same successe Giuing vp supposes a receiuing a returning This inmate that wee haue in our bosome is sent to lodge here for a time may not dwell here alwayes The right of this tenure is the Lords not ours As he said of the hatchet It is but lent it must be restored It is ours to keepe his to dispose and require See and consider both our priuiledge and charge It is not with vs as with brute Creatures we haue a liuing ghost to informe vs which yet is not ours and alas what is ours if our soules bee not but must be giuen vp to him that gaue it VVhy do we liue as those that tooke no keepe of so glorious a guest as those that should neuer part with it as those that thinke it giuen them to spend not to returne with a reckoning If thou hadst no soule if a mortall one if thine owne if neuer to bee required how couldest thou liue but sensually Oh remember but who thou art what thou hast and whether thou must and thou shalt liue like thy selfe while thou art and giue vpp thy ghost confidently when thou shalt cease to be Neither is there here more certainety of our departure then comfort Carry this with thee to thy death-bed and see if it can refresh thee when all the worlde cannot giue thee one dramme of comfort Our spirit is our dearest riches if wee should lose it here were iust cause of griefe Howle and lament if thou thinkest thy soule perisheth it is not forfeited but surrendered How safely doth our soule passe through the gates of death without any impeachment while it is in the hands of the Almighty Woe were vs if hee did not keepe it while we haue it much more when wee restore it Wee giue it vp to the same hands that created infused redeemed renewed that doe protect preserue establish and will crowne it I know whome I haue beleeued am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I haue committed to him against that day O secure and happy estate of the godly O blessed exchange of our condition while our soule dwels in our breast how is it subiect to infinite miseries distempred with passions charged with sinnes vexed with tentations aboue none of these how should it bee otherwise This is our pilgrimage that our home this our wildernesse that our land of promise this our bondage that our kingdom our impotency causeth this our sorrow VVhen our soule is once giuen vpp what euill shall reach vnto heauen and wrestle with the Almighty Our loathnes to giue vpp comes from our ignorance and infidelity No man goes vnwillingly to a certain preferment I desire to bee dissolued saith Paul I haue serued thee I haue beleeued thee and now J come to thee saith Luther The voices of Saintes not of men If thine heart can say thus thou shalt not need to intreat with old Hilarion Egredere mea anima egredere quid times Goe thy wayes forth my soule go forth what fearest thou but it shall flie vpp alone cherefully from thee and giue vp it selfe into the armes of God as a faithfull Creator and Redeemer This earth is not the element of thy soule it is not where it should bee It shall bee no lesse thine when it is more the owners Thinke now seriously of this point Gods Angell is abroade and strikes on all sides wee know not which of our turnes shall be the next we are sure we carry deaths enough within vs. If we be readie our day can not come too soone Stir vp thy soule to an heauenly cherefulnesse like thy Sauiour Know but whither thou art going thou canst not but with diuine Paul say from our Sauiours mouth euen in this sense It is a more blessed thing to giue then to receiue God cannot abide an vnwilling guest giue vp that spirit to him which hee hath giuen thee and he will both receiue what thou giuest and giue it thee againe with that glory and happinesse which can neuer be conceiued and shall neuer bee ended Euen so Lord Iesus Come quicklie Gloria in excelsis DEO 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sit mors mea in remissio nem omnium iniquitatum mearum Vt vsus rationis tollatur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug. ad Hie. Dum volunt Iudaei esse Christiani nec Iudaei sunt nec christiani 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ex quo apparet tunc scissum esse cum Christus emisit spirituÌ„ Ceremoniae sicut defuncta corpora necessarioruÌ„ officijs deducenda erant ad sepulturam non simulatè sed religiosè nec deserenda continuò Augustin Ego è contrario loquar reclamante mundo liberâ voce pronuÌ„ciem ceremonias IudaeoruÌ„ perniciosas esse et mortiferas quicunque eas obseruauerit siue ex Gentibus in barathrum diaboli deuolutum Hier. Quisquis nunc ea celebrare voluerit tanquam sopitos cineres eruens non erit pius c. Si tu pacem fugis ego te ab Ecclesia fugere mando 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 24.10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 26.27 In medio la tronum tanquam latronum â—mmanissimus Luther Caput Angelicis spiritibus â—â—emebundii spinis coronatur c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vt nulla vnquam aetas similem meminerit â— Thes 5 10 MaledictuÌ„ silentium quod hic conniuet Negotiatores terrae sunt ipsi Sacerdotes qui vendunt orationes missas pro denarijs Facientes domum orationis Apothecam negotionis Jn Reuel l. 10. p. 5. Bellar. l. 1. de Indulgent Reuel 5. Quod emittitur voluntarium est quod amittitur necessarium Ambr. Quod si venire noluerint ego vim faciam vt deuorer Si per singulos dies pro eo moreremur qui nos dilexit non sic debitum exolâ—eremus Chrysost Act. 5.5 Quantumcunque te deieceris humilior non eris Christo Hieron Vt contra Nullam animam recipio quae me nolente seperatur à corpore Hieron
