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A10583	The solace of Sion, and ioy of Ierusalem. Or consolation of Gods church in the latter age redeemed by the preaching of the Gospell vniuersallye. Beeing a godly and learned exposition of the Lxxxvij. Psalme of the princelye prophet Dauid: written in Latine by the reuerend Doctor Vrbanus Regius, pastor of Christes Church at Zelle, in Saxonie. 1536. Translated into english by R. Robinson citizen of London 1587.; Psalmus octuagesimus septimus, de gloriosa Christi ecclesia	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1587 (1587)	STC 20852; ESTC S119789	35,218	86

in this place called the Citty of God But some would say is not God euery where yea euen among the Turks why thē is the Church onely that is the congregation of Christians called the Cittie of GOD For Esay the Prophet saieth Cap. 66. Heauen is my seat and the earth is my footstool I answere God is euery wheare by power and essence but not euery whear by grace but in Christians onely whoe beléeue in Christ the Mediator Thereis God saide to dwell in his Church because the Church is that peculier people of God sanctified in the blood of Christ consecrated to God in Baptisme by the holy Ghost that it may be a liuely Temple and Tabernacle of God wherin hée dwelleth whereinto he powreth out his holy spirit with his guitts on which he bestoweth through Christ incorruptibility and eternitie For as touching Christians God specially faith in 26. Leuit. I will set my Tabernacle in the middest of you and my soule shall not loath you I will walk amōgst you and I wil be your God and you shal be my people vers 11 which place y e holy Apostle S. Paul 2 cor 6. referreth vnto all Christiās which are the people of God the true Church of Christ ver 19 And y e holy Euangelist S. Iohn in reuel cap 11. writeth Behold the tabernacle of god is with mē he wilbe with thē they shall be his people and God himselfe shal be their god with thē And the Prophet Ezechiel saith cap. 37. My tabernacle shall be in thē and I will be their God they shal be my people vers 27. After this maner doe the Prophets cal Christians the Citty of God As it is in the 46. Psalme The riches of the flood shal make glad the city of god the most highest hath sanctified his Tabernacle God is in the midst of her ther fore she shal not be remooued God will giue help vnto her and that right early And herevpon Aurelius Augustinus that reuerend and most exercised deuine in Scriptures when as he did confute y e Romanes blasphemies by reason of the irruptions of y e Goathes slaundering the way of trueth calleth the Church that is the cōgregation of Christiās because she is predestinate to raign w t God for euer the city of God as in his first booke vnto Marcellinus appeareth for he was persuaded by the sacred Scriptures y t there wer two cities One the church of God which here amongst the vngodly in this world liuing by faith in Christ hath her perigrination or soiourning frō time to time place to place the other is of this world or pertaineth to the Deuil which hath y ● vngodlie ones not beleeuing in y e gospel of christ vessels of wrath prepared for euerlasting destruction w t the deuill his angels He deriueth y ● City of God as beginning at Abell who was a Soiourner in this worlde by grace predestinate vnto life by grace a Straunger on 〈…〉 The other he bringeth from Cain the murtherer which was first borne a Cittizen of this world of whome it is read that he builded a Cittie But of Abell a Pilgrim in this world we read not that he builded any Cittie This Cittie then of the holie ones is from aboue although it bringeth foorth Cittizens heare in this worlde in whom it liueth Stranger-like vntill the time of her Kingdome come when as she shall gather together all her Cittizens rising againe to life euen in their bodies when the Kingdome promised shall be geuen them where with their Prince the King of all holie ones they shall raigne worlde without end as the saide Augustine diligentlie handleth in Lib 15. Cap. 2. De Ciuitate Dei The Psalmograph therefore here saieth Very excellent things are spoken of thee thou Cittie of God Nowe except wee sleepe all too sluggishly and neglect our benefites to come it shall wel please vs to search out and discerne what glorious thinges these may bee which are spoken off touching or in the Church of 〈…〉 spoken of v● which ●e leeue in Christ and confesse Christ First and for most who hath at any time explaned this praise-worthy Title euen by dignity That Christians are called the Cittye of God For