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B02484	Hebdomada magna, or The great weeke of Christs passion. Handled by way of exposition upon the fourth article of the Apostles Creed: He suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, buried. / By John Crompe, Master of Arts of C.C.C. in Cambridge, and vicar of Thornham in Kent. First preached in his parish church, and now enlarged as here followes for more publike use.	Crompe, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing C7027B; ESTC R175851	123,646	146

eternall Sabbath of rest unto his children unto which although they were at first created yet by reason of sinne and the Devils malice they had been deprived unlesse he had dyed and been thus buryed to restore it againe unto them Fifthly he was buryed to the end that he might hallow the earth by his sacred body to become a receptacle of rest for the receiving of our bodyes also Which must needs be a great comfort to the godly to know and beleeve how that by his grave and buryall he hath sweetly perfumed our graves wherein we shall be buryed and instead of stinking houses of perdition hath made them chambers of quiet rest and sleepe unto us so that as the Prophet saith Peace shall come and they shall rest in their beds that is their graves every one that walketh before him Esay 57.2 And in these respects and sundry others which might be thought upon The buryall of Christ is esteemed by some Ancient Fathers to be more h●nourable then his birth according to that of Saint Austin Gloriosior est sepuli●ra quam nativitas in Christo ista enim co●pus mor●al● genuit illa edidit immorta●e Because that brought forth a body which was mortall so that it both could and did dye whereas this restored and returned it immortall and which can dye no more but liveth and abideth now for ever And as after his birth he fell into many tortures and troubles miseries and afflictions in this life so after his buryall he hath passed immediately from death to life in the land of the living So that Religiosior plane est ista quam illa nativitas as the Father goes on This latter birth of his is more to be celebrated and held sacred then the former because in that the Lord of the whole World was kept close prisoner nine months together in his Mothers wombe whereas this detained him only three dayes in the wombe of the earth In which respect Illa cunctorum spem tardius protulit Haec omnium salutem citius suscitavit That is said but to delay our hope and this to finish more speedily our Salvation In regard whereof also the Prophet saith That Sepulchrum ejus erit gloriosum as the vulgar Latine reads it Esay 11.10 that is His Sepulcher or buriall shall be glorious not by reason of the statelinesse of his tombe or magnificence of the pompe and solemnity at his buriall For herein it is very likely that the Sepulcher and sepulture of Alexander the Great and many other earthly Princes might farre outstrippe and overgoe him exceed and excell him much but onely Quia ex morte ad vitam gloriam aeternam revixit as saith Chitraeus because herehence hee passed presently from death to life and from mortality to immortality and eternall glory whereas all those great Monarchs of the World aswell as meaner persons remaine under deaths arrest till this present day and so are like to continue to the Worlds end And therefore although these Potentates of the earth can find neither comfort nor glory in their grave though they goe with never so much pompe and glory to it Yet wee which are Christians doe expect and looke for both by reason of the buryall of this our Saviour who as you have heard hath hereby sanctifyed our graves to be unto us as our beds wherein our bodyes rest from th●ir labours till the generall resurrection at the the latter day and further hath opened unto us a way from thence to eternall glory So that although we dye and be buryed as other men yet we shall rise againe with him from the earth to life everlasting And lastly to conclude we may from this buryall and sepulture of Christ learne and note the civill use of the grave to be necessary and fitting for all persons and people whatsoever to bury their dead out of sight and from annoyance and offence that they may otherwise come from their deceased bodyes It being reckoned among the blessings of God to be decently and comely brought unto our graves and so layd and put into them and not to be cast out as wile carkasses to the beasts of the field or foules of the ayre as it was threatned and imposed as a curse upon Jeconiah to be buryed as an Asse is buryed even drawne and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem Jer. 22.19 And therefore Diogenes is too currish and uncivill to say Cast me out and lay a staffe by me as seeming to take no thought for seemely buryall at all whereas the Saints of God have alwayes had a speciall care of it Abraham purchasing a possession of buryall the first purchase that we read of in the booke of God wherein to bury his dead out of his sight as yee may see Gen. 23.4 And the Sonne of God himselfe the subject of our discourse at this time submitting and permitting his body after his death to be put into a decent and comely grave as here you see But yet if it so fall out as oftentimes in warres in pestilence in drowning and the like it doth That the godly happen to be deprived of seemely and Christian buryall as the two witnesses of Christ through the rage and inhumane cruelty of their persecutors were as it appeares Revel 11.8 9. Let all men know that this is no hurt or detriment unto them either in the resurrection of their bodyes or salvation of their soules No more then the st●tely and pompous tombes and buryall of the wicked can benefit or profit th●m either of these wayes For all the pompe and honour done unto their bodyes cannot keepe their name and fame from shame and dishonour no● their soules from the fire of hell torments and confusion Luke 16.22 23. The rich glutton dyed and was buryed richly no doubt and sumptuously but his soule for all that went to hell where it was tormented Lazarus dyed likewise and no mention is made of his buryall but yet it is expresly said That his soule was carryed by Angels into Abrahams bosome What profit then had the rich man in that his body was buryed or what disprofit or hurt was it to Lazarus though his body were not Let us not be carelesse then of the decent and comely buriall of our bodies nor neglect to hew us out a Tombe as Joseph here had done or to provide Coffins or Graves for them but above and before all let us be carefull to provide that our soules may be carried by the Angels into Abrahams bosome And this sufficeth for the buriall of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I will conclude the whole discourse with Saint Augustines Prayer upon the Passion in this manner O thou most gratious God which for the redemption of the world didst vouchsafe to be borne into the world to be circumcised as a Jew and yet to be rejected by the Jewes thy Countrey-men and Kinsmen according to the flesh to be betrayed by thine owne Apostle Judas the Traytor and that with a kisse the signe and pledge of love Yea to be bound with Cordes and so led as an innocent and harmelesse Lambe unto the slaughter to bee undecently and uncivilly presented and offered to the sight and view of Annas Caiaphas Pilate and Herod to be accused by false witnesses to have thy sacred body tormented with scourges and thy blessed soule tortured and afflicted with revilings and reproaches to be besmeared with filthy spittle and to be crowned with piercing and pricking Thornes to bee beaten and buffeted with fists stricken with rods blindfolded in thy face despoyled of thy garments fastened to the Crosse with nayles and so lifted up upon the Crosse naked in the wide and open aire To be accounted and crucified among theeves to be offered Vineger and Gall to drinke and lastly to have thy sides wounded and broken pierced and launced with a speare Thou most gratious Lord I say by these most holy and sacred sufferings of thine which I though most unworthy doe thus recount and recollect as also by thy holy Crosse and death deliver me and set me free from the punishments and paines of Hell and vouchsafe to carry me with thee to that blessed place of rest and Paradise of pleasure whither thou carryedst that good theefe that was crucified with thee who with the Father and the Holy Ghost livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen Soli Deo Gloria

recompence and reward of all such his spirituall labours And thus farre Chrysostome of the Great Week And thus farre I of the sufferings and death of Christ in the same Weeke or his giving up the ghost Buryed THe utmost point and period of the sufferings and death of Christ and the last degree of the dejection and humiliation of his assumed humanity is reckoned by the generall consent of most and best Divines to be his buriall that is when after his death his body like other mens was laid into the ground that so men might see and know that hee was dead indeed according as it was foretold of him That he should make his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death though he had done no wickednesse neither was any deceit in his mouth Esay 59.3 For as Jonas was three dayes and three nights in the Whales belly so shall the Sonne of man be in the heart of the earth saith he of himselfe Matth. 12.40 For the better record of the truth of which prophesies all the foure Evangelists have reported and set downe the manner of it as yee may finde in them if you please to have recourse unto them Saint John shall serve for my purpose in this place as being somewhat larger in some circumstances then the rest who describes the order of Christs buriall in this sort After the death of him saith he Joseph of Arimathea besought Pilate that hee might take downe the body of Jesus and Pilate gave him licence He came then and tooke Jesus body And there came also Nicodemus and brought Myrrhe and Aloes mingled together about an hundred pound Then tooke they the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linnen cloathes with the odours as the manner of the Jewes is to bury And in that place where Jesus was crucified was a Garden and in the Garden a new Sepulchre wherein man was never yet layd There then layd they Jesus because of the Jewes preparation day for the Sepulchre was neare John 19.38 39 40 41 42. verses Where yee see then a large description of the solemnity of his buriall in which wee may observe that though his enemies did crucifie him and put him to death yet his friends onely take care to bury him and have him decently interred Which argues the sincerity of their affection towards him though as yet they durst not openly confesse him for feare of the Jewes And it was more fittingly