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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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