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heaven_n	forgive_v	pray_v	trespass_n	2,324	5	11.8389	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85241	[Staurodidache kai stauronike] The doctrine & dominion of the crosse : in an historical narration and spiritual application of the passion of Iesus. / Written first in Latin by John Ferus ... ; now turned into English for the good of this nation by Henry Pinnell. ; Together with a preface of the translator, containing the necessity of knowing and conforming unto the cross of Christ, short considerations of predestination, redemption, free will and original sin.	Ferus, Johann, 1495-1554.; Pinnell, Henry.	1659 (1659)	Wing F820C; ESTC R177022	400,270	516

man than to have his part with Christ so not to partake with him is unavoidable damnation Beloved let 's do and suffer whatever is required of us to do and suffer lest we lose this our share with Christ To have part with Christ is to partake of his Grace Spirit and Word here and of his Glory and Kingdom hereafter This part Peter afterward denied to Simon Magus Acts 8. Thou hast no part nor lot in this word But this word of Christ may have another meaning If I wash thee not c. q.d. Why art thou afraid at my meek manner of behaviour and startlest at this kind of Ministry wilt not thou that I wash thee with water when thou must of necessity be washed with my blood except I gird my self harder yet and wash thee with greater labour and pains thou wilt have no part with me Truly if Christ had not washed his Elect with his blood neither Peter nor any man else could have had any part with him So is it still whom Christ purgeth not he is yet unclean as it was heretofore no man was clean till he was washed with the water of Purification Numb 19. Apoc. 21. And no unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdom of Christ therefore it is rightly said if I wash thee not thou hast no part with me By all this Christ sheweth what is meant by the washing of feet and why he did wash his Disciples feet before his Passion Teaching us hereby that it is his office only to purge and wash away the filth of sin which he doth by the sprinkling of his blood This washing then of the feet signifieth the whole Passion of Christ who ministred to us and washed us Where note that none is purged from sin but by Christ Also see here our laziness who hear that we shall have no part with Christ except he wash us yet we run not to him though he be present with us Doubtless Peter wholly submitted himself to Christ being terrified with this his threatning word Lord saith he not only my feet but also my hands and my head As if he had said if it be so there 's an end I have done not my will but thine be done I will no longer hinder thee from washing me Only let me never be separated from thee Lo I present my hands feet head my whole body wash me wipe me do as thou wilt I have nothing to say against it At first I did not know what it meant therefore I crave pardon I cry thee mercy c. This is that Chrysostome saith of him Peter was earnest in denying more earnest in yielding both proceeded from love 1. Here we see the nature of Faith which fully and wholly resigneth it self unto the will of God to do with us whatsoever he pleaseth Come life come death all as he will So David 2 Sam. 15.26 if he say I have no delight in thee behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good to him Gen. 12. And so Abraham he fully committed himself to God following him whithersoever he led him This Resignation of self unto the will of God is a most acceptable service to him As Christ saith he that will come after me let him deny himself and follow me Matth. 16. 2. Note that besides his feet Peter offers his hands and his head to be washed Not only our affections but our works yea our very intention and purpose many times had need be cleansed David acknowledgeth himself to be filthy all over Psalm 51. Behold I was conceived in iniquities sprinkle me with Hysop c. To be short This word of Peter sheweth that we are wholly polluted in body and soul in affections works intention will and understanding So that we have very great need of Christ 3. Hence we learn what we have most need to ask of Christ even that he would cleanse us every whit who created us all that we are If we be not first purified we can never partake of the good things of Christ 4. Lastly He sheweth what we should principally offer to God for his innumerable benefits even an universal Resignation not only of our temporal goods but of our own will and reason too that with David we might say twice Psalm 108. O God my heart is ready my heart is ready Ready to deny the world for thy sake Again ready to deny my self for thee Thus Abraham not only left his Country at Gods call Gen. 12.22 but was ready to slay his son too at his command But there are too few now that imitate him Perhaps there be some that will part with a little trash but very rarely shall we find one that will strangle his own will Although Peter presented his hands and his head to be washed yet Christ washeth only his feet with which he began at first For he that is washed saith he needeth not save to wash his feet As if he had said Peter I need not wash thy hands and head these are clean enough already but thy feet can never be washt too much for they will presently be foul again See how fitly Christ turneth his speech from outward things to spiritual From washing the members of the body he passeth on to the washing of the inward parts of the soul it self which are the affections here meant by the feet As in every employment the feet tread on the ground so this our mortal life cannot continue without our affections The affections interpose themselves in all businesses so that if any shall say they need not washing and cleansing he is altogether mistaken If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves 1 John 1. and the truth is not in us He washeth our feet daily who maketh intercession for us in Heaven continually That we have need of this daily washing we acknowledge when we pray Matth 6. forgive us our trespasses c. Now Christ in saying He that is washed c. plainly sheweth that we need a two-fold washing 1. The first is when the whole body is washed the inbred pollution the other when the feet are cleansed from that dust and dirt which daily cleaveth to them Christ by his blood hath washed us both these wayes First at the Font where the whole man is washed from his inbred uncleanness his original sin This is done and that but once at the Font. Wherefore he saith He that is washed needeth not So to be washt again in Baptism Once Baptized is sufficient Only we must have a care to wash our feet often And 2. This second Baptism is not in the Font but in Podoniptro in true Repentance which purgeth our daily sins There is a second Table in which they may escape by swimming who have made Ship-wrack after the first washing This is the washing of which Isaiah speaketh Wash ye make ye clean c. Is 1. This washing of the feet by

