A
SERMON
PREACHED
AT
S.
MARTINS
in
the
Field
vpon
Passion
Sunday
,
&c.
1612.
HEBR.
9.
vers.
13.
14.
For
if
the
blood
of
Buls
and
of
Goates
,
and
the
ashes
of
a
young
Cowe
being
sprinkled
;
purifieth
the
vncleane
,
as
touching
the
purification
of
the
flesh
:
how
much
more
shall
the
blood
of
Christ
,
who
by
the
eternall
Spirit
,
offereth
himselfe
without
spot
to
God
,
purge
the
conscience
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
?
GOD
most
infinite
,
immense
in
Nature
;
in
power
incomprehensible
,
and
in
the
perfect
possession
,
of
a
consummate
happinesse
,
consisting
in
an
vnspeakeable
contemplation
,
comprehension
,
and
fruition
of
his
owne
diuine
Nature
and
essence
:
three
persons
,
and
one
God
;
from
all
eternities
most
blessed
:
at
time
appointed
by
his
holy
pleasure
,
out
of
an
admirable
propension
of
goodnesse
,
to
communicate
and
diffuse
himselfe
,
did
produce
and
create
(
ad
extra
)
without
himselfe
this
whole
Vniuerse
,
as
an
imperfect
,
yet
very
good
shadow
,
and
obscure
resemblance
of
himselfe
,
so
wisely
framed
,
that
man
,
considering
and
admiring
the
beauties
and
perfections
of
the
same
,
might
surmount
with
his
soule
,
&
eleuate
his
vnderstanding
aboue
all
,
and
by
all
that
is
in
it
,
to
contemplate
(
though
obscurely
)
that
Holy
,
holy
,
holy
,
Lord
God
of
Sabaoth
;
of
whose
Maiestie
,
and
Glory
,
Heauen
&
Earth
are
so
ful
;
and
to
vnderstand
,
how
infinitely
more
excellent
,
the
maker
of
all
these
things
is
to
be
admired
,
and
esteemed
.
Whose
infinitely
wise
goodnesse
also
considering
,
how
all
the
creatures
,
which
he
had
produced
,
were
but
as
very
imperfect
and
defectiue
shadowes
of
his
most
infinite
excellency
,
desirous
more
fully
to
diffuse
himsefe
,
resolued
in
his
eternall
Consistory
,
in
an
infinite
,
and
a
diuinely
inexplicable
sorte
,
to
imparte
himselfe
to
his
creatures
,
by
giuing
and
imparting
his
Sonne
,
consubstantial
,
and
coaequall
to
himselfe
,
to
humane
nature
,
to
assume
the
same
,
into
a
Diuine
vnitie
,
not
of
nature
(
for
that
is
impossible
)
but
of
subsistence
,
of
personalitie
;
in
so
admirable
a
sort
,
that
thereupon
we
may
Christianly
beleeue
and
confesse
,
that
God
is
become
Man
,
and
Man
is
become
God
,
without
all
confusion
or
permixtion
of
natures
,
in
a
most
perfect
,
and
sweet
vnitie
of
one
person
.
This
is
that
immense
,
that
infinite
communication
of
God
to
his
creatures
,
so
often
fore
prophecyed
,
so
often
promised
by
God
;
so
longed
for
,
so
desired
,
so
expected
both
by
God
and
Man
,
that
as
it
may
seeme
,
and
,
if
I
may
so
speake
,
both
God
and
Man
,
like
women
trauailing
with
childe
,
and
longing
for
deliuerie
trauailed
with
longing
desires
for
the
accomplishing
of
the
same
.
Of
the
Sons
longing
desires
(
intermitting
now
to
speake
of
the
other
two
persons
of
the
most
sacred
Trinitie
)
I
dare
boldy
affirme
so
much
,
because
he
himselfe
long
before
his
in
carnation
,
hath
so
forespoken
by
the
mouth
of
his
holy
Prophet
and
Wiseman
,
Prouerb
.
8.
Deliciae
meae
esse
cum
filijs
hominum
,
They
are
my
dainties
,
my
delicates
(
saith
he
)
to
be
with
the
sonnes
of
men
.
How
is
this
otherwise
,
then
as
a
man
amongst
men
?
as
the
Son
of
man
(
a
name
in
which
our
sweet
Sauiour
being
conuersant
vpon
earth
,
much
delighted
,
as
my
Catholike
and
religious
Auditors
well
know
)
amongst
the
children
of
men
,
amongst
the
Sonnes
of
men
.
This
infinite
communication
being
made
(
then
which
a
greater
the
omnipotent
power
and
wisedome
of
God
,
cannot
thinke
vpon
or
make
)
what
was
the
purpose
,
and
proiect
of
it
?
What
was
the
obiect
,
and
last
end
of
the
sons
longing
desires
?
I
answere
;
but
not
without
premitting
the
admiration
and
exclamation
of
the
Prophet
Esay
(
Domine
quis
credidit
auditui
nostro
)
O
Lord
,
who
hath
belieued
our
hearing
,
what
we
haue
heard
,
or
to
whom
is
the
arme
of
the
Lord
reuealed
?
I
answere
,
that
the
proiect
of
this
immense
communication
of
God
,
this
infinite
eleuation
of
the
manhood
is
,
that
this
God
himselfe
,
should
be
a
sacrifice
,
this
man
assumpted
,
should
die
,
this
Man
and
God
,
this
God
and
Man
(
O
most
diuinely
sweet
mystery
)
should
be
an
expiation
,
and
propitiation
for
the
sinnes
of
humane
nature
,
that
the
same
being
reuiued
,
and
sanctified
in
his
blood
,
might
be
eleuated
into
a
most
sweet
fellowship
of
diuine
puritie
and
happinesse
;
consisting
in
the
contemplation
,
loue
,
possession
,
fruition
of
this
God
,
most
blessed
from
,
and
for
,
all
eternities
.
And
as
I
deliuered
before
,
how
God
to
represent
himselfe
,
did
make
this
whole
vniuerse
,
as
a
booke
for
his
reasonable
creatures
,
to
looke
vpon
,
and
in
it
,
to
rende
him
,
his
glory
,
goodnesse
,
and
maiestie
:
yet
neuerthelesse
,
manie
profane
,
impious
,
and
godlesse
men
there
haue
beene
,
who
would
not
know
God
,
and
who
haue
sayd
in
their
most
foolish
hearts
,
There
is
no
God
.
So
likewise
,
before
this
admirable
communication
this
most
sweet
assumption
,
was
to
be
made
to
be
a
sacrifice
,
a
propitiation
for
all
man
kinde
,
Iew
and
Gentile
:
Good
God!
by
how
many
legall
sacrifices
and
sacraments
?
By
how
many
rites
and
obseruances
?
By
how
many
expiations
&
sprinklings
?
of
bloods
,
of
waters
,
of
bloods
of
Buls
,
Goates
,
Kiddes
,
Hee-goates
,
Lambes
,
yong
Hefers
,
Turtle
Doues
,
Pigeons
?
was
this
admirable
sacrifice
,
and
the
infinite
excellencies
thereof
,
presignified
,
premonstrated
,
and
foretold
?
to
giue
vnto
mankind
,
some
certaine
fore knowledge
and
beliefe
of
the
immaculate
Lambe
slaine
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
:
to
and
for
the
saluation
of
all
sincere
beleeuers
.
And
although
,
all
that
was
appointed
by
God
eyther
in
the
Law
of
nature
,
or
vnder
Moyses
,
to
foreshew
the
infinite
excellencie
of
this
sacrifice
,
were
but
as
darke
types
,
and
imperfect
shadowes
,
in
respect
of
the
trueth
and
body
it selfe
of
this
sacrifice
:
yet
,
the
incredulous
Iewes
,
to
whom
the
prophecies
of
Christ
,
and
this
sacrifice
were
specially
made
,
might
by
the
Sonne
,
haue
come
to
perfect
knowledge
,
and
beleefe
thereof
:
But
the
veyle
of
malice
against
the
most
meeke
Lambe
,
our
holy
sacrifice
;
who
taxed
their
vices
,
reproued
their
transgressions
,
condemned
their
Pharisaicall
pride
,
blinded
their
eyes
:
especially
,
the
veile
of
pride
,
by
which
they
gloried
in
the
Law
of
Moyses
,
in
the
blood
of
Abraham
,
in
the
obseruation
Against
this
,
their
vnhappie
incredulitie
,
the
blessed
Apostle
S.
Paul
,
who
once
had
beene
a
contumelious
persecutor
of
all
religious
worshippers
of
this
sacrifice
;
doth
most
egregiously
,
and
diuinely
dispute
in
his
Epistle
directed
vnto
them
,
out
of
the
9.
Chapter
,
whereof
the
13.
and
14.
verses
I
haue
chosen
for
my
Theme
;
vpon
which
I
purpose
to
discourse
.
The
which
I
selected
,
partly
to
proportion
my
discourse
to
the
season
,
when
we
all
are
,
or
should
be
,
preparing
and
making
a
Quadragesime
,
or
fortieth
,
as
a
parasceue
of
Christ
his
death
and
passion
:
partly
,
for
my
owne
speciall
consolation
,
who
knowing
not
how
to
make
any
least
requital
to
my
Sauiour
,
for
his
vnspeakeable
Charitie
,
toward
me
,
doe
take
(
according
to
the
counsel
of
the
Prophet
Dauid
)
the
cup
of
saluation
into
my
hand
and
doe
inuocate
the
Name
of
the
Lord
:
for
that
he
hath
mercifully
vouchsafed
to
translate
me
into
the
kingdome
of
his
beloued
Sonne
Iesus
;
making
knowne
to
me
,
the
mysterie
of
Christ
crucified
;
and
deliuering
mee
from
the
base
seruitude
of
contemptible
creatures
,
weake
elements
,
and
the
most
idolatrous
sacrifice
of
the
Masse
,
which
humane
inuentions
hath
most
presumptuously
deuised
,
and
set
vp
in
the
Popish
synagogue
,
as
an
abomination
most
detestable
,
against
the
one
,
and
onely
sacrifice
,
and
altar
of
the
Crosse
:
for
which
my
happy
deliuerance
,
his
Maiestie
be
blessed
by
me
,
and
magnified
for
euer
.
When
I
first
chose
this
text
to
handle
,
I
thought
to
speake
at
large
of
euery
branch
thereof
;
but
meditating
thereupon
,
it
became
so
fruitfull
,
that
store
made
mee
penurious
:
and
I
could
not
but
say
in
my
soule
,
with
learned
Augustine
,
O
mira
profunditas
eloquiorum
tuorum
,
Deus
meus
:
mira
profunditas
,
mira
profunditas
,
horror
est
intendere
in
eam
;
horror
honoris
,
tremor
amoris
.
O
wonderfull
profoundenesse
of
thy
speeches
my
God!
wonderfull
profoundnesse
,
wonderful
profoundenesse
:
it
is
a
horrour
to
thinke
vpon
it
,
a
horrour
of
honour
,
a
trembling
of
loue
.
Wherefore
I
resolued
to
pretermit
all
allegorizing
and
moralizing
vpon
the
figures
,
and
especially
,
to
confine
my
discourse
,
to
that
blood
,
to
that
sacrifice
;
in
beleefe
whereof
,
the
saluation
of
vs
all
consisteth
:
wherein
,
as
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
I
shall
be
assisted
by
your
deuout
and
Christian
prayers
;
so
I
most
humbly
request
your
kind
acceptance
of
these
first
fruits
and
labours
,
from
my selfe
,
a
nouice-Preacher
in
the
Church
of
England
.
I
haue
bin
perhaps
ouer
prolixe
(
contrary
to
the
fashion
of
complete
Orators
)
in
my
Exordium
,
before
I
come
to
the
distinguishing
of
my
Theme
,
and
to
the
selecting
of
some
speciall
braunch
:
wherevpon
to
insist
,
a
fault
pardonable
and
excusable
with
such
as
are
acquainted
with
the
profoundnesse
of
sacred
Scriptures
,
and
Christian
mysteries
:
the
deuout
consideration
whereof
,
as
it
illuminateth
the
vnderstanding
,
so
it
also
repleteth
the
mind
with
such
a
treasurie
of
discourse
,
that
the
religious
chewer
of
such
a
cudde
,
findeth
greatest
difficultie
to
bee
briefe
,
to
distinguish
,
to
diuide
.
For
if
the
blood
of
Bulles
,
and
of
Goates
,
and
the
ashes
of
a
young
Cowe
being
sprinckled
,
purifieth
the
vncleane
,
touching
the
purification
of
the
flesh
:
how
much
more
,
&c.
This
argument
of
the
Apostle
,
which
consisteth
vpon
a
proposition
&
an
inference
,
is
of
that
kind
,
which
is
called
by
the
Philosophers
(
à
minori
ad
maius
)
from
a
lesse
,
to
a
greater
;
from
a
darke
,
obscure
,
lesser
,
and
smaller
truth
,
admitted
by
the
Aduersary
,
to
inferre
and
euince
a
truth
,
cleerer
,
manifester
,
greater
,
and
most
certaine
.
If
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
the
blood
of
such
contemptible
creatures
,
the
weake
,
vncleane
,
and
seruile
sprinckling
of
the
ashes
of
a
young
Cowe
,
mixed
with
water
,
can
purifie
the
flesh
:
how
much
more
shall
the
blood
of
Christ
,
who
by
the
eternall
spirit
,
offered
himselfe
vnspotted
to
God
,
clense
the
conscience
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
?
Singular
vessel
of
election
,
how
mightie
is
thy
argument
either
to
confound
or
conuert
the
incredulous
Hebrews
!
Christian
and
beloued
Hearers
,
obserue
the
Antithesis
and
oppositions
of
the
Apostle
,
waigh
his
comparisons
,
betwixt
blood
and
blood
:
one
,
base
,
filthie
,
corrupt
,
seruile
,
contemptible
:
the
other
,
honourable
,
most
pure
,
sincere
,
free
,
excellent
:
the
one
,
of
Bulles
,
and
Goates
:
the
other
of
man
,
of
a
perfect
,
and
most
innocent
,
and
holy
man
.
As
if
the
Apostle
should
say
,
O
ye
Hebrewes
,
you
haue
bulles
,
goates
,
kiddes
,
lambes
:
wee
haue
Christ
the
Messias
desired
,
expected
:
you
haue
the
sprinckling
of
a
few
corruptible
droppes
,
we
haue
incorruptible
,
and
sincere
droppes
of
Christ
,
diuinely
vnited
to
his
person
:
you
haue
the
vncleane
and
durtie
ashes
of
a
young
cowe
,
intermixt
with
water
;
we
haue
the
admirable
sprinckling
of
the
diuine
and
humane
nature
,
in
vnitie
of
person
:
your
sprinckling
is
naturally
vncleane
,
and
corporally
polluteth
the
takers
:
ours
is
most
pure
,
sanctified
by
the
eternall
spirit
,
beautified
by
the
diuinitie
it selfe
:
yours
is
a
sprinckling
made
vpon
man
,
ours
is
a
sweet
smelling
sacrifice
offered
to
God
:
your
sprinckling
onely
purifieth
an
outward
kind
of
impuritie
,
and
legall
irregularitie
;
ours
clenseth
and
purifieth
the
soules
and
consciences
of
faithfull
offerers
:
yours
,
many
,
and
often
repeated
,
can
neuer
make
the
offerers
perfect
:
ours
,
being
one
,
and
once
only
offered
,
hath
found
an
eternall
redemption
,
and
eternally
consummateth
all
beleeuers
:
yours
were
not
efficacious
for
sanctification
:
ours
,
so
potent
,
that
it
giueth
abundance
of
grace
,
whereby
we
may
be
enabled
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
Christian
and
religious
hearers
,
is
it
not
worthily
written
of
this
Apostle
,
Saulus
autem
,
&c.
But
Saul
was
comforted
and
strengthened
,
and
euery
where
confounded
the
Iewes
,
testifying
that
Iesus
is
Christ
.
O
incredulous
Iewes
!
when
I
consider
the
pride
of
your
mindes
,
and
withall
,
the
basenesse
of
such
creatures
,
and
such
elements
,
vnder
which
you
liued
,
in
so
toilesome
a
seruitude
,
I
am
astonished
to
thinke
,
that
you
would
rest
in
such
weake
sacrifices
,
rites
,
sacraments
,
ceremonies
,
and
obseruancies
,
and
would
not
seeke
,
nor
receiue
Christ
,
the
Messias
,
and
the
true
immaculate
Lambe
slaine
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
being
offered
vnto
you
.
Thus
much
most
briefly
of
the
proposition
it selfe
:
for
I
hasten
to
the
inference
made
by
the
Apostle
:
in
which
full
of
all
Christian
consolation
,
I
obserue
and
distinguish
,
first
,
of
whom
the
blood
is
,
which
is
offered
;
to
wit
,
of
Christ
;
in
these
words
:
How
much
more
,
the
blood
of
Christ
?
Secondly
,
I
obserue
by
whom
,
and
through
whom
,
this
blood
is
offered
,
By
,
and
through
the
Eternall
spirit
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
by
the
eternall
Spirit
.
Thirdly
,
I
distinguish
,
to
whom
it
is
offered
;
there
;
to
God
.
Fourthly
,
I
obserue
for
what
end
,
this
sacrifice
is
offered
;
there
;
to
cleanse
the
conscience
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
Of
these
foure
(
intermitting
some
other
obseruations
which
might
be
here
made
)
in
order
.
Touching
the
first
,
when
I
weigh
with
my selfe
,
whose
blood
it
is
,
which
is
offered
:
I
am
wholly
disanimated
from
presuming
to
decipher
the
excellencies
,
perfections
,
and
eminences
of
his
person
.
For
,
I
beleeuing
with
faith
,
that
he
is
both
God
and
man
;
not
onely
man
,
nor
onely
God
,
but
a
Christ
consisting
both
of
God
and
man
;
a
perfect
supposit
,
a
compleate
Person
;
who
though
as
Christ
,
had
a
beginning
,
and
was
not
before
the
incarnation
;
yet
as
touching
his
diuinity
,
and
personality
,
hee
was
most
perfectly
,
from
all
eternities
very
perfect
God
,
of
God
,
Sonne
of
the
father
;
who
in
the
fulnesse
of
time
,
by
a
certaine
inexplicable
vnion
became
the
Sonne
of
man
,
or
rather
the
true
and
naturall
Sonne
of
a
woman
,
and
the
reputed
Sonne
onely
of
man
,
of
Ioseph
,
his
putatiue
father
.
These
things
I
say
beleeuing
with
faith
,
the
saying
of
Isaiah
the
Prophet
(
Generationem
eius
quis
enarrabit
)
who
shall
declare
his
generation
?
occurreth
,
and
checketh
my
presumption
,
that
I
bee
not
too
bold
a
searcher
of
maiesty
;
least
I
be
oppressed
,
and
confounded
with
the
glory
thereof
.
Yet
,
considering
that
the
veile
of
Moses
is
remoued
,
and
the
veile
of
Sancta
Sanctorum
is
rent
,
at
the
dreadfull
houre
of
Christs
(
consummatum
est
)
it
is
consummated
:
and
that
the
mysterie
of
Christ
,
the
hope
of
our
glory
;
which
was
hidden
in
ancient
ages
and
generations
,
(
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Colossians
)
is
now
made
manifest
to
the
Saints
:
I
will
,
according
verbum
abbreuiatum
)
this
abbreuiated
word
is
,
to
speake
with
the
Apostle
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Romanes
is
:
if
in
this
discourse
,
I
seem
With
most
submisse
reuerence
therefore
,
we
will
consicer
Christ
;
first
,
with
a
reference
to
God
and
his
actions
,
secondly
,
with
a
reference
,
and
relation
to
vs
:
Thirdly
as
he
is
in
himselfe
.
In
the
first
consideration
,
first
of
all
,
we
consider
Christ
,
as
the
very
terme
,
obiect
,
or
bound
,
of
the
greatest
communication
,
or
diffusion
,
which
the
Almightie
Trinity
can
make
:
so
that
,
by
the
communication
,
which
the
most
blessed
Trinitie
,
and
peculiarly
the
second
Person
,
hath
already
made
of
his
subsistence
,
and
personality
to
the
humane
nature
,
the
same
blessed
Trinity
,
(
be
it
spoken
vnder
correction
of
faith
,
and
with
demisse
reuerence
)
is
at
a
stop
and
stay
,
not
potent
to
make
a
greater
communication
,
then
this
which
is
already
made
,
whereby
Christ
is
made
.
