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Ten sermons, preached vpon seuerall Sundayes and saints dayes 1 Vpon the Passion of our Blessed Savior. 2 Vpon his resurrection. 3 Vpon S. Peters Day. 4 Vpon S. Iohn the Baptists Day. 5 Vpon the Day of the blessed Innocents. 6 Vpon Palme Sunday. 7 and 8 Vpon the two first Sundays in Advent. 9 and 10 Vpon the parable of the Pharisee and publicane, Luke 18. Together with a sermon preached at the assises at Huntington. By P. Hausted Mr. in Arts, and curate at Vppingham in Rutland.
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Hausted, Peter, d. 1645.
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of thy sinnes in sackcloth and ashes wouldst have sought for forgivenesse at mee thy Redeemer But now they are hid from thine eyes Which latter part of the verse like the Serpent carries the sting in its Taile For it was the consideration of that indeed which caused all these bitter teares namely because their day was past it was hid from their eyes But I am called backe by the words of an Expositor Domine saith hee entring into a Dialogue with Christ te rogo cur inquis quod illi te non noverunt Lord what dost thou meane to say they did not know thee Did not the Multitude carry Palmes in their hands as ensignes of thy victory which thou shouldst obtaine over sinne death and hell meet thee in the way Did they not spread their garments before thee Did they not call thee with an unanimous consent The King of Israel the sonne of David crying Hosanna Hosanna in the Highest blessed be the King who commeth in the Name of the Lord. What answer Christ himselfe would have given him we doe not know conjecture we may and first thus As for those people who met him in the way with Palmes in their hands as upon this day which from thence by the institution of the Church still retaines the name of Palme Sunday with Palmes I say in their hands and exclamations of great joy which there are called a Multitude Alas what were they in comparison of the whole City but as a drop to the Bucket besides that multitude was but of the common ignorant sort of the people few of the Rulers or Pharisees were there and such as were there were so farre from joyning with them in that joyfull confession that they call to Christ to rebuke the multitude ver 39. Master rebuke thy Disciples But Christ who bore the nature and infirmities of them all did thirst after the salvation of them all Again he who is the searcher of the reines and heart did peradventure discover that however their outsides did flatter him using a great deale of faire Ceremony and religious Complement yet for all that many of their hearts were farre enough from him Hee perceived for ought wee know some amongst that multitude such is the levity and inconstancy of the people who for all their Hosannas now drawen to it it may be for companies sake or else for the novelty and strangenesse of the thing were afterwards as lowd in the other voice Crucifige crucifige His blood be upon us and upon our children And therefore well might he say they did not know him They doe not know Christ truely neither will Christ know them at the last day who are onely worshippers of him in outward Ceremony and not in the Heart The outward Ceremonies of the Church the carrying of Palmes in our hands i. the adorning of the House of the Lord with comely ornaments is good novimus wee confesse it The spreading of our garments in the way our worshipping and crying Hosanna bowing at the blessed Name of Jesus is comely holy befitting and reverent Quis enim potest negare but as the Poet to proud Fabulla Sed dum te nimium Fabulla landas Nec dives neque bella neque puella es But should there bee too much stirre kept about these things as is objected to us and the service of the inward man in the mean time neglected they would be in the esteeme of God neither comely reverent nor holy For hee is more pleased with the worship of the heart then with all the outward pompe of their Feasts and new Moones But this discourse is not altogether so fitting for the times wee live in Alas there are not such multitudes of us now who are found meeting our blessed Saviour with Palmes in our hands worshipping and crying Hosanna spreading our garments upon the Asse and in the way and yet for all this although the number bee but small compared unto the multitude of the mockers but live the gleaning after a Vintage yet see if our new Pharisies be not as busie now as ever the old ones were about Christ crying Master rebuke thy Disciples and saying with Judas who was a Thiefe and carried the Bag Wherefore serves all this wast To what purpose are all these Palmes and branches of Trees all this worshipping and crying Hosanna in the Highest These garments spread in the way all this outward Ornament and Ceremony It followes in the verse Hadst thou but knowne at the least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now are they hid from thine eyes Yee observe here that Jerusalem had her day of Peace shee had her time of mercy and grace offered her And ye may observe also that Jerusalem did neglect this proffered grace it was hid from her eyes Who was it that hid it from her eyes Why certainly our Saviour Christ will prove the best Interpreter of himselfe Jerusalem Jerusalem which killest the Prophets Mat. 23.37 and stonest them who are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thee together as a Hen gathereth her chickens under her wings but yee would not He doth not say but yee could not but yee would not Surely the fault was their owne They had a day and the Sunne shone clearely over their heads but they hoodwinkt themselves shut out the light and would not see But I perceive this sea of teares is now proved a depth of doctrine wherein the Leviathan may sport himselfe and all this while wee have but stood upon the shore and viewed onely the troubled surface of this deepe Nor dare I adventure any farther into it The Well is deepe O Lord and I have nothing wherewith to draw Let those who have lines and plummets fit for the undertaking of such a worke sound and dive to the bottome of this deepe I will content my selfe with St. Peter to take a journey to Christ upon the face of the Sea onely to walke with him upon the waves and if I chance to sinke I will pray with him and say Lord save me I perish THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH SERMONS PREACHED Upon the two first Sundayes in Advent CANT 2.8 It is the voyce of my beloved behold he comes leaping upon the mountaines and skipping over the hills THe Church in her pious care and wisdome hath instituted no great Feast through the whole yeere but shee hath both appointed to it dayes of preparation and dayes of attendance The solemne time of Lent that prepares us for the great feast of Easter which being come wee see it accompanied for the greater state with two attendant Holy dayes so likewise Whitsunday is prepared unto us by Rogation weeke and wayted upon also when it is come by its two Holy dayes which follow it And this great and high Festivall of the Nativity of our blessed Saviour which now drawes neere upon us as it hath its twelve dayes of Attendance so it hath foure Sundayes of preparation which are called
