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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

caelos up far above all heavens 3. The End of it That he might fill all things 1. The Person ascending 1 The Persoa Asceading He that descended is the same also that ascended The same Person with the same Body though now made immortal Glorious 3 Phil. 21. Visne in altum scandere Humilitas Gradus est saith St. Austin St. Paul here shews the way and manner of Christs Ascending which must be ours by Descending first v. 9. He makes his deep Humiliation the cause of his Exaltation 2 Phil. 8 9. He humbled himself unto death even the death of the Cross wherefore God also hath highly exalted him Mans nature is aspiring and ascending loves to be uppermost 23 Mat. 6.7 This we find not only in the Scribes and Pharisees but in the Disciples themselves altum sapimus omnes all would be above would we know the right way It is by descending coming down first He that humbleth himself shall be exalted Ascending before Descending is Diabolical and dangerous this made Angels Devils Ep. Jud. 6. ruined our first Parents 3 Gen. He that exalteth himself shall be abased 23 Mat. 12. Pride being our fall the only way of recovering our selves is Humility 20 Mat. 26 27. whereof Christ gives him an Example 13 Joh. 13 14 15. who is there very diligent with his Towel and his Bason washing his Disciples feet lower he could not well stoop It argues too much sensuality and Carnality to be with Zebedee's Children 20 Mat. v. 21 22. all upon raigning without any thought of affliction The way to Heaven is through tribulation to eternal life through death 24 Luke 26. If we would come where the Captain of our Salvation is arrived we must tread in the same steps sufferings The Servant is not greater than his Lord 20 Jo. 16. and therefore should be content with the same fashion of Ascending by Descending He that descended c. 2. This Descending the lower it is puts the greater admiration and lustre on Ascending Motions slow and gradual as in a Dial the less or no notice can be taken of them they are not perceptible but those which are sudden and aloft are gazed on with the more delight and wonder A rich heir apparent to the Crown advanced strait to his lawful Throne causeth not such astonishment as when taken from the worst and basest condition This demonstrates incomparable Might and Excellency to effect 113 Psal 5.7 Who is like the Lord our God he raiseth the poor out of the dust and the needy out of the Dunghill that he may set him with Princes even with the Princes The Ascent being considered in reference to the Descent the lower the Descent hath digged the higher must necessarily the Ascent be reckoned from it Now our Creed brings Christs Descent as far as Hell the better presently to amplifie his Ascent into Heaven He that descended thither is the same saith the Apostle that ascended up far above all Heavens which brings me to 2. 2 Christs Ascent The Ascent up far above all Heavens This going up on high 68 Psal 18. whence St. Paul here quotes his Ascent will saith Bishop Andrews in his 7th Sermon on Whitsun p. 668. bear fair sences It may be interpreted of Moses Ascending up into Mount Sinai in the literal sense 2. Of Davids Ascending up with the Ark into Mount Sion in the Analogical sence 2 Sam. 5 ch 3. Of Gods triumphing over his Churches enemies in the Moral sence Or 4. Of Christs Ascending in a Prophetical sence Now this Ascent excells all the other 't is higher than Sinai or Sion no common deliverance 'T is not only some high mountain as they thought of Elias 2 K 2. c. 16. Pelion upon Ossa will not reach it 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above the Heavens quite out of Sight 1 Acts 9. