The Mount of Calvarie . Hoth not want a myfteric thatthe Sonne ofGod did fuffer them to open his fide being aliuc, butpiefcntly after that hee had yeeJded vp his ghoft vpon the croiTe;thereby to teach vs,that atthe very inftant,\vhcn hce did loofc hislife, immcdiatly the gate of glory did open : infomuch that withthe felfcfame ftroke,they did breake Chnll his bowels, aad opcaynto vs the gates,. CHAP. LII. ;;dcd, and of the great wgratitads »fours ffor thejh eddin^ ofhts bloud* Anguinem iKri-oxiumeffadit A/an^iJps nml-turn Kunh, donee imfleretur lerufalem vfque^i-
The Mount of Calvarie . Hoth not want a myfteric thatthe Sonne ofGod did fuffer them to open his fide being aliuc, butpiefcntly after that hee had yeeJded vp his ghoft vpon the croiTe;thereby to teach vs,that atthe very inftant,\vhcn hce did loofc hislife, immcdiatly the gate of glory did open : infomuch that withthe felfcfame ftroke,they did breake Chnll his bowels, aad opcaynto vs the gates,. CHAP. LII. ;;dcd, and of the great wgratitads »fours ffor thejh eddin^ ofhts bloud* Anguinem iKri-oxiumeffadit A/an^iJps nml-turn Kunh, donee imfleretur lerufalem vfque^i-f^e/,faith the holy Scripture, /?^^.,2. as if he would fay, Cruell AlAuajfes, didilicd in Teriilalem {o much harmeleflebioud, that it came vp vnto mens Scripture could not paint Mnnajfescruelty better, then to f^y that hee was aKing vnto whom clemencic did belong,and that it was the bloud of innocents vvhich hce fhould haue de*fended., and tliac hec didilicd ic in Iciufalefn, vyhicii was a holy place;. oj tS\<foHnt Qlmrie. ^51 place ; and that there was fo much bload , that it did come vntomens mouihes; tKat is,it was talk for cuery man in the Common-,wealth, Gregoriem his Pafiorall doth fay, That becaufe Prelates are asitvvcregardiansofmcns foules, and maintaincrs of their fubicftsfame and credit, with King M^i^i^jfes hee doth il-ied innocentbloud, who doth not keepe his fubie^^sperfon, nor defend hiscredit ; becaufe that oftentimes a man had rather be pricked in aveine, then touched in his fame. If it had beenc prophanc blpud,or ifit hadbeenefhed inaprophanc place , God would not fomuch haue cared for 7^/4?7^j/rrj cruelty, but becaufe be did fhed itin a holy place, and was the bloud of holy pcrfons, the Scripturedoth lament it,and God doth punifh it, whereof wee may inferrcthat no man can iniurie or cuilly entreat a good man, but Godvvill be offended at it. Holy places, holy religion, and holy men , ought to banegreat priuiledges , and be defended by thei
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