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A46710	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Norwich at the primary visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Norwich May 18, 1692 by John Jeffery ...	Jeffery, John, 1647-1720.	1692 (1692)	Wing J519; ESTC R1693	21,384	36

of Wisdom and Virtue such as were most worthy of God and most profitable to Men (k) Joh. ● 46 Those who heard Him speak such Wisdom as never Man spake saw Him Live such Virtue as never Man lived and Celestial Holiness cloathed the Son of Man with Glory He was thus a Living Law of Virtue and the substantial Doctrin of Wisdom and a sensible manifestation of Power and yet a Man like unto Us in all things except those excellent Glories and except our vicious Infirmities Here then was Human Nature in view and Human Conversation observable But in all this a Divine Wisdom Goodness and Power did appear Here was the Life of God exhibited in the Nature of Men and the Invisible Divinity did appear veil'd in the sensibleness of Humanity His Conversation was familiar and yet stupendious and every appearance was Wonderful but not Terrible Such a manifestation of God there was as obliged Men to the greatest Veneration of Him and what the Son of God did was most God-like Such an One is He who is the Supream in the Spiritual Kingdom of God and none Other was either worthy or fit to be Supream but He who by his Appearance could shew us the Father and reconcile us unto Him Men had sinn'd against God and some Atonement was necessary for the expiation of Sin and reconciling of Sinners This was the common and true Opinion of all Mankind who were justly sollicitous how God might be appeased and their Pardon be obtained For this end they at first made their Sacrifices of Beasts but at length deeming them an insufficient Oblation they came to offer Men (l) Deorum maximè Mercurium colunt cui certis diebus humanis quoque hostiis litare fas habent Tacit. de mor. Germ. Caesar de bell Gall. l. 1. p. 129. Euseb Orat. in Constat Tric. c. 13. Plin. Nat. Hist l. 30. c. 1. Plut. de defect Orac. Their Superstition was a violence to their Nature and they sacrificed their Children (m) Psal 106.37 38. i.e. their own Bowels to their Idols This was the Law and the Opinion of the Gentiles for as Plato says The Law is the Opinion of the Country (n) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato Minos And he adds in the same place That the sacrificing of Men was according to the Laws of the Carthaginians it was Legal and Holy among them (o) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato Mino. This inhuman and horrid Custom shews how odious Sin was thought to be in the sight of God and how difficult it was to appease Him who was made our Enemy by our Sins This was the Reason of the Death of Christ That He might be a Holy Victim offered up to God as a perfect expiation of the Sins of Men. He gave Himself a Ransom for us (p) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Life for Life and died to deliver us from Death Through the power of the same Sacrifice He also destroyed the Diabolical Superstitions and saved Men not only from the Perdition of Hell but also from the tyranny of Satan upon Earth Through the virtue of this Death and the Victory he gained over Death He destroyed Him who had the power of Death that is the Devil and delivered them who were all their Lives subject unto bondage (q) Heb 2.25 So that by the Appearance and Doctrin and Sufferings of the Son of God Satan's Kingdom was abolished and as one Evidence of it the dead Bones of the Martyr Babylas disabled Apollo Daphnaeus from giving an Answer to Julian who consulted that Oracle (r) Evagrius lib. 1. c. 16. Socrates l. 3. c. 18. Of such Virtue was the Death of Christ for the good of Men for their Eternal and Temporal Salvation from the power and malice of the Devil After this the Son of God Incarnate shew'd Himself the Author and Pattern of our Happiness by his Resurrection and Ascension He who was the Divine Word and Power and Life could not so yield unto Death as not to be the Conqueror of it and this He was by Dying and Rising from the dead By this Resurrection of Jesus from the dead Men were led into the prospect of Eternity and enabled to look beyond the narrow limits of Time They saw a Life and Death in this World by Sense and they saw Life and Immortality in the other World by Faith Christians fear only that which is the Second and Eternal Death And to avoid that they take care how they live here but fear not to die and go from hence This which is their Reproach among the Heathen is their Wisdom While they fear to die after this Death they do not fear to dye this Death (s) Et dum mori post mortem timent interim mori non timent Minu. Fe. p. 26. The same Jesus who had promised Life unto Others by his Resurrection manifested himself the Lord of Life (t) Joh. 11.25 26. and no better or greater demonstration could there be of a future and blessed Immortality (u) 2. Tim. 1. 10. Of Old it had been common among Pagans to Deifie dead Men as Athanasius (x) Athanasius contra Gentes and others tell us and their Gratitude transported them into Idolatry But He whom we worship as the Son of God dwelt in Human Nature and was the Son of Man and shew'd by his Resurrection that his Nature was Divine (y) Rom. 1.4 After his Resurrection He ascended into Heaven in the Humane Nature and is Enthroned at the Right Hand of the Majesty on High and 't is in the Power of Him alone to give Salvation unto the Souls of Men and to bestow Immortality upon those whom He hath Redeemed This is the utmost Perfection which Human Nature is capable of and such a State as even that Nature must be improved that it may be capable of it But the Son of God is able to exalt us unto that place and state whither He is gon before Us and there We shall be for ever with the Lord (z) 1 Thes 4.17 and like unto Him (a) Phil. 3.21 1 Joh. 3.2 Thus is the Son of God the Author and Pattern of the Duty and Happiness of Men who was Born and Lived and Dy'd and Rose again and Ascended into Heaven There all Power is committed unto Him (b) Mat. 28.18 Phil. 2.6 c. Heb. 1.4 c. and He is the Supream Lord of that Kingdom which is established by the Gospel So Great is the Person of our Teacher and Redeemer and He is no less our Only Master than our Only Saviour (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. p. 597 For his Doctrin is the Standard of our Faith and Himself is both the Subject and Author of the Gospel To the Conduct of Him we are to give up our selves And if Christ alone be to be heard we are not to regard what Any before us have thought but what Christ who was before all has