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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50529	Diatribae discovrses on on divers texts of Scriptvre / delivered upon severall occasions by Joseph Mede ...; Selections. 1642	Mede, Joseph, 1586-1638.	1642 (1642)	Wing M1597; ESTC R233095	303,564	538

darknesse in this world against spirituall wickednesse in high places Thus then having seen the marshalling of these two Armies which are at so deadly an enmity let us at last see the successe of their skirmishes and of the stratagems which they practise one against the other these are described on the Devils part very terrible that his head should be mauled But on Christs side the losse should be very small the Devil prevailing but to the wounding or bruising of his heel But what is this Head of the Serpent and what the Heel of the womans seed Those who understand the seed of the woman singularly of the person of Christ only make his head to be the Godhead against which the Serpent could prevail nothing but his heel to be the manhood which the Serpent so bruised at his Passion that the grave became his bed for three days together This indeed is true and no marvell for the head is as it were the whole bodies epitome But we who have expounded the seed of the woman collectively of Christ and his Members must also in this mysticall body find a mysticall head and a mysticall heel and so in like manner for the Serpent and his seed The Head therefore or if you had rather Headship is nothing else but Soveraignty The Serpents head is the Devils Soveraignty which is called ●rincipatus mortis the Soveraignty of death namely both objectivè and effectivè that is such a Soveraignty as under which are only such as are liable to death both temporall and eternall and such a Soveraignty whose power consists not in saving and giving of life but in destroying and bringeth unto death both of body and soul. Under the name also of death understand as the Scripture doth all other miseries of mankind which are the companions of this double death I speak of This is that damnable head of the Serpent the Devillish Soveraignty of Satan Now the Sword whereby this Soveraignty was obtained the Scepter whereby it is maintained or as S. Paul speaks the sting of this Serpents head is Sin This is that which got him this Kingdome at the first and this is still the right whereby he holds the greatest part thereof Imporium iisdem artibus conservatur quibus acquiritur This Soveraignty of the Devil which once overwhelmed nigh all the world the womans seed should break in pieces and destroy which according to this Prophecy we see already performed in a great measure and the grounds laid long ago for the destruction of all that remaineth As saith S. Iohn Ep. 1. c. 3. v. 8. The Son of God is revealed for this purpose that he might destroy the works of the Devil And Christ himself said that the time was come that the Prince of this world should be cast out and bade his Disciples be of good chear for he had overcome the world If you would see what a wonderfull victory he hath long ago gotten of the Serpent when after a terrible battell he overcame and destroid the Soveraignty of the Serpent in the Romane Empire see it described in the 12. of the Revelation where a Michael that is Christ and his Angels fought against the great Dragon and his Angels till the Dragon with all his Army was discomfited and their place found no more in heaven that is he utterly lost his Soveraignty in that state whence there was a voice in heaven Now is come salvation strength and the Kingdome of our God and the power of his Christ. And what he will at the length do with the remainder yet of the Devils Soveraignty you may finde in the 19. and 20 of the Revelation For he must reign as S. Paul saith untill he hath put all his enemies under his feet untill he hath destroyed all power rule and authority adverse unto him And then last of all destroying death by giving immortality to our raised bodies shall surrender up his Kingdome unto his Father as it is 1 Cor. 15. But Satan saith my Text shall prevail something against him for the Serpent shall bruise his heel What is this heel Those who understood the seed of the woman singularly as I told you made it Christs Manhood But how we expound the seed Christs mysticall body what shall we make the heel thereof I could say that by it were only meant a light wound or the Devils assaulting the Body of Christ ex insidiis at unawares for that is his fashion since the great overthrow which our Michael gave him to work his feats underhand and to undermine our Lord in his members But this though true is not full enough It may seem therefore the fittest to make hypocriticall Christians who professe Christ outwardly but inwardly are not his to make those the heel of his mysticall body for against such the Devil we know prevaileth somewhat and by them annoyeth the rest of the Body with his venome though he be far enough yet from impeaching our Lords Headship and Soveraignty But will you give me leave to utter another conceit If the blessed souls in heaven be the upper part of Christs mysticall Body the Saints on earth the lower part of the same may not the bodies of the Saints deceased which lye in the earth be accounted for the heel for I cannot beleeve but they have relation to this mysticall Body though their souls be severed from them and yet must that relation be as of the lowest and most postick members of all If you will admit this then it will appear presently what was this hurt upon the heel when Christ had once mauled the Devils head for the Text seems to intimate that the Devil should give this wound after his head was broken I will hold you in suspence no longer read the 13. of the Revelation and see what follows upon Michaels Victory over the Dragon what the Devil did when he was down He forms a new instrument of the wounded Roman Empire by whose means under a pretence of the honour given to the precious reliques of the Saints and Martyrs he conveyed the poison of Saint-worship and Saint-invocation into the Kingdome of Christ with which wound of the heel the Devil comming on the blinde side the true Church had been long annoyed and limpeth still THE Christian Sacrifice OR The Solemne VVorship in the EVCHARIST Foretold by the Prophet Malachi Taught by our blessed SAVIOUR AND Practised by the Primitive CHVRCH BY JOSEPH MEDE B. D. and late Fellow of Christs Colledge in CAMBRIDGE LONDON Printed by M. F. for JOHN CLARK and are to be sold at his Shop under S. Peters Church in Cornhill MDC XLVIII THE Christian Sacrifice MALACHI 1. 11. Abortu solis usque ad occasum magnum erit nomen meum in Gentibus in omni loco offeretur Incensum Nomini meo Munus purum quia magnum erit nomen meum in gentibus dicit Dominus exercituum THIS place of Scripture howsoever now in a manner silenced and forgotten was once and

