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A02894	The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.	Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655.; Harmar, John, 1594?-1670.	1618 (1618)	STC 13039; ESTC S115181	32,739	106

as vpon this day made one with man that man might bee made one with God Come now therfore vnto thy Creator O man touch thy Creator embrace him touch thy Sauiour and adore him Come thou O blessed Church draw neere vnto thy Bridegroome O let him bee folded within the armes of thy zeale and affection For hee hath taken a great iourney euen as farre as it is from heauen to earth that hee might translate thee from earth to heauen God hee is that hee might free and enfranchize thee and man he is that without terrour and amazement hee might come vnto thee So that hee hath well tempered his Deitie with humanity and his Maiesty with humility for as the one confoundeth so the other comforteth as the one amazeth so the other animateth And therefore come boldly and confidently meete thy Sauiour and as well with thy teares as with thy words O crie out and say I haue found him whom my soule loueth I helde him and would not let him goe vntill I had brought him into my mothers house and into the Chamber of her that conceiued me O let him kisse mee with the kisses of his mouth Draw me wee will runne after thee because of the sauour of thy sweete ointments Come O blessed Church and sing Vnto vs a Childe is borne vnto vs a Sonne is giuen the almighty God the euerlasting Father the Prince of peace Come I say and sing with the Psalmist I wayted patiently for the Lord and he enclined vnto me and heard my crye In my bed I sought him whom my soule loueth Tell me whom my soule loueth where feedest thou where lyest thou at noone Let vs beloued goe into our Sauiours little and homely chamber of repose and let vs delight and imparadize our selues with so louely an obiect as our Sauiour is Away with those proud and insolent Pharises who presume they know the Law and yet know not the author of it Away with Arrius who held that there was a time when Christ was not O let him bee perpetually branded with the note of this his infamous and execrable heresie Let him tell mee when had hee no being which had being in a beginning without beginning In the beginning was the Word When had hee no being which is God from euerlasting And the Word was God ibid. At what time was he not which is and was the Authour of time All things were made by him and without him nothing was made ibid. Away with the No●tians and Sabellians that confounded the Trinity of persons that held but one person as there is but one Essence Away with that ignominious Stigmatike Samosatenus that euen when he reposed himselfe vpon the prostituted carkasse of a base and odious strumpet was so impudent audacious as to detract and derogate from the Deitie of our Sauiour and besides this did not blush to affirme the eternal word of God to be nothing else but a meere vanishing voyce Away with Ualentinus and Apelles and Marcio that laboured to disanull Christs humanity Away with Nestorius that held that the diuine and humane nature were separated and diuulsed and moreouer endeauoured to maintain that not the Sonne of God but one that was meere man was for our redemption nayled vnto the Crosse Away with that wicked Ebio that ascribed vnto our Sauiour an earthly father Away with the whole rout and rabble of Heretikes or whatsoeuer of that leauen preiudicers eyther of his Deitie or his Humanitie Away with those Ethnicke Philosophers and Wizards of the world But let vs Beloued confessing our ignorance and professing our faith enter into our Sauiours chamber and sing The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing and it is maruellous in our eyes This is the day that the Lord hath made we will reioyce and bee glad in it Let vs enter into our Sauiours Chamber and sing The Lord is my strength and song and is become my saluation The right hand of the Lord is exalted the right hand of the Lord doth valiantly Let vs enter into our Sauiours Chamber sing Sing O daughter of Sion shoute O Israel Be glad and reioyce with all thy heart O daughter of Ierusalem The Lord hath taken away thy iudgements hee hath cast out thine enemie The King of Israel euen the Lord is in the middest of thee thou shalt not see euill any more Behold hee that is higher then Heauen and deeper then hell for thy sake O man is become man that he might recouer thee from Hel bring thee vnto Heauen Behold therefore that sweet Beniamin Christ Iesus Behold him which is our life on earth our way to heauen Behold him that is sprung from the roote of lesse him that is of the generation of Dauid the seed of the woman the arme of God the vertue and power of the Almighty and his welbeloued in whom he is well pleased Behold him that was begotten but not then born Behold him that is now borne and not now begotten being God by the Fathers side and man by the mothers side Behold him that was when hee was not borne being more ancient not onely then the