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A36046	A clear and learned explication of the history of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ taken out of above thrity Greek, Syriack, and other Oriental authors, by way of Catena: by Dionysius Syrus, who flourish'd most illustriously in the tenth and eleventh centuries. And faithfully translated by Dudley Loftus, doctor of the laws, Master in chancery, and judge of Their Majesties Court of Prerogative in Ireland.	Dionysius Exiguus, d. ca. 540.; Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1695 (1695)	Wing D1524; ESTC R221210	116,956	162

priviledg'd than he who Prophesied of his Passion and knew that he was to be Crucified and to dye but it is certainly known that he is greater than the Prophets as ye have said and were it true that he had not known wherefore he was forsaken then was it false which was written concerning him that he is the Wisdom of the Father and if he knew not then neither did the Father know for he said As the Father knoweth me so know I the Father but if ye shall say That the fear of Death hinder'd him from knowing his Death let them take notice That it hath not been written either of the Martyrs or Prophets who sustained Passions that they were hindered so that they cou'd not know of their Death Now let us reprove the Arians who say That it was the Son who was forsaken of his Father Against whom we say How did he forsake him Since that the Son himself said I am in my Father and my Father in me and whether did he depart who is every where without Limitation And how did the Father forsake his Power and his Wisdom spontaneously For behold Paul said That Christ is the Power and Wisdom of God the Father for as he spoke this I thirst for two Causes First That he might fulfil the Prophecy as said the Evangelists And Secondly That he might give us Drink who were Thirsty and as he asked Water of the Samaritan Woman not in behalf of himself but to induce her to ask Water of Life from him for behold it is not written that he drank of the Waters which he asked of her which is evident from hence that as soon as she perceiv'd him she began to demand of him Living Waters and behold it is not Written That he drank of the Waters which he asked of her wherefore he asked it not for any other end but that he was willing to confer on her the Drink of Life So when he said to the Jews I thirst he sought to give us Water of Life Moreover he said I thirst in respect of his Human Nature which Thirsted after the knowledg of the Holy Ghost for as he demanded in the matter of her who was Healed Who touched me when the multitude pressed upon him that by the asking of a Question the Faith of her may be Revealed who touched him so here he asks Why hast thou forsaken me not that he was Ignorant but that the Auditory hearing this Interrogation might inquire and be informed that it was not He who was forsaken but the Human Nature Moreover He calls the Father his God because He was Man for as he was not to be Blamed or Reprehended when he exercis'd Divine Function because he was God so was he not to be Reproved or Contemned when he spake as a Man forasmuch as he was a Man He calls Elias for the Word Eli my God and Elia are near a like in the Hebrrw Language for Eli is Interpreted God and Elohia is Interpreted Divine And one of them ran and brought a Spunge and filled it with Vinegar For he was a Jew who offered him Vinegar and Myrrh as is evident from hence that the Jews said Behold he calls Elias They many times offered him Vinegar in derision and he drank but here he did not And Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the Ghost that is to say he shewed that voluntarily and freely he gave up his Soul and not by constraint for he dismissed it and it was not taken from him as ours which is taken by force It is said of us Creatures Thou takest their Spirit and they die but he was Creator and did give it up of his own free will Some Men ask of what kind of Death died our Lord Whether that of ours or of his own And we answer That ours is the Separation of the Soul from the Body but the death of God is the Separation of the Divinity from the Humanity and this he did not suffer wherefore we say that he died our death for his Soul was separated from his Body and not his Divinity from his Humanity For tho' his Soul was separated when he died on the Cross till he arose from the Grave yet his Divinity was not at all separated neither from his Soul nor from his Body for his Divinity was united to his Soul and to his Body with an unseparable Union that is to say his Divinity to his Humanity for his Divinity remained with the Body and with the Soul went into Hell and preached to the Souls there detained which did not obey the preaching of Noah as Peter say'd in the Acts for the Divinity is unlimitted and therefore with his Body and Soul and by him are all things and without him nothing and within him are all things we say also of Christ that he was God for it is say'd of the word of God that it is God and the very same is Man who is God John said And God was that Word and that he was Man the same John said The Word was made Flesh and dwelt in us and Paul sayth God sent his Son and he was made of a Woman therefore that word of the