God Let them in scorn and derision be Crucifying my Saviour between two Malefactors as the chiefest of them I in the greatest bitterness of my Soul will be pouring out the most ardent of my Prayers with Sighs Groans and Tears that are unutterable to remember me both now whilst thou art on the Cross and as soon as thou art exalted in thy Kingdom of Glory O God! the Son Redeemer of the World have mercy upon me miserable Sinner By the mystery of thy Holy Incarnation By thy Nativity and Circumcision By thy Fasting Baptism and Temptation Good Lord deliver me By thy Agony and Bloody Sweat By the Cross and Passion By thy precious Death and Burial By thy Glorions Resurrection and Ascension And by the coming of the Holy Ghost Good Lord deliver me O Son of God! I beseech thee to hear me O Lamb of God! that takest away the Sins of the World Grant me thy Peace O Christ hear me O Lord hear me O Lamb of God that takest away the Sins of the World have Mercy upon me Lord have mercy upon me Christ have mercy upon me O Lord hear me and remember me now now thou art giving up thy most precious Life and pouring out thy innocent harmless and compassionate Soul Remember me when thou com'st into thy Kingdom What can a poor Soul beg more and desire more of its Redeemer at the point of Death Or what can be given or done more by an ever-blessed Saviour and Holy Jesu to save us from the Jaws of Death Power of Hell and Eternal Torments Than to be pouring out his own Soul by Prayers and Tears to his Heavenly Father at the very last minute of his precious Life for us But stay O blessed Jesu What is it I perceive and see still in this black and dismal hour O Lord Is it thee still in thy Agony and bloody Sweat It is so dark I can but just perceive thee Is it not finisht yet What say'st thou Lord now to my poor fainting dying Soul Speak Lord one word of comfort to me notwithstanding all thy Adversaries and implacable Enemies about thee Speak Lord and thy Servant heareth Speak Lord and my Soul shall live If thou art so faint thou can'st not speak in this grievous Conflict let thy good Prophet speak for thee Wherefore when I came was there no man to help When I call'd was there none to answer Do you think I am past Saving of you or Delivering of you in this time of my Dereliction Tho you all forsake me in this hour of my Crucifixion I do not forsake you my Children my Flock and my poor Lambs my Redeemed and the purchas'd of my Soul Is my Hand shortned at all though nail'd to the Cross that I cannot Save or that I cannot Redeem Or have I no power to deliver Behold at my Rebuke I dry up the Sea I make the Rivers a Wilderness The Fish stinketh and dieth for Thirst because there is no Water I cloath the Heavens with blackness and I make Sack loth their covering I make the Earth to quake and tremble and it would tumble down to the Eternal Abiss but that I bear up the Pillars of it at this very moment that I am bleeding and dying upon the Cross Let the Jews have as vile and mean thoughts of me as they please and cast all their scorn and malice mixt with their cruel rage and poison at me It 's I that make the Rocks to rent the Sun to gather paleness and the Moon to be turn'd into Blood Notwithstanding that all the Scriptures might be fulfill'd and my Redeem'd Ones the Purchas'd of my Soul set at liberty I give my Back to the smiters and my Cheeks to them that pluck't off my Hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting for the Lord Gâ—d doth and will help my Soul and sustain it Whatever my Body doth or shall cry out and say therefore I shall not be confounded therefore I have set my Face like a Flint and know that I shall not be asham'd He is near that justifieth me Who will contend with me Let us stand together Who is my Adversary Let him come near Behold the Lord will help me Who is he that will condemn me Lo they shall all wax old as a Garment and the Moth shall eat them up Who is it amongst you that feareth the Lord Who obeyeth the Voice of hit Servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light Let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay himself upod his God Behold all ye that kindle a Five that compass your selves about with sparks walk in the light of your Fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled this shall ye have of my hand ye shall lie down in sorrow Isa 50. But my Soul draw near or else thou wilt lose the sight of thy Saviour Darkness hastens on a-pace O Holy Jesu is it not thee Let me wipe and drain my dim and almost spent and blind Eyes and look again Lord it is thee I still perceive thy Tears distilling down thy sacred Face Thy Temples boiling