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A18429	Hallelu-jah: or, King David's shrill trumpet, sounding a loude summons to the whole world, to praise God Delivered by way of commentarie and plaine exposition vpon the CXVII. Psalme. By Richard Chapman, minister of the Word of God at Hunmanbie in Yorkshire.	Chapman, Richard, d. 1634.	1635 (1635)	STC 4998; ESTC S122563	120,049	228

2. Which may have the ordinary giftes of the Spirit they may prophecy with Saul and Cajaphas preach and doe miracles with Iudas speake like the Oracle of God with Achi tophel cry Lord Lord Math. 7. 22 challenge an interest in the free demesnes of heaven Math. 25. 11. Open to us and yet are sent packing to their hell home with a nescio vos I know ye not If ye aske the reason and cause of it Our Saviour CHRIST orally and oraculously returnes it Math. 11. 25. This mystery of Salvation is hid from some and revealed to others even So Father for so it seemed good in thy sight as in a Princes Proclamation It is our pleasure All the workes of these men failing in their end not done in faith to the glory of God and if God rewarded them it was temporally for temporall respects the good of mankind civill order and society not shewing any approbation thereof in respect of himselfe their mercy justice continency c. being without faith was sinne as Augustin● saith which indeed ariseth not from the act of compassion but from the privation of faith they may have these and many more honest civill moralities but they never have the inward calling the donation of faith the true knowledge of God I know my sheepe and am knowne of mine Iohn 10. 14. which knowledge is like the Sunne casting his beames upon us by whose reflection we looke upon and viewe the Sunne Gal. 4. 9. Seeing ye know God or rather are knowne of God If they have any it is a literall no saving or spirituall knowledge no true love of God for he never knew or loved them 1 Iohn 4. 19. We love God because he loved us first If these carnall Capernaites follow CHRIST doing his will in any thing it is more for his loaves than his love Ioh. 6. 26. all proceeding from some s●nister respect their praise or profit they never have the inward beautifying of the Church To be all glorious within Psal 45. 13. the rich habiliments and garments wherewith as Isaac decked his beloved Rebecca and the King of Persia religious Mordecai CHRIST I●SVS bespangleth his spouse These be the foolish Virgins which a long time had their lives blossoming as if their soules had bin the maidenly bride of CHRIST when in the end they were unvailed and found the speckled adulteresses and uncleane concubines of Satan Math. 25. This is the man boldly intruding himselfe into the marriage supper not having on a wedding garment his faith but figge leaves notable to cover his nakednes Math. 22. These walke like friends in the Church of God together But many are called and fewe are chosen In the third ranke are they which out of the brazen mountaines of Gods election flowing out of the rivers of his endlesse mercy which are not onely within the skirts and territories of his regiment as the former but they are inwardly sanctified called and culled out of the whole heape and masse of Mankind by a lively Faith engraffed and planted into the mysticall body and have as neare an union and communion with their head CHRIST as the branch hath with the vine the members with the head or the husband with the wife Ephes 5. 30. We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones these are built upon the sure foundation the rocke of safety and horne of salvation Luke 1 69. He is the corner stone upon which their whole building is coupled Eph. 2. 20 No other foundation can any man lay than that which is already laid which is IESVS CHRIST 1 Cor. 3. 11. and These are living stones built upon him 1 Per 2. 5. Othoniel delivered the Israelites from Chushan and is therefore called their Saviour Iudg. 3. 9. but they fell againe into the hand of Moab Ehud rescued them from the Moabites and they became servants to the Canaanites Iudg. 4. 2. A Physitian may cure a man of one disease and he may after fall into another or the same and dye of it But CHRIST hath them sure Iohn 10. 