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A15874 A briefe rehersal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together oute of ye foure euangelistes and actes of the apostles by the most godly and great learned man Huldriche Zuinglius, written first in Latin, and now tra[n]slated into Englishe, that such as vnderstande not the Latin tongue should not wante the vse of so worthy and profitable a treatise. Perused and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions. Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531. 1561 (1561) STC 26135; ESTC S106617 105,568 216

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rested on the Sabboth day according to the commaūdement But the nexte daye that followed the preparation of the passeouer the high priestes and Pharisees assembled vnto Pilate saying Syr we remēber that that deceauer said while he was yet aliue After three dayes I will ryse agayne Commaunde therefore that the sepulchre be made sure vntill the thyrde daye least his Disciples come steale him away and saye vnto the people He is rysen from the dead and so shall the last error be worse then the fyrst Pilate sayde vnto them ye haue a watch go and make it as sure as ye can And they went theyr waies and made the Sepulchre sure sealed the stone and set watche men to kepe it IN these women is an example of Godlynesse and diligente loue as they had followed the Lorde in hys lyfe tyme so doe they not forsake hym when he is dead They runne and watche with a Godlye pensiuenesse hauyng an earnest care to annoynte hys bodye This example ought we to followe for there is no let but that we may bestowe this godlines vpon Christ but yet in his membres for that he after this is no more with vs in his body Let not vs be ashamed to serue Christ to be liberall vnto the poore Let it not repente vs if any thyng depart frō our goods whē as we may see that he hath geuen his life for vs which doth so much commend the poore vnto vs when as we may see also these women honest mē to haue spared no coste for to bury the body of Christe moste honourablye For we learne here what great griefe sorowe they had which dare not cōfesse Christ openly for feare yet neuerthelesse they cease not to runne priuily to watch to admonishe and to helpe that they might doe Christ seruice at the leaste by some waye We which may professe the doctrine of Christ frely without feare daūger ought to pray for these to helpe thē with our seruice succour thē with our benefites to chearish thē in cōforting thē exhorting c. Cōtrarilie in the priestes Pharisees is set forth an example of enuie for they wer not yet fatisfied with the putting of Christ to death but also they muste persecute him being now dead shadowe his glorye They are tossed with infernall madnes with enuie feare curiositie The vngodly are inwardly vexed fearefull how so euer outwardlye they set a face on the matter We remēber say they that that deceauer c. Such bitter words doth enuie vse til it come to destruction The Pharisaicall infidelitie had perswaded to it selfe that the light sauior of the world was a deceauer They be like vnto those which crye also nowe of dayes that the doctrine of the Gospel is heresie And if so be that Christ be a seducer and a deceauer what nede these wicked mē to be affeard of him Doth God raise vp deceauers frō death Wil god assiste those which cleaue vnto lies No truly What are they affrayed of thē This feare declareth that they beleued otherwise thē they confessed by mouth thei cal him a deceauer but yet thei iudge hī to be somwhat more noble their conscience putteth thē in remembrāce that he was the sonne of God or at the least greater thē a man And if it so be that thei were persuaded that he was the Sonne of God why then did they crucifie him So the vngodlye do alwaies shew forth in some parte that they knowe and beleue that thyng to bee true which thei impugne persecute pursue So Herode feared least Iohn wer risen again So also an other Herode feared leaste a childe new borne should possesse the kingdome Thei make safe seale the sepulchre but what they brought to passe by all these things the honourable Resurrection of Christ doth ynough declare Vaine therfore ar the enterprises of the vngodly which labour to oppresse to quenche the truth For there is no councell against the Lord the truth cā not be oppressed but it appeareth alwayes more bright Let no mā therfore be affeard of the power of the world though it be neuer so great the Lord is strōger mightier he which cleaueth vnto him shal neuer be put to shame Here followeth the historye of the Resurrection and Ascention of Christe ANd whē the sabboth day was past in the euen of the Sabboth Marye Magdalene Mary the mother of Iames Salome bought odours that thei mighte come embaulme him And vpō an euening of the sabboths which dawneth of one of the sabboths namely the fyrste daye of the Sabbothes when it was yet darke they came to see the Sepulchre And they came very early in the