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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

Natalitials of our Saviour Greg. Naz. Orat. 38. Whence the Golden-mouthed Father prefaceth a Sermon in upbraiding such whose zeal and fervour excited only to Communicat upon such dayes which yet might be often and not upon others pathetically shewing how each day might be made a Festival Chrys. in Fide Ane Hom. 5. Which them● by Origen who was Famous Anno Dom. 226. was closely followed in his writting in defence of the Gospel against the cavils of subtile Philosophers affirming that to Keep a feast was but to attend dutifully offering up Prayer and praise as unbloody sacrifices unto God and he who believed the death of Christ and lived by his word did Celebrate the Pasch such who went to an upper Chamber to pray with one accord Keeped the Pentecost c. Contra Cels. lib. 8. WHAT more for Paper would faile if exact rehearsal of the practise of the most fam'd most Ancient most edifying most Religiou● Sermons Orations Persons Churches and Nations touching these things were in Individuo Specified without boasting what hat● been said as light may Conjure those Spectrum Phantasmes Phasmes and Apparitions of pretended supperstition though walking in 〈◊〉 heavenly garb by a holy vogue to disappeare as Impostors airey vanitys possessing nothing of the substance of solid piety not having th● true body of Refined Reason Laws Edicts and Authority regulating Christianity in this exercise by uniting Churches for observing in the Circumstance of time that for the doing whereof they had Authority from Apostles or Apostolick men I say Circumstance of time there being a while disagreement among the Churches when but never about whether these dayes should be observed the difference in our own Churches about Easter after Austine the monks enstalment being removed by Theodorus Bishop of Canterbury a Citizen of no mean City born in Tarsus in Cilicia St Pauls Countrey who appointed the feast of Easter to Commence according to our present Computation Anno Dom. 662. Ful. Eccles. Hist. Cent 7. WHEREBY Vnity was beheld in the Churches of Palestine that Conforming with the Churches of Antioch of the greater and lesser Asia of Egypt Thessalonica Athens and Corinth the Churches of the Isle St. Thoms of Iberia the Mengrellians bordering on the black Sea those of Phrigia Galathia Bythinia Lydia Caria Paphlagonia Magnesia Lycia Alepo Damascus Tripoly Cyprus Candia Zant. those of Media Persia India those of the Abyssins Babylon Syria and those of the once great Kingdom of China For a learned Author shewing how all these Churches though under the Dominion of the Turk Rome or Pagans agree with us in the great matters agitat against our Romish adversaries as in the Supremacy Purgatory halfe Communion Transubstantation c. Discovers also their disagreement from us in severall points to Instance onely in the case in hand some beginne their Lent ten dayes before ours some fast nine dayes before the Ascension in regard of Christs absence from the Apostles which to them they reckon a time of sorrow Paget Christian ograph 146. and 150. Which exception from our observance evidenceth their agreement with us in the matter under proof according to that Known rule exceptio firmat in non exceptis SHOULD we say in all this they inclin'd to Popery waspishly they would sting and frettingly would they be angry having against that so great an aversness that the Patriarch or Archbishope of Constantinople when Elected by his Clergy and confirmed by the Barut or Patent of the Grand-Segnior in the Government of the Churches of Greece Macedon Epirus Thrace Mosina Maldavia Corsu in the Egean Se● c. having under him seventy four Archbishops I say this great Patriarch yearly upon the Sunday called Dominica Invocavit solemnly excommunicats the Pope and all his Clergy for Schismaticks its true of late his seat hath been oft at Musco where to this day if a Roman priest by chance should officiat upon any of their tables or Altars as polluted or accursed they break it into pieces Paget ut sup c 29. A Learned Critick and Antiquary viewing the severall Churches of the world finds that part of the Greek Church in Armenia Celebrating the Nativity not as wee but upon the sixth of January Bree●woods inquir 124. as if that had been his birth day which indeed is an old opinion being received by some but neither so universaly nor so rationaly believed Chrys. Hom. de Nat. led thereunto through a mistake of the word Epiphania signifying manifestation they concluded the time of his birth and baptisme to be one for which cause it may