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A29912	Twenty five sermons. The second volume by the Right Reverend Father in God, Ralph Brownrig, late Lord Bishop of Exeter ; published by William Martyn, M.A., sometimes preacher at the Rolls.; Sermons. Selections	Brownrig, Ralph, 1592-1659.; Martyn, William.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691.	1664 (1664)	Wing B5212; ESTC R36389	357,894	454

with Proficiency in knowledge if thou go no further will fail thee at last 3. But what if our hearing go another step further and so it be an affectionate Hearing that we hear the word with great warmth of affection sure then we are past danger such kind of Hearing will go for currant and be well-excepted 1. If we bring with us to our hearing of the Word the affection of reverence Indeed that 's exceeding lovely A reverend Auditour is a comely Creature in Gods Church he beautifies the Congregation and makes it honourable As for drowzy and heedless and prophane Auditours such as with the same spirit hear Gods word as they would hear any common Discourses the Church and the Market-place is all one to them they shew no awful demeanour in hearing Gods Word we cry shame of them such are blots and spots in our Congregations But if we come with reverence into Gods House listen as to the voice of God with reverence and fear compose our selves to such a deportment as may suit with that sacred work which we are about we hope that will pass for a full discharge of our duty and make us good Christians beyond exception No verily Reverend Hearing without Religious Practising is but mocking of God The Son that Christ speaks of in the Gospel Matth. xxi 28. when his Father bid him go work in his Vineyard heard him and answered him very reverently said to him forthwith I go Sir but that was all He gave his Father a regardful and reverend answer but for all that he went not and is condemned for it So the young man in the Gospel that in all the haste would needs be a Disciple of Christ demean'd himself to Christ exceeding reverently Mark x. 17. He came running and fell down on his knees to Christ and calls him Good Master and desires to be instructed of him but that was all For when Christ injoyns him what to do he turns his back upon our Saviour refused to obey him So then a reverend hearing will not suffice if it stops there and comes short of practising 2. What if we bring with us another commendable affection in our hearing the affection of joy and gladness and delight in Hearing That is much indeed we hope that will be accepted As for those who are listless in this Duty who have no appetite find no rellish taste no sweetness in the word of God we condemn them for unworthy Auditours such as call the Word of the Lord A Burthen as they did in the Prophet Ieremiah's time It was a by-word with them so to taunt the Prophet What is the burden of the Lord Ier. xxiii Or like those whom the Prophet Malachi complains of Chap. i. 13. they cried out What a weariness is it to serve the Lord they snuffed at it Or as those in Amos his time Chap. viii 5. who would fain be rid of the days of Gods worship saying When will the new Moon be gone and the Sabbath that we may fall to our work again Such kind of Auditours have little hope to find mercy or acceptance with God Nay not onely such but thou mayst hear the word of God with joy and much pleasure account the Sabbath a delight and yet if thou restest there and failest in point of practice and obedience thy Religion is vain Ezekiel met with such kind of Auditours who took great delight in hearing him preach Chap. 33. 32. Lo saith God to Ezekiel thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument for they hear thy words and doe them not Oh! they were much taken with Ezekiel's Sermons they were as Musick to them sweet aires delicate strains they were ravished with his eloquence but that was all the Musick is ended and so was all their Devotion Thus our Saviour compares some sort of Auditours to stony ground And what are they Such as hear the word and with joy receive it but it never takes root or fructifies with them Matth. xiii The seed rots under the clods as the Prophet Ioel speaks Chap. i. 17. Such Auditours were the High Priests Officers who were sent to apprehend Christ they were transported with his heavenly Sermons Never man spake as this man speaks Ioh. vii 46. but yet fell short of Salvation Nay Herod as wicked a man as he was was much delighted in Baptist's preaching Mark vi 20. 