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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44245	Motives to a good life in ten sermons / by Barten Holyday ...	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2531; ESTC R36003	137,260	326

just distinction weight He forgives Iniquitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sinne of man against his Neighbour his unjust dealing He forgives Transgression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man's Rebellion against God his receding from the power of the Lord that layd a command upon him and so aptly expresses the old offenee of our first parents their Disobedience as the Apostle calls it and our own offences against the Lord. He forgives Sinne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Sepiuagint renders it which though it be of a large signification yet here by way of difference may fitly be taken for that sin of sinnes which is too nerely against Our selves that sinne whence others flow that law in our members as the Apostle speakes Rom. 7.23 the sinne that dwells in us v. 17. originall sinne And thus does the Lord Iesus deliver his people at the last from all kind of sinne Iniquitie against our Neighbour Transgression against God Sinne against our selves And as the Lord did visibly shew himselfe passing by before Moses so did the Lord Iesus who was represented in that vision exhibite himselfe in the flesh visibly to the world as it were a passing by the World At which wonderfull sight yea at the remembrance of it may not we likewise take up with a little change those words of almighty God The Lord the Lord God the Lord the Lord Iesus Mercifull and Gracious long suffering and Abundant in Goodnesse and Truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving Iniquity and Transgression and Sinne Now as this work of our Saviour was the Restoring of the world so was it also the ordering of it and accordingly the Greek Fathers frequently call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ordering of a house hould as Iustin and Nazianzene expresse it God in his mercy having by this provided for the world as for his familie Which word they might borrow from the Apostle Ep. 1.10 where he says God did worke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the dispensation of the fullnesse of times which might have been rendred in his house-hold-goverment or in the governing of his family the world in the fullnesse of times Nor has he only order'd the world but also Honoured it whiles Man in Iesus is united unto God Here did God gather together in one all things in Christ Eph. 1.10 all things that is Man as Irenaeus and S. Gregory expound it He did it that he might gather all things together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might Recapitulate or bring to a Head all things in Christ Indeed we are but the Members he is the Head the Annointed head he is God's Christ or his Annointed The eminency of Annointing you may see in the excellency of the persons anciently annointed among the Iews the Priest the Prophet and the King Of which last Lactantius observ'd that Annointing was the signe of Royalty among the Iews as the purple roabe was among the Romans All which respects concurr'd in the Annointing of our Saviour he being a Priest that offer'd Sacrifice for the sinnes of the World he being a Prophet that declared the secret Counsaile of his Father concerning the redemption of mankind he being a King in delivering Laws and affording protection to his Church And being thus mystically annointed with the Holy Ghost he may more truely than Zerubbabel and Ioshua the high Priest after the Captivity in the phrase of the prophet Zacharie 4.14 be call'd the Sonne of oile Nor was it without an embleme that he ascended into Heaven from the Mount of Olives which then was also the mount of the Annointed Oile is by the Hebrews called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the purity and shining of it When therefore it is said Psal 104.15 that God gives man Oile to make his face shine the originall imports to make his face shine more than oile as the English Interpreters observe Indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word drawn from the same originall with the former signifies the Light at noon day or the most full light and thus is our Saviour Christ brighter than oile and the Meridian Light that inlightens the world No marvaile then if the Gentiles whiles they were out of the Govenant of Grace so much envied at the glory of Christ the annointed so much that they indeavoured to burne all bookes that had the name of Christ in them especially the Sacred writings compelling all that in the Dioclesian persecution had such bookes to deliver them up whence such faint Christians as delivered them were call'd Traditores as S. Austin in part implies against the Donatists and as appeares by the first Councill of Arles Can. 13. and by Arnobius with others But as those Gentiles were not able to blot out the Sacred and Glorious name of Christ so neither was Domitian with all the power of his Malice and Crueltie before that able to disgrace the name of Christian though because it was in honour of our Saviour and so signified a servant of Christ the Annointed he imposed that scorne and intended torment upon the blessed Evangelist S. Iohn by causing him to be cast into a vessell of scalding oile Domitian's oile having no more power agaist the Christian than against Christ And that we may know how to be true Christians we may partly learne it from the names by which at the beginning of their profession they call'd themselves their usuall name being Disciples implying an obedience and willingnesse to learne Truth and so was an Instruction as well as a Title They were called the Beleivers not that they did disclaime holy workes which are all good mens Duty but that comparatively they disesteemed them nothing being meritorious but Christ and by Christ the Foundation of their Faith They were called Breathren they were call'd Saints intimating their Unity and Holinesse not in Pretence but Practice But the most usuall name of Humilitie and Zeale was Disciples which yet was chang'd at Antiochia by the consent of the Apostles into the name of Christians upon occasion as Athanasius shews of the divisions of those that pretended to be Disciples Thus did their name declare and Remember them to be the worshippers of the Lord 's Annointed The Heathens in disgrace fequently called them the Sibylists as Origen tells us the Christians so frequently alleadging against the Gentiles the Sibylls verses So Clemens the Alexandrian mentions S. Paul alleadging a Sibyl which memorialls it seems were in those times known among the Christians which is the name by Apostolicall institution and never was the name of any Sectaries but among the Christians the Apostoliques was the name of a Sect of Heretiques And by as easy reason might the Catholiques have been so too A Christian then being glorious in his Title should remember that as the Ancient wrestlers among the Heathen were annointed with oile to make them the more Active so should we to a better expedition be annointed with a spirituall Oile which is Gods Grace The Romanists annoint ●he Christian when