28. I give my sheepe eternall life and they shall never perish hee hath washed away the●r sinnes and made a passage to heaven a perfect and sure rocke of safety upon which these are placed Antiquam generis labem mortalibus agris Abluit obstructique viam patefecit Olympi Poore mortals sicke he washed hath from auncient staine Originall And opened wide Olympus path that barred was and shut to all So that here the gates of Hell and Luciferiall powers of darknesse may shoote their darts of poysoned malice as against CHRIST the head Math. 4. so against these the members to be retorted upon themselves as from a tower of brasse for ●hee that keepeth Israel doth neither slumber nor sleepe and though the two first parts be cut off and dye the third will the Lord fine as Silver and Gold Zach. 13. 9. And from this consideration ariseth a Cordiall a Caveat and a dolefull Madrigall First it affords a comfortable cordiall to the Christian that he is one of those secret ones inwardly called separated from the world and endued with power from above This is the summum bonum and chiefe dignitie and blessednesse of all other So that it may be said of him as a certaine heathen of a wise man of a wise man He is onely lesse then God And as another spake of the vertuous He that hath vertue hath with her as a dowrie all good things As the Lord of hoastes and of the whole earth and all that therein is Psal 24. 1. accounteth it his greatest dignity and title of honour to be stiled The Lord God of Israel of his Church Luk. 1. 67. as thence receiving his greatest honour So is it the chiefest honour of a man to be an Israelite a limme and member of that Society of the Communion of Saints It is indeed the worlds felicity to build pillars with Absalom towers with Nimrod to call our lands after our owne names to engrosse rich revenewes Parsonages and patrimonies for our posterity to build our nests on high and to covet an evill covetousnes to our houses while The stones cry out of the wall and the beame out of the timber answere it Hab. 2. 9. worse than the King of Sodome Gen. 14. 21. Give me the soules and take the goods to thy selfe But we say to the spirituall king of Sodome the divell give us the goods and take our soules to thy selfe This is our hope and our posterity praise our doing selling our Saviour for thirty pence our heaven for a messe of pottage and our soules laied in the banke for a quid dabitis What will ye give me Ps 4. 6. Who will shew us any good O miserable mucke-worme that sellest thy soule and thy solace thy heaven and thy happinesse for these faile-friends which in the time of neede cannot so much as cure the aking of

the honours of Egypt could not buy of the guilt of one sinne a good heart will rather lie in the dust then rise by wickednesse in offending a mercifull God and thus it is grounded 2 Cor. 7. 1. Vpon Gods mercifull promises Having therefore these promises dearely beloved let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God The same Apostle by the same Apostolicall spirit exhorts to renovation of life by the same reason Rom. 12. 1. I beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable seruice Then beloved let the mercifull kindnesse of God which every houre thou triest upon thee and thine even in thy food raiment liberty friends breathing c. besides those inestimable treasures of his love in thy daily preservation c. draw thee to repentance in newnesse of life to stampe upon thee a new creature Turne not the grace of God into wantonnesse Iude 4. but know that the grace of God hath appeared to teach us to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to walke honestly soberly and righteously in this present world Tit. 2. 12. Wee are delivered from the feare of our enemies to make our obedience without feare Luke 1. 74. being under grace then let us give up our members weapons of righteousnesse Rom. 6. 19. Seeing all the mercies of God like so many remembrancers cry unto us for this dutie let us not despise undervaluing and vilipending the mercies of God in living after our owne hearts and following our owne crooked wayes as those Heretiques of old which sprung up from the malicious seed of the Serpent immediately after the Apostles have wickedly taught else yee heape up wrath against the day of wrath and make the holy Gospell of CHRIST IESVS no better then the Turkes licentious Alcoran which is fraught with nothing but the merchandize of the corrupted flesh large promises of Epicurisme in Paradise But Christians must not so learne CHRIST backe againe by repentance is the better way loosing the Herculian gordian knot and unweaving with Penelope the webbe of thy sins else can we not hope for peace For there is no peace to the wicked Isa 48. 