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A62955	Emerai par emeras, Extraordinary dayes, or, Sermons on the most solemn Feasts and fasts throughout the year viz. Christmas-day, Ash-Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter-day, Ascention-day, Whit-Sunday : whereunto are added two other sermons / by John Torbuck ...	Torbuck, John, d. 1707.	1671 (1671)	Wing T1909; ESTC R21672	43,444	138

Pentecost the Fiftieth or Jubilee from the Resurrection hath in it two direct acts of a joyful Jubilee 1. The Releasing of Prisoners 2. The Restitution of Estates gratìs Both these are effects of Christs Ascension which we have lately treated 4. Ephes 8. When he ascended up on high he led Captivity captive and gave gifts unto men In the former The Releasing we are freed from that bondage whereunto sin had brought us In the Latter our Restitution we take again our first Happiness lost at the Fall recovered by the renewing of the Holy Ghost 3. Tit. 5. This is that Inestimable gift of God at this time sent which we most infinitely undervalue whilst we think to value it at any temporal rate whatever For this Simon Magus offers that which Solomon 10 Eccles 19. saith answers all things Money But Peter said unto him Thy Money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Our Text is an Execration In the Text 4 parts wherin you have First The Person Execrating Peter Peter said 2. The Person Execrated Simon Magus v. 20. Peter saith unto him 3. The Execration it self Thy money perish with thee 4. The Reason of this Execration Because thou hast though that the gift of God may be purchased with money 1. The Person Execrating Peter who might well take on him this Authority having generally with the rest of the Apostles 20. Joh. 23 and particularly by himself 16. Mat. 18. received the power of the Keyes for binding and loosing for Absolving and Execrating Which power in Peter and the Apostles not Personally tyed only to them but they receiving it as Ministers Priests or Preachers as witnesses their preceeding Mission 20. Joh. 21. and Inspiration peculiar to this Office v. 22 was to be derived from them to all who should lawfully succeed in the same function See Bp. Andr. of the power of Absol p. 57. Wherefore at our entring into Holy Orders together with Preaching the Word we receive this Commission The Form is Receive the Holy Ghost whosesoever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them and whosoever sins ye retain they are retained c. Not but that Gods power is Ablolute his Grace free and unbounded He can save without meanes or Ministers but ordinarily in the remitting or retaining of sins he hath been pleased to appoint That the Vpper-house Heaven should concurre with the proceedings of the Lower-house the Pastors of his Church on Earth 18. Mat. 18. Verily I say unto you whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Christ having conferred this Honour on Ecclesiastical persons let men be very cautious how they deserve and they how they pronounce their censures 2. The Person Execrated Simon Magus a notable Sorcerer v. 9. It is reported that in Claudius Caesar's time there was a Statue set upon in Rome in Honour of him with this blasphemous inscription Simoni Deo sancto Justin Mart. Apol. 2. of his blasphemies write Euseb Iren. Epiph. Of his strange things he did relates Egesip lib. 1. c. 2. and Nicephor lib. 2. cap. 22.27 He was Deified of the people v. 10. afterwards a specious Professour Baptized admiring the Apostles signes and wonders v. 13. yet is not his heart right with God v. 21. He embraceth the ●aith but for some base end maketh Religion only a bait to fish for some Secular applause and advantage When Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given v. 18. for this power v. 19. not questioning but to make his Market of it again He offered them money But Peter said unto him Thy money perish with thee c. 3. The Execration it self Thy money perish with thee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thy Money go into distruction with thee or perdition so Judas is called 17. Joh. 12. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The son of Perdition and Gods final Judgment on the wicked is styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Peter 3.7 The Perdition of ungodly men Simon Magus Apostatizing so damnably as he did from the purity of the Faith he had professed and was baptized into v. 13. which his blasphemous and vile proffers did too openly demonstrate is by the great Apostle Saint Peter who as before hath been said had received the power of Binding 16 Mat. 18 condemned as one Excommunicate from the Fellowship of the Spirit v. 21. