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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83667	The saints sacred laver. By Iames Eglesfield, master of arts, minister of Gods word at Knightsbridge. Preached at Padington, September the first, 1645	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1646 (1646)	Wing E254A; ESTC R231737	12,295	39

Jezabel anoynted her face when David washed his hands and threw ashes upon his head a great disfiguring to his person yet was he cleaner in the sight of God then the slippery singing Queene of Israel Ezekiah cleansed his hands and Job made a covenant with his eyes pretious parts both yet none so pure so entire so holy as the bathing of our Hands in Innocency I meane not that Pharisaicall cleaning of the hands for that is not comparable to the cleaning sincerity of the heart if you paralell the parts but I meane the hands by way of a symbolicall and figurative resemblance the phrase not being so much to be ●●cand as it is an externall washing and so ●roper to hypocrites but as it is a symbole of internall purification and so proper to the Saints Now some washing their hands onely will rashly salute the Altar of God beeing coloured with seeming appearance this is Hypocrisie Others will wash their hands as a testimony of the purity of their hearts and so reverently approach the Mercy seate of God being beautified with reall integrity This is Innocency But why did David say his hands more then his feet or any other part of his body Because the principall Organs of all externall Actions are the hands and so Symbolycally the truest resemblance of all hearty and spirituall ablution When therefore it is said David washed his hands c. Wee must not understand onely an outward and visible cleansing of his carnall body but a generall cleansing of his soule and Spirit Hands being the Executioners of all externall Actions and so the Figure of a totall and generall both exteriour and interiour Sanctification Wherefore when thou lookest into the house of God look to thine Eye least that grow wanton take heede to thy Tongue that it speake no guile looke to thy feete that they slip not but especially wash thy Hands that they miscary not let not those be rough like Esau's but smooth as Iacobs set with gold Cant. 5.14 Then mayest thou put thy finger in thinge eye if it trouble thee then mayest thou nipp thy self by the Eare to keep them from sleep in security strike thy selfe on the feete if they stumble or tripp beat thy selfe on the heart if that prevaricate or play the whore smite thy selfe on the mouth if it talke idlesy rubb thy selfe on the Temples if they grow dull in a word then mayest thou doe all things decently as befitts the house of prayer So that the washing of the hands in Innocency is the true resemblance of all Spirituall ablution Now many will wash but few in Innocency Some with Pilate before blood publiquely Mat. 27.24 Some with the Pharisee before dinner hypocritically and some with the Gentiles before an oath superstitiously But let us with the religious Levite and Christian professor purifie and purge not onely the visible flesh of our hands but also the invisible taints of our Spirit Fo● the former sanctification is but only a figur● of that which followeth as you may read● Heb. 9. but the latter is a modell of that true and lively sacrifice of Christ himselfe who through the eternall Spirit of God offered himselfe without spot to God purging our consciences from dead works to serve the everliving God Wherefore O Lord sprinkle with thine hysope the blood of thy Sonne that the water of thy Spirit may never cease to purifie our hands till they bee as white through Innocency as thy Throne above is beautified with Ivery Especially wee of the seede of Aaron that every action of ours may bee acceptable our hands with which we hold the T●ble of the Covenant our hands with which we slay the Sacrifice our hands with which wee blesse the Congregation with which we gird about the linnen Ephod of an holy conversation with which wee lift up the sacred Challice with which wee distribute thy holy Body our hands by the continuall intention of which in our Prayers wee lift up the hinges of the everlasting doores that the King of glory may receive us Let all these bee made cleane and pure from all filthynes let us wash our hands in all our Actions that being thus prepared we may goe to his Altar Thus much for the Quo modo now followes the holy presence 〈◊〉 Lord. In which note two things first the Maesty Domine Secondly