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LI sermons preached by the Reverend Dr. Mark Frank ... being a course of sermons, beginning at Advent, and so continued through the festivals : to which is added a sermon preached at St. Pauls Cross, in the year forty-one, and then commanded to be printed by King Charles the First.; Sermons. Selections
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their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more ver 10. 12. a Covenant of pardon and remission such as the Sacrifices of the Law could not give were not able And new Books we have it written in as authentick as those old ones in the Iewish Canon where we may find all seal'd by the testimony of the Spirit Heb. vi the Author of the new Testament as well as of the old 6. The new Church has its new Sacraments Ite Baptizata for Ite Circumcidite Baptism for Circumcision and the Lords Supper for the Passeover in both which of ours there is more than was in theirs in those legal Ceremonies not only outward signs as they but inward graces 7. New Sacrifices the calves of our lips instead of Calves and Goats the sacrifices of Praises and Thanksgivings nay the sacrifice of a contrite heart and humble spirit the sacrificing of our lusts and the offering up of our souls and bodies a living holy acceptable Sacrifice Rom. xii 1. 8. A new Priesthood to offer them an unchangeable Priesthood now Heb. vii 24. Christ our High-Priest and the Ministers of the New Testament 2 Cor. iii. 6. as so many under-Priests to offer them up to God Christ offer'd himself a Sacrifice offers up also our Prayers and Praises to his Father has left his Ministers in his Name and Merits to do it too and this a lasting Priesthood to last for ever 9. We have a new Altar too so St. Paul Heb. xiii 10. an Altar that they which serv'd the Tabernacle have no power to eat of Take it for the Cross on which Christ offered up himself or take it for the holy Table where that great Sacrifice of his is daily commemorated in Christian Churches Habem says the Apostle such an one we have and I am sure 't is new 10. Temples we have many new the Temples of our bodies 1 Cor. vi 19. those both to offer in and offer up and 2. Churches many for that one Temple so long since buried in dust and rubbish 11. There is above these a new Spirit Ezek. xxxvi 26. not the spirit of bondage again to fear but the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father Rom. viii 15. the spirit of love and not of fear the spirit of Sons and not of Servants a spirit that will cause us to walk in Gods Statutes keep his Commandments and do them Ezek. xxxvi 27. a new thing indeed that can make the Beasts of the Field to honour him as the Prophet speaks of it Isa. xliii 19. the Dragons and the Owls to do so the most sensual fierce cruel and dullest natures bow unto him that gives waters in the Wilderness and Rivers in the Desart Isa. xliii 19. 20. that blows but with his wind and these waters flow Psal. cxlvii 18. this is a new spirit that is so powerful And from this spirit it is that we 12. receive new life and vigour that we walk not under the Gospel so dully and coldly as they under the Law where the outward work to the letter serv'd the turn but according to the spirit in the inward purity of the heart as well as in the outward purity of the body To which lastly there is a new inheritance annexed a new Heaven and a new Earth which we may look for according to his promise 2 St. Pet. iii. 13. And are not these new things all good news worth our rejoycings Can we be ever old that enjoy such mercies are they not enough to revive the dying spirit nay to raise the dead one to set forth his praises who thus renews us as the Eagle renews his mercies to us every morning makes us Kings and Priests gives us easie Laws and pleasing Covenants effectual Sacrifices and saving Sacraments turns our bodies into his Temples and our hearts into Altars makes us a glorious Church and builds us Churches inspires us with a new Spirit and gives us a second life gives us a Kingdom gives us Heaven and all This is the new state under Christ since his coming ended and renewed our years unto us And therefore says our Apostle just before the Text If any man be in Christ he is a new creature all this new work is done upon him that 's the second way we are now to consider the words That in the Christian truly such all old things are past away and all things become new He is dead to sin Rom. vi 2. and he is dead to the Law Rom. vii 4. or if you will sin and the Law are both dead to him they can hold him no longer he is alive unto God Rom. vi 11. new created in righteousness and true holiness Will you have it more particular Why first then the Heathen ignorance and error that is past with them they are enlightned Heb. vi they know God and are known of him they are light in the Lord the very children of it The Heathen sins they are past with them in them they walkt once Ephes. ii 2. such they were some of them 1 Cor. vi 11. but now they are washt but now they are sanctified but now they are justified Nor are they now 2. under so slender a providence as the poor Heathen were God visits them often now and not only now and then and suffers them not to go on or fall back again into the old ways of infidelity But they are not only out of the Heathen condition but out of the Iewish too no more in bondage to the Law The sacrificing of Rams and Goats of all sensual affections is done already the unreasonable part is mortified in them they have been washt and need be wash'd no more they are oblig'd to no differences of meats no Iewish Sabbatizing no Circumcision no one particular place of Worship no legal Rites or Ceremonies Christ having abolished in his flesh the Law of Commandments says S. Paul contained in ordinances Ephes. ii 15. We are now at liberty he has made us free And we are now 3. under a new course of providence God leads us now by spiritual and eternal promises he threatens spiritual and everlasting punishments guides us by a clearer light than Prophesie the evidence of the Word and Spirit ties us not up to the Covenant of Works nor empty Ceremonies these things are past Makes us not rich that he may accept us but accepts us as we are He reckons not of us by our wealth or honour or learning or our parts we know no man so now ver 16. not Christ so now according to the flesh we value not any man now for any thing but holiness and righteousness for so much as he is in Christ. Nor does the Christian value himself now for any thing but for that of Christ which is in him riches he contemns honour he despises learning he submits all outward and externall priviledges and commendations he lays at the foot of Christ devotes them to his commands