't is said He feared Iohn accounted him an holy man observed him and heard him gladly and yet Herod was a Reprobate for all that 'T is S. Augustine's Question Nunquid omnes qui delectantur mutantur Mistake not saith he many are delighted to hear Sermons that yet are never the better for them Delectare suavitatis est sed flectere victoriae There is that sweetness in the word of God which may much delight us but then the word hath got a full conquest over us when it bowes and bends us to the obedience of it That 's a second Hearing with delight is not the thing that God accepts if it falls short of Practice 3. But what if this hearing of the word of God doth so much affect us that it begets many good motions in us and we find our selves inwardly wrought upon many good thoughts and purposes are stirred up and quickned in us then we conclude we are right-good Auditours and have heard to purpose Indeed those that are never affected or moved with all that they hear dead-hearted men not all the words in Gods book can so much as stirr them such as Christ speaks of Matth. xi 17. We have piped unto you and you have not danced we have mourned unto you and you have not wept the Promises cannot allure them the Threatnings of Gods word cannot affright them brawny-hearted men nothing can enter into them No hope of such men Ey but we you should know are other-ghess men are much taken at a Sermon when we hear God thundering out Judgments we tremble at them when he offers his Promises we are much affected with them and for his Commandements we purpose to observe them Is not this sufficient No even such kind of Hearers if they proceed no further will fall short of heaven A man may be in that condition that Capernaum was even be lifted up to heaven sometimes upon some good motions and yet for all that with Capernaum be cast down to hell Balaam had his devout wishes very heavenly raptures and yet a Cast-away Agrippa had a great pang of devotion at S. Paul's Sermon he was well-nigh a Christian on the sudden but nothing came of it Felix was much wrought upon by S. Paul's preaching it made him to tremble and quake but he proved a Reprobate A man may be Sermon-sick and have a qualm come over his conscience and some gripes of remorse and yet recover again his old sinfull temper and never be converted Non concipi tantum sufficit sed nasci

to Him What the Shunamite said to Elisha mankind may truly say to God Did I desire a son of my lord Did we ever think of this means of Salvation No the whole world 1. Either lay in security never minding nor considering our woful condition 2. Or else were up in hostility so far from sending for peace that we were bidding defiance to him practising enmity 3. Or were sunk in despair not daring to think any thought of pardon expecting nothing but destruction and then he graciously thought upon us and sent for our deliverance 6. God Sent his Son Sending it is Actus Demissionis a great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Fathers call Christ's Incarnation an Act of great Vouchsafing of much Condescension For God to Send to us to dispatch messengers begin treaties make offers of reconciliation nay Preces descendere in omnes to beseech us to be reconciled admirable dignation He hath all the advantages of the better against us why should he seek and Send and sue to us for peace and atonement 1. He is Fortior all the Strength is on his side Now Christ tells us Luk. xiv 31. that in case of enmity he who finds himself the weaker should send Embassages and desire conditions of Peace Alas we are infinitely the weaker not able to annoy him or to grapple with him S. Paul gives us this Item Rom. v. 6. When we were yet without strength Christ dyed for us 2. He is Dignior that 's a second advantage on his side far above us in all Honour and Dignity One would think the more mean and inferiour should Send and seek and sue to his better if he have offended him What saith Elizabeth to the Virgin Mary Whence is this to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me Luk. i. 43. What stooping is this and condescension that the High and the Holy One should send to us in our base condition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is made 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Chrysostom he makes himself lower than the lowest by this condescension 3. He is Pars laesa that 's a third advantage he hath against us The injury and wrong is done to him the offence is committed by us Reason would that we who had wronged him should come in first and sue to him As Shimei because he had wronged David came first of all his Tribe and Countrey to meet King David and to make his peace with him In our petty wranglings when the Potsheards contend with the Potsheards of the earth we stand upon this He hath wronged me yet God abates this All the right is of his side and yet he Sends to us Whose charity sticks not here we are ready to say He hath wronged me let him seek and sue to me first 4. He is Independens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Self-sufficiency needs not our friendship reconciliation Amongst men we must sometimes put up wrongs and pass by them we may stand in need of those who have now offended us Nec possum tecum vivere nec sine te Superiours may have such use of their inferiours that they must be glad to seek to them The head cannot say to the foot I have no need of thee But God stands not in need of us or of our service Had we all perished in our