out of Spirituous Blood Thy Sacred Hands and Feet blubbering up and venting out from behind the Nails great Bladders of Blood and Froth from the expulsive force of thy most exquisite Torments O Lord even now my Soul fainteth and dieth within me My Spirits fail me My poor Mortal Eyes and tender fainting Heart is not able to behold thee longer Nor yet while my Life and Strength remains can I forbear when an interval of Tears will permit my sight looking after thee still and pouring forth my fervent and frequent requests to thee and falling into these most strict Examinations within my self What! From the Sixth till almost the Ninth Hour is my dear Saviour in the height of this vehement Agony and not over yet But still labouring and groaning under the burthen of my Sins What great and heinous Sin of mine is it that I am guilty of that is not aton'd yet That God is so extremely incens'd at and that he will not yet pardon That my poor Saviour is yet struggling for till the last drop of his most Precious Blood is exhausted Let me look immediately into my Soul into every corner and crany of it all must out and be discover'd of what nature or quality soever it be whether Lying Cursing Swearing and Forswearing Theft Murther Fornication Adultery Incest Pollution with the Dead or Copulation with Beasts Blasphemy Spite and Contempt against thy Holy Word and Sacraments O quickly quickly quickly help me O my God to find it out and to bring all to remembrance that thou mayest no longer be extorted and convuls'd in these grievous Torments Look upon me dear Saviour and cast quickly thy dying Eye towards me Christ cast his dying Eyes to a Supplicant Sinner as thou didst upon Peter in the High-Priest's Hall denying thee that I may immediately remember it seeing thy Righteous Father is so exact
of the whole World he suffered and endured here on Earth for us which made him bitterly complain and cry out Behold and see all ye that pass by if there were ever any Sorrow like to my Sorrow any Wounds and Torments like mine which I have receiv'd in the House of my friends Canst thou receive suffer and endure all this for our Sins and still call us friends Canst thou O Holy Jesu still cry call suffer bleed and dye for us and yet pray for us and still be an Advocate for us and a compleat Redeemer O infinite O unlimited O unbounded O inconceiveable O inexpressible O incomprehensible Love of God to us that so loved the World than he gave his only begotten Son to Death for us for us Sinners wicked Sinners apostatizing Sinners even dead in Trespasses and Sins and all this Peter thou art not ignorant of Now Peter more particularly to thy self The First Denial of Peter And as Peter was beneath in the Palace there cometh one of the Maids of the High Priest and when she saw Peter warming of himself amongst the Croud she looked steadfastly upon him and said in derision Thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth but he denied saying I know not neither do I understand what thou sayest And he went out into the Porch as fearing they might seize on him tho' but the Night before he had said Tho' all forsake thee yet will not I But he still lingers and stays not that he intended to suffer and dye with his Master as he had promised but only had a mind to see what would become of his Master and to hear what they did say to him for now was the time that our Saviour told him The Devil will tempt you Peter Satan hath a mind to winnow thee as Wheat but I have prayed for thee and well were it for thee Peter that whatever thy Master endur'd for thee in his Sacred Body yet he had secur'd thy Soul I have prayed for thee thy Faith fail thee not And as he was standing in the Porch the Cock crew the first time but as yet neither the Time nor the Scripture was fulfilled nor did Peter take any notice of it Mark 14.68 And while he was yet in the Porch The Second another Maid saw him and said unto them that were likewise with her This very fellow pointing to him was also with Jesus of Galilee and when he had heard what she said he flatly denied with an Oath I know not the man Matth. 