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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14678	Alæ seraphicæ The seraphins vvings to raise us unto heauen. Deliuered in six sermons, partly at Saint Peters in Westminster, partly at S. Aldates in Oxford. 1623. By Iohn Wall Doctor in Diuinity, of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1627 (1627)	STC 24985; ESTC S119339	77,171	152

time yee should awake and returne with the Shunamite I would to God yee were as those Switzers who are ready to serue for the best pay If Satan bee able to giue more follow him If Satan be able to promise more follow him Quis fascinauit Who is it that hath bewitched you as the Apostle writeth to the Galatians had ye rather eate huskes and feede swine with the prodigall then haue bread enough and sit at table with the children Had yee rather lie in hell as sheepe that death may gnaw vpon you then raigne in heauen as Iudges that life may abide in you By how much it is better to sit in a throne and iudge the tribes of Israel then to stand at the barre and here the sentence of condemnation by so much is it more safe and comfortable to follow God then man Christ then Belial 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nazian Let vs flie the world and the Prince thereof but seeke Christ and sticke vnto his mercie the exhortation is enforced by that of Ambrose teneat clauus si reuocat infirmitas If the weaknesse of our flesh and the infirmitie of our nature draw vs from him let the remembrance of his death and the nayles of his crosse pin vs to him Who could make vs but hee who did saue vs but hee who but hee shall adorne vs with his grace and crowne vs with his glorie set vs in his presence where there is fulnesse of ioy and place vs at his right hand where there are pleasures for euermore how can yee neglect so great saluation how can ye leaue so great felicitie ye haue seene his starre in the East and hee that bringeth light out of darkenesse hath shined in your hearts to the light of knowledge in the face of Christ Iesus There is no excuse left but the stay of his promise and the expectation of his goodnesse that it is not yet but shall be hereafter in the second birth of the whole vniuerse which is the terme and point of this complement and perfection My last circumstance that knocks at the doore of your hearts and eares to keepe them open It is stored of a Romane that he neuer beheld the rubbish of old marble or lookt vpon the ruines of any ancient building but he wept and cryed Recordatione temporum meliorum ploro I grieue and lament to thinke of the dayes which are gone and past But wee are contrary and as he lookt backe with griefe and sorrow on that which is past so wee looke forward with ioy and comfort towards that which is to come the changing of our flesh the instauration of our nature the renewing of the world the transformation of the elements when the creature that trauels and groanes vnto this present shall bee deliuered from the bondage of corruption for then it is wee must enioy the right and seate of Iudicature and prehemmence 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the regeneration Which some call the resurrection others call the redemption of our bodies when mortalitie shall bee swallowed vp of life and this corruptible shall put on incorruption For the first generation and birth of man is when hee comes into the world the second generation and birth of man is when hee is raised out of the world and taken into heauen Ad contemplandum lumen aeternitatis as Saint Gregorie speakes to contemplate the Lord and to behold eternitie and as there is a regeneration of the inward man after the image of God by grace and faith in the bloud of Christ and the lauour of Baptisme termed by the Apostle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The lauour of regeneration where he is begot of the immortall seede and borne as it were anew of water and the spirit so must there be a regeneration of the outward man by the power of God Who shall change our vile bodies and make them like vnto his glorious body which extends to euery creature sublunarie as the elements coelestiall as the heauens Behold saith God I create a new earth and a new heauen Behold saith Iohn I see a new earth and a new heauen So that we may boldly cry with Peter Expectamus nouos coelos We looke for a new earth and a new heauen according to his promise wherein dwelleth righteousnesse For he shall change them and they shall be changed the earth shall be changed and cloathed with beautie the aire shall be changed and purged from obscuritie the fire shall be changed that is do not consume the water shall be changed that it do not putrifie the heauens shall be changed for they shall rest from motion and receiue a greater perfection of brightnesse and claritie the Sunne shall stand in the East and the Moone in the West where first they were created that wee may behold the faire beautie of the Lord and looke vpon his Sonne in a throne of glorie Sonne of God and yet Sonne of man for hee shall iudge as hee was iudged and returne in the same forme wherein he was despised that euery eye may see whom they pierst and be not affraid of him they crucified for the greatnesse of his power and the brightnesse of his presence Quid facturus saith that notable Moralist if his enemies went backe and fell to the ground when he came in weakenesse and humilitie to be iudged how shall they start and bee confounded when he comes in power and maiesty to iudge the world and to pronounce the sentence of condemnation against euery cursed malefactor Foelix trembled at the mention of it and these vnhappy Foelixes shall neuer be able to abide the sight of his glorious throne enuironed with a guard of heauenly souldiers At length wee see what our hope is and when it shall be reuealed not before the day of iudgement and the coming of our Sauiour Beware then lest yee bee ouer hastie to iudge before your time I speake onely of priuate censure vncharitable suspition malicious calumnie spightfull detraction which is not iudicium but praeiudicium not iudgement but preiudice Eagle-sighted in the faults of others and ready to sticke as flies in the sores and vlcers of their griefes and infirmities As for that golden pillar of publike iudicature The ground and basis of regular states and well ordered kingdomes it is strengthened in my text and ministerially with subordination deriued to such as are Apostolique For if wee shall iudge the tribes of Israel and the families of the earth nay the whole world together with the blessed Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how much rather smaller things and such as pertaine vnto life the argument is not humane but diuine drawne from the mouth and pen of that great Doctor and vessell of election in the sixt Chapter and the first Epistle to the Corinthians Where hee speakes inclusiuely and makes himselfe a Iudge as well of things temporall as of things eternall and let all such as hold the sonnes of Zadocke most vnworthy of all iusticiarie function