Chrysostome saith well that some actions are parables so may I say some actions are prophesies such are all types of Christ and this with the formost Lift vp whither to the Crosse it is the prophesie hanging vpon a tree saith Moses how lift vp nayled to it so is the prophesie foderunt manus they haue pierced my hands and my feet sayth the Psalmist with what company two theeues with the wicked was hee numbred sayth Esay where without the gates saith the prophesie what becomes of his garments they cannot so much as cast the dice for his coate but it is prophesied They diuided my garments and on my vestures cast lots saith the Psalmist hee must die then on the Crosse but how voluntarily Not a bone of him shall be broken what hinders it loe there he hangs as it were neglected and at mercy yet all the raging Iewes no all the Diuels in hell cannot stirre one bone in his blessed body It was prophesied in the Easter-Lambe and it must be fulfilled in him that is the true Passeouer in spight of fiendes and men how then he must be thrust in the side behold not the very speare could touch his pretious side being dead but it must bee guided by a prophesie They shall see him whome they haue thrust thorough saith Zacharie what shall he say the while not his very words but are forespoken his complaint Eli Eli lamma sabactani as the Chalde or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Hebrew Psalme 22.2 his resignation In manus tuas Into thy bandes I commend my spirit Psalme 31.5 His request Father forgiue them Hee prayed for the transgressors sayth Esay And now when he saw al these prophesies were fulfilled knowing that one remained he said I thirst Domine quid sitis saith one O LORD what thirstest thou for A strange hearing that a man yea that GOD and MAN dying should complaine of thirst Could he endure the scorching flames of the wrath of his Father the curse of our sins those tortures of body those horrours of soule doth he shrinke at his thirst no no he could haue borne his drought he could not beare the Scripture not fulfilled It was not necessity of nature but the necessity of his Fathers decree that drew forth this word I thirst They offered it before hee refused it whether it were an ordinarie potion for the condemned to hasteÌ„ death as in the story of M. Anthonie which is the most receiued construction or whether it were that Iewish potion whereof the Rabbines speake whose tradition was that the malefactor to bee executed should after some good counsell from two of their Teachers be taught to say Let my death bee to the remission of all my sinnes and then that hee should haue giuen him a boule of mixt wine with a graine of Frankincense to bereaue him both of reason and paine I durst be confident in this latter the rather for that Saint Marke calls this draught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Myrrhe wine mingled as is like with other ingredients And Montanus agrees with me in the end ad stuporeÌ„ mentis alienationem A fashion which Galatine obserues out of the Sannedrim to bee grounded vpon Prouerbs 31.6 Giue strong drinke to him that is readie to perish I leaue it modestly in the middest let the learneder iudge whatsoeuer it were hee would not die till hee had complained of thirst and in his thirst tasted it Neither would hee haue thirsted for or tasted any but this bitter draught that the Scripture might bee fulfilled They gaue me vineger to drinke And loe now ConsuÌ„matum est all is finished If there bee any Iew amongst you that like one of Iohns vnseasonable Disciples shall aske Art thou hee or shall wee looke for another Hee hath his aunswere yee men of Israel why stand you gazing and gaping for another Messias In this alone all the Prophesies are finished and of him alone all was prophesied that was finished Paules old rule holdes still To the Jewes a stumbling blocke and that more auncient Curse of Dauid Let their table bee made a snare And Steuens two brands sticks still in the flesh of these wretched men One in their necke stiffe-necked the other in their heart vncircumcised the one Obstinacie the other Vnbeliefe stiffe neckes indeede that will not stoope and relent with the yoke of sixeteen hundred yeares iudgement and seruility vncircumcised hearts the fiâ—me of whose vnbeliefe would not be cut off with so infinit conuictions Oh mad miserable nation let them shew vs one prophesie that is not fulfilled let them shew vs one other in whome all the prophesies can be fulfilled and wee will mixe pitty with our hate If they cannot and yet resist their doome is