The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.
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The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.
Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655.
Harmar, John, 1594?-1670.
[10], 96, [2] p.
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THE
MIRROVR
OF
HVMILITIE
:
OR
Two
eloquent
and
acute
Discourses
vpon
the
Natiuitie
and
Passion
of
Christ
,
full
of
diuine
and
excellent
Meditations
and
Sentences
.
Published
first
in
Latine
by
the
worthy
Author
Daniel
Heinsius
,
and
since
done
into
English
,
by
I.
H.
Master
of
Arts
in
Mag.
Coll.
Oxon.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Aeschin
.
erat
.
in
Ctesiphont
.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
Bernard
Alsop
,
and
are
to
be
solde
at
his
house
by
Saint
Annes
Church
neere
Aldersgate
.
1618.
TO
THE
WORSHIPFVLL
,
his
worthy
friend
,
Thomas
Nicholas
Esquier
,
as
also
to
the
vertuous
and
religious
Gentlewoman
,
Mrs
Iane
Nicholas
his
wife
,
and
my
must
louing
Aunt
,
all
happinesse
of
this
,
and
a
better
Life
.
Worshipfull
Sir
,
THe
due
respect
I
beare
vnto
your
worth
,
and
the
thankes
I
owe
vnto
you
for
the
many
arguments
of
your
loue
,
and
incouragemēts
of
my
studies
which
I
haue
receyued
from
you
,
were
the
maine
motiues
that
induced
mee
to
tender
vnto
your
acceptance
,
and
to
commit
vnto
your
patronage
this
little
Pamphlet
and
Alpha
of
my
endeauours
:
Let
me
entreat
your
goodnesse
to
entertaine
it
.
It
consisteth
of
two
discourses
,
vpon
the
Natiuitie
and
Passion
of
our
Sauiour
.
The
Matter
thereof
is
as
he
spake
of
the
yron
,
borrowed
:
the
Language
is
our
owne
.
That
wherein
they
both
concenter
and
agree
,
is
no
lesse
then
CHRIST
;
then
whom
there
is
no
greater
,
no
better
.
For
if
the
pursuite
of
anie
thing
besides
the
happinesse
of
Heauen
be
still
without
end
,
and
neuer
without
danger
:
then
may
wee
bee
fully
ascertained
,
that
CHRIST
alone
is
the
chiefest
obiect
,
whereon
we
may
fixe
the
eye
of
our
perpetuall
contemplation
,
and
embrace
him
with
the
armes
of
our
deuoutest
Affection
:
who
is
a
Load-starre
to
direct
vs
vnto
Heauen
.
I
will
not
so
much
preiudicate
your
zealous
intentions
,
as
to
perswade
you
to
reade
what
I
haue
written
:
but
rather
to
pardon
,
if
I
haue
written
amisse
.
Thus
am
I
still
iealous
of
mine
owne
errours
and
inability
,
beeing
no
lesse
desirous
to
submitte
my selfe
vnto
your
iudicious
censure
:
hoping
that
hereafter
I
shall
addresse
my selfe
vnto
the
perfecting
of
some
larger
proiect
:
yet
euer
acknowledging
that
you
deserue
more
then
I
can
performe
,
and
that
you
haue
performed
more
then
I
can
deserue
.
And
therefore
euer
consecrating
vnto
you
both
my
paines
and
my
prayers
:
the
one
for
your
seruice
,
and
the
other
for
your
safety
:
I
euer
remaine
,
Yours
to
bee
commaunded
,
in
whatsoeuer
,
IO
:
HARMAR
.
To
the
courteous
Reader
.
NOthing
more
hard
then
to
please
all
,
nothing
more
ahsurde
then
to
endeauour
it
.
I
am
therefore
(
for
my
part
)
resolued
to
content
my
friends
,
and
to
contemne
my
foes
.
They
I
know
,
will
mildly
iudge
,
these
will
peruersely
censure
:
being
far
worse
then
the
Basilisques
,
they
kill
before
they
see
.
Well
,
it
were
impietie
to
flatter
them
,
imbecillity
to
feare
them
.
Thine
as
thou
pleasest
,
I.
H.
THE
MIRROVR
OF
HVMILITIE
.
HOM.
I.
Vpon
the
Natiuity
of
Christ
.
THe
Epicureā
Philosophers
,
(
Reuerend
and
right
worthy
Auditors
)
who
neuer
had
so
much
as
the
least
relish
of
coelestiall
ioy
and
happinesse
,
reposing
their
chiefest
felicity
in
brutish
and
corporall
pleasure
,
were
accustomed
to
celebrate
the
twentieth
day
of
euery
moneth
in
honour
of
their
Archmaster
Epicurus
,
surmising
a
twentieth
day
to
haue
been
the
day
of
his
Natiuitie
.
And
not
onely
so
,
but
also
they
adorned
their
bedde-chambers
with
his
picture
,
and
engraued
his
portraiture
in
their
plate
and
ringes
,
that
they
might
alwayes
behold
him
whom
they
meant
euer
to
remember
.
Thus
much
homage
and
duty
did
those
prophane
&
effeminate
Pagans
performe
vnto
him
that
was
the
patrone
of
their
opinion
of
pleasure
.
No
maruell
then
if
the
Church
of
Christ
hath
consecrated
one
day
vnto
her
Sauiour
,
for
the
solemnization
of
his
Natiuity
,
and
for
the
perpetuation
of
so
ineffable
a
mystery
.
And
yet
howsoeuer
the
mysterie
of
the
Incaruation
of
the
Sonne
of
God
be
so
great
,
and
the
benefite
of
it
no
lesse
;
how
lightly
do
we
regarde
it
,
how
perfunctorily
doe
wee
celebrate
it
?
I
doubt
not
,
but
we
all
plainely
see
,
that
by
the
comming
of
Christ
,
God
was
vnited
vnto
man
,
and
man
reunited
vnto
God
;
the
rigor
and
seuerity
of
the
Law
abated
,
graces
giuen
,
iniquities
forgiuen
,
and
yet
how
lightly
doe
we
regarde
it
?
how
perfunctorily
doe
wee
celebrate
it
?
Some
there
bee
that
rather
desire
to
bee
curiously
inquisitiue
into
the
mystery
,
then
to
acknowledge
the
depth
of
it
with
modesty
:
and
doe
endeauour
to
apprehend
that
by
naturall
reason
,
which
farre
passeth
the
flight
of
humane
vnderstanding
.
But
wee
(
Beloued
)
that
thinke
it
to
bee
a
more
secure
way
,
and
of
lesse
trouble
and
perplexitie
,
rather
to
adore
the
supernaturall
excellency
of
it
,
then
to
assay
with
a
Scotish
and
a
sottish
subtiltie
,
to
diue
into
it
;
first
of
all
,
let
vs
thinke
vpon
his
cradle
,
and
then
afterwards
vpon
his
crown
:
Let
vs
take
our
flight
from
his
humility
,
that
we
may
at
the
last
so
are
vnto
the
chiefest
height
and
sublimity
.
Let
vs
consider
his
conception
,
his
natiuitie
,
his
pouerty
,
his
infancie
,
his
impotency
;
and
let
vs
meditate
vpon
that
blessed
,
blessed
time
,
wherein
hee
tooke
vpon
him
not
onely
the
weake
nature
of
man
,
but
also
the
weakest
age
of
man.
Let
vs
fixe
our
thoughts
vpon
that
thrice
happie
and
auspicious
day
,
a
day
farther
excelling
many
centuries
of
yeares
in
goodnesse
,
then
it
doth
come
short
of
them
in
extent
.
A
day
,
whereon
Maiestie
inuested
it selfe
with
despicable
humility
,
whereon
the
Word
became
flesh
,
GOD
became
man.
And
yet
so
,
that
the
dignitie
&
integritie
of
the
Deitie
were
nothing
impeached
,
although
seemingly
degraded
and
impaired
;
neyther
was
there
any
thing
wanting
to
compleate
and
absolute
humanity
which
was
assumed
.
Now
if
any
man
bee
so
audicious
,
as
to
prie
into
the
secresie
of
this
Mysterie
,
and
without
witte
or
feare
,
to
addresse
himselfe
to
the
discouerie
of
the
manner
of
it
,
hee
may
perchaunce
quickly
strike
saile
,
and
retire
with
an
O
Altitudo
!
and
still
bee
as
farre
from
the
fruite
of
his
labour
as
from
the
ende
.
If
wee
looke
vpon
the
Diuinitie
,
God
the
Father
is
,
and
hath
alwayes
●eene
,
and
is
alwayes
sayde
to
bee
.
Both
which
properties
,
alwayes
to
haue
●eene
,
and
to
be
,
are
as
iustly
attributed
●nto
the
Sonne
.
For
the
Deity
of
the
Sonne
is
not
distinguished
from
the
Deitie
of
the
Father
.
The
Sonne
is
●ee
that
was
begotten
of
the
Father
,
●oequall
with
the
Father
,
in
respect
●f
his
Essence
,
though
not
in
regard
●f
his
office
.
Now
if
thou
inquirest
,
when
Christ
was
begotten
,
then
thou
must
of
necessitie
deuolue
thy
imagination
vpon
some
parcell
of
time
,
vnto
which
the
Deitie
can
no
way
bee
●onfined
.
And
the
Sonne
,
beeing
if
I
may
so
speake
)
paralell
to
the
Father
,
is
as
well
beyond
the
boundes
of
time
,
as
the
Father
.
For
how
can
the
Sonne
bee
limited
by
time
,
which
is
,
and
hath
been
with
the
Father
before
all
time
?
begotten
before
all
time
,
as
God
;
but
borne
in
time
as
man.
As
hee
is
God
,
so
he
had
no
cause
of
his
being
;
as
hee
is
the
Sonne
,
so
hee
may
in
some
sort
be
say
de
to
haue
had
his
origination
from
the
Father
;
but
such
a
one
as
is
eternall
.
Heere
may
mans
conceit
yeeld
it selfe
to
be
but
shallow
;
heere
against
the
marble
of
this
difficultie
,
may
the
edge
of
all
subtilitie
be
rebated
:
here
may
the
illiterate
presume
to
know
as
much
as
the
learned
.
For
whatsoeuer
is
,
and
hath
beene
before
all
time
,
well
may
it
be
credited
,
it
can
neuer
be
comprehended
.
For
that
that
hath
beene
eternally
before
the
existence
or
essence
of
man
,
is
no
lesse
beyond
the
reach
and
capacitie
of
man.
For
as
the
imagination
and
vnderstanding
of
man
,
cannot
bee
euer
drawne
beyond
the
beginning
of
time
,
or
the
extent
:
So
neither
without
time
was
euer
any
man
begotten
,
besides
Christ
which
was
man
and
God
,
and
as
vpon
this
day
was
borne
Man
:
whom
if
wee
surmise
to
haue
beene
made
,
that
is
blasphemie
:
If
wee
thinke
that
hee
was
not
begotten
,
wee
shall
then
derogate
much
from
the
Deitie
:
If
wee
denie
his
Humanitie
,
we
then
runne
the
hazard
of
losing
our
eternall
safety
,
being
the
fruit
and
end
of
his
Natiuitie
.
Thus
(
to
speake
in
generall
)
must
wee
acknowledge
euery
thing
in
God
to
bee
farre
aboue
the
straine
of
reason
,
but
nothing
beyond
the
reach
of
faith
.
No
lesse
ought
wee
to
conceiue
of
God
the
Sonne
in
particular
.
For
hee
is
also
totall
God
,
as
hee
is
totall
man
;
and
yet
not
totally
God
because
hee
is
also
man
;
nor
totally
man
,
because
hee
is
also
God.
O
ineffable
vnion
!
Surely
,
this
coniunction
and
combination
of
the
diuine
&
humane
nature
,
proceeded
only
from
the
immediate
and
sole
act
of
the
Deitie
.
And
therefore
now
,
O
man
,
see
that
thou
adore
and
reuerence
this
mysterie
,
and
vpon
this
day
thinke
vpon
thy
happy
estate
and
condition
,
purchased
by
the
obedience
and
humility
of
thy
Sauiour
:
who
being
borne
as
vpon
this
day
,
was
notwithstanding
begotten
from
euerlasting
:
&
being
God
,
for
mans
sake
,
became
man
:
There
being
no
way
to
saue
man
but
by
dying
for
man
,
and
no
way
to
dye
for
man
,
but
by
being
man.
Here
may
,
wee
beholde
both
his
Deitie
and
Humanitie
:
The
one
must
worthily
be
esteemed
,
because
the
other
is
worthy
to
bee
admired
.
Man
could
not
be
made
God
,
and
therefore
God
became
Man.
And
to
this
end
&
purpose
,
that
thou
,
O
man
,
mightest
acknowledge
thy
Creators
power
,
&
embrace
thy
Sauiors
lowlinesse
;
that
so
,
although
his
Maiesty
confound
thee
,
yet
his
Humility
may
comfort
thee
.
It
will
bee
worthy
our
contemplation
,
if
we
think
,
how
,
as
vpon
this
day
God
that
is
most
purely
immateriall
,
and
free
from
all
shadow
of
corporeity
,
was
vnited
vnto
a
body
:
how
he
that
was
inuisible
became
apparent
and
euident
;
how
he
that
could
not
bee
discerned
by
the
touch
,
was
as
vpon
this
day
encompassed
with
the
clasping
armes
of
his
tender
mother
:
How
hee
that
neuer
had
beginning
,
now
beganne
to
be
:
and
lastly
,
how
the
Sonne
of
God
became
the
Sonne
of
man.
So
that
as
vpon
this
day
,
God
and
men
,
heauen
and
earth
,
mortality
and
eternity
,
humanity
and
diuinitie
were
combined
.
In
whom
?
in
our
Sauiour
:
Whom
the
Father
hath
appointed
Heyre
of
all
things
,
by
whome
also
he
made
the
World
,
being
the
brightnes
of
his
glory
,
and
the
expresse
image
or
character
of
his
person
,
who
being
no
lesse
admirable
for
his
humility
,
then
incomprehensible
in
respect
of
his
power
,
descended
farre
below
the
pitch
of
his
eminencie
,
that
hee
might
preserue
by
his
mercy
,
what
hee
had
created
by
his
omnipotency
.
Hee
that
once
was
cloathed
with
the
lustre
of
glory
and
maiesty
,
no
lesse
terrible
then
admirable
,
whom
neither
Angels
nor
Archangels
,
nor
Seraphims
,
nor
Cherubims
could
endure
to
behold
;
he
that
once
was
Lord
of
hosts
,
the
God
of
glory
,
hee
that
once
could
with
his
onely
countenance
turne
the
mountaines
topsie-turuie
,
and
wind-shake
the
foundations
of
the
whole
earth
:
Hee
I
say
,
as
vpon
this
day
,
for
vs
become
as
one
of
vs.
The
vnspeakable
Maiesty
of
the
Father
manageth
the
mysterie
,
the
ineffable
loue
and
affection
of
the
Sonne
assumeth
our
flesh
,
the
incomprehensible
power
of
the
Spirite
resideth
within
the
narrow
limits
of
the
wombe
;
albeit
it
cannot
bee
contained
in
the
vaste
capacity
&
circuit
of
the
world
.
On
this
day
was
death
vanquished
,
because
life
was
produced
:
On
this
day
was
lying
abolished
,
because
truth
was
mani
feited
:
on
this
day
was
errour
abandoned
,
because
the
true
way
was
discouered
:
on
this
day
was
the
Manna
of
mercie
,
and
the
dole
of
heauen
distributed
,
which
hee
that
eates
shall
not
die
;
but
liue
eternally
.
O
blessed
day
,
O
beautifull
and
glorious
day
!
A
day
without
euening
or
ending
;
the
verie
period
of
mortalitie
,
the
beginning
and
alpha
of
eternitie
.
