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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67311	A divine theater, or, A stage for Christians delivered in a sermon at Christ-Church in Oxford / by John Wall ...	Wall, John, 1588-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing W468; ESTC R5262	16,628	106

tooke our humanity this was advanced that was not prejudiced there came Honour to the one without Detriment to the other whil'st he proves the life of men and yet remaines the head of Angels There are many praevisions of this mystery in the holy Patriarkes and not a few praedictions in the Oracles of the Prophets The Tabernacle of Moses was a direct figure of it of this Tabernacle this building the Tabernacle of God the Tabernacle of his flesh The Israelites saw his glory in the former we saw it in the latter Vidimus gloriam ejus saith Iohn the Evangelist We have seen the glory thereof it hath opened our eyes claryfied our hearts enlightned our minds purified our consciencies Vidimus glorium ejus We have seen the glory thereof As the only begotten Son of God full of Grace and of Truth For indeed there must needs be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Nyssen speakes a true reall perfect substantiall building of the Tabernacle where there is Christ in the flesh and God with us a true Saviour a peculiar Immanuel who shall not only renew and Sanctifie but repaire and Glorifie the decayed Tabernacles of our mortall bodyes by the Virtue of his Spirit and the Omnipotency of his Godhead Hence it is that we are enabled to see God and thus it is we are said to behold the Lord of glory though in himselfe he be undiscernable and dwell in light that is unapproachable He tooke that from us and preserves that in us which makes him known to us and beloved of us and therefore since he comes in the vaile of flesh and seems to be covered as with the mantle of Elias we have boldnesse to draw nere and looke upon him as the Sun in a cloud or a candle in a Lanthorne tempered and qualified to the weaknesse of our sight and the infirmities of our nature Which makes the Spouse breake forth into those mysticall expressions My beloved stand's behind the wall he looketh forth of the window and shews himselfe by the lattesse the second and the ninth of Solomon What 's that but the wall of humane flesh the window of humane sense and the lattesse of humane affections as St Bernard interprets whereby he lookes upon us and we looke upon him with Spirituall glances and heavenly dartings of saving knowledg and mutuall complacence crying as it were in the words of Iacob I have seene the face of God and my life is preserved at what time he set a marke on the place and named it Peniel which doth signify the face of God for a token of inward gladnesse and everlasting remembrance Gen 32. Quanta bonitas quanta dilectio quanta humilitas quanta dignatio as St Bernard O the bountyfulnesse and love of God to man who is able to conceive the length and the bredth the height and the depth of his infinit kindness when he did not only bow the Heavens and come downe but empty himselfe and goe back like the Sun in the Dial of Ahaz many degrees that he might give us a signe from the conception of a Virgin and restore us to life by the power of his Salvation There are many results of Practicall Holinesse from so great Philanthropie so great humanity which the Apostle says hath appeared to us Even Praise and honour and Thanksgiving and Obedience with love unfeigned from a pure heart and a good conscience I wish it may be an incentive to them all but cheifly unto love the bond of perfectnesse and the most imitable quality of the Divine nature That as God loved us so ye love one another that ye descend to the infirmities of your Brethren and take up their burthens that ye visite the Churches of the Saints and releive their wants the rather indeed because we are but flesh weake and fraile passible and mortall or to speake in the language of St Augustine Sperma foetidum vas stercorum esca vermium a lump of clay the spawne of Adam a seed of evill doers and vessells of corruption Yet such as God hath respect unto in the Dispensation of his Grace and the Minifestation of his Glory For it is not said every Soul or every Spirit but All Flesh shall behold the Salvation of God where the part is taken for the whole and the worse for the better to shew that God doth not forsake man in the vilest estate of a miserable condition but considers him as Flesh and visits him in his bloud that he may raise and quicken him with the Quatridian Lazarus though dead and buried in the grave of sinne and the pollution of his iniquities For He came to save that was lost as he tells you in the eightenth of St Mathew Not to cure the whole but the sick not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Publicans and Harlots Theives and Malefactors Blasphemers and Hypocrites Extortioners and Oppressours a Generation of Vipers a brood of Serpents as we gather from many places in the Gospell to seeke the lost groat to find the lost sheep to reclame the lost child to reduce the lost Son to exhilerate and delight the glorious Angels with notice of their conversion since there is joy in heaven with the Angels of God for one Sinner that repenteth And therefore it is noted of the Spouse that she was nigra ●ormosa beloved at the worst and comely when she was black by nature black by grace comely black without comely within black in her selfe comely in him that is more beautifull then all the sons of men the joy of the whole earth and the glory of heaven So that we may hope beyond hope and not be out of comfort in our deformity crying with the Poet in a Divine sense Alba ligusira cadunt vaccinia nigra leguntur As for the Text where it mentions all Flesh with a note of Universality in a larger sense it must not be understood of Numericall persons but of severall conditions by way of distribution in Genera Singulorum as the Schoolemen interpret for though God be in the mid'st of us yet doth he not sanctifie all particulars as we may see by that Devill Iudas The Sun may rise and shine gloriously though not discern'd by such as are blind and shut up in a dungeon in like manner light may come into the world and not be comprehended by the darknesse thereof or known to those whom the God of this world hath blinded Purga oculum ut videre possis lucem oculorum saith learned Augustine clense thine eyes and purifie thy heart that so thou mai'st behold the light of thine eyes and the joy of thy heart for none shall see God but the pure in heart Therefore Christ is said to redeem the Saints out of every Tribe and country and language and Nation where the particle is most emphaticall and worthy observation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not every Tribe but Out of every Tribe and Country and Language and Nation as we are taught by St