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death_n	resurrection_n	rise_v	sin_n	6,756	5	4.9718	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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