A
day
of
our
second
Natiuitie
and
Regeneration
,
wheron
,
that
man
might
bee
borne
of
God
,
God
would
be
borne
like
man.
In
the
Creation
man
was
formed
according
to
the
image
of
God
,
but
now
God
taketh
vpon
him
the
Image
of
man.
In
the
beginning
God
made
man
of
the
earth
:
but
now
euen
GOD
himselfe
is
made
that
that
hee
made
,
that
that
might
not
perish
that
he
had
made
.
Now
therefore
,
let
the
wisedome
and
power
of
man
be
defaced
,
seeing
the
wisedome
of
God
is
so
clearely
manifested
.
Henceforth
,
the
lame
shall
walke
,
the
blinde
shall
see
,
the
deafe
shall
heare
,
the
dumbe
shall
speake
,
the
dead
shall
reuiue
,
and
that
with
one
word
,
because
it
is
the
Word
that
speaketh
,
yea
&
without
a
word
,
because
it
is
God
that
commaundeth
.
O
ioyfull
day
!
O
happy
halcyonian
day
!
whereon
the
Sonne
of
God
by
his
voluntarie
humiliation
,
and
by
the
assumption
of
our
humanity
and
humilitie
hath
now
affianced
vs
vnto
himselfe
,
by
entring
with
vs
the
league
of
brotherhood
and
fraternitie
.
A
day
,
whereon
hee
was
borne
which
was
before
all
dayes
,
euen
the
Ancient
of
dayes
;
he
that
made
the
first
day
:
he
sayde
,
Let
there
be
light
,
and
there
was
light
.
A
day
,
whereon
Emanuel
(
whose
name
is
sweeter
then
the
sweetest
aromaticke
odours
of
Arabia
)
being
with
man
,
amongst
men
;
in
man
,
for
man
became
man.
A
day
that
Abraham
,
and
Isaack
,
and
Iacob
foresaw
.
On
this
day
man
ascended
,
because
God
descended
;
and
our
flesh
was
aduanced
and
ingraced
,
because
the
Word
was
made
flesh
.
Hitherto
haue
wee
beene
the
sonnes
of
Adam
,
now
are
wee
the
sonnes
of
God
:
a
new
people
,
a
new
nation
,
not
borne
of
flesh
and
bloud
,
nor
of
the
will
of
man
,
but
of
God.
All
things
hitherto
haue
been
too
transcendent
,
imperuious
without
entrie
,
full
of
horrour
and
amazement
:
but
now
wee
may
haue
free
accesse
vnto
God
,
the
way
is
neyther
chargeable
,
nor
tedious
:
And
therefore
now
,
O
man
,
come
vnto
thy
God
,
and
yet
by
the
mediation
of
man.
For
on
this
day
thy
Sauiour
,
of
God
,
became
Man
;
that
he
might
reioyne
man
to
God.
O
ineffable
loue
!
O
incredible
mercy
!
O
vnspeakable
grace
and
fauour
!
wee
all
acknowledge
the
inuisible
Essence
,
and
indiuisible
Vnitie
of
God
the
Father
and
the
Sonne
;
insomuch
that
the
Essence
of
that
one
hath
not
beene
like
to
the
other
onely
,
but
euen
identical
:
and
yet
hee
that
is
one
with
God
,
was
as
vpon
this
day
made
one
with
man
;
that
man
might
bee
made
one
with
God.
Come
now
therfore
vnto
thy
Creator
,
O
man
:
touch
thy
Creator
,
&
embrace
him
,
touch
thy
Sauiour
,
and
adore
him
.
Come
thou
,
O
blessed
Church
,
draw
neere
vnto
thy
Bridegroome
;
O
let
him
bee
folded
within
the
armes
of
thy
zeale
and
affection
.
For
hee
hath
taken
a
great
iourney
,
euen
as
farre
as
it
is
from
heauen
to
earth
,
that
hee
might
translate
thee
from
earth
to
heauen
.
God
hee
is
,
that
hee
might
free
and
enfranchize
thee
:
and
man
he
is
,
that
without
terrour
and
amazement
hee
might
come
vnto
thee
.
So
that
hee
hath
well
tempered
his
Deitie
with
humanity
,
and
his
Maiesty
with
humility
:
for
as
the
one
confoundeth
,
so
the
other
comforteth
;
as
the
one
amazeth
,
so
the
other
animateth
.
And
therefore
come
boldly
,
and
confidently
meete
thy
Sauiour
,
and
as
well
with
thy
teares
,
as
with
thy
words
.
O
crie
out
and
say
,
I
haue
found
him
whom
my
soule
loueth
:
I
helde
him
and
would
not
let
him
goe
,
vntill
I
had
brought
him
into
my
mothers
house
,
and
into
the
Chamber
of
her
that
conceiued
me
.
O
let
him
kisse
mee
with
the
kisses
of
his
mouth
:
Draw
me
,
wee
will
runne
after
thee
because
of
the
sauour
of
thy
sweete
ointments
.
Come
O
blessed
Church
,
and
sing
;
Vnto
vs
a
Childe
is
borne
,
vnto
vs
a
Sonne
is
giuen
;
the
almighty
God
,
the
euerlasting
Father
,
the
Prince
of
peace
.
Come
,
I
say
,
and
sing
with
the
Psalmist
;
I
wayted
patiently
for
the
Lord
,
and
he
enclined
vnto
me
,
and
heard
my
crye
:
In
my
bed
I
sought
him
whom
my
soule
loueth
.
Tell
me
,
whom
my
soule
loueth
,
where
feedest
thou
?
where
lyest
thou
at
noone
?
Let
vs
beloued
,
goe
into
our
Sauiours
little
and
homely
chamber
of
repose
,
and
let
vs
delight
and
imparadize
our selues
with
so
louely
an
obiect
as
our
Sauiour
is
.
Away
with
those
proud
and
insolent
Pharises
,
who
presume
they
know
the
Law
,
and
yet
know
not
the
author
of
it
.
Away
with
Arrius
,
who
held
that
there
was
a
time
when
Christ
was
not
.
O
let
him
bee
perpetually
branded
with
the
note
of
this
his
infamous
and
execrable
heresie
.
Let
him
tell
mee
,
when
had
hee
no
being
,
which
had
being
in
a
beginning
without
beginning
?
In
the
beginning
was
the
Word
.
When
had
hee
no
being
which
is
God
from
euerlasting
?
And
the
Word
was
God
,
ibid.
At
what
time
was
he
not
,
which
is
,
and
was
the
Authour
of
time
?
All
things
were
made
by
him
,
and
without
him
nothing
was
made
,
ibid.
Away
with
the
No●tians
and
Sabellians
,
that
confounded
the
Trinity
of
persons
,
that
held
but
one
person
,
as
there
is
but
one
Essence
.
Away
with
that
ignominious
Stigmatike
Samosatenus
,
that
euen
when
he
reposed
himselfe
vpon
the
prostituted
carkasse
of
a
base
and
odious
strumpet
,
was
so
impudent
&
audacious
as
to
detract
and
derogate
from
the
Deitie
of
our
Sauiour
:
and
besides
this
,
did
not
blush
to
affirme
the
eternal
word
of
God
to
be
nothing
else
but
a
meere
vanishing
voyce
.
Away
with
Ualentinus
,
and
Apelles
,
and
Marcio
,
that
laboured
to
disanull
Christs
humanity
.
Away
with
Nestorius
,
that
held
,
that
the
diuine
and
humane
nature
were
separated
and
diuulsed
:
and
moreouer
endeauoured
to
maintain
,
that
not
the
Sonne
of
God
,
but
one
that
was
meere
man
,
was
for
our
redemption
nayled
vnto
the
Crosse
.
Away
with
that
wicked
Ebio
,
that
ascribed
vnto
our
Sauiour
an
earthly
father
.
Away
with
the
whole
rout
and
rabble
of
Heretikes
,
or
whatsoeuer
of
that
leauen
,
preiudicers
eyther
of
his
Deitie
,
or
his
Humanitie
.
Away
with
those
Ethnicke
Philosophers
and
Wizards
of
the
world
.
But
let
vs
Beloued
,
confessing
our
ignorance
,
and
professing
our
faith
,
enter
into
our
Sauiours
chamber
,
and
sing
,
The
stone
which
the
builders
refused
,
is
become
the
head
stone
of
the
corner
.
This
is
the
Lords
doing
,
and
it
is
maruellous
in
our
eyes
.
This
is
the
day
that
the
Lord
hath
made
,
we
will
reioyce
and
bee
glad
in
it
.
Let
vs
enter
into
our
Sauiours
Chamber
,
and
sing
;
The
Lord
is
my
strength
and
song
,
and
is
become
my
saluation
;
The
right
hand
of
the
Lord
is
exalted
,
the
right
hand
of
the
Lord
doth
valiantly
.
Let
vs
enter
into
our
Sauiours
Chamber
,
&
sing
;
Sing
O
daughter
of
Sion
,
shoute
O
Israel
:
Be
glad
and
reioyce
with
all
thy
heart
,
O
daughter
of
Ierusalem
.
The
Lord
hath
taken
away
thy
iudgements
:
hee
hath
cast
out
thine
enemie
;
The
King
of
Israel
,
euen
the
Lord
is
in
the
middest
of
thee
:
thou
shalt
not
see
euill
any
more
.
Behold
hee
that
is
higher
then
Heauen
,
and
deeper
then
hell
,
for
thy
sake
.
O
man
,
is
become
man
,
that
he
might
recouer
thee
from
Hel
,
&
bring
thee
vnto
Heauen
.
Behold
therefore
that
sweet
Beniamin
,
Christ
Iesus
;
Behold
him
which
is
our
life
on
earth
,
&
our
way
to
heauen
.
Behold
him
that
is
sprung
from
the
roote
of
lesse
,
him
that
is
of
the
generation
of
Dauid
,
the
seed
of
the
woman
,
the
arme
of
God
,
the
vertue
and
power
of
the
Almighty
,
and
his
welbeloued
in
whom
he
is
well
pleased
.
Behold
him
that
was
begotten
but
not
then
born
:
Behold
him
that
is
now
borne
,
and
not
now
begotten
;
being
God
by
the
Fathers
side
,
and
man
by
the
mothers
side
.
Behold
him
that
was
,
when
hee
was
not
borne
,
being
more
ancient
,
not
onely
then
the
time
of
his
birth
,
but
euen
the
birth
of
time
.
Behold
him
whom
Abraham
the
Father
of
the
beleeuing
receyued
as
a
guest
,
whose
father
hee
was
in
respect
of
the
Flesh
,
whose
sonne
hee
was
in
respect
of
Faith.
Behold
him
whose
starre
Balaam
saw
before
the
Wisemen
,
and
foretolde
it
also
truely
,
although
vnwillingly
.
Behold
him
that
now
powreth
forth
his
teares
for
thee
,
hee
will
hereafter
his
bloud
;
and
therefore
hee
will
shedde
his
bloud
for
thee
,
because
now
his
teares
:
who
therefore
weepeth
that
thou
mightest
reioyce
,
and
therefore
commeth
vnto
thee
,
because
he
loueth
thee
.
The
time
was
when
thou
,
O
man
,
diddest
lye
floating
in
the
streame
of
luxurious
delights
,
when
thou
sacrificedst
vnto
strange
gods
that
were
not
.
Then
didst
thou
,
O
miserable
man
,
run
the
hazard
both
of
Gods
indignation
,
and
thine
owne
damnation
,
the
sorrows
of
death
surrounded
thee
,
the
surges
of
iniquitie
ouerwhelmed
thee
.
This
did
the
onely
begotten
Sonne
of
God
take
notice
of
,
as
he
lay
in
the
bosome
of
his
Father
,
&
as
he
sate
in
the
throne
of
his
Maiesty
.
And
therefore
hee
came
downe
speedily
,
hee
laide
aside
his
glory
,
and
assumed
pouerty
,
and
vndertooke
the
heauie
weight
of
miserie
.
Hee
came
vnto
the
earth
,
Hee
came
vnto
thee
,
he
came
into
thee
,
borne
in
the
night
,
in
the
stormy
winter
,
being
naked
&
distressed
.
He
had
no
man
to
succour
him
,
no
man
to
attend
him
,
no
mā
that
regarded
him
.
The
best
swadling
cloaths
his
mother
had
to
en
wrappe
him
,
were
but
a
few
miserable
rags
.
The
best
cradle
hee
had
was
but
a
manger
.
Hence
is
it
that
hee
cryeth
vnto
thee
,
and
protesteth
,
that
he
could
not
haue
done
more
for
man.
O
what
guerdon
,
what
recompence
shall
man
bestow
vpon
him
?
It
is
not
beloued
,
eyther
the
inuenting
or
venting
of
friuolous
&
fruitlesse
questions
,
concerning
his
wonderfull
Natiuity
,
not
those
Myriades
of
quirkes
and
niceties
,
which
haue
beene
extracted
from
the
drossie
ore
of
earthy
imaginations
,
that
can
be
in
acceptable
sacrifice
vnto
him
.
Alas
these
things
rather
disturbe
our
tranquilitie
,
then
any
way
procure
our
safety
:
these
abate
our
zeale
towards
God
,
and
set
vs
at
bate
with
our
neighbour
:
Let
vs
therefore
abandon
these
fooleties
and
fopperies
.
Let
vs
put
on
sackcloth
and
ashes
;
let
vs
sit
in
the
dust
;
let
vs
sitte
neere
vnto
our
Sauiours
c●atch
,
let
vs
beat
our
brests
,
&
weepe
for
our
sinnes
,
that
our
Sauiour
may
heare
our
sobs
,
&
behold
our
teares
,
that
so
we
may
testifie
how
much
we
are
engaged
vnto
him
,
who
being
the
euerlasting
Word
of
the
Father
,
for
our
sakes
became
silent
:
who
being
the
wisdome
of
the
Father
,
seemed
to
bee
empayred
:
who
being
the
Father
of
eternity
,
became
the
Sonn
of
mortality
.
He
came
vnto
his
owne
,
but
his
owne
receiued
him
not
.
See
how
he
placed
himself
in
a
degree
below
man
,
that
hee
might
,
lift
man
vnto
God
:
&
not
only
so
,
but
as
for
man
his
sake
,
hee
became
man
;
so
for
mans
sake
he
became
miserable
;
&
yet
was
not
he
whent
hou
wast
not
?
Who
hath
measured
the
waters
in
the
hollow
of
his
hand
,
and
meted
out
heauen
with
the
spanne
,
and
comprehended
the
dust
of
the
earth
in
a
measure
,
and
weighed
the
mountaines
in
scales
,
and
the
hilles
in
a
ballance
?
O
that
my
people
were
wise
,
that
they
vnderstood
,
that
they
foresaw
their
last
end
.
And
how
happy
should
wee
bee
,
if
,
as
Christ
became
like
vnto
vs
in
flesh
;
so
wee
would
endeauour
to
bee
like
vnto
him
in
Spirit
!
He
is
ours
by
the
one
;
let
vs
bee
his
by
the
other
.
There
was
a
time
when
he
came
flying
vpon
the
wings
of
the
winde
,
when
hee
came
in
lightning
and
thunder
,
when
darknesse
was
his
pauilion
.
Now
may
wee
finde
him
wrapped
in
swadling
cloutes
,
lying
in
a
manger
.
Now
may
the
Church
cry
out
and
say
,
As
soone
as
I
heard
him
speake
,
my
soule
melted
within
me
:
I
sought
him
,
but
I
found
him
not
:
I
called
,
but
he
answered
mee
not
.
Now
crie
out
and
say
,
Stay
mee
with
flagons
,
comfort
mee
with
apples
,
for
I
am
sicke
of
loue
.
Now
will
I
rest
vnder
the
shadow
of
his
wings
.