the Mirror in this article ô First of his Majesty Domine Some writers divide the Names which ●re common to the Trinity by a foure fold ●ifference some onely pointe at the Essence 〈◊〉 Iehovah some at the distinction of per●●ns as Elohim some at the essentiall proper●●●s of his Diety as only wife only just c. ●●d some at the Relation which God hath 〈◊〉 his creatures as Lord of Lords King of ●●ngs And of this last order is the name u●●d in my Text. For power and authority ●●ve a certaine habitude and respect unto the by which hee is subjugated and tyed to a● awfull obedience for we have as Aquina● sayeth a certain reall relation unto God a● our Creator without whom we had had n● Being and God to us a Rationall becaus● he did humble himselfe to exalt us Where fore this name Domine in my Text is neither a Symbole of his infinite essence neither of any personall distinction but only o● a powerfull dreadfull and vindicatory relation he hath to Man which ought to caus● a reverent and fearefull approach into hi● presence Therefore if we refuse his Mercy as he is Deus and so can crowne us yet le● us not despise his power as hee is Dominus and so can crush us For as he is Deus he is a God of bowells and compassion an● carrieth the rod and staffe of comforte P●● 23.4 but as hee is Dominus he is a God 〈◊〉 vengeance that can scourge us with a rod 〈◊〉 yron Ps 2. for our iniquities Wherefore when David in the awfull resolution of his soule and cristall sincerity 〈◊〉 his Spirit commends the Sacrifice of his clevotion to heaven he proposeth such a pr●sence of God as is most extimulatory of feare and reverence I will wash my hands in Innocency O Lord. This Name shewing the Majesty and power of God over man By vertue of his name hee punished the Sacrifice of Cain Gen. 4.5 The rebellion of Corah Numb 16. The bleating and Hypocriticall Sacrifice of Saul By vertue of this he threatens the Israelites I am the Lord by vertue of this he bids battle to the Nations I am the Lord What shooke the Wildernesse The voyce of the Lord. What brake the Cedars of Lebanon The voyce of the Lord by vertue of this Name he ratifies his purposes the voyce of the Lord hath spoken it By vertue of this Name he rides upon the heavens the Chariots of the Lord. By vertue of this Name his wrath is published how long wilt thou be angry O Lord By vertue of this Name hee summons the quarters of the earth the day of the

Lord. When shooke the Earth at the presence of the Lord. When melted the Heavens at the presence of the Lord. When were the waters dryed up At the presence of the mighty God of Iacob the least falme of this bush dasht Moses out of countenance This fiery pillar burnt Iobs goods and cattle This burning heate made the children of Israel stand a farre off Wherefore with St. Jeromes Marcella we are to desire the proper interpretation of all the Names of God every one ministring occasion of spirituall growth yet are wee most to desire it when wee approach the Sanctuary of God to prefixe this Name before our eyes the name of the Lord It being the Ensigne of his power and the tempest going before his face the Embleme of his Majesty the thunder of Mount Sinai where Gods seate is by vertue of which hee breatheth hailestones and coales of fire This holy meditation of his Majesty turned Abraham into dust ashes This stript Iob of all humane and vaine conceits this cloathed David in Sackcloath this made him a worm and no man a thing of nought And I doubt not but if wee seriously entertained it this would burne downe the stubble of humane opinions in us and lay us prostrate yea even breathlesse before the face of God with the very thought of our wretched unworthynesse Wherefore Beloved let the reverent opinion of the presence of the Lord be evermore our curb when we come to the propitiatory of his Mercy seate Let this calme the Sea of our affections and worke in us an awfull and religious Obedience Let us knowe the presence of God is not the presence of Dagon that hath no eyes nor of Nisroch which hath no eares but the glorious and present beauty of Syon the al-seeing Eye of God the discovery of Heaven This Memento will cause us to wash to cleanse our hearts and search the very concavity of our spirits This will beget not only an holy preparation before we come but a cautelous and strong attention after we are come and the expectation of an happy benediction ere we goe fearing each moment the arrow of his displeasure the merit of our owne presumption and the doome of Heaven Thus much for the Majesty now followeth