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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27517	A sermon upon the Epiphany preach't at Christ-Church in the city of Dublin, 1672 by Richard Berry ...	Berry, Richard.	1672 (1672)	Wing B2046; ESTC R14245	13,293	36

IMPRIMATUR Luculentissima haec Concio in Epiphaniam Christi per Eruditum Virum RICHARDUM BERRY March 7. P. M. Archiepiscopo Dubliniensi à Sac. Domest A SERMON UPON THE EPIPHANY Preach't at CHRIST-CHURCH IN THE CITY of DUBLIN 1672. By RICHARD BERRY M. A. DVBLIN Printed by Benjamin Tooke Printer to the KING 's most Excellent Majesty And are to be Sold by Joseph Wilde in Castle-street M. DC LXXII A SERMON Preach't at Christ-Church Dublin upon the EPIPHANY 1672. MATTH II. VER 10 11. When they saw the star they rejoyced with exceeding great joy And when they were come into the house they saw the young childe with Mary his mother and fell down and worshipped him and when they had opened their treasures they presented unto him gifts gold frankincense and myrrhe TO discover the sweet consent and harmony betwixt the Old Testament and the New in relation to the most efficacious and universal Redemption of all Mankind by the coming of Christ into the world t is enough to consider the Types and Prophesies of the one exactly fulfilled in the other The miraculous call of the Gentiles unto the profession of the Christian Faith under the dispensation of the Gospel was not only foretold by Prophesies but likewise prefigured in several Types in the Writings of the old Law Amongst the Prophesies we find one most eminent Recorded Gen. 9. 27. where righteous Noah then languishing under the burthen of an old Patriarchal age and variety of Paternal cares fill'd nevertheless with the sacred and vigorous Instincts of the Holy Ghost who at a long prospect discovered unto him the large extent of a spiritual Kingdom by the Messias in this his Prophetick Vision cryes out Blessed be the Lord God of Shem God shall enlarge Japhet and he shall dwell in the Tents of Shem. In which Prophesie we find two things remarkable to make our way more easie for this ensuing Discourse 1. Here is a tacite promise of God's erecting a Tabernacle amongst the posterity of Shem i. e. That Shem with his successive Issue should become the chosen people of God with whom he would enter into a Covenant of Grace and Mercy which promise he made good afterwards unto Shem's posterity the Children of Israel For the Israelites through God's miraculous mercy being delivered out of the Egyptian Bondage and conducted through the Wilderness into the promised Land put off the Tabernacle of the Covenant in which the glory of the Lord appeared and forth with God began to talk with them from amidst two Cherubins afterwards that portable Tabernacle was chang'd into a fixt and magnificent Temple erected by King Solomon in the holy City This was the noble and onely Prerogative of the posterity of Shem the Glory of the Children of Israel 2. We are given to Note here another Prophesie concerning Japhet That he should inhabit the Tabernacle or Tents of Shem. The meaning whereof is this That the Gentiles to be born in time of the Seed of Japhet were to be call'd into a close fellowship and communion with the Church and People of the Jewes under the new Oeconomy of the Gospel And many other Prophesies of the like nature there are up and down extant in the Books of Moses the Psalms and Prophets that bear Testimony to the matter in hand As for the Typical Representations for our further confirmation in it there are many of them also as particularly We have the Marriage of the Saints under the Old Law Moses took unto Wife an Ethiopian woman And David took unto him two Ahinoam the Jezreelite And Abigail the Carmelite which according to the judgment of the soundest Divines Typified That our blessed Saviour the Son of David according to the flesh should unite in that one body of the Church his Spouse both Jewes and Gentiles Likewise we have the Emblem of it in the Monarchical Government of King David who extended his Empire over the Idumaeans Philistines Moabites and Syrians as well as over his Native Body Politick of the Jewes We have the same no less prefigured by the Queen of Sheba's advancing out of the South to behold the Greatness of Solomon viz. That through the sound of the Gospel throughout the World the Nations which were afar off should flock in and voluntarily submit themselves to the Scepter of their heavenly Solomon By these and many more such like Prophetick Oracles and Typical Adumbrations the holy Men of old times beheld the dawning of this day which sixteen hundred years ago and upwards was the most Illustrious that ever the inferiour World was blest with by the gracious Heavens the Constellation of all whose greatest Luminaries in their full splendor at once if compar'd with it were but as the light of a Candle to the Noon-day for this day was illuminated by the Son of Righteousness incarnate and it's Illuminations augmented by the kind influences of an extraordinary Star inviting the Eastern Magi to come forthwith and pay a proportionable Homage to their new born King A Star of wonders that discovered Heaven it self amidst an earthly House an House more glorious for the Guest's sake and more clearly seen than the Twelve imaginary Houses of the Astrologers in the Celestial Spheres for so it follows And lo the Star which they saw in the East went before them till it came and stood over where the young childe was And when they saw the star they rejoyced with exceeding great joy c. This Day commonly called by the ancient Churches The day of holy Illuminations or Feast of Lights hath been held famous for three Things under that one name of Epiphanies or Three manifestations of Christ to the World after divers manners First As he was made known to the Wise men Strangers and Gentiles by a Star called properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Secondly To the Jewes when he was Consecrated in Baptism at which time the Holy Trinity appeared the Father in his voyce the Son in the flesh the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove thence called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thirdly To his own Countreymen of Galilee in that house of Nuptials where he shew'd his first Miracle of changing water into wine thence called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All Three Commemorated upon this Day The first in the Gospel The other two in the two second Lessons for the Day Upon which account it is storied of Julian the Apostate and Emperour That least he should be detected for an Idolater whereof he was asham'd he was minded to appear in publick this Day which in the month of January sayes he the Christians solemnize and call by the name of Epiphanies For the prosecution of the ensuing Discourse sutably to the Solemnity of this Festivity I shall represent unto you First Some Observations upon the Star in the Text. Secondly Some Historical Notices concerning the Magi. Thirdly Some practical Inferences and Meditations upon both in order as they come First We will take into our consideration the