26.71 72. How now Peter now I see the Devil is tempting thee indeed Hast thou so much forgot thy self and thy Duty to so good and so great a Master Are all his Miracles forgot by thee Are all his Lessons Instructions and Sermons or Sayings forgot by thee Are his very last and dying Words too forgot by thee And are thy own Promises and Engagements to thy departing and dying Saviour forgot by thee This is a great Crime indeed Peter and in all Ages and Times hath been accounted most abominable and unworthy not to fulfil the Request of our dying Friends and Relations and also not to perform our Promises to their dying Person and last Gasp and especially for thee Peter who hadst so dear and tender a Lord and Master that had took such pains with thee and care of thee whose Words one would have thought could never have been forgot by thee more especially not so soon and at this very instant when thou wast so near as to hear how thy Heavenly Master was confronted and abused and most wrong fully impeach'd and most falsely accus'd yet not to reminiscentiate the words of thy Master but when thou wast so peremptorily charg'd thou so flatly denied Well Peter thou wilt pay for this at last It 's well thou hast a friend in Court Then came one of the Servants of the High Priest The Third being his Kinsman and whose Ear Peter had out off charges him home and says Did not I see thee in the Garden with him And dost not thou very well know I have a just Quarel against thee And this is a fit place for it for cutting off my Ear when I laid hands of your Master in the Garden Look here and behold the mark I still bear of my Ear for thee and if it were not that my Kinsman was so busie with thy Master and I do not know how soon I may be called and therefore am unwilling to create another Fray and Disturbance otherwise I would make thee an Example and make you know you was thee I have no so quickly forgot you nor your Ear-mark neither John 18.26 And moreover if you should deny and lye never so much if there were no more in it but your Speech your very Speech it self is enough to betray you Then began Peter when he had heard all this to Curse and to Swear with all the Execrations imaginable and positive Denials I never saw before this time the Man neither do I know him and immediately the Cock crew Matth. 26.74 And the Lord turned back and looked steadfastly on Peter and Peter seeing that remembred the Words of his Master how he had said unto him Before the Cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly Luk 22.61 62. Now Peter art thou in the Gaul of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity now thou know'st not where to hide thy head now the very Arrows of the Almighty pierce the very Soul of thee now thou seest thou art fallen Let him that standeth take precaution by thy Example lest he fall in the same manner thou hast done What! deny thy Master Peter thy Saviour and thy Redeemer And what with such abominable Oaths and positive Denials This would make the very dumb Ass to open his Mouth and upbraid thy unparalell'd unkindness Thou alone Peter to be the Man to deny thy Lord and Master who had the most reason of any of the Disciples to have own'd him because present with him and hearing the Ignominy and notorious Slanders that they impudently spake against him thy own Conscience bearing thee Witness O how with Cain Peter complaining and praying for himself am I branded with my Infamy My Sins are greater than I am able to bear O that some one would even slay me What! deny my Master My Lord and Master my God! my Saviour and my Redeemer and my ever blessed Jesus What! and three times and with Cursing and Swearing too that I did not know thee O sweet Jesu not thee what not know thee O heavenly Jesu that brought me up from the beginning that converted me to the Faith that made me one of thy Disciples and not the least neither one that thou more remarkably took'dst notice of and care for and foretold me of this very present hour of Satan's Tempting me and pray'd earnestly for me to be deliver'd from this fatal hour O blessed Jesu well was it
Judge that is now ready to cast both Soul and Body into Hell-Fire do produce Compassion And this is the present and perfect state and condition of all Men by reason of Sin For this and this alone is our dear Lord and Saviour conflicted in the Garden even to the extracting great drops of Blood trickling down his most sacred Hands and Face And when he saw his most Righteous Father would not reverse this eternal Decree and Punishment to Mankind for Sin without his own ever blessed Son's undergoing and suffering Death and Hell for us Saith he If this bitter Cup shall not pass from me without drinking of it Thy Will be done A Body hast thou prepar'd that is mounting the Cross and ready and willing to suffer all the Misery and Torment that the most cruel Rage and Malice of Men and Devils and an enraged God will permit to inflict rather than poor Man shall suffer the deep Pressures of Thy Eternal Wrath and Indignation in that Luke that burneth with Fire and Brimstone for evermore O blessed Father Thou art my Father from all Eternity and am not I thy Son Prov. 8.23 I was