on a thousand mountaines For Christ is our Passeouer and it is the sprinkling of his bloud that must purifie the vessels of our Sanctuarie Who shall take away the sins of the world but the Lambe of God or what satisfaction to bee made without price of his bloud that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nissen speakes the abolisher and destroyer of Mosaicall rites but the establisher and confirmer of spirituall righteousnesse This made the Lord cloathe him with a garment dipt in bloud Apoc. 19. and verifie that Prophesie of Iudah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He shall wash his coate in wine and his cloake in the bloud of grapes Caro eius stola eius saith Ambrosius his coate is his flesh and his cloake is the puritie of his manhood that hides our sinnes and couers our infirmities This did he wash and rence and purge and clense in the bloud of grapes that he might consecrate the whole bodie of his Church and present her glorious to the Father without spot or wrinkle Whence is that elegant speech of learned Austin Non vis habere maculam lauare in sanguine non vis habere rugam in crucem extendere Wilt thou haue no spot be thou washt in the bloud of Christ wilt thou haue no wrinkle bee thou stretcht vpon his crosse Oh the staine and pollution of our sinnes that will not bee purged without the bloud of Christ Iesus O the bowels and compassion of our Sauiour that is prodigall of his life to purge our iniquities hee tooke from vs the death of his flesh and spilt for vs the bloud of his life or rather as the text is read by Hierome Sanguinem animae the very bloud of his soule Hic est sanguis noui foederis this is the bloud of the new Couenant which is shed for you and for many shed and showred on the face of the whole earth in great plentie and abundance that it might worke in vs the fruite of good liuing and produce those heauenly flowers of loue charitie patience humilitie deuotion pietie and whatsoeuer is most pleasing to the Lord of glorie Indeed God tooke a Ramme for Isaac but if his owne Sonne do not come with his owne bloud there will neither be entrance for him nor redemption for vs. Hee is the Ramme that was caught in the bush of thornes and must be a sacrifice for all the sonnes of Abraham It is his bloud that stickes vpon the doores of the Isralites and to this day keepes away the destroying Angell from the Tabernacles of the Christians Well might the Iewes haue spared that scarlet robe which they cast vpon his loynes for before they had left him they made scarlet of his flesh died and dipped in the bloudie torrent of his rosie passion The best scarlet is but dibaphum twise died but his once and againe and a third time yea there were seuen effusions of his bloud as so many streames from the head of Nilus The first as soone as hee was borne when they tooke away the fore-skin of his flesh and spilt his bloud before it was well receiued A second in the garden when he was cast into a bloudy sweat the curtaines of Solomon were rent and the pores of his body were opened whilst euery part sent forth bloud and water trickling on the ground The third in his scourging when they plowed his backe with whips and made long furrowes on his shoulders A fourth at his coronation when they placed him as a rose among thornes and set a prickling crowne on his head the white rose became red and the puritie of his innocencie tooke colour from the misery of his sufferings The fift in the nayling of hands A sixt in the piercing of his feete but the seauenth and last when his side was opened and the depth of his wounds discouered the tendernesse of his bowels the iron went into his soule the speare toucht his very heart that hee might haue a feeling and sympathie of our infirmities Now did the spouts runne and the fountaines streame with the sweetnesse of the grape and though he were fastened on the crosse yet died he like Seneca in a bath not of water but of bloud and that his owne once shed but euer springing to safetie and redemption that it might drowne our sins and purge our soules and quench that sierie blade which the Cherubin hangs ouer the gate of Paradise to keepe vs from the tree of life the portion of our inheritance Where but on the crosse when but at the effusion of his bloud did hee say to that cursed malefactor Hodie mecum eris in Paradiso this day thou shalt bee with me in Paradise Then were the gates of heauen set wide open and there was a way through bloud to that euerlasting portion which he tooke from the hand of the Amorite by his sword and by his bow his sword his word his bow the mysterie of his incarnation where the maiestie of the Godhead stoopt to the weakenesse of the manhood and bowed as it were to the strings of humane frailtie In vaine then do men crucifie themselues and are perswaded that martyrdome is the onely way to heauen like those Priests of Baal and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Rome that teare their flesh with hookes and whips the bloudie instruments of voluntarie pennance as if they would redeeme the transgressions of their soules with the fruite of their bodies and expiate diuine iustice with the cruell butchering and most vnnaturall oblation of their sonnes and daughters vnto Idols It cost more to redeeme soules neither shall any deliuer his brother by the execrable practises of so great impieties Nor by Orizons nor by Dirges nor by Pardons nor by Indulgences or the like inuentions of superstitious dotage In this case we may vse the words of Saluianus Semper redempti nunquam liberi They are euer redeemed but neuer freed For we are not bought with things corruptible but with the pretious bloud of Christ as a Lambe without spot If the Sonne free vs then are we free and where the Spirit is there is libertie Qui melior aduocatus saith Ambrose what better aduocate then hee which gaue himselfe for vs Are not the figures ended and the ceremonies abolished Is not the Temple destroyed and the Priesthood of Aaron quite extinguished Let the Iewes meete and seeke to repaire their temple fire shall breake from out the earth as in the dayes of Iulian to deuoure them and roote out their foundation for we haue no Priest but Christ no altar but his Crosse no sacrifice but his flesh no ransome but his bloud no incense but deuotion no fire but the Spirit no temple but heauen no order but that of Melchisedech which stands and abides for euer And let all such know that wallow in flesh and bloud the bloud of their sinnes and the bloud of their iniquities that delight in bloud and make no conscience how they spill innocent bloud Christian bloud that are