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A62955 Emerai par emeras, Extraordinary dayes, or, Sermons on the most solemn Feasts and fasts throughout the year viz. Christmas-day, Ash-Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter-day, Ascention-day, Whit-Sunday : whereunto are added two other sermons / by John Torbuck ... Torbuck, John, d. 1707. 1671 (1671) Wing T1909; ESTC R21672 43,444 138

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more and stronger till it makes Christs sufferings in some measure ours drawing from us according to his Agonie sweat 21 Luk. 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bloudy tears Bloud and water in abundance both from heart and eyes making our morning some what suitable to his Heaviness and exceeding sorrow of Soul vers 37 38. Our Prayers servent like those strong cries 5 Heb. 7. which at some distance in the dreadful sence thereof he sent up prostrate for the removing if it might be of this bitter Cup. He fell on his face and Prayed saying O my Father c. Our Text divides it self into 2 parts Division 1. Christs Supplication 2. Submission 1 Christs Supplication Christs Petition implies three things wherein you have his earnest Petition to God for the passing of this Cup if possible implying three things 1. The Bitterness of the Cup. 2. Christs sensibleness hereof 3. 1 The bitterness of the Cup in 3 respects The difficultie of its passing 1. The bitterness of the Cup which appears if you consider 1. The Cup it self 2. The Qualitie of the person who was to drink it 3. The manner Consider it was to be drank in 1. Consider the Cup it self 1 The Cup it self 't is 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Cup. Christs sufferings are sometimes compared to Baptisme 20 Mat. 22. a plunging over head and ears sometimes to a Cup to denote the plentifulness of them This Cup is wide and deep and holds a great deal 2. 'T is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Cup 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which points at the grievousness of it This Cup 75 Psal 8. is a Cup of red wine blood full mixt with the fierce wrath of God 1 Lam. 12. for sin This Cup whoso hath tasted but one sup of it in the sence of Gods frowns to his particular sins may perhaps guess somewhat of its insufferableness to be drank clear off for the sins of the whole world This Cup wherein is squeezed the whole vintage of Gods fury due to the transgressions of all mankind This cup must our Redeemer take down dregs and all as he becomes our Sponsor to bear our griefs and carry our sorrows God laying on him the iniquitie of us all 55 Isaiah 4. This cup transmits most exquisite tortures into his Bodie unspeakable pangs of Soul 1. Exquisite tortures of Bodie His head was digged with thorns his back furrowed with the whip 39 Psal 3. His hands and feet torn with vails his side heart pierced with the Spear for us he endures the painful shameful lingring cursed death of the Cross 2. Unspeakable pangs of Soul witness that strange distillation in the Garden on the very thoughts of this cup 22 Luk. 44. what wonderful inflammation 1 Lam. 13. fire in his bones proceeding no doubt from the dreadful anguish of his Soul 14 Mar. 34. caused in him this unheard of melting A sweat of great drops of blood showring down his body in a cold night for they were feign to have a fire within 22 Luke 55. whilest he lay abroad in the open air upon the cold earth At this hour what his seelings were it is dangerous to define saith Reverend Bishop Andrews in his second Sermon on the Passion p. 354. we know them not we may be too bold to determine them In respect of these the Greek Fathers crie out in their Liturgie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By thy unknown sorrows and sufferings felt by thee but not distinctly known by us have mercy upon us and save us Such were the unspeakable distresses * Ursin Cat. pag. 509. Though some expound it of his local descent thither alledging notable reasons See Day 's L●ct 7th on the Creed p. 140. 