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A11012	Lectures, vpon the history of the Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension of our Lord Iesus Christ Beginning at the eighteenth chapter of the Gospell, according to S. Iohn, and from the 16. verse of the 19. chapter thereof, containing a perfect harmonie of all the foure Euangelists, for the better vnderstanding of all the circumstances of the Lords death, and Resurrection. Preached by that reuerend and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Robert Rollocke, sometime minister of the Euangell of Iesus Christ, and rector of the Colledge of Edinburgh.	Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.; Charteris, Henry, 1565-1628.; Arthur, William, fl. 1606-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 21283; ESTC S116153	527,260	592

that is y t by baptisme they should seale vp y t Gospel which they had teached before But to whō should they go out to whō should they preach Whome should they baptize Not the Jewes only but all Nations Marke sayes Goe yee into all the world and preach the Gospell to euery creature As if He had said My power is extended to all Nations to euery creature and therefore this my Gospell your Ministerie whereby my power is manifested and declared to all must likewise bee extended to all creatures in the world These words of the Lord furnishes vs sundrie lessons for our instruction First we may learne heere that this office of the Apostleship which the Lord committes to His Disciples is not a bare stile of honour No but it is a laborious and painefull charge and calling they are commanded to goe out into the worlde to preach diligently the Gospell to euery creature The Pope his Cardinalles and Bishops vaunt bragge that they are the successours of the Apostles they clame this as a stile of honour to themselues but in the meane time they refuse to vndertake any paines and trauell for mans saluation as the Apostles did these idle bellies liue in carnall securitie and sensualitie taking their pleasure and pastime and deceitfully gather in to themselues the substance of the world and commit the charge of Preaching to Vicares and Curates as if the Gospell were too base an exercise for them and a thing whereof they had just occasion to be ashamed and therefore let them clame what stiles they list to themselues they are nothing lesse than successours to the Apostles Next these wordes lets vs see that there are two points of y e Ministerie for y e Lord giues His Apostles commission to preach the Gospell to baptize so the Ministers haue these two things enjoyned vnto them to preach the word to minister the Sacraments we heare nothing spoken here of offering of a Sacrifice either bloody or vnbloody or of a Priesthood and no question if there had bene such a thing or at least if it had bene a matter of such importance so necessarie as the Pope his shauelings say the Lord would altogether haue misknowne it passed it ouer with silence but He would haue spoken something of it to His Apostles so it is but a follie vanitie to thinke that since Christ hath once offered Himself a propitiatory Sacrifice for y e Redemption of the world that now there remaines any propitiatory Sacrifice in the Church The Lord hath put an end to them all by His death Sacrifice there is no Priesthood cōmitted either to the Apostles before or to the Ministers now but that whereby y e preaching of y e word they offer the soules of men womē in a Sacrifice to y e Lord Away with that deuilish sacrifice of y e Masse whereby the Pope and his Clergy deceiues the world making men beleeue that daylie they offer vp Christ againe as a propitiatorie sacrifice to the Father for the sinnes of the quicke and the dead No there is no propitiatorie sacrifice nowe left to the Kirke That sacrifice which the Lord once offered vpon y e crosse is sufficient perfect enough to take away the sinnes of y e world Thirdly these words teach vs y e these two poincts of the calling of the Ministery Teaching Baptizing were not cōmitted to diuerse sundry persons but both were cōmitted to one y e selfe same person So that he who is ordained to preach is ordained to baptize and he who cānot preach has no power nor libertie granted him of the Lord to baptize and if hee baptize he does it without the Lords commandement he has no warrant of Him and therfore his doing is but a profanation of that Holie Sacramēt of Baptisme This baptizing of infants which is ministred by priuate men has no warrant nor allowāce of God much lesse that which is done by women Fourthly out of these words we may learne what order ought to be kept in the ministring of Baptisme to wit the word must be first preached the couenant of grace and the glad tidings of saluation must be first opened vp vnto vs and then Baptisme should be ministred to seale vp that same word and couenant which before was preached Wherefore serues Baptisme except first the word be preached Baptisme is a seale And what serues