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Scintillula altaris. or, A pious reflection on primitive devotion : as to the feasts and fasts of the Christian Church, orthodoxally revived. / By Edward Sparke, B.D.; Thysiasterion.
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Sparke, Edward, d. 1692.
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life-giving bread so that the Schools in Generall and many of the Fathers where opinioned from this John 6. that there is a kind of divine seed infused by the Eucharist not only into the souls but into the bodies also of faithfull Receivers whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or vivifying Quality inclineth and as 't were fitteth them to a Reviviction non Disputo sed Credo ut Credo Edo how far the words may bear it I dispute not but believe him that said it John 6.54 whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternall life and I will raise him up at the last day The Ascention of Christ. matt 28. mark 16. luk 24. * * 50. And he led them out as farre as Bethany and he lift up his hands and blessed them 51. And it came to passe while he blessed them he was parted from them and carryed upp into heauen Here the Plate POEM 16. Upon this day as the Sweet Prophet sings The Sun arose with healing in his wings The Sun of Righteousnesse which lately sate In a Cloud Red as Bloud yet now in state He reapproacheth with Refulgent Rayes Cheering our sadness Lengthning of our Days Our declinations of Mortality Into a Solstice of Eternity This day the Lord made and it sorrow marr'd Nay This day made the Lord that is declar'd His Mercy on others many wonders show'd But now his Power one on Himself bestow'd This stronger Samson breaks the cords and bands Of death and Hell with his Triumphant hands See honest Joseph here from Prison come In Christ Returning from deaths dungeon The Gates of Gaza Samson bare away But Christ the Gates of death unhing'd to Day Stout Daniel here from fierce companions free While Christ returns from vanquish'd Divels See Here is that Temple which Jews did destroy Yet as foretold repaired the third day Here Jonah too the whale doth cast on shore Now the devouring Grave doth Christ restore Which Morsell hath Death's stomack so sick made Hee 'l one day vomit all that 's therein laid Mean time the Grave 's well Metamorphosed Thus warm'd by Christ Fear not to go to bed For though what 's sown do dy yet see the Graine With gay advantages revives again In stead of mouldring Drought Green-Flourishing Each single vertue many Multiplying Christ thus our humane Nature did calcine Not Transubstantiate into divine But what was naturall Spiritualize By the exaltation of the Qualities More then Angelick Beuty Crowns that Face Where the Forme of a servant late took place That Body new Agility doth move Who 's Center 's not below now but above Enfranchis'd too from Earth's necessities And supports humane by Divine supplies Needs neither Rest Food Raiment as before As being to hunger thirst and tire no more And when Christ fed since 't was not Him to nourish But onely his Disciples Faith to cherish And in his Body rais'd those wounds and scars Became the brightest parts in their orb stars Such the Prerogative spiritual is Of bodies glorifi'd of Christ and His. First fruits imply the Later look what he Injoy'd we shall for act though not degree Each vessel full of true felicity According to its Receptivity If we mean while but rise from graves of sin And Transitories which most buried in If of such Bats we pitch an Eagles flight And to be where this Carcass is delight Then doubt not but who thus the first partake The second Resurrection bless'd shall make Thus by the resurrection of the dead The Living's Faith is chiefly comforted The COLLECT The Epistle Col. 3. ver 1. unto 8. The Gospel John 20. ver 1. to 11. Almighty God which thorow thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life we humbly beseech thee that as by thy speciall grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good desires so by thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect through Jesus Christ our Lord who liveth c. Vpon Ascension Day or Holy Thursday DISQUISITION 14. WEe may well say of this Feast as the Jews of that same Sabbath John 19. John 19.31 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That this is an High Day dies Solennis a day of Joy to all Generations both in respect of Christ our Lord and of all true Christian people as being the first day of Christs Ascension in the flesh for his Deity cannot be said either to ascend or descend this being the first day of his sitting in joy and glory rest and triumph The Proem at the right hand of God And as to our selves This the first day as it were of our right to Heaven the first day that our Nature entred there whence we have both a Priviledg and an Assurance to follow as this day the sentence of our corruption was changed and in stead of that curse in the beginning Earth thou art c. it was now said unto our Nature Ascend to Heaven and which never was to Angels Sit thou at my right hand c. Heb. 1. Sure Heb. 1.13 an inestimable happinesse was Christs personall Society his bodily Presence while he lived on earth could the hardened Jews have seen or seeing have perceived it but Light came into the world and darknesse comprehended it not They like the brutish Gadarens had rather have their swine then this pearle while the devout Saint Augustine made it you know the chiefest of his chiefe desires Romam in Flore Paulum in Cathredra Christam in Carne S. August 3 chief desires To have seen widowed Roome in her Virgin Foelicity to have heard that Divine Oracle Saint Paul out of the Pulpit but above all to have embraced his Redeemer in the flesh And could then have sung his Swann like Anthem the Nunc dimittis as cheerfully as old Simeon could willingly have closed his eyes with that blest object How full of joy needs must his presence be on earth in whose presence is fulnesse of joy in heaven I and who still carryed Heaven along with him And so fill'd with this joy of his presence were his Apostles he having oft miraculously sed them by Land saved them by Sea instructed them both by Sea and Land that they could not with patience endure once to think of his abscence or hear of his Departure and therefore one of them to enjoy him longer disswadeth him from his sufferings Mat. 16. though he be called Satan for his labour the rest in a sad copartnership of sorrow lament the death and losse of him Mat. 16.22 All his other actions were desiderabilia but this parting as another death here their affections cry out with the Pilgrims of Emmaus Mane nobiscum Domine we have now most need of thee Advesperascit For now the dark evening draweth on c. All of them at his Final valediction his telling them of his Ascending to Glory seem impatiently unwilling to stay behind him John 13.37 John 13.
