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A67311 A divine theater, or, A stage for Christians delivered in a sermon at Christ-Church in Oxford / by John Wall ... Wall, John, 1588-1666. 1662 (1662) Wing W468; ESTC R5262 16,628 106

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to deny ungodlinesse and make that an occasion of falling which is given for a blessing The rather indeed because St Paul will not so much as allow of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the fifth Chapter of his Epistle to the Ephesians when men delight in that which is not comely as spots blots in the feasts of Charity and care not to make themselves ridiculous Morio's so they may others merry with the offence and scandall of their Brethren though in the Sanctuary of God and the very mid'st of his most Holy Temple where they should put off the shoes as it were of foule reproach and not defile it with unsavoury pollutions as they may learne from a meer Heathen Sacer esi locus extra Mei Shall I praise you in this I praise you not to say no more then he doth in a gentle reproofe to the Corinthians Howbeit ye know that our Saviour Christ had a whip for grosse profaners of the Temple The best use we can make of Divine bounty and Evangelicall mercy is a good life and honest conversation in the feare of God and the duties of Religion O kisse the Son and blesse the God of your Salvation who tooke of our flesh that he might give us of his Spirit and poure it forth aboundantly upon all flesh Men and Women Fathers and Children Princes and Nobles Rulers and Servants For God is no accepter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousnesse is accepted of him The tenth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles Without doubt their hearts are of stone and not of flesh that do not melt and dissolve with a sense of this Kindnesse He Descends that we may Ascend Ascend and Descend upon the Sonne of man Ascend in Love and the height of Contemplation Descend in Obedience and the Hurnility of Subjection as it is said of the Glorious Angels in the first Chapter of St Iohn the Evangelist If you would learne the manner and desire to know the wings that bring him to us they are as the wings of a Dove VVhose wings are of Gold and whose feathers are of Silver in argento Humanitas in auro Divinitas saith Elegant Bernard by wings of Gold we understand the power of his God-head by feathers of Silver the purity of his Man-hood the Gold and the Silver that meer together in the Royall Person of our Gracious Mediatour and most Precious Redeemer When the Seales of the booke in the Revelation were opened there was a voice heard as the noise of Thunder saying Come and see I have loosed the Seales of the Text and displaid the Treasures thereof the Love of God the Salvation of Christ the Riches of his Grace the Sweetnesse of his Peace and reconciling Merites Give me leave to round your eares and to rouse your Spirits as a Sonne of Thunder in the same Language Come and see come and Sing O come let us sing unto the Lord let us Heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation With Psalmes and Hymnes of Divine praise and Jubilar exultancies Who would not adore him that is Magnified by all the powers of Heaven though he tooke not Angels but the seed of Abraham Was Alpha shall be Omega was the First shall be the Last was the Beginning shall be the End the End of our Hope the Consummation of our Happynesse Give him the Honour due unto his Name the Name of Iesus the Name of a Saviour wherein we rejoyce and whereby we Triumph over the greatest adversaries As his Name is so let his Praise be Great and wonderfull publike and universall in all Churches and in all places let his Saints praise him let all his Saints praise him with Melody and with joyfulnesse Crying aloud in the words of the Magnificat He that is Mighty hath done great things for us and Holy is his name Sometimes with the Glorious Cherubims in Anthems and Antiphonies Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Sometimes with the blessed Elders in Elogies and Doxologies Salvation and Honour VVisdome and Power be to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever The Lamb that came to us in a cloud of flesh that all might see him the Lamb that shall come in the clouds of Heaven that all may find him they which have done ill to their greife they which have done well to their comfort in the Visions of Peace and the sweet Fruition of his Beatificall praesence for ever more Which the Lord grant for Iesus Christ his sake To whom with the Father and the Son three Persons and one God be Ascribed all Power Majesty and Dominion this day and for ever Amen FINIS