time of his birth but euen the birth of time Behold him whom Abraham the Father of the beleeuing receyued as a guest whose father hee was in respect of the Flesh whose sonne hee was in respect of Faith Behold him whose starre Balaam saw before the Wisemen and foretolde it also truely although vnwillingly Behold him that now powreth forth his teares for thee hee will hereafter his bloud and therefore hee will shedde his bloud for thee because now his teares who therefore weepeth that thou mightest reioyce and therefore commeth vnto thee because he loueth thee The time was when thou O man diddest lye floating in the streame of luxurious delights when thou sacrificedst vnto strange gods that were not Then didst thou O miserable man run the hazard both of Gods indignation and thine owne damnation the sorrows of death surrounded thee the surges of iniquitie ouerwhelmed thee This did the onely begotten Sonne of God take notice of as he lay in the bosome of his Father as he sate in the throne of his Maiesty And therefore hee came downe speedily hee laide aside his glory and assumed pouerty and vndertooke the heauie weight of miserie Hee came vnto the earth Hee came vnto thee he came into thee borne in the night in the stormy winter being naked distressed He had no man to succour him no man to attend him no mā that regarded him The best swadling cloaths his mother had to en wrappe him were but a few miserable rags The best cradle hee had was but a manger Hence is it that hee cryeth vnto thee and protesteth that he could not haue done more for man O what guerdon what recompence shall man bestow vpon him It is not beloued

seeing we are proceeded thus farre let vs also thinke vppon those that came vnto this miracle Surely they were no other then simple Idiots There were in the same countrey Shepheards abiding in the field keeping watch ouer their stocks by night Kings and Potentates were ignorant of all this and had no notice of Christ his Natiuitie They sleepe whiles Christ cometh So secret and vnexpected shall hee come when hee shall come the second time as a thiefe in the night Now a chiefe thing to bee obserued in this historie is that the Angels made choyce of Shepheards an innocent and illiterate sort of men made thē first partakers of the blessed newes of Christ his birth The reason was I coniecture because they might with more facilitie be induced to beleeue the tydings For as Wooll that hath receiued the die and tincture of no colour is capable of any so these blessed shepheards which were neuer before indued with any kinde of secular wisedome and knowledge were more apt subiects to entertaine celestiall and transcendent inspirations The surest meanes to sore vp into heauen are the wings of faith that that soonest depriueth vs of those wings and depraueth our affections is nothing else but an insolent presumption and an eleuated conceit of our owne vnderstandings O how hard a matter would it haue bene to haue perswaded Aristotle or any of that Leauen I meane the Ethnicke opinionating Philosophers to haue beleeued that the Soueraign of the whole world should be borne man on earth O blessed bee that wisedome which in the mysterie of our saluation hath excluded humane wisedome For they that were neuer guiltie of any learning extraordinarie knowledge they that could not dispute and could not but belieue were the prime and first that were acquainted with a matter of so great consequence The great Clerkes and Scholers of the world who examined all by the Touchstone of reason who euer preferred vnderstanding before beliefe were vtterly discarded and Heardmen admitted whose plainesse of simplicitie was a great cause of their mature and speedy proficiency Unto you is borne this day in the City of Dauid a Sauiour which is Christ the Lord. First of of all they learne that Christ is borne and then vnto them What followeth It is said verse 16 That they came with haste and found Mary and Ioseph and the Babe lying in a manger These shepheards found that good shepheard which was resolued to lay downe his life for his sheepe They finde that vniuersall shepheard that shepheard whose sheepefold is of no lesse extent thē the whole earth They finde that shepherd which hereafter shall seuer the sheepe from the goates Nay they come vnto that sheepe or rather vnto that immaculate Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world They come vnto the Lambe but vnto such a Lambe as was also the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda Who although he then lay in the manger yet not long after hee was aduanced vnto his throne Hence Beloued may we collect how much God fauoureth holy and modest simplicitie and disalloweth all nice and scrupulous subtiltie The first that heard the voyce of the Angel were the shepheards the first that heard the report of the good newes were no more then shepheards And yet notwithstanding euen these shepheards were farre more happy then Caesar who hauing the third time barred vp the dores of Ianus and appeased all tumultuous garboiles of warre and