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A71253	The description and the practice of the four most admirable beasts explained in four sermons upon Revel. 4.8 : whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable James, Duke of Ormond, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, His Grace, and the two Houses of Parliament, and others, very honourable persons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gr. Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2664; ESTC R33669	79,502	118

et Basil in c. 17. Isaiae when he came to the garden yet S. Luke expresseth the matter more fully and more lively then both of them for he saith that he fell into a sweating ag●ny that is a perplexed fear of one that is entring into a greivous conflict as both Aristotle and Saint Basil testifie And such a perplexed fear is a most acceptable Sacrifice in the sight of God as the Prophet saith Ps 51.17 The Sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit a broken and a contrite heart O God shalt thou not despise and such a broken heart was the heart of this Priest at this time for here is both ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a combate and a Sacrifice a troubled Spirit and a fresh bleeding Sacrifice 1. 1 1. He offered up his soul in prayer Leo Serm. 7. de pass The quality of Christ his prayer Brevis oratio penetrat coelum He offered up his soul while he was in the Garden in a fervent Prayer to God and that Prayer saith Pope Leo was in omnibus perfecta in all things perfect and for all men And it consisted like a faithfull Prayer plus gemitibus quam sermonibus rather in sighs then in words for it was saith Saint Augustine very short but very pithy few words but full of ●erven●y and therein his intention was earnest for he went a stones cast from his Disciples his love was great for he often ing●●●●ated Father Father his faith was stedfast for he said my fa●h●r his aff●●tion was vehement for he cryed O my father his humility was unfaigned for he kneeled down and with great reverence he fell groveling upon his face as Saint Matth. witnesse●h his co●stancie was apparent for he prayed three times his obedience was unreprovable for he said Not my will but thy will be fulfilled and his fervency was admirable for every word drew drops of bloed and therefore this prayer was directed as an incense in the sight of his father Ps 14.2 and the lifting up of his hands as an evening sacrifice And as the Apostle saith he was heard in that which he feared and he had all that he desired for whereas S. Bernard demandeth Quidoras domine quid sudas and quid sitis for what dost thou pray O Lord and why dost thou sweat Saint Hilary answereth Hilarius l. 10. de T●init Pro nobis oratio pro nobis sudor est his prayer and his sweat and his thirst and all was for us and he obtained all for us And then 2. As he thus offered up his soul in a fervent prayer for us so Esay 53.10 when it pleased the Lord to bruise him as the Prophet saith 2 2. He offered up his body to be broken and his bloud to be shed for our sins Levit. 17.11 Heb. 9.22 he offered up his bloud in a swe●ting fervour and his body to be breken for our sins and as the Angel whose name was secret kindled the fire upon the Altar and at length the flame increasing himself also ascended in the same so here in this agony of Christ our Saviour kindled the fire of his love and then as a faithfull high Priest he offered up himself as a sweet smelling sacrifice unto God And seeing bloud must make an attonement for the soul and as the Apostle saith without shedding of bloud there is no remission therefore this our Priest shed his own bloud to procure the forgiveness of our sins the bloud of his head when he was crowned with thornes the bloud of his heart when he was pierced with a speare the bloud of all parts when he was whipped and the bloud of his whole body when he sweat the drops of bloud not a watry dew but nimbus sanguinis a bloudy showre when as totus sudore defluit Ps 130.7 it passed through and through his garment and trickled down to the ground as Saint Luke testifieth that there might be as the Psalm saith plenteous redemption And as Eleazar the high Priest was to take the ●loud of the heyfer with his finger and sprinkle of her bloud directly before the Tabernacle of the Congregation seven times Num. 19.4 Levit. 8.11 so Christ our Priest shed his bloud seven times to purge away our sins 1. In his Circumcision 2. In the Garden 3. When he was crowned with thornes 4. When he was whi●ed 5. That Christ shed his bloud seven times to deanse us of our sins When his hands were nailed 6 When his feet were fastned to the Cross 7. When his side was pierced with a speare And then as the sin of man was maledictio terrae the curse of the earth so this bloud of Christ is medicina terrae the medicine of the world And therefore the Apostle saith 〈…〉 that the bloud of Christ speaketh better things then the bloudof 〈◊〉 for by the shedding of Abels 〈◊〉 Gods wrath was kindled but by the shedding of Christ ●●oud Gods wrath was ap●●cased the bloud of Abel gave life onely to himself but the bloud of Christ gives life to 〈…〉 the bloud of Ab● cryed for vengeance against his brother but the bloud of Christ cryeth for mercy unto his enemies and the bloud of Abel cryed a while and then ceased and then it was no more availeable but the bloud of Christ still cryeth and never ceaseth and 〈◊〉 available for us forever And so you see how Saint 〈◊〉 proveth Christ to be the Priest which is to be the Priest for ever after the order of Melchisede●● and therefore he is here understood by the calf that was the ●●his first sacrifice of the Priests 3. By him that had the face of a man 〈…〉 the fathers do understand Saint Mark because his principal aime was to shew that Christ was a true and perfect man the son of a poor Carpenter and in all things like unto us sin onely excepted And th●● truth was so manifest that his very enemies confest it and would have stoned him because that he being a man made himself a God for their eyes saw that he had flesh and bloud like other men and that he did hunger and thirst and was 〈◊〉 and touched with all the blamelesse passions and affections of other men and therefore Saint Mark is very short in 〈◊〉 Gospel not above 〈◊〉 Chapters in all because he needed not to use many Arguments when as all that saw him did readily confess 〈◊〉 4. 4 4. Saint 〈…〉 By the flying Eagle all the old 〈…〉 do understand Saint John because that when 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 two Jewish Profelices derived the 〈◊〉 of Christ he purposely wrote his Gospel for 〈…〉 that 〈◊〉 errour as Husebiu● and others ●pan● and therefore in the very Frontispie●e of us work he 〈…〉 like an Eagl● and saith John 〈◊〉 in the beginning 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 was with God and the word was God 〈…〉 who le Gospel you may easily 〈…〉 is to prove that