from everlasting before ever the Earth was While as yet he bad not made the Earth or the Fields nor the highest part of the Dust of the World When be prepared the Heavens I was there When he set a Compass upon the face of the Deep When be established the Clouds above When he strengthen'd the Fountains of the Deep When he gave to the Sea his Decree That the Waters should not pass his Commandment When he appointed the Foundations of the Earth Then was I by him as one brought up with him and I was daily his Delight rejoycing always before him Rejoycing in the habitable parts of his Earth And my Delights were with the Sons of Men when thou createdst them in a state of Innocency and Perfection And O Heavenly Father shall I now forsake them in a state of Sin and Misery and Eternal Destruction No O Holy Father for this very end did I come into the World I that immaculate Lamb slain from the beginning conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary as to human Nature am toucht with their Infirmities and therefore came to succour poor tempted Souls I know the Devil's Wrath and Power and continual Attempts to all Mankind For this cause was I carry'd into the Wilderness endur'd Hunger and Cold Fasting and Temptations and I cannot but succour and relieve and at last deliver those that are tempted As Man I my self O Righteous Father had fell by his Temptation but as God I overcame him and can I let them suffer when I know Man is not sufficient of himself to overcome the Devil nor Sin nor the Power of Death and Hell nor thy Eternal Wrath and Displeasure This was the Eternal Decree of the great Council of Heaven from everlasting That seeing Man was not able to recover his lost state That Man born of a Virgin conceived from his God-like Power by the Holy Ghost overshadowing her in the fulness of time should be born the Son of God fully qualifi'd God-Man to make compleat Satisfaction and Atonement for laps'd Man to the unsatisfi'd Justice and incensed Wrath and Indignation of God And for this Cause was I Born here on Earth and left the Bosom of my Heavenly Father and all Thrones and Dominions Principalities and Powers of Glorified Saints and Angels and took upon me Human Nature and came cheerfully leaping over the Hills and skipping over the Mountains as a Roe or young Hart upon the Mountains of Spices For this Cause came I as in the Volume of the Book it is written of me to do thy Will O God That poor Man might not be Eternally lost but thy incens'd Wrath might be appeas'd full satisfaction might be made the power of Hell might be broke and Devils themselves reserved in Hell bound in Chains of Darkness until the great Day and poor fallen Man acquitted and discharg'd and his Soul Eternally Sav'd This is Love indeed unbounded unlimited Love infinite inexhaustible incomprehensible Love of the Son of God the ever blessed Redeemer of the World O the Height Length Breadth and Depth of the Goodness of God to Mankind This is transcendent Love Love without comparison Now what must all this extort from us To see our dear Lord and Saviour just now mounting the Cross giving of himself up to the utmost Cruelty that the wickedness of Men and Devils can inflict upon him from the vehemency and Poison of their most barbarous Rage and all this for our Sins and to set us free Here is the Sentence of Pilate Take him scourg'd already accord-to your Custom and bound Take him and Crucifie him with this Inscription over his Head That every one that passeth by might understand it written in Latin Greek and Hebrew This is Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iews The Death of the Cross was the ancient Punishment of the Jews for their most notorious Malefactors Dr. Cave 's Primitive Christianity before Christ's time and therefore esteemed by the accursed Jews most fit for our Saviour to dye by Omitting all the various Forms and different kinds which were all us'd towards the Primitive Christians there were two things in this way of suffering rendred it very severe viz. the Pain and Ignominy of it Painful it must needs be because the Party suffering was fastned to it with Nails drove through his Hands and Feet the most sensible parts of Man from such a vast quantity of Nerves and Sinews uniting and terminating in those places And they were pierc'd only in those extream Parts so far distant from the Heart on purpose that the exquisiteness of their Torments and Death might be the more lingring and tedious Insomuch that some out of tender Compassion have caused some to be strangled before they were Crucified as Julius Caesar did the Pirats he had sworn to execute on the Cross Sueton. in