attendance they departed praising and glorifying God that a new Saviour was born to Israel and divulging abroad the Vision of the Angels and the wonderful things they had heard and seen concerning this child Luk. 2.17 These poor Shepheards being chosen for the first preachers of the coming of the Kindom of God as afterward were the poor Fisher-men and begetting a great wonder saith the Evangelist Luk. 2.18 in the Bethleemites with their story Yet probable it is according to the poor and unknown condition of life that the son of God had chosen that their wonder by his secret influence upon them was so restrained as not to proceed to any farther inquiry after these Holy persons and that the child and his Mother receiv'd no visits upon it nor better entertainment and accommodation there And this noise that was made upon the jealousy raised afterward in King Herod served only to involve this Infant-Prince and his small family in much greater perils and the peoples present admiration was more unsafe to him then their former neglect Nor did the Bethleemites enjoy the Honour of having this Saviour of Israel born amongst them without their bearing also his Cross and that a heavy one not long after it After this early Predication of the new Messias the poor Shepheards return'd to their flocks rejoycing as for the mercy shewed to Israel in general so for the great favour done them in particular that they should be the first besides his parents that should behold the Messias and hear the Musick of Angels and divulge this good news to the great and to the wise ones of this world § 39 Where I may not pass further without pausing a little to contemplate the ordinary course of Gods wisdom in this matter For many great men doubtless there were Digress of the tribe of Judah at this time in this City who probably would have entertained with joy such a revelation concerning the birth of the Messias who might also with their riches have maintained or with their power protected him Yet God did not think fit to send an Angel with this joyful news to any of them but only to the poor Shepheards from whom the great and learned ones were to receive it As likewise from the very conception of this Prince God had hitherto dealt with low people and the honours done to our Saviours person and to his relatives in the frequent descent and visits of Angels were invisible to the world and communicable to it only upon their relations whom their mean condition made less authentick And we see in this infancy of the Gospel the truth of those scriptures fulfilled Not many mighty not many worldly-wise not many noble are called God hath chosen the weak and base things of this world to confound the mighty Blessed are the poor for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven And our Saviours message to the Baptist Pauperes evangelizantur to the poor the Gospel is preached as if as he came poor so he came only to the poor For which good pleasure of his Father S. Luke chap. 10.21 expresseth upon a certain time a great exultation in our Saviours spirit breaking out into this expression I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth and so a free and absolute disposer of all his favours that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto Babes Even so Father for so it seemed good in thy sight By which we may gather how welcome to his infancy was this visit of these poor sent to him by his Father § 40 And why such thing seems good in his sight our weakness may discover many reasons 1. Because it is said that he hateth the proud and giveth Grace and favour to the humble Now riches and honour are seldome severed from pride and humility more often accompanieth meanness and poverty An hungry Shepheard trembling with cold in an open feild and over-watched is in a more humble and mortified posture for receiving visits and revelations from heaven then one that is full of all good things well attended delicatly lodged and taking his ease tho elation or demission of the mind commonly rising and falling with the indulgences or sufferings of the body and the flow or ebb of our fortunes But 2ly were all conditions equally disposed for such favours yet he delights as is said before to chuse the meaner and weaker Agents for his instruments in great affairs the more to shew his omnipotency whilst out of these babes mouths he perfects his praise and by the feible things of the world confounds the mighty 3ly He doth this also to imploy and heighten the dignity of mens faith in matters of religion which when it believes only what it sees or is clearly demonstrated to it must needs be of very little esteem and reward with God But great faith is where little sight or conviction and where love and the Will have the greatest hand in the Composition of it To such believers God counts himself exceedingly indebted and wherever our Saviour met with any such faith in the Gospel he fell a-magnifying it very highly and granted presently whatever it desired Great is thy Faith be it unto thee even as thou wilt For the growth therefore of these great faiths it is that God discovers only to a few and those of less authority what he would have to be believ'd by all that so he might rest more engaged to their submission who have the weaker perswasives or impulses to it Or 4ly Had he no other motive at all thus to distribute his favours yet this he may do to have the return of a greater measure of praise and thanks for them from such receivers For God receives