in this one Tytle all good thinges are vnderstoode namely y ● she inioyeth very good Lawes a most wise Magistrate faithfull mosts learned Teachers inuintible Warriors a quiet and most obedient People true Peace and Safetie true Holinesse Righteousnes true Joy sure or certain knowledge of speciall things and brieflye true life and Saluation for so is this Citie called because God dwelleth in her as in his owne house his beloued and holye Tabernacle And where God after this manner dwelleth by grace I praye ys what good things may be wanting doth not such a one dwell safelie And the Cittie so safe insulteth with S. Paule against her enemies on this manner If God be on our side who can be against vs. Rom 8. Wherfore if God be King and Lord in her there must ueedes be in her absolute felicitie by al meanes that is to say Righteousnesse and euerlasting saluatiō Christ the king of glorie with al his good graces dwel in the Church by good right then doth Paul first a persecutor and afterwardes a builder and defender of the Church call her glorious as in Ephes 5. And what are these Glorious thinges which are spoken of in or touching this Church The Church is called The holy and beloued spouse of Christ Ephes 5. whom as Oseas saith Christ the king of glory hath maried vnto himselfe for euer in righteousnes in iudgemēt and in mercy and cōpassiō faith that she may know how he is the Lord. cap 2. vers 19 20. The Church is thus diuersly also called The City of the liuing God Heb 13. Esa 60. The city of the great king a beautifull place and the ioy of all the whole earth Psal 47 vers 2. The people that dwell therin shall haue their iniquity forgeuen Esay 33. vers 24. The body of Christ 1 cor 12. Ephes cap 1. The piller and groūd of truth 1 Tim. 3. Mount Sion the heauenlye Ierusalem Heb. 12. vers 22. The hill of the Lord the holy hill Esay ● 63. The Temple of God 1 Cor. 3. vers 17. The Horne of saluation exalted in the house of Dauid the seruāt of God Luk. 1 The house of God Heb 3. 1 Tim. 3. The house of Iacob the seat of Dauid Esay 9. Luk. 1. A City sought out and not forsaken Esay 62. vers 12. Of this Ierusalem it is said Psal 147 Thy God hath made the Barres of thy Gates strong he hath blessed thy Children in thee He setteth peace in thy borders and satisfieth thee with the flower of wheat verses 13. and 14. The Queene on the right hand of God in a vesture of golde of Ophyr wrought with needle worke Psal 45. The King shall

the dwelling place of them which reioice but a lothsome prison of sorrowfull and afflicted persons Therefore the blessings of that spirituall habitation do excéede all vnderstandings and are not perceiued with fleshly eyes And the vngodly ones in this worlde ac● not worthy to sée no not euen the least citizē of this holy City ado●●●●●●●●●●●● her true blessinges which wée haue in Christ The Worlde séeth the outwarde man which is corrupted but hée séeth not the heauenly Ierusalem with her citizens borne a newe of the Spirite The rich glutton in Luke 16. seeth Lazarus a begger full of sores and famished with hunger at his gate but I pray you what carnall eye sight yea what humane reason woulde knowe so wretched and abiect a person in outward shewe to be the beloued childe of God to raigne w t Christ and whom the verye Angelicall Spirits did attende vppon with such figures of calamity lye Christians couered in this worlde The Apostles those most excellent and noble Princes in Christes kingdome how afflicted were they in the kingdome of this worlde They séemed outwardly the vylest persons of all men they were buffited w t blowes they wandered vncertaine coasts they were railed on became as the most lothsome things of the worlde Where I pray you were then the eyes which could perceiue such so great compéeres of the heauenly kingdome finally how vnknown was Christ 〈…〉 vnto the children of this world in y ● Synagogue of his people For as it is saide by Peter if carnall eyes could haue seene and known the Lord of glorie the Iewes would not haue crucified him And in the 32. Psal he telleth vs what maner of person he was reputed in the worlde I am a worme saith hee and no man a reproch of men and the outcast of the people all they which see mee haue laughed mee to scorne vers 6. This one thing therfore let vs be care full of That we may still continue in the Citie of God euen by faith in Christ let vs redily embrace affliction as the companion of the Gospel and for the name of Christ as the heauenly watchword and badge of his kingdome let vs not estéeme or passe any thing what blinde iudgements