22. Our iniquities have made a division betwixt God and us Isa 59. 2. which must be broken downe by repentance if thou aske being in the Gibeonitish rags of thy sinnes as Iehoram asked Iehu Is it peace is it peace 2 Kings 9. 18. Shall there be peace betwixt God and thy soule the answer retorts it selfe vpon thee What hast thou to doe with peace so long as thou wantest Grace and lyest polluted prostituting thy Soule and Body to all prophanenesse What wicked man ever had peace Let Caine Achitophell Antiochus Epiphanes Nero c. With the whole garison of Scorners be brought vpon the stage and they will answer they never had peace because they never had renovation by Repentance Come then while the Lord is neere and seeke him while he may be found Isa 55. 6. Seeing the mercifull kindnesse of God is so largely extended to all Creatures but more and most especially to Man it teacheth us to be his followers and imitators in this and as he hath propounded himselfe an exampler and patterne in other things to be followed as in his Holines Levit. 9. 2. Cap. 20. 7. Be holy for I am holy Every of his morall actions being our instructors so he would be imitated in this act of Mercy Mat. 5. 45. Doe good to them that hate you that you may bee the Children of your Father which is in heaven who causeth his Sunne to shine both vpon the bad and the good and this our duty of mercy consists in two things 1. In giving 2. In forgiving First in Giving that is compassionately and pittying administring to the necessity of our brethren taught vnto vs in the Communion of Saints As citizens of one Corporation branches of one Vine members of one body all vnder one Head the body of CHRIST Colos 2. 17. so to sympathise in affections as to have a sensible feeling of our mutuall wants like Peters new converts Acts 2. 44. which is not Anabaptisticall denying all propriety of Goods or Lands to any Man nor all to be meum tuum Common but as a Christian tendering one anothers good and a supportation of their wants as Act. 11. 28. when Agabus signified by the spirit that their should be Dearth throughout the World the Disciples every man according to his ability determined to send reliefe to the brethren which dwelt in Iudea Heb. 13. 3. Remember them which are in prison as bound with them and them that suffer adversity as your selves being in the body for if one member suffer all the members suffer with it 1. Cor. 12. 26. And a Righteous man even pittyeth inferiour creatures hee regardeth the life of his Beast Prov. 12. 10. Like Xenocrates an Heathen Philosopher whose pittyfull heart succoured in his bosome the poore Sparrow eagerly pursued of her Enemie the Hawke Be then exhorted to this duty there are great numbers of poore Lazarusses which lye at thy Gates bearing the image of CHRIST in their naked bodies give vnto them not sparingly that thou mayest reape liberally for thy harvest must answer thy Seede-time an Almoner is like an Archer which aimeth at the marke in the middest of the white the White he seeth the Marke he seeth not the marke he cannot hit which he seeth not vnlesse he hit the white which he seeth so we cannot hit God the marke which we ayme at vnlesse we hit the white which is Man 1. Iohn 4. 20. If wee love not our Brother whom wee have seene how can wee love God whom wee have not seene those that abound with Gods blessings must be like the full end of an houre-glasse-emptying themselves into the needy Gregory Nazianzen regestring the life of great Basill commends a Zenodochium or house of Harbour which he built for strangers above the Egyptian Pyramides the famous Sepulcher of Mansolus or the famous Collossus of Rhodes or any other wonder in the world so thy mercy shewed to the poore shall make thy name like an odoriserous perfume made by the art of the Apothecarie smell after thee to blesse thine increase in all things the plow-man shall touch the Mower and the treader of grapes him that soweth seede Amos 9. 13. Thy mountaines shall drop sweete wine and all thy hills shall melt cast then thy bread upon the waters Eccles 11. 1. And when thou makest a Feast call in the lame and the blind Luke 14. 13. and like Elisha powre thy oyle into emptie not full vessels 2. King 4. 4. The seede of almes growes better thrives and multiplies more aboundantly in a poore then fat Earth let the feeble hearts of the Saints b●e comforted by thee Philemon 7.

