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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

Harpe drew f Syntax artis mirab li 11. c. 18 pag. 206. Trees and Arious the g Plin. li. 9. c. 8. Dolphine Yea as the sent and odour and beautie of the specious h Aelian libr. 8. cap. 40. Panther drawes the admiring beasts to admiration imitation the majestie of vertue being such that even the vitious that cannot attaine her yet admire her * Si videretur mirabiles amorea excitaret sui Cicero Plato as the Greekes did Hellen and gaze on those vertuous ones her favorites which are in eminent places as the Owles and Beetles upon the Sunne There needs no other Cummin-seed to bring the Lords Doves to the Coates windowes of Gods house yea to build in the sanctuarie then Gods voyce uttered by a sanctified organ Yea whereas a wicked life as the smoake and Rats and Mice and stinke drives Bees from their hives drives men from our assemblies and makes them withdrawe to their owne i Heb. 10.39 perdition On the contrarie there should neede no other law nor compulsion nor Ecclesiasticall discipline to bring to the meanes whether Popish or Prodestant Athisticall or Papisticall refusants or recusants if there were in all our ministerie which hinc illae lachrymae in manie places there is not mortification and sanctification Oh if such a one as Iohn the Baptist which was a burning light preach even in the desert in the obscurest corner of a countrie hee shall not want hearers even the proud Scribes the Iustitiarie Pharisees the sinfull Publicanes k Luk. 3.7.8.9 Math. 3.5 the verie souldiers thogh verie seldome too zealous flocke to him as the Ants to the Barne and the Bees to flowers And sure at last to conclude he that in the eminencie of his place can with Davids heart and spirit exhort others to blesse the Lord and himselfe begin this spirituall song shall have the hearts of a religious people to answere againe as an eccho as the Congregation here did David They blessed the Lord. CHAP. V. David prayseth God as a Prince Politically and enioyneb others LAstly as the discharge of my last Bill David as we have heard doth not onely praise God Personally Publikely Primarily Perswasorily but to expresse my selfe in the most significant phrases I can excogitate Politically or Princely For as he was Gods Lievtenant and Vice-gerent here on earth as hee had received his Crowne his Scepter his Diademe from * As he acknowledgeth psal 21 l cum multis alijs God So hee knowes it doth belong to his Regall office and function to establish ratifie confirme and propagate what did belong to the service and worship of God He knew what we know and acknowledge as Christians and as true Protestants professe and protest with all the reformed See the Harmony of Confessions in 8 to Churches in France Bohemia Germanie Saxonie Scotland Geneva and the whole Christian world that the Kings Majestie is within his Realmes and Dominions in all causes aswell Ecclesiasticall as Civill and over all persons aswell Ecclesiastickes as Laickes next immediately under Christ Iesus supreame head and governour There was no contradiction of this point in Davids time except m 2. Sam. 20.21 2. King 12.16 Sheba n 2 Sam. 15.13 Absolon and some such like traytors as would have made David officiperda devoyde of all rule and regencie eyther in things spirituall or temporall Nor is there any question made of it in our time except by o De visibili Monarchia Sanders p In his principles in promptuatio Catholico passim Stapleton q In his Libels letters to diverse discontented spirits Cardinall Allen libelling r In his Dolmā Parsons the late Eudemon or Cacodemon Becan and other moderne ſ Chiefly the opposers of the oath of allegeance Iesuites and Fryers who more then in the former Schoole-mens times beate their braines in hatching this addle-egge which produced hath proved the most dangerous cokcatrice or killing t De mortifero aspectu Basilisci Isid li. 12. cap. 3. Aelian li. 2. c. 5. Basilisk to the depriving of Kings of their Crownes and lives namely that the power and authoritie of Christian Princes is subordinate to the Pope in spirituall things absolutely as to Christs Vicar his Legatus à latere his Substitute on earth the head yea the Husband and Brid-grome of the * See all their blasphemous titles they give their Pope with their several authors quoted by Pelargus in his Iesuitismus tit de Pon. Our