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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44245	Motives to a good life in ten sermons / by Barten Holyday ...	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1657 (1657)	Wing H2531; ESTC R36003	137,260	326

just distinction weight He forgives Iniquitie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the sinne of man against his Neighbour his unjust dealing He forgives Transgression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man's Rebellion against God his receding from the power of the Lord that layd a command upon him and so aptly expresses the old offenee of our first parents their Disobedience as the Apostle calls it and our own offences against the Lord. He forgives Sinne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Sepiuagint renders it which though it be of a large signification yet here by way of difference may fitly be taken for that sin of sinnes which is too nerely against Our selves that sinne whence others flow that law in our members as the Apostle speakes Rom. 7.23 the sinne that dwells in us v. 17. originall sinne And thus does the Lord Iesus deliver his people at the last from all kind of sinne Iniquitie against our Neighbour Transgression against God Sinne against our selves And as the Lord did visibly shew himselfe passing by before Moses so did the Lord Iesus who was represented in that vision exhibite himselfe in the flesh visibly to the world as it were a passing by the World At which wonderfull sight yea at the remembrance of it may not we likewise take up with a little change those words of almighty God The Lord the Lord God the Lord the Lord Iesus Mercifull and Gracious long suffering and Abundant in Goodnesse and Truth keeping mercy for thousands forgiving Iniquity and Transgression and Sinne Now as this work of our Saviour was the Restoring of the world so was it also the ordering of it and accordingly the Greek Fathers frequently call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ordering of a house hould as Iustin and Nazianzene expresse it God in his mercy having by this provided for the world as for his familie Which word they might borrow from the Apostle Ep. 1.10 where he says God did worke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the dispensation of the fullnesse of times which might have been rendred in his house-hold-goverment or in the governing of his family the world in the fullnesse of times Nor has he only order'd the world but also Honoured it whiles Man in Iesus is united unto God Here did God gather together in one all things in Christ Eph. 1.10 all things that is Man as Irenaeus and S. Gregory expound it He did it that he might gather all things together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that he might Recapitulate or bring to a Head all things in Christ Indeed we are but the Members he is the Head the Annointed head he is God's Christ or his Annointed The eminency of Annointing you may see in the excellency of the persons anciently annointed among the Iews the Priest the Prophet and the King Of which last Lactantius observ'd that Annointing was the signe of Royalty among the Iews as the purple roabe was among the Romans All which respects concurr'd in the Annointing of our Saviour he being a Priest that offer'd Sacrifice for the sinnes of the World he being a Prophet that declared the secret Counsaile of his Father concerning the redemption of mankind he being a King in delivering Laws and affording protection to his Church And being thus mystically annointed with the Holy Ghost he may more truely than Zerubbabel and Ioshua the high Priest after the Captivity in the phrase of the prophet Zacharie 4.14 be call'd the Sonne of oile Nor was it without an embleme that he ascended into Heaven from the Mount of Olives which then was also the mount of the Annointed Oile is by the Hebrews called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the purity and shining of it When therefore it is said Psal 104.15 that God gives man Oile to make his face shine the originall imports to make his face shine more than oile as the English Interpreters observe Indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word drawn from the same originall with the former signifies the Light at noon day or the most full light and thus is our Saviour Christ brighter than oile and the Meridian Light that inlightens the world No marvaile then if the Gentiles whiles they were out of the Govenant of Grace so much envied at the glory of Christ the annointed so much that they indeavoured to burne all bookes that had the name of Christ in them especially the Sacred writings compelling all that in the Dioclesian persecution had such bookes to deliver them up whence such faint Christians as delivered them were call'd Traditores as S. Austin in part implies against the Donatists and as appeares by the first Councill of Arles Can. 13. and by Arnobius with others But as those Gentiles were not able to blot out the Sacred and Glorious name of Christ so neither was Domitian with all the power of his Malice and Crueltie before that able to disgrace the name of Christian though because it was in honour of our Saviour and so signified a servant of Christ the Annointed he imposed that scorne and intended torment upon the blessed Evangelist S. Iohn by causing him to be cast into a vessell of scalding oile Domitian's oile having no more power agaist the Christian than against Christ And that we may know how to be true Christians we may partly learne it from the names by which at the beginning of their profession they call'd themselves their usuall name being Disciples implying an obedience and willingnesse to learne Truth and so was an Instruction as well as a Title They were called the Beleivers not that they did disclaime holy workes which are all good mens Duty but that comparatively they disesteemed them nothing being meritorious but Christ and by Christ the Foundation of their Faith They were called Breathren they were call'd Saints intimating their Unity and Holinesse not in Pretence but Practice But the most usuall name of Humilitie and Zeale was Disciples which yet was chang'd at Antiochia by the consent of the Apostles into the name of Christians upon occasion as Athanasius shews of the divisions of those that pretended to be Disciples Thus did their name declare and Remember them to be the worshippers of the Lord 's Annointed The Heathens in disgrace fequently called them the Sibylists as Origen tells us the Christians so frequently alleadging against the Gentiles the Sibylls verses So Clemens the Alexandrian mentions S. Paul alleadging a Sibyl which memorialls it seems were in those times known among the Christians which is the name by Apostolicall institution and never was the name of any Sectaries but among the Christians the Apostoliques was the name of a Sect of Heretiques And by as easy reason might the Catholiques have been so too A Christian then being glorious in his Title should remember that as the Ancient wrestlers among the Heathen were annointed with oile to make them the more Active so should we to a better expedition be annointed with a spirituall Oile which is Gods Grace The Romanists annoint ●he Christian when

