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A97020	Christian reconcilement or God at peace with man in Christ, delivered in a sermon at St Mary's in Oxford. / By John Wall, Dr in divinity and præbendary of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing W467; Thomason E2120_2; ESTC R210151	17,884	56

that is Dominus Iesus Christus our Lord Jesus Christ Not Moses or Aaron not an Angell or Cherubim nor any creature of highest order but God alone through Christ his Son Jesus Christ our Lord Jesus Christ as wee read in the Words of my Apostle He is a Lord for his Dominion a Jesus for his salvation a Christ for the dignity of his threefold unction A Lord that doth rule us a Jesus that hath freed us a Christ that shall anoint us with grace holynesse joy and gladnesse to the rich enheritance of immortall blessednesse Give me leave then to put you in mind of a notable saying which I have from St Ambrose vulnus accepit unguentum effudit hee took a sore wound in his naturall body he powred forth a Soveraign balm in his mysticall body a Soveraigne balme a pretious ointment that hath cured our sores and healed our infirmities to all well-pleasing and good acceptance with the God of all comfort and Father of mercies Indeed wee have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Word of reconcilement and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ministry of reconciliation but the Worke is his the power is his the merit is his the performance is his that made both one by virtue of his passion We are serviceable and instrumentall as suppliant Orators and subordinate cooperators in so great a businesse Hee is the root and the ground the spring and the fountaine of that celestiall agreement and heavenly composition Whereupon saith John We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is the reconciliation for our sinnes As for Paul he is most cleare with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God hath reconciled us to himselfe through Jesus Christ And againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God is in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. How then is it that in the same place we are desired to be reconciled unto God we pray you in Christs steed that yee be reconciled unto God Have we strength enough to do it our selves and are we able to make our owne peace This seemes to contradict the series of the Text and to derogate from the honour of an absolute mediatour Yet if we distinguish the manner 't will be no hard matter to reconcile the Scripture Christ did it fundamentally we conformably Christ authentically and radically we obsequiously and readily with desires answerable and hearty being drawne and converted in the sound of his word and power of his Gospell in the smell of his garments and the savour of his oyntments Insomuch that what he wrought by the wonderfull humiliation of his temporall oeconomy we must apply it to our hearts and consciences by faith repentance charity obedience invocation adoration the frequent exercises of the holy Sacraments and the religious observation of divine ordinances which were given us for no other end but that we may draw neere unto God as loving children Let men please themselves never so much with their severall Idols whether Corporall or spirituall among the dead or among the living there is no creature in heaven or in earth in the center of the one or circle of the other that can bring us to God but only Christ Jesus The Angell of the Covenant the first borne of every creature the great high priest that took the censer of his flesh and laid upon it the burning coales of divine love and offered up the sweet incense of a pure heart and a gracious spirit Is he not the way and the doore the way in whom we go the doore by whom we enter As no man comes to the sonne unlesse the father draw him so no man comes to the father unlesse the sonne doth bring him Abraham is ignorant and Israel knowes us not as we read in that Evangelicall prophet Nec defensoribus istis Tempus eget For behold Christ is here cloathed with our flesh that he may invest us with his righteousnesse and present us to the father holy and unblameable without spot in his sight a greater then Moses a greater then Aaron a greater then Elias a greater then Solamon or any prophet since the world began And therefore God must needs be angry if we do not kisse the Sonne his deare Sonne his beloved Sonne in whom alone he is well pleased and by whom alone we are truly reconciled kisse the mouth of his word and pretious oracles kisse the hand of his power and wondrous miracles kisse the feet of his justice and sure mercies his sure mercies and steadfast promises that stand as the Sunne and continue as the Moone for ever in the heavens These we must kisse and these we must embrace looking towards Jesus the author and finisher of our course if ever we mean to have God our friend or the light of his countenance to shine upon us It was for Joseph's sake that his brethren were so courteously received and it is for Christs sake that we are so graciously reconciled He came into the world as Joseph came into Egypt for the good and the benefit for the protection and the liberty the help and the comfort the provision and the safety of all his brethren And therefore Augustine will have him to be a figure of Christ with a typum gessit salvatoris in one of his sermons inscribed de tempore both alike sold both a like spoyled one throwne into a pit another into a grave one cast into a dungeon another into hell by a voluntary condescention though exalted at length that he might save us as well from death as from derth the derth of his word and the death of our soules in that burning lake of intollerable woe and insupportable misery And therefore saith Bernard mortem pertulit at mortem sustulit he suffered death but he abolished death and destroyed him that had the power of death with his owne weapon Sweet Jesu who shall declare the strange procurement of our gracious reconcilement in that rare Conjunction of both natures by the power of the Godhead by the patience of the man-hood by the majesty of the one by the humility of the other This enabled thee to beare that to overcome this to endure that to satisfy this to descend and lay downe thy life that to ascend and take it up againe that we may be advanced above those angelicall Thrones and sit together with thee in heavenly places St Chrysostome is astonished with it and cries out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how comes this work this great work to be acted and accomplished And therefore I will not take upon me to describe the manner of it further then I have direction from the Apostle who gives you a twofold explication in the 1 Chap. of the Epist to the Collos that he doth reconcile us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the body of his flesh through death and that he doth reconcile us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the blood of his crosse where you have death and blood and a

