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A19399	A quaternion of sermons preached in Ireland in the summer season: 1624. By George Andrevve Master of Arts, and deane of Limmericke. The severall titles, texts, time and place are set downe in the next page	Andrewe, George, 1575 or 6-1648.	1625 (1625)	STC 583; ESTC S115917	66,132	116

that I intend with Bellarmine to make multitude De noti Ecclesia libr 4 cap 7 to be a note of the Church for when they have talked their fil yet Christ shal have but a little flocke Luke 12 32 and He is true of his word that said Few doe enter in at the straite Gate Math 7 14 But yet you will say Are they few whom no man can number Revel 7 9 I answere This is spoken Hyperbolically and by the way of Comparison If the King would muster his Armie and gather Twentie out of every Parish in this Kingdome it would be an admirable great Armie yet it were not a handfull to those that are left behinde so are the multitude of Gods Saints little in respect of the wicked yet they are many great too in account with God And if yet thou doe contend and thinke them to be but few as they are indeede doe thou make One and so the number will be increased 3 The third Meditation is Sions Memoriall and that may be taken Two wayes Actively and Passively Actively Sion hath the Art of memorie shee remembreth her Creator for the Time past Eccles 12 1 she remembers his wonders of old for the Time Present Psalm 77 11 Psalm 71 24 her tongue talketh of his righteousnesse daily and for the Time to come even from generation to generation Psalm 79,13 shee will set forth his prayse and here in the Text shee tels it to Posteritie this was the practise of the Saints in the Old Testament as Abraham who commanded his Sonnes Genes 18 19. and houshold after him to keepe the wayes of the Lord. Yea and of the Saints in the New for Peters care was that the dispersed Iewes should have remembrance of his doctrine 2 Pet 1 15 even after his departure And seeing that Sion is so good a Remembrancer Let our tongues cleave to the roofe of our mouthes if wee remember not thee ô Sion Psalm 137 6 Passively Sions memoriall Sion is remembred If God hath made his wonderfull workes to be had in remembrance as David speaketh then cannot Sion be forgotten Psalm 111 4. for there is no worke of his more wonderfull then his preservation of the Church Wheresoever this Gospell is preached saith Christ there shall this that shee hath done be spoken of for a memoriall of her Math 26 13 That which was Mary Magdalens lott shall befall the rest Ever shall be remembred Abels offering Noahs obedience Abrahams faith Iosephs chastitie Davids zeale Salomons wisedome The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance Prover 10 7 but the name of the wicked shall rott 4 The fourth Meditation is Sions priviledge There was Mount Sinai Exod. 19 1. Psalm 87 1 Lyrae in Psal 86 aswell as Mount Sion but yet his foundation in Sion saith the Psalmographe that is as Lyrae expounds it God layd the foundation of his Church in Sion In Sinai was the Law given but in Sion the Gospel In the Law Heb 12 21 God speaketh words of feare and trembling but in the Gospell 2. Corinth 5 18 the word of meekenesse peace When the Lord visited Elias in the Cave there came a Winde and the Lord was not in the winde 1 King 19 vers 11 12. and an Earthquake but the Lord was not in the earthquake and a fire but the Lord was not in the fire Then at last came a soft and still voyce and there the Lord was So is the Lords love to be felt not so much in the thunders of Sinai as in the comforts of Sion And though his Power is seene in the swelling waters of Iordan Ierem 13 5. Isai 8 6 yet is his delight rather in the soft running waters of Siloe a fountaine at the foote of Sion therefore mount Sion above all others is called Gods Hill Psalm 68.15 The schoolemen doe make God to be the object of Faith and it is true in his kinde but if they meane it Personally of the Father they rather draw wretched soules out of the way then direct them to the marke for without Christ the Father is an angrie Iudge therefore He saith Iohn 14.6 No man commeth to the Father but by mee Hee is Iacobs ladder Genes 28 12 Isai 59 20 which joyneth heaven and earth together and this is that Redeemer which came unto Sion So that here is our priviledge We are not come to mount Sinai Galat. 