sinnes that we are receiued into fauour reconciled vnto God and saued because it pleased the father that in him should all fulnesse dwell and by him to reconcile all thinges to himselfe and to set at peace through the bloud of his crosse both the thinges in earth and the thinges in heauen c. Coloss 1. 19. 20. And from hence proceedeth that holy boasting of the Apostle that he spared not his owne sonne but gaue him for vs all Who then shall lay any thing to the charge of the chosen It is God that iustifieth who shall condemne it is Christ which is dead yea rather which is risen againe who is also at the right hand of God and maketh request also for vs And as it were treading vnder foote and trampling vppon all those extremities indignities and disgraces which the world can offer breaketh out further with ioy what shall separate vs from the loue of Christ shall tribulation or anguish or persecution or famine or nakednesse or perill or sword and so forth to the end of the chapter Rom. 8. 32. 33. 34. c. The reioycing of patience is when in any the most grieuous The reioicing of patience affliction we humbly submit our selues vnder the mightie hand of God and comfor our fainting soules by the example of Christ crucified reioycing that we are made partakers of his sufferinges 1. Pet. 4. 12. For if we suffer we shall also reigne with him 2. Timoth. 2. 12. So the Apostles when they were beaten with roddes departed from the councell by whose sentence they were adiudged to this punishment reioycing that they were accompted worthy to suffer rebuke for the name of Christ Act. 5. 41. And thus did the ancient holy Martyres stand affected n Nicephorus Califius lib. 6. cap. 36. Suidas in vocabulo Babilas Babilas ready to lay downe his necke vpon the blocke requested this one thing at the executioners handes euen to bee buried with the chaine wherewith he was bound that rising at the last day from the dead it might appeare hee once carried it for Christs sake And it is very remarkeable that o Lib. histor Ecclesiastica 〈◊〉 cap. 6. Eusebius reporteth how the Christians willingly and as it were striuing who should be the first hauinge made confession of their faith offered themselues to death and receiuing the sentence of condemnation went aside to a place adioyning vpon the walles of the Citie tied with no other fetters then the bondes of faith yet none of them fought to escape when none watched them but all yea one preuenting another put themselues into the handes of the butcher and while the first were executed the rest cheerefully sunge psalmes and praises vnto God waiting their course and place of Martyrdome Wherefore let vs runne with patience the race that is set before vs looking vnto Iesus the Author and finisher of our faith who for the ioy that was set before him endured the crosse and despised the shame and is set at the right hand of the throne of God Heb. 12. 1. 2. And they crucified him The chiefe Priests had hyred Iudas the Apostle Matth. 26. 14. 15. who for thirty pieces of siluer the price of a p Iohannes Drusius ad 27. caput Matthaei slaue or bond-man at so low a rate was he valued betrayed his Master hee is brought before Caiphas charged with false accusations deliuered ouer to Pilate that hee might pronounce the condemnatory sentence vpon him who though he was found guiltlesse and innocent euen by the testimonie of the Iudge himselfe in a furious rage they cryed out that Barrabas a murtherer and desperate villaine the offer being tendred which they would choose might bee set free and the Lord of life crucified Neither did the Iewes ouerslip any thing which might either make to his reproch or encrease his torment For his body was torne with whipping his head crowned with thornes led q De forma eductionis pleniss Lipsius do cruce lib. 1. cap. 6. Petrus Faber somestriū lib. 2. cap. 8. forth to execution with all disgrace and contumely is constrained to carry his crosse vpon his mangled shoulders and that the whole for a time Luc. 23. 26. for else what needed a helpe to be taken vp and enforced to take a part he is stripped of his garments hands and feet nayled to the crosse which is the peculiar torture of this kinde of death Pilate writeth a title and causeth it to be set ouer his head in r Iansenius in Harmonia Euang cap. 143. Sixtus Senensis sacrae biblioth lib. 2. Hunc Sinodi titulum Dion Cassius vocat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Caietanus Ientaculo prim quaest 4. Obseruation scorne and contempt vpbrayding and taunting him as though he had sought to vsurpe the kingdome ouer the Iewes and intimating thereby that for this cause he was adiudged to this present punishment and all to this end thereby to procure the fauour and good liking of the Emperour toward him as one who defended his Royall authoritie ouer the Iewes against the Iewes The cruelty of the wicked against the godly is outragious and cannot be appeased but by their vtter destruction and therefore are said to deuour the poore as with fire and to consume them to ashes Psal 10. 