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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

the Messiah it was no delusion of theirs but a real transaction by that hand that is omnipotent 3. Let me add The Devil that grand Politician of Hell would not be such an enemy to himself as to give Christianity such a huge advance by counterfeiting the Resurrection of Christ especially now at such a time when through the foregoing Prophecies concerning him and his late Testimony of himself in his life all so expected it 4. Every thing look'd exactly like a real Resurrection 28 Mat. v. 2 3 4. The watch felt the Earthquake in their own fearful shaking saw the Angel roll the Stone from the Sepulchre 20 Jo. c. 21. Peter looks into the Sepulchre finds no Body of Christ there Christ himself immediately after appears to his Disciples eat and drank with them they felt his flesh put their fingers into his wounds what greater demonstration could there be to convince any indifferent men of the reality of his Resurrection 5. Those Miracles he did while he was alive being so genuine and reall as they were must needs beget faith in the unprejudiced that his Resurrection was real also the same power in him that raised Lazarus four dayes dead 11 Jo. 39. could as easily raise himself the third day Lastly Fas est ab hoste doceri His enemies false tale raised 28 Mat. 13. to put off the belief of his Resurrection being so idle and unlikely gives us the greater perswasion of the truth of it Say ye his Disciples came by night and stole him away whilest we slept There must be good words large money v. 12. and a fair promise of securing their necks v. 14. e're they can prevail with the Souldiers to blaze abroad such an improbable story It was unlikely the watch should sleep there being so severe a punishment to the delinquents in this case Say they did sleep how could they tell who stole him or how could they once imagine it to be the Disciples What had they more courage for their Lord dead than living 26 Mat. 56. or if they were the Disciples vvhere do we read they were ever arraigned and prosecuted for this notorious cheat They were very merciful to forgive them that they were never guilty of No They secured the Sepulchre as it had been for their lives rolling a stone before the door of it so bigg 16 Mar. 3 4. no ordinary strength could so sealed 27 Mat. 26. the greatest durst not remove it till the Angels are commanded to become Porters to their rising Lord 28 Mat. 2. and Preachers of him to us v. 6. He is risen The Lord is risen indeed Object How comes it to pass the chief Priests and Rulers being so necessarily convicted of Christs Resurrection from the Souldiers 28 Mat. 11. did not yield to confess it Ans Because they would rather baulk their Consciences than their reputation in the acknowledgement of so hainous an error What a blurr had it been to them to have Crucified their Messiah with their own hands had they owned him for such For had they known him saith St. Paul they would never have done it 1 Cor. 2.8 now that such knowing men should not know him you shall never know by their after-acknowledging him Are we blind also 9 Jo. 40. so sticks in their stomach they will not endure to hear it and therefore having proceeded so far in denying him by putting him to death they cannot in honour draw back but must deny him in his Resurrection also though never so plain and evident Su●rexit Domino verè The Lord is risen indeed 2. Obj. If the Lo●d be risen indeed hath virally actuated that very body that lay in the Grave what means his appearing and disappearing at pleasure and coming to his Disciples when the doors were shut this is rather spirit-like v. 37. than suitable to the nature of a real body v. 39. flesh and bones Answ Christ saith Dr. Moor in his Myst of Godl p. 141. gave a specimen of a wonderful power residing in him in his transfiguration on the mount and that he carried that about him then that was able to swallow up mortality into life though it was usually restrained as a light in a dark I anthorn His Divinity therefore with his inward exalted humanity I mean his Soul took hold again of his Body and did vitally irradiate it so that he was as naturally united with it as any Angel with his own vehicle or any Soul of man or any other Animal with their Bodies Nor was it any greater wonder that Christ should rarifie his body into a disappearing tenuity then that Angels and Spirits condensate their vehicles into the visibility and palpability of a Terrestrial body the same numerical matter still remaining in both 2. Christ hereby might discover the pure refined nature and spiritual agility of our bodies after the Resurrection when they shall be made like unto his glorious Body 3 Phil. 21. 3. Christ hereby shewed he was not constantly to be resident with us in his corporal presence and so we to apprehend him by faith not by sence 2 Cor. 5. ch 26. Sometimes he appears and suffers himself to be handled by his Disciples to demonstrate to their sence the truth of his Resurrection who were to be zealous asserters and infallible witnessers of it to the world Anon he withdraws to exercise them and us in a spiritual apprehension of him invisible 11 Heb. 27. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed 20 Joh. 29. So much now for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surrexit verè the reality of Christs resurrection The Lord is risen indeed The benefit hereof follows as 1. This convinceth us of his Deity his Surrexit speaks him to be Dominus his being risen speaks him to be the Lord He is risen indeed he and not another no man ever before him 19 Jo. 41. lay in that tomb and so was he raised too by his own power not by anothers vertue like him who revived at the touching of Elisha's bonds 2 K. 13. c. 21. 2 Jo. 19 21. and 10 c. 18. He is risen indeed His was a real resurrection from death for they left him not till they had his very * There is about mans heart they say a Skin called Pericardium containing in it water which cools and moistens the heart lest it should be scorched with continual motion this skin once pierced man cannot live heart blood out 19 Jo 34. no delusive awakening from a Lethargie or some ob-stupifying disease 1. The Reality of his resurrection proves the reality of his divine nature in that he is risen indeed he is the Lord indeed and so able to do infinitely for us in delivering us from all evil and replenishing us with all good things 2. The Reality of Christs Resurrection is the only confirmation of our faith in him to be the true Messiah ve●se 21. ●his day decided him to be the Redeemer of Israel 1 Cor. 15. c. 14.17 If