The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

CHAP. IIII. Of Christs death and passion.

CHrist called twelue vnto him, whom hee named Apostles, and sent them into the whole world, to preach the gospel to al nations; that so they might be witnesses of his doctrine con∣firmed with many myrracles. Which doctrine being accom∣plished, hee offered vp himselfe an vnspotted sacrifice vpon the altar of the crosse, for the expiation of the sinnes of the worlde. And this he did the 18. yeare of Tiberius Cesar,* 1.1 in the eight Calends of Aprill, if wee follow Tertullians supputation a∣gainst the Iewes.

Christs passion began not onely in his taking and deliuerie vnto death, but euen from the verie instant of his conception, and continued vntill hee yeelded vp the ghost. For as Ludol∣phus writes learnedly, when Christ, as God foresaw in his di∣uine wisedome, the cruell and bitter torments, which hee was to suffer infallibly, hee coulde not but naturally sorrow for the same: as which were throughout all his body, throughout all the members of his body, and throughout all the inferior pow∣ers of his soule. He suffered in all his time, in all his body, in all his works. In time of his infancie, basenesse of his mothers womb, pouertie, asperitie, vilitie in the manger, persecution of y^e aduersarie, flight into Egypt. In time of his adolescencie, fre∣quent disputations, painful peregrinations, lothsome precipita∣tions, In his iuuenile age, most bitter & cruell death: for in his whole body, he sustained paines intollerable; in his eies the ef∣fusion of tēder teares, in his delicate eares, the hearing of con∣tumelies and execrable blasphemies; in his eie-lids the pangs of buffetting; in his nostrils the stinch of vglie spitting; in his sweete mouth, the bitternesse of vineger and gall, in his hands

the prints of the nailes, whipping and oft scourging, through∣out his blessed bodie. What he sustained in his works, cannot easily be expressed by the tongue of man. For they reuiled his diuine preaching, his most sacred conuersation, his miraculous operation. He was led as a lambe to be slaughtered, and as a theefe to be hanged; yet neither did he shew any impatience, nor sought any reuenge, albeit hee could haue caused a legion of Angels, to haue attended him at his only word: he was bound as a theefe, accused as a theefe, condemned as a theefe, he was crowned with a crowne of thornes among theeues, as if hee had beene the master theefe of all theeues; the iudge was iud∣ged, the King was derided, the Lord of all lords was turmoy∣led. And yet behold the wisedome of our heauenly Salomon; for as Adam trespassed on Fryday, so did he suffer on Fryday, as mans saluation seemed to require. Where we haue to con∣sider his patience, who was led as a lambe to be slaine, his hu∣militie, who was condemned with theeues; his charitie, who died for his enemies, his pouertie, who was borne in a manger, and this done, wee may worthily exclaime; O captaine where is thine ensigne? O prince, where is thy palace? O bishop, where is thy my••er? O king, where is thy diademe? After the consideration hereof, we must acknowledge, that Iesus Christ our sweete redeemer, suffered all these pangs, tortures, tor∣ments, and villanies, for the sinnes and loue of man, and ther∣fore that mans part and dutie is to abhorre, detest, and eschew sinne, and that for his sake and loue, who hath first so tenderly beloued vs.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Tertull. aduersu Iudaeos. p. 134.