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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00819	Five godlie sermons, preached by R.T. Bachiler of diuinitie. 1. The charge of the cleargie. 2. The crowne of Christians. 3. The annointment of Christ, or Christian ointment. 4. A festiuall sermon vpon the Natiuitie of Christ. 5. The fruits of hypocrisie..; Five godlie and learned sermons	Tyrer, Ralph, d. 1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 24475.5; ESTC S106205	127,399	317

saluation And thus much of the benefite or blessing which they vnto whom Iohn writeth had receiued euen an ointment Now therefore to that which next followeth of the person who bestowed the same vpon them which is here said to be him that is holy From him that is holy There are many things in the Scripture which haue the name of Holinesse giuen vnto them as they are often so tearmed Holie as the holy Temple the holy Tabernacle the holy lawe the holy catholike Church the holy gospell the holy word of God the holy sacraments the holy Citie of Ierusalem the holy Angels holy Saints holy priests holy Prophets holy ointment holy oyle c. For it were infinit to repeate al and too tedious to note quoate their seuerall places and these but in the inferiour degree of holinesse This Attribute of Holinesse Holinesse more especially and most properly belonging to the lord God himselfe one in substance three in person Holy Father Holy Sonne and Holy Ghost As the Seraphins cried in Esaies vision 6.3 and the foure beasts in Iohns Reuelation Apoc. 4.8 And Ambrose in his song Holy holy holy these being holy in themselues of themselues they holy by them euen by the imputation participation or imitation of their Holinesse These holy essentially they holy accidentally these holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in way of singularitie and excellencie aboue others they in their degree estate as they can be capable of Holinesse And first that God the Father is oftentimes so called in the Scriptures it is euident that we may seuerally make proofe therof Leu. 20.26 Be holy vnto me for I the Lord am holy 144.13 The Lord is righteous in all his waies and holy in all his workes Esay 1.4 The holy one of Israel And therefore our Sauiour in his prayer in the gospel calleth him by this name especially Holy Father Ioh. 17.11 And that Christ himselfe is so likewise tearmed it is manifest first by that of the Angel Gabriel in his annunciaation vnto Marie when he saith that an holy thing shall be borne of thee Luk. 1.35 And by the Virgin Marie her selfe in her Magnificat For he that is mightie hath magnified me and holy is his name Luk. 1.49 And by that of Peter Ye denied the holy iust one and desired a murderer to be giuen vnto you Act. 3.14 And this could not the Diuels themselues but cōfesse euen when they were cast out of him that he was euen the holy one of God Mark 1.24 This being verie requisite and necessarie both for himselfe and vs that he being our holy high priest might enter into the Sanctum Sanctorum the holy of holiest for vs. And as saith the Apostle Such an high priest it became vs to haue which is holy harmelesse vndefiled seperate from sinners c. Heb. 7.26 Lastly that the third person in Trinitie is so tearmed it appeareth being the spirit of God himselfe which cannot otherwise be named without this title of holinesse this being the proper attribute thereof as it is euident euerie where in the gospell when as it is not onely holy in it selfe and of it selfe but also holy by making others holy both holy in cause and holy in effect holy by his owne instinct and holy by inspiring others But now of which of all these which haue the name and title of holinesse doth Iohn here say that these babes had receiued the foresaid ointment Certaine it is that hereby cannot be meant any of the first sort of holy things or holy men which are but in the lower degree of holinesse and which draw and deriue all the holines they haue from the other as being the welspring fountaine of Holinesse For none of these are so good and gracious as to purchase and procure so great glorious an ointment or of such woorth and worthinesse as to giue and bestow so high and heauenly a thing which is farre better and more blessed then themselues no not the Apostles themselues although they were the most holy of all other next vnto our Sauiour Christ himselfe were not able to giue the same For although Symon Magus seeme to aske the holy ghost euen this ointment at the hands of the Apostles as though it were in their power to giue the same Yet it is otherwise if we marke the words of the Scriptures that is that Symon Magus onely offered them money on condition that they would giue him also the same power which they had themselues that vpon whomsoeuer he might lay hands he might receiue the holy ghost Act. 8.19 As Aug. himselfe hath verie well noted there being no mention of giuing but only of receiuing the holy ghost De Trinit lib. 15. cap. 26. He that gaue this ointment must needs be one of the three most holy persons in the Trinitie either God the Father or God the Sonne or God the holy ghost And yet can it not be said that any one of these doth alone giue it because it is indeed the common gift of them all according to that olde Scholasticall rule of diuinitie sound enough A rule in Diuinitie Omnia opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt communia and most certaine it is that as the holy ghost in essence proceedeth both from the Father the Sonne as Athanasius euidently declareth in his Creed Athanasius Creed so the same holy ghost in effect for the gifts and graces thereof are conferred bestowed to the publike profit of the whole Church and to the priuate vse of some speciall children of God by all the three persons in the Trinitie for so Paul 1. Cor. 12.4.5.6 Now there are diuersities of gifts but the same spirit And there are diuersities of administrations but the same Lord. And there are diuersities of operations but God is the same which worketh all in all Albeit because here is one especially pointed at we must finde out which of the three he should be that gaue this ointment vnto them and which is here more especially said to be holy First although it may be said to be God the Father because euerie good and perfect gift commeth downe from aboue from the Father of lights as Iames 1.17 Or that he is the holy one of Israel as Esay 1.4 Or againe to be the holy ghost because this ointment may seeme to be a gift of the spirit and for that most properly he is called the holy ghost Notwithstanding if we marke the circumstances of the text the purpose of the Apostle and the drift and intendiment of the doctrine of the whole Epistle the scope thereof being nothing els but this euen to prooue Iesus to be Christ against Ebion Cerinthus Marcion and Carpocrates with their sectaries which were the Heretikes Scismaticks and Antichrists of this time The same point which Iohn aymeth at both in his gospell and in his Reuelation as it may more euidently appeare by the 22. v. of this Chap. Againe it is