2. and are described in the holy Scriptures by such titles as expresse their conditions for they are named Lyons Neroes s Eusebius Histor Ecclesiast lib. 2. cap. 12. style 2. Timoth. 4. 17. the first who stayned his sword with the bloud of t Tertull. in Apologetico cap. 5. Christians and dedicated persecution against the Gospell wayters for bloud hunters of their brethren Micha 7. 2. Caniballs moneators Psal 53. 4. and in one summe to comprehend all such whose mercies are cruelties Prouerbs 12. 10. clay steepod in bloud as u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dictus est obsaeuam lontā naturam Tyberius Suetonius lib. 3. cap. 57. Theodorus was wont to call Tiberius The view of the Scriptures the histories of the primitiue Church will afford for confirmation of this plenty of examples Wicked Cain murthereth righteous Abell his brother Gen. 4. 8. the first Martyr who watered the field of the Church with his bloud Pharaoh commaundeth the sucking infants to be pulled from their mothers breasts and cast into the riuer Nilus Exod. 1. 22. Manasses while he was yet an Idolater to other his wickednes added this that he shed innocent bloud till he filled Ierusalem from corner to corner 2. King 21. 16. It was not a sufficient satisfaction to Hamans minde that Mordecay

should be destroyed but sparing no cost by a lauish offer of great summes of money to be brought into the Kings coffers obteyned to haue the whole nation of the Iewes rooted out Hester 3. 6. and in the day of Ierusalems calamitie the Edomites cry out Race it race it euen to the foundation thereof Psal 137. 7. and to descend to the first times of the Primitiue Church the endeuours and practise of the enemies of godlynesse was to choake it new borne and being as it were in the swathing bands and a tender infant in the cradle Such and so great was the cruelty which the Tyrants practised in Thebais that x Eusebius hist Ecclesiast lib. 8. cap. 3. 10. 11. 13. plura nefanda crudeli tatis exempla Si qu● tant● amor veteram cognoscere casus inveni●e est apud Victoreus de persecutions Africa Bullingerum in libro de persecutionibus Ecclesiae In historia persecutionū Waldensium ab anno 155. ad 〈◊〉 161. Reginandum Gonsalum in detectione Inquisitionis Hispanica Eusebius affirmeth it farre exceeded the credit of any relation For they rent and tare the whole body with po●●erdes vntill the skin was scraped off they hanged vp women naked by one foote vpon certaine engines with their heads downeward without any respect to the modestic of the sexe a detestable spectacle some they pulled a pieces hauing their legges and armes tyed to the boughes of trees bended by force to that purpose and these the like for many yeares together in which euery day ten when the fewest sometime an hundred men women children were vnmercifully massacred by these torments y Stigelius in 3. partolocorum Theolog. 〈◊〉 Christo vsque ad Con 〈…〉 M. sunt ann● 300. 〈◊〉 plures in quibus sueriat 〈◊〉 persecutienos sed omnium 〈…〉 ●issima sub Dio 〈…〉 quo regnante 〈◊〉 di 〈…〉 bijt quin Alexandriae ad minimum decem Christiani tru 〈…〉 sint And it was lawfull for euery one who had deuised any new or strange kinde of torture to make tryall of the same vpon the bodies of the Christians so that some were beaten to death with clubs others with rods some with whips many hanged their hands tyed behind them and stretched vp with pullies pulled asunder by peace-meale c. And Tacitus reporteth that Nero z Annalium lib. 15 de hoc intelligoudus est Iunenalis satyra 1. lib. 1. ●one Tygillinū 〈◊〉 lucebis in illa afflicted them with most exquisitely deuised torments adding therevnto whatsoeuer might to their reproch and mockery as couering them with the skinnes of wilde beasts that so they might be sooner torne of dogs and nayling them to crosses enwrapped them with combustible matter that set on fire they might serue to giue light in the night a Nauclirus in historia Generatione 10. Z●gon 〈…〉 in historin politices Constantino poleos Crusij in eam annorationes Mahomet the second when he tooke Constantinople commaunded the Christians to be chopped into gobbets in his owne sight and some to be set vp with a sharpe stake thrust throw their secret parts pearcing the ridge bone of the backe The b Hot●mānus in bruto sulmine Pope of Rome importuned Frances the first king of Fraunce that the professors of the reformed Religion might haue their tongues cut out by which meanes they should not complaine and then to be burned In the c Historica narratio de vita morte Iohannis Hussi Councell of Constance when Iohn Husse was consumed with fire the Papists