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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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