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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25462	Mysterium pietatis or The mysterie of godlinesse wherein the mysteries contained in the incarnation circumcision wise-men passion resurrection ascension. Of the Son of God, and comeing of the Holy-Ghost, are unfolded and applied. At Edinburgh. By Will. Annand, M.A. one of the ministers of that city, late of University Coll. Oxon.	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1671 (1671)	Wing A3220; ESTC R218527	157,174	382

Man confirmed by two witnesses not called but compelled he is the Son of God said the Centurion A just man said Pilats wife which under the pain of damnation is never to be really separat from our creed both being received and both to be believed PILATS wife his own disciples were against his drinking both of them haveing pitty of him but yet he would drink haveing compassion for them and not for them only but for the whole world for which he was sent to lay down his life and as at Lazarus death when observed to weep it was said behold how he loveth him see him drinking all may say behold how he loveth it mark how he loveth men of which the inscription over the CROSSE or tittle on which the Romans declaired the crime for which the party dyed doth amply discover being in it called Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iews in Hebrew Greek and Latine shewing the vehemency of his aff●ction for as all nations had heard of his works Pilat resolved that each nation should know the cause of his death and these three languages answering to the three fam'd parts of the wo●ld viz the Romans the most powerful because martial the Greek the wisest because most learned the Iews the holyest because of the Law and the Devil prompting to this Iesus of Nazareth for nourishing a grosse errour that Iesus was of Nazareth whence the Messiah was not to be but of Bethlehem that none in this respect should behold him as that Prophet which was to come and though sometimes that expression is used yet it 's ever unto the Iews whoso supposed and expressed him that way for all this contrivance of men Gods intendment was that all of all nations should on the CROSSE behold their Saviour and that Iesus was to be their peace-maker by his blood and this to be reported in the three quarters of the world then all the world that Jesus of Nazareth King of the Iews was crucified at Ierusalem according to the Scriptures THIS riddle to unfold veiw the sense of each word Iesus that is a Saviour for sin a Redeemer of captives the hopes of the exiled the Strength of the labourer Enlarger of a strai●ned soul the Cooler of a heated and Comforter of a galled conscience behold him Of Nazareth this name was given for fulfilling of that Scripture He shall be called a Nazaren Mat. 2. by interpretation it signifyeth a branch one of his names in the old Testament and who was to build the temple of the Lord by joyning as living stones the elect of all nations kinred and tongues ●s also crowned sanctified and seperat before for that holy use shewing the authority and commission he had to save to unite from the Father which was fit since he was King a word of old pronounced Conning expressing his wisdom and skill to govern his subject by known and established Laws and therefore not a tyrant deserving not so much as a censure of that people who were Iews Gods people glorious in David and to be blessed with the whole Earth in the posterity of Abraham they remaining faithful as Abraham who believed in God who now had accomplished his promise in sending that people a Prophet like unto Moses and caused them to behold Davids Son by which they are the more culpable in importuning his death from a Gentile AT last that cursed Nation for their cursing shall come under the Scepter of this despised King and worship at his holy foot-stool mourning for his wounds for which though himself did not yet the sun laid aside his robes of day cloathing himself in mourning night like darknesse rocks broke and rent assunder because no Iew did rent his garment at crucifying their King Mary weep'd not he what the Son of my womb the Son of my desires while he boasted and would not come down from the CROSS but suffered from the Gentile by means of the Iew what both could inflict for the salvation of both Iew and Gentile then and at aftertimes the voice of their Brothers blood crying still what he did at first Father forgive them i. e. for my sake for I am thy Son for thy own compassion sake they being my Brethren for according to the flesh he was the Son of Abraham the Hebrew as flowing from the loyns of Heber the Son of elected Sem he was also the Son of David the King and so a Iew who was the grandson of Ruth a gentile a Moabitess and so in fraternity to both by Father and Mother to Gentile and Jew was he a Brother PRY into his holy zeal which for Gods house did eat him up and how was he straitned and with desire desired to eat his passover his viaticum his last-food unlesse the Angel even that way strengthned him sweating untill