Yee
are
not
now
come
vnto
the
mount
(
saith
Moses
)
that
might
not
be
touched
,
and
that
burned
with
fire
,
nor
vnto
blacknes
and
darknes
,
and
tempest
,
and
the
sound
of
the
Trumpet
,
and
the
voyce
of
words
,
which
voyce
they
that
heard
,
entreated
that
the
word
should
not
bee
spoken
vnto
them
anymore
,
for
they
could
not
endure
that
which
was
commanded
:
and
if
so
much
as
a
beast
toucht
the
mountaine
it
shall
bee
stoned
or
thrust
thorow
with
a
dart
.
And
so
terrible
was
the
sight
,
that
Moses
sayde
,
I
exceedingly
feare
and
quake
.
But
wee
beloued
may
contemplate
a
more
milde
obiect
,
euen
our
beloued
Sauiour
which
was
contented
to
act
the
part
of
lowlinesse
&
humility
,
who
when
hee
published
his
Law
,
hee
appeared
then
as
it
were
,
in
fire
:
but
now
manifesting
his
grace
,
and
mercy
,
disdained
not
to
repose
himselfe
on
a
pallat
of
Hay
.
Hee
whose
sublimity
is
incomprehensible
,
deiected
himselfe
as
low
as
might
be
.
Hee
as
hee
lay
in
the
Manger
,
had
notwithstanding
the
Angels
of
Heauen
about
him
,
as
his
ancient
attendants
,
and
dependences
,
and
the
whole
quier
of
heauen
singing
about
him
at
his
Natiuitie
,
which
sang
about
him
in
his
glory
.
And
although
hee
were
confined
to
an
obscure
cottage
,
yet
the
rayes
of
such
a
candle
doe
I
say
?
nay
of
such
a
Sunne
could
not
be
hidden
vnder
a
bushell
;
but
were
displayed
euen
vnto
the
remotest
parts
of
the
Easterne
climate
.
His
Deitie
could
not
bee
defaced
by
his
pouerty
,
nor
extenuated
.
By
the
power
of
which
Deitie
a
star
in
the
firmament
was
commaunded
to
giue
notice
of
Christs
humanity
.
Whatsoeuer
in
this
mysterie
is
atchieued
beyond
the
capacitie
of
man
,
plainely
euinceth
,
that
he
is
God
,
who
notwithstanding
was
thus
humbled
.
Let
custome
vanish
,
let
nature
acknowledge
her selfe
to
bee
but
shallow
in
the
conceit
of
the
miracles
which
are
wrought
by
the
immediate
finger
of
God.
Reason
can
hardly
be
brought
to
acknowledge
that
a
Virgin
was
a
mother
.
It
may
at
length
come
within
kenne
of
this
mysterie
:
if
so
bee
it
bee
furthered
by
the
sterne
of
Gods
word
,
and
wafted
along
by
the
breath
and
gale
of
the
Spirit
.
Bare
reason
is
faiths
contradiction
.
Now
beloued
,
let
vs
posse
on
vnto
that
that
hath
not
yet
beene
touched
.
And
seeing
that
wee
haue
consecrated
this
day
vnto
diuine
and
holy
meditation
,
let
vs
with
a
zealous
and
modest
curiosity
take
an
enterview
of
whatsoeuer
pertaineth
vnto
the
birth
of
our
Sauiour
.
Let
vs
imagine
whatsoeuer
might
haue
then
beene
seene
,
is
now
also
set
before
our
eyes
.
Let
vs
goe
visite
the
childe
and
his
blessed
mother
,
the
Virgine
;
and
let
vs
thinke
vpon
all
those
to
whome
so
gracious
a
mysterie
was
first
reuealed
.
Let
vs
lay
aside
so
many
Centuries
of
yeares
,
which
haue
passed
since
his
birth
,
and
let
our
winged
thoughts
trauerse
the
large
extent
of
ground
which
is
betwixt
vs
and
Bethleem
,
and
let
vs
take
an
exact
suruey
of
that
least
,
but
not
least
blessed
Citie
:
so
that
not
the
slightest
circumstance
may
passe
vnexamined
.
For
if
the
infancy
of
all
children
doe
much
delight
&
please
vs
,
how
much
should
the
infancy
of
this
blessed
babe
reioyce
vs
,
which
for
our
sakes
,
that
hee
might
bee
an
absolute
and
compleate
man
,
dayned
to
take
vpon
him
the
impotency
of
our
childhood
?
Not
farre
off
from
the
manger
sate
the
blessed
Virgin
,
herselfe
bearing
a
great
reuerence
to
the
miracle
:
who
being
not
tainted
with
the
contagion
of
any
inordinate
lust
,
doth
ingenuously
confesse
that
,
whereof
the
reason
shee
cannot
conceiue
;
to
witte
,
●hat
shee
is
a
mother
;
who
hauing
been
●etrothed
vnto
Iosph
,
had
receyued
his
newes
from
the
mouth
of
an
An●ell
,
that
she
should
not
be
the
Spouse
●f
man
but
the
mother
of
God.
Now
shee
euidently
perceyueth
,
●●at
shee
is
married
vnto
heauen
,
and
●et
her
thoughts
are
still
transported
,
●●
well
by
amazement
,
as
by
ioy
.
Shee
●eth
,
that
euen
shee
poore
despised
●aide
is
become
the
Mother
of
her
●●ther
,
a
Gouernesse
to
him
that
is
the
Gouernour
of
Heauen
and
earth
:
Shee
seeth
,
that
shee
hath
brought
foorth
a
mightier
then
Dauid
,
a
senior
to
Adam
.
Shee
seeth
,
that
shee
herselfe
is
both
mother
,
midwife
,
and
nurse
:
that
none
might
touch
him
,
lesse
pure
then
herselfe
that
bare
him
.
Shee
had
oftentimes
before
entertained
many
holy
meditations
vpon
the
childe
,
which
was
in
so
many
places
of
the
holy
Scripture
spoken
of
by
the
Prophets
and
Oracles
of
God
,
and
that
that
childe
should
spring
from
the
roote
of
Dauid
.
She
had
often
thought
vpon
the
Virgine
,
admiring
whom
such
great
and
transcendent
happinesse
should
befall
.
Shee
well
knew
,
that
Text
of
Esay
,
Chap.
7.
14.
Beholde
a
Virgin
shall
conceiue
and
beare
a
Sonne
Shee
had
often
reuolued
many
predictions
of
the
Prophets
,
and
in
them
had
read
the
storie
of
her selfe
,
and
knew
it
not
.
Shee
seeth
many
Prophesies
fulfilled
,
many
promises
performed
,
many
types
and
prefigurations
accomplished
.
Shee
seeth
a
light
,
and
yet
not
borrowed
from
the
rayes
eyther
of
the
Sunne
or
Moone
.
She
seeth
a
night
whose
serenity
surpasseth
the
brightnesse
of
the
clearest
day
.
Sometimes
shee
being
,
as
it
were
,
ouerioyed
in
her
happinesse
,
her
eyes
distil
a
sweete
shower
of
cristall
teares
into
her
yuorie
bosome
.
Sometimes
when
shee
thinks
that
shee
is
become
a
mother
,
then
a
modest
shame
(
a
probable
argument
of
virginity
,
and
the
tincture
of
vertue
)
setteth
in
her
snowy
cheekes
a
pure
vermilion
.
Sometimes
with
a
chaste
and
composed
aspect
,
shee
beholdeth
her
Sonne
and
Gods
;
and
(
yet
being
solicitous
for
●er
Virginity
)
shee
putteth
on
the
most
tender
affection
of
a
mother
,
which
notwithstanding
is
frequently
●nterrupted
with
the
conceit
that
shee
●●
still
a
Virgin.
Now
shee
beginneth
●o
nourish
her
Sonne
,
and
to
bring
him
●p
,
whom
she
had
now
brought
foorth
:
●●staining
him
by
miraculous
milke
,
●used
in
her
not
by
the
help
of
man
;
●ut
produced
by
the
efficaeie
of
the
●pirit
of
God.
The
great
Founder
●●d
Architect
of
Heauen
and
Earth
,
now
resteth
himselfe
vpon
the
necke
of
his
mother
and
Spouse
,
and
hee
himselfe
that
feedeth
all
things
,
deriueth
nutriment
from
her
sugred
paps
.
Sometimes
our
Sauiour
with
a
pleasing
countenance
beholdeth
his
virgin
mother
,
and
seemeth
to
know
her
:
Shee
againe
reflecteth
a
reciprocall
Smile
vpon
him
,
and
confesseth
that
shee
is
his
mother
indeed
;
and
she
parteth
her
loue
(
which
she
imparteth
to
no
man
else
)
between
her
Sonne
,
&
her
Uirginitie
;
constantly
acknowledging
the
one
,
and
still
retayning
the
other
.
Depart
yee
from
this
holy
and
blessed
Spectacle
,
yee
vnchaste
ones
whatsoner
yee
are
,
eyther
actually
,
or
patronesses
of
lewdnesse
:
You
I
say
,
that
parget
and
sophisticate
your
faces
;
you
that
are
so
nice
and
curious
in
your
gates
,
you
that
with
your
itching
and
bewitching
fascinating
glances
discouer
the
wantonnesse
of
your
minds
,
and
lightnesse
of
your
liues
;
you
that
so
adorne
your
heades
with
borrowed
hayre
,
and
your
neckes
with
laces
,
and
doe
laye
open
your
milke-white
paps
as
most
powerfull
allectiues
,
to
attract
the
beholders
eye
,
and
to
intrappe
the
Spectators
affection
,
giuing
him
by
this
light
taste
of
one
or
two
partes
,
hope
to
enioy
the
whole
body
.
You
that
by
your
sugered
kisses
,
and
amorous
embraces
set
your
bodies
in
combustion
;
you
that
by
your
wanton
and
venereous
thoughts
deflower
your selues
before
you
are
linked
to
your
husbands
:
you
,
I
say
,
depart
from
the
blessed
societie
of
our
Sauiour
.
For
what
else
doe
yee
,
but
that
yee
may
bee
espoused
vnto
the
Diuell
?
who
as
hee
first
cheated
your
grandmother
Eue
of
her
blessed
estate
;
so
he
continually
attempteth
by
the
like
serpentine
imposture
to
dispoyle
you
of
your
puritie
and
integrity
.
For
his
sake
,
and
by
his
inducement
do
yee
dispose
the
tresses
of
your
haire
,
burnish
your
faces
,
consult
your
looking
glasses
.
And
thus
you
giue
way
vnto
the
Serpent
to
creepe
through
the
crannies
of
your
eyes
into
the
secrete
angles
and
corners
of
your
hearts
.
If
yee
looke
vpon
the
holy
Virgin
,
you
shall
finde
that
shee
neuer
fixed
her
thoughts
vpō
any
thing
but
on
God
▪
and
so
first
giuing
him
a
place
in
her
heart
,
afterwards
shee
,
most
happily
entertained
him
in
her
wombe
.
Her
soule
was
as
it
were
diuulsed
and
separated
from
her
body
,
by
an
intentiue
and
serious
contemplation
of
her
Creator
;
and
the
surrendering
herselfe
vnto
him
alone
,
was
no
lesse
wrapt
in
the
bond
and
tyes
of
affection
towards
him
,
then
she
was
rapt
in
admiration
of
his
loue
towards
her
▪
This
is
that
that
quencheth
and
extinguisheth
all
the
flames
of
lust
,
and
exorbitant
loue
.
This
was
that
that
so
rauished
and
extased
the
blessed
Marie
:
This
was
that
sacred
fire
that
so
sacrificed
her
hart
vnto
her
GOD.
This
was
that
that
made
her
(
like
a
true
and
passionate
Loue
)
neuer
to
turne
her
eyes
frō
her
Sauiour
whom
shee
totally
and
entirely
affected
.
For
indeed
that
soule
which
is
illuminated
by
the
reuiuing
rayes
of
the
Spirit
,
is
vniuocally
made
al
eye
,
all
light
,
all
lustre
,
all
spirit
;
no
otherwise
then
combustible
matter
being
set
vnto
●he
fire
is
turned
into
the
nature
of
●ire
.
So
Elias
in
times
past
,
after
hee
had
often
fasted
,
and
had
giuen
the
fire
of
zeale
residence
on
the
golden
altar
of
his
heart
,
was
not
long
after
rapt
vp
into
heauen
in
a
fiery
Chariot
.
Thus
is
the
operation
of
the
Spirit
as
well
attractiue
of
what
resembles
it
,
as
productiue
of
that
it
would
haue
resemble
it
.
The
Spirit
is
vnitiue
and
combining
,
it
makes
●s
agree
together
,
and
in
it
.
For
as
they
that
are
married
,
are
sayde
to
bee
one
flesh
;
so
they
that
are
linked
vnto
Christ
,
are
as
truly
sayd
to
be
one
in
spirit
.
And
indeed
the
vnion
of
spirits
is
more
neere
and
strict
then
the
coherence
and
copulation
of
bodies
.
Great
reference
had
Christ
vnto
Mary
,
in
respect
of
his
body
:
but
shee
had
more
alliance
vnto
him
,
in
respect
of
the
Soule
and
Spirit
.
Come
now
yee
chaste
Matrons
,
and
pure
virgins
,
which
hitherto
haue
scarce
defiled
your selues
so
much
as
in
thought
;
come
I
say
(
according
vnto
the
custome
of
women
)
and
visite
this
blessed
Virgin-mother
deliuered
of
so
happy
an
issue
.
Heere
is
nothing
about
her
vnclean
or
menstruous
,
nothing
vnworthy
your
presence
,
nothing
that
may
not
become
a
Virgine
.
For
this
blessed
Infant
,
was
not
begotten
in
lust
,
but
in
entire
chastitie
;
Not
by
the
will
of
the
flesh
,
but
of
the
Spirit
.
Come
therefore
,
I
say
,
yee
chaste
maidens
and
matrons
,
embrace
this
babe
your
Sauiour
with
the
armes
of
zeale
,
apprehend
him
with
the
hand
of
Faith.
Deuote
your
whole
liues
vnto
his
seruice
,
and
endeauour
not
so
much
how
you
may
be
fruitful
in
bodye
,
as
faithfull
in
soule
.
Come
,
draw
neere
,
cast
your
eyes
vpon
this
blessed
maide
and
mother
of
Christ
,
in
whom
wee
see
childe-birth
not
to
haue
impayred
her
virginitie
,
nor
her
virginitie
to
haue
hindred
her
childe-birth
.
O
blessed
virgin
,
O
happy
Marie
!
Embleme
of
virginitie
,
patterne
of
Modestie
!
For
,
howsoeuer
thou
aboue
all
other
women
art
crowned
with
honour
and
dignitie
,
in
that
thou
art
a
mother
vnto
thy
Lord
,
as
thou
art
his
handmaide
;
yet
such
is
thy
pietie
and
humilitie
that
thou
waxest
not
proud
or
insolent
hereby
.
Many
were
those
gracious
thoughts
that
she
continually
entertained
,
many
were
those
patheticall
eiaculations
which
she
sent
vp
vnto
heauen
.
Happy
was
Ioseph
that
had
so
gracious
a
woman
espoused
vnto
him
,
as
Marie
:
and
yet
more
happy
was
hee
,
in
that
the
protection
and
tuition
of
his
blessed
Sauiour
was
deputed
vnto
him
.
I
doubt
not
but
that
hee
was
sorry
that
hee
had
no
fit
roome
to
receiue
him
,
that
the
place
wherein
they
soiourned
was
so
meane
,
so
vngarnisht
,
so
vnfurnisht
,
so
vnprouided
both
of
meate
and
vtensiles
.
How
carefully
did
he
ponder
euery
circumstance
?
How
cheerefully
did
hee
acknowledge
that
onely
faith
must
beleeue
,
what
onely
God
doth
effect
?
