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A01118	Christ Iesus triumphant A fruitefull treatise, wherin is described the most glorious triumph, and conquest of Christ Iesus our sauiour, ouer sinne, death, the law, the strength and pride of Sathan, and the world, with all other enemyes whatsoeuer agaynst the poore soule of man: made too be read for spirituall comfort, by Iohn Foxe, and from Latin translated intoo English by the printer.; Christus triumphans. English. Selections	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Day, Richard, b. 1552.	1579 (1579)	STC 11231; ESTC S116950	29,170	80

CHRIST IESVS Triumphant A fruitefull Treatise wherin is described the most glorious Triumph and Conquest of Christ Jesus our Sauiour ouer Sinne Death the Law the strength and Pride of Sathan and the World withall other enemyes whatsoeuer agaynst the poore Soule of Man ¶ Made too be read for spirituall comfort by John Foxe and from Latin translated intoo English by the Printer 1. Cor. 15. ¶ Death where is thy styng Hell where is thy victory The styng of Death is Sinne and the strength of Sinne is the law But thankes be vnto God who hath geuen vs victory through our Lord Iesus Christ. AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye and Richard his Sonne dwelling at Aldersgate 1579. Cum gratia Privilegio Regiae Majestatis CHRIST TRIUMPHANT Psal. 91. Thou shalt goe vpon the Lion and Adder the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou treade vnder thy feete To the worshipfull M. William Kyllegrewe Gentleman of her Maiesties priuie Chamber Grace and Peace in Christ Jesus WOrship full Sir whē I gladly remember and with no small comfort report your great goodnes and vnfained fauour toward me but a straunger vntoo you and a cold seely suter in the Court I cā not but be ashamed of my selfe that habilitie doth not affourde my hand somuch too requite as my hart willeth my toung too vtter how deepe indetted I am vntoo you But you did it of a good deede not for a good meed and at the request of a Godly-man in sute of an honest cause Wherefore consideryng that your due and full reward is layed vp vntil an other day in an other place by an other man of all fulnes and habilitie Christ Jesus the high steward and pay-master of all I am to request your worship till that time come whiche I trust shall not be long too accept my good hart whiche in all honest possible dutie is and shal be yours bounden too commaunde A small regard for such a desert I confesse yet as kinde and dutifull a myte as the greatest valure of a farther summe And sith that the most precious iewell in this world whiche Man can shew or geue too Man is vnfayned Loue then truly the Loue that creepeth when it can not goe is aswell too be accounted of and esteemed as Loue nay perhaps the rather then when it caryeth a higher looke and a loftyer countenaunce For to say the truth Benefites whiche are liberall for the gift and gratefull for the repay are in that respect sayd too be great or litle as the affection of the hart is great or litle This consideration therefore as also your zeale in Religion your loue of learnyng your place vnder the Prince and the occasion ministred by these worthy yet but worldly Triumphes for the Princely entertaynment of most Noble Casimirus that famous souldier of Christ his Churche moue mee too offer vntoo you and in you too all Godly harted Courtiers what soeuer CHRIST JESUS Triumphant whose superexcellent workes ouerreach all hand hart and thought What his entertaynement shal be I leaue vntoo him-selfe who must geue the grace too entertaine hym What he hath deserued at our handes he presenteth him-selfe in this litle Booke too declare What enemies whose enemyes of what power they be whom he hath vtterly subdued and in whose cause or too what end and for whose benefite he ventered the pykes so farre too shead his precious hart bloud albeit wee haue often heard and therefore should well know yet sith wee as often forget and therefore are still too learne hee commeth now intoo the Court too shew beyng the supreme defender and most mightie Champion of the Churche with greater maiestie and cause of Triumph than any Monarch or Potentate whatsoeuer But how shall hee be receaued What Royall preparation shall be made for his ioyfull wellcome Runne a good race for sooth not with armed horse but with a prepared hart and whether Non ad Pacis Aram sed ad Pacis Anchoram Authorem that is not too the altar of Peace as they dyd but too the Author and Anker of perfect Peace Christ Jesus him-selfe and let vs fight a good fight not with a reached out arme but with the strong hand of Fayth herehence shall wee purchase more glory in his sight and