past Those mine enemies that would not haue me to raigne ouer them bring them hither slay them before me So let thine enemies perish O Lord. But what goe I so farre euen amongst vs to our shame this riotous age hath bred a monstrous generation I pray God I be not now in some of your bosoms that heare me this day compounded much like to the Turkish Religion of one part Christian another lew a third worldling a fourth Atheist a Christians face a Iewes heart a worldlings life and therefore Atheous in the whole that acknowledge a God and know him not that professe a Christ but doubt of him yea belieue him not The foole hath said in his heart there is no Christ What shall I say of these men they are worse then Deuils that yeelding euill spirite could say Iesus I know and these miscreants are still in the old tune of that tempting Deuil Si tu es filius Dei if thou be the Christ Oh God that after so cleare a Gospell so many miraculous confirmations so many thousand martyrdomes so many glorious victories of truth so many open confessions of Angels men diuels friendes enemies such conspirations of heauen and earth such vniuersall contestations of all ages and people there should bee left any sparke of this damnable infidelitie in the false harts of men Behold then yee despisers wonder and vanish away whome haue all the Prophets fore-told or what haue the prophesies of so many hundreds yea thousands of yeeres foresaid that is not with this word finished who could foretell these thinges but the spirite of God who could accomplish them but the Sonne of God Hee spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets saith Zacharie hee hath spoken and he hath done one true God in both none other spirit could foresay these things should be done none other power could doe these things thus fore shewed this word therefore can fit none but the mouth of God our Sauiour It is finished Wee know whome wee haue beleeued Thou art the Christ the Sonne of the liuing GOD. Let him that loues not the Lord Iesus bee accursed to the death Thus the prophesies are finished Of the legall
obseruations with more breuity Christ is the end of the Law what law Ceremoniall Morall Of the Morall it was kept perfectly by himselfe satisfied fully for vs Of the Ceremoniall it was referred to him obserued of him fulfilled in him abolisht by him There were nothing more easie then to shew you how all those Iewish Ceremonies lookt at Christ how Circumcision Passeouer the Tabernacle both outer and inner the Temple the Lauer both the Altars the tables of Shew-bread the Candlestickes the Vaile the Holy of holies the Arke the Propitiatory the potte of Manna Aarons rod the high Priest his order and line his habites his inaugurations his washings annointings sprincklings offerings the sacrifices 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and what euer Iewish rite had their vertue from Christ relation to him and their end in him This was then their last gaspe for now straight they dyed with Christ now the vayle of the Temple rent As Austen well notes out of Mathewes order It tore then when Christs last breath passed That conceit of Theophilact is witty that as the Iewes were wont to rend their garments when they heard blasphemie so the Temple not enduring these execrable blasphemies against the Sonne of God tore his vaile in peeces But that is not all the vaile rent is the obligation of the rituall law cancelled the way into the heauenly Sanctuarie opened the shadow giuing roome to the substance in a word it dooth that which Christ saith Consummatum est Euen now then the law of ceremonies died It had along solemne buriall as Augustine sayeth well perhaps figured in Moses who died not lingringly but was thirtie dayes mourned for what meanes the Church of Rome to dig them vp now rotten in their graues that not as if they had been buried but sown with a plenteous increase yea with the inuerted vsurie of too many of you Citizens ten for one It is a graue and deep censure of that resolute Hierome Ego è contrario loquar c. I say saith he and in spite of all the world dare maintaine that now the Iewish ceremonies are pernitious and deadly and whosoeuer shall obserue them whether he be Iew or Gentile in barathrum Diaboli deuolutum shal frie in hell for it Still Altars Still Priestes sacrifices still still washings still vnctions sprinkling shauing purifying still all and more then all Let them heare but Augustines censure Quisquis nunc c. Whosoeuer shall now vse them as it were raking them vp out of their dust he shal not be Pius deductor corporis sed impius sepulturae violator an impious and sacrilegious wretch that ran sackes the quiet tombes of the dead I say not that all Ceremonies are dead but the Law of Ceremonies and of Iewish It is a sound distinction of them that profound Peter Martyr hath in his Epistle to that worthy Martyr Father Bishop Hooper Some are typicall fore-signifying Christ to come some of order and decencie Those are abrogated not these the Iewes had a fashion of prophesying in the Churches so the Christians from them