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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66830	Altare evangelicum. A sermon preached at Christ-Church in Dublin, on the 27th of April Before his Excellency Arthur Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant General, and general governour of the kingdom of Ireland. By Edward Lord Bishop of Clonsert and Kilmac-Duah. Published by his Excellencies order and command.	Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3263; ESTC R217177	15,387	44

Altare Evangelicum A SERMON Preached at Christ-Church IN DUBLIN On the 27th of April Before his Excellency ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of the Kingdom of IRELAND By EDWARD Lord Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmac-Duah Published by his Excellencies Order and Command DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Tooke Printer to the KING 's most Excellent Majesty And are to be Sold by Joseph Wilde Bookseller in Castle-street 1673. To his Excellency ARTHUR EARL of ESSEX Viscount Malden Baron CAPEL of Hadbam Lord Lieutenant General and General Governour of His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hertford and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council AS it is a high Degree of His Majesties trust and confidence in your Excellencies great abilities to settle and establish You his Vice-Roy Chief Governour in this his Kingdom of Ireland so it is received as an act of Grace and Kindness towards all loyal and good subjects in this Land to be under the Umbrage and Protection of your Virtues and Graces which since your Excellencies Arrival have much refreshed and comforted many drooping hearts and raised them to future hopeful expectations and as to discontents if any such is your Piety Wisedom and Justice that they all are calmed and allayed or so quieted that they appear not at all And it is a happy Juncture when the Church the State the Army make no complaints or clamours but as the members of the Body to the Head yield obedience to their Chief Governour As this may be the ground and foundation of the universal Peace and Tranquillity of this Kingdom at present and great satisfaction to all though of different perswasion so doubtless it will improve and unite all His MAJESTIES Subjects to more perfect and exact obedience which hath likewise bound me to observancy and on this accompt to publish and make legible what was for a short time onely in your Excellencies and the Christian Auditors ears And no censure is to be feared where your Excellency will please to Command or Patronize My Lord Your Excellencies Devoted And most humble Servant Edvardus Clonfertensis GEN. 35.7 And he built there an Altar and called the place El-Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his Brother IN the Text Moses sets forth the Pious example of the Patriarch Jacob Erecting and Building an Altar to Almighty God for his deliverance from the rage and fury of his bloudy Brother Esau In which words Moses records First that the Patriarch performed his duty for aedificavit Altare he built an Altar 1. Duty Secondly That God sent the Patriarch his deliverance Officium Jacobi 2. Deliverance Auxilium Dei 3. Danger Odium Esaui Exercitium Actus Devotionis vel Exemplum 2. Opus Dedicationis implyed in these words That God appeared unto him Thirdly his danger is discovered in the last words Moses testifieth that he was forced to fly from the face and fury of his Brother Esau or else if you please see another Division and Paraphrase on the Text. First here is Actus Devotionis an Act of High and holy Devotion a blessed example of Piety and a great Testimony of thankfulness to Almighty God for wonderful and great deliverance Aedificavit Altare and he built an Altar there Secondly here is Opus Dedicationis the Noble work of Dedication of an Altar Erected and Built Jacob designs chiefly Gods honour in this work and dedicateth his Altar to his Deliverer giving God the glory of his safety Vocavit locum El-Bethel that is the God of Bethel or rather the God of Gods house before called Luz but now Bethel Thirdly here is Argumentum Resolutionis the Reason 3. Elenchus vel Argument Reso ground and cause of the Patriarchs Pious and holy Resolutions Because saith Moses quia apparuit Deus God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his Brother Esau Of these in Order And first of the Patriarchs Acts of Piety and Devotion in these words Aedificavit Altare In the Frontispiece of the Text you may see First Opificem the Artist the founder or builder of this piece of Devotion set forth in the Demonstrative Ille he 1. Opifiex Gen. 35.6 Gen. 35.6 2. Opus Altare that is as in the verse before the Text Jacob came to Luz which is in the Land of Canaan that is Bethel Secondly opus ipsum the work it self And that is Altare an Altar or a holy place to Sacrifice to Almighty God which was the most Ancient Innocent Primitive 3. Locusvel sedes situtionis Ibi. there visible serving of God Thirdly here is locus or sedes Altaris the place or Scituation where this Altar was seated Ibi in this Adverb of place that is in the Land of Canaan and more particularly in the place called Bethel I have now opened the Text I shall begin with the great exemplar of Piety That is Jacob A person of whom I find the holy Scripture make as honourable and eminent mention as of any of all the holy Patriarchs St. Bernard meditating on this subject (a) Divus Bernard in Sententijs Quater luctatus est Jacob in utero cum Esauo in Adolescentia cum codem in Mesopotamia cum Laban in Bethel cum Angelo saith That the Patriarch Jacob was for many tryals and temptations which did set forth his Faith Hope Charity Humility Patience Obedience and all eminent Virtues and Graces that might beautifie his blessed soul But St. Bernard chiefly reduceth them to four more remarkable Passages and Re-encounters which the Patriarch suffered 1 Lucta in utero matris and succeeded with Victory out of them all The First was Lucta in Vtero Matris a fight or strugling in his Mother Rebecca's womb with his Brother Esau which caused Rebecca to complain (b) Gen. 25 22.23 Collide bantur in utero Parvuli Common Transla saying The children struggle with me and she said Why am I thus And she went to enquire of the Lord and the Lord said unto her Two Nations are in thy womb and two manner of People shall be separated from thy bowels and the one People shall be stronger than the other People and the elder shall serve the younger A strange Passage that Twins could not be quiet in domo Naturae in Natures first House but being little more than Embryo's did clash and fight in their Mothers womb This was certainly Pugna Prophetica an early fight Pugna Prophetica that prophesied and foretold the world That the Church as Rebeccah might have Jacobs and Esaus good men and bad in her womb Esauites and Israelites prophane persons and pious Votaries proud Pharisees and penitent Publicans superstitious Papists and seditious Phanaticks as well as Orthodox Christians at the same time in the Temple Secondly (d) Secunda lucta in Domo Patris the Patriarch Jacob had luctam in domo Patris a sad trouble