thy finger much lesse give ease to a sinne-loaden sin-sicke soule All they can doe is to attend thy loathsome corps like a ricke of hay to thy cursed buriall But the Godly with David place their felicity in the remission of sinnes Psal 32. 1. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no sinne In Gods favourable countenance Psal 4. 6. Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us and this exceedes all things else as farre as the Sunne excelleth the least light-borrowing starre as the purest gold the foulest drosse the poorest officer in this fraternity is preferred before a scepter-swaying Monarch Psal 84. 10. I had rather be a doore keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickednesse Here is keyes before crownes caitiffes before Kings Lazarus before Lords What then will it profit a man to winne the whole world and to lose his owne soule Mat. 16. 26. Remove thy selfe then from all societies and joyne thy selfe unto this as Moses left the idolatrous prophane court of Pharao and refused to be called the sonne of Pharaohs daughter and joyned himselfe to Gods people Heb. 11. 24. So doe thou shun the tents of wickednes when all the wicked societies in the world shall be deplumed and cast into hell thou shalt be received into everlasting habitations Reioyce in the Lord and againe I say reioyce Phil. 4. 4. Next is the Caveat and this like a watchman standing upon a turret of the Temple gives warning to take heed to the calling whereunto God hath called us and to walke worthy of it As it was with the Egyptians and Israel wheresoever the one was there was darknesse but the other had light So must Gods people be discerned from others by the light of theyr conversation shining as a candle upon a candlesticke in the sight of all as a citty or beacon upon a hill Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles that they seeing your good workes may glorifie God in the day of their visitation A Christian must take heede how he walkes hence the Apostles Caveat for thy feete Ephes 5. Walke circumspectly For thy tongue let no filthy communication proceed out of thy mouth it must not be like Shallecheth but the beautifull gate of the Temple Full of grace are thy lips Psal 45. For thy loynes they must not be loose and lascivious but girt For thy eyes Iob. 31. 1. I have made a covenant with mint eyes and so for the rest all must be like the strings of a Davidicall Harpe in tune All thy wayes are marked and by thy weakenesse and upon thine infirmities the prophane wretch layes the lawfulnesse of his impieties If the Abbot pipes the Monkes daunce As Popish pictures and images are lay-mens bookes so examples are the bests patternes and most followed One vivall is better than ten vocall instruments A Christian is the salt of the earth if he loose his savour wherewith must he be seasoned Take heede then of stayning thy profession whether generall or particular In thee every mote is a mountaine every cicatrice a Cocatrice and every fall is a full sea of iniquity As it is unseemely for Achilles to have the base behaviour and be a drudge to the servile offices of Thersites So is it for a Christian nobly sprung of the bloud royall of heaven to bowe himselfe to the base druggery of the most base of creatures Satan Agnosce O Christiane dignitatem tuam divine consors factus naturae noli in veterem vilitatem degeneri conversatione redire memento cujus capitis cuius corporis sis membrum reminiscere quòd erutus de potestate tenebrarū translatus es in Dei lumen regnum Acknowledge O Christian thy dignity and that thou art made partaker by the divine nature returne not into thy old vilenesse of thy degenerate conversation remember of whose head and of whose body thou art a member remember that thou art taken out of the power of darkenesse and translated into the light and kingdome of God Vse then thy graces to Gods glory If thou hast bin a dogge a Gentile returne not to thy vomit If thou hast bin at the custome house returne not with Demas but keepe thy profession unstained with Mathew How greivous is it unto almighty God to give give graces to dishonour himselfe withall As C●r●●● shreatned to the river Gindes that had drowned one of his white horses to cut it into so many chanels till it should loose both depth name and glory So will God deale with our vertues and graces plucke them from us if wee abuse them and leave us to a multitude of enormous impieties suffer the divell to re-enter us with seaven worse than himselfe fill us so full of the tares of iniquity that not the glory nay scarce the name of Christian shall be left written upon us as may be seene in Saul 1 Sam. 10. 24. See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen that there is none like unto him among the people endued with excellent gifts of governement and fought many excellent battels of the Lord but when he began to rebell and goe against the commandement of God as in the matter of Agag Chap. 15. then Chap. 16. 14. The spirit of the Lord departed from him and an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him deprived and deplumed of all those graces of excellent government The like we see in Iulian who being borne of Christian parents from the line of religious Constantine so carefully lettered and educated in Christianity and that under Christian teachers that he was forbidden to heare Libanius the Syrian because he was a Pagan Yet afterwards hearkning to the Pagans he was deprived of the profession of the Crosse and became a fearefull Apostats both an Ismael with his tongue and pen and an Esau with his sword persecuting his former profession blasphemously continuing therein to his last gaspe which was breathed out full of blasphemi● when the fatall dart had given him his deadly wound whether by the ministry of men or Angell he filled his hand with his bloud and cast it into the ayre saying thus reprochfully of CHRIST Thou hast overco●e O thou Galelian The like of Nero whose first five yeares were peaceable and gracious that we might say of him as Suetonius of T●tus He was the love and delight of mankind But after falling to st●ddy Magicke and sold himselfe to a Lern● and ●●ltitude of vices that he made his minde as filthy as his body he lost all vertue and became the vilest Monster that ever the earth bred or bore hee delighted as much in villanies and strange murthers as ever he did in his Musicke the first persecuter of the Church among the Romane Emperors in the Martyrdome of Paul and Peter a Saul-like bloud sucker in fratricide marricide and what not a monster of men notable