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A07876	The excellencie of the mysterie of Christ Iesus Declared in an exposition, or meditation vpon the 16. verse of the first epistle of Saint Paul vnto Timothie.	Moffett, Peter, d. 1617.	1590 (1590)	STC 18247; ESTC S114252	40,698	147

of the scare of God The sonne of God being thus indued with the gifts of the spirite aboue measure being sent annoynted sealed and consecrated to the office of a Sauiour the whole Godhead dwelling in him bodilie finallie he louing his Church most entirelie as the same Prophet testifieth at the last put on righteousnes as a breast-plate Esa 59.17 and an helmet of saluation vpon his head yea armed himselfe with the garments of vengeance for clothing and araied him selfe with zeale as with a cloake Whereby may further be gathered after what sort in this place and in what respect the Messias beeing God and man is said to be iustified by the spirit In summe thus much is ment that the power of his Godhead being contrarie in regarde of exceeding glorie to the weake nature of his manhood but ioyned therwithal did not only inable him fully to performe the work of our saluation but declare him to bee a perfect King Priest Prophet the fountaine of wisedome righteousnes sanctification and redemption True it is indeede 1. Co. 1.30 that although in the daies of his flesh our Sauiour lined most innocentlie wrought many miracles spake and taught as neuer any did yet the wicked who were in those daies reiected condemned him Neuerthelesse as the sacred storie declareth not onelie wisedome was iustified of her children but the same stone Luk. 20.17 which the builders refused was by the father made the head corner stone yea the sonne in three daies builded vp that tēple where of Salomons temple was but a tipe finally the innocent lise the heauenly doctrine the wonderfull signes the singular gifts of our Sauiour wherewith he was indued without measure prooued proclaimed to all the world that euen that glorious spirit rested on him 1. Pet. 3.18 19. which preached vnto the disobedient in the time of Noah and which not only reuined him Rom. 1.4 when he had been dead concerning the flesh but quickeneth all the elect to faith obedience Rom ● 11 and eternall life Albeit then the weakenes of the flesh of Christ was such that he seemed to be the most abiect of all mē yea rather a worme than a man as before we haue heard yet the glorie of his spirite was so great on the contrarie side that thereby he was declared not to be a meere man or an Angell but the sonne of God and perfected vnto all the particular workes of a sauing Prince or redeemer He tooke vnto him the seede of Abraham The story of the gos pel but in this seede were all the nations of the earth blessed Compassed he was in his mothers wombe but Iohn the Baptist at his presence sprang in Elizabeths bellie Laide hee was in a cratch but worshipped therein by the wise men of the East Hee was baptized in Iordan but he baptized with the holie Ghost and with fire Hee was hungrie but hee fed many thousands subiect to sleepe but he caused the windes and waues to couch tribute hee paid but out of a fish hee wept for Lazarus but he raised him from the dead O rare most royall O sweete bountifull Sauiour whether should I rather wonder at thy sufferings or at this thy glory Surely at the sight of thy mercie I stand astonied Iudas selleth thee for a little paltrie siluer but thou redeemest the world with thy most pretious heart bloud O when I think vpon that night wherein thou wast betrayed when I conceiue in minde thy sweates like clots of bloud rolling from thy bodie downe vnto the ground when I beholde the officers which kept thee beating thy neck and smiting thy tender face when I look on the red furrowes which Pilates cruell whip made on thy back when I feele the print made in thine hands and feete with the nayles when I see thy veynes and sinewes streyned and racked on the Crosse I plainely perceiue it was not without great cause that thou didst request thy heauenly father to let so bitter a cup passe from thee if it had been possible But when I view the burden of the sinnes of the whole World laid on thy shoulders when I mark the curse of the Lawe seasing on thine head when I perceiue the wrath of thy Father consuming all thy bones when I obserue the executioners stripping thee out of all thy garments when I note the Iewes with mocks and mowes deriding thine afflicted estate when I consider satan and the feends of hell in the malapart