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A71253	The description and the practice of the four most admirable beasts explained in four sermons upon Revel. 4.8 : whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable James, Duke of Ormond, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, His Grace, and the two Houses of Parliament, and others, very honourable persons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gr. Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2664; ESTC R33669	79,502	118

inestimable and unexpressable it is for there our bodies shall be freed from all sorrowes and all teares shall be wiped away from our eyes and our mindes shall be satissied with all the good that can be desired for if thou wouldst have riches riches and plente●usness are in his house if thou wouldst have pleasure in his presence is fulness of joy and at his right hand there is pleasure for evermore if thou wouldst have life he giveth thee a long life even for ever and ever and in brief there is a freedome from all evil and a full fruition of all good things Most happy are they that shall be there And so you have heard of the four things that are before us and that are so imminent hanging over our heads that we do not know how soon they may fall upon us And therefore we should be full of eyes before us that we might alwayes look for the coming of them before they come that when they come they may come to our comfort for either the continual consideration of these things will keep us from the wayes of wickedness or we are past all hope of true happiness and we may be pitied but not helped And therefore let us all most earnestly and humbly pray to God to grant us these eyes with these beasts continually to behold and to consider all these things that we may escape the dreadful doom of the wicked and attain to everlasting happiness through Jesus Christ our blessed Lord and onely Saviour to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all honour and glory for ever and ever Amen THE FOURTH SERMON REVEL 4.8 And they rest not or ceased not day and night saying Holy holy holy Lord God Almighty which was and is and is to come AFTER that the holy Evangelist had described these Beasts he sets down their practice and the exercise that they used Touching which we are to consider 1. Their Constancy They ceased not or rest not day and night 2. Their Harmony saying Holy holy holy c. The which Harmony consisteth of six special parts That is 1. The mystery of the Trinity of persons in the Vnity or one essence of the Deity 2. The sanctity purity and equity of God in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. The power authority and dominion of God in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. The knowledge sight and providence of God in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. The strength and omnipotence of God in the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 6. The continuance and eternity of God in the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And these six Points cannot well and fully be explained by any humane wit they all and every one of them being as God is ineffable and incomprehensible And therefore as Synesius saith as the Geographers use to draw the great Vniverse and Compass of the world in a little Map so I can speak and express but very little of these great and unspeakable Attributes of the great God And here dear Brother that readest the same and lookest for the prosecution of these parts I must crave thy patience to bear with me for that the whole Sermon that I made of these Points I quite forgot to take with me to London so that I could not have it printed with the former three out by the grace of God I intend to set it forth as soon as conveniently I can send it to the Press In the interim I commend us to our good God to whom be all glory and honour for evermore Amen Jehovae Liberatori

as yet incarnate John 1. but he endeth the same with the gratulatory sacrifice of the Apostles because that now the word was made flesh and Christ had ascended into Heaven And lest this should not be sufficient to demonstrate Christ to be a Priest S. Luke proveth Christ to be a Priest by 3 special Arguments he proceedeth to prove him to be that Priest which was after the order of Melchisedech by three other special Arguments 1. A Prosapia from his Pedegree 2. From the true qualities and properties of a Priest 3. From the performance of the duties and office of a Priest 1. 