finding his heart yet whole spitted it vpon a sharpued 〈◊〉 of wood rosted it with a new fire gathered vp his ashes cast them into the Riuer Rhene that there might not so much as the dust of him so far as they could preuaile be left vpon the earth Who knoweth not how in the memorie of our Fathers for now I come to touch those things which are incident to our times they d Ioh. Foxus in martyrologio Iuollus Episcopus Sarisburiensispiae memoriae in d●f●nsione Apologiae Eccles Anglicanae cap. 4. sect 3. tooke the infant issuing out of the mothers wombe in the midst of the flame and the executioners with their forkes cast it into the fire that as the off spring of an heretike it might burne together with hir Adde to this how they murdered e Dinothus lib. 2. hist de bello Gal. 〈…〉 gionis causa suscepio aged men sucking babes people lying sick in their beddes vnable to stirre women bigge with child and cast them downe headlonge from the rockes breaking their neckes and crushing their bones in peeces such who with shedding of many teares and promising large rewardes haue begged life yea buried some quicke and disturbed the rest of others laide at peace in their graues spoylinge them of their winding sheetes and casting them in sauage manner to be deuoured of dogges Our ancestours haue f Epistola siue lebellus supplex ad Ph 〈…〉 m Hispa 〈…〉 Regem nomine princip● Auriari ordinū Hollandiae Lelaudiae oblatus seene the bodies of the dead digged vp and most dispitefully hanged vpon gibttets men aliue fleaed and drummes couered with their skinnes and many plucked asunder with hot tonges And not to reckon vp more of this sort the remembrance of them is a terror to my soule hee is but a child and ignorant of the history of his owne times who knoweth not how from the g Vespera Parisime de quibus versus numeralis annum tam 〈◊〉 stragis denotans vz 1572 BarthoLoMeVs fLet qVla GaLL●eVs oCCVbat At Las. twenty foure of August which day is consecrated to the memory of Saint Bartholomewe vnto the first of December in Paris and other Citties of Fraunce one h De haec Laniena vide historiam de statu veligiou● Reipub. i● Galli 〈…〉 lib. 10. H●●drici Zuinglij Epito●● de Regibus Galli● in Carolo 9 Th●●num qui in historia sui temporis lib. 52. minorens numerum ponis illsus liberum de hac faeda tēpestate ●●dium lientia quod profert lib. 35. non pr●cul ab initio hundred thousand of the religion were murthered and that after a most treacherous and bloudy manner These and the like transcendent outrages may be sufficient testimony that Rome is that scarlot-coloured harlot drunken with the bloud of the Saintes Apoc. 17. 6. For by the space of these i A●glinus in Apocalipsin Bullingerus con 〈…〉 Pij Quinti Bullam 1 Testes sisut omniū atatum historiae qua doc 〈…〉 Papam Reges inter se cōcōsisse 〈◊〉 in dominos sicos fi●os in patrei concitâsse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Authores fuisse iuramentis vt p●●rum astragalis vsos ad●o vt verò dicatur Pontifices Romanes Romulo succedere in parricidiis non Petro in pascendis ouibus vt Adrianus 4. priusquam moreretur dixisse fortur Amoninus 〈◊〉 17. § 9. 2 Exempla sint

that we want some things necessary for the maintenance of this life and meanes to appease our impatiency herein be these First the condition of that estate to which wee are all nature subiect vnto for wee brought nothing into the world neither shall wee carry any thing out thereof 1. Timoth. 6. 7. Iob dispoiled of all his goods acknowledgeth so much Naked came I out of my mothers womb and naked shall I return thither againe Iob 1. 21. and some haue obserued from the forme and structure of our bodies that all the sences are placed in the head the higher part feeling onely excepted which is dispersed through all the members as in a tower the feet are set in the lowest roome and that as an instruction teaching that wee should trample vnder feet and tread vpon earthly things and looke vp to heauen and the vnspeakeable treasures there reserued for vs seeking first the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Math. 〈◊〉 33. For no want or need can exclude vs from grace yea God hath chosen the poore Ian● 2. 5 and heareth their desires Psal 9. 18. Ecclesiasticus 21. 5. onely let vs be patient in silence Esay 30. 15. And God will for euer satisfie vs c. Luc. 6. 21. The second take the witnesse of our owne eyes Let vs looke vpon the Patriarkes and Prophets which of them all did ouerflow in wealth and abundance Iacob when he wandreth from his fathers house hath the earth for his bed a stone for a pillow and heauen for his couering Gen. 28. 11. Those vpon whom God set his loue went vp and downe in the vast deserts and wildernesse out of the way and found no City to dwell in but hungry and thirsty their soule fainted in them Psal 107. v. 4. 