the Mirror O And so will I go to thine Altar O Lord. This interjection howsoever smothered in the Latin and Greeke Syntaxe yet hath it in the English an Emphaticall use and speciality it being the flood-gate of mans extasie and the dilatation of his Spirit when he is transported with the high and sublime speculation of the presence of God Neither is it only vented when we thinke of his presence but when wee speake of his Attributes or any the extraordinary or transcendent workes of his Diety O the depth and riches of his Mercies cries Paul in one place O the inscrutabilitie of his Judgements in another place O his wonderfull workes in the deepe cries David in one place O how amiable are thy dwellings in another Thus wonders Mortality when it droopes and hangs the wing being strook with the Majesty of God This should cause humble dejection in our spirits a poore and lowly esteeme in our selves when we enter into conference with God Now there is nothing will sooner draw us to this practise then the paralelling of our estate with Gods our condition challenging the wonderment of Lamentation and Gods of Praise and Exaltation For in this Gods O of Mercy will answer to Mans O of misery See it in the wrestling of Paul O miserable man that I am cryes he when he took Survey of his fleshes rebellion O the riches of the Mercies of God! when he weighs the depth of Christ's Propitiation See it likewise in the methode o● David O remember not my sinnes and offences cryes he when he scan'd the measure of his owne misery O call to mind thy loving kindnesse ô Lord when hee recollects the Balme of Gods mercy O how short is my time when he spann'd the life of Man O God thy seat endureth for ever when he would fathome the Auncient of dayes The like meditation will drive us to the same to the same astonishment when wee shall conscionably think of our owne unworthyness● with an O how inferiour are we by reason of our many pollutions to stand before the face of God and it will make us say as David doth here I will wash my hands in Innocency c. Thus much of the holy presence I come now to the holy place in this word Altar Where note two things first the Reverence of his Progresse So. Secondly the Reference of the place Thine And so will I go to thine Altar So not otherwise though the Devil upon the pinacle should promise mee the Kingdome of the world for why should we presume to come to the marriage of the Lambe without a wedding garment or Samuels Ephod So will I goe saith David adorned with these unto thine Altar And if ever ●his So was dedicated to the obtaining of Eternity if ever to the joy of Angels and ●omfort of the Elect it was then done when David renounced the whole body of Sinne turned to his Creator that made him Lastly if ever this So did procure the An●els of Heaven to rejoyce then may it now ●●use us to shed teares of gladnesse since the ●eauty of Holines the Lamb of God Inno●●ncy hath offered himself upon the Crosse and become an advocate to the father for our sinnes Here was a So worthy to bee remembred for ever for he dying turned our death into Life that is our sinnes to righteousnesse Thus much for the Reverence now followeth the Reference Thine The Pronoune Thine is a partition wall twixt God and Dagon and sanctifies the edifices of the Temple For this seperates all Idolatrous places of worship Not any Altar but the Altar of God and not any place but the place where his honour dwelleth So that by this word Thine is meant the habitation of his Glory the holy Temple of the eternall and ever living God To which whosoever comes thus washed and prepared shall enjoy the mount of Syon and the hill of the new Ierusalem Montem pinguem being a fat mountaine in respect of the multitude of spirituall grace Montem Dei because God himselfe dwells there and Montem coagmentatum so strongly congealed and knit together as that it is impossible it should ever be removed Thus by Gods assistance and your gentle patience I have cleared my hand of my Text. Now the God of mercy and compassion which opened the heart of Lydia to conceive opened the eyes of Elisha to see and opened the lipps of David to speake say Ephata to your hearts eares and eyes that you may ever hunger and thirst after righteousnesse that you may ever seeke the Lord and serve him in faith and in the revealed mysteries of his word Washing your hearts and hands in Innocency that so you may for ever obtaine Grace here in this world and eternall glory in the world to come which God grant unto you all Amen Soli Dei Gloria