For
,
is
a
substantiall
communication
of
the
diuinity
it selfe
,
in
the
very
diuine
nature
were
possible
;
(
which
yet
cannot
be
granted
,
vnlesse
we
wil
subuert
the
very
foundation
of
christian
religion
)
yet
the
same
greater
then
this
,
which
is
alreadie
made
,
should
,
nor
could
not
be
:
because
a
greater
communication
then
of
God
himselfe
,
which
is
already
made
,
by
this
personall
coniunction
in
Christ
,
cannot
bee
imagined
.
Againe
,
if
either
the
father
,
or
the
holy
Ghost
,
or
both
,
(
as
Christian
diuinity
faith
it
is
possible
)
should
aslume
,
by
hypostatical
and
personall
vnion
the
nature
of
an
Angell
or
of
man
;
yet
both
such
communications
,
both
such
assumptions
,
should
not
surpasse
in
greatnesse
,
or
excellency
,
this
one
,
which
is
already
made
in
Christ
alone
.
For
our
holie
faith
teaching
vs
,
that
two
persons
of
the
most
ineffable
Trinity
,
are
not
greater
then
one
,
nor
one
of
them
lesser
then
two
;
but
that
euery
Person
hath
infinitely
a
perfect
equality
,
and
perfection
with
the
other
two
:
manifest
it
is
,
that
the
communications
of
two
Persons
,
or
of
three
,
is
not
greater
nor
excellenter
then
of
one
onely
:
How
admirable
therefore
?
how
ineffable
therefore
is
this
communication
of
God
to
man
,
whereby
the
Omnipotent
power
of
God
is
so
bounded
and
limited
,
that
it
cannot
proceed
further
,
to
make
a
worke
of
greater
perfection
?
O
inenarrable
generations
!
As
the
Eternall
and
natural
generation
of
the
sonne
in
diuine
essence
,
is
so
infinite
,
so
immense
,
that
God
the
father
could
not
beget
a
more
perfect
naturall
Sonne
:
so
like
wise
,
the
voluntary
,
and
temporall
generation
of
Christ
,
is
so
absolute
,
so
infinitely
perfect
,
that
a
greater
cannot
by
God
be
made
.
Well
,
diddest
thou
crie
out
,
holy
Isay
(
Generationem
eius
quis
enarrabit
?
)
who
shall
shew
forth
his
generation
?
and
againe
,
O
Lord
,
who
hath
beleeued
,
what
we
haue
heard
,
and
the
arme
of
the
Lord
to
whom
is
it
reuealed
?
Admirable
indeed
,
but
more
sweetly
,
and
more
comfortably
admirable
is
that
,
which
the
same
Prophet
adioineth
of
this
our
Christ
,
that
hee
should
be
reputed
with
the
wicked
,
with
malefactours
;
that
through
slander
,
and
false
iudgement
,
he
should
be
cut
from
the
land
of
the
liuing
,
that
he
should
bee
smitten
by
the
senere
decree
of
his
father
,
for
the
expiation
of
the
sinnes
of
a
most
wicked
,
and
most
vngratefull
people
.
O
Lord
,
who
will
beleeue
what
wee
haue
heard
,
or
to
whom
is
the
arme
of
the
Lord
reuealed
?
not
framing
the
heauens
;
but
nailed
and
hanging
vpon
the
Crosse
,
to
eleuate
man
with
the
might
of
his
blood
,
to
the
heauens
.
But
of
this
anone
.
This
supreme
communication
of
God
to
man
,
doth
so
farre
surpasse
all
naturall
productions
of
creatures
,
or
supernaturall
,
of
qualities
of
that
kind
;
as
of
iustification
,
sanctification
,
glorification
,
that
there
is
no
comparison
to
be
made
:
yea
all
the
same
graces
,
of
iustification
,
sanctification
,
glorification
,
by
necessary
consequence
,
follow
vpon
the
same
communication
;
and
by
vertue
of
the
hypostaticall
vnion
;
so
,
that
it
is
impossible
,
that
the
soule
or
humane
nature
,
which
is
assumpted
into
vnity
of
the
diuine
Person
;
should
not
by
necessary
consequence
,
be
holy
,
be
sanctified
,
be
glorified
,
beatified
.
And
had
not
Christ
,
by
his
almighty
power
,
bounded
and
limited
the
brightnesse
,
which
the
soule
and
humane
nature
receiued
and
possessed
,
by
the
vision
of
the
diuine
nature
,
from
redounding
and
imparting
it selfe
vnto
his
inferior
parts
,
and
his
body
:
the
same
,
by
an
effluence
,
and
ouer
flowing
of
happinesse
from
his
soule
,
should
haue
become
glorious
,
glorified
,
and
consequently
impassible
,
immortall
;
and
so
Christ
could
not
haue
died
.
But
because
our
deare
Sauiour
,
(
desiderio
desiderauit
)
with
a
desire
desired
(
as
he
testifieth
of
himselfe
)
that
is
,
most
vehemently
desired
,
to
drinke
the
cup
of
passion
;
and
(
ecce
venio
)
Behold
I
come
,
behold
I
come
,
to
doe
the
will
of
my
Father
,
and
to
die
for
the
deliuerie
of
mankind
.
O
Christian
and
Catholike
soules
,
are
you
not
astonished
with
admiration
?
Are
you
not
incensed
and
fired
with
flames
of
louing
and
most
thankfull
affections
?
to
obserue
,
that
the
very
first
miracle
which
Iesus
should
make
,
and
this
vpon
the
verie
moment
of
his
conception
,
was
to
containe
the
glorie
,
which
by
vertue
of
the
Hypostaticall
and
personall
vnion
,
would
haue
imparted
it selfe
to
his
bodie
,
and
haue
made
it
impassible
and
immortall
,
that
by
such
a
miraculous
subtraction
and
containing
of
glorie
he
might
make
his
bodie
passible
,
mortall
,
apt
,
and
fitted
to
suffer
,
to
die
:
for
whom
?
for
whom
?
for
you
Christian
hearers
,
and
for
all
mankind
.
If
vpon
such
considerations
you
feele
no
alterations
of
loue
,
of
ioy
,
of
detestation
of
sinne
,
of
amendment
of
life
,
of
thanksgiuing
,
of
consolation
in
your
soules
(
Tentate
vosmetipsos
ne
forte
reprobi
sitis
)
Trie
your selues
to
speake
with
the
least
perhaps
you
be
reprobate
:
trie
and
examine
whether
soules
congealed
,
and
obdurate
in
sinne
,
not
to
be
moued
or
melted
by
such
a
fire
of
loue
,
are
not
reprobat
,
But
,
to
our
confiderations
vpon
Christ
,
whom
if
wee
consider
,
with
respect
to
the
diuine
attributes
,
and
infinit
perfections
in
God
,
to
wit
,
his
infinite
wisedome
,
omnipotencie
,
iustice
,
mercie
,
goodnesse
,
&c.
they
doe
so
perfectly
shine
and
appeare
in
him
,
that
most
worthily
therefore
he
is
called
in
holy
Scripture
(
facies
Domini
)
the
face
of
the
Lord
,
(
for
so
some
thinke
that
is
to
be
vnderstood
)
in
the
(
ostendat
Dominus
faciem
suam
)
the
Lord
shew
his
face
:
and
those
frequent
speeches
in
holy
Scriptures
,
Shew
thy
face
O
Lord
,
Turne
not
away
thy
face
,
Illuminate
thy
countenance
ouer
vs
.
What
other
face
or
countenance
of
God
is
this
,
than
that
,
of
which
Saint
That
he
is
the
splendour
of
the
glorie
of
his
Father
,
and
the
figure
of
his
substance
.
And
I
vnderstand
this
shining
and
appearing
of
the
diuine
attributes
in
Christ
,
not
onely
in
respect
of
his
diuine
essence
,
and
nature
,
by
which
he
is
the
sonne
of
God
,
and
therefore
,
according
to
the
common
law
of
Sonnes
,
as
a
Sonne
,
he
is
like
to
his
Father
,
nor
in
respect
of
any
supernaturall
gifts
or
qualities
onely
,
or
by
reason
of
his
soule
;
for
these
two
later
are
common
with
him
to
iust
and
sanctified
persons
:
but
moreouer
,
in
a
certaine
admirable
and
inexpressible
sort
,
the
diuine
attributes
did
so
shine
,
and
were
so
resplendent
in
Christ
,
his
humane
nature
and
conuersation
,
that
by
the
same
he
might
be
knowne
to
be
very
God
,
euen
as
the
sex
of
man
or
woman
is
knowne
and
distinguished
by
their
faces
.
May
I
not
gather
this
out
of
that
speech
of
Christ
to
Philip
?
(
Philippe
qui
videt
me
&c.
)
Philip
,
he
who
seeth
me
,
seeth
my
Father
.
Againe
,
if
you
had
knowne
me
,
you
should
also
haue
knowne
my
Father
.
Cleare
is
this
in
S.
Iohn
the
beloued
Disciple
thus
pronouncing
.
(
Quod
fuit
ab
initio
&c.
)
That
which
hath
beene
from
the
beginning
,
which
we
haue
heard
,
which
we
haue
seene
with
our
eyes
of
the
word
of
life
,
that
which
we
haue
beheld
,
and
our
hands
haue
felt
,
of
the
word
of
life
,
and
the
life
is
made
manifest
,
and
we
haue
seene
,
and
witnesse
,
and
doe
shew
to
you
the
life
eternall
,
which
was
with
the
Father
,
and
hath
appeared
vnto
vs
.
O
admirable
,
diuine
,
and
most
beloued
Disciple
in
Christs
conuersation
and
apparition
,
thou
diddest
see
with
thy
eyes
,
and
feele
with
thy
very
hands
God
the
life
,
the
word
,
made
flesh
.
But
tell
vs
,
O
ye
Sages
of
the
East
;
yee
,
who
being
inuited
and
conducted
by
a
starre
from
heauen
,
came
and
found
this
our
Christ
in
his
mothers
lappe
,
and
hanging
vpon
her
breasts
:
what
splendours
of
maiestie
?
What
beames
of
glorie
did
you
behold
in
that
Almightie
infant
?
What
,
shall
your
gifts
speake
for
you
?
(
Aurum
,
Thus
,
Mirrha
)
Gold
,
Frankincense
,
Mirrhe
,
to
a
King
,
to
a
God
,
to
a
Man
:
who
taught
you
this
wisdome
?
the
Starre
,
or
Balaams
prophecie
only
?
no
doubtlesse
:
the
diuine
Maiestie
of
that
babe
which
you
there
beheld
,
in
that
garment
of
our
humanitie
,
sent
forth
such
splendours
,
to
your
great
admiration
,
that
entring
into
the
house
,
and
finding
the
child
with
the
blessed
virgine
Marie
,
as
the
Euangelist
describeth
it
,
you
could
(
Stupebant
autem
omnes
&c
)
But
all
who
heard
him
,
were
astonished
,
and
amazed
at
his
wisedome
and
answeres
,
Osanna
in
excelsis
&c.
)
Health
,
Prosperitie
,
Safetie
from
on
high
:
God
speed
on
high
,
Blessed
is
he
who
commeth
in
the
name
,
in
the
power
of
the
Lord
:
Blessed
is
he
,
who
commeth
the
Lord
,
and
with
the
power
of
the
Lord
;
the
Lord
,
and
God
himselfe
.
Six
hundred
passages
of
sacred
Scripture
I
passe
ouer
,
recounting
the
diuine
wisedome
,
mercie
,
power
,
iustice
,
goodnesse
of
a
God
,
shiningly
appearing
in
Christ
,
and
his
conuersation
:
so
that
euery
where
his
diuine
praises
were
breathed
forth
,
either
from
the
mouthes
of
infants
,
from
the
testimonies
of
his
aduersaries
,
or
the
religious
applauses
of
the
deuout
multitudes
.
But
giue
me
leaue
,
most
beloued
and
religious
Christians
,
yet
to
enter
with
this
Christ
into
his
passion
,
and
there
to
consider
how
magnificent
and
apparant
in
it
were
the
attributes
&
perfections
of
his
Godhead
.
I
passe
ouer
his
confounding
,
his
casting
and
throwing
downe
to
the
ground
,
his
aduersaries
with
traiterous
Iudas
comming
to
apprehend
him
,
with
those
few
words
onely
(
Quem
quaeritis
?
ego
sum
)
Whom
seeke
you
?
I
am
,
I
am
:
whom
you
seeke
,
I
am
he
:
I
pretermit
hundreths
of
arguments
in
the
time
of
his
passion
,
for
the
proofe
and
honour
of
a
suffering
,
of
a
dying
Maiestie
.
I
onely
consider
,
what
diuine
splendours
of
goodnesse
,
mercie
,
iustice
,
wisedome
,
power
,
patience
,
clemencie
,
did
with
a
collaterall
reflection
represent
themselues
out
of
Christ
crucified
,
and
reflect
vpon
the
right-handed
,
rather
the
right-hearted
theefe
,
that
hee
was
moued
to
make
that
most
Christian
and
happie
inuocation
(
Memento
mei
Domine
,
cum
veneris
,
&c.
)
Remember
me
O
Lord
,
when
thou
shalt
come
into
thy
kingdome
.
O
most
happie
confession
of
a
most
happie
theefe
!
flesh
and
blood
reuealed
not
this
vnto
thee
.
O
thou
theefe
,
not
now
a
wicked
theefe
,
but
an
innocent
theefe
,
robbing
rather
in
a
Paradise
than
vpon
earth
.
O
theefe
,
wonted
with
violence
to
violate
men
,
but
now
,
with
the
violence
of
a
eontrite
heart
,
liuely
faith
,
and
constant
confession
,
purchasing
Paradise
.
Christian
and
religious
hearers
,
what
kingly
,
what
diuine
ornaments
saw
this
most
Christian
theefe
,
to
make
such
a
confession
?
to
professe
Christ
to
be
the
King
of
heauen
?
for
of
any
earthly
kingdom
he
could
not
meane
.
The
Scepter
of
the
vaine
reede
,
with
the
most
scornefull
,
Haile
king
of
the
Iewes
,
he
had
not
seene
,
he
had
not
perhaps
heard
:
the
scepter
he
then
beheld
,
were
the
sharpe
piercing
nailes
,
fastening
his
Kings
hands
,
to
the
shamefull
crosse
:
the
kingly
robes
,
were
Adams
nakednesse
,
and
our
confusion
:
the
chaire
of
State
,
the
hard
and
ignominious
crosse
:
the
royall
fare
and
kingly
dainties
,
gall
and
vineger
:
the
Prince-like
acclamations
,
were
tauntes
,
reproches
,
exprobrations
,
reuiles
,
with
scornefull
casting
of
hands
,
and
mouing
of
the
heads
of
those
damned
miscreants
,
with
those
most
contemptuous
vahs
:
vah
,
vah
,
He
hath
saued
others
,
let
him
now
saue
himselfe
:
If
he
bee
the
sonne
of
God
,
let
him
now
come
down
from
the
crosse
,
&
we
will
beleeue
in
him
.
I
dare
pronounce
,
that
these
most
vnspeakable
ignominies
,
borne
with
that
admirable
patience
,
inuincible
charitie
,
most
charitable
compassion
and
clemencie
,
and
the
powerfull
suffering
of
Christ
,
did
drawe
this
our
holy
theefe
to
that
Christian
confession
;
Remember
mee
,
O
Lord
,
when
thou
shalt
come
into
thy
kingdome
.
It
was
not
the
wonders
onely
,
which
mooued
him
thereunto
:
no
,
no
;
hee
made
this
confession
before
diuers
of
them
were
made
,
as
you
shall
reade
in
Saint
Luke
,
the
42.
and
43.
verses
of
the
23.
Chapter
:
therefore
,
by
the
secret
working
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
by
that
confluence
of
the
diuine
attributes
of
patience
,
mercie
,
iustice
,
power
,
goodnesse
,
charitie
,
which
appeared
in
Christ
(
more
then
could
be
in
a
pure
man
)
hanging
vpon
the
crosse
,
the
good
and
Christian
theefe
came
to
acknowledge
him
to
be
a
Lord
,
and
to
confesse
his
eternall
and
euerlasting
kingdome
.
Oh
,
how
could
my
tongue
here
expatiate
it selfe
,
to
amplifie
by
similitudes
and
examples
,
how
the
attributes
of
a
God
euery
where
appeared
in
Christ
!
whether
J
behold
him
lying
in
the
manger
,
or
resting
in
his
mothers
armes
:
whether
amongst
the
Doctors
disputing
in
the
Temple
,
or
betwixt
the
theeues
,
praying
,
and
offering
supplications
vpon
the
crosse
:
whether
scourging
sacrilegious
buyers
and
sellers
out
of
the
Temple
,
his
fathers
house
,
or
himselfe
fast
bound
to
a
pillar
,
tormented
and
scourged
most
cruelly
by
those
sacrilegious
executioners
:
whether
sitting
wearie
vpon
Iacobs
fountaine
,
or
hanging
languishing
vpon
the
crosse
,
yeelding
forth
of
the
blood
of
saluation
a
most
pretious
fountaine
:
whether
raising
the
dead
,
or
himselfe
adiudged
to
death
:
whether
in
the
desart
feeding
others
with
bread
,
or
himselfe
fed
by
others
with
gall
and
vineger
vpon
the
crosse
:
wheresoeuer
and
howsoeuer
,
I
see
and
contemplate
him
,
J
cannot
but
admire
,
and
confesse
him
,
(
speciosum
forma
,
prae
filijs
hominum
)
beautifull
in
forme
aboue
the
children
of
men
:
beutiful
in
the
forme
of
God
aboue
the
children
of
men
.
I
cannot
but
with
admiration
say
vnto
him
with
Kingly
Dauid
,
Beautifull
in
forme
aboue
the
children
of
men
,
Grace
is
diffused
in
thy
lippes
:
therefore
thee
,
O
God!
thy
God
hath
annointed
with
the
oyle
of
gladnesse
,
aboue
thy
fellowes
:
so
annointed
,
that
in
verie
forme
he
appeared
more
than
his
fellowes
;
aboue
his
fellowes
not
onely
a
holy
man
,
but
a
God
,
God
and
man
.
I
cannot
but
proclaime
,
that
although
the
glorie
of
the
Diuinitie
of
Christ
,
imparted
to
his
soule
,
was
so
contained
from
communicating
it selfe
to
his
bodie
,
yet
it
could
not
be
so
concluded
and
shut
vp
,
but
that
some
beames
and
glitterings
thereof
did
so
diffuse
themselues
(
like
vnto
the
beames
of
the
glittering
Sunne
vnder
a
cleare
cloud
)
that
the
pious
beholder
might
contemplate
the
very
diuine
attributes
,
to
be
in
an
admirable
sort
relucent
and
resplendent
,
in
the
very
humanitie
of
Christ
,
conuersing
with
man
.
O
Emanuel
!
O
Emanuel
!
God
with
vs
:
God
with
vs
:
conuersing
amongst
men
,
and
by
so
diuine
conuersation
,
knowen
to
be
the
true
Emanuel
indeed
,
the
true
God
amonst
vs
,
amongst
men
.
Thus
too
breefly
,
and
imperfectly
,
how
theattributes
,
and
diuine
perfections
,
of
God
were
transponent
in
Christ
.
Oh
,
that
time
would
permit
me
,
fully
to
consider
this
our
Christ
,
as
he
hath
relation
to
the
actions
,
and
operations
of
God
,
in
the
framing
,
and
gouerning
of
this
vniuerse
,
especially
,
his
actions
to
ward
mankinde
!
we
should
find
him
,
to
be
the
very
scope
,
and
end
,
for
which
all
this
world
was
made
;
wee
should
find
him
,
to
be
the
very
drift
,
butte
,
and
end
of
all
Gods
desires
;
we
should
finde
,
that
of
the
holy
Prophet
Isay
to
be
true
in
him
(
Et
eris
corona
gloriae
,
in
manu
domini
,
&
diadema
Regni
in
manu
dei
tui
.
)
Thou
shalt
bee
a
crowne
of
glory
in
the
hand
of
the
Lord
;
a
Diademe
of
a
Kingdome
in
the
hand
of
thy
God
.
A
crowne
of
glory
,
a
Diademe
of
a
Kingdome
,
euen
vpon
the
head
,
and
in
the
hands
of
the
Lord
,
of
God
;
to
honour
,
to
make
glorious
,
God
the
Lord
.