done by these then it could have beene done by his knowne Disciples because as Saint Austin saith Ser. 117. de Temp. Si Apostoli sepelirent eum dicerent non sepultum quem Judaei nunciaverant raptum The world might have beene apt to beleeve that he had never beene buried at all seeing the Jewes gave out that he was stollen away And because he dyed to save other men it was but reason he should be laid in another mans grave Vt quid enim illi propria sepultura qui in se propriam non habebat mortem saith the same Austin Ser 133. de Temp. For why should he have a Sepulcher of his owne to whom death nor buriall did not properly belong Vt quid illi tumulus in terris cujus sedes manebat in coelis Or why should he looke for a Tombe on earth whose habitation and abiding place was onely in Heaven neither indeed had he any For Saint Matthew tells us that Joseph laid him in his owne new Tombe which hee had hewne out in the Rock Matth. 27.60 And thus much briefly of the manner of Christs buriall The causes thereof is the next thing to be considered which are assigned by Writers upon this subject to bee diverse I wi l prosecute onely some few of the chiefe and so conclude The first whereof shall be this viz. That the truth of his death might thereby be manifested and confirmed For living men use not to be buried but only such a● are dead To which purpose also some other parts and passages of his Passion may be urged and alleadged As that a Souldier thrust a speare into his side That he was taken downe from the Crosse so soone as they perceived him to be dead indeed That they annoynted and imbalmed him to the buriall and wrapped him in linnen clothes and the like For as by touching handling and seeing of him as also by his eating of broyled fish afterwards and part of an honey-combe we conclude the truth of his Resurrection so by these other circumstances the truth of his death Secondly that in his Grave he might bury all our sinnes for which that curse was imposed on us In pulverem reverteris Thou shalt returne to dust Compend Theol. c. 49. Gen. 3.19 For as Aquinas well observes Sinne hath brought upon us not onely infirmities and afflictions in the time of our lives but defects also even after our death aswell in our bodies as our soules In our soules to descend to the lowest Lake contrary to the nature of spirituall essences which should ascend rather to the highest heavens and in our bodies to returne againe to the earth from whence they were taken contrary to the Law of our Creation which was to have beene so quickned by the spirit of life as not to have died at all but to have liv'd together with the soule for ever Now this defect of our bodies is to bee considered as our School-man speakes Secundum positionem secundum resolutionem either according to its position or resolution It s position is onely to be laid in the ground Its resolution is also to be dissolved into the first elements of which it was compacted and composed The former of these Christ would did undergoe but not the latter according to that of the Psalmist Non dabis sanctum tuum videre corruptionem Thou shalt not suffer thy holy One to see corruption viz. by the putrefaction of his body Psal 16.10 The reason whereof is this because as the matter or materials of Christs body comming from the nature of man was in regard thereof to be returned to ' its proper and accustomed place under the ground Locus enim corporibus debetur secundum materiam praedominantis elementi that is Place is due to bodies according to the matter of the predominant element which is Earth So the frame and composure of his body comming not from man but from the vertue and power and workemanship of the Holy Ghost was not to be dissolved neither would he or did he undertake it because herein he was singular and differed from other men Thus farre Aquinas Thirdly hee was therefore buried to shew that wee by Baptisme are buried with him into death as the Apostle speaketh that like as hee was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so wee also should walke in newnesse of life Rom. 6.4 Fourthly he was buryed and rested in his grave the whole day of the Jewes Sabbath that he might sanctify an

Gospell 31 32. verses we finde him thus saying unto his Disciples Behold we goe up to Jerusalem and all things shall be fulfilled to the Sonne of man that are written by the Prophets For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles c. Which prophesie I say is now accomplished in his being turned over from Caiaphas the high Priest of the Jewish Synagogue unto Pontius Pilate the Roman Deputy or President who was not onely a Gentile himselfe but his jurisdiction also was from the Gentiles as the Romans and all Nations except the Jewes were accounted in those dayes And this was pre-ordained by the fore-determined Counsell of God to be done accordingly for these two ends or reasons The first that hee might bee put to death which by the Jewes Law as they will seeme to affirme he could not For themselves tell Pilate in the very next words after our Text That it is not lawfull for them to put any man to death Verse 31. The second for the manner of his death that he might be crucified For so is it farther specified in the 32. verse viz That it was done that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spake signifying what death he should dye which is expressed to be crucifying Matth. 