5. Vse 2 Another vse of this doctrine and that is generall not to thinke it a strange thing for the fiery trial which is amongst vs to proue vs as though some new thing had come vpon vs 1. Pet. 4. 12. in which n Nicholaus de Cl●mangijs de fructu 〈…〉 m ●duersarum place of the Apostle as else where in Scripture tribulation is signified vnder the name of fire for the like and commendable effects that are found in them first it is the property of fire to mount aloft and ascend to his own Region and tribulation rayseth the soule lying groueling vpon earth lifteth it vp vnto the Lord and heauen from which it had the originall 2. Fire heateth and enflameth afflictions kindleth the heate of the Creator in a cold and fainting soule Thirdly fire shineth and giueth light in darknesse so trouble and calamity is the wholesome eye-salue to cure the dimnesse of our sight which the Angell of the Church of Laodicia is aduised to buye that hee may see A poc 3. 18. And it seemed that Nebuchadnetzar vsed this medecine who for his exceeding pride was turned from a man into a beast and lost the eyes of his mind but recouered it after long time againe and then could looke vp into heauen and giue thanks vnto the most high and prayse and honour him who liueth for euer Dan. 4. 31. Fourthly the quality of fire is to melt and make soft things that are hard and the Spouse Cant. 5. 6. sayeth thus my heart was melted when my beloued spake now God speaketh vnto vs by tribulation not by words but by roddes and those hearts which are not mollified by this fire are altogether clay which is hardned with heat Fiftly fire trieth the Potters vessels and make them strong and to this purpose is that of the Wise-man the furnace proueth the Potters vessell tentation the righteous And therefore not vnfitly stiled fire in respect of those other the like effects it worketh in sondry men as fire doth vpon sundry matters c. Woman behold thy Sonne The words are in meaning this much this my disciple shall take care of thee as if he were thine owne sonne and therefore he saith not behold thy guardian or defendor but thy sonne and this he speaketh for her further comfort thou hast now one sonne dying and ready to giue vp the ghost taken from thee but another left this in care and dutie him in nature God according to the measure of affliction sendeth the answerable measure of comfort the rules whereof are these That of Dauid In the multitude of the thoughts of mine heart thy comforts haue reioyced my soule Psal 94. 19. Another of Saint Paules As the sufferings of Christ abounded in vs so our consolation aboundeth through Christ 2. Corinth 1. 5. And for examples Iacob is consumed with griefe for want of his sonne Ioseph whom he supposed to be deuoured of some euill beast for so the rest of his children would haue perswaded him reioyceth at the newes brought that he was liuing made haste to goe downe into Aegypt to see him Gen. 37. 34. 45. 28. The Israelites for a long time groane vnder the heauy yoke of bondage but when the determined foure hundred and thirty yeares are fulfilled they come forth with triumph out of the land of their captiuitie Exod. 12. 41. Ioseph is sold by his brethren vnto the Ismalites of them brought into Aegypt and there bought of Putiphar and in his house accused of his Mistris who dayly entised him vnto vncleane lust and yet laid to his charge that he would haue offered her violence when he would not yeeld to her vnchast allurements is cast into prison hardly entreated so that the iron pierced through his soule Psal 105. 18. for hee was held in fetters thirteene yeeres seing and suffering many extremities at the last is set free interpreteth the Kings dreames is exalted to honour for his iron chaine receiueth one of gold for the cloake left behind in the escape from his wanton mistris a vesture of silke for the loathsome filthinesse of the prison the high dignitie of the gouernment is made Viceroy of the kingdome fourescore yeares managing all the affaires of the estate so that his glory did six times o Hee liued 110. yeeres is sold when he is 17. yeere old when 30. standeth before Pharaoh and interpreteth his dreames so his bondage was 13. yeeres his honor 80 and six times 13. make 78. exceed his miserie compare Gen. 37. 2. 2. 28. 41. 46. 50. 22. Iob after the rifling of his goods the driuing away of his cattell the murthering of his seruants the crushing in pieces of his children by the ruine of his house while they were banquetting and thesmiting of his body with biles from the crowne of the head to the p Hanc Iobi calamitatem duodecim menses perdurasse tradunt Iudaei in Sedar Otani siue Chronico maiorum sole of the foot is blessed of God with doubled riches plentifull issue length of daies the latter end is more happy thē the beginning Iob 42. 12. Let vs cast our care vpon God he careth for vs 1. Pet. 5.