A
crowne
of
glory
,
A
diademe
of
a
Kingdome
in
the
hands
of
God
,
in
the
hands
of
the
Lord
,
euer
to
be
looked
vpon
,
to
bee
contemplated
,
admired
,
desired
.
Heare
the
heauenly
father
,
himselfe
more
then
once
,
auouching
as
much
.
Hic
est
filius
meus
,
&c.
This
is
my
beloued
sonne
,
in
whom
I
am
very
well
pleased
,
in
whom
my
soule
taketh
full
content
.
This
,
this
,
is
the
scope
of
all
my
actions
;
This
is
my
word
,
which
I
looked
vpon
,
framing
the
whole
world
.
This
is
the
very
Idea
,
vpon
which
I
contemplated
,
electing
,
predestinating
,
my
children
to
my
glory
:
and
when
I
call
those
,
whom
I
haue
elected
,
and
predestinated
,
according
to
the
purpose
of
my
will
,
from
all
eternities
;
to
iustifie
them
,
to
sanctifie
them
,
to
glorifie
them
:
I
make
them
all
confermable
to
the
Image
of
this
my
sonne
:
Yea
so
well
pleased
is
my
soule
in
him
that
for
his
sake
,
from
all
eternities
,
I
haue
absolutely
perfectly
,
loued
those
,
whom
I
haue
elected
in
him
,
and
for
him
,
before
they
were
any
thing
at
all
,
and
when
in
time
,
like
fugitiue
seruants
,
they
were
at
enmity
with
me
,
through
sinne
,
liuing
in
sinne
,
delighting
in
sinne
:
I
then
,
for
his
sake
,
called
,
iustified
,
sanctified
them
,
leauing
them
not
,
vntill
I
bring
them
for
respect
of
him
to
my
eternall
glory
,
and
vntill
,
I
accomplish
my
will
in
them
,
I
will
not
surcease
:
no
man
shall
take
them
out
of
my
handes
,
no
man
shall
stop
the
might
of
my
election
.
This
,
this
,
Christian
hearers
,
as
it
is
doctrine
,
full
of
all
consolation
to
the
faithfull
,
that
haue
a
liuing
and
a
sanctifying
faith
,
through
and
in
this
Chri●t
:
so
is
it
not
nouell
but
most
ancient
,
Catholike
,
howsoeuer
most
commonly
,
the
Pontifician
Diuines
teach
and
affirme
,
that
the
predestination
,
and
election
of
Gods
children
;
is
not
without
preuision
of
their
merits
:
and
so
making
the
merits
of
man
,
as
a
motiue
of
Gods
eternall
election
;
they
shew
themselues
,
to
be
nothing
lesse
,
then
Semipelagians
;
whole
Pelagians
,
I
would
call
them
,
if
they
taught
these
merits
of
man
;
without
necessity
of
grace
through
,
and
in
Christ
.
Merits
we
exclude
(
Christian
hearers
)
when
they
are
made
as
causes
of
predestination
:
but
not
good
workes
,
as
fruites
of
sanctification
,
in
which
,
God
hath
eternally
preordained
his
elect
to
walke
in
.
Sixe
hundred
places
of
scripture
,
(
wherewith
you
learned
in
Gods
booke
,
are
acquainted
)
I
could
produce
for
the
confirming
of
this
truth
:
how
that
without
works
freely
in
Christ
alone
,
we
were
loued
,
beloued
,
and
elected
;
before
we
were
any
thing
at
all
;
(
except
onely
in
Gods
election
,
)
yea
and
afterwards
also
,
when
in
time
,
we
became
worse
then
nothing
,
by
committing
sinne
(
the
which
,
as
it
is
nothing
of
Gods
worke
,
so
for
so
much
as
it
is
mans
worke
,
it
maketh
him
worse
then
nothing
)
yet
for
Christs
sake
,
man
so
wicked
,
so
abhominable
,
was
called
,
iustified
,
sanctified
,
according
to
the
purpose
of
Gods
eternall
election
.
O
inestimable
!
O
vnspeakable
benefit
therefore
of
Christ
!
O
Christ
!
powerfull
in
the
eternall
prouidence
of
God
,
before
creation
,
for
our
election
:
powerfull
in
time
appointed
,
for
our
vocation
,
iustification
,
sanctification
:
powerfull
for
our
perseuerance
,
and
finall
consummation
:
so
powerfull
,
and
so
precious
in
the
sight
of
God
;
that
if
God
,
(
whose
goodnesse
is
so
great
,
that
he
would
suffer
no
ill
;
if
he
knew
not
how
,
to
produce
good
thereout
)
had
not
foreknowne
such
a
remedy
against
sinne
;
such
an
anointed
one
;
such
a
Christ
;
for
the
curing
of
soules
;
he
would
neuer
haue
permitted
Adam
to
haue
sinned
,
at
least
wise
,
he
would
neuer
haue
permitted
his
sinne
,
as
a
generall
deluge
,
to
haue
ouer
whelmed
all
mankind
;
so
that
as
in
a
sort
,
it
may
be
said
:
sinne
had
not
bin
permitted
,
if
such
a
Sauiour
,
such
a
Christ
,
could
not
haue
beene
sent
;
haue
beene
prouided
:
so
neither
,
such
a
dying
Sauiour
;
such
a
passible
Christ
had
not
been
sent
,
if
sinne
had
not
beene
permitted
.
O
mysterie
of
all
mysteries
!
from
the
very
profoundest
of
my
soule
,
I
proclaime
;
O
Christ
;
most
blessed
,
and
eternally
to
be
desired
;
for
if
thou
couldest
not
haue
beene
sent
,
to
expiate
sinne
;
the
same
had
not
beene
permitted
;
and
if
sinne
had
not
been
permitted
,
thou
haddest
not
beenesent
,
to
seeke
the
lost
sheepe
of
mankind
:
O
infinite
goodnesse
of
God
.
Therefore
,
I
dare
boldly
pronounce
,
with
ancient
Gregory
.
(
O
Felix
Adae
peccatum
,
&c.
)
O
happy
sinne
of
Adam
;
which
deserued
to
haue
such
,
and
so
great
a
Redeemer
?
O
truely
necessary
sinne
of
Adam
;
which
by
the
death
of
Christ
,
is
abolished
and
destroied
;
of
Christ
I
say
,
of
whose
excellencies
and
perfections
,
in
respect
of
vs
;
and
in
the
manner
of
his
concurrence
to
our
sanctification
,
and
saluation
,
in
respect
of
euery
sort
of
causing
and
working
as
materiall
,
formall
,
efficient
,
finall
;
and
in
respect
of
himselfe
,
for
those
treasures
of
diuine
wisdome
,
and
graces
,
without
measure
,
(
as
farre
as
the
right
hand
of
God
,
by
his
ordinary
power
could
extend
it selfe
)
imparted
to
his
soule
:
if
I
should
further
,
(
according
to
my
diuision
made
aboue
of
the
respects
of
Christ
)
discourse
(
sermo
ininterpretabilis
)
a
speech
vninterpretable
,
(
as
the
Apostle
speaketh
)
either
by
my selfe
the
speaker
,
or
by
you
the
hearers
,
neither
doth
the
time
fauour
me
so
much
:
He
is
God
,
what
seek
you
?
he
is
God
:
what
desire
you
?
or
why
doe
I
yet
presume
to
search
?
Consider
his
attributes
,
his
perfections
,
to
day
,
to
morrow
,
the
more
you
shall
seeke
,
the
lesse
you
shall
find
(
if
you
thinke
to
attaine
)
for
hee
is
incomprehensible
:
beleeue
the
scriptures
,
thus
pronouncing
(
lucem
inhabitat
inaccessam
)
hee
dwelleth
in
a
light
,
to
which
there
is
no
accesse
.
Here
therefore
,
a
periode
and
a
stop
of
this
my
discourse
:
not
able
to
make
any
further
progresse
;
I
answere
,
(
as
Simonides
the
Philosopher
did
to
Hiero
touching
God
)
the
more
I
seeke
the
perfections
of
Christ
,
the
lesse
I
find
them
.
But
for
application
and
vse
of
this
doctrine
;
I
will
make
no
other
then
what
I
haue
already
made
;
by
which
I
see
Christ
already
in
faith
,
and
loue
applied
to
your
soules
:
with
whom
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
you
will
speake
,
and
commune
as
Christians
ought
with
such
a
Christ
,
so
deere
,
so
sweet
,
so
perfect
a
Spouse
.
How
much
more
:
he
blood
of
Christ
?
But
how
shall
I
prosecute
the
other
consideration
of
this
my
first
part
of
my
text
?
what
a
paradoxe
,
shall
I
seeme
to
deliuer
,
to
speake
of
the
blood
of
such
a
maiesty
?
of
such
a
glory
?
how
ill
doe
consort
,
the
maiesty
of
Godhead
;
and
the
humility
of
bloodshed
?
these
attributes
of
diuinity
,
and
such
defects
of
humanity
:
such
a
humility
,
and
such
a
glory
?
If
I
should
preach
to
the
Gentiles
,
they
would
esteeme
mee
(
in
sanire
)
to
bee
mad
,
and
such
doctrine
to
be
meere
folly
:
if
to
the
Iewes
,
they
would
not
indure
the
scandall
of
the
Crosse
;
nor
the
ignominy
of
this
blood
:
but
considering
I
preach
to
this
so
religious
an
assembly
,
called
and
associated
together
(
non
de
sanguinibus
)
not
by
bloods
;
not
by
bloods
of
Buls
,
Goates
,
Sheepe
,
&c.
but
(
de
sanguine
quasi
agni
immaculati
)
by
the
one
blood
of
the
immaculate
Lambe
:
one
lambe
,
and
once
sacrificed
.
I
shall
easily
perswade
you
,
the
sweet
coniunction
of
such
a
Maiestie
,
and
such
a
humilitie
:
I
shall
easily
perswade
you
,
that
the
blood
of
this
lambe
is
(
virtus
Dei
omni
credenti
)
the
very
vertue
of
God
,
to
euery
one
who
beleeueth
,
and
confideth
in
it
.
How
much
more
the
blood
of
Christ
?
Manifold
is
the
acception
of
blood
in
sacred
Scriptures
,
and
with
prophane
Philosophers
.
Blood
for
murther
,
man-slaughter
,
death
,
crueltie
:
blood
for
impuritie
,
vncleanenesse
of
life
:
blood
for
the
seed
of
generation
:
blood
,
as
it
is
the
seat
and
domicile
of
life
;
the
immediate
cause
and
instrument
of
nourishment
,
of
motion
,
of
naturall
health
,
colour
,
temperature
,
due
complection
,
&c.
But
intermitting
all
these
acceptions
,
and
the
moralizing
vpon
them
:
the
blood
which
our
Apostle
meaneth
,
is
the
blood
of
Christ
,
the
Seale
of
the
new
Testament
,
the
blood
of
redemption
,
satisfaction
;
of
reconciliation
,
sanctification
.
O
wonderfull
and
most
venerable
blood
!
But
is
the
acception
of
this
blood
of
our
one
Iesus
,
one
,
or
manifold
?
It
is
Christian
Catholike
Auditors
,
both
one
,
and
manifold
:
one
,
in
Christ
:
manifold
,
from
Christ
:
one
in
Christ
,
in
an
indiuiduall
,
substantiall
,
and
integrall
vnitie
of
nature
,
concurring
to
make
him
a
perfect
liuing
man
:
manifold
,
as
it
is
effused
and
flowing
from
Christ
,
to
make
vs
perfect
Christian
men
.
How
manifold
is
this
blood
?
witnesse
,
first
,
that
bloodie
sweat
in
the
garden
,
arising
rather
from
his
tender
and
inward
compassion
ouer
sinners
,
then
from
any
desolation
.
O
droppes
,
not
dropping
,
but
of
blood
(
decurrentis
in
terram
)
running
downe
vpon
the
earth
!
what
earth
?
mankind
,
by
sinfull
conuersation
transformed
into
earth
:
but
this
blood
trickleth
,
yea
runneth
downe
vpon
it
,
to
wash
it
,
to
sanctifie
it
,
and
to
make
it
fructifie
.
Witnesse
those
streames
of
blood
which
gushed
from
euery
part
of
Christs
sacred
body
,
when
the
mercilesse
scourgers
whipped
and
tormented
him
,
being
fast
bound
to
a
pillar
.
I
reade
elsewhere
(
Christus
erat
petra
,
&
bibebant
de
spirituali
consequente
eos
petra
)
Christ
was
a
rocke
,
and
they
drunke
(
the
auncient
faithfull
)
of
the
spirituall
rocke
which
followed
them
.
Here
I
contemplate
Christ
,
not
a
rocke
,
but
a
most
tender
man
,
fast
bound
to
a
stone
,
to
a
rocke
,
whipped
,
scourged
,
tormented
,
to
yeeld
forth
a
streame
,
a
great
fountaine
of
blood
;
of
which
all
may
drinke
,
from
the
beginning
vntill
the
consummation
of
the
world
.
For
not
onely
(
Agnus
occisus
,
but
Agnus
flagellatus
ab
origine
mundi
)
was
the
Lambe
slaine
,
but
also
whipped
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
:
Moyses
,
Abraham
,
Noe
,
Adam
,
drunke
of
this
rocke
,
or
rather
of
this
Christ
,
bound
to
a
rocke
,
and
yeelding
a
fountaine
of
blood
.
Not
here
(
petra
erat
Christus
)
Christ
was
a
rocke
,
a
stone
,
but
(
apud
Petram
Christus
)
a
tender
man
,
a
sensitiue
man
,
fast
bound
to
a
stone
,
a
pillar
of
stone
,
feeling
the
sharpe
paine
of
most
cruell
scourging
,
able
enough
to
haue
killed
Christ
,
had
he
not
also
determined
to
ascend
vp
into
the
Palme-tree
:
what
said
,
I
the
Palme-tree
?
I
should
haue
said
the
tree
of
the
crosse
,
the
tree
of
curse
,
of
malediction
.
Witnesse
,
those
currents
from
his
head
crowned
with
thornes
,
his
hands
and
feet
nailed
and
pierced
.
Witnesse
his
most
diuine
side
opened
with
a
speare
;
whence
,
in
testimonie
that
this
Christ
had
made
a
complete
expiation
for
mankind
:
with
his
last
droppes
of
blood
,
water
also
issued
forth
:
(
continuo
exiui
sanguis
&
aqua
)
presently
,
instantly
,
vpon
the
opening
of
the
sacred
side
,
blood
and
water
went
forth
.
Blood
and
water
stood
attending
that
opening
of
the
diuine
wall
;
which
once
opened
,
and
launced
,
blood
and
water
,
fel
not
out
,
rushed
not
out
,
dropped
not
out
;
but
went
out
,
walked
out
,
going
in
fortitude
,
in
vertue
,
strength
,
to
confront
with
Satan
,
to
vanquish
death
and
damnation
,
to
consummate
our
redemption
.
What
maruell
is
this
,
to
vs
beleeuing
,
that
this
blood
and
water
,
by
a
strange
and
wonderfull
vnion
,
were
vnited
to
the
subsistence
and
person
of
him
,
who
is
the
author
of
all
life
,
giuer
of
all
motion
?
O
blood
and
water
,
consummating
all
sanctification
,
filling
all
ruines
,
in
heauen
and
vpon
earth
!
Waight
and
ballance
are
the
iudgements
of
God
,
saith
the
diuine
Scripture
.
But
in
this
extraordinarie
worke
of
our
redemption
,
in
this
iudgement
exercised
vpon
the
sonne
of
God
,
what
measure
hath
beene
kept
?
what
ballance
hath
beene
vsed
?
what
meane
hath
beene
obserued
?
all
is
shedde
,
all
is
effused
:
and
in
testimonie
thereof
,
with
the
last
droppes
of
blood
,
water
is
adioyned
;
by
such
a
coniunction
of
water
with
blood
,
proclaiming
to
mankind
,
That
the
blood
of
Christ
doth
not
onely
merit
,
redeeme
,
satisfie
;
but
also
wash
,
purifie
,
sanctifie
with
puritie
of
grace
,
the
consciences
of
all
such
,
who
with
a
liuing
,
and
a
sanctifying
faith
should
confide
in
it
.
Rowze
vp
you
soules
beloued
,
in
this
blood
,
and
demaund
of
me
,
by
which
of
all
these
bloods
are
we
redeemed
:
and
I
will
answer
vnto
you
,
That
wee
are
redeemed
by
them
all
:
all
these
are
(
passio
Christi
)
the
passion
of
Christ
:
by
them
all
,
by
them
all
:
plentifull
therefore
is
your
redemption
,
absolute
,
and
in
very
rigour
of
iustice
so
consummate
,
that
applied
by
faith
to
your
soules
,
apprehended
by
faith
,
(
iustifying
faith
,
sanctifying
faith
I
meane
,
which
destroyeth
dead
workes
,
innouateth
your
consciences
with
a
new
,
and
with
the
principall
spirit
)
the
seuere
,
and
iust
eye
of
God
cannot
reiect
or
condemne
such
as
are
signed
,
and
marked
with
the
same
.
The
last
houre
(
Christian
hearers
)
endeth
the
day
,
the
last
sand
emptieth
the
houre-glasse
,
the
last
droppes
fill
the
vessel
,
the
last
figure
consummateth
and
maketh
perfect
any
number
;
so
,
the
last
droppes
of
Christs
blood
,
consummated
,
perfected
,
our
redemption
.
All
these
effusions
of
blood
by
me
mentioned
,
did
concurre
to
your
redemption
and
saluation
;
but
the
last
droppes
consummated
all
:
for
it
is
the
blood
of
Christ
dying
,
the
effusion
of
blood
,
in
which
the
life
of
Christ
was
offered
,
which
consummately
perfected
all
,
merited
,
satisfied
for
vs
.
O
most
sweet
prouidence
of
God!
(
non
alius
defuit
Deo
,
saluandi
mundum
modus
)
there
wanted
not
,
saith
Saint
Austen
,
another
manner
,
or
meanes
to
God
,
for
sauing
of
the
world
.
Notwithstanding
,
by
blood
he
would
haue
it
done
,
and
this
by
the
blood
of
his
onely
begotten
sonne
.
O
most
potent
blood
,
not
of
Bulles
or
Goates
,
for
a
legall
and
carnall
purification
onely
;
but
of
Christ
,
to
make
such
a
purification
of
soules
,
that
the
eie
of
the
most
iust
Iudge
looking
vpon
them
,
signed
with
the
same
,
cannot
repute
them
vncleane
,
vnsanctified
,
but
diuinely
beautified
.
Not
of
Bulles
,
and
Goates
,
Calues
,
and
Kiddes
,
often
to
be
repeated
,
&
reiterated
:
but
of
one
only
Christ
,
by
one
onely
oblation
eternally
sanctifying
all
sincere
beleeuers
.
Not
of
goates
and
oxen
,
for
the
Iewish
nation
onely
;
but
of
Christ
,
the
liuing
fountaine
(
irrigans
vniuersam
terram
)
watering
the
whole
earth
:
all
ages
,
all
sexes
,
all
conditions
of
mankind
.
Foure-fold
were
the
riuers
,
which
issued
from
one
fountaine
,
in
the
earthly
Paradise
,
and
watered
the
whole
earth
,
making
the
same
fruitfull
:
not
foure
fold
onely
,
but
manifold
are
the
riuers
,
which
issued
from
the
fountaine
in
the
spirituall
Paradise
,
where
Christ
Iesus
was
placed
with
his
spouse
,
his
wife
,
his
Church
.
How
manifold
were
the
riuers
,
issuing
from
this
fountaine
,
you
haue
already
heard
,
from
euery
part
,
side
,
and
end
of
this
fountaine
,
from
the
head
of
this
fountaine
,
by
thornes
;
from
the
feet
,
and
hands
by
nailes
;
from
his
sweetest
face
,
by
blowes
,
buffets
,
and
most
cruell
scratches
,
from
his
side
,
by
the
speare
;
from
his
whole
body
,
by
the
sharpe
scou●ging
of
〈◊〉
executioners
.
O
Rare
fountaine
,
streaming
on
euery
side
!
O
diuine
altitude
,
longitude
,
latitude
,
and
p●ofundity
of
this
fountaine
!
Oh
that
we
would
,
with
all
Saints
,
comprehend
the
altitude
,
longitude
,
latitude
,
and
profoundnes
of
this
●●eding
fountaine
of
this
bleeding
Christ
,
commended
by
the
Apostle
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Ephesians
?
ninth
houre
sweet
Iesus
expired
:
I
should
haue
said
,
longitude
in
time
,
from
the
day
of
his
circumcision
,
vntill
his
expiration
,
or
rather
vntill
the
apertion
of
his
side
,
after
his
expiring
.
