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A96973	Five sermons, in five several styles; or Waies of preaching. The [brace] first in Bp Andrews his way; before the late King upon the first day of Lent. Second in Bp Hall's way; before the clergie at the author's own ordination in Christ-Church, Oxford. Third in Dr Maine's and Mr Cartwright's way; before the Universitie at St Maries, Oxford. Fourth in the Presbyterian way; before the citie at Saint Paul's London. Fifth in the Independent way; never preached. With an epistle rendring an account of the author's designe in printing these his sermons, as also of the sermons themselves. / By Ab. Wright, sometimes Fellow of St John Baptist Coll. in Oxford.	Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3685; Thomason E1670_1; ESTC R208406	99,151	247

●rooke no defilement in the Priesthood we find Miriam ad Aaron both in the same sinne yet Miriam onely the Leper least saies S. Chrisostom Hom. 3 ad Colos the uncleannesse of the others person should sticke upon his office and therefore I find a leprous King but no where a leprous Priest in all the Scripture Now seeing our outward bearing and persons must be blamelesse why should not our condition be so To effect this nothing better then a continual meditation of that solemne pompe and Ceremony used in our Orders When the reverend Prelate laies his hand on thy head remember thou art then manumniz'd from all secular ties and sequestred no lesse from the Callings of the people then their vices and certainly the holy impression of Episcopal hands set o● from above is such an Elixar as by con●action if there be any disposition of goodnesse in the baser mettle it will render it of the propertie Again when thou takest the Bible with autoritie to dispence the Word and Sacraments Oh! let us not abuse our Masters trust in betraying that sacred pledge to the vain Pulpit applan●e and Church flatterie of a giddie multitude but may that Apocalyptical curse be ever before thee of adding or detracting from the words of Gods book quod dicitur in falsatores hujus libri doctrinae which is denounc'd saies a Father against such as ravish Scripture to force out doctrines for their own ends and then emptie their rancour by turning them to Uses But above all those divine extasying words Receive the Holy Ghost strike through the soul the very sound comes crosse me and ties down those hands which otherwise might stab my brother that tongue which else might curse my King or blaspheme my God Receive the Holy Ghost the syllables are an historie and present my thoughts with all those sacred breathings of the Spirit throughout the Scripture Here I finde a single Prophet possess'd of a double portion and heir no lesse to Eliah's Spirit then his Mantle there twelve Aprostles each speaking with as many tongues whose powerful Rhetorick did convert thousands at a Sermon their edifying being a conquest and their Proselites not so properly to be styled a Congregation as a people Receive the Holy Ghost Good God what more can we ask or thou bestow The holy Ghost Why then as S. Paul saies receive also the gift of Prophesie by the same Spirit the gift of Healing by the same Spirit the gift of Miracles by the same Spirit But these are Apostolical talents and wee O Lord the most unprofitable of thy servants are altogether unworthie the meanest of thy gifts yet vouchsafe us we beseech thee who have now devoted our selves for thy service to be filled though with the smallest measure of thy holy Spirit to be overshadowed but with a single feather of that Dove enlightned with the least ray of that Cloven-tongu'd fire and this for thy Gospels sake for thy promise sake for thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be ever as is most c. FINIS THE Third Sermon Which is that in D r Maine's and M r Cartwright's Style or Way of Preaching Delivered before the Universitie at Saint MARYES in Oxford MAT. 10. 16. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be yee therefore wise as serpents and harmlesse as doves LONDON Printed for Edward Archer at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain Anno Dom. 1656. Canticles 2. Vers 2. As the Lillie among the thorns so is my love among the daughters AS Abraham's mystical Ram in the thicket when Isaac was offered up on mount Moriah and yet not sacrific'd was Christ crown'd with thorns so Solomon's typical Lillie in the text is Christ's Church inthron'd among the briers who though she bee born a King's daughter yet is her coronet but in-lai'd with thorns and though the 45 Psalm cloaths her with a robe of wrought gold and all glorious within yet is this glorie of her roial apparel at the best but the glorie of the Ermine shadowed over and eclips'd with the black spots and that gold but the gold of the Psalmists furnace seven times purified and martyr'd in the flame Now that the coat of Christ's Spouse hath been thus blazon'd all Historie both Ecclesiastical and Civil will be our Heralds and witnesse Ensebius with his fellow-pens of Church-storie have sufficiently written the Acts and Monuments of this truth their volumnes being so many books of Martyrs in which you may read the Christian baptiz'd in his own blood and receiving his confirmation from the fire being condemned ad bestias onely for the Roman sport and recreation and to the stake in usum nocturni luminis saies Tacitus to save the Citie-candle and light home passengers in a dark night Our religion in the mean time being scandalized for superstitio exitiabilis the very fate and bane of Common-wealths and the professors of it for novatoresrerum the grand Innovators and Boutefeus of the world Insomuch saies Tertullian that if an Earthquake shook town or territorie straight Christianitie was called in question as if the breath of Christian praiers vented in religous caves the onely Temples of those daies had rais'd that subterraneous winde and their grones caus'd the motion And for this reason etiam susp●ria lac●rimae scribebantur saith the historian their very tears were registred as the Malignant Partie and their ●ighs for plots against the State And all this ●t implere●●r that Gods Word might be fulfilled and written the second time in the afflictions of his Church Thus Nero persecuting in the Roman storie is the red dragon driving the woman to the wildernesse in S. John's Prophesie and the Churches martyrdom the truth of that type the sight of that vision and even the revelation of the Apocalypse Or if you will the Woman there is the Love here in the text that Wildernesse these Thorns representing to you the face of this glasse the original and person of this picture or similitude As the Lillie c. This text you heard me now call a picture or similitude in which picture as in all draughts of the pencil you may behold the lights the shadows the lights shining forth in the Lillie and the Love the shadows mask'd under the Thorns and the Daughters for those black Thorns are as the shadow to this white Lillie and these soul daughters the foil to set off that fair Love Now as all pictures must have their place of view so may it please you to look upon for a third particular the seat or standing of this Lillie it is in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the middle or among the Thorns and last of all to vouchsafe a glance or two upon the Artisan himself implied in the particle my As the Lillie among the Thorns so is my Love my who am the Limmer that hath drawn and owes this piece whose hand protects it here and