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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 as those things befell to Him of necessitie so of necessitie those things behooued to be preached to the world So He instructes them in these two necessities Then Hee comes on in the second part of His preaching and giues direction to them to be preachers and witnesses to the worlde of all these thinges promising againe to them that Spirit which He had promised them before His Passion and that they should haue the greater securitie He giues them commandement not to depart out of Ierusalem vntill they were endued with vertue out of Heauen this is the effect To come to the first part When they heard Him speake with a voyce familiar wherewith they had beene acquainted and that homely salutation Peace bee vnto you yet they would not knowe Him when they had seene His hands and feete yet they beleeued not that it was He when they had handled Him and felt Him yet they beleeued Him not for all this they were rauished with joy yet they beleeued not The Lorde will not leaue them in this vnbeliefe but He will let them vnderstand that it was He He teaches them by the sight of a bodily action Hee askes if they had a●y me●t They present to Him A piece of rosted fish and that was all the delicate they gaue Him and with it A piece of hony combe Hee takes and eates in their sight Hee eates the piece of the rosted fish and the hony combe Not that the Lord after His Resurrection had any need to eate any of their meat Hee who nowe vvas immortall after His Resurrection that was glorious and that vvas full of God and had all the powers of His soule filled with God What needed He their piece of fish or their hony combe to eate So it was not for any need He had that Hee eated but that He eated in their sight that they should beleeue that the Lord was a body a Spirit eates not neither drinkes The Lord therefore shewes them that He vvas no Spirit In doing this Brethren no question He humbled Himselfe beeing now immortall and glorious and full of God Was not this a humbling of Him an immortall bodie to take that mortall bread It is a wonderfull thing to see how Iesus Christ humbled Himselfe ay whilst He vvas yet still in this vvorld Beeing sayes Paul Philip in the forme of God thought it no robberie to be equall with God He made Himselfe of no reputation taking on Him the shape of a seruant That is the nature of man in the nature of man became obedient to the Father for vs to the death to a vile death euen to the death of the Crosse a foule de●th and a sore death Then vvhen after He vvas once ●●ade and risen againe ●nd should haue entred to His glory and haue passed to Heauen imm●diately after His Resurrection to sit at the right hande of that Majestie Hee would not immediatly doe so but did deferre and delay it the space of fourtie dayes and all this time humbling Himselfe it was a small thing that when He was mortall to humble Himselfe but when He was immortall that Hee should haue continued so long humbling Himselfe for the cause of man it is a wonder amongst all the partes of His humiliation this is one part that He ate this mortall food And thou when thou shalt be glorified thou shalt not bee so farre humbled as to eate any food of this world thou shalt not be so farre humbled as IESVS CHRIST was humbled Was this Brethren for the Apostles cause only Was it for Peters cause Iohn Iames and the rests cause No Paul sayes All is yours speaking to the Church whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas or thinges present or things to come or life or death all is yours and ye are Christes and Christ is Gods 1. Epist to the Corinthians the 3. Chapter and the 21. and 22. verses So all the Apostles themselues were for the Churches cause I speake to you Paul Iohn Iames c. were for your cause and all this homelinesse of Christ with them was for your cause as they were for your cause so seeing the LORD hath so farre and so many wayes humbled Himselfe consider if wee haue not great cause to meete Him or not If any will bowe so lowe as to take thee by the hand wilt thou not put out thine hande againe and meete Him and thinke ye that this humbling of the LORD of glorie hath taken an ende it endes not so long as this Ministerie continues Know yee what this Ministerie and this preaching is It is but an humbling of GOD from Heauen and that for thy cause looke what Paul sayes in the 2. Epistle to the Corinthians the 5. Chapter and the 20. verse We are Ambassadours for Christ as though GOD did beseech you through vs we pray you in Christs stead that ye be reconciled to God There ye see that by this Ministerie GOD humbles Himselfe to pray thee to be reconciled with Him is not this an humbling of God euen that He should pray thee to be reconciled with Him He becomes a suter and solister for thy cause sayes the Apostle We pray you that y● should be reconciled to Him what is it to God to humble Himselfe if not this when He beseeches and requests vs by His Messengers and Ambassadours that wee bee reconciled to Him This exceeding humbling of the LORD as it lets vs see His loue vnspeakable towardes vs so it requires a meeting on our partes as wee would eschew fearfull judgements If the first humbling of GOD when He humbled Himselfe in our nature will not mooue thee to make Him a meeting it shall bring on a judgement If the second wherein He humbled Himselfe after His Resurrection so many wayes will not mooue thee it shall double thy judgement if the third humbling of Him now in the Ministerie will not mooue thee if thou contemnest the word and the Ministerie it shall triple the judgement albeit thou werest the King of the world O that judgement and wrath that shall bee heaped vpon thee thou shalt be thrust downe and plunged in Hel to be tormented for euermore Can GOD humble Himselfe for nothing No either shall it be for passing mercie or els for a passing judgement to thee for euer more Then Brethren yee shall marke in this place and I shall onely touch it by the way The Lord after His glorious Resurrection eated the meate they gaue Him Hereof it followes That after His glorious Resurrection Hee kept these naturall powers as eating and drinking if Hee kept them not how could Hee eate at this time if there was not a power attractiue in His stomacke how could the meat goe ouer to His stomacke This I speake to let you see when we shall rise be glorified and see our Lord vvhen this humbled bodie shall be translated to the likenesse of His glorious body as vvee shall keepe the same