rebellion he had lost nothing Eliphaz in Iob tells us that Can a man be profitable unto God Is it any gain to him that thou art righteous Iob xxii 2. No had we all perished he had his holy Angels to serve him nay had they all revolted his glory and happiness is included in himself and no wayes depends upon the service of his creatures God gives Abraham an Item of this when he made his Covenant with him I am God All-sufficient walk before me and I will make my Covenant with thee Gen. xvii It was not necessity but mercy to covenant with Abraham Yet see he abates this and all other advantages Though he be the Stronger and needs not fear us though he be the Better and so may despise us though he be wronged by us and so may expect submission from us though he hath not the least need of us and so may neglect and cashier us for ever yet see his wonderful vouchsafing and condescending he Sends and seeks to us We may well break out with David's admiration 2 Sam. vii 19. Is this the manner of man O Lord God Would one man thus deal with another Stoop so low to such treaties and intreaties of reconciliation send and solicite and importune for agreement Nay verily 't is the unmatchable example of God's love to us thus to make after us to Send and to Send his Son to accomplish our peace and reconciliation SEVEN SERMONS PREACHED UPON The History of our Saviours Transfiguration as it is represented by the three Evangelists S. MATTHEW S. MARK S. LUKE THE FIRST SERMON ON S. LUKE ix 28. And it came to pass about an eight dayes after these sayings he took Peter and John and James and went up into a mountain to pray c. THis passage of Scripture is a remarkable relation of our Saviours glorious Transfiguration his laying aside his garments of Frailty and Mortality and his assuming to himself his robes of Majesty and Glory As David seeing his son Solomon's Succession questioned and opposed sends him to Mount Gihon commands Zadock and Nathan to annoint and proclaim him King so here Christs Kingdom being opposed he is by Gods appointment established Moses and Elias adore and attend him and a Voyce from heaven declares him Messias The Text sets out Christs Preparation and Entrance into this glorious Manifestation of Himself and the purposed choyce of those remarkable Circumstances in which he was pleased to be Transfigured And as in Coronations and Triumphs of Kings all Occurrences are forelayd and ordered for greater Magnificence so here every particular is cull'd out to advance the glory of this Transfiguration 1. Is the choyce of Time About an eight dayes after these sayings 2. Is the choyce of Attendants Peter Iames Iohn 3. Is the choyce of the Place fit for this great work A mountain 4. Is the choyce of an holy Preparative Action Prayer He went up into a mountain to pray First is the choyce of Time And as in Time there are two things 1. Order 2. Measure 1. The one is Succession 2. The other Duration So here 1. There is Ord●… or Successio in these words After these sayings 2. There is Duratio in these words About an eight dayes I. Is Ordo or Successio After these sayings and it reflects back to several remarkable passages going before in his immediate last discourse with his Disciples 1. Is Post Petri confessionem after S. Peter's Confession vers 20. Thou art the Christ of God After this Confession of the Disciple's Faith then he was Transfigured It carries with it a double Intendment 1. Of Confirmation of their Faith 2. Of Reward

's store up then and provide against it lay up against a dear year fence out Gods Judgments when they shall besiege us keep them out from entring upon us These and such as these are the thoughts of carnal men Ey but this Scripture offers more grace The piety of the Prophet hath other apprehensions of Judgments and farr other resolutions for the undergoing of them And this Piety in the Prophet appears in two degrees that make it more remarkable 1. Here is the low degree of the affliction he takes it at the worst he supposeth himself not onely in some necessity but in extremity in want of all outward things He saith not Onely if I have food and raiment though but hard fare and coarse clothing it shall suffice He submits not onely to Agur's portion Neither riches nor poverty but food convenient to sustain nature He stops not at Micaiah's diet Bread of affliction and water of affliction No he knows how to undergo the loss of all things Let poverty come upon him as an armed man and spoil him of all yet his heart will hold up he is not dismayed Ey here is Piety in the strength and highest improvement That will not capitulate with God how much it will suffer and no more but will resolve to bear the heaviest burthen submit to the sharpest affliction and undergo it holily 2. The Prophets Piety is seen in another degree that 's the high degree of affection with which he will entertain this great affliction 1. He makes not onely use of his patience he will suffer patiently and meekly he will not murmure at it 2. He resolves