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A78766	The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing C228A; Thomason E1676_2; ESTC R208432	25,502	90

therefore you that are nobly born must labour to be nobly and vertuously minded Nobility without vertue is but as a scarlet-roabe upon a leprous body and like a jewel in a swines snout There are very many who are ignobly born and yet prove noble such was the Coblers son who grew to be a famous Captain and when he was upbraided by a noble man with his mean original wittily answered My nobility begins with me and thine ends in thee And there are many who are nobly born and yet prove ignoble to the dishonour of their progenitors Such were the children of Alcibiades Such was Hezekiah's son Such must not you be you must labour to be a credit to your Ancestors And you must not account it sufficient to be born of earthly Parents though never so noble but you must labour to be born of God and to be born from above for as Christ saith Except a man be born from above for so it is in the original He shall never enter into the Kingdom of Heaven It is not your being born from below though your Parents be never so high which will intitle you to heaven unlesse you be born from above unless you be heaven-born Christians A true Christian is of a noble extraction he is the adopted son of God Brother to Jesus Christ heir of God and co-heir with Christ He is the noblest man in the world Such must you labour to be and in comparison of this all outward nobility is but as dung and drosse 3. Let us not rest satisfied in being Citizens of this famous City of London but let us labour to be Citizens of the new Jerusalem to be Citizens of that City which is made without hands eternal in the heavens Heaven in Scripture is often called a City and it is no mean City glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City of the living God all earthly Cities aremean and poor in comparison of it and not worthy to be named that day in which we speak of this City the Scripture calls it A better Countrey that is an heavenly As far as heaven exceeds the earth so far doth thisCity exceed all earthly Cities It exceeds them 1. In its greatness and bigness and therefore it is called agreat City Revel 21. 10. And that great City by way of emphasis The holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven Our Saviour Christ saith That in his fathers house there are many Mansions Who can tell how many For there are in heaven a great multitude which no man could number of all Nations and kindreds and people and tongues If the Sun be 166times bigger than the Earth how big is this blessed City 2. In its sublimity and altitude It is a City seated above all visible heavens as the Apostle saith Ephes● 4. 10. Therefore it is called The highest Heaven and the third Heaven farre above the aëriall and aetheriall heavens And this sheweth the excellency of this City For in the Composition of the World the purest and the most excellent things are situated in the highest places The earth as the grossest is put in the lowest room the air above that and therefore purer than that the fire purer than the air the starry heaven above them and therefore of a more pure composition which Aristotle calls Quinta essentia But the heaven of the blessed is above the starry heaven and therefore of a far purer composition and as Zanchy saith It is inter omnia corpora simplicia simplicissimum 3. In its beauty and glory For this City hath no need of the Sun or Moon to shine in it But the glory of God doth lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof And herein also consisteth the excellency of this City because it is a place where we shall be filled with the glory of God The Lord God Almighty shall be the everlasting light of it and our God the glory of it 4. It exceeds all other Cities in the wealth and riches of it For it is a City of pure gold and the streets of it are of pure gold the walls of it and the foundations are garnished with all manner of precious stones and the twelve gates of it are made of twelve pearles c. These expressions are all of them Metaphorical borrowed from things that are most precious and of highest account with men upon earth to set out the incomparable wealth and riches of heaven And surely if the streets be of pure gold O how beautiful are the inner rooms How rich is the Chamber of Presence of the great King of Kings 5. In the pleasures of it There are many Cities which are pleasantly situated and wherein all earthly pleasures are to be enjoyed This famous City of London is deservedly stiled not onely The Store-House of profit but the Garden of pleasure But Heaven is a Paradise of all pleasure and therefore it is called Paradise Earthly Paradise was omnium voluptatum promptuarium A promptuary and store-house of all pleasures and delights much more is heavenly Paradise It is the Garden of the Lord wherein the Saints of God are satisfied with joyes and unspeakable delights 6. In the privileges and immunities of it Every City hath its privileges and