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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67311	A divine theater, or, A stage for Christians delivered in a sermon at Christ-Church in Oxford / by John Wall ...	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing W468; ESTC R5262	16,628	106

to deny ungodlinesse and make that an occasion of falling which is given for a blessing The rather indeed because St Paul will not so much as allow of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the fifth Chapter of his Epistle to the Ephesians when men delight in that which is not comely as spots blots in the feasts of Charity and care not to make themselves ridiculous Morio's so they may others merry with the offence and scandall of their Brethren though in the Sanctuary of God and the very mid'st of his most Holy Temple where they should put off the shoes as it were of foule reproach and not defile it with unsavoury pollutions as they may learne from a meer Heathen Sacer esi locus extra Mei Shall I praise you in this I praise you not to say no more then he doth in a gentle reproofe to the Corinthians Howbeit ye know that our Saviour Christ had a whip for grosse profaners of the Temple The best use we can make of Divine bounty and Evangelicall mercy is a good life and honest conversation in the feare of God and the duties of Religion O kisse the Son and blesse the God of your Salvation who tooke of our flesh that he might give us of his Spirit and poure it forth aboundantly upon all flesh Men and Women Fathers and Children Princes and Nobles Rulers and Servants For God is no accepter of Persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh Righteousnesse is accepted of him The tenth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles Without doubt their hearts are of stone and not of flesh that do not melt and dissolve with a sense of this Kindnesse He Descends that we may Ascend Ascend and Descend upon the Sonne of man Ascend in Love and the height of Contemplation Descend in Obedience and the Hurnility of Subjection as it is said of the Glorious Angels in the first Chapter of St Iohn the Evangelist If you would learne the manner and desire to know the wings that bring him to us they are as the wings of a Dove VVhose wings are of Gold and whose feathers are of Silver in argento Humanitas in auro Divinitas saith Elegant Bernard by wings of Gold we understand the power of his God-head by feathers of Silver the purity of his Man-hood the Gold and the Silver that meer together in the Royall Person of our Gracious Mediatour and most Precious Redeemer When the Seales of the booke in the Revelation were opened there was a voice heard as the noise of Thunder saying Come and see I have loosed the Seales of the Text and displaid the Treasures thereof the Love of God the Salvation of Christ the Riches of his Grace the Sweetnesse of his Peace and reconciling Merites Give me leave to round your eares and to rouse your Spirits as a Sonne of Thunder in the same Language Come and see come and Sing O come let us sing unto the Lord let us Heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation With Psalmes and Hymnes of Divine praise and Jubilar exultancies Who would not adore him that is Magnified by all the powers of Heaven though he tooke not Angels but the seed of Abraham Was Alpha shall be Omega was the First shall be the Last was the Beginning shall be the End the End of our Hope the Consummation of our Happynesse Give him the Honour due unto his Name the Name of Iesus the Name of a Saviour wherein we rejoyce and whereby we Triumph over the greatest adversaries As his Name is so let his Praise be Great and wonderfull publike and universall in all Churches and in all places let his Saints praise him let all his Saints praise him with Melody and with joyfulnesse Crying aloud in the words of the Magnificat He that is Mighty hath done great things for us and Holy is his name Sometimes with the Glorious Cherubims in Anthems and Antiphonies Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory Sometimes with the blessed Elders in Elogies and Doxologies Salvation and Honour VVisdome and Power be to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever The Lamb that came to us in a cloud of flesh that all might see him the Lamb that shall come in the clouds of Heaven that all may find him they which have done ill to their greife they which have done well to their comfort in the Visions of Peace and the sweet Fruition of his Beatificall praesence for ever more Which the Lord grant for Iesus Christ his sake To whom with the Father and the Son three Persons and one God be Ascribed all Power Majesty and Dominion this day and for ever Amen FINIS

as well for the Prince thereof as for the inhabitants of the world But this is contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle Christ being risen dyeth not in that he dyed he dyed unto sin in that he liveth he liveth unto God And therefore St Bernard is bold to say of him impudenti mendacio crucifigit Dominum gloriae that he doth crucifie the Lord of glory with the impudent scandall of haereticall blasphemy For my part I leave him to that receiv'd Character Vbi benè nemo melius ubi malè nemo pejus Most certain it is he wrought Salvation in the midst of the earth that all Nations may draw unto it as lines aequidistant to their center And that with incredible love and most invincible patience amid'st the indignities and the contumelies of reproachfull adversaries not with things corruptible as Silver and gold but with the effusion of his owne bloud as a lamb undefiled and without spot The 1 and the 1 of Peter For Salvation