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A80547	The perfect-law of God being a sermon, and no sermon;-: preach'd,-, and yet not preach'd;-: in a-church, but not in a-church; to a people, that are not a people-. / By Richard Carpenter. Wherein also, he gives his first alarum to his brethren of the presbytery; as being his-brethren, but not his-brethren.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1652 (1652)	Wing C625; Thomason E1318_1; ESTC R210492	112,779	261

acknowledge our Error our Delinquency by throwing presently Rose-Water into our Mouthes To use those holy Doctours that antiently flourished and were Stellae primae Magnitudinis Stars of the first Magnitude now in their Absence as the miserable offenders that are drawn higher the more to be strapado'd Beloved As tender Infants are more subject to fascination than grown persons so common people are most easily deluded And it was not well done of that envious Wretch in Quintilian who poyson'd the Flowers in his Garden that his Neighbours Bees Quinti l. Declam 13. might not safely suck any more honey from them A Man goes on sometimes in Morality as it were with Oares and sometimes his Sails are up and the Wind helps him on And now he goes remis velisque with Sails and Oares For when the Mind by the help of our Vertuous Habits and actuall Grace doth operate or work according to the Rules and Dictates of right Reason honest Things we go rowing and failing But when a certain extrinsecall Force from God doth advance and elevate the Soul beyond all these Rules after a more vehement and high Manner then is the Man transported by some Gift of the holy Ghost as Appolonia was when brought to the Fire after she had stood a while attending to the holy Ghost she cast her self into it Even so it is also both in our Praying and Preaching Let me now therefore utter a few Words in the Rapture of my Soul O thou with thy flatuous Knowledge thy Tympanie of Terms os unpurum sparsumque thou with thy wide and impure mouth thou hou so meanly blyth and buxom as thou art Hast thou not learn'd yet what it is to send away to Hell Souls by whole Shoals Souls for the which Christ dyed Do'st thou not know what a Soul is Or can'st thou make a Soul a Soul wherein there is fairly Character'd the Divinity the Spiritualitie of God the Unity of the divine Essence the Trinity of the divine Persons the Generation of the Son the Procession of the holy Ghost Hither Divines commonly come But I cannot rest here A Soul wherein there is an Evident Character of the Incarnation of the second Person the Divine Word when our Will the second Faculty of our Souls is conceived in our Words and made as it were incarnate in our Deeds a Man 's invisible Will being made visible in his Actions far otherwise than his Understanding or Memory the Prophet Psal 22. 20. calls his Soul his Darling his Dearling The Vulgar Latin stiles it as Interpret Vulgar the Prophet speaks it in the Hebrew Vnicam meam my onely one The Chaldee Spiritum Corporis mei the Spirit of my Paraph. Chald. Sept. Aq. Sym. Body The Septuagint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my only-begotten Aquila 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my long-Liver Symmachus in the abstract 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my lonelinesse that will soon be totally Abstracted from the World St. Hierome S. Hier. solitariam meam my Solitary Soul The Soul which thou so murderously destroyest is the poor Mans Darling his onely-one the Spirit of his Body his onely-begotten his lone-Liver his loneliness his solitahy Soul Murder Murder a a more horrible Murder was never committed Do'st thou not fear that such a departed Soul will quasi Vmbra te persequi Ghost-haunt thee Where is now thy supernatural Principle that should move within thee How wilt thou crutch it up that thou art a Christian If thou art awake the Christian in thee I could weep the rest O my God deliver my Soul from the Sword my Darling from the power of the Dog 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Sept. Septuagint read it so from the two-hand Sword or the Sword that is edg'd on both sides The Sword of thy Tongue O thou fals-Tongu'd Preacher will cut on either side as the side is to which thy Belly most leans and lissens cùm intestina tibi crepent when thy guts murmure for Victuals Was my Soul my Darling my onely-one the Spirit of my Body my only-begotten my lone-Liver my loneliness my solitary Soul ordain'd for an other Mans Belly Which Man when his Belly has done with my Soul will throw it away to the Dog the Devil Agnosco Discipulum Haereticorum antiquorum Thou art a Scholar of the ancient Hereticks For in respect of their Soul-marketing the old Romans saith Lampridius Lamprid. in Alexandro Severo contumeliously calld'd Christum Christ Chrestum from the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 profitable Here Ends the Rapture Matth. 