every thing that stood in the way of mans happinesse was removed he not laying down but drinking of the brook in the way swallowing up hels kingdom hasting runing to destroy the works of the Devil his redoubts and entrenchments yea all that both his hands in drawing to sin and halling to punishment could eff●ctuat weakning the one destroying the other that he should no more lead captive at his pleasure into labour and dolour which Iesus here not only beheld but made entrance into because of the first he cryed in David I am poor and needy and because of the second in Ieremiah he sighed Is it nothing to you all ye that passe by behold and see if there be any sorrow like ●nto my sorrow which is done unto me YET as the Ichneumon an Indian Rat enemy to the Crocodile will watch untill he sleep and leaping into his throat descends in●o his entrails and eats out it's way through and side of that his terrible and great foe and so destroys him our Iesus did enter into the jaws and through the bowels of this Devourer liberateth himself and all believers allowing perfect freedome in the rest peace and continual feast of a good conscience in joy unspeakable that they triumph with S. Paul over Hell over Death over the grave with an O Death I will be thy Death O Grave I will be thy Destruction A work of great and excellent contrivance of laborious difficulties if the number strength fury policy of adversaries be respected and the torrent which flow'd from heaven more imbittering the cup be considered the impetuousnesse of all these together towards Christ in the word brook shewing how plentifull his sufferings were and what store there is yet behind for others that come after THERE is a cup of red wine which the ungodly must drink up Iesus drank much but not all the Son of God drank deep of but not the brook dry yet largly of it for it was a brook which some will have to be a rivulet flowing more or lesse with water as the clouds more or lesse shal empty themselves therein which though not granted yet it may be pertinently inferred that

the pronouns force He the Son of Man on Earth was He who though now talking yet as God is in heaven the word IS is urged for as Man he was at the same instant on Earth and not yet ascended to that place where He as God was before THIS ariseth from the union of the two natures in him viz that of Man and and that of God where the properties of each other are attributed to the whole person which yet in examination must be only referred to one of these natures as in these words save the Son of Man which Is in heaven 〈◊〉 if then he had been there which to affirm of his M●n-hood were erronious He speaking to them under the Sun but as God it is ●greable to Truth and therefore the Ascend●ng of the Son of Man must not be unders●ood of his Deity for as God he is uncap●ble of going to any place being in all places ●t once and filling all by the infinity of his nature His Ascending therefore is to be applyed to his huma●ne nature wherein only he can properly be said to shift places and change seats and where he was before to his God-head he being with the Father before all Worlds which Doctrine of Union puzzeling Nichodemus made him wonder but remember he came to Iesus by night and untill this Sun rose upon the face of the Church this Doctrine was hid from the wise and prudent Rabbies but now unto Babs and Children this light shineth comparing Scripture with Scripture words with deeds with the assistance of the holy Ghost it is known that when Christ was crucified the blood of God was shed and when the Son of Man rose the Son of God rose when the Son of Man ascended God also ascended the Personall Union of the two naturs allowing the expressions The Word which was made Flesh at this time hav●ng never seen heaven the Word then Flesh was to ascend and sit in heaven where the flesh that was the Word had never been WHAT St. Paul mentioned of the severall members of the body which though having their own peculiar functions yet united make one body and applyes it saying so also is Christ that is the Church 1 Cor. 12.12 May be alluded unto here in these two natures of Christ of which we say so also hath the Church every member thereof being the Son of God as well as the Son of Man and their Ascending into heaven as Sons of Men with their flesh and bones ascends but where they were before in their Spirits and desires Enoch a typ of Christ ascending and also of the ASCENS●ON of all the elect at the end of the world was but coached up bodily into that place where Religiously he had oft in Soul been that precept of haveing our affections above where Christ is Col 3.2 By Faith in love carries the soul aloft giving it wings to behold and see feel and ●●joy the joyes rapturs sweetness that is 〈◊〉 the Paradise of heaven the new Ierusalem ●hich is above while the flesh or fleshly part of man is represented in the Embleme as the ●ring at a birds feet in the hand of a boy or 〈◊〉 unto a stone hindring the full fruition ●f the Souls Ardency in ascending to the heavenly mansions its clogginess impeding the spirit