1 1 Argument from his Pedegree In that St. Luke deriveth his Genealogy by Nathan S. Ambrose saith it was to shew his Priestly office and Venerable Bede saith that because Saint Matthew intended to shew the Regal office of Christ and St. Luke his Priestly office therefore St. Beda l. 1. in c. 3. Luc. Matthew derives his person from King Solomon and St. Luke from Nathan and so saith he in the Chariot of the Cherubims the Lion which is the strongest of all Beasts designs his Kingly office and the Calf which was the sacrifice of the Priest denotates his Priestly function and saith he Eandem uterque sui operis intentionem in genealogia quoque salvatoris texenda observavit And both the Evangelists in like manner observed the same intention of their work in setting down the genealogy of our Saviour And then immediatly he addeth two excellent Observations to confirm the same point As Observation 1 1. That in the manner of setting down his genealogie S. Beda ibid. Matthew descended from Abraham to Joseph to note his Kingly office and to shew that he partaked with us of our mortality but S. Luke by ascending from Joseph unto Adam and so to God doth rather design his Priestly office in expiating our sins and so bringing us to immortality And theresore in the descending generations of S. Matthew the taking upon Christ our sins is signified but in the ascending genealogies of S. Luke the abolition of our sins is noted unto us For so the Apostle saith God sent his Son in the similitude of sinful flesh there is the acception and the taking of our sins upon him and for sin or by the sacrifice for sin Rom. 8.3 condemned sin in the flesh there is the explation of our sins And Observation 2 2. To the same purpose he observeth that S. Matthew in his genealogie descended from David by Solomon with whose mother David sinned but S. Luke ascended by Nathan unto David by a Prophet of which name God absolved him from his sin The second Argument 2 2 Argument from the quality of a Priest which should be 1. knowledge 2 uprightness Ps 7 2.1 whereby S. Luke proveth Christ to be a Priest is from the quality of a Priest what manner of man he should be and that is to be endued with knowledge and uprightness or judgement and righteousness for which cause the Prophet prayeth Give the King thy judgement O God and thy righteousness unto the Kings son For who is this King and this Kings son but this Priest the Messias of the world And so Moses prayeth in like manner Let thy Vrim and thy Thummim be with thy holy One. or as some read it upon the man of thy merrie for who is this holy One Deut. 33. 8 or this man of his mercy but this our truc high Priest called the man of his mercy 1. Because he is the man that is full of mercy 2. Because that God out of his meer mercy did give this man unto us 3. Because by this man onely and none else we obtain mercy And according to those two mens prayer for those two things to be given unto the high Priest God gave them most am●y without measure unto the Messias that is Play 〈…〉 Jer. 23.5 our high Priest For I have put my Spirit upon him saith the Lord there is knowledge and be shall bring forth judgement unto the Gentiles there is 〈◊〉 And S. Luk 〈◊〉 that Christ had Vrim and Thummim 〈◊〉 Christ his knowledge Luke 11.49 knowledge and uprightness without measure For In regard of the 〈◊〉 he plainly calleth him the wisdome of God And his wisdome 〈◊〉 1. In his wise unreprovable and unrepliable answers to Satan that subtil Serpent to the Heredians that feigned themselves to be just men and were sent to intrap him in his speech and to the chiefest Doctours of the Jews to whom he did so wisely answer Luke 20.7 that they durst not ask him any thing at all and if he asked them any question they answered They could not tell how to answer him 2. In his heavenly teaching of his followers so truly expounding the Prophecyes of the Prophets so profoundly speaking to them in parables so plainly delivering the Law unto them and so sweetly comforting all that came unto him that the eyes of all were fastened upon him Luke ● 20.22 and they wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth And In regard of the second 2 2 His uprightness Mork 7.37 1 Pet. 2.22 that is his uprightness S. Mark saith that the people testified he did all things well And S. Peter saith There was no guile found in his mouth And S. Luke confirmeth the same throughout his whole Gospel The third Argument whereby S. 3 3 Argument from the office of a Priest threefold Luke proveth Christ to be a Priest is from the duty and office of a Priest which is specially threefold 1. To expound the Law 2. To pray for the people 3. To offer sacrifice for their sins 1. The Prophet Malachy saith The Priests lips should keep knowledge Mal. 2.7 and the people should seek the law at his mouth And S. Hierom saith It is the duty of the Priest to answer all that ask him concerning the Law and therefore if he be the Priest of the Lord Hieron super Hagg. let him know the law of the Lord or if he be ignorant of the law he is no Priest of the Lord. And therefore S. Luke sheweth That Christ taught the people most diligently expounded the Law most truly and answered all questions that were asked of him most readily And 2. Luke 22.32 He sheweth That he prayed for S. Peter that his faith should not fail And S. John sheweth how he prayed for all those whom his father gave him and for all them also which should believe on him through the word And John 17.11 20. 3. How as a Priest he offered sacrifice for the sins of the people which he did both in the Garden and upon the Cross S. Luke sheweth it more amply then any of all the Evangelists for though S. Matthew and S. Mark do tell us that he was in heaviness or exceeding sorrowful Matth. 26 38. Mar 14.35 Aristotle sect 11. probl 30.