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter and Retained in sin v. 23. Thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity Thy money perish with thee This Phrase will bear a twofold Excommunication 1. Lesser 2. Greater The First Is a Delivering to Satan for the castigation or destruction of the flesh 1 Cor. 5.5 in order to the salvation of the Soul Here the party Excommunicated was subject by the obsession of some evil spirit or otherwise to divers tortures of Body sometimes to death it self The Latter or greater is An Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 the heaviest Curse the Fearfullest degree of Excommunication under which who lay could never here be reconciled to to the Church but carryes this dreadful Sentence with him till the Lord shall come to the last Judgment Both these intimate Gods wrath on notorious Sinners which when inflicted Riches perish fail stand us in no stead at all 11 Prov. 4. 7 Ezec. 19. Thy money perish with thee God inflict on thee some temporal punishment thy Purse shall not be able to help which they say come to pass accordingly by the breaking of his limbs on his pretended flight to heaven thereby discovering his fallacious Art and so dying See Egisippus lib. 3. de excidio Hierosolimitano cap 2 Torauebatur Magus Arostoli gratia c. Decidat Domine sic tamen ut nihil se potuisse vivens recognoscat statim in voce Petri implicatis remigiis alarum quas sumpserat corruit nec exanimatus est sed fracto debiliatoque crure Aritiam concessit atque ibi mortuus est This is a temporal Perishing 22. Jos 20 119 Psal 92. Or Thy Money perish with thee without repentance be thou doomed to eternal damnation this is called Perishing too 2 Cor. 2.15 1 Cor. 1.18 In this First perishing thy bodily pain pereat Argentum let thy Money be at a losse as indeed it shall not able to relieve thee Much less if by obstinate and impenitential persevering in sin thou shalt incurr the latter perishing perfect and perpetual Torment both of soul and body at the great and terrible day of the Lord 2 Pet. 3.10 Then pereat Argentum Money shall run to nothing at the general Conflagration for as the old world by Water perished v. 6. so must this by Fire v. 7. 4. The Reason of the Execration Because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money Here we are to Consider Two things 1.

natural lingring in our pursuit of Heaven The way is either too far the night of persecution is too dark or our flocks the World too dear to be left but we must with the Shepheards with a full resolution and sacred force break through all these if we intend to come to Christ 3. A present speedy and swift Acceleration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viam contrahere a Contraction of the way by taking up of our feet nimbly This implyes a redeeming of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Instant opportunity to come to Christ To day whil'st it is to day 3. Heb. 7.13 Delayes are dangerous if you ge not now the babe may be gon and the sign to find him in vain If we use not timely means they may in Judgement be taken from us or prove ineffectual to us Behold now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation 2 Cor. 6. c. 2. The Angel begins this dayes news with an Ecce a Behold tidings of great Joy A Saviour Christ the Lord whose Birth this day speaks Peace on Earth Good will towards men for which we must render Glory to God on high Application Application Let us conclude with the Shepheards on an Eamus out of hand ver 15. Now let us go to see the thing that is come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us Seek the Lord whil'st he may be found 55 Isaiah 6. Call upon him whil'st he is near and indeed this day he is not far from every one of us 17 Acts 27. being in his Incarnation God with us in our nature God with us too in the Saeramental signs i. e. the Bread and the Wine not much unlike saith Bishop Andrews in his Ser. of Nat. 12. pag. 118. the sign of this day for what are they but weak beggarly Elements 4 Gal. 13. in themselves yet in them as in the Cribb we find Christ and spiritually feed on his Body and Blood 1 Cor. 10. ch 16. Nor could the Church in her highest rapture at this blessed Eucharist think on a fitter Anthem then that of this day to the Cratch Suddenly on the Infantem Jacentem in praesepi the Bahe in the Manger follows gloria in Excelsis Glory be to God on high c. v. 12 13. who in his infinite love to mankind brought Christ so low to be partaker of our nature that we might be partakers of his divine nature In hôc est charitas Herein is love This is a Feast of Love where Christ himself proffers himself to be fed on and we agen love him so well as to eat him with a pious longing We ought not to approach this Holy Table without perfect love and charity Love to God to our selves and love to one another 1. Love to God who when this fulness of time was come sent his Son 4. Gal. 4. In this was manifest the Love of God towards us 1 Joh. 4. ch 9. 