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 video dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Above all Heavens even the very highest of them Here we shall pass by as not worthy our stay the Sophistry of some persons who ●s Beza observes denying supra coelos esse locum that there is any place above the Heavens would attribute to Christ Corpus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Body not circumscribed and so unbody his Body as I may say ascribing to it the property of a divine Essence only omnipresence would not this somewhat befriend Transubstantiation But to deny Christ * Nisi sit Christus verus naturalis homo feustra speramus quod speramus Beza in Textum pure and perfect man which we must do if we thus wrong him of his Hamane Body were Spem nostram à fundamentis convellere So Beza To destroy the foundation of all our Christian hope With the same Body that was passive buffetted bruised buried with the same Body material flesh and bones organical palpable visible 24 Luk. 29. Behold saith Christ by all this It is Ipse Ego I my self He ascended up far above all Heavens The same that after his Resurrection retained the Print of the Nails and the wound of the Spear in his Side 20 Jo. 2.7 is by him carried up into Heaven where he is set down with it on the right hand of God i. e. Enthroned by his immediate divine Shechina or that ineffable unimitable Glory God doth in a most peculiar manner manifest there Christum scimus verum hominem fuisse nec esse disisse ac pro indè finitnm corpus finitam animam habere scimus in coelos ascendisse gloriae Patris socium c. Beza So much for the Ascent 3. 3 The end of Christs Ascending We come to the en dof Christs Ascending viz. That he might fill all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to fulfil That he might fulfill all that was foresaid of him and all that is or should be requisite for the full glorification of the Church So Bishop Hall in his Paraph. on the Text. The causes then of his Ascending were 1. To lead Captivity Captive v. 8. Sin Satan Death and the Grave He riding in triumph into Heaven like a glorious Victor made an open shew of these spoils 2 Col. 15. disarming Sin of its condemning power 8 Ro. 3. cancelled the terrible Hand-writing of the Law that was against us 2 Col. 14. slew Death by being sl●in by it He trod out the sting of this Adder 1 Cor. 15. c. 55. 91 Psal 13. He trambled on the Dragon the Devil 12 Rev. 19. Bruising his head with his victorious Heel 3 Gen. 15. 2. To give Gifts unto men The former Act spoke the valour of his Triumph This the Bounty that shewed his Greatness this his Goodness v. 8. When He ascended up on High He led Captivity Captive and gave Gifts unto men This day of his Coronation the Conduits run with Wine the new Coyne is scattered abroad When he was taken out of Sight 1 Acts 9. especially at such a distance up far above all Heavens

this go together 1 Pet. 4. c. 7. Our Vigils and Evenfasts are all one Fullress creates drowsiness we have an Eminent instance of this in the Disciples 26 Mat. 40 41.43 who after Supper could not would they never so fain keep their Eyes open When the Belly is full we use to say the Bones are at rest we are indisposed to any thing else and this indisposition of the flesh whilst we are in the Body hath too much influence on the soul be it in it self never so willing and well minded 26 Mat. 41. 7 Rom. 18. Surfeiting degrades the ●ody to a Bestial sluggishness whilst abstinence as much as in it lyes advanceth it self to the nature of a Soul a nobler substance then to be nourished by perishing meats Joh. 6.27 and makes it more suitable to that spiritual Body 1 Cor. 15.44 wherewith she shall be clad in Heaven in order to a perfect vigorous and active devotion Reason 2 2. The more we deny our selves the more God delights to own us 1 Sam. 15. ch 17. and our suit and where can this be done better than by fasting wherein we acknowledge our selves most unworthy of any of his blessings This holy Justicing our selves is a way to prevent Gods Judgment 1 Cor. 11. c. 31. Reason 3 3. The sence of want in Fasting makes us the more liable to pity others and so the more capable of pity our selves according to Christs gracious promise Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy Reason 4 4. Fasting * Fasting is the Death of offences the racing out of sin S. Ambrose in the place fore-quoted kills sin which sets God and us at distance 59 Isa 2. and stops his ears at our Prayers The starving the flesh is the mortifying our lusts Reason 5 Lastly Fasting is the last and utmost means we can use to procure audience to our most earnest requests amidst our dreadfullest calamities prescribed by God himself with a gracious promise of success 2 Joel 12. Turn ye unto me saith he Lord with fasting and with weeping and with mourning c. verse 18 19. then will the Lord be ●ealous for his Land and pity his people yea the Lord will answer If some measure of miraculous faith vers 20. together with an address to Heaven be not