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A04112	A iudicious and painefull exposition vpon the ten Commandements wherein the text is opened, questions and doubts are resolued, errours confuted, and sundry instructions effectually applied. First deliuered in seuerall sermons, and now published to the glory of God, and for the further benefit of his church. By Peter Barker, preacher of Gods word, at Stowre Paine, in Dorsetshire.	Barker, Peter, preacher of Gods word.	1624 (1624)	STC 1425; ESTC S114093	290,635	463

the beasts together so they make their mixtures and their medleyes mingling the bloud of Christ and of their Saints one with another as Beckets bloud Tuper Thome sanguinem quem pro te impendit Fac nos Christe scandere quo Thomas ascendit Thou by the bloud of Thomas speaking of Thomas Becket which he for thee did spend Make vs Christ to clime whether Thomas did assend Thus doe they extenuate the worthines of Christs death in that they supply the weakenes thereof with the prayers and bloud of their Saints but as wax and water cannot meete together so Christ and any thing with Christ cannot meet in the saluation of man the bloud of Saints defaceth the bloud of our Sauiour the impression of their prayers dasheth out the inscription of Christ As for the Saints themselues the Virgine confesseth her Sauiour and therefore acknowledgeth her selfe a sinner s Luc. 1. 47. si peccatrix non depre●atrix qu● egebat non agebat ad●ocatum Mary Magdale● stood behind Christ weeping she wept this was an g Lu. 7. 38. acknowledging of her fault and now she would that her eyes at which sinne had entred as at a window might now let it out as at a doore shee stood behind him as though shee thought her selfe not worthy to behold him and againe behind him that God through Christ might looke vpon her shall now any stand behind her a sinner that God thorough her may looke vpon them or they thorough her may looke vpon God as for the bloud of Saints the heart bloud of the best of them could not merit for themselues and therefore could no more wash vs from our sins then h 2 King 5 14. other waters besides Iorden could cleanse the leprosie of Naaman And therefore hunt not i Mar. 5. 2. 3. with the mad Cadar●n the graues of the dead as they did Thomas Beckets tombe seeke not among the Saints departed for mediators of redemption no not of intercession God did not send the King of Gerar to Noah or any of the dead Fathers but to Abraham then aliue and present k Gē 20. 7. hee shall pray for thee Indeed Brusierd saith if wee pray to Saints departed they as stricken with some compassion may say the like to God for vs as in the Gospell they did for the Canaanite send her away for shee cryes after vs but I answere if the Saints should haue a feeling of our miseries then little l Mat. ●5 23 would be their ease small would be their rest and heauen would be no hauen of happines An other saith No man comes to an earthly Prince without making meanes to some that are about him but I answer God respecteth not one person more then an other and therfore one need not an Atturney rather then an other to speake vnto God and therefore dashe out that subscription which Anton●nus saith was vsed in his time where Saint Paul and Frier Dominicke were painted together vnder the Image of Saint Paul was written Per hunc itur ad Christum vnder the other sed magis per istum the like story wee read of King Oswy who taking vp the matter about celebrating Easter betwixt the East-Churches which receiued their rite of Saint Iohn and the West-Church which receiued theirs of Saint Peter iudged with the West-Church that is the Church of Rome lest as he said gainsaying Peter the porter none should open when hee came to heauen gate if he were displeased that kept the keys The prodigall Child did vse no other meanes to come into his fathers house but m Luc. 15. 20. hee himselfe did come to his father As we are not to worship Saints in praying vnto them so not giuing that honour vnto them which belongs onely vnto God vnder the Law God appointed the Iewes three seuerall n De● 16. 