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A09086	The seconde parte of the booke of Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution. Or a Christian directorie, guiding all men to their saluation. Written by the former authour. R.P.; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 2.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. First booke of the Christian exercise.	1590 (1590)	STC 19380; ESTC S110194	217,337	475

the styrring vppe of our spyrite to celestiall cogitations to peace of conscience tranquilitie of minde puritie of body consolation of our soule And in one worde to reduce man-kinde again to a certaine estate of innocencie simplicitie and Angelicall sanctitie vpon earth wyth hys eye fixed onl●e in the eternall inheritance of Gods kingdome in heauen Thys was the doctrine deliuered by Iesus which is the same that the Prophets of God fore-tolde shoulde be deliuered by the Messias And as for hys life and conuersation by the testimonie of his greatest aduersaries it was more admirable then hys doctrine his lyfe beeing a most liuely table wherein the perfection of all his doctrine was expressed A man of such grauitie as neuer in hys lyfe he was noted to laugh of such humilitie as beeing the sonne of God hee scarse vsed in this world the dignitie of a seruaunt of such sweet and milde behauiour as al the iniuries of hys enemies neuer wrested from him one angry worde Finally hee was such a one as hee was described by Esay so many ages before he was borne in these words Hee shall not crie nor contend nor shall any man heare his voice in the streete he shall not crush a broken reede nor tread out a little flaxe that lyeth smoking on the grounde c. And another Prophet not long after hym brake foorth into thys speech vpon consideration of the behauiour that should be in the Messias Reioyce thou daughter of Sion tryumph thou daughter of Ierusalem for behold thy King shal come vnto thee thy iust Sauiour hee is poore and humble c. And as these Prophets dyd fore-tell the vertue and sanctitie of the Messias so the deuils themselues could not but confesse the same to haue beene fulfilled in the person of Iesus as is most euident by the testimonie of Porphyrie a professed enemie of the Christian name Who after consideration of dyuers Oracles vttered by hys Idols touching Iesus he breaketh forth into thys confession It is exceeding wonderfull what testimonie the Gods doe giue of the singuler pietie and sanctitie of Iesus for which they auouch him rewarded with immortalitie but yet these Christians are deceiued in calling him God Thus much wryteth Porphyrie And last of all Iosephus the Iew that was borne immediatly after Iesus wryteth of hym thus There was at thys time one Iesus a wise man if it be lawfull to call hym a man a worker of most wonderfull myracles and a Maister and Teacher of all such men as willingly were content to embrace the trueth In which testimony of Iosephus wee see mention also of Iesus myracles which is the next thyng whereof we are to consider And as Iosephus in thys place being a Iew beareth witnesse that Iesus performed manie strange myracles so most apparently and according to the interpretation of Iosephus in thys place were the same myracles fore-told by the Prophets of God that they shold be doone by the true Messias So Esay in hys thirtie-fiue Chapter describeth at large how the Messias at hys comming shal declare his commission by giuing sight to the blinde hearing to the deafe speeche to the dumbe and agilitie of body to the lame and cripple And that which is more God reuealed thys poynt very particulerly to the Gentiles by the Sibyls among whom one of them wrote thus of Christ to come as Lactantius recordeth He shall doe all by his onely word he shal cure all infirmities he shall raise the deade hee shall make the lame to runne and skip the deafe shall heare the blinde shall see and the dumbe shall speake In fiue loaues and two fishes fiue thousand persons shall be satis-fied and the fragments shall fill twelue baskets to the hope of manie He shall commaund the windes and walke vpon the furious Sea with his feete of peace And after dyuers other Greeke verses to thys purpose she concludeth in these words Men shall saie that I am a mad and lying Prophetesse but when all these things shall come to passe then remember me for then shall no man say more that I was a lyar but rather the Prophet of the great God To these predictions of Prophets in Iurie and among the Gentiles doe agree the Doctors of the Iewes themselues in many places of theyr Thalmud to wit that the Messias shall be most wonderfull in working myracles And in theyr publique Commentarie vppon Ecclesiastes they haue these wordes All the former myracles of Prophets or Saints shall be nothing to the myracles of the Messias when he commeth And thus much of the fore-telling of Christes myracles But novve for the fulfilling therof in Iesus that is how these predictions were performed in the stupendious workes and actions of our Sauiour Christ there is no difficultie For that besides the former testimonie of Iosephus which were sufficiēt in thys case the Iewes themselues doe graunt and record Iesus myracles in diuers places of Treatises of theyr Thalmud yea they make mention of many wonderfull thyngs which Iesus did that are not written by our Euangelists The same dooth Mahomet in his Alcorane affirming Iesus the son of Marie to haue beene a great Prophet and to haue wrought his miracles by the onely power and spyrite of GOD and that himselfe was sent to confirme Iesus doctrine sauing onely in the poynt of hys God-head wherin he sayth that Iesus went too-farre and had a checke for the same at Gods hande when hee returned to Heauen Thus much doe these enemies confesse of Iesus myracles Which as it is much comming from such witnesses so if they would eyther denie or dissemble the same they might be prooued against them by most euident reasons especially in two points wherin there can be no probabilitie of any denyall The first is the calling and retayning of hys Apostles and other followers whereof Iosephus also in the place before alleaged maketh mention as of a great miracle who were of diuers callings states conditions trades and occupations in the world And yet all vppon the suddaine left both father mother wyfe children and other temporall respects and followed him who had nothing to giue or promise them in thys worlde A man that neuer spake them fayre or vttered doctrine that was not repugnant to the sensualitie of thys life as may appeare by theyr owne wrytings and testimonies of him A man that was contemned by the better sort as then it might seeme that is by the wyse and learned of that Countrie and especially disliked by them that were in gouernment as a dangerous and troublesome man to the state One that had neyther freendes in the worlde to beare him out nor a house to put his heade in And yet notwithstanding all thys that worldly men and women some such also as were great sinners and loose lyuers before shoulde leaue all their worldlie hope stay and condition to followe such a man with so