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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

Christ be not risen then is our Preaching vain and your faith is vain also ye are yet in your sins grievous consequences but the Lord is risen indeed and we may now stand under his arms and make this bold challenge with the Apostle 8 Ro. 38. who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again 3. Christs Resurrection assures us of ours 27 Mat. 53. after this many dead bodies of the Saints appeared alive 1 Cor. 5. c. 20. Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept for since by man came death by man came also the Resurrection of the dead for as in Adam all dye even so in Christ shall all be made alive This is that joyful Anthem that welcomes in this Festival Holy Job seeing Easter as Abraham did Christmas-day 8 Jo. 56. many hundred years before they were by faith cheerfully concludes his Resurrection from the Resurrection of his Redeemer 19 ch 25. Victurum me certâ fide credo liberâ vo●e profiteor quia Redemptor Meus resurget qui inter Impiorum manus occubuit with assured faith I believe and with free courage confess that rise I shall in as much as my Redeemer shall rise who is to dye by the hands of wicked men saith St. Gregory on these very words Eâdem catenâ revincta est Christi Resurrectio nostra Christs Resurrection and ours are linked with one and the same chain If the Head be above the water the members cannot perish otherwise they may 1 Cor. 15. c. 16.17 Now we may insult over death 1 Cor. 15. ch 55. since Christ risen thence hath given death it self it's deaths wound 13 Hosea 14. O Death I will be thy Death Death now it self hath its Epitaph the Grave its Tomb-Stone Nor is it a small thing for Christians to hear of their Resurrection since it is the Ground-work of all their hope and happiness 1 Co. 15. v. 19. Our Souls are here burdened with a sinful sickly loathsome body But at the Resurrection this corruptible shall put on incorruption 1 Co. 15.53 this mortal shall put on immortality this weak dishonourable dust shall be raised in glory and power v. 43. Well may then be rehearsed with abundance of joy a Surrexit Dominus the Lord is risen since such infinite benefit doth arise to us from his Resurrection Application Is the Lord risen indeed 1. Let us be risen with him Then is he risen indeed to us when our affections are risen with him 3 Coloss 1 2. Christs Resurrection must work in us a Resurrection to grace 6 Rom. 11. before it can work for us a Resurrection to Glory 20 Rev. 6. Blessed and Holy is he that hath part in the first Resurrection on whom the second death shall have no power 2. Let us strive to find Christ this day risen with the same haste as Peter and John 20. Jo. 3 4. the same care v. 11. constancy and rapture of Joy v. 16. as Mary by the same means as the Disciples in the verse following our Text viz. Breaking of Bread in the Sacrament Here we may with Thomas 20 Jo. 25. thrust our hands into the print of the nails and the wounds in his side to convince us of the truth of his Resurrection I know not Our Church will not at this time especially excuse us from this duty and cettainly the life every worthy Communicant finds in Christ fed on here cannot but sufficiently inform him that he is alive And having thus found him we cannot but be Glad 20 Jo. 20. Glad though Christs rising saith Bishop Andrews in his 2 Ser. on the Resur p. 397. did no way concern us or we that yet 1. In that a Man one of our own flesh and blood hath gotten such a victory even for Humanities sake 2. Then that one that is Innocent hath quit himself so well for Innocencies sake 3. Thirdly in that he hath foyled a common enemy for amityes sake 4. Fourthly in that he hath wiped away the Ignominie of his fall with the glory of his Ri●●ng again for Vertue and Valours sake for all these we have cause to rejoyce but chiefly ●●nce his Resurrection was for us 4 Ro. v. ult how ought our souls to overflow with gratitude 'T is the peculiar faith of a Christian to believe Christ Risen Mortuum esse Christum pagani etiam credunt resurrexisse verò propriafides est Christianorum St. Austin and the property peculiar to this faith to create in us Joy for his Resurrection Lord we believe help thou our unbelief O Heavenly Father who didst raise thy Son from death raise our dull Souls to a due thankfulness for this mercy It is meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee Almighty Everlasting God But chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious Resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord for he is the very Paschal Lamb that was offered for us and hath taken away the Sin of the world who by his death hath destroyed death and by his Rising to life hath restored to us everlasting life Therefore with Angels and Archangels and with all the company of Heaven we land and magnifie thy glorious name evermore praising thee and saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory Glory be to thee O Lord most High FIFTH SERMON ON Holy-Thursday OR The Ascension 4 Ephes 10. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all Heavens that he might fill all things HERE is the Highest ascent answering to the Lowest descent immaginable and both in one and the same person He that descended is the same also that ascended c. This the Apostle speaks of Christ v. 7 8. in his Exposition on that Prophetical Psalm the 68. proper for this day His Descent we have already treated from Heaven to the Earth the lowest part of the world at his Incarnation from the surface of the Earth into the Bowels thereof the grave at his passion He descended from the bosome of his Eternal Father that excellent Glory 2 Pet. 1. c. 17. into the lap of a poor Virgin He that thought it no robbery to be equal with God took to him humane nature and in it the form of a Servant submitted himself to shame pain mortality was Crucified Dead and Buried nay say we in our Creed Descended into Hell lower than this he could not go Now He that descended thus hath as many lifts of his ascension till he came to the highest pitch can be Mark the tearms of his rise He ascended up far above all Heavens In the Text. you have three parts Division In the Text three things 1. The Person Ascending 2. The Ascent 3. The End of it 1. The Person Ascending He that descended ipse est is the same also that ascended 2. The ascent longè supra omnes

