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A04985	Sermons vvith some religious and diuine meditations. By the Right Reuerend Father in God, Arthure Lake, late Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. Whereunto is prefixed by way of preface, a short view of the life and vertues of the author	Lake, Arthur, 1569-1626.	1629 (1629)	STC 15134; ESTC S113140	1,181,342	1,122

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in the nature of man but in the nature of God hypostatically vnited vnto man In the twentieth of the Acts God is said with his owne blood to redeeme his Church An impossible thing were it not for the personall Vnion which maketh that to be ascribed vnto God in Concreto which indeed belongs vnto Man But the reason of the Phrase is God is one with Man Yea all the nature of merit is founded in this Vnion Loose the vnion and ouerthrow the merit For the ability of the Sonne closeth not with that aptnesse which before you heard of in the Child to performe the blessed Act of Redemption but by this meanes of personall Vnion Against so pestilent an Heresie was assembled the Councell of Ephesus that defined that God and Man made but one Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that the nature of man assumed by the Son of God was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it had no personality but that which before was in the Sonne And the Reason of it is very cleare For seeing Christ came to saue not any one person but the seed of Abraham as the Apostle speaketh Heb. 2. he was to assume not a person but the nature of Man that so he might be the common Sauiour of Mankinde Nestorius being put downe vp starteth Eutyches and he in stead of a personall Vnion of the Natures forged a Confusion of them He would so ioyne them that two should become one not Person but Nature and so of God and Man wee shall neyther haue God nor Man one shall be swallowed vp in the other at the least the Manhood in the Godhead And this ouerthrowes not only the apparant Texts of Scripture which speaking of Christ after the Incarnation call him sometimes God and sometimes Man and particularly as Rom. 1. Phil. 2. and elsewhere reckon vp eyther Nature but it abolisheth all the comfort of those sweete Texts which affirme that the Law was fulfilled in our flesh that wee were crucified with Christ that wee rose with him and that with him wee sit in heauenly places but especially that Text to the Hebrewes which biddeth vs come with boldnesse vnto the Throne of Grace because wee haue not such an High Priest as cannot be touched with our infirmities seeing he is like vnto vs in all things sinne only excepted Against Eutyches was assembled the Councell of Calcedon which prouided for the sincerity of our Faith in this Article and hath defined against this confusion of Natures the compounding of the Nature of God and Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And the learned Writings of Leo the First Vigilins and others are excellent Commentaries vpon that Councell But to what end haue I opened all this Surely that you might see the riches of this first branch of my Text teaching vs what Christians must beleeue maugre all Hereticks guided by those famous Generall Councels namely foure things there are to be considered therin 1. The truth of the Godhead 2. The fulnesse of the Manhood 3. The Personall Vnion of both 4. and yet without abolition of eyther So that wee may in these words reade the whole Mysterie of the Incarnation But one Caution I must giue you and not I but the Fathers generally and that is You must acknowledge these Mysteries but you must not pry too farre into them lest that befall you which is in the prouerbe Qui scrutator est Maiestatis opprimetur à gloria While you will know more than is permitted you mistake that which is reuealed In euery Article of our Creede especially in this that of Moses holds The secret things are for the Lord but the reuealed things are for vs. That these things are so is the reuealed part of the Article but how they come to bee so is the secret part thereof Let vs bee contented with that which is ours and leaue Gods vnto himselfe Licet scire quòd natus sit Christus non licet discutere quomodo natus sit illud negare mihi non licet hoc quaerere metus est Nam generationem eius quis enarrabit saith St. Ambrose And it was this Quomodo that was the bane of all the fore-recited Heretickes and I pray God their harms may make vs to beware Let vs be wise vnto sobriety the seedes that they sowed are not yet all dead they fructifie too much in other parts and something haue they shewed themselues of late in our Country lest they possesse vs this Caueat must be marked by vs. The last thing which I will note on these words is they are most sweet words The name of Child and Sonne make Christ most louely in the eares in the eyes both of God and Man If man were put to his choyce what nature hee would wish to bee vsed in his Redemption is there any that he could desire rather than his owne And what nature can better content God in the Redemption than his owne Looke vpon the Childe Man hath what he would and looke vpon the Sonne God hath what hee would both cannot be but well pleased You heare not all the sweetnesse of it looke againe vpon the Childe The Physicians and Diuines druide the life of man into many ages some after one fashion and some after another but the very first is that which most properly is noted by this word it signifieth that age which begins vpon the conception that moment wherein the nature of man taketh beginning No sooner is the Child quickned but it is jeled it is that which is noted by this Child and the English word seems to come thence The loue of Christ to children appeared many waies when he rebuked his Disciples that would not suffer them to be brought vnto him when he accepted Hosanna out of their mouthes when he vouchsafed them to bee Martyrs at his death but neuer did hee expresse so much loue vnto them as he did in being like vnto them euen the yongest and tendrest of them lodging in his mothers wombe borne in his mothers armes sucking at his mothers breast and learning to speak from his mothers mouth could Christ euer haue taken a more gracious course to sanctifie their simplicity plicitie their infirmity and shew how deare they were vnto him I wonder not now at those other words of Christ The childrens Angels continually behold their Fathers face in Heauen and To them belongs the Kingdome of Heauen yea They that will enter into the Kingdome of Heauen must be like vnto them And who would disdain to be like vnto them to whom Christ was pleased to be so like And is not the Child then a sweet word Haue not Parents therein a great comfort Children oftentimes dye in their mothers wombe and often so soone as they come out of the wombe dispise them not despaire not of them they cannot be so yongue but Christ was as yongue and what he was he sanctified they are holy vnto him and by him to God their