the greater acknowledgment for his gifts the more mean and unworthy the persons see themselves to be on whom he bestows them More when he gives them to a poor Shepheard then when to a great Rabbi which commonly whilst they render the one grateful make the other proud But lastly the Kingdom of this new born-Prince was to be quite another and a contrary thing to the Kingdoms of this world It was to be a spiritual and a celestial one and so founded in great humility and mortifications of the flesh and of this worlds lusts founded in denying mens-selves and forsaking all things that are dear unto them and taking up several sorts of crosses and those that enter into this Kingdom are to be only the poor poor one way or other either in estate or at least in spirit so that in this Kingdom wherein those of low degree are exalted Jam. 1.9 the rich and Honourable are to be made low that they may be exalted Let the rich rejoyce in that he is made low Jam. 1.10 And in their affections at least to become another thing then they are in their fortunes They that rejoyce to be as tho they rejoyced not they that purchase as tho they possessed not they
poor to make us rich And how well now do his own words Mat. 11.29 in this posture and in this age the emblem of humility especially become Him Learn of me for I am meek and lowly and Matt. 20.28 The Son of man came not to be ministred unto § 30 And thus it seemed meet to him who justly proportioneth all things the exaltation suitable to the humiliation and the measure of glory to that of ignominy Phil. 2.9 Heb. 2.9 12.2 in his intending to build the exaltation of this man Jesus higher then all to lay his humiliation lower then all and this King being to have not one but two comings into this lower world the latter whereof was to be with exceeding pomp and glory and attendance with shouting and sound of Trumpet 1 Thes 4.16 with the whole Court of Heaven in all their glory Luk. 2.26 and all the Chariots of God Mat. 24.30 Psal 104.3 waiting on Him with his bright beams streaming from the East unto the West Mat. 24.27 Thus it seemed meet to his Father to dispose the first coming in exceeding lowness and contempt desertion and poverty that he might appear in one as novissimus Hominum Esai 53.3 who in the other was to appear as primo-genitus Dei. And we find Moses that great type of our Lord in being also a glorious deliverer of Gods people out of their house of bondage and their Lawgiver treated in his infancy much what after the same manner when he lay amongst Crocodiles a weeping and sorlorne Infant in a bulrush cradle floating in the flags of Nile and his poor life sought-for by Pharaoh as this Infant 's by Herod Lastly thus it seemed fit unto Him who bestows not heaven on man for nothing to disguise his only Son through the belief in whom we can only attain eternal life in so many Veiles and unlikelyhoods now laying him in a Cratch then hanging him on a Cross to advance in us so much the more the worth and dignity of our Faith to which what praise and thanks would it have bin to have believed on him appearing in Majesty and glory like a Son of God and such as we shall see him in his next Advent where no offence of the Manger nor of the Cross Gal. 5.11 Therefore it pleased God by eclypsing his own Sons honour to dignify mans faith and so increase his reward as likewise to discover to this faith his infinite power in raising such greatness out of such littleness in making all Kings submit their Scepters to such a poor born-child and all nations to do him service Psal 72.11 nay above all things to glory in his shame and in his Cross and to build a Temple even over this Manger § 31 The Infant being thus swath'd and cradled we may suppose the Holy Joseph and Mary who thro this veil of his poverty yet well discerned who he was and presently fell down and worshipped this new-born Emanuel turning this privacy and solitude and freedom from the tumult of the Town desertion of attendance and silence of the night to an elevation of their devotion and Christmas Vigils well pleased to see themselves surrounded tho with poor yet none but innocent Creatures and such as had never offended their Maker whilst sinful man was deem'd unworthy of such a celestial society Overjoyed in their first sight of this divine person the desire of all ages dedicating the whole service of their lives to his constant attendance and again receiving from him those sweet smiles and those indearing looks which the love and gratitude of one who tho an Infant in age yet was then mature in all wisdom and who had nothing of a child in him save the weakness and humility did think fit to return to so great pains and so devout adoration Thus they remained solicitous for nothing in so great extremity but saying to themselves some such thing as S. Paul in contemplation of the riches of the same Lord Rom. 8.32 God that hath given us his only Son how shall he not with him also freely give us all things § 32 Leaving now these holy persons in the deep and silent contemplation of the mysteries of the Almighty in that God-infant which lay before them and exercising the greatness of their faith in the lowness of outward appearances Let us go forth and see what meanwhile occurred in the feilds near adjoining § 33 The same night that our Saviour was born there happened to be some Shepheards whilst all the rest of the world were at their ease and asleep watching over their flocks in the same plaines where heretofore David himself the