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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03497	Three sermons vpon the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Our Sauior preached at Oxford, by Barten Holyday, now archdeacon of Oxford.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1626 (1626)	STC 13619; ESTC S104172	41,348	128

sent it to his soule to make-vp a Saint And some haue sent the bodie of the blessed Virgin thither with much reuerence and opinion though as farre from vse as from certaintie And some haue giuen two or three little ascensions to her Temple which is pleased as yet to be honoured at Loretto which is pleased as yet to honour Loretto make that place ascend aboue other places by not ascending from that place Nay the Turkes too boast of an ascension not of a temple but of their Mahomet though had this beene it had beene an ascension without a resurrection an ascension not so much of his carcasse as of his coffin which being of iron has beene reported to ascend to the roofe of his temple or rather to the secret vertue of many Load-stones fixt with as much secrecie in the roofe of his temple Yet euen this ascension also will proue to be the worke rather of Poets then of Load-stones Which can indeed make iron ascend nay make other Load-stones ascend from the cōmon center though they themselues if not violently sustained doe naturally descend and acknowledge the common center Yet since without respect one to another each does attract with an absolute intention and since the application in such attraction is most aptly made from some point in the stone to some point in the iron the defect of such forme in the iron and the number of the stones which was inuented to helpe the inuention does with the honestie of Philosophie quite betray it since the iron by a confused command of its dutie could not apply it selfe to any one and therefore not to any And thus you see that Mahomets presumptuous sinnes did ascend higher then his bodie or then the inuention of his idolaters But if we would see a low ascension and yet a wondrous one we may behold our Sauiour's walking vpon the water which was an ascension in respect of nature though not of our Sauiours person it was an ascension of his power though not of his person nay it was an ascension of his person because it should naturally haue beene a descension of his person And least wee might thinke that this ascension could only bee effected in Christ's person as it could be effected only by his power he did effect it in Peters person And though he needed Christ's hand as much as his inuitation yet was it his vnbeliefe that was heauier then his bodie But Christ's bodie was at last to ascend aboue all the elements except so much of them as composed his bodie which ascended to immortalitie fortie dayes sooner then it ascended to Heauen and now as much required to be placed aboue the place of our bodies as it was aboue the condition of them When therefore he was to ascend he led his Disciples out of Ierusalem it was the first degree of his ascension to separate himselfe from the trouble of the Citie to separate himselfe from the impiety of that Citie whose malice whiles it was increased in procuring his death was admirably deluded in procuring his ascension Hee led his Disciples vnto Mount Oliuet a place from whence his prayers had often ascended as now his person It was not farre from Bethanie a Village not great it seemes either in people or sinnes and so peraduenture as neere to the benefit of the ascension as to the ascension And being now to goe vp to to the Kingdome of God he discourseth to his Disciples of the Kingdome of God as if their eare should prepare their eye whiles he himselfe will make himselfe the illustration and proofe of his owne doctrine Yet to shew the truth of his loue as much as the truth of his words first be lifts-vp his hands at which they lift-vp their eyes and hearts and then hee lift-vp his voice and blesses them See with what kind preuention hee supplyes his future absence by his present blessing hee makes his blessing the Deputie of his person which whiles they behold with eyes as earnestly fixt by loue as they could be by death behold hee ascends and they lose the sight of him sooner by a cloud then by distance Which shortnesse of the the pleasure of their sight was happily supplied before by the intention of their sight His bodie was but a cloud to his Diuinitie and now his body ascends in a cloud which did as eminently shew his power as it concealed his person A cloud full of God is the Chariot of his triumph and the curtaines of his Chariot are the wings of Cherubins Lift vp your heads O yee gates and bee yee lift vp yee euerlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in But whiles the Apostles stedfastly gaze after him as if they would turne their eyes into Perspectiues or attend him as farre with their sight as with their desire behold their passion is not satisfied but changed and heard by them to saue them the labour of gazing they behold insteed of one Christ two Angels and their white apparell insteed of a cloud though their number was not so much for a supply of Christ who was gone into Heauen as for a more ful securitie of his returne from Heauen The expectation whereof if any shall thinke tedious they may ascend after him peraduenture before his returne not by seeking the impression of his footsteps on Mount Oliuet but by finding the ready way in his precepts by which wee may ascend to the vnderstanding of his ascension by which wee may ascend to the height of his ascension Which was aboue all the Heauens that eyther Philosophers or the Starres had beene acquainted with nay into that Heauen of which Copernicus might without errour haue said that it stands still the Heauen in which the Saints rest like the Heauen the Heauen in which Christ rest's like the Saints And yet you shall not only see his ascension into this Heauen but you shall see also his ascension in this Heauen that was the ascension of his person but this of his glory Enoch and Eliah ascended to this Heauen but you shall see Christ Iesus in this Heauen ascend to the right hand of God! Behold this day the humanitie made the favourite of the Diuinitie Behold Christ on the right hand of God! O what a spectacle would this haue beene for Herod and Pilate they would haue cryed out that their worst Hell had beene from Heauen and to haue scaped the horrour of this sight they would haue chosen vtter darknesse But behold Christ on the right hand of God! In whose right hand are pleasures for euermore And yet can wee behold those pleasures which no eye hath seene Nay can we behold the hand in which those pleasures are Nay can the hand be found that wee might behold it Shall vvee dresse the Almightie with shape and by an idolatrous gratitude bestow the figure vpon God which hee has bestowed vpon vs Shall we giue hands to him that were not able to giue them to our selues No