Vera Effigies Reverendi Mar. Franck SS T. P. Aul Pembro Cantab Custodis Eccl S ti Pauls Prebend S. Albani Archidiac c. LI SERMONS Preached by the Reverend D r. Mark Frank Master of Pembroke Hall in Cambridge Archdeacon of St. Albans Prebend and Treasurer of St. Pauls c. BEING A Course of Sermons Beginning at Advent and so continued through the Festivals To which is added A Sermon Preached at St. PAULS CROSS in the Year Forty One And then Commanded to be Printed By King CHARLES the First Idem Sermo Vita LONDON Printed by Andrew Clark for Iohn Martyn Henry Brome and Richard Chiswell and are to be sold at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard at the Gun at the West-end of St. Pauls and at the Two Angels and Crown in Little Britain 1672. To the most Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of All England and Metropolitan one of His Majesties Most Honourable Privy Council c. May it please your Grace THough by that infinite distance I am in to your Grace I ought to make all the Apologies in the world for this Attempt yet when I reflect upon your own admired Candour in receiving the most inferiour Addresses and my own Duty in making this I need not I hope use a Complement to excuse that which I neither could nor ought not but to have done For the Author of these Sermons had that Relation to your Grace and your self that Favour for him that no other name is so fit or so worthy to prefix to any thing of his as your Graces And besides I may very reasonably suppose that there may be something in the following Papers that may not be unfit to be offered to such a Personage I humbly therefore pray that either the one or the other may excuse the forwardness of this Dedication As to my own very great obligations to your Grace I will not be so Conceited as to mention them For when I have told so Publick I need not add any Private Reasons And besides it may be looked upon by the World as a design to gain a Reputation to my self by talking of Favours from a Person of such Eminence Yet I beg that I may have leave to say that I reckon it my greatest Honour in having the Advantage of presenting this Offering which ought to be made to your Grace by Your Graces Meanest and most Dutiful Servant Thomas Pomfret TO THE READER THough I do not call I suppose Thee judicious and shall therefore give to Thee and to my self the ease of saying little For I am sensible enough that the Author of these following Sermons will be to all that read them so much his own Advocate that they will not want any Orator in the Preface And to those that read them not he said nothing nor shall I. Passing then by on purpose those Artifices of Procuring a fair reception to the Book by the ordinary Pageantry of Commendations I think it will be enough to assure Thee that as the Author left the Copies fairly writ by his own hand so they come as truly his to thine For this Reverend Person doing me the Honour of leaving me his Executor by that I had the Possession and Care of all his Papers And amongst them These I found to be so worthy of the Publick that I concluded it a Trespass against the common interest to keep them in my own hands But that too which made me the more confident of their value was the earnestness of many and to that the Approbation of as great a Person as the Church has any for their Impression And accordingly I did forthwith upon the Doctors death committ the Copies to a Stationer who very disingenuously for some years delayed and at last utterly refused for what ends I know not the Printing them But retriving them from him I have put them now into honest mens hands from whence I hope they will come well corrected into thine And then I am very confident they will speak enough for themselves and need no more from him who is Thy humble Servant Thomas Pomfret IMPRIMATUR Hic Liber cui Titulus A Course of Festival Sermons Preached by Dr. Frank. June 29. 1670. SAM PARKER A SERMON ON The First Sunday in Advent S. MATTH xxi 9. And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried saying Hosanna to the Son of David Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest BLessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord Blessed is any coming and going that comes so Hosanna to him God bless him or Hosanna for him God be blessed for him whoe're he be All that went before and all that follow all men will say so And yet in Nomine Domini incipit omne malum said Luther once In the Name of the Lord begins all the mischief And we still find it so the whole game of mischief begun and carried on in nomine Domini under the Name of God as the Lords work How should we do then to discern the right in Nomine Domini when he that comes in the Name of the Lord comes truly so Many ways peradventure may be given to know it by but this is the shortest If the multitudes that went before and that followed after cry Hosanna to him if the Saints of former Ages and their successours approve the manner of his coming if it be in a way the Church of Christ has from its first beginning allow'd for Christian that is if he come meek and lowly humbly riding upon an Ass with Palms and Olives the ensigns of Peace and Love then he comes in nomine Domini right but if proud and scornful with Horse and Chariot Sword and Spear instead of Olive Boughs and Branches with a Sword to cut in sunder the bond of Peace and Unity and a Spear to keep off Charity Let him cry out in nomine Domini talk of the Lord and take his name into his mouth never so much 't is but a meer in nomine and no more a meer pretence and name no Domini nothing in it really of God nor the multitudes before nor the multitudes that follow nor any of the Primitive Christians ever sung Hosanna gave any blessing or approbation to such comers or their comings He that comes here in the Text came nothing so and he that will come after him must not come so Hosanna to no such But Hosanna to him that truly comes in the name of the Lord Gods blessing with him To him that comes so in the Text to the Son of David to him no question 'T is the business both Text and Time the words in hand the days in hand the days of holy Advent are to teach us to sing Hosanna's to our Saviour to bless God for his coming to bless him for his coming all his comings all his ways of coming to us to bless his day that is a coming