the Sundayes in Advent the ancient Christians styling the birth of Christ or his comming in the flesh by the name of Advent And why there be foure Sundayes or weekes preparative ushering in this Feast some doe take upon them to affirme that it is to signifie to us the foure Advents of our Saviour The first is Adventus ejus ad homines Secondly In homines The third Contra homines And the fourth Super homines The first His comming to men in the flesh The second His comming into men in the spirit The third His comming against men at the day of each particular mans death And the fourth His comming above men in the day of judgement Of all which Advents of Christ this mysticall Text of ours may be understood Behold he comes leaping upon the mountaines and skipping over the hills There be some Interpreters who write upon this place who accommodate this Text to the freedom of the children of Israel froÌ„ the 70. yeares captivity in Babylon by Cyrus the Persian The first and second verses of this Chapter they will have to understand those times of deportation when Nebuchadnezzar like a furious tempest did sweepe and carrie before him all that was pretious in the land of Israel Her King her Princes her strong men of warre all her cunning workmen all the treasures of the house of the Lord all the treasures of the Kings house 2. Kings 24. ver 1. I am the Rose of the field the Lilly of the vallyes ver 2. Like a Lilly among the thornes so is my beloved amongst the daughters And this they will have to be a Propheticall complaint of the Church in those lamentable times exposed to all depopulations and conculcations of the barbarous enemie Iuxta florem in agro sine munimento The third verse Like the Apple Tree amongst the Trees of the Forrest so is my beloved amongst the Sonnes of men This they will have to depicture out the quiet though poore estate of those reliquiae populi those reliques of the people which were left behinde under the tuition of Gedaliah who here they say is meant by the Apple tree under whose shadow they had delight Humilis hic erat ad proceritatem priorum regum vel ad altissimos Cedros qui florebant in Babyloniis montibus And hee indeed was but a shrub the Thistle of Libanus if wee compare him with their former Kings or with the tallnesse of those Cedars which though in captivity yet in some sort did flourish upon the mountaines of Babylon I might leade yee farther downe with me into the Wine-Cellar and tell yee what they will have meant by that the King had mee into his Wine-Cellar and love was his banner over me namely their enemies land partly Babylon partly Egypt whither much of the people at the cutting off of Gedaliah did undertake a voluntary exile Introduxit me Rex in Cellam vinartam non in domum convivii as one notes The King had me into his Wine-Cellar not into his banqueting house which you shall finde if you looke into the 7. of Ecclesiastes rejoycing in another name The heart of the foole is in the house of mirth In domo compâ—tationis As if the Spouse had said here The King had me into a melancholly and sorrowfull Cave in locum subterraneum into a Caverne of the earth as yee know most of our Wine-Cellars be yet notwithstanding there shee found Wine The Spirit and the Word which be often compared to Wine still bore them company Nec Ecclesiae in his miseriis consolatium defuit cui Carcer vino refertus It was impossible that the Church in these miseries should want comfort when her very prison was a Wine-Cellar But I come to this verse in the Chapter which I have chosen for my Text and this they will have to be as I told yee the comming of Cyrus to their deliverance It is the voyce c. Shee falls into an abrupt mention of it as if from a farre shee had heard the voyce of her welbeloved calling to her and distracted as it were with joy at the unexpectednesse of the newes she breakes forth into this suddaine extasie It is the voyce of my welbeloved And this is nothing else say they but a Prophesie of that great joy which all those Captive Jews did feele at the rumour of those warlike preparations of the Medes and Persians against Babylon for now they knew that the time of their Manumission was at hand which was prophesied by Ieremie in his 50. Chapter The latter part of the verse sets out unto us the speedinesse of his comming Behold hee comes leaping upon the mountaines and skipping over the hills As the Comick Poet saith Cervum cursa vincit gallatorem gradu Hee came leaping over Nations and striding over Kingdomes as if hee had had Stiles on And as it is in the next verse My welbeloved is like a Roe or a young Hart. How quickly did hee leape over the Armenians Lydia Hyrcanâ—a The Bactrians Susians Carians Phrygians Cappadocians With that lightnesse that he scarce left any footsteps behinde him so soone did be vanquish them But me thinks this interpretation is too dull and earthy and farre below the dignity and majestie of this so divine a Song So that wee may say of this Text as Christ did once to the people concerning Solomon A greater then Solomon is here So may we say certainly a greater then Cyrus is here is meant here of whom Cyrus himselfe was but a Type The comming of that true Cyrus in this place is meant that Conquerour who made preparation for warre who came into the world assumed our flesh by him sanctified and made the weapons of his righteousnesse to redeeme his chosen Nation whom Nebuchadnezzar the devill had carried into Captivity into Babylon This Text then may set forth unto us either the comming of our blessed Saviour in the flesh when in the fulnesse of time hee was borne of the Virgin suffered the frailties of humane Nature and at the last death for the sinnes of the world Or else his coÌ„ming in the Spirit to each particular faithfull soule But before I fasten upon any of these give mee leave to take up an Observation or two by the way which cannot bee very well passed over in silence The first is that hearing goes before seeing The Church first heares the voyce of her Saviour and afterwards shee sees him This is the order which the holy Spirit observes in many places of sacred Scripture Heare O daughter and see as yee have it in Isay and as it is in the last of Iob I have heard of thee by the hearing of the eare but now mine eye hath seene thee And in the second of the Acts when that Comforter which Christ had promised came unto them yee shall reade that first upon a sudden there was a sound heard from Heaven as of a mighty and rushing wind and after the Cloven Tongues like