immunities to invite men to dwell in it to be free of it But now the privileges and immunities of heaven are unexpressible There we shall all be Kings crowned with a crown of righteousness a crown of life and a crown of glory There we shall be free from all misery from the wicked and their persecutions from the Devil and his temptations and above all we shall be free from the body of sin and iniquity 7. In the necessary accommodations of it A City is a place where all things necessary for the comfort of mans life are to be found The whole Countrey round about bring in their Commodities to it We use to say of Cheap side in London That it is the best garden in England But now Heaven is a City wherein we shall have a perfect possession of all good things It is an happiness made up by the aggregation of all things desirable 8. In the excellency of the inhabitants It is one of the greatest commendations of a City when the Inhabitants of it are godly and religious But now in Heaven there are none but the Souls of just men made perfect in grace The People which dwell there are all righteous Therefore it is called A holy City because it consisteth onely of holy persons 9. In the safety and security of it It is a great commendation of a City when it is safe and secure from enemies There is hardly any City in the whole World which enjoyeth this happinesse But now in heaven there is perfect safety and security Therefore it is said That the gates of it shall never be shut They that dwell there are above the Fear and hurt

of men or Devils 10. It exceeds all other Cities in the work imployment which the Citizens of this City have In earthly Cities men turmoil themselves with wordly businesses and are troubled about many things drowning themselves in the cares of the world c. But in Heaven there is no work but to sing Hallelujahs and to be alwayes praising God and rejoycing in his Presence 11. It exceeds all other Cities in the durableness eternity of it The pleasures of this City are everlasting and the Glory Honor Riches and Privileges c. of it are everlasting Therefore it is said to be a City which hath foundations The Apost. tels us That Abraham looked for a City which hath foundations This expressiō is put down in oppositiō to Abrahams dwelling in Tents Tabernacles A Tent is an house wch hath a covering but no foundation A Tent is a moveable house easily reared up and easily pull'd down But now the heaven of the blessed is a firm and an enduring City a City which hath foundations This Phrase signifieth Two things 1. The unchangeableness unalterableness of this Heavenly City 2. The everlastingnesse and eternity of it Both of them are expresly mentioned by the Apost. Peter 1 Pet. 1. 4. Where he calls heaven not only an immortal and undefiled but an inheritance that never fadeth away All Farthly Cities decay in time and need reparation But this is a City which never fadeth A place which needs no reparation And is as a Flower that is alwayes sweet and never withereth as excellent after 10000000. years as at the first moment of its creation It is unchangeable and unalterable And so also it is eternal and everlasting Earthly Cities have no foundation and therefore are fading and perishing They are like Cities made of wax or snow which quickly melt away like Nebucadnezzars Image whose head was of fine gold and breasts of silver but the feet which upheld it were composed of brittle clay that is easily dissolved Earthly happinesse like the earth is founded upon nothing And as the Cities we dwell in so we that dwell in these Cities have no foundation unlesse it be in the dust as Job speaks Therefore the Apostle saith We have here no abiding City but we seek one to come Heaven is a Kingdom that cannot be shaken A mansion-house as Christ saith In my Fathers house are many mansions so called from their perpetuity But we have no {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} no abiding city here Nature saith Cicero hath not given a dwelling place to us here upon earth but onely a lodging place as a guest in an Inne for a night and away Therefore it is that the Saints of God in all ages have acknowledged themselves to be sojourners pilgrims and strangers in this world traveling thorough it as thorough a strange Country unto their mansion-house in Heaven In a word All earthly Cities Persons and happinesse are subject First to alteration and next to dissolution The longest day hath its night and the longest life its death The famous Monarchies of the World have had their periods Kings dye and Kingdoms dye And great and famous Cities are in length of time ruinated and demolished We in this Nation have seen strange alterations changes and dissolutions All earthly Cities are changeable and perishing but Heaven is a City which hath foundations It is an unchangeable and everlasting City Lastly This City excells all other Cities in the builder and maker of it Earthly Cities are built by men but the builder of this City is God so saith the Apostle He looked for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God