little lower then the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour 6. Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thine hands thou hast put all things under his feet Again 1 Cor. 15. 23. Christ saith he shall deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father when he shall have put down all rule authority and power 25 For he must raign till he hath put all enemies under his feet 26. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 27. For he hath put all things under his feet This is the quotation for it follows presently When he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him How principall a part of the Argument of this Psalm what is in these two places cited by S. Paul contains every man may see that reades and compares them But how it should be consonant to the meaning of the Psalm seems somewhat difficult to apprehend For he that reades the whole Psalm would think it were nothing else but a description of mans excellency whom God had made next to the Angels in dignity given him dominion over all things he hath made For so after those words Thou hast put all things under his feet it follows immediately All sheep and Oxen yea and beasts of the field the fowls of the air and the fishes of the Sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the Sea But what is the dominion over these to subduing of enemies which the Apostle cites it for or how is that which is a description of mankinde in generall a Prophecy of Christ in speciall Some therefore as in other citations of the Old Testament so here also betake themselves to the covert of an Allusion namely that the Apostle onely borrows the words of the Psalmist to expresse his own and not the Psalmists meaning But howsoever this may have place in some other allegations of the Old Testament which are for Illustration or Exornation onely yet when the testimony is brought for proof and demonstration as this is it can in no wise be admitted For how can that testimony be of force to conclude any thing where not the Authors meaning is brought but his words onely made use of Others therefore say that whatsoever is spoken of the Dignity and Excellency of Man in generall is to be understood by way of eminency of Christ the chief of the sons of men This indeed is something but not enough For what is the dignity of man in regard of his Dominion and Lordship over the creature to conquering and subduing of enemies which is that the Apostle seeks to demonstrate thence Well to hold you no longer in suspence the key of the interpretation of this Psalm and the ground of S. Pauls accommodation of that passage Thou hast put all things under his feet to Christs victory is to be sought in the words I have now chosen Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings c. which being first alledged by our Saviour in the Gospel in defence of that acclamation given unto him by his followers Hosanna that is Save now to the son of David which the Pharisees thought too high an attribute to be deferred to flesh and blood this application thereof by Christ to himself gave the Apostle good warrant to interpret the Psalm as he did and to ground a Demonstration thereon I shall therefore divide my discourse into two parts First I will shew the meaning of the words as they stand in the Psalm And secondly make it appear that our Saviour in the Gospel cites them according to that meaning The whole drift therefore of the Psalm is to praise and glorifie God for the dignity wherewith he hath invested Man What is man saith he that thou art mindefull of him or the son of man that thou visitest him For thou hast made him little lower then the Angels and hast crowned him with glory and honour This glory and honour is exemplified in two particulars First that God hath ordained man even that weak and feeble creature Man to subdue and conquer his enemies which is that my Text expresseth in the words before named Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings thou hast ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest quell the Enemie and the Avenger Secondly that he hath made man the Lord of all his Creatures Thou hast made him saith he to have dominion over the works of thine hands then follows as it were the summing up of both in a word Thou hast put all things under his feet For having ordained him both the Champion to conquer thine enemies and made him at his Creation the Lord and Ruler of the works of thine hands Quid reliquum est what honour couldst thou have given him which thou hast not Lord therefore what is man that thou art mindefull of him or the son of man that thou visitest him Where is to be observed that the Corollarie Thou hast put all things under his feet comes in before his time namely before the description of this exemplification of mans dominion over the creature was fully ended as if the Prophet out of admiration could hold no longer from telling us the summe of that Dignity wherewith man was invested Thou hast made him saith he to have Dominion over the works of thine hands and so one way or other Thou hast put all things under his feet Then follows the other part of the Description All Sheep and Oxen over these thou hast made him have Dominion The Beasts of the field the Fowles of the air and the Fish of the Sea whereas in direct order it should have stood thus Thou hast made him have Dominion over the works of thine hands over all Sheep and Oxen the Beasts of the Field and Fowles of the Air and Fish of the Sea And so in the upshot Thou hast put all things under his feet For this last particular of mans dignity to have Dominion over the Creatures is so plainly and evidently intended in the Psalm that I shall need speak no more of it I return therefore to the former to make it clear also That God ordained man not onely to exercise Dominion over the visible creatures but to be the Champion to conquer and subdue his Enemies which is the drift of the words I have chosen for my text Out of the mouth of Babes and Sucklings saith he that is of mankinde who springs from so weak and poor a beginning as of Babes and sucklings namely out of the mouth of babes not in sensu composito but diviso Of such whose condition is to be babes and sucklings not that they should exercise this strength he speaks of To quell the enemy and the Avenger while they were babes but that this power should be given to those whose condition was to be such And this is marvellous enough that God should advance so weak a creature and of so despicable a