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The romish Iudas A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxford the fifth of Nouember, 1610. By Iohn Ravvlinson Doctour of Diuinitie.
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Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.
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to despaire had beene blowne downe to hell So then three points there are of disquiparancie and dissimilitude wherein this daies treason surpasseth this of Iudas only one for ought I can see wherin this of Iudas out-goes it But I thinke for euery other circumstance of note that Antichristian plot of theirs was so neare of bloud and of such consanguinitie with this most Antichristian plot of Iudas against Christ that of all other treasons it had best right to inherit Iudas his halter Non ouum ouo similius One cockatrices egge is not more like another which in the end will exire in Regulum breake forth into a Basiliske a flying and a fire-breathing Serpent whose deadly eie will spare neither Prince nor people Howbeit I wil not striue to make another Maiores Concordantias between them but as the Israelites passed thorow the red Sea and yet neuer wet their feet so will I thorow this Mare rubrum this bloud-red Sea of matter which is before mee only sicco pede drie-footed that is as lightlie and briefly as I may 1 The action 1 First then compare wee them in their Action Betraiest and therein note we Ingressum Progressum Egressum the Antecedents the Concomitiants and the Subsequents The antecedents were seuen 1 The consultation to kill Christ was q Mat. 26.3 In aulâ Pontificis Maximi in the hall of Caiaphas the high Priest so this consultation to kill the King and his was in aulâ Pontificis Maximi in the Hal or Court of that High Priest Caiaphas of Rome who because hee is farre worse than the other Caiaphas said not as he did r Ioh. 11.5 Ioh. 11. It is expedient for vs that one man die for the people and that the whole Nation perish not but It is expedient for vs that not one man alone but the whole Nation or at least wise the Synopsis or representation of the whole Nation perish as if he were of Maximinus his minde in ſ Tertull. in Apolog. Tertullian Christianorum sanguinem Dijs victimam esse omnium gratissimam that the bloud of Christians is the best-pleasing sacrifice to God or as if hee made it his pride and his glorie with t Funce Chr. lib. 7. Attila King of the Hunni to bee called Flagellum Dei the scourge of Gods wrath or with u Andre Hondorff Theatr. hist one of the Frideriks Malleus Orbis the hammer of the whole world or lastly with * Melanct. Chron. l. 4. Otto Pallida mors the pale death not Saracenorum of the Saracens as he was but Christianorum of Christians And that ye may know him to be Pallida mors indeed * Horat. aequo pede pulsat pauperum Tabernas Regumque Turres Hee knockes as well at the Kings Palace as at the poore mans shop so that now it is raraauis a thing almost as rare as a Phoenix to heare of a King that dieth in his bed y Inuenal Ad generum Cereris sine caede sanguine pauci Descendunt Reges siccamorte 2 The z Mat. 26.4 chiefe Priests and Scribes consulted how they might take Iesus by subtiltie and kill him so did the Priests and Iesuites take counsel how they might by subtilty root out a Esa 9 14 caput caudam head and taile branch and rush Prince and people both in one day And it was a subtiltie with a witnesse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a darke subtiltie darker than any Scotus among all his Subtilties euer could inuent I thinke the blacke Prince of darknesse with all the diuels in hell sate together in counsell with them when they deuised it 3 Iudas went to the chiefe Priests and said b Mat. 26.15 Quid dabitis What will ye giue me and I will deliuer him vnto you and they appointed vnto him thirty peeces of siluer So did these Traitors goe to the chiefe Priests and Iesuites and for a Quid dabitis a thing of nothing suppose the canonizing and kalendarizing of them for as good Saints I dare say as any are in hell aduentured vpon that infernall and hellish exploit 4 Iudas did c Mat. 26.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wait an opportunitie to betray Christ and his opportunitie was this he came by night because d Ioh. 18.3 hee that euill doth hateth the light e Mat. 26.43 dormientibus discipulis while the Disciples were asleepe so did these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lucifugae children of the night of eternall darknesse attend the like opportunitie being the very same which that old Seminarie the diuell watched wherein he might superseminare zizama sow his tares amongst the good corne They came by night dormientibus hominibus while men slept and neuer dreamt of any such matter fortifying their crueltie with our incogitancie as indeede what time so likely for that Dolus Apocryphus that Apocryphall and hidden mysterie of iniquitie as their Horae Canonicae canonicall night-houres wherewith the Church of Rome had acquainted them 5 Judas was deuising and hammering his treason in Coenaculo in the Parler where Christ was eating the Passeouer with his Disciples so were these Traitors framing and machinating their treason in Senatu or at leastwise sub Senatu vnder the Parliament house where the King was to haue consulted with his Nobles 6 Iudas f Matth. 26.6 receiued the Sacrament of the Lords Supper but newly before his treason so did these Traitors immediately before their treason yea they bound themselues to it with a double Sacrament Sacramento Iurisiurandi with the Sacrament of Oath and Sacramento corporis sanguinis Christi with the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ 7 And lastly g Ioh. 13.27 after the eating of the soppe which Christ reached vnto Iudas Satan entred into him in interiora cordis eius saith h Theophyla ibid. Theophylact into the very inwards of his heart and he was made as it were one spirit with him so these Traitors after the eating of the soppe if I may so speake of the body and bloud of Christ Satan entred in interiora cordis into the hell of their consciences and was made as it were one spirit with them 2 The second thing which I noted in the Action was the Concomitants which were two 1 The one the Manner of it wherein they shewed themselues to bee farre deeper Politicians than euer Iudas was for Iudas his policie wrought but aboue ground but theirs wrought vnder ground and the tooles of their treason were not i Matth. 26.47 swords and staues to apprehend but spades and pickaxes to vndermine Ingeniosa crudelitas ad poenas they were men of cruell wits cruell as the graue Sepulchrum patensguttur eorum their throat was an open sepulcher to haue swalowed vs vp quick exardescente in nos trâ eorum as k Ps 124.2 Tremellius reads it Psal 124. while their iealousie burnt against vs like fire l Ouid. Itum est in viscera terrae At