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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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