of this worlde are giuen vpon vs but let the determination of y e holy Ghost touching vs in this Psalme be onely set before our eyes videliz The Lorde loueth the gates of SION what shal the most pestilent enuie of the enimies then hurt vs which cryeth that wee are gone backe from God and from his Church The Lorde himselfe 〈…〉 wherein wee are although then in the sight of the Children of this worlde shee séeme outwardly vile and a dongeon yet is she an excellent and impregnable city The Aduersaries reproch vs w t errors but heare they that acknowledge Christ doe wel vnderstand that all fountaines of Gods graces do flow in this City of God Therefore euen then also doth the sounde doctrine of Christ a right and true faith yea good workes indeede and studie after godlines here hence flowe forth likewise yet doubtles faith is far more lukewarm in vs thē is expedient But we must pray vnto the Lord that instantly that what he hath mercifully begun in vs he would make perfit the same That we séeme not to haue receiued in vain so great grace of God in our Sion and that the most glorious name of Christ be not for our sakes blasphemed According to Peters admonition therfore Let vs abstaine from fleshly lusts which striue against the Soule and as straungers and Pilgrims in this world whose glory passeth away let vs séeke w t earnest desire after a future and permanent City Wherein as S. Iohn saith There shalbe no more death nor mourning nor crying nor sorow but God shal wipe away in her all teares from the eyes of his true beleeuers Apoc. 21. vers 4. Let the Children of this worlde take their delightes in earthly Cities and fill their mindes with pleasures which shall soone haue an ende for they shalbe consumed from of y ● earth which now they vniustly occupie and enioy Let vs whom God hath called to the rich glory of heauenly inheritance seeke for things which are aboue Where Christ our king and high Prieste sitteth at the right hande of God Which the same King of glory vouchsafe to accomplish performe For into this City concerning which so glorious things are spoken except we beere in this life do enter by Faith we shal not possesse the same in Deede when this world shall haue an end which without doubt shall not long endure FINIS Vrbanus Regius Psal 135. Praised be the Lorde out of SION which dwelleth in Ierusalem Praise ye the Lord. vers 6. R. R. ●●es 2. ●a 2. heb 9 ●ay 49. ●●at 3. ●eb 13. ●●● mundi 〈◊〉 Anno Mūdi 2000. Anno mundi ●●oo Regni Asa 10 anno Christi 1. Anno mu● di 3970. Anno Christi 1004 Mundi 5004. ●om 16. ●●●el 5. Tom● 2. op● rum suorū interpretant● Psalmo● ● certain sect which beleeued that Christ should raign 2●000 yeares onely Chiliastae in ●gipto exorti anno mundi 261. Anabaptist● in Germania anno Christi ●534 The shadow● of the Lawe without saith cannot be vnderstood● ●at 21. Mark 11. ●●ke 19. ●ohn 12. ●say 2. Micheas 4 Ephes 2. The foundation of the Holy Cittie By Christ we are nombre● amōst the Citizens of th● heauenly Ierusalem Augustin ' i● psal 91. Dauid 2 Gallat 20. verse What mane● Citizens they of the heauenly leruselē be In worldlye or humane thing nothing perpetually firme The holy Citty hath all things perpetual firm and ●ure in the Hilles Abdias Cap. 1 Carass Hilles of holines Christ is the foundation of the church Ephes 2 verse 20. 21. 22. Why the Citty is called holy 1 Cor. 6. vers 11. We are beloued of God for Christs sake ●erusalē was ●rdained for ●euine seruice God though he be euerie wher by power eslence yet he is by grace present with the 〈…〉 〈…〉 Christians are called the City of God Her Excellēt Members The glorious Titles of the holy Church The fauor of God towards his Church The Messias promised ●●● of SION ●ar Selah Ama. Salal The Riches of the church In what pointes the Church of Christ is glorious The Church of God is railed on by the vngodly ones Christians bearing the blame of all euill happes Christianos ad Leonem Not● Cay Mitsarri Raab Phelesser The Gospell pertaineth vn to al nations The notable negligence of the Popish Prelates for spirituall matters in this Authors time Without the Church of Christe is no saluation The Sonnes of Adam We are regenerate by th● Gospell and Sataments The kingdome of Christ is spirituall God is the master builder of the Church The Church of God is beutified by Christ The beginning of our iustification is of God and not of our selues Freewill i● nothing in the c●s● of Iustification 1. Cor. 1. vers Iohn 6. New and old Pelagians confounded The opinion of ●choole Doctors in meriting 〈…〉 Their opinion of meriting ex Condigno So is that booke of the master of the Sentences called What it is to builde the Church of God vppon ●u nane er●●●● Psal 115. vers 1. The Church of Christ is eternall Actes ● Through faith in Christ we are enrolled in the Booke of life Whom God is said to knowe The profi●● we haue of our Baptis● Tit. vers 4. 