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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

over me Who foretold it by the Prophet long since Awake O sword against my Shepheard and against the man that is my Fellow smite the Shepheard c. Zach. 13. And if he did not hold my right hand and dispose of me at his pleasure I could break thee as a Potters vessel with the Rod only of my mouth or with one beck or twinkling of mine eye Therefore because I am delivered into thy hands from above for the Father hath delivered me and hath not spared his own Son Rom. 8 do not thou glory and boast so for t is not thy power but Gods permission Besides it is no true power which thou dost exercise over me but Tyranny and Robbery Power is given for the praise and protection of them that do well and for the punishment of evil doers Rom. 13. Thou hast received power yet t is not lawfull for thee to use it as thou listest For as the Law is given or made for the lawless and ungodly only 1 Tim. 1. So the Magistrate hath right to use the Sword only against the wicked Now if he destroy the guiltless with the Sword it is no lawfull power but Tyranny it is Theft not Magistracy Whereas thou art let alone to abuse thy power do not brag and make thy boast of that for the Lord will not suffer the Rod of the wicked to rest upon the Lot of the Righteous Psal 125. Shall the Ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith Isa 10. A Thief hath no power over a true man no Law against an honest man yet he may lay wait for him fall upon him and kill him So thou hast no more power over me but by permission of my Father Hereby 1. Christ doth quell Pilate who boasted so much of his power but abused the same 2. He doth shew him that he did not suffer unwillingly nor was he compel'd to the Cross by mans power but his Fathers pleasure 3. He warneth all Judges that they do not proudly vaunt of their power Also that they should consider and know themselves to be but Judges not Tyrants And that they do not bear the Sword against the godly but against the wicked doers 4. But especially he doth hereby comfort the godly and confirm their consciences letting them know that the Kingdom of the world can do nothing against them but what the Father of his good pleasure alloweth to give them experience of his presence and assistance and to strengthen their Faith Therefore he saith I will be a wall of fire Zach. 2. But Christ tells him further Therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin q.d. Thou hast no power to crucifie me but thou hast much sin in so doing but yet Judas and the Jews have more sin then thou hast For it was he and they that laid hands on me and falsly accused me What they do is out of envy but what thou dost is for fear yet not without sin T is true thou art a friend to innocency but the baseness of the Iews carry thee captive another way They have the Law and do not ignorantly but wittingly abuse the permission of God but thou never hadst that Law and therefore t is not so much folly and malignity in thee to hate the Wisdom or be ignorant of the Sacraments of God Thou committest murther in shedding the blood of a man thou dost not know but they by delivering their King and Lord to death do add Sacriledge to their Murder Where we see that one sin is greater then another sins of knowledge are greater then sins of ignorance So he that sinneth maliciously doth offend more then he that sinneth out of infirmity And a wicked Counsellour doth sin more then an ignorant Prince or Judge A naughty Christian doth sin more then an Heathen and more grievously in the same kind of sin Pilate being troubled at these words of Christ doth labour yet more earnestly to set Christ at liberty For although he was a Heathen yet he was troubled at the denunciation against sin nor would he willingly sin against God although he knew him not no more then the Heathen could know him to wit by the things that are made Rom. 1. Now when the Jews perceived that Pilate was afraid lest he should offend God and polluet himself with sin they recur to the former cavil that he affected and desired a Kingdom that he would fain be King and supplant Caesar which they shew was not safe for him being Judge and Vice-roy to neglect and therefore they threaten him with Caesar that which doth most terrifie and compell wicked Judges If thou let this man go say they c. q.d. If it doth not concern thee that he hath sinned against God yet doubtless it is something to thee that he hath offended against Caesar Thou art a Royalist a Caesarian and dost reside here to the end thou mayest not diminish but defend and encrease the Name Honour Renown and Power of Caesar But this man doth directly set himself against Caesar For Caesars main drift is to be King of Syria especially over us Jews where thou O Pilate dost preside and command in the Name of Caesar Therefore if thou shouldest let this fellow escape and not punish this his affectation to be a King none could think otherwise but that thou thy self also wast Caesars back-friend in that thou dost not punish his open enemy For whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar All this they said not for any love to Caesar for they hated him to the death and had often made insurrections against him but out of hatred to Christ only colouring it over with the pretence of Caesars Name and Honour that they might satisfie their lusts upon Christ This is the Weapon that wounded Pilates Justice with this Exclamation his constancy doth flag and shatter in pieces his justice is turned into injustice and all the reason and gravity of this man falls to the ground So that here it is plain that civil Righteousness is not able to hold out a true and full Tryal and so is nothing worth unless it stood it out to the utmost Thus we are now come to an end of that long Dispute of Pilate both with Christ and with the Jews which did wholly tend to the freeing of the innocent It follows therefore When Pilate therefore heard that saying John 19.13 he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the Judgement seat in a place that is called the Pavement but in the Hebrew Gabbatha And it was the preparation of the Passover about the sixth hour and he saith unto the Jews behold your King But they cryed out Away with him away with him crucifie him Pilate saith unto them shall I crucifie your King The chief Priests answered We have no King but Caesar When he was set down on the Judgement seat Mat. 27.19 his Wife sent usto him saying Have thou nothing to do with that just man for