Father is God and was made Man and as he is God he is not limitted by space or place nor to be comprehended with words or thoughts but as He was made Man He was with the Body in the Sepulcher and with the Soul in Heaven Moreover Jesus cried twice with a loud Voice First My God my God wherefore c. as Matthew writes Secondly Father into thy hands I commit my Soul as Luke saith The first time as in the Person of Adam My God my God The second time in his own Person My Father into thy hands He calls him My Father to shew that he is God and equal in Essence with the Father and God to shew that the same was made Man And in saying I commend my Spirit he sheweth that voluntarily and of his own free will he laid it down and that no other took it from him by constraint as is our case Stephen in saying Christ into thy hands I commit my Spirit signify'd Christ accept of my Spirit From Adam to this time the Souls of the Righteous and of the wicked were sent to Hell as we have say'd before and from the time that Christ cried Father into thy hands I commit my Spirit until the end of the World the Souls of the Righteous are in the hands of God as Solomon said that is to say they are near unto him and dwell in Paradise He bowed his Head and gave up his Spirit With us first the Soul departs from us and afterwards our Heads fall down but with Christ it was not so but first he bowed his Head and presently gave up his Soul that is to say of his own accord and free will he delivered it up and not by constraint Furthermore In saying I lay down my Spirit he sheweth that after a

his Body a Tunick and that it was without seam from above sheweth that he brought not his Body from Heaven but that it was united to him from Mary and in as much as it was intirely woven is signified that the Word united to it self a compleat living Body endowed with a Rational Soul and that they did not divide it sheweth that after this union Our Lord was not to be divided or seperated into two subsistances Again his Tunick signifieth faith which is one and undivided and that there is one Lord undivided into two and incomprehensible his Coat fell to the Soldiers who were of the Gentiles and not of the Hebrews because the Gentiles were heirs to the faith in Christ And they sat and watched him that he should not be snatched away by his Kinsfolks and this they did peculiarly as to our Lord at the command of Pilate or they watched him to observe whether or no he was dead and they put over his head the cause of his Death Luke and John say That it was written in three languages Hebrew Latine and Greek Pilate did this that he might be revenged of the Jews and that he might excuse himself for that they accused him as a Malefactor moreover this was the guidance of divine providence for the Crosses were hidden under ground and a long time after this was known to be that of Christ by the Table which the Judge had placed thereon Others say that he feared least that when enquiry should be made after his death and he found innocent he himself might be accused and therefore wrote on the Cross the pretence of his Death in three Tables that three languages might testifie that the Jews crucified their King Moreover three witnesses gave testimony alluding to this that they Crucified one of the Trinity But the Writing pleased them not because they thought they should be thereby reputed Rebels if he who was their King were crucified they sayed therefore Write that he say'd he was King and not that we owned him as such but he did not alter the Inscription because Judges are not accustomed to vary from what they write as also that he might reproach the Jews And two Thieves were crucified with him he on the right hand was called Titus and he on the left hand Domeus Moreover they did this with an impudent intention that forasmuch as they crucified him with Thieves and Murderers he might be deemed one of like guilt with them and that by a pretended community in so flagitious a Crime his Majesty might be obscured But against their will he fulfilled the Prophecy in that he was crucified with evil doers Destroy the Temple and baild it in three days Mark fayeth Ah thou that destroyest the Temple and buildest it in three days and these words denotes their reproach and blasphemy as if they had said He that gave out that he would build the Temple in three days is not able to preserve himself If thou beest the Son of God come down from the Cross But he did not descend from the Cross because he was the Son of God for he who knows that if he dyes he shall not rise again flyeth from Death But it became not him who is assured to rise after 3 days and by his Deaths to destroy Hell and triumph over Death to have come down until Justice had been fully satisfied by his Death And likewise the High Priests reviled him That is to say the Seribes the Doctors of the Law the Priests and the Elders who were there assembled to take care that the Execution should not be delay'd nor prevented He brought others to Life inasmuch therefore as they testified that he reviv'd others they condemned themselves for if he revived others he might not have dyed or Dying he might rise again Let him now come down from the Cross and we will believe in him for if he were King of Israel they sought to abolish his