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A13010	XI. choice sermons preached upon selected occasions, in Cambridge. Viz. I. The preachers dignity, and duty: in five sermons, upon 2. Corinth. 5. 20. II. Christ crucified, the tree of life: in six sermons, on 1. Corinth. 2. 2. By John Stoughton, Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanburie, London. According to the originall copie, which was left perfected by the authour before his death.	Stoughton, John, d. 1639.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1640 (1640)	STC 23304; ESTC S100130	130,947	258

Temple for so he sayes of his body destroy this temple and I will raise it againe in three dayes and therefore when Christ was come into the world the true light which enlightneth all men that come into the world all these shadows vanished at his presence and fled away The Leviticall Ministerie ceased as you may see in a sweet allusion which some have observed When God promised Iohn Baptist to Zachary as he was discharging his office in his course he was stricken dumbe and therefore when the people expected he should have blessed them he could not speake tacuit Zacharias generaturus vocem saith one this silence proclaimed that that service was at an end the silence of a Leviticall Priest made way for the voice of an Evangelicall Preacher even Iohn who was a voice preparing the way of the Lord Iesus the only High Priest of our salvation You have heard that the Heathen Oracles ceased at the birth of Christ so did the Iewish Oracles too before his birth for they had no answer from God by Vrim and Thummim all the time of the second Temple and so you see that the Iewish Priesthood ceased too and at the death of Christ the vaile of the Temple rent insunder Theophylact hath a witty conceit a pretty glosse that the Temple rent her vaile hearing of the blasphemies of the Iewes uttered against Christ according to the fashion of the Iewes who rent their garments when they heare any blasphemies but this was the meaning surely to shew that by the rents of his body the true Temple the way was opened to all the faithfull into the Holy of Holies the highest Heavens And no marvaile it is that Christ upon the crosse should cause all shadowes to vanish the T which men make the figure of the Crosse in the Egyptian mysteries is an Hieroglyphick of eternall life which say they when it comes shall put an end to our Religion It may be they had some notion of such a thing from the Iewes or rather it is an after-birth but this is certaine that Christ lifted up upon the Crosse was in his Meridian exaltation no marvaile then if the shadows vanished We reade of one that wondred how his Host had furnished his table with so rare variety his Host answered that all was but Swines flesh only the art of the Cooke had made the difference and I according to my abilitie have discovered that all the dishes of the old Ceremonies furnish us with no other thing but Christ only the wisdome of the Lord diversly dressed his sons flesh in proportion to the times and palats of his people in such admirable variety Come we now to the last period of times the time of the Gospell and see the musicall harmony thereof with the former wherein me thinks I presage already that my talke will be more easie for what meanes the departure of all the Legall shadowes at the approach of Christ if he were not the substance of all and therefore the abolition of those is a cleare evidence that Christ now is all in all The Doctrine preached every where is a silver Trumpet of this sacred truth but that having beene alway the same my course propounded permits me not to insist upon it only this difference it hath that as it pointed forward before to Christ to come so now it pointeth backward to Christ come in whom it teacheth every man to looke for salvation and no other the outward signes that are left are few but they conspire in the same testimonie with the Doctrine and the old ceremonies sealing the same thing but with more simplicity and with more significancie The water of Baptisme hath a sutable Analogie with the blood of Christ by which we are purged from our spirituall uncleannesse of sinne as we are purged by water from all corporall uncleannesse In the Lords Supper we have bread and wine meat and drinke perfect nourishment bread the staffe of mans life and wine that maketh glad the heart of man the best elements to expresse the best aliments which how fully doe they set forth Christ Crucified the Bread is broken so was his body broken the Wine is powred forth so was his blood powred forth upon the Crosse for the remission of sinnes to all those that come to him with an hunger and thirst after his righteousnesse and feed on him by a lively faith The signification is so emphaticall that I may say of those that are partakers of this as Paul said of the Galatians who had heard him preach Christ crucified before whose eyes Christ crucified was set forth I may say it of all such except they bee foolish Galatians and except they bee bewitched And thus I conclude this point That Christ Crucified is the Summe of all Divinitie the substance of all ceremonies the soule of all Sacraments the Kernell and Key of all knowledge the Center and circumference of all Divine wisdome I had thought to have gone a little further as Christ in the Gospell beyond Emaus but the importunity of the time which will take no denyall forces me to turn in here against my will 1 Corinth 2. 2. For I determined to know nothing among you but Christ Jesus and him Crucified AS often as I reade these words mee thinks I conceit how some Pharisaicall Doctor might step up from among the Senate of the Corinthians accusing Saint Paul laesae Majestatis as though he had spoken treason against the Scriptures even as their Predecessors accused Christ his Master of Blasphemy when he said He was the Sonne of God and when he said to the sick of the Palsey Thy sinnes are forgiven thee arise take up thy Bed and walke And as the Athenians once What babler is this that is so lavish of his assertions And what Is Christ the summe of all Divinitie Is the knowledge of Christ Crucified alone sufficient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is an hard saying indeed this is short worke But what shall then become of that goodly frame of the Scripture with the monuments of Antiquity treasures of Poesie Oracles of Prophecy Ergo ibit in ignes Yes Paul go and take those Tables of stone and in a fit of zeale forsooth dash them in peeces or scrape out those divine characters ingraven therein by the finger of God himselfe Nay goe ransack the Arke it selfe with sacrilegious piety not only looke into it as the men of Bethshemesh did or touch it as Vzzah but ransack the Arke it selfe and sacrifice those sacred volumes to the devouring flames as the Iewish Princes served Ieremies Role go breake those golden Pens of all the Prophets and Apostle which have dared to speake any thing but that I and digg them out of their graves againe and burn their bones for Hereticks as the Papists did the bones of Bucer and Fagius in Cambridge in the dayes of Queene Mary or else after a new kinde of persecution for so Christ seemes to account it erect