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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

there remayne at Gods right hand Lord of Heauen and Earth In takyng of which brused heele albeit hee sometymes fainted in the infirmitie of the flesh as it were calling his foote backe agayne at the first touch or steppe because of the sharpe sting whiche he felt for his own reuerēce cryed at the entraunce of his Passion saying Father if it be possible let this cuppe passe yet he willingly for our onely cause and benefite continued too be brused on the heele manfully spoyled the enemy of his harnesse wherein hee trusted troad vnder the red Dragon and finally brake and crusht his head that is the rigor of the Law the strength of Sinne and the sting of Death In the same case and cause of quarell which he had with our Master he laboreth to master vs vsing his force in and vpon our flesh geuing vs often in conflict a foyle or a fall but it is the fall of the fleshe not of the spirite of the body not of the soule of Adam the old and out ward mā not of Christ the inward and the new For the same heele or flesh brused by the fall through the Lawe in it selfe the corruption that yet remayneth euen in the elect rebelling agaynst the Law of our mynde albeit it hold vs Captiue and make vs as dead through trespasse sor it standeth not with the riches of Gods mercy and grace neither with the kyndnesse whiche he shewed vnto vs in Christ Jesus that wee should bee perfect in this fleshe yet it hath no dominion it quickeneth and riseth agayne and is made too sit in heauenly places Where note Christian Reader that the Holy Ghost sayth it is made to sit it setteth not it selfe How then or of whom commeth the healing of this bruse the recouery of this fall the deliuery from this body of Death and albeit our enemies make often and strong inuasions or incursions yet whence is the finall victory I thanke my God sayth S. Paul through Jesus Christ our Lord. First he thanketh a note of grace and free gift not of desert or duetie For who geueth an other thankes for that which of necessitie and desert is his owne Secondly he geueth thankes to God not to himselfe and he thāketh not God but in Christ Jesu our lord So that in our selues there is nothyng in God the Father standeth the gift but Jesus Christ is all in all For God will not neither can he be pleased but onely when Christ maketh intercession Marke the course and doctrine of the Scripture It is God in deede who hath raysed vs vp together and hath made vs sit together in the heauenly places But did he this for that wee pleased him or for that some great Saint did make intreatie no he made vs sit there sayth the Text in Jesus Christ in no other And why so in Jesus Christ Forsooth that he might shew in ages too come the exceedyng riches of his grace through his kyndnesse toward vs in Christ Jesus So that his kyndnesse grace riches and whatsoeuer his blessings which we haue or shall haue at his handes it is onely for his welbeloued Sonnes sake who onely made vs who were farre of neare vntoo his Father and reconciled vs that were in hatred and children of wrath by his Crosse and precious bloud Without hauyng him in thy mynde or hart it is an horrible and fearefull thyng but too thinke of God A God of wrath and seuere iustice but onely in his Sonne Christ in whom he is well pleased Pleased he is we all cōfesse and not only for original sinne alone as some do affirme thereby teachyng that what sinne we cōmit after our baptisme we our selues or the priest for vs hauyng his hyer must redeeme and not Christ but also for all other Sinne in course of lyfe cōmitted For by grace are wee saued sayth the text not washed and that through Fayth Which Fayth commeth not by oftē workyng well for thē we might well argue that wee are saued by woorkes when wee are saued by Fayth whiche is the fruite of our workes but it is the gift of God sayth the Scripture in the same place and not of our woorkes And why least any man shold boast of himselfe For thy woorkes therefore and for thy Fayth thanke God and thanke God through Jesus Christ. He onely is that good and pitifull Samaritane who when we haue taken the foyle or the fall being sore wounded in this conflict of the flesh Spirite and so cast as forlorne too the hedge doth wash and heale our sores and woundes with his most pure blessed oyle his sweet hart bloud paying the vttermost farthyng of our debt too him be all honor glory and triūph for euer Amen Of this I thought good too admonish thee Christiā Reader desirous with thee to reioyce at the wō derfull woorkes of mercy wrought by this our great Champion Jesus Christ whose victory is our victory though we sinne of infirmitie yet he is perfect Read and accept this comfortable Treatise which I haue translated therein shalt thou finde faithfully set before thine eyes what Christ hath done for vs in his Passion and what he requireth of vs againe for being made partakers of the fruites of his Passion The same Lord Jesus Christ blesse thy body and soule to lyfe euerlastyng Amen In whom I most hartely byd and wishe thee too farewell Richard Daye ¶ CHRIST JESUS TRIUMPHANT SO often as inwardly in spirit I behold the transitorie and frayle estate of our mortall Nature throughly vexed with infinite miseries perils iniuries and lamentations so that nothing weé haue of sure accompt nothing freé but all subiect too the seruitude tyranny slauery of most raging enemies it seémeth too meé allmost vnspeakeable how deépe indetted weé are too CHRIST JESUS our Sauior and Triumpher most victorious Untoo whom when of bounden dutie we haue geuen all that is ours and our selues wholy and more then wholy yet in no respect are weé aunswerable to his wonderfull desertes so far do those thyngs which this our heauenly Champiō hath compassed and performed for our cause surpasse not onely our strength and Nature but also all conceit of hart and thought the great riches whereof welnere exceéde all credit and beleéf If so be therefore wee commanly and very much esteéme of the woorthy exploits atchiued by renowmed Captaines of this world if with so great ioye and desire weé hunger after them beyng Printed in Bookes grauen in Tables painted on walles or set foorth and represented on a stage if we greédely harken after them and wonder at them if weé geue all triumph all pompe honor and prayse vnto them how then ought weé be affected toward this our heauenly Conqueror whose worthy actes most wonderfull stratagemes do with such infinite brightnes darken all glory and so farre exceéde the Nature of humane thynges that Heauen is not farther distant from the Earth

