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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

vs from these sinnes that we be not partakers of more heauy iudgements then euer yet we felt What euer it is I feare our future fall for our present neglect of God and godlinesse Now let vs proceed it may be some wil obiect How is it that women as Anna and such tooke vpon them the function and ministery of teaching in the Church sith Paul saith women must be silent and not speake in the congregation I answer although the office of teaching in the Church ordinarily be committed of God to men yet that the Lord may declare his freedome in teaching and that he is a free agent in all his workes and tieth himselfe to no particular he hath sometimes endowed women with a propheticall spirit to publish his praise and such a one was this Anna and of old Miriam the sister of Moses Also Hanna the wife of Elkanah and Hulda the prophetes in the dayes of Iosia And after al in the dayes of the Apostles the foure daughters of Philip the Euangelist Nay I know not how but though in these dayes women be most wanting in filling of Churches following of Christ and publishing his praise yet of old womē kept the doore of the tabernacle and came out with their Timbrels and praised the Lord that Saule had killed his thousand and Dauid his ten thousand and sure I am about Christ women were most officious to do him any seruice either in life or death Mary the blessed virgin and mother of Christ no sooner receiued the message from heauen of the conception in her wombe but her hart was full and she dispatched her selfe into the mountaine country to communicate the newes to her cosin Elizabeth And Elizabeth no sooner heard the salutation but the Babe sprang in her wombe for ioy and she was filled with the holy Ghost and being full she could not but vent it with a crying loude voyce to the praise of her Sauiour Blessed art thou amongst women because the fruite of thy wombe is blessed Where note that Mary is blessed not for her virginity or any worth in her selfe but for that the fruite of her wombe was blessed and yet may I say with Augustine Motherly piety had done Mary no good vnlesse she had caried Christ more faithfully in her heart then she did in her wombe to iustifie that of Christ when they told him Thy Mother and brethren stay for thee Who is my mother or who is my sister or brother saith he euen he that heareth the word of God and doth it he is my mother sister and brother And this is the spirituall kindred we haue with Christ more excellent then the carnal by how much more the soule excelleth the body What shal I say more Women they were that ministred vnto him in his life at his death and after his death In his life when they left their houses country and delights and followed him from Galily ministring vnto him of all their substance At his death when all his acquaintance stood a farre off the women that followed him from Galily beheld these things And women they were that ministred vnto him after his death when they came early in the morning with spice balme and syndone to bury him to whom the Angell sayd Go tell the Disciples that he is risen where obserue that women Factae sunt Apostolorum apostolae And how negligēt soeuer our women be in all duty to God and his Christ yet know they this to their sin and shame and I feare to their iudgement and confusion one day that though they wil not conceiue Christ yet a woman did though they will not receiue Christ yet ● woman did though they will not follow Christ yet women did and ministred vnto him of all their substance though they will not behold Christ in his passion yet women did And though they will bring no spice balme or Syndon to bury Christ yet women did though they will neither come to the Church nor abide in it yet Anna wil and there continue both night and day fasting praying praising the babe Christ. I tell you plaine these women wil stand vp in iudgement against you one day for that they haue followed the Lord and ye are fallen from him they haue lulled the Lord in mercy and ye haue wakened him in iudgement they haue found him in Bethel and yee haue lost him in Bethauen I say in this that they haue bene officious to serue him in all duty both in his life at his death and after death and ye haue neglected him in all serued your selues and done him no deuotion Martha Martha thou carest and art troubled about many things one thing is needfull Mary hath chosen the better part which shall not be taken from her and that was when she sate downe at the feete of Iesus to heare his preaching thereby lodging Christ more truly in her heart then Martha did in her house Hauing thus made good vnto you the sufficiency of restees manifesting Christ his blessed natiuity all of speciall note 1. For Pietie 2. For Paucitie 3. For Perspicuitie It now remaineth that we come to the description of Anna her line life and doctrine of Christ euery circumstance whereof is sufficient to giue credite to the cause she hath in hand and grace her person And first for her name it is worthy ●our consideration that it is a name of worth for Canna by interpretation is gracious Bonum nomen bonum omen of which word Iohn was called the Harbenge● 〈◊〉 Christ And Anna the mother o● Samuel a word proper to both sexes to giue vs to vnderstād that neither is of worth with God but by speciall grace preuenting attending perfecting for by grace ye are saued not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes lest any man should boast And here giue me leaue a little to taxe the pride of this world who giue names rather sauoring of flesh and bloud then of the spirit of God and practise of the godly Such were the cosins of Zachary and Elizabeth who when she said her sonne should be called Iohn Tush sayd they there is none of the kindred that is called by that name which done they left ●he mother and went to the father and made signes how hee would haue him called he wrote vpon the tables His name is Iohn as and if he should haue sayd Some build houses call them by their own names but God hath built me by my sonne and he shall be called Iohn To his further glory god hath made me gracious in that I haue begotten the Harbenger of my Christ my wife is gratious in that she hath borne the Messenger of my Christ and he is gracious in that he may but vntie the shoe latchet of his Christ. Cleipe him not Zachary for the Prophets are ended but cleipe him Iohn for grace is now begun and will

