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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

place This fire from Heaven 2 Acts 3. is to melt us into pity not like that mentioned 9 Luke 54. to destroy presently all who dislike us who savoureth of the gall of bitterness v. 23. hath no part nor lot in this Gift Lastly Where this Gift is received the love of God hereby so shed abroad in the heart 5 Rom. 5. will necessarily run out at the mouth in all joyful Expressions of gratitude saying Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable Gift 2 Cor. 9. c. 15. This effect it wrought on the Gentiles on whom it was poured out 10 Acts 46. they presently found new Tongues to magnifie God They that have taken this Gift cannot but be taken with it and for the Gift sake with the day it descended on Therefore let us keep the Feast 1 Cor. 5. c. 8. 3. Let us labour after this inestimable Gift 1. By Prayer 'T is called the Spirit of Supplication 12 Zech. 10. not only because it helps our infirmities in Prayer 8 Rom. 26. but also by it it is attained we draw in this Holy Breath 20 Joh. 22. by opening our mouths in Petitioning to God for it 11 Luke 13. 2. By Hearing Thus St. Peter's Auditory 2 Acts 1. and Cornelius and his Family received it Acts 10. c. 44. As in naturalibus in things natural faith Bishop Andrews the Breath and the voice go together so the Spirit and the Word in the practice of Religion The Lord was found most chiefly in the Voice 1 King 19. c. 12. His Spirit is an Instructive Word 30 Isa 21. and descends as on this day in Tongues 2 Acts 3. 3. By the Sacraments The Spirit of God moveth upon the Water in Baptisme and necessarily accompanieth the Body and Blood of Christ in the Lords Supper 2 Act. 38. Repent and be baptized and ye shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost So is this Gift given us by Christs giving us himself to eat 6 Jo. 57. He that eateth me he shall live by me now if the breath and the spirit be all one 20 Joh. 22. so is the breath and life 2 Gen. 7. and the spirit and the life 6 Joh. 63. They then that can make Christ a Body in the Eucharist must make him his spirit too since they cannot be severed for saith Bishop Andrews The flesh that was conceived by the Holy Ghost this is never without the Holy Ghost by whom it was conceived and so they can do more for him than they can for themselves for who can give himself life or Being No the Body and Blood of Christ whereby we receive his Spirit are verily and indeed saith our Church-Catechism taken of the faithful spiritually not by sence 2 Cor. 5. c. 16. in the Lords Supper Thus is our Soul refreshed by his flesh in the bread and his blood in the wine and ever with this blood there runneth an Artery with plenty of Spirit in it This cup is a cup of the Spirit 1 Cor. 12. c. 13. as may easily be perceived by that strange enlivening wrought in us after the drinking it then how lyes the Soul prostrate with joy at the feet of her dear Saviour ravished with the sence of her pardon and the assurance of Gods love now she hath received a fresh life of devotion whereby she casts off her old corruptions resolves upon new obedience and is transported with thankfulness These are the effects of Gods inestimable Gift the Spirit received in the Sacrament which though it cannot be found in the Veins of the richest Mines not to be purchased with Money yet here it is to be found in the streams of Christs blood and that we may so find it God of his infinite mercy grant c. FINIS

up a f Kingdom a g Synagogue a h Legion f 11. Luk. 18. g 3. Rev. 9. h 5. Mar. 9. The great Belzebub can command thousands of his Ministers if God permit to vex and trouble us witness that poor Gadaren so infested with this i hellish Rout we are many may the chief Commander of those forces seem to answer in respect of those that were in or about the possessed i 5. Mar. 1 2 c. For though Christ rebuked the spirit whereby the person was principally actuated in the k singular number yet this Captain-agent was attended no doubt with a sufficient rabble of the black Regiment as appears by their several seizing the word once given on their several preys in that great herd containing about l two thousand k 5. Mar. 8. l verse 13. A multitude of Daemons as one observes without violence to their natures may lodge in the Body of one man These spirits being able to draw themselves out of their usual extent into a far narrower compass and perhaps wholly to quit their own vehicle to make use of anothers and so many may unite with the blood and spirits But wherever this throng of Feinds did bestow themselves whether in or about one man Gods bounty was never the less in suffering them to possess no more nor Christs power in driving them away from hence the Devils being nothing the weaker for not appearing each one harnessed with a several humane body By what hath been said we may gather there is a damned Militia the Devils march about in Troops and Armies to torment us and conspire our ruine yet we know how to disband them all no number of them can withstand Prayer and Fasting This kind goeth not out but by Prayer and Fasting 2. In the malady 2 Their Malignancy there is considerable in the evil spirits as their Multiplicity so Malignancy Hoc genus This kiud As it includes a numerous Combination so a Combination of more stiff and tenacious spirits See Bishop Hall's Paraprase on the place Having a more stubborn non egreditur a vix discedit goeth not forth and a hard departing 9. Luk. 40. stamped on them Hoc genus This kind are noted for a sort of bold abusive most extraordinary fierce and cruel Devils That valued not a bare n Apostolical command that ceased not to shew their malice in the o face of Christ himself p taring and bruising the possessed making him foam gnash with his teeth pine away q cry out suddenly fall or wallow on the ground Oft times casting him into the fire and into the waters 9 Mark 23. Seeking Extremities to destroy him without the least pity or respect on a s child and an t onely child n 9 Luk. 40. o ver 42. p 9 Mar. 18. q 9 Luk. 39. r 9 Mar. 20. s 9 Mar. 21. t 9 Luk. 38. Now Hoc geuus this kind be their number never so great their nature never so malign is to be ejected Christs way though no otherwise This kind goeth not forth but by Prayer and Fasting 2. 