2. Consider the person that drank this cup. torments and terrours of Christs soul before and then especially when he hung on the Cross witness that doleful crie of My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 27 Mat. 46. that many make these that Hell we say in our Creed he descended into May not then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This cup well make our Saviour crie out O my Father c. 2. This Cup is aggravated by weighing the person that was to drink it For as is the person saith Bishop Andrews so is the passion Now Christ was the greatest person that ever did or could suffer and so likewise must his sufferings be the greatest if we consider him 1. A man in himself altogether Innocent Call it not immodesty in her sex or only a ridiculous and superstitious credulity to an idle dream but impute it rather to a good zeal raised in her by some extraordinarie Revelation that Pilate's Wife should send such a charge in his behalf to her Husband on the Bench saying have thou nothing to do with that Just man 27 Mat. 19. 'T was nothing but what Pilate himself was convinced of publickly declaring he found no fault in him 23 Luk. 14. no nor yet Herod ver 15 no nor the Devil himself 14 Jo. 30. Let him be Crucified lay the envious Rabble nor can they shew any sence for it why what evil hath he done but a rash and lowder crucifigatur let him be Crucified 2. He was a noble Personage of the Race Royal descended from Kings 1 Mat. 2 Luke 4. 3. He was and I can go no further God himself The creature so miraculously Sympathizing with its mighty Creatour in that great Eclipse and Earthquake at his passion 27 Mat. 45 51.54 makes the Centurion cry out truly this was the Son of God And the Son of God in that sense the Jews understood him 10 Jo. 33.36 Equal with God without any Robbery or Blasphemous Presumption at all What will you say did our Saviour then did he suffer such extremities he that was God himself must the Lord of life and glory in whose presence there is fulness of Joy 16 Ps 11. submit to a full draught of all Infamy pain and death 2 Phil. 6 7 8. If as the person is the passion be this argues again the bitterness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this cup. 3. 3 The manner of drinking this Cup. The manner of drinking this cup aggravates its bitterness as 1. 1 Unaccompanied Vnaccompanied alone of the people there was none with him 63 Isa 3. His dearest ●isciples at this instant they all forsook him and fled v. 56. If Peter follovv it shall be far enough off v. 58. If he come into the Court vvhere his Master is arraigned abused c. It shall be with a great deal of strangeness protesting with Oaths and Imprecations that he doth not know the man v. 72.74 rather than by acknowledging him to bring himself within the praemunire of this bitter cup. 2. 2 Unpitied Unpitied from that nature he took and undertook for Man They for whom he became bound became his Executioners They for whom he drank this bitter
That the Holy Ghost is the Inestimable gift of God 2. What a Horrid sin it must needs be to think it may purchased with money 1. The Holy Ghost is Gods Inestimable gift 1. 'T is 2 Gift of his 14 Joh. 16 17. 11 Luk. 13. Infinitely beyond all merit and so 't is well It is a Gift we must have gon without it else 2. 'T is Gods special Gift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Gift of God The Gift of all Gifts not Datum as Bp. Andr. distinguisheth in serm 14. on Whitsun pag. 748. any worldly good thing but Donum bonum perfectum That good and perfect gift that this day came down from above from the Father of lights 1 James 17. In this Gift are contained all the excellencies of nature and grace 1. Of Nature such as Reason Knowledge Understanding Arts Policy Government Stength Courage c. 2. Of Grace such as Faith Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Temperance c. Every Feather of this Dove 3 Mat. 16. is of Gold Every drop of this Ointment this Water precious 1 Joh. 2.27 7 Joh. 38. Every spark of this Fire beautiful 2 Acts 3. Every gale of this Wind perfumed v. 2. O si donum Descires saith our Saviour 4 Joh. 10. if we knew but this Gift which cannot be but by receiving it 2. Rev. 17. how sho●●d we prize it In this Gift God formerly gave Apostles Prophets Evangelists verse 11. The Gift of Healing Miracles c. And in this Gift God still gives us Pastors and Teachers for these we keep this Holy-day saith Bp. Andrewes and so ought to have for them more then a Working-day accompt Again The Gifts which proceed from this Gift such as Preaching Administring the Blessed Sacraments and Prayer c. are as good as no Gifts but for this Gift to the Holy Ghost The Word 2 Cor. 3.6 is but a dead Letter except the Spirit quicken it There can be no Regeneration or New birth at Baptism except as in the First Creation 1 Gen. 2. the Spirit move upon the Water In the Lords Supper the Flesh 6 Joh. 63. profiteth nothing