be yet the Ethiopicks sprinkle themselves in the Epiphany in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost yet not as essential unto Faith but as Historicall a remembrance of our Saviours baptisme Barrets travells p. 146. YET the received opinion by the Current Testimony of all Antiquity from the first and primitive times was the feast of Christmas that is with the old Saxon Christs feast computed and appointed to be observed as it is now being Inclyta solemnitas a Famous Festivity over all the world Cyp. de Nat. Ser. giving it as genuine Characters of true profession to observe the Lords-day and Festivals Tert. de Idol c. 15. TO make yet a doubting Thomas believe the existence of no Popry in this codicle let him thrust his hand into the side and looke upon the Prints of these things in the body of the Church Reformed he shall or may be ascertained of its Innocency in this matter or be forced to exalt himself above all in our Israel accounting none to be so wise so pure so knowing so holy as he in all our Congregations when put together BEHOLD Eminent Emissaries of those Churches chosen as messengers from Holland Gilderland Zealand Vtrech Frizland Transylvania Groning from the Palatinate Landgrave of Hesse Helvetia Genevah from the Republick of Brem and that of Embden and from the Kingdom of great Britaine met together at Dort to Censure Remove and Rebuke opposers of their peace and Corrupters of the Doctrine of the Reformed Church for preventing of Error Heresy and Division And see them all seated debating for this end yet unanimously agreeing in full Synod to Intermitt for a while untill the feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour which then approached was performed and over The foraigne Divines being desired not to remove from Towne for more convienency of meeting the solemnity being done This motion freely obeyed and by none disputed may put some stop to the grumbling Zelot not to say the Censorious Hypocrite whose Religion perhaps should altogether not only be questioned but his prophannesse attested had he not the salvo of twitting others in the teeth as Formalists to buoy up his Credit with the headless Vulgar And when the Magistrats of Bommel writ requesting that Henricus Leo their Minister might be allowed to repare to his congregation to preach Administer c. with his own people upon the feast of the

Christ being the substance o● that very ark of the Covenant he being t●● mean for reconcileing unto God both nati●ons beginning with circumcision which h● received in Isaac untill he suffered in him ful●●filling the figure wherefore we are said to be circumcised with the Circumcision mad● without hands obtaining the benefit promi●sed unto it another way then by bloud PROVIDENCE like the goodman of th● house knowing not only when but how th● thiefes would enter frustrats by Circumcisi●on their design who should a vouch our Saviour not to have had a real corporal but an aerial or phantastick body for as Alexander proved himself unto his flatterers to be no God because when wounded he bled so the Gospel cleares him to be no phantasme because of the prepuce and by it casts a mist in the Devils way to abate his fury that though he might know the Angels revelation yet as truly again he might infer him guilty of sins tincture which Circumcision did mainly respect wherefore we read of no great rage that either Satan or Man had against him untill his Baptism being then more clear because of the voice from heaven yet still was there some dimnesse of his perfect Deity as appeareth in the first temptation Mat. 4. Our Saviour as a war-like Prince in his enemies country cloathing himself in the robes of that country to passe the more securely undiscerned and pardon so strong application to destroy his adversaries the more surely and make them inexcusable WHAT more the ends and uses intended by God and the profits or benefits received by the Church in the Circumcision were of old comprised in this distich and applied to Christ are proper Cauterium signum meritum Medicina Figura Exemplum fuit olim Circumcisio dura AND as an issue or cauter it emitteth putrid matter from the body was a Character or badge of discriminating the people of God from the worshippers of Idols and to them also represented their merits for sin committed which in justice might have made the whole man to be cut off by which it proved Medecine or physick some say against the Carbuncle sure it is it figure● lust in the Soul and shewed what puri●● ought to be in the heart the corruption thereof being moraly evacuated and causing each one become a good example to another of continence and vertue BVT the design in the Circumcision 〈◊〉 the Son of God was for the fulfilling of t●● Law which he came to do Mat. 5. 