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A41726 A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall on Christmas-Day, 1684 Humfrey Gower ... Gower, Humphrey, 1638-1711. 1685 (1685) Wing G1459; ESTC R3870 19,094 36

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Periods to have been ignorant of it those Illustrious Heroes I mean to whose Faith and Vertue he himself gave such ample and honourable Testimony Nor after the Law given do we find that the neglect of its positive Prescripts was ever objected to those Nations whose Sins were yet distinctly reckon'd up by the Prophets that were sent unto them as the Ninevites Egyptians Chaldaeans Idumaeans Moabites and such others The expiration of the Institutions peculiar to the Law was not so properly their destruction or abolition as their accomplishment consummation and attainment of that End for which they were by God instituted and intended What was meerly Shadow must needs become useless and vanish at the appearance of the Substance Yet several Usages and Institutions under the Law were adopted and introduc'd into the Church being by our Saviour and his Apostles improv'd and sublimated into a more Reasonable Service Circumcision was advanced into a better Sacrament more useful more easie more extensive in its Application The Sabbath became the Lords-Day on which as it is the Seventh part of Time we still commemorate Gods Rest on the Seventh Day and as it is the First Day of the Week we celebrate our Redemption from Spiritual Egyptian Bondage and the full Assurance of a compleat Victory over Death and the Grave by the Resurrection of our Lord on that Day This therefore is become to us a greater Feast than the Jews could observe on their Sabbath The great Feast of Atonement as well as all other bloody Sacrifices of the Law was finally accomplished on the Cross and the memory of That the Church solemnly recollects on Good-Friday But in this Feast of the Atonement there was something peculiar and of very extraordinary signification that of the Scape Goat I mean on which Aaron was to lay his hands and confess over him all the Iniquities of the Children of Israel Lev. 16. 20 21. putting them on the head of the Goat and then send him into the Wilderness Thus was Christ on whom God laid the Iniquities of us all presently after his Baptism led into the Wilderness carrying with him all the Sins that had been confess'd by Jerusalem and Judah at St. Johns Baptism Mark 1. 12. And thus it is that not the Goat indeed but the Lamb of God takes away the Sins of the World John 1. 29. as the Baptist had declared concerning him I am sensible that the pleasant contemplation of these Divine Mysteries would easily transport me beyond the proportion of the Time I must not therefore insist upon any of the rest Not on Aaron the High Priest his Mysterious Vestments and more Mysterious Consecration nor any of the Oral Prophecies concerning the great Business of this Day those immediately from God to Adam and Abraham or those of Jacob Moses and the Prophets down to the express Testimony of St. John Baptist the immediate Harbinger and Forerunner of the Lord. And I am sure I need not put you in mind of that which is daily in your Ears the melody of the Psalms those lofty inspired Hymns which are at once a very History of the Birth Life and Death of the Messias and also the most fervent Petitions and devoutest strains of Thanksgiving that the Mouth of Man can utter or his Heart conceive Thus Great thus Holy thus Divine are the Triumphs of this Day It is the Birth-day of GOD the New-birth of the whole World It is the Day which the Lord hath made and which Abraham saw It is not a Private or a Modern Feast We have heard already that it is as Ancient as the Fall of Adam 2 Tim. 1. 9. Nay we read of Grace given in Christ Jesus before the World began Ephes 3. 11. according to the Eternal purpose which God purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. That is what was from all Eternity decreed and presently after the beginning of Time happily put in practice For Christ is the Way and the Door by which both the first and last Man and all other that come thither must enter Heaven Acts 4. 12. Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other Name under Heaven given among Men whereby Adam or any of his Off-spring have or can be saved God himself therefore could not apply more seasonable or effectual Comfort to our drooping Parents languishing and astonished under the shame and horrour of their Fall than to tell them of the Seed of the Woman the wonderful Birth of this Day Thus do both our Testaments run one into the other They exhibit one and the same thing even the Common Salvation only under diverse circumstances suitable to the differences of Persons and Time (a) Unius igitur ejusdem substantiae sunt omma Iren. adv Haeres lib. 4. cap. 21. The substance of things is the same both in the Old and the New Testament (b) Non alterum quidem Vetera alterum quidem proferentem Nova docuit sed unum cundem Id. ibid. St. Matt. 13. 52. It is one and the same Great Housholder that brings forth things both new and old as Irenaeus applieth to this Matter that Parable of our Lord. (c) Servis quidem adhuc indisciplinatis condignam tradens Legem liberis autem fide justificatis congruentia dans Praecepta filiis adaperiens suam haereditatem c. Ibid. The same Lord and Christ is exhibited in both the Books dispensing to his Children and Servants Laws and Rules suitable to their several Capacities and Ages Well may we therefore be fill'd both with wonder and delight when we listen to the ravishing Harmony of those two Books of God (d) Quis hanc ●…etitiam divinorum Sacramentorum cùm sanae doctrinae luce clares●unt non praeferat universis hujus mundi Imperiis etiam inusitatâ felicitate pacatis An Employment and Contemplation in the Opinion of St. Austin to be prefer'd before the peaceable enjoyment of the Empire of the whole World (e) Nonne tanquam duo Seraphim c. St. Aug. ad Jan. Epist 119. Do not the two Testaments says he as the two Seraphims call and cry to one another Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth That great and good Man seems to have wrought himself up into a kind of Transport or Ecstasie by dwelling long and thinking deeply on such things as these From the Considerations which I have now mentioned and very many such like which in this vast and inexhaustible Subject may be brought to illustrate one Testament by the other I might observe as Irenaeus on the same occasion in the place forecited and also the 43 Chapter of that Book how justly our Saviour requires that his Disciples and Apostles who went to instruct others in the Christian Faith should themselves be Scribes well instructed unto the Kingdom of Heaven and like the Great Master of the Family able to bring forth out of their Treasure things new and old that is saith the