2. 1. where the Greek hath Evang. Graec. Evan. Lat. Evan. Syr. Arab. Aegypt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latin Magi the Engiish Wise Men and where the Syriack Arabick Egyptiack or Coptick with other Oriental Translations the Languages of which either by a right Line or side-wayes come of the Hebrew say the same Thing yea the Persian-Gospel-Word is Magusan wise men Evangelinm Persicum Evan. Aethiopicum only the Ethiopick is pleas'd with a Name caught from their outward Act of Service which is Adoratores Worshipers Munster in his Hebrew Gospel Eva. Heb. Munsteri which he obtrudeth to us as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Saint Matthew dresses them in the Word mecassephim praestigiatores Iuglers or Enchanters Art not thou in the Cause O thou Blazing-Star of the pulpit thou Fabula Conviviorum Fori almost all the talk of people at Feasts and in Market-places for thy Iugglings that pious wise and learned Men who have most faithfully followed the Star of the East are sensured to be as thou art Iugglers The Iewish Thalmudists story to us Thalmud Ord. 4. Tract 2. aelibi multoties that the Soul of one Man passeth into the Body of an other and that for Example the Soul of Abel flew from him into Seth I suppose it pearch't some where by the way and from out of Seth by another and an other flight into Moses The Pythagorean 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Transmigation of Souls joyned with the Platonicall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or frequent Renascency had evened this way for the Iew. And Pride made Iulian though not a Iew yet a Philosophicall Pythagorean Niceph. Eccl. Hist. lib. 10. c. 35 who conceived that his little Body was fill'd with great Alexander's Soul And now to make a perfect Diapason and agreement of Voices as if all were but one voice thou hast conveyed with a quick and cleanly Conveyance the Spirit of a Primitive Apostle into thy own body and thou art in thy own Thoughts and Words greater than a Magnifico of the East or a Western Admirante Rectè admones It is well thou tellest me so For had'st thou not I should have confidently retorted That there must be truly The Spirit of Truth in some true Spirit to decide the great Differences betwixt thee and others cùm res caleat utrobique velis furori permissis the Matter growing hot and the persons fire-hot and

causâ nomino declared Christianity to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Imitation of God Which afterwards the Greek Church ty'd up as with a third of Gold into one Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The ground is Man was made by God after the Image and Likeness of God Gen. 1. 26. And therefore our work in our lapsed Condition is to perfect and imbellish this Image in us by conforming our selves through God's Grace every day more and more in likeness to him this likeness consisting truly in true Holiness as it is call'd Eph. 4. 24. or as it is in the Original hue and return'd by the Vulgar Latin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanctitate Veritatis the Holiness Text. Gr. Edit Val. of Truth And a good Man is called by a new Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 holy from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 colo veneror I worship I honour Because true Holiness onely makes one after all the Transactions of Life truly worshipful and venerable Circumspicite dùm nè quis nostro Auceps Sermoni sit Enimverò sunt qui auribus Aucupium faciunt simplices atque incautos ex insidiis adoriuntur Look about you pray and tell me if any be here that come hither a Birding with their Ears and lie here ambushing to catch and ravish a Word or to antedate the Sense Dionysius Areopagita amongst other Excellencies in Christ holds up before us for our Imitation his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Dyonis Areop Eccl. Hier. cap. 3. not his Impeccability but his Impeccancy To the which we must draw by spiritual Access as neer as human Weakness will be drawn after us being egregiously carefull to preserve in their perfect Being and Appearance all the Titles and Punctilios of God's Honour Perhaps your Thoughts now may turn upon me with a fierce Assault How comes it that your Life is not thus exact Strange Things fly abroad concerning you Beloved Know as God knows that these Strange Things are the Strange Apparitions Delusions Inventions of the Devil and of devilish