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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45549	The hierarchy exalted and its enemies humbled a sermon preached on the first Sunday in Advent, being the 2d day of Decemb. 1660 : after the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, John, Lord Bishop of Durham, William, Lord Bishop of St. Davids, Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, Hugh, Lord Bishop of Landaff, Richard, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Brian, Lord Bishop of Chester, and John, Lord Bishop of Exceter in the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminister / by Nathanael Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing H724; ESTC R20456	14,673	34

THE HIERARCHY EXALTED AND Its Enemies Humbled A SERMON Preached on the first Sunday in Advent being the 2d. day of Decemb. 1660. AFTER The Consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God JOHN Lord Bishop of Durham WILLIAM Lord Bishop of St. Davids BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of Peterborough HUGH Lord Bishop of Landaff RICHARD Lord Bishop of Carlisle BRIAN Lord Bishop of Chester and JOHN Lord Bishop of Exceter In the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminster By Nathanael Hardy D. D. Chaplaine in Ordinary to his Majesty Dean of Rochester and Rector of St. Dionys. Back Church London LONDON Printed by Abraham Miller for Joseph Cranford at the Castle and Lion in St Pauls Churchyard 1661. Imprimatur M. Franck Reverendo in Christo Patri Gilberto Episcopo Lond. à Sacris Domesticis Martij 14. 1660. TO THE READER WHen that bright Sunne of glorious memory having been for many years clouded by an unnaturall Warre did at last through an unparalleld Treason set in our Horizon it was a red and bloudy Evening After that Evening followed a black and dismall night where in the ravening Wolves and beasts of prey domineered worrying the estates and lives of those who were loyal and Orthodox That night hath by Gods just indignation against us been measured to us not by hours but years and stretched out to a long continuance About the Beginning of the Twelfth year of that Night a morning Star appeared and that not from the East but North To whom it was the unanimous cry of all Countries Phosphore redde diem that he would be an happy instrument under God to turn our night into day Through the tender mercy of our God and his prudent conduct our desire was fulfilled Not the same Sun indeed he shineth in the Heaven of the blessed but another He who of right ought to succeed him arose as it were from the Sea gilding our desolate Land with his radiant Beams His amiable light hath ever since increased and He is now near the Meridian of his Coronation Where being in the Zenith may he like Joshuahs Sun stand still and that not for a few hours but many many years to the amazement of the eyes of Rebells and refreshment of the hearts of all Loyal Subjects By the benigne aspect and influence of this Sun it is that the firmament of our Church is now again bespangled with Stars and those fixed in their various Orbes After the joyfull appearing of those Two Stars of the first and second magnitude We have beheld three severall Constellations of six and seaven and four Stars of whom I may justly say in these words of our Saviour concerning John Baptist. They are burning and shining Lights and I pray God both we and our posterity may have continuall cause of rejoycing in the splendor of such Eminent Lights As for this ensuing Discourse it was only a broken Eccho to that voice whith distinctly and learnedly asserted Episcopal Authority from that Power Saint Paul gave to Titus when he left him in Crete It was designed for no other end but to be a Congratulatory Appendix to the Solemne Consecration of those seaven Bishops and as it was Preached upon short warning so it had never been exposed to publick view but that it was required by them and particularly by my Lord Bishop of Durham whose Judgment I had great reason to prefer before my own Nor can I but account it an high honour to be in any kind owned by him who hath so resolutely owned this Church of England both at home and abroad asserting her Doctrine against the Papists and discipline against the Schismaticks The multiplicity of other urgent affairs hath for a time retarded my performance of the command I received from and promise I made to that Reverend Prelate for which I humbly beg his Lordships pardon and now having made these weak labours publick I intreat thy candid censure of them together with thy earnest Prayer for me who am Thine in our common Saviour Nath. Hardy THE Hierarchy Exalted Revel Chap. 3. Verse 9. Behold I will make them of the Synagogue of Satan which say they are Jews and are not but do lie behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee THese words are part of an Epistle to the Angel of the Church of Philadelphia It hath been controverted whether by the Angel in the Inscription of these severall Epistles be meant one Bishop or many Presbyters But if a multitude had been intended the Plurall number might as easily have been used as the Singular I deny not but many things written in these Epistles concerned not only the Bishops but the inferiour Clergy yea and the Laily and therefore in one place we read I say to you and the rest in Thyatira but this hinders not that what was designed for the benefit of the whole Church might be directed to him who was chief in place and office Sure I am St. Ambrose expounds the severall Angels to be Rectores Ecclesiarum the particular Governours of those Churches And St. Austins gloss is Angelo i. e. Episcopo illic constituto to the Angel that is there placed Yea Irenaeus and Eusebius with other Ecclesiasticall Writers of good note have given us the names of some of the persons who were at that time Bishops of those Churches and therefore I shall not doubt to affirm that as the rest so this Epistle was sent from Jesus Christ the chief Shepheard and Bishop of our souls to the Bishop of the Church of Philadelphia If you please to take a particular view of this Epistle you shall find the greatest part of it to be consolatory as being most suitable to the condition both of the Angel and the Church In the foregoing Verse Christ tels the Bishop Behold I have set before thee an open door and no man can shut it by which I conceive is meant that opportunity and liberty which was given him of exercising his Episcopall function And whereas there were two sorts or Adversaries with which the primitive Bishops and Christians were molested to wit Jews and Pagans our blessed Lord comforts this Angel against the fear of both letting him know in the next Verse that he should be kept from the persecution of the Pagans and here in this Verse that he would remove the opposition of the Jews Behold I will make them which are of the Synagogue of Satan c. In which words are two severall parts observable A sharp and severe censure of the Angels enemies Them which are of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews but are not and do lie A sweet and gracious promise to the Angel himself Behold I will make behold I will make them to come and worship before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee Begin we with the first of these wherein are two particulars considerable The false opinion which these persons had