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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12232	Meditations of the whole historie of the Passion of Christ. Written by the Reuerend Father, F. Franciscus Costerus, Doctor of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. Translated out of Latine into English by R.W. Esquire; De universa historia Dominicae Passionis meditationes quinquaginta. English	Coster, Franciscus, 1532-1619.; Worthington, Lawrence.	1616 (1616)	STC 5827; ESTC S114528	155,460	681

their departure Doe thou likewise for whose sake the Son of God suffred death come neare vnto the Crosse behold all thinges diligently with the eyes of thy soule and let thy speach bee often times thereof Consider secondly that crying he bowed his sacred head first because hee would call thee both by his voyce and becke to learne the profite of the Crosse and to receaue the merites and benefites of the same Secondly to speake in thy eare to communicate his secretes vnto thee to teach thee his commandements and counsailes Thirdly to signifie his consent to all thy petitions and prayers which depend vpon this his holy passion Fourthly that thou mightest the better viewe his head and marke euery thing diligently his thornes his spittinges his bloud his eyes now shutt to thy sinnes his mouth silent from reuenge his face pale with death Consider thirdly that the Euangelists wrote this death of our Lord in diuers words Iohn saith he deliuered vp his spirite Mathewe he sent foorth his spirit Marke and Luke hee breathed out that thou shouldest knowe that Chriâ—t died not like vnto other men but in a singular and peculiar manner neither did he against his will or by compulsion but of his owne free accord render vp his spirite This word hee deliuered signifieth first that he gaue his spirite into his Fathers hands to be kept three dayes and that from thence all merites all vertues all iustice and grace should bee gathered for man-kinde Secondly that as he had already giuen his body to the executioners so now also hee would deliuer his soule for vs because nothing should be wanting to our felicity and happinesse He had giuen his garments he had giuen his honour he had giuen his body hee had giuen his bloud and now there remained nothing but to giue his soule that according to the prophesie of Isaias Isa 9. the whole Sonne might be giuen 3. That he deliuered vp the full price of our redemption For hitherto something was wanting and he had payed as it were but in part but now he made an absolute and full payment that thou maist knowe that now thou art not thine owne man but Christs who hath bought and redeemed thy members with his thy powers with his thy honours and riches with his thy body with his and thy soule with his If thou doest consider these things rightly thou shalt learne first not to abuse thy selfe thy goods to thy owne pleasures nor to spend them according to the will of the Deuill no nor yet to vse them as thine owne but to referre all to the honour of Christ to whome all thinges belong and appertayne Secondly seeing thou hast gotten Christian liberty and art deliuered out of the power of the Deuill neuer to yeilde to him againe For hee hath no right to thee whome Christ hath so dearely redeemed with his bloud Do thou giue thankes vnto thy Lord and offer vp thy selfe and all that thou hast freely vnto him He breathed foorth Mar. 15. Luc. 23 COnsider first that by this word is signified that Christ breathed foorth his last spirite by which spirite and holy breathing first hee purged the ayre being infected with deuils by vertue wherof the Deuills also are driuen away in exorcismes and exsafflations Therefore as the earth is sanctified by the holy body of our Lord and the element of water and all lyquors by the holy bloud and water yssuing from his side so by the diuine spirite of Christ the ayre is sanctified that it may the more profitably carry and inspire into our sences the word of God and his holy mysteries Secondly hee coÌ„municated vnto this world his inward guifts and graces not onely through the holy wounds of his body but also by his mouth Consider secondly that Christ for many causes would suffer not onely paine and torments but also death First to offer vp himselfe by his death as a sacrifice and Holocaust vnro God Secondly to redeeme eternall death due vnto thee through this his death of infinit value Thirdly to confirme by his death all his Sacraments and the newe Testament Fourthly that by this his death as by the death of the high Priest according to the old figure Num. 15. he might recall thee into thy heauenly countrey Fiftly to let thee knowe that thou oughtest to bee his who dyed for thee and not to submitt thy selfe to the Deuill who suffered neither death nor wound for thy saluation Sixtly that thou shouldest account thy selfe dead to the world with Christ and mortifie thy vices and affections For if saith the Apostle one dyed for all 2 Cor. 5. therefore all are dead Consider thirdly that Christ dyed in his flourishing age being three and thirty yeares old when his sences were freshest his