y e seale for if there be nothing to be sealed Wherefore can it serue if the charter of the word preceed not Therfore except the preaching of the couenant of grace preceede Baptisme is nothing but an vnprofitable ceremony and a dead element Nowe in whose name should this Sacrament of Baptisme be ministred The Lord sayes IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SONNE AND OF THE HOLY GHOST That is Yee shall baptize by the authoritie power of the Father the Sonne of the Holy Ghost Whereof we haue to learne That the power efficacie of Baptisme depends neither vpon the power of the Minister who baptizes nor vpon the force nor power of the words pronounced by the Minister in Baptisme as if there were any such power or operation in the wordes as the Papists falsely attribute vnto them but all the force efficacie of Baptisme depends vpon the power of God only And therefore it is the duety of him who is baptized to lift vp his eyes his heart to Heauen and to craue the blessing efficacy thereof from God only Next it would be noeed y t He sayes not in a generall tearme Baptise in the name of God but Hee sayes distinctly Baptise in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Therefore it is the duety of him who is baptized not to content himselfe with a confused knowledge and consideration of God but hee ought to behold that glorious Majesty y t incomprehensible essence distinctly in the Trinitie of the persons that is three distinct persons in one Godhead for faith is a distinct a cleare knowledge apprehension of the Majesty of God for whosoeuer truely and sincerely beleeues puts his confidēce in God he finds sensibly by experiēce that all good things flowe first from the Father as the fountaine of all grace and goodnesse through the Sonne as Mediator by whom all grace is conueyed and cōmunicated vnto men and by the Holie Ghost who powerfully effectually works all grace in y e heart Last we see here a cleare and a plaine naming of the three distinct persons of the Godhead the Lord names distinctly The Father the Sonne the holy Ghost In all the Old Testament we will not reade so plaine cleare a distinction of y e three persons of y e Godhead Then learne here that Iesus Christ the Sonne of God brought first of all into the world a distinct knowledge of God and that He first of all distinctly named The

reward in the world He telles him Thou shalt be girded with cordes in stead of a girdle and then thou shalt be ledde away whither thou wouldest not that is to a violent death whereby thou shalt seale vp the Gospell that thou hast preached then the Lord giues him and he receiues the office of Apostleship with this p●emonition that in the end of it he shall die the death The Lord fore●arnes him to this end that hee should be on his preparation to mak● him readie to d●e to enarme him against the death for death comming vnawares is terrible will te●tifie y e proudest flesh that liues 〈◊〉 this forewarning s●rues for y e enarming of him forewarned halfe armed as the Prouerbe is Preparation for death meditation of that death and of the life to come is better and more steadable armour against death than a jacke or all the strengths and castles in the earth It is a terrible thing when death lights vpon a creature suddenly it dammishes the creature But to the purpose In the person of Peter I perceiue That there is no man the Lord receiues to bee a Pastor a feeder of His flocke or a Minister but Hee takes him with this pr●monition Make thee for death that is a hard beginning Prepare thee to shed thy blood for my sheepe and to seale that Gospell which thou hast preached with thy blood for why a man that enters to feede the flocke of the Lord hath not adoe with lambes only sillie and simple sheepe but hee must fight with Wolues as hee must feede the lambes so hee must fight with Wolues Tygres Beares c. that would deuoure the Lambes Yea sometimes it will fall out that these whome they thinke to be Lambes will manifest themselues to be Wolues yea beside this it may be that one of His owne flocke shall stand vp and deuoure him in the end and beside this what is the Deuill euer doing with him Is he not euer going about the Folde like a roaring Lyon with the mouth of him euer wide open seeking to swallow and deuoure not only the flocke but also the Pastor so that he should make him for death It is true Brethren euery Pastor in the ende dies not a violent death all are not hanged beheaded or burnt Some yea many die their owne naturall death and in peace the Lord honoures not euery man with the gift of suffering for the Name of Christ it is an honour get it who will as He honoured Peter and He requires not that euery man seale this doctrine with his blood in the end but yet it is the Lordes will that neuer a man enter so soone to the Ministerie but as soone hee make him for suffering and that he preach so that he be readie to seale vp euery preaching with his blood Away with the man who when he enters thinkes with himselfe