Vit. Caesar Cap. 47. p. 76. But no such Favour was shewn to Christians they were suffer'd to remain during all these cruciating Pangs till mere Hunger starv'd them or the Mercy of wild Beasts or Birds of Prey dispatcht them Thus St. Andrew endur'd two whole days upon the Cross Martyrol Rom. p 736. Timotheus and his Wife Maura after many other Torments hung upon the Cross nine days together before they compleated their Martyrdom Nor was the Shame of this way of Suffering less than the Pain of it Crucifixion being the punishment of Slaves Traitors and the vilest of Malefactors Insomuch that for a Free man to dye thus was accounted amongst them the highest Degree of Ignominy and Reproach imaginable Therefore the Roman Historians call'd it Servile Supplicium a punishment only proper for Slaves But this punishment of the Cross Constantine took away out of Reverence to our Saviour not being willing that that should be the punishment of the vilest Malefactors which
THE Lama-sabachthani OR CRY OF THE Son of GOD Useful at all Times especially For PASSION Week AND At all other Times for a Devout and Pious Soul in its nearest Approaches and Addresses to its Saviour before and after it comes to be an Actual Partaker of the Body and Blood of its Redeemer The Second Edition LONDON Printed by Edw. Jones for Samuel Lowndes against Exeter-Change in the Strand 1691. To Her most Pious and Sacred MAJESTY Queen MARY The Author most Humbly Offers and Dedicates the ensuing Enchiridion of a Crucify'd Saviour Madam WHen I consider the unexpressible Honour I lately had of being frequently a partaker with You at the Throne of Grace in Your Chappel-Devotion at the Hague Where observing Your great Strength and Zeal of true Piety accompanied with a perfect Stability of Humility Meekness and Lowliness of Spirit as a compleat Follower and Imitator of our Dear Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ whilst on Earth it struck such a Dint upon me As St. Austin says melted down his Soul into Divine Affections and enforc'd such a Love of Religion in me that made me inspir'd to that height and Ecstacy of Devotion and Intention of Thought that did not only as it were withdraw my Soul from all Commerce with the Senses but in a manner separate it a while from the Body And made it with the Apostle Paul to have Antipasts of Heaven and a fruition of Coelestial Enjoyments Such Raptures Elevations and Influences of Anticipated Glory as the Apostle had had the Disciples of our Saviour whilst their Great Lord and Master was Predicting and Communicating his Passion to be an abiding Commemoration of himself amongst them after his Ascension into Glory as it is largely set forth by our Saviour himself throughout the 6th Chapter of John And as it was observ'd of Peter and the rest of his Brethren in the Transfiguration of our Saviour on the Mount that when he Pray'd earnestly to his Father the Fashion of his Countenance was alter'd which did beget immediately in them such a Participation of Raptures and Ejaculations that made them very unwilling to relinquish the Place where they had enjoy'd such a Beatifical Presence The like have I perceiv'd in Your Majesties Countenance as if it spake aloud the very Language of Your Divine Soul that made mine always wish in its Publick Devotion to live in the Presence of so Great and so Glorious an Exemplar No less perfect are all these Coelestial Qualifications in Your ever Ador'd and Dearly beloved Sister to enumerate them again were but Tautology they are all so essentially compact in You both that modestly and justly You are the Glory of the Vniverse The Hypostatick Council of Heaven having decreed it from all Eternity that You Two shouâ—d be Leaders and Patterns to all Sincere and Devout Subjects and Christians in all Virtue Piety and Holiness and that they be close Imitators and Followers of You as You are of Christ This makes it transcendently the Felicity of all Humble Pious Souls to have Two such Matchless Guardian Angels walk before us and to be eminent for God in Your Generations as the aforesaid Mary and Anna the Mother of Jesus and Prophetess of our Lord. How much more Glorious must the Protestant Religion necessarily appear in You Madam now You are by the All-wise Providence of the Great God most happily arriv'd at the Zenith of Sovereignty whose Sovereign Beams have already dispers'd all those Clouds and Mists nay Storms and Hurricans of Popery that of late had like to have subverted and over-whelm'd these Nations into a Bloody Deluge by Massacre and Murder had not God reserv'd Your Majesty for such a day as This and brought You safe through the dangers of