Longitude
in
place
,
from
the
Garden
of
Gethsemanie
vnto
the
houses
of
Annas
,
Caiaphas
;
thence
to
the
towne
house
;
thence
to
the
mount
Caluary
;
where
wee
haue
many
longitudes
;
longitudes
of
his
armes
,
stretched
out
to
the
armes
of
the
Crosse
;
longitude
of
his
feet
,
and
body
proportioned
to
the
length
of
the
Crosse
,
and
in
all
these
longitudes
,
Christ
boisterously
drawne
out
,
stretched
forth
,
mercilesly
hoysed
vp
,
immanely
pitched
downe
with
the
crosse
,
fastened
in
the
ground
;
what
a
mouing
?
what
an
effectuall
and
diuine
longitude
would
this
proue
,
if
it
were
daily
meditated
vpon
?
would
it
not
(
thinke
you
)
produce
in
our
soules
a
longanimity
of
patience
,
in
all
our
tribulations
?
a
longitude
of
hope
against
all
suggestions
of
dispaire
?
a
length
of
loue
,
to
forgiue
our
enemies
,
offending
and
iniuring
vs
,
though
neuer
so
often
?
A
vertue
very
necessary
,
and
needfull
in
these
times
,
especially
,
with
our
Gallants
;
who
so
vnchristianly
stand
vpon
their
points
of
honour
;
who
neuer
as
yet
haue
learned
,
for
Christs
sake
,
to
forgiue
any
wrong
;
to
put
vp
any
iniury
vpon
any
submission
,
or
acknowledgement
whatsoeuer
:
nothing
will
content
them
;
but
(
lex
Talionis
)
the
law
of
requitall
,
of
equality
:
An
eie
,
for
an
eie
;
a
tooth
for
a
tooth
:
life
for
life
,
blood
for
blood
?
O
yee
Christians
!
(
truly
Gallants
,
and
truly
nobles
,
if
you
heare
this
lesson
)
in
the
behalfe
of
this
Christ
;
which
did
once
susteine
your
persons
,
to
deliuer
you
from
damnation
;
who
suffered
so
many
iniuries
,
to
giue
you
eternall
honour
:
I
aske
of
you
,
I
require
of
you
,
that
for
his
sake
,
for
his
loue
,
for
his
honour
,
and
for
the
honour
of
the
Christian
name
,
end
your
controuersies
,
conclude
your
contentions
,
and
quarrels
as
Christians
ought
to
doe
:
that
is
so
often
,
(
though
seuenty
seuen
times
I
dare
here
boldly
pronounce
,
he
vnderstandeth
nothing
,
he
knoweth
nothing
,
he
is
worth
nothing
;
he
hath
no
dramme
of
Christian
magnanimitie
in
him
;
who
will
not
admit
,
and
approue
such
a
reconcilement
,
to
be
Christian
,
honourable
,
glorious
,
both
before
God
and
man
:
such
a
reconcilement
(
I
say
)
as
the
duty
of
a
Christian
to
Christ
crucified
,
dead
and
sacrificed
,
requireth
,
challengeth
,
commandeth
.
And
if
any
here
will
despise
,
or
neglect
this
Christian
counsell
,
and
stand
vpon
Machiuillian
,
and
Italian
puntidel-honore
,
I
will
confidently
proclaime
against
him
,
or
them
,
whatsoeuer
they
be
,
that
of
the
Prophet
Osee
,
(
Ventum
seminat
,
turbinem
metet
)
he
soweth
a
wind
,
but
shall
reape
a
whirlewind
?
Ito
maledicte
)
Depart
thou
accursed
;
But
to
our
sountaine
,
to
our
fountaine
.
Oh
that
wee
would
consider
Christ
with
such
a
length
of
his
armes
,
so
prodigallie
and
charitably
effusing
,
and
powring
forth
his
blood
,
to
wash
all
,
to
sanctifie
all
:
would
it
not
perswade
vs
,
to
lengthen
forth
our
armes
,
and
to
open
our
palmes
to
the
poore
,
and
needy
?
but
out
alas
,
wee
contemplate
not
this
longitude
,
and
therefore
insteed
of
stretching
forth
our
armes
to
the
poore
,
we
stretch
and
whet
our
tongues
,
we
sharpen
our
speeches
against
them
,
we
ad
affliction
to
their
affliction
,
we
reuile
,
exprobrate
,
discomfort
them
.
O
damnable
custome
ouerflowing
Italy
!
O
wretched
practise
ouerabounding
Spaine
and
France
!
O
practise
of
Reprobates
,
too
too
frequent
in
England
.
O
fashion
euery
where
in
fashion
,
and
yet
the
fashion
only
,
of
Reprobates
and
children
of
perdition
!
I
boldly
here
speake
it
,
that
it
is
a
speciall
signe
,
marke
,
badge
,
and
character
of
reprobates
,
and
children
of
perdition
,
so
to
en●ertaine
,
so
to
abuse
the
poore
Lazars
;
why
said
I
poore
Lazars
?
I
should
haue
said
poore
Christs
,
and
poore
Iesus
in
these
Lazars
:
Hee
hath
said
it
,
and
I
dare
proclaime
it
,
whatsoeuer
you
shall
doe
to
one
of
these
,
you
shall
doe
to
me
.
Honourable
,
worshipfull
and
to
open
her
palmes
to
the
needy
,
and
to
stretch
forth
her
armes
to
the
poore
:
I
beseech
you
often
to
consider
Date
elemosynam
&
ecce
omnia
munda
sunt
vobis
:
)
Giue
almes
,
and
behold
all
things
are
cleane
vnto
you
:
Be
charitable
,
behold
all
things
shall
bee
cleane
vnto
you
:
if
you
doe
not
,
beware
of
the
thunder-clap
(
depart
accursed
,
)
But
from
the
length
of
this
fountaine
,
to
the
breadth
,
to
the
latitude
thereof
,
the
which
if
wee
would
deuoutly
consider
,
yeelding
streames
of
blood
on
euery
side
,
and
vpon
all
sorts
of
persons
,
vpon
enemies
,
and
onely
enemies
,
and
all
enemies
,
to
what
a
breadth
of
loue
would
it
perswade
vs
?
to
loue
all
that
Christ
loueth
:
and
because
Christ
loueth
,
to
loue
our
friendes
in
Christ
,
and
our
enemies
for
Christ
.
What
a
latitude
of
resolution
would
it
ingender
in
our
Soules
,
to
walke
the
commandements
of
God
cheerefully
?
what
a
breadth
of
charitable
loue
and
compassion
would
it
cause
in
vs
,
to
giue
to
the
poore
cheerefully
?
for
(
hilarem
datorem
diligit
Deus
)
God
loueth
a
merry
and
cheerefull
giner
,
Would
we
consider
the
profunditie
of
this
fountaine
,
founded
in
loue
,
and
the
mestimable
charitie
of
God
;
founded
in
the
vnspeakable
humilitie
of
the
sonne
of
God
:
what
a
depth
of
humilitie
,
what
a
profoundnesse
of
meekenesse
,
what
an
abysse
of
charitie
,
what
a
purpose
of
stedfast
perseuerance
in
Gods
seruice
,
would
it
innouate
and
confirme
in
our
mindes
?
Let
experience
,
Christian
Hearers
,
be
your
mistresle
in
this
:
make
triall
,
and
as
you
find
,
so
be
perswaded
,
so
giue
credit
to
what
I
speake
.
But
alas
!
who
can
bewaile
sufficiently
,
the
miseries
of
these
times
?
Euen
as
in
the
earthly
Paradise
,
after
the
deluge
of
the
slood
had
ouerwhelmed
the
whole
world
,
neither
the
fountaine
,
nor
the
riuers
issuing
from
the
same
,
can
certamely
be
distinguished
,
or
knowne
,
which
,
or
where
they
are
:
so
out
alas
!
since
partly
,
deepe
ignorance
of
Poperie
,
manifold
inundation
of
heresie
,
abundance
of
iniquitie
,
extreame
defect
of
charitie
,
haue
ouerwhelmed
the
visible
face
of
the
Church
;
it
is
hard
to
finde
,
where
this
fountaine
of
Christ
crucified
,
where
these
riuers
issuing
from
the
same
fountaine
,
doe
make
their
courses
,
where
their
channels
be
.
Deuout
Christians
,
I
speake
not
this
,
as
though
I
knew
no
place
where
Christ
crucified
is
truely
preached
:
for
in
so
speaking
,
I
should
calumniate
that
Church
,
to
which
I
haue
happily
associated
my selfe
,
where
the
infinite
energie
,
vertue
of
Christs
death
,
and
passion
,
is
daily
and
incessantly
preached
,
commended
,
extolled
,
and
applied
to
all
beleeuing
soules
.
But
I
speake
this
of
Christian
conferences
,
of
deuoute
soules
,
who
should
daily
meditate
,
and
sucke
of
this
fountaine
;
who
by
their
pure
liues
,
and
sincere
conuersations
should
shew
,
that
it
is
the
blood
of
the
most
immaculate
Lambe
,
whereof
they
drinke
:
it
is
the
blood
of
the
vnspotted
sacrifice
,
where
with
they
are
fedde
and
nourished
.
Such
kind
of
channels
,
such
kind
of
streames
are
hardly
sound
,
are
hardly
scene
.
But
let
vs
yet
at
last
awake
our
soules
,
and
recall
them
from
drinking
of
the
puddles
of
Egypt
:
there
is
no
houre
too
late
for
repentance
,
the
energie
of
this
blood
is
euerlasting
it
speaketh
still
better
,
and
lowdly
to
all
,
then
that
of
Abel
:
therefore
euen
now
,
and
at
this
moment
,
it
will
not
be
too
late
to
beginne
to
drinke
of
this
fountaine
;
no
impuritie
so
great
,
the
which
it
washeth
not
away
:
it
is
the
Alpha
and
Omega
of
vocation
,
iustification
,
sanctification
,
perseuerance
,
glorification
;
because
the
blood
of
the
Eternall
Alpha
and
Omega
of
all
things
.
O
Well
of
all
consolation
!
O
fountaine
of
all
Graces
!
O
wounds
not
killing
,
but
the
onely
Asyle
and
Sanctuatie
of
sinnefull
and
afflicted
soules
!
wounds
,
in
which
,
and
in
which
only
,
we
may
be
secured
from
the
sting
of
sinne
,
and
power
of
Satan
.
Giue
me
leaue
here
for
this
purpose
,
to
apply
to
your
eares
,
the
words
of
a
certaine
deuout
Father
:
Vbi
tuta
sirmaque
requies
infirmis
,
&c.
Where
is
there
safe
and
secure
rest
to
the
infirme
and
weake
,
but
in
the
wounds
of
our
Sauiour
?
there
I
dwell
more
securely
,
by
how
much
he
is
more
potent
to
saue
:
the
world
fretteth
,
my
flesh
presseth
,
Satan
lieth
in
waite
;
I
fall
not
,
because
I
am
founded
vpon
a
firme
rocke
:
I
haue
sinned
a
great
sinne
,
my
conscience
will
be
troubled
,
but
it
shall
not
be
ouer-troubled
,
because
I
will
remember
the
wounds
of
the
Lord
:
for
hee
is
wounded
for
our
iniquities
:
What
so
neere
to
death
,
which
is
not
saucd
by
his
death
?
If
therefore
so
potent
,
and
so
efficient
a
medicine
shall
come
into
my
minde
,
I
cannot
be
terrified
with
the
greatnesse
of
any
disease
.
And
againe
a
little
after
,
But
I
doe
confidently
vsurpe
to
mee
,
what
is
wanting
to
me
,
from
the
bowels
of
my
Lord
,
which
abound
with
mercie
.
Neither
doe
there
want
holes
,
by
which
it
may
flowe
out
,
they
haue
digged
his
hands
and
feete
,
and
haue
pierced
his
side
with
a
launce
:
and
by
these
chinkes
,
it
is
lawfull
for
me
to
sncke
honnis
from
the
rocke
,
and
oyle
from
the
most
hard
stone
,
and
taste
,
that
the
Lord
is
most
sweet
.
The
secrets
of
the
heart
are
opened
by
the
holes
of
the
body
,
that
great
Sacrament
of
pietie
is
opened
:
The
bowels
of
mercie
of
our
God
,
in
which
the
Orient
from
aboue
hath
visited
vs
,
are
opened
.
And
why
may
not
bowels
appeare
,
and
shewe
themselues
,
by
,
and
through
wounds
?
In
what
more
cleerely
,
then
in
thy
wounds
,
doth
it
appeare
,
O
Lord
?
that
thou
art
sweete
,
meeke
,
and
of
much
mercy
:
for
greater
mercy
no
man
hath
,
then
that
hee
giue
his
life
for
his
friend
:
but
thou
,
O
Lord
,
hast
had
greater
charitie
,
who
hast
giuen
thy selfe
for
off-casts
and
damned
persons
.
Therefore
my
merit
is
the
mercie
of
the
Lord
:
I
am
not
altogether
voyd
of
merit
,
so
long
as
he
shall
not
be
voyd
of
mercie
and
miserations
.
But
if
the
mercies
of
our
Lord
,
be
many
,
euen
so
am
I
much
in
merits
:
for
what
if
I
am
guiltie
to
my
soule
of
many
sinnes
?
truely
,
where
sinnes
haue
abounded
,
grace
hath
ouer-abounded
.
And
if
the
mercies
of
the
Lord
be
from
eternitie
to
eternitie
,
I
also
wil
for
all
eternities
sing
his
mercies
.
And
a
little
after
:
How
great
in
the
holes
of
the
rocke
is
the
multitude
of
weetnesse
,
the
fulnesse
of
grace
,
the
perfection
of
vertues
?
Thus
farre
deuout
Bernard
.
Truely
great
,
and
very
delectable
is
the
sweetnesse
of
these
woundes
,
honie
in
the
mouth
,
melodie
in
the
eares
,
and
exultation
in
the
heart
;
from
discoursing
whereof
I
am
most
loath
to
surcease
:
but
my
Text
calleth
mee
away
.
As
for
vse
and
application
of
this
Doctrine
,
I
make
no
other
,
then
that
which
your
religious
hearts
haue
made
already
,
by
your
constant
faith
in
it
,
by
your
inflamed
affections
of
loue
to
it
.
But
before
I
proceed
to
my
other
parts
of
my
Text
,
giue
mee
leaue
to
giue
a
glaunce
at
the
Popish
abomination
,
set
vp
by
humane
inuention
,
against
the
most
dreadfull
sacrifice
of
this
blood
of
the
crosse
.
Let
vs
pause
a
little
.
How
much
more
the
blood
of
Christ
?
The
Pontificians
and
Romanists
,
who
out
of
a
Pharisaicall
pride
,
haue
accursed
and
condemned
all
the
Reformed
Churches
;
for
the
setting
forth
and
extolling
the
Maiestie
,
and
efficacie
of
this
blood
:
and
of
the
infinite
energie
of
the
one
and
onely
sacrifice
,
and
daily
oblation
of
the
Christians
:
haue
withall
,
by
their
most
prophane
and
idolatrous
sacrifice
of
their
Masse
,
(
against
which
,
I
haue
more
largely
discoursed
out
of
their
owne
Canons
,
in
my
Booke
of
Motiues
)
as
much
as
lieth
in
them
,
conculcated
the
blood
of
the
New
Testament
,
and
prophaned
the
one
and
onely
sacrifice
of
the
crosse
.
Antiochus
was
a
figure
of
Antichrist
,
hee
tooke
away
and
abolished
for
his
time
,
the
daily
sacrifice
of
the
Iewes
.
The
Romane
Antichrist
(
Romane
Anticrist
I
call
him
,
for
we
must
vnderstand
,
that
there
haue
beene
,
are
,
and
shall
bee
,
Antichrists
of
different
kindes
)
hath
by
might
and
maine
,
oppugned
the
onely
sacrifice
of
the
crosse
,
although
with
many
faire
pretences
,
he
would
seeme
to
magnifie
the
same
in
his
Massing
sacrifice
:
but
alas
,
how
vainely
?
Briefly
,
let
vs
consider
,
the
Christians
sacrifice
of
the
crosse
,
either
as
it
is
an
expiation
for
sinne
,
or
a
satisfaction
for
punishment
,
a
meanes
of
reconcilement
,
a
merit
of
saluation
,
a
powerfull
deliuerance
from
Satan
;
and
we
shall
finde
,
that
in
all
these
respects
,
and
diuers
others
(
not
now
to
be
stood
vpon
)
that
the
man
of
Sin
,
and
his
Disciples
,
haue
most
abhominably
depraued
,
prophaned
,
contemned
it
.
The
sacrifice
of
the
crosse
,
being
of
an
immense
valour
,
and
infinite
efficacie
:
Christ
the
high
Priest
,
by
one
onely
oblation
of
it
,
in
the
consummation
of
the
world
,
appeared
for
the
destruction
of
sinne
,
saith
the
Apostle
in
the
ninth
Chapter
to
the
Hebrewes
,
and
the
26.
verse
,
adding
in
the
very
next
verse
,
thus
:
(
Et
quemadmodum
)
And
euen
as
it
is
appointed
,
for
man
once
to
die
,
and
after
followeth
iudgement
:
so
Christ
was
once
offered
,
to
take
away
the
sinnes
of
many
.
And
so
frequent
are
the
passages
of
holy
Scripture
,
for
Christs
once
offering
himselfe
,
by
once
shedding
of
his
blood
,
and
for
his
one
oblation
onely
,
and
once
onely
to
be
made
;
that
it
is
altogether
needlesse
to
adde
more
,
for
the
confirmation
of
so
euident
a
truth
.
The
Aduersaries
themselues
cannot
denie
it
,
though
to
their
owne
confusion
:
for
by
their
new
daily
consecratings
of
Christ
,
I
should
say
,
their
daily
new
makings
productions
,
factions
,
creations
,
and
fieries
of
Christ
,
they
are
confounded
.
In
such
wordes
and
phrases
they
delight
,
and
such
wordes
their
Transubstantiation
requireth
:
for
it
is
impossible
to
conceiue
a
substantiall
Transubstantiation
,
without
a
substantiall
production
,
making
,
faction
,
or
fierie
of
that
substance
,
into
which
the
other
substance
which
is
destroied
,
is
transubstantiated
,
&
substantially
conuerted
.
And
this
is
so
manifest
,
in
the
very
principles
of
all
Philosophy
,
that
the
learnedst
of
them
cannot
denie
it
:
and
yet
,
it
is
impossible
,
and
implieth
,
that
Christ
,
who
was
,
and
is
substantially
subsistent
,
before
all
their
consecrations
,
should
be
by
the
same
,
substantially
produced
,
made
,
created
:
for
,
a
substantiall
production
and
making
,
is
the
bringing
,
and
drawing
out
of
a
substance
;
from
a
no
being
,
to
a
being
;
from
a
non
esse
,
to
an
esse
;
from
a
no
existence
,
to
an
existence
:
how
then
is
it
conceiueable
,
that
Christs
substance
,
which
was
,
and
is
before
their
consecrations
,
should
be
made
,
and
produced
by
the
same
?
Againe
,
it
is
vnconceiueable
,
that
there
should
be
a
new
production
of
any
substance
,
or
Person
,
and
perfect
supposit
,
without
the
making
of
a
new
subsistence
,
or
existence
:
Tell
me
then
,
O
all
ye
Pontificians
,
what
new
subsistences
?
what
new
existencies
are
made
of
one
Christ
,
by
your
productiue
,
creatiue
,
and
factiue
consecrations
in
your
massing
fiue
words
?
But
were
these
daily
,
and
infinitely
multiplied
consecrations
,
productions
,
reall
offerings
,
reall
desitions
,
cessations
,
remoouings
,
destructions
of
Christ
vpon
your
Altars
,
in
your
stomakes
,
possible
,
as
you
pretend
and
beleeue
;
yet
,
by
them
all
,
it
is
manifest
,
and
as
cleare
as
the
Sunne
,
that
you
rest
not
in
the
one
,
and
only
reall
sacrifice
of
the
crosse
;
but
that
you
require
daily
new
reall
offerings
,
consecratings
of
Christ
vpon
your
altars
.