souldiers the crooked herauld Pilate and the vnrepentant malefactor assaulting thy faith I cannot but cry out O wonderfull redeemer what a spirit of courage and long suffering rested on thee Now last of all when I heare thee crie My God my God why haste thou forsaken mee when I peere into thine heart pearced vnto the bottome with the Speare of a prophane Souldiout when I gaze on thy breath flying out of thy bodie when I prie into the graue where thy body was layd when I thinke on thine aboade in the earth for the space of three dayes and three nights reckoned in some sorte after which manner and according to which time Ionas sometimes lodged in the belly of the Whale how doo I maruell that thy father did not rather suffer the whole world to perish than thee his natural some more precious than a thousand worlds to tast or sustaine one of the Ieast of these indignities But here by appeareth the vnspeakable mercy of God thy father as also thine own exceeding loue fauor toward mākinde yea moreouer the glory of the spirit which rested on thee that thou wouldst endure such torments for thine enemies that thou wouldst by thy Crosse crucifie the Worlde by thy death kill sinne by thy buriall put the Lawe into the graue by thine enduring of the curse bestowe a blessing by thine aboad vnder the ground take away the sting of the graue finallie by all thy sufferings satisfie for all our sinnes and conquer him who hath the power of death Heb. 2.14 to wit the Diuell Now hereby it is euident that he of whom we speake was not onely man but God not only the sonne of man but the sonne of GOD not onely a seruant but the Lorde not onely a shepheard but a Prince of peaces finallie the way the truth the life the vine the head of the church and that iust one who was iustified by the spirit For had there been in Christ Iesus any dram of sinne or corruption nay had there not been in him all fulnes of power and holines so many crimes and transgressions being laide to his charge and imputed vnto him before the tribunall seate of Almightie GOD and such principalities and powers pursuing and assaulting him neither could he haue been acquitted as an innocent person nor escape as a stronger champion than all his aduersaries But because there was no guile found in his mouth and his own right hand being able to saue him hee

which grace going before the peace of hart will vndoubtedlie follow after arising from the sight of the generalitie and largenes of Gods promises Heb. 8.10 and the experience of Gods daylie mercies Psal 77. and knowledge of the mysterie of christ Iesus here extolled Ephe. 3.18 The last point of this mysterie or proofe of the excellencie thereof is that God hath been taken vp inglorie It was more than a miracle that the worme before spoken of should returne to life and that the second Ionas lying three daies three nights not aliue but quite dead in the belly of the earth did breake the yron bands of the graue and stand vpon the grounde yea in diuers places preach this Gospell to his disciples Luk. 24.13 after that he was risen againe from the dead Act. 1.9 But what was it then that his flesh should mount vppon the clowdes as it were vppon an horse Heb. 1.3 What was his entrance into the tabernacles not made with hands Psal 97.7 what was the Angels worshipping of him the fathers enstalling him in a throne at his right hand Certainlie the glorie of the resurrection of our Sauiour seemeth not to bee glorious in regarde of that exceeding glorie into which he is exalted by his ascention farre aboue all powers and principalities and all creatures whatsoeuer Now here wee may behold the sonne of GOD leading captiuitie captiue giuing giftes vnto men teaching vs as Eagles to mount aloft sitting by the father as the next person by whom he gouerneth the Churche prouiding and dressing as it were many Tabernacles for the elect and preparing a tribunall seate to returne to iudge the earth Wherefore as his ascending into heauen was exceeding glorious so his descending thence shall yet much more abound in glorie For then hee shall appeare vnto the eyes not of a few but of all flesh Rom 1.7 not in the contemptible shape of a base seruant but in the bright and dreadfull maiestie of the King and Iudge of the whole world Act. 1.11 At that great day the day of Doome or Iudgement knowne onely to GOD but which cannot be far of from men these writs to wit the Sun darkned Luk 21.25 Mat. 24.11 the moone bloudy the starres trembling the planets falling down shall goe abroad to