the thirty pieces of silver to the chief Priests and Elders saying I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood And they said what is that to us see thou to that And he cast down the pieces of silver in the Temple and departed and went and hanged himself And he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out Act. 1.18 And the chief Prests took the silver pieces and said It is not lawfull for us to put them into the Treasury because it is the price of blood And they took Counsell and bought with those silver pieces the reward of iniquity Act. 1.18 the potters field to bury strangers in And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue Aceldama that is the field of blood unto this day Act. 1.19 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet saying And they took the thirty pieces of silver the price of him that was valued whom they of the children of Israel did value And gave them for the Potters field as the Lord had appointed me This part of the History is inserted by Matthew that we may first hear the just Judgement of God upon the Traytor before we hear the unrighteous sentence of Pilate against Christ that was betrayed And this miserable man must first dye For he was not worthy to live so long till Christ had dyed for the sins of men There is a two-fold sense of what is said When he saw that he was condemned 1. He either knew by certain signs and conjectures that Christ would now be condemned inasmuch as he was led to the Judgement seat from whence none return acquitted and for that he knew that the malice of the Iews toward him was implacable Or 2. He saw him to be but a damned creature for such an hainous and horrible fact as if he then first began to feel the weight of his sin The Devil will not let them whom he tempted see the hainousness of sin till they have committed it But when the sin is once acted then he will aggravate it and no less endeavour to throw them headlong into despair then he did before hurry them to sin Judas therefore being now sensible of his sin repents himself which repentance Jerome saith was too late and Ambrose saith it was to no purpose For he did not repent according to knowledge saith Origen He did not bewail his sin but his loss This was the repentance of Cain Saul Ahab Esau Wicked men are sorry that they are come into trouble and anguish of mind and if they can once get out of their streights they will make but light of their sin Besides this repentance of Judas was not sound and true for although he acknowledged his sin yet he did not hope or believe in Gods mercy His sin was revealed to him but not the Gospel This is the repentance of them who by the righteous Judgement of God are damned seeing indeed and acknowledging their sin but not daring to beg pardon for the same But true repentance is to judge or condemn and believe Now to judge or make judgement is to acknowledge ones self to be a sinner to condemn rebuke confess and punish or mortifie ones sins but to believe is to trust and relye upon God by Christ that he will not impute the sin but pardon it Thus did David Psalm 32. I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest c. Again Many are the sorrows of the wicked but he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass him about So the Wise man For if we sin we are thine Wisd 15. knowing that we are accounted as thine This Faith in Gods mercy through Christ is most necessary to salvation and the remission of sins For when a man knows that Christ is the true Saviour the pledge of Righteousness the Fountain of Mercy he will hie and betake himself to Him notwithstanding the hugeness and excess of his sins By his knowledge shall he justifie many Isa 53. And again To know thee is perfect Righteousness Wisd 15.3 Therefore if thou art terrified with the remembrance of thy sins thou oughtest not to look upon the greatness of them only but also to consider and have respect to the mercy of God in Christ otherwise with Cain thou wilt cry out full of fear and despair My sin is greater then can be forgiven Gen. 4. Thus David begins his penitential Psalm 51. with remembrance of Divine mercy which makes scarlet sins like snow Isa 1. Judas perished because he had not this repentance nor did he know what it was Peters conversion was a Token of Gods mercy So Judas's damnation was a signal of his wrath God of his goodness grant that the like never happen to any Christian but help us rather to seek for Grace by true Faith and with our whole heart But what doth Judas do more He brought back the thirty pieces of silver c. See here this wicked Judas made restitution of his unjust gain but he was never the better for it because he believed not To shew us that all our good works without Faith are nothing worth in the sight of God The wretched man could not long keep that money which he had sold Christ for for a sign that all those good things which God of his bounteous liberality had formerly bestowed upon the Iews should ere long be taken from them again God had given them the Lands of the Heathens that they might keep his Statutes and observe his Laws Psalm 105. ult and because they did not so he said I will return and take away my corn and my wine Hos 2.9 Judas did not only repent and restore his ill gotten goods but confessed his fault too I have sinned said he in betraying the innocent blood And yet he was nothing the better for his confession and all because he believed not Yet is it of much advantage to us For this one Testimony of it self is sufficient for us against all the blasphemies of the Jews First The Traytor himself excuseth Christ Secondly He that denyed him repented and was converted Thirdly Pilate himself who was the Judge could find no fault in him Fourthly And what is yet more the chief Priests and Scribes themselves could not tell what to say when Judas confessed that Christ was innocent but only reply so as that they did upon the matter yield that what Judas said of Christs innocency was true Say they What is that to us see thou to it Which words of theirs sound as if they began now to doubt what they had done But all the blame they lay on Iudas the Traytor which they would never have done had they known that what he did had been warrantable and just And yet how coldly do they answer when they hear of innocent blood As if they would fain have said If it be righteous blood what