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A87806	Five seasonable sermons. As they were preached before eminent auditories, upon several arguments. / By Paul Knell Master in Arts, of Clare-Hall in Cambridge. Sometimes chaplain to a regiment of curiasiers in His late Majesties Army.	Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Israel and England paralelled.; Knell, Paul, 1615?-1664. Looking-glasse for Levellers.	1660 (1660)	Wing K678; Thomason E1766_2; ESTC R209658	76,872	199

been heated As for the Righteous it is not so with them God burneth them indeed throughly as the bricks of Babel were but this is only as a Potter frameth his vessels in the fire that so they may be vessels unto honour and for the Masters use though they walk thorow the fire yet they are not burnt neither doth the flame kindle upon them When Job's wife heard of all the evil that God had brought upon her husband she grew so mad so out-ragious and impatient that she would fain have perswaded him to make away with himself what saith she all that ever thou hadst taken away from thee Is this the reward thou hast for thine integrity Well serve God who will I would serve him no longer make good the devils words if thou wilt be ruled by me do as he said thou wouldest in such a case even curse God and die Job 2.9 But ye have heard of the patience of Job saith St. James let his wife therefore say what she will he will have none of her counsel thou talkest like an Asse saith he thou speakest like one of the foolish women And indeed as he goeth on shall we receive good at the hand of God and not receive evil also Shall we receive health and not sickness wealth and not poverty peace and not War honour and not dishonour liberty and not restraint yea my brethren if we be Christians we must resolve to endure all And if we do this then we may assure our selves that although we sow in tears yet we shall reap in joy though God have long suffered wicked men to ride over our heads though we have gone thorow fire and water yet God in his good time will bring us and our Soveraign out into a wealthy place he will cast these rods of his anger into the fire and then mercy shall embrace us on every side our light affliction which is but for a moment shall work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory which God of his infinite mercy grant c. FINIS THE ASSUMPTION OF THE Messiah A Sermon PREACHED Before His MAJESTY KING CHARLES the IId. AT THE HAGUE in HOLLAND on Sunday May 29. old stile 1649. LONDON Printed in the year 1660. THE ASSUMPTION OF THE Messiah ACTS 1.9 And when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight THat which is spoken of the Sun in the firmament Psal 19.6 St. Austin upon that place applieth unto the Son of Righteousness His going forth is from the end of heaven there saith he is Christs descension from the bosome of his Father and his circuit unto the ends of it here saith he is his ascension to the place from whence he came And our Saviour himself hath much such another passage John 16.28 Which place may not unfitly be compared unto a Circle I came forth from the Father and am come into the world there is the semicircle again I leave the world and go to the Father here is the compleat Circle And by this we may see what agreement there is between the material Sun and the Mystical The Sun in the firmament is appointed to light the day so as long as I am in the world saith our Saviour I am the light of the world John 9.5 The Sun though in the firmament stoopeth to lighten us below So though our Saviours dwelling were in heaven yet he humbleth himself to behold us here on earth The Sun ariseth and the Sun goeth down and hasteth to the place where he arose Ecles 1.5 So the Sun of Righteousness came from one hemisphere from light inaccessible from the place of blessed Saints and Angels that he might shine unto the other hemisphere to us their forlorn Antipodes to us mortals that sat in darkness and shadow of death But as the Sun maketh hast to the place where he arose dwelleth not alway with us but returneth again according to his circuits In like manner the Sun of Righteousnesse having lightned his Apostles understanding by his Doctrine and having warmed and cheared their hearts by his promise of sending them the Holy Ghost having given them the word of resolution of instruction and of benediction he took his leave of the earth and returned into heaven And when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight This Text then is a description of our Saviour's Ascension wherein there are six particulars to be consider'd four plainly expressed two necessarily implied The first is Quis the Person that ascended which was Christ he that descended was the same also that ascended He was taken up The second is Quando the Time of the ascension which may be considered two wayes in reference to his Resurrection forty dayes after that or in reference to his last exercise the resolving his Apostles doubts the instructing and the blessing of them immediately after this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when he had spoken these things The third is Vnde the Place from whence he ascended which by comparing Acts 1.12 with Luke 24.50 we shall finde to be that part of mount Olivet next to Bethany he was taken up from thence The fourth is Quo the Place whither he ascended which was heaven he was taken up thither The fifth is Quomodo the manner of his ascension set down here two wayes First Positively he was taken up Secondly Expositively a cloud received him out of their sight The sixt and last are Testes the Spectatours or the witnesses of his ascension which were the Eleven Apostles while they beheld he was taken up c. And of these in order I begin with the first particular Quis the Person that ascended Christ He was taken up He that was from the begining nay he that is the beginning Alpha and Omega the beginning and the ending He that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imamnuel God with us he that is one in Trinity and Duality he that made on Person of two Natures And which of these natures then was ascended It was his Humane nature as may easily be gathered from those words of the Angels to the Apostles Acts. 1.11 The same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Now we know that our Saviour shall come to judgement as he is man according to that of St. Paul Acts. 71.31 where he saith that God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Our Saviour therefore ascended according to his humanity The Royal Psalmist seemeth to say indeed that his Divinity ascended Ascendit Deus in Iubilo Dominus in voce tubae God is gone up with a shout and the Lord with the sound of the