worke man was excellent though he see him not so the eminency of the Gouernour may be seene when hee is not seene it may be seene in the eminencie of his people Surely the corporall Heauen doth not more declare the glory of God Psalme 19. nor the corporall Firmament his handy worke than the mysticall heauen and the Firmament of the Church doe set forth vnto the world the glory of Christ But enough of the correspondencie of one excellencie to another let vs descend now to the particulars of the later and speake first of the growth And here we see how Christus mysticus doth answer Christum naturalem also In describing of the King the Prophet beganne at his childhood of which St. Luke saith that Christ grew in wisedome in stature and in fanour both with God and man And what doth the word increase intimate but a childhood as it were of the Church from which it groweth forward Certainely the Scripture doth follow the Simile and fetcheth as Christ out of his mothers wombe so the children of God out of the Churches wombe by a new birth And as Christ sucked his mothers breast so doe these children liue at first by reasonable milke as Saint Peter speaketh suckt from the Churches two breasts the Old Heb. 6. and the New Testament As he so they come at length to stronger meat and both come to the age of a perfect man Christ naturally the Church mystically Ephes 4. And this doctrine is taught by other Similies also In the Prophets wee reade of Vine-plants which grew and spread farre Dan. 2. of the little stone in Daniel cut without hands which grew into a great Mountaine In the Gospell the Kingdome of heauen is compared to mustard seed the least of seeds but not of the least growth it becommeth a Tree and it is compared to leauen and who knoweth not how that disperseth it selfe throughout the whole lumpe But this is plain in the story Crescite multiplicamini was a blessing that concerned as well the spirituall as the naturall propagation of man both had a like small beginning Before the Floud one Adam and one Eue from whom sprang all the children of God after the Floud there was but one Family to people all the world and but a piece of that to people the Church Abraham had but one Isaac whose off-spring was to become a mighty Nation hee that marketh how it encreased in Egypt will say that it encreased indeed Come to the New Testament what a small beginning had the Church thereof but what an increment doe we find of it And when the Gospel was in this later age new planted how few were they from whom it spread It were no great matter to weary you with relating out of the Prophets Texts that handle this increase But it needeth not the matter is plaine And this is the vse euen the comfort of the Church that when we see but a cloud no bigger than that of Elias wee may prognosticate that the whole heauens shall bee ouercast there will follow more as truly as when a few graines are sowen there will arise many eares and each loaden with many graines God somewhere in the Prophet vseth that Simile and speaking of the Church hee promiseth that hee will sow it with the seed of men So that wee may vse those words of Zachary Cap. 4. Who hath despised the day of small things for they shall reioyce and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seuen they are the eyes of the Lord which runne to and fro through the earth For there is an increase and this increase is boundlesse But before I come to the measure of the increase I must a little obserue what that is which doth increase it is here specified to be the Gouernment and the Peace thereof What the Gouernment and what the Peace is you heard before at this time I am onely to obserue that both of them increase for it is remarkeable that they both increase When mortall Princes inlarge their Dominions they are faine withall to encrease their garrisons Witnesse the Romane Empire which neuer kept so many Armies as when they had most Prouinces And no maruell for what they conquered by the sword they were faine to hold by the sword for but for feare they were not obeyed by them whom they held by force Quem metuunt oderunt Et quem quisque odit periisse expetit are too euident and too much experienced rules All Nations haue had the triall of it in their conquests But it is not so with the Kingdome of Christ where hee enlargeth his Dominions he bringeth Peace the inseparable companion of his Dominions and why he maketh all his Subiects naturall The Romanes in the end found that to be the best policie to denizen whole Countreyes whom they conquered and giue them the same immunities with the Citizens of Rome And sure this was a better prouision for their peace than the sword could bee But this was but a morall perswafion vnto peace it could not worke the heart and alter it that was still indisposed thereunto as appeares by many rebellions and warres of those that had these immunities when fit occasion was offered them But our Sauiour Christ changeth the heart In the eleuenth of this prophesie it is excellently figured by the cohabitation of the Wolfe and the Lambe the Leopard and the Kid c. Haue men neuer so saluage dispositions yet when they come vnder the Gouernment of Christ they put them off and become as meeke as tame as the Lambes and Kids in the flocke of Christ He that readeth the stories how barbarous other countries yea our own countrey was before it was christianed will acknowledge the truth hereof I will only instance in two well knowne persons St. Paul and St. Austine what they were before they haue each of them registred with their own pennes St. Paul in his Epistles St. Augustine in his Confessions what they became who knoweth not that hath read the Writings of them both The ground of all is None commeth vnder Christs gouernment but hee is new-borne not so much naturalized as indeed made a naturall subiect and we see in our own Country how true the affection is as of a naturall Prince to his Subiects so of naturall Subiects to their Prince This City lodgeth no garrison neyther doth any other except the frontier Towne that is armed against the forraigne enemie and yet we all readily obey euen so is it and much more so in the Kingdome of Christ where the gouernment commeth peace commeth with it they both goe together they both increase But how farre surely without stint of time or place of the encrease saith our Prophet there is no end Where the Prophets doe speake of the increase of the gouernment they ioyne withall the increase of the peace Psalme 72. Esay 60. Micah 4. c. The increase is as I termed it boundlesse