Enemies More afterwards St. Gregory Nazianzen gives holy S. Greg. Naz. orat 4. in Paschate Counsil Simus ut Christus quoniam Christus quoque sicut nos Essiciamur Dii propter ipsum quoniam ipse quoque propter nos Homo factus est Let us be as Christ is because he was as we are Let us be made Gods for him because he was made Man for us And Nullus est Deificationis Terminus There is no stop or enclosure of Deification Boetius throws an Ey this way Vltra homines provehere Boet. lib. 4. de Consol pros 3. Sola Probitas potest True Holiness and true Honesty will promote a Man beyond a Man St. Dorotheus names the holy men of old thus S S. Antonium Pachomium S. Doroth. Serm. 1. Macarium caeterosque Deiferos Patres holy Antonius Pachomius Macarius and the rest of the Fathers that carried God in them Anastasius Synaita S. Anastas Synait lib. 7. Hexam that strict-liv'd Patriarch of Antioch entitles such persons quodammodò veluti Christos in Divinitate simul Humanitate after a sort christs as partaking both of the Divine and Humane Nature Acknowledge St. Peter's Phrase 2 Pet. 1. 4. Partakers of the Divine Nature Expediam Verbo In a word It is the Holy Ghost Himself that dwels in the righteous Heart by an abode much remote from his common abiding with us per Essentiam Praesentiam Potentiam by his Essence Presence Power For besides that holy Scripture manifoldly stands up for it It is incongruent That the Devill should be more neer to his and more intimate by Possession than the most good God to his by Communication who hath more manifested himself to us in his Works of Mercy than of his Justice And Grace the Instrument of the Holy Ghost is more honourably born than other Things of our Acquaintance It is a deep bottom'd Question in Divinity Vtrùm Gratia producatur per Creationem Whether Grace be Created or not Created The Affirmative seems clear Ephes 2. 10. For we are his Workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good Works We are God's Workmanship more excellently in respect of the new and inward Man And Good works good in order to our Supernatural End cannot be wrought without Grace which Source or Fountain is only correspondent and answerable to the high-flowing of the Stream The Apostle clears and illuminates it farther 2 Cor. 5. 17. and Gal. 6. 15. In both which places he calls a regenerate Soul novam Creaturam a new Creature But this Opinion would plain and even the way to a dangerous Conclusion Creatura potest attingere physic è Creationem School-Divines well know and have well sounded the danger of it These Positions therefore asserted by the Apostle ye shall understand of Creation in genere moris in regard of our first Conversion and Justification For the first Grace being given without any precedent Works of Grace is made as it were of Nothing in genere moris it being impossible and unimaginable that Man should dispose himself for the reception of the first Grace because he that produceth the last Disposition is truely said also to produce the Form call'd by it and coming after it and therefore he that disposeth himself by his meer self to Grace produceth Grace in his own Heart of the which no pure Creature can be the cause This Opinion therefore I lay down and lay me down to rest in another The revelation of which if great Clerks will needs extort and wrest from me they shall receive it secundùm modum recipientium in their own Dialect Gratia non creatur sed educitur supernaturaliter ex potentia Subjecti in quo Spiritus sanctus inhabitat Sicut aliae Formae supernaturales Visio Dei Lumen gloriae hujusmodi I discover here that there is yet Terra incognita a Land unknown to you in Learning Religion Holiness Dear Christians attend to me Should I a reasonable Creature hear men that Profess and Preach God and his only Son Christ Iesus together with the holy Spirit the Sanctifier of Souls three Persons and one immortal invisible and only wise God telling me from a Pulpit in the Air to the which I must look up as if the Pulpit Men came even now from Heaven of Humility Continency Temperance Contentedness Guiding of my Tongue Charity Peace and other things of that Feather and bringing about at every half-turn our glorious Gad for so they call him Iesus Christ the Saints the humble Soul let a going with a notable Aspiration he was a pretious Man the Lard Iesus be with all your Spirits And should I find after a most accurate search eosdem numericè the very same Men down from the high-place to be in their Actions most high and haughty-minded and proud as Lucifer most lustful and effeminate most great and most greedy-Lovers and Worshipers of their Bellyes most uncontented and unsatisfyed in their desiring