Kingdom and if he had descended from the Cross they had not believ'd in him which is manifest from hence that he wrought great miracles before his suffering on the Cross whilest he suffer'd thereon and after he had suffer'd and yet they believed not so neither had they believed had he descended from the Cross and he did not descend from the Cross for at that time his Agony and contest was not with them but against Death to destroy it He trusted in God Are therefore the Prophets no Prophets or the Righteous not righteous because God did not deliver them from Dangers and Sufferings But it is certain they were Prophets and Righteous so in the Son of God The Thieves also who were crucified with him reviled him Some say that one of the Thieves only reviled him and that he took up the reproach of one and extended it to them both according to the custom of the Scripture As for Example On my Rayment did they cast Lots whereas it is evident that they did not cast Lots upon is whole Rayment but on his Tunick only Like unto this Some of them doubted whereas Thomas only doubted Mathew and Mark say that both of them reviled him and all three say true for when our Lord was nailed to the Cross both reviled him but after that he on the Right Hand saw the Wonders and Signs which were wrought on the Cross and knew that they were not effected for his or his Fellows sake and heard the Jews repeating high things of him and calling him the Son of God and King of Israel and saw the Inscription of Pilate in three Tables proclaiming him King he confessed his Majesty and ceased to blaspheme and began with Praise even reprehending and accusing his Fellow Moreover the Thief on the Left Hand had one reprehensible property for he blasphemed as did the Jews judging him to be God But there were five praise-worthy Actions to be observed in the Thief on the Right Hand 1. He rebuked his Fellow 2. He confessed the wickedness of his Deeds 3. He Justified Christ 4. He acknowledg'd him to be King 5 He begged saying Remember me my Lord. How knew the Thief that Christ was King We answer That either he knew it by Divine Revelation the Testimony of Pilate who said Shall I crucify your King or of the Jews If he be King let him come down For the Faith of the Thief is to be praised for that he believed on him when he was in disgrace and on the Cross and not in his Kingdom and Majesty So also the Christians great was their Faith and Rewards shall be given unto them because they believed in a Crucified Saviour who notwithstanding is God over all Again The Thief being a Malefactor who with one Word gained a Kingdom sheweth that Christ is a Propitiation for Sins and Lord of a Kingdom but he was not Crucified as he was God but as he was made Man according to this That the Word was made Flesh and dwelt in as and according to

this God sent his Son and he was made of a Woman Some demand whether on the Friday he took up the Thief into Paradice Some Men say no for if he had entred into Paradice he had already receiv'd the fruition of Happiness promised to the Saints And that none of the Saints hath yet receiv'd this fruition Paul firmly asserts saying that None of those who have born Witnesses to the Faith have receiv'd the Promise for God has provided for us that which is better that they may not be made perfect without us Unto whom we Answer That the fruition which he promis'd to the Saints is not reserv'd in that Paradice out of which Adam departed but in the Kingdom of Heaven whereunto Adam has not yet entered The Paradice wherein Adam was Adam's Eye saw and his Ear heard as also Eve saw and heard but that which is in the Kingdom no Man has yet seen but after the General Resurrection all the Saints shall enjoy it and Adam together with them Others say That in this he said to day he did not speak of that Friday that the Thief should then be in Paradice but concerning the Consummation of the World and they say the very Truth to day hereunto they subjoyn a Coma and then these Words follow Thou shalt be with me in Paradice that is to say at the end of the World and this is like to that Expression In the day thou shalt eat the Fruit thereof thou shalt dye whereas 't is certainly known that he did not dye that day no not till he saw 930 years But we say that the Soul of the Thief entered into Paradice the self same Friday for it was very congruous he should be admited to such an Entrance forasmuch as it was not from Divine and Supercelestial means and Inducements but Human and Natural that he confessed him When Christ died on the Cross his Soul only was seperated from the Body for the Divinity was seperated neither from the Soul or Body for it was once Supernaturally and Incomprehensibly United to both the Soul and Body and when the Soul was seperated from the Body the Body was laid in the Sepulcher and the Soul went directly to Hell in the Inferiour Parts of the Earth where all Souls from Adam to this time were imprison'd and he Preach'd to all the Souls then kept in Custody as saith St. Peter and all the Souls that believ'd in him he led and brought them from Hell and conducted them together with the Soul of the Thief that self same day to Paradice out of which Adam departed and so performed his Promise he being that day with him in Paradice But those