that hee shall haue ease and a quiet and a pleasant life It is true againe the Lord will not speake now to euery man face to face forewarning him and giuing to him a reuelation from Heauen now as then Hee did to Peter yet there is nothing more certaine than this it is His will that euery man bee re●●ie euery houre to seale vp the Gospell with his blood if it ple●se the Lord to call him Paul Actes 21. when hee was going ●p to Ierusalem he got a fore-warning That he should be bound hand and foote and so it fell out but it was not fore-tolde him that hee should die yet hee sayes when the godly are standing weeping lamenting seeking to disswade him to goe vp What doe ye weeping grieuing mine heart Why trouble ye me I am ready sayes he not only to be bound but I am prepared to die for the Name of the Lord Iesus So howbeit hee got not the warning yet he had this resolution setled to suffer Now appertaines this nothing to you who are the people I saye to thee Thou who wilt call thy selfe a Christian man who hast giuen vp thy name to Iesus Christ thou art as far indebted to seale vp thy professiō with thy blood if thou be charged as the Pastor is otherwayes I will not giue thee a pennie for thy profession It had b●ene better thou had neuer taken that name if thou bee not readie to seale it vp vvith thy blood It is true euerie one is not in verie deede marty●ed but I saye to thee There is a necessitie layed vpon thee that in some measure thou prepare thee to suffer the crosse and death it selfe for Christes sake and so that thou be a Martyre in thine owne mind and resolution And albeit thou eschew death yet of this bee assured That thou shalt beare the burthen of affliction either inwardlie or outwardlie for vvhosoeuer vvould liue godlie in Christ Iesus must suffer affliction 2. Timoth. chap. 3. vers 11. and Act. chap. 14. vers 22. it is saide Thorowe manie afflictions wee must enter into the kingdome of God This necessity is layd vpō vs. It is the duetie as we vse to speake of euery Christiā man woman to suffer Ther●fore Brethren seeing this necessity is layed on vs That wee must suffer some affliction we should be prepared for it yea if it were to dy the death for the name of Iesus Let euerie one bee preparing themselues both Pastor and people for it may bee that all estates bee sooner put to try all than yee looke for and that the Lord saye to the Pastor Thou hast beene preaching these manie yeeres nowe seale it vp w●th thy blo●de And to the people Yee haue beene prosissing long nowe suffer for it There is my counsell Suppose thou shedde not thy blood yet looke that in the resolution of thine heart thou bee a Martyr thou bee headed hanged and that suffer all sort of torment that euer any suffered and striue to get contentment to die at the pleasure of the Lord. Hee knowes not vvhat a Christian man meanes who has not this resolution A foole thinkes that this hie calling is to get pleasure ease delicacie No no as CHRIST went out of the ports of Hierusalem bearing His owne crosse to the place of execution so He calles thee to goe foorth with Him out of this world bearing His reproach Hebr. 13.13 Otherwise looke not to haue participation of His glorie Yet let vs marke the vvordes more narrowly Now certainly will ye looke in to them yee will see that Peters calling to th'Apostleship was wondrous straite Peter might haue thought and saide with himselfe Seeing I am entring to be an apostle I am entring to a glorious calling I wil get honor enough I was before a poore Fisher nowe I will get honour ease peace and rest The Lord answeres No Peter it shall not be so And this Hee declares by comparing his condition to come in his age with his by-past condition in his youth As if Hee had saide The order of nature shall bee

inuerted in thee for vvhen thou vvast young ere thou sawest mee thou gottest leaue to girde thy girdle about thee to dresse thy selfe and to walke where thou wouldest That is When thou wast most able and strong to beare the Crosse thou wast spared and thou diddest all thinges pleasantly according to thy desire when thou addressed thy selfe to the journey thou girded thy selfe as thou pleasedst Here He alludes to y e oriental people who vsed to weare lōg side clothes therfore whē they wēt to any journey behoued to trusse thē vp to gird thē to thē But after this it shal not be so but whē thou shalt be old thorow age more vnable to suffer affliction and to beare y e crosse then thou shalt be afflicted another shal gird thee That is Bind thee w t cords as thou went before where thou would so now thou shalt be led whither thou wouldest not Now Peter might haue said Suppose I sustaine trouble in my age yet thou wilt giue me a peaceable death in y e end There is no mā almost whē he has spent his time in y e cōmō weale but in his age he wil get leaue to be at rest to dy peaceably No sayes y e Lord when thou art an old man thou shalt be hurried out die a violent death And it would seeme y t Christ disswaded Peter to be an