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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04091	A sermon preached before the honorable assembly of knights, citizens, and burgesses of the lower house of Parliament, February the last, 1623 by Isaac Bargrave ...	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.	1624 (1624)	STC 1415.5; ESTC S1423	12,591	44

benefite Humble your selues in the fight of the Lord and he shall lift yee vp Iames 4. 10. And as for this and the whole body of our Church-orders I had it from the mouth of that Reuerend Father Paul of Venice the worthy Author of that excellent discouery the History of the Councell of Trent that hee esteemed the Hyerarchy of our Church the most excellent peece of Discipline in the whole Christian VVorld But howeuer they esteeme it abroad wee here at home if wee bee not vnworthily-vnthankfull must needes confesse that for this sixty yeares and vpwards wee haue felt such a blessed effect of it as no other Church nor Nation in the Christian World can paralell And therefore to your care and loue I commend it Compasse you Gods Altar with your protection and you haue Gods owne Word for it hee will compasse you with his prouidence Hee will open the Chatar acks of Heauen and power out a Blessing vppon you Mal. 3. 10. Blesse you Gods Altar and no question Gods Altar will blesse you Thus at the length though I feare with some exercise of your patience I haue brought you to the desired port of Health the Altar The Altar why but that is the place where the Romanists wold haue you if to the Altar then to a Masse to a sacrifice for the Living and the Dead God forbid I confesse that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 come both from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sacrifice Lib. 1. de miss and with Bellarmine that an Altar properly taken infers a sacrifice properly taken But the words that I speake vnto you are spirit and life Iohn 6. 63. Our High Priest is Spirituall Heb. 10. 22. our Priesthood and our Sacrifice Spirituall 1. Peter 2. 5. When wee speake properly in our Canons and Communion Booke wee call it with the Apostles and as Bellarmine confesseth with all the Fathers to Tertullians time 200. yeares of Christ The Table of the Lord 1 Cor. 10. 21. Not but that in a Metaphorical sense we can allow it to be called Altar and Sacrifice too We are content to heare Saint Chrysostome call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sacrifice if hee adde by way of explanatiall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rather the memoriall of a sacrifice In this wee will subscribe to their owne Lumbard Vocatur Sacrificium quia memoria Lib. 4. Dist 12. est veri Sacrificij It is called a Sacrifice because it is the memoriall of a true Sacrifice Wee confesse it both an Altar and a Sacrifice in Signato though not in Signo in the thing signified though not in the signe We contemplate at the Altar the Sonne of God himselfe sweating Blood wrestling with the wrath of his Father torne on the Crosse pierced to the Heart for our sinnes We confesse him there as the Holy Lambe of God really offred vp a true Propitiatory sacrifice for our sinnes and by the Vertue of this Sacrament really sealing vp remission to our soules And if then we haue no other hope nor faith but in that reall Sacrifice of Christ once offered for vs why haue those men of blood for this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this word-quarrell of the Altar sacrificed the liues of so many Deuout Confessors while they professe they drinke the blood of Christ why haue they made themselues so drunke with the blood of Christians and Christian Princes In these men is too truly fulfilled that vision of Iohn Reuele 6. 9. I saw vnder the Altar the soules of them that were killed for the Word of God and for the Testimony which they haue maintained Should these men escape your Zeale and Iustice which I assure my selfe they shall not yet God hath a cup in store for them with which they shal one day be fully drenched Because they haue shed the Blood of the Saints therefore hast thou giuen them blood to drinke Reu. 18. vers 4. 24. Let such as these still offer their sacrifices which cannot take away sinnes Heb. 10. 11. But let vs who haue an Altar whereof they haue no right to eate Let vs holde fast the Profession of our Faith without wauering Hebrews 10. 23. As all Iewish sacrifices lookt forward so all ours looke backward to the sacrifice of Christ They were as the morning shadowes growing shorter and shorter till the midday ours as the after-noone shadowes growing longer euen till the second comming of our Sauiour when wee shall offer the sacrifice of prayse for euer Let vs in the meane time with Dauid in the next verse begin that Eucharist here let vs at the Altar of GOD shew forth the voyce of thanksgiuing and tell of all Gods wondrous Workes The wondrous workes of our Creation Vocation Redemption the wondrous worke of Gods Blessing this Land with peace plenty and the liberty of the Gospell the wondrous worke of our preseruation in 88. the wonder of wonders in our deliuery from the Gun-powder Treason the wondrous worke of our Royall Prince's safe returne to his Pious Fathers House in all these the wondrous loue of God to his Deere Church and the members thereof his constant seruants in this Land And if God hath so loued vs let not vs now fayle to loue one another Yee haue all taken oathes heretofore ratifie them now againe at Gods Altar vowe one vowe more there euen the vowe of loue and constant vnion and the power of Grace enable you to performe it The Altar is the proper seate of reconciliation Mat. 5. 24. and that Holy Sacrament as it is the best Pledge of Gods loue to vs so of our Communion one with another Beleeue it Christians the maine axiome and anuile of popish Pollicy the very Axell whereon they winde about the whole body of their Machiauilisme in England is our diuision and dissension themselues haue brag'd that there is no way so ready to conuert a Lutheran as by the passion of a Caluinist no meanes so prompt to make a Protestant a Papist as by the opposition of a Puritane Thus they endeauour to destroy vs as wee destroyed their inuincible Nauy by sending fire euen the fire of dissension in the midst of vs. Oh let vs beare downe this pollicy of the world with the wisedome of the Spirit Away with these distracting names of Lutheran Caluinist Puritan c. We are all the children of the same father who hath begotten vs in the loue of one Mediatour and Sanctified vs by one and the same Spirit Christ and his spouse the King and his Kingdome Christian Brother and Brother these are they which God hath ioyned together and cursed may hee be that endeauours to put them asunder I will conclude with the Vote of Paul I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that yee all speake the same thing and that there be no diuisions among you but that you bee perfectly ioyned together in the same minde and the same iudgement That so by the vnited power of charity and a good cause yee may all march on Valiantly and meete the aduersary in the face constantly fighting the battell of our Elder Brother Christ Iesus who fought to the Death for our sinnes That Iesus who for vs was made both the Priest the Altar and the Sacrifice accept this your morning Sacrifice of prayse and thanksgiuing He wash you in his blood cloath you in his innocency Crowne you with his Glory He this Day at his Altar conueigh such grace into your hearts that yee may forme all your ensuings actions and counsells as if you were still at Gods Altar To that Iesus with the Eternall Father and Holy Spirit wee ascribe all Prayse Power Glory Dominion in Saecula Saeculorum Amen FINIS