be farther in his remembraunce when wee come intoo his kingdome than if wee had atchiued ten thousand feates of armes But so it falleth out that wee rather regarde this outward shewe and glorious world than the spirituall and inuisible creature and all of vs especially Courtyers with all modestie be it spoken without all offence and affection rather hunt or hauke after the fauour of the Prince than after the loue of God thereby like foolish builders plantyng our Tabernacles on the sand neglectyng too follow our buildynges on the stedfast rocke Herein as I would gladly auoyde all teastie and froward misinterpretors so am I openly and faythfully too protest that all Obedience Honor Triumph and Majestie is secondly too be geuen too our PRINCE whom GOD preserue but especially too Jesus Christ our full redeemer Hereof this litle Treatise made by that excellent instrument of GODS Churche in England M. Foxe doth put your worshyp and all other Christian Courtyers in mynde and remembraunce whiche when I had Translated and Imprinted no one came so readely too my mynde my Gracious Prince and right honorable Lord excepted too whome I might dedicate and offer these my first fruites as too your worships fauour which if it shall accept of my good meanyng my meanyng is too be as seruiceable as all honest dutie shall require Thus fare your worshyp well in Christ Jesus Amen Your worshyps too commaunde Richard Daye To the Christian Reader comfort in Christ Jesu SUch is the force of flesh Christiā Reader especially whē the spirite doth make resistāce that what wee would not and should not that we doe A suttle and most wily Serpēt who in securitie is well pleased to be secure and to them that sleep is also fauorable too vnderlay a cushion But whē the stronger-man Jesus Christ cōmeth vpō them both and with Gods finger awaketh the one and dispossesseth the other thē hee playeth the old Deuill and windyng his tale plumpe rounde with greater force doth hisse at leape at and bruse the stronger-mans heele because the stronger man brake his head And herein consider the wisedome of Gods spirite in these speaches of brusing the heele and breaking the head as therein liuely expressing the victory of Jesus Christ Sathans ouerthrow and the speciall comfort of a mournyng Conscience For it was Sathans power of God too bruse Christ his heele to beat buffet hisse at spit at scourge and persecute him in the flesh too shame him on the Crosse to goare his side too pearce his head hart and hands too shead his bloud yet the same Jesus Christ Triumphantly rose agayne with the same hys flesh ascended with the same and with the same doth

auoydeth and escapeth punishment whiche GOD els would haue layed vpon vs but it doth not purchase Saluation and eternall lyfe Looke therefore what place Nature doth holde in the Heyre that very same holdeth Fayth in the case of Iustification by the GOSPELL For in this one thyng is offered vntoo vs the whole gift of perfect Saluation grace and blessednes onely that wee apprehēd CHRIST JESUS our LORD the eternall Sonne of god Neither let any man therefore thinke that this matter concernyng our saluation is to narrowly and straightly comprised of mée as if I should hold a Dolphin in a basen for that I require nothyng els hereuntoo but fayth onely in CHRIST I know that eternall lyfe is a difficulte thyng and not proper too our Nature and therefore I say it consisteth onely in apprehending CHRIST JESUS for that nothing in this world is hard or difficult but onely Fayth in christ As no Man hath euer pleased the Father beside Christ so in him the Father is so wel pleased that for his sake he dearely loueth all those who are of christ Let no woorkes therefore althogh neuer so godly pufe vp a man as if he were pure or rather not vnpure and vnprofitable euen in his most holy Woorkes Christ onely is great and mighty in through his Workes Workes therefore properly pertaine too Christ Fayth properly vntoo vs whiche surely is of force before GOD. But by this meanes a window is opened thou sayest of ouermuch libertie too some who by Nature are tootoo much prone and geuen to allkynde of licentious lyfe Nay rather whatsoeuer is opened here God of his singular mercy hath opened it the Gospell of Christ Jesus hath opened it not wée who are but witnesses onely and Ministers of the Doctrine You must debate the matter with him if any thing herein displeaseth your Iudgementes He openeth not the window of wickednes but the gates of the Kyngdome of Heauen If any Man be of such a froward and ill disposed Nature that of a ioyfull and blessed doore he will make to himselfe a window or way of wickednesse the fault is not in him that doth rightly open but in him