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A11825	A sermon, preached before the two high borne and illustrious princes, Fredericke the 5. Prince Elector Palatine, Duke of Bauaria, &c. and the Princesse Lady Elizabeth, &c. Preached in the castle-chappell at Heidelberg the 8. of Iune 1613. being the next day after her Highnesse happy arriuall there: by that reuerend and iudicious diuine, Mr. Abraham Scultetus, his Highnesse chaplaine. Together with a short narration of the Prince Electors greatnes, his country, his receiuing of her Highnesse, accompanied with twe u [sic] other princes, thirty earles, besides an exceeding great number of barons and gentlemen, and eight daies ent rtainement [sic]. Translated out of High Dutch by Ia Meddus D. and one of his Maiesties chaplaines.	Scultetus, Abraham, 1566-1624.; Meddus, James, d. 1632.	1613 (1613)	STC 22125; ESTC S117026	16,930	78

affliction for it is true that vnto the faithfull tribulation bringeth patience patience experience experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed This wee know and acknowledge with all Protestant Churches When faith is weake patience cold hope in a swounde then is there no better meanes to helpe and relieue the poore soule then that shee frequent the holy Supper of the Lord where we doe not onely see before our eyes what and how much Christ hath suffered for our sakes but wee also feele that our hungry and thirstie soules are fed with his crucified body and are quenched with his bloodshed which is done when wee ingraue and firmely presse into our hearts by true faith that Christ is giuen vnto death for our sinnes and his blood is shed for our transgressions whereby faith will be stronger patience warmer hope more liuely the whole man will bee in God more ioyful wil go home vnto his house with a ioyful hart praise-singing mouth singing Psal 23. The Lord is my good shepheard I shal heceforth neuer want any thing he feedeth me on the greene pastures of his word hee giueth me to drinke of the fresh watersprings of his spirit his goodnesse and mercie will follow me all the dayes of my life This lastly we know and acknowledge with all Protestant Churches That eternall saluation is prepared for vs after this life That is said the Lord sheweth his word vnto Iacob and reuealeth his grace and mercie only to Protestant Churches But hee sheweth vs not only the word of grace and mercie but he sheweth vs also his statutes and his iudgements Now these are Gods statutes and iudgements Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God Math. 22. with all thy heart with all thy soule with all thy strength and thy neighbour as thy selfe These be Gods statutes and his iudgments Let your light so shine before men Math 6. that they may see your good workes Luke 6. and glorifie your Father which is in heauen These be Gods statutes and his iudgments Loue your enemies doe good vnto them that hate you blesse them that curse you pray for them that hurt you These bee Gods statutes iudgments Take heede that your hearts be not oppressed with surfeting drunckennesse Luke 21. and with the cares of this life These are Gods statutes and his iudgments To doe well and to distribute forget not Heb. 13. These bee Gods statutes and his iudgments Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. and holines without the which no man shall see the Lord. But so O God doe few people at this day therefore Praise the Lord O Ierusalem praise thy God O Zion For as wee haue vnderstood out of this sermon there is nothing more precious then to praise our God such praise is pleasāt comely such praise is fitting to meete God the Lord with as hee that buildeth the wales of Ierusalem as hee that vseth his wisedome and power vnto the defence comfort of his Christēdome as he that yet sheweth vnto vs in Germany his sauing word and his holy statutes Who so acknowledgeth this who so laudeth and and praiseth this hee shall finde that vppon his praise singing life a praise singing death shall follow and hee shall by death bee ioyfully carried into that blessed life wherein all the faithfull meete together and shall sing Great is our Lord and great is his power hee maketh them that were low on earth to bee high in heauen them that on earth were proud and wicked hee abaseth and throweth downe vnto hell For if the honest subiects of the Electorall Palatinate did heartely so much reioyce yesterday when they saw that our right gracious and illustrious Princesse Electoresse was well and safely arriued here in good health and receaued with ioy of our right gracious Lord what thinke you will bee then there when wee and all other the faithfull who are Christs Bride that shall haue sailed ouer the deepe hideous terrible and tempestious Sea of this world yea the temporary death and