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A04168	The humiliation of the Sonne of God by his becomming the Son of man, by taking the forme of a servant, and by his sufferings under Pontius Pilat, &c. Or The eighth book of commentaries vpon the Apostles Creed: continued by Thomas Jackson Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine to his Majestie in ordinarie, and president of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford. Divided into foure sections.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 8	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1635 (1635)	STC 14309; ESTC S107480	214,666	423

to the humane nature of Christ from the Godhead or Divine person of the Sonne rather all indignities and harmes which were done unto the man CHRIST JESUS by Satan and his instruments did redound unto the Sonne of God The humane nature was the onely subject of the wound and paine The Sonne of God was the onely subject if wee may so speake of the wrong the onely party or person wronged by Satan and his instruments but no way wronged by the Father much lesse by himselfe as having free power to put that part of our nature which he assumed unto what service soever his Father would require Concerning this last qualification of the Sonne of God I have nothing more to say in this Treatise save onely how it was foretold or foreshadowed The predictions that the Sonne of God or the Messias should become a servant are frequent in the old Testament and will here and there interpose themselves in some ensuing discussions of his undertakings for dissolving the works of Satan The next inquirie is how it was foreshadowed or typically foretold CHAP. IX Gods servant Job the most illustrious Type of the Sonne of God as hee was invested with the forme of a servant 1 THe forme of a servant which the Sonne of God did take upon him was foreshadowed by all those holy men Prophets or other which are by sacred Writers instiled the Servants of God A title not usually given to many Kings or Priests not once I take it by God himselfe unto Abraham though he were the greatest of holy men which were but men the father of the faithfull whether Kings Priests or Prophets the onely Prophet Priest or other which to my remembrance was instiled the friend of God Moses Aaron and David are sometimes instiled the servants of God by God himselfe Yet were these three respectively more illustrious types of the Sonne of God as he was to bee made King Priest and Prophet than of him as hee tooke the forme of a servant upon him Of CHRIST JESUS as hee was in a peculiar sort the servant of God Iob the most remarkable paterne of patience before this Son of God was manifested in the flesh is the most exact type or shadow not for his qualifications onely but in his undertakings Iobs conflicts with Satan and wrestlings with temptations are more expresly recorded and more emphatically exprest than any mans besides before the onely Sonne of God became the Sonne of man and servant to his heavenly Father Satan by speciall leave obtained from God but so obtained by God as challenger did combat or play his prizes with this servant of God at two the most prevalent weapons which his cunning and long experience upon all aduantages which the weaknesse of men from the fall of Adam did afford him could make choise of And these two weapons were hope of good things and feare of evills temporall which this great usurper did presume were at his disposall either by right of that conquest which hee had gotten over the first man or could obtaine by Gods permission to ensnare the first mans posterity The direct and full scope of all our hopes is felicitie and so is misery the period of all our feares Unto felicity three sorts of good things are required Bona animae bona fortunae bona corporis The endowments and contentments of the reasonable soule health with ability and lawfull contentments of the body competency of meanes or worldly substance which are subservient to both the former endowments and contentments of soule and body No misery can befall man but either from the want of some one or more of these three good things which are required to happinesse as the Philosophers conceived it or from their contraries All the evills which men naturally feare are either evills incident to the body as sicknesse paine torments death want or losse of goods or worldly substance losse of good name disgrace or ignominy imputation of folly which are no lesse grievous to the rationall part of man than paine or griefe are to the part sensitive more grievous by much to ingenuous men than losse of goods than want or penury For as an heathen Satyrist well observed Nil habet infoelix paupertas durius in se Quam quòd ridiculos homines facit The shrewdest turne that poverty can doe to any mortall creature is to expose him unto contempt or scorne By feare of all these three evills Satan driveth most men into his snare of servitude as many if not more as hee drawes into the same snare by hope of good things By every one of these three evills by the very least of them if we take them single hee had caught so many as hee thought sufficient to make up this generall induction That none could escape his snares or springes so hee might be permitted by God to take his opportunities for setting them 2. Iob was a man as happy as any man before him had been according to that scale of happinesse which Philosophers could hope for in this life or could make any probable ground of better hopes for the life to come There was a man saith the Text in the land of Vz whose name was Iob and that man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evill This is a fuller expression than any Philosopher could make of the principall part of happinesse that is of a minde richly endowed with all kinde of vertues moral and more than so with spirituall graces And there were borne unto him seven sons and three daughters these were more than bona corporis more than parts of his personall constitution which besides these was exceeding good His substance also was seven thousand sheepe and three thousand Camels and five hundred yoke of Oxen and five hundred shee Asses and a very great houshold or husbandry great store no doubt of servants which were part of his worldly substance so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the East Here was a great measure of those things which Philosophers call bona fortunae goods of fortune or as we now say goodly meanes faire revenues Iob was a richer man for those times in respect of others than any man this day living is in respect of our times Yet this goodly Cedar in his full height was sound within and straight without unshaken by any blasts of former temptations untill the Lord himself appointed him to bee a Dueller with Satan The challenge made by Satan is very remarkable There was a day when the sonnes of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them And the Lord said unto Satan whence commest thou Then Satan answered the Lord and said From going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and downe in it And the Lord said unto Satan Hast thou considered my servant Iob that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and upright man one that feareth God and