Father of our Lord had many a night watched over his these Bethleemites being his successours in the same trade and occupation Which innocent and simple manner of life spent in guarding the most harmless and the most profitable and the most shiftless of all creatures not engaged in much business solitary and leaving the mind free for much contemplation was also that of the first Saint Abel and of the Patriarchs before David to whom the promises of the Messias were made Poor and mean persons they were as we may gather from their imployment who else would have had a servant to have watched for them on so long nights in so sharp a season God's great love to man and to the honour of his Son was pleased instantly to communicate and reveal both to the Jew and to the Gentile yet not to all but to some chosen witnesses of both the birth of his Son the same Saviour to all people Luk. 2.10 that this Prince at his first entrance into the world might receive due adoration and homage from the representatives of them both He therefore for the body of the Jews in his infinite wisdom made election of these poor Shepheards as he did at the same time of the Magi for the body of the Gentiles § 34 Hereupon to these Shepheards descendeth an Angel vested with very great glory and light saith the Teâ—t Luk. 2.9 for doing this new-born Prince the honour in such his low condition to tell them the joyful news of the birth of a Saviour which was Christ the Lord. Luk. 2.11 a Saviour not of our bodies or estates from our temporal enemies for a while unconsiderable salvations fear not them that can kill the body c. Mat. 10.28 but of our Souls from our sins from our Ghostly enemies from spiritual wickednesses in heavenly places from Abaddon the Prince of the bottomless pit from prisons and chains and darkness and tortures and deaths eternal And the Angel gave them this sign to know him by that they should find him lying in the Manger of a Stable a strange sign of so great a Prince but yet not so improper for such a Saviour who was to restore the world by humility and sufferings as it fell by pride and a very distinctive sign such as was common to no other Infant and a sign which could not but
take up his bed and walk Upon which the impotent man was instantly cured and carrying his bed on the Sabbath was presently questioned by the Jews probably these inquirers being either the Pharisees great zelots for the Sabbath or some of their Disciples for the breach of it in so doing who answered them that he was bid to do so by the person that cured him But our Lord there being a throng of people in the place he presently conveyed himself away and returned into the Temple All which occasioned the cure to be more taken notice of and the person looked after that had done it nor could the poor man give any account of him But a little after he repairing also to the Temple probably there to render more solemn thanks to God for his cure Our Lord now discovers himself to him and minding him of the mercy he had received exhorted him to amendment of life least a worse thing yet should happen unto him in die irae if not in this Rom. 2.4 5. yet after this life § 245 The man after he had paid his due adoration and thanks hasted to the former busy enquirers after the Author of his cure and told them it was Jesus doubtless thinking he should advance his honour and esteem with them thereby But it happened much otherwise for instead of this they sought his death for his own breaking in doing this cure and causing the other man also to break the Sabbath Our Lord then questioned by them concerning it as he was often for the like and made them great variety of answers and defences for it by which they were still silenced at this time answers them as absolute Lord of the Sabbath that he was to do the works for which God his Father had sent him among which was restoring the lame giving sight to the blind c. Mat. 11.5 whether this were on Sabbath or week daies or whoever should suffer scandal thereat But his answer now again was made by them worse than his fault collecting hence an higher accusation for destroying him because faith the Text he not only hath broken the Sababth Jo. 5.18 but said also that God was his Father and made himself equal with God which equality had the Jews miscollected from our Lords words as the Arrians say they did probably our Lord or the Evangelist would have reflected on it § 246 But our Lord well knowing his time not yet come of being delivered into their hands with the same undaunted courage and infinite charity and zeal after their salvation prosecuted his former discourse and took this opportunity to declare to them plainly and fully who he was his Union and intimacy with God his Father and why he was sent by and from him into the world and with what authority and power that all might provide for their Salvation by the believing in and the honouring of him as they did the Father See his Sermon made to them Jo. 5. The chief Contents whereof were these That in nothing he sought his own will our Lord having the same natural affections as other men but these in all things subjected to the Divine good pleasure and disposal but the will of his Father That he did nothing of himself but what he saw his Father do and that as he heard of him so he judged that all judgment also was by the Father committed into his hands see the like Mat. 11.27 Jo. 3.35 and the power of doing whatever the Father doth That every one who heard his words and believed