Now
(
beloued
)
seeing
we
are
proceeded
thus
farre
,
let
vs
also
thinke
vppon
those
that
came
vnto
this
miracle
.
Surely
they
were
no
other
then
simple
Idiots
:
There
were
in
the
same
countrey
Shepheards
abiding
in
the
field
,
keeping
watch
ouer
their
stocks
by
night
.
Kings
and
Potentates
were
ignorant
of
all
this
,
and
had
no
notice
of
Christ
his
Natiuitie
.
They
sleepe
whiles
Christ
cometh
.
So
secret
and
vnexpected
shall
hee
come
,
when
hee
shall
come
the
second
time
as
a
thiefe
in
the
night
.
Now
a
chiefe
thing
to
bee
obserued
in
this
historie
,
is
,
that
the
Angels
made
choyce
of
Shepheards
an
innocent
and
illiterate
sort
of
men
,
&
made
thē
first
partakers
of
the
blessed
newes
of
Christ
his
birth
.
The
reason
was
(
I
coniecture
)
because
they
might
with
more
facilitie
be
induced
to
beleeue
the
tydings
.
For
as
Wooll
that
hath
receiued
the
die
and
tincture
of
no
colour
,
is
capable
of
any
:
so
these
blessed
shepheards
which
were
neuer
before
indued
with
any
kinde
of
secular
wisedome
and
knowledge
,
were
more
apt
subiects
to
entertaine
celestiall
and
transcendent
inspirations
.
The
surest
meanes
to
sore
vp
into
heauen
,
are
the
wings
of
faith
:
that
that
soonest
depriueth
vs
of
those
wings
,
and
depraueth
our
affections
,
is
nothing
else
but
an
insolent
presumption
,
and
an
eleuated
conceit
of
our
owne
vnderstandings
.
O
how
hard
a
matter
would
it
haue
bene
to
haue
perswaded
Aristotle
,
or
any
of
that
Leauen
(
I
meane
the
Ethnicke
opinionating
Philosophers
)
to
haue
beleeued
that
the
Soueraign
of
the
whole
world
should
be
borne
man
on
earth
?
O
blessed
bee
that
wisedome
,
which
in
the
mysterie
of
our
saluation
,
hath
excluded
humane
wisedome
!
For
they
that
were
neuer
guiltie
of
any
learning
&
extraordinarie
knowledge
,
they
that
could
not
dispute
,
and
could
not
but
belieue
,
were
the
prime
and
first
that
were
acquainted
with
a
matter
of
so
great
consequence
.
The
great
Clerkes
and
Scholers
of
the
world
,
who
examined
all
by
the
Touchstone
of
reason
,
who
euer
preferred
vnderstanding
before
beliefe
,
were
vtterly
discarded
,
and
Heardmen
admitted
,
whose
plainesse
of
simplicitie
was
a
great
cause
of
their
mature
and
speedy
proficiency
:
Unto
you
is
borne
this
day
in
the
City
of
Dauid
,
a
Sauiour
,
which
is
Christ
the
Lord.
First
of
of
all
,
they
learne
that
Christ
is
borne
,
and
then
vnto
them
.
What
followeth
?
It
is
said
(
verse
16
)
That
they
came
with
haste
,
and
found
Mary
and
Ioseph
,
and
the
Babe
lying
in
a
manger
.
These
shepheards
found
that
good
shepheard
,
which
was
resolued
to
lay
downe
his
life
for
his
sheepe
.
They
finde
that
vniuersall
shepheard
,
that
shepheard
,
whose
sheepefold
is
of
no
lesse
extent
thē
the
whole
earth
.
They
finde
that
shepherd
,
which
hereafter
shall
seuer
the
sheepe
from
the
goates
.
Nay
,
they
come
vnto
that
sheepe
,
or
rather
vnto
that
immaculate
Lambe
of
God
which
taketh
away
the
sinnes
of
the
world
.
They
come
vnto
the
Lambe
,
but
vnto
such
a
Lambe
,
as
was
also
the
Lyon
of
the
Tribe
of
Iuda
,
Who
although
he
then
lay
in
the
manger
,
yet
not
long
after
hee
was
aduanced
vnto
his
throne
.
Hence
(
Beloued
)
may
we
collect
how
much
God
fauoureth
holy
and
modest
simplicitie
,
and
disalloweth
all
nice
and
scrupulous
subtiltie
.
The
first
that
heard
the
voyce
of
the
Angel
,
were
the
shepheards
;
the
first
that
heard
the
report
of
the
good
newes
,
were
no
more
then
shepheards
.
And
yet
notwithstanding
,
euen
these
shepheards
were
farre
more
happy
then
Caesar
,
who
hauing
the
third
time
barred
vp
the
dores
of
Ianus
,
and
appeased
all
tumultuous
garboiles
of
warre
and
sedition
,
which
were
then
raging
and
predominant
,
both
on
sea
and
land
;
yet
knew
not
that
Blessed
,
blessed
peace
and
reconciliation
which
was
wrought
betweene
God
and
man.
Go
too
therefore
yee
blessed
shepheards
,
vnto
whom
the
good
tidings
were
fully
signified
;
you
that
were
neuer
ambitious
of
soueraignety
,
or
a
blast
of
fame
;
you
that
neuer
studyed
the
insnaring
sophistrie
of
Monkes
and
Friers
,
nor
how
to
coine
the
copper
Syllogismes
of
the
fallacious
Iesuites
;
you
can
neyther
deceyue
,
nor
this
day
bee
deceyued
,
because
yee
belieue
onely
what
hath
beene
deliuered
vnto
you
from
the
mouth
of
God
:
Goe
,
I
say
,
and
relate
vnto
your
friends
and
acquaintance
what
Christ
hath
done
for
man.
Goe
and
sing
an
Hosanna
vnto
your
Sauiour
;
make
vp
your
Cumaean
Eglogue
,
and
let
your
tongues
as
sweetly
warble
it
,
as
your
hearts
doe
soundly
conceiue
it
.
For
now
you
see
the
beloued
Emanuel
hath
presented
himselfe
vnto
the
world
:
now
are
the
former
ages
renued
again
.
Now
are
all
things
possessed
with
ioy
and
gladnes
.
O
what
sugred
psalms
&
celestial
odes
were
written
by
Dauid
concerning
Christ
represented
vnto
him
onely
in
the
dim
glasse
of
tipes
&
figures
?
why
should
not
we
that
liue
in
these
after-times
honor
him
with
our
prime
endeauours
?
Hitherto
haue
we
treated
of
the
shepherds
which
came
to
visit
our
Sauior
:
now
are
we
descēded
to
speake
a
word
or
two
of
the
Wise
men
that
gaue
the
shepheards
precedence
in
respect
of
order
,
but
not
in
regard
of
vnderstanding
.
But
what
was
that
that
drewe
the
Wise
men
hither
?
Surely
a
starre
in
heauen
,
which
was
appointed
to
Blazon
the
royall
descent
and
pedegree
of
that
infant
that
lay
in
the
Manger
.
Hence
was
it
that
those
pillars
and
Atlasses
of
learning
and
knowledge
,
who
coniectured
not
future
euents
by
booke
,
but
rather
fixing
their
eyes
and
thoughts
vpon
heauen
,
which
they
alwayes
beheld
enchased
with
so
many
glittering
stars
as
Diamonds
,
were
well
ascertained
of
the
natiuity
of
the
King
of
the
Iews
:
For
they
had
seene
his
starre
in
the
East
.
And
therefore
now
they
repaire
with
all
speed
and
officious
zeale
,
vnto
that
place
whither
they
were
directed
by
the
starre
,
which
accompanied
them
euen
vnto
the
borders
and
confines
of
Bethleem
.
There
they
finde
him
,
there
they
worship
him
:
For
so
the
Text
saith
,
When
they
were
come
into
the
house
,
they
found
the
Babe
with
his
mother
Mary
,
and
they
falling
downe
worshipped
him
.
In
vaine
might
they
haue
sought
in
heauen
for
the
Lord
of
heauen
:
seeing
that
it
pleased
him
to
be
foūd
on
earth
,
and
that
in
an
Inne
,
in
a
stable
.
Come
hither
now
all
you
that
challenge
vnto
your selues
the
titles
of
Wisemen
.
,
you
that
would
refuse
to
visite
your
Sauiour
in
so
meane
a
place
;
you
that
looke
big
in
veluet
,
and
ruffle
in
silke
and
tissue
;
see
that
you
confront
not
the
mysteries
of
God
with
an
ouerweening
conceit
of
your
owne
ability
:
Prie
not
into
the
Arke
of
his
secresies
,
enquire
not
for
the
reason
,
why
God
the
Sonne
so
humbled
,
so
emptied
,
so
deiected
himselfe
.
Doe
you
rather
with
these
Wisemen
adore
,
what
you
cannot
conceyue
,
&
admire
what
you
cannot
comprehend
.
This
is
an
Epidemicke
and
catholicke
disease
amongst
vs
;
Wee
are
too
punctuall
and
pragmaticall
in
euoluing
what
God
would
haue
should
lye
hidde
;
and
wee
too
perfunctorily
neglect
what
he
would
wee
should
canuasse
and
discusse
.
For
as
the
whole
proiect
of
our
safety
and
redemption
hath
been
brought
to
passe
on
earth
,
wee
make
a
tedious
quest
the
wrong
way
,
&
ambitiously
climbe
vp
into
heauen
to
vnderstand
the
reason
of
it
.
Vnwise
,
vngratefull
persons
as
we
are
,
why
doe
we
so
disdainfully
passe
by
our
Sauiours
cratch
,
wherein
he
was
reposed
,
his
thred-bare
swadling
cloutes
,
and
homely
ornaments
wherewith
hee
was
inuested
?
What
are
all
these
things
but
argumēts
of
his
voluntary
humility
which
hee
assumed
,
that
hee
might
readorne
vs
with
the
robes
of
glory
,
&
a
crown
of
blissefull
eternitie
?
O
Beloued
,
you
that
are
Artists
,
and
archprofessors
of
Learning
;
you
that
are
graced
with
pues
and
chaires
,
come
and
learne
one
lecture
of
humility
of
these
Wisemen
.
Come
and
fall
downe
before
your
humble
Sauiour
and
adore
him
;
offer
vnto
him
a
more
acceptable
Present
then
Golde
,
Myrrhe
,
or
Frankinsence
,
euen
an
ingenuous
confession
of
your
ignorance
.
And
you
learned
Sages
of
the
East
,
you
that
by
the
direction
,
and
as
it
were
,
manuduction
of
a
star
,
haue
vndteraken
so
long
&
tedious
a
iorney
;
returne
yee
now
home
againe
more
learned
and
more
happy
then
euer
yee
were
before
.
Goe
and
relate
vnto
your
Countrimen
the
Chaldeans
(
or
peraduenture
yee
are
Persians
)
the
newes
of
this
great
mysterie
o●
godlinesse
,
without
controuersie
the
greatest
:
to
witte
,
that
God
was
manifested
in
the
flesh
,
iustified
in
the
Spirit
seene
of
Angels
,
preached
vnto
the
Gentiles
,
to
bee
beleeued
in
the
world
,
and
las●
of
all
,
to
bee
receyued
vp
into
glory
.
God
and
tell
them
,
that
there
is
nothing
in
heauen
greater
thē
that
that
ye
found
in
the
manger
.
I
haue
now
sufficiently
spoken
o●
the
comming
of
the
wise
men
,
which
were
the
last
that
came
to
visite
our
Sauiour
.
Many
indeed
they
were
that
came
vnto
him
besides
,
non
were
excluded
.
For
he
himselfe
came
humble
,
and
as
it
were
degraded
and
set
below
himselfe
,
that
all
of
what
inferiour
ranke
soeuer
might
bee
emboldned
to
approch
vnto
him
,
and
might
haue
no
excuse
to
tarry
from
him
.
Now
if
you
desire
I
should
specific
vnto
you
those
that
presented
themselues
vnto
our
Sauiour
,
I
shall
easilie
accomplish
your
desire
.
There
was
first
a
Quire
of
Angels
,
and
they
sang
his
birth-song
.
There
were
wedded
people
Zacharie
and
Elizabeth
.
There
was
the
vnwedded
,
Simeon
.
There
was
a
widdow
,
Anna.
There
was
a
Priest
,
Zacharie
.
There
were
the
learned
,
the
Wise-men
.
There
were
the
rude
and
vnlearned
,
the
shepheards
.
All
which
if
we
compare
them
together
,
we
shal
finde
betwixt
them
a
great
disparitie
:
who
notwithstanding
were
all
equall
,
and
not
one
inferiour
vnto
an
other
:
●f
we
consider
them
as
they
all
worshipped
and
adored
the
new
borne
Infant
,
as
they
all
submitted
themselues
vnto
him
,
as
they
all
celebrated
the
day
of
his
Natiuitie
.
Would
yee
how
vnderstand
what
virgin
was
at
the
birth
of
Christ
?
I
may
answer
you
that
a
virgin
was
a
chiefe
agent
,
or
rather
a
patient
in
the
mysterie
.
Such
a
Virgin
as
brought
forth
her
Creator
,
beeing
notwithstanding
no
lesse
a
virgine
then
a
mother
,
and
more
a
mother
then
hee
was
a
sonne
:
for
in
respect
of
his
Diuinity
,
he
was
her
Father
;
as
onely
in
regard
of
his
humanity
he
was
her
Sonne
.
So
that
Christ
was
not
onely
Dauids
sonne
,
but
also
Dauids
Lord
:
and
not
onely
the
Son
of
man
,
but
also
the
Father
of
man
;
not
onely
of
the
seed
of
Abraham
,
but
also
the
Father
of
Abraham
;
beeing
himselfe
no
lesse
the
promiser
of
the
Messias
,
then
the
Messias
promised
.
O
blessed
and
happie
day
!
on
which
hee
that
from
euerlasting
hath
had
,
and
hath
his
throne
in
heauen
,
descended
euen
to
the
societie
of
men
This
day
is
the
day
of
our
Marriage
,
of
our
affinitie
,
of
our
restauration
,
of
our
reunition
vnto
GOD
,
of
our
redemption
from
Hell.
On
this
day
,
hee
that
is
the
eternall
God
,
and
still
remaining
what
hee
was
,
for
our
sakes
became
what
hee
was
not
.
On
this
day
,
he
that
without
a
Body
was
euery
where
,
by
the
assumption
of
a
bodie
seemed
to
limit
and
confine
himselfe
vnto
place
;
that
we
might
obtain
that
happinesse
by
grace
,
which
hee
had
by
the
right
of
his
nature
.
O
happy
day
much
wished
,
long
expected
!
the
abrogation
of
the
Law
,
the
period
of
all
prophesies
,
the
beginning
of
the
Gospell
,
yea
the
Gospell
it selfe
:
The
Gospell
which
was
first
proclaymed
from
heauen
,
and
after
published
on
earth
,
to
the
end
that
there
might
not
bee
wanting
authority
to
confirme
it
,
nor
faith
in
men
to
acknowledge
it
.
O
how
sweet
is
the
remembrance
of
that
day
!
how
comfortable
both
to
men
and
Angels
!
True
it
is
,
that
wee
cannot
conceyue
this
Mysterie
;
and
yet
wee
reioyce
in
it
.
True
it
is
,
that
we
cannot
diue
into
the
depth
and
profundity
of
it
;
and
what
though
we
cannot
?
Haue
not
holy
men
that
haue
totallie
deuoted
themselues
vnto
the
exercises
of
religion
and
piety
,
beene
as
ignorant
as
we
are
?
If
yee
beleeue
me
not
,
let
mee
entreate
you
to
cast
your
eyes
vpon
olde
Simeon
,
who
,
howsoeuer
the
Scribes
and
Pharises
were
buzzardblinde
,
and
could
not
behold
the
Sun
of
righteousnesse
;
yet
hee
foresaw
him
long
before
hee
came
.