vvrapping the body of Iesus in the vvinding-sheete one Nicodemus vvho had come to Iesus by night to be instructed secretly by Him he comes to Him and hee comes not emptie handed come not emptie handed to Christ bring w t thee some gift he comes with a mixture of Myrrhe and aloes a precious odour and with a great weight an hundreth pound weight a great weight and a great price for this gift hath bene a costly gift But to speake of this Nicodemus to compare him with Joseph as Ioseph was an honourable man a Prince amongst the people so was Nicodemus an honourable man a Prince amongst the people read the 3. of Iohn As Joseph was a rich man so Nicodemus was a rich and mightie man as Ioseph was a secret disciple of Christ so Nicodemus was a quiet disciple of Christ who lurked before and now comes to light I read of one propertie in Nicodemus which was not in Ioseph This Nicodemus is called by Christ a Doctour and Master in Israel He was a Pharise learned in the law of the Iewes we read not this of Ioseph Yet to goe forward in the comparison As Ioseph brought his honour and riches and laid them downe at the feete of Iesus Christ who lay dead in ignominie in the sight of the worlde so this Nicodemus brings his honour and his riches his learning and his wisedome and layes them downe at the feete of Iesus lying dead there he humbles his head as it were at the feete of Iesus So that this was the greatest honour that Iesus got in His death and buriall the wisdome the honour and the learning of the world and the riches in the persons of these men was all cast vnder His feete and no doubt these two men before they met with Iesus and knew Him they stood much on their reputation they thought their riches and their honour was something and they counted much of their prerogatiues in the worlde but after they got a sight of Iesus all these as Paul speakes of himselfe seemed but losse vnto them they seemed but dung and dirt in respect of Iesus Christ whome they counted to be their only vantage If thou hadst wisdome to compasse the world it is nothing but folly in respect of that eminencie of the wisdome of Iesus Christ all would stincke and be dung to thee thou wouldest not endure to looke vpon them if thou hadst a sight of that eminencie of the wisdome of Iesus Christ Wise men will spitte at the Crosse of Christ these wise men if ye speake to them of the Crosse of Christ they will spit at it yet albeit they bee wise the foolishnesse of the Crosse of Christ will shame them all the foolishnesse of it shames all the wise in the world the pouertie shames all the riches of the world the ignominie of it shames all the honour all the crownes and scepters in the worlde and therefore PAVL 1. Cor. in Esayes vvordes he glories Where is the wisemen now where are the Scribes where is the disputer of the world Hath not this foolish Crosse of Christ made all but follie the very foolishnes of y e Crosse of Christ hath made all y e prerogatiues of y e world but foolishnes the world would not know God in His wisdome when He had set out such a faire Fabricke of y e world He determined to saue so many as should beleeue But how by Philosophie No by wisdom No but by the foolishnesse of preaching thou shalt neuer see Heauen I giue thee this doome if thou be not saued by this foolish preaching This for the persō of Nicodemus now let vs see his gift it is a rich gift a mixture of Myrrhe Aloes of an hundreth pound weight what mooued y e man to doe this now certainly there are few folks y t will cast away their goods giue them for nothing it behooued y t some great mater should haue moued this man if he had not seene some thing in y t body to haue moued him to haue brought this gift he had neuer brought such a precious gift if he had not seene a wonderfull preciousnes in y e body euen that dead body was y e most precious thing in y e world he had neuer bin so liberal as to haue bought so much precious oyntment what causes men be so loth to bestow any thing on Christ His Gospel y e world sees not how precious He is in His Gospel when thou seest not y e preciousnes of y e Gospel of Christ O! what maruell is this y t thou bestowest nothing on Iesus His Gospell I doubt not if thou couldest see y e power of y e light y e preciousnes of that Gospel thou wouldest bestow gifts presents yea all y t thou hast to y e glory of Iesus and to y e maintenance of it ye had need to look on this mater at this time The Lord open the eyes of men to see y e price of this glorious Gospel But to speak of Nicodemus gift y t gift is honourable a gift of odours what should haue moued this man to haue both such a gift of odours more thā any other if Nicodemus had not felt y e sweetest sauour odour that euer was cōming frō the body of Iesus he had neuer brought such a gift hee meetes a sweete sauour with a sweet sauour that body needed no odours of Nicodemus because that bodie was filled with the presence of God and therefore needed none odours to preserue it from corruption The naturall body of a man beeing dead will stincke but the body of the Lord Iesus was not subject to corruption so ye see Brethren all things honour the buriall y e honorable mā Ioseph honoures y e burial the winding sheet honoures y e buriall y t man Nicodemus honours y e buriall y t rich gift honoures y e buriall of y e Lord so His buriall was on all wayes honorable So y e glorie of Iesus beganne in His buriall When Nicodemus is come with his gift Joseph Nicodemus joyne hands in hands together They tooke towells and buries the body of Iesus after the manner of the buriall of the Iewes Yet I see in this Ioseph a thing commendable When Nicodemus comes with a rich gift and a richer gift than hee gaue he enuies him not hee enuies neither the man nor his gift but hartily they take the body together and annoynt it Let no man enuie another who comes with a gift to Iesus but let mee with my small gift and thee with thy great gift hartily joyne hande in hande together and glorifie Iesus Christ put away enuie and emulation and hartily honour IESVS CHRIST for if we sawe that all our honour standes in the honour of Iesus Christ wee would bee content that euery man should come with greater gifts to honour Iesus Christ and so emulation would bee put away Now the Lord giue vs grace to