shall haue arriued at the holy hill He alludeth to a hilat Heidelberg called the Holy hill not at Heydelberg but in heauenly Ierusalem where Christ will receaue vs euen the good Bridegrome who hath vndergone so far a iorney for our sakes as from heauen vnto the earth and hath giuen out his life a ransome for vs ioy fully will all sing there that can sing and all cheerefully giue piaise that can praise The Angels themselues will then assēble in troupes reioyce sing Halleluia praise ye the Lord the lambes wedding is come let vs sing reioyce Reu. 19 That which the Bride desired on earth that shee hath that she heareth that she seeeth that she feeleth now in heauē She hath the bridegrome she heareth Angels musick shee seeth the Father in the Sonne the Sonne in the Father and the holy Ghost in the Father and the Sonne God doth not so vnto any wicked nor letteth them see his glory nor suffereth them to feele his ioy Therefore praise here the Lord ye that would praise him there sing here vnto the Lord yee that would sing vnto him there Here must the beginning be made the full accomplishment and fruition of all will be found there Thankes be vnto the Father that so cleerly reuealeth his mercy vnto vs. Thankes be vnto the Sonne who hath purchased for vs peace ioy and life Thankes be vnto the holy Ghost that bindeth vs poore miserable wormes on earth in a permanent euerlasting loue with God in heauen Let all the people say Amen yea Lord Iesus Amen The Praier IT is a pleasant thing indeede to praise our God and to shew forth his mercie in the morning and his truth in the euening Therefore we returne our hearts and tongues vnto thee most mercifull God and Father and praise thy marueilous goodnesse which thou hast so plentifully and richly shewed vnto vs euer vntill this present It was thy goodnesse that our Lord and Prince Electors Highnesse went well and sound from hence into England three quarters of a yeare agoe It was thy goodnesse that his Highnesse purpose and designe came there vnto a happie end It was thy goodnesse that his Highnesse arriued here so well againe after the performance of that businesse And it is thy goodnesse that his Highnesse best beloued spouse arriued here safely yesterday to the great reioycing of all the people Blessed and praysed be thy high and great name for this thy maruellous goodnesse from this time forth and for euer We beseech thee gracious God and Father finish that work which thou hast begun and renew thy ancient mercie and louing kindnesse from day to day vpon this Princely new maried couple powre downe vpon them from heauen aboue thy heauenly goodnesse and blessing accomplish all their Highnesse designes heare them when they call vpon thee deliuer them when they bee in danger reioyce them when they be in sorrow blesse

husbands from their wiues here and there throughout all the Babylonian gouernment and must undure to bee laughed at scorned and derided of euery man The people of God themselues giue witnesse hereunto when they say Psal 137.1 By the riuers of Babel we sate and there wee wept when we remembred Zion But farre greater miserie did our forefathers endure in poperie when many honest and wel-affected hearts were forced to bee kept pressed downe vnder the Popes tyrannie and to behold against their wils shamefull and horrible idolatrie But yet God did after seuen hundred yeeres space looke againe fauourably vpon his distressed seruant the Christian Church caused the Gospell to be cleerly expounded which was before obscured Antichrist that child of perdition to bee reuealed and our beloued fathers to be set againe into the libertie of conscience and which wee euer since enioy blessed bee his name for it Wherefore prayse the Lord O Ierusalem Prayse thy God O Zion It is true that Ierusalem is often grieuously afflicted and as it were euen rent asunder either by the assaults and inrodes of enemies souldiers or by the death of high and chiefe Gouernours who were the Churches Patrons and nureing fathers and mothers as this Jerusalem of our Palatinate hath sufficiently felt about three yeares since when Fredericke the fourth of blessed memorie departed this life But praysed be God who euer buildeth Ierusalem againe And this hee doth when as hee blesseth a countrey with Princely branches who wax and grow vp vnto his honour and their natiue countries benefit And this he doth also effect when hee leadeth as with the hand vnto young Princes godly and religious spouses with whom they may comfortably liue together in vnitie of faith and shine before their subiects in all good example of religious holinesse And therefore prayse thou the Lord O Heidelberg Prayse thy God O Palatinate But there might some man perhaps demaund Whether it be so much to be respected and bee so great a benefit to haue