And
when
hee
saw
that
hee
was
come
,
O
how
was
hee
transported
with
ioy
!
How
was
he
carried
away
vvith
the
streame
and
torrent
of
ouerflowing
gladnes
?
O
with
what
zeale
of
heart
,
with
what
swiftnesse
of
foot
did
he
flye
vnto
his
Sauiour
,
so
long
expected
,
and
now
at
length
exhibited
?
how
earnestly
did
hee
embrace
him
,
not
onely
with
the
armes
of
his
body
,
but
also
of
his
affection
?
How
willing
was
hee
to
pay
his
tribute
vnto
nature
?
How
desirous
to
shake
hands
with
the
world
,
and
its
emptie
vanities
,
and
to
resign
himselfe
into
the
hands
of
God
?
With
how
relenting
a
soule
,
with
what
sweet
showers
of
teares
in
the
instant
before
his
death
,
did
hee
warble
out
his
Swan-like
funerall
song
?
Now
besides
holy
Simeon
,
may
we
behold
many
of
the
sacred
retinue
,
as
first
of
all
Ioseph
,
a
continuall
spectator
and
obseruer
of
the
mysterie
.
Besides
,
Ioseph
,
there
was
Iohn
the
forerunner
of
Christ
,
and
a
Preacher
in
the
wildernesse
:
And
besides
those
,
many
holy
women
more
religious
then
learned
.
Moreouer
,
besides
the
Women
,
there
were
the
Apostles
of
Christ
,
who
were
instructed
with
diuine
wisdome
by
the
inspiration
of
the
holy
Spirite
,
not
by
anticipation
of
secular
knowledge
,
which
wee
commonly
tearme
the
Handmaid
vnto
Diuinity
.
Neere
vnto
these
Apostles
stood
blessed
Peter
,
and
not
farre
off
were
the
glorious
Angels
,
who
though
they
were
compleatly
endued
with
varietie
of
knowledge
,
yet
now
they
could
neither
sing
nor
say
any
thing
,
but
Glorie
be
to
God
on
high
,
and
on
earth
,
peace
.
Alas
,
it
was
not
their
ambition
to
purchase
vnto
themselues
a
blaste
of
fame
,
and
applause
of
the
World.
Their
chiefest
intent
was
to
prayse
him
who
was
then
borne
.
Let
no
man
therefore
sooth
himselfe
in
his
learning
,
and
multiplicitie
of
knowledge
.
For
this
day
is
a
day
whereon
wee
ought
with
modesty
to
confesse
our
ignorance
.
This
day
belongeth
chiefly
vnto
the
vnlearned
,
and
vnto
those
that
are
but
punies
in
the
Schoole
of
Christ
.
On
this
day
the
Wisdome
of
God
vouchsafed
to
descend
below
its
most
eleuated
&
transcendent
pitch
of
knowledge
.
On
this
day
the
Word
of
God
vouchsafed
to
speake
as
inarticulately
as
man
in
his
childhood
and
infancy
.
Let
no
man
therefore
take
on
,
or
thinke
himselfe
disgraced
,
in
that
hee
is
not
furnisht
with
the
abilities
of
nature
,
or
not
garnisht
with
the
rules
and
precepts
of
art
;
seeing
that
God
,
that
hee
might
disappoint
those
that
were
well
seene
in
the
points
of
learning
,
made
choyce
to
disclose
himselfe
vnto
those
that
were
but
meane
and
simple
.
It
shall
therefore
bee
best
for
vs
,
not
to
soare
too
high
into
the
mysteries
of
God
,
lest
at
last
,
we
flag
and
flye
low
with
a
broken
pinion
.
Let
vs
,
beloued
,
rather
settle
and
rest
our selues
in
a
sober
and
safe
ignorance
,
which
will
not
onely
not
preiudice
vs
,
but
also
bee
much
auaileable
to
procure
our
saluation
.
Farther
then
this
,
neuer
aspired
any
of
the
learnedst
Diuines
that
euer
were
.
The
end
of
the
first
Homilie
.
VPON
THE
PASSION
OF
CHRIST
.
HOM.
II.
REuerend
,
&
right
worthy
Auditors
:
Wee
solemnize
a
day
,
whereunto
neuer
any
former
lge
behelde
the
aike
,
neuer
any
future
time
shall
second
it
.
A
day
whereon
the
eternal
Sonne
of
God
,
hauing
formerly
assumed
our
nature
,
that
hee
might
thereby
restore
it
vnto
its
prime
and
first
state
,
and
as
it
were
,
reimpatriate
vs
,
and
inuest
vs
with
the
glory
of
a
better
Kingdome
,
was
,
not
without
the
horrour
and
amazement
both
of
heauen
and
earth
,
most
barbarously
slaine
and
put
to
death
by
those
,
for
whose
sake
he
came
into
the
world
;
by
those
,
to
whom
hee
had
often
sent
his
Legates
and
Ambassadours
;
by
those
,
whose
saluation
he
had
resolued
to
purchase
by
the
effusion
of
his
most
precious
bloud
.
Such
is
the
weight
and
grauity
of
this
theame
and
argument
,
which
by
my
future
discourse
I
determine
to
pursue
,
that
it
may
easily
inaudience
the
Hearer
,
and
procure
in
him
ready
and
fauourable
attention
(
a
thing
that
Oratours
vsually
entreate
in
the
Proeme
of
their
Orations
.
)
And
therfore
for
my
part
I
will
not
bee
so
prodigal
of
my
breath
or
vnnecessary
paines
,
as
to
importune
you
to
heare
me
:
for
I
am
well
assured
that
you
expect
not
the
enchanting
flourishes
,
or
sugred
blandishments
of
Rhetoricke
,
being
solely
contented
to
entertaine
a
bare
Discourse
vpon
the
Passion
of
our
Sauiour
;
the
remembrance
of
whom
wil
rather
resolue
vs
into
a
stream
of
tears
,
thē
any
way
giue
vs
occasiō
to
wish
for
the
fluent
and
harmonious
straines
of
wit
and
eloquence
.
For
if
wee
duly
consider
all
those
tragicall
Scenes
,
and
dolefull
passages
of
his
life
,
euen
from
his
cratch
vnto
his
crosse
;
wee
shall
finde
them
to
haue
beene
nothing
else
but
a
Mappe
of
miserie
,
or
a
sea
of
calamitie
.
For
hee
was
no
sooner
borne
,
but
hee
endured
the
sharpenesse
of
a
bloudy
circumcision
:
he
was
no
sooner
circumcised
,
but
by
and
by
he
was
designed
to
the
slaughter
;
hee
had
no
sooner
published
his
heauenly
doctrine
,
but
forth
with
hee
was
accused
of
sedition
,
impiety
,
blasphemie
,
fury
;
and
not
onely
so
,
but
hee
was
tearmed
euen
a
Diuell
,
and
that
of
those
,
whome
aboue
all
the
Nations
of
the
world
hee
had
vouchsafed
to
stile
his
peculiar
people
.
Thus
whither
soeuer
I
cast
mine
eyes
,
I
can
behold
nothing
but
misery
and
reproches
,
and
pouerty
,
and
hunger
,
and
thirst
,
and
weakenesse
,
&
wearinesse
;
so
that
it
seemeth
,
that
our
blessed
Sauiour
vpon
his
Crosse
made
vp
the
full
measure
of
that
griefe
and
anguish
,
with
which
hee
laboured
&
was
perplexed
all
his
life
long
,
&
then
to
haue
sucked
out
euen
the
very
dregges
of
that
bitter
cuppe
,
which
hee
had
but
formerly
tasted
.
Insomuch
that
when
wee
meditate
vpon
those
many
troubles
and
torments
,
with
which
he
was
voluntarily
afflicted
,
to
the
end
that
hee
might
pacifie
his
Fathers
wrath
,
and
satisfie
his
Fathers
iustice
:
we
may
well
imagine
,
and
bee
ascertained
,
that
he
alone
is
the
absolute
embleme
&
patterne
of
patience
and
perseuerance
.
The
strict
Stoickes
that
so
pleased
themselues
in
their
obdurate
indolency
,
came
very
short
of
him
.
Whom
that
yee
may
the
more
admire
and
wonder
at
,
I
will
endeauour
with
the
pensill
of
a
large
and
ample
discourse
(
the
matter
and
substance
whereof
shall
be
borrowed
from
the
Penmen
and
Actuaries
of
the
holy
Spirit
)
to
Limme
out
,
and
Delineate
him
vnto
you
.
After
that
our
Sauiour
had
sent
vp
many
frequent
and
feruent
eiaculations
vnto
God
the
Father
,
in
the
behalfe
of
his
deare
&
distressed
Church
;
(
for
whose
sake
no
lesse
willingly
,
then
valiantly
he
endured
the
weight
of
so
many
grieuous
afflictions
;
)
by
and
by
after
,
hauing
retired
himselfe
into
a
shady
priuate
garden
,
hee
was
most
impetuously
affronted
by
Iudas
,
and
a
barbarous
troupe
of
Souldiers
.
And
that
nothing
might
seeme
to
bee
done
rashly
or
accidentally
,
euen
this
very
assault
was
prophesied
by
Zacharie
,
Chapter
13.
ver
.
7.
Smite
the
Shepheard
,
and
the
sheepe
shall
bee
scattered
.
And
thus
he
being
surprised
by
so
violent
a
gust
of
furie
,
was
notwithstanding
left
alone
by
his
Disciples
,
and
forsaken
by
all
his
familiars
and
acquaintance
,
forsaken
euen
by
those
,
vnto
whom
,
not
long
before
he
had
imparted
the
true
Manna
of
his
body
,
and
refresheth
their
languishing
spirits
with
a
cordiall
of
his
most
precious
bloud
.
Hee
that
had
beene
alwayes
reputed
his
constant
friend
&
follower
,
most
basely
prized
him
at
thirty
pence
:
and
as
if
he
had
beene
a
vile
and
infamous
malefactour
,
by
a
false
and
Syren-kisse
,
deliuered
him
into
the
hands
of
his
cruell
and
malignant
enemies
.
O
grosse
impudency
!
O
hainous
impietie
!
Now
may
yee
behold
him
ledde
away
captiue
,
his
armes
and
hands
being
fast
bound
&
manacled
:
Now
may
yee
see
his
beloued
,
gracious
Iohn
,
who
had
often
leaned
vpon
his
heauenly
besome
;
who
had
often
learned
from
his
sacred
lippes
many
transcendent
mysteries
and
oracles
of
wisdome
,
and
had
formerly
best
vnderstood
,
that
the
Word
was
in
the
beginning
,
and
that
the
Word
was
made
flesh
;
him
,
I
say
,
may
yee
see
lamentably
deiected
,
and
ouerflowne
with
the
waues
of
sorrow
and
pensiuenesse
.
Now
may
yee
see
the
blessed
Saint
Peter
,
whose
soule
was
as
it
were
the
mint
of
Heroicall
and
holy
resolutions
,
follow
and
pace
aloofe
off
;
being
much
appaled
and
affrighted
at
the
view
of
so
doleful
a
spectacle
.
As
for
the
rest
of
our
Sauiour
his
dependences
,
those
,
I
meane
,
whom
he
had
eyther
peculiarly
instructed
,
or
any
way
releeued
,
eyther
by
restoring
of
their
sight
,
or
by
staying
the
fluxe
of
a
bloudy
and
menstruous
issue
;
or
by
reuniting
,
and
as
it
were
,
cementing
the
crazed
members
of
those
that
had
beene
possessed
with
a
shiuering
palsie
.
All
those
,
I
say
(
whereof
the
multitude
was
almost
infinite
)
basely
hide
their
heads
,
and
withdraw
themselues
cleane
away
.
Thus
was
our
blessed
Sauiour
forsaken
by
those
that
should
haue
rescued
and
supported
him
.
Thus
was
hee
exposed
to
so
many
perils
and
hazards
.
By
and
by
after
,
hee
that
(
by
the
eternall
decree
of
his
Father
)
was
to
become
the
vniuersal
Iudge
of
quick
and
dead
,
was
conuented
before
the
pettie
punie
Iudges
of
the
earth
;
being
posted
from
Annas
to
Caiphas
,
from
Caiphas
to
Pilate
,
from
Pilate
to
Herod
,
from
Herod
to
Pilate
againe
.
O
turbulent
&
tumultuous
people
!
how
doe
they
bafle
his
doue-like
innocency
?
how
doe
they
delude
his
ingenuous
simplicitie
?
how
doe
they
oppose
his
truth
and
sincerity
by
false
&
suborned
testimonie
?
How
doe
the
reprobate
rascals
,
the
very
froth
and
scum
of
basenesse
,
audaciously
dominere
and
insult
ouer
him
?
How
despicably
do
they
veyle
and
hud
winke
him
?
How
contemptuously
doe
they
strike
him
?
enquiring
of
him
,
whether
hee
can
tell
who
it
was
that
did
strike
him
?
and
not
onely
so
,
but
also
by
the
iniurious
commaund
of
the
High-Priest
,
hee
himselfe
being
the
High-Priest
of
all
mankind
,
is
disgracefully
whipped
.
The
ignorant
and
arrogant
Pharises
,
and
Doctors
of
the
Law
,
despitefully
accuse
the
authour
and
publisher
of
the
Law.
Herod
with
his
officious
glozing
Courtiers
and
accomplices
deride
his
silence
,
and
that
they
may
the
more
expose
him
to
laughter
,
they
chaunge
his
garment
.
The
Souldiers
that
had
embrued
their
blades
in
the
bloud
of
Innocēts
,
most
impiously
batter
and
buffet
him
.
And
not
onely
so
,
but
they
also
discharge
their
filthy
foame
vpon
his
most
glorious
face
.
And
that
they
may
heape
sinne
vpon
sinne
,
and
yet
adde
more
maturity
vnto
their
ful
blowne
impietie
,
they
set
a
crowne
of
thornes
vpon
that
head
of
his
;
wherein
(
as
in
a
casket
)
all
the
Iewels
of
diuine
wisedome
and
knowledge
were
inshrined
.
There
was
not
scarse
any
part
of
his
whole
body
,
that
was
not
either
exposed
to
reproach
,
or
tormented
by
griefe
.
His
head
pierced
with
thornes
,
beaten
with
fists
,
bruised
with
staues
;
his
face
beslimed
with
spittle
,
his
cheekes
swelled
out
with
blowes
,
his
tongue
and
palate
offended
with
distastefull
vineger
and
gall
,
his
eares
surcharged
with
loades
of
disgracefull
contumelies
.
How
thinke
you
did
Christ
behaue
himselfe
in
this
case
?
The
story
informeth
vs
,
that
his
silence
was
no
lesse
then
his
patience
.
His
aduersaries
on
the
contrary
side
presse
vpon
him
,
and
with
vehement
exclamations
and
outcries
presse
him
to
speake
something
for
himselfe
,
and
yet
(
maugre
all
their
furie
and
exagitations
)
he
replyes
not
so
much
as
a
word
vnto
them
.
Why
doest
thou
O
Infidell
,
enquire
the
reason
and
cause
of
this
patient
silence
of
our
Sauiour
?
Why
doest
thou
after
his
death
recrucifie
him
againe
?
Let
me
but
aske
thus
much
of
thee
?
To
whom
should
Christ
haue
returned
an
answere
?
To
Pilate
?
Alas
hee
knew
but
little
in
the
state
of
the
question
.
To
the
Iewes
?
No
,
they
were
his
accusers
.
What
should
he
haue
answered
?
Hee
had
already
made
knowne
vnto
them
that
he
was
the
Son
of
God.
This
was
the
onely
motiue
and
impulsiue
cause
why
he
was
cōuented
.
This
was
that
that
his
Aduersaries
so
earnestly
pursued
;
should
he
haue
denyed
him selfe
to
haue
beene
the
Sonne
of
God
?