the Seas and plac'd Your Royal Person with King William on the Imperial Throne of Your Ancestors whose undaunted Magnanimity and Resolution by the Omnipotent Power of the Almighty hath procur'd this re-establishment for us again That when all our hopes were sinking in the Autumn of Despair God was pleas'd through him by a stupendious Miracle to restore us again without the tedious and cruel Sieges of War or Blood to a Protestant Settlement and Blessing This is the only cause that emboldens me to present to You the following Meditations and Contemplations of the Agony and Crucifixion of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Entituled The Lamasa-bachthani or Cry of the Son of God wherein I have endeavour'd as succinctly and as perspicuously as possibly I could to set forth every Action and Transaction of the Chief Priests Scribes Elders and Soldiers towards their accomplishing of their wicked Design in perfecting of the so much hunger'd for Crucifixion of our Dear Lord and Saviour How he was hurry'd and carry'd from one Place Court and Council to another Spit on and Buffeted in one Array'd and Rob'd in another Scourg'd and Crown'd with Thorns in another mock'd and derided in all but acquitted and discharg'd by none and yet not found guilty of Death in any I have follow'd the Evangelists as close as I could and have rank'd them as well as I am able in so small a thing and have made the rough Draught as like the Original as I can possible in suitable Expressions and earnestly beg of God it may please all and displease none being all Divine Truths I most humbly present it to Your Majesty hoping it may receive a Candid and free Acceptation from You. It will lye in a little Room in Your Closet and at the Table of the Lord being more fitted for the Heart of a Devout and Pious Soul than Voluminous therefore may be as the Viand of the Soul in its nearest Addresses to its Saviour before and after it comes to be an actual partaker of the Body and Blood of a Redeemer whom I have end avour'd to Delineate as well as I am able in so small a Tract in the utmost extremity of his Crucifixion in his Agony and Bloody Sweat on his Cross and Passion in his Death and Burial and there left his most precious Body in the Grave with Holy Angels to attend his Call I may hereafter presume to write of his Glorious Resurrection and Ascension also if I can find my weak Endeavours are in any degree useful according to the Pious and Honest Intention of MADAM Your Majesties most Obedient and for ever most Devoted Humble Servant Anonymus THE Lama-sabachthani OR THE CRY OF THE Son of GOD. HEAR O Heavens and give Ear O Earth for the Lord hath spoken it O what is this I hear The Voice of the Son of God in the grievous Agony of his Soul just breathing out his last and crying to his God nay his Father to sustain and comfort him either O Holy Father take from me this bitter Cup of Vinegar and Gaul of thy high Displeasure or else forsake me not in the time of my drinking this bitter Portion Where is the Cry of the Son of God the
Saviour of the World O where Where My distracted Soul Where Where shall I run Where shall I fly to find my Saviour Whom shall I enquire of Where shall I go Whom shall I find to direct my perplexed Soul Flesh It 's dark stormy and tempestuous If it were never so dark and dismal I will go I cannot longer stay Thou art warm and safe in Bed and within doors why shouldest thou disturb thy self Peace lye still and take thy rest I may lye still and slumber a little but I cannot rest I sleep but my Heart waketh Hark I Hark again It is the Voice of my Beloved that cryeth out and he knocketh as he passeth by Christ passâ—th by to the Garden of Gethsemane to see whether I will receive him and let him in I hear him speak Open to me my Sister my Love my Dove my Vndefiled for my Head is filled with Dew and my Locks with the Drops of the Night Lord What 's the matter What makes him abroad now What 's the matter I am sure more than ordinary I will rise and let him in Thou hast put off thy Clothes how canst thou put them on in the dark Moreover thou hast wash'd thy Feet why should'st thou defile them again I stand not upon these Curiosities of my sinful Flesh that must e're long crumble in the Dust My Beloved hath put in his band by the bole of the Door and my Bowels are troubled for him I cannot rest I must and will rise I have opened the Door to my Beloved but he is withdrawn and is gone My Soul even faileth within me The Rude Multitude persuing our Saviour I hear a confused Noise at a distance I called after the Noise but he gave me no answer and I have sought for him about the door