Souls which did not believe in him as some of the Doctors say he left in Hell Others say he brought them thence and left them in the Air and that they were Transported by the Devils to the extremities of the habitable world and there take up their mansion until the General Resurrection and from that Friday hitherto every Soul departing from the Body if it be just goeth accompanied with Angess to paradise but if it be evil the Devils carry it to the utmost bounds of the habitable World Furthermore to those who were alive athis coming into the flesh he preached in his own person and to those who were before his coming that is to say from Adam til his Soul descended into Hell he preached in Hell and to those after his coming by the Apostles and Evangelists This Hell is a strait and dark Prison placed in the lower-most parts of the Earth and it is the Prison of all Souls and because the Souls there could not plainly see the Divinity a Soul Cloathed with the Divinity of God the Word went thither and set up his Light and Preach'd to Souls and Released and brought away all thosse Souls which he knew by his Omniscient foreknowledg to be capable of Mercy he brought away the Souls of them who would have believed in him had he been Revealed in their time and conducted them together with the Soul of the Thief into Paradice and when he Preached to the Souls they had Reason Understanding Consideration Memory Cogitation Liberty and with these Repentance also without which his Preaching had been in vain and there was confirmed on them a New Gift That out of the Body they shou'd be Condemned or Justified the like whereof had not been nor shall be And when his Body was placed among the Dead the Bodies also were sensible of his Power as John was sensible thereof in the Womb and those who believ'd in him there he Justified wherefore as we said he Preached Life in his own Person to these and to those who were to be born by his Apostles and to those who were departed by himself The which he as Clothed with the Divinity performed and even as he was clothed with a Body and spake with Men because they were not able otherwise on Earth to see him so in Hell because the Souls cou'd not see him he was Clothed with a Soul and Preached unto them and even as on Earth he performed Miracles and Wonders and some believed in him and some not so in Hell he exhibited unto them a great Light and of those Souls some believed in him and some not and this St. Peter confirms that he also Preached unto the Dead that they might be Condemned or Judged as alive in the Flesh and from the time his Soul departed from his Body till it was United to it it was in Hell the Divinity being United with the Soul and Body as we have said Now the Miracles which he performed in Hell were these He hound Satan loosed the Imprisoned Souls and made his Light shine in the Bowels thereof Moreover We have said That the Devil before Christ was Crucified might have Repented but forasmuch as he did not Repent it is Written that he is Tormented So many Souls have hardned themselves in Hell and have not Repented for which Cause they remain'd there Again The Thief asked a Kingdom which is manifest from his Petition Remember me my Lord in thy Kingdom but Christ gave Paradice unto him because as yet none of the Saints had receiv'd the Kingdom Furthermore the Kingdom and Hell are referv'd as Rewards for the Good and Bad and neither on that Friday or as yet is that Reward come but it is a time of Service It was the third Hour when they Crucified him It is requisite in the first place to know in what hour our Lord was Crucified whether in the Third or Sixth Hour as the other vangelist say That on the Sixth Hour Pilate sate on the Tribunal in a place called the Pavement and said to the Jews Behold your King Some say That he was Crucified at the Sixth Hour and that Mark was not present at the Crucifixion but wrote what he had heard from his Master Peter Others with whom we agree say that he was Crucified at the third hour

short time he was to take it up again according as he said I lay down my Life that I may take it up again I have power to lay it down and to take it up For the Spirit is called Soul For the Soul is called by three Names Soul Vnderstanding and Spirit as we have writlen in our Book of Distinctions concerning Natures Intellectual and Sensitive It behoves us therefore to enquire how on the Friday and at the same time was our Lord in these three places in the heart of the Earth as he said The Son of Man shall be in the heart of the Earth and in Paradise as he said to the Thief This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise and in the hands of the Father according to that Into thy hands I commit my Spirit Immediately the Preface to the Gate of the Temple was rent The Preface to the Gate he calls the Curtain which hung before the Gate of the Temple which is called a Veil Why was the Veil of the Gate rent Because the holy Spirit departed thence who dwelt there in the Mysteries of the Law But in what manner was it rent They say That this Texture of the Veil was on the one side and the Woof on the other which was wonderful It was rent That is to say The Veil was divided for that it could not suffer the Passion of him who was principally typified