%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> A MEDITATION ON / THE PASSION. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/17/2014 34004

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THis is the day were I.N.R.I.ght well content, / Our blessed SAVIOVR did himselfe present, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1166 A MEDITATION ON / THE PASSION. A MEDITATION ON THE PASSION. Printer Thomas Harper ?-?

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THis is the day where I.N. R.I.ght well content, Our blessed SAVIOUR did himselfe present, A LIVING SACRIFICE our soules to free From sinne, death, hell, to live eternally. Awake my soule THIS DAY SHAL sacred be With Hymnes and Songs To his deare memory; Whose dolorous DeaTH our angry God appeas'd, And Lord remember nOw If thou bee pleas'd, For whome he suffered thUs, for whom These woundes By which his goary Bloud so muCH abounds, For men, vile me, hart rEnding stRIpes he bore With thorns his head, With nailes hiS flesh was tore. His lovelie, LillIe hands were sTretched wide, To wellcome death That entred at his side. As streames of bloud gusHt foorth and thus did dure The worst that wrath or Malice could procure. LORD, into pity turnE thine angrie brow, Say to my soule I am contented now. His death, thy life, his wouNdes, thy balme, shall be; His paynefull passion Pleades so powerfully. O King, o Christ, thAt didst thy life bestow For sinful wretches, gRant my life may show Such living fruites of zeAle, of faith, of love, To GOD, to gooDnesse, and the life above; Then loving, servIng, lauding thee at last, I may of ParadiCE sweet JESUS taste. This most excellent invention was done by an unknowne Author, and for the worthines of it, I thought it pity to let it be concealed or smothered in silence; for which cause it is Printed, and I have annexed to it these following Verses.
Upon the good Thiefe. Let no man despaire, for, one was saved. HE that had long beene a notorious Thiefe, Was in Repentance and in Faith so briefe, That at the point of Death, in little space He gaind forgivenesse by our Saviours grace: In death he kept Christ Jesus company, Expressing Love, Faith, Hope, and Charity. By Love and Faith, he zealously believ'd His sinnes were pardon'd, and his soule repriev'd: And his fixt Hope did full assurance gaine Of free remission from eternall paine. He praid, Lord I thy Kingdome have forgot, Yet when thou thither comst forget me not: But though I still have ran astray from thee, Yet (in thy mercy) Lord remember me.
Upon our blessed Saviour. Death brings life. HE that (of nothing) everything did frame, Was pleas'd to change his glory for our shame; He sinlesse was, yet sinne for us was made, And our three foes, Sin, Death, and Hell invade. Ther's nothing dearer since the world began To God, then is the soule and corps of man; When leprosie of sinne had us ore spread, That all were unto Satan forfeited, Then Gods blest Son came down, and on the Crosse He payd our ransomes, and redeem'd our losse. And as unto the blessed Thiefe he said, (When he to him with true contrition praid) He sayes to all that doe repent their vice That they shall be with him in Paradice.
Upon the bad Thiefe. Let no man presume, for, but one was sa- ved. HE that would live accurst, accurst would die, Through want of faith his Saviour to apply: It was the bodies death he fear'd to die, Not soule and bodies death eternally. A longer, not a better life to have He wish'd, when he bade Christ his life to save. This wicked Thiefe did as the Jewes had done, Who said (if he be Gods eternall Sonne) Let him come downe, now from the Crosse, and we Will strait beleeve in him, that it is He. Ev'n so this Thiefe, with damned doubt said thus If thou beest Christ, then save thy selfe and us. But ten times happy had he beene I say, If that same doubtfull IF had beene away.
JO. TAILOR. Printed at London by THOMAS HARPER. 1630.