morning vpō the first day of the Sabbothes when the sōne was risen And beholde there was a great earthquake for the Aungel of the Lorde descended from heauen came and rolled backe the stone frō the dore and sat vpon it and hys countenaunce was like lyghtening and hys raymente whyte as snowe for feare of whom the kepers were astonyshed became as deade men And behold some of the kepers came into the cytie shewed vnto the high priests all the thyngs that had happened And they gathered thē together with the elders and tooke coūsel gaue money largely to the soldiers saying Say ye that hys disciples came by night and stole him awaye when ye were a sleape And if this come to the presidēts eares we will perswade him saue you harmles So they tooke the money and did as they were taughte and this sayeng is noysed amōgst the Iewes vnto thys daye Then the women when they were on theyr way sayd amongest thēselues who shall role away the stone from the dore of the sepulchre For it was a verye great one and when they looked they saw how the stone was rolled awaye frō the dore of the sepulchre And they wēt into the sepulchre but found not the body of Iesus but they saw a yonge mā sytting on the right hād clothed in a white garmēt and they were afrayed And the aungell aunsweared and said vnto the women Feare ye not I know that ye seke Iesus of Nazareth which was crucified he is risē he is not here he is risen I say euen as he tolde you come see the place where they layed him But go your waies tel his disciples Peter that he goth before you into Galiley there shal ye se him as he sayd vnto you THe history of the resurrectiō of our sauior Iesu christ is painfully most diligētly writē theuangelists namely for the vse of the church Wherin is prīcipally declared how that hūble despised Iesus beīg crucified betwene thieues is glorified after his death to what renowm he is exalted vnto For neyther could deth hold him Heb. 3. which hath abolished both deth also him which hath dōiniō ouer deth hath made thē free as many as throgh feare
to preache the gospel which he that beleueth is loosed frō his sinnes Iohn repeated the words of Mathew in the .xvi. Chapi Baptize thē in the name c. It semeth to me that to baptize is takē in al the new testament al most for to bee admitted accepted that no man should obstinately vrge the letter as do the Anabaptists To baptise Baptize thē that is admit thē to Christ grafte thē in the name of the father of the holy ghost that is lead thē by water doctrine into the knowledge power vertue of the father the sonne the holye ghost But we haue entreated of this againste the Anabaptistes in an other place and we wil speake more amply of it afterward He that beleueth Saluation eternall life consisteth in election for his hand is not shut or shortened that he will saue none amongest the Gentiles For God can poure faith into the hearts of the Gentiles Rom. ii which they proue and shew forth by workes as I iudge and that not rashelye of Socrates Seneca and many others Some man will say why they beleued not I aunswere if they beleue not they are not saued The words therefore of Christ ought to bee vnderstanded thus that they be spoken vnto such as the spopell is preached vnto who are dampned if thei beleue not the gospell preached vnto thē Iohn xv For Christ sayth If I had not come spokē vnto them they should not haue sinned This place therfore he that beleueth not shal be condempned appertayneth nothing vnto those whiche neuer had the Gospel preached vnto them For although the outward gospel of Christ be not preached vnto them yet can god saue them by Christ For as many as are saued are saued by Christ that is by the mercy of God whiche he offred to the world in Christ For there is none so iuste or so innocent which can stand before the iustice of god We must al flie therfore to the mercy of god by Christ And signes shall follow the beleuers This is a promise which muste be vnderstād by Synechdoche For the Apostles wrought many signes ▪ whē nede required And it doth not debilitate the promis of christ Acres v. bicause ther are no signes wrought now a daies by the preachers of the word For it was necessary thē the signes should be wrought to cōfirme the new vnaccustomed busines preached by the apostles wherby the whole world should be made new And to stirre vp their mindes to receaue the doctrine of the Apostles But now is the doctrine of Christ the Apostles sealed with diuerse signes the whiche signes he that beleueth not neither wil he beleue if signes should be presētly done We muste marke the ordre Fyrste the ministers of the word are chosē out by Christ Then thei are instructed with his word doctrine Thirdly thei are cōfyrmed by the spirite Fourthly they are sent to preach the Gospell Thei which thrust thē selues in by arte or violence they which are not sent whiche preache not or els preach not the Gospell which seke for theyr own things not the things whiche be of Iesus Christ such I saye are not the ministers of