9. Feasts the Passeouer Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles the first in remembrance that God spared their houses when he slew the first-borne of the Agyptians the second in remembrance that God gaue them his Law 50 daies after their departing out of Aegypt the third in remembrance that they dwelt vnder tents and tabernacles forty yeeres in the wildernesse but after the Idolaters forged Feasts of their owne heads o 1 King 1● 32. as Ieroboam made a new holy day in honour of the Calues which he had set vp at Dan and Bethel Vnder the Gospell we celebrate Easter Whit-sunday and other festi●al daies the first in remembrance of the death resurrection of Christ the second in remembrance of the sending of the holy Ghost quod abeuntem Christum non amisimus v●n●●tem Spirit●● possidemus other holy dayes of Saints wee keepe to the ho●our of Christ and not of them as the Anuntiation of the virgin in remembrance that Christ was then conceiued in her wombe the Purification in remembrance that Christ was then presented in the Temple Saint Peters day as proper to Christ professed by Peters mouth p Ma● 16. 16. Thou art Christ the Sonne of the liuing God Saint Iohns day proper to Christ published by his writing and so of the rest whose holy daies our Churh doth most piously q Io● 21. 24 and religiously bind vs to obserue but after this especially within this 500. yeares the Pope that great god maker of Rome coyned a great number of new holy daies as the Feast of the Conception of the virgin Mary which when the Franciscan or gray Fryers had newly found out in remembrance that she was conceiued without originall sinne was established by Sixtus the fourth who sent forth his decree commanding all men to solemnize the said Feast himselfe adding at the end of her Aue b●nedicta sit Anna matertua de qu● sin● macula tua processit caro virginea and to stoppe the mouthes of the Dominicke or black Fryers who taking side with Peter Lombard Tho. Aquinas Bernard Bonauenture and other Schoole Doctors taught that it was heresie to affirme that shee was conceiued without guilt of originall sinne they said her flesh might well proceede without this infection for shee was not concei●ed as others were and therefore they made a picture of I●achim and Anna kissing by which kisse Anna was conceiued with the virgin Mary I omi● here the feast of her Natiuity brought in by Innocent the fourth the Feast of her Assumption brought in by Leo the fourth the Feast of Corpus Christi ordained and confirmed by Clement the fift who assigned indulgences to those that heard the seruice thereof For besides these that great Saint-maker shrined a rable of blind Saints of his owne creating prescribing the same to be vniuersally receiued in the whole world and binging them as holy children of Rome into his Romish Calender some with a Festum duplex some with a Festum simplex and celebrating his double and simple feasted Saints He commonly appointed a vigill before them that they might as well bee honored with

Christ vsed sundry sorts of medicines as dyet in his forty daies fast Electuary u Mat. ●● 26. in giuing his body and bloud at his last supper Sweat x Luc. 22. 44. which like droppes of bloud trickled downe to the ground Potion y Mat. 27. 48. when they gaue him vineger to drinke mingled with gall z Ioh 19. 34. letting blond when they peirced his hands and his feet and when Longinus thrust a speare into his side and strocke his heart veyne by his natiuity he made himselfe in case able to worke this cure by circumcision he entred bond for it by bloud at his passion he performed it Bloud is a great comfort to nature and hasteth thither where is most neede of succour when a man blusheth it goes to the face when he is afraide to dye it goes from the face to the heart to comfort the heart because it is distressed and when we which are members of Christ were as good as dead it came from the head to the members for a Reuel ● 5 he washed vs in his bloud and therefore the Church of God may be called Aceldama because it is a field purchased by the bloud of Christ and therefore we pray his bloud be on vs and our children not as the Iewes prayed b Mat. 27. 25. his bloud be vppon vs to reuenge it but his bloud c Reu. 1. 5. be vppon vs to wash vs d 1. Pet. 1. 19. to redeeme vs e Heb. 9. 14 to sanctifie vs. f Leuit 25. 10. The yeare of Iubily was a figure of g Luc. 4. 19 that acceptable yeare and h Mala. 4. 2 the Sonne of righteousnes reioycing as a Gyant to run his course caused this yeare by him the brightnes of heauen is opened vnto vs as the light of the day is conueyed vnto vs by the Sun in the firmament He was that Doue which after the floud of our sinnes brought a branch of Olyue that is peace and i Gen. 8. 