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The Passion sermon preached at Paules Crosse, on Good-Friday. Apr. 14. 1609. By I.H.; Passion-sermon
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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THE PASSION SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLES CROSSE on Good-Friday Apr. 14. 1609. By I. H. LONDON Printed by W. S. for Samuell Macham and are to be sold at his Shop in Pauls Church-Yard at the Signe of the Bull-head ANNO. 1609. TO THE ONELY HONOVR AND GLORIE OF GOD MY DEARE AND BLESSED SAVIOVR WHICH HATH DONE AND SVFFERED ALL THESE THINGES FOR MY SOVLE HIS WEAKE AND VNWORTHIE SERVANT HVMBLIE DESIRES TO CONSECRATE HIMSELFE AND HIS POORE LABOVRS BESEECHING HIM TO ACCEPT AND BLESSE THEM TO THE PVBLIKE GOOD AND TO THE PRAISE OF HIS OVVNE GLORIOVS NAME To the Reader I Desire not to make any Apologie for the Edition of this my Sermon It is motiue enough that herein I affect a more publike and more induring good Spirituall nicenesse is the next degree to vnfaithfulnesse This point cannot be too much vrged eyther by the tongue or presse Religion and our soules depend vpon it yet are our thoughts too much beside it The Church of Rome so fixes her selfe in her adoration vpon the Crosse of Christ as if shee forgat his glory Many of vs so conceiue of him glorious that we neglect the meditation of his Crosse the way to his glory and ours If we would proceede aright wee must passe from his Golgotha to the mount of Oliues and from thence to heauen and there seeke and settle our rest According to my weake ability I haue led this way in my speech beseeching my Readers to follow mee with their hearts that we may ouertake him which is entred into the true sanctuarie euen the highest heauens to appeare now in the sight of God for vs. THE PASSION SERMON IOHN 19. VERSE 30. When Iesus therefore had receiued the Vineger he said It is finished and bowing the head he gaue vp the ghost THE bitter and yet victorious Passion of the Sonne of GOD right Honourable and beloued Christians as it was the strangest thing that euer befell the earth So is both of most soueraigne vse and lookes for the most frequent and carefull meditation It is one of those thinges which was once done that it might be thought of for euer Euery day therefore must be the Good-friday of a Christian who with that great Doctor of the Gentiles must desire to know nothing but Iesus Christ and him crucified There is no branch or circumstance in this wonderful businesse which yeeldes not infinite matter of discourse According to the solemnity of this time and place I haue chosen to commend vnto your Christian attention our Sauiours Farewell to Nature for his reuiuing was aboue it in his last word in his last act His last word Jt is finished his last act Hee gaue vp the ghost That which hee said hee did If there be any theam that may challenge and command our eares and hearts this is it for beholde the sweetest word that euer Christ spake and the most meritorious act that euer hee did are met together in this his last breath In the one yee shall see him triumphing yeelding in the other yet so as hee ouercomes Imagine therefore that you saw Christ â—esus in this day of his passion who is euery day here crucified before your eyes aduanced vpon the chariot of his Crosse and now after a weary conflict cheerefully ouerlooking the despight and shame of men the wrath of his Father the law sinne death hell which all lie gasping at his foote and then you shall conceiue with what spirite hee saith Consummatum est It is finished What is finished Shortly All the prophesies that were of him All legall obseruations that prefigured him his own sufferings Our saluation The prophesies are accomplisht the ceremonies abolisht his sufferings ended our saluation wrought these foure heades shall limit this first part of my speech onely let them find and leaue you attentiue Euen this very word is prophesied of All things that are written of me haue an end saith Christ What end this It is finished this very end hath his end here What therefore is finished not this prediction only of his last draught as Augustine that were too particular Let our Sauiour himselfe say All things that are written of mee by the Prophets It is a sure and conuertible rule Nothing was done by Christ which was not for tolde nothing was euer foretolde by the Prophets of Christ which was not done It would take vp a life to compare the Prophets and Euangelists the predictions and