the walls of Ierusalem rightly builded in a countrey Whereunto I answer That euerie way it is much to bee regarded and is Gods exceeding great benefit when Ierusalem is well and rightly builded For in Ierusalem alone that is in the little flocke wherein God is truely serued is that done which is written in the next verse following He healeth those that are broken in heart verse 3. and bindeth vp their sores We poore miserable creatures were fallen indeede amongst theeues murtherers grieuously wounded of them who were set against vs by Sathan Should the Angles cure heale vs they could not Should other creatures helpe and releeue vs they could not Then God sent Christ vnto vs who commeth in the Gospell and where the same is preached there he powreth out the supling and healing oyle of grace into euerie repentant sinners heart and bindeth vp all their wounds that is he taketh away all the great anguish and trouble of conscience which ariseth out of the sence and feeling of Gods wrath against sin and feare of euerlasting damnation And here I know that many men esteeme not so highly of this benefit and I meane them who vnderstand not what sinne is what Gods wrath is against sinne and what euerlasting damnation is But I know this also that they who are assaulted with the fiercenesse of Gods wrath and haue daily combate with their owne weakenesse and infirmities esteem nothing so highly in this world as that Christ healeth their broken hearts through the gracious forgiuenesse of their sinnes and bindeth vp the pinching griefe of their consciences in so much that they may boast with the Apostle Saint Paul Rom. 8. there is no condemnation vnto them whose hearts are healed whose wounds of conscience are bound vp and plastered Hereupon they liue hereupon they die that for Christ his sake God is become their mercifull father and they his deare and louing children Therefore sing vnto the Lord one with another with thankes and praise our God vpon the harpe euen yee that doe feele and acknowledge this benefit of God vnto your soules But the Lord God will not suffer it to rest there that he buildeth the wals of Ierusalem but though he be the wholly wise and almightie Lord yet he abuseth not the same vnto tyranny and suppressing of the godly honest but he vseth his wisdome and omnipotencie first and chiefly for the good of man and then next for the benefit of all other creatures For Verse 4 5. He counteth the number of the starres and calleth them all by their names Great is our Lord and great is his power his wisdome is infinite or his gouernement is not to bee vnderstood and comprehended He surely must needes be a wise and omnipotent Lord. The star-gasers labor also and weary themselues very much that they might tell the number of the starres But yet themselues confesse that they onely know the chiefest the greatest and the brightest the tale of the rest they must leaue will they nill they vnto God who both numbreth all the starres and calleth them by their seuerall names and carrieth a goodly gouernement ouer them where the Sun like a King swaieth in his glorious Lordship but other starres as seruants and attendants on him must at seuerall times some at his rising and others at his setting performe their seruice vnto him Now as he doth wisely gouerne the starres so doth he also powerfully vphold them insomuch that the Prophet saith not without cause Great is our Lord and great is his power which is the more comfortable for vs to vnderstand and lay hold on seeing the text further teacheth that God vseth his wisdome and omnipotencie for the good of man and all creatures The Lord saith the Prophet relieueth the needie and abaseth or rather throweth downe the wicked to the ground Which is as much to lay God so vseth his might and wisedome that hee aduanceth the humble and punisheth the proud And this is and euer hath bin Gods custome Go and search throughout all the histories of the old Testament go and search throughout all the histories of the newe Trestament and it will appeare that humility was neuer left vncrowned pride neuer left vnpunished Pharaoh was proud and high minded he must needes perish in the water Moses was humble hee must needs be aduanced Saul was high minded hee was brought downe lowe Dauid was humble hee was aduaunced Sebna was high minded the keies of the house of Dauid were taken from him Eliakim is humble the ●eies were giuen vnto him Humble Hezekim had his life preferued whereas proud Senacherib was robbed of his life and had it at ken from him Hither unto appertaine Gods other benefits which are here recited as namely that he giueth peace vnto his people that hee blesseth them will children and satisfieth them with the flower of wheate and not that only but that he also vseth his omnipotēcy ingenerall for the