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A02849	Christs prayer vpon the Crosse for his enemies Father forgiue them, for they know not what they doe / by Sir Io. Hayward ...	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1623 (1623)	STC 12989; ESTC S122571	27,936	154

they doe Our SAVIOVR would not lay downe his life vntill he had made a most perfect knot of amity and peace vntill he had reconciled man with GOD vntill he had reconciled his enemies with his friends For in that he intreated his Father to forgiue he commanded his friendes neuer to accuse For what iustice could bee required against those who were pardoned How should man be offended when GOD is appeased As he left them a passion to weepe so did hee enioyne them a compassion to forgiue O most happy and holy-day wherein the sonne praied the Father pardoned and men were reconciled And this was the peace O great Redeemer which was sweetly published by heauenly voices as by thy herehaults at the time of thy birth On earth peace good will among men This was the gift which in thy last Sermon thou didst leaue to thy Disciples Peace I giue vnto you And thus at thy death in praying for thy enemies thou didst seeme in this sort to speake to thy friends LOe my friends I am now concluding the great peace of the world I haue reconciled you to my Father I haue vnited you to my selfe and doe enioyne you to bee at amity with all men As I die in loue with all men so must all hate extinguish by my death among those that are mine Alasse what should beco0me of you and all mankinde If I should now die in displeasure or discontent Assuredly you should not then be reconciled to my Father you should not then bee vnited with me And verily so often you fall from this reconcilement so often you breake this vnion as you be at enmity with you brother When you are at mutuall contention your enemy the diuell in like fashion looketh on as an Eagle eyeth a Cock fighting or a Wolf the rude encountering of Rams intending to make you all his prey In case you fall into hatred together you thereby strike into variance with me O blessed Peace Maker who shall dare to take reuenge of light iniuries seeing thou didst pray for those who tormented thee to death Seeing thou madest no reckoning of the nailes which pierced thy handes and thy feete shall I make account of an angry or disgracefull word How shall I desperately dare to esteeme any man my enemy seeing thou wouldest bee a friend and brother to all Verily thus much may any man borrow of his owne weakest reason that by hating others I loose thy loue because I hate those whom thou louest and for whom thou ceasest not to pray O my soules health Leaue me not I beseech thee either out of thy prayer or out of the reconcilement which thou hast made seeing I can haue no benefit by the one but I must bee included in the other And seeing the sinnes wherof I desire to bee pardoned are infinitelie hatefull to thy Father let me not esteeme the iniuries intolerable which any man shall doe vnto me let me be no lesse vnwilling to reuenge the one then I would be to bee punished for the other Yea let me be no lesse carefull to pray for the offences of others against my selfe then I would bee to intreate pardon for my offences against thee A CONCLVDING Thankesgiuing Payer and oblation I Adore laud and glorifie thee O LORD IESV CHRIST I blesse thee and giue thee thankes O Sonne of the liuing GOD for that thou wouldest not onelie permit but submit thy sacred members to be thus cruelly both tormented and deformed for mee And now I lowly blesse and salute them all for the loue and honour which I am bound both to beare and to expresse towardes thee for this benefit I salute and kisse thy blessed feete which had trauailed many iourneys and at last waded to death for mee in thy blood leauing markes behinde them in what footstepps I should treade I salute thy knees which were often bowed to the earth in prayer and often wearied with trauaile for mee I salute thy blessed breast inwardly inflamed with loue and outwardlie deformed with knotty scourges Haile sacred side which was opened gentle and sweet heart which was pierced for mee with a speare Haile battered backe of my Redeemer plowed and furrowed with grieuous lashes Haile holy armes spread at the largest length to embrace all sinners and most bountiful hands in distributing the treasure of thy blood among them I salute thy glorious countenance defiled with spittings which thou hadst neither lust nor leisure to wipe away I salute thy mellifluous mouth and all thy instrumēts of speech which could not bee stopped by a spunge filled with vineger or by any othermeanes from praying for mee And you gentle eares filled for my sake with blasphemies and reproaches you amiable eyes which for mee haue powred forth many showers of teares I reuerently salute you I salute thy royall head most cruelly goared and gashed with thornes to adorne me with the crowne of glory Most meeke IESVS I salute thy whole body which was scorned scourged crucified which died and was buried for my saluation Haile rosie woūds and most precious bloode which was offered to thy Father for me Haile most noble soule of my SAVIOVR which was vilely vexed and crucified to death to procure for mee eternall life I confesse O louing LORD that since I was brought forth into this sinful world I haue brought forth a world of sin Therefore I beseech thee by the sufferings of thy most sacred members to clense all my members from the corruptions wherewith I haue clogged them and to sanctifie them with the merits of thy passion I beseech thee O LORD fauourably to forgiue mee what I haue done and liberally to giue mee what I could not deserue AND O most mercifull FATHER most mighty creator of heauen and of earth albeit I am of all sinners the most vnworthy yet doe I offer to thee the most precious death of thy onely sonne for all the sinnes that I haue done and for all the benefits that I desire Behold O most pitifull Father what impieties were dealt vpon thy most pious sonne for my sake Behold the torne coat of thy son Ioseph dropping with blood and see if thou knowlest it to bee his garment Verily he is fallen into the power of some wicked beast which thus hath torne it and trampled it in his blood and altogether deformed it with the filth of our sinnes O distributer of grace cast the eies of thy maiestie vpon the vnspeakable worke of thy mercy behold I pray thee who it is that thus hath suffered and fauourably regard him for whom he hath suffered Behold O glorious FATHER the members of thy sweet childe cruelly racked vpon the crosse and fauourably regard what my substance is See his bleeding hands nayled to the crosse and bee pleased to remit the bloody sinnes which my hands haue committed See his naked side pierced with a speare and renue me with the blessed fountaine which flowed out of that wound See

