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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

Potētates of this trāsitory world what than is méete that wée yéeld vnto him who so far surmounteth obscureth the Maiestie and Grace of most mightie Monarches that they are no otherwise to be coūted happy but so farre foorth as they truly feare and serue him Wée haue now made manifest vnto you that all the tyranny of DEATH is extinguished and wée deliuered from the seruile yoke thereof by the meanes and conquest of this our Triumphant PRINCE When I say DEATH I vnderstand also thereby the whole armie or violence of mischiefes which any wayes annoy our life both those which were the cause of DEATH and thofe also that accompany and follow it For DEATH of it selfe is nothing els but the punishment wages for SINNE accordyng to Paules saying euen as the strength of SINNE is the law For where no Law is there is no Transgression but where there is Transgression there the wrath of GOD is reuealed from Heauen against all vngodlynes of mē which withhold the truth in vnrighteousnes And to this wrath wée were all sometime subiect being dead in Sinne seruing Sathan the Prince of this world vnder whose king dome wée were all wretched and miserable For what greater thrall or more extreme miserie could there happen thā that SATHAN troubling and disturbing all things as he listed should beare all the sway and alone vsurpe the kyngdome being not cōquerable by any force of Nature or power of Prince All thinges beyng thus in a desperate case the more glorious did the power of this our graund Chāpion appeare who with a maruelous victorie and singular ouerthrow by suffering subdued the Enemy and hauing vanquished the tyrannie of DEATH by Death opened the euerlastyng gate of immortalitie too all that would come and enter therein Wherfore he willing to cōmunicate the fruite of this his benefit with all who draweth all vntoo himselfe cryeth in the Gospell saying Come vnto mee all yee that labor and are heauy laden and I will refresh you And as he doth accept all sortes of mē in that he inuiteth and allureth all so he excepteth no kinde of burthē or grief who promiseth that he will refreshe vs in all and disburthen vs of them all Goe too therefore good Brother in Christ whosoeuer thou art that gronest vnder any burthē acknowlege the voyce of him that calleth thée how much the more thou art afflicted so much the more boldly hasten vntoo him who is ready to helpe all but especially he came to visite and comfort the poore afflicted If the Wrath of GOD terrifie thée thou hast there an attonement and Peacemaker who hauing slayne Hatred by his crosse and Passion offereth vnto thée a sure sanctuary too flée vntoo If his Law touch or sting thée or the féeling of thy SINN disquiet thée he hath taken away the hand writyng of ordinaunces that was agaynst vs and hath spoyled the Principalities and Powers and hath made a shew of them openly and hath triumphed ouer them in him selfe Is the feare and horror of Death dreadfull vntoo thée DEATH hath now lost his sting in him and doth now feare thée more then thou her But perhaps SATHAN the worker of all euill thoughtes and cogitations doth not a litle assault thée tush let him rage and raung as long as hee list how can he greatly hurt thée when as his Head being brused and broken he can but hisse at thy héele Peraduenture also thy Faith is shaken and tryde or some other storme of Temptation comming from some other where violently vppon thée doth disturbe the tranquilitie of thy mynde fight therefore and put on the whole armor of Christian warfare or if the battaile be ouer hot and excéede thy strēgth yet fall to Prayer or if thou canst not pray at the leastwise sigh and grone vnto the LORD The inward sighing and groning of that Hart shooting vp before the LORD is a strong harty prayer Thou must striue and labor too doe what thou canst and art able but this whiche thou art able is not of such value of it selfe as it is estéemed of GOD who both accepteth and crowneth in vs the affection of a willing hart ready mynde like as if it were an action or déede Otherwise that whiche the rigorous Iustice of GOD doth exact of vs too our saluation and too the vanquishyng of these foresayd Enemies were excéedyng great too too farre aboue thy strength or reach But that which thou séely mā beyng borne of mā wast not able to performe that a mā borne of GOD the Sonne of God CHRIST JESUS hath fully accōplished