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A perfume against the noysome pestilence prescribed by Moses vnto Aaron. Num. 16. 46. Written by Roger Fenton, preacher of Grayes Inne.
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Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.
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other side did he vouchsafe to be conceaued of a woman without a Father that hee might suck from her such tendernesse of affection as that sex could deriue vpon him And yet he receiued more then she could giue forsomuch as her nature was sinfull and sinne doth naturally harden the hart and dull the affection Christ therefore who receiued all but sinne must needes haue his loue and affection much more quickned towardes man for whose sake it pleased him to bee humbled with such passions 3. Humaine affection is feruent for the time but vnconstant like earthly fire sometimes in and sometimes out Peter his loue was hotte enough when hee would dye with Christ but it would not holde but Christ hath kindled his affection from the Altar from a perpetual fire which neuer went out Humane loue sauoureth of the earth bee it neuer so pure except the holy Ghost doe sanctifie it from aboue Peter spake from loue and from an harty kinde affection to his maister I make no doubt willing him to fauour himselfe that such miseries might not befall him but his loue was not taken from the Altar it seemeth by Christ his answer to haue beene kindled from hell rather get thee behind me Sathan But Christ in whom the holy Ghost dwelleth bodily is full of celestiall fire 4. Wherevpon he putteth Incense offering vp prayer vnto his Father an atonement for his whole Church Incense compounded of sweete Odours artificially compounded of such deuine meditations as are recorded in the 17. chapter of Saint John in that excellent prayer made by Christ for the entire mysticall body himselfe and his members These spices were brused broken beaten to powder to the end they might send vp a more odoriferous smell into the nosthrils of his heauenly Father Were not the thoughts of his heart broken when lamenting ouer Hierusalem in this maner If Luk. 19. 42. thou haddest knowne at the least in this thy day those things which belong vnto thy peace there commeth a sob and cutteth away the rest of the sentence and as if his minde were broken in the midst betwixt compassion and indignation hee concludeth but now are they hid from thine eyes Were not his deuine Meditations interrupted and sore brused when hee stood in a mammering what to say backward and forward when hee saith and againe vnsaith How is my Iohn 12. 27. soule troubled what shall I say Father saue me from this houre but therefore came I into this houre Father glorifie thy name Nay were not the passions of his heart beaten to powder in that bitter agonie and bloudie conflict where he striueth till he sweate and sweateth till he bleed so brused and broken in hart that an Angell must comfort the Lord of life 5. This sweete Incense is an atonement to his Father but for whome for the congregation of men who murmured conspired and made insurrection against him for his enemies and bloudie persecutors Yea the first Incense of prayer which he offered vpon the crosse was for those who nailed him to the crosse Father forgiue them for they wotte not Luk. 23. 34. what they doe and not for them onely but for all mankinde was this atonement made who pierced the eternall God before he had a side to pierce Zacher 12. 10. and Zak 12. 10. because wee cannot conceiue how our sinne should pierce a spirit or our ill dooing extend vnto God more then our well dooing Psal 16. 2. Therefore Psal 16. 2 God is incarnate and hath taken our flesh vpon him that man might conceaue and see and looke vpon him whom he hath pierced Notwithstanding this atonement made once for all yet we see wrath is gone out from the Lord and the plague is begun amongst vs Aaron with his Censer and all the ceremonies of the Leuiticall Priesthood be vanished what remedy remaineth then for vs Much euery waye for albeit the Aaronicall Priesthood be taken away and the true Priest ascended vp on high out of sight yet notwithstanding by vertue of his mediation there is a continuall entercourse betweene the Throne of God his Church militant here vpon earth for his heauenly inspirations and our holye desires are as so many ascending and descending Angels of commerce betweene God and vs And as teaching bringeth vs to know the truth of God so prayer testifieth that wee acknowledge his Goodnesse to be the onely fountaine of all blessings wherefore as there is nothing to which God is more prone and inclinable then to communicate his goodnesse insomuch as the Prophet saith he doth expect and waite that he may haue mercy so there is Esa 30. 18 no part of our seruice can be more acceptable vnto God then this of prayer which drawing mercie from him sheweth so happy a concurrence betweene his will and our wishes It is with our gratious and mercifull Father in this case as with a full breast which aketh for desire to giue Milke then welcome is the hungrie childe that can sucke the best This dutie lieth principallie vpon the Ministers of the Gospell who as publique persons doe stand and speake in the presence of God for the people for as it was enioyned Aaron and his sonnes to blesse the people in the name of God and to offer prayers vnto God in the name of the people so was the same practised in the Primatiue Church as Saint Paul witnesseth by the Minister of this function 1. Cor. 14 16. whose Prayers and thankesgiuings the people by their ioyfull acclamation did ratifie Wherefore the Archeministers of the Gospell the Acts. 6. 3. twelue Apostles seperating others for other imployments reserued themselues wholye for Prayer and the Ministerie Verse 4. of the worde conioyning those two ghostlye exercises together as if they whose care and charge ouer the people is manifolde more then common persons should haue a double portion in this dutie of Prayer for the people which verye dutye imposed vppon them is a speciall seale and confirmation that the selfe same deuine loue which hath made choise of the instrument will thereby effect his good worke in blessing his people and accepting their prayers and vnfained deuotions but so much the rather if the Minister himselfe doe lift vp pure hands in prayer 1. Tim. 2. 8. Wherefore our great desire is that as wee for the people so they for vs would pray with Dauid Let thy Priests O Lorde be cloathed with righteousnesse Psal 132. 9. so shall thy Saints reioyce and sing Which oblation that it may be the more effectuall and acceptable vnto God for externall incense we must take vnto vs the Censer of the Sacrament those hallowed mysteries which represent and exhibite vnto vs the precious body of our blessed Sauiour which neuer commeth emptie of heauenly fire taken from the Altar for it is Ioh 6. 63 the spirit that quickneth the flesh profiteth nothing Whereby our odours of deuotion being perfectly kindled and