that doth crookedly enter It was neuer otherwise yet among men but that the greater parte alway dyd most wickedly abuse the best thynges Finally if all other men whosoeuer would abuse this doctrine and I knew but ten onely in the whole world whom this consolation would comfort I would to speake vnfaynedly for their sakes testifie and professe confidently this that I haue sayd For it is necessary that this Doctrine should be retained and preached in the CHURCH whiche beyng of long time hiddē from Christians and almost extinguished the heroicall and mightie spirite of CHRIST by the ministerie and preachyng of Martin Luther hath kyndled and raysed vp agayne in the CHURCH Yet such is the mischief and miserie of these wicked dayes through the suttle practising of SATHAN that all Christēdome is in an vprore about bymatters of contentions sects schismes and in the meane time all regarde of that whiche is the most principall point of our saluatiō is set at nought almost brought agayne to vtter decay But Christ Jesus liueth the stronger Man and mightier who will neuer forsake his deare and welbeloued Spouse to whom be all honor all glory all Triumph all dominion in Heauen and Earth world without end AMEN ¶ A very Godly and hartie prayer vpon the mynde of Christ his bitter Passion O Lord Iesu Christ the euerlastyng swéetnesse and Triumph of them that loue thée excéedyng all ioye and longyng thou sauer and louer of repentaunt sinners whiche auowest that thy delight is to be among the children of Men and therefore in the end of tymes becamest man for Mens sakes remember all the foretast and gréefe of sorrow whiche thou didst endure euen from the instant of thy conception in the humaine Nature forth on but most of all when the tyme of thy most healthfull Passion was at hand accordyng too the eternall ordinaunce which God had purposed in his mynde before all worldes Remember the gréefe and bitternesse whiche thou feltst in thy hart euen by thine owne record when thou saydst My soule is heauy euen vnto the Death And at such tyme as thou gauest thy body and bloud to thy Disciples at thy last Supper didst washe their féete and comfortyng them swéetly toldest them of thy Passion that was at hand Remember the sorrow anguish and gréefe whiche thou didst suffer throughout thy whole tender body before thy suffering vpon the Crosse at such tyme as after thrice praying thou diddest sweat water like too bloud wast betrayed by one of thine owne Disciples apprehended by thine owne chosen people accused by false witnesses condemned wrongfully by thrée Iudges in thy chosen Citie at the tyme of the Passeouer in the florishyng youth of thy body and being vtterly giltlesse wast deliuered too the Gentils bespitted stript out of thy owne garment clothed with another bodies apparell buffeted blindfolded bobbed with fistes tyed to a poste whipped and crowned with thornes O most swéete Iesu I beséech thée make me myndefull of these thy paynes and sufferinges whiche thou abodest for my finnes that I might be discharged and set frée from them and mine attonement be made with thy Father through thy chastisement Make me to abhorre my so detestable cursednesse which could not be put away but by thy so gréeuous punishmentes Make me to be hartely sory for my sinnefulnesse and to eschue my offences whiche draw thée to the suffering of so great tormentes Make me myndefull of thy great loue too me and too all mankynde and let the infinitenes thereof kindle an vnfayned loue in me towardes thée and my neighbor Let this thy vnmeasurable goodnesse bréede in me a willing mynde and desire to abyde all thynges patiently for thy sake and for the truth of thy Gospell And let it ingender in me a despising of all worldly and earthly thynges and an earnest longyng and indeuour too attayne too the Heauenly heritage for the purchassing whereof vntoo me and for the bringyng of me thereunto thou hast endured these and all other thy most bitter and intollerable tormentes Wherefore I beséech thée graunt me true repentaunce amendement of lyfe perseueraunce in all goodnesse a stedfast fayth and a happy death through the merites of thy sufferings that I may also be made partaker of thy blessed Resurrection AMEN ¶ An other of the same WHat man is this whom I behold all bloudy with skinne all too torne with knubs and wales of stripes hangyng downe his head for weakenes toowards his shoulder crowned with a garland of Thornes prickyng through his skull to the hard brayne and nayled too a Crosse What so haynous fault could he doe too deserue it What Iudge could be so cruell as too put him too it What hāgmen could haue so butcherly mynds as too deale so outragiously with hym Now I bethinke my selfe