4.24 which gendereth unto bondage but to mount Sion to the Citie of the living God and to Iesus the Mediator Hebr. 12.22 whose bloud speakes better things then that of Abel 5 The fift Meditation is Sions Promises That Rom. 3.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Paul speakes the preferment of Sion for the Iewes they had the Adoption and the Promises Rom. 9.4 Rom. 3.2 Aug. in Psalm and to them were committed The Oracles of God Augustine saith that the Iewes were the Librarie keepers of the Christians and to this end it is thought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ios 15.15 they had their Kiriath-sepher the City of the Booke And in the first Councell of Constantinople being the second general by 150. Bishops Ierusalem is called the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodor. li. 5. c. 9. or Mother Citie of all Churches If such tearmes and promises had beene given to Rome all the Pulpits of Italie would have rung at it but we see there is no such thing With what impudencie then did Benedict III. rob Ierusalem of her right and give it to Rome Extr. com de elect cap. 3. sanct Rom. For hee decreed Rome to be first and Ierusalem the fift among the Seas of the Patriarches and of late Trid. Conc. sect 25. de Delect the Trent-Councell hath called Rome the Mother Mistris of all Churches But by this Novell Disseisin they have weakened nay overthrown their pretended Supremacie 6 The sixt is Sions Perpetuitie For it is the Hill wherein the Lord will abide for ever and yet wee see Psalm 68.16 that God was not eternally tyed to externall Sion for now the Wayes of Sion lament Lament 1.4 and no man commeth to her solemne feasts Let our Romanists looke unto this point They stile Rome Aeterna Vrbs Am. Marcel and as the Iewes unto Ierusalem the Donatists to Affrica so these men would tye the Church to Rome The Church is called in the Creede Catholicke and in this sense justly stiled Oecumenicall scattered over all the world but they would bring it backe into a narrow roome The Romane Catholicke Church Grounds of the Old and New Religion p 1. c. 6. and The Catholicke Romane Faith But particulars are not generals Obiect And though the Catholicke Church hath his Perpetuitie yet particular Churches have their Period and so had Sion Solut But God promised a perpetuitie to Sion Hee did so but it was under a condition

and to expound the Law unto them Their manner of consecration puritie of their garments sounding of their bels shining of their breast-plate with Vrim and Thummim are described in the 28. and 29. Chapters of Exodus Malach. 2 1. VSE And now ô yee Priests this is for you Let us not care for the name so much as for the nature yet the name it selfe is not to be dispised for the Priest by an Anagramme signifieth Ripest Let us then of the Ministery be ripe scholers in the schoole of CHRIST riper then others ripest of all Malach. 2.7 2. Cor. 3.20 Revel 1.16 Let our lippes preserve knowledge for vve are the Embassadors of Christ yea wee are starres in the right hand of God though proud worldlings doe despise us Hebr. 5.4 Onely in so great honour to which we are called let not us our selves dishonour our calling the more honourable the more humble the more great the more good And if we will reforme others let us first reforme our selves our workes will prevaile with many before our wordes and they will be readie to say to us as the woman said to Christ Iohn 4.19 Sir I see that thou art a Prophet Philip. 4.9 It is Pauls example as you have heard and seene in mee and the Heathen said in his Senary Menander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suadet loquentis vita non oratio In a word remember the Bels remember the Breast-plate that we may both sound and shine yea Shine as lights in the middest of a crooked generation Philip. 1.15 Thus much for the Priests Now for the Levites E●●d 12 29. In one night the Lord smote all the first borne in the land of Egipt saving the first borne of Israel which he spared and sanctified to himselfe N●mb 8. ●● Now in stead of these all the first borne he tooke all the borne of the Tribe of Levi Numb 8.18 stileth them Levites Their ages offices their charge and services in the Tabernacle are described by Moses Numbers the 3. and renewed by David 1. Chron. 