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church_n	earth_n	heaven_n	militant_a	4,766	5	11.7120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10056	Recusants conversion a sermon preached at St. James, before the Prince on the 25. of Februarie. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20301; ESTC S115205	21,005	38

RECVSANTS CONVERSION A SERMON PREACHED AT St. JAMES before the PRINCE on the 25. of Februarie 1608. BY DANIELL PRICE Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes 1608. TO THE ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE HENRIE PRINCE OF Great Britaine and DVKE of CORNWAYL the glory of grace in this life and the grace of glorie in the future REligious most Gratious Prince let me craue pardon for my presumption in offring that vnto the eie of the world which I lately preached in the eare of your Highnesse The vnde served vnexpected attention and former acception of these labours haue drawne this little gift in representation of my remembrance therein VVith this I present my selfe and service being ever ready with all my power to doe your Highnesse the humblest duty thinking my selfe happie when I may performe any thing which may testifie my true zealous and dutiful affection Your highnesse hath already cunning Aholiab and Bezaleel sweet singing David Parable speaking Ecclesiastes Sinne smiting Micaiah Ionas powerfull for Contrition Peter potent for compunction Barnabas singuler for Consolation These all haue dedicated and consecrated their labours to the building of Gods temple in you For my owne part I confesse I am not able with these to bring taches or rings or earings or bracelets or iewels of gold or Onix stōes or Sittim wood or ointmēts or spices or perfumes but the little oile which I haue I desire to present for the light of the Temple Your Grace is the comforte of the old the hope of the young and the ioy of all tanquā ad clarum beneficum sidus certatim ad volant they striue to flocke to your Highnesse as to the comfortable starre of their happinesse wishes praiers presents be their offrings VVith me it is worse then with many I haue nothing to present vnlesse as Eschines did to Socrates I should present my selfe and ah las in my selfe I finde that there is such a disproportion betweene a presents worthinesse and my weaknesse that even in this I had beene disanimated had I not beene by your gratious favour encouraged It now remaineth that in the hūblest manner I can devise I wholy resigne my selfe studies labours endeavours course of life to your Highnesse protection and disposition craving pardon for my boldnesse and ever praying for your Highnesse blessednesse that you may be truly gratious in this life and truly glorious in the life to come Your Highnesse most humbly devoted in all service DANIELL PRICE Esay 2.3 Come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Iacob WHen the Lord for many yeeres togither had manifested himselfe to be the God of Israell expected that his people would become the Israell of God it proved at the lēgth that Israels sins made them to become Ismaels sonnes of a chosen generation a royall Priesthood a peculiar people a holy nation they became an vnwise and foolish generatiō a disobedient and rebellious generation a generation that set not their harts aright whose spirit was not confident in their God dishonouring Gods Maiestie despising Gods mercy abusing his goodnes abasing his glory prophaning the Kings holyday the Saboath of the Lord poluting the Sanctuary the Chamber of Presence of the Lord neglecting his precepts the Acts of Parliament of the Lord contēning his holy-ones the Privy Counsell of the Lord not regarding him as a father who had adopted them his sonnes or as a Master who had hired them his servants or as a husband who had espoused them as his wife or as a Lord who had delivered them as his people out of the fie●y furnace of the land of Aegypt of the house of bondage Herevpō the Lord sent forth his heavenly heralds the Prophets with their celestiall proclamations to signifie his anger conceiued against their sinnes and yet his mercie if it were received by sinners that so he might invi●e those that did rebel incite those that did neglect hasten those that did linger and recall those that did wander to sue out their pardons and to recouer those places that they had lost in the house of his Courts Etym. nom Prophetarum Thus sent hee forth Esay his health to heale their sicknesse Ieremie his exaltation to bring them to humiliation Esekiell his strength to helpe their weaknes Daniel his iudgement to manifest his mercie by these 4. as by 4. trūpets or by the 4. windes or by the 4. rivers of Paradise or by the 4. Evangelists he doth send out his spirituall Pursevants with their celestiall proclamatiōs Our Prophet Esay is one of these foure who having sounded a Parle in the former Chapter and having contested with this people Summa totius primi capitis proueth that they are a sinfull nation a people full of iniquity seed of the wicked corrupt children their whole head sicke and their whole hart beauy so that from the sole of the foote to the crowne of the head nothing but wounds and sores swelling corruptiō the land wast the cities burnt Zion like a beseedged Citie the faithful Citie become a harlot the siluer drosse the wine water the Princes rebellious and that therfore the Lord would consume thē and vtterly ouerthrowe them Yet not withstanding all this their miserie in this Chapter hee prophecieth of Gods great mercie that there shal be a time of the restauration of the Church of the erection of the Temple of the election of the Gentiles the house of the Lord shal be prepared vpon the mountaine and the mountaine of the house of the Lord shal bee prepared on the top of the mountaines shal be exalted aboue al the hills and the people shal resort thervnto and shal mutually and reciprocally excite and solicite each others with these words of my Text. Come let vs goe vp to the house of the Lord to the mountaine of the God of Jacob. Which words emblematicallie doe describe Ecclesia militantis symbolum triumphantis exercitium the true signe of the Church militant on earth and the holy exercise of the Church triumphing in heauen Wherin if devotion compunction conuersion assention or religion may moue let him that hath an eare heare what the spirit saith vnto the Church or rather what the Church speaketh with the spirit come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob. If vnitie amitie or vnamitie maie moue if the prophet who was a noble courtier or the people who were worthy Converts or the place they goe to to the house of God or the God of that house Deus Iacobi maie draw attention from you O then come see and heare tast the gratious goodnes of the Lord in the society of his Saints with one minde one mouth inuiting one another with these words come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the