6. 7. Pet 3. ●ers 21. 22. How other ioyes do begin in the Spirit The spirite o● God imparteth his gifts most ●ichlie vnto his Church Psal 76. ver 1. Psal 68. 〈◊〉 10. ver 25 True ioy is in the Church alone The righteousnesse of Christ pertaineth not onl● vnto the Iew but also to the Gentile Psal 2. Psal 17. he Church neither at Seuen-hilled 〈…〉 nor yet a 〈…〉 Mo●●rchy Titus cap. 2. Ioh. 16. ver 33 Christians lie couered with figures of calamitie Psal 22. ver ● 1. Pet. 2. ver 11. The Authors comfortable Conclusion to the elect of God Ephe● ver 1● Colos 3. ver 1●

be cast downe at any time but it shal stand firme and mightie through Christ Who is a fierie Wall in the compasse of his new Ierusalem And he that toucheth her toucheth the apple of Christs eye as Zachary saith Cap. 2. vers 5. Hereupon learne we that the building of that Citie is not begotten continued confirmed with any strength of men but with the alone power of God For he hath laid y ● first stone not only frameth in order all the building thereof but also kéepeth preserueth the same Altogether it depēdeth of y ● same God not of vs least any man should boast therof For whiles the vngodly is conuerted vnto Christ hée is builded vpon Christ he is made a liuely stone of that spiritual building but hée is cōuerted by the alone power of Christ whiles Christ sendeth his Gospel giueth harty sorow or repentance faith his holy spirit As without the Spirit of Christ we can do nothing Ioh. 15. And the Apostle Paul openly confesseth in 2. Tim. 2. That the beginning of repentance is not in our power but is giuen from aboue If at any time saith he God giue thē repentance to know the truth recouer themselues from out of the snare of the deuil wherin they are holdē of him at his pleasure ver 26. If God then lay y ● foundation of this cito y ● is if he make thē of y ● childrē of wrath y ● childrē of grace not they thēselues If God draw sinners vnto him fréely iustifie them for Christs ●ake y ● they may be conuerted from their vngodlines beleeue in beleuing may be made fit stones to y ● building of this spiritual Sion If he I say ●ay y ● stones himselfe polish them build stabli●h the whole City also I pray you what glory hath free wil ●● y ● case of Iustification Hath not he which buildeth confirmeth this City all y ● glory whiles y ● holy Ghost beginneth in vs Iustification conserueth the same to the end y ● he which glorifieth should not glory in y ● Law nor in Works nor in Strength but in y ● Lord Whē as No man can come vnto Christ the corner Stone of that building except the heauēly Father do draw him Ioh. 6. And no man can come vnto the Father but by this corner Stone Iesus Christ Ioh. 14 Here are the new old Pelagians confounded and vtterly fal downe which go about to build ground this city by their own works merits passions which blasphemously affirme that Grace is giuen according to our merits most arrogantly cast away the grace of Christ If a man shal aske of these howe they are cōuerted They answere they do y ● which is in their power to do endeuor toward wel doing w t natural strēgth or ability of vnderstanding wil so they merit Primā gratiam de congruo And whē fréewil is helped of grace by deede brought forth from freewill and grace they affirme that they deserue euerlasting life de condigno Nowe some men are ashamed of such blasphemous doctrine and deny that they euer taught so to the end they might deceiue simple soules But I appeale vnto the bookes of the Aduersaries I imagine no vntruth Let the schoole Doctors be perused ouer in dist 25 26. 27. 28. of the second touching thcological Sentences you shall there see that same where vpon S. Paul speaketh in the 2. Coloss verse 8. saying They haue spoyled vs through Philosophy vaine deceiuing But truely so to extol the nature of man not yet borne a new through the spirite of Christ what other thing else is this then to desire to builde and grounde the Church by their own powers strengths without Christ the foundation For to builde and ground the Citie of God is no other thing but of vngodly ones to make godly ones to translate sinners from out of the kingdome of sin and death into the kingdome of righteousnes and saluation to pardon sins to implant mēbers of the Church iustified