1● mercy to the Arke that is the Church in the euening and end of the world The world is a sea death is a hooke Christ is that fish k Mat. 17. 27. in whose mouth was found a peece the price of our redemption the tribute is payde and wee are deliuered l Num. 16. 48. Aaron stood betwixt the liuing and the dead Moses betwixt God and the people and m 1. Tim. ● 5. Christ is a mediator betwixt God and vs A mediator one that dealeth priuately for vs he is more then so n 1. Ioh. 2. 1 an aduocate one that comes to the barre in our cause o 2. Cor. 5. 19. he is a reconcilation one that in such sort dealeth betwixt God and vs that he will not punish vs he is more then so p 1. Io. 2. 2. he is a propitiation one that dealeth so with God for vs that he will reward vs this latter is more then the former for King Dauid is appeased toward Absolon by meanes of Ioa● after he had slaine his brother Ammon but q 2. Sam. 14 24. 33. yet let him see my face no more there is reconciliation but in the end he commeth to the King and r the King kisseth him there is propitiation as he is a mediator an aduocate a reconciliation and propitiation so is he our only mediator o●r only aduocate our only reconciliation our only propitiation he is the only high Priest which entred before the Arke where was the signe of Gods presence when all other were forbid to come neare the ſ Heb. 7. 23 one Priest who by t Heb. 10. 12. one sacrifice u Heb. 9. 28 once offered hath reconciled God to vs. And vs to know the originall cause of our death and damnation we must not range beyond the fall of the first Adam for by him sinne entred into the world and death by the meanes of sinne so to find our recouery we must not seeke elsewhere then in the second Adam Christ Iesus for thorough him saluation is conueyed from the Father to all his liuing members as through the veynes life is conueyed from the heart to all the vitall parts x Ioh. 14. 6. He is the way the Kings high way to heauen we haue no whither to goe but to him nor no other way but by him no man can ascend but by him that did discend y Gen. 28. 12. he is Iacobs ladder there is no other hy whom we can goe vp vnto God no building without this stone no perfume without this balme no Pa●adise without this tree no God without this Christ no entrance ●nto heauen without this dore no sauing from the floud without this Arke he is the only z Luc. 10. Samaritan that powreth in Oyle to cure our woundes the only rocke a Gen. 35. 14. which Iacob annointed with Oyle and erected vp for a title of peace betweene God and men the only vessell full of Oyle wherewith b 2. Kin. 4. 7 with the widdow we must all pay our debts c Mat. 1. 25 Iesus is his name d Act. 4. 12. and there is no other name vnder heauen whereby we can be saued and therefore he is not only called a sauiour but e Luc. 2. 30 saluation it selfe because he is the only Sauiour as for Saints they are no such sauiours as can cure our euils in body their letting bloud cannot ease the plurisie of our soules and therefore as that man in the Gospell was to worship Christ because f Ioh. 7. 23. he had made him whole euery whit so on the other side are not wee to worship Saints because they can not make vs whole any whit The Church of Rome then is to be reproued which worshipp the Virgine Mary their Patronesse and Protectresse desiring her to exhibit to them the breast of her grace great babes to sucke our Ladyes breast attributing their happy estate to the helpe of her medecine acknowledging themselues seruants of her owne inheritance and of her peculiar dowre much such stuffe may we find in the Catholicke Primer called our Ladyes mattens in our Ladyes Psalter made by Bona●e●ture to be sayd and song in the praise and seruice of our Lady which make her an aduocate pray for the people intreate for the Clergie make intercession for the deuout woman-kinde Which make her not only blessed her selfe but a giuer of blessednes to others not a vessell but a fountaine a mother of grace mercy Neither shall the Virgin be alone in this seruice but other Saints shall beare her company as Saint Nicholas grant by his merits and prayers we may be deliuered from the fire of hell as Mary Magdalen Let her purchase for vs the blisse euerlasting And as Pilate mingled the bloud of the Galileans with their owne sacrifice that is killed them while they were sacrificing and so mingled their bloud and the bloud of