2. Love to our selves Let us have a greater kindness for our nature since our Saviour Christ the Lord hath vouchsafed to dwell therein then to make it a sink of lusts and uncleanness 3. Love to one another 1 Joh. 4 ch 11. Beloved if God so loved us witness the place where he was found for us this day we ought also to love one another Thus let us shew forth Gods praise for this day not only with our lips but in our lives This dayes Birth fills almost the whole Chapter with wonder and thanksgiving verses 18.20.38 As we see in the Shepheards Anna the Prophetess and all that heard it Besides the Communion Canticle already mentioned learn't from the Angelical quire our Church borrows hence Her constant Eveningsong of Nune Dimittis from devout Simeon v. 25 c. What shall I say the praise hereof shall fill all Time and Eternity Angels have begun to set us in They are only concerned in this Joy for our sakes 15 Luke 10. and shall not we for our selves They cannot say nobis to us but vobis to you natus est Salvator is born this day a Saviour And what we must for ever remember must we needs be so superstitious as to forget this day because particularly set apart for this purpose No. This day force up thy soul to an extraordinary pitch of praise such as is not possible to keep it at every day Now the Church will not leave out † In the Communion Service Lift up your hearts let us be as ready to answer we lift them up unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto our Lord God It is meet and right so to do It is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God Because thou didst give Jesus Christ thine only Son to be born as on this day for us who by the operation of the Holy Ghost was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary his Mother and that without spot of sin to make us clean from all sin No less is this Babe in the Manger Therefore with Angels Archangels and with all the company of Heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious name c. SECOND SERMON ON Ash-Wednesday OR The Prevalency of Prayer and Fasting 17. Mat. 21. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by Prayer and Fasting IS Fasting one special means to cast out Devils and may it be rightly used as the only argument to prove a Demonia●k 11. Mat. 18. Whether it be right to hearken unto men more than unto God Judge ye Our Text is our Saviours plain and positive Assertion The other but the discontented Vulgars ●vil surmise and say so John came neither eating nor drinking and they say he hath a Devil We know the Devil prevailed over our first Parents a Eating and entred Judas after the b Sop but he could effect nothing on Christ c fasting and hungry a 3. Gen. b 13. Jo. 27. c 3. Mat. d Fulness makes us most prone to deny God and to forget him and then you know whether we are like to fly d 30. Pro. 9.7 Deut. 11 12. Sinful and unclean excess feasts Satan intimated by the Evil spirits e importunacy to possess the greedy Swine e 5. Mar. 12. In the words you may consider two parts In the words two parts 1. A Mischievous Malady 2. A main Remedy 1. 1 A mischievous malady and in this two things considerable in the evil spirits A Mischievous Malady This kind goeth not out 2. A main Remedy but by Prayer and Fasting 1. In the mischievous Malady you may observe in the evil spirits 1. Their Multiplicity 2. Their Malignancy both are implyed in Hoc genus This kind 1. Their Multiplicity Hoc genus 1 Their Multiplicity This kind supposeth a numerous species or company of the dark Region To denote the multitude of powers they are said to make

That the Holy Ghost is the Inestimable gift of God 2. What a Horrid sin it must needs be to think it may purchased with money 1. The Holy Ghost is Gods Inestimable gift 1. 'T is 2 Gift of his 14 Joh. 16 17. 11 Luk. 13. Infinitely beyond all merit and so 't is well It is a Gift we must have gon without it else 2. 'T is Gods special Gift 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Gift of God The Gift of all Gifts not Datum as Bp. Andr. distinguisheth in serm 14. on Whitsun pag. 748. any worldly good thing but Donum bonum perfectum That good and perfect gift that this day came down from above from the Father of lights 1 James 17. In this Gift are contained all the excellencies of nature and grace 1. Of Nature such as Reason Knowledge Understanding Arts Policy Government Stength Courage c. 2. Of Grace such as Faith Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Temperance c. Every Feather of this Dove 3 Mat. 16. is of Gold Every drop of this Ointment this Water precious 1 Joh. 2.27 7 Joh. 38. Every spark of this Fire beautiful 2 Acts 3. Every gale of this Wind perfumed v. 2. O si donum Descires saith our Saviour 4 Joh. 10. if we knew but this Gift which cannot be but by receiving it 2. Rev. 17. how sho●●d we prize it In this Gift God formerly gave Apostles Prophets Evangelists verse 11. The Gift of Healing Miracles c. And in this Gift God still gives us Pastors and Teachers for these we keep this Holy-day saith Bp. Andrewes and so ought to have for them more then a Working-day