Which literall interpretation if any man lesse like of he may take S. Anstin's who by the falling of the Starres understands the preparation that shall be against that day in the Aire For he thinkes it more probable that by this speech is meant that the Lightnings flames and fiery exhalations which shall be before the last day shall be so dreadfull that one would thinke the very Starres did fall from heaven And easily may the world be thus affrighted when as there shall be preparation in the very Powers of heaven which shall be shaken Matt. 24.29 The powers of heaven that is as the Holy Fathers teach us to expound it The blessed Angells of God in heaven shall tremble with reverent feare before the day of judgment at those dreadfull wonders which God will declare in the very heavens There shall be also preparation in the Seas The Sea and the waves shall roare Luk. 21.25 The height of the waves shall frighten those that dwell by the shoare and the Out-crie of the waves shall frighten those that dwell afarre off There shall be preparation also on the Earth The Sibylls tell us that at that time the beasts shall rune belowing and roaring through the fields and Cities that the Trees shall sweat blood and that the Sea shall throw-up fish on the drie ground Nay the Scripture tells us that Men shall be more amas'd that their hearts shall faile them for feare and for looking after those things that are comming on the earth Luk. 21.26 A sinner shall then be like a bird that has flowen about in the pleasure of the fields and at last falls into a nett So shall the sinner fall into a snare he shall be caught The pleasures of the wicked shall be like Jonah's gourd they shall for a time sit under the shadow of their honours of their wealth of their pleasure but these shall all passe away and leave them to the fury of the Sunne of righteousnesse God shall arme all heaven against them and a flood of fire after all shall be as a tenth wave for there shall come also a flood of fire unto which the Prophet David seem'd to allude Psal 50.3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devoure before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him But the Prophet Malachi is more evident cap. 3.1 Behold the day comes that shall burne as an oven and all the proud yea and all that doe wickedly shall be stubble and the day that comes shall burne them up sayes the Lord of hosts S. Paul told his Thessalonians as much 1 Epist. 1.7 8. That when the Lord Iesus shall be reveal'd from heaven he shall take vengeance in flaming fire S. Peter is more particular The earth and the workes that are therein shall be burnt-up 2 Pet. 3.10 and the elements shall melt with fervent heat And the heaven it selfe is reserv'd unto fire against the day of judgment 2 Pet. 3.7 nay that the heaven shall be sett on fire and be dissolv'd vers 12. and that the heavens shall passe away with a great noise vers 10. well therfore may we remember what the Lord said by the Prophet Joel 2.30 I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth blood and fire and pillars of smoake Yet concerning the order of this flood of fire S. Austin places it in the end of the day of Judgment though others would have it before that this face of the world may be destroyd before that great Session And then shall the signe of the Sonne of man appeare in heaven which some thinke shall be some insigne of our Saviour's Victory Some more particularly though without warrant thinke that it shall be the signe of the Crosse and that when darknesse shall have overcast the world there shall appeare in the East a Crosse of Light to foreshew the comming of the Lord. Others thinke this signe shall be the glorious wounds in our Saviour's body at which sight in the day of Judgment the Jews especially may be confounded Yet some others thinke it shall be that Prerogative Glory with which our Saviour shall then appeare But since the interpretation of this signe is kept as secret as the day in which it shall appeare Let us consider how dreadfull the Session it selfe shall be A Session which shall be usherd with the mighty voice of an Archangell and of a Trumpet It was the voice of a Trumpet which the Jews did use in their warres in their Temple in their Feasts in their Assemblies Numb 10. It was with the voice of a Trumpet that the Law was given at Mount Sinai but here the dead shall heare this Trumpet and this voice calling them unto judgment And then shall they see the Sonne of man comming in the Clouds with power and great Glory Matt. 24.30 They shall see that humane nature which was prophan'd on earth they shall see him come to be their Judge whom once they judg'd The Jewes that would not know him and the Heathen and wicked Christians that car'd not to know him shall now behold him not without horrour whom once they beheld not without hate or neglect But now they shall see him come in the cloudes with power and glory with glory for he shall come upon a throne of cloudes with power for he shall come upon a throne of cloudes the worke of his own hands yea all the wonders of that day shall be the works of his power and he shall come with power to judge the quicke and the dead He shall come with glory such glory that all the Angels shall with reverent obedience waite upon him upon him whom none but impudent and obdurate sinners durst contemne Will you see his glory Moses shall shew it to you as it appear'd to the Elders of Israel who saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved worke of a Saphire stone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearnesse Fxod 24.10 Will you see his glory S. John shall shew it to you as it appear'd to Him who saw a great white throne and him that sate on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them Rev. 20.11 Will you see his glory you shall see his Kingdome for then shall be fullfill'd that petition in our prayer Thy Kingdome come That shall be the first day of his glorious Reigne Behold his Assistants Angells Saints more especially the Apostles He shall come with all his holy Angells Matt. 25.31 Heaven shall be empty sayes S. Chrysostome in the day of judgment when all the Angells and the Saints of heaven shall descend from heaven to attend the Lord Iesus unto judgment O glorious judgment O dreadfull Judge before whom all the persons that have been from the creation and shall be till that day shall in that day all at once appeare when sinne shall have no cloake