Christe but thieues robbers and wolues Hitherto we haue intreated of the glorious Resurrection of oure Lord and nowe wil we speake of hys Ascention into heauen IEsus led hys Disciples forth to Bethania and gathered thē together in the same place and spake vnto them of the Kingdome of God cōmaunded them that they should not depart from Ierusalem but to wayte for the promise of the Father wherof saide he ye haue heard of me how Iohn baptised with water but ye shall be baptised with the holy ghoste within these few dayes when they therfore were come together they asked of him saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore againe the kingdome of Israel And he said vnto thē It is not for you to know the tymes and seasons which the father hath put in his own power but ye shal receaue power after the holy ghoste is come vpon you ye shal be witnesses vnto me not only in Ierusalem but olso in al Iewry Samaria and euen to the endes of the earthe Then the Lorde Iesus after that he had spoken these things with them he lifted vp his handes blessed them And it came to passe when he had blessed them he departed frō thē whyle they behelde he was taken vp on hihg was caried vp in to heauen and a clowde toke him vp frō theyr eyes setteth at the right hād of god while they loked stedfastly vp toward heauen as he wēt beholde two men stode by them clothed in white garments which also said ye men of Galiley why stād ye gasyng vp into heauen This same Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come euen as ye haue sene him go into heauen And they worshipped him retourned to Ierusalem with great ioy frō the mount which is called Oliuete which is from Ierusalem a Sabaothes dayes iourney And when they were come in they went vp into a parler where abode Peter and Iames Iohn Andrewe Phillip and Thomas Barthelmew and Mathew Iames the sonne of Alpheus and Symon zelotes and Iudas the sonne of Iames. These all continued wyth one minde in prayer supplication with the womē and Mary the mother of Iesus and with his brethren MArk doth compendiously briefly touch all thinges describing together things whiche were not done together For he sayeth as the eleuen disciples sat at meat c. It is most likely that Christ dayly appeared vnto his Apostles all the whole forty dayes after his resurrection commaunded and prescribed them an ordre wherby they shoud prech the Gospel through out the whole world This doth he put thē in memory of at his departure more strongly beat it into them For to this end wer they chosen Ther is no cause therfore why we should vrge the letter and draw this history of Mark only to the ascētiō but to the whol time that was betwene the resurrectiō ascentiō of Christ But nowe let vs come nerer to the hystory whych Luke hath in the actes Luke deuideth his Gospel into two partes In the first he describeth what Christe did in his life time In the latter he seteth forth what things were done after his ascention He spake vnto thē of the kingdō of god The kingdome of God is in a manner called the gospell wherof he spake vnto them fourty dayes continuallye The kyngdome of god and commended vnto them the preachinge therof Christ therfore speaketh vnto them of the kyngdome of God of the gospell of his grace and of the mercy of god and that out of the Scriptures namely of the law of the prophets as Luke sayd before he opened theyr vnderstāding in the scripturs But with what word or after what sort he
Pet. ii but it is mete that they which be straūgers and pilgrimes in this world should abstaine from fleshly lustes which fight against the soule hauing honest conuersation amongest the gentiles that they which speake euil of vs as euill doers may haue vs in estimation for our good workes and glorifye God in the day of visitatiō In his former talk he reproued ambition and couetousnesse now he reprehendeth selfe trust and desire of money of the which the one was in Peter and thother in Iudas the disciples Peter not weighing his own strength promiseth greater thinges than he can performe neither doth he beleue the lord who admonished him of it but despising all other boasteth himselfe only to be strong Iudas which had conceiued this horrible mischeuous acte in his harte dothe not heare the Lord which called hym backe from it So plaieth our fleshe when it is lefte to it selfe No man acknowledgeth his errour no man wil beleue him which admonisheth him Euery man hopeth that he can be hiddē whē as he is not called by name howsoeuer his cōscience withstand him inwardly Christ assayeth Iudas diuers wayes to withdrawe hym from his pretence in whiche the wonderfull gentlenesse and loue of Christ is to be marked who will not the death of a sinner but that he should be cōuerted and liue but the more that Christ sheweth and putteth forth his louyng kyndnes so much the more his vngodlines is hardened so that he dare most impudently say is it I Moreouer this most wicked varietie dareth thrust himself into the holy fellowship and table of the