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A07839	Scotlands welcome a sermon preached at Needham in the countie of Suff. on Tuesday, April 5, 1603, vpon Pro. 11. 10 : in the prosperitie of the righteous the citte reioyceth, and when the wicked perish, there is ioy / by Miles Mosse ... ; with some notes and allegations then omitted by reason of the time, and the capacitie of the audience.	Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614.	1603 (1603)	STC 18210; ESTC S456	28,263	88

with adultery and incest Iob was an vpright and iust man yet he brake forth into tearmes of impatience Zacharias and Elisabet were both iust before God yet the man was s●…itten with dumbnesse for his infidility And so all are righteous men before God that loue him and keepe his commandements God accepting their good indeuours in Christ and imputing vnto them for perfection the perfect Righteousnesse of Christ for Nos ex iustitiae participatione iusti sumus We are not otherwise exactly iust before God then by the participation of the exact iustice and obedience of the Lord Iesus Christ. Of such righteous men Salomon speaketh heere and saith that in the welfare of one who walketh religiously to God and honestly towards men others that behold it are glad and reioice So much for the title of a righteous man The city The name of a city comprehendeth heere a double Rhetoricall Trope 1. For first the citty it selfe is taken for the people and inhabitants of the citty as it is also else where in the scriptures When tidings came to Shiloh that Hophni and Phinehas were slaine and the arke of God was taken of the Philistims all the citty that is all the people of the citty cried out Againe There is a riuer whose streames shall make glad the citty of God that is the people or inhabitants of the city of God 2. Secondly the citty is heere specified by name for the whole body of the country For Salomon intendeth to say that all men towne and country reioice in an honest mans preferment When the Psalmist saith Except the Lord keepe the citty the keeper watcheth in vaine There he speaketh de reipublicae statu politia of the state and pollicie of the common wealth and the name of a citty is taken Pro omni robore regiminis for the whole strength of gouernment in a state or kingdome So heere when Salomon saith The citty reioiceth he meaneth that the whole body of the people is glad But he specifieth the Citie by name first because cities are the speciall parts of a countrey and commonly conteine vnder their iurisdiction the neighbour villages Secondly because Cities are the seats of great men and great offices so as if a good man be preferred to dignitie they do soonest espie it yea and soonest feele the benefit of it and therefore haue the first and chiefest cause to reioice therein Thirdly Cities are the ciuillest and fullest of knowledge and therefore doe not onely best discerne who is a Righteous man but also are easiliest mooued to reioice in his Prosperitie So The Citie reioyceth that is euery man is well pleased with it Prouided alwaies that this Citie and countrey be such an one as is it selfe a louer of Righteousnesse such a Citie as Ierusalem was and such a people as the kingdome of Israel was in the best times of Salomon to the examplar whereof he hath speciall respect in this and diuers other of the Prouerbs For if it be not such a Citte or people they will hardly reioice in the prosperitie of the Righteous It must not be such a Citie as Sodome was where The men were wicked and exceeding sinners before the Lord. For there they disdained that Lot should aduise them much more that he should be exalted among them Neither must it be such a Citie as the yoong man in the Comoedie describeth Athens in that time Vbi mores deteriores increbescunt indies Vbique amici qui infideles sunt nequeas pernoscere Vbique eripiatur animo tuo quod placeat maximè That is Where the people grow daily worse and worse where a man cannot know his friend and his foe asunder nor holde his owne with quietnesse For in such a Citie there is little care to preferre the best and little ioy in their preferment But in a citie or countrey well framed well gouerned well affected to religion and honestie In such a citie there is much ioy at the Prosperitie of the Righteous Hitherto the meaning and exposition of the words Now the doctrine it selfe which the words import is a trueth warranted by all experience and whereof both holy writ and humane histories yeeld infinite examples But I must be contented with one or two of either sort in stead of many that might be alledged When Dauids gonernment was disturbed by Absaloms treason and the king fledde out of Ierusalem for feare it should be sacked or fired all the people that was with him had euery man his head couered and wept as they went So sory they were for Dauids affliction But when Absolom was slaine and his father was to returne againe with honour then happy was he that could shew greatest forwardnesse in his conduction yea the men of Israell chode and brauled with the men of Iudah for preuenting them secretly in the kings restitution So ioifull they were in his new recouered prosperity Againe When Adoniah contrary to Dauids minde and promise aspired to the kingdome of Israel then Zadok and Nathan and Benaiah and Shimei and Rei and the men of might as they were excluded so no doubt they hong their heads and sorrowed But when Salomon was crowned at his fathers appointment then not onely those good men accompanied him but also All the people came vp after him pipingand reioicing with great ioy so that the earth rang with the sound of them Salomon was a prince of incredible hope and the land reioiced vnspeakably at his coronation In humane histories the example is most famous of Numa Pompilius the successor to Romulus in his kingdome Because he was held a deuout and religious man though indeed the old fables make him but a beguiler of the Gods and all his deuotions were but deuises of curious superstitions as Tertullian speaketh yea and besides his religion for that he was naturally disposed to all vertuous manners and discipline and paines taking and study of wisdome therefore after long dissention betweene the Romanes and the Sabines about the election of a king he was named of the one side and receiued of the other side with generall approbation The Senate and people going forth to meet him the women applauding him with their acclamations and also reioicing tanquam non rex vrbi sed regnum obtigisse●… saith Plutarch as if they had that day gained not a new king but an other kingdome to their citty But why roue I so long and so farre from home who remembreth not the ioy and thanksgiuing of the good seruants of God in our daies for the preseruing of some Christians though not many from that blody massacre in France for the deliuery of Rochel from the Spaniard for the reliefe of Geneua from the Sauoian and infinite such examples to long to repeate One president there is tending directly to this purpose which my duty to God and men will not suffer me to omit Seneca

