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A54483	Sermons and devotions old and new revived and publisht as an oblation of gratitude to all such of the nobility, gentry and clergy as retain the noble conscience of having ministred to the weak condition of the author, now aged 73 : the sermons at Court were before the war brake forth betwixt King and Parliament : also a discourse of duels, being a collection and translation of other mens opinions, with some addition of his own : and this in special dedicated for their use ... / by Thomas Pestel ...	Pestell, Thomas, 1584?-1659?	1659 (1659)	Wing P1675; ESTC R39086	197,074	355

Deluge of corruption are yet emergent and bear up against the stream they that in desperate and dissolute times dare yet prove that they fear this Lord of Hosts and think upon his name they are Gods own his peculiar For so first the Rabbins interpret this word Segullah by peculium peculiare proprium speciale praecipuum singulare God hath a propriety a specialty in them But I meddle no further with that first priviledge it hath been the subject of a Sermon already pass we then to the second priviledge Which is That Gods fearfull and faithfull servants are his choice and reserved Rarities He is the great Preserver of men but for his own he hath a special Reserve or Cabinet to lay them by themselves at lest their state and condition is well exprest in the nature and worth of Jewels For this same word is by the same Rabbins also rendred in those term of Argentum Aurum Lapides preciosi in Thesauro Thesaurus dilectus res desider abilis And therefore the Geneva translating a flock are far short of this words Energie which we find but in two places of Scripture beside and both forcible to our present purpose God uses it and chooses it in Exedus 19.5 for the decoring of his own people the house of Israel who there he promises on their obedience shall be his chief treasure And then David with more advantage to us still uses is in 1 Chron. 29.3 to express some reserved choice Jewels which he dedicated and destined to the decoring of the Temple the house he intended and prepared to build for the Lord. Now those pretious stones we call by the name of Jewels are a kind of natural glass made out of a subtile mixture of earth and water saith Albertus Others conceive them to be but purer Metals as Plato imagined the Adamant a further excoction out of Gold Another describes them to be a kind of Light daintily confined to a terrestrial thickness but however sramed by his divine hand who worketh all in all things mention we find of their use and esteem even near the beginning in Job 28. mention of the Onyx Saphir Topaz describing paradise and naming Havilath Moses adds there is Bdellium and the Onyx stone The Israelitts borow Jewels of the Egyptians and 2 Sam. 12.30 David takes the King of Rabbaths Crown of a Talent weight set with preciovs stones And mention again we find of precious stones brought by the Queen of Sheba and by Solomons Navy 1 Reg. 10. And that of the Prophet shews an ordinary use of them Can a Maid forget her Ornaments or a Bride her Jewels But above all other two places of Scripture the 28. of Exodus and the 21 of the Revelation In the first is Aarons Brest-plate with twelve precious stones figuring the twelve Tribes And in the other the new Jerusalem the City of God with her foundation on twelve precious stones shaddowing out the twelve Apostles both conferring much strength to this Assertion 5. To descend then to some but few particulars in this Resemblance look first how the stone or Jewel depends not on the Merchants Report or mad credulity of the vulgar their Honor and Esteem and Approbation is from a skilfull Lapidary an exact Work-man a cunning and profest Jeweller indeed So the Apostle sleights the approof of common breath I pass not to be judged by you not he that commends himself to others or whom others but whom God commends So 't is here a comfort drawn from the Mine You shall be Mine saith the Lord of hosts 'T is I lay claim that will justifie you Who shall lay any thing to the charge not of mans but of Gods Elect Let the base world put you to the touch and trial I will avouch and warrant you sound and good amidst an heap of dross and counterfeits And hence that difference noted by our Saviour That which is vile among men is highty esteemed of God and contrary Men devise to put him by whom God will exalt Psalm 62.4 And no wonder if a gracious servant of God see himself so used God himself was abused so The stone which the Builders refused threw by among the rubbish that God made saith St. Peter elect and precious and set him right in his own place again the Chief the Headstone of the Corner where both wals meet to support both Church and State The world may guild enamel and perfume great ones and proceed in prodigious flattery till it come to Suffumigations and Altars as we read of some both Heathen and Christian and yet these Deifications these Canonizations done to such as are in Gods sight abominable Again it may and often doth account such as dross as have his Image and Superscription such as are encircled with this Motto here of Faciam eos in Gemmas In that day when I make up my jewels The world will say to a righteous man if nor rich nor potent sit here at my footstool but God that sees the heart and beholds the radiance of his wedding Garment and how clear it sits upon his soul will say as in the Gospel Friend sit up higher The world casts dust and obscurity upon them that are good But God makes that true of them which is spoken of Brutus and Cassius in the funerals of Junia Eo ipso praefulgebant quod non visebantur The world cries up the Noble the Rich the Wise God cries them down as fast Not many wise not many noble not many mighty are called The world proceeds in mischief and envy and madness against honest men as the Church of Rome deals with ingenuous Writers Dare he speak full Truth and so disgrace her Impostures Away with him a Spung and a Deleatur shall bedash him and extinguish him But God the true Corrector of the press Judex and Vindex upon a Review comes and commands with his powerfull Inseratur and re-invests with former honor re-instates and re-inthrones his servants and gives them just cause to rejoyce and say This is the Lords doing and it is marvailous in our eyes Not unto us O Lord not unto us but unto thy Name be the Glory Secondly Jewels by reason of Gods working them out of the rough and first Quarrie So dealt he with his dearest Jewel that lay from all Eternity in the bosom of his Father the brightness of his Glory and the engraven form of his Person Heb. 1. in whom though there was no sin to work out yet was in his humane nature cut from the same quarrie clouded with afflictiont and compassed about with all mans infirmities in his birth Daniels stone cut forth without hands Dan. 2.34 and in his death Zacharies stone graven and cut full of eyes all over Zach. 3.9 Not to mention those main Furnaces of affliction whereby he was consecrate and polisht for us And yet as in the midst of all to give a taste of his Divinity God transfigur'd him on the Mountain made him shine as