D. Sutcliffe de Pon. Rom. M. Powel de antich Church and in temporall things too in ordine quoad u Dist Bell. de Pontif. Rom. Deum as they have relation towards God as their great Goliah distinguisheth And that Kings Emperours and Monarches are to receive their Crownes and Diadems from the Pope as the Moone her light from the Sunne as Innocent the third verie innocently or rather nocently collecteth from a corrupted * Gen. 1.16 cō●●r●●g the Pope to the Sun the Emperor to the Moone Text which as his Fryers doe with other Texts he wrings as a man doth bloud from his nose or rather playes with as a Childe with a Rattle as though they made Gods sacred Bible but a bable So that the managing of these Crownes the use and exercise of these swords is limited to the Church and by the Church as the Sea that 's kept within her bounds disposed to the sonnes of their Antichristian Synagogue which falsely they call their Church as the Harlot in Salomons time pleades for the x 1. King 3.21.22 Childe that 's none of hers who must have their direction in the improvement of their authorities yea and their corrections too as had the French y See Sledan in his chronicles as also Charions Chronicle finished by Melancthon Henries the Germaine a His neck was trod upon in S. Marks Church in Venice by Alexander the sixt Fredericke our English King b He resigned his Crowne to Randolph the Popes Legate Anno Dom. 12 13 See Stowes and Speeds Chronicle Iohn with hundreds moe from his Holinesse their spirituall father With whose eyes they must see with whose hands they must act from whose mouth as their oracle they must speake by whom if they bee not as schoole-boyes prompted yea as Hoppes and Vines in their whole regencies propped and supported their Crownes yea their heads as the Turke with his Bashawes must be lopped shorter by the neckes and they wasted and transported by Charons ferrie-boate to Hell or Purgatorie or some such odde place God knowes whether to answere their disobedience before Aeacus Minos Radamanthus or some such odde fellowes Thus these Papall Princely cyphers being meerely some thing or nothing as they are joyned or disioyned to or fro their Deified Pope the true figure and forme of Antichrist as he is * By D. Downā B. of London-Detry M. Powel the Germaine Sonnius

them and was present with them in all their affaires in warre and in peace as hee was present with o Ioshuah 1.5 Ioshuah p Iudg 6.12 Gideon q Gen 39.2.21 Ioseph r 1. Sam. 18.12 David ſ Dan. 4.5 chap. 5.12.14 Daniell and other his servāts ever also according to his threat cursing those that cursed Abraham and were malignant enemies and opposites to the true t Gene. 12. v. 3. Church his Israell veryfying and sealing all the curses in his flying booke of vengeance upon u Reade the curses threatned against Egypt Moab Ammon Edom Tyre Sidon Medea Arabia and all wicked Provinces and people in Ieremie th 25 vers 15.16.17.18.19 Moab Ammon Amalech Ieconiah Ahab Iezabell Haman Nero Caligula Iulian Antiochus Maximinus w Reade the Theater of Gods judgements in quarto written by D. Beard on which in the Titles of Apostates and bloudie persecuters these named with many moe are spectacles of vengeance Maxentius and of latter times on Iohannes de Roma Minerius Gerson Cassaneus Weston Bonner Story Gardiner and other bloudy butchering x See Master Foxe in his Booke of Martyres but especially in a booke epitomizing the Actes of the Church where you may see the ends of these named with many moe folio 377. 378. 379. 380. 382. 383. c. See also Andrew Husdore in his Theater of examples on the 3. and 4. Commandement in Latin in quarto persecutors ancient and moderne then sure as the argument holdes much more from the lesser to the greater affirmatively both Logically and Theologically the Lord will blesse those that blesse him as he will curse those that curse him If he will blesse those that blesse Abraham much more will he blesse those that blesse the God of Abraham since indeede none can blesse God cordially and sincerely but such as the Lord first inspires with his grace and spirit even as the instrument makes no sound till it first be tuned and touched with the hand of the Musitian as the Organ-pipe is not musicall but dead till it be filled with the windy bellowes from the Organist for none can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God So that the blessing of the God of spirits with upright