Have respect therefore to the sacrifice of thy Son that holy sacrifice which I the great high Priest offer unto thee that unspotted oblation which I present thee withall Consider the simplicity and ignorance of our Work-manship which was so miserably cheated and seduced by the craft and cunning of that old serpent and for thy infinite mercy sake restore it again graciously into thy favour and good Will reconciling it to thy self I will undertake to conquer death by my death to lay all Hell wast I will return to thee with rich spoils and glorious Triumph and unlook the Heavens with my blood Wherefore pardon them O Father for they know not what they do This was the first word of Christ this his prayer for us of which Paul saith Heb. 5. that he prayed with tears and strong cryings and was heard for the reverence which he shewed Here we see how truly it was said And he made intercession for the Transgressors Isa 53. that they might not perish To this prayer pertaineth what Paul saith I was a Blasphemer and a Persecutor but I obtained Mercy because I did it ignorantly 1 Tim. 1. This prayer hath so far prevailed that many thousands of those that persecuted Christ should be converted Acts 2. 3. Quest But you will say If Christ was heard why are not all his Persecutors saved Answ Mark it With desire did Christ desire the Cross to die for men but it was for such who by faith make themselves partakers of his prayer not for those that continue in their Unbelief And the Lord doth bestow faith at his pleasure Exod. 33. and as he will I will have Mercy on whom I will have Mercy Nor is God to be blamed if he make one Partaker of Christs prayer by faith and harden another through unbelief For whereas he bestoweth faith on some according to his pleasure it is of Grace not of debt And whereas he doth harden others it is the just and righteous Judgement of God and no more but what they that are hardened do deserve If God therefore hath set any at liberty let them be thankfull But Es● gilt hic nit zancken sonder danexen i. e. Let us not here raise a controversie but be thankfull Learn we then from this first word to confess and acknowledge our fins For we are the first true and principal Authors of Christs death and he doth mean and intend us all when he saith Forgive them c. For those souldiers were our souldiers even the Officers or Servants of our sins who imposed that upon him which our sins had deserved But who did then know or doth now think that our sins should crucifie the Son of God yet is it that which Paul plainly affirmeth speaking of some who crucifie Christ afresh and put him to an open shame Heb. 6. And this is that of which we are yet too ignorant how great he is that is offended and how grievous the sin committed is both as to the offence and also to the condemnation And because these things are hid from our eyes we do not indeed know what we do when we sin 1. First Then this word teacheth that we are the Crucifiers of Christ and such as know not God 2. Let us from this word strengthen our faith For if Christ did so fervently pray for them that crucified him how much rather doth he now intercede for those that call upon him and believe in him If he were so ready to forgive a sin committed against his own person he will much more readily forgive us We may therefore boldly now draw nigh unto God as having a Patron and an Advocate for us We may now avoid the wrath of God and dwell under the Protection of the God of Heaven under the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91. For God is our Refuge and Strength Psalm 46. Hence is that of Paul We shall he saved from wrath through him Rom. 5.9 Again We have access through him unto the Father Eph. 2.18 And that of John But if we sin we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the propitiation for our sins 1 John 2. 3. From this word we may learn true Charity as well to serve the good of our Neighbours as Christ served us by his Passion as also to forgive those that are indebted to us Let them hear this word of Christ who when they are once exasperated do rage with such hardness of heart that they had rather pine themselves with perpetual Rancor than be reconciled to their Offenders whereas in the mean while they cease not to offend God with innumerable sins and yet dare to hope for Mercy But of this read Ecclesiasticus chap. 28. 4. Not of Devotion as some say By this word we see what great evils Ignorance doth carry with it and how much it is to be avoided For it is the mother of Errors the Mistriss of Scandals the Foster-brat of wickedness that which doth banish bashfulness fear awfulness and all the incitements of Vertue and hurleth those head-long that hold it into the deep and dirty ditches of Vice and wickedness and then strikes them dumb takes away their tongue and deprives them of all speech that they cannot call and cry out for help when it hath with held them from help it presenteth them to eternal darkness and death It is that which led the Jews into this extream wickedness to crucifie Christ the Son of God Of the second Word CHrist had scarce finished this first Word and loe it took effect and brought forth fruit presently that quick and quickning seed was as it were ripe in the sowers hand before it was seen to sprout up out of the earth that ground which without this seed was but stony and barren For one of the thieves which did hang on the right hand sucking in the first word of Christ with a greedy desire changed his barren land into a fruitfull field for immediately of a Murtherer he became a Martyr and was the first that of the last escaped forsaking all he followed the Lord even as he hung upon the Cross He brought and laid down all that he had his whole possession such as it was at the feet of crucified Jesus he himself also being crucified with him with his heart he believed unto Righteousness and making confession with his mouth he found salvation Wherefore he was accounted more worthy than all the rest to whom Christ spake his second word upon the Cross Of which word the Evangelists thus write And one of the Malefactors which were hanged railed on him Luke 23.39 saying If thou be Christ save thy self and us But the other answering rebuked him saying Dost not thou fear God seeing thou art in the same condemnation And we indeed justly for we receive the due Reward of our deeds but this man hath done nothing amiss And he said unto him Lord Remember me when thou comest into