transiit Natura non defecit The body was adorned with refined qualities but not devested of its former Nature His corruptible here put on incorruption The Condition of glorified bodies his mortall immortality Totus surrexit gloriosus He is risen altogether a Body glorified Whose eminencies the Schoolmen are very busie with I confesse and write more of then even Saint Paul himselfe durst that had bin in the third Heaven I shall mention onely the most probable Claritas agilitas subtilitas impossibilitas The first Brightnesse and Angelick Beauty which was prefigured by shining Moses Exod. 34. and acknowledged in Christ by S. Jerom Stellatum splendorem Even a starry luster And if in his Transfiguration his face did shine as the Sun and his very rayment as the light Mat. 17.3 Matth. 17. How bright think you how much more radiant was his Resurrection Nay if as himselfe telleth us The just shall shine like the Sun Chap. 83.43 c. Matth. 13. with what resplendent Rayes think you arose this Sunne of Righteousnesse this Sun of Glory himself whereof all other lights whatsoever are but beams Agility Answerable to this the second is Agility and lightsomness of motion such a supernaturall Activity of Body as if we may beleeve the Schools giveth it an equal facility of either motion of Ascending or Descending such an imperceptible quicknesse as made Christ sometime seem invisible when he pleased to passe through or to appear in the midst of the company John 20.26 John 20. But for that which they term subtillity cui aliud non resistit as to which they say materiall things make no Resistance that seemeth so destructive to the properties of a naturall body that I passe it as a meer subtilty indeed Subtilty but ushering the way to a double Heresie both in Philosophy and Religion viz. penetration of bodies and transubstantion The last condition of a body Glorified is Impassibilitas that is an incapacity of any further sufferings Aquinas in locum or indigence of Natures sustenance after the Resurrection mans body shall not need the staffe of Bread to walk with nor any other Antidotes of humane frailty but did not Christ after his Arise Eat Luke 24. yes but non in Nutritionem sui sed discipulorum Fidei that was not to nourish himself but his Disciples Faith non ex Egestate sed ex potestate not out of want but power it not turning to Aliment but like drops of water sprinkled on fire evaporated vanished such bodies Hunger no more and thirst no more Rev. 21. Rev. 21. neither They need Sun or sheild for the Lamb to them is all in all These are some of the Transcendencies of a glorious body and to satisfie some other scruples of flesh and bloud How arise the dead and with what bodies shall they come whether of the same Age Sex forme or deformity they died in though these are rather Niceties then necessaries yet know it shall bee of the whole Compositum the whole person like Christ here both parts Re-united both have shared here in Good or Evill so shall they in the Retribution And for Deformity Tertullian telleth us All imperfections shall be done away Tertul. Rev. 21 from Rev. 21. There shal then be no more sorrow no more death and the lamenesse or deformity of any part is the grief as 't were and death thereof So that if death shall then be totally expelled then by fair consequence from each particular member To this some add that of S. Peter Act. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 3.21 till the Times of Restitution i.e. according to the perfection of Adam in his Innocence whereupon Saint Augustine saith of monsters that all defects shall be amended in that second moulding of the great Artificer Usual scruples answered And for the scars and wounds of Martyrs that those shall make more for their glory and then be in their bodies like stars in the Firmament the brighter parts of all about them there then so much more glorious as they here have been more dolorous Non sic impiis but as for the wicked 't is not so with them they shall arise with all their blemishes with all their imperfections whatsoever whatsoever may conduce to the improvement of their shame and punishment For the Sex Tertullian again biddeth us remember that the same bodies we lay down we shall take up Mat. 22.8 from that Matth. 22. where Christ answers the Pharisees not that there should be no women but no wives at the Resurrection no marrying or giving in marriage but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Angels natural relations cease there Sexes do not Lastly for the Age that all shall rise in St. Augustin and from him the whole Cry of the Schools proportion it unto the age of Christ that is as about 33 yeers asserting it from S. Paul's oracle Eph. 4.13 Eph. 4. and likewise from that forementioned Reduction Acts 3. that so as in Adam all die so by Christ say they even for the same age also shall all be made alive Yet S. John telleth us of a great multitude he saw before the throne both of small and great whether for stature or degrees of glory is not manifest and therefore these things I intrude not into the Articles of any ones Beleef but only present them modestly as Scholastick probabilities fully contented for mine own part gratefully to read That Christ will change our vile bodies 1 Cor. 19. and make them like unto His c. And therefore to turn Searches into Exhortations Let us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be wise unto sobriety and possess our vessels in holiness as those that are you see and shall be the Temples of the holy Ghost Each one therefore now rowse up his sluggish soul Surge mea anima surrexit Christus Awake arise O my slumbring soul for thy Saviour is already up Stand up from the dead for sin is the grave of the soul and that dead in trespasses and sins buryed in the customs of it yet Christ shall give thee life Ephes 2. Yea Eph. 2.1 he lendeth the same hand unto us as unto Lazarus reviving raising sweetning of us with his fragrant graces And this may be our confidence of the second Resurrection if we give but all diligence to be partakers of the first that is from sin then no fear of the second death Rev. 20.6 Beleeve Christs reason of it Joh 6.54 John 6. Whosoever eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternall life and I will raise him up at the last day This is the true Nectar and Ambrosia the Poets did but feign such Fare for their Gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to use Homers phrase the immortall bloud the true Nepenthe that shall make us forget worldly sorrows that will Renew our Age better then an Aesons Bath this the heavenly Manna the Living the