but cannot find him well I will after him I stand not upon the exactness of Dress nor the danger of the Night I will along the Street and as near as I can follow A truly gracious Soul touch'd once with the love of God will follow him at his Call and no hazard or difficulty can obstruct or hinder its eager pursuit after its dear Jesu the good Shepherd of its Soul My Sheep hear my Voice and they follow me John 10.3 4. Pardon me if I here make a little digression Christ commits the care of his scattered Flock to Peter and anticipate the words of our Saviour to Peter Happy art thou O Peter that the Saviour of Souls deems thee worthy to be his deputed Shepherd and commits his Flock to thy vigilant Care before he left the World they were near and dear to him they were the purchas'd of his Soul He carrieth his Lambs his tender Lambs in his Arms and gently leadeth those that are with Young therefore Peter you very well know the value I have for them and the belief I have in you Take care I say to feed my little Flocks beside or near the Shepherd's Tents Peter be not angry that I ask you again and again Do you love me Do you love me more than all Yea Lord thou know'st that I love thee Then feed my Sheep feed my Lambs and see that none of them be lost I know all their Names and I bear them all in my Heart as the High-Priest did the Tribes in his Breast and I carry them all to Heaven with me whither I am now preparing with all speed after I have eaten with you Where I am there they shall be also And it came to pass when Jesus had finished all these sayings be said unto his Disciples Ye know that after two days is the Feast of the Passover Christ foretels his being apprehended and the Son of Man is betrayed to be crucified Then assembled together all the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the Elders of the People unto the Palace of the High-Priests which is called Caiphas and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him but not on the Feast day lest there be an uproar among the People Matth. 26. For Annas the High-Priest had at that time agreed with Judas to betray his Master and had given him thirty pieces of Silver out of the Treasury and Judas with them craftily concluded it should be in the Night for better security and freer from disturbance Now the first day of the Feast of unleaven'd Bread being come the Disciples came to Jesus and ask'd him Where he pleas'd they eat the Passover Jesus saith unto them Go two of you into the City to such a Man's House and tell him The Master saith My time is at hand I will keep the Passover at thy House this night Accordingly they went and made ready the Passover and when Even was come he sate down with the Twelve and as they did eat he said Verily I say unto you that one of you will betray me and they were exceeding sorrowful and began every one of them to say into him Lord Is it I And he answered and said The same that dippeth his hand with me in the Dish shall betray me The Son of Man goeth as it is written of him but wo unto that Man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed It had been good for that man if he had never been born Judas being near unto our Lord and hearing this sharp precaution and the fore-knowledge that his Master had of his design would seem before the rest of the Disciples to be as innocent of the thing as any of them that were so exceedingly troubled and therefore ask'd his Master Is it I Not thinking that Jesus could or if he could that he would point-blank charge him with it yet notwithstanding his Master said Thou hast said Now Judas was startled at all this yet for covetousness and lucre of the Money having already receiv'd it would not go back And as they were eating Jesus rook Bread and blessed it and brake it and gave it to his Disciples and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me and he took the Cup in like manner and gave thanks and gave it to them saying Drink ye all of it for this is the Blood of the New Testament shed for many for the remission of Sins But I say unto you Luke 22.20 I will not henceforth drink of the fruit of the Vine till I drink it new with you in my Fathers Kingdom And when they had sung an Hymn they went out Jesus saith unto them Ye shall all be offended because of me this night For it is written I will smite the Shepherd and the Sheep shall be scatter'd Peter saith Tho' all be offended yet will not I. Jesus saith unto him Before the Cock crow twice thou shalt deny me thrice Peter saith unto him I will be with thee my Lord both in Life and Death And as Ittai said to David As the Lord liveth and as my Lord the King liveth surely in