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A02804	Ten sermons, preached vpon seuerall Sundayes and saints dayes 1 Vpon the Passion of our Blessed Savior. 2 Vpon his resurrection. 3 Vpon S. Peters Day. 4 Vpon S. Iohn the Baptists Day. 5 Vpon the Day of the blessed Innocents. 6 Vpon Palme Sunday. 7 and 8 Vpon the two first Sundays in Advent. 9 and 10 Vpon the parable of the Pharisee and publicane, Luke 18. Together with a sermon preached at the assises at Huntington. By P. Hausted Mr. in Arts, and curate at Vppingham in Rutland.	Hausted, Peter, d. 1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 12937; ESTC S103930	146,576	277

how when from ●ence and by whom they were brought into our Church in a meere opposition and contempt of the Booke of Common-Prayers But why then brought in and why still continued in contempt of that I acknowledge I understand not for if we looke into the Order Method and Disposition of that Booke we shall finde it sweet and harmonious if into the sufficiencie of it rich and full for what thing is it thou would'st name in thy Prayers whether it bee by the way of Confession or thy sinnes or of Thankesgiving for Benefits received or of Petition for the future but thou mayst furnish thy selfe with there more perfectly lively and more compendiously exprest then all thy wit can possibly contrive They went both to pray And whether went they Why into the Temple Private Prayers are good thy Closet-Devotions when none are admitted into the Dialogue but onely God and thine owne Soule are good and acceptable to the Lord the Prayers of thy Family are pleasing to God too but the publike Prayers of the Congregation which are put up to God in the Temple in the place dedicated to his Worship are more pleasing more availeable for we know that he has promised his presence in a more especiall manner where two or three be gathered together which place may bee most fitly interpreted of the gathering together of the Congregation in Gods House For a Family cannot proproperly be sayd to be gathered together because they are but as one body which is compact and contiguous which needs no gathering A Gathering does presuppose things that are scattered and separated But now the Pharisie and the Publicane must here shake hands and it is to bee fear'd that they will never meet againe no not in Heaven FINIS THE SECOND SERMON Continuing the Discourse upon the same words The Pharisee stood I This is done like himselfe indeed he comes into the Temple to Worship and when he is there he stands He is too good it seemes to bow his Knee before the Lord. Thus did not MOSES and AARON who fell both upon their Faces before the Lord. Numb 16. Saying O God Numb 16. the God of the spirits of all flesh hath one man sinned and wilt thou be wroth with the whole Congregation Thus did not DANIEL who in his 6. Chap. no lesse then three times every day was downe upon his Knees praying to God Thus did not CHRIST himselfe who in the 22. Luke 22. of Saint Luke Kneeled downe and prayed And yet this sinfull proud Pharisee a worme of the Earth he comes into the presence of the Lord and out-faces him as it were in his owne House stands in a peremptory confidence of his owne merits with a daring countenance a stretched-out Necke and a Knee stiffer then the Pillers of Heaven for IOB tels us in his 26. Chap. That they tremble and quake at his reproofe O that we had not too many such Pharisees now adayes who come into the Church stiffe as the Pillers which underprop it For whom they reserve their Knees I cannot tell certaine I am they are very sparing of them towards God and whether the Lord has deserv'd to have their Knees or no I will put it to their owne judgement Hee made our Bodyes as well as our Soules and sure we owe him Reverence with them both But our bowing before the Altar towards the East end of the Church troubles our standing Pharisees very much If I could suppose that their prejudicate opinions would give them leave to hearken to reason I should endeavor to give them what satisfaction I am able The first thing then which they must grant whither they will or no is That God must bee worshipped with the Body as well as with the Soule And therefore that Argument is but frivolous to say that God is a Spirit and he must bee worshipped in Spirit and in Truth It is true God is a Spirit and he must be worshipped in Spirit but how Fundamentalitèr non exclusire Fundamentally the Foundation of thy worship must bee layd in the Spirit without which all the bowing in the world I acknowledge is worth nothing in the Eyes of God but not exclusively excluding the bodily Worship Nay it is impossible that thou shouldst worship God in Spirit and in Truth except it bee also exprest in the body never tell me of thy inward and bare Spirituall worship Can precious Oyntment be conceal'd Can fire in the midst of combustible matter lye hid The Body is but the Instrument and Servant of the Soule and followes her Dictates This being granted the next thing we must force yee to grant is that this bodily Worship is to bee given especially in the Church for therefore come we to Church and therefore were Churches built for the Worship of God Now what is Externall worship The Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming from the Verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies Congeniculo vel in genua procumbo to bow or to fall downe upon the Knees will tell us And yee shall finde that in most places where the vulgar Latine Translation renders it Adoravit it is as much in the Hebrew as Incurvatus est he was bowed or hee was bended in his body To Worship then outwardly is to bo● the Knee or the Body and this ought to bee done and this ought to bee done in the Church especially But why then towards the East I will strive to satisfie yee in that too I hope yee will yeild that if we doe it at all we must needs doe it with our faces pointed to one particular place and why to that place rather then to an other the reasons are excellent and they be reasons which the Primitive ●nes ●ad The Heathens were all great worshippers of the Sunne and therefore they us'd to worship towards the East the place of the Sunnes Rising where their God appear'd to them first in the Morning But the Lord because he would not have his people the Iewes to imitate the Heathen therefore by his command the Arke was set in the West part of the Tabernacle and afterwards of the Temple when it was built in the holyest place of all And Aquinas gives another reason which he calles the Figurative reason and it is this Because the whole State of the former Tabernacle was ordain'd to signifie the Death of CHRIST and this is figured out unto us by the West according to that in the 68. Psalme Sing praise unto Him who rideth upon the Heavens as upon a Horse For so it is in the English but the truth of the Interpretation according to the Originall is Qui ascendit super occasum Dominus nomen illi Who rideth upon the West the Lord is his Name Who rides upon the West that is who tryumphs over Death signified by the West the place where the Sunne sets And indeed if yee observe yee shall finde almost all the Ceremonies all the Sacrifices of the old Law

