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A85375	Bishop Goodman his proposition in discharge of his own dutie and conscience both to God and man.	Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1656.	1650 (1650)	Wing G1099E; ESTC R177532	11,800	20

onely a Spirituall but likewise a Temporall Messias for what Emperour or King of the World ever had or possibly could have so many Temples so many Religious Houses so many Servants Archbishops and Prelats to be served in such rich Vestments and Copes such continuall singing Prayses and Hymnes such excellent Musick while all the Christian Emperours and Kings did bow and obey him offering up their Crownes and submitting themselves to his Laws to testifie that the whole World was onely created for his Service that as he was the beginning of all so he might be the end of all God cannot bereave or divest himself of that Honour but all must tend and end in his Glory Such as have pulled down these Temples and committed Sacriledge they doe but second the Devill in his courses for the Devill intended to possess himself of Gods Throne in Heaven and fayling in that attempt being justly cast down yet still he continues in his malice and obstinacy towards God and hath so far prevailed with his imps the wicked of this world that as he could not possess Gods Throne in Heaven so neither should God have any Throne upon Earth they would exile God from the Earth as the Devill was cast down from Heaven to be revenged of God while God for a time permits it Truely Sacriledge is the renouncing of God and of his Service and the greatest of all sins and while they destroy Temples they make it known whose sons they are and against whom they fight while they take Gods Inheritance here into their own possession they renounce their Inheritance in Heaven while they adhere to the world ceasing upon Church means spending them in all luxury and riot they doe thereby shorten their own lives and hasten to their own homes But of all Preachers I doe most commend the Orders and Ceremonies of the Church for they were all significant and had some speciall use As to instance in the observation of times The Ecclesiasticall year begins with Advent wherein we are first awakened with the fears and terrors of Gods last generall judgement per setam introducimus linum the needle first enters and brings the silk after Then we consider the nenessity of a Saviour and here the Prophesie of Esay is read which of all other Prophesies doth most punctually set forth the comming of Christ Here we express our hopes and expectations in the Antiphonies of the Church Rorate Coeli desuper nubes pluant justum aperiatur Terra germinet Salvatorem attollite portas Principes vestras introibit Rex Gloriae c. Then we consider the Types and Figures of Christ in the Law So we end our Advent with John Baptist the immediate fore-runner of Christ Then we come to the Nativitie of Christ where we consider all the Miracles and Wonders which then passed the Song of the Angels the Stars appearing to conduct the Gentiles to the place of his Birth Here we express out excessive joy for his comming with all kind of mirth with Hospitality to entertain the members of Christ this time lasts to the Purification which is the time of the lying in of our Lady and according to our own custome and fashion while Wives are in Child bearing there are Banquets and Feastings for joy that a Child is born and that the Mother is safely delivered How much more should our joy be that God is born in our flesh to the salvation of Mankind After the Purification we consider the Infancy of Christ and what then happened his flight into Egypt the murther of Innocents his return from Egypt his manner of going to Jerusalem at the great Feasts of the year how he Disputed with the Doctors at twelve years of age when he was lost in Jerusalem then we come to his Baptisme and his first Miracle of turning Water into Wine But seeing our sins are the great hinderance to Gods mercy in Septuagesima we consider our sins and how they have drawn Gods punishments upon us Here Genesis is read where it appears That man was Created in happiness but fell for his sin and the punishment of his sin was no lesse then Death as an earnest thereof we see the murther of Abel that God would not spare the most righteous so that if the Sonne of God took up mans nature he cannot be dispenced withall but he must dye Statutum est there is a Statute past and none can be exempted This generally appears in the Deluge where in effect all mankind perished and that there are other punishments after Death it is inmated unto us in the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone Then to shew the generall afflictions which befall man it is manifest how Esan did persecute Jacob how the Famine drove the Israelites into Egypt where they lived in bondage all this appears in that one Book of Genesis For preventing Gods further anger and appeasing Gods wrath for sin there must be a time for repentance with all humility and mortification to testifie our inward sorrow Thus we begin Lent with Ashwednesday and perform that Ceremony Pulvis es in pulverem reverteris Then we keep our forty dayes Fast according to the Imitation of Christ this continues and ends with the Death and Passion of Christ whereby we express our grief that we should be so wicked that needs the Sonne of God must dye for our sins Thus with repentance we prepare our selves to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ that we might rise together with him and in assurance thereof be regenerated in him Here we sing our Hallelujah with the greatest expression of joy and comfort for at this time Christ is supposed to be on the Earth as a Conquerour having finished his labours and passion Thus we continue to the Ascension of Christ before which we have a Rogation-week that so our prayers and we our selves in heart and affection may together ascend with Christ and though we are left here behind yet still we comfort our selves that according to his promise we doe undoubtedly expect the comming down of his Spirit which we Celebrate at Pentacost Now in regard the three Persons have thus revealed themselves we therefore keep the next Lords day in memory of that high Mystery the Trinitie in Vnitie the Vnitie in Trinitie and from hence all the rest of the Sundayes have their denomination according to their distance And because these Mysteries are all implied in the blessed and holy Eucharist therefore we keep Corpus Christi day for the Honour of the Institution of that great Sacrament and for the rest of the dayes they have proper Collects Epistles and Gospels fitted for the times E. G. we have twice that Gospel of feeding so many thousands with so few loaves First in Lent to comfort us in our fasting that God is able to feed us with a little as well as with much Then is it used in

