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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12091	The first sermon of R. Sheldon priest, after his conuersion from the Romish Church preached before an honourable assembly at S. Martins in the Field, vpon Passion Sunday, &c. Published by authoritie.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1612 (1612)	STC 22395; ESTC S117205	45,961	78

betwixt blood and blood one base filthie corrupt seruile contemptible the other honourable most pure sincere free excellent the one of Bulles and Goates the other of man of a perfect and most innocent and holy man As if the Apostle should say O ye Hebrewes you haue bulles goates kiddes lambes wee haue Christ the Messias desired expected you haue the sprinckling of a few corruptible droppes we haue incorruptible and sincere droppes of Christ diuinely vnited to his person you haue the vncleane and durtie ashes of a young cowe intermixt with water we haue the admirable sprinckling of the diuine and humane nature in vnitie of person your sprinckling is naturally vncleane and corporally polluteth the takers ours is most pure sanctified by the eternall spirit beautified by the diuinitie it selfe yours is a sprinckling made vpon man ours is a sweet smelling sacrifice offered to God your sprinckling onely purifieth an outward kind of impuritie and legall irregularitie ours clenseth and purifieth the soules and consciences of faithfull offerers yours many and often repeated can neuer make the offerers perfect ours being one and once only offered hath found an eternall redemption and eternally consummateth all beleeuers yours were not efficacious for sanctification ours so potent that it giueth abundance of grace whereby we may be enabled to serue the liuing God Christian and religious hearers is it not worthily written of this Apostle Saulus autem c. But Act. 9. Saul was comforted and strengthened and euery where confounded the Iewes testifying that Iesus is Christ O incredulous Iewes when I consider the pride of your mindes and withall the basenesse of such creatures and such elements vnder which you liued in so toilesome a seruitude I am astonished to thinke that you would rest in such weake sacrifices rites sacraments ceremonies and obseruancies and would not seeke nor receiue Christ the Messias and the true immaculate Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world being offered vnto you Thus much most briefly of the proposition it selfe for I hasten to the inference made by the Apostle in which full of all Christian consolation I obserue and distinguish first of whom the blood is which is offered to wit of Christ in these words How much more the blood of Christ Secondly I obserue by whom and through whom this blood is offered By and through the Eternall spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the Apostle by the eternall Spirit Thirdly I distinguish to whom it is offered there to God Fourthly I obserue for what end this sacrifice is offered there to cleanse the conscience from dead workes to serue the liuing God Of these foure intermitting some other obseruations which might be here made in order Touching the first when I weigh with my selfe whose blood it is which is offered I am wholly disanimated from presuming to decipher the excellencies perfections and eminences of his person For I beleeuing with faith that he is both God and man not onely man nor onely God but a Christ consisting both of God and man a perfect supposit a compleate Person who though as Christ had a beginning and was not before the incarnation yet as touching his diuinity and personality hee was most perfectly from all eternities very perfect God of God Sonne of the father who in the fulnesse of time by a certaine inexplicable vnion became the Sonne of man or rather the true and naturall Sonne of a woman and the reputed Sonne onely of man of Ioseph his putatiue father These things I say beleeuing with faith the saying of Isaiah the Prophet Generationem eius quis enarrabit Isay 53. who shall declare his generation occurreth and checketh my presumption that I bee not too bold a searcher of maiesty least I be oppressed and confounded with the glory thereof Yet considering that the veile of Moses is remoued and the veile of Sancta Sanctorum is rent at the dreadfull houre of Christs consummatum est it is consummated and that the mysterie of Christ the hope of our glory which was hidden in ancient ages and generations as the Apostle speaketh in his Epistle to the Colossians is now made manifest to the Saints I will according Collos 1. to the rule of Christian faith with my best faculty of wit and learniug but alasse what a nothing is all that in respect of the excellency of the obiect whereof I am to discourse declare vnto you what this Christ is of whose blood we speake what this verbum abbreuiatum this abbreuiated word is to speake with the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romanes is if in this discourse I seem Rom. 9. briefe and obscure impute it to the eminency of the obiect which otherwise then defectiuely cannot be spoken of neither by the tongue of man nor of Angell With most submisse reuerence therefore we will consicer Christ first with a reference to God and his actions secondly with a reference and relation to vs Thirdly as he is in himselfe In the first consideration first of all we consider Christ as the very terme obiect or bound of the greatest communication or diffusion which the Almightie Trinity can make so that by the communication which the most blessed Trinitie and peculiarly the second Person hath already made of his subsistence and personality to the humane nature the same blessed Trinity be it spoken vnder correction of faith and with demisse reuerence is at a stop and stay not potent to make a greater communication then this which is already made whereby Christ is made For is a substantiall communication of the diuinity it selfe in the very diuine nature were possible which yet cannot be granted vnlesse we wil subuert the very foundation of christian religion yet the same greater then this which is alreadie made should nor could not be because a greater cōmunicatiō then of God himselfe which is already made by this personall coniunction in Christ cannot bee imagined Againe if either the father or the holy Ghost or both as Christian diuinity faith it is possible should aslume by hypostatical and personall vnion the nature of an Angell or of man yet both such communications both such assumptions should not surpasse in greatnesse or excellency this one which is already made in Christ alone For our holie faith teaching vs that two persons of the most ineffable Trinity are not greater then one nor one of them lesser then two but that euery Person hath infinitely a perfect equality and persection with the other two manifest it is that the communications of two Persons or of three is not greater nor excellenter then of one onely How admirable therefore how ineffable therefore is this communication of God to man whereby the Omnipotent power of God is so bounded and limited that it cannot proceed further to make a worke of greater perfection O inenarrable generations As the Eternall and natural generation of the sonne in diuine essence is so infinite so immense that God the father could