sufficient to effect a conquest on the worser Devils all that is left to be added to these is Fasting and that doth it This kind goeth not forth but by Prayer and Fasting 2. Religious Fasting Consists We come to shew what Fasting it is that is so prevalent with Prayer and that is a Religious Fasting Consisting 1. In abstinence from bodily sustenance which is either 1 Partial 2. Total 1. Partial and here I mean not the Judaical distinction of meats nor Heathenish niceness nor Papistical Superstition nor Heretical prohibitions nor meer Physical or Political abstinence for Healths sake or some civil interest though these last ought indeed to be observed in reference to natural self-preservation in obedience to just authority But I mean a refraining from some delicate meats such as was Daniel's Fast 10 c. 3. and John the Baptists who in respect of his courser diet 3 Mat. 4. was said to come neither eating nor drinking As if this Heavenly Preacher and pattern of penitency this vox clamantis in deserto this voice in the wilderness 3 Mat. 1 2 3 4. stood no more in need of corporal means whereby to subsist than that pure procreation of the mind the Voyce Which abstinence is to no other end than ● pious Castigation of the Body for the furtherance of the Soul 1 Cor. 9. c. 27. For the Inward man may be renewed though the outward man decay 2 Cor. 4. c. 16. A weak Body may lodge a soul in good health and prosperous plight as we see in Gailus Ep. Joh. 2. Fasting is a refreshing of the Soul the food of the mind So St. Chrys 2. Totall Abstinence is from all food whatever for a time and this is either Extraordinary seen in (k) 9 Deu. 9. Moses (l) 1 K. 19. ch 18. Elias (m) 4 Mat. 2. Christ or Ordinary possible to humane nature such as was Esthers 9 c. 16. This is the most compleat manner of Fasting It cannot enter into me how denying our selves flesh only and gormondizing variety of Fish most curiously and exactly Cook'd with the best wines c. can be counted Fasting since we reckon these the most choice and courtly entertainments 2. Religious Fasting is an Abstinence from all pleasure and ordinary labour in this sense we must sanctifie a Fast 2 Joel 16. as the Sabboth 20 Exod. 8 9. 1. From pleasure Let the Bridegroom go forth of his Chamber and the Bride out of her Closet This must be a * Si sela gu la peceavit sola Je●●●et sufficit si verò ●eccaverunt membra coetora car n●● Jejuneat ipsa Bern. Ser. Quadrag 3. general penance to the Body keeping the throat from its pleasing meals The Eyes as at all times so then especially from beholding vanity The Ears from mirth and Musick the Body from case and bravery we see this in David's Fast 2 Sam. 12. c. 16.20 who that while lay on the Earth neither washed nor annointed himself nor changed his apparel 2. Labour Would we know what makes our Fasts slighted Behold in the day of your fast ye find pleasure and exact all your labours 58 Isa 3. 3. Religious Fasting must be accompanied with works of Justice and mercy 58. Isaiah 6.7 Is not this the Fast that I have chosen c. 4. Religious Fasting is accompanied with a oynt and unanimous sending up our praises to Heaven in a general Congregation met together in the place of Gods publick worship 1 Joel 14. Sanctifie ye a Fast gather the Elders and all the Inhabitants of the Land into the house of the Lord your God This noise rends the Heavens and prevails with incomprehensible Majesty to take notice of our complainrs 5. Religious Fasting must be accompanied with Repentance and resolution of a new life All that we have said is but a Mock-fast without this But the outward Ceremony without the substance the Sign without the thing signified which doth but more displease as disappointing the expectation If there be no funeral what means these mourning weeds If no internal Mortification what meant this specious shew of it Hence open prophaness is preserred before secret Hypocrisie The Publicans and Harlots before Scribes Phaerisces 21 Mat. 31. The Renting of the Heart rather than the garments God looks at and commands sincere conversion with Fasting 2 Joel 12. Convertimini Turn unto me with all your heart and with Fasting c. This godly sorrow intimated by our External humiliation this sorrow of Repentance not to be repented of 2 Cor. 7. c. 10. Behold vers 11. what Indignation it ought to work in us yea what revenge against sin what carefulness what fear of