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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42391	A sermon preached at the visitation held at High Wickham in the county of Bucks. May 16. 1671 Wherein the ministers duty is remembred. Their dignity asserted. Man's reconciliation with God, urged. By Samuel Gardner M.A. and chaplain to His Majesty.	Gardner, Samuel, chaplain in Ordinary.	1672 (1672)	Wing G248A; ESTC R202272	31,540	43

Happiness is it fit and rational for Dust and Ashes to Dispute and to be angry with the Judge of all the Earth Gen. 18.25 And for poor Wormes to rebel against their Maker at whose Presence both Heaven and Earth doth tremble Here 's Gods great Condescention because of the weakness of our apprehension And if there be humility of greatest Poverty yet here is an attestation of preatest glory That no man might be offended but rather stand astonished with an holy admiration at the infinite grace wisdom mercy and goodness of God First That his own Son God blessed for ever should assume humane nature to save us to unite a Clod of Earth unto his Divine Person That Christ should give this World so glorious so magnificently great and so happy a Visitation Greater Condescention then if some great Prince should go into an Hospital to look on a lothsome diseased Creature Here 's superabundant love of God in Jesus Christ which transcends all the degrees of Comparison And then that God should entreat wooe and beseech us by the Ministry of his Ambassadors that we would save our selves from everlasting ruine That God should look upon all the Children of men in their fallen lost sinful and miserable Condition with such pity and compassion who have made themselves liable to eternal Wrath which they understand not which they are not able to bear That God out of his infinite grace and wisdom should find out and provide a way and means of Salvation For the Children of men his professed Enemies In the words we have these particulars to be considered First The Apostles illation drawn from the Premisses by which the Text hath his Coherence with the precedent verses And presents us with this instruction That we are not bound to accept matters of Religion meely without all reason and probable inducements Secondly the assertion of the Subjects by plain Enunciation We are Ambassadours Thirdly the honourable Dignity of these Ambassadours they are for Christ Ambassadours of Christ Fourthly the Authority of God the Father confirming this excellent Dignity as though God did beseech you by us and as if Christ himself stood by and prayed men We pray you in Christs stead Fiftly here is res considerata modus considerandi The Gospel Embassie it self Secondly the way and manner of Gospel Ministers delivering of Gods Message and Errand unto the People and that not in a way of severity and rigour but beseeching and intreating to be reconciled to God Now the Doctrinal truths which are to be Collected and deduced hence are these First that the Foundation of our eternal Salvation is laid by God in Christ God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself Secondly Gods Ministers have their Commission from Heaven they come in the Name of the great King of Heaven and Earth and are his Commission-Officers Thirdly that God who might come in flaming Fire to consume us in a moment cometh to us in the greatest Mercy Tenderness and Condescention Praying and Beseeching us to be reconciled unto him Fourthly that God and Man are at a great distance Fiftly Reconciliation unto God was the most glorious work that ever was wrought and the most blessed word that ever was heard But I must not think to grasp all these But the truth that I intend to insist upon is this That it is the great Honour and Dignity of the Ministers of the Gospel to be the Ambassadours of Jesus Christ But I will first speak something of their Duty and then Secondly of their Dignity Thirdly of mans reconciliation to God in the Application The words of my Text as you have heard are an illative Conclusion drawn from the Premises vers 19 there is set forth the Reconciliatiation on Gods part He though Pars laesa the Party greatly and grievously injured and offended the greatness of an offence growing from the dignity and excellency of the person offended and this makes it Crimen laesa majestatis so hainous and Capital high Treason indeed against the Crown and Dignity of Heaven yet contrives and designs this great work of Reconciliation God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself namely by his Merit and Intercession for as the greatness of the injury grows from the dignity of the person offended because there the worth of the offended person is hurt so the worth of him that makes satisfaction doth grow from him that makes satisfaction because here the yielding of honour is looked into which depends upon the Dignity of him that yields the honour And hath committed unto us the word of attonement or reconciliation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shewing that a Minister of the Gospel should have the Doctrine of Reconciliation first fixed and placed in his own heart and so speak from his own heart to the hearts of others and comfort others with those comforts wherewith he himself hath been comforted of God When a man is no stranger unto those things he delivereth unto others how many are there who onely have a humane knowledge of divine things There is nothing more easie saith Bishop Hall Cent. 2. Med. 91. then to say Divinity by rote and to discourse of Spiritual matters from the Tongue or Pen of others but to hear God speak it to the Soul and to Feel the Power of Religion in our selves and to express it out of the truth of experience within is both rare and hard All that we feel not in the matters of God is but hypocrisie and therefore the more we profess the more we sin Luther felt what he spake and had experience of what he wrote and being to speak of our Justification by Faith in Christ saith he In my heart this one Article reigneth even the Faith of Christ from whom and unto whom all my divine studies have recourse to and through continually Saith S. Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and who is sufficient for these things Who is sufficient for the ministry of Life Who hath fit and particular qualifications for such places for matters of such weighty and great importance for so great a charge as is committed to them If a man were to paint the Sun or to limn out the nature of a Soul who could instruct him what Colours he must use It is not enough that men have publick vote for publick places but they must have suitable Endowments He that thinks to act for God must have qualifications from God There must proceed a mission and Commission or else whosoever runs abroad had better have staid at home 1 Tim. 3. The Apostle lays down their particular qualifications who shall be fit for such places and he would have us look to whom he hath qualified That our most Reverend Bishops most instructed in the Government of the Church and most highly dignified in it should take great heed whom they bless Such as may know how to behave themselves in the Church This calling by man is not to be despised For it is not enough