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Pharisaisme and Christianity compared and set forth in a sermon at Pauls Crosse, May 1. 1608. By I.H. Vpon Matth. 5.20.
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
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still and euer one and the same person The Passion of Christ as Augustine was the sleep of his Diuinitie so I may say The death of Christ was the sleep of his Humanitie Jf hee sleepe hee shall doe well said that disciple of Lazarus Death vvas too weake to dissolue the eternall bonds of this heauenly coniunction Let not vs Christians goe too much by sense we may be firmely knit to God not feele it Thou canst not hope to be so neer to thy God as Christ was vnited personally thou canst not fear that God should seeme more absent from thee then he did from his own Son yet was hee still one with both body soule when they were diuided from thēselues When he was absent to sense hee was present to faith when absent in vision yet in vnion one and the same so will he be to thy soule when it is at worst Hee is thine and thou art his if thy hold seeme loosened his is not Whē temptations will not let thee see him hee sees thee and possesses thee onely belieue thou against sense aboue hope and tho he kil thee yet trust in him Whither gaue hee it vp Himselfe expresses Father into thy hands and This day thou shalt be with mee in Paradise It is iustice to restore whence wee receiue Jnto thy hands He knew where it should be both safe happie true he might be bold thou saist as the Son with the Father The seruants haue done so Dauid before him Steuen after him And least we should not think it our common right Father saith hee J vvill that those thou hast giuen mee may be with me euen where I am hee willes it therefore it must be It is not presumption but faith to charge God with thy spirit neither can there euer be any belieuing soule so meane that he should refuse it all the feare is in thy self how canst thou trust thy iewell with a stranger What suddaine familiaritie is this God hath been with thee and gone by thee thou hast not saluted him and now in all the hast thou bequeathest thy soule to him On what acquaintance How desperate is this carelesnesse If thou haue but a little money whether thou keepe it thou lay'st it vp in the Temple of Trust or whether thou let it thou art sure of good assurance sound bonds If but a little land how carefully doost thou make firme conueyances to thy desired heires If goods thy wil hath taken secure order vvho shall enioy them we need not teach you Cittizens to make sure worke for your estates If children thou disposest of them in trades with portions onelie of thy soule which is thy selfe thou knowest not what shal become The world must haue it no more thy self would'st keep it but thou know'st thou canst not Satan would haue it and thou know'st not whether hee shall thou wouldest haue God haue it and thou knowest not whether hee will yea thy hart is now ready with Pharaoh to say Who is the Lorde O the fearefull and miserable estate of that man that must part with his soule hee knowes not whither Which if thou wouldest auoide as this very vvarning shall iudge thee if thou do not bee acquainted vvith GOD in thy life that thou maist make him the Gardian of thy soule in thy death Giuen vp it must needs be but to him that hath gouern'd it if thou haue giuen it to Satan in thy life hovv canst thou hope God will in thy death entertaine it Did you not hate me and expell mee out of my fathers house how then come ye to me now in this time of your tribulation said Ieptha to the men of Gilead No no either giue vp thy soule to God while he calls for it in his word in the prouocations of his loue in his afflictions in the holy motions of his spirit to thine or else whē thou wouldest giue it hee vvill none of it but as a Iudge to deliuer it to the Tormentor What should God do with an vncleane drunken profane proud couetous soule Without holinesse it is no seeing of GOD Depart from me yee wicked J know yee not goe to the Gods you haue serued See how GOD is euen with men they had in the time of the Gospell said to the holy one of Israell Depart from vs now in the time of iudgement he saith to them Depart from me They would not knowe God when they might now God will not knowe them when they would Novv therefore beloued if thou would'st not haue GOD scorne the offer of thy death-bed fit thy soule for him in thy health furnish it with grace inure it to a sweet conuersation with the God of heauen then maist thou boldly giue it vp he shall as graciously receiue it yea fetch it by his Angels to his glory Hee gaue vp the Ghost Wee must doe as hee did not all with the same successe Giuing vp supposes a receiuing a returning This in-mate that vve haue in our bosome is sent to lodge heer for a time may not dwell heere alwaies The right of this tenure is the Lords not ours As hee said of the hatchet It is but lent it must be restored It is ours to keepe his to dispose and require See and consider both our priuiledge and charge It is not with vs as vvith brute Creatures vvee haue a liuing Ghost to informe vs vvhich yet is not ours and alas what is ours if our soules be not but must bee giuen vp to him that gaue it VVhy doe wee liue as those that tooke no keepe of so glorious a guest as those that should neuer part vvith it as those that thinke it giuen them to spend not to returne with a reckoning If thou hadst no soule if a mortall one if thine owne if neuer to bee required hovv couldest thou liue but sensuallie Oh remember but vvho thou art what thou hast and whither thou must and thou shalt liue like thy selfe vvhile thou art and giue vp thy Ghost confidently vvhen thou shalt cease to bee Neither is there heere more certaintie of our departure then comfort Carie this with thee to thy death-bed and see if it can refresh thee when all the world cannot giue thee one dramme of comfort Our spirit is our deerest riches if wee should lose it here were iust cause of griefe Howle and lament if thou thinkest thy soule perisheth it is not forfeited but surrendred How safely doth our soule passe through the gates of death without any impeachment while it is in the hands of the Almightie Woe were vs if he did not keep it while we haue it much more when we restore it Wee giue it vp to the same hands that created infused redeemed renewed that doe protect preserue establish and will crowne it J knowe vvhom J haue belieued and J am persvvaded that he is able to keepe that vvhich J haue committed to him against that day O secure and happy estate of the godly O