2 Remedy Prayer and Fasting not to be sevred The Remedy Prayer and Fasting not to be severed 1. Because Christ hath coupled them and what God hath joyned together let not man put asunder 19 Mat. 6. 2. It was the Custome of the Church of old to Joyn them as we see in u David in w Esther the x Israelites y Daniel in Anna 2 Luk. 37. So in the Epistle appointed for this day the Proclamation goes z Sanctifie a Fast gather the People and let the Priests say spare thy people O Lord. u 2 Sam. 12.22 75 Psal 13. w 4 Ch. 16. x 20 Judg. 26. y 10 Ch. 3. z 2 Joel 15 16 17. 3. 'T is the present practice of our Church On our Wednesdayes and Fridayes Dayes of Abstinence for the Bridegrooms taking away grounded on the command of our Saviour see Mr. Browning on that text p. 176 177. 2 Mark 20. to his Disciples that then they should fast in those dayes our Church enjoyns 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 12. Act. 5. Instant earnest Prayer peculiarly applyed to the Letany Id. p. 148. as the Eastern Church testifies 4. Because saith Bishop Hall in his Paraphrase on the text Efficax est oratio praecedente Jejunio Cyp. de Jejur Tent. cap. 6. Devotion in Prayer is apt to grow dull and faint there must be an exercise of fasting and abstinence to set an edge upon it and stir it up Prayer may prevail without Fasting but Fasting without Prayer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. S. Chrys in Psal 145. is to small effect and when they both joyn together they make the strongest assault on Heaven as can be Wherefore the Servants of God in their highest concerns would not separate them 8 Ezr. 21.13 Act. 3.14 Act. 23. Prayer and Fasting render us most acceptable unto God and like unto the Angels Prayer saith Reverend Hooker The excellency of Prayer Eccl. Pol. lib. 5. Papagr 23. p. 23. are those Calves of mens lips 14 Hos 3. Those most gracious and sweet odours 5 Rev. 8. Those rich presents and gifts which being carried up into Heaven do best testifie our dutiful affection and are for the purchasing of all favours at the hand of God the most undoubted means we can use And again a little further the knowledge is small saith he which we have on earth concerning the things which are done in Heaven notwithstanding thus much we know the Saints in Heaven that they Pray and therefore Prayer being a work common to the Church as well Triumphant as militant a work common unto men with Angels what should we think but so much of our lives is coelestial and divine as we spend in the eyercise of Prayer So for Fasting if it be right is it not a chosen duty The excellency of Fasting an acceptable time unto the Lord 58 Isa 4 5. Again Fasting saith St. Chrysostome Ser. de Jejunio Tom. 5. is an imitating or following the very Angels in Heaven so far forth as we are able c. Fasting is the life of Angels so St. Ambrose Tom. 4. de Jejun cap. 3. p. 239. Qui jejunat Angelorum ritu vivit c. St. Basil Hom. de Jejun These two now linked must be of exceeding vertue and efficacy 5. Prayer from Fasting cannot be sundred for what is Fasting it self but silent Prayer where in our Humility without which vocal supplication is but an empty sound God effectually reads our wishes and the peices of a broken spirit are to him pleasing and prevalent Petitions 51 Psa 17. A broken and a contrite heart O Lord thou wilt not despise My next business shall be to enquire why Fasting should make Prayer so powerful and Secondly Why Fasting makes Prayer so powerful what Fasting it is that doth so For the first Fasting makes our Prayer more powerful Reason 1 1. As it helps us to the greater watchfulness hereunto sobriety and

the Messiah it was no delusion of theirs but a real transaction by that hand that is omnipotent 3. Let me add The Devil that grand Politician of Hell would not be such an enemy to himself as to give Christianity such a huge advance by counterfeiting the Resurrection of Christ especially now at such a time when through the foregoing Prophecies concerning him and his late Testimony of himself in his life all so expected it 4. Every thing look'd exactly like a real Resurrection 28 Mat. v. 2 3 4. The watch felt the Earthquake in their own fearful shaking saw the Angel roll the Stone from the Sepulchre 20 Jo. c. 21. Peter looks into the Sepulchre finds no Body of Christ there Christ himself immediately after appears to his Disciples eat and drank with them they felt his flesh put their fingers into his wounds what greater demonstration could there be to convince any indifferent men of the reality of his Resurrection 5. Those Miracles he did while he was alive being so genuine and reall as they were must needs beget faith in the unprejudiced