if the Spirit be away nor can we Pray as we ought except the Spirit help us 8 Rom. 26. The Gift of God Eternal Life through Jesus Christ is Communicated to us by the Gift of the Spirit for though Christ on his part hath finished the work of our Redemption 19 Joh. 30. by setting his hand to it his undertakings on the Cross yet this deed is not forcible to us without the seal 4 Eph. 30. and witness of his Spirit 8 Rom. 16. In this Gist God giveth peace to the dissenting 4 Eph. 3. instruction to the ignorant 14 Joh. 26. guidance to the erronious 16 Joh. 13. comfort to the disconsolate verse 6 7. memory to the forgetful 14 Joh. 26. To speak all at once in this Gift God giveth us rich discoveries of himself 1 Cor. 2.11 nay Himself withal hereby the Almighty dwells among us 68 Psal 18. see Bp. Hall 's Paraph on the place 2. The Holy Ghost now being so Infinitely Inestimable a Gift of God as you have heard what a horrid sin must it needs be to think it may be purchased with money What Ingratitude is this to the Giver what Indignity and affront offered to the Gift it self A Gift be it what it will as a Gift 't is absurd to value it much more to put a temporal and corruptible price upon an incorruptible and Eternal purchase a thought of this cannot be endured Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the Gift of God may be purchased with money Application Is the holy ghost so inestimable a gift not to be thought on with a money purchase 1. This condemnes Romes marketting it by selling Crowns Miters Braiers Pardons c. as Mantuan testifies Venalia nobis Templa Sacerdotes altaria sacra Coronae Ignis Thura Preces Caelum est venale Deuique What doth the Apostle here whom they so boast of as their prime Metropolitan refuse Simons money and will he now have Peter-pence The Pope only hath coyned these exactions for himself he desires them not 2. A Gift is such in relation to the Receivers have we then received this Inestimable gift which we may know thus 1. By Sanctity of life The Holy Ghost the third person in the Trinity is peculiarly termed Holy for that besides the holiness of Nature in which respect the Father and the Son are also holy his Office is to Sanctify the Church of God to whom it agreeth in a speciall manner for where the Father Sanctifieth by the Son and by the Holy Ghost the Son from the Father and by the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost Sanctifieth from the Father and from the Son by himself immediately Where this 1. Spirit of holyness is breathed into any man it creates in him a life of holyness and as the natural Spirit doth at the heart it will beat at the mouth it will breath at the pulse it will be felt In the heart it will cause new thoughts new desires sanè novum supervenisse spiritum nova desideria demonstram saith St. Bernard In the mouth new talke new communication in the hands works of new obedience These are the effects of that new Spirit the holy Ghost God promised to give 36. Ezek. 26. This Spirit when it makes a new creature it begins at the heart as the heart they say in any Animal is primum vivens ultimum moriens lives first and dies last It Sanctifies the heart from all inward defilements 15. Mat. 19. the Lips from evil speaking 4. Ephes 31. the Hands from any unlawful actions 2 Pet. 2.8 Thus if sincerely surveying our thoughts words and works we find them holy we may thence inferr We have received the Holy Ghost And as by Sanctity of life we may judge of the receiving this Inestimable Gift for this Dov will not light on Carrion This Water will cleanse this fire will refine this wind will fan thorowly a clean box it must be that is to hold this Ointment 2. By Humility 57 Isa 15. This Dove implies meekness this water forsakes the Hills to visit the low Valleys the less we think of our selves the higher esteem God hath of us a meek and quiet spirit is with him of great Price 1 Pet. 3. c. 4. to whom he sends this rich present the Holy Ghost 4 James 6. 3. By Boldiness in suffering for Christ this we see in the Apostles Peter and John 4 Acts 8.13 and the rest 5 c. 40 41 42. and Stephen 7 c. 54 55. Yet let men beware here the Spirit of contradiction obstinate gain saying of Magistrates and speaking evil of Dignities correcting Delinquency be not mistaken for the Spirits Magnanimity in persecution 4. By charity 4 James 5. Do you think that the Spirit of God saith the Apostle which we profess to have dwelling in us lusteth to envy so Bishop Hall in his Paraph. on the