as Ambrose the Iewes had an eminent pulpit of wood so wee they gaue names at their Circumcision so wee at Baptisme they sung Psalmes melodiously in Churches so doe wee they paide and receiued tithes so do we they wrapt their dead in linnen with odors so we the Iewes had sureties at their admission into the church so we these Instances might be infinite the Spouse of Christ cannot be without her laces and chaines and borders Christ came not to dissolue order But thou Lorde how long how long shall thy poore Church find her ornamentes her sorrows and see the deare sonnes of her wombe bleeding about these apples of strife let me so name them not for their value euē small things when they are commaunded looke for no small respect but for their euent the enemy is at the gates of our Syracuse how long will wee suffer our selues taken vp with angles and circles in the dust yee men brethren fathers helpe for Gods sake put to your hands to the quenching of this common flame the one side by humility obedience the other by compassion both by prayers and teares who am I that I should reuiue to you the sweete spirit of that diuine Augustine who when he heard and saw the bitter contentions betwixt two graue famous Diuines Jerome and Ruffine Heu mihi saith he qui vos ali cubi simul inuenire non possum Alas that I should neuer find you two together how I would fall at your feete how I would embrace them and weepe vpon them and beseech you eyther of you for other and each for himselfe both of you for the Church of God but especially for the weake for whome Christ died who not without their owne great danger see you two fighting in this Theater of the world Yet let me do what he said hee would doe begge for peace as for life by your filiall piety to the Church of GOD whose ruines follow vpon our diuisions by your loue of Gods truth by the graces of that one blessed Spirite whereby we are all enformed and quickened by the pretious bloud of that sonne of God which this day and this howre was shed for our redemption bee enclined to peace loue though our brains bee different yet let our hearts bee one It was as I heard the dying speech of our late reuerend worthy and gracious Diocesan Modo me moriente viuat ac floreat Ecclesia Oh yet if when I am dead the Church may liue and flourish What a spirit was here what a speech how worthy neuer to die how worthy of a soule so neere to his heauen how worthie of so happie a succession Yee whome God hath made inheritors of this blessed care who do no lesse long for the prosperity of Siō liue you to effect what he did but liue to wish all peace with our selues and warre with none but Rome and Hell And if there bee any weyward Seperatist whose soule professeth to hate peace I feare to tell him Pauls message yet I must Would to God those were cut off that trouble you How cut off As good Theodosius saide to Demophilus a contentious Prelate Si tu pacem fugis c. If thou flie peace I will make thee flie the Church Alas they doe flie it that which should be their punishment they make their contentment how are they worthy of pitty As Optatus of his Donatists they are Brethren might be companions and will not Oh wilfull men whither do they runne from one Christ to another Is Christ diuided wee haue him thanks be to our good God and we heare him dayly and whither shall wee goe from thee thou hast the wordes of eternall life Thus the Ceremonies are finished now heare the end of his sufferings with like patience and deuotion his death is here included it was so neare that he spake of it
his racked limbs wherewith he was so refreshed that it grieued him to bee let downe Euen the greatest torments are easie when they haue answerable comforts but a wounded and comfortlesse spirit who can beare If yet but the same Messenger of GOD might haue attended his Crosse that appeared in his agony and might haue giuen ease to their Lord as hee did to his seruant And yet what can the Angels helpe where God will smite Against the violence of men against the fury of Sathan they haue preuailed in the Cause of GOD for men they dare not they cannot comfort where God will afflict VVhen our Sauiour had bin wrestling with Sathan in the end of his Lent then they appeared to him and serued but now while about the same time he is wrestling with the wrath of his Father for vs not an Angell dare bee seene to looke out of the windowes of heauen to relieue him for men much lesse could they if they would but what did they Miserable comforters are yee all the Souldiers they stript him scorned him with his purple crowne reede spat on him smote him the passengers they reuiâ—ed him and insulting wagging their heads and hands at him Hey thou that destroyest the Temple come downe c The Elders and Scribes alas they haue bought his bloud suborned witnesses incensed Pilate preferred Barabbas vndertooke the guilte of his death cryed out Crucifie crucifie Ho thou that sauedst others His Disciples alas they forsooke him one of them forsweares him another runs away naked rather then hee will stay and confesse him His mother