accompt Again The Gifts which proceed from this Gift such as Preaching Administring the Blessed Sacraments and Prayer c. are as good as no Gifts but for this Gift to the Holy Ghost The Word 2 Cor. 3.6 is but a dead Letter except the Spirit quicken it There can be no Regeneration or New birth at Baptism except as in the First Creation 1 Gen. 2. the Spirit move upon the Water In the Lords Supper the Flesh 6 Joh. 63. profiteth nothing if the Spirit be away nor can we Pray as we ought except the Spirit help us 8 Rom. 26. The Gift of God Eternal Life through Jesus Christ is Communicated to us by the Gift of the Spirit for though Christ on his part hath finished the work of our Redemption 19 Joh. 30. by setting his hand to it his undertakings on the Cross yet this deed is not forcible to us without the seal 4 Eph. 30. and witness of his Spirit 8 Rom. 16. In this Gist God giveth peace to the dissenting 4 Eph. 3. instruction to the ignorant 14 Joh. 26. guidance to the erronious 16 Joh. 13. comfort to the disconsolate verse 6 7. memory to the forgetful 14 Joh. 26. To speak all at once in this Gift God giveth us rich discoveries of himself 1 Cor. 2.11 nay Himself withal hereby the Almighty dwells among us 68 Psal 18. see Bp. Hall 's Paraph on the place 2. The Holy Ghost now being so Infinitely Inestimable a Gift of God as you have heard what a horrid sin must it needs be to think it may be purchased with money What Ingratitude is this to the Giver what Indignity and affront offered to the Gift it self A Gift be it what it will as a Gift 't is absurd to value it much more to put a temporal and corruptible price upon an incorruptible and Eternal purchase a thought of this cannot be endured Thy money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the Gift of God may be purchased with money Application Is the holy ghost so inestimable a gift not to be thought on with a money purchase 1. This condemnes Romes marketting it by selling Crowns Miters Braiers Pardons c. as Mantuan testifies Venalia nobis Templa Sacerdotes altaria sacra Coronae Ignis Thura Preces Caelum est venale Deuique What doth the Apostle here whom they so boast of as their prime Metropolitan refuse Simons money and will he now have Peter-pence The Pope only hath coyned these exactions for himself he desires them not 2. A Gift is such in relation to the Receivers have we then received this Inestimable gift which we may know thus 1. By Sanctity of life The Holy Ghost the third person in the Trinity is peculiarly termed Holy for that besides the holiness of Nature in which respect the Father and the Son are also holy his Office is to Sanctify the Church of God to whom it agreeth in a speciall manner for where the Father Sanctifieth by the Son and by the Holy Ghost the Son from the Father and by the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost Sanctifieth from the Father and from the Son by himself immediately Where this 1. Spirit of holyness is breathed into any man it creates in him a life of holyness and as the natural Spirit doth at the heart it will beat at the mouth it will breath at the pulse it will be felt In the heart it will cause new thoughts new desires sanè novum supervenisse spiritum nova desideria demonstram saith St. Bernard In the mouth new talke new communication in the hands works of new obedience These are the effects of that new Spirit the holy Ghost God promised to give 36. Ezek. 26. This Spirit when it makes a new creature it begins at the heart as the heart they say in any Animal is primum vivens ultimum moriens lives first and dies last It Sanctifies the heart from all inward defilements 15. Mat. 19. the Lips from evil speaking 4. Ephes 31. the Hands from any unlawful actions 2 Pet. 2.8 Thus if sincerely surveying our thoughts words and works we find them holy we may thence inferr We have received the Holy Ghost And as by Sanctity of life we may judge of the receiving this Inestimable Gift for this Dov will not light on Carrion This Water will cleanse this fire will refine this wind will fan thorowly a clean box it must be that is to hold this Ointment 2. By Humility 57 Isa 15. This Dove implies meekness this water forsakes the Hills to visit the low Valleys the less we think of our selves the higher esteem God hath of us a meek and quiet spirit is with him of great Price 1 Pet. 3. c. 4. to whom he sends this rich present the Holy Ghost 4 James 6. 3. By Boldiness in suffering for Christ this we see in the Apostles Peter and John 4 Acts 8.13 and the rest 5 c. 40 41 42. and Stephen 7 c. 54 55. Yet let men beware here the Spirit of contradiction obstinate gain saying of Magistrates and speaking evil of Dignities correcting Delinquency be not mistaken for the Spirits Magnanimity in persecution 4. By charity 4 James 5. Do you think that the Spirit of God saith the Apostle which we profess to have dwelling in us lusteth to envy so Bishop Hall in his Paraph. on the