The Mount of Calvarie . inferre, that the pcrfedion of a Chrifiian man doth not con-fift in hauifig «f Chrift,but when wehaue him to benefit our feluesby him. C;r///«;?^« doth fay. That wee doe coft Chriftverydcercly, and that Chrift doth coftvsycry little ; as it dothcaftly appeare in hfeifk of Aram3thia,who bought Chrift his bodyfor one bare word ; info much that ifwce want the hauingofourLord, it is not bccaufe hee is noteafily found and bought for alittle, but becaufc we haue not a defire to fcekc him, nor doe bogoodthingwhereby wee may buy him. ^^wf/^mr doth fay, thatgood Ufe^h
The Mount of Calvarie . inferre, that the pcrfedion of a Chrifiian man doth not con-fift in hauifig «f Chrift,but when wehaue him to benefit our feluesby him. C;r///«;?^« doth fay. That wee doe coft Chriftverydcercly, and that Chrift doth coftvsycry little ; as it dothcaftly appeare in hfeifk of Aram3thia,who bought Chrift his bodyfor one bare word ; info much that ifwce want the hauingofourLord, it is not bccaufe hee is noteafily found and bought for alittle, but becaufc we haue not a defire to fcekc him, nor doe bogoodthingwhereby wee may buy him. ^^wf/^mr doth fay, thatgood Ufe^h of Aramathia is worthic of great praife, bccaufe that• in a time when all Chrift his family was fled, his body dead vpoathe crofic, his faith and Church difcredited , all his do6^rine for-gotten, hce had the courage to flicw himfclfe boldly to be oneof Chrift his band, and publiquely buric his bodie , but yet fothat hee 6rft buried Chrift in his foulc before hec laid his body inthe gcaue. ?n ^he mjjleries. / ;.. CHAP. LV. Haw tofepli (««^Nicho<^cmus didcarrie ladders with them togoe vfto the croffe, andoyntments toannoint his bodjy and went direBlj tothe Mount ofCalunrie^ yfpenfus eji rex in patikpth^ vfque ad vefpe- ram & pofiea depefuernnt cadnHer ews de z^ C^ ^( M-I^-^?^ cruce ^ faith the holy Scripture, lofue the eight, asifhee^^ould fay, The famous C^pcaine lofue going co the hndofPro- mife,did rnfe and dcftroy the Citic of Hay, and crucified the Lord and King of the fame Citic, and his body remained on the croffe vntill the cuening , and then lofuo commanded that his body fhould be buried. If weclookeitito the letter of this Hiflorie we fhall finde, that for fofue to enter into the land ofPromife, it was firft neceflfarie for him to deHroy the Citic of Hay, and make it a heape of ftones, and crucifie the King which poffcffed it, and not take him downe from the gallowe« vn- tlll theeuening, and burie the King his body ncerevntoa gate, and build an Alta
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