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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41726	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ...	Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711.	1685 (1685)	Wing G1459; ESTC R3870	19,094	36

This Delay left room for many previous Passages and a preparative Dispensation which did help to introduce the Gospel with the more efficacy and glory Hence we have great confirmation of our Faith from many and plain Prophecies whereby we are enabled effectually to silence and shame both the Jewish and Heathen Adversaries of our Faith For none now can resist the force and clearness of the Evidence that ariseth thence but such who wilfully shut their Eyes and chuse Darkness rather than Light It is to the great advantage of the Gospel that it succeeds the burdensom Oeconomy of the Law the Pedagogy of which Discipline sets off the grace and sweetness of that Liberty with which Christ hath made us free But tho the Messias was not presently to appear yet the Providence of God so order'd it that almost every great Thing that hapned after the Fall should conduce to make up a more solemn Apparatus and Sacred Pomp as it were to Usher-forth the Great Bridegroom out of his Chamber and introduce him into the World The two first Notable Periods are from Mans banishment out of Paradise to the time of the Flood and from thence to the giving of the Law In the former Mankind had many sad Proofs and Experiences of the corruption of their own Natural Inclinations and consequently of the great Necessity of a Saviour Whilst Almighty God thus in times past suffer'd all Nations to walk in their own ways as St. Paul and Barnabas told the Men of Lystra he left not himself without Witness though they were without Excuse but sent unto them Enoch and Noah and other Preachers of Righteousness so that their Condemnation was most just and Death reigned from Adam unto Moses over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams Transgression This was so Evangelical a Work that St. Peter according to a well grounded Interpretation of that somewhat obscure place seems to ascribe it to Christ himself who by the Spirit went and preached unto those that were disobedient when the Long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah Indeed Repentance and Mercy and pardon of Sins were the peculiar Conditions of the Gospel Therefore it was very fit that those gracious Indulgences should be tender'd to the World by the Author of the Gospel the Mediator of that Covenant even the Holy One of God But this bountiful Offer was obstinately rejected by that obdurate and irreclaimable Age. Upon this the Divine Justice proceeded to the long threatned Judgment opened the Floodgates of Heaven and showred down Vengeance on the Rebellious World in a Deluge of Waters as he will one day of Fire on unrepenting Sinners This was a serious and sad Period and must not pass without a new Intimation of a Saviour And accordingly we learn from St. Peter Pet. 3. 21. that the Ark floating on the surface of the Waters and so preserving Eight Persons from the Common Ruine was an early Type of Christian Baptism by which we are initiated into the Church signified by that Ark which contain'd in it all the Church God then had in the World He had destroyed the Enemies of this Little Flock by a mighty Ruine And so will it happen but more eminently and compleatly in the Antitype None will escape the All-devouring Gulph not of perishing Waters but of unquenchable Fire but those only that get into the Ark of God or at least put no wilful Obstacle or Bar against their admission thereinto This Parallel of the Ark and the Church together with the Doctrine that attends it runs through the Writings of many of the Ancient Fathers but I must not stay to trace it or to lament that so important a Point is no more consider'd than it seems to be in this Age. The next remarkable Adventure we meet with is that of Babel a fit Emblem and so received by the Church of what was afterwards transacted at Jerusalem For as God then by dividing the Languages of the daring Builders blasted the insolent Attempt of that Rebellious Crew so did He at the Feast of Pentecost by Cloven and Divided Tongues another wonderful multiplication of Languages baffle and confound the combined Opposition of Jews and Gentiles against himself and his Holy Child Jesus In the next place I may mention to you those two famous Types and Forerunners of Christ and the Christian Faith Melchisedek and Abraham One of which bore the express Character of our Saviour's Person and the Adventures of the Other together with those of his Family made up a long and large Exemplification of his Life and Doctrine Abraham desired to see the Day of the Messias and he saw it and was glad John 8. 56. Here then we have a Christmass in the Old Testament For Abraham saw this Day and kept it holy The Feast it seems rejoyc'd the Heart of that Great and Religious Prince He receiv'd an explicit Promise of the Messias Gen. 12. 3. 18. 18. 22. 18. and that more than once and had a Revelation made to him of the Gospel-state This was that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Apostle refers to Galat. 3. 8. when he tells us That the Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through Faith preached before the Gospel unto Abraham saying In thee shall all Nations be blessed Thus did Abraham become the Great Patriarch of the Christian Faith the Father of the Faithful an Honour not unworthy the Friend of God as he is stil'd by God himself The Types are still plainer as you descend lower As in Isaac his Son his only Son as he is stil'd the Son whom he loved the Son of the Promise born by Prophecy the Prediction of an Angel of a Womb that was dead as was that of Sarah then led to death with his Typical Cross on his back to be Sacrificed near the very place where his great Archetype our blessed Redeemer was afterwards actually Sacrificed upon the Cross The Day as well as your Patience would fail me if I should tell of Sarah and Hagar and the Twelve Patriarchs Indeed the whole succession of this Family seems designed for so many Types and Symbols of the Messias and the Gospel-state Jacob and Esau in the Womb and several Passages of their Lives signified that Great Event which was to come to pass in After-times that the Younger should be prefer'd before the Elder the Gentile should get the Blessing from the Jew the very thing we happily experience at this Day There was a famous Visit of Angels as they are stil'd made to Abraham long before this which I might have remembred to you of which One is universally concluded to be the Son of God even He of whom afterwards it is said Gen. 19. 24. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jehovah from Jehovah the Lord from the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha Brimstone and Fire out of Heaven And that Fire and Brimstone that Sodom and Gomorrha are Types sadly and certainly