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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12091	The first sermon of R. Sheldon priest, after his conuersion from the Romish Church preached before an honourable assembly at S. Martins in the Field, vpon Passion Sunday, &c. Published by authoritie.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1612 (1612)	STC 22395; ESTC S117205	45,961	78

with the oyle of gladnesse aboue thy fellowes so annointed that in verie forme he appeared more than his fellowes aboue his fellowes not onely a holy man but a God God and man I cannot but proclaime that although the glorie of the Diuinitie of Christ imparted to his soule was so contained from communicating it selfe to his bodie yet it could not be so concluded and shut vp but that some beames and glitterings thereof did so diffuse themselues like vnto the beames of the glittering Sunne vnder a cleare cloud that the pious beholder might contemplate the very diuine attributes to be in an admirable sort relucent and resplendent in the very humanitie of Christ conuersing with man O Emanuel O Emanuel God with vs God with vs conuersing amongst men and by so diuine conuersation knowen to be the true Emanuel indeed the true God amonst vs amongst men Thus too breefly and imperfectly how theattributes and diuine perfections of God were transponent in Christ Oh that time would permit me fully to consider this our Christ as he hath relation to the actions and operations of God in the framing and gouerning of this vniuerse especially his actions to ward mankinde we should find him to be the very scope and end for which all this world was made wee should find him to be the very drift butte and end of all Gods desires we should finde that of the holy Prophet Isay to be true in him Et eris Isay 62. corona gloriae in manu domini diadema Regni in manu dei tui Thou shalt bee a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord a Diademe of a Kingdome in the hand of thy God A crowne of glory a Diademe of a Kingdome euen vpon the head and in the hands of the Lord of God to honour to make glorious God the Lord. A crowne of glory A diademe of a Kingdome in the hands of God in the hands of the Lord euer to be looked vpon to bee contemplated admired desired Heare the heauenly father himselfe more then once auouching as much Math. 17. Ma●c 1. Luc. 9. Mat. 3. Hic est filius meus c. This is my beloued sonne in whom I am very well pleased in whom my soule taketh full content This this is the scope of all my actions This is my word which I looked vpon framing the whole world This is the very Idea vpon which I contemplated electing predestinating my children to my glory and when I call those whom I haue elected and predestinated according to the purpose of my will from all eternities to iustifie them to sanctifie them to glorifie them I make them all confermable to the Image of this my sonne Yea so well pleased is my soule in him that for his sake from all eternities I haue absolutely perfectly loued those whom I haue elected in him and for him before they were any thing at all and when in time like fugitiue seruants they were at enmity with me through sinne liuing in sinne delighting in sinne I then for his sake called iustified sanctified them leauing them not vntill I bring them for respect of him to my eternall glory and vntill I accomplish my will in them I will not surce ase no man shall take them out of my handes no man shall stop the might of my election This this Christian hearers as it is doctrine full of all consolation to the faithfull that haue a liuing and a sanctifying faith through and in this Chri●t so is it not nouell but most ancient Catholike howsoeuer most commonly the Pontifician Diuines teach and affirme that the predestination and election of Gods children is not without preuision of their merits and so making the merits of man as a motiue of Gods eternall election they shew themselues to be nothing lesse then Semipelagians whole Pelagians I would call them if they taught these merits of man without necessity of grace through and in Christ Merits we exclude Christian hearers whē they are made as causes of predestination but not good workes as fruites of sanctification in which God hath eternally preordained his elect to walke in Sixe hundred places of scripture wherewith you learned in Gods booke are acquainted I could produce for the confirming of this truth how that without works freely in Christ alone we were loued beloued and elected before we were any thing at all except onely in Gods election yea and afterwards also when in time we became worse then nothing by committing sinne the which as it is nothing of Gods worke so for so much as it is mans worke it maketh him worse then nothing yet for Christs sake man so wicked so abhominable was called iustified sanctified according to the purpose of Gods eternall election O inestimable O vnspeakable benefit therefore of Christ O Christ powerfull in the eternall prouidence of God before creation for our election powerfull in time appointed for our vocation iustification sanctification powerfull for our perseuerance and finall consummation so powerfull and so precious in the sight of God that if God whose goodnesse is so great that he would suffer no ill if he knew not how to produce good thereout had not foreknowne such a remedy against sinne such an anointed one such a Christ for the curing of soules he would neuer haue permitted Adam to haue sinned at least wise he would neuer haue permitted his sinne as a generall deluge to haue ouer whelmed all mankind so that as in a sort it may be said sinne had not bin permitted if such a Sauiour such a Christ could not haue beene sent haue beene prouided so neither such a dying Sauiour such a passible Christ had not been sent if sinne had not beene permitted O mysterie of all mysteries from the very profoundest of my soule I proclaime O Christ most blessed and eternally to be desired for if thou couldest not haue beene sent to expiate sinne the same had not beene permitted and if sinne had not been permitted thou haddest not beenesent to seeke the lost sheepe of mankind O infinite goodnesse of God Therefore I dare boldly pronounce with ancient Gregory O Felix Adae peccatum c. O happy sinne of Adam which deserued to haue such and so great a Redeemer O truely necessary sinne of Adam which by the death of Christ is abolished and destroied of Christ I say of whose excellencies and perfections in respect of vs and in the manner of his concurrence to our sanctification and saluation in respect of euery sort of causing and working as materiall formall efficient finall and in respect of himselfe for those treasures of diuine wisdome and graces without measure as farre as the right hand of God by his ordinary power could extend it selfe imparted to his soule if I should further according to my diuision made aboue of the respects of Christ discourse Hebr. 5. and ampliate my speech it should proue to be sermo ininterpretabilis a speech vninterpretable as the