that God had sent him should not come into condemnation .i. e. for his former sins now remitted in him but was passed from death to life speaking of death and life spiritual and eternal and of their regeneration thereto by the Spirit See 1 Jo. 3.14 that they who marvelled now so much at the present works he did namely in curing of diseases c. should yet hereafter see far greater from him namely upon the hearing of his voice by the Archangel all that are in their graves coming forth and receiving from him their final doome the good to the resurrection of life the evil to the resurrection of damnation the like things of his hereafter coming in the clouds c. he told to them before his passion Mat. 26.64 and to Nathanael Jo. 1.51 Angels waiting upon him and going hither and thither as he sent them that therefore it was the Fathers pleasure that all should believe in and do honour unto the Son as they did to the Father whose words and actions were the same and they saw and heard God the Father in the Son And concerning his being such a person and the words he spake to them Truth that they had an abundant testimony though considering his person his own was sufficient Jo. 8.14 16. First from his Father 1 both that which he gave them from heaven concerning him at his Baptism the like to which was done twice afterwards at our Lords tranfiguration before three witnesses Mat. 17.5 which is mentioned again by S. Peter 2 Epis 1.16 17. and at his solemn entrance into Jerusalem before his passion God the Father then from heaven speaking to him Jo. 12.20 23. perhaps for a testimony also to the Greeks or Gentiles see Jo. 7.35 who then first admitted by the Apostles came to worship and to make their humble addresses to him which foresignifyed salvation to be shortly after communicated to them by his now approaching death And a-again 2ly that testimony which his Father gave to him in the Miracles which he wrought by him which testimony he frequently urgeth See Jo. 10.25 38. 15.24 2ly A Testimony from John the Baptist though having that of God he needed not that of men which John was sent before him amongst them as a burning and shining light till the time he was to be eclipsed and silenced and they some of them at least were willing for a season to rejoyce in his light 3ly Testimony also from the Scriptures in which they thought were contained the way to eternal life which Scriptures had they duly searched they might have found them abundantly witnessing of him Lastly testimony from their lawgiver Moses in whom they had so much confidence who also spake clearly of him Jo. 1.45 Deut. 18.15.18 where upon petitioning that they might not hear again the voice of God nor see that terrible fire c he tells them that God would raise them up a Prophet like unto him and would put his own words into his mouth c and to him they should hearken whose words would sufficiently accuse unto God his Father their infidelity though our Lord should hold his peace But that notwithstanding such witness and evidences they would not believe because they had not the love of God in them nor as our Lord did sought the honour that only cometh from him through whatever worldly disesteem but was envious ambitious which shews he spake chiefly to the Pharisees and
the infinite Graces and love and sweetness he discovered in that look all which upbraided his unkindness the posture he left that innocent Lamb of God in sorrounded with and ready to be torn in peices by so many Wolves and also his leaving him so and hasting to save himself all these we may presume so galled and wounded him as that had not the High Priests Gate bin shut upon him he would now have reentred to recant there publickly his former act and run through all hazards whatever with his dear Lord. But the divine Providence had appointed this for one of our Lords sufferings the clear desertion of all his Followers and that he should tread the Wine-press alone § 41 Yet something may be said on the other side in the lessening of the lapse of this prime Apostle That his love and courage seems to be greater than most of the rest in his following his Master to his trial and venturing into the High Priests Pallace when it was he that just before had cut-off the ear of his servant In his denyal its being without any great scandal not in publick but to some idle people standing about a fire and medling with a matter of no concernment to them In that it was done upon a suddain surprisal not done with premeditation or put to any formal Trial of his fidelity and where perhaps hazarding also the reputation of the other Disciple that brought him in might run in his mind and much more his being questioned for Malchus And as it seemed a shame to deny our Lord at the accusation only of a poor Maid-servant so it might seem a thing of no great consequence to confess him before such a mean person But which is most to be noted he denyed not that Jesus was the Messias or the Son of God he renounced no part of his faith no such thing was he asked nor if put to it would he ever have denyed it but he denyed only his knowledg of or acquaintance with such a person Lastly the Fall of this great Apostle God permitted besides for the aggravation of our Lords sufferings by his cheifest Disciple denying as another of them betraying him for many other good ends As to beget a perfect humility in him a little before too confident of himself to shew us what frail things we are the best of us when our Lord leaves us a little to