the history largely to discourse how the one foretels and the other aunsweres let it suffice to look at them running Of all the Euangelists S. Mathew hath beene most studious in making these references and correspondences with whom the burden or vndersong of euery euent is still vt impleretur That it might bee fulfilled Thus hath hee noted if I haue reckoned them aright two and thirty seuerall prophesies concerning Christ fulfilled in his birth life death ☞ ☜ ☞ ☜ Esay 7.14 Mat. 1.23 Zach. 9.9 Mat. Ibidem Mich. 5.2 Mat. 2.6 Iere. 7.11 Mat. 21.13 Esay 11.1 Mat. 2.15 Psalm 8.2 Mat. 21.16 Ier. 31.15 Mat. 2.18 Esay 5.8 Mat. 21.33 Iudg. 13.5 Mat. 2. vlt. Psal 118.22 Mat. 21.44 Esa 40.3 Mat. 3.2 Psal 110.1 Mat. 22.44 Esay 9.1 Mat. 4.15 Esay 8.14 Mat. 21.44 Leu. 14.4 Mat. 8.4 Psal 41.9 Mat. 26.31 Esay 53.4 Mat. 8.17 Esay 53.10 Mat. 26.54 Esay 61.1 Mat. 11.4 Zach. 13.7 Mat. 26.31 Esay 42.1 Mat. 12.17 Lam. 4.20 Mat. 26.56 Iona. 1.17 Mat. 12.40 Esay 50.6 Mat. 26.67 Esay 6.9 Mat. 13.14 Zac. 11.13 Mat. 27.9 Psal 78.2 Mat. 13.35 Psal 22.18 Mat. 27.35 Es 35.5.6 Mat. 15.30 Psal 22.2 Mat. 27.46 Es 62.11 Mat. 21.5 Psal 69.22 Mat. 27.48 To which Saint Iohn adds many more Our speech must be directed to his Passion omitting the rest let vs insist in those He must bee apprehended it was fore-prophesied The Annointed of the Lord was taken in their nets sayeth Ieremie but how he must be sold for what thirty siluer peeces and what must those doe buy a fielde all foretolde And they tooke thirty siluer peeces the price of him that was valued and gaue them for the Potters field saith Zacharie miswritten Ieremy by one letter mistaken in the abbreuiation by whom that childe of perdition that the Scripture might bee fulfilled Which was hee It is foretold He that eateth bread with mee saith the Psalmist And what shall his Disciples doe Runne away so saith the prophesie I will smite the shepheard and the sheepe shall bee scattered saith Zacharie What shall be done to him hee must be scourged and spit vpon behold not those filthy excrements could haue light vpon his sacred face without a prophesie I hid not my face from shame and spitting saith Esay what shall be the issue In short hee shall bee led to death it is the prophesie the Messias shall be slaine saith Daniel what death hee must bee lift vp Like as Moses lift vp the Serpent in the wildenesse so shall the sonne of man be lift vp
Chrysostome saith well that some actions are parables so may I say some actions are prophesies such are all types of Christ and this with the formost Lift vp whither to the Crosse it is the prophesie hanging vpon a tree saith Moses how lift vp nayled to it so is the prophesie foderunt manus they haue pierced my hands and my feet sayth the Psalmist with what company two theeues with the wicked was hee numbred sayth Esay where without the gates saith the prophesie what becomes of his garments they cannot so much as cast the dice for his coate but it is prophesied They diuided my garments and on my vestures cast lots saith the Psalmist hee must die then on the Crosse but how voluntarily Not a bone of him shall be broken what hinders it loe there he hangs as it were neglected and at mercy yet all the raging Iewes no all the Diuels in hell cannot stirre one bone in his blessed body It was prophesied in the Easter-Lambe and it must be fulfilled in him that is the true Passeouer in spight of fiendes and men how then he must be thrust in the side behold not the very speare could touch his pretious side being dead but it must bee guided by a prophesie They shall see him whome they haue thrust thorough saith Zacharie what shall he say the while not his very words but are forespoken his complaint Eli Eli lamma sabactani as the Chalde or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Hebrew Psalme 22.2 his resignation In manus tuas Into thy bandes I commend my spirit Psalme 31.5 His request Father forgiue them Hee prayed for the transgressors sayth Esay And now when he saw al these prophesies were fulfilled knowing that one remained he said I thirst Domine quid sitis saith one O LORD what thirstest thou for A strange hearing that a man yea that GOD and MAN dying should complaine of thirst Could he endure the scorching flames of the wrath of his Father the curse of our sins those tortures of body those horrours of soule doth he shrinke at his thirst no no he could haue borne his drought he could not beare the Scripture not fulfilled It was not necessity of nature but the necessity of his Fathers decree that