There are some who think that the Heaven of the blessed is an uncreated place But this a great error For every thing in the world is either the Creator or the Creature ●f heaven were an uncreated place it should he a God and not a Creature We believe in our Creed That God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible And the forementioned text tells us That God was the builder and maker of it Here are two words used {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the last word signifieth that God made it summo artificio to set out his skill and workmanship When great men build great houses for their own dwelling they build them according to their greatnesse When Ahashuerosh made a feast to shew the riches and glory of his Kingdom it was a most magnificent feast Solomons Temple built by him was justly accounted the glory of the World Pliny calls it Orbis miraculum The miracle of the World When Nebucadnezzar built a Palace for his own dwelling it was a sumptuous one The Heathens tell us of glorious structures made by earthly Kings of the Temple of Diana The Sepulcher of Mausolus The Walls of Babylon The Capitol of Rome c. and the Pyramids of Egypt one of which was twenty years building and three hundred threescore thousand men alwaies at work about it If all the Kings of the earth should joyn together to build a Palace surely it would be a rare building But if all the Angels in heaven should joyn and set their wisdom on work to build an house surely it would be an Angelical structure Much more when God himself who is an infinite Agent infinite in glory power and wisdom shall make an house to shew his skill wisdom glory and power this house surely must needs be superlatively excellent Such an house and such a City is Heaven whose Builder and curious Artificer was God And therefore it is said to be an house made without hands Not onely without earthly hands for so all the visible Heavens were made but without hands that is after a more excellent manner than the other Heavens The other Heavens are said to be made by the hand of God Psal. 19. 1. Psalm 102. 25. But this was made without hands that is after a more glorious and a more unconceiveable manner than all the other Heavens Q. But for what end did God build this glorious City A. For two ends First For his own dwelling-house Christ calls it His Fathers House God indeed dwells every where in regard of his Essence but in regard of the presence of his Glory he dwells onely in Heaven This sheweth the surpassing excellency of this Heavenly House It is an House fit for God to dwell in Secondly God made this City that it might be a place where the Saints of God shall live in the embraces of God for ever Come ye Blessed of my Father saith Christ inherit the Kingdom prepared for you c. It is a Kingdom of glory and happiness prepared for the Saints before the foundation of the world In a word God made this City to be the habitation of Angels and Saints after this life in which they shall see God face to

face and be made like to Christ in glory and enjoy such pleasures and delights which eye never saw nor ear never heard nor ever entred into the heart of man to conceive But here I shall draw a veil not forgetting what the ancient Fathers usually say when they speak of Heaven Experimento opus est We shall never perfectly understand the excellency of this City till we come to be dwellers in it O let us all labour to be Citizens and Free-men of this blessed City Here are this day assembled multitudes of Citizens and Free-men of London How happy would it be if all here present were Citizens and Freemen of Heaven If there were a City in this world in which whosoever dwelt should be alwayes rich and healthfull and young and happy what flocking would be to such a City Such a City is heaven it is a City in which the Saints of God shall all be Kings and shall bee perfectly and perpetually happy Let us bind our selves Apprentices to God in this life and when our short time is out he will make us Freemen of that City which hath Foundations whose builder and maker is God Wee must not think to be the Devils slaves here and Gods Freemen in heaven but we must be Gods faithfull servants here and wee shall be his Freemen hereafter Heaven is not onely an excellent City but a holy City into which no unclean person shall in any wise enter In earthly Cities wicked men dwell as well as righteous and more wicked than righteous but in this City the people shall all be righteous as it is Isaiah 60. 