He hath fulfilled euery iot of the Law thorough wōderfull humility obediēce he hath abated the pride of the world opened the gates of heauē which our sinfull life had shut vp dispossessed Sathan of his kingdome vtterly weakened the power of Death takē away the sting of Sinne torments of Hell. Finally he performyng euery poynt of perfect righteousnes and being but one aunswered that for all which was required of euery one And beside that this heauenly Prince hath wrought these and so many wonderfull workes with incredible Triumph which doe amaze and astonish euen Nature it selfe it is also to be considered how much more famous and Triumphant he is not onely in that he had no fellow or mate to assiste him but in that whatsoeuer he tooke vpon him he compassed it and obtained the victory not for himselfe but for vs onely and our behalfe Wherein the Triumph of this our MONARCH séemeth farre vnlike the victories of other Princes not onely in the excellencie and valure of the things done but also in the very manner of the doyng For the victories of earthly Potentates as they are alwayes atchiued with crueltie and violence so are they oftentymes very iniurious but neuer without great daūger much manslaughter Wherby it commeth to passe that their Triumphes are nothing in the end but a publique pylage and misery of the world wherein while some do laugh many wéep and howle nether partie deseruing so to doe nether the vanquisher nor the vanquished Now albeit that vpon iust cause the warre was taken in hand it falleth out notwithstandyng in such Triumphes I cā not tell how that the victory for the most part betideth vntoo hym who did least of all in battalle For albeit Princes be sometyme present in the cōflict yet surely they are farthest from perill whose notwithstandyng the victory is sayd to be Farre otherwise stādeth the case betwene vs and our heauenly Conqueror For they to whom the matter chiefly appertained beyng frée from all daunger and at ease sat as idle lookers on an other mans labor and payne He alone who deserued nothing aboad all the perill Who if he would haue voutchsaued they also venteryng themselues to the battaile to haue bene but a partaker onely of their labor or a Captaine of their Warre or any waye but a

shadowes doe not more differ from the things themselues nor that whiche is Counterfaict from that which is True But so it falleth out that as the commoditie of the other euen so the Maiestie and incredible Benefites of this our heauenly Prince are not so hyghly esteémed of vs vnles we first perfectly know and feéle the force of those our enemies whom he hath subdued or the depth of those dangers from which weé haue beén and are dayly deliuered Wherfore I am to request all godly and true harted Christians to geue diligēt heéde and attentiue eare whilest I shall both playnly truly set before their eyes the most lamentable estate of our wretched Nature and the exceédyng might and malice of our most cruell enemies So will it come to passe that we shall more worthely accompt of and more ioyfully acknowledge the victorious power of CHRIST in workyng our saluation And that I may passe ouer with silence those lighter fleabitynges in respect I meane the commō kinde of greuances yet full of miserie and sorrow which sōdry wayes befall vs in this life that also I may omit the inward gronings of the hart and secret vexation of thoughtes and temptations wherewith euery one for the most part is inwardly tormented in himselfe for who hath not some one or other familiar Sathan attendyng at his heéles that I maye let these things passe the seuerall discourse whereof would require whole volumes long and tedious looke vpon those commō and publique Euils equally and indifferently betyding to vs all how miserable doe they make this lyfe or rather to be no lyfe at all to be touched therewith wée count it much yet they oppresse vs but to be oppressed by thē wée make a wonder yet most wonderfully and vtterly wée are thereby consumed AND first to begyn with the least lightest of these Euils consider with mée the inuincible Tyranny of Death dayly raunging raging in this world the power and force whereof not all the Monarches of the earth could once withstand Not that great Kyng of Macedon whose aspiryng hart the Conquest of one whole world could not content was at any tyme able too cope with her Not Hercules strength albeit the bane of most vgly Monsters was euer hable so much as too wound this byting Serpent