No.
That
hee
would
not
,
hee
could
not
doe
.
Truth
cannot
lye
.
Thus
much
he
had
both
intimated
and
professed
.
As
for
his
allegiance
vnto
Caesar
,
which
they
would
haue
induced
him
to
haue
denyed
,
it
was
to
no
purpose
,
to
make
any
mention
of
that
.
For
alas
,
it
was
not
his
ambition
to
sit
vpon
the
throne
,
and
to
be
placed
in
the
honour-point
of
an
earthly
Kingdome
;
it
was
not
that
hee
intended
.
No
,
he
came
into
the
world
for
no
such
purpose
.
Hee
rather
came
that
hee
might
gather
together
his
Church
,
dispersed
and
driuen
to
and
fro
vpon
the
surface
of
the
earth
,
that
he
might
,
as
it
were
,
reedifie
the
decayed
race
of
mankind
;
that
he
might
saue
his
people
by
his
bloud
,
and
by
his
word
;
by
his
miracles
,
and
by
his
oracles
.
The
obdurate
and
peruerse
Iewes
were
ignorant
of
this
,
&
much
more
the
Romanes
.
They
knew
not
what
he
meant
by
the
destroying
of
the
Temple
,
or
by
the
repayring
of
it
in
three
dayes
.
And
therefore
they
are
with
no
lesse
fury
then
blindnes
hurried
against
him
;
who
after
they
had
lashed
him
almost
vnto
death
,
&
most
cruelly
diuided
those
azure
channels
of
his
bloud
,
they
bring
him
in
publike
being
ouerflowne
with
gore
,
and
most
disdainefully
expose
him
to
the
view
of
the
scornefull
multitude
,
with
an
Ecce
homo
,
Behold
the
man
!
Oh
my
Soule
,
stand
here
erected
,
fixe
the
eye
of
thy
contemplation
vpon
the
countenance
of
thy
blessed
Sauiour
.
Shake
off
the
multitude
of
thy
fruitlesse
vanities
,
with
which
thou
art
so
encombred
,
and
bestow
all
thy
time
and
meditation
vpon
him
alone
,
a
person
so
much
to
be
honoured
,
so
highly
to
bee
regarded
.
Ecce
homo
,
Behold
the
man
,
behold
the
man
of
sorrow
.
Behold
him
that
was
the
fayrest
among
men
,
being
both
white
and
ruddie
,
the
chiefest
among
ten
thousand
.
His
head
is
as
the
most
fine
golde
,
his
lackes
bushie
&
blacke
as
a
Rauen
:
His
eyes
are
the
eyes
of
doues
by
the
riuers
of
waters
,
washed
with
milke
,
and
fitly
set
:
His
cheekes
as
a
bed
of
spices
,
as
sweet
flowers
;
his
lips
like
Lillies
,
dropping
sweet
smelling
myrrhe
.
Hee
that
was
thus
set
out
,
and
embellished
with
so
many
gracefull
ornaments
,
lyeth
now
disfigured
with
wounds
,
weltring
and
panting
in
a
crimson
riuer
of
his
owne
bloud
.
O
blessed
Sauiour
!
what
hauocke
doe
those
tyrāts
make
of
thy
life
?
How
lauish
&
prodigall
are
those
Canibals
of
thy
bloud
?
How
many
wide
sluces
&
passages
haue
they
opened
for
the
venting
of
it
?
What
full
streams
&
torrēts
gushed
out
at
his
nostrils
?
And
that
that
was
most
lamentable
&
grieuous
vnto
him
,
he
was
so
captiuated
,
as
that
he
had
not
means
to
wipe
away
either
his
bloud
or
his
Teares
,
that
trickled
downe
all
about
his
precious
bodie
.
Ecce
homo
:
Behold
the
man
;
This
is
that
most
glorious
Face
,
at
whose
Maiestie
,
men
and
Angells
stand
agast
!
This
is
hee
,
who
although
hee
now
stand
mute
and
silent
,
yet
is
his
voyce
heard
in
the
clouds
,
and
the
ratling
of
his
thunder
is
able
to
strike
terrour
into
the
stoutest
heatts
.
Ecce
homo
:
Behold
the
man
;
Behold
him
that
is
Lord
Paramount
of
whatsoeuer
is
inclasp't
within
the
circuit
of
this
spacious
World
:
and
yet
now
hee
standeth
poore
and
vnfurnished
of
all
things
.
He
that
freeth
vs
all
,
and
is
the
onely
authour
of
our
libertie
,
leading
Captiuitie
captiue
,
is
himselfe
apprehended
as
a
Malefactor
,
and
led
away
as
a
Captiue
.
He
that
cureth
vs
all
by
the
precious
Balme
and
Panacea
of
his
bloud
,
is
now
himselfe
miserably
wounded
.
And
see
now
,
here
he
standeth
before
the
Iudge
,
before
vs
all
,
yea
,
and
for
vs
al
;
He
standeth
naked
&
disrobed
,
that
the
wounds
&
gashes
which
were
inflicted
by
the
enemie
,
and
endured
for
vs
,
might
lye
hid
to
no
man.
All
which
,
mee
thinke
,
might
easily
soften
and
intenerate
a
flintie
heart
,
and
yet
the
Iewes
were
nothing
moued
at
it
.
Who
being
transported
with
furie
and
madnesse
,
they
now
goe
about
to
depriue
him
of
life
and
all
.
And
that
they
may
make
his
griefe
paralell
to
his
disgrace
,
they
charge
his
weary
shoulders
with
the
weight
of
his
burdensome
crosse
.
And
not
onely
so
,
but
they
appoint
their
malepert
officious
Sergeants
to
attend
him
,
and
giue
in
charge
,
that
if
he
pace
it
slowly
,
or
falter
vnder
his
carriage
,
they
should
with
bloudy
scourges
force
him
on
amaine
.
Our
Sauiour
being
brought
to
this
grieuous
streight
and
exigent
,
his
strength
fainting
,
his
heart
panting
,
his
voyce
fayling
and
euen
drops
doe
I
say
?
nay
,
flouds
of
water
and
bloud
springing
from
all
the
pores
and
passages
of
his
body
,
doth
notwithstanding
vouchsafe
to
direct
his
deiected
countenance
and
languishing
eyes
vnto
vs
miserable
and
most
vnthankeful
caitifes
,
that
neyther
sympathize
with
him
in
his
calamity
,
nor
so
much
as
remember
,
that
hee
himselfe
stood
in
the
vantguard
of
the
battell
,
and
with
his
helmet
of
Patience
sheltred
vs
from
the
gunneshot
of
his
Fathers
indignation
.
And
as
his
eyes
are
directed
vnto
vs
,
so
is
his
voice
also
.
Let
vs
suppose
him
speaking
vnto
vs
with
these
words
:
O
my
people
what
haue
I
done
vnto
thee
,
and
wherein
haue
I
wearied
thee
?
testifie
against
mee
.
When
I
created
thee
of
the
dust
of
the
earth
,
I
made
thee
like
vnto
my selfe
.
But
thou
by
the
allurement
&
instigation
of
the
Diuell
,
diddest
most
disobediently
desire
to
be
like
vnto
mee
,
in
what
was
not
fitte
thou
shouldest
,
and
so
becamest
like
vnto
the
Deuill
,
that
arch-lyer
of
the
world
,
the
patronizer
and
abettour
of
thy
ambitious
enterprise
.
Thou
,
sinfull
as
thou
art
,
hast
almost
razed
out
the
sacred
impresse
of
my
Diuinity
,
set
with
mine
owne
finger
in
the
chrystall
table
of
thy
soule
;
and
yet
notwithstanding
,
I
so
much
disparaged
my selfe
,
as
to
take
vpon
me
the
forme
&
shape
of
thine
abiect
and
contemptible
nature
:
For
thy
flesh
I
assumed
,
and
yet
not
its
impurity
;
but
,
as
it
were
,
in
its
prime
integrity
,
refined
and
purged
from
that
drosse
and
menstruous
corruption
which
resided
in
it
.
And
yet
for
al
this
I
affected
no
state
or
pompe
in
my
comming
vnto
thee
;
howsoeuer
the
Fathers
and
Patriarks
in
the
Nonage
and
infancie
of
the
World
longed
for
it
;
and
the
Prophets
after
thē
often
mentioned
it
.
Moses
did
foresee
it
,
Dauid
did
did
fore
sing
it
,
Salomon
did
foresay
it
.
The
Euangelicall
Prophet
Esay
did
most
plainely
and
punctually
expresse
it
,
hauing
then
no
other
meanes
to
relieue
the
discon
solate
mindes
of
the
Iewes
,
but
onely
by
assuring
them
of
my
comming
.
But
when
I
came
,
I
found
my
entertainement
not
squaring
to
my
expectation
.
Where
I
looked
for
amity
,
I
found
enmity
;
I
receyued
hatred
for
my
good
will
;
and
for
casting
out
of
Diuels
,
I
was
accounted
one
for
my
labour
.
O
senselesse
ingratitude
!
Thus
was
my
humilitie
no
lesse
misconceyued
,
then
my
maiesty
vnconceiued
!
and
yet
notwithstanding
,
it
was
my
dayly
endeauour
to
doe
good
vnto
all
men
.
Eyther
I
cured
the
bleeding
wounds
of
an
afflicted
conscience
with
the
balme
of
consolation
;
or
I
reclaimed
the
stragling
sinner
,
and
brought
him
againe
vnto
my
folde
;
or
I
gaue
eyes
vnto
the
blind
,
or
feer
to
the
lame
,
or
speech
to
the
dumbe
,
or
health
to
the
diseased
,
or
bread
to
the
hungrie
:
and
,
if
at
any
time
bread
were
wanting
,
there
neuer
wanted
a
myracle
to
supplie
it
.
If
a
mother
lamented
the
death
of
her
onely
sonne
,
eyther
I
restored
life
to
the
dead
,
or
consolation
to
the
suruiuing
.
If
any
woman
wanted
water
,
I
gaue
her
better
then
she
thought
,
Euen
the
water
of
life
.
I
abhorred
not
so
much
as
Publicans
and
Sinners
,
I
was
familiarly
conuersant
with
all
men
.
Now
therefore
,
O
Inhabitants
of
Hierusalem
,
and
men
of
Iudah
,
Iudge
I
pray
you
betwixt
me
and
my
Vineyard
.
What
could
haue
been
done
more
vnto
my
Vineyard
that
I
haue
not
done
vnto
it
?
Wherefore
when
I
looked
it
should
haue
brought
foorth
grapes
,
beought
it
foorth
thornes
,
with
which
now
the
Temples
of
my
head
are
wounded
?
Wherefore
,
when
I
looked
for
Wine
,
brought
it
foorth
vinegar
to
offend
my
taste
?
Why
had
shee
nothing
but
myrrhe
and
gall
to
quench
the
thirst
of
her
drooping
Lord
?
These
and
the
like
dolefull
complaints
,
the
Iewes
had
both
heard
and
read
;
they
had
noted
and
obserued
all
the
holy
actions
of
our
Sauiour
whiles
he
breathed
vpon
this
Theater
of
earth
.
They
had
often
heard
him
teaching
in
the
Temple
,
teaching
in
the
Synagogue
,
teaching
vpon
the
Mount
,
teaching
in
the
high-wayes
and
thorow-fares
.
His
goodnesse
would
not
suffer
him
to
conceale
or
masque
vs
any
thing
in
darknesse
and
silence
:
that
might
make
any
way
to
the
safety
of
the
hearer
.
For
now
the
time
was
come
,
wherein
God
had
determined
to
dispell
the
thicke
fogges
of
errour
from
the
mindes
of
his
people
,
and
clearely
to
instruct
them
in
the
mysteries
of
his
truth
.
And
not
onely
so
,
but
he
had
also
decreede
by
one
sole
Hilasticall
and
propitiatorie
Sacrifice
,
to
purge
and
expiate
the
sinnes
of
the
whole
world
.
This
was
that
pure
and
vnblemished
oblation
,
free
from
all
staines
of
corruption
and
impiety
.
Thus
much
euen
the
very
aduersaries
of
our
Sauiour
could
not
but
auerre
,
who
continually
yeelded
vnto
him
honor
&
regard
sutable
vnto
his
person
.
For
indeed
nothing
was
done
in
vaine
,
nothing
by
chance
or
accidentally
,
nothing
without
the
directing
hand
of
him
that
was
afflicted
.
Who
as
he
stood
bound
,
and
in
the
hands
and
power
of
others
,
yet
notwithstanding
,
hee
himselfe
disposeth
whatsoeuer
he
suffereth
.
O
the
hidden
secresie
and
prouidence
of
God!
whatsoeuer
appellation
or
title
the
Church
doth
seriously
giue
vnto
Christ
,
the
same
doe
the
Iewes
attribute
vnto
him
by
way
of
mockerie
and
illusion
.
The
prophane
Souldier
derideth
our
Lord
and
Sauiour
,
and
yet
in
the
mean
time
he
adoreth
him
,
bowing
his
knees
vnto
him
,
Unto
whom
euery
knee
shall
bow
.
He
denyeth
Christ
to
bee
a
King
,
and
yet
by
and
by
,
he
crowneth
him
.
After
hee
had
crowned
him
,
hee
gaue
him
a
reede
for
a
scepter
;
and
that
nothing
might
be
wanting
,
they
put
a
purple
garment
vpon
him
,
the
chiefe
ornament
of
Kings
and
Princes
.
Lastly
,
whiles
rhe
people
play
vppon
him
,
and
contemne
him
,
yet
notwithstanding
they
confesse
him
to
be
a
Prophet
;
for
by
that
name
they
saluted
him
.
Thus
the
enemies
of
Christ
acknowledge
him
to
be
both
God
,
a
King
,
and
a
Prophet
.
But
by
what
meanes
,
I
wonder
came
the
Romanes
to
know
thus
much
of
our
Sauiour
?
Certainely
,
to
say
no
more
,
it
was
the
will
and
wisdome
of
God
so
to
dispose
.
It
was
also
by
his
iust
permission
,
that
the
false
accusation
of
Christ
,
who
was
truth
it selfe
:
and
the
iniurious
condemnation
of
Christ
,
who
was
innonocency
it selfe
,
should
bee
reuenged
by
the
desperate
and
voluntarie
death
of
that
debosht
Stigmaticke
Iudas
,
who
had
formerly
engaged
himselfe
to
betray
his
Lord
and
Master
with
a
kisse
.
O
how
was
that
candide
Diuell
,
that
varnisht
hypocrisie
,
that
outside
of
a
friend
,
that
coppergilt
Apostle
tortured
in
soule
by
the
racke
of
his
raging
conscience
?
How
earnestly
did
hee
desire
to
set
a
period
to
a
couetous
base
life
,
by
an
infamous
and
miserable
death
?
Pontius
Pilate
,
vnto
whom
the
iudgement
and
arbitrating
of
the
cause
was
assigned
,
had
oftentimes
witnessed
&
auerred
,
that
our
Sauiour
had
not
deserued
any
punishment
at
all
:
And
that
he
might
the
better
confirme
his
assertion
,
hee
endeauours
to
cleare
himselfe
from
the
aspersion
and
imputation
of
iniustice
,
by
washing
his
hands
in
the
viewe
of
the
multitude
.
By
and
by
after
hee
constantly
affirmeth
,
that
Christ
was
no
seducer
of
the
people
.
Herod
,
who
had
formerly
derided
our
Sauiours
silence
,
dareth
not
to
condemne
his
innocency
.
Ioseph
of
Arimathea
,
being
one
of
the
chiefe
Senators
,
retires
himselfe
into
his
priuate
chamber
,
and
will
not
bee
seene
at
the
Bench
,
lest
peraduenture
he
should
bee
forced
to
determine
something
contrary
vnto
his
conscience
.
