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A26157	The grand charter of Christian feasts, with the right way of keeping them in a sermon preach'd at a meeting of several of the natives and inhabitants of the county of Buckingham, in the Church of St. Mary Le-Bow, Nov. 30, 1685 / by Lewis Atterbury ...	Atterbury, Lewis, d. 1693.	1686 (1686)	Wing A4156; ESTC R8396	17,372	36

under a pretence of zeal for God and the Priviledges of the People Hear their Canting All the Lords people are holy Numb 16.3 Diotrephes loves the preheminence and makes such a Schism that St. John cannot be received though a beloved Disciple a Bishop and an eminent Apostle 3 John 9. The Instances of Schism and Faction amongst us have been too many for me either to recal or recite We have had attempts on our Doctrine our Discipline our Worship all slandered and misrepresented by men of different Interests and Opinions the Word of God miserably wrested by some and excepted against by others traduced as a dead letter supplanted by Traditions and subordinated to Enthusiasms our Sacraments have been questioned their Original disputed and their number and way of administration impeach'd our Churches have been prophaned our Liturgy decry'd Episcopacy struck at and for some years removed root and branch The very function of the Ministry proclaimed useless and their maintenance burthensom a yoke intolerable though no man pays of his own amongst us unless his piety excite him to be a Benefactor As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so men of corrupt minds and Reprobate concerning the Faith do still resist the Truth rent the seamless Coat of Christ and disturb the Peace and Government of the Church And all this with an Hosanna The Lord be glorified A solemn pretence to do God service Isa 66.5 John 16.2 It is very sad that Religion should be abused to serve mens corrupt and sinister designs but no more than foretold and continually practised by ill men as well as by the Devil who upon this occasion can be content to appear in Samuels Mantle 1 Sam. 28.14 and transform himself into an Angel of Light This I can say boldly Had it been as easie to gratifie mens Interests and satisfie their Humours as it is to answer their Arguments the breaches in our Church and State had been all closed long e're now God hath smitten the great house with breaches and the little house with clefts Amos 6.11 which divisions of our Reuben call for sad thoughts great searchings of heart but this is our comfort the Devil hath his Limits and God who hath made the sand a Boundary to the waves of the Sea by a perpetual Decree so that though they roar and lift up themselves they cannot pass over it he hath limited his Instruments these Children of the Devil and Enemies of all Righteousness that will not cease to pervert the ways of God Acts 13.10 when their Ephah is full and their sins ripe they shall proceed no further but their folly shall be manifest to all men as that of Jannes and Jambres also was 2 Tim. 3.8 or as it fared with Elymas who was strucken with blindness God shall send them strong delusions and give them up to seared Consciences they shall split themselves on the rocks of Superstition and Atheism or loose themselves in a Labyrinth the mazes and mists of Errour and at last seek about for some to lead them Acts 13.11 God hath given us many sad Examples Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall 2 Thess 2.10 For the Glory of God and Honour of our Country let us persevere in Religion and Loyalty 4. The Leaven of the Sadducees or the Leaven of Doctrine Matt. 16.5.6 The Doctrine of the Pharisees had its Leaven but the Sadducees were were most tainted The Sadducees call'd in question Angels and Spirits denied rewards or punishments after this life held the Soul was annihilated at death believed not the Resurrection maintain'd free will and liberty of prophesying allow'd of no Scripture but the Pentateuch the five Books of Moses Matt. 22.23 Mark 12.18 Luke 20.27 Acts 4.1 and therefore our Saviour convinceth them out of Exodus Chap. 3.6 Matt. 22.32 Hymeneus and Philetus who say the Resurrection is already past viz. that there is no Resurrection but the spiritual that of the Soul from sin or the renewing of the state of the World under the Gospel These and all other profane and vain bablings are to be shun'd 2 Tim. 2 16. for they will increase to more ungodliness and their words will eat as doth a canker The Athenians spent their time in hearing and telling some new thing Acts 17.21 and it is the Character of our Novellists that they have itching ears and heap to