sedition which were then raging and predominant both on sea and land yet knew not that Blessed blessed peace and reconciliation which was wrought betweene God and man Go too therefore yee blessed shepheards vnto whom the good tidings were fully signified you that were neuer ambitious of soueraignety or a blast of fame you that neuer studyed the insnaring sophistrie of Monkes and Friers nor how to coine the copper Syllogismes of the fallacious Iesuites you can neyther deceyue nor this day bee deceyued because yee belieue onely what hath beene deliuered vnto you from the mouth of God Goe I say and relate vnto your friends and acquaintance what Christ hath done for man Goe and sing an Hosanna vnto your Sauiour make vp your Cumaean Eglogue and let your tongues as sweetly warble it as your hearts doe soundly conceiue it For now you see the beloued Emanuel hath presented himselfe vnto the world now are the former ages renued again Now are all things possessed with ioy and gladnes O what sugred psalms celestial odes were written by Dauid concerning Christ represented vnto him onely in the dim glasse of tipes figures why should not we that liue in these after-times honor him with our prime endeauours Hitherto haue we treated of the shepherds which came to visit our Sauior now are we descēded to speake a word or two of the Wise men that gaue the shepheards precedence in respect of order but not in regard of vnderstanding But what was that that drewe the Wise men hither Surely a starre in heauen which was appointed to Blazon the royall descent and pedegree of that infant that lay in the Manger Hence was it that those pillars and Atlasses of learning and knowledge who coniectured not future euents by booke but rather fixing their eyes and thoughts vpon heauen which they alwayes beheld enchased with so many glittering stars as Diamonds were well ascertained of the natiuity of the King of the Iews For they had seene his starre in the East And therefore now they repaire with all speed and officious zeale vnto that place whither they were directed by the starre which accompanied them euen vnto the borders and confines of Bethleem There they finde him there they worship him For so the Text saith When they were come into the house they found the Babe with his mother Mary and they falling downe worshipped him In vaine might they haue sought in heauen for the Lord of heauen seeing that it pleased him to be foūd on earth and that in an Inne in a stable Come hither now all you that challenge vnto your selues the titles of Wisemen you that would refuse to visite your Sauiour in so meane a place you that looke big in veluet and ruffle in silke and tissue see that you confront not the mysteries of God with an ouerweening conceit of your owne ability Prie not into the Arke of his secresies enquire not for the reason why God the Sonne so humbled so emptied so deiected himselfe Doe you rather with these Wisemen adore what you cannot conceyue admire what you cannot comprehend This is an Epidemicke and catholicke disease amongst vs Wee are too punctuall and pragmaticall in euoluing what God would haue should lye hidde and wee too perfunctorily neglect what he would wee should canuasse and discusse For as the whole proiect of our safety and redemption hath been brought to passe on earth wee make a tedious quest the wrong way ambitiously climbe vp into heauen to vnderstand

was no seducer of the people Herod who had formerly derided our Sauiours silence dareth not to condemne his innocency Ioseph of Arimathea being one of the chiefe Senators retires himselfe into his priuate chamber and will not bee seene at the Bench lest peraduenture he should bee forced to determine something contrary vnto his conscience The malicious Iewes although they suborne false witnesses against our Sauiour yet notwithstanding they testifie publikely before the Iudge that he is not guilty of any crime The same Iewes that exclaimed against him as against a seditious person doe now stile him their King by that writing vpon his crosse whereon hee was adiudged to die Caiphas the high Priest by enthusiasme prophesieth of Christ whom hee persecuteth with a loude voice both accuseth and absolueth him pronouncing the mysterie of our saluation to wit that it was necessary that one should dye for the people The last and worst of our Sauiours aduersaries was the Diuell who although hee earnestly and constantly endeauoured by all assayes to vexe and trouble our Sauiour yet as the Ancients coniecture hee could not but incite Pilates wife to tell him that surely the man that was thus maligned accused and condemned was a iust and righteous man who although at length he suffered death vpon his crosse yet hee suffered it not as an impious and infamous malefactor but as a glorious conquerour God the Father together with his whole family Court of Heauen stood and behelde the pangs and passion of his beloued Sonne on whose shoulders hee had layed the weight of the punishment which euery one of vs in our owne persons should most deseruedly haue endured