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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

accounted and what more reasonable than that the childe should reverence the Father it is Gods own Argument If I be a Father where is my honour nay and his Precept Honour thy Father which extends to civil and ecclesiastical as well as the natural Father 2. An obedientiall submission to his Doctrine Mary sate at the feet of Jesus to hear his Word Paul was brought up at the feet of Gamaliell as being taught by him and thus these converts lay at the Angels feet to receive his instructions True penitents account the Ministers of the Gospell as Ambassadors for and from Christ and therefore with all humility entertain their message 3. A paenitential acknowledgment of their own unworthiness by reason of their former contempt They were so sensible of the injuries and affronts they had offered to this Angel that they now think they cannot abase themselves enough and therefore worship at his feet As Peter in the sense of his own unworthinesse fell down at Jesus his knees So these Converts in the sence of their vilenesse worship at the Angels feet to intimate that they deserved to be trampled upon as the mire in the street It is the disposition of every true penitent to think basely of himself and highly of Christs Ministers to Judge them worthy of double Honour and himself unworthy of any respect An instance of the one is holy Job who saith I repent and abhor my self in dust and ashes of the other The Jaylor who came in trembling and fell down before Paul and Sylas of both in these penitents who considering how ill they had deserved of the Angell and how well the Angell had deserved of them Come and worship at his feet I end this part of my Text with this short Observation true conversion is alwayes attended with a manifest alteration The penitent is not what he was nay he is contrary to what he was no wonder if repentance be called by St. Paul a Metamorphosis Be ye transformed by the renewing of the mind There is not a greater change made in the air from darknesse to light when the Sun ariseth than there is in the sinner from sinne to grace when Christ that Sun of righteousnesse shineth upon him The Wolf doth not only dwell with but is turned into a Lamb the heart of stone is changed into an heart of flesh the converted sinner of proud becometh humble of rebellious obedient of covetuous charitable of cruell mercifull what before he hated now he loveth whom before he despised now he honoureth so did these Converts Worship at the feet of that Angell who had been contemptible in their eyes The last considerable in the Text is the effect of their conversion expressed in these words and shall know that I have loved thee It is a clause that looketh two wayes to the Angell and tels him that he is Christs favorite to his enemies and foretelleth that they should know it 1. Christs love to the Angell will the better appear by this following Gradation 1. Great is that love which Christ hath to the whole race of mankind whom he came to seek and to save in respect of which St Paul saith The kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared 2. Greater is that love which Christ beareth to his Church whom he culleth out of and therefore hath a dearer affection to than the rest of mankind Hence those affectionate appellations My sister my love my dove my undesiled one 3. Greatest is that love which Christ hath to the Angels of his Church the vigilant Pastors and Governours thereof It is said of him in the beginning of the former Chapter That he holdeth the seaven Stars in his right hand and walketh in the midst of the seaven golden Candlesticks where by the Candlesticks are meant by the Churches and by the Stars the Bishops of those Churches He walketh indeed among the Candlesticks by his speciall presence of grace and mercy but the Stars are in his right hand as vouchsafing a more speciall affection to and protection over them his hand in which he holdeth his Ministers is nearer his heart than his feet by which he walketh among his people and accordingly it is an higher measure of love which he beareth to the one than the other Will you see yet more particularly how he loveth the Angels of his Church He so loveth them as that he reproveth even Kings for their sakes saying Do my Prophets no harm He so loveth them that he accounts what is done to them as done to himself for so he tels his Disciples He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me He so loveth them that he will recompence the meanest courtesie which is vouchsafed to them though it be but a cup of cold water which is given to a Prophet in the name of a Prophet it shall not be unrewarded Finally He so loveth them that though in this world he sends them forth as sheep among Wolves yet he will not suffer the Wolves to worry them and though for a time they may be persecuted yet they shall at length be delivered and when their course on earth is finished whereas others are only stones he will make them pillars in his celestiall Temple 2. The love of Christ to this Angell is that which his enemies should at length know that is according to the usual notion of the Word so as to acknowledg and own him Being converted to Christianity they were brought to know Christ as their only Lord and Saviour and knowing him they acknowledg the Angel as sent from and beloved of him and which is the latitude of this word knowing as elsewhere so here that so as to love and honour him with their souls which as it is the effect of their conversion so it was the cause of their prostration and worshipping at his feet Thus was the Proverb of Solomon verified When a mans wayes please the Lord he will make his enemies at peace with him yea of enemies to become friends And oh that all the enemies of the Church and her Angels would in time be brought to this acknowledgment It is that which against their wills they shall do at the last day when they shall behold those who were so vilified by them magnified by Christ and be ashamed of their envy and malignity against them Oh how much better will it be for them to do that now freely which they shall do then forcedly and repenting of their former rage and bitterness after the pattern of these Converts to know and embrace the Angels of the Church as the friends and favourites of Christ By this time you see the extent and meaning of this promise and in that what great reason there was for a Behold yea a double Behold to be prefixed since it is such a promise as cals for both admiration and exultation 1. Here is a Behold of