is a fruit that doth not grow on every tree fructus Vitis as St Bernard hath it the fruit of the Vine the bleeding Vine that was not only bound to the wood of his crosse but cut and pierced and brused and pruned in that husbandry of God with the sharpest Amputations of his Fathers wrath To the end that he might verifie an ancient Prophesy long since mentioned by the Patriark Iacob In Sanguine Uvae lavabit stolam he shall wash his Coate in wine and his Cloake in the bloud of grapes The Coate of his flesh and the Cloake of humane substance Genesis 40. St Ambrose speaking of this Mystery will have him to be Vitis and Uva both together A Vine as he hung upon the tree and was fastned to his Crosse A Grape in the Opening of his bowells and the exuberant sweetnesse of Divine grace when he sent forth the Wine of comfort even bloud and water for the Redemption of his Church and Sanctification of his brethren Then was he the Author of Salvation when he was made perfect then and not till then as we gather from the Scripture Being made perfect he became the Author of aeternall Salvation in the 5 and the 6 of the Epistle to the Hebrewes How is that by easie trials and gentle adventures Surely no it cost more to redeem Soules and therefore saith the Author 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was sanctified through afflictions and he was perfected through afflictions sighes and groanes sufferings and afflictions in the 1 and the 10 of the same Epistle His Crosse was his perfection and his Passion was our consummation the perfection of his Aeconomy and the consummation of our felicity worthily stiled the Government upon his shoulders Whence is that of learned Augustine Dormit Adam ut fiat Eva moritur Christus ut fiat Ecclesia The first Adam sleeps that Eve may be formed and shaped The second Adam dyes that his Church may be reform'd and saved For without bloud there is no remission without a Sacrifice there is no reconciliation The bloud of Christ is the redemption of man the bloud of Christ is the expiation of sin the bloud of Christ is the satisfaction of God the bloud of Christ is the patefaction of heaven Or to give it in the language of St Bernard Sanguis crucifixi est clavis paradisi The bloud of Iesus who was Crucified by the Iewes is the only key that unlocks Heaven and openeth the gates of that Coelestiall paradise Why then should any seeke unto the creature before the Creator that Idoll of the creature that nothing of the creature like those foolish Proci amongst the Graecians who went to the hand-maid insteed of the Mistris Is not this to desert the Fountaine of Living water and to dig Cisterns which hold no water poore soules how are they deceived that expect help from a broken staffe and leane wholy upon the reeds of Aegypt that may easily break and run into their hands Their faith is vaine their hope is vaine and we may bespeak them in the words of a Heathen Una Salus miseris nullam sperare Salutem Was Paul crucified for you or were you baptized into the name of Paul Nor Paul nor Cephas nor men nor Angells were able to emancipate us without the power of God and the sweet Mediation of his Son Christ Iesus Consider the Generations of old and looke into the Vanity of former Ages What are the shrines and the altars the sepulchres and the images the molten images the graven images of all the Saints and Martyrs since the world began but strange inventions and strong delusions which many run after to their owne destruction Galba est non Getulicus saith the Historian in a military sense And truly we may say Christus non Moses in a Spirituall sense It is Christ and not Moses Christ and not Aaron How much lesse the man of sinne which sits in the Temple of God and usurps the chaire as his Vicar at Rome can heale our greife or Seale us a Pardon It is not Peter nor Paul nor Iames nor Iohn must be our defence but Christ alone the rocke of our strength and the God of our Salvatiō who was made all things to all men though in himselfe constantly One without variablenesse or shadow of change The sheep and the sheepaid the root and the flower the doore and the Sanctuary the table and the candlestick A lion a lamb a rock a stone The stone which the builders refused and the stone which is made the Head of the Corner He it is that is Deus sospitalis in a religious sense the great praeserver of mankind by whom we looke for safety and deliverance And therefore as Christ said to Zachaeus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this day is Salvation come unto thee so may I say to all that heare me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this day is Salvation come unto you the Salvation of God the God of your Salvation Come down Zachaeus descend my brethren come downe hastily and receive him joyfully in the sound of his Oracles and the power of his Ordinances which are daily published in the midest of your Churches Let Zachaeus come downe from his extortion and let all depart from their transgression the proud from insolence the wanton from dalliance the strong from violence and the bloud thirsty from malice that Christ may find a gracious welcome and set up his Throne in every heart and in every conscience The heavens send forth a deiw and the clouds drop righteousnesse the earth opens and brings Salvation Salvation and Iustice come forth together the word of truth the breast-plate of righteousnesse the sword of the Spirit the helmet of Salvation are given to us as the armour of God and sent down amongst us as the Roman Ancilia from the clouds above ut inhabitet gloria in terrâ nostrâ That we may triumph among the Saints and glory may dwell in our land the 85 of the Prophet