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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49444	A sermon preached before His Majesty at Whitehal, April 5, 1663 by ... B. Lord Bishop of Lincoln, Elect.	Laney, Benjamin, 1591-1675.	1663 (1663)	Wing L346; ESTC R6273	14,637	36

A SERMON Preached before HIS MAJESTY at Whitehal April 5. 1663. By the Right Reverend Father in God B. Lord Bishop of Lincoln Elect. Published by His Majesties Special Command London Printed for Timothy Garthwait 1663. Heb. xiii Vers xv By Him therefore let us offer the Sacrifice of Praise to God continually that is the Fruit of our Lips giving thanks to His Name or Confessing to His Name as the Margin reads more agreeable to the Greek WE have an Altar in the Tenth Verse and in this we have a Sacrifice But what Altar and what Sacrifice for they are scandalous words For the Altar let that fall if the Sacrifice cannot support it But for the Sacrifice whereof we are now to treat it is I confess a word of offence because there goes under the name of a Christian Sacrifice that which our Church calls a blasphemous fable Art 31. and dangerous deceit Should I leave you without any Caution upon that fear and danger in Sacrificing it would be to little purpose to offer at the commending of any For we are too often troubled more with words than what they signifie And therefore as the Orator adviseth when such a case shall happen Mitigandas esse prius aures somewhat must be said beforehand to remove a prejudice that will fall upon all that shall be said after That which the Article speaks of is the Sacrifice of the Mass wherein the Priests of that Sacrifice say That Christ himself is really sacrificed for the quick and dead And for want of this our Church is not by them allowed to have either Priest or Sacrifice 'T is true we pretend not to that Mystical Art and Chymistry to turn the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Natural Body and Blood of Christ by which alone they make themselves Priests and Him the Sacrifice I put in no claim therefore from this Text either to that Priest or this Sacrifice but yet to a right in both but both of another kinde For the Sacrifice the Text is clear and the Priest follows of course there can be no Sacrifice without him And it is as clear too That it is not the Sacrifice of the Mass though Christ himself be in it for 't is he whom we first meet with in the Text By him Here indeed he is but not in the quality of a Sacrifice to be offered as in the Mass whereof he is the Matter but as a Mediator onely It is not Him but By him we are to offer Now seeing we may be secure it is not that we might possibly fear let us see what it is we may safely and must necessarily perform We are first to offer a Sacrifice to God 2. That for the kinde is Eucharistical not Propitiatory 3. The Matter of it is to be not the Fruit of our Fields or of our Flocks but of our Lips 4. Not every fruit that grows upon the lips but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lips Confessing to his i. e. Gods Name 5. This confessing here is not of him though that be otherwise necessary for he that denies him shall be denied by him but To him and that makes it a Sacrifice 6. It must be to Him and not to any Creature Saint or Angel Praise them we may but offer a Sacrifice of praise we must not 7. It is not a Sacrifice to be done at starts and upon occasions but continually a daily Sacrifice 8. It is to be offered by Him that is by Christs merits and mediation 'T is that which gives power and efficacy to this and all our services which would be nothing worth if we came in our own names Lastly You have the Reason why all this Therefore and that sends us back to the Twelfth Verse Wherefore Jesus that he might sanctifie the people by his Blood suffered without the Gate That he suffered for us and that he suffered without the Gate are the reasons why by him and why of us By him because by the sacrificing of himself he made our peace with God By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God for it And why of us Because he suffered without the Gate whither the Jews that were within the Gate must go out and follow him in the next Verse leaving their City and Sanctuary And we the Gentiles that are without the Gate already may finde him in our own Territories that so both Jew and Gentile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 joyntly together as the word imports May confess to the honor of his Name And as Therefore carries in it the reason of our duty so it doth in that some accommodation it hath to the time For this is Passion Sunday and why so called we learn from Rupertus and others because the Jews on this day met together to consult of and contrive the death of our Lord which not many days after they effected It will not be fit I confess for that reason to anticipate the Meditations proper to that Solemnity Yet as now the Passion was in preparation and conception by them it will be so far a keeping of time with it if we also now shall prepare a Sacrifice of praise for it that we may be fit then to honor God by confessing to his Name the wonderful mercies and unspeakable benefits we receive by the Passion and Resurrection of our Lord. By him therefore let us offer the Sacrifice of Praise to God continually that is the Fruit of our lips confessing to his Name And that we may the better perform our Sacrifice of Praise Let us by him also offer a Sacrifice of Prayer c. THat we are to offer a SACRIFICE to God is here so plainly enjoyned and so punctually described both for matter and manner in every circumstance that one would think it strange it should be neglected and more strange it should be contemned by any But for our selves if we would be clear in this matter as every good man should desire to be it is fit we call our selves to account when and how we perform it The Antient and Frimitive Church of whom this may best be learned did in conscience of their duty herein compose several Liturgies that by them they might have a Publick daily Sacrifice for the honor and worship of God as that of St. James at Jerusalem St. Marks at Alexandria after that St. Chrysostoms at Antioch St. Basils at ●aesaria St. Gregories at Rome and indeed there was no Church without one They that wrote Apologies for the Christians being of the Heathen accused of Atheism because they were never seen to offer sacrifice to the Gods for answer to that had recourse to this Sacrifice of Praise in the Text. The Copies of those Antient Liturgies as they come now to our hands have no doubt suffered the fate of time that is some changes by which the preposterous zeal of some hath overcharged them with numerous and sometimes superstitious Additions yet the substance and intendment of them was to