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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25359	A sermon preached in the Cathedral Church at Winchester the xxix of May MDCLXXXI, being Trinity Sunday, and the day of His Majesties happy birth and restauration by Henry Anderson ...	Anderson, Henry, b. 1651 or 2.	1681 (1681)	Wing A3093; ESTC R16092	19,305	35

the Promotion of true Religion and Vertue that our future State may be as happy as it is sure to be lasting There are but few that consider that their Time here on Earth is but a Prologue to an everlasting State In this vast Eternity you must Live Why do you not let your Thoughts be more upon it Your Minds that love to count the days of this narrow Life extend themselves unto Eternity where there are no Limits at all Tell the Torments of everlasting Fire the aking Thoughts if you can of a burning Soul that fryes in the Wrath of God to eternal Ages Then number the Joys of Heaven tell the Notes of that Celestial Quire the Hymns of Praises that they sing and though thou hadst a Head as big as Archimedes that could tell how many Atoms of Dust were in the Globe of the whole Earth yet all these were but as a single Atom in comparison of those endless Joys or Sorrows And it is an Oracle of infallible Truth and a Promise that remains for ever to the Righteous Your Joy shall remain none shall take it from you Therefore Heaven is the most lovely amiable and most desireable Object The Enjoyments of Riches Honours Kingdoms Feastings with us in this World are but short and transitory but in Heaven there shall be an eternal Feast The Jubilation of the Lamb shall be for ever and shall be extended to the vast duration of Eternity O my Soul Why dost thou not aspire and mount up to the Center and Light of Glory to the Fountain of Beams and Brightness from whence thou wast derived How happy shalt thou be when thou shalt lay down corruptible Rags of Earth and being delivered out of the Prison of this wretched Body may'st be thought worthy to hear the sacred Songs of that Celestial Harmony and the Praises of the King Eternal of that Glorious Empire How accomplished shall thy Honour and Glory be when it shall come to thy turn to sing a gracious Hallelujah Join unto all this the Pleasure there is to live in the Company of Angels to enjoy the grateful Conversation of all those excellent and sublime Spirits where Angelical Troops make ravishing Musick and to behold Armies of Saints more bright than the Stars of Heaven to contemplate the Sanctity of the Patriarchs the Hope of the Prophets the Crown of Martyrs the white and flowery Garland of Virgins And as for the Soveraign King who keeps his Residence in the midst of that glorious People What Tongue is able to speak His Praise O Israel Now how goodly are thy Tabernacles how delightful thy Pavilions Gardens water'd with Floods and Fountains are not so flourishing nor are the fruitful Vallies so abundant Let us not then suffer our selves to be abused any longer with the delusive Appearances of this World but fix our Eye on Heaven because it is a fairer Object than Earth for our Contemplation joining with the Royal Prophet as it is in the Verge of the Text Whom have I in Heaven but Thee All the Blessings that we do enjoy are the sweet Influences of Heaven upon us Spiritual or Temporal First Spiritual Blessings in Heavenly Places arise from no other Spring and are Irradiations of the Trinity and the great Kindness of Heaven to Mankind in relation to these Souls of ours The Father Son and Holy Ghost have all done their parts for them The Father gave His only Son the Son gave Himself left his Glory and endured the bitter Death of the Cross meerly to keep our Souls from perishing The Holy Ghost is become as it were our Attendant waits upon us with continual Offers of his Grace to enable us to do that which may preserve them These things all the Persons work equally and inseparably in respect of the Cause and Effect for what One doth All do yet in congruity we attribute a distinct Act in regard of the Order and Object In Order the original of Action is ascribed to the Father Joh. 5. 17 19. The Nature and Manner of Working to the Son Joh. 1. 3. Heb. 12. The Efficacy and Power to the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 11. 12. 1. The Father Creates Gen. 1. 1. 2. The Son Redeems Gal. 3. 1● 3. The Holy Ghost Illuminates 2 Pet. 1 21. The Father is to be adored as altogether of Himself The Son to be glorified as that Consubstantial Word The Holy Ghost to be magnified as that Co-essential Spirit eternally proceeding from Both. The Three Persons in the Trinity is the Object of our Faith and we daily own it in our Creed 1. We believe in God the Father who made the World 2. In God the Son who redeem'd all Mankind 3. In God the Holy Ghost who sanctifies all the Elect People of God A Unity of Essence and a Trinity of Order Ordo originis though not Regiminis Co-ordinativus though not Subordinativus of Priority though not Superiority a First a Second and a Third though not a higher lower and lowest for the Lord our God is one Lord the Godhead or Essence of God is one undivided Parmenides who followed Pythagoras is brought in by Plato Philosophizing on that old Axiom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and Many and determined thus That God was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. one Divine Essence He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Immutable Being He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Eternal Being This Plato discourseth in his Philebus at large shewing how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One was Many and Many One. And it is not only good Philosophy but sound Divinity the Godhead considered diversly for the manner of Being is Three Persons in One Essence the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost 1 John 5. 7. The Father is the First Person of the Trinity having Foundation in none of Personal Substance 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not begotten to the Father The Son is the Second Person in the Trinity having Foundation of Personal Substance of whom He is eternally begotten Joh. 5. 26. 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Begotten to the Son The Holy Ghost is the Third Person in the Trinity having Foundation from the Father and the Son from both which He especially proceedeth Joh. 14. 26. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proceeding to the Holy Ghost Here is a threefold Unity of Persons in One Nature of Natures in One Person of Natures and Persons in One Quality In the First is one God In the Second one Christ In the Third one Spirit All this Unity is but to usher in a single Deity St Paul concludes all with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is One God Ephes 4. 6. And the Soul carrieth an Image of the Unity of the Godhead and Trinity of Persons in that there is one Soul with three Faculties of Understanding Will and Memory Let us all now lift up our Heart and Voice and praise God chanting forth the Anthem of the