GOD and others also who stood by smote their breasts their hearts being smote before and returned into the city Afterwards at the Feast of Pentecost three thousand were conuerted at one Sermon and fiue thousand at another Also by merit and power of this prayer Saint Stephen was called Saint Paul conuerred Saint Matthew elected and generally all our prayers are heard all our sinnes remitted in case we repent Wherfore conceiue O my soule that GOD the Father answered his Sonne not by externall voyce but by tacite and internall consent in maner as followeth O My Sonne I see thy sufferings and I see the loue wherewith thou sufferest The loue wherewith thou so imbracest thy paines that it will not suffer thee to bee angry for thy paines the loue whereby thou art both ready and desirous to suffer more paines then thou doest Loe now I accept thy sacrifice burning in the bright flames of thy loue loe thy teares groanes sighes and cryes haue preuailed with me and obtained thy desire Loe my Sonne I grant thy petition I heere lay downe my wrath I shut the floodgates of my fury and open the fountaines of mercy to all I offer grace iustice remission of sinnes adoption to bee children aswell to those who thus rage against thee as to all other sinners in all ages and of all countreys whensoeuer they haue beene or shall be or wheresoeuer they are or howsoeuer they haue offended All this my son I freely grant by the merits of thy passion but so as they reiect not this mercy offered so as they but open their armes to embrace it But I will compell no man against his will For as when thou diddest open the eyes of the blinde it was their owne eyes whereby they did see so when the will of sinners is both enlightned and enabled by grace their proper will must then fall to worke And therefore let all sinners but resort vnto me let them with humility in themselues and faith in thee sue forth their pardon let them take out this my grant vnder seale of the Sacraments and we will bee all friends they shall be my sonnes and thy fellow heires in my kingdome of Heauen MEDITATIONS vpon the same O HOLY FATHER how great are thy mercies towards miserable sinners giue me thy grace both by vnderstanding to know and by loue to admire them How much more forcible was this prayer of thy sonne vpon the Crosse for sinners then was his prayer in the garden for himselfe When hee prayed in the garden prostrate on the ground bathed in a bloody sweate thrice for himselfe thou wouldest not heare him but when hee prayed on the Crosse for his mortall enemies thou diddest grant his prayer at the very first word O infinite goodnesse that had more pity on the miseries of sinners then on the flesh of thy only sonne And because to thy diuine eie nothing is past nothing to come but all things are present because with thee there is neither yesterday nor to morrow because thou neither foreseest things to come nor remembrest things past but beholdest all things with one act of thy diuine knowledge because things which are not only far off in regard of vs but happily are not are present to thee it followeth that thy sweet sonne still hangeth crucified before thee betweene heauen and earth still bleedeth and praieth for sinners Father forgiue them Forgiue thou I pray thee by vertue of this prayer the sinnes of thy suppliant which alas I haue almost forgotten but are all present before thee and cry to thee for iustice For if this powerfull prayer was heard for his professed and malicious enemies who neither desired nor regarded his prayer shall it not bee heard for those who ioyne with him both in prayer for forgiuenes and in teares to extinguish thy anger against them Heauenly Father I haue nothing of my owne which thou canst accept but I heere present to thee the merits and obedience of thy only Sonne all the labors and griefes which in this world hee endured for sinners For this is our stocke this is our treasure this is the inheritance which he hath giuen vs and wherof he hath made vs heires by his last will and testament and this is rightly ours Because it is no lesse ours which is freely giuen vs then that which wee purchase by our owne endeauours And O blessed SAVIOVR what can I want if I haue thee If I haue thee I haue my part in thy prayers in thy teares in thy blood in thy death in all the merits of thy sufferings and shall haue my part in thy glory Thou didst not only pray for sinners on the Crosse but continually praiest to thy Father for them that hee will vouchsafe to forgiue thē to impute their offences to thee and to impute thy righteousnesse to them O bowels of mercy cease not I beseech thee often to repeat this paryer to thy Father for mee Father forgiue him For because by sinning I often become thy enemie I often crucifie thee what should become of me if thou shouldest not often pray to thy Father to forgiue me And therefore O my sure Saluation so often as either by my owne infirmity or potency of my enemies I slippe into sinne so often say to thy Father for me Father forgiue this sinner Father for my sake bee not displeased with him And the greater my offences shall be the greater shall be thy glory in procuring my pardon For because of all attributes to GOD goodnesse after our manner of vnderstanding is the most excellent and that wherein hee glorieth most and that for which hee is most praysed both in heauen and vpon earth it followeth that the more goodnesse hee expresseth in any action the more glory he acquireth thereby And therefore as generally GOD hath not manifested so great goodnesse in anie worke not in all as in the worke of our Redemption wherein he both did and suffred so many things to make vs good as thereby in generall the passion of our SAVIOVR is so farre from being ignominious that all the workes of GOD layd together doe not beget to him so great glory so in particular the greater the sinnes are that thereby are remitted as they manifest the greater goodnesse so the glory which they rayse must be the greater IN WHOSE Presence this Prayer was made ALL this was done in the presence of his blessed Mother and of diuers of his dearest friends As calling them to be witnesses of this Generall pardon as calling them to be witnesses that as all were redeemed so all might bee pardoned by his death Teaching them also first to forgiue iniuries done personallie to themselues secondly that albeit they were permitted to weepe for his death yet they were not licenced either to seeke or to desire reuenge Lastly to enioyne them to ioyne with him in this charitable prayer Father forgiue them for they know not what