summon the inhabitants of the earth vnto the court where in all causes shall be ended all confusion of this world shall bee corrected Then oh where shall the amazed people and chayned prisoners either fast their footing or hide their heads Luk. 24.16 2. Pet. 3.10 when tottering Heauens and trembling earth with toring sea arresting them before the Tribunal seate of the sonne of God the clowdie roabe of the reuenging Iudge shall terrifie the eyes both of mortall wightes and diuels 1. Thes 4.16 And will not the last Trumpet blowne with the blast not of a man but of that Archangel cause the eares of the creatures to tingle and burne when it shall sound a dolefull and fearefull alarum Yet againe much more dreadfull must needes bee the smokie fire 1. Thes 1.8 which as breathed out of the nostrels of the angrie Iudge shal cause the Elements to boyle the townes and Cities of the world to bee turned into ashes the faces and skinnes of men to be changed as into tinder Then then the graues Reu. 20.13 14 the waues the pittes yea hell it selfe also as the generall iay lours of the whole World shall bring foorth their dead and buried prisoners to receiue their finall doome at this solemne sessions Thus all sortes of people arrained at the barre and gathered by the Angels as by sericants or officers shall by them with their hands Mat. 13.49 and billes or swordes as it were be held and hemmed in on euery side Here now the scrowles of mens consciences as euidences Reu. 20. ●● must needes bee vnfoulded the books spoken off in the Reuelation shall also be vnclasped and openlie read After that all mortall wights haue thus been gathered together then shall a separation bee made of them by the Iudge Mat. 10.32 by whom they shall bee deuided into two sorts Elect and reprobate and placed at his two sides the right hand the left After these things Christ first shall pronounce sentence on the chosen saying to them Mat. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my father possesse as heires the kingdome prepared for you before the foundations of the world were layd Then placing the Elect on thrones 1. Cor. 6 2. as benchers together with him to iudge the World he shall pronounce the sentence of condemnation on the reprobate saying to them Departe from mee yee cursed into euerlasting fire Mat. 25.41 which is prepared for the diuell and his Angels Thus shal al men for euer enioy their due reward the second life or the second death And Omortall men what do ye then meane so to loue the world as if it neuer should haue an end O vngodly wretches and enemies to all piety in these daies as prophane as Esan yea more prophane vngodly than hee or Herod euer was will ye needs fulfill the iniquitie of your fathers graund-fathers great graund-fathers Well then proceed to worship stockes and stones to heare Masses and to creepe to Crosses cease not to sweare dayly hourely continually falsly vainely proudly blasphemously as yee doo without controlement braue it sport it feast it loyter it or if yee will do something labour drudge run and ride on the Lords sabaoth as your manner is disdaine despise curse murmur and rebell against your magistrates teachers parents masters superiours imb●ue your hearts hands tongues and weapons in innocent bloud sparing neither bodies good names nor soules of old fathers men women little children bath your selues in daintines wantonnes idlenes drunkennes hunting hanking carding dicing and all kindes of pastime vnderpin your houses with the bones of your poore tenaunts neighbours brethren kinsfolke lay the foundations of them on their carcases hang thē about with thēir skinnes yea and with the skinnes of their wiues and children a goodly kinde of tapisterie plaister them with their entralles paint them with their bloud wash them euery day with their teares To conclude O crooked and peruerse generation trample vnder your feete the precious bloud of GOD manifested in the flesh iustified in the spirit seene of Angels preached vnto the Nations beleeued in the world receiued vp in glorie but knowe that for all these things hee shall come vnto iudgement Neuerthelesse as concerning those vnto whom the mysterie of godlines seemeth without doubte very great vnto whom Christ Iesus is the only treasure in the world who indeauour with vprightnes to obey his lawes and word there is no cause why they should quake to thinke on his returne to iudgement but rather great reason why they should pray come Lord Iesus Reu. 22.20 come quickly For seeing he hath shed his