And
can
any
one
of
them
,
be
so
impudently
ignorant
,
as
to
affirme
,
that
the
consecrations
,
oblations
,
consumptions
,
desitions
of
Christ
,
which
they
make
daily
,
and
multiply
infinitely
vpon
their
prophane
altars
,
and
in
their
stomacks
,
should
be
the
same
in
number
,
and
indiuiduall
vnity
,
with
the
making
of
Christ
in
his
mothers
wombe
?
with
that
offering
of
Christ
,
that
consumption
,
&
death
of
Christ
,
vpon
the
crosse
?
with
that
resurrection
of
Christ
from
the
Sepulcher
?
Beleeue
me
,
Christian
and
Catholike
Hearers
,
when
it
is
demanded
of
them
whether
their
sacrifice
,
oblation
,
making
,
and
consumption
of
Christ
,
be
the
same
in
indiuiduall
vnity
,
and
number
with
that
,
vpon
the
crosse
,
they
are
so
pusled
,
to
solue
the
knot
,
that
they
know
not
,
what
to
answere
;
Sometimes
,
they
will
say
,
it
is
the
same
in
number
,
and
indiuiduall
vnity
.
(
I
meane
,
as
it
is
a
sacrifice
,
an
oblation
,
and
offering
,
)
with
that
of
the
crosse
:
but
who
would
not
scorne
this
?
who
would
not
contemne
such
ignorant
folly
?
the
absurdity
of
the
paradox
,
ouerthroweth
it selfe
:
for
there
,
Christ
was
truly
,
and
naturallie
borne
,
by
a
substantiall
generation
from
his
mother
;
here
,
by
an
imagined
substantiall
action
,
and
fieri
,
of
their
owne
,
which
maketh
nothing
,
which
was
not
before
,
and
that
,
which
is
already
made
,
in
one
place
,
by
one
substantiall
action
,
it
is
impossible
,
that
it
should
be
made
often
by
many
other
substantiall
actions
in
other
places
,
vnlesse
we
will
make
many
things
substantially
to
be
one
,
and
one
to
be
many
substantially
:
which
insoldeth
contradiction
,
as
all
Philosophers
will
easily
grant
:
There
,
Christs
blood
was
truly
and
really
shed
,
here
in
imagination
,
and
seeming
onely
,
as
themselues
confesse
:
there
,
his
body
was
truly
rent
:
here
,
onely
in
shew
:
there
,
Christ
truly
died
,
and
so
really
,
that
(
in
triduo
)
in
those
three
daies
,
whilest
his
body
lay
in
the
graue
,
he
was
not
man
:
(
for
such
a
dissolution
,
such
a
separation
of
the
soule
of
Christ
,
from
his
body
,
which
true
death
requireth
was
necessary
for
our
redemption
,
)
here
,
he
only
ceaseth
to
be
,
(
as
they
vnintelligibly
teach
)
by
an
imaginary
cessation
in
their
boxes
,
pixes
,
stomackes
,
when
their
species
,
their
formes
of
bread
,
and
wine
,
as
whitenesse
,
roundnesse
,
sauour
,
relish
,
doe
cease
,
are
corrupted
,
and
changed
.
Some
others
therefore
pretending
more
learning
than
wisedome
,
or
Christian
pietie
;
grant
indeed
,
that
there
is
not
the
same
indiuiduall
,
and
numerall
oblation
of
Christ
,
vpon
their
Altars
,
with
that
of
the
Crosse
:
which
their
answere
indeed
is
most
true
,
according
to
their
owne
principles
,
both
in
Philosophie
,
and
Diuinitie
;
but
discouereth
the
ignominie
of
their
abhomination
,
in
setting
vp
,
and
teaching
a
new
daily
,
reall
sacrificing
,
and
oblation
of
their
imagined
Christ
vpon
their
Altars
;
against
that
infinitely
valuable
offering
,
and
sacrificing
of
Christ
Iesus
vpon
the
Crosse
:
by
which
once
only
,
really
,
truly
,
corporally
,
carnally
offered
,
all
faithfull
beleeuers
are
iustified
,
and
sanctified
,
are
consummated
,
by
the
eternall
might
and
neuer
dying
energie
of
his
bloud
.
I
pretermit
here
,
to
stand
to
demand
of
them
,
why
they
doe
so
vainly
require
a
reall
and
truly
Propitiatorie
sacrifice
of
Christ
,
in
Person
,
and
Substance
,
vpon
their
Altars
;
to
apply
the
vertue
of
Christ
sacrificed
vpon
the
Crosse
:
for
how
vaine
is
it
to
imagine
,
that
the
same
cannot
be
applied
by
a
liuely
faith
,
and
the
vse
of
a
holy
Sacrament
of
Bread
and
Wine
,
as
it
is
applied
by
Faith
and
Water
in
Baptisme
?
I
pretermit
to
charge
them
,
that
they
are
not
yet
accorded
what
to
affirme
,
or
how
to
teach
,
in
what
action
of
their
Masse
,
this
their
sacrifice
doth
consist
,
whether
in
their
making
of
Christ
by
their
Priests
fiue
mightie
wordes
;
or
by
their
Eleuation
of
their
Christ
vp
,
or
by
their
laying
downe
of
their
Christ
vppon
their
Altars
;
these
thinges
I
omit
,
with
much
more
to
like
purpose
,
because
the
out-running
of
time
causeth
me
to
be
briefe
.
But
you
know
Christian
and
Catholike
Auditors
,
that
they
(
not
without
cause
)
contend
for
this
their
reall
,
and
vnbloudy
sacrificing
of
their
Christ
;
as
for
the
very
liuelyhood
,
and
soule
of
their
religion
:
you
are
not
ignorant
,
how
many
zelouse
and
renowned
Professors
of
the
only
bloud
of
the
Crosse
,
haue
and
doe
daily
shed
their
blouds
,
for
the
denying
of
their
prophane
sacrifice
:
doubtlesse
,
then
they
doe
,
greatly
magnifie
it
;
they
doe
greatly
extoll
it
:
Heare
me
how
;
and
first
,
touching
the
expiation
,
and
remission
of
sinne
,
I
will
deliuer
vnto
you
,
a
position
,
or
rather
a
Paradoxe
of
theirs
(
for
so
I
am
assured
it
will
seeme
vnto
you
.
)
Notwithstanding
this
their
faith
of
their
Christ
,
truly
and
really
sacrificed
in
their
Masse
,
yet
they
doe
denie
power
,
valour
,
and
efficacie
to
this
their
sacrifice
,
to
take
away
the
sinnes
of
such
as
doe
offer
it
,
or
of
such
,
for
whom
it
is
offered
;
what
said
I
,
that
they
denie
this
their
sacrifice
to
expiate
the
sinnes
of
the
offerers
,
or
for
whom
it
is
offered
?
I
so
said
indeede
,
and
it
is
most
true
:
but
yet
they
grant
vnto
it
forsooth
,
force
,
and
energie
,
to
abolish
,
to
wipe
away
smaller
sinnes
,
veniall
sinnes
;
such
as
are
also
taken
away
by
their
holy
Bread
;
by
their
sprinkling
of
ashes
vpon
Ashwednesday
;
by
their
daily
lustrall
,
prophane
holy
water
;
by
their
knocking
of
their
breasts
;
by
their
Priests
blessings
;
by
their
signing
of
themselues
with
the
signe
of
the
Crosse
;
by
bearing
of
Palmes
vpon
Palme-Sunday
;
and
Candells
vpon
Candle-masse-day
;
and
by
innumerable
such
their
sacramentalls
,
(
deuised
by
humane
presumption
)
as
themselues
teach
,
and
confesse
.
Whereby
it
is
manifest
,
that
they
doe
equalize
the
sprinkling
of
their
lustrall
water
,
of
their
prophane
ashes
,
in
the
effect
of
taking
away
of
veniall
smaller
sinners
,
with
the
true
and
reall
offering
of
their
Christ
,
their
God
and
Man
,
sacrificed
,
offered
vpon
their
Altars
.
O
most
prophane
,
most
ignorant
folly
of
these
men
!
their
Christ
and
God
,
truly
offered
as
a
propitiatorie
sacrifice
for
sinnes
by
them
;
and
being
the
very
same
with
that
of
the
Crosse
;
for
expiating
of
sinnes
,
doth
no
more
,
worketh
,
effecteth
,
no
more
than
the
base
,
seruile
,
contemptible
ashes
of
a
few
Palmes
,
magically
by
them
consecrated
vpon
Palme-Sunday
,
and
sprinkled
vpon
their
counterfeit
humiliats
vpon
Ashwednesday
.
But
to
proceede
,
heare
yet
somewhat
,
as
prodigious
as
the
former
,
if
not
more
.
If
either
Priest
,
or
Lay
person
,
wanting
oportunitie
of
a
Ghostly
Father
,
to
confesse
their
secret
sinnes
vnto
;
shall
with
a
most
contrite
heart
lamenting
,
&
bewailing
their
sinnes
,
acknowledging
them
,
confessing
them
to
God
,
offer
,
or
receiue
this
their
sacrifice
,
with
such
a
liuing
faith
,
and
humble
deuotion
,
as
they
require
;
yet
this
their
Christ
and
God
,
there
so
offered
as
a
sacrifice
Propitiatorie
,
there
so
receiued
as
their
diuine
Sacrament
,
doth
not
sanctifie
the
conscience
,
doth
not
expiate
the
sinne
of
the
consciences
of
such
Offerers
,
of
such
Receiuers
of
it
,
as
it
is
a
sacrifice
,
or
as
it
is
a
Sacrament
;
but
,
as
it
is
ioyned
withall
,
with
an
implicite
and
vertuall
purpose
,
and
resolution
of
the
offerers
,
of
the
receiuers
,
to
confesse
their
sinnes
to
some
approued
Priest
,
some
Ghostly
Father
:
and
if
there
be
any
Papall
or
Episcopall
reseruation
(
a
custome
,
a
most
detestable
custome
,
very
frequent
amongst
them
)
then
forsooth
,
the
vertuall
and
implicit
vow
must
bee
to
confesse
to
such
Bishops
,
to
the
holy
Father
,
and
haue
accordingly
absolution
from
them
,
or
else
,
this
their
Christ
,
as
a
propitiatorie
Sacrifice
,
expiateth
not
their
sinnes
,
as
a
diuine
Sacrament
sanctifieth
not
their
consciences
.
O
most
blasphemous
doctrine
,
eneruating
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
deuised
only
to
set
vp
the
Papall
Soueraigntie
,
and
their
Antichristian
pride
,
to
the
horrible
ruine
and
inconsolable
affliction
of
innumerable
soules
!
O
most
blasphemous
doctrine
,
and
damnable
follie
rather
than
heresie
!
The
bloud
of
Christ
truly
offered
,
truly
receiued
,
by
soules
confessing
sinne
to
God
,
lamenting
sinne
for
the
loue
of
God
;
cannot
,
doth
not
abolish
sinne
,
without
implicite
relation
,
to
a
Papall
absolution
;
if
it
shall
please
his
Holinesse
,
to
restrain
such
sinnes
,
to
reserue
such
cases
for
his
owne
absolution
,
and
not
without
some
pecuniarie
mulcts
,
as
the
practise
(
Romanae
Curiae
,
&
taxe
,
Apostolicae
Cancellariae
.
)
Of
the
Roman
Court
,
and
the
taxe
,
of
the
Apostolicall
Chancerie
do
euince
.
Catholike
and
religious
Hearers
,
what
can
bee
accounted
impious
doctrine
,
against
the
only
sacrifice
of
the
Crosse
,
if
this
be
not
to
be
esteemed
;
to
bee
accounted
for
such
?
To
proceede
;
As
touching
the
satisfaction
for
punishment
of
sinne
:
Good
God!
their
Altar-sacrifice
is
weaker
than
their
fatuouse
Purgatorie-fire
,
than
their
vaine
Chimerian
Indulgences
(
in
the
founding
the
tresurie
whereof
,
although
Christ
be
the
principall
,
yet
he
hath
his
consorts
and
fellowes
,
Saint
Stephens
,
Saint
Laurences
,
&c.
to
set
vp
and
inrich
their
vaine
checker
)
for
these
forsooth
,
can
take
away
and
satisfie
,
by
the
way
of
Iustice
,
of
perfect
requital
and
repaiment
for
all
punishment
remaining
and
due
to
sinne
:
Yea
further
,
the
profession
and
solemne
vow
of
a
Monasticall
life
,
in
the
handes
and
presence
of
the
Superiours
of
such
houses
,
Monasteries
,
Nunries
,
is
a
compleate
and
perfect
expiating
of
all
punishment
for
sinne
,
as
absolute
as
Baptisme
it selfe
.
But
their
Christ
offered
in
their
Masse
,
as
it
is
a
sacrifice
,
doth
not
this
,
effecteth
not
this
;
neither
in
the
offerers
,
nor
in
them
,
for
whome
it
is
offered
,
nor
in
the
receiuers
.
What
said
I
?
doth
it
not
so
?
yes
but
it
doth
:
I
haue
forgotten
my selfe
,
I
confesse
it
:
it
doth
satisfie
for
punishment
;
but
when
?
but
when
?
Marry
,
when
this
their
Christ
is
offered
and
sacrificed
vpon
priuiledged
Altars
,
as
at
Loretto
,
at
Sichem
,
at
S.
Laurences
,
at
S.
Sebastians
without
the
Gates
of
Rome
:
then
,
then
;
and
vpon
such
Altars
,
by
the
holy
Father
of
Rome
,
priuiledged
for
such
ends
:
Christ
sacrificed
,
doth
,
and
can
satisfie
for
all
punishment
of
sinne
;
then
he
can
worke
a
plenarie
Indulgence
,
and
deliuerie
of
soule
vpon
soule
,
out
of
Purgatorie
:
Further
,
when
this
their
Christ
is
offered
and
sacrificed
by
English
Priests
in
this
Kingdome
,
vpon
Wednesdaies
,
and
Fridaies
;
prouided
they
haue
a
sanctified
Medall
,
or
Crosse
for
that
purpose
,
blessed
by
their
holy
Father
,
either
with
them
,
or
lying
vpon
their
Altar
:
then
forsooth
,
vpon
such
an
indulgent
Indulgence
,
from
the
most
prophane
Baron
of
the
Roman
Checker
,
Christ
can
,
and
doth
satisfie
for
the
punishment
and
paine
due
to
sin
:
how
poore
?
how
weak
?
how
contemptible
is
their
altar
Christ
?
their
masse
sacrifice
?
which
needeth
the
addition
of
such
an
Indulgencer
,
to
satisfie
for
the
paine
and
punishment
of
sinne
?
weaker
,
and
feebler
,
is
this
sacrifice
,
then
their
Ordinarie
Priests
,
with
their
blessed
Graines
,
of
which
some
bring
into
this
Kingdome
Decades
of
thousands
,
for
so
many
thousands
of
soules
,
to
deliuer
them
from
all
paine
of
sinne
inioyned
,
or
to
bee
inioyned
(
by
ghostly
Fathers
)
or
to
bee
endured
in
Purgatorie
.
But
as
for
the
powerfull
Friers
,
Monkes
,
and
Ignatians
(
called
Iesuites
,
but
haue
not
a
dramme
of
Iesus
his
spirit
in
them
)
they
forsooth
,
in
their
very
Persons
;
and
knotted
girdels
surpasse
this
their
Christ
,
this
their
Propitiatorie
Sacrifice
:
for
whosoeuer
shall
make
a
first
confession
How
ambitious
is
this
humour
of
Ignatians
,
of
Benedictine
but
vnbenedict
Monks
,
for
Precedencie
before
their
Secular
Priests
,
in
so
high
a
priuiledge
and
preeminencie
of
their
Persons
?
but
rather
,
how
impious
and
detestable
a
practise
is
this
,
of
the
Roman
Sinagogue
,
not
to
equalize
only
,
but
to
preferre
the
Persons
of
weake
men
before
,
and
aboue
the
Person
of
their
Christ
,
of
their
God
of
Maiestie
,
offered
,
sacrificed
vpon
their
Propitiatorie
Altars
?
how
mysticall
euery
knot
of
their
Saint
Francis
his
powerfull
girdells
are
,
it
is
superuacaneous
to
deliuer
;
Weare
it
next
your
skinne
or
shirt
you
haue
such
a
pardon
:
weare
it
longer
,
greater
is
your
pardon
;
pray
vpon
all
the
knots
,
maruailous
are
your
pardons
:
you
shal
die
no
sodain
death
.
O
fopperies
!
Concerning
reconcilement
to
God
,
mediation
to
God
:
Alas
,
neither
Christ
in
their
Masse
,
nor
vpon
the
crosse
is
with
them
sufficient
.
Hear
the
Remists
the
deprauers
Timothie
,
(
Opus
est
Mediatore
,
ad
Mediatorem
,
nec
nobis
alia
est
vtilior
,
Maria
)
We
haue
neede
of
a
Mediator
,
to
our
Mediator
,
and
none
more
profitable
,
then
Marie
.
I
acknowledge
,
that
they
cite
these
words
,
as
out
of
deuout
Bernard
;
but
considering
what
I
haue
related
out
of
him
here
aboue
,
and
how
contrarie
this
their
vaine
position
is
,
to
his
doctrine
,
I
cannot
but
thinke
that
the
workes
of
that
learned
man
are
corrupted
,
and
depraued
:
but
howsoeuer
(
Bernardus
non
vidit
omnia
)
especially
in
that
corrupt
and
most
ignorant
age
:
And
the
doctrine
is
so
impious
,
so
hereticall
,
that
if
all
Austens
,
all
Bernards
,
all
Gregories
,
all
Angells
from
heauen
should
affirme
it
,
we
were
to
denounce
vnto
them
the
Anatheme
of
S.
Paul
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Galathians
.
For
,
if
they
vnderstand
this
their
position
of
supposed
and
absolute
necessitie
,
because
so
appointed
by
God
,
that
we
must
needes
haue
a
Mediatour
to
our
Mediatour
,
or
else
that
in
respect
of
our
owne
vnworthinesse
,
and
sinnes
,
wee
must
needes
haue
a
Mediatour
to
our
Mediatour
,
it
is
the
most
blasphemous
heresie
that
euer
was
maintained
,
worthy
to
be
persecuted
with
fire
and
fagot
,
for
it
ouerthroweth
the
whole
worke
of
our
Redemption
;
and
I
doe
boldly
here
pronounce
,
agreeing
to
sacred
Scriptures
,
and
doctrine
of
all
ancient
Churches
;
that
whosoeuer
defendeth
such
necessitie
of
a
Mediatour
to
our
Mediatour
,
he
is
fallen
from
Christ
,
he
is
fallen
from
Grace
,
and
ought
not
to
bee
esteemed
,
named
,
or
called
a
Christian
.
As
for
you
Catholike
Auditors
,
it
is
sufficient
,
and
abundantly
sufficient
,
that
you
haue
an
Aduocate
,
a
Redeemer
,
a
Sauiour
:
An
Aduocate
of
their
Aduocates
and
Aduocatesses
:
a
Sauiour
of
their
Sauiours
and
Sauiouresses
:
a
Redeemer
of
their
Redeemeresses
,
who
inuiteth
,
exhorteth
,
yea
commandeth
,
All
that
are
heauy
loaden
,
and
labour
vnder
the
burthen
of
sinne
,
to
come
vnto
him
,
promising
that
hee
will
refresh
them
,
comfort
them
,
&c.
But
as
for
such
as
are
diffident
in
his
promises
,
doubtfull
of
his
mercies
,
distrustfull
of
his
gratious
admittance
;
let
them
keep
themselues
still
to
their
Sauiouresses
and
Aduocatesses
;
which
as
is
manifest
,
cannot
heare
them
,
but
by
the
appointment
,
power
,
and
authoritie
of
him
,
who
commandeth
vs
,
with
all
confidence
to
approch
to
him
with
a
firme
faith
,
a
full
trust
to
enter
into
the
holies
,
euen
vnto
himselfe
our
high
Priest
,
and
only
Sheep-heard
of
our
soules
.
I
must
be
briefe
.
