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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29122	A sermon ad clerum at the visitation of the deane and chapter there, holden the 19th day of November, anno Dom. 1662 : by the Most Reverend Father in God Acceptus, by Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of York his Grace, Primate of England and Metropolitan / preacht by Thomas Bradley ...	Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670.	1663 (1663)	Wing B4137; ESTC R36506	23,744	42

as Signets of his right Hand as pretious Stones in his Signer Illustrious and Glorious Great is the Honour that he is pleased to put upon them even here in the Church How studious ought we to be of his Honour that hath thus honoured us and of our own too that we carry as becomes us in that high Relation Calling Dignity Name and Place that we beare in Gods right Hand that so we way sit on his right Hand hereafter in whose presence is fulnesse of joy and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore 3. The advantage that we have of being abundantly illuminated by the light of his countenance at so neer a distance The neerer the Starrs are to the Fountain of Light the stronger must needs be the irradiation from it and their illumination by it Behold we are neer unto the Lord Starrs in his right Hand how strong then must needs be the irradiation from so Glorious a Presence through the beams of his countenance darting upon us In was said of Moses that when he came out of the Mount his Face did shine that the people could not look upon him for the glory of it Behold we are in the Mount with God we are taken neer unto him the Light in us should be so great our Gifts and Graces so illustrious and resplendent that our people should look upon us with dazled Eyes in admiration of our spirituall excellencies while we behold with open face the Glory of the Lord it should be our care and indeavour and will be our happinesse too to be transformed into the same Image from Glory to Glory and that that God which made the light to shine out of darknesse may shine into our Hearts to give the light of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ 4. By this expression is intimated the continuall Eye that God hath upon us to observe our carriage and our behaviour in our Callings and in our respective Churches and Charges We cannot be in his right Hand but we must be under his right Eye too and that is as a Flame of fire not so much for the anger as for the perspicacity of it Of all sorts of people and Callings amongst men there are none that he doth more strictly observe or take a more exact account of then he doth of us How punctually and particularly doth he Charge the Angels of these seven Churches in the second and third Chapters of this Book This thou bast for which I commend thee And these and these things I have against thee imagine it every one of us as spoken unto our selves A Day will come when he will deale as punctually with us as he doth here with them In the meane time He knows our Works and fees our Wayes and our Walkings his Flaming and Fiery Eye is upon us Oh what manner of Men ought we to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse How circumspectly ought we to walk How exactly to order all our goings and doings that are under the inspection of so perspicatious so severe an Eye 5. By this Expression is intimated to us The Power that Almighty God hath in his Hand and the liberty that he reserveth unto himself to dispose of these Starre as he pleaseth to hold forth this Hand with the Starrs in it to what part of the world he pleaseth and there to continue it as long as he pleaseth and when he pleaseth to turn his Hand another way even which may he pleaseth with the Starrs in it to give light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and to leave the other from whom he took it in the darkness in which at the first he found them Beloved these Starrs doe not shine to any place of the world of the Church by chance No not in particular Churches there is a Providence in the disposing of them In the 16th of the Acts we have a clear evidence of it there were three bright Starrs faine would they have shined in Asia but they received a prohibition from the holy Ghost The holy Ghost forbad them ver 6. Then they assayed to shine into Bithynia but the spirit suffered them not ver 7. The Ruler and Disposer of the Starrs had otherwise determined that they should goe to Macedonia and shine there and there did this Hand hold them forth for a season ver 12. The Starrs must shine where he will have them and as long as he will have them and no longer These seven Churches of Asia are an evidence of this truth at this day Over them did Christ hold forth this Hand with the Starrs in it at this time and a long while after untill he was weary of holding it forth and by reason of their barrennesse and unthankfulnesse their irreligion and Apostasie they gave him just Cause to Complain That all the day long he had stretched out his Arme to an unthankfull and a gain-saying people and then to what purpose should he hold it forth there any longer In his wisedom and justice he turned his Hand from them and held it forth more Westward to the Westerne Churches And since that more Northward to these Parts of the world the Inhabitants of the Island the Inheritance of Japhet amongst whom we are And now by the blessing of God we have enjoy'd the Light under them many years But take heed least for the same sinns for which God turn'd his Hand from Shem to Japhet he again remove his Hand from Japhet to Cham and when he doth so least as upon that remove he left Shem in darknesse so upon this turne he also leave us in that darknesse wherein he found us Beloved there is an Ancient Prophesie Gen. 9.27 God shall perswade Japhet and he shall dwell in the Tents of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant What is meant by Shem there but the Church which was first Planted in those Easterne Parts which were the Habitation of Shem. What is meant by Japhet's dwelling in his Tents but his succeeding of Shem in the Priviledges of the Church by translating the Gospel out of these Easterne Parts of the world into these more Westerly and Northerly Quarters of the world which were the Lot of Japhets Inheritance and in which his Posterity seated themselves and amongst whom we are descended from him by Gomer By vertue of this Promise are we this Day the Church and dwell in the Tents of Shem. But what doe we think of Canaan all this while All this while he hath been a servant But is there not a time when he shall shake off the Yoke of servitude shall all those Parts of America be for ever forgotten shall Light never appear in them Me thinks I see the Day-spring from on high begin to visit them Me thinks I see the Beames of the Morning Sunne begin to breake out upon them in the promulgation of the Gospel in Virginia one of the outward skirts of that mighty Continent And I