HOM.
I.
Vpon
the
Natiuity
of
Christ
.
THe
Coleman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
●●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
vpon
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
from
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
them
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
than
the
whole
earth
.
They
finde
that
shepherd
,
which
hereafter
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
descended
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
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
found
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
arguments
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
than
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
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
,
then
any
way
giue
vs
occasion
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
,
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
hudwinke
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
Innocents
,
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
conuented
.
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
tyrants
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
&
torrents
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
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
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
the
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
&
accomplishment
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
trembled
,
that
stood
so
affrighted
and
appaled
at
the
grimme
visage
of
death
.
It
was
the
flesh
that
would
haue
hindered
the
Word
,
and
haue
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
broken
,
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
transcendent
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
.