heat greatest and his strength best to indure labour First because he was willing to bestowe all his most flourishing things vpon thee to preserue the heate of his loue in thee and with great forces to prepare many benefites for thee Secondly that thou shouldest not prolong the change of thy life till thy withered and decayed old age but consecrate thy youthfull yeares strength vnto Christ Consider fourthly that our Lord was nayled to the Crosse in the sixt houre and in the nynth houre when the day began to growe to an end hee dyed First because he which in the precedent ages had beene immolated in the figures of the sacrifices did in this fourth age of the world dye truly for vs. Secondly that thou who hitherto perhapps hast spent the rest of thy life vnprofitably and wickedly mayest at the least in the end of thy life flye to the death of our Lord. A great comfort is heere giuen vnto sinners who languishing either with age with sicknes or in minde are not able by exacting grieuous punishment of themselues to satisfie for their sinnes may haue the paines bloud and death of Christ to offer for their offences Giue thankes vnto God and dispise not so great a treasure Ioan. 19 Hee sent forth his spirit COnsider that heere also mention is made of the liberty freedome of Christ to dye For euen as in former times Noe sent the Doue out of the Arke Gen. 8 which after a few dayes returned bringing in her mouth a boughe with greene leaues So Christ sent foorth his spirit to returne againe after three dayes with an army of flourishing Saints Emisit saieth hee hee sent forth and not Amisit he lost that thou shouldest not loose thy spirit amoÌ„gst the wicked Consider secondly how the Deuills expected this spirite being ready to come foorth that by the coÌ„mon law of all it might bee ioyned to other soules in Hell For the Euangelist seemeth to signifie so much when hee said the Deuill went from him for a time as though at this time of his death hee would returne againe But because the Prince of this world had nothing in Christ Luc. 4. hee was

for thy Lord which for thy sake had no part of his body free from paine But Christ tasted this sowre potion for thee to drawe from thy soule to his owne body all the sharpnes and bitternes of thy sinnes and left for thee sweete wine mixt with no sowernes that is to say the grace of God and a pure and quiet conscience Consider fourthly When he had tasted hee would not drinke for Christ tooke vpon him thy sinnes in his body as in his mouth but hee polluted not his soule with the filth of sinne that thou also shouldest as it were taste the malice of sinne with the sowernes of pennaunce but by no meanes suffer it to enter into thy soule Consider fiftly that the houre of his execution is noted to wit the third houre which in the Equinoctiall is from Nine of the clocke in the morning till twelue at noone whereby thou mayest note the great hast which they made partly least Pilate shold change his minde and partly least Christ should dye before he was crucified Saint Iohn writeth that the sentence was pronounced almost at the sixt houre that is a little before noone And Marke affirmeth that Christ was crucified the third houre that is before the clocke had strucke 12. Consider theÌ„ what hast was made how cruelly thy Lord was pulled drawn with ropes and whipped forward Take heed least thy feete run vnto sinne but runne chearfully this way of our Lord and casting away all impediments flye vnto the Crosse of Christ and pray him to remoue all sowernes difficulties from the exercise of vertues And there they crucified him Luc. 23. Ioan. 19 COnsider first that the Apostles did not expresse so great an action in many wordes which thou mayst easily vnderstand both by the accustomed punishmeÌ„t of the Crosse and by the hatred of the Iewes and by the auncient oracles of the Prophets For first they pulled off his garment with great insolency renued the woundes sticking vnto it making his sacred body bleede and appeare all naked Secondly they outragiously threw him downe vpon the Crosse which lay on the ground thinking it sufficient if hee were nayled aliue on the Crosse Thirdly they pulled one hand to the hole which they had boared and draue a naile through it with a hammer and the bloud issued foorth aboundantly according to the olde figure They stroke the Rocke Psal 77 and the waters flowed out and the Riuers swelled vp Fourthly when one hand was fastned they tooke the other and stretched it to the other hole which being farre distant they pulled it either with their handes or with cordes with all their force and that being also fast nailed they came to the holes for his feete and with great violeÌ„ce they brought his holy feete vnto it Ser. de Pasc DoÌ„ Psal 21. and as St. Cyprian saith fastened them with nailes Dauid did plainly foreshew this stretching foorth of our Lord in these words I am spred abroad like water I am wasted and decayed with the extremity of paines and destitute of all strength like water powred out hauing no power to stay in any place All my bones are dispersed that is are loosened pulled out of their places the colde drynes and extensioÌ„ vpon the Crosse dissoluing all the ioynts of my members They haue digged my handes and my feete they haue numbred all my bones so cruel was this extension of his meÌ„bers that euery bone being pulled from another might easily be seen Thirdly they lift vp on high the tree of the Crosse cloathed with this solemne hoast and let it fall down with great violence into the hole Num. 21. Exod. 29. which they had digged for it For so was the brasen Serpent lift vp in the wildernes Leuit. 