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Dauids desire to go to church as it was published in two sermons in St. Maries in Oxford. The one the fift day of Nouember in the afternoone to the Vniversity 1609 the other on Christmas day following to the parishioners of that place. By Iohn Day Bachelour of Divinity, and one of the fellowes of Oriell Colledge.
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Day, John, 1566-1628.
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and againe f v. 3. they did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spiritual drinke for they dranke of the spiritual rocke that followed them and the rocke was Christ howbeit this which the Apostle saith is in regard of the substāce effect of the Sacraments the signification of our Sacraments is much more cleere thē theirs was In our Sacrifices we are farther before thē then in our Sacraments having had in our church the selfe same Sacrifice really acted whereof al their Sacrifices were but shadowes For if the blood of Buls g Heb. 9.13 saith the Apostle and of Goates and the ashes of an Haifer sprinckling them that are vncleane sanctifieth as touching the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ which through the eternall spirit offered himself without spot to God purg your conscience from dead works to serue the living God And againe a little after The law h Heb. 10 1 saith he having the shaddow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can neuer with those Sacrifices which they offer yeare by yeare continually sanctifie the commers therevnto i v. 4. For it is impossible that the blood of Buls and Goats should take away sinnes Now if so be we would know the vertue of our Sacrifice though it were but one their Sacrifices being many with one offering k v. 14. saith the Apostle hath he consecrated for ever thē that are sanctified And he had said a little l Heb 9.27 before As it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die after that commeth the iudgement so Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many And comparing his Priesthood with theirs Among them m Heb 7.23 saith he many were made Priests because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death but this man because he endureth ever hath an everlasting Priesthood And againe a little after n Heb. 7 2◠Such a High Priest it became vs to haue which is holy harmelesse vndefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens which needed not dayly as those High Priests to offer vp Sacrifice first for his owne sinnes and then for the Peoples for that did he once when he offered vp himselfe Comparing then those Sacrifices with this of ours I may say of them as did Theodoret of the like offered by the Gentiles they were such kind of Sacrifices as were fit for o 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret. ad Graec. Infidel Ser. 7. Hucksters and Butchers to make Lastly concerning Prayer wherein I comprehend with the p Zanch. de Redemp l. 1. c. 19. Learned not only the asking of things needfull for vs and deprecation of things hurtfull but the confession of our sins the praises of God and giving thanks for benefits receaved at his hands how far we outstrip the Iewes witnes that of the Prophet Malachie who cōparing both together theirs ours From the rising of the Sun q Malac. 1.11 saith he vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the Gentiles in every place Incense shall be offered vnto my name a pure offering Now what is this Incense but Prayers for so the Holy Ghost himselfe interprets Incēse Revelation the fift at the eight verse And that this Pure Offering is the same witnesse that of Tertullian r Tertul. advers Marcian l. 4. a Pure Offering that is a Pure Prayer frō a conscience that is pure for if so be as speakes the same Father in another ſ Tertul Exhort ad Cast place the Conscience blush Prayer it selfe will blush too I but you will say since these our Prayers must needes tast of the caske from whence they come and the caske is very impure be it the Conscience or the Heart of man how can they be the Pure Offering here spoken of in this place I answer according to Scripture that there is in heaven a certaine t Rev. 8.3 Angel it is indeed our Saviour Christ that goes and stands before the Altar having a golden Censer and much odours given vnto him that he should offer with our prayers Howsoever then as proceeding from our selue s they are tainted and corrupt yet are they sweetned by bur Saviour provided that they be infirmities only that taint thē not loud crying sinnes for if they once come to that passe then farewell all approching and appearing in Gods sight When you shall stretch out your hands I saith the u Esay 1.15 Lord will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare the reason he giues immediatly for your hands are full of blood and yet immediatly after that too as if he were loath to giue even such an vtter repulse Wash you c 〈◊〉 16. saith he make you cleane take away the Evill of your workes from before mine eies cease to doe evill learne to doe well and so forth Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes were as crimsen they shall be made white as snowe though they were red like scarlet they shall be as wooll And to this end and purpose hath the Church of God for this sixteen hundred yeares and vpward beene in her severall Congregations continually on her knees We come by troups x Tertul. Apol l. 1. c 39. saith Tertullian that being banded as it were together we may be supplicants enow not so much to beseech as to beseige God with our prayers This force to God is most acceptable The sound of men women children infants y Basil Hexam Hom. 4. saith St Basil praying in the Church together seems like the sound of the waues beating against the sea shore z Hieron in 2. Prooem ad Gal. St Ierom he likens it to the noise of Thunder and in another place discoursing of the Funerals of Fabiola The Psalmes a Hieron ad Ocean Epitaph Fabiol saith he did sound a loud and the Haleluiah that was sung did shake at that instant the golden seelings of the Temple with the noise it made But of all the Beauties in our Church nothing so beautifull indeed as the Beauty of our Saviour He was saith b Aug in Ps 44. St Austen a beautifull God he was the word that was with God he was beautifull in his mothers wombe where he lost not his Divinity and yet he tooke Humanity on him He was beautifull being borne an Infant because when he was an Infant when as he suckt the dug and was carried in his mothers armes the heavens spake the Angels praised him the starres directed the wise men to him he was adored in the manger being to be meat convenient for the mouthes of gentle Beasts And this is that faire beautie which we celebrate this day This day it was that hauing made for himselfe a Tabernacle as speakes Theodoret in