that his Resurrection was real also the same power in him that raised Lazarus four dayes dead 11 Jo. 39. could as easily raise himself the third day Lastly Fas est ab hoste doceri His enemies false tale raised 28 Mat. 13. to put off the belief of his Resurrection being so idle and unlikely gives us the greater perswasion of the truth of it Say ye his Disciples came by night and stole him away whilest we slept There must be good words large money v. 12. and a fair promise of securing their necks v. 14. e're they can prevail with the Souldiers to blaze abroad such an improbable story It was unlikely the watch should sleep there being so severe a punishment to the delinquents in this case Say they did sleep how could they tell who stole him or how could they once imagine it to be the Disciples What had they more courage for their Lord dead than living 26 Mat. 56. or if they were the Disciples vvhere do we read they were ever arraigned and prosecuted for this notorious cheat They were very merciful to forgive them that they were never guilty of No They secured the Sepulchre as it had been for their lives rolling a stone before the door of it so bigg 16 Mar. 3 4. no ordinary strength could so sealed 27 Mat. 26. the greatest durst not remove it till the Angels are commanded to become Porters to their rising Lord 28 Mat. 2. and Preachers of him to us v. 6. He is risen The Lord is risen indeed Object How comes it to pass the chief Priests and Rulers being so necessarily convicted of Christs Resurrection from the Souldiers 28 Mat. 11. did not yield to confess it Ans Because they would rather baulk their Consciences than their reputation in the acknowledgement of so hainous an error What a blurr had it been to them to have Crucified their Messiah with their own hands had they owned him for such For had they known him saith St. Paul they would never have done it 1 Cor. 2.8 now that such knowing men should not know him you shall never know by their after-acknowledging him Are we blind also 9 Jo. 40. so sticks in their stomach they will not endure to hear it and therefore having proceeded so far in denying him by putting him to death they cannot in honour draw back but must deny him in his Resurrection also though never so plain and evident Su●rexit Domino verè The Lord is risen indeed 2. Obj. If the Lo●d be risen indeed hath virally actuated that very body that lay in the Grave what means his appearing and disappearing at pleasure and coming to his Disciples when the doors were shut this is rather spirit-like v. 37. than suitable to the nature of a real body v. 39. flesh and bones Answ Christ saith Dr. Moor in his Myst of Godl p. 141. gave a specimen of a wonderful power residing in him in his transfiguration on the mount and that he carried that about him then that was able to swallow up mortality into life though it was usually restrained as a light in a dark I anthorn His Divinity therefore with his inward exalted humanity I mean his Soul took hold again of his Body and did vitally irradiate it so that he was as naturally united with it as any Angel with his own vehicle or any Soul of man or any other Animal with their Bodies Nor was it any greater wonder that Christ should rarifie his body into a disappearing tenuity then that Angels and Spirits condensate their vehicles into the visibility and palpability of a Terrestrial body the same numerical matter still remaining in both 2. Christ hereby might discover the pure refined nature and spiritual agility of our bodies after the Resurrection when they shall be made like unto his glorious Body 3 Phil. 21. 3. Christ hereby shewed he was not constantly to be resident with us in his corporal presence and so we to apprehend him by faith not by sence 2 Cor. 5. ch 26. Sometimes he appears and suffers himself to be handled by his Disciples to demonstrate to their sence the truth of his Resurrection who were to be zealous asserters and infallible witnessers of it to the world Anon he withdraws to exercise them and us in a spiritual apprehension of him invisible 11 Heb. 27. Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed 20 Joh. 29. So much now for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surrexit verè the reality of Christs resurrection The Lord is risen indeed The benefit hereof follows as 1. This convinceth us of his Deity his Surrexit speaks him to be Dominus his being risen speaks him to be the Lord He is risen indeed he and not another no man ever before him 19 Jo. 41. lay in that tomb and so was he raised too by his own power not by anothers vertue like him who revived at the touching of Elisha's bonds 2 K. 13. c. 21. 2 Jo. 19 21. and 10 c. 18. He is risen indeed His was a real resurrection from death for they left him not till they had his very * There is about mans heart they say a Skin called Pericardium containing in it water which cools and moistens the heart lest it should be scorched with continual motion this skin once pierced man cannot live heart blood out 19 Jo 34. no delusive awakening from a Lethargie or some ob-stupifying disease 1. The Reality of his resurrection proves the reality of his divine nature in that he is risen indeed he is the Lord indeed and so able to do infinitely for us in delivering us from all evil and replenishing us with all good things 2. The Reality of Christs Resurrection is the only confirmation of our faith in him to be the true Messiah ve●se 21. ●his day decided him to be the Redeemer of Israel 1 Cor. 15. c. 14.17 If