bruised the head of the Serpent and brake the head of the Leviathan in the midst of the waters sporting with him that sported therein with the staffe of his Crosse and the rod of his power his eternall power and God-head Rom. 1. Who then shall lay any thing to our charg It is God that justifieth who shall condemne It is Christ that died yea rather which is risen againe and sits at the right hand of God and makes intercession for us as we have it in that brave challenge graciously set downe and couragiously sent forth by that Champion of God and trumpet of the Gospel the Doctor of the Gentiles and vessell of election in plaine scorne and open defence of spirituall wickednesse in highest places We joy in God we joy over death we joy in God we joy over sinne we joy in God we joy over the grave we joy in God we joy and crow as it were over hell and Satan with all the powers of that infernall kingdome and may safely tread upon Serpents and Scorpions as the Apostles did without hurt and danger in the name of Christ and strength of our redeemer that hath set up his crosse as a glorious Trophy in the midst of the Nation to the everlasting reproach and eternall confusion of the Dragon and his angels Of this we have both an embleme and example an Embleme in the woman that was cloathed with the Sun and had the Moon under her feet an example in the Apostle when he brake forth into that triumphant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory The sting of death is sinne and the strength of sinne is the law but thanks be to God who hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ And therefore saith God by the mouth of his Servant Qui gloriatur in me glorietur let him that glorieth glory in me that he understandeth me and that he knoweth me who sheweth mercy and judgment and righteousnesse upon the earth Jer. 9. Give me leave then to put you in mind of those everlasting joyes which shall never be taken from you not of meat and of drinke not of harp and viol in the luxury of the greatest feasts but of God and of Christ the Word and his Spirit Quo nihil speciosius quo nihil pretiosius in the sweet language of that incomparable Father then which nothing is more amiable and specious for grace and beauty nothing more admirable and pretious for substance and value lest it be said of you as it was of the Pharisees Luk. 7. 32. Cantavimus non Saltastis we have Piped unto you but ye have not Danced we have Sung unto you but yee have not rejoyced you may peradventure have joyed in the pleasant noise of musicall instruments yee have not rejoyced at the Word of God and sound of his Gospell in sober dances of Spirituall rejoycings with this he is pleased with that he is grieved in this he is glorified in that he is dishonoured and sometimes mightily blasphemed I will not deny but that we may rejoyce in the outward comforts of humane life and take pleasure in the very creature joy in health joy in beauty joy in wealth joy in safety joy in Arts and Sciences Tongues and Languages friends and favours priviledges and preferments the gifts of nature and the graces of the Spirit whereby we are enabled to promote the honour of God and benefit of his Servants In these we may rejoyce in these we may triumph as they are blessings of our heavenly Father and pledges of his love so it be with a twofold Caution and respect the one of thankfulnesse in the right acknowledgment of divine bounty from whence they come the other of subordination in the reall intendment of divine glory whereunto they runne For that is finis debitus as Aquinas speaks and ought to be the maine aime of our best faculties and most eminent perfections In this sense we interpret the words of St Paul and are to understand that deprecation of the Apostle God forbid I should rejoyce in any thing but the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ not primarily and wholy but conditionally and moderately in order to Christ and the advancement of his glory And therefore as Aristotle said when they brought him two sorts of wine the one from Rhodes the other from Lesbos with allusion to his Scholars Menedemus and Theophrastus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. That of Rhodes is good but this of Lesbos is the sweeter So do I professe of earthly joy and heavenly joy corporall joy and spirituall joy the joy of the Creature and the joy of the Creator that may be good this is better that may be pleasant this is sweeter that may be usefull this is needfull and such as ought most to be desired Faine would I draw you to it that your hearts may rejoyce and your joy may be full when that which is perfect shall come and that which is imperfect shall be done away For in his presence there is fulnesse of joy and at his right hand there are pleasures for ever more But where I faile let Augustine go on and make supply with his gaudete in one of his Sermons de Verbis Domini Gaudete in Domino non in saeculo Gaudete in veritate non in falsitate Gaudete in spe aeternitatis non in store vanitatis rejoyce in the Lord not in the world rejoyce in the truth not in falshood rejoyce in the hope of life and glory not in the flower and flourish of Pride and of vanity All this is strongly enforced by the Word of God which indeed is mighty in operation and sharper then a two edged sword to divide betwixt the Soule and the Spirit the joynts and the marrow the world and your heart the earth and your affections I might send you to the Prophet David for ample direction who writes many Psalmes of this argument with a jubilate in Deo O be joyfull in the Lord all yee Lands serve the Lord with gladnesse and come before his presence with a song And with a Venite exultemus in Domino O Come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoyce in the strength of our Salvation let us come before his presence with thanks-giving and shew our selves glad in him with Psalmes But I shall leave you to a shorter compendium out of the Apostle Philip. 4. 4. where he gives you a double charge and bids you rejoyce in the Lord with an Iterum dico Againe I say rejoyce that he may awake you from the dreames of secular fancies and bring you to the joyes of Spirituall extasies I scarce remember a place in the Volume of this Book of greater emphasis that doth more insinuate into the heart of men with a sweeter Eccho of forcible ingemination and patheticall instruction then what I last spake unto rejoyce in the Lord and againe I say rejoyce Therefore I wish it may have a deep impression with you and be as nailes fastned by the masters of assemblies never to be removed and forgotten that yet may affect it and that it may lift you up from wordly desires and earthly Cogitations as the Spirit did Ezekiel when it took him by a lock of the haire and brought him to Jerusalem lift you up and bring you on to Jerusalem the vision of peace the fruition of blisse the new Jerusalem the celestiall Jerusalem Jerusalem which is above the Mother of us all Where amongst other songs and doxologies of praise and thanks-giving we may remember this and sing aloud upon our beds with Patriarches and Prophets with Apostles and Evangelists with Martyrs and Confessors with Saints and Angells We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom we have now received the atonement Which the Lord Grant for Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit three persons and one God be ascribed all Power Majesty and Dominion now and for ever AMEN FINIS