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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

That the Holy Ghost is the Inestimable gift of God 2. What a Horrid sin it must needs be to think it may purchased with money 1. The Holy Ghost is Gods Inestimable gift 1. 'T is 2 Gift of his 14 Joh. 16 17. 11 Luk. 13. Infinitely beyond all merit and so 't is well It is a Gift we must have gon without it else 2. 'T is Gods special Gift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Gift of God The Gift of all Gifts not Datum as Bp. Andr. distinguisheth in serm 14. on Whitsun pag. 748. any worldly good thing but Donum bonum perfectum That good and perfect gift that this day came down from above from the Father of lights 1 James 17. In this Gift are contained all the excellencies of nature and grace 1. Of Nature such as Reason Knowledge Understanding Arts Policy Government Stength Courage c. 2. Of Grace such as Faith Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Temperance c. Every Feather of this Dove 3 Mat. 16. is of Gold Every drop of this Ointment this Water precious 1 Joh. 2.27 7 Joh. 38. Every spark of this Fire beautiful 2 Acts 3. Every gale of this Wind perfumed v. 2. O si donum Descires saith our Saviour 4 Joh. 10. if we knew but this Gift which cannot be but by receiving it 2. Rev. 17. how sho●●d we prize it In this Gift God formerly gave Apostles Prophets Evangelists verse 11. The Gift of Healing Miracles c. And in this Gift God still gives us Pastors and Teachers for these we keep this Holy-day saith Bp. Andrewes and so ought to have for them more then a Working-day accompt Again The Gifts which proceed from this Gift such as Preaching Administring the Blessed Sacraments and Prayer c. are as good as no Gifts but for this Gift to the Holy Ghost The Word 2 Cor. 3.6 is but a dead Letter except the Spirit quicken it There can be no Regeneration or New birth at Baptism except as in the First Creation 1 Gen. 2. the Spirit move upon the Water In the Lords Supper the Flesh 6 Joh. 63. profiteth nothing if the Spirit be away nor can we Pray as we ought except the Spirit help us 8 Rom. 26. The Gift of God Eternal Life through Jesus Christ is Communicated to us by the Gift of the Spirit for though Christ on his part hath finished the work of our Redemption 19 Joh. 30. by setting his hand to it his undertakings on the Cross yet this deed is not forcible to us without the seal 4 Eph. 30. and witness of his Spirit 8 Rom. 16. In this Gist God giveth peace to the dissenting 4 Eph. 3. instruction to the ignorant 14 Joh. 26. guidance to the erronious 16 Joh. 13. comfort to the disconsolate verse 6 7. memory to the forgetful 14 Joh. 26. To speak all at once in this Gift God giveth us rich discoveries of himself 1 Cor. 2.11 nay Himself withal hereby the Almighty dwells among us 68 Psal 18. see Bp. Hall 's Paraph on the place 2. The Holy Ghost now being so Infinitely Inestimable a Gift of God as you have heard what a horrid sin must it needs be to think it may be purchased with money What Ingratitude is this to the Giver what Indignity and affront offered to the Gift it self A Gift be it what it will as a Gift 't is absurd to value it much more to put a temporal and corruptible price upon an incorruptible and Eternal purchase a thought of this cannot be endured Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the Gift of God may be purchased with money Application Is the holy ghost so inestimable a gift not to be thought on with a money purchase 1. This condemnes Romes marketting it by selling Crowns Miters Braiers Pardons c. as Mantuan testifies Venalia nobis Templa Sacerdotes altaria sacra Coronae Ignis Thura Preces Caelum est venale Deuique What doth the Apostle here whom they so boast of as their prime Metropolitan refuse Simons money and will he now have Peter-pence The Pope only hath coyned these exactions for himself he desires them not 2. A Gift is such in relation to the Receivers have we then received this Inestimable gift which we may know thus 1. By Sanctity of life The Holy Ghost the third person in the Trinity is peculiarly termed Holy for that besides the holiness of Nature in which respect the Father and the Son are also holy his Office is to Sanctify the Church of God to whom it agreeth in a speciall manner for where the Father Sanctifieth by the Son and by the Holy Ghost the Son from the Father and by the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost Sanctifieth from the Father and from the Son by himself immediately Where this 1. Spirit of holyness is breathed into any man it creates in him a life of holyness and as the natural Spirit doth at the heart it will beat at the mouth it will breath at the pulse it will be felt In the heart it will cause new thoughts new desires sanè novum supervenisse spiritum nova desideria demonstram saith St. Bernard In the mouth new talke new communication in the hands works of new obedience These are the effects of that new Spirit the holy Ghost God promised to give 36. Ezek. 26. This Spirit when it makes a new creature it begins at the heart as the heart they say in any Animal is primum vivens ultimum moriens lives first and dies last It Sanctifies the heart from all inward defilements 15. Mat. 19. the Lips from evil speaking 4. Ephes 31. the Hands from any unlawful actions 2 Pet. 2.8 Thus if sincerely surveying our thoughts words and works we find them holy we may thence inferr We have received the Holy Ghost And as by Sanctity of life we may judge of the receiving this Inestimable Gift for this Dov will not light on Carrion This Water will cleanse this fire will refine this wind will fan thorowly a clean box it must be that is to hold this Ointment 2. By Humility 57 Isa 15. This Dove implies meekness this water forsakes the Hills to visit the low Valleys the less we think of our selves the higher esteem God hath of us a meek and quiet spirit is with him of great Price 1 Pet. 3. c. 4. to whom he sends this rich present the Holy Ghost 4 James 6. 3. By Boldiness in suffering for Christ this we see in the Apostles Peter and John 4 Acts 8.13 and the rest 5 c. 40 41 42. and Stephen 7 c. 54 55. Yet let men beware here the Spirit of contradiction obstinate gain saying of Magistrates and speaking evil of Dignities correcting Delinquency be not mistaken for the Spirits Magnanimity in persecution 4. By charity 4 James 5. Do you think that the Spirit of God saith the Apostle which we profess to have dwelling in us lusteth to envy so Bishop Hall in his Paraph. on the