Harvest to put us in mind that we should not ascribe all to naturall Causes but still acknowledge that the same omnipotent God who hath now multiplyed the Seed and sent a plentifull Harvest he is able and did likewise multiply the Loaves to the feeding of many thousands without the labour of the Husbandman or the help and use of the Sun in the Firmament Thus every Moneth hath Holy-dayes to put us in mind of the Communion of Saints and that following their example we shall have our part and portion with them And therefore in the last place we keep all Saints Day in memory of that Holy Communion with them And because all dyed not Saints therefore we keep the next Day in memory of all Soules to put us in mind that we must follow them and that God will accomplish the number of his Elect and that we shall be all gathered together and all to appear at his last and generall judgement Thus the whole Year runs in a circle of Devotion though we cannot with the Angels be alwayes praysing God yet according to our weakness we doe by degrees and accession our best endeavour to follow the example of their Holiness From the year we come to the quarters and moneths Gods Providence hath so disposed it that the comming of his own Son should be at the return of the Corporeall Sun in the Heavens when the dayes begin to lengthen then Christ came into the World as a day-star to enlighten our darkness So the Resurrection of Christ by a speciall providence of God falls out in the Spring time which is in effect the Resurrection of the Naturall Year for then every Plant begins to rise out of the Earth with a new Body And so in every Quarter we have our Ember Weeks for our Mortification and Devotion as in every Moneth we have Holy-dayes for our Imitation From the quarters and the moneths we come to the dayes of the Week and in them with our Hymnes and Prayers we commemorate the work of every dayes Creation and how wonderfully Gods mercy and goodness appears in the variety of his Creatures together with that excellent order observed in the Creation how fitting and agreeable to the nature of every thing in particular From the Week we come to the Houres of the Day at mid-night we celebrate the Birth of Christ his descent into Hell together with his last and unexpected comming in Judgement At three of the clock we commemorate the song of the Angels in the Birth of Christ as on the contrary at the same time we remember the apprehending of Christ in the Garden by the Jews At six we celebrate the comming of the Gentiles and they received by Christ then we remember the carrying of Christ before Pilate there to be condemned At nine we celebrate the comming down of the Holy Ghost and then we remember the crying out of the Jews Crucifie Crucifie At twelve we remember the sending of the Apostles into all Nations to Preach Christ Crucified which was then done at the very same houre of the Day At three we remember Christ giving up the ghost upon the Cross and at the same instant we consider the declining of the Day and our own hastning to Death to follow Christ At six Christ was taken down from the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus men scarce mentioned in Scripture before who durst not openly profess Christ to give us an assurance that Christ died for sinners and is able in an instant to convert them At nine we commemorate the Buriall of Christ and then the nine a Clock Bell Rings to put us in mind of all those who have departed in Christ Certainly no Man can dislike this course of Devotion if he hath any spark of Religion in him A short Ejaculation or a comfortable Meditation when grief and sorrow doth oppress us which I doe recommend to all Church-men who are in my case QVare tristis es anima mea quare conturbas me spera in Deo quoniam adhuc confitebor illi salutare vultus mei Deus meus Crede videre bona Domini in terra viventium expecta Dominum viriliter age confortetur cor tuum sustine Dominum ego pauper mendicus sum Dominus sollicitus est mihi Nudus egressus nudus revertar Dominus dedit dominus abstulit sicut Domino placuit sic factum est sit nomen Domini benedictum Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini mala quare non sustiniamus Non sunt condignae passiones hujus temporis ad futuram gloriam quae revelabitur in nobis Nulla mihi nocebit adversitas si nulla dominetur iniquitas FINIS K. Charles K. James Q. Elizabeth Q. Mary Edward 6. Henry 8 Head of the Church Scripture head of the Church 〈◊〉 divor●● Polygamie Synod of Dort C. Trent Schisms 〈…〉 The resolving doubtt in Religion Modesty in presenting the doubts Achallenge The method 〈◊〉 be observed Religion settled by Lavves The Civil Lawes Our Common Lawes The 〈…〉 Judges Protestant Religion ●…ces of Parliament The controversiemoungers Preaching when necessary The abuse of Preaching Christ was a temporal Messias The natura and first beginning of Sacriledge The Church did preach in her Ceremonies What we learn by the observation of time Septuagesima The Punishment of God for sin A time of repentance Our ioy with Halleluiah The Collects and Gospels fitted for the time All Saints and all Soule● The Nativity The resurrection The Canonicall houres The memorials of Christ for our Devotion