chaines and borders Christ came not to dissolue order But thou Lorde how long how long shall thy poore Church find her ornameÌ„ts her sorowes and see the deare sonnes of her wombe bleeding about these apples of strife let me so name them not for their value euen smal things wheÌ„ they are commaunded looke for no smal respect but for their euent the enemy is at the gates of our Syracuse how long will we suffer our selues taken vp with angles and circles in the dust Yemen brethren fathers helpe for Gods sake put to your hands to the quenching of this common flame The one side by humilitie and obedience the other by compassion both by prayers and teares Who am I that I should reuiue to you the sweet spirit of that diuine Augustine who when hee heard saw the bitter contentions betwixt two graue and famous Diuines Ierome and Ruffine Heu mihi saith he qui vos alicubi simul inuenire non possum Alas that J shall neuer find you two together how J would fall at your feet how J would imbrace them and weepe vpon them and beseech you either of you for other and each for himself both of you for the church of GOD but especially for the weake for whoÌ„ Christ died who not without their own great danger see you two fighting in this Theater of the world Yet let me doe what he said he would do begge for peace as for life by your filiall pietie to the Church of GOD whose ruines follow vpon our diuisions by your loue of Gods truth by the graces of that one blessed Spirit whereby we are all informed quickened by the precious blood of that sonne of GOD which this day and this howre was shed for our redemption be inclined to peace and loue tho our braines be different yet let our harts be one It was as I heard the dying speech of our late reuerend worthy and gracious Diocesan Modò me morieÌ„te viuat ac floreat Ecclesia Oh! yet if when J am dead the Church may liue and flourish What a spirit was heere what a speech how worthy neuer to die how worthy of a soule so neere to his heauen how worthy of so happy a succession Ye whom God hath made inheritors of this blessed care which do no lesse long for the prosperitie of Sion liue you to effect what he did but liue to wish all peace with our selues and war with none but Rome and Hell And if there bee any weyward Separatist whose soule professeth to hate peace I feare to tell him Paules message yet I must Would to God those were out off that trouble you How cut off As good Theodosius said to Demophilus a contentious Prelate Situ pacem fugis c. of thou flie peace I wil make thee flie the Church Alas they doe flie it that which should bee their punishment they make their coÌ„tentment how are they worthy of pitty As Optatus of his Donatists they are brethren might be companions and will not Oh wilfull men vvhither doe they run from one Christ to another Is Christ diuided We haue him thanks be to our good God and wee heare him daily and whither shall we goe from thee thou hast the words of eternall life Thus the Ceremonies are finished Now heare the end of his sufferings vvith like patience and deuotion His death is heere included it was so neere that hee spake of it as done and when it was done all was done How easie is it to lose our selues in this discourse how hard not to be ouer-whelmed vvith matter of wonder and to find either beginning or end His sufferings found an end our thoughts cannot Lo with this word he is happilie waded out of those deepes of sorowes wherof our conceits can find no bottome yet let vs with Peter gird our coaâ—e and cast our selues a little into this sea All his life was but a perpetuall Passion In that he becam man he suffered more then we can doe either while wee are men or when wee cease to be men he humbled yea he emptied himselfe Wee when vvee cease to be heere are clothed vpon 2. Cor. 5 Wee both win by our beeing gaine by our lesse hee lost by taking our more or lesse to himselfe that is manhood For tho euer as God I and my Father are one yet as man My Father is greater then J. That man should be turned into a beast into a worme into dust into nothing is not so great a disparagemeÌ„t as that GOD should become man and yet it is not finished it is but begun But what man If as the absolute Monarch of the world he had commanded the vassalage of all Emperours and Princes had trod on nothing but Crownes and Scepters and the necks of Kings and bidden all the Potentates of the earth to attend his train this had caried some port with it sutable to the heroicall maiestie of Gods Sonne No such matter heere is neither forme nor beautie vnlesse perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the forme of a seruaunt you haue made mee to serue with your sinnes Behold he is a man to God a seruaunt to man and be it spoken with holy reuerence a drudge to his seruants He is despised and reiected of men yea as himself of himselfe a worme and no man the shame of men contempt of the people Who is the King of glory the Lord of hostes hee is the King of glory Set these two together the King of glory the shame of men the more honour the more abasement Looke back to his cradle there you find him reiected of the Bethlemites borne laid alas how homely how vnworthily sought for by Herod exiled to Egypt obscurely brought vp in the cottage of a poore foster-father transported tempted by Satan derided of his kindred blasphemously traduced by the Iewes pinched with hunger restlesse harbourlesse sorrowfull persecuted by the Elders and Pharisees sold by his owne seruant apprehended arraigned scourged condemned yet it is not finished Let vs with that Disciple follow him a farre off passing ouer all his contemptuous vsage in the way see him brought to his Crosse Still the further wee looke the more wonder euery thing ads to this ignominy of suffering and triumph of ouercomming Where was it not in a corner as Paule saith to Festus but in Ierusalem the eye the hart of the world Obscuritie abateth shame publique notice heightens it Before all Israell before this sun saith GOD to Dauid when he would throughlie shame him In Ierusalem which hee had honoured with his presence taught with his preachings astonisht with his miracles bewailed with his teares O Jerusalem Jerusalem how oft would J and thou wouldest not O yet if in this thy daie Crueltie and vnkindnesse after good desert afflict so much more as our merit hath beene greater VVhere-abouts vvithout the gates in Caluary among the stinking bones of execrable malefactors Before