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A05280 The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author. Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder. 1609 (1609) STC 15424; ESTC S103610 66,134 240

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to Babilon robbed of all thy riches and the virgin Sion mourne to see her sonnes or Eunuches in the pallace of the King of Babell If wee preach peace and they will not receiue peace wee may shake the dust of that place from our feete and bee gone that dust shall iudge dust in the great day Into the citie of Samaria enter ye not they looked for no redemption and therefore the secret therof might not be reueled vnto thē according to that Secreta domini timētibus eū the secret of the Lord is reuealed to them that feare him If any shall say beeing suncke in sinne wee are no worse then dogs and yet dogs may eate of the crums that fall from their masters table I answere true indeed if you rise out of sin be no such dogs as bite and barke at our deuotions but come in all humility and as the Chananite did sue and seeke in true faith and feeling the crūmes of mercy that fal frō your masters table then come and taste with Anna how sweete the Lord is then come speake of him with Anna to all that looke for redemption in Ierusalem And when they had performed all these things according to the Law of the Lord they returned into Galilie to their owne city Nazareth Although this scripture say nothing of Anna whose story hitherto we haue followed for the better manifesting of Christ in the flesh yet it is necessary to be annexed further to make plaine the history of Christ his incarnation by speciall growth in body and strength in spirit with al complements of wisedome fauour and grace both with God and man Wherein I pray you would obserue three things all clearing the truth of the incarnation and prouing our Christ to be perfect man against Ebion Carpocr●s Cerinthus and such like who dire the deity in denying some the humanity some the diuinity I say this is cleared in this place by a threefold subiection whereunto the Lord would yeeld himselfe as the Son of man but neuer as the Son of God The first is his subiection to the Law out of these words when they had performed all things according to the Lawe The second was his subiection to persecution which I may terme a iudgement of the Lawe in these words they returned into Galilie to their owne citty Nazareth The third and last is his subiection to increase and growth in body and strength in spirit by little and little infallible proofes of his humanity and no waye applyant to the diuinity out of these words And the child grew and waxed strong c. Christ was subiect and vnder the Lawe 1. Morall 2. Ceremoniall 3. Iudiciall According to that When the fulnesse of time was come God sent foorth his sonne made of a woman and vnder the Law that he might redeeme them which were vnder the Lawe that we might receiue the adoption of sonnes He was subiect to the Lawe Moral when he said Math. 5.17 Thinke not that I came to destroy the Lawe or the Prophets I am not come to destroy them but to fulfill them He was subiect to the Lawe Ceremonial when he was circumcised and presented in the Temple c all ended when the vaile of the Temple rent asunder from the toppe to the bottome which Temple after was ruinated body and all Nepopulus rediret ad Iudaismum He was subiect to the Lawe Iudicial when he endured his painfull passion and vpon the Crosse was cursed for vs all according to that Gal. 3.13 Christ hath redeemed vs from the curse of the Lawe when he was accursed for vs for it is written cursed is euery one that hangeth on a tree He performed all that he might make an end of all so as no lawe might rise vp in iudgement against vs. When Christ was transfigured vpon the holy mount it is sayde that Moses and Elias talked with him and told of his departure which he should suffer at Ierusalem Luk. 9.30.31 To teache you no other then that ye are here taught to wit that Christ is the end and accomplishment both of the Lawe and Prophets whereof Moses and Elias are chiefe for whereat points the Law but at a bloudy sacrifice whereon stand the Prophets but vpon the Messias sent and slaine and what is their communication with Christ but of his departure which he should accomplish at Ierusalem So then the Lawe and the Prophets do accompany Christ and Christ in person doth accomplish them Christ not Moses not Elias nor one of the Prophets and yet Christ with Moses with Elias and with all the Prophets they to find out his lyne he to finish their course And all this sprung from the endlesse fountaine of his loue which loue I may say with the blessed Apostle is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 13.10 or end if ye wil for so saith the same Apostle The end of the commandement is loue out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith vn●aigned which holy loue streamed with his bloud when it issued from all his veines to redeeme vs from this killing lawe Where by double right and authority he hath conquered First as the sonne of God Lord of the law Secondly as the sonne of man in our person which is as much as if wee had ouercome the lawe our selues for his victory is ours All the iurisdiction of the lawe was executed vpon Christ. First it accused him as a blasphemer and a seditious person Secondly it made him guilty before God of the sinnes of the whole world Thirdly it so terrified and oppressed him with heauinesse and anguish of spirit that his sweate was like drops of bloud trickling downe to the ground Luke 2● 44 And lastly it condemned him to death euen to the death of the crosse a maruellous combate where the law a creature giueth such an assault to his creator and against all right practiseth his whole tyranny vpon the sonne of God and he most innocent But to proceed it may seeme by the text that the Euangelist doth more specially ayme at some performance of the law done by Ioseph and Mary in that it is sayd When they had performed all those things c. True it is this their performāce may be a president to vs whereon to looke in all our deuotions First that we leaue nothing vndone which the Lord hath commanded by his law Secondly that wee performe nothing of our owne deuising but as it is enioyned vs by the eternall law of the eternall God The Babe was crucified Mary was purified and the childe presented according to the law they performed al left out nothing they did it according to no deuice of their owne but as the line and leuell of the same lawe ledde them And here two sorts of people are sweetly taught if not iustly taxed by the spirit of God of intollerable impiety First such as thinke they please