As
touching
the
merit
of
saluation
,
deliuerance
from
Satans
power
;
which
wee
Catholike
Christians
confesse
,
and
professe
to
be
only
,
and
effectually
through
the
power
of
the
death
and
bloud
of
Iesus
Christ
vpon
the
Crosse
:
I
should
trifle
the
time
(
which
I
see
is
ouer-spent
)
if
I
should
stand
to
shew
how
by
their
confidence
and
trust
in
their
Vowes
,
Pilgrimages
,
Inuocations
to
fellow-Seruants
:
How
by
their
Agnus-Deies
,
the
very
excrements
of
Satan
;
their
idle
Relikes
,
wooden
Crosses
,
Images
,
lustrall
Water
,
hallowed
Salt
,
Palmes
,
Candles
,
they
doe
daily
and
infinitely
derogate
from
the
might
&
power
of
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
once
crucified
:
putting
more
,
or
at
least
equall
affiance
in
such
deuised
trumperies
(
I
dare
call
Crosses
and
Images
trumperics
,
if
adored
,
if
worshipped
,
otherwise
not
)
as
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
as
in
their
very
Christ
sacrificed
vpon
their
Masse-Altars
,
that
herein
I
doe
not
belie
them
,
it
is
as
manifest
as
Noon
daie
▪
for
they
will
not
hold
nor
account
him
a
good
Roman
Catholike
,
who
doth
not
vse
,
practise
,
esteeme
,
and
put
affiance
in
them
;
against
Fire
,
Water
,
Deuill
,
and
all
the
power
of
that
damned
crew
.
And
how
cleare
it
is
,
that
more
priuiledged
Altars
,
and
Pilgrimages
,
for
safetie
,
for
deliuerance
;
more
frequent
oblations
for
helpe
and
assistance
,
are
made
by
the
Papistically
superstitious
,
and
allowed
by
their
Bishops
and
Priests
,
vnto
their
Saints
,
and
vnto
the
blessed
Virgin
Marie
,
then
vnto
God
,
then
to
Christ
,
our
only
sacrifice
?
I
know
some
here
in
England
,
but
I
may
not
name
them
,
who
often
,
frequently
,
and
confidently
will
set
vp
in
their
gardens
,
orchards
,
galleries
,
chambers
,
closets
,
certaine
small
wooden
pictures
,
framed
like
to
that
of
Sichem
,
and
there
they
will
make
often
Pilgrimages
to
the
same
euery
day
,
to
obtaine
deliuerance
of
some
grieuous
dangers
and
disasters
:
but
alas
,
as
yet
they
haue
not
been
heard
;
they
haue
not
been
holpen
.
Worthy
obseruing
is
that
superstitious
deuotion
vsed
long
agoe
at
Canterburie
,
and
at
the
shrine
of
Thomas
Becket
,
where
the
offerings
and
oblations
made
to
him
in
a
very
large
degree
,
yea
by
ten
degrees
and
more
,
exceeded
the
like
,
made
to
the
euer
blessed
Virgin
Marie
,
and
those
which
were
made
to
her
,
in
a
greater
degree
surpassed
those
which
were
offered
and
consecrated
to
Christ
himselfe
,
the
one
and
only
Sauiour
,
and
sacrifice
of
all
Catholike
Christians
.
No
man
,
Catholike
hearers
,
can
better
testifie
how
weake
their
confidence
and
trust
is
in
Christ
and
his
bloud
,
than
such
,
as
haue
beene
acquainted
with
their
miserable
miseries
,
or
rather
seruile
miseries
,
and
inconsolable
worships
.
Wherein
(
beleeue
me
,
most
worthy
Auditours
)
what
with
their
vaine
confidence
in
vnsound
Indulgences
,
their
imperfect
and
stained
merits
,
their
absolute
and
compleat
numbering
of
all
their
sinnes
,
and
circumstances
changing
the
nature
of
sinne
in
their
auricular
confessions
(
a
matter
morally
impossible
)
the
deuouter
sexe
amongst
them
,
or
rather
the
more
superstitious
sexe
,
leade
such
inconsolable
liues
,
that
any
compassiue
mind
and
heart
knowing
the
same
,
cannot
but
compassionate
their
wretched
and
vncomfortable
seruitudes
:
no
maruaile
of
this
,
seeing
they
serue
Gods
,
who
cannot
,
giue
them
rest
by
day
nor
by
night
,
such
as
the
Prophet
Ieremie
hath
long
agoe
fore mentioned
.
But
thou
,
O
England
!
reioyce
,
for
that
thou
art
deliuered
from
these
impure
Idolatries
,
and
Romish
slaueries
;
and
that
the
light
of
Christ
crucified
is
illuminated
ouer
thee
,
that
thou
maiest
serue
him
without
feare
:
but
reioycing
through
their
incredulitie
:
and
how
fell
they
into
not
permanent
in
goodnesse
,
in
workes
of
sanctification
.
Remember
how
the
Romans
were
cut
off
?
Through
incredulitie
:
and
how
fell
they
into
that
?
Because
they
did
not
abide
in
goodnesse
,
and
workes
of
sanctitie
:
This
is
that
,
which
our
Apostle
affirmeth
of
the
Iewes
,
and
threatneth
to
the
Romanes
,
in
the
12
Chapter
of
his
Epistle
,
directed
to
them
,
Reade
it
.
Reioyce
,
O
England
,
(
to
make
a
little
digression
here
,
to
another
kinde
of
blood
)
that
thou
art
deliuered
from
the
Papall
tyrant●e
;
but
reioycing
,
bee
still
watchfull
,
against
this
ambitious
Monarch
;
this
most
bloody
Bishop
;
The
deuill
is
a
busie
Bishop
,
saith
the
old
prouerbe
,
I
may
say
,
that
this
Bishop
,
is
a
busie
deuill
,
against
the
Church
and
State
of
this
Kingdome
.
This
proud
Bishop
,
hath
prophaned
the
blood
of
the
crosse
,
he
hath
set
vp
his
prophane
,
and
his
imaginarie
blood
of
his
Idolatrous
altars
:
But
what
?
proceedeth
hee
no
further
?
medleth
he
with
no
other
blood
?
Oh
that
it
were
so
!
England
,
is
well
acquainted
,
with
his
proceedings
,
what
they
haue
beene
,
and
how
that
in
these
later
times
,
there
haue
beene
no
bloody
Commotions
,
and
horrible
Massacres
,
in
which
the
Holy
Fathers
fingers
haue
not
beene
.
And
what
,
O
yee
Britaines
?
(
for
so
I
will
call
you
,
mentioning
your
late
happie
deliuerie
,
when
as
English
,
you
should
haue
beene
ruinated
and
destroyed
;
but
as
Brytaines
for
the
fauour
of
your
GOD
ouer
your
Britaine
Soueraigne
and
his
Royall
off-spring
you
were
protected
,
deliuered
.
)
Doe
you
thinke
,
that
the
Holy
Father
,
was
not
acquainted
,
with
that
most
hellish
attempt
of
those
smokie
locusts
?
Could
GARNET
,
GERRARD
,
TESMOND
,
with
their
Ignatianed
Disciples
be
actours
,
principals
?
Could
STANLEY
,
OWEN
,
know
it
?
Could
Antwerpe
,
and
the
Low-countrie
mutter
of
some
great
Alteration
,
not
of
the
heauens
,
but
of
Englands
Scepter
?
Could
PARSONS
,
CRESWELL
,
bee
not
ignoraunt
?
And
could
it
be
concealed
from
AQVAVIVA
,
the
Generall
of
the
holy
quarell
;
or
he
hide
it
from
the
holy
Father
,
Paule
the
fifth
?
Who
will
once
imagine
this
▪
that
hath
beene
but
once
acquainted
with
the
Ignatians
manner
of
proceedings
?
And
what
doth
the
holy
Father
now
rest
?
hath
the
late
most
happy
and
miraculous
deliuerie
of
all
Englands
glorie
,
daunted
his
courage
so
;
that
hee
will
proiect
no
more
villanie
of
like
kind
?
God
grant
it
be
so
:
but
,
it
is
to
be
doubted
,
he
will
not
surcease
,
vntill
hee
be
consumed
by
the
spirit
of
Gods
mouth
,
as
most
infallibly
he
will
one
day
.
Idle
are
the
prophecies
which
flie
vp
and
downe
,
especially
amongst
the
speudo-Iesuited
and
Ignatianed
Papists
:
I
will
relate
none
of
them
because
I
contemne
them
as
bables
,
vnworthy
of
the
eares
of
so
honourable
an
audience
:
yet
giue
mee
leaue
to
mention
a
bloudie
peece
of
one
of
them
;
and
a
little
to
demurre
vpon
the
same
.
A
Pope
forsooth
shall
fight
against
two
English
Kings
,
and
with
bloudie
handes
shall
blesse
England
.
The
most
gratious
God
,
as
he
hath
confounded
them
often
,
and
who
broke
their
necks
the
fifth
of
Nouember
,
doth
doubtlesse
suffer
them
to
bee
deluded
in
their
vaine
prophecies
,
and
will
,
I
most
humbly
trust
and
pray
,
subuert
all
their
wicked
enterprises
.
But
seeing
prophecies
are
mysticall
,
and
mystically
to
be
interpreted
,
especially
such
as
are
paper
ones
,
described
by
pictures
,
as
they
say
,
this
is
:
I
will
deliuer
my
conceit
what
I
thinke
,
may
be
vnderstood
,
by
these
bloudie
handes
of
the
Pope
;
For
my
part
I
cannot
better
interpret
the
same
,
then
thus
:
That
by
the
Popes
bloudie
handes
,
the
Ignatians
are
to
be
vnderstood
,
and
by
the
bloudie
fingers
their
Ignatianed
,
and
disloyall
foranized
Disciples
,
be
they
Priests
or
Laikes
,
(
I
alwaies
except
temperate
and
moderate
Recusants
,
of
which
,
I
know
,
some
of
the
Laitie
,
to
be
very
true
hearted
and
loyall
English
,
as
likewise
I
cannot
doubt
,
but
that
there
are
some
moderate
Secular
Priests
,
I
meane
such
,
as
are
vn-Ignatianed
.
)
For
,
were
not
such
,
and
only
such
Ignatians
,
and
Ignatianed
,
the
Powder-Miners
,
and
Powder-Locusts
?
Are
not
such
only
,
or
most
singularly
those
,
who
euery
where
,
at
home
,
and
abrode
,
in
forraigne
Countries
,
doe
seeke
to
disgrace
the
Magistrates
(
Soueraigne
not
excepted
)
of
these
Kingdomes
,
and
if
any
of
them
haue
any
vice
or
defect
(
and
who
liueth
without
some
one
at
least
?
)
they
will
aggrauate
the
same
;
yea
,
and
rather
then
faile
,
they
will
deuise
new
,
vaine
,
and
those
most
foule
and
filthy
,
in
the
forge
of
their
owne
wicked
braines
(
oh
how
meete
is
it
that
such
as
are
eminent
should
be
careful
of
their
conuersations
when
they
are
besieged
with
such
malitious
Zoiles
?
)
Such
only
,
or
chiefly
,
are
they
,
who
will
gladly
talke
or
presage
of
the
decay
of
our
shipping
;
delightfully
reason
of
the
consuming
of
our
Kings
treasure
,
pleasingly
commune
of
the
decay
,
and
fall
of
martiall
men
;
ioyfully
listen
after
mutterings
,
or
any
least
discontents
,
in
the
mutinous
multitudes
;
against
gouernment
or
Gouernours
:
these
are
they
,
who
gladly
discourse
of
forraigne
powers
,
forraine
preparations
:
these
are
they
who
vnwillingly
and
fearefully
hear
of
the
admirable
prowesse
and
martiall
magnanimitie
of
our
most
hopefull
Alexander
,
or
rather
desired
Constantine
,
and
most
deare
Prince
Henrie
:
these
are
they
(
to
be
short
)
who
delight
in
nothing
more
,
take
content
,
and
hope
in
nothing
more
,
than
to
heare
of
fallings
out
and
quarrels
betwixt
those
of
the
Scottish
and
English
Nation
;
hoping
,
desiring
,
and
expecting
,
that
from
personall
quarrells
they
may
come
to
bee
Nationall
.
Honourable
,
right
Worshipfull
,
and
most
worthie
Christians
,
all
that
are
here
present
,
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
;
I
beseech
you
all
,
in
respect
of
your
dutie
to
Christ
Crucified
,
in
respect
of
your
dutie
to
your
Soueraigne
,
loue
to
your
Countrie
,
care
of
your
owne
safeties
,
and
the
flourishing
state
of
Christs
Church
and
Ghospel
,
haue
no
such
quarrels
amongst
you
;
and
if
any
such
arise
,
appease
them
speedily
,
end
them
Christianly
:
Beleeue
it
,
beleeue
it
,
nothing
will
please
the
Ignatianed
Papists
more
(
I
except
still
the
temperate
)
nothing
can
be
more
gratefull
to
their
holy
Father
,
then
to
vnderstand
that
the
Subiects
of
two
so
honourable
nations
,
vnder
so
peaceable
,
so
gratious
,
and
so
religious
a
Soueraigne
should
haue
any
iarres
and
contentions
.
How
often
,
Catholike
hearers
,
haue
I
heard
Robert
Parsons
,
Ioseph
Creswell
,
presagingly
hope
for
such
contentions
vpon
vnion
of
the
two
kingdomes
,
whereby
,
as
hee
and
they
all
thinke
(
and
wisely
thinke
,
if
it
should
so
fall
out
:
but
God
auert
it
)
the
vnconquerable
and
inuincible
power
of
this
kingdome
(
vnder
God
,
and
by
God
protected
)
might
be
broken
and
weakened
:
and
alas
who
is
so
simple
a
coniecturer
as
can
not
presage
vpon
whose
head
the
beane
would
be
bruised
and
broken
:
doubtlesse
the
beginner
of
any
such
quarrell
by
all
Britaines
should
deserue
to
bee
reputed
as
a
most
detestable
Anatheme
,
worthy
all
execration
.
But
to
returne
to
the
bloudie
hands
of
the
holy
Father
of
Rome
:
consanguineous
,
and
of
the
same
blood
with
these
,
were
those
Ignatian
Valladolidian
Padres
,
of
the
English
Seminarie
:
who
,
when
the
proclamation
for
our
most
gratious
Soueraigne
was
brought
vnto
them
,
by
a
Spanish
Duke
,
were
so
strangely
daunted
therewith
;
thus
it
was
.
Those
English
Padres
,
had
long
time
held
that
king
of
Spaine
,
and
the
Nobles
of
that
kingdome
,
in
expectation
of
great
matters
,
to
be
done
,
at
the
death
of
Queene
Elizabeth
of
happy
memory
,
for
the
bringing
of
the
Infanta
of
Spaine
into
this
kingdome
,
vpon
the
fantasticall
Title
to
this
Crowne
:
but
that
Heroisse
being
departed
,
and
our
most
gratious
Soueraigne
being
almost
euen
with
the
brething
vp
of
her
ghost
,
most
ioyfully
in
this
city
proclaimed
:
Copies
of
the
said
Proclamation
were
with
al
speed
by
Intelligencers
,
sent
into
some
forraine
Countries
,
and
into
Spaine
also
,
where
,
presently
vpon
the
fresh
receit
of
one
of
them
,
a
certaine
great
Spanish
Duke
,
posteth
in
his
Caroch
with
all
speed
,
to
the
English
Fathers
of
the
Seminarie
in
Valladolid
,
who
first
demandeth
of
them
what
newes
out
of
England
?
or
what
expectations
they
had
,
of
any
good
to
be
done
there
?
According
to
their
accustomed
answers
their
vnnaturall
and
vnenglished
spirites
they
forsooth
promised
and
hoped
for
much
at
the
death
of
Queene
Elizabeth
,
for
their
Spanish
Lady
:
till
then
(
as
they
saide
)
their
hopes
were
but
weake
,
but
small
,
but
cold
.
Well
answered
the
Duke
,
If
you
heare
no
news
,
here
then
is
news
for
you
,
and
withall
he
presented
to
them
a
printed
Proclamation
for
the
most
ioyfull
acknowledgement
of
our
Soueraigne
king
Iames
:
where
now
(
saith
the
duke
)
be
your
great
promises
?
where
now
are
your
expectations
?
where
now
are
your
hopes
at
the
death
of
Q
Elizabeth
?
They
stood
as
men
astonished
,
danted
,
and
confounded
,
that
they
had
scarse
a
word
to
say
.
The
Duke
obseruing
their
confusion
presently
departeth
,
discourseth
with
som
persons
of
note
,
who
were
with
him
in
his
Caroch
,
touching
the
busie
spirites
of
those
english
Padres
,
greatly
laughing
at
their
follies
,
their
vaine
promises
and
expectations
.
But
these
holy
Fathers
,
not
able
to
contain
their
griefe
,
giue
notice
of
the
vnexpected
news
to
some
of
their
fauorites
,
among
their
scholers
,
wherof
one
of
them
,
presently
as
one
ready
to
burst
,
coms
in
hast
,
&
dischargeth
his
stomacke
to
his
fellows
thus
:
We
are
vndone
my
masters
,
we
are
vndone
,
(
God
graunt
it
,
and
let
all
England
say
Amen
,
)
Iames
of
Scotland
is
proclaimed
King
of
England
.
These
things
being
true
,
&
iustly
imputed
to
them
,
with
much
more
that
I
haue
obserued
in
my
Motiues
,
may
I
be
thought
vnfitly
to
haue
interpreted
,
the
Popes
bloudy
hands
,
&
fingers
,
wherewith
he
incessantly
labours
to
blesse
England
,
to
be
these
Ignatian
Fathers
,
&
their
Ignatianed
children
?
O
England
,
or
rather
,
O
Britany
!
reuiued
in
thy
Britaine
Soueraigne
:
Thinke
on
these
bloody
hands
&
fingers
,
and
be
euer
vigilant
:
Remember
thy
late
miraculous
deliuerie
,
and
be
euer
thankefull
to
thy
Almightie
and
All-mercifull
Deliuerer
:
Remember
thy
late
danger
,
&
be
euer
watchfull
:
Remember
how
as
God
then
deliuered
thee
,
so
he
also
vouchsafed
to
inspire
thee
,
that
thy
Soueraigne
with
thee
did
then
prouide
an
Oath
,
as
a
Touchstone
,
whereby
the
disloyall
and
forranized
Spirites
might
bee
discerned
from
the
Naturall
and
Temperate
:
Doest
thou
make
vse
of
Gods
Doctrine
?
Dost
thou
apply
this
touchstone
?
and
distinguish
,
vpon
what
spirit
it
is
refused
,
either
out
of
a
Womanish
scrupulositie
(
for
some
few
feminine
men
in
swearing
are
perhaps
like
to
scrupulous
women
)
or
out
of
inueterated
disloyaltie
,
and
grounded
heresie
?
if
so
,
it
is
well
and
most
happy
for
Englands
securitie
;
for
Englands
Posteritie
,
our
Children
,
our
Childrens
Children
will
blesse
such
prouidence
,
&c.
But
I
obserue
the
time
is
very
farre
spent
,
that
I
cannot
prosecute
my
diuision
of
my
Text
so
fully
as
I
desired
:
therefore
I
must
be
briefe
;
it
followeth
in
my
Text.
Who
by
the
Eternall
Spirit
offered
himselfe
vnspotted
to
God
.
In
these
wordes
the
Apostle
deliuereth
vnto
the
Hebrewes
,
what
the
Sacrifice
is
,
which
he
so
highly
commendeth
vnto
them
;
how
it
is
offered
;
to
whom
it
is
offered
;
by
whom
,
or
through
whom
it
is
offered
.
The
sacrifice
offered
is
Christ
,
who
also
is
the
high
Priest
,
offering
and
sacrificing
himselfe
most
voluntarily
,
freely
,
and
vnspotted
,
to
his
Father
:
The
Person
,
to
whom
the
sacrifice
is
offered
designed
by
that
word
(
Deo
)
to
God
.
But
what
is
that
,
by
which
,
or
through
which
this
Sacrifice
is
offered
.
Heare
the
Apostle
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
By
,
or
through
the
Eternall
spirit
,
as
if
he
should
haue
specially
expressed
it
thus
:
by
the
Eternall
God-head
,
by
the
eternall
euerlasting
Diuinitie
.
Here
,
here
,
Christian
Hearers
,
are
misteries
of
loue
,
of
faith
,
of
admiration
,
of
excesse
,
of
diuine
wisedome
,
of
excesse
and
an
infinite
excesse
of
diuine
goodnesse
,
of
diuine
power
,
of
which
excesse
Moyses
and
Elias
,
communed
with
Christ
vpon
the
Mount
Thabor
,
so
saith
the
Scripture
(
Loquebantur
de
excessu
eius
)
they
spake
of
his
excesse
.
What
an
excesse
,
aboue
all
humane
intelligence
,
wher
God
and
the
Diuinitie
is
concurring
in
euery
circumstance
of
this
Sacrifice
?
