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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

caelos up far above all heavens 3. The End of it That he might fill all things 1. The Person ascending 1 The Persoa Asceading He that descended is the same also that ascended The same Person with the same Body though now made immortal Glorious 3 Phil. 21. Visne in altum scandere Humilitas Gradus est saith St. Austin St. Paul here shews the way and manner of Christs Ascending which must be ours by Descending first v. 9. He makes his deep Humiliation the cause of his Exaltation 2 Phil. 8 9. He humbled himself unto death even the death of the Cross wherefore God also hath highly exalted him Mans nature is aspiring and ascending loves to be uppermost 23 Mat. 6.7 This we find not only in the Scribes and Pharisees but in the Disciples themselves altum sapimus omnes all would be above would we know the right way It is by descending coming down first He that humbleth himself shall be exalted Ascending before Descending is Diabolical and dangerous this made Angels Devils Ep. Jud. 6. ruined our first Parents 3 Gen. He that exalteth himself shall be abased 23 Mat. 12. Pride being our fall the only way of recovering our selves is Humility 20 Mat. 26 27. whereof Christ gives him an Example 13 Joh. 13 14 15. who is there very diligent with his Towel and his Bason washing his Disciples feet lower he could not well stoop It argues too much sensuality and Carnality to be with Zebedee's Children 20 Mat. v. 21 22. all upon raigning without any thought of affliction The way to Heaven is through tribulation to eternal life through death 24 Luke 26. If we would come where the Captain of our Salvation is arrived we must tread in the same steps sufferings The Servant is not greater than his Lord 20 Jo. 16. and therefore should be content with the same fashion of Ascending by Descending He that descended c. 2. This Descending the lower it is puts the greater admiration and lustre on Ascending Motions slow and gradual as in a Dial the less or no notice can be taken of them they are not perceptible but those which are sudden and aloft are gazed on with the more delight and wonder A rich heir apparent to the Crown advanced strait to his lawful Throne causeth not such astonishment as when taken from the worst and basest condition This demonstrates incomparable Might and Excellency to effect 113 Psal 5.7 Who is like the Lord our God he raiseth the poor out of the dust and the needy out of the Dunghill that he may set him with Princes even with the Princes The Ascent being considered in reference to the Descent the lower the Descent hath digged the higher must necessarily the Ascent be reckoned from it Now our Creed brings Christs Descent as far as Hell the better presently to amplifie his Ascent into Heaven He that descended thither is the same saith the Apostle that ascended up far above all Heavens which brings me to 2. 2 Christs Ascent The Ascent up far above all Heavens This going up on high 68 Psal 18. whence St. Paul here quotes his Ascent will saith Bishop Andrews in his 7th Sermon on Whitsun p. 668. bear fair sences It may be interpreted of Moses Ascending up into Mount Sinai in the literal sense 2. Of Davids Ascending up with the Ark into Mount Sion in the Analogical sence 2 Sam. 5 ch 3. Of Gods triumphing over his Churches enemies in the Moral sence Or 4. Of Christs Ascending in a Prophetical sence Now this Ascent excells all the other 't is higher than Sinai or Sion no common deliverance 'T is not only some high mountain as they thought of Elias 2 K 2. c. 16. Pelion upon Ossa will not reach it 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above the Heavens quite out of Sight 1 Acts 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 video dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above all Heavens even the very highest of them Here we shall pass by as not worthy our stay the Sophistry of some persons who ●s Beza observes denying supra coelos esse locum that there is any place above the Heavens would attribute to Christ Corpus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Body not circumscribed and so unbody his Body as I may say ascribing to it the property of a divine Essence only omnipresence would not this somewhat befriend Transubstantiation But to deny Christ * Nisi sit Christus verus naturalis homo feustra speramus quod speramus Beza in Textum pure and perfect man which we must do if we thus wrong him of his Hamane Body were Spem nostram à fundamentis convellere So Beza To destroy the foundation of all our Christian hope With the same Body that was passive buffetted bruised buried with the same Body material flesh and bones organical palpable visible 24 Luk. 29. Behold saith Christ by all this It is Ipse Ego I my self He ascended up far above all Heavens The same that after his Resurrection retained the Print of the Nails and the wound of the Spear in his Side 20 Jo. 2.7 is by him carried up into Heaven where he is set down with it on the right hand of God i. e. Enthroned by his immediate divine Shechina or that ineffable unimitable Glory God doth in a most peculiar manner manifest there Christum scimus verum hominem fuisse nec esse disisse ac pro indè finitnm corpus finitam animam habere scimus in coelos ascendisse gloriae Patris socium c. Beza So much for the Ascent 3. 3 The end of Christs Ascending We come to the en dof Christs Ascending viz. That he might fill all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to fulfil That he might fulfill all that was foresaid of him and all that is or should be requisite for the full glorification of the Church So Bishop Hall in his Paraph. on the Text. The causes then of his Ascending were 1. To lead Captivity Captive v. 8. Sin Satan Death and the Grave He riding in triumph into Heaven like a glorious Victor made an open shew of these spoils 2 Col. 15. disarming Sin of its condemning power 8 Ro. 3. cancelled the terrible Hand-writing of the Law that was against us 2 Col. 14. slew Death by being sl●in by it He trod out the sting of this Adder 1 Cor. 15. c. 55. 91 Psal 13. He trambled on the Dragon the Devil 12 Rev. 19. Bruising his head with his victorious Heel 3 Gen. 15. 2. To give Gifts unto men The former Act spoke the valour of his Triumph This the Bounty that shewed his Greatness this his Goodness v. 8. When He ascended up on High He led Captivity Captive and gave Gifts unto men This day of his Coronation the Conduits run with Wine the new Coyne is scattered abroad When he was taken out of Sight 1 Acts 9. especially at such a distance up far above all Heavens