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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45549	The hierarchy exalted and its enemies humbled a sermon preached on the first Sunday in Advent, being the 2d day of Decemb. 1660 : after the consecration of the Right Reverend Fathers in God, John, Lord Bishop of Durham, William, Lord Bishop of St. Davids, Benjamin, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, Hugh, Lord Bishop of Landaff, Richard, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Brian, Lord Bishop of Chester, and John, Lord Bishop of Exceter in the Abby Church of St. Peters Westminister / by Nathanael Hardy ...	Hardy, Nathaniel, 1618-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing H724; ESTC R20456	14,673	34

any force or violence upon it and therefore it is said I will make them to come and elsewhere Draw me and we will run after thee he so maketh us as that we come draweth us as that we run of our own accord I know I am here fallen upon a knotty Controversie but I professe my self to be one of them who earnestly desire that all those disputes having caused so great animosities both in the Reformed and Romish Church might be buried in silence and in particular this Why should we so notly contend de modo about the manner how Christ maketh us to come whilst we all agree de re about the thing it self that it is he that doth make us and that all the glory of our conversion belongs to his grace 4. Once more I will make but by what means it is not expressed yet may be supplied from those words I have set before thee an open doore which are partly understood of the freedome which this Angel now had to Preach the Gospell by which his enemies were wrought upon so as to come and worship at his feet That fiction of taming wild beasts by the Musick of Orpheus his Harpe was in some sort verified of the Ministry of this Angell by which these Jews of fierce became gentle True this happy alteration was principally wrought by the internall operation of Christs Spirit but instrumentally by this Angels Preaching and as the naturall heat of the body though in it self but a quality yet being the souls instrument so concocts and digests our meat that it turneth into our substance So the Ministry of the Gospell though dispensed by a frail man being actuated by the holy Spirit becometh the Power of God to the conversion of the most obstinate which leads me to the consideration of the Notorious Subjects Them such as were maliciously and devilishly wicked Grievous sinners may become gracious Penitents and proud opposers humble Suppliants God wants not mercy to pardon the greatest sinnes nor grace to reclaime the greatest sinners as the Bloud of Christ is omnisufficient to wash away the fowlest spots so his Spirit is omniefficient to knock off the strongest fetters of sinne We are apt to say of the conversion of obstinate transgressors what that Nobleman said in another case If God should make windows in Heaven might this thing be not considering that divine grace can break the stony heart and bend the stiffe knee It is foretold by the Prophet Isaiah in one place That the Wolf shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard shall lye down with the Kid and the Calf and the young Lion and the fatling together and a little child shall lead them those who are ravenous like Wolves petulant like Calves and fierce like Lions are made gentle by grace To this purpose is tha other prophecy of bringing the mountains low making the crooked straight and rough places plain which is made good when the proud and presumptuous are subdued to the obedience of the Gospel and this is that which these converts did testifie by That evident sign of coming and worshipping at the Angels feet which is the third particular and cometh now to be discussed and that according to a double interpretation 1. Shall come and worship me before thy feet so some expound these words inserting the pronoun it so the worship here intended is sacred and religious of the same nature with that which is mentioned by Saint Paul where he saith of the unbeliever that coming into the Christian Assemblies and falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in them of a truth and then the meaning of the words is that these Jews who had looked upon Christ as an impostor and seducer and used him as a notorious Malefactor should come to the Congregations of Christians and joyn with them in worshiping that Jesus whom they had crucified More particularly here are two properties of that worship which these converts should performe unto Christ insinuated in the two Verbs come and worship namely alacrity in the one and humility in the other 1. They shall come and worship not be forced or driven but come of their own accord voluntarily resigning up themselves to Christ. It is prophesied concerning the Gentiles by the Psalmist that they should be a willing people and by the Prephet Isaiah that they should not onely come but run unto Christ. We must not take up Christs yoak as the Cyrenian did his Cross unwillingly but chearfully undertake his service Upon which account though our worship be a due debt it is called a gift give unto the Lord glory and strength give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name 2. They shall worship to wit with a lowly reverence for so much the Greek word imports and the nature of the thing requireth and therefore the Psalmist in one place fitly joyneth worshipping and falling down together and in another expoundeth worshipping by bowing down Those Seraphins which stood before the Throne of God are said to cover their faces and fete with wings to wit in reverence of the divine Majesty In like manner do true converts abase themselves before Christ in their approaches to him I deny not but there may be I fear too often is prostration of body where there is no consternation of mind but certainly whosoever worships Christ with his soul will express so far as may be his inward subjection by outward incurvation 2. But I see no reason why we may not refer this worship to the Angel of the Church since though religious adoration is peculiar to God so belonging to Christ as God yet there is a reverential submission due to his Ministers And this was the evidence which those Jews should give of their conversion that the Bishop of this Church who had been abhorred by them as a Devil should be reverenced as an Angel their haughty spirit so far humbled as that they should worship at his very feet This is that which we find to be the temper of other converts in holy Writ The Shunamite fell at the feet of the Prophet Elisha and so did Cornelius at the feet of the Apostle Peter How beautifull are the feet of them that Preach the Gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things saith the Apostle from the Prophet to which question this Text returneth an answer how beautifull so beautifull in the eyes of all true Christians that they worship at their feet More particularly there are three things which this phrase of worshipping at the Angels feet may intimate 1. A reverentiall esteem of his person The feet are the lowest part of the body and such a respect have these converts unto the Angell that they fell down as low as his lowest part and no wonder since they looked upon him as a Spirituall Father for so have Bishops been ever