through fervent desires to be upward 〈◊〉 that He as man in flesh when ascended but ●cends unto that place where He when man in ●pirit was before THE Ascension for mans Instruction is ●everall wayes expressed in holy Writ two whereof are most Celebrious it s called ascending up on high in the old and an ascending 〈◊〉 the Father in the new Testament Psal. 68.18 Iohn 20.17 In the first is insinuared the glorious blessednesse and Majesty he is endowed with and possess●d of all things being in his estimate as low as they are in their own site the other unfolds his exaltation above all Creatures whether Heaven Saints or Angels hinting at his equality with God all glorified Spirits shouting at his entry into the heaven of heavens called in the Prophesie God's going up with a shout the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet Psal. 47.5 And by the way if heaven rejoyce at the entry of the Son of Man what Jubilations ought to be on Earth at the ascending of the Son of God since he did it only to receive gifts for men Psal. 68.18 That is from God the Father that he being man might deliver them to men 4. Ephe. 8. And the Quire of Angels beholding his Kingly gate through the Clouds and manly steps upon heavens glorious and shining pavement Answered and questioned each other who is the King of glory and warning the porters yea the gates of heaven themselves to speak after the manner of men to be open'd to be lifted up for the King strong and mighty this Lord mighty in battel Psal. 24. That he had power and authority over Earth was eminently known in Lazarus come forth his dominion over the Sea was demonstrated by his walking on its proud waves that the Aire was at his controule was discover'd by his commanding of the winds that Hell was not exempted from his Soveraignity was made evident in casting out of Devils that Angels were made subject to him was not or in that they ministred unto him and served him Now there wanted one thing but one thing to shew that he was Lord of all things which was his ASCENSION up to heaven by which he proved himself Lord of the Vniverse and for creating this fai●h in the hearts of his own he did ascend in the sight of his Disciples not of the eleven only but probably of the hunder and twenty S. Luke Acts 1. Having mentioned both the women and brethren that were with Christ and in his Gospel having spoken of them who saw him after the Res●rrection hath so carried on the thread of his History that the eleven being expressed the other seemes not to be excluded this blessed sight of his Ascending being so recorded as indifferently to serve all the persons mentioned that as being by all men seen all should confess him to be Christ for the glory of God the Father THERE is in nature some secret pressure of Spirit when not vehemently by-assed with urgency of affairs vehemency of fear that maketh a man long for and longingly to labour after a sight of his Native Country Vlisses is said after ten years travel in and about the H●lespont to desire a sight but of the smoak of his Country from the godds promising thereupon satisf●ction though he should dy at the same time yet was not that Rome head of an Empire nor Athens a University of Arts bu● Ithaca a rocky poor fish town in the Ionian S●a from heaven did the Son of Man come that was his Country his native soyl there it was where he had been before and towards it he had always a moneths mind as earnestnesse is expressed in the Proverb Lifting oft

Arethuse in his Martyrdome is adequate and fitted to the Christians sublimated Spirit for he when hung up in Air exposed to B●es Waspes and Flies being annointed not to say daubea with honey ●yeing his persecutors with a kind of con●umely said How am I advanced despising 〈◊〉 that are below me on earth the Soul life the designs acts of the Believer being but a Comment upon Evangelick Precepts and Christs like graces I might say Ascendings ADAM is known to be put from Paradise in the cool of the day that is about the evening admit it to be the nin●h hour or three in the afternoon Then it followeth that the second Adam enter'd the Heavenly Paradise when the first Adam was exil'd the Earthy And about that time too did the Dove bring the Olive Branch to Noah It cannot therefore be blame worthy to conjecture that the fourtieth day after the Resurrection about the same time our LORD both in Soul and Body enter'd in a manly pace and majestick walk upon Heavens street and passing through the throng of Angels took that place at the right hand of the Father resting there as in an Ark haveing got no rest for the sole of his foot since his comeing thence I mean about the ninth hour for it is said He appeared to the eleventh as they sate at meat yeild that to be the sixth hour or high noon after which he talked and went before them unto Bethania Luk. 24.50 or to Olivet upon which Mount Bethania stood from Ierusalem a Sabbath days journey the distance of the peoples march from the Tabernacle in the wildernesse that is two thousand Cubits or above half a mile from the City a convenient walk for the