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A26157	The grand charter of Christian feasts, with the right way of keeping them in a sermon preach'd at a meeting of several of the natives and inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, in the Church of St. Mary Le-Bow, Nov. 30, 1685 / by Lewis Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Lewis, d. 1693.	1686 (1686)	Wing A4156; ESTC R8396	17,372	36

given by God himself Exod. 12.27 And hath not God passed over us Are not several of us as Brands plucked out of those flames which reduced the greater part of this large City to Ashes Were not we spared whiles the Pestilence that walketh in darkness and Destruction that walketh at noon-day swept away others The Plague and the Sword destroyed their thousands and ten thousands and yet we are alive to praise God as at this day God hath visited several places with blasting and mildew and rain hath been withholden We have lately felt unusually severe Winters and had unseasonable Summers of which Viols of Gods wrath we have but tasted whiles others have drunk more deeply It is not long since we were threatned with stormy Winds and Tempests from North and West and these Euroclydons descended on several places with confused noise and many garments were rolled in blood Isa 9.5 whiles we and other Inhabitants of the County we belong to felt none of these Hurricanes heard only the sound of it as a going on the top of the Mulberry-trees were permitted to stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord. After Wars and Rumours of Wars former sad confusions and late menacing disturbances we renew this Solemnity upon Gods restoring to us a Publick Peace our Ancient Regal Government in State and the Apostolical Episcopal Government in the Church And thus the Originals of the Feasts agree 2. There is also a suitableness in the manner of the Observation It is not to be kept with old Leaven c. Then which I know no better direction for the right using and improving this and all other Solemnities of this Nature Leaven is properly that which secretly and speedily soures the whole lump of dough altering the Nature of it Sometimes it is used in a good sense 1. To denote the Kingdom or Church of Christ on Earth increasing secretly and by degrees both in number of Persons and Graces of the Spirit Matt. 13.33 2. The Doctrine of the Gospel the Word preached which altereth a mans Nature first turning his heart and changing his inward and then reforming his outward man Sometimes as here Leaven is taken in an ill sense and so used 1. To represent the unsound Doctrine of Hereticks corrupting the sweetness of heavenly Truths with their false Glosses called also Hypocrisie because such Doctrines are false deceitful and impious and make their Fautors and Fomentors Hypocrites Matt. 16.6 Luke 12.1 2. Corrupt vicious persons which with their company and communication infect others 1 Cor. 15.33 Old Leaven is the same with the old man Rom. 6.6 Fermentum in massâ innata vitiositas Original sin with the depravation the whole naughtiness of our sinful Nature with its sinful effects and bitter fruits whatevet it is that hath a faculty of corrupting others whether it be Doctrine or Example it follows The Leaven of Malice and Wickedness which is exegetical an illustration of the former κακίας καὶ πινηρίας malitiae versutiae craft added to wickedness malus est qui male nequam qui cum dolo agit hence the Devil is called subtle πονηρὸς as some from πένομας ago facesso nobis facessit negotium 1 John 2.12 Eph. 6.16 he hath his wiles and stratagems his cunning crafts Of sincerity and Truth an expression taken from counterfeit Wares such as need the false light of a dark Shop to put them off There must be Purity or Holiness plain dealing and singleness of heart The Christians have their Passeover ἑορτάζωμεν festum agitemus let us keep the Feast not typically only for a day as at present or for seven days as the Jews the Passeover but spiritually throughout the whole course of our lives The Ceremony of the Jews putting away Leaven out of their houses during the time of the Feast signifies that from the first day we believe in Christ thorough the whole course of our lives we should purge our selves from evil Doctrine and corrupt Manners The spiritual estate of Christians is the true accomplishment of the Jewish Passeover nay every Congregation should put away those that are scandalous as 1 Cor. 5.5 applied by the Apostle Also the Ceremony of the Leprofie 1. If doubtful shut up till certain Levit. 13.44 2. If clear dwelling alone without the Camp figures lively the Church-Censures 1. Suspension whereby men are separated from some Holy things until their perversness appears 2 Tim. 3.9 2. Excommunication 1 Cor. 5.11 13. Matt. 18.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lege Mosis est abstinere ab omni opere ut Deo sacra siant to rest from bodily labours In mystico sensu ita perpetuò Dèo servire ut omnia opera sint sacrificia Isa 66.23 to serve God devoutly and thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Festum nihil aliud est quàm ea agere quae oportet fieri A good conscience is a continual feast Prov 15.15 in a word to feast aright is Ephes 4.22 23. The two Birds used in the cleansing Levit. 14.5 6 49 50. signifie that neither Christs Manhood without his Godhead nor his Godhead without his Manhood could purge sin John 6.53 63. To make our Feast regular we must take in the Context Purge out the old Leaven that you may be a new Lump as ye are unleavened The Apostle St. Paul thought very well of the Corinthians that they were unleavened right for the main It is not esse debetis per professionem you should be so but you desire and take care to be so Cavetis ab omnibus per quae corrumpi mores solent and yet calls on them to purge themselves There are remainders of sin in the holiest and eminentest Christians in many things Jam. 3.2 and Eccles 7.20 Give me leave then without offence to recommend the same duty to you of whom I am perswaded the best things and such as accompany Salvation Heb. 6.9 The Jews were very exact there was 1. Expurgatio Fermenti cleansing all Vessels and Houshold-stuff two or three days before 2. Inquisitio Fermenti searching every corner to a Mouse-hole with a Wax-candle the night before the Passeover till the fourth hour after Sun-rising as Buxtorfe 3. Exterminatio or Conflagratio from the fourth hour to the sixth 4. Execratio of all seen or not seen cleansed or not cleansed nor are the best Christians less concerned to look about them lest there be any root of bitterness springing up to their trouble whereby themselves and others may be defiled Heb. 12.15 We often change our bread and our water and however sound and wholesom the Country may be we come from we are in danger of infection from the different Airs we breathe in or may receive Contagion from some of those many persons we converse with and a little Leaven leaveneth the whole Lump God made man upright but he hath sought forth many Inventions Good Wheat was laid in at first but whiles men slept the Enemy sow'd Tares Matt. 13.27 When there was no King in Israel every