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A28192	The divine and spiritual ambassadour described in a sermon preached at the visitation at Alisbury, Com. Bucks. Octob. 14, 1662 by J.B. B.D.	J. B. (John Bird), b. 1584 or 5.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2952; ESTC R14806	31,553	42

subversion all Novelists still aime and march on with the same grudge who strike most at these that with Vitellian fury they may feed their own eyes Sue●on in Vitell● in seeking to make a Covenant with us on the condition of Nahash the Ammonite that they may thrust out the right eyes of Gods heritage and lay it for a reproach on all Israel 1. Sam. 11.2 When the wisest Emperours and Kings ever since they owned Christ have acknowledg'd his Ambassadors for their ableest agents and assistants in all their weightyest affairs especially where Church and Kingdom are so involv'd that the one seldome thrives without the welfare of the other Nay when the first General Councells were never tainted with the depth of Sathans policy in plotting reformation Apoc. 2.24 to blast and blow away the whole order of Prelacy out of the Church Hieron advers Lucif but they held it a sure and supereminent power against all sects and innovations to keep it up at the height with that Canon in the famous and great Council of Calcedon decreeing it no lesse then sacriledge to bring downe a Bishop into the degree of a Presbyter Can. 29. Now cur omnium sit culpa paucerum scelus That these who have been and are many still Sen. Hippol. Act. 2. so true to their God and his Christ should be all cryed down for Antichristian that these who have been and are many still so tutelary and salutary to their Princes and Countries should be all likewise condemned for useless and unfit to have any vote or suffrage or to give any consent or counsel to the contriving and constituting of Laws for the governing of Christs people though these new found Politicks have declared to all Posterity ipso facto how near they trod in the steps of their ring-leader Caiaphas Joh. 11.51 because as he prophesied of Christ so they proclaimed of his Ambassadors before they were aware and under that sentence of condemnation gave them these letters testimonial of commendation that they were useless indeed for their turn being in no wise likely to become sceleri tanto materia facilis Sen. ubi supra but ready still to prove better men quam esse quenquam tyranno expediret yet that these I say Sen. de ben lib. 2. cap. 20. should be all thus cryed down and condemned by those that cry out against Tyranny This will it not be a flash of wilde fire and sad reflection in the eyes of all that if they will but open them and look into it may presently perceive that the great promise was not so much to all the disciples or Church in generall as to the Apostles and their successours in particular when they were sent to this Ministration with his commission adding it for the apex colophon and Crown of all comfort Mat. 28.20 that therein he would be with them alway even unto the end of the world 33 Which promise can in no wise be thought truely perform'd De praescrip cap. 2● by that heap of arguments in Tertullian si interea perperam evangelizabatur perperam credebatur if so many thousands of thousands were baptized amisse so many works of faith and charity wrought amisse Vbi omnes tument omnes scientiam pol●icentur Antè sunt perfecti catechumeni quàm edicti Ordinationes eorum temeraria leves inconstantes nunc neophytos collocant nunc seculo obstrictos nunc Apostatat nostros ut gloria e●s ●bligent c vide Tertul. de praescript cap. ●1 so many vertues and graces of the Spirit dispens'd amisse so many Pries●hoods and Ministryes ordered amisse so many Martyrdomes crown'd amisse If all were lost and led in blindnesse as they say and none of the holy fathers none of the faithfull confessours none of the constant Martyrs none of the prime and general Counsells knew any thing aright concerning the publick preaching of the Word and worship of God in prayer concerning the administration of the Sacraments concerning the conferring of holy orders concerning the power of the keys and discipline of the Church for fifteen hundred years together and more till these innovating 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were spawn'd and sprung up with the choaking smoke of their new links to deface and besmeare all 34 But the more we muse at them the more we are bound not only to admire and adore the infinite goodness of our gracious God when his church among us was in acie novaculae ready to be quite cut off for his miraculous arising in the nick so to maintain his own cause that though they associated themselves they are broken in pieces though they took counsell together Isa 8 9 10. it is come to nought though they spake the word it cannot stand for it was thy Land O Jmmanuel But also to invoke and implore his greater blessing upon those truly Royall loyal judicious and religious hearts ever to be renowned for renewing and setling that course wherein God may be honoured best in the beaty of holinesse Psal 96.9 and we his messengers at length lookt ' upon again and reputed still as now Ambassadors for Christ. 35. But to forbear particulars what unkindness or indignity hath Christ our good Lord Saviour offered them why we whom he accounteth the salt of the earth to season and keep them sweet should in all their Joyes and Festivals be set below the salt contemned ●sleighted and thrust down under all Det Galenus opes Det Justinianus honores and much good may they do their followers with their due Minervals But that we touching our genus in our superiours and touching our species in their inferiours should be debased and debarred of all this is hard measure in the judgement of all who take to heart the comparison which in this case must never be counted odious That the health of the body which belongs to Galens cure Mat. 16.26 doth not so far excell the safety of the estate which belongs to Justinians care but the saving of the soul which belongs to our charge is more precious then both And if Arrianus held himself so much greater then other Historians Bodin Method by how much the all-dar●ng Alexander of whom he wrote was greater then other Kings Alexander himself after the conquest of Pers●a thought the Wars of the Grecians no more then battels of Frogs and M●●e in comparison of his own exploits must we be cast off and valued under all eo nomine because we are not sent as the E●hiopian Ambassadors by the sea Isa 18.2 in vessels of bu●-rushes to speak to you for any Machiavilian petty Prince of Italy but as Ambassadors for Christ we come to treat with you for him that is more precious then all the Gold of Ophir and both the Indies 1 Tim 6.15 for the blessed Prince and onely Potentate even the King of Kings and Lord of Lords And because we train you up not to