23. The summe of all is they were the Lords portion sanctified by himselfe seperated to himselfe for the worke of that Ministerie Israels Liturgie True it is they were inferior unto Priests yet especially regarded of the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 1.1 a rad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put a part like Paul from the world and according to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their name Levi coupled unto God Oh that the Levites of our time VSE would consider of this point Seemeth it a small thing Num. 16.9 that God hath seperated you from the multitude to take you neare to himselfe saith Moses to the Levites of those times Directed to the Colledge at Dublin and I to my brethren the Levites of these times the younger sort of the Lords 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lott and portion It is a great thing that the Lord hath thus seperated you elêgit selêgit to traine you up in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and service Oh! With what care and conscience ought you to prepare your hearts to stand before the Lord You walke in danger Ezra 7 1● and had neede to be circumspect For your name of Levi Levi ●il vile lun liue by an Anagramme will easily turne to evil and once turned to evil it will by a second Anagramme be as sudainely turned into vile But if you turne and tune your hearts unto the Lord then shall you be unto the people by a third Anagramme in lieu or in stead of God and so by a fourth conversion your soules shall live Oh! Marke how God hath marked you Yee are his lott his seperate part and portion Take heede to your selves and beware of the profane Nec tam juvant Athenae quàm nocent voluptates Let neyther sinne nor Sathan nor any instrument of Sathan rob you of your heart the Church of her hope of God of his inheritance And thus much for the Titles of the Priests and Levites Now followes in the third place The paines which Hezekiah tooke with these persons viz. What he did What he said What he did Two things And first the Text saith vers 4. He brought them in Hee brought them in namely into the Temple for his father Ahaz had shut up the doores of the Temple 2. Chron. 28.24 and so by a probable consequence He had shut out the Priests Or Hee brought them in namely into the Citie which is most likely for the Text saith that they being brought in Hezekiah assembled them into the East-streete viz in Ierusalem VSE Js● 1. ●● 1 O Ierusalem Ierusalem What a miserable Citie art thou become which wast once accounted faithfull The Saints did once lodge in thy bosome but now they are cast out The Prophets are banished and the Priests of Baal kept in 2 There was a second Citie like unto the first lesse in quantitie but as bad in qualitie it was Bethlehem the Citie of David Luke ● ● where many a rich and churlish Nabal lodged in the Inne Luke 2.7 when poore and meeke Christ lay in the Cratch 3 But is there not a third Citie in the world as bad as these It is the Citie of Rome where the lewd strumpets saith their owne Cardinall did at their owne pleasure Baron in an 912. art 8. thrust in their amasios lovers false Popes into Peters seate O Rome thou makest no roome for those that are good Or if thou bringest them in thou pervertest them and Bernard Bernard de confid ad Lugen wittily speaketh of thee bonos recipit non facit 4 I would to God this fourth Citie wherein we stand Dublin deserved not to bee added to the rest to make up the square But Though Israel play the harlot Hos 4.15 let not Iudah sinne When Christ came to the house of Iairus Math. 9.23.25 hee thrust the Minstrels out of dores And the Scripture saith Put out the bondwoman her sonne So put out the profane Galat. 4.30 the blasphemer the fornicator and the harlot too the Idolater and everie unreformed Papist though they bring you in never so much profit and in stead of them bring in the Prophets the Preachers of the word the servants of God and his Saints Let such dwell in your house Psalm 10● 6 in your heart Oh! Shut not them out neyther in your action nor in your affection least that you your selves one day bee shut out of dores Luke ●● 28 Thus much for Hezekiah his bringing in of the Priests and Levites Now for the next He gathered them into the East streete Caietane saith it was atrium templi ex Oriente Caietan in loc● but the word will not beare it for it is not Chatzer but Rechob 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which latter word is directly used for a common streete Esth. 4.6