God
the
Priest
,
God
the
Sacrifice
,
God
the
receiuer
of
the
Sacrifice
;
and
God
the
Dignifier
,
the
Sanctifier
,
and
Beautifier
of
the
sacrifice
,
and
yet
all
these
circumstances
are
in
one
God
.
These
considerations
doe
astonish
me
,
and
produce
a
strange
admiration
in
my
soule
,
that
the
most
infinite
Trinitie
should
so
busie
themselues
,
himselfe
to
make
and
accomplish
a
bloudie
sacrifice
,
of
one
of
that
infinite
societie
:
but
in
no
respect
,
I
am
touched
with
greater
admiration
,
then
to
consider
how
most
willingly
,
most
voluntarily
,
the
infinite
maiestie
of
Christ
,
did
consent
to
dedicate
himselfe
to
the
ignominious
death
of
the
Crosse
;
did
consent
to
offer
himselfe
,
to
giue
himselfe
as
a
free
gift
,
for
the
deliuerance
of
most
vngratefull
mankinde
.
(
Dedit
semetipsum
,
&c.
)
He
gaue
himselfe
(
Titus
)
that
the
might
redeeme
vs
:
That
which
is
giuen
,
you
know
Catholike
hearets
,
is
put
out
of
the
power
and
possession
of
the
giuer
,
and
is
at
the
disposing
of
him
,
to
whom
the
gift
is
made
;
and
you
know
,
that
the
strongest
,
the
absolutest
manner
of
passing
away
any
goods
is
by
deed
of
gift
,
as
being
irreuocable
,
O
inestimable
mysterie
!
Christ
giueth
himselfe
,
makes
an
irreuocable
deede
of
gift
of
his
bloud
to
his
Father
?
yea
,
but
not
only
to
him
;
to
such
faithfull
beleeuers
that
should
confide
in
him
?
yea
,
but
not
only
to
them
?
to
whom
farther
?
to
who
else
?
marry
,
he
putteth
himselfe
into
the
power
,
dominion
,
and
disposing
of
those
damned
and
reprobate
miscreants
the
Iewes
;
that
they
should
vorke
their
pleasure
on
him
,
(
genas
dedit
vellentibus
,
corpus
perentientibus
,
)
His
cheekes
he
gaue
to
be
pulled
,
rented
,
his
bodie
,
his
whole
bodie
,
to
bee
smitten
,
and
this
that
wee
who
were
in
the
slauerie
of
sinne
,
and
Satan
,
might
be
made
free
,
by
so
great
a
grace
;
and
be
put
in
the
free
possession
&
disposing
of
our selues
,
within
that
most
diuine
Paradise
,
which
his
most
sacred
bloud
should
eternally
water
and
sanctifie
.
What
a
humiliation
?
what
an
offering
is
this
?
The
holy
Apostle
admiring
thereat
,
pronounceth
thus
:
(
Humiliauit
semetipsum
&c.
He
hath
humbled
himselfe
,
made
obedient
vnto
death
,
euen
to
the
death
of
the
Crosse
;
)
that
he
might
exalt
and
honour
vs
.
What
a
mysterie
of
loue
?
that
hee
might
raise
vs
vp
to
life
,
he
debaseth
himselfe
to
death
.
For
this
purpose
being
in
the
forme
of
God
he
putteth
on
him
the
shape
of
man
;
that
is
much
:
but
heare
more
.
The
forme
of
a
Man
obnoxious
to
the
law
,
subiect
to
the
law
;
yet
more
,
he
is
vested
with
the
condition
and
qualitie
of
a
sinfull
man
:
yet
more
,
hee
is
arraied
and
clothed
with
the
iniquities
of
all
mankinde
:
yet
more
,
hee
is
made
vpon
the
Crosse
as
a
curse
,
as
a
malediction
for
mankinde
:
yet
more
,
or
most
of
all
,
vpon
that
Crosse
,
before
the
Tribunall
of
his
Eternall
Father
,
bee
sustaineth
the
Person
of
all
mankinde
,
vndergoeth
his
displeasure
(
such
a
displeasure
in
which
is
life
,
Psalme
30.
)
he
hath
that
iudgment
pronounced
vpon
him
and
against
him
,
which
mankinde
had
deserued
;
so
heauily
,
so
grieuously
,
that
in
the
infliction
of
the
iudgement
,
and
the
execution
of
the
sentence
;
as
Man
he
cried
out
my
God
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
me
:
and
yet
as
man
he
could
not
bee
swallowed
vp
,
nor
held
long
with
the
torments
and
terrours
of
death
.
What
a
progresse
is
here
?
what
a
summarie
of
greatest
humiliation
,
for
the
Sonne
of
God
,
thus
to
offer
himselfe
to
his
Father
as
a
malediction
,
that
in
him
wee
all
might
bee
a
benediction
,
and
a
blessing
in
the
heauenly
holies
of
holies
?
what
an
abisse
of
humiliation
,
that
he
offereth
himselfe
alone
;
no
man
of
the
Nations
,
no
Person
of
the
Iewes
,
no
Angel
from
the
heauens
helping
him
,
assisting
him
,
(
Torcular
caleat
solus
)
but
himselfe
alone
,
hee
alone
treadeth
the
Presse
of
his
most
bitter
Passion
:
there
was
indeed
a
Trinitie
of
deuout
Persons
;
the
two
Maries
,
and
the
Disciple
whom
Iesus
loued
,
standing
,
or
languishing
with
griefe
by
the
Crosse
;
by
that
their
presence
and
attendance
,
they
gaue
testimonie
of
their
loues
,
and
most
sincere
compassion
;
but
nothing
able
to
releeue
him
,
to
comfort
him
,
who
had
hoised
himselfe
vp
,
vpon
the
Altar
of
the
Crosse
,
out
of
their
reaches
towards
the
heauens
,
and
to
the
view
of
his
heauenly
Father
,
in
heauen
;
where
the
price
of
our
Redemption
,
of
our
Reconciliation
,
was
to
be
made
and
paied
.
What
a
smelling
,
and
a
most
sweet-smelling
sauour
,
did
reeke
vp
from
that
presse
,
and
Altar
of
the
Crosse
,
to
the
Nostrills
of
the
eternall
Iudge
,
and
most
iust
God
?
by
him
most
worthily
,
most
desiredly
admitted
and
receiued
:
receiuing
(
duplicia
de
manu
Domini
,
)
a
twofold
,
a
double
price
from
the
hand
of
the
Lord
,
our
dying
But
there
is
a
Dignitie
,
there
is
an
Excellencie
in
this
high
Priests
sacrificing
himselfe
,
which
did
make
the
same
sacrifice
,
not
only
by
acceptance
and
fauour
,
but
euen
out
of
the
worth
and
inestimable
valew
of
it
,
to
bee
accepted
and
admitted
,
as
a
compleat
,
consummate
satisfaction
,
redemption
,
in
very
perfection
of
iustice
and
satisfaction
,
of
all
,
and
for
all
,
who
should
stedfastly
beleeue
,
and
confide
in
it
.
What
dignitie
is
this
?
what
worthinesse
is
this
?
you
will
aske
and
demand
of
me
:
Our
Apostle
shall
answere
;
heare
him
(
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
)
Who
by
the
eternall
spirit
offered
himselfe
.
This
eternall
Spirit
,
the
Diuinitie
of
the
second
person
in
Trinitie
,
by
reason
of
the
hypostaticall
and
personall
vnion
of
it
with
the
humanitie
,
communicated
vnto
the
same
humanitie
an
infinite
dignitie
;
the
very
dignitie
and
vnspeakable
excellencie
,
of
the
God-head
it selfe
;
and
by
reason
of
the
same
personall
Vnion
,
the
operations
and
actions
of
this
person
,
(
for
operationes
sunt
suppositorum
,
Operations
and
actions
are
of
the
persons
and
supposites
themselues
)
though
immediately
,
proceeding
from
the
humanitie
,
or
the
soule
of
Christ
,
or
any
power
of
his
soule
,
or
bodie
:
doe
receiue
and
are
dignified
,
with
an
infinite
kinde
of
valour
,
dignitie
,
and
estimation
;
as
being
the
operations
of
God
and
Man
:
and
although
there
be
no
Phisicall
,
Diuines
or
Supernaturall
impression
,
or
qualitie
,
giuen
to
these
actions
,
yet
the
only
proceeding
of
these
operations
from
such
a
person
,
hauing
so
inestimable
an
excellencie
,
and
dignitie
,
intrinsecally
within
himselfe
,
giueth
vnto
them
an
extrinsecall
valour
,
by
which
they
are
esteemed
,
and
regarded
,
as
the
very
actions
of
God
himselfe
,
by
which
hee
offereth
and
submitteth
himselfe
to
his
Father
:
and
therefore
,
no
tongue
,
neither
of
Man
nor
Angell
,
can
deliuer
how
infinitely
deseruing
they
are
,
of
esteeme
,
and
regard
:
the
only
knowledge
of
God
,
which
is
infinite
,
can
comprehend
their
worth
and
valour
.
If
I
should
stand
largely
to
proue
this
,
you
would
thinke
that
I
held
these
my
Auditors
,
to
bee
but
of
common
intelligence
.
Few
of
you
are
so
ignorant
,
as
I
suppose
,
but
conceiue
,
that
according
to
the
dignitie
or
excellencie
of
the
Person
,
is
the
morall
worth
,
and
esteeme
of
the
action
,
which
proceedeth
from
such
a
Person
:
Respect
worthy
,
is
a
salutation
or
honourable
vse
,
which
commeth
from
a
worthy
Gentleman
;
more
worthy
,
that
which
commeth
from
a
Knight
;
worthier
is
the
same
from
a
Baron
;
aboue
that
,
is
the
same
,
proceeding
from
an
Earle
,
a
Duke
:
but
of
highest
esteeme
,
is
that
,
which
is
giuen
from
a
Prince
,
and
if
there
were
any
earthly
Prince
,
of
infinite
worth
,
and
excellencie
,
in
the
intrinsecall
worthinesse
of
his
person
,
the
actions
and
operations
of
such
a
Prince
,
in
morall
estimation
,
would
haue
a
morall
kinde
of
infinitie
.
Here-hence
it
is
,
that
our
high
Priest
Iesus
,
whose
dignitie
was
the
very
God-head
it selfe
,
whose
Person
was
of
infinite
Maiestie
,
did
immediately
,
and
by
it selfe
,
communicate
vnto
his
operations
and
actions
,
an
infinite
kinde
of
morall
worthinesse
and
valour
;
by
which
they
were
so
eleuated
,
that
being
presented
to
the
sight
of
the
diuine
Maiestie
;
in
very
rigour
of
Iustice
,
and
perfection
of
Satisfaction
,
and
Merit
,
they
were
equiualent
,
super-excellent
,
and
surpassing
all
the
malice
of
sinne
,
which
mankinde
had
,
or
could
commit
:
and
therefore
,
this
our
high
Priest
offering
himselfe
by
the
eternall
Spirit
,
(
thus
dignifying
,
and
eleuating
his
actions
and
operations
:
)
to
his
Heauenly
Father
,
for
the
Redemption
of
Mankinde
;
did
by
the
same
Oblation
and
Sacrifice
,
so
fully
,
so
abundantly
,
so
perfectly
,
so
iustly
,
so
deseruingly
,
purchase
vs
to
himselfe
,
and
reconcile
vs
to
his
Father
;
that
his
Father
could
not
refuse
his
face
,
making
intercessions
and
supplications
for
vs
,
vpon
the
Altar
of
the
Crosse
:
and
this
is
that
,
which
our
Apostle
pronounceth
in
this
his
same
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
:
of
the
infinite
worthinesse
and
excellencie
of
Christ
?
Qui
in
diebus
carnis
suae
,
&c.
)
Who
in
the
daies
of
his
flesh
,
with
teares
,
and
a
loude
crie
,
offering
vp
praiers
and
supplications
to
him
▪
who
was
able
to
saue
him
from
death
,
was
heard
for
his
Reuerence
:
So
great
,
(
Catholike
and
Christian
Hearers
)
so
infinite
was
the
reuerence
and
excellencie
of
CHRIST
,
because
hee
was
the
Sonne
of
GOD
;
that
his
Father
could
not
,
but
heare
his
requests
and
supplications
,
made
vnto
him
for
vs
:
and
from
this
reuerence
,
and
from
this
worthinesse
hath
his
flesh
valour
,
efficacie
,
and
force
,
to
cleanse
our
consciences
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
Heare
to
this
purpose
,
(
but
what
neede
I
authoritie
of
any
man
to
confirme
so
manifest
a
truth
:
)
Saint
AVSTEN
,
Non
ergo
Caro
Christi
,
per
se
ipsum
mundat
credentes
,
sed
perverbum
à
quo
suscepta
est
:
Therefore
the
flesh
of
Christ
doth
not
by
it selfe
cleanse
the
beleeuers
,
but
by
the
word
,
of
which
it
was
taken
and
assumpted
:
and
this
is
that
which
AQVINAS
hath
most
clearely
.
(
Efficiens
principale
humanae
salutis
,
est
Deus
:
Quia
vero
humanitas
Christi
,
est
diuinitatis
instrumentum
,
ideo
ea
consequenti
,
omnes
actiones
&
passiones
Christi
,
instrumentaliter
operantur
in
virtute
diuinitatis
,
ad
salutem
humanam
;
&
secundum
hoc
,
Passio
Christi
,
efficicienter
causat
salutem
humanam
.
The
principall
efficient
,
of
saluation
of
mankinde
is
God
;
but
because
the
humanitie
of
Christ
,
is
the
instrument
of
his
diuinitie
;
therefore
consequently
,
all
the
operations
and
actions
of
Christ
,
do
worke
in
the
vertue
of
the
diuinitie
,
to
the
saluation
of
mankinde
.
And
in
his
answere
to
the
first
obiection
,
thus
most
clearely
(
Pasio
Christi
&c.
)
the
passion
of
Christ
,
referred
to
the
flesh
of
Christ
,
answereth
and
is
agreeing
to
the
infirmitie
assumpted
;
but
referred
to
his
diuinitie
,
hath
thereby
,
an
infinite
vertue
or
efficacie
:
Thus
he
;
which
I
partly
bring
,
to
confirme
what
I
haue
said
,
partly
to
stop
the
mouthes
of
such
Pontificians
,
who
gladly
would
calumniate
the
Church
of
England
,
for
her
doctrine
touching
the
concurrence
of
Christs
diuinitie
in
the
office
,
and
acts
of
his
most
high
Priest-hood
.
But
what
shall
I
here
plunge
my selfe
into
that
depth
,
in
to
that
profound
abisse
of
discoursing
,
of
the
manner
of
Christs
concurring
as
a
Priest
,
by
reason
of
his
diuinitie
and
humanitie
,
for
the
saluation
of
mankind
?
no
,
no
:
(
Sermo
in-interpretabilis
)
the
speech
would
bee
uninterpretabile
:
my
shallow
conceite
,
would
bee
ouerplunged
in
such
a
depth
:
it
is
enough
for
vs
,
at
this
present
,
to
vnderstand
,
and
conceiue
,
that
by
reason
of
the
personall
vnitie
,
not
only
the
humane
nature
,
but
very
Christ
God
himselfe
,
was
offered
to
his
Father
,
and
offered
himselfe
to
his
Father
,
and
also
,
this
diuine
nature
,
had
his
concurrence
in
the
suffering
,
of
his
humanitie
,
that
the
same
consented
to
his
suffering
,
and
did
in
a
wonderfull
sort
particularly
gouerne
,
comfort
and
strengthen
the
said
humanitie
,
as
being
a
principall
and
proper
part
of
himselfe
;
that
it
might
suffer
,
and
be
offered
in
such
obedience
to
the
Father
,
to
the
death
of
the
most
ignominious
crosse
.
I
shall
not
here
need
,
to
insist
vpon
the
third
branch
,
of
my
diuision
:
by
the
which
our
Apostle
distinguisheth
,
to
whom
this
sacrifice
is
offered
;
to
wit
to
God
:
For
,
if
all
sacrifices
are
to
be
consecrated
as
sacred
vnto
him
;
to
whome
else
should
the
sacrifice
of
a
God
,
and
from
a
God
bee
offered
then
to
God
himselfe
?
neither
shall
I
neede
to
dwell
any
whit
in
this
discourse
,
to
shew
how
this
Christ
,
this
sacrifice
,
was
vnspotted
;
without
blemish
,
and
most
immaculate
:
I
could
not
esteeme
it
lesse
then
blasphemie
in
me
,
to
seeme
to
discourse
thereupon
,
and
by
way
of
argument
to
proue
it
:
for
can
it
sinke
into
the
imagination
of
any
,
that
God
should
bee
,
or
could
bee
spotted
with
any
sinne
,
imperfection
or
blemish
thereof
?
Our
Christ
indeed
,
tooke
vpon
him
the
semblance
of
a
sinner
,
but
it
was
impossible
to
the
absolute
and
almightie
power
of
God
,
to
haue
permitted
him
,
to
haue
beene
taynted
with
any
the
least
internall
or
true
blemish
of
sinne
.
Yea
by
the
omnipotent
power
of
God
,
would
not
hinder
or
let
it
,
but
that
by
vertue
of
the
perssinall
vnion
,
and
hypostolicall
coniunction
,
the
soule
of
Christ
was
so
sanctified
,
and
replenished
,
with
all
graces
,
that
absolutely
and
most
necessarily
it
was
impeceable
,
vnsinneable
,
and
not
capable
of
any
the
lest
spot
of
sinne
.
And
it
was
indeed
most
meet
that
our
high
Priest
should
be
such
a
Person
impolluted
,
innocent
,
separated
from
sinnes
,
and
made
higher
then
the
very
heauens
themselues
,
as
being
the
Lord
and
God
of
themand
all
that
is
in
them
.
And
so
,
I
proceede
,
to
the
last
branch
of
my
diuision
in
which
is
thus
.
Shall
cleanse
the
conscience
,
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
Here
is
the
scope
of
Christs
bloud
offered
;
here
is
the
end
of
Christs
offering
himselfe
,
by
the
Eternall
Spirit
to
God
:
that
our
consciences
might
be
cleansed
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
Good
God
,
what
are
men
,
or
the
consciences
of
men
that
thou
doest
so
visit
them
?
thou
doest
so
esteeme
them
?
what
are
they
that
,
to
cleanse
them
,
thou
diddest
so
farre
depresse
and
humble
thy
only
begotten
Sonne
,
vnder
thy
Angels
,
euen
to
an
ignominious
death
,
to
make
man
equall
with
Angells
in
euerlasting
life
?
it
is
thy
vnspeakeable
loue
and
charitie
:
no
deseruing
of
ours
at
all
.
But
how
?
by
what
meanes
?
by
what
instrument
,
is
this
cleansing
sacrifice
applied
to
our
consciences
,
to
cleanse
them
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
God
made
heauen
&
earth
and
all
in
them
,
made
man
and
all
belonging
to
him
without
any
concurrence
or
helpe
from
him
by
that
word
(
fiat
,
fiat
)
be
it
done
bee
it
made
.
Doth
he
so
cleanse
the
conscience
of
man
,
from
dead
works
,
without
any
act
of
man
,
as
a
meanes
,
as
an
instrument
,
to
applie
this
soueraigne
sacrifice
to
his
conscience
?
no
,
no
:
Heare
the
Apostle
,
Being
iust●fied
gratis
frankly
,
by
the
grace
of
him
,
by
the
redemption
which
is
in
Christ
Iesus
whom
God
hath
proposed
,
a
propitiation
by
faith
in
his
bloud
:
by
faith
therefore
,
by
a
liuing
faith
,
Christ●s
proposed
a
propitiation
in
his
bloud
(
not
in
mans
works
)
to
euery
beleeuing
conscience
.
Indefinite
,
vniuersall
,
is
this
proposing
of
this
propitiation
,
by
faith
in
his
bloud
,
to
all
Nations
,
all
sexes
,
all
conditions
,
in
all
times
and
in
all
ages
:
no
person
whatsoeuer
,
is
excluded
from
faith
&
confidence
in
it
,
no
not
Iudas
himselfe
,
who
betrayed
it
,
had
he
beene
so
happie
;
not
the
crucifying
Iewes
,
had
they
beene
so
fortunate
.