St. Ierome who durst not abide the eyes of the Romane Ladies but being a man of a noble Parentage and Family hid himselfe in the Wildernes frō the allurements of the world Nor yet was his Solitude nor Hermitage able quite to protect him for as he confesses himself many times when he was in his Cell having no other company with him save his owne betraying thoughts his fancy would present unto him the beauties of Rome dancing before him And if this to him and to him in the Wildernesse how would his minde have beene carried away had he beene actually present to behold their ravishing and bewitching motions Mistake me not I know it is not for all men to live sequestred from the world for as God hath made some for a contemplative life who indeed of all men are the most happy being voyde of cares of strifes of envyings of backbitings things which such men as are any whit versed in the businesse of the world doe finde too frequent and troublesome and hath no imployment but onely to pray and send up praises unto his gracious Creator and Redeemer so hee hath framed some men also for Action and it would be a very cruell and unjust sentence if wee should exclude all such from any Commerce with the holy Spirit and so shut off the unlimited goodnesse of God onely in a Cloyster Christ who hath taught us indeed that it is easier for a Camel or rather a Cable rope for the Greek word signifies both to enter into the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God hath withall told us that there is nothing impossible with God Cornelius although a man of service and imployment for hee was Captaine of the Band called the Italian band a devout man a rare thing in a Souldier hee had his vision of Angels we know So Nicodemus amongst the multitude of his secular affaires hee had his lucida intervalla too But how Why Cornelius was not altogether taken up with his warlike imployments but had his times of retiring and retreating to privacy and devotion For wee reade in the 10. of the Acts that hee prayed continually that is often and Nicodemus he had his sallies out too from his cares and worldly troubles He did per posticum fallere clientem he made his journeys privately to Christ by night And herein is the greatnesse of a mans spirit the goodnesse of his heart and devotion towards God shewen in that he is able in the midst of a crowde of Clients and secular imployments to set some houres apart for the service of his GOD. To live a retired life and to turne ones backe upon the world is I confesse of the two the safer way but yet savours the more of the Coward and to runne the course of the active and imployed man though it be more dangerous yet withall it is more honourable if he bee able to overcome all those provocations and in spite of businesse to bee religious And they who can doe thus may very well be reckoned amongst the number of the quiet and solitary Mountaines on which the holy Spirit comes leaping For although sometimes they may bee called Plateae potius quam montes Streets or high wayes rather then untroden mountaines by reason of their imployments yet so long as their secular cares do not make too deepe impressions in them when they betake themselves againe to the meditation of heavenly things all the other vanish away as if there had never beene any such footsteps to bee seene but rather on the contrary the footsteps of the blessed Spirit appeare in all their actions For what place soever the holy Ghost is pleased to leape upon be sure that thou shalt finde the footsteps of God left behinde there so that hee who runnes may reade them and bee bold to affirme and say The Lord hath travelled over this ground And the footsteps which the Spirit of God leaves behind are these Truth mercy love peace meekenesse obedience humility and the other links of that sacred Chaine of vertues If thou wouldest not therefore cozen thy self as many do now adaies who are continually boasting that they have the spirit that they know they are illuminated by the spirit and I pray God it be not another kind of spirit then they suppose it is but certainely know whether thou beest one of these Mountaines upon which the holy Spirit leapes or no enter into thine owne heart and there observe what kinde of footsteps are imprinted in it If thou findest truth there a sincere heart voyd of all hypocrisie all dissembling thy thoughts thy words and thy actions all agreeing together all of one and the same tincture if thou findest there bowels of compassion towards thy poore brethren thy fellow-members of Christs mysticall body if thou discoverest there a gentle dove-like meekenesse and humility an obedience to the higher Powers for conscience sake take comfort to thy selfe and praise thy gracious God for bee confident there the holy Spirit hath leapt and bee not afraid to say with waking Iacob Gen. 28. after he had seene the vision of the Ladder and was redeemed from sleepe Certainly the Lord is in this place and I knew not of it But if in the roome of these vertues thou findest their contrary vices if instead of Truth thou findest hypocrisie for mercy cruelty and a hardned heart if for obedience thou findest a proud sullen and surly refractorinesse to all authority if in the roome of humility thou findest nothing but pride and a magnifying of thy selfe above thy brethren as commonly such people as doe boast so much of the spirit are the proudest and disdainfullest generation under the Sun if thou findest these impressions upon thy heart thou hast just cause then to feare that the holy Spirit never travelled over that place for these doe not looke like the footsteps of God these are the impressions and footsteps of the Devill rather these are those Hills rather which the holy Spirit is said here in my Text to skip over Transiliens colles and so we are come to the last thing I observed The motion and way of his repudiation or anger Transiliens colles hoc est superbos Transiliens colles hoc est steriles qui neque tam alti sunt ut divina meditentur neque tam humiles ut poenitentiam agant Tubera sunt quaedam terrae Hee skips over the hills that is barren men solifidians who are enemies to good workes Hee skips over the hils that is proud men who are not so high that their thoughts and meditations doe reach heaven nor yet so low that they can be reckoned among the valleys of the humble and penitent they are onely certaine swellings of the earth But why doth God skip over these Is there any respect of persons with him that hee leapes upon some takes some to his mercy passing by and skipping over others I will give you an Answer which