thereby and to signifie that the Grace of the holy Ghost was departed thence and that the Sacrifices of the Law ceased and that it was designed for Destruction And after the Ninth hour the Darkness was dispersed in token that the Ancient Sorrows which came by Sin were to cease The Earth was moved as a Dish in the Water In the first place forbidding the Disputation of the Arrogant it is to be considered that it was established on a Foundation of Immobility and that an Earthquake was never over all the Earth and at once yet this motion was in all the Earth and the whole Body thereof was moved as a Dish in the midst of the Water So also this Darkness was over all the Earth and not one part thereof only as it is wont to be And the Stones were Cleft that it might be known that it was the Creator who was Crucified and it was known from hence that the Creatures Suffer'd in Compassion with him Moreover the Rocks were cleft in reproach to obdurate hearts for all this odious Deed. Moreover because Rational Creatures were silent out of crafty Policy the Stones Cryed out and this is meant by those words If these should by silent the Stones would cry out Again because God many times instructs men for their Conversion by Irrational and Insensitive Creatures as he instructed Baalam by an Ass and Jeroboam by an Altar and Ashes and Pharoe and the Egyptians by the Elements So he removed the Earth out of it's place and cleft the Rock in Reprehension of the Jews who he desired might have been converted from their wickedness and they would not And the Sepulchers were open'd and many Bodies That is to say Arose on the Ninth hour of Friday and they were not of those who were dead long before but such as fell asleep about three years more or less before the Passion of our Lord and they were Saints because they believed in our Lord before their Death And they were of Jerusalem and arose out of the Sepulchers round about the City and enter'd into Jerusalem and were known some to their Fathers some to their Brethren and some to their Mothers and reprehended them saying What wicked ●eed is this which ye have done that ye have Crucified the Life and the Giver of Life and they remained there three days Eating nothing but were preserv'd by Divine Efficacy as was Moses and Elias in their Fasting and their Bodies were really United to their Souls and concerning this Mathew said That many Bodies of the Saints Arose and abode three days in Jerusalem and there Preached and afterwards returned unto their Sepulchers and fell asleep but did not go into Paradice neither were they dispersed to the utmost Limits nor were they seen of all Men. And it is certain from what Mathew said That they appeared unto many for many are not all and so our Lord after his Resurrection was not always seen but sometimes and that not unto every one as at first but to his Disciples and to those who were Worthy Others say That they were Prophets who knew the Holy Scriptures and believed in him before their Decease as saith Ignatius and had Preached the Resurrection of Christ and their own the Dead arose in manifestation of this Raiser from the Dead Johannes de Dara The Dead who Arose did not enter the City to Preach until he Arose Others That they remained at their Sepulchers Standing and giving Praises Others That they were Assembled at the Mount of Olives Others That they went into Paradice And they went into the Holy City Jorusalem Some say That he doth not call this Earthly City which was polluted Jerusalem but that which is in Heaven and when Christ cryed on the Cross they were reviv'd and remained in their Graves as Jonas did in the Fish and after his Resurrection they also Arose Spiritually and when he Ascended in abscondito to his Father in the Heavens they also Ascended privately with him to the Holy City which is in Heaven Others say That Jerusalem as to the Upper part thereof was Holy and that many believing Persons dwelt there but that the Lower Part was Prophane by Reason of the Deceit practis'd there and he calls the Upper Region thereof the Holy City whereunto the Dead who Arose Entred and Preached to the Believers who Lamented his Death Others That he calls by the Name of Jerusalem the whole Terrestrial City into which they Entred and Preached and more then 500 Souls returned to their Bodies and Entred and appeared to many and they appeared to the Grief of those who knew not that they had Crucified their Lord and therefore he spake to them who were bitterly griev'd in Spirit Others say That they at first appear'd in Gallilee and in many other places and that after the Resurrection they came to Jerusalem and appear'd to many that they might declare that the Resurrection was no Phantasm There were five Miracles when Christ was Crucified whereof some were in the Heavens some in the Air some on the Earth and some under the Earth In the Heavens the Sun and Moon were Darkned in the Air the Veil was Rent on the Earth the Rocks were Cleft and from under the Earth the Dead Arose and some of the Miracles were Universal as that of the Eclipse of the Sun and the Emotion of the Earth some also were particular as that the Rocks and Veil were Rent and the Dead Arose Who therefore was he who hung upon the Cross God or Man If he were God it were impossible that