lorde not fearyng to lye vnto him which knoweth all thinges So greate a thing is hipocrisie and a harte possessed with couetousnesse So in lyke maner dare we somtimes com to the holy communion with Iudas boasting our selues to be godly when as inwardly we be most vngodly And althoughe both Peter and Iudas fell either of them yet great is the diuersitie betwene the deniall of Peter and the betrayeng of Iudas Peter being ouerwhelmed with a sodayne terror synned of feare and cowardnesse of mynde but Iudas sinned of a pretensed malice for the deuell had possessed his harte Christ therfore saith that Peters faithe was not altogether gone for althoughe he denied him outwardly with his mouth yet neuerthelesse his hearte fell not from Christ and god suffreth the godly sometymes to slippe that they may knowe themselues more throughly and humble thēselues in mind learne and acknowledge their infirmitie and after their fall they may rise agayne more strong and better couraged Thei may learn to put no confidence in themselues to be sory for other mens falles and to be more carefull and for that cause Christ saieth and thou after thou art conuerted strengthen thy brethern Sathan so stirred vp Iudas as we haue heard before that not onely he shroncke from Christ but besydes that he betraied him to his enemies to be destroied here it is said that the diuell entred into him after the sop which is thus to be vnderstanded that the diuell which before had possessed him did now more fully possesse him and more vrge him to bring to passe the mischiefe which he had conceiued For euen as in faithe there are certain degrees so also is there in infidelitie breach of faith No man is made most good vpon the sodayne so no man is moste wicked sodenly by littell and littell we slide into the pitfall if we watche not if we resist not the beginning and if we neglecte small matters Our foote muste be plucked by and by out of the clay of synnes least it fasten more depely in we must streight way resist the affections least they come to haue dominion ouer vs. Sathan slepeth not he neuer ceaseth but walketh about like a roaring Lyon seeking where to get his pray whom let vs resiste by faith and he wil flye from vs. The lord is strong to deliuer vs out of the mouth of the Lyon so that we flye vnto him by and by with our whole hart and cast our selues all wholy vpō him with a soūd faith let vs take hede of the meate and of the baite which that moste subtill enemye layeth for vs lest when we haue deuoured it we fal with Iudas into the euerlasting night ¶ And when he was gone Iesus said now is the sonne of man glorifyed and God is glorified by hym and God shall glorify hym by hym self and shal glorify him by and by My littel children yet a littell while I am with you ye shall seeke me and as I haue saide to the Iewes whither I go ye cannot come so also I saye vnto you nowe I geue you a new commaundement that ye loue one an other euen as I haue loued you do ye also loue one an other by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples yf ye haue mutuall loue amongest your selues Simon Peter said vnto hym lord whither goest thou Iesus aunswered hym whither I go thou cāst not follow me now but thou shalt followe me hereafter Peter said vnto him lord why cannot I follow thee nowe I wil geue my life for thee Iesus aūswered wilte thou geue thy life for me Verely verely I say vnto thee the cocke shal not crow before thou hast denied me thrice WHen the betrayer was gone Christ maketh mention of his glorifieng not without o● and reioysing of the spirite Now is the sonne of man glorified He speaketh of the thing to come and at hand as thoughe it were now past that we might see the certeintie of gods prouidence The time is now present that the sonne of man shal be made noble after a new sort that is to say by his deth crosse resurrection and ascension and other thinges which folowed after the sēdyng of the spirit as miracles and the conuersion of the Gentiles c. For that cause saith Paule in his Epistle to the Romanes that the son of God whiche was borne of the seede of Dauid as touching the flesh was declared to be the sonne of God with power as concernyng the spirite of sāctification in that he rose again from the dead And this power of the resurrectiō of the which Christ also speaketh here shuld follow within few daies after which was not done by an aungell or by any creature but by the power of the father as Paule witnesseth in the second of the Colossians where he saieth Who hath raised him vp c. Christ therfore sayeth and God shall glorifye hym He also by these wordes comforteth the harts of his disciples who were not a little troubled now bicause he had made mention vnto them of his death as though he woulde say The tyme is come that I shall accomplish the will of my father that is that I shall dye but by this my death my father shal be glorified Be ye not therfore troubled ye shall see and that by and by what great glory my father will geue me By these