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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25359	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester the xxix of May MDCLXXXI, being Trinity Sunday, and the day of His Majesties happy birth and restauration by Henry Anderson ...	Anderson, Henry, b. 1651 or 2.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3093; ESTC R16092	19,305	35

the Celestial Sphere doth this Earthly Globe And so the Proposition is made good That Heaven is a fairer Object than Earth for our Contemplation even the Glorious and Eternal Majesty of the Holy Trinity that is enshrin'd in an Unity of Essence And Pythagoras that Old Samian Philosopher made Unity the Original of all Things and the Cause of all Good in the World And the Fathers under the Allegorical Vail of that Unity discover an undivided Deity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if That and God were so inseparably link't together that the Thought of Man could not possibly part them asunder 'T is a pious Exhortation that St Paul gives the Ephesians to holy Concord and Unity of Spirit and lays it down with a triple Argument knowing that a three-fold Cord is not easily broken and admits of no Separation at all unless they would seem to dissolve their Religion There is one Lord whom Christians obey and therefore no Distraction by Service There is one Faith whereby they believe and therefore no division by Creeds there is one baptism whereby they get entrance into the Church and therefore no distinction by initiative grace and these three are more peculiarly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Trinity of Unities wherein God by the Ministry of the Holy Apostle appears to his Church as it were in the Shape of three Angels Silence now ye warbling Birds Consorts of the world be still and hear the Harmony of the Royal Prophet sung in an admirable Air tune the Instruments of your hearts unto it Thou art my Portion thou art my Riches I love the beauty of thine House which is no other than thine own Essence and the sole aim of my desire is the place of thy Glory The Diadems and honours of this world are of a short standing and nothing comparable to that Royalty which is everlasting and to that Kingdom which knows no end This world is an Ark wherein are clean and unclean Beasts a Park where Goats and Sheep live together a Net where good and bad Fish are found But in Heaven nothing that is impure or imperfect can have entry there In that fair place Solomon's wisdom will appear folly his knowledge ignorance Absolom's beauty shall be there deformity Samson's strength shall pass there for feebleness and the Riches of all the Kings of the Earth shall be there as Poverty The longest term of life in our Fore-fathers will appear a death for in Heaven it is in triumph above the reach of dull mortality A man may enjoy the light of the Sun and walk in its glittering rayes and now and then give a glance upon it though we cannot keep our eye fix'd upon its globe to behold its glory we may behold its beams refracted through a cloud but we may lose our sight by gazing on it in its naked beauty for according to an Axion in Philosophy Excellens objectum laedit sensum Pliny prying into the Mountain Vesuvius to discover the fiery irruptions of Natures Kiln procured his death by his too bold attempts into the mysteries of Nature Surely it cannot but be dangerous to be too inquisitive into the mysteries of the Trinity which ought rather to be religiously ador'd than curiously search'd into it requires rather Faith to believe than Reason to comprehend and judge for where there is a Curtain drawn if we are so bold to lift it up we may justly be struck with blindness even in those things which before were exposed to our view It is enough that God makes us of his Court though not of his Council That we may be free though not to rifle his Cabinet yet to sit at his Table no matter whether on the right hand or left in his Kingdom Why should we strive with danger what we may be ignorant of with safety In such things admiration is better Piety than apprehension Nothing breeds more Atheists among us than this the first spawn of Sin Curiosity which plucks still at the forbidden Tree The Arminians will find a reason in us of Gods Decrees The Socinians also will have a reason of his Mysteries except they see they will not believe Our sight now doth disperse and lose it self in the immensity of the extent for who hath beheld it that he might demonstrate it Not the Angels for they cover their faces much less we that dwell in Houses of Clay and have that ignorance and guiltiness those glorious Seraphims are freed from Isa 6. 2. that cryed one to another and said Holy holy holy One of the Ancients glosses finely upon it unum Jehovam celebrant repetendo unum idem Sanctus trinum agnoscunt ter repetendo quod uni tribuerunt A Trinity they acknowledge in that Blessed Unity of the Godhead whilst they repeat thrice Holy holy holy three in one and all three but one God Therefore let us not furnish our heads only with speculations but laying up Divine things within our hearts and drawing them out into our lives in order to practice worship the Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity The Deity is the ground of our Adoration and as it is necessary for every one to be established in this truth that there is a God so likewise that there is but one God and not a plurality as the blind Idolatrous Heathen imagine We ought then to make God the object of our highest admiration and of our greatest love to offer Sacrifices of Prayers and Praises to him in all our ways to acknowledge him and chearfully do what he commands to trust in him and depend upon him for our life is lent us for no other end but to be mindful of Eternity and cast up our eyes to Heaven our future happiness Anaxagoras being askt wherefore man was made replyed To behold the Heavens For not a Star sparkles there but is a Preacher and Herald to the Majesty of its Maker Empedocles likewise being demanded why he desired to live in this world Answered only to Contemplate Heaven Christianity is a kind of Religious Astronomy the Contemplation and study of Heaven No Geometry or measuring the Earth in the Christian Mathematicks unless it be that our Souls might more easily take footing in Heaven And as Philosophy describing Lines drawn from the Center of the Earth may go to the Circumference of the Heavens so according to our Comportment in these short Moments wherein are compriz'd the Lines of Life which we are to live on Earth shall be the definitive Sentence of an Eternal Abode Our true Happiness depends upon our well Management of our Time here and it highly concerns us to fore-see what will be our future State For in this Life we sow those Seeds whose Fruits either of Misery or Happiness we shall gather in another World and reap them in Eternity Let the Serious Consideration how short our time is on Earth enforce upon us a Care of Redeeming it and use it not to the Maintenance of Wickedness and Vice but