23 the hoasts of the Sacrifices were wont to be offred vnto God by lifting them vp on high In all these thinges doe thou ponder and thinke vpon the most bitter torments of thy Lord behold the banner of the Crosse lift vp look vpon the streams of bloud running down from his hands feete goe quickly and draw whilst the springs are flowing and before their veynes be dried vp Consider secondly why thy Lord chose this death of the Crosse for thy saluation and no other death There are many causes thereof First because there was no death more long more grieuous more ignominious nor more proper and fit for the procuring of thy saluation For hee would not haue his body deuided that the Church his mysticall body might bee preserued whole He would not be burnt with any other fire then the fire of charity Hee would not bee strangled with a halter drowned with water or smothered with earth least hee might seeme to haue retained something to himselfe and not to haue shed all his bloud most liberally for thy sake Secondly that being lift vp on high like an hoast hee might place himselfe as a Mediator betweene God the Father and mankinde Being the only Mediator of God and men 1 Tim. 2 reconciling the lowest thinges to the highest Thirdly to throw downe the Deuils the Princes of the ayre quite out of the ayre into Hell or at the least to subdue their forces Fourthly that he might see thee with his eyes a farre off drawe thee vnto him with the chaines of his bloud receiue thee at thy coÌ„ming with his armes spred shewe thee his inward partes and hide thee in his woundes binde thee vnto him with the linkes of charity haue thee ingrauen in his handes alwayes before his eyes keepe thee imprinted in his heart and with his feete fastened to seeke nothing but thy saluation Fiftly that thou shouldest no more fasten thine eyes vpon the ground but lift them vp on high beholde him a farre off runne vnto him require of him thy saluation and all good thinges thinke vpon him alwayes in all thy busines followe his life and fulfill his Commaundements Heere doe thou speake whatsoeuer thy spirit shall put into thy mouth And they crucified with him two Theeues Mat. 27. Mar. 15. Ioan. 19 Isa 53. one on the right hand and the other on the left and Iesus in the middest And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith and hee was reputed with the wicked COnsider first the malice of the Iewes who by this ignominy endeauoured to deface the name of Christ in stead of the Messias to make him reputed a notorious theefe But Christ vsed this their sinne to shewe forth his owne glory to prepare our saluation and to giue hope to all sinners For first wheras there were three nayled on the Crosse hee placed in the midst as the chiefe offender yet hee alone with his Crosse is glorious vnto the whole world Secondly dying betweene two sinners hee payed the ransome for all sinnes Thirdly hee gaue hope of pardon to all sinners and did fore-shewe that hereafter hee would be conuersant amongst sinners be alwayes ready to assist them wheÌ„

temperance by his example aboue all other vertues which doth both lift vp the minde to God and bringeth a most certaine remedy for sinnes 3. That hee which had shed all his bloud for vs and had giuen vs all his goods and had prayed for the sinnes of all men to his Father might vnderstand what sign of a thankfull minde men would shew vnto him when he was ready to depart out of the world I desire yee not saith hee to take me from the Crosse nor to giue me my cloathes to couer my nakednes nor to heale my woundes but onely to giue me one drop of water to quench my thirst which is denyed onely to the damned in Hell I desire yee onely to refresh my drynes I require this fauour only of you for all my labours Fourthly that he might be vnderstood to speak not of his bodily onely but specially of his spirituall thirst Hee thirsted indeede for our amendment our perfection and our saluation which thirst he had euer from the beginning of his life most burning and to quench the same he left nothing vnattempted but did all things most liberally and suffered all thinges most constantly and both shewed it alwayes by his deeds and declared it often by his wordes Therefore hee said to the Samaritan woman Ioan. 4. Giue me to drinke And hee said to his Apostles I haue to be baptised with a baptisme Luc. 12. and how am I straitned till it bee dispatched Also hee admonished Iudas that which thou doest do quickly And here also at the houre of his death hee shewed his thirst more clearly both because his loue did then shine more bright vpon