themselves Teachers which argues they are carnal cannot endure sound Doctrine and have not the Spirit as the Apostle determines 2 Tim. 4.3 For our parts we are to continue in the good old way confirm our selves in the Truths we have heard and been assured of hold fast the form of sound words and contend for the Doctrine delivered to the Saints If any man teach otherwise and consents not to wholesom words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Doctrine which is according to godliness he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof cometh envy strife railings evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gain is godliness from all such St. Paul tells us we must withdraw our selves 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. 5. The Leaven of the Pharisees or Hypocrisie The Pharisees were full of corrupt Glosses addicted much to Superstition prescribed Phylacteries ty'd themselves to Phrases and Observances and little else were all for leaves and no fruit and taught for Doctrines the Commandments of men Matt. 15.9 But Wo to him that saith to the wood Awake to the dumb stone Arise it shall teach behold it is laid over with gold and silver and there is no breath at all in the midst of it Hab. 2.19 The Pharisee had the Hypocrite leaven in his face to make him look sour that men might see he had fasted Rabbi in his tongue and rancour in his heart they would speak Christ fair when they came to intrap him and give him with Judas a kiss and an hail Master at the same time they betrayed him they are all Gabbatha whited Sepulchres beautiful without but Golgotha full of rottenness sculls and dead mens bones within pay Tithes of Mint and Cummin and neglect the greater matters of the Law compass Sea and Land to make their Proselytes shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men neither enter themselves nor suffer others make long Prayers for a pretence and devour widows houses cleanse the outside of the cup but stuff the inside with extortion and excess Our Religion teacheth us another Lesson that bodily exercise profiteth little and that we should exercise our selves to real godliness which hath the promises of this life and that which is to come 1 Tim. 4.8 God is a Spirit calls for truth in the inward parts and will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth John 4.24 Man judgeth by the outward appearance but God looketh to the heart 1 Sam. 16.5 From those who have but a form of godliness and deny the power we are

given by God himself Exod. 12.27 And hath not God passed over us Are not several of us as Brands plucked out of those flames which reduced the greater part of this large City to Ashes Were not we spared whiles the Pestilence that walketh in darkness and Destruction that walketh at noon-day swept away others The Plague and the Sword destroyed their thousands and ten thousands and yet we are alive to praise God as at this day God hath visited several places with blasting and mildew and rain hath been withholden We have lately felt unusually severe Winters and had unseasonable Summers of which Viols of Gods wrath we have but tasted whiles others have drunk more deeply It is not long since we were threatned with stormy Winds and Tempests from North and West and these Euroclydons descended on several places with confused noise and many garments were rolled in blood Isa 9.5 whiles we and other Inhabitants of the County we belong to felt none of these Hurricanes heard only the sound of it as a going on the top of the Mulberry-trees were permitted to stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord. After Wars and Rumours of Wars former sad confusions and late menacing disturbances we renew this Solemnity upon Gods restoring to us a Publick Peace our Ancient Regal Government in State and the Apostolical Episcopal Government in the Church And thus the Originals of the Feasts agree 2. There is also a suitableness in the manner of the Observation It is not to be kept with old Leaven c. Then which I know no better direction for the right using and improving this and all other Solemnities of this Nature Leaven is properly that which secretly and speedily soures the whole lump of dough altering the Nature of it Sometimes it is used in a good sense 1. To denote the Kingdom or Church of Christ on Earth increasing secretly and by degrees both in number of Persons and Graces of the Spirit Matt. 13.33 2. The Doctrine of the Gospel the Word preached which altereth a mans Nature first turning his heart and changing his inward and then reforming his outward man Sometimes as here Leaven is taken