Dominus and then qua Servus 1. As Dominus For we may ask Pharoahs question but not with Pharoahs mind Whois the Lord and nothing but Jehovah will answer that in excellency which takes in all the three persons of the glorious Trinity but yet as we are forbidden by the Christian verity to say there be three but one Lord so observing both old and new Testament the second person by joynt assent of both the other is made made both Lord and Christ Lord every way Lord by Creation 〈◊〉 him were all things made Lord by preservation The Government upon his shoulder who is the mighty Lord and all things upheld by him who is the mighty word Lord by Redemption too The Lord our Righteousness made unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 1.20 So to him all Power and Dominion is given in Heaven and Earth and at his exaltation his Coronation confirmed The homage of knees and tongues That Jesus is the Lord is was and is to come yesterday to day and the same for ever so goes our hope He shall come to judge so begins our Christian Creed In Jesus Christ our Lord so end our prayers through Jesus Christ our Lord so every Christian with St. Thomas makes a glad profession My Lord and my God If our eyes be not held that we shall not know him if once out of weakness we be made strong in the Lord if once out of darkness we be made light in the Lord if anointed with the eye-salve of the Sanctuary we then in him in whom the eye of Judas the worlds eye the Jews eye could see no beauty in that Worm they trod and spit upon that slave they scourged that Malefactor they crucified shall clearly find to our everlasting comfort both a gracious man and a glorious God breaking through all those clouds darting majestick raies contracting all our sight and uniting and fixing all our eyes on that only lovely Object who after all the Eclipses and shadows of the earth and hell gone over him shines forth in perfect beauty crowned with the Sun and under his feet a Moon with deaths pale head and a red Dragon upòn his thigh his name inscribed Dominus Dominorum Men and Brethren what shall we do What manner of men ought we to be in holiness and fear What think you Is not our obedience due in reason a reasonable service to this Lord above others Other Lords have ruled over us Satan and our vices have been Lords of Misrule But there goes vertue still out of this Dominus and vertue there is in Dominus a magnetick intrinsique vertue to draw even Ironhearts to his service Stands not Dominus over Domus here and so over every Church and Chappel like the herald star to beckon us to invite all that are wise to salvation O come let us worship and fall down before the Lord. Down O down with every high thing and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ Jesus our Lord This qua Dominus 2. And then qua servus still more reasonable service if such a Dominus stoop to Servus strange if all those houses you heard of prove our houses another while and he 'l do us service in them all first in the great house of the round world it is so both in the Mechaniks and Oeconomicks In the beginning of his book we find him as a Carpenter at work by the week making partitions measuring and figuring with his Elements in square and skies in circle stricking up Lights and pinning them to the body of the Sun then mixing other mysteries of Gardiner and Painter limming to the life his pieces this our Lords doing all Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation the work of thy hands Heb. 1.10 And for whose sake so fair a frame for Birds or Beasts the Heathen could tell you no 〈◊〉 Sanctius his Man made Lord to name his vassals at his pleasure and when God gives him possession the very word is Dominamini all at his service So in Occonomy as built so all upheld for us Habendum Tenendum by his Manu-tenency kept in repair from crumbling out to Atoms and not an empty house that would do us no service but herein by 10000 hidden providential quils distils and works out food and rayment by whole loads saith David Psal 68. and changes fresh every morning saith Jeremie Lam. 3.22 And therein descending past Offices of State●eward Treasurer Chamberlane to the meanest of Baker Cook and Butler with his bottles of Heaven clouds droping fatness finest wheat and liquor of the Grape so low in this great Domus is this greatest Dominus diminisht doing his servants all these Services 2. Secondly As Terram dedit so Coelum dabit His upper house shall be ours after one life that but a span long 'T is his by nature ours by conquest we come in with the Conqueror therefore we look at it still in hope as Travellers going home that abiding City whose Builder and Maker he is and where he is still at work for us preparing a place many Mansions Crescit sub principe Coelum where he keeps possession for us in our name and in our nature and whence he sends to us continually his holy Angels to serve us and thence will come with all those Angels to fetch us up to his last supper and there again serve us himself while we sit down with Abraham Jsaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven 3. Thirdly In the womb of the blessed Virgin he was an humble servant abased himself in not abhorring that whereon we dare not stay our trembling thoughts so many minutes as he endured it moneths and this service only for us for us men and for our salvation he was incarnate to burn out our stains and corrosive the leprosie of our nature For he by the holy Ghost which at first moving on the Chaos created a world of beauty being there conceived was thereby filled with Grace in out Nature which Grace in our measure was from him to be spread and shed in our hearts by the same holy Ghost which is given us Rom. 5. So was he our servant there and Factor for us and therefore stript of all that might unfit him for that Ministry 4. In the fourth house of our flesh he comes lowly with love I come to do service in the form of a servant to minister to serve the curt of souls and bodies too See the great Arch-Prelate Primate of Heaven and Earth Lord and Bishop of our souls whose Sea is from sea to sea and from the River to the worlds end to whom we may give all Bellarmines fifteen great names and all too little is yet content and that not in jest but in Deed and in Truth with servus servorum Domini who though he served his foes for a mocking-stock and never was man so shamefully served yet despising the shame he served out his time and counted it his