to build vpon the Rocke Christ in the faith of Christ hope of the gospel so to preserue them y t they may not fal away but cōtinue stil in the faith And this work as Augustin strongly proueth in his book de Bono perseuerantiae is the gift of God alone Therefore y ● alone most high buildeth bewtifieth stablisheth preserueth this city as al scriptures do beare witnes Not vnto vs Lord not vnto vs in y e beginning continuance conseruation of iustification but vnto thy name giue the glory We will gladly confesse then that all foundations of saluation which hetherto euil bewitched persons haue deuised by mans wisedome to the end that we should be iustified and saued by them are not onely ruynous but also the verie deuowring gulfe of hell whereinto are ouer whelmed so manie as embrase not Christ the head and foundation so many as by the workes and traditions of men goe about to builde and establish this Citie For they are most pestilent builders such as in times past the Phariseys and Scribes were who when they ought to haue bene builders most vnfaithfully reitcted the corner stone without the which the spiritual building cannot stand at all Learne moreouer that the Church shal stil continue alwayes though infinite offences dayly escape in her which threaten destruction downefal to the city of God For we which are citizens of so excellent a City do euen yet make warre as it semeth in a doubtful battel and more inffrmity ●●ē strength is seene in vs. And that bewtiful City is obscured with innumerable kinds of Crosse infirmity in this world Sathan assaults the same by a thousand sleights The members Apostles of Satan disturb the same with errors Tyrants with open hostility inuade spoils the same But this is our consolation what manner of forme soeuer this Citie beareth in this world god who hath founded stablished the same is of more might then al the enimies which assault it Wherefore she shall still continue invincible and at length most gloriously in the power of her chiefe founder King Christ she shall triumph ouer al her enimies the world the deuill death which thing Dauid saw in y ● spirit singeth in y ● 62. Psal He euē god is my strength my saluation c. vers 7. And he exhorteth the Church y ● she would always w t confidēce flee for refuge vnto her founder saying Put your trust in him alwayes c. ver 8. Vers 6. The Lorde shall rehearse it when hee writeth vp the people that hee was borne there Sela. NOw sée in what estimation Christians are had whether Iewes or Gentiles when they are borne a new in SION God himself hath registred them in the book of life and doth

reckon them vp name by name as his peculiar people as his inheritance purchased with the precious blood of Christ The Lord saith he in writing the people born a new in Sion shal reckon them vp among the Catalogue of his saints or Children Out of this book of life shal he number or name them saying There was he borne namely in Sion This is the Citizen prescribed predestinate vnto y e number of y e heauēly citizens him do I know acknowledge as a Citizen of my Citie Luther translateth it thus Der herr writ predigen laslen in allerley sprachen das cleretlich auch claselb gebcren werden which may thus be englished The Lord wil let preach in all manner of spéeches that some shalbe borne there That was begunne by the Apostles in the day of Pentecost when being inspirtd by the power of the holy Ghost from aboue they published forth y e great works of God in diuers languages the same thing comes to passe at this day and shal be accomplished in the world euen to the fulnesse of the Messias his kingdome O holy and most louely Register For they that shalbe on this manner enrolled by God in the Catalogue of his Sainctes who are partakers of the Sacrament of regeneration in SION and are made alredie Citizens ought not to doubt of Gods grace towards them and of their saluation For the giftes and callings of God are such and in such manner That he can neuer repent him of them Rom. 11 If thou beleeuest in Christ thou findest thy selfe in the booke of life Thou art a Citizen of y e heauēly IERVSALEM thou art borne of God Concerning such Christ saith Luke 10. Reioyce that your names are written in the heauens Them doth hee acknowledge and reckon as his household For although there is nothing vnknowne to God but al things are euident before the eyes of God yet he is said in the scriptures to know those persons whom be loueth as his Sonnes which do the wil of their Father and shal dwel in the house of their father for euer 1. Ioh. 2. So. S. Paul 