How
powerfull
a
sound
faith
in
this
bloud
,
is
to
cleanse
consciences
;
let
Leo
an
Ancient
Pope
confront
against
these
latter
Pontificians
all
of
them
being
meritists
(
de
condigno
o●
de
congruo
)
out
of
condignitie
or
congruitie
to
their
first
or
second
iustification
(
for
such
a
distinction
,
their
nouell
Scholasticall
heresie
hath
denied
.
)
of
the
iust
bloud
,
for
the
vniust
was
so
potent
for
a
reward
,
so
rich
for
a
price
,
that
if
the
whole
vniuersitie
of
Captiues
would
beleeue
in
their
Redeemer
,
the
bands
of
the
Tyrant
should
hold
or
retaine
none
.
To
him
I
adioyne
Saint
Austen
:
Modo
fratres
,
vt
a
peccato
sanemur
,
Christum
crucifixum
intu●●amur
,
quomodo
illi
intuebantur
illum
serpentem
,
&
a
morsibus
that
we
may
be
healed
from
sinne
,
let
vs
behold
Christ
crueified
,
euen
as
they
beheld
that
Serpent
,
(
hee
speaketh
of
the
Iewes
in
the
Desart
)
and
were
healed
of
the
biting
of
Serpents
;
so
they
who
in
faith
behold
the
death
of
Christ
,
are
healed
from
the
biting
of
sinne
:
but
they
were
healed
from
death
,
to
a
temporall
life
;
but
these
,
that
they
may
haue
life
euerlasting
:
for
this
is
the
difference
,
betwixt
the
figuring
image
,
and
the
thing
it selfe
:
the
figure
gaue
temporall
life
,
but
the
thing
it selfe
of
which
the
Image
was
gaue
euerlasting
life
.
Thus
hee
with
infinite
much
like
,
which
might
bee
producted
out
of
him
,
and
all
Ancient
Fathers
,
agreeingly
to
the
whole
current
of
sacred
Scriptures
,
for
iustification
by
faith
;
against
the
doctrine
of
all
Pontificians
who
require
a
positiue
,
and
immediate
concurrence
(
dispositiue
and
,
preparatiue
at
lest
)
of
mans
workes
,
to
the
first
iustification
,
too
to
derogatorie
against
the
bloud
of
Christ
and
faith
in
it
.
How
pernicious
is
that
position
of
many
of
them
,
that
the
works
which
doe
proceede
,
and
goe
before
iustification
doe
,
(
de
congruo
)
out
of
congruitie
,
merit
iustification
?
shal
I
cal
this
,
tenent
,
an
incongruous
position
only
?
not
so
:
it
is
hereticall
;
it
is
damnable
,
not
onely
in
the
teachers
,
but
in
the
consenters
and
approuers
of
the
same
:
For
tell
mee
,
All
yee
Pontifician
Meritists
out
of
congruitie
and
de
congrua
,
as
you
speake
:
can
the
power
of
God
?
can
the
iustice
of
God
?
can
the
wisedome
of
God
?
doe
any
thing
?
dispose
any
thing
?
or
proceede
in
any
thing
?
against
congruitie
,
right
,
equitie
decencie
?
No
surely
,
you
must
answere
;
vnles
like
madmen
you
wil
affirme
that
his
wisedome
may
doe
some
thing
vncongruously
,
his
power
may
worke
something
indecently
,
inconueniently
,
vnseemely
:
you
are
not
yet
so
impudent
,
as
to
denie
the
attributes
of
God
his
infinite
Wisedome
,
Iustice
,
Goodnesse
,
and
consequently
his
God-head
:
see
then
and
obserue
what
your
merit
of
congruitie
produceth
:
marry
,
a
merit
of
condignitie
;
for
such
a
conueniencie
,
such
a
congruitie
,
such
a
worthinesse
of
a
worke
to
God
,
is
as
a
condignitie
.
For
I
demand
of
you
in
good
earnest
.
Is
not
that
a
merit
of
condignitie
,
which
in
respect
of
the
disposition
of
the
worker
,
and
worthinesse
of
the
worke
,
so
bindeth
,
vrgeth
,
and
constraineth
the
omnipotent
hand
of
God
,
that
he
cannot
(
vnlesse
hee
will
proceede
against
decencie
and
congruitie
)
but
respect
,
regard
,
and
reward
the
same
with
subsequent
and
following
iustification
in
the
soule
which
hath
it
?
whereby
then
,
it
is
as
cleare
as
the
Sunne
,
that
from
merits
of
congruitie
preceding
iustification
,
you
are
come
to
merits
of
condignitie
,
preceding
the
same
:
by
which
your
hereticall
condignitie
,
you
are
condignely
fallen
from
Christ
,
you
are
condignely
fallen
from
the
iustification
which
is
in
Christ
;
which
is
only
by
grace
,
not
by
grace
should
not
be
grace
,
if
the
Apostles
argument
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Romanes
may
stand
,
and
take
place
:
and
that
of
the
same
Apostle
also
to
Titus
stand
firme
.
(
Nos
iustificatos
esse
,
illius
gratia
,
vt
haeredes
efficeremur
aeternavitae
.
)
That
we
are
iustified
by
his
grace
,
that
we
might
bee
made
Heires
of
euerlasting
life
.
And
that
againe
of
the
same
Apostle
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Romanes
.
(
Iustificati
ergo
ex
fide
,
&c.
)
We
being
iustified
therefore
by
faith
,
let
vs
haue
peace
to
God
,
through
Iesus
Christ
our
Lord
;
by
whom
we
haue
accesse
by
faith
,
into
this
grace
,
in
which
we
stand
,
and
doe
glorie
,
in
the
hope
of
the
glorie
,
of
the
children
of
God
.
How
admirable
therefore
is
the
excellencie
of
Christian
faith
,
by
which
the
faithfull
beleeuer
is
iustified
in
Christ
,
is
inserted
to
Christ
?
made
the
Sonne
of
God
?
the
Heire
of
heauen
?
partaker
of
iustice
?
possessor
of
life
?
not
by
purchasing
merits
of
his
owne
,
but
by
the
same
faith
,
possessing
all
the
merits
and
iustice
of
Christ
,
which
thereby
are
efficaciously
for
his
iustification
,
communicated
vnto
him
.
But
what
?
doe
wee
by
this
extolling
of
faith
,
and
by
this
comfortable
doctrine
of
iustification
by
faith
,
subuert
the
necessitie
of
good
workes
?
God
forbid
:
doe
we
grant
a
license
,
or
impunitie
of
sinning
?
God
auert
it
:
doe
wee
grant
a
Christian
securitie
,
and
hope
of
saluation
without
merits
?
Yes
,
without
merits
;
but
not
without
good
works
,
not
without
the
fruits
of
sanctification
,
which
God
hath
ordained
prepared
and
commanded
his
elect
to
walke
in
.
Heare
that
learned
man
master
Caluin
cap.
10.
of
his
learned
institutions
(
that
his
propugnacle
and
defence
of
Christian
religion
which
no
Pontifician
durst
euer
yet
attempt
to
confute
)
Per
fidei
iustificationem
&c.
By
iustification
by
faith
the
Aduersaries
cauill
good
works
to
bee
destroied
,
what
if
thereby
,
they
be
more
established
?
for
we
dreame
not
(
saith
he
)
of
a
faith
voide
of
good
works
,
or
of
a
iustification
,
which
consisteth
without
them
;
this
is
only
the
difference
,
that
whereas
we
confesse
faith
,
and
good
works
necessarily
to
cohere
together
;
notwithstanding
,
we
place
iustification
in
faith
,
and
not
in
works
:
And
the
same
,
by
what
meanes
it
is
done
,
it
is
easie
to
explicate
,
if
wee
conuert
our selues
to
Christ
,
to
whom
our
faith
is
directed
,
and
from
whome
,
it
receiueth
all
vertue
and
force
;
why
therefore
are
we
iustified
by
it
?
because
by
faith
we
apprehend
the
iustice
of
Christ
,
by
which
only
,
we
are
reconciled
to
God
:
But
this
thou
maist
not
apprehend
,
vnlesse
thou
doe
withall
apprehend
his
sanctification
;
for
he
is
giuen
to
vs
,
for
Iustice
,
Wisedome
,
Redemption
,
Sanctification
,
therefore
Christ
iustifieth
no
man
,
whom
hee
doth
not
also
sanctifie
:
For
these
benefits
,
are
with
an
insolluble
knot
conioyned
;
so
that
whom
Christ
illuminateth
,
those
hee
redeemeth
;
whome
he
redeemeth
,
hee
iustifieth
;
whome
Bee
iustifieth
,
hee
sanctifieth
:
thus
hee
most
excellently
;
agreeingly
to
sacred
scriptures
and
all
antiquitie
;
conformably
to
the
faith
of
the
Church
of
England
;
and
accordingly
to
the
Christian
doctrine
,
and
resolution
of
all
reformed
Churches
,
as
the
harmonie
of
confessions
testifieth
.
And
I
dare
auouch
,
that
the
vniuersall
and
Catholike
concordance
,
of
this
fundamentall
point
of
iustification
,
(
without
which
no
Church
and
no
person
can
bee
held
for
Christian
(
in
the
strict
,
proper
,
and
true
acception
of
the
name
of
Christian
)
is
more
vniformely
taught
and
held
,
by
all
the
reformed
Churches
,
then
any
point
of
Doctrine
controuerted
in
these
times
,
is
held
by
the
Pontisicans
:
How
glad
would
they
be
,
had
they
but
such
a
vnity
and
conformitie
for
the
verie
rule
of
their
faith
touching
which
they
are
not
yet
agreed
as
I
haue
shewed
in
my
motiues
.
But
the
conformitie
and
irreprehensible
agreement
of
all
reformed
Churches
,
for
this
fundamentall
article
of
iustification
,
by
faith
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
Iesus
,
as
it
is
an
euidentargument
of
Christs
spirit
amongst
them
,
and
tendeth
greatly
to
the
glorie
of
our
Redeemer
;
so
it
produceth
wonderfull
and
vnmoueable
consolation
in
the
soules
of
the
faithfull
and
sanctified
beleeuers
.
The
aduersarie
,
forsooth
,
frame
vnto
themselues
an
Historicall
beleefe
for
iustification
in
Christ
;
the
which
as
the
Diuels
haue
,
and
yet
notwithstanding
doe
tremble
:
so
the
Christian
auncient
Churches
neuer
knew
it
,
and
the
Reformed
doe
explode
it
:
and
against
iustification
by
this
Historicall
faith
,
they
muster
argument
vpon
argumentt
;
and
produce
text
vpon
text
;
to
shew
,
that
besides
such
a
faith
,
there
is
required
necessitie
of
good
works
,
and
the
fruits
of
sanctification
.
But
alas
,
(
oleum
&
operam
perdunt
)
they
wast
their
oyle
and
loose
their
labour
.
For
what
Christian
reformed
Church
euer
taught
such
a
blasphemous
paradoxe
,
of
iustification
by
such
an
Historicall
faith
?
they
vtterly
detest
,
abhominate
and
renounce
such
a
iustifying
faith
.
And
here
,
giue
me
leaue
,
most
beloued
and
Catholike
Auditours
,
to
feele
the
very
pulses
of
your
consciences
,
and
my
owne
also
;
to
see
how
you
stand
,
and
whether
wee
are
cleansed
with
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
or
no
,
by
this
iustifying
,
by
this
sanctifying
faith
.
Doe
you
at
any
time
,
persisting
in
the
purpose
of
sinne
,
desire
of
sinne
,
perswade
your selues
,
that
notwithstanding
the
same
,
you
are
iustified
in
Christ
,
apprehending
him
by
a
dead
faith
as
your
Sauiour
?
Doe
you
at
any
time
,
hauing
a
conscience
to
act
sinne
,
to
commit
,
approue
,
consent
to
sinne
;
thinke
that
Christ
notwithstanding
will
iustifie
and
sanctifie
you
,
without
humble
acknowledgement
and
heartie
detestation
of
the
said
sinnes
?
if
the
Diuell
(
hauing
transformed
himselfe
)
haue
lulled
any
of
you
into
such
a
lethargie
,
I
must
needs
pronounce
,
that
such
a
confidence
,
is
but
a
mere
presumption
,
such
a
iustification
is
a
most
pernicious
deprauation
.
But
arise
,
arise
,
and
Christ
will
illuminate
you
,
and
will
tell
you
we
confesse
and
acknowledge
our
sinnes
,
God
is
faithfull
to
remit
them
.
Againe
he
who
saith
,
he
knoweth
God
,
(
by
a
iustifying
faith
)
and
keepeth
not
his
commandements
is
a
lyar
,
and
the
truth
is
not
in
him
.
Againe
(
Omnis
quinatus
est
ex
Deo
non
peccat
&c.
)
Euery
one
,
who
is
borne
of
God
sinneth
not
,
because
the
seed
of
God
,
remaineth
in
him
;
neither
can
he
sinne
,
because
he
is
borne
of
God
.
Millions
of
like
passages
of
sacred
Scripture
,
might
be
produced
to
shew
that
no
man
can
be
iustified
in
Christ
,
whiles
with
full
consent
,
and
with
a
setled
intention
and
purpose
of
sinne
,
hee
prosecuteth
the
same
:
doubtlesse
it
were
a
most
pernicious
paradoxe
,
to
teach
,
that
Christ
iustifieth
any
one
,
while
hee
is
proposing
and
prosecuting
with
full
and
free
consent
hire
and
wages
whereof
are
death
and
damnation
.
fallacie
of
sinne
,
and
deceit
of
Sathan
,
let
him
awake
from
so
prophane
a
perswasion
;
or
else
,
I
must
needes
tell
him
,
that
as
much
as
in
him
lieth
,
hee
doth
conculcate
the
bloud
of
the
New
Testament
,
and
doth
esteeme
the
bloud
of
Christ
as
polluted
:
for
,
were
it
not
a
pollution
euen
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
it selfe
,
so
to
partake
,
so
to
consent
,
to
communicate
with
sinne
?
to
iustifie
a
conscience
actually
,
deliberately
polluting
,
and
contaminating
it selfe
with
sinne
?
be
it
spoken
with
reuerence
,
it
is
a
thing
which
the
infinite
goodnes
of
God
cannot
doe
,
cannot
effectuate
.
How
lamentable
therefore
is
the
state
of
certaine
sinners
,
who
alwaies
liue
in
the
state
of
sinne
,
and
infallible
occasion
of
sinne
?
who
therefore
cannot
(
vnlesse
they
bee
most
presumptuously
made
)
euer
esteeme
themselues
to
be
iustified
through
faith
in
Christ
;
and
so
consequently
,
neuer
feele
the
true
comfort
of
the
soule
which
ariseth
from
a
Christian
perswasion
of
iustification
in
Christ
:
I
meane
not
such
persons
,
who
through
infirmitie
and
ignorance
may
fall
seuen
(
yea
seuentie
seuen
)
times
in
a
day
,
and
rise
againe
;
Infinite
is
the
number
of
such
like
peruerse
beleeuers
,
and
fooles
:
of
whose
presumption
,
when
I
seriously
consider
,
I
cannot
but
iudge
of
them
,
that
in
their
consciences
they
are
to
bee
esteemed
the
most
blasphemous
Heretikes
,
that
euer
were
,
in
hauing
such
crooked
and
doltish
perswasions
of
Christ
:
who
as
hee
is
a
most
comfortable
and
potent
Aduocate
,
for
all
humble
and
penitent
sinners
,
neuer
refusing
any
who
with
contrite
heart
shall
returne
to
him
;
so
likewise
against
impenitent
sinners
,
he
hath
in
his
mouth
a
double
edged
sword
,
to
chastise
them
with
eternall
malediction
;
and
as
it
were
with
the
double
edge
of
a
double
most
sharp
punishment
,
of
losse
of
the
glorie
of
heauen
,
and
of
the
vndergoing
of
eternall
punishment
in
the
bottomlesse
Lake
of
hell
,
the
damned
pit
of
euerlasting
affliction
.
But
to
Christ
iustifying
,
to
Christ
sanctifying
,
with
a
most
humble
confidence
,
and
with
prostrate
soules
;
let
vs
all
here
assembled
returne
,
and
in
a
full
faith
inuocate
him
,
that
hee
will
vouchsafe
by
the
energie
of
his
Almightie
bloud
,
to
cleanse
our
consciences
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
him
,
the
liuing
God
:
that
none
of
vs
here
present
,
be
found
of
that
presumptuous
ranke
,
to
thinke
,
that
although
wee
liue
deliberately
and
continually
in
dead
workes
:
yet
wee
shall
bee
liuing
to
God
through
a
dead
faith
,
for
Christs
sake
.
And
here
to
conclude
;
Most
Religious
and
Christian
Auditours
(
yee
,
who
haue
learned
,
according
to
the
profession
of
all
reformed
Churches
,
that
the
bloud
of
Christ
doth
sanctifie
and
cleanse
from
dead
workes
,
all
such
consciences
as
are
iustified
by
faith
in
the
same
)
with
what
passage
of
sacred
Scripture
may
I
more
fitly
end
,
and
salute
you
then
with
that
of
this
our
Apostle
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Hebrewes
;
(
Habentes
igitur
,
&c.
)
Seeing
therefore
,
Brethren
,
we
may
with
a
firme
trust
enter
into
the
holies
,
in
the
bloud
of
Christ
,
by
the
new
way
,
and
a
liuing
way
which
hee
hath
prepared
for
vs
,
by
the
veile
of
his
flesh
:
And
hauing
a
high
Priest
ouer
Gods
house
;
let
vs
draw
neare
in
a
true
heart
,
in
the
fulnesse
of
faith
,
sprinkled
in
our
hearts
from
an
euill
conscience
,
and
washed
in
our
bodies
with
pure
water
:
let
vs
keepe
the
profession
of
our
faith
,
without
wauering
;
for
hee
is
faithfull
that
promised
:
and
let
vs
consider
one
another
,
to
prouoke
to
loue
and
good
workes
,
not
forsaking
the
fellowship
or
the
assembly
as
the
custome
of
some
is
;
but
let
vs
exhort
,
and
comfort
one
another
,
and
that
so
much
the
more
,
because
yee
see
the
day
approcheth
.
O
heauenly
perswasion
!
O
most
diuine
lesson
!
with
a
firme
and
an
assured
faith
,
wee
may
walke
into
the
holies
in
a
new
and
a
liuing
way
,
which
Christ
dying
in
his
bloud
,
hath
dedicated
for
vs
vpon
the
Crosse
:
yet
with
this
condition
,
most
dearely
beloued
,
with
this
prouiso
;
that
our
hearts
be
sincere
our
consciences
sprinkled
,
with
this
bloud
;
and
our
bodies
washed
with
this
water
,
and
wee
bee
cleansed
from
dead
workes
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
.
From
dead
workes
,
I
say
,
wherein
we
pleased
Satan
,
were
obsequious
to
our
lusts
,
and
followed
our
owne
concupiscences
,
to
liuing
workes
of
pietie
,
loue
,
compassion
,
godlinesse
,
feare
of
God
,
to
serue
the
liuing
God
:
The
liuing
God
,
once
dying
,
but
now
liuing
:
liuing
from
aboue
,
to
consider
all
our
actions
;
liuing
within
vs
,
to
giue
vs
life
,
mouing
,
and
to
search
our
very
reines
;
liuing
in
the
heauens
,
ready
with
reuengefull
hand
to
punish
the
wicked
,
and
with
a
most
plentifull
arme
to
reward
the
vertuous
;
liuing
amongst
vs
vpon
earth
with
his
grace
,
to
quicken
,
to
sanctifie
vs
.
What
?
most
deuout
Christians
?
shall
our
God
be
liuing
,
and
we
his
seruants
dead
?
and
dead
in
sinnefull
workes
,
Whose
stipend
and
hire
is
death
and
damnation
?
What
?
shall
the
euer-liuing
God
die
an
ignominious
death
?
rise
to
a
most
glorious
life
,
to
quicken
vs
,
to
reuiue
vs
?
and
will
we
not
bee
quickned
,
be
reuiued
?
The
Pellican
with
bloud
stroken
out
of
her
breast
,
quickneth
such
of
her
yong
ones
,
as
the
Serpent
may
haue
poisoned
or
killed
:
and
shall
not
the
bloud
of
our
Pellicane
Christ
Iesus
,
powred
to
serue
the
liuing
God
,
the
Father
,
Sonne
,
and
holy
Ghost
;
to
whom
be
all
praise
,
honour
,
and
dominion
,
from
hence-forth
,
for
euermore
.
AMEN
.
Laus
Deo
.
FINIS
.