The
malicious
Iewes
,
although
they
suborne
false
witnesses
against
our
Sauiour
,
yet
notwithstanding
they
testifie
publikely
before
the
Iudge
,
that
he
is
not
guilty
of
any
crime
.
The
same
Iewes
that
exclaimed
against
him
as
against
a
seditious
person
,
doe
now
stile
him
their
King
by
that
writing
vpon
his
crosse
,
whereon
hee
was
adiudged
to
die
.
Caiphas
the
high
Priest
,
by
enthusiasme
prophesieth
of
Christ
,
whom
hee
persecuteth
;
&
with
a
loude
voice
both
accuseth
and
absolueth
him
,
pronouncing
the
mysterie
of
our
saluation
;
to
wit
,
that
it
was
necessary
that
one
should
dye
for
the
people
.
The
last
and
worst
of
our
Sauiours
aduersaries
,
was
the
Diuell
,
who
although
hee
earnestly
and
constantly
endeauoured
by
all
assayes
to
vexe
and
trouble
our
Sauiour
,
yet
(
as
the
Ancients
coniecture
)
hee
could
not
but
incite
Pilates
wife
to
tell
him
,
that
surely
the
man
that
was
thus
maligned
,
accused
and
condemned
,
was
a
iust
and
righteous
man
,
who
although
at
length
he
suffered
death
vpon
his
crosse
,
yet
hee
suffered
it
not
as
an
impious
and
infamous
malefactor
,
but
as
a
glorious
conquerour
.
God
the
Father
together
with
his
whole
family
&
Court
of
Heauen
,
stood
and
behelde
the
pangs
and
passion
of
his
beloued
Sonne
,
on
whose
shoulders
hee
had
layed
the
weight
of
the
punishment
which
euery
one
of
vs
in
our
owne
persons
should
most
deseruedly
haue
endured
.
God
,
who
is
tearmed
of
the
Prophets
,
a
deuouring
fire
,
an
ouerflowing
torrent
of
wrath
,
as
violent
as
a
rough
storme
of
hayle
,
as
impetuous
as
a
tempestuous
gust
of
wind
maketh
our
Sauiour
the
onely
butte
to
receiue
the
shafts
of
his
fury
and
indignation
.
Who
lying
thus
wounded
and
pierced
with
the
sharpenesse
of
his
extreame
agonie
,
(
in
respect
of
which
all
those
tortures
inuented
by
tyrants
,
all
those
massacres
and
torments
of
the
holy
Martyres
,
were
but
dreames
and
loue-trickes
)
is
forced
not
to
a
duell
or
single
combat
,
but
to
encounter
a
multitude
and
throng
of
aduersaries
.
Amongst
the
which
hee
was
to
conquer
the
Diuell
,
that
olde
Hydra
,
and
arch-enemie
of
mankind
.
Who
as
hee
had
beene
the
cause
of
the
first
Adams
expulsion
,
so
doth
hee
now
attempt
no
lesse
to
inthrall
and
captiuate
the
second
Adam
,
and
to
cast
him
into
vtter
darknesse
.
In
the
second
place
he
was
to
vanquish
death
,
that
had
a
long
time
tyrannized
ouer
all
mankind
.
Our
Sauiour
being
to
enter
the
lists
with
these
furious
Antagonists
,
was
publikely
brought
along
to
an
infamous
place
,
where
all
wicked
persons
were
put
to
death
,
which
place
the
people
that
liued
thereabout
,
called
it
Golgotha
,
a
place
of
dead
mens
sculs
.
Now
the
reason
why
hee
was
to
conflict
in
this
place
,
was
(
as
wee
may
imagine
)
that
hee
might
giue
death
the
foyle
,
euen
in
its
strongest
hold
,
wherin
it
had
so
long
triumphed
,
and
erected
so
many
trophees
of
its
victorie
;
that
,
where
the
first
Adam
had
beene
interred
,
euen
there
by
the
force
of
the
second
Adam
,
the
sharpenesse
&
sting
of
death
might
be
rebated
.
And
yet
,
howsoeuer
death
was
there
conquered
,
yet
not
without
the
death
of
the
conquerour
:
for
euen
there
Christ
himselfe
was
nayled
to
his
crosse
,
in
the
view
both
of
men
and
Angels
.
Who
although
he
was
brought
into
that
lamentable
straight
and
exigent
,
although
hee
lay
groueling
and
gasping
vnder
the
heauy
burden
,
both
of
the
pangs
of
death
,
and
the
paines
of
Hell
,
and
the
wrath
of
his
Father
;
yet
notwithstanding
the
loue
hee
bare
vnto
man
,
was
euen
then
no
lesse
entire
then
euer
it
was
.
For
euen
then
I
say
,
hee
saued
the
theefe
at
the
crosse
,
and
prayed
for
his
enemies
.
By
and
by
after
,
he
surrendred
his
blessed
Soule
into
the
hands
of
God.
What
shall
I
now
say
vnto
you
sinfull
Iewes
,
by
whose
barbarous
fury
,
and
fatall
blindnesse
the
Son
of
God
was
crucified
?
What
penne
can
expresse
,
what
pencill
can
decipher
your
hainous
and
execrable
fact
?
yee
haue
slaine
,
yee
haue
slaine
the
very
Author
of
life
,
the
first
begotten
of
God
,
the
Creatour
of
the
world
,
the
King
of
Israel
:
yee
haue
slaine
that
innocent
and
immaculate
Lambe
,
in
whome
there
was
no
deceit
:
yee
haue
slaine
the
Prince
of
Peace
,
the
Herald
of
grace
and
of
our
reconciliation
vnto
God.
Oh
that
my
head
were
waters
,
and
mine
eyes
a
fountaine
of
teares
,
that
I
might
weepe
day
and
night
!
I
will
bewayle
with
the
weeping
of
Iazer
,
the
vine
of
Sibmah
;
I
will
water
thee
with
my
teares
,
O
Heshbon
,
and
Elealeh
.
For
the
righteous
perisheth
,
and
no
man
layeth
it
to
heart
.
The
Lord
of
Heauen
and
earth
was
slaine
,
and
no
man
considereth
it
.
O
hatefull
and
hated
Nation
!
O
cruell
and
abominable
people
!
destitute
of
wisdome
and
vnderstanding
,
how
forgetfull
wert
thou
of
him
that
begate
thee
?
You
haue
slaine
him
that
brought
you
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt
,
that
ledde
you
thorow
the
wildernesse
,
thorow
a
land
of
deserts
and
pits
,
thorow
a
land
of
drought
and
of
the
shadow
of
death
,
thorow
a
land
that
no
man
passed
thorow
,
and
where
no
man
dwelt
.
You
haue
slaine
him
that
fed
you
in
the
wildernesse
,
euen
with
the
bread
of
Angels
.
Him
,
that
found
you
in
the
desert
land
,
in
the
waste
howling
wildernesse
,
that
led
you
about
,
that
instructed
you
,
that
kept
you
as
the
apple
of
his
eye
.
As
an
Eagle
stirreth
vp
her
nest
,
fluttereth
ouer
her
young
,
spreadeth
abroad
her
winges
,
taketh
them
,
beareth
them
on
her
wings
:
So
the
Lord
alone
did
leade
thee
,
and
there
was
no
strange
God
with
thee
.
Bee
astonished
O
yee
heauens
at
this
,
be
yee
horribly
affraide
,
bee
yee
very
desolate
.
Tell
it
not
Gath
,
publish
it
not
in
the
streetes
of
Askalon
,
lest
the
daughters
of
the
Philistines
reioyce
,
and
the
daughters
of
the
vncircumcised
triumph
.
That
face
that
vpon
Mount
Horeb
the
people
could
not
behold
without
astonishment
,
nor
the
Angels
themselues
with
horrour
and
amazement
,
the
wicked
Iewes
defiled
it
with
spittle
,
and
bruised
it
with
staues
.
And
not
onely
so
,
but
they
euen
killed
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
whose
name
is
Iehouah
.
O
fanaticke
and
furious
miscreants
,
how
could
yee
dare
to
murther
his
Sonne
,
whose
Name
yee
could
not
vtter
without
trembling
?
O
extreame
and
sottish
impietie
,
no
farther
to
bee
remembred
,
then
detested
!
O
peruerse
and
wicked
generation
,
how
are
your
rebellious
hearts
wrapt
in
the
filme
of
ignorance
?
See
yee
not
all
the
creatures
of
the
world
standing
agast
at
the
sight
of
your
cruelty
?
See
yee
not
the
earth
shaken
,
the
rocks
rent
a
sunder
,
the
graues
opened
?
See
ye
not
the
glorious
beauty
of
the
Sunne
masqued
with
prodigious
fogges
,
as
defying
your
dismall
fact
,
and
not
enduring
to
behold
the
sadde
estate
and
distresse
of
its
Creatour
?
Alas
,
why
stand
yee
gazing
vp
towards
heauen
?
why
stand
yee
wondring
to
see
the
brightnesse
and
lustre
of
the
day
turned
to
an
abortiue
night
?
Here
is
no
defect
of
nature
,
no
ordinarie
or
vsuall
Eclipse
of
the
Sunne
.
This
vnexpected
darkenesse
cannot
be
excused
,
eyther
by
the
head
or
taile
of
the
Dragon
,
vnlesse
yee
meane
that
old
Dragon
the
Diuell
,
by
whose
incitement
yee
haue
cut
off
your
owne
hopes
,
and
the
life
of
the
blessed
seede
of
the
woman
.
And
therefore
because
yee
destroyed
him
in
whom
there
was
both
light
and
life
,
yee
are
now
ouerwhelmed
with
Egyptian
and
palpable
darkenesse
;
darknesse
not
caused
by
the
course
of
time
,
but
by
your
owne
iniquity
.
Darkenesse
accompanied
with
feare
and
horrour
.
This
is
that
yee
haue
read
in
Esay
,
The
windowes
and
cataractes
of
Heauen
are
opened
,
the
foundation
of
the
earth
are
shaken
.
The
earth
shall
reele
to
and
fro
as
a
drunkard
,
and
shall
bee
remoued
like
a
cottage
.
And
all
this
shall
come
to
passe
,
because
yee
haue
slaine
him
,
who
commaundeth
the
Sunne
,
and
it
ariseth
,
who
sealeth
vp
the
starres
as
vnder
a
signet
.
The
earth
acknowledged
him
its
Creatour
;
the
rockes
that
claue
asunder
confessed
him
to
be
God
;
the
Temple
to
be
a
Priest
;
who
after
the
abrogation
of
the
ceremoniall
Law
,
and
the
disanulling
of
all
superstitions
whatsoeuer
,
placed
his
true
worship
in
the
spirit
of
man
,
and
his
chiefest
Temple
in
the
soule
of
man.
Now
besides
this
,
not
onely
the
rending
of
the
body
of
the
Temple
,
but
also
of
the
temple
of
his
body
,
plainely
manifesteth
that
all
sacrifices
ended
in
that
one
self-sacrifice
,
being
both
the
abolishment
&
accōplishment
of
all
oblations
whatsoeuer
.
This
Sacrifice
was
the
most
Hilasticall
and
propitiatory
of
all
others
.
This
sacrifice
was
a
most
perfect
and
absolute
Holocaust
,
for
it
was
totally
consumed
by
the
flames
of
Christs
feruent
loue
vnto
man.
And
as
it
was
burnt
,
so
it
sent
vp
a
most
sweet
sauour
vnto
the
nostrils
of
God.
This
sacrifice
consisted
of
the
purest
meale
,
neyther
was
it
euer
sowred
with
the
leauen
of
any
iniquity
.
Part
whereof
was
offered
vnto
God
vpon
the
Crosse
,
and
part
was
reserued
for
the
Priests
,
that
is
,
for
all
vs
,
that
thereby
wee
might
bee
nourished
to
eternall
life
.
By
this
was
the
wrath
of
God
appeased
,
and
our
peace
procured
.
Neuer
was
there
such
a
sacrifice
as
this
before
offered
,
that
could
so
fully
mitigate
the
displeasure
of
God
conceyued
against
man
,
whose
sinne
was
so
hainous
and
notorious
,
insomuch
that
eyther
the
Son
of
God
was
to
dye
once
for
man
,
or
man
eternally
.
But
if
peraduenture
any
man
be
so
incredulous
as
to
demaund
,
how
Christ
beeing
the
Sonne
of
God
could
suffer
,
seing
that
the
Deitie
is
not
subiect
vnto
passion
;
hee
may
bee
fully
resolued
by
the
Church
,
whose
assertion
is
,
that
Christ
suffered
not
in
respect
of
his
diuine
nature
,
but
his
humane
.
For
though
the
Deity
was
in
the
Sufferer
,
yet
was
it
not
in
the
suffering
;
though
it
was
in
the
body
of
Christs
passion
,
yet
was
it
not
in
the
passion
of
Christs
body
:
so
that
the
Humanity
onely
suffered
,
and
the
Deity
onely
sustayned
it
,
and
made
it
able
to
endure
the
affronts
of
its
impetuous
aduersaries
.
The
impotency
of
the
one
required
the
omnipotency
of
the
other
.
When
I
thinke
vpon
my
Sauiours
Humanity
,
then
mee
thinke
,
I
see
him
faultering
vnder
the
burden
of
his
Crosse
;
When
I
thinke
vpon
his
Deitie
,
then
me
thinke
,
I
see
him
walking
vpon
the
Galleries
of
Heauen
.
When
I
thinke
vpon
his
Humanity
,
then
mee
thinke
I
see
him
lying
in
the
dust
,
and
weltring
in
his
owne
gore
:
When
I
thinke
vpon
his
Deity
,
then
mee
thinke
I
see
him
flying
vpon
the
winges
of
the
glorious
Seraphims
.
Oh
how
different
are
these
two
natures
of
Christ
!
And
yet
howsoeuer
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
betwixt
them
bee
so
great
,
and
the
disparity
so
euident
,
yet
notwithstanding
in
him
are
they
both
combined
.
For
although
he
be
not
one
nature
,
yet
is
a
one
in
Person
,
one
Christ
,
one
Mediator
,
one
Redeemer
,
one
Sauiour
.
For
euen
as
the
body
and
soule
of
man
being
two
diuers
things
,
doe
notwithstanding
constitute
one
man
:
So
the
Deitie
and
humanitie
of
Christ
,
albeit
they
be
two
diuers
natures
,
yet
they
make
vp
one
person
.
Christ
in
regard
of
his
humanity
,
died
:
in
respect
of
his
Deitie
,
he
still
remained
entire
,
vntouched
,
impassible
,
invulnerable
.
This
was
that
,
that
rowsed
vp
the
interred
carcases
from
their
graues
,
(
for
many
of
the
Saints
that
slept
,
arose
,
and
came
into
the
holy
City
,
and
appeared
vnto
many
.
)
This
was
that
that
rent
the
veile
of
the
Temple
.
This
was
that
,
that
as
it
were
,
sealed
vp
the
Sunne-beames
vnder
a
Signet
of
Cimmerian
clouds
.
This
was
that
that
caused
that
generall
conquassation
of
the
earth
.
This
was
that
that
made
the
Centurion
auerie
,
(
maugre
all
the
peoples
vehement
reclamation
)
that
Christ
was
the
true
and
essentiall
Sonne
of
God.
It
was
the
flesh
that
trēbled
,
that
stood
so
affrighted
and
appaled
at
the
grimme
visage
of
death
.
It
was
the
flesh
that
would
haue
hindered
the
Word
,
and
haue
fore
slowed
the
purchase
of
our
eternall
saluation
.
It
was
the
flesh
that
suffered
vpon
the
Crosse
;
and
it
was
the
Deity
that
triumphed
ouer
the
bitternesse
of
death
.
It
was
the
flesh
that
was
the
sacrifice
;
It
was
the
Deity
that
was
the
Priest
that
sacrificed
it
.