nay when the body shall have no covering but all the whole world shall stand naked trembling either with horrour or reverence looking-up unto the Lord of glory He shall come with all his Saints who shall assist him in judging the world Doe ye not know that the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 They shall assist him by their holy lives compar'd with the abhominations of the wicked They shall assist him by their consent and applause of his sentence against the wicked They shall assist him with honourable attendance being taken up into the aire at the time of this judgment and placed at his right hand The Apostles more especially shall assist him in this judgment Our Saviour himself told them as much Matt. 19.28 When the Sonne of man shall sit in the throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel And peradventure as some reverently thinke their seats shall be glorious cloudes proportion'd to their excellency who though they shall judge the World which resisted or despis'd their Doctrine yet more particularly shall they judge the twelve Tribes of Israel For when the Jewes shall be about to say for themselves that they could not beleeve in Christ because they were commanded to keep the Law of Moses the Apostles sayes S. Chrysostome shall judge them because they likewise did first obey the Law of Moses and afterwards chang'd that obedience into Faith in Christ So also meditates S. Jerom. Nor shall they only judge Men but also Angells Know you not sayes S. Paul that we shall judge Angells 1 Cor. 6.3 those wicked Angells that would have exalted themselves against the Almighty Behold also the Solemnity of this judgment in the Continuance of it For to the glory of this Session and of the Saints before the face of the wicked S. Austin thinks that it shall continue at least the length of a day Unto which some would extend the meaning of those words Matt. 24.27 As the Lightning comes out of the East and shines even unto the West so shall also the comming of the Sonne of man be As if our Saviour should spend the length of a day in passing from the East unto the West that so he might be beheld of all the world But the safest knowledge of these Circumstances must be obtaind not by the bold inquiry of study but by the modest expectation of experience The method of the actions in that day being chiefly to be learn'd in that day in which the sinnes of the whole world shall be reveal'd Which Manifestation of sinnes shall be one of the most wonderfull actions of our Saviours power in that day in which the Lord will search the World as he said he would search Ierusalem Zeph. 1.12 he will search it with candles there is light in the search he will not only search but also discover Thou didst it secretly said the Lord by Nathan unto David but I will doe this thing before all Israel and before the Sunne But how will the Lord in that day discover sinne even as the Sunne-beame pearcing into a room discovers the dusty atoms which before we saw not he will discover them as easily as he can discover the multitude of fishes now hid in the Sea if it should but please him as he speakes by the Prophet Isaiah 50.2 to drie-up the Sea and make the rivers a wildernesse and make their fish die for thirst But how will the Lord in that day discover sinne why S. Paul tels us 1 Cor. 4.5 that the Lord at his comming will both bring to light the hidden things of darknesse and will make manifest the counsailes of the heart It shall be donne by the power of God by the light of Revelation Yet how will the Lord in that day discover sinne why the bookes shall be open'd the bookes of men's consciences shall be open'd they shall be open'd whether they will or no and they shall be read not only by every man's ownselfe but also by all others not only every man's sinnes shall be made known to himselfe but also to every man els by the power of God and the miraculous light of revelation to every particular man as S. Chrysostome teaches us and S. Anselm who sayes that men's sinnes shall be seen as the Sunne is seen by every eie S. Basil sayes they shall be so revealed that they shall be heard 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all Angels and men And then will the Almighty pronounce Sentence upon the workes of men In the last day of the Creation God examin'd all his own workes and pronounc'd them all to be very good and in the last day of judgment he will examine all the works of men but what judgment will he pronounce of Them Surely he will say They are almost all very bad Yea he will pronounce a more dreadfull judgment upon the Authours of them who shall beginne their pain before their judgment is pronounc'd For as S. Bernard sayes The just shall be call'd first Christ shall first say unto the righteous come ye blessed of my Father that so the wicked sayes he may be the more tormented according to that of the Prophet David Ps 112.10 The wicked shall see it and be greiv'd he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away the desire of the wicked shall perish And then shall that burden of the wicked be layd upon them Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire O what a separation will that bee when the holy angells shall catch-up the Godly to meet Christ in the aire 1 Thes 4.17 then the wicked shall be cast into a furnace of fire In the beginning God divided between the light and the darknesse So will he doe at the last day What is the light in figure but the Just what the darknesse but the wicked So speakes the Apostle Eph. 5.8 Yee were sometimes darkness but now are yee light in the Lord that is you were once wicked but now are righteous In this world there is both light darknesse but in the end of the world the light and darknesse shall be separated In this world there are both good and bad but in the end of the world the bad shall be separated from the good Which separation is a part of the Execution for which this judgment is so dreadfull They shall depart from the face of the Lord but O whither shall they depart shall they depart as Cain to be vagabonds upon the face of the earth No there is no returne unto the earth though some have thought but never prov'd that the place of torment shall be on the earth and in the channels where the Seas now swell But this is oppos'd not only by truth but also by errour that errour of some who because it is said there shall be a new earth wherein dwels righteousnesse have therfore beleev'd that the godly at least a great part of them shall even here injoy for