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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

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

more and stronger till it makes Christs sufferings in some measure ours drawing from us according to his Agonie sweat 21 Luk. 44. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bloudy tears Bloud and water in abundance both from heart and eyes making our morning some what suitable to his Heaviness and exceeding sorrow of Soul vers 37 38. Our Prayers servent like those strong cries 5 Heb. 7. which at some distance in the dreadful sence thereof he sent up prostrate for the removing if it might be of this bitter Cup. He fell on his face and Prayed saying O my Father c. Our Text divides it self into 2 parts Division 1. Christs Supplication 2. Submission 1 Christs Supplication Christs Petition implies three things wherein you have his earnest Petition to God for the passing of this Cup if possible implying three things 1. The Bitterness of the Cup. 2. Christs sensibleness hereof 3. 1 The bitterness of the Cup in 3 respects The difficultie of its passing 1. The bitterness of the Cup which appears if you consider 1. The Cup it self 2. The Qualitie of the person who was to drink it 3. The manner Consider it was to be drank in 1. Consider the Cup it self 1 The Cup it self 't is 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Cup. Christs sufferings are sometimes compared to Baptisme 20 Mat. 22. a plunging over head and ears sometimes to a Cup to denote the plentifulness of them This Cup is wide and deep and holds a great deal 2. 'T is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This Cup 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which points at the grievousness of it This Cup 75 Psal 8. is a Cup of red wine blood full mixt with the fierce wrath of God 1 Lam. 12. for sin This Cup whoso hath tasted but one sup of it in the sence of Gods frowns to his particular sins may perhaps guess somewhat of its insufferableness to be drank clear off for the sins of the whole world This Cup wherein is squeezed the whole vintage of Gods fury due to the transgressions of all mankind This cup must our Redeemer take down dregs and all as he becomes our Sponsor to bear our griefs and carry our sorrows God laying on him the iniquitie of us all 55 Isaiah 4. This cup transmits most exquisite tortures into his Bodie unspeakable pangs of Soul 1. Exquisite tortures of Bodie His head was digged with thorns his back furrowed with the whip 39 Psal 3. His hands and feet torn with vails his side heart pierced with the Spear for us he endures the painful shameful lingring cursed death of the Cross 2. Unspeakable pangs of Soul witness that strange distillation in the Garden on the very thoughts of this cup 22 Luk. 44. what wonderful inflammation 1 Lam. 13. fire in his bones proceeding no doubt from the dreadful anguish of his Soul 14 Mar. 34. caused in him this unheard of melting A sweat of great drops of blood showring down his body in a cold night for they were feign to have a fire within 22 Luke 55. whilest he lay abroad in the open air upon the cold earth At this hour what his seelings were it is dangerous to define saith Reverend Bishop Andrews in his second Sermon on the Passion p. 354. we know them not we may be too bold to determine them In respect of these the Greek Fathers crie out in their Liturgie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By thy unknown sorrows and sufferings felt by thee but not distinctly known by us have mercy upon us and save us Such were the unspeakable distresses * Ursin Cat. pag. 509. Though some expound it of his local descent thither alledging notable reasons See Day 's L●ct 7th on the Creed p. 140. 2. Consider the person that drank this cup. torments and terrours of Christs soul before and then especially when he hung on the Cross witness that doleful crie of My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 27 Mat. 46. that many make these that Hell we say in our Creed he descended into May not then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This cup well make our Saviour crie out O my Father c. 2. This Cup is aggravated by weighing the person that was to drink it For as is the person saith Bishop Andrews so is the passion Now Christ was the greatest person that ever did or could suffer and so likewise must his sufferings be the greatest if we consider him 1. A man in himself altogether Innocent Call it not immodesty in her sex or only a ridiculous and superstitious credulity to an idle dream but impute it rather to a good zeal raised in her by some extraordinarie Revelation that Pilate's Wife should send such a charge in his behalf to her Husband on the Bench saying have thou nothing to do with that Just man 27 Mat. 19. 'T was nothing but what Pilate himself was convinced of publickly declaring he found no fault in him 23 Luk. 14. no nor yet Herod ver 15 no nor the Devil himself 14 Jo. 30. Let him be Crucified lay the envious Rabble nor can they shew any sence for it why what evil hath he done but a rash and lowder crucifigatur let him be Crucified 2. He was a noble Personage of the Race Royal descended from Kings 1 Mat. 2 Luke 4. 3. He was and I can go no further God himself The creature so miraculously Sympathizing with its mighty Creatour in that great Eclipse and Earthquake at his passion 27 Mat. 45 51.54 makes the Centurion cry out truly this was the Son of God And the Son of God in that sense the Jews understood him 10 Jo. 33.36 Equal with God without any Robbery or Blasphemous Presumption at all What will you say did our Saviour then did he suffer such extremities he that was God himself must the Lord of life and glory in whose presence there is fulness of Joy 16 Ps 11. submit to a full draught of all Infamy pain and death 2 Phil. 6 7 8. If as the person is the passion be this argues again the bitterness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this cup. 3. 3 The manner of drinking this Cup. The manner of drinking this cup aggravates its bitterness as 1. 1 Unaccompanied Vnaccompanied alone of the people there was none with him 63 Isa 3. His dearest ●isciples at this instant they all forsook him and fled v. 56. If Peter follovv it shall be far enough off v. 58. If he come into the Court vvhere his Master is arraigned abused c. It shall be with a great deal of strangeness protesting with Oaths and Imprecations that he doth not know the man v. 72.74 rather than by acknowledging him to bring himself within the praemunire of this bitter cup. 2. 2 Unpitied Unpitied from that nature he took and undertook for Man They for whom he became bound became his Executioners They for whom he drank this bitter