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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00785	Meditations for the passion weeke following the order of the time and story. / By N. Taylour..	Taylour, N. (Nathanael).	1627 (1627)	STC 23857.5; ESTC S95495	34,588	201

buried in Sinne and find never a Lazarus to heare him Holy Lazarus thou couldst heare Christ whē thou wert dead but well are wee if wee can heare him while wee are alive yet this we may doe if we will and now is the time for this Weeke Christ hath many things to say that concerne our soules health yea words he hath to speake which may put Life into thee if thou wert dead so thy heart be fit as Lazarus his house was to receive him only drawe neere and bring thy Will with thee and thou shalt heare him By this time Christ is on his way comming to Ierusalem by the way as he comes he is an hungred he was no glutton then as the Iewes accused him and espying a Fig-tree a farre off he goes to it yet not to satisfie hunger for the time of figges was not yet come but to give us a Lesson how he hates spiritual unfruitfulnes When he came to it therefore and sawe no figges though by the yeare time it should have beene so hee cursed the Tree and anon it withered If this bee done to the greene Tree for S. Marke hath noted Mar. 11.13 that it had leafes though it had no fruite what will become of us the dry and wild one And if Christ require figges of it before the time may he not require fruit of us whensoever he comes yea gather where he scattered not yet let no man accuse him of injustice for he sowed once but we let it be rooted up he scattered once but we let the Enemie gather it that is hee gave grace to Man before the Fall that would ever have been bearing fruit and to the trees a perpetuall Autumne for our sakes therefore he might call on the Fig-tree in Winter and not bee unjust and may looke for good workes of the Reprobate ere they receive Grace but much more may he of us who boast to have the life of Grace in us Feare then and faile not to bring foorth thy fruite in his season and GOD can and will put difference betweene thee a Fig-tree He careth not for Oxen and it is no great matter if a fig-tree wither but his sight is better then to see men walking like Trees hee will spare thee therefore and give thee an example out of them onely thou must not bee a stocke or barren wood but thy fruite must appeare in his due time This use thou maist make of this storie Howbeit our Saviour makes another himselfe namely by example of his owne faith which had so soone wrought this miracle to stirre up Faith in his Disciples especially in prayer But this belongs to the next day What our Saviour taught this day in the Citie the Evangelists have not recorded S. Marke sets downe the Storie of our Saviours whipping the buyers and sellers out of the Temple as if it had happened this day either because they were so impudent as to come into the Temple this day againe and so our Lord was enforced to renewe the action or else it is the same that the other Evangelists speake of but according to the custome elsewhere observed in holy Writ order is not strictly kept in the circumstance of time For the Holy Ghost meant to deliver a rule for Faith rather then for Chronologie And yet we should not have wanted that neither but that partly GOD would sometime leave order unexprest to punish our disorder towards him partly because hee would try our Faith whether wee would beleeve him on his Word or condemne him when wee saw the least appearance of contrarietie Appearance I say for so it is only neither is there any dissidence in matter or circumstance in any place of Scripture but it may be reconciled Well then This daies Sermon is not printed yet that our Saviour taught this day I take it to bee evident for S. Luke reports that hee taught daily in the Temple Also his prolixe and continued Parables uttered on other dayes make it credible that he would not be silent upon this Yet this one dayes labour amongst other we have not because he hath left us sufficient for our soules health in that we have so that we need not looke for more Also the lesse we have the lesse wee have to learne Againe the want of that wee have not may stirre up our affection to that wee have If thou have but a little ground and a little seed till it the better for thou hast better leisure and it may yeeld thee an hundred for one howsoever it cannot but yeeld thee more then all the great field of the sluggard If all that Christ spoke did were written I suppose saith Saint Iohn the Divine or the Devine Saint Iohn the world could not containe the bookes that should be written His meaning is either to shew Christs diligence in teaching which was such as would have wearied the hands of all writers to have followed him or else if all that Christ spoke had beene written the Comments upon his Text would have been numberlesse Either of these are easie to beleeve for we see daily that the tongue of the teacher goes so quicke as no hand can follow it but by Brachygraphie the Comments upon our Saviours words that we have are so many as the world is already full of them so many Comments there be so many Volumes so many Treatises that they require more then a mans life to read them all as they should be Be content then and praise GOD for that which thou hast read it lay it to thy heart and meditate how thou maist practise it for that thou learnest of Christ is never truly thy owne till thou bring it into practise and thus thou maist heere understand the meaning of that Proverbe that sayes No knowledge is like that which a man hath at his fingers ends that is which he hath ready for practise Now that this Day is done if thou wilt walke backe with thy Lord againe to Bethanie thou shalt doe more then we read the whole multitude did yesterday that were at first so dutifull about him That he lodged this Night againe in that little village it appeares as I take it by the Fig-tree which he cursed as he came by it to day and to morrow passes by againe and speakes of what had happened to it as will appeare better out of the next dayes story Well then if thou wilt follow thy Master thither the journey is but short some fifteene furlongs as I remember or there about If thou doubt to want lodging because the village is little yet hope better because it is hospital or if thou shouldest watch one Night with thy Saviour or about him thou shouldest not loose thy labour and so it would be worth thy paines also For who would not want one Nights sleepe to be so neere Christ to heare his last words see his last actions which as they were alwaies gracious so now certainly were most