God who is tearmed of the Prophets a deuouring fire an ouerflowing torrent of wrath as violent as a rough storme of hayle as impetuous as a tempestuous gust of wind maketh our Sauiour the onely butte to receiue the shafts of his fury and indignation Who lying thus wounded and pierced with the sharpenesse of his extreame agonie in respect of which all those tortures inuented by tyrants all those massacres and torments of the holy Martyres were but dreames and loue-trickes is forced not to a duell or single combat but to encounter a multitude and throng of aduersaries Amongst the which hee was to conquer the Diuell that olde Hydra and arch-enemie of mankind Who as hee had beene the cause of the first Adams expulsion so doth hee now attempt no lesse to inthrall and captiuate the second Adam and to cast him into vtter darknesse In the second place he was to vanquish death that had a long time tyrannized ouer all mankind Our Sauiour being to enter the lists with these furious Antagonists was publikely brought along to an infamous place where all wicked persons were put to death which place the people that liued thereabout called it Golgotha a place of dead mens sculs Now the reason why hee was to conflict in this place was as wee may imagine that hee might giue death the foyle euen in its strongest hold wherin it had so long triumphed and erected so many trophees of its victorie that where the first Adam had beene interred euen there by the force of the second Adam the sharpenesse sting of death might be rebated And yet howsoeuer death was there conquered yet not without the death of the conquerour for euen there Christ himselfe was nayled to his crosse in the view both of men and Angels Who although he was brought into that lamentable straight and exigent although hee lay groueling and gasping vnder the heauy burden both of the pangs of death and the paines of Hell and the wrath of his Father yet notwithstanding the loue hee bare vnto man was euen then no lesse entire then euer it was For euen then I say hee saued the theefe at the crosse and prayed for his enemies By and by after he surrendred his blessed Soule into the hands of God What shall I now say vnto you sinfull Iewes by whose barbarous fury and fatall blindnesse the Son of God was crucified What penne can expresse what pencill can decipher your hainous and execrable fact yee haue slaine yee haue slaine the very Author of life the first begotten of God the Creatour of the world the King of Israel yee haue slaine that innocent and immaculate Lambe in whome there was no deceit yee haue slaine the Prince of Peace the Herald of grace and of our reconciliation vnto God Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night I will bewayle with the weeping of Iazer the vine of Sibmah I will water thee with my teares O Heshbon and Elealeh For the righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart The Lord of Heauen and earth was slaine and no man considereth it O hatefull and hated Nation O cruell and abominable people destitute of wisdome and vnderstanding how forgetfull wert thou of him that begate thee You haue slaine him that brought you out of the land of Egypt that ledde you thorow the wildernesse thorow a land of deserts and pits thorow a land of drought and of the shadow of death thorow a land that no man passed thorow and where no man dwelt You haue slaine him that fed you in the wildernesse euen with the bread of Angels Him that found you in the desert land in the waste howling wildernesse that led you about that instructed you that kept you as the apple of his eye As an Eagle stirreth vp her nest fluttereth ouer her young spreadeth abroad her winges taketh them beareth them on her wings So the Lord alone did leade thee and there was no strange God with thee Bee astonished O yee heauens at this be yee horribly affraide bee yee very desolate Tell it not Gath publish it not in the streetes of Askalon lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce and the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph That face that vpon Mount Horeb the people could not behold without astonishment nor the Angels themselues with horrour and amazement the wicked Iewes defiled it with spittle and bruised it with staues And not onely so but they euen killed the Lord of Hosts whose name is Iehouah O fanaticke and furious miscreants how could yee dare to murther his Sonne whose Name yee could not vtter without trembling O extreame and sottish impietie no farther to bee remembred then detested O peruerse and wicked generation how are your rebellious hearts wrapt in the filme of ignorance See yee not all the creatures of the world standing agast at the sight of your cruelty See yee not the earth shaken the rocks rent a sunder the graues opened See ye not the glorious beauty of the Sunne masqued with prodigious fogges as defying your dismall fact and not enduring to behold the sadde estate and distresse of its Creatour Alas why stand yee gazing vp towards heauen why stand yee wondring to see the brightnesse and