in an ill sense and so used 1. To represent the unsound Doctrine of Hereticks corrupting the sweetness of heavenly Truths with their false Glosses called also Hypocrisie because such Doctrines are false deceitful and impious and make their Fautors and Fomentors Hypocrites Matt. 16.6 Luke 12.1 2. Corrupt vicious persons which with their company and communication infect others 1 Cor. 15.33 Old Leaven is the same with the old man Rom. 6.6 Fermentum in massâ innata vitiositas Original sin with the depravation the whole naughtiness of our sinful Nature with its sinful effects and bitter fruits whatevet it is that hath a faculty of corrupting others whether it be Doctrine or Example it follows The Leaven of Malice and Wickedness which is exegetical an illustration of the former κακίας καὶ πινηρίας malitiae versutiae craft added to wickedness malus est qui male nequam qui cum dolo agit hence the Devil is called subtle πονηρὸς as some from πένομας ago facesso nobis facessit negotium 1 John 2.12 Eph. 6.16 he hath his wiles and stratagems his cunning crafts Of sincerity and Truth an expression taken from counterfeit Wares such as need the false light of a dark Shop to put them off There must be Purity or Holiness plain dealing and singleness of heart The Christians have their Passeover ἑορτάζωμεν festum agitemus let us keep the Feast not typically only for a day as at present or for seven days as the Jews the Passeover but spiritually throughout the whole course of our lives The Ceremony of the Jews putting away Leaven out of their houses during the time of the Feast signifies that from the first day we believe in Christ thorough the whole course of our lives we should purge our selves from evil Doctrine and corrupt Manners The spiritual estate of Christians is the true accomplishment of the Jewish Passeover nay every Congregation should put away those that are scandalous as 1 Cor. 5.5 applied by the Apostle Also the Ceremony of the Leprofie 1. If doubtful shut up till certain Levit. 13.44 2. If clear dwelling alone without the Camp figures lively the Church-Censures 1. Suspension whereby men are separated from some Holy things until their perversness appears 2 Tim. 3.9 2. Excommunication 1 Cor. 5.11 13. Matt. 18.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lege Mosis est abstinere ab omni opere ut Deo sacra siant to rest from bodily labours In mystico sensu ita perpetuò Dèo servire ut omnia opera sint sacrificia Isa 66.23 to serve God devoutly and thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Festum nihil aliud est quàm ea agere quae oportet fieri A good conscience is a continual feast Prov 15.15 in a word to feast aright is Ephes 4.22 23. The two Birds used in the cleansing Levit. 14.5 6 49 50. signifie that neither Christs Manhood without his Godhead nor his Godhead without his Manhood could purge sin John 6.53 63. To make our Feast regular we must take in the Context Purge out the old Leaven that you may be a new Lump as ye are unleavened The Apostle St. Paul thought very well of the Corinthians that they were unleavened right for the main It is not esse debetis per professionem you should be so but you desire and take care to be so Cavetis ab omnibus per quae corrumpi mores solent and yet calls on them to purge themselves There are remainders of sin in the holiest and eminentest Christians in many things Jam. 3.2 and Eccles 7.20 Give me leave then without offence to recommend the same duty to you of whom I am perswaded the best things and such as accompany Salvation Heb. 6.9 The Jews were very exact there was 1. Expurgatio Fermenti cleansing all Vessels and Houshold-stuff two or three days before 2. Inquisitio Fermenti searching every corner to a Mouse-hole with a Wax-candle the night before the Passeover till the fourth hour after Sun-rising as Buxtorfe 3. Exterminatio or Conflagratio from the fourth hour to the sixth 4. Execratio of all seen or not seen cleansed or not cleansed nor are the best Christians less concerned to look about them lest there be any root of bitterness springing up to their trouble whereby themselves and others may be defiled Heb. 12.15 We often change our bread and our water and however sound and wholesom the Country may be we come from we are in danger of infection from the different Airs we breathe in or may receive Contagion from some of those many persons we converse with and a little Leaven leaveneth the whole Lump God made man upright but he hath sought forth many Inventions Good Wheat was laid in at first but whiles men slept the Enemy sow'd Tares Matt. 13.27 When there was no King in Israel every