Son which was indeed the very staffe of his age though he was urged unto it with extreme necessity They that would see more examples of this kinde let them look into my Declaration against Sacriledge and Doctor Saravia's vindicie sacrae translated into English by James Martyn And if for all this men will needs have the portion of Gods Church let them eat it with that sauce which God hath prescribed in Psal 83. and which like the leprosie of Gehezi wil stick to them and their Posterity for evermore 3. As you heard that these Beasts were full of eyes within and behinde so they were full of eyes before 3 3. Why these beasts were full of eyes before and so should we be And that is to behold and see 1. Praesentia the things that are present 2. Futura the things that are to come and must come 1. For the present things I shall onely leave to your consideration 1 1. To behold the things that are present As 1. The vanity of all things 1. The vanities of this life And 2. The uncertainty of our state And touching the first Saint Augustine saith most truly Si quid arrisisset prosperum taedebat apprehendere quia priusquam pene teneretur avolabat if any prosperous thing in this world did seem to smile and offer it self unto me I was loath to take it because that before I could scarce enjoy it it was presently snatched from me For 1. Friends are like the waters of T●ma sliding away and turning as the wheele of your fortune turneth 2. Riches saith the wise man betake themselves to their wings as an Eagle and the sea can drown it fire consume it servants waste it and thieves bereave us of it 3. Prov. 23.5 Honour is but Vertues shadow a winde that maketh fooles to swell but cannot satisfie any wise man 4. Beauty is such a thing as the Daughters of Vanity can tell you that the Sun will tanne it a scarr will blemish it sickness waste it and age consume it away as we read fair Helen wept when she saw the wrinckles of her old face which all your black patches cannot make young 5. And for our Health which is the greatest happiness in this life we see mans body is subject to a thousand diseases fraught with frailties within wrapped in miseries without uncertain of life and sure of death And so all the things of this world are but like the Apples of Sodome pleasant to the eyes and provoking to the appetite but vanishing into smoak when they are touched with the teeth And therefore our whole life is but painted over as some Ladies do their faces with vain semblances of Beauty and Pleasure and it is attended on the one side with whole troopes of sorrows sicknesses wants and discontents and on the other side with uncertainty of continuance and certainty of dissolution And 2. 2 2. The uncertainty of our state Rom. 9.21 For our state all is in the hand of God as the clay is in the hand of the Potter who can of the same lumpe make one vessel to honour and another to dishonour and the Heathens conceived all was at the disposing of fortune which they according to their ignorance took for God and said Te facimus fortuna Deam When they saw that as the Poet saith Vna eademque manus vulnus opemque tulit The same hand that hath cast us down can raise us up and the same God that raised us to honour can bring us down to the dust and can either prolong our dayes or cut them off at his pleasure And who then would not serve such a Master and be affraid to offend such a Lord as hath our life our wealth and our woe in his own hands and at his own disposing O consider this all you that forget God and think of it lest he take you away and tear you all to pieces or if this cannot move you to fear God Then 2. Cast your eyes before you 2 2. To look unto the things that are to come to look unto the things that are to come and must fall upon the world and they are many but especially and inevitably these four 1. Death 2. Judgement 3. Heaven 4. Hell And these are quatuor novissima terribilissima the four last things and the most terrible things that can be to all wicked men to think of them and they may serve as four excellent Preachers to disswade and terrifie all men from evil and to call them continually to the service of God For the Son of Sy●ach saith Whatsoever thou takest in hand Eccles 7.36 remember the end and thou shalt never do amisse And 1. Death makes an end of our life 1 1. Of death and before it shuts the eyes of our bodies it commonly openeth the eyes of our consciences And then every man shall see his owne state though he seldome or never thought of the same before For 1. 1 1. The state of the wicked Revel 12.12 The wicked man shall see all his sins set before his face and Satan will now bestir himself to gain his soul for he knoweth that his turn is short and therefore he will tell him that if he would have entred into life Rom. 2.13 he should have kept the commandments that not the hearers but the doers of the Law shall be justified that if the just shall scarce be saved where shall he being such a wicked wretch as he is appear when as the Apostie tells him plainly that neither adulterer nor fornicator nor covetous person nor the like Traytor Rebel Perjurer 1 Cor. 6.9 10. or such other shall inherit the kingdome of God and so what the Preachers of God now cannot beat into the thoughts of these careless men this damned spirit will then irremovably settle in their deepest considerations O then what agonies and perplexities will tear the wofull hearts of these wicked men In that day saith the Lord I will cause the Sun to go down at noon Amos 8.9 10. and I will darken the earth in the clear day I will turn their feasts into mournings and their songs into lamentations that is I will make all those things that were wont most sweetly to delight them now most of all to torment them for now that pleasure which they had of sin shall turn to be as bitter as gall when they do see that as the Father saith transit jucunditas non reditura manet anxietas non peritura and now they must die and live they can no longer and Satan whose will they did and whose wayes they followed all their life will not forsake them at their death but will say Me you have served and from me you must expect your wages For so we read that the Devil assailed some of the best Saints as Saint Martin Saint Bernard Ignatius Eusebius and others and if these things be done in a green tree what shall