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A62955	Emerai par emeras, Extraordinary dayes, or, Sermons on the most solemn Feasts and fasts throughout the year viz. Christmas-day, Ash-Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter-day, Ascention-day, Whit-Sunday : whereunto are added two other sermons / by John Torbuck ...	Torbuck, John, d. 1707.	1671 (1671)	Wing T1909; ESTC R21672	43,444	138

Pentecost the Fiftieth or Jubilee from the Resurrection hath in it two direct acts of a joyful Jubilee 1. The Releasing of Prisoners 2. The Restitution of Estates gratìs Both these are effects of Christs Ascension which we have lately treated 4. Ephes 8. When he ascended up on high he led Captivity captive and gave gifts unto men In the former The Releasing we are freed from that bondage whereunto sin had brought us In the Latter our Restitution we take again our first Happiness lost at the Fall recovered by the renewing of the Holy Ghost 3. Tit. 5. This is that Inestimable gift of God at this time sent which we most infinitely undervalue whilst we think to value it at any temporal rate whatever For this Simon Magus offers that which Solomon 10 Eccles 19. saith answers all things Money But Peter said unto him Thy Money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Our Text is an Execration In the Text 4 parts wherin you have First The Person Execrating Peter Peter said 2. The Person Execrated Simon Magus v. 20. Peter saith unto him 3. The Execration it self Thy money perish with thee 4. The Reason of this Execration Because thou hast though that the gift of God may be purchased with money 1. The Person Execrating Peter who might well take on him this Authority having generally with the rest of the Apostles 20. Joh. 23 and particularly by himself 16. Mat. 18. received the power of the Keyes for binding and loosing for Absolving and Execrating Which power in Peter and the Apostles not Personally tyed only to them but they receiving it as Ministers Priests or Preachers as witnesses their preceeding Mission 20. Joh. 21. and Inspiration peculiar to this Office v. 22 was to be derived from them to all who should lawfully succeed in the same function See Bp. Andr. of the power of Absol p. 57. Wherefore at our entring into Holy Orders together with Preaching the Word we receive this Commission The Form is Receive the Holy Ghost whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosoever sins ye retain they are retained c. Not but that Gods power is Ablolute his Grace free and unbounded He can save without meanes or Ministers but ordinarily in the remitting or retaining of sins he hath been pleased to appoint That the Vpper-house Heaven should concurre with the proceedings of the Lower-house the Pastors of his Church on Earth 18. Mat. 18. Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Christ having conferred this Honour on Ecclesiastical persons let men be very cautious how they deserve and they how they pronounce their censures 2. The Person Execrated Simon Magus a notable Sorcerer v. 9. It is reported that in Claudius Caesar's time there was a Statue set upon in Rome in Honour of him with this blasphemous inscription Simoni Deo sancto Justin Mart. Apol. 2. of his blasphemies write Euseb Iren. Epiph. Of his strange things he did relates Egesip lib. 1. c. 2. and Nicephor lib. 2. cap. 22.27 He was Deified of the people v. 10. afterwards a specious Professour Baptized admiring the Apostles signes and wonders v. 13. yet is not his heart right with God v. 21. He embraceth the ●aith but for some base end maketh Religion only a bait to fish for some Secular applause and advantage When Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given v. 18. for this power v. 19. not questioning but to make his Market of it again He offered them money But Peter said unto him Thy money perish with thee c. 3. The Execration it self Thy money perish with thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy Money go into distruction with thee or perdition so Judas is called 17. Joh. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The son of Perdition and Gods final Judgment on the wicked is styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 3.7 The Perdition of ungodly men Simon Magus Apostatizing so damnably as he did from the purity of the Faith he had professed and was baptized into v. 13. which his blasphemous and vile proffers did too openly demonstrate is by the great Apostle Saint Peter who as before hath been said had received the power of Binding 16 Mat. 18 condemned as one Excommunicate from the Fellowship of the Spirit v. 21. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter and Retained in sin v. 23. Thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity Thy money perish with thee This Phrase will bear a twofold Excommunication 1. Lesser 2. Greater The First Is a Delivering to Satan for the castigation or destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.5 in order to the salvation of the Soul Here the party Excommunicated was subject by the obsession of some evil spirit or otherwise to divers tortures of Body sometimes to death it self The Latter or greater is An Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 the heaviest Curse the Fearfullest degree of Excommunication under which who lay could never here be reconciled to to the Church but carryes this dreadful Sentence with him till the Lord shall come to the last Judgment Both these intimate Gods wrath on notorious Sinners which when inflicted Riches perish fail stand us in no stead at all 11 Prov. 4. 7 Ezec. 19. Thy money perish with thee God inflict on thee some temporal punishment thy Purse shall not be able to help which they say come to pass accordingly by the breaking of his limbs on his pretended flight to heaven thereby discovering his fallacious Art and so dying See Egisippus lib. 3. de excidio Hierosolimitano cap 2 Torauebatur Magus Arostoli gratia c. Decidat Domine sic tamen ut nihil se potuisse vivens recognoscat statim in voce Petri implicatis remigiis alarum quas sumpserat corruit nec exanimatus est sed fracto debiliatoque crure Aritiam concessit atque ibi mortuus est This is a temporal Perishing 22. Jos 20 119 Psal 92. Or Thy Money perish with thee without repentance be thou doomed to eternal damnation this is called Perishing too 2 Cor. 2.15 1 Cor. 1.18 In this First perishing thy bodily pain pereat Argentum let thy Money be at a losse as indeed it shall not able to relieve thee Much less if by obstinate and impenitential persevering in sin thou shalt incurr the latter perishing perfect and perpetual Torment both of soul and body at the great and terrible day of the Lord 2 Pet. 3.10 Then pereat Argentum Money shall run to nothing at the general Conflagration for as the old world by Water perished v. 6. so must this by Fire v. 7. 4. The Reason of the Execration Because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Here we are to Consider Two things 1.