21. This City is the inheritance of the Saints and of all the Saints and onely of the Saints and unless we be born again we shall never enter into this City And therefore let us pray unto God that hee would make us meet fit to enter into this holy and heavenly City that he that made us creatures would make us new creatures that God by grace would make us fit to enter into glory In a word let us make it appear this day that we are not onely Citizens of London but of heaven by our deeds of charity distributed to Christs poor for Christs sake God hath entailed not only temporal and spiritual but eternal mercices upon charity and liberality and therefore let us make to our selves friends of the unrighteous Mammon that when we fail they may receive us into everlasting habitations Let us lay up our treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where theeves do not break thorough and steal Let me speak to you in the words of the Apostle Paul Charge them that are rich in this world A man may be rich in this world as Dives was and poor enough as hee was in the other world therefore if you would not only be rich here but rich in the other world you must not be high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us all things richly to enjoy you must do good and he rich in good works not only do good works but be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for your selves a good Foundation against the time to come that you may lay hold on eternal life The world foundation is not here to be understood in the builders sense but in the Lawyers sense who call the evidences upon which they ground their plea their foundation The merits of Christ are our onely foundation to build our hope of heaven upon but good works are the evidencing foundation Let us lay up for our selves in heaven a good foundation by works of Charity that at the great day of Judgement Jesus Christ may say unto us Come yee blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in I was naked and yee cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me So much for this Text and for this time FINIS Mat. 11 26 Luc. 19. 42. Luc. 4. 16. Elton upon Rom. 9. Act 22. 3. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rom. 9. 2 3. Aristotelem ha●d minus quam Patrem suum initio dilexit quod a Patre ut viveret a Praeceptore ut bene viveret accepisset Pezelius Ejus gratiâ Lacedaemonii in reliquam Baeotiam saevientes Thebanis pepercerunt Ita Alexander quum Thebas everteret in omnes saeviret sine discrimine Pindari Vatis penatibus familiaeque parci jussit Cicero contra Verrem Eph. 2. 19. Heb. 11. 10 Mat. 11. 23 Neh. 7. 2. Mat 5. 47. I received a Note of these particulars from the worthy Stewards of the late Feast Act. 18. 10. Zeph. 3. 1. Nah. 3. 1. Isa. 26. 1. Vers 38. First Isa. 8. 8. Rom. 9. Cajetan in locum Vbi minus dicitur plus intelligitur Ciliciae totius Princeps Caput The words may be handled two wayes Relatively Absolutely Doctrine The first branch of the Proposition Gen. 32. 9. Gen. 17 7. Psal. 112. 2. Col. 4. 10. The second branch the Proposition Phil. 3. 5. Eccl. 10. 17. Gaspar Streso in locum Et tu ea tibi accepe non es enim Themistocles The third branch of the Proposition Streso in Acta c. Gen. 11. In Panegyric Orat. to Constantius Speed This saying of Josephus is quoted by Speed in his History of great Britain 4. things in commendation of England De Britanni carum Eccle●●arum primordiis The 4th branch of the Proposition Libr. de Scriptor Eccl. in Paulo In ep. ad Philem. Beda in c. 21. Act. Masius in c. 19. Josh. Arias Montanus in Apparatu c. Ebionaei apud Epiphan. haeres 30. Act. 22. 3. Act. 22. 27. Cicero Acts 22. 28. Speed Vse 1. Exh. 1. Cambden Act. 17. 16 Cambden Matth Parisiens Nulla digs tam nubilis in quâsol in hâc insulâ non conspiciatur Solinus Isa. 1. 4. Exh. 2. Two things are to be done that we may be a credit and an ornament to London Jer. 31. 23. Heb. 12. 14 Exhort 3. Neh 2. 10. Invenit late retia● reliquit marmoream Six waies to make London happy Ezek. 48. 35. The 2d way to make London happy Psal. 133. Psalm 122 3. 3. The third way to make London happy {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The 4th way to make London happy Luc. 20. 16. Luc. 13. 34. Scultetus who afterward came over into England The fifth way to make London happy Jer. 9. 3. 1 Cor. 15. 58. Zech 8. 3. The sixth way to make London happy Jam. 2. 14. 1 Cor. 13. 3. Mat. 25. 40 Jude 12. Jude 12. Dr. Horton Four several sorts of persons upon whom the Charity gathered at the Londoners meeting is to be bestowed Luc. 12. 46. Matth. 5. 16. Gal. 6. 10. Vse 2. Exhort Prorsus felicem futurum fuisse inquit Ausoinius si hunc filium non generasset Exhort 2. Iphicoabes Genus meum à me incipit tuum in te desinit {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Joh. 3. 3. Exho 3. Heb. 11. 10 16. Heb. 13. 14 Psal. 87. Heb. 11. 16 Heaven is a City that exceeds all other Cities in in twelves respects Joh. 14. 2. Rev. 7. 9. Rev. 21. 23 Rev. 12. 5. Isa. 60. 19. Rev. 21. 18 19 21. 2 Tim. 4. 8 Rev. 2. 10. 1 Pet. 5. 4. Heb 12. 23 Isa. 60. 20. Rev. 21. 10 Rev. 21. 25 Heb. 11. 10 Tectum habet fundamentum non habet {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Job 4. 14. Heb. 12. 28 Joh. 14. Natura non habitandi sed commorandi diversorium hic nobis dedit Heb. 11 10 Heb. 11. 10. Nulla alia aedificandi Pyramidis causa quam vana stulta ostentatio ut scilicet nec pecunia ipsa nec etiam plebs otiosa esset Pancyrolla 2 Cor. 5. 1. Qeust Answ 1. John 14. 2 2. Rev. 21. 27. Col. 1. 12. John 3. 3 Col. 1. 12. Isaiah 58. 7 8 9 10 11 12. Luc. 6. 38 Luc. 16. 9 Mat. 6. 20 1 Tim. 6. 17 18 19. Mat. 25. 34 35 36.