shall finde that from the first conception of Christ in the wombe to the yeelding vp of his Ghost vppon the crosse In articulo mortis the Crosse was euer his companion his life none other then a painfull passion it hath beene euer in the practise of Sathan to maligne the truth and by all possible and potent meanes to bury the Babe in his birth Gabriel no sooner came from heauen with that ioyfulll message but straight waies hee raised a doubt in the heart of Mary so as shee demurred vppon the point and sayd How may this be Being found with child of the holy ghost Ioseph was iealous of his wife What should I say more Herode was cruell and Bethleem was vncourteous when Christ found more humanity kindnesse with the beastes in the cratch then with men in their Courts Sathan stirred vp the Galileans from a high steep hill to cast him downe headlong The Gadorens to driue him out of their cost coūtry The Samaritans to deny him lodging His owne brethren to circumuent him Iewes and gentiles to bandy at his death and to conspire against the truth of his resurrection So as I may well say Inter flagella dat filium He gaue his sonne to the tormentors And the child grewe and waxed strong in spirit and was filled with wisedome and the grace of God was with him Being now fallen into the dangerous daies of the world wherein all the creatures of God are in a wofull declination and there is nothing more geason amongst men then growth in godlinesse I am bold to moue your patience in your wonted piety yet once more to beare with mine importunity whilest I make the growth of Christ a president for your practise and so returne againe to the honor of his Priesthood in whom I told you out of this text three things were of speciall note to proue him perfect man incarnate of the blessed Virgin Mary First his subiection to the law Secondly his subiection to persecution and flight into Egypt Thirdly his subiection to increase in that he grew as a child in body spirit and grace both with God and man Of the two former I haue already spoken now of the last if God wil wherin two things are respectiuely to be considered out of my text That as the child grew in our flesh to make him a perfect man so wee must growe in his faith to make vs perfect Christians And that as our humanity was his to make him the son of man so his diuinity must be ours to make vs by prerogatiue the sons of God And as he through our humanity had feeling of our miseries so we through his diuinity must haue feeling of his mercy If the child increase men may not decrease or degenerate the bowe from the boale the member from the body This child is the boale building and body we must grow vp with him till wee come to bee perfect men euen vnto the age of the fulnesse of Christ otherwise we are but blasted bowes pible stones rotten members neither fit for boale building or body In that he grew it proued him a creature of God by generation of a locall being subiect to alteration like vnto vs in all things sin only excepted In that he grew it ouerthoweth a creation of Christ which some vrge without generation like vnto that of Adam who was made perfect at the first as all other creatures were In that he grew in body and waxed strong in spirit it ouerthroweth the Papists monster of transubstantiation and all power of Priesthood to make Christ of bread or of any other matter or mettle for if he make him he either maketh him a man or a child if a man at the first how then did he grow from a child if a child at the first how then did he grow to a man If Christ so made was a child by generation then the priest was his father if by creation then the priest was his God but he is neither of both but their breaden Christ by vsurpation sitting in the holy places We say Christ was made by the powerfull working of the holy ghost by a perfect generation They say they make him by words of consecration without any generation We say the child was incarnate of the virgin and so grew They say Christ is impanate by them and needeth no growth We say body bloud and bone grewe together in this Child They tell vs nay for the child they make and offer vp is Incruentum sacrificium an vnbloudy sacrifice What should I say more the child we preach is quadratus homo ful of fauour and fairer then the sonnes of men The Sauiour they make hath no spirit life liking or grace ether with God or gracious men The heauen of heauens is his habitation whom we preach and hee sitteth in glory at the right hand of his father A poore box must couer and cary your Gods crouding one another till they moule together and fall to rottennesse But good Lord how long how long shall euil men thus deceiue and be deceaued how long shall the child Iesus be hindred in his growth by such vnkind stepdams● Lurida terribiles miscent acconita nouercae How long shal these vnnaturall mothers make all Nations drunke with the poysoned cup of their popish fornicatiō But leaue we the controuersie and come we to his misery and much mercy which he would effect by weakest means to the consciences of your Christian hearts who heare mee this day and now answere mee in soule as in the sight of God Ballance the iudgments of our God with the inundation of our sins and whilest we see a growth in both let vs grieue vnder the burthē that sin hath increased vertue hath decreased in vs old mercies are wearing out new iudgements are comming on The hand of God goeth forward aboue in this vnseasonable weather nor is it much weakened in his stroke of plague and pestilēce God grant his hand may likewise go forward in the holy worke of our repentance and that we may growe with the child Iesus to the abating of these iudgements Spes est there is hope for that the Lord vsually cōmeth to help when our cause is most desperate when all other succours faile then commeth the suckling child in weaknesse to worke our wonders according to that of Esay 8.4 Before the child shall haue knowledge to cry my father my mother he shall take away the riches of Damascus and the spoile of Samaria We haue stood much vppon our owne strength power and puissance and what is that but as Damascus and Samaria All our good