not onely to be content with it and well pleased with this condition that 's a degree higher Patience suffers it but Contentment feels it not Contentment is an Autarchie it feels no want But the Prophet rises higher 3. He knows how to rejoyce in affliction Joy that 's the affection that belongs to happiness and felicity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. In the day of prosperity rejoyce but in the day of adversity consider saith Solomon Eccles. vii 14. Sad thoughts one would think are then seasonable No here the Prophet can rejoyce in the day of adversity Nay more as S. Paul exhorts Rejoyce in the Lord always again I say rejoyce Phil. iv 4. So here this Feast of Joy hath two Courses 1. I will rejoyce in the Lord. 2. I will joy in the God of my salvation TWO SERMONS PREACHED UPON EASTER-DAY ON EASTER-DAY The First Sermon JOB xix 25 26 27. For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God Whom I shall see for my self and mine eyes shall behold and not another though my reins be consumed within me THis Text is a Prophesie and Prediction of our Saviour Christs glorious Resurrection the great benefit and mysterie of our Religion which the Christian Church doth this day celebrate A Sacred Truth requiring not onely the Assent but the Devotion and Adoration of our Faith The work of this day layes the greatest proofs of Christs God-head and Divinity He was declared to be the Son of God by the Resurrection from the dead Rom. i. 4. And when God was to bring his Son back from the grave this and the like Prophesies as Ushers attended him and proclaimed before him as Pharaoh before Ioseph Abrech Bow the knee Let all the Angels of God worship him Let every knee bow before him Let every tongue confess him Let every soul receive and embrace him 'T is true the incredulous unbelieving Jews labour to obscure and deface this and all other Prophesies of Christs Resurrection and by a mis-construction to draw it away to another sense They answer all these Prophesies as Esay complains of them chap. xxx 10. They say to the Seers see not and to the Prophets prophesie not unto us right things but prophesie to us deceit The Jews they pervert the Text and some other Expositours mistake it and draw down the height and mysterie of this speech to an inferiour sense But generally the most Ancient and most Orthodox Interpreters do fasten their Meditations upon this Text as a clear and undoubted prediction of our Saviours Resurrection And this sense we embrace and so apprehend the words as a Prophetical prediction and faithful confession of our Saviours victory and triumph over the power of death And it is of good use to look back to these Prophesies even after their fulfilling As the Angel spake this day to the women at the Sepulchre Come see the place where the Lord was laid The emptiness of the grave proved that he was risen So even after Christ is risen it is of use to our faith to review these Prophesies Come see the place that foretold his rising again the fulfilling of these Texts will greatly confirm our faith of his Resurrection As in your purchases and possessions though you be already seized and stated in them yet ye desire to get in all former Conveyances to strengthen your tenure So though you be possess'd of this dayes benefit yet these Prophesies are as our fore-fathers records we claim these Testimonies as our Inheritance our Faith holds by them To reflect upon these Prophesies will confirm our belief in all other Truths as yet to be fulfilled Impleta credimus impleri videmus implenda confidimus saith S. Augustine It will put Davids Song into our mouths As we have heard so have we seen Heard it foretold Seen it fulfill'd We may sing with the Psalmist All the wayes of the Lord are Mercy and Truth Mercy in Promising Truth in Performing We may confess with Solomon Blessed be the Lord who spake it with his mouth and hath with his hand fulfilled it We may open our Text as Christ did This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears our Faith may safely set to its Seal That God is true For the words themselves they report unto us a memorable remarkable Prophesie of the Resurrection of a double Resurrection 1. Here Iob fore-sees and fore-tells the Resurrection of Christ. He tells us That Christ who by his Death Redeem'd him hath again obtain'd an endless Life That after his fall by Death he is recovered and got up again stands and shall stand last upon the earth 2. He Prophesies of his own resurrection That though he were now in a dying condition death had already seiz'd upon him yet he knew there was hope in his death that he should be raised from the grave of corruption to an everliving and blessed state and condition Now surely this is a Text of Scripture worthy of all acceptation much to be set by both for the clearness and evidence of it and also for the date it bears and print of Antiquity 1. 'T is a clear Prophesie there is not a fuller more express description of the Resurrection in all