we might have been apt to have concluded out of sight out of mind Pharaohs chief Butlers re-advance made him forget Joseph 3 Gen. 13 14.23 But the height of Christs place doth not make him unmindful of us he remembers us in his Kingdom 23 Luke 42. and from thence sends us rich presents gifts and graces Temporal and Spiritual blessings 1 Ephes 3. for whatever we receive as a pledge of Gods greatest love towards us must be through his mercy in Christ 3. To prepare a place for all that believe in him 14 Jo. 1 2. This blessed Harbinger 6 Heb. 20. is gone before in our flesh to take possession for us of our Heavenly Mansions most glorious certainly and Magnificent as provided and appointed by such Infinite Majesty and Bounty Prepare us dear Jesus for those happy habitations which thy love hath so painfully and carefully fitted and prepared for us The Relation that is betwixt Christ in heaven and his Church on earth gives us a full assurance that he will bring that thither The Head is not compleat without its members 5 Eph. 23. nor the Bridegroom without his Bride 2 Mar. 19 20. Christ therefore shall undoubtedly unite to himself his Body Mystical and take to the same place his beloved beauteous Spouse She shall be brought to the King her Husband in raiment of needle-work with gladness and rejoycing shall she be brought into the Kings Palace 45 Psal 14 15. What Christ prayes for 17 Joh. 24. himself is also able to perform where-e're the man dwells he may Command his wife none can detain the Church from cohabiting with her Lord in Heaven As all Christs undertakings in the flesh his Birth Death Resurrection he was Born for us 9 Isa 6. 2 Luk. 11. Dyed for us 4 Ro. 25. Rose again for us so at his Ascension we come in too he ascended for us he is gone up on high far above all Heavens to prepare there a place for us 4. To send the Comforter down unto his Church 16 Jo. 7. It is expedient for you c. There lyes an expedience that Holy Thursday should preceed Pentecost Christ must go before the Holy Ghost can come down for which Bishop Andrews alledges excellent Reasons gathered from the fathers 1. On the Holy Ghosts part who came to manifest himself as God by shewing great ●●gns and wonders now had Christ stayed they might have att●ibuted these to him which had been an impeachment of the others divinity but Christ ascending all such immaginations cease 2. On Christs part A little impeachment it might have been to Christs equality to the Father for he not going to send him but staying still here till he was sent the sending of the Spirit might have been ascribed to the Father alone as his sole act That he had been sent for Christs sake had been the most but being ascended his love and power is apparent to be equal with the Father in sending him and we alike beholding to them both Now the Fathers sending him 14 Jo. 26. and the Sons sending him from the Father 15 Jo. 26. is all one 3. On our part 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might fill all things by his Spirit which he could not by his Body that he might be present with every particular member of his dispersed Church thus is he with all Christians in all places at all times even unto the end of the world 28 Mat. 20. See Piscator on the Text Hoc Sophistae Ubiquitar●s sic exponunt quasi diceret Paulus ut omnia loca impleret suo corpore Sed Apostolus se ipse declarat duobus versibus sequentibus ex quorum Collatione perspicitur Apostolum hoc velle dicere Christum ascendisse in coelum ut indè misso spiritu sancto impleret illius donis omnia Ecclesiae membra Again say they Christ withdrew his Bodily presence to draw us off from sence or fleshly fondness of him which his nearest and dearest followers were too much prone to as we see in Martha 11 Jo. 21. attributing the greatest power to his Corporal residence Lord if thou hadst been here my Brother had not dyed As if absent he had not been able to have prevented it The Disciples are upon building of Tabernacles for his stay in the flesh As if in that only consisted the Co summation of their happiness 17 Mat. 4. Mary would fain be embracing him with a carnal contract 20 Jo. 17. which Christ strives to beat her off from with a Noli me tangere touch me not putting her in mind nereupon of his Ascension After that he sends his Spirit whereby we are to apprehend him spiritually Seeing the invisible by faith which the mo●e abstract from sence the more notable blessing it hath pronounced to it 20 Jo. 29. Blessed are they hat have not seen and yet have believed Lastly The Fathers stick not to say that at Christs Ascension before the Coming of the Holy Ghost it was necessary that he should withdraw himself for some time as to his Bodily so his Spiritual presence likewise 1. That the Disciples growing faint and tepid whilst he was with them should now become more vigilant and watchful after him on the sense of the loss of him like the Spouse 5 Cant. 2 3 5 7. 2. That they might grow less carnally secure in their thoughts of keeping him who were apt to presume upon a non moveber 30 Psal 7. a never be moved though I dye with thee will I not deny thee saith Peter 26 Mat. 35. and all the rest yet we find the contrary v. 56. 3. The consideration hereof as also the sence of their necessary falling into sin without Christs Spiritual presence drives them to humility a fit posture to invite the Holy Ghosts Descent and abode 57. Isai 15. Thus Christus abit ut Paracletus veniat Christ is gone up on high far above all Heavens to send his Spirit down on Earth even the lowest among men Lastly To appear in the sight of God to interceed for us 9 Heb. 24. 8 Ro. 34. c. 1 Jo. 2. c. 1. 8 Rev. 3. Now we may come with boldness unto the Throne of grace 4 Heb. ult since we h●ve such a prevailing friend in the Court of Heaven whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name he shall give it you 16 Jo. 22. Blessed Jesus we will not robb thee of thy Mediatorship interceed for us still as thou didst once on earth 17 Jo. 23. That where thou art there we may be also whil'st we are here let our Souls our affections be above 3 Col. 2. and hereafter receive us both Souls and Bodies unto that unspeakable glory thou now enjoyest with thy Father where thou art ascended up far above all Heavens SIXTH SERMON ON Whit-Sunday OR The Inestimable Gift The Holy Ghost 8. Acts 20. But Peter said untohim Thy Money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with Money THis day of