his prayer for a blessing upon the Treaty our Saviours benedictions I say are Imperative he commands them he ascended not till he had done this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When he had spoken these things And so I passe from the second part of the Text the Time of Christ's ascension to the third Vnde the Place from whence he ascended which was that part of Mount Olivet next to Bethany as will appear by comparing Act. 1.12 with Luke 24.50 So that here we have three steps First he ascended from a Mountain Secondly from Mount Olivet Thirdly from that part of it next Bethany First he ascended from a Mountaine And why so He stileth himselfe the Lilly of the valleys Cant. 2.1 Why then did he not ascend from the valley of Iehoshaphat he shall from heaven come thither at the day of judgment Ioel 3.12 Why then did he not from thence go into heaven Was it to shew that he is the God of the mountaines only and not also of the valleyes or was it that he might be a little neerer to heaven and by this meanes shorten his way thither No such matter but he ascended from a mountaine chiefly for two reasons First to teach us saith L●rinus that we should alway use meanes where they may possibly be had He could at all times have walked upon the water but he would not when he came where shipping was he went aboard He could have satisfied the multitude without food he could have taken ●way their Hunger with a word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be ye filled but he would not he fed them at one time with seven at another time with five loves using meanes though inconsiderable and weak He could have cured him that was born blind with an Epphatha be opened but he would not he bade him go to the pool of Sil●●● and wash All to teach us that we should not neglect meanes and look for miracles When we are sick we must send for the Physician not look for Gods help without his When an house is fired we must cast water on it not hope that God will quench it by a shower When perjured rebels have usurped the Crown to recover this out of their hands we must put on not only the armour of God but the armour of man too we must not only have the sword of the Lord but of Gideon For to look for help from God and use no meanes is not to trust in God but even to tempt him And that we might avoid this our Saviour would not ascend from a Valley but rather chose the mediation of a Mountaine Secondly he ascended from a mountaine to teach us that as mountaines raise and elevate our bodies so they should likewise elevate our souls they should put us in mind of heaven and things above VVhensoever therefore we go up an hill we should be thinking upon God's hill and we should fix our cogitations upon him who was transfigured upon a mountaine mount Tabor crucified upon a mountain mount Calvary and ascended from a mountain even from mount Olivet And why from this mountaine of all other The reasons seem to be chiefly two First that as upon this mountain he shewed himself to be a frail man so he might there shew himself to be the mighty God too as he manifested the weaknesse of his humanity upon this mountaine by his agony and bloody sweat and by his groveling on the ground so he might likewise manifest the power of his Divinity upon the same mountaine by his glorious ascension from thence into heaven Secondly the Olive-tree is the emblem and hierogliphick of Peace good reason then that our Saviour should ascend from mount Olivet seeing he is our Peace the very Prince of peace this was the Legacy that he bequeathed to his dearest friends Peace I leave with you my Peace I give unto you And as Christ ascended from a mountaine and from mount Olivet so lastly from that part of it next Bethany Now Bethany by interpetation is the house of affliction and fom Bethany our Saviour went unto his Passion for just before his apprehension he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the Leper Math. 26.6 he went from the same place to his Cross and his Crown And so must we we must not think to go a delicjis ad delicias as St. Jerome speaketh from the jollity of this world to the joyes of heaven no if hereafter we will have good we must here have evill things Per angusta ad augusta through heaviness to happiness Per varios casus per tot discrimina rerum through many tribulations we must enter into the Kingdome of God Acts. 14.22 Lift up therefore the hands which hang downe and the feeble knees For what if thou art imprisoned and as it were buried alive in thy bed of languishing What if sicknesse have taken such hold upon thee that thou are not able to look up What if thou art feeble and sore smitten so that all the night thou washest thy bed and waterest thy couch with thy teares Why yet let this consideration be instead of an handkerchief to wipe thine eyes consider that thy Saviour and thy Martyred Soveraign went from Bethany to Bethel from the house of affliction to their Fathers house and if thou hast faith and patience thou shalt do so too thy bed of sicknesse or if it be thy scaffold or thy gibbet this shall be the same to thee that Bethany was to thy Saviour thou shalt from thence be translated and exalted into Abraham's bosom thy light affliction which is but for a moment shall work for thee a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory And so I passe from the third part of the Text the Place from whence Christ ascended to the fourth Quo the Place whither he ascended which was Heaven he was taken up thither In the first chapter of Ezekiel's Prophesie we read of four living Creatures and every of these creatures had four faces the face of a man the face of an Ox the face of a Lion the face of an Eagle Whereunto Expositors resemble four actions of our Saviour his Nativity his Passion his Resurrection his Ascension At his Nativity he was like a man more than like he was a man indeed man of the substance of his mother born in the world At his Passion he was like an Ox offered up for us in sacrifice upon the Altar of the Crosse At his Resurrection he was like a Lion even a lion of the tribe of Judah he brake the bonds of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it At his Ascension he was like an Eagle he soared up into heaven Into heaven But did he go no higher St. Paul saith he ascended farre above all heavens Eph. 4.10 But for answer to this we must observe that the Scripture maketh mention of a threefold heaven First the Air is called Heaven he commanded the cloud above and opened the doores