hearts and spirits as David and his Israelitish Elders did here being but as a sparke of the spirits fire as streames from that fountaine as reflecting beames from that Sunne it is an evident demonstration that such are truly actually really blessed already and as a preparative beaver to a greater Banquet at the supper of the y Revel 19.7 Lambe potentially to be further blessed of God in the highest heavens the throne of God the bosome of Abraham the prepared mansions and seates of the blessed All which affirmatives me thinkes have their corroboration from this Theologicall axiome that as the seale leaves the impression in the waxe be it gold or silver c. as the Sunne by reflection leaves his shaddow on the opposite cloude so what mercie soever the Lord bestowes on us as a dignitie hee workes in us the same grace demonstrating it selfe in some proportionable dutie as for instance 1. Hath the Lord elected me to life from eternitie He gives me grace to elect chuse him again to be my God 2. Hath he called me to the knowledge of his truth He gives me his spirit to call him Abba z Rom. 8.15.16 father in spirit and truth 3. Hath Christ died for me and my sinnes and risen againe for my a Rom. 5.6 justification He hath mutually given me power to die unto sinne and to rise againe to holinesse and righteousnesse of life mortification of my fleshly b Coloss 3.5 lusts and crucifying my affection by the power of his c Gal 5.24 death vivification and quickning of the spirit d Ephes 2 v. 1. by the power of his resurrection 4. Is he ascended into heaven really for me He virtually causeth me to ascend thither after him in my e Coloss 3. v. 1.2 heart affections 5. Is he my high Priest to pray for me He as his legacie to his Church bequeaths unto me the spirit of grace f Z●ch 12 10. Rom. 8.26 prayer to pray againe unto him 6. So for conclusion Doth hee blesse me with all blessing in heavenly things He gives me the heart by the same grace to blesse him againe as all his Saints have done such print and impression the seale of his spirit leaves in my heart as answerable to it selfe as face answeres face in a glasse Oh then as ever thou desires to be blessed blesse God here be not so ignorant on idle as to dreame of the kernell without breaking the g Qui vult nucem nucleum frangat shell of eating the meale without grinding in the milne of the h Beneficium postulat officium dignitie without the duetie of ever being blessed but cursed without blessing God Oh thinke on all these motives in generall everie one in particular and let them be as goades and spurres to excite thee to this pressed duetie At least let all and ever of them be so many Bittes and Bridles curbs and remoraes to restraine and keepe us from ingratitude the bane of every grace yet the ulcer and spreading leprosie and Gangreene of every place yea of this Province and our English here planted if I might digresse by expostulations CHAP. XI The application of all by comparing as and our times with Israell in all times ANd now for speciall and specificall application of all that hath beene said unto our selves to reape the harvest of all this seede and to drinke the Wine from these pressed grapes that I may Bee-like bring all these rapsodicall collections home to the English-Irish Hive of our owne Church Common-wealth all these generall motives being but preparatives to prolong and prepare the way to my intended scope or as a foundation to a subsequent building If ever Nation and people under the cope of heaven had cause and occasion to act the part of David and his worthies since they left the stage of life in blessing the Lord as the very wordes of my Text are wee are the people for in the blessings and benefits we have received from God both of adornation and preservation Spirituall and Temporall externall and internall generall and speciall our mother Albion and wee here Hybernified layd in an equall scales I will not so undervalue us to say ballanced with all the inhabitants of the Christian Pagan Papall Octoman world compared with the famousest kingdomes European Asian Affrican and American not excepting the Cham of Cathy the great Mogull the Souldan of Egypt Prester-Iohn the Kingdomes of Fez and the most flourishing that are or ever were but equally poyzed with the best people in their prime in Davids and Salomons time that ever were taken even in their best as answering all their priviledges and