our selves and hath not his eye upon us To comfort poor sinners in their great miscarriages since the greatest Saints as David and Peter have had their falls To shew the infinitness of Gods mercy to Penitents in his pardoning such great offences and that to persons most obliged to him and from whom he had reason to expect the greatest fidelity Lastly to teach Peter the cheif Pastor of his sheep the more compassion to sinners in reflecting on his own infirmities and faults and to bear with those who are tempted and fall in as much as himself stood not when he was so § 42 What became of the other Disciple no mention is made T is probable that better acquainted with the house he went up into the Court and was present at our Lord's trial and seeing the severe proceedings against him after the Council rose quitted the Pallace with the rest where he saw was no safe staying any longer for any friends of Jesus when also he might take Peter presently after his third misadventure there along with him § 43 Now to return unto our Blessed Lord committed to the custody of the High-Priests Officers and Servants until the morning and the reassembly of the Council in the same place in a fuller body These Officers one would think since the time that being sent to apprehend him they returned to their Masters with a Nunquam sic locutus est homo sicut hic homo should now have treated him with some ordinary civility especially no final sentence being yet passed upon him and the Judges being to reexamine his cause the next morning The ear also our Lord restored but two or three hours before to Malchus and his reprehending Peter for his cutting it off might not have bin so soon forgotten by them But indeed now was the Power of Satan and of Darkness and his chain never so much loosened as at this time before the approaching ruin of his kingdom who therefore ceased not by all those his Instruments to act his utmost malice nor to suffer our Lord to rest one minute § 44 The Ministers therefore having as yet no order for the executing of any higher corporal punishment and because our Lord also was to proceed gradatim through all sorts of sufferings instead of indulging him or themselves any repose in which our Lords servant S. Peter was more civilly used Acts 12.6 after their watching all the fore-part of the night compass him about in a ring and notwithstanding his modest silence no way provoking them fall on abusing him both with their tongues and hands as far as was permitted They spit on his face being the greatest note of ignominy and disgrace that was amongst the Jews see Deut. 25.9 where the man was to be used so that would not raise up seed to his brother And they abhor me saith Job in his typical complaint Chap. 30.10 they forbear not to spit in my face when his tyed hands also could not cleanse it They smote him also on the face with the palmes of their hands They punched and thumped him with their fists and by the Prophecies Esay 50.6 it seems they also plucked off his hair being not tondentes but vellentes of this meek Lamb. These Jews also treated him this night as a Mock-Messias as the next day the Gentiles abused him as a Mock-King and after their cruelty wearied in this way and his rare faculty in Prophecying coming into their mind they remembred a Boys-play to this purpose and got a cloath and blindfolded him whereof the Philistines abusing blind Sampson was a Type and fall on beating him a fresh thus hood-winked that he being the Messias and the Christ and the great Prophet that was to come into the world should now so hooded prophecy and tell them who it was that smote him § 45 Cruel and causeless malice for which of his sweet words or mighty works as he once said to you Jo. 10.32 who left heaven to save you and in whom you never saw fault and who went about every where doing good for which of these do you thus treat him And how could the blessed Angels at least that waited on our Lord have the patience to suffer such vile wretches and the dregs of the people to strike and spit on their Creator the Lord of Heaven and Earth but that they well knew it was the pleasure of their great Master out of his infinite charity to suffer this even for the salvation of those his Tormentors and to receive these blows for the satisfaction of their fault that gave them
the Paschal Lamb his Type without a bone of him being broken Of Moses his smiting of the rock and so water gushing out of it of his nailing a brazen Serpent on a Pole that all who looked with faith upon it might be healed as our Lord also came in similitudine peccati of Aarons dry and withered Rod afterwards rebudding and flourishing of Jonah lying three daies in the Whales belly and afterwards cast up now also he expounded to them Daniels weeks remembred them of Hosea's chap. 6.3 vivificavit nos post duas dies in die tertia suscitabit nos and of Davids Psal 15.10 Non dabis Sanctum tuum videre corruptionem And de torrente in via bibet propterea exaltabit caput Of Zachary's chap. 13.6 7. Quae sunt plagae istae in medio manuum tuarum and his Percutiam Pastorem dispergentur oves These and all the forementioned descriptions of his passion especially in the Prophet Esay chap. 5.3 and in the Ps 21. and 68. he set before them and many more in these Books than man's weak apprehensions hath bin able to discover the whole History and Prophecies of the Old Testament principally prefiguring and representing the great Mystery of the salvation of mankind that was in the latter daies