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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30665	The danger of delaying repentance set forth in a sermon preached to the university at St. Mary's Church in Oxford on New-Years-Day, 1691/2 / by Ar. Bury ...	Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713.	1692 (1692)	Wing B6193; ESTC R4405	13,117	31

The Danger of Delaying Repentance Set forth in a SERMON PREACHED TO THE UNIVERSITY AT St. Mary's Church in Oxford ON NEW-YEARS-DAY 1691 2. By Ar. Bury D. D. Rector of Exon Colledge LONDON Printed for Nathanael Ranew at the Kings-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1692. The Danger of Delaying Repentance Set forth in a SERMON Preach'd to the University of Oxford c. EXOD. iv 24 25 26. And it came to pass by the way in the Inn that the Lord met him and fought to kill him And Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the fore-skin of her Son and cast it at his feet and said Surely a bloody husband art thou to me So he let him go Then or as the vulgar Latin better When she said a bloody husband thou art because of the Circumcision MOses was now in a Journey undertaken with great Reluctancy in absolute Obedience to God's repeated Commands He made what shifts he could from the unwelcome Employment First on the People's part he pleaded that they would not believe him then on his own part that he was not qualified and when he was answered in both he fell from pleading to downright begging Then was the Lord's anger kindled against him Now therefore without delay or dispute he obeyeth the second Command and by the way in his lodging for Inns properly so called there were none in those Days by some praeternatural Disease which spake the immediate hand of God he fell into imminent Danger of Death and by what Revelation we know not the neglect of Circumcising his new-born Son appeared to be the provocation But the Disease which punished the neglect now hinders the performance and he must have perished had not his Wife with a sharp Knife for the word in the Hebrew is the same in Joshua 2.2 where it is so translated she circumcised the Child And as the fore skin and blood fell at his feet she uttered those words which our Learned Mede probably believed to have been the ritual Form in that Ceremony For the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth not signify a Husband but a Spouse not yet married and was often used for the nearest Allied and in this Office might be used by the Circumciser to the Child pronouncing him Circumcised and by the blood of Circumcision betrothed to the Covenant And this Opinion giveth a fair Account of the 26 verse not otherwise easily proved worth mention So the summ of the Story is this Moses had not circumcised his Son at the time prescribed by the Law which appointed the 8th day upon pain of death he was about to suffer death as a punishment of That neglect but escaped by his Wife's care in Performing what he had Neglected This neglect of Moses we may take as a Foil to illustrate that exact obedience of our Lord which we this day commemorate Moses was the Mediator of a Covenant whereof Circumcision was the Seal our Lord was Mediator of a Covenant whereby it was abolished yet did he submit to it and not only to Circumcision which was commanded but to Baptism too which without any command was practised by such as professed singular perfection For we read Matth. 3.13 Jesus came from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him but John forbad him saying I have need to be baptized of Thee and comest thou to me and Jesus answering said unto him suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness then he suffered him i. e. it is not necessary indeed but it becometh me to fulfil i. e. to be perfect in All Righteousness i. e. in what-ever is excellent Thus far the Letter but the Collect for this day assureth us that we do not thus solemnly celebrate the naked History but the Mystery therein contained which we find thus displayed Col. 2.10 Ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power in whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ Godliness is so adaequately the end of all our Lord's actions that not only his Moral but even his Ritual Performances are thereto referred Yea not his Obedience only but his Sufferings and Exaltation his Death Burial and Resurrection are made Engagements Encouragements and Emblems of it For so the Apostle goeth on Buried with him in baptism wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who raised him from the dead And you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh hath he quickned together with him having forgiven you all trespasses Nor is this the only Text wherein we find the Apostle at this holy Chymistry distilling the Spirit out of the Letter This this is truly to apply Christ to our selves Thus doth our Church teach us to commemorate our Lord's Circumcision praying that God would grant us the true circumcision of the spirit Whereof to shew the Necessity and the Danger of delaying it I have thought it proper to view Moses's case and apply it to our own in his Sin and his Danger HIS SIN was his delaying the Circumcision of his Son beyond the time prescribed by the Law That this proceeded not from any compliance with his Wife or her Father as some imagin appeareth from this that Midian was one of the Sons of Abraham by Keturah and all Nations that came out of his Loins celebrated circumcision nor did Mahomet learn it of his Jew but derive it from his Ancestors Besides we hear of another Son of Moses Gersom whom we therefore must believe to have been duly circumcised because we find nothing to the contrary It was not therefore his neglect of the Law but the Time which he delayed not out of Contempt but upon plausible Reason He was in a journey upon God's Errand his Son so newly born as not to be able to undergo such an operation and then such a journey Such an excuse God himself afterward approved in the whole people who were all Uncircumcised and Blameless during a journey of 40 Years as appears Jos 2. I say not that Moses had Then God's approbation but he might Then well judge That a competent excuse which God in the like case admitted for such And that this was Moses's reason we may judge by his leaving his Wife and Child to stay till they might return to her Father of whom we read in the 18th Chapter that he brought them to Moses in the Wilderness So the proper weight of Moses's guilt seemeth to be this That he took his Wise and Child with him and thereby cast himself into such circumstances as made it necessary for him to delay his duty till the journey were ended and the Law transgressed And what is such an Errour in comparison of ours The Gospel maketh the circumcision of the Heart no less necessary than the Law made that of the Foreskin That