〈◊〉 again to abolish the law which as a shadow went before him the body untill he wa● incarnat which being done as a shadow must go behind and at his ascending vani●● away he himself being the substance of th● shadow perfecting throughly what it in 〈◊〉 only endeavoured therefore must 〈◊〉 children of Israel according to the 〈◊〉 Ios. 5. be circumcis'd the second time 〈◊〉 this Ioshuah to whose law according t● Moses doctrine they have been circumcis●● once but these leading them by Faith 〈◊〉 Christ in the Gospel they must undergo ci●●cumcision the second time by which their reproach shall only be rolled away and their gathering together to be glorious YET subordinat to this it is worth considering that he opened himself unto this first fruits of his suffering for the same cause he payed tribute viz. that he might give no occasion of offence that all might splendidly adapt themselves for obedient walking and not justle with Superiors upon account of priviledges wherefore we should hammer our pernicious designs and curb our extravagant affections not as untamed heifers in a conceit of our own worth plead immunity from law or from premisses of Dignity Excellency Piety Liberty or Birth-right maintain a disorderly carriage Christ presenting himself in this as a Samplar for us to work by as a rule to act by as a law oblidging us to conform yeelding to those in authothority and laws in force though in all things we be gratified nor in all parts there be no necessity for them hence he is said not to be born but made under the law Gala. 4. whereas we are not made but born and ought the rather to be Subject THIS Sun of righteousness rising in a red cloud caveats against murmurings complainings having something in it to be seen to be loved and also to be imitated induceing to a Circumcision of the foreskin of our heart the badge of Gospel mortification and teck-merion of self denyal his bloud and name hinting at salvation even from our selves STEPHEN chargeth his impenitent country-men with Vncircumcised hearts and ears by which he understands the whole man Ears implying their hearing such doctrine as tended to depravement Hearts insinuating their peculiar kindnesse and approbation of it to that height that the eyes beheld it as delectable the palat as delicious the hands as prosperous the feet as an easy journey so that heresie impurity vanity iniquity sensuality with practice without consideration become● the love of him who is carnal and prevails to seduce the undiscerning to the subsequent way of ungodly folly the whole Man becomeing prize to the Tempter for all irregularities the universal intendment of the Soul being Guadrat to the appetits of the corrup● heart which therefor is to be keep'd that is circumcised above all things Prov 4.23 by which the eyes shall let in no vanity and the ears be stopped that is circumcis'd against rotten communication the Spiritual Palla● shall taste and see that God and his ways are only good the lips shall be preserved from lying and the tongue from speaking guile least at any time we grieve the Holy Ghost Eph. 4.30 WE find upon record an universal Circumcision of the whole Tribs at one time by knives or sharp flint stones Ios. 5. that service being omitted in their travel through the wildernesse not because the northwind blew not for scattering the cloud which had been inconvenient as the Iews foolishly suppose holding that wind most seasonable for Circumcision but through their unfitness to admit the same in regard of tedious and uncomfortable travels which being ended and the holy land entered God thought it expedient no longer to be delayed and therefore ordered Ioshua no more to procrastinat or put off shadowing that such who would possesse Jerusalem the holy City spoyl the potent adversaries of our rest in succesful battels must by faith in Christ the rock make holocausts that is burn'd offerings of beloved lusts though as near or dear as the skin it self by declining from evill and doing good keeping the soul from rapin bloud covetousnesse and wrath solicitously by the sharp and two edged sword of the word of God which Christ brought into the world restraining every thought and bring it captive to the Laws of piety and sound reason that being a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart a divider betwixt the soul and sin CIRCVMCISION being nothing but a purgation of the soul from vice which who so scruples to deposit

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