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honour_n	glory_n	house_n	moses_n	1,269	5	9.2980	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30449	A sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, on Christmas-Day, 1696 by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1697 (1697)	Wing B5905; ESTC R21549	13,405	35

a part of the difference between the Mosaical and the Christian Dispensation That the former was spoken by Angels whereas this was first begun to be spoken by the Lord. For unto Angels God hath not put in subjection the world to come a Phrase importing in the Jewish Stile the Dispensation of the Messias whereas the Messias though made a little lower than the Angels was crowned with glory and honour and set over the whole Creation In the Conclusion of that Chapter there is an Expression that makes all this yet more evident For verily he took not on him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham which fully shews that the nature in him which he had before his Incarnation was not the nature of Angels The Second Supposition on which those who deny his Divinity do yet pretend to assert the High Dignity to which he is raised is the Sublimity of that Ministry and Dispensation that was committed to him in conclusion of which and as a reward of his patient Sufferings he was raised up and exalted to Divine Honour This Artemon of old and the Socinians of late have advanced But as by a Spirit of Prophecy St. Paul does in the next place destroy this conceit in that way which of all others was the best suited to the Notions of the Jews He sets Christ in opposition to Moses not only in a priority of rank and precedence but in a Superiority of Nature He Prefaces this with a charge to us to consider the High-Priest and Apostle of our Profession To which he adds That both Moses and he were faithful but with this distinction That this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses in as much as he who hath built the House hath more Honour than the House He adds to this That he who hath built all things is God But the opposition follows Moses was faithful in all his House as a Servant but Christ as a Son over his own House Words that are as clear as they are full To make this yet more sensible it is to be considered That the Degree of Moses's Inspiration is set by God himself above any other Prophecy in these Words If there be a Prophet among you I will make my self known to him in a vision and will speak to him in a dream My Servant Moses is not so who is faithful in all my House with him will I speak mouth to mouth or face to face as one man speaks to another even apparently and not in dark Speeches and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold Or to put this in Modern Expressions he shall see God in a true and compleat Idea Thus Moses was above all other Prophets The peculiar Excellencies of the Pe al pe face to face is well known to all who have any acquaintance with Jewish Notions Now after all this Christ is not only preferred to Moses but is put in such an opposition to him as is that of a Son to a Servant These are plain and simple Authorities that need only a little Reflection but no Commentary to make us apprehend the force and evidence that is in them God be thanked that by his good Providence and the care of all the Churches we have this Book brought down to us in its first genuine and uncorrupted State in which the Inspired Penmen delivered it to the World It was the interest of the Enemies of this Doctrine to endeavour to corrupt it They understood that and followed it for which we have an undeniable Testimony Recorded to us by a Writer who was too favourable to them to be declined as partial against them It was Eusebius who in his History cites a passage from a Writer in the beginning of the 3d Century believed to be Gaius Presbyter of Rome who tells us that Artemon's Disciples had endeavoured to corrupt the New Testament but in such a manner that as they could shew no Ancient Copies to justify their Corruptions so they did not agree among themselves and these Corruptions were as he says very strange and enormous ones So notwithstanding all the Cry that they do now raise of the Corruption of the Text we see who they were that begun it but that the Church was watchful in preserving this sacred Depositum and did early detect this Impious piece of Fraud and stopt it in its first beginnings If any shall ask How can these things be It must be Answered We cannot tell We can form no distinct apprehensions concerning them This is Wisdom indeed in a Mystery It is Wisdom because it comes from God but it is in a mystery because we cannot attain unto it Can we apprehend Eternity or God's being every where and that in one single act he sees all things past present and to come Can we form any distinct thought concerning Creation How Beings arise out of nothing in consequence to the Will of an Infinite Mind who said of all things Let them be and they were Or can we so much as apprehend how Matter thus Created shall move at the Act and Will of its Eternal Creator Can Matter know that Will to obey it Or can an Intellectual Act give Motion to insensible Matter Can we apprehend the propagation of Plants much less of Animals And as to that which of all other things we perceive the most sensibly Can we apprehend how Soul and Body dwell together How Thought and Motion how distant soever in their Natures have that Union with and Influence upon one another How a Motion of Matter can throw an inexpressible Agony into a Mind and how a Mind can command so many regular and unaccountable Motions of Matter as we perceive in Memory Imagination and Speech are difficulties that confound us These are such plain and home convictions of the defectiveness of our Faculties which can much more easily apprehend difficulties than resolve them that it can be no just Objection to any part of the Divine Revelation that it contains matters out of which great difficulties do arise and that we are not able to give our selves any account of them Our apprehensions are not only finite but very much bounded we see but a very little way and therefore we ought not to plead our want of capacity in opposition to any thing that appears to be plainly revealed to us in Scriptures When such things occur to us we ought to take the Shield of Faith maintaining our selves with this That the God of Truth who cannot Lye has revealed such things to us and when we are sure of that we are at the same time as sure that it must be true because it comes from him And by this we may beat back all the fiery Darts of the Devil all those Objections that arise out of a mixture of Pride and Weakness for our Faculties are as weak as our Arrogance and Self-conceit is high This is so important a part of the