and other friendes they looke on indeed and sorrow with him but to his discomfort Where the griefe is extreame and respectes neere partnership doth but increase sorrow Paul chides this loue what doe you weeping and breaking my heart The teares of those we loue doe eyther slacken out hearts or wound them Who then shall comfort him himselfe Sometimes our owne thoughts find a way to succour vs vnknowne to others no not himselfe Doubtles as Aquinas the influence of the higher part of the soule was restrained from the aid of the inferiour My soule is filled with euils Psalm 87.4 Who then his Father here here was his hope If the Lord had not holpen me my soule had almost dwelt in silence I and my Father are one But now alas he euen he deliuers him into the hands of his enemies when he hath done turnes his backe vpon him as a stranger yea he woundeth him as an enemy The Lord would breake him Esay 53. 10. Yet any thing is light to the Soule whiles the comfortes of God sustaine it who can dismay where God will relieue But here My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee VVhat a word was here to come from the mouth of the Sonne of GOD My Disciples are men weake and fearefull No maruell if they forsake mee The Iewes are themselues cruell and obstinate Men are men gracelesse and vnthankefull Diuels are according to their nature spightfull and malitious All these doe but their kind and let them doe it but thou O Father thou that hast said This is my welbeloued sonne in whome I am well pleased thou of whome I haue said It is my father that glorifies mee what forsaken me Not onely brought me to this shame smitten me vnregarded me but as it were forgotten yea forsaken me What euen me my Father How many of thy constant seruants haue suffered heauie things yet in the multitudes of the sorrowes of their hearts thy presence and comforts haue refreshed their souls Hast thou relieued them and doest thou forsake me mee thine onely deare naturall eternall sonne O yee heauens and earth how could you stand whiles the Maker of you thus complained Yee stoode but partaking after a sort of his Passion the earth trembled and shooke her rockes tore her graues opened the heauens withdrew their light as not daring to behold this sad and fearefull spectacle Oh deare Christians how should these earthen and rocky hearts of ours shake and rend in peeces at this Meditation how should our faces be couered with darkenesse and our ioy be turned into heauinesse All these voyces and teares and sweats pangs are for vs yea from vs. Shall the Sonne of God thus smart for our sinnes yea with our sinnes and shall not we grieue for our owne shall hee weepe to vs in this Market place and shall not we mourne Nay shall â—e sweat and bleed for vs and shall not we weepe for our selues Shall he thus lamentably shrieke out vnder his Fathers wrath and shall not wee tremble Shall the heauens and earth suffer with him and we suffer nothing I call you not to a weake idle pitty of our glorious Sauiour to what purpose His iniurie was our glory No no Yee daughters of Ierusalem weepe not for me but weepe for your selues for our sins that haue done this not for his sorrow that suffered it not for his pangs that were but for our own that should haue been and if wee repent not shall be Oh how grieuous how deadly are our sinnes that cost the sonne of God besides blood so much torment how farre are our soules gone that could not be ransomed with any easier price that that tooke so much of this infinite Redeemer of men God and man how can it chuse but swallow vp and confound thy soule which is but finite and sinfull If thy soule had been in his soules stead what had become of it it shall be if his were not in steade of thine This weight that lies thus heauy on the Son of God and wrung from him these teares sweat bloud and these vnconceiueable grones of his afflicted spirit how should it chuse but presse downe thy soule to the bottome of hell so it will doe if he haue not suffered it for thee thou must and shalt suffer it for thy selfe Goe now thou lewde man and make thy selfe merry with thy sins laugh at the vncleanenesses or bloodinesse of thy youth thou little knowest the price of a sinne thy soule shall do thy Sauiour did when he cryed out to the amazement of Angels horror of men My God my God why hast thou forsaken me But now no more of this It is finished the greater conflict the more happy victory Well doth he find and feele of his Father what his type said before He will not chide alwayes nor keepe his anger for euer It is fearefull but in him short eternal to sinners short to his Sonne in whome the Godhead dwelt bodily Behold this storme wherewith all the powers of the world were shaken is now ouer The Elders Pharisies Iudas the soldiers Priests witnesses Iudges thieues Executioners diuels haue all tired them selues in vaine with their owne malice and he triumphs ouer them all vpon the throne of his Crosse his enemies are vanquisht his father satisfied his soule with this word at rest and glory It is finished Now there is no more betraying