of some few Nations he is Rex Regum Dominus Dominantium the King of all other Kings and the Lord of all Lords And therefore Eusebius saith that the distinction or difference betwixt this true Christ and the other imaginary Christs that were anointed Kings before him may truely and very easily be discerned Euseb l. r. c. 1. Eccl. Histor quia illi priores Christi nulli penè nisi genti propriae cogniti sunt those former Kings were scarce known to any but to their own proper people but not onely the name but also the rule power and kingdome of this true King is extended over all Nations per universum orbem terrae and through the compasse of the round world And though when the Jewes would have crowned him King Rex fieri noluit he refused the same yet to shew that this Dominus Angelorum was also Rex Judaeorum Beda l. 5. in c. 19 Luc. as Beda speaketh when he rid to Jerusalem upon the Asse he willingly permitted the people to cry Hosanna and to intitle him King of the Jewes and he confessed as much himself unto Pilat that he was a King And what meaneth this saith the Venerable Bede that he now willingly embraceth quod prius fugiendo declinavit that which before he declined and fled from it and the kingdome that while as yet he lived in the world he would not accept he now denieth not to take it when he is by and by ready to go out of the world He answereth that he formerly refused it Beda l. 3. in c. 11. S. Mar. because of the gross imagination of the Jewes that conceited him to be a temporal King like unto others but he doth now accept it to shew quod non temporalis terreni sed aeterni in coelis Rex esset imperii that his kingdome was not of this world as himself said unto Pilate but as the King of Heaven he ruled all the world Well then seeing Saint Matthew doth by so many inanswerable arguments prove Christ to be a King What we may learn from this Doctrine that Christ is our King and that he is a perpetual universal and principal King and here exprest by the Lion in this Text we may collect and draw matter both of comfort and fear both of joy and of grief For 1. Seeing Christ is King then as the Psalmist saith Psal 97.1 exultet terra let the earth rejoyce for if we will obey him and be ruled by him he will appoint over us such Viceroyes and under-rulers that will lead us sicut oves gently and lovingly like sheep as he did the Israelites by the hands of Moses and Aaron And 2. Psal 99.1 Seeing Christ is King then as the same Prophet saith contremiscat populus let the people tremble for if they fall to be unruly as we were of late let them be never so impatient this King can as easily gather unto himselfe the spirit of his under-Princes as we can slip a cluster of Grapes from a Vine and he can send them a Rehoboam without Wisedome or a Jeroboam without Religion or Ashur a Stranger an Vsurper as we have had to be our King or nullum Regem no King at all but a disordered Anarchy which is the worst of all Psal 10.4 and all this quia non timuerunt Jehovam because they cared not for God neither was God in all their thoughts But to end this Point seeing Christ our King is this Lion here mentioned we need not fear our spiritual enemies for though he be a Lion and a roaring Lion that is against us yet you see we have a Lion with us and as Saint John saith he that is in us is greater then he that is in the world 1 John 4. and is stronger then the strong man armed and able as the Apostle saith Rom. 16.20 Vide the abridgment of the Gospel fol. 26. 27. to tread and bruise Satan under our feet and therefore we ought to stand fast in the Lord without fear because as Saint Chrysostome well saith non debet timere hostem fortem qui habet Regem fortiorem he need not fear the strongest enemy that hath a stronger King as our King is blessed be God for it 2. 2 2. Saint Luke is understod by the Calf as Saint Matthew is here understood by the Lion quia selet res quae significat ejus rei nomine quam significat nuncupaeri as the bread that signifieth the body of Christ is termed the body of Christ because he proveth Christ to be the King of the Jews and that Lion of Juda which was so long expected to come into the world so for the like reason Saint Luke is here to be understood by the Calf because he principally aimed to prove Christ that is signified by the Calf to be that Priest of whom the Lord sware thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck For I told you before that of all the sacrifices of the four footed Beasts of the Herds which the Hebrews called bakar that is majores hostias the greater sacrifices the Calf was most acceptable unto God as the Prophet sheweth Psal 51.19 Heb. 9.19 Exod. 24.8 Esay 11.6 7. when they offered yong bullocks id ●st goodly Calfs upon his altar And the reason is because the Calf is mecker and more gentle then either of the rest in regard of which meekness the quiet and peaccable man is metaphorically called a Calf And therefore by the Calf is here signified the Priestly office of Christ whereby he offered up himself as a meek and immaculate Calf unto God that by the blood of this Calf we might be sprinkled and purged from all our sins because that without shedding of bloud there is no remissin Heb. 9 21 as the Apostle speaketh And of all the rest of the Evangelists Saint Luke onely doth most specially aime to prove Christ to be a Priest and to shew his Priestly office for both the Alpha and Omega of his Gospel is concerning the Temple and the sacrifices thereof when as he beginneth the same with the Priesthood of Zacharias and his sacrifice of incense and endeth the same with the sacrifice of the Christians that were continually in the Temple praysing and blessing God Luc. 24.53 For though that before the birth of this Priest the other Priests were to burn incense in the Temple of the Lord as Zacharias did yet this Priest being now born and ascended up to heaven the sacrifice that the Christians are to offer unto God is to be continually praysing and landing God in the Temple as Saint Luke saith the Apostles did For the true propitiatory sacrifice being exhibited the Types and Figures thereof must now cease and be abolished and in the place thereof the gratulatory sacrifice must be established And therefore Saint Luke beginneth his Gospel with the propitiatory sacrifice of Za●harias because Christ was not