him for euer and as he on the other side hauing chaunged persons with thée for hee beareth the publique person of vs all tooke vpon himselfe the burthen of thy sinne the wrath of GOD and the whole heape of miserie Whereupon ariseth immediatly great libertie of mynde freédome of conscience courage and boldnes of hart likewise a certain maiestie of spirite not onely despising earthly thinges and thinges vnder the earth but also lifting it selfe higher then Heauen Finally there proceédeth herehence euerlasting comfort and ioy in GODS HOLY SPIRITE which the holy Prophetes prophesied that he should light and come vpon them who were redeemed and conuerted to SYON Which Giftes seing they be proper and peculiar too Christians and of such valor that nothing can happen to Man more honorable no not too the ANGELS of GOD I can not but much marueile how it should come to passe that they are so seldome seéne nay almost not at all in the life and manners of Christians For whereas you seé some drowned in superstitiō many as yet captiue vnder the old seruitude bondage of the Law an infinite nūber of other settyng their whole hartes vpon their aboundance of worldly mucke what one almost cāst thou geue meé who either inwardly inspireth or outwardly expresseth this excellencie of a Christian hart spirituall strēgth in CHRIST whiche before I spake of Hereof sith there be many causes the estate of these our euill dayes and course of this tyme geue meé perhaps fit occasion somewhat too touch them by the way The Cause therefore that wée are so strōg in the world and so faint harted in CHRIST lyeth not in any defect of the thinges thēselues which as they are by Nature most ample aboundant so are they most certain and permanent but in the naturall corruption and imbecillitie of our flesh so that the weake eye of our Fayth if it be not lightened from Heauen with the soueraigne light of Christ is dazeled with the brightnes of the very thinges themselues no otherwise thā as our bodely eyes are dimmed at the beholding of the shining Sunne Beside this naturall dulnesse and imbecillitie there is another cause procéeding frō the force and power of Sathan who neuer ceaseth to assault vs And partely our owne slothfull idlenes is too too blame when wée doe not foster and nourish whatsoeuer sparcle of Fayth or good motion appeareth in vs but beyng tickled with the good successe of thinges present or hauing our selues fastened vpon other matters or entangled with cares of this world withdraw our selues from cherishing that good motion and neglect the riches of the heauenly Kyngdome And what marueill is it than if CHRIST doe not open and shew himselfe vntoo vs who so disdainfully neglect or reiect his Kingdome or what cause haue wée too complaine if he imparte not his blessinges vntoo vs who make more accompt of this worldly Māmon or if he send not his SPIRITE of all comfort and cōsolation to cheare our harts who do more reioyce at this transitorie worlde or if he satisfie them not that doe not hunger and thirst or refresh not them that are not heauie laden or grone vnder any burden The Kingdome of GOD loueth them who séeke it those that are carefull too obtaine it They who are frée Schollers and followers of this world haue at their pleasure their customes and commodities which they enioy but this our Kyng geueth not his riches but to such as haue néede of them and vtterly despising this wicked world follow the LAMBE with a cheareful courage whether soeuer he go Neither cā I well let passe too speake of those who haue Cure of soules and charge too minister the word of GOD vntoo the people For it lyeth on them especially whether the people be duly truly instructed in CHRIST or not And aibeit I can geue here no generall precept which the Ministers of God might vse cōtinually in instructyng such a multitude especially of so diuerse mindes fashions opinions for some liue so that you shal rot well know or perceaue whether they more neglect the Law or the Gospell whether they reuerence feare GOD lesse or Man whether they be Atheistes or Infidels Other some there be who geuing themselues too all licentious dissolute liuing sauour asmuch of the swéete libertie of the Gospell as swyne do of swéet odours Agayne some there be of such a Conscience that the Preachyng of the Law and the lamentable voyce of Iohn is not onely vnseasonable vntoo them but a sharp bitter bane in stead of healthsome medicine Yet sith that CHRIST JESUS our LORD is the gift of his most tender and louing Father shining vpon euery one indifferently good and bad euen as the Sunne is common too vs all I thinke it not méet or conuenient that wée should be more slow or sparing in dispensing or distributing this his benefite than he was in bestowyng If it pleased the LORD GOD too shewe forth the excéedyng riches of his Grace too raunsome vs miserable captiues from the bondage of the Law too embrace vs in his armes too call vs too the common possession of Heauen and all other his blessinges if being called it pleased him too iustifie vs if beyng iustified too glorifie vs of his owne frée loue and mercy certes for vs not too acknowlege that which is offered is a point of great ignoraunce not too take it it were miserie but to detaine or grudge others that which ought to be most publique and commō is either malicious vnkindnes or playne theft especially in a Shepheard I deny not that the terrors threatninges of the LAW haue their place especially in these corrupt and wicked dayes but as they haue their place so also they haue their boundes and limites how farre they shall reach For great héede and care is too be taken of some I touch not all least whilest that the Princely Nation of CHRIST is kept under the continuall discipline of the LAW it come too passe in the meane time that it neuer learne too rise and aspire agayne too the end of the Law which is Christ to the fulnes of perfect Libertie and too the excéeding ioy which the Gospel bringeth Although perhaps not their order somuch as the corruption of the people is here to be reproued whose life and manners dayly waxing worse and worse are cause why they follow not some other kynde of Method and order in instructing them Notwithstanding whether that ought to be cause sufficient to withdraw thée foode of the Gospell and continually too beate downe the hearers with the threates and curse of the Law I leaue it frée for euery man to iudge But in my opinion they who are admitted too the Ministerie functiō of the word of GOD ought to hold folow that way of teaching whereby CHRIST rather thā MOSES may be imprinted in the peoples harts whereby the riches of Gods