Not that Persian Xerxes euen he that threatned fludds and mountaynes could once amaze her with all his armed troupes Not Marius the renowmed or the more renowmed Pompey Not hauty Caesar Not the most harty and valiaunt Romane Souldiors who limyted their Empire with the boundes and borders of the earth bringyng all Nations intoo subiection were at any tyme able too cast of the yoke of her subiection How many ages of this world hath this tyrannicall fury ryoted vp downe yet no mortall wight hetherto found once able too delay much lesse too delude and so escape her deadly inuasion Not the dreadfull Maiestie of Kyng or Keisar could at any tyme haue her at becke or checke No conueyaunce or deceitfull drift in Law could circumuent her No worldly Wealth could brybe her no reaching head or high look of Philosophers could teach her a tricke of new deuise in Schole No painted speach of Rhetorique could qualifie her rage No subtile Sophister could geue her the shift No brag of Stoicall Libertie could euer shake of her seruil yoke No Pharasaicall Holynes No Religion of Bishops No Monkishe Austeritie No Prayers of Priestes could intreat her No Citizens Pollicie No Handycrafts Labor could banish her of House or Towne Finally No Strength of Nature No Reason of Man could at any tyme resist and geue her the foyle What Man sayth the Prophet liueth and shall not taste of DEATH For she tyrannically sparing no one inuadeth all Estates all sexes and Ages of Men she assaulteth aswell Princes Towers as Poore Mens Cotages she separateth Wife and Husband dissolueth Frendship and which is most lamentable violently snatcheth the tender sucklyng from the Mothers teat ô most pitifull and plentifull are the teares lamentations harthreakynges which hereof haue and dayly do procéed After this manner that séely Mother in the Gospell followyng her onely sonne to buriall how thinck you did she lament and wryng her handes but the LORD most happely méetyng her on the way restored her sonne to lyfe agayne So Lazarus of his two sisters so Dorcas in the Actes is of many lamented These onely I touch by the waye for examples sake well knowyng that no house or famelie whatsoeuer but some tyme or other hath like chaunces and cause of woe Now if we were so cléere of eye as wherewith we might pearce the hart and bowels of the Earth therein taking vewe and tale of the infinite number of all those whom DEATH since the creation of the worlde hath swallowed vp good God what a wonderfull slaughter of dead Men what outragious tyrāny of deuouring DEATH should wée not onely comprehend with inwarde mynde but also behold with outwarde eye For the infinite and vnscrutable number of Men liuyng at this present houre what are they in respect of those who so many yeares since taken waye by DEATH dwel as the Poet sayth and rot in graue Howbeit such eye-sight had that most wise Prophet who by commission dyd proclayme that All flesh is grasse and the glory thereof as the flower of the field And what then shal it auayle any one in what delights pleasures power glory wisedome learning counsaile honor and pompe he liue and florishe when he shall be perforce depriued not onely of those things but of lyfe it selfe as also of light ayre and body For as the wise Preacher doth witnes The Wise-Man aswell as the Foole the learned as the vnlearned the rich aswell as the poore the Prince and Paifant all a lyke There is no difference no respect or regard of Persons one or other DEATH méeteth with all alike equally strikyng all mortall creatures For all man are borne on this condition to dye some sooner some later and though some one Mans lyfe last to extreme Old-age which now is very seldome séen yet that hindreth not a whit but that the old Prouerbe may still bée true as stéele A Man â Bubble And here first doth the TRIUMPH of CHRIST our LORD open and shew it selfe in our infirmitie by infinite degrées surpassing whatsoeuer Triumphes or stratagemes any where are or at any tyme haue bene vnder Heauen not onely in that he alone of all Men euen in that respect that he is Man is now contrary to Mans Nature and cōdition become immortall but in this also that by restoring vs miserable and mortall Men from the bondage of DEATH to immortalitie translateth vs from a wretched and frayle estate of life to eternall blisse of saluatiō there making vs coheires with him and frée Citizens of his glorious kyngdome What thing in all the world was euer comparable to this VICTORY Take good and