Apostle to enter into such a hard calling where in his olde age which requires to be freed frō trauell trouble shuld be most afflicted wheras in his youth he was freed frō afflictiō There is an hard meeting calling of Peter to be an Apostle I think many now would run aback frō the ministery if they wist of so hard a meeting Well the day of trial is cōming Marke y e lessō Whē the Lord calles a Pastor He will tell him y e worst of it Hee vses no flattery in His calling In y e first entry He wil lay before thee great crosses terrours It may be thou get ease rest cōmodity but I assure thee y t this wil be the cōferēce the Lord will haue with thee whē thou entrest Whē thou hast serued me looke for the crosse for thy stipend when thou hast done all make thee for death Therfore say not I will enter because I will get a good fat Benefice faire liuing I will get peace ease It may be y t the Lord cast these thinges to thee y t thou find thē but propone not y t to thy self as a cause of thine entry but say I am entring to labour to trouble ●o paine it may be in y e end whē I haue done al I shall lay down my life let y e be thy resolutiō In this there is great differēce betwixt God y e Deuill When y e Deuill calles one in the beginning he promises thē riches wealth honour prefermēt the villane will promise felicity happines in this life but in y e end miserably he deceiues thē who trusted his flattery Th'experiēce of the wretched catiues proues this for neuer got they such things as were promised but misery terrour and horrour in the ende But Christ calles men otherwayes and sayes Aime not at mee but by the crosse so long as ye are in this world ye shall haue opposition oppression and sorrow they shall bruise you they shall treade you vnder foot But in the meane time He promises That in the middest of all their griefs yea in death it selfe they shall finde comfort for when Hee has saide to His Apostles In the world yee shall haue sorrowe Hee subjoynes incontenent But bee of good comfort for I haue ouercome the worlde Ioh. chap. 16. vers 33. The world shall not bee victorious ouer thee thou shalt get a faire aduantage and outgate at the last thou shalt get the victory And in y e middest of their troubles not only promises He but also He will giue them a sweeter taste sense of inward joy than all y e worldlings cā haue When they are sitting in the middest of all their glory riches and outward pleasures yea in the very death Hee furnishes life as Paul sayes 2. Cor 6 9. As dying but behold we liue yea such a sweet life as the naturall man neuer could thinke of In thy death the life of Iesus Christ shall be most liuely Thou needest not then to feare to suffer any extremity for Iesus seeing euer Hee has promised thee such a vantage Yet further I see heere this not onlie out of this place but also thorow the whole Scripture experience teaches it That the prerogatiues vantages of this life liberty preferment standes not well with Iesus Christ at the least a Pastor shoulde not laye his count to brooke thē both together Peter when he was a free man and a Fisher going out and in at his pleasure hee knewe not vvhat Christ meaned As soone as he comes to Christ farewell vvith his freedome hee put his girdle about him ere hee knewe Christ but knowing Christ he must be boūd with a corde hurled in bands if any take this calling vpon him to enjoy the outward comforts prerogatiues of this world he deceiues himselfe Likewise Paul Philip. 3.7 Ere he knew Christ a Gentle-man folke thinke a Minister cannot be a Gentle-man a citizen of Rome an Hebrew a Pharise according to his sect in his zeale going beyond all men and in his righteousnesse he was vnrebukable according to the Iustice of the Law but when he comes to Christ what became of all these he leaues all renounces quites them he counts them for Christs sake to be damage doung So I say againe I see not how the aduantages liberties these outward prerogatiues can stand well with the Lord Iesus Indeed y e Lord some times casts these things in great abundance affluence to His owne and then if it please God why mayest thou not brooke them for the Minister hath as good right to these earthly things as another for the Lord sanctifies them to their vse but in the meane time take the counsell of the Apostle 1 Cor. 7.31 Vse them as though thou vsed them not Settle neuer thine heart on them let them neuer be thy chiefe respect in paine of thy life if they come in comparison with Christ take Pauls counsell and experience also count them all damage and losse and count them hurtfull to thee yet a degree further count them but doung loath them spit at them as at dirt if they seeme to separate thee from Christ shake them off thee denude thine hand of them I say albeit it were thy life if it hinder thee from Christ away with thy life giue it to any Tyrant Persecuter if it hinder thee that thou cāst not brooke Christ w t it for if thou giuest thy life for Christ indeede He shall be aduantage to thee not only in