20.9 To which place this passage in Saint John doth allude Now the fulfilling of this prophesie of Christs owne selfe concerning himselfe shall afford us onely this Vse at this time because as I told you at the beginning I must point and passe my discourse upon this subject increasing to a bigger bulke then I aymed at or intended at the first To let us see and know That there was not the least circumstance of his passion which hee did not fore-see and fore-tell himselfe so that none of these things came unwittingly or unwillingly upon him or by chance as upon a meere man but all by the fore-determined Counsell of God as I say and his owne consent And therefore having so much fore-knowledge of his owne afflictions hee might have avoyded and shunned them many wayes if he would but to let us understand the greatnesse of his love unto us he would not refuse any torture or any trouble to doe us good but willingly and readily performe all things requisite for our salvation giving his soule as an offering for our sinnes as the Prophet fore-told Esay 53.10 So that without any tergiversation or regret he suffered himselfe freely to be presented before Pontius Pilate and the judgement seat of the Gentiles although he knew that he went but to his owne death and condemnation as Pilate told him That hee had power to crucifie him or to loose him John 19.10 unto whom notwithstanding Christ gave this answer viz. That hee could have had no power against him except it had beene given him from above Verse 11. of the same Chapter that is from the Court and Councell of Heaven of which himselfe was a principall member Secondly we may consider also a little of the season which they tooke to carry Christ unto Pilate in which is expressed to be the morning or as our text saith while it was early So that as it should seeme when the fatall night was once over they neglected no time but made haste to shed his innocent bloud and to deliver him over unto the sword not of justice but injustice as it is evident and apparent enough to all the world even to the very Judges themselves as will be shewne hereafter David in one place saith That howsoever heavinesse or sorrow may endure for a night yet joy commeth in the morning viz. Psal 30.5 when as our blessed Saviour here can finde none of this joy neither morning nor evening but after a dismall night as you heard before meets with as darke a day where we may observe that Christ our Lord suffered some injuries and indignities or others for our sakes at all times and houres both of night and day First from the evening which was the time of his appprehension till the morning as you have heard already and now againe from the very morning till the evening as here followes Tota nocte vexatus tota die sine intermissione cruciatus saith one Vexed all the night and tortured all the day without ceasing or intermission For at the first houre hee is carryed to the Judge and before him accused at the second examined at the third condemned at the fourth hee was scourged and crowned with Thornes at the fift hee had the heavy burthen of his owne Crosse laid upon his shoulders at the sixt he was crucified at the seaventh the Souldiers cast lots upon his garment at the eighth hee had Vinegar given him to drinke at the ninth he dyed at the tenth he had a speare thrust through his side whereout came water and bloud and at the evening or toward the latter end of the day he was buried O sweet Jesus there was some great cause surely why thou wouldest at every new houre thus suffer new punishments and afflictions for our sinnes and it can be no other but this because we doe every day of the yeare and every houre of the day yea every minute and moment of every houre of each severall night and day provoke thy heavenly father to wrath in one kinde or other by new transgressions and delinquencies And therefore that thou mightest satisfie and appease the said wrath of his as well for the circumstances as the substance of our sins thou wouldst be punished for them at all times aswell at morning and evening as at noone day It is but meet and right then that as thou sufferedst continually from one end of the day unto the other so on the other side that wee should pray continually as the Apostle exhorteth and sing prayses unto thee both night and day without ceasing for so great a benefit Thirdly let us observe that though these Jewes sent Christ unto the judgement Hall of Pilate yet they went not in themselves Their reason being this lest they should be defiled but that they might eate the Passeover as our text saith Because as it should seeme it was accounted an unlawfull and an unholy thing for a Jew at the time of that high and solemne Feast to enter into the houses or societies of any of the Gentiles which were esteemed no otherwise then as uncleane among them But hereupon Saint Austin cryes out O Impia stulta caecitas Tract 114. in Iohan. habitaculo videlicet contaminarentur alieno non contaminarentur scelero proprio O impious and foolish blindnesse to thinke that they could be more defiled by the habitation and externall society of strangers then by their owne proper and internall sinnes Alienigenae Judicis praetorio contaminari timebant fratris innocentis sanguinem fundere non timebant They were afraid to be contaminated by the judgement Hall of the Roman President yet feared not to shed the bloud of their owne innocent and undefiled brother