vs like vnto a candle which oftentimes giueth more light immediately before it goeth out and to a Swan which before his death singeth more sweetly also to shew that hee was ready to suffer more for our saluatioÌ„ if neede were I thirst saith hee that is resteth there any thing for mee to doe to my vineyard which I haue not done Isa 5. Beholde whilest I haue time I offer my selfe to suffer more greater thinges neither can my thirst be satisfied by reason of the heate of my loue except I drinke aboundantly of the cup of my Passion and transferre the fruite thereof to my members that is to my Disciples And hee speaketh to his Father who knewe the inward desires of his Sonne Admire heere the loue of Christ which in this his Passion sent forth a sweete sauour vnto vs like vnto precious spices which doe then yeilde forth the sweetest sent when they are most bruzed broken into powder Fiftly to leaue this thirst vnto vs by his last will and testament The world thirsteth after riches honours pleasures and other vaine delightes which put them to a great deale of trauaile and yet neuer satisfie their thirst and desire but like strong poyson kill them presently as soone as they haue drunke thereof as it happened to the Captaine Sysara beeing killed by a woman after he had drunke milke Iudi. 4. Christ would haue thee to thirst after God the fountaine of the water of life and not to digge broken Cesternes which cannot hold water I would thou diddest thirst after thine owne saluation as Christ thirsted after it or as the Deuill thirsteth after thy perdition Be thou the heire of the thirst of Christ pray him to satisfie thee with the breasts of his grace Then a vessell of vineger was set Mat. 27. Mar. 15. Ioan. 19 and presently one of them running filled a sponge which he had with vineger and set it vpon a reede and Hysope and gaue him to drinke COnsider first the pronenes of men to mischiefe who vpon the least occasion offered make hast to sinne and also the helpe of the Deuill who presently affoordeth them meanes to sinne Heere were all thinges prepared a vessell vineger a sponge and a reede Marke what sinners brought into Mount Caluary and into the Church to wit instruments for the death of our Lord. Contrariwise holy men with Nichodemus and Ioseph of Aramathia bring thither instrumeÌ„ts to take downe the body of our Lord from the Crosse Thinke thou with thy selfe what instruments thou dost vse in holy Church whether to kill or to saue soules Consider secoÌ„dly that Christ at the houre of his death had no comfort neither in word nor deed but was denyed euen a droppe of water Perhappes according to the custome there wanted not wine which the executioners themselues had spent through their cruelty and wantonnes according to the prophesie of Amos They sate vpon the pleadged garments hard by the Altar of the Crosse and they dranke the wine of the condemned in the house of their God Amos. 2. which was the Mount Caluary Consider thirdly the sponge was filled with vineger and fastned to a branch of Hisope according to the custome in their auncient sacrifices Leuit. 4. and set vpon a reede and so put to the mouth of our Sauiour to sucke thereof which beeing done with a Soldiour-like rudenesse many droppes fell into the wounds of him that was crucified and with the sharpenes thereof afflicted his flesh Was this the reward of that mouth which opened so often for our saluation and of that tongue which gaue vs so many good lessons cured so many diseased wrought so many myracles But Christ who had already satisfied God the Father for thy other sinnes with his other paines curing thy pride with his great shame thy couetousnesse with his exceeding pouerty thy lust with his most bitter torments thy wrath with his incredible patience thy sloath with his diligent alacrity would now also apply a medicine for thy gluttony and intemperance and by this bitternesse as by a contrary medicine purge and wash thy mouth which was infected by eating the apple in Paradise Behold what drinke thou vsest to drinke vnto thy Lord to wit vineger and the bottome dregs of wine To the world thou giuest sweete wine for her sake thou labourest earnestly thou seekest to winne her fauour by all diligence and sparest neither industry strength wealth nor any thing which thou hast but to Christ thy God thou minglest all thy worst things thy sloath thy theft thy hatred and thy other sins for which our Lord complaineth I expected that he should make Grapes Isa 5. and hee made the wilde Vine And the world againe for thy sweete wine reacheth vnto thee vineger vpon a reede that is cold and bitter delightes in a broken and vaine soule for the world hath not nor cannot giue any true comfort or sweetnes Therefore doe thou rather drinke sweete wine vnto Christ and earnestly from thy heart consecrate thy selfe all that thou hast vnto him and euen as thou wilt not offer to thy louing Father a withered but a fresh sweet smelling flower so doe thou offer vnto Christ the flower of thy age thy sweetest labours and he will exhibite himselfe againe

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