drew forth this word I thirst They offered it before hee refused it whether it were an ordinarie potion for the condemned to hasteÌ„ death as in the story of M. Anthonie which is the most receiued construction or whether it were that Iewish potion whereof the Rabbines speake whose tradition was that the malefactor to bee executed should after some good counsell from two of their Teachers be taught to say Let my death bee to the remission of all my sinnes and then that hee should haue giuen him a boule of mixt wine with a graine of Frankincense to bereaue him both of reason and paine I durst be confident in this latter the rather for that Saint Marke calls this draught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Myrrhe wine mingled as is like with other ingredients And Montanus agrees with me in the end ad stuporeÌ„ mentis alienationem A fashion which Galatine obserues out of the Sannedrim to bee grounded vpon Prouerbs 31.6 Giue strong drinke to him that is readie to perish I leaue it modestly in the middest let the learneder iudge whatsoeuer it were hee would not die till hee had complained of thirst and in his thirst tasted it Neither would hee haue thirsted for or tasted any but this bitter draught that the Scripture might bee fulfilled They gaue me vineger to drinke And loe now ConsuÌ„matum est all is finished If there bee any Iew amongst you that like one of Iohns vnseasonable Disciples shall aske Art thou hee or shall wee looke for another Hee hath his aunswere yee men of Israel why stand you gazing and gaping for another Messias In this alone all the Prophesies are finished and of him alone all was prophesied that was finished Paules old rule holdes still To the Jewes a stumbling blocke and that more auncient Curse of Dauid Let their table bee made a snare And Steuens two brands sticks still in the flesh of these wretched men One in their necke stiffe-necked the other in their heart vncircumcised the one Obstinacie the other Vnbeliefe stiffe neckes indeede that will not stoope and relent with the yoke of sixeteen hundred yeares iudgement and seruility vncircumcised hearts the fiâ—me of whose vnbeliefe would not be cut off with so infinit conuictions Oh mad miserable nation let them shew vs one prophesie that is not fulfilled let them shew vs one other in whome all the prophesies can be fulfilled and wee will mixe pitty with our hate If they cannot and yet resist their doome is past Those mine enemies that would not haue me to raigne ouer them bring them hither slay them before me So let thine enemies perish O Lord. But what goe I so farre euen amongst vs to our shame this riotous age hath bred a monstrous generation I pray God I be not now in some of your bosoms that heare me this day compounded much like to the Turkish Religion of one part Christian another lew a third worldling a fourth Atheist a Christians face a Iewes heart a worldlings life and therefore Atheous in the whole that acknowledge a God and know him not that professe a Christ but doubt of him yea belieue him not The foole hath said in his heart there is no Christ What shall I say of these men they are worse then Deuils that yeelding euill spirite could say Iesus I know and these miscreants are still in the old tune of that tempting Deuil Si tu es filius Dei if thou be the Christ Oh God that after so cleare a Gospell so many miraculous confirmations so many thousand martyrdomes so many glorious victories of truth so many open confessions of Angels men diuels friendes enemies such conspirations of heauen and earth such vniuersall contestations of all ages and people there should bee left any sparke of this damnable infidelitie in the false harts of men Behold then yee despisers wonder and vanish away whome haue all the Prophets fore-told or what haue the prophesies of so many hundreds yea thousands of yeeres foresaid that is not with this word finished who could foretell these thinges but the spirite of God who could accomplish them but the Sonne of God Hee spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets saith Zacharie hee hath spoken and he hath done one true God in both none other spirit could foresay these things should be done none other power could doe these things thus fore shewed this word therefore can fit none but the mouth of God our Sauiour It is finished Wee know whome wee haue beleeued Thou art the Christ the Sonne of the liuing GOD. Let him that loues not the Lord Iesus bee accursed to the death Thus the prophesies are finished Of the legall