to be wrought by the Son of God These things our Lord discoursed continuing his Speech till they were now arrived at the Village where their business called them whilst their hearts were all on fire in hearing what he said according to that of the Psalmist Ps 18.15 Ignitum eloquium tuum c. Our Lord making as though he would have gone further gave them occasion to shew their hospitality and so importuned by them to stay and eat with them or also to stay all night the day being near an end and they infinitly longing after more of his conversation and discourse he yeilded to their request and so sitting down at Table he took the bread blessed brake and gave it them suddainly appearing to them in his own likeness or also performing this Ceremony in some singular manner of benediction as was formerly his custome well known at least to Cleophas Josephs Brother used to the same table Or because we may imagine our Lords actions done in the most perfect manner in this breaking of bread celebrating with them the memorial of his Passion after his long discourse thereof in the holy Eucharist sometimes expressed by breaking of bread see Acts 20.7 2.46 after he had first sufficiently instructed them in this great Mistery wherein he now when personally departing yet would continue a miraculous presence of himself to his Church to the end of the world After which given them and their hospitality thus amply rewarded upon eating it their eyes also were no longer held but that they clearly discerned with great reverence his Sacred Majesty now in his own form and likeness and knew him and after this he suddainly departed out of their sight § 126 The two Disciples ravished with what they had seen and heard yet by our Lords suddain withdrawing himself their joy not unmixed with some sadness presently returned back that Evening to Jerusalem and told the company there assembled all that had hapned their being two together rendring their testimony more credible where they found the Disciples also relating our Lords appearance to Peter They reported also to them his Sermon and the types in the law and the Prophets presignifying such his sufferings before his entrance into his Kingdom notwithstanding which though many of them were much perswaded yet some others saith St. Mark chap. 16.13 still remained incredulous probably arguing from our Lord 's presently vanishing both from the women and from St. Peter and last from these two at Emaus that it was some Spirit only appearing in his likeness For the same conceit they had also by and by when our Lord appeared to themselves Luk. 24.37 § 127 After so many messages and ocular Witnesses of his Resurrection sent to them for the trial of their faith and all by some of them still discredited now late at night as they were after Supper sitting and debating these things and some it seems still contradicting the doors being fast shut for fear of the Jews who also had spread a report of them that they had stoln away our Lords Body our Lord himself suddainly appeared in the midst of them at which they were at first much affrighted thinking him some night-walking-Spirit knowing the doors to be firmly bolted and perceiving him descending rather then entring in among them But our Gracious Lord soon allayed this astonishment saluting them with a Pax vobis the usual and Antient salutation of the Jews but this pax of his extraordinary and not sicut Mundus Jo. 14.27 working in the Soul the effect whilst he spake with his mouth the words Then mildly reprehended them that they had remained so obstinatly incredulous to the Eye-witnesses that came to them in a matter also so often foretold them nor yet believed their own eyes at present but took him for a Spirit then proceeded to discover and shew them the scars of the wounds he had received in his hands feet and side those noble scars which his glorified Body in heaven still retains eternal Witnesses of his love to mankind and with which he will appear at his second coming for the greater confusion of his Enemies when saith S. John Apo. 1.7 they shall look on him whom they have pierced and whose tender of mercy after it they also rejected He bad them also to feel and handle his true flesh and bones different from Spirits therefore saith the Apostle not only Quod audivimus quod vidimus but manus nostrae contrectaverunt de verbo vitae Then what only remained for their satisfaction whilst the excess of their Joy and wonder still suspended their full assent and belief he called for meat and eat also before them of that poor fare which they were provided of though in this great Feast and to which our Lord also had bin most accustom'd a piece of a broild fish and of an hony-comb the one plentiful in the woods of this countrey and the other a common food among Fishermen perhaps the relicks of their Supper but now ended Of which after he had eaten he gave to them the remainder saith the vulgar in S. Luke chap. 24.43 Et cum manducasset coram eis sumens reliquias dedit eis To partake of what he Sanctified and that they might say they had eat and drunk with him as also those at Emaus See Act. 1.4 After he had thus eaten before them and by all these waies satisfied them excepting only Thomas absent of the truth and reality of that the Testimony of which they were to spread abroad through all the world and for which afterwards to lay down their lives he made much what to them the same Sermon or Discourse as to the two Disciples that went to Emaus instructing them in