2. Tim 2. saith The foundation of God remaineth sure and hath this Seale the Lord knoweth who are his And in Iohn 10. Christ calleth his sheepe by their names and bringeth them foorth vnto the Pastures of life But as touching the vngodly he saith I neuer knewe you Math 7. And in the end of this verse the worde Sela is added To the intent that not so much the word it selfe as the cogitations and meditation of so blessed a writing mysterie of our Regeneration might bee vnderstood Least so great matters should be negligently as it were ouerlooked For if we bée wise wee will alwayes consider most earnestly the grace or benefite of our Baptisme That we are baptized vnto the redéeming death of Christ Iesus whereas all our sins and euen death the reward of sins are vtterly swallowed vp We ought neuer to forget that in SION wée are well borne who were first euill borne in the Babilon of this worlde Namely the children of wrath enimies of God accursed and the bondslaues of sathan And will you heare that excellent Citizen of this blessed SION Paul how much he esteemeth this his allotted happinesse howe worthily hee estéemeth the most ample gift of our regeneratiō● 3. Tit. But saith he when the bountifulnes and loue of God our Sauiour towards man appeared not by the works of righteousnes which we had done but according to his mercy he saued vs by the washing of the new birth the renewing of the holy Ghost Which he shedde on vs aboundantly through Iesus Christ our sauiour That wee being iustified by his grace should be made heires according to the hope of eternal life This is a true saying And S. Peter 1. Pet. 3 saith To the which also the figure that now saueth vs euen Baptisme agreeth not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but in that a good conscience maketh request to God by the resurrection of Iesus Christ Which is at the right hand of God gone into heauen and swallowing vp death that we might be made heires of eternal life Therefore our dulnesse is to be abborred who for so great a grace of the fountaine of regeneration wherein wee haue put vppon vs Christ God hauing nowe elected vs for his children borne a new vnto the life celestiall in the number of his Citizens do not continually render him thanks And finally who doe not endeuour our selues that being clensed by the bloode of Christ from our sinnes we might liue soberlie iustly and godly in this present world Glory be to God our most merciful father for the exceeding riches of his longanimity whereby he inuiteth vs vnto repentāce and a life worthy of baptisme continually beareth with sinners The same God perform in vs so as with worthy thanksgiuing wee may alwayes remember That we are born there in Sion That is in the Catholike Church by the spirite that there by faith we may fully continue in the same City wherein both Prophets al righteous soules euē before the incarnation of the Sonne of God are regenerate or borne a newe by the Circumsition of the heart which Consisteth in the Spirit and not in the letter whose praise is not of men but of God Rom. 2. vers 29. Verse 7 The Singers also Trompeters shal he rehearse All my fresh springs shall bee in thee HEre again the Translations varrie The Hebrew text hath Kehillim which some doe translate as it were for shalmes others like as they which dance for ioy H●lal in dad signifieth to leade the Dance to reioyce And where the Hebrewe hath Migniny my fountaines or welsprings y ● Greeke word signifieth an habitation although this varietie doeth nothing impugne the Catholike veri●y for both of them are taught as true Yet it is very good to descerne the meaning of the Prophet in the sacred phrase for where as the Greeke translation which is read in the Church at this day is not the pure or sincere translation of the 70. Interpreters but is varying and corrupt we do well by y ● counsell of S. Ierome if in the reading of the Law and the Prophets wee shall returne vnto the Original That is vnto the Hebrew language The meaning then of the Prophet Dauid in this verse according to the Hebrew phrase is And the singers are there vnderstande in that SION whereas people of all Nations are borne a new and not the Iewes only But what sing they Undoubtedly these glorious most magnificent workes of God which he as the most high founder and preseruer of the Church worketh in the Church to the saluation of the Church And seeing that those thinges which God promiseth and performeth in Christ to and for his church are such and in such manner that they exceede al humane perseuerance and vnderstanding of