Citizens contemplation in fair weather and for pleasure after which journey discoursing and blessing He ascended to his Father the Olive-branch of Reconciliation in his mouth saying I have finished the work thou gav'st me to do Father glorifie thy Name and ME with that glory which I had before the beginning of the world For of them whom thou hast given me have I lost none but the Son of perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled AS on the ninth hour of the day some will have his Ascension there wants not them who affirm it was on the fifth of May ●he fifth day from the Sabbath even Thurs●ay the day in which he was presented in ●he Temple the fourtieth day after his Birth ●s holy to the Lord being the first-born So the fourtieth day after his appearing from the belly of the grave about the same time or hour He presented himself in the Temple of the Ierusalem above as holy harmlesse and the first-born from the dead having after his Resurrection never enter'd into the Temple below that Type being dissannull'd ●nd haveing c●nsumate all Temple-service Heaven he made his Throne Angels receaving thereby the product of their wishes the Archangels the ultimate of their desire Man being restored and enstated in the person of the Son of God whose Tutors and Ministers they had been for that end into that p●istin glory which by a Sa●anicall trick had been cheated from them even from Union with God and dominion over the Creature which now in Christ he hath made sure unto him in heaven and though the wicked may reckon this security poor because distant and invisible being in a far Countrey yet let them not send the messengers of Lust Ambition or Rebellion after him discovering a dislike as if tha● man should not reign over them for there He is and there He will sit untill such and all other his enemies be made his footstool and thence shall he come to judge in the clouds both the obedient and refractory whether Angels or men the fear of which ought to beget in us that reverentiall awe it did in one Elias not the Prophet who is said to have been most timerous alwayes dreading the approach of death the comeing of the Iudge the pronouncing of that sentence Go ye cursed BE rather induced to ascend after him to be with him by going up in such duties as are thought to be enjoyned in the Psalms called of degrees being humble in prayer as Psal. 120. delineats next stedfast in hope then ardent in desire then fervent in meditation and because of many remora's and difficulties we meet withall in these be invincible in patience then strong in confidence holy in chearfulnesse observers of providence fearfull of offences thankfull for victories serious in supplications meeke in converse particular in pleadings charitable in families and encouragers unto all good the performance whereof in a holy sense will make each of you Adam hamahalah or a man of degrees for as these Psalms were of old sung by the Levits upon the steps in their ascent unto the Court of the Women at the feast of Tabernacles for their excellency form shortnesse and sweetnesse of the matter by these vertues as by stairs we shall ascend being men in this for it is a reasonable service into Heavens great Court rejoycing with exceeding great joy in tasting those pleasures which are at Gods right hand therein for ever THE Priest under the Law was to bless the people at dismissing or finishing of the Temple-service one form whereof is to be found Numb 6.23 and others were institute by the authority of Rulers it was pronounced standing with hands stretch'd abroad and with a raised voice as if he would have forced into or put upon the people the mercies in those formes expressed which is promised in these words And I will blesse them Grace ratifying the Priestly benediction when bottom'd upon Divin law for the Congrega●ions obtainment of the desired good which ordinarily in Religious-zeal was tarried for by the people who are said to wait for Zacharias Luk. 1.21 the Lords Priest which with that of the parent poor and dying Christian are known to be signally efficacious which made our Lord the Priest of the New Testament when leaving his little flock to put his blessing upon them and with stretched out hands also Luke 24.50 evincing the removeal of the curse of the Law in his bearing of the curse for them in his own body upon the tree and that he was going to pray for them and for their sin that security might be purchas'd knowledge of the truth obtained and eternall life the summe of all mans salvation assured unto them and alwayes to be intreated for by him which being done while he was with them in the world should likewise be done at his abode with the Father before whom as with open armes He was continually to interceed for mercy to the Elect in general and to his Disciples in particular as Friends who could not who did not part with this their Master no more then Elisha would from Elijah and though with that Servant they had not the spirit of their Master duplicated or doubled upon them yet greater works then he did they do because He is gone to the