thou be a Righteous man the City will reioice in thy prosperity Sometimes God turneth it otherwise for he will be tied to no rule but that it is commonly so this Prouerbe of Salomon iustifieth in this place 3. This sentence admonisheth vs of a speciall duty of Brotherly loue which each Christian man oweth to another Christians must be Inquisitors after their neighbours religion and Surueiers of their neighbours waies Not as busy-bodies medling with that which belongeth not vnto them but as men imagining that they haue their part in any Prosperity or aduersity that betideth to their bretheren They must cast their eies about them and obserue who in that corner or country feareth God and loueth Righteousnesse and then withall they must make surueie how 〈◊〉 a man prospereth in the world and how he fareth in his outward 〈◊〉 And both these must they doe to th●… end that when they finde any child of God that washeth his pathes 〈◊〉 butter and whose rocke poureth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uers of oile as Iob speaketh of 〈◊〉 Prosperity then with him and 〈◊〉 him they may reioice and be 〈◊〉 And when they shall see an h●…st man humbled and labourin●… 〈◊〉 the crosse then with him and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to mourne lament 〈◊〉 how shall we practise that precept of the Apostle Reioice with them that reioice and mourne with them that mourne Or how shall we shew our selues liuely members of the same body if when one member suffereth we suffer not with it and if when one of our members is had in honor we reioice not with it We read of Nehemiah that holy Reedifier of the holy city that howsoeuer himselfe were at ease yea 〈◊〉 in office at court for he was the kings cup bearer and so might haue liued voluptuously to himselfe alter the maner of our Sole-self-louing ●…iers yet his thoughts were occupied about his bretheren the Iewes and his city Ierusalem and therefore inquireth earnestly of them and their 〈◊〉 And hearing of the affliction of the people and desolation of the citie he mourned and wept and fa●…ed and praied as if himselfe had beene plunged in the same calamity And verily if the spirit of Nehemiah did breathe in our brests we would not be so wholly giuen vp to Selfe 〈◊〉 the cause of all sinne as we would altogether neglect what betideth our bretheren but we would be euer inquiring what good men liued about vs and how they fared what Churches God had planted abroad and how they thriued how the Churches of Christ flourished in France Germany Scotland Denmarke Sweeueland and else where And when we shall vpon due inquisition or suruey be giuen to vnderstand that God prospereth any one good man particularly or any company of good men generally then not to enuy or maligne them as Haman enuied Mordecaies fauour with the king or as Saule maligned Dauids reputation with the people or as some in our time haue belched out reproches against the neighbour Churches and the worthy men that liued in them but we should reioice with them as affected with their good and ioifully wish the continuance and increase of their Prosperity If we know but one Gaius in a country which is Paules host and the host of the church we should wish to him as Saint Iohn wisheth to his Gaius Beloued I wish chiefely that thou prosperedst and faredst wel If we see about vs an vpright minded man which serueth not the time nor professeth religion onely for shew but feareth God inwardly and walketh in the honesty of his conscience we should pray for him with the Psalmist Doe well ô Lord to those that be good and true in their hearts If we see any Church striuing to cast out Popery and to intertaine sincerity we should pray for it and the fauourers of it O pray for the peace of Ierusalem let them prosper that loue thee And certainly if we be true hearted Citizens of the holy city new Ierusalem we will not onely pray for it and for all that doe belong vnto it but also when any good betideth it or them which they needed and we praied for we will be ready to reioice with them and to praise God for them according to this sentence of Solomon In the prosperity of the righteous the city reioiceth And heere now is sit place and iust occasion offered to stirre vs vp with thankfulnesse to be ioyfull and with ioifulnesse to be thankfull vnto God for all those holy and gracious persons by whole rising vp and Prosperity so much good hath beene done in our time and country Among all which we are bound in the first place to performe high and honorable Obsequies to her who while she liued 〈◊〉 the first and highest place in the kingdome I meane The high and migh●… Princesse our late most renouned and soueraigne Lady Q. Elisabeth Mundi tot●… vna decus The glory of the world as master Beza called her and of whom that may be said as truly as it was of Luther in his time Rome ruentis 〈◊〉 maximus She was the very terror of that declining Popedome No honest man doubteth I trow to number her with the Righteous who planted the word of Righteousnesse among vs and susteined the intolerable malice of all Papists enemies vnto Righteousnesse gouerned by Righteous lawes and ministred right to men yea lastly was an harbour to all distressed Christians that fled hither from diuers places for Righteousnesse sake I trust God hath heard the millions of holy praiers made for her while she liued and hath giuen her a rich inheritance with the Righteous and a large portion in that Christ whose Gospell by her means had so free passage in the lande and was glorified by the conuersion and saluation of so many thousands But to the purpose How Prosperous this Queene was in all her waies the Papistes obserue with grinding their teeth but we should applaud with clapping of hands Farre vnlike was her state to her sister Q. Marie for of her M. Foxe recordeth that nothing euer succeeded well which she tooke in hand But of this we may auouch that Prosperitie of Iob Gods light shined vpon her head and Gods prouidence was vpon her tabernacle She was renowmed at home and abroad Euery eare that heard her blessed her and euery eye that saw her gaue testimony vnto her From her youth she was reserued as it were to the Crowne by want of issue in her brother and sister All Queene Maries daies she was woonderfully preserued euen by the meanes as was thought of that Philip of Spaine who afterwards became her deadly enemie Shee that then was ledde homely tanquamouis as a sheepe to the prison was not long after attended magnificently as a princely Lionesse to the scepter and when shee was once setled in the throne what Prosperitie euer betided a Prince wherewith her cup did not abundantly ouerflow Tertullian describing