must increase whereof reade the blessed Apostle Gal. 5.19 Rom. 12.1 c. Agiselaus in his common wealth tooke an account or reckoning both of the youth and aged how they liued and how they profited in the knowledge and practise of Philosophy we christiās are carelesse of both in diuinity And Tully told his sonne Marke that now hee must needes abound in the rules and precepts of Philosophy for that he had heard ●ratippus a whole yeare and that in Athens Forty nine yeares we haue heard the Lord from the mountaine of his holinesse and yet I feare we lesse abound in knowledge faith and feeling of true godlines then we did at the first We haue left our first loue our tree is blasted godlinesse is gone the child increased we decrease The Lord euen then put into our hands talēts of gold and bade vs occupy till he came Woe is me to tell we haue lapt thē in our napkins and returned him his owne with no aduantage The Israelites grew vnder the burthens of the Egyptians like palme trees when they are pressed our God hath deliuered vs from all both burthēs bōdage of the Egyptian Pharaoh yet we wither The grace of God is a continual currēt as Zachary saith euer emptying it selfe from pipe to pipe til it come to the poorest of his people we are as poore as euer the widdow was mentioned in the 2. Kings 4. and our Creditors are as cruell as euer hers were but how we feele our selues filled with the oile of Gods grace to keepe our soules from bondage as she did her son I leaue it to each good conscience to consider of And so for conclusion I say with the blessed Apostle my deere brethren beloued and longed for Seeing yee know these things before beware lest yee be also plucked away with the errour of the wicked fal frō your own stedfastnes but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and euermore Amen Amen GREAT BRITTAINES GREAT DELIVERANCE from the great danger of Popish Powder By way of meditation vpon the late intended treason against the Kings most excellent Maiesty the Queene the Prince and all their Royall Issue VVith the high Court of Parliament at VVestminster there to haue beene blowne vp by the Popish Faction the fift of Nouember 1605. If God of his great mercy had not preuented the mischiefe The second Edition corrected and enlarged by the Author Psal. 5. vers 11. Destroy thou them O God let them perish through their owne imaginations Cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse for they haue rebelled against thee Printed at London for Arthur Iohnson 1609. TO THE HIGH AND Mightie Prince Henry by the grace of God Prince of VVales Duke of Cornewall Earle of Chester and Heire apparant of the Crowne and Diademe of this kingdome of great Brittaine France and Ireland PArdon me my gratious good Lord deare Prince if out of a loyall heart I present vnto your Princelie viewe what I conceiued vpon these late intended Treasons in solace of my soule after the Lord had made the land so glorious by deliuerance I say Deliuerance out of the hands of cruell enemies who strook at our fairest tree to haue cut it downe both roote bole and branches if the Lord had not beene propitious And because your excellency is the highest straine in all expectance and the Heire apparant to that crowne and dignitie whose vndoubted right they haue so wronged by sinister thought word and worke as in former ages the like was neuer deuised in any Nation nor by the grace of God euer shall I haue made bold in these fewe leaues and lines to lay open the danger with the deliuerance and the rather to your Highnesse for that in feeling sort you may iustly say Quorum pars magna fui I haue had my part of both for man hath endangered me but God hath deliuered mee If in the deliuerie and proiect of this my speech your highnesse shall finde lesse Method then Matter I hope your clemency will beare with my passionate heart more affected to grieue for them who deuised the mischiefe and to ioy for our selues that missed it then I can well expresse without a troubled stile One saith wel Vt luctus sic laetitiae loquūtur leues ingentes stupent As are our sorrowes so is our solace in their Mediocrities they speake but in their extremities they are silent and say nothing What maruell then if this our rauishment of so great ioy for the deliuery and deepe griefe of horror because of the danger either enioyne mee silence or if I speake make me to vtter my thoughts with such passion as little passeth of the Method so it meete with matter to expresse the meaning of a melting heart Nescit ordinem amor Loue is lawlesse and a loue thus boyling how can it but shed ouer and keepe no current other then in your Royal acceptance euer seasoned with such heauenly sufferance as is gracious both to GOD and man Digna prorsus rara virtus humilitas honorata It is a rare vertue when humility is honoured and honour is humbled the blaze whereof I saw in your Princely countenance when at your Highnesse Court at Saint Iames it pleased your excellency to licke vp the dust of the Sanctuarie there vpon the Lords day and after the Sermon ended to yeeld such grace in publike to the Preacher as that he might kisse your Princely hand which euer sithence hath strucke so great an impression of exceeding loue and loyaltie in my poore heart as by the grace of God I shal neuer leaue to pray for your highnesse as I am most bounden and also by all meanes studie how either my loue or life may expresse the seruice and duty I owe for so gracious an aspect Gold and siluer I haue none such as I haue I giue In the name of Iesus Christ of Nazareth be you established Yet if it please your good grace to receiue this simple New-yeares gift with the least acceptance and as the first fruit of my labours in your Highnesse seruice It may be I shall with Ianus looke backward to the olde yeare and out of my small store offer a pearle of an higher price Till when and euer I pray God safely to keepe your Royall person to his glory your owne comfort and Englands ioy Your Graces Chaplaine most humble at command W. Leigh Great Brittaines great deliuerance from the great danger of Popish Powder THE Papists of these our dayes falsly called Catholickes vnlesse it be in this that they are vniuersally euill haue euer since the first yeare of Elizabeth our late Queene of famous memory euen to this day endeuoured the subuersion of their deare country to set vp their Babel of al cōfusion And haue sought by all possible and potent meanes to make this Church and Country the noblest of Nations an