occasions which moved the whole multitude of his Disciples that is such as for the present did beleeve in him to entertaine and did occasion others to entertaine him with those extraordinary acclamations or other expressions of joy exultation recorded by all the Evangelists are most punctually expressed by S. Luke Chap. 19. ver 37 38. And when hee was come nigh even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of the Disciples began to rejoyce and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seene saying Blessed be the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord peace in heaven and glory in the Highest These acclamations of his followers and Disciples were so loud and their exultation in such sinister construction as Michal made of Davids dancing before the Ark so lavish that they exasperated the Pharisees who were but a small part of the multitude who did attend or observe his approch unto more uncivill behaviour towards this their King than Michal did use towards David her Lord and husband Luke 19.39 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him Master rebuke thy Disciples As if they had said Thy Disciples play the fooles and unlesse thou inhibit their folly they will make thee a laughing stock to wise men But his reply unto them for this their advise though for termes and language more milde and gentle yet for the matter or mystery implied was more sharpe than Davids was to Michal Verse 40. He answered and said unto them I tell you that if these should hold their peace the stones would immediatly cry out For this was the time wherein Jerusalem and the daughter of Sion had been commanded some hundreds of yeares before to rejoyce after an unusuall maner And the just occasions of this extraordinary point of time above all others did require such a solemne and publike testification that if men women and children had been silent the very stones in the street the edifices and pavements in Jerusalem and Sion must have supplied their defect For these were appurtenances of the Citie which had been peremptorily injoyned to shout for joy whensoever their promised and long expected King should come unto her As the occasions of this extraordinary concourse of people and of their unusuall exultation are most fully exprest by S. Iohn and S. Luke so the finall cause of both or sweet disposition of Divine providence in this whole businesse is most punctually exprest by S. Matthew Chap. 21. ver 4 5. All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Prophet saying Tell yee the Daughter of Sion Behold thy King commeth unto thee meeke and sitting upon an Asse and a Colt the foale of an Asse The Prophet or one of the Prophets at least which did foretell all that now hapned was Zachariah Chap. 9.9 whose words are more full than the Evangelists Rejoyce greatly O daughter of Sion shout O daughter of Ierusalem Behold thy King commeth unto thee he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an Asse and upon a Colt the foale of an Asse So our ordinary English Translations render the place word for word but whether this Translation or others Greek or Latin doe fully and punctually expresse the Prophets meaning is in the next place to be discussed CHAP. XVII A Comment or Paraphrase upon the first eight verses of the ninth of Zachary And of the connexion betwixt them and the ninth verse in which the manner of our Saviours comming to Ierusalem was most expresly foretold 1 THis testimony of the Prophet Zachary as was observed before is meerely propheticall that is was literally meant of the Messias alone never verified much lesse fulfilled of any King or Prophet it was a mystery without a type Other passages in this ninth Chap. such especially as come after this ninth ver may admit a mysticall or allegoricall sense and I should like well of that allegorie which Ribera and Rupertus have made upon the former verses if they had first given us the true and literall sense But setting aside such passages as the Evangelists or Apostles have expounded unto us the best Comments which are extant upon this or most other Prophecies revealed or written since the building of the second Temple by Zerubbabel are for the most part made to our hands by unpartiall unsuspected Historians that is by Jews or Heathens so wee Christians would take the paines to peruse and diligently compare their narrations of matter of fact with sacred Propheticall predictions For the true and literall sense of this whole ninth Chapter of Zacharias besides the ninth verse an ordinarie Scholler may better informe himselfe from Arrianus Quintus Curtius and Iosephus or others which write of Alexanders warres than from Ribera Rupertus or all the professed Christian Commentators which have not had the hap to consult these Heathenish or Jewish Historians And some passages in the later part of this Chapter there bee unto which the History of the Maccabees though Apochrypha for matter of faith may give great light for the right understanding of them My purpose is onely to touch upon some few such passages in the first part of this Chapter as are conducent to the point in hand that is to make a cleare and ocular demonstration how this Prophecie avouched by S. Matthew and others in this ninth Chapter of Zachary were fulfilled 2. The burden of the word of the Lord in the Land of Hadrach and Damascus shall bee the rest thereof when the eyes of man as of all the Tribes of Israel shall bee toward the Lord. And Hamah also shall border thereby Tyrus and Zidon though it bee very wise And Tyrus did build her selfe a strong hold and heaped up silver as the dust and fine gold as the mire of the streets Behold the Lord will cast her out and hee will smite her power in the Sea and shee shall be devoured with fire Zechariah 9.1 2 3 4. Iosephus in his booke of Jewish Antiquities briefly relating the swift successe of Alexander in his warre relateth the events in the same order and method which the Prophet Zachariah had foretold them in That he first over-ran Syria took Damascus and afterward besieged Tyre which held out nine moneths against those forces which had conquered the Persians Syrians and other Easterne parts in lesse space As for the Writ drawen for the execution of Tyre you see it is punctually drawen by the Prophet Zachary but who shall assure us that it passed the Seale or was executed according to the tenor of his Commission By her power in the Sea the Prophet meant as the Oracle in like case did her woodden walls or multitude of ships and these as Curtius tells us being almost all sunck or taken their chiefe Fort was surprized by the Macedonian Army After her walls were scaled the greatest part of her defendants summa tectorum obtinebant