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A68833 A briefe declaration of the universalitie of the Church of Christ, and the unitie of the Catholike faith professed therein delivered in a sermon before His Maiestie the 20th. of Iune 1624. at Wansted. By Iames Ussher, Bishop of Meath. Ussher, James, 1581-1656. 1629 (1629) STC 24547; ESTC S118942 28,513 46

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A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE VNIVERSALITIE OF THE CHVRCH of CHRIST and the Vnitie of the Catholike Faith professed therein DELIVERED IN A SERMON before His Maiestie the 20 th of Iune 1624. at WANSTED By IAMES VSSHER Bishop of Meath The third Impression LONDON Printed by Iohn Dawson for Ephraim Dawson and are to be sold at the Rain-bow neere the Inner Temple Gate in Fleet-street 1629. EPHES. 4.13 Till we all come in the unitie of the faith and of the knowledge of the Sonne of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ. WHen the Lords Arke was to set forward the forme of prayer used by Moses was Rise up LORD and let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hate thee flee before thee The sweet Psalmist of Israel framing his descant to this ground beginneth the Psalm which he prepared to be sung at the removing of the Arke after the same manner Let God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him and then goeth on till at length he hath raysed his note unto his full height Thou hast ascended up on high thou hast led captivitie captive thou hast received gifts for men Psalm 68.18 Which being by our Apostle in this Chapter interpreted of the Ascension of our Saviour Christ into heauen and made the very spring from whence the matter of my present Text is derived leadeth us to the just application of the type to the truth and putteth us in minde that the removing of the Arke which gave occasion to the penning of his Psalme was an adumbration of our Saviours removeall from the Earth to Heaven and that by this absence of his we are no losers but gainers seeing he is ascended 〈◊〉 on high both to triumph over his and our foes he led captivitie captiue and to conferre benefits upon his friends he gave gifts unto men The Arke of the Covenant we know was appointed to be a figure of Iesus the Mediatour of the new Covenant the great King Prophet and Priest of his Church Therefore was it ordered that the Arke should haue a crowne of gold about it Exod. 37.2 than which what could be more fit to set forth the state of our King for thus wee see Iesus crowned with glory and honour Heb. 2.9 Vpon the Ark stood the Propitiatorie or Mercie-seate whence God did use to deliver his Oracles from betwixt the Cherubins than w ch what more lively representation could there be of the Propheticall office of our Saviour of whom it is written God hath in these last dayes spoken unto us by his Sonne Heb. 1.2 The Arke had both the Rod and the Tables of the Law by Gods appointment placed within it than which what could be more apt to expresse the satisfaction which our high Priest was to make unto his Fathers justice as well by his Passive as by his Active obedience for as he felt the stroke of the Rod for us that the chastisement of our peace being laid upon him with his stripes we might be healed so it behooved him also to fulfill the Law and all righteousnesse that so he might be the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that beleeveth The letter of the Law being not more certainely to be found within the Arke than the accomplishment thereof within him according to that which he spake by his holy Prophet In the volume of the booke it is written of mee that I should doe thy will O God yea thy Law is within my heart The Arke had many removes from place to place whiles it sojourned in the Tabernacle but was brought up at last into the Temple there to dwell upon God's holy Hill the place of which he himselfe had said This is my rest for ever here will I dwell for I have a delight therein Where at the first entry King Salomon stood ready to entertaine him with this welcome Arise O Lord God into thy resting place thou and the Arke of thy strength Let thy Priests O Lord God be clothed with salvation and let thy Saints reioyce in goodnesse Our blessed Saviour in the dayes of his flesh had no resting place but continually went about doing good untill at length he was received up into Heaven and sate on the right hand of GOD. For when he had ended his progresse upon Earth and finished there that worke which his Father had given him to doe he left the world and went to the Father making his last remove unto the high Court of Heaven where he is to reside untill the time of the restitution of all things The Temple of GOD was opened in Heaven and there was seene in his Temple the Arke of his Testament saith S. Iohn in the Apocalypse If we looke to the corporall presence of our Saviour in the Temple of Heaven must this Arke be sought for in no oother place is it to be found but if we looke to the vertue comming from him by the operation of his Word and Spirit so we shall finde him in his Temple upon earth present with us alwayes even unto the end of the world for these were the gifts that when he ascended into Heaven he did bestow upon men This the Prophet layeth downe thus Thou hast ascended up on high thou hast received gifts for men The Apostle citeth it thus When he ascended up on high he gave gifts unto men The reconciliation is easie He received those gifts not to retaine them with himselfe but to distribute them for the behoofe of his Church So for the Spirit S. Peter teacheth us Acts 2.33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted there is his ascending up on high and having received of the Father the promise of the holy Ghost there is his receiving he hath shed forth this which ye now see and heare there is his giving of this gift unto men And for the Ministery of the Word he himselfe intimateth as much in his Commission given to the Apostles Mat. 28.18.19 All power is given unto mee in heaven and in earth there he receiveth Goe ye therefore and teach all nations there he giveth this gift unto men He gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints saith our Apostle here That herein also that might be fulfilled which we heard to haue beene uttered when the Arke was brought to his resting place Let thy Priests O Lord God be cloathed with salvation and let thy Saints reioyce in goodnesse The worke of the Ministery how meanely soever it be esteemed in the World yet in the estimation of our Saviour Christ was one of the choysest gifts that in this solemnitie of his triumphant ascending up far above all heavens he thought fit to bestow upon his Church here upon earth as