It
was
the
flesh
that
in
the
anguish
of
its
passion
groned
and
breathed
out
this
sad
and
dolefull
complaint
,
My
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
mee
?
And
yet
howsoeuer
the
flesh
was
thus
perplexed
and
afflicted
,
yet
its
vnion
with
the
Deity
remayned
still
entire
.
Neyther
could
it
possibly
bee
cast
off
or
forsaken
by
that
,
vnto
which
the
links
and
ligaments
of
loue
had
so
strictly
obliged
it
.
O
that
our
dull
and
mistie
vnderstanding
were
so
illuminated
,
our
zeale
and
affections
so
seruent
,
as
truly
to
conceiue
the
Maiesty
,
and
earnestly
to
embrace
the
humility
of
our
Sauiour
!
Oh
that
wee
could
sufficiently
meditate
vpon
the
grieuous
wounds
,
that
hee
suffered
;
vpon
the
gracious
words
that
hee
vttered
!
If
we
reuolue
all
the
Annales
and
records
of
time
;
wee
shall
neuer
finde
his
paralell
,
neuer
any
man
that
spake
as
hee
spake
,
that
suffered
as
he
suffered
:
Neuer
any
man
that
so
loued
his
friends
,
that
so
pittied
his
foes
;
neuer
any
so
kind
to
the
religious
,
so
mercifull
euen
to
Publicans
and
Sinners
.
Who
a
little
before
hee
dranke
the
bitter
cuppe
of
his
passion
,
ministred
a
sweet
cordiall
of
consolation
vnto
the
theefe
that
was
to
suffer
with
him
:
To
day
thou
shalt
bee
with
mee
in
Paradise
.
Thus
was
that
miserable
sinner
acquited
from
the
death
of
the
soule
,
although
hee
suffered
the
death
of
the
body
.
Thus
was
hee
by
the
power
and
mercie
of
CHRIST
,
of
a
malefactor
,
made
a
martyr
.
Surely
so
strange
and
suddaine
a
conuersion
could
not
but
bee
immediately
wrought
by
the
efficacie
of
Christs
Deitie
:
which
euen
in
this
act
shewed
its
intensiue
&
superlatiue
loue
towards
that
Flesh
of
ours
,
which
it
assumed
.
Oh
blessed
and
happie
day
,
whereon
our
fraile
&
forlorne
Flesh
was
vnited
vnto
that
nature
which
was
neyther
obnoxious
to
Corruption
,
nor
subiect
vnto
Passion
!
But
,
Oh
,
more
blessed
and
happie
day
was
that
,
whereon
our
Flesh
being
ioyned
to
the
Deitie
,
so
died
in
Christ
,
as
that
wee
not
suffering
death
,
were
notwithstanding
restored
vnto
life
.
For
as
CHRIST
tooke
vpon
him
our
nature
in
the
wombe
,
so
hee
vndertooke
our
death
vpon
the
Crosse
.
For
whatsoeuer
he
suffered
as
man
,
he
suffered
for
man
:
from
whom
he
can
be
no
more
separated
or
divulsed
,
then
from
his
Deitie
,
with
which
he
ioyned
our
humanitie
,
that
he
might
saue
and
secure
it
from
the
hazzard
of
eternall
death
and
damnation
,
&c.
Oh
infinite
loue
!
Oh
incomprehensible
mercie
!
Oh
blessed
&
happie
day
,
wherein
the
head
of
the
Serpent
was
brokē
,
the
Leuiathan
wounded
,
the
vast
Behemoth
ouerturned
,
the
powers
of
Hell
subdued
,
the
Graue
conquered
,
the
sting
of
Death
rebated
.
Oh
blessed
and
happie
day
,
wherein
the
force
and
guilt
of
Sinne
was
taken
out
of
the
world
,
and
the
sinner
taken
vp
into
heauen
.
O
blessed
and
happy
day
,
wherein
by
our
Sauiours
passion
,
the
gates
of
heauen
were
opened
;
wherein
it
so
came
to
passe
,
that
wee
that
were
once
exiled
and
banished
from
the
celestiall
Paradise
,
may
now
againe
bee
freely
therein
instated
,
and
reimpatriated
.
Now
there
is
no
Cherubim
to
hinder
vs
,
no
flaming
sword
to
affright
vs.
Now
may
wee
all
bee
easily
admitted
,
and
bee
made
free
denizens
of
that
heauenly
Ierusalem
.
O
let
not
our
impenitent
insolencie
,
and
insolent
impenitency
bee
the
cause
of
our
exclusion
.
Let
vs
consider
that
the
incredulous
and
proud
Pharises
that
challenged
vnto
themselues
so
much
purity
and
piety
,
were
the
first
that
were
reiected
,
their
Synagogue
neglected
,
and
euen
theeues
&
malefactors
preferred
before
them
.
And
this
was
that
that
so
discouraged
the
Diuell
,
when
hee
saw
those
that
had
beene
his
slaues
and
vassals
to
bee
rescued
and
absolued
from
death
,
by
one
that
was
condemned
to
death
;
when
hee
saw
that
Christ
was
more
powerfull
in
his
death
then
euer
any
Emperour
was
in
his
rule
and
soueraignety
;
when
he
saw
not
from
stones
,
but
from
the
gallowes
,
euen
from
hell
it selfe
,
children
raysed
vp
vnto
Abraham
.
When
hee
saw
the
Sonne
of
God
after
his
buffets
and
his
bonds
,
last
of
all
,
euen
in
his
death
,
to
erect
the
glorious
building
and
edifice
of
his
Church
;
when
hee
saw
that
blessed
inheritance
of
Christ
being
but
a
little
part
and
moytie
of
Mankind
,
still
to
flourish
as
the
Palme-tree
vnder
the
burden
and
weight
of
its
afflictions
:
when
hee
saw
the
Church
of
Christ
,
which
was
created
by
his
power
,
now
redeemed
by
his
bloud
,
vnited
by
his
Apostles
,
instructed
by
his
Prophets
,
comforted
by
his
Euangelists
,
and
freede
from
that
heauy
yoake
of
ceremonies
,
with
which
it
had
beene
long
oppressed
:
When
hee
saw
it
,
howsoeuer
diuided
in
body
,
yet
combined
in
spirit
;
Hauing
nothing
,
and
yet
possessing
all
things
in
Christ
,
which
is
all
in
all
.
In
whose
passion
it
gloryed
,
whose
patience
it
imitated
.
Which
Church
of
his
,
although
it
seeme
to
wither
by
the
heate
of
persecution
,
yet
doth
it
still
grow
&
waxe
greene
by
the
dew
of
grace
,
and
sappe
of
consolation
.
True
it
is
,
that
the
Saints
on
earth
are
frequently
perplexed
with
variety
of
exquisite
torments
;
and
yet
these
are
not
of
force
&
validity
to
diuert
their
zealous
and
constant
resolutions
,
to
separate
them
from
their
grand-Captaine
Christ
Iesus
,
whom
they
follow
,
not
as
beeing
confirmed
in
their
purposes
by
the
irrefragable
peruersenesse
of
the
Stoickes
;
nor
as
beeing
induced
thereunto
by
the
Sophistrie
of
Logicke
,
or
by
the
inchantments
of
Rhetoricke
;
but
as
it
were
,
beeing
bound
by
oath
,
and
deepely
engaged
vnto
their
Sauiour
:
by
whose
bloud
they
are
refreshed
,
by
whose
flesh
they
are
nourished
,
by
whose
Spirit
they
are
reuiued
,
by
whose
promises
they
are
inuited
,
by
whose
precepts
they
are
directed
.
The
chiefest
scope
they
ayme
at
,
is
,
that
they
may
bee
one
with
Christ
,
as
Christ
is
one
with
God.
For
thou
sweet
Sauiour
art
our
head
,
and
wee
thy
members
:
Thou
our
shepheard
,
and
wee
thy
sheepe
,
thou
the
Vine
,
and
we
thy
branches
.
By
thy
death
wee
liue
,
by
thy
life
are
we
raysed
from
death
.
And
although
wee
are
here
sorted
and
mixed
with
the
world
,
yet
our
cogitations
and
our
conuersations
are
in
heauen
,
whither
our
Sauiour
is
gone
before
.
Oh
that
wee
could
follow
him
,
that
wee
could
waft
our selues
vnto
that
Hauen
of
ioy
;
vnto
that
secure
rode
of
felicity
.
But
seeing
that
as
yet
wee
cannot
follow
thee
(
sweet
Iesu
)
with
our
bodies
,
yet
wee
pursue
thee
with
our
desires
,
with
our
sighes
,
with
our
affections
,
with
our
teares
.
In
this
interim
,
whiles
wee
heere
suruiuing
,
seriously
ponder
those
trāscendent
afflictions
of
thine
,
which
for
our
sakes
,
and
yet
not
for
our
deserts
,
thou
sufferedst
vpon
thy
Crosse
;
whiles
we
meditate
vpon
those
griefes
and
torments
which
were
as
propassions
vnto
thy
passion
,
how
are
we
rapt
into
admiration
of
thy
loue
?
Then
doe
wee
abandon
all
our
fruitlesse
and
friuolous
cogitations
,
then
doe
wee
discard
all
our
ambitious
Babel
building
thoughts
;
then
do
wee
disclaime
the
insolent
selfe-conceites
of
our
owne
abilities
,
then
doe
wee
deepely
lament
our
supine
and
stupid
negligence
;
then
doe
we
grieue
that
wee
haue
beene
so
prodigall
of
our
precious
houres
,
and
that
we
haue
not
embarqued
our selues
in
those
actions
which
most
of
all
procure
our
safety
and
indemnity
.
Then
are
our
eyes
become
fountaines
of
teares
;
then
cry
wee
out
and
say
;
O
Lord
,
thou
hast
ascended
on
high
,
thou
hast
ledde
captiuity
captiue
.
Then
crie
wee
out
,
O
Lord
,
what
is
man
,
that
thou
art
so
mindefull
of
him
,
or
the
Sonne
of
man
that
thou
so
regardest
him
?
Oh
good
IESU
,
what
is
man
,
that
thou
so
regardest
him
?
Thou
hast
cloathed
mee
with
skinne
and
flesh
,
and
hast
fenced
mee
with
bones
and
sinewes
,
sayth
Iob
,
Chapter
10
11.
Remember
,
I
beseech
thee
,
that
thou
hast
made
me
as
the
clay
,
and
wilt
bring
mee
into
the
dust
.
Hast
thou
not
powred
mee
out
as
milke
,
and
crudled
mee
as
cheese
?
Chapter
10.
ver
.
9.
and
10.
Am
I
not
to
bee
consumed
as
a
rotten
thing
,
and
as
a
garment
that
is
moth-eaten
?
How
then
can
it
be
that
I
,
being
of
so
abiect
and
corruptible
a
constitution
,
should
bee
saued
from
death
,
by
the
death
of
the
Lord
of
life
?
O
strange
and
admirable
loue
!
as
farre
beyond
comprehension
,
as
end
and
measure
.
I
haue
sinned
,
&
thou
(
sweet
Iesu
)
hast
suffered
;
nay
,
and
I
haue
also
suffered
in
thee
,
which
sufferedst
for
me
.
Thus
by
thee
am
I
lyable
neither
to
death
nor
punishment
.
My
nature
which
I
had
corrupted
,
thou
hast
refined
;
that
that
happinesse
might
re-accrew
vnto
mee
which
I
had
lost
by
the
fall
of
my
first
parents
.
What
now
therefore
shall
I
say
?
How
shall
I
sufficiently
eyther
admire
thy
power
,
or
prayse
thy
goodnesse
?
Thou
that
art
infinite
,
thou
that
art
neyther
confined
to
time
or
place
,
thou
that
art
subiect
neyther
to
death
or
passion
,
didst
out
of
thy
most
entire
and
intensiue
loue
vnto
vs
,
cloathe
thy selfe
with
our
fraile
flesh
incident
to
both
.
Which
flesh
of
ours
(
maugre
the
Diuels
malice
and
malignity
)
thou
hast
highlie
exalted
it
,
and
placed
it
aboue
the
Angels
,
the
Archangels
,
aboue
all
the
glorious
Hierarchies
of
Heauen
,
euen
at
the
right
hand
of
thy
Father
,
where
is
the
fulnesse
of
ioy
and
pleasures
for
euer
more
.
But
before
thou
couldst
ascend
vnto
that
verticall
point
and
Meridian
of
thy
glorie
,
with
what
massie
loades
of
calamities
wert
thou
oppressed
?
What
Hunger
,
what
Thirst
,
what
Nakednes
,
what
Iniuryes
,
what
Reuilings
,
what
Spittings
,
what
Stripes
,
what
Wounds
,
what
contumelyes
,
what
disgraces
,
what
Death
,
and
Crucifying
didst
thou
most
mildely
and
patiently
endure
for
vs
!
And
therfore
,
Oh
sweete
IESU
,
giue
vs
grace
,
that
as
thou
dyedst
for
vs
,
so
wee
may
liue
heere
to
thee
,
and
hereafter
with
thee
.
Graunt
wee
beseech
thee
,
that
thy
Passion
may
be
our
perpetuall
Meditation
.
Oh
let
vs
alwayes
reflect
our
Eyes
vpon
thee
,
and
let
thy
sufferings
take
a
deepe
impression
both
in
our
Memories
and
in
our
affections
.
And
graunt
Oh
sweete
Sauiour
,
that
wee
may
put
,
not
the
bodily
finger
with
Thomas
,
but
euen
the
finger
of
Faith
into
thy
side
,
and
into
thy
wounds
,
and
with
the
hand
of
Faith
apprehend
thy
merites
.
Graunt
that
we
may
crucifie
all
the
inordinate
Lusts
of
the
Flesh
,
all
our
wanton
and
Lasciuious
cogitations
,
and
that
wee
may
be
like
thee
in
sufferings
,
that
we
may
be
like
thee
in
glorie
.
That
wee
whom
thou
hast
reconciled
vnto
thy
FATHER
,
we
whom
thou
feedest
with
thy
Flesh
,
we
whom
thou
refreshest
with
thy
Bloud
,
wee
whome
thou
perpetually
reuiuest
by
the
celestiall
influence
of
thy
grace
,
may
hereafter
bee
one
with
thee
,
as
thou
art
one
with
the
Father
.
To
whome
with
thee
and
the
Holy
Spirite
bee
ascribed
and
rendered
all
power
,
might
,
maiesty
,
dominion
and
prayse
,
both
now
,
and
for
euermore
,
AMEN
.
Gratias
tibi
Domine
IESV
.
FINIS
.
LONDON
,
Imprinted
by
Bernard
Alsop
,
and
are
to
bee
solde
at
his
house
by
Saint
Annes
Church
neere
Aldersgate
.
1618.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A02894-e550
Gen.
1.
4.
Gen.
27.
23.
Ioh.
1.
Iohn
1.
13.
Cant.
3.
4.
Cant.
1.
4.
Esay
9.
6.
Ioh
,
1.
1.
Psa
:
118.
22
Ver.
14
:
Ver.
16.
Z●p
.
3.
14.
Iob.
11.
3.
Num.
24.
17
Ps
.
18.
14.
Iob.
1.
11.
Esa
.
40.
12.
Deut.
32.
Luc.
20.
12.
Cant.
2.
5.
Heb.
12.
18.
Luk.
1.
13.
Luc.
2.
Luk.
2
,
10.
Mat.
25.
21.
Ioh.
1.
29.
Mat.
2.
Mat.
2.
21.
Mal.
4.
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Iohn
6.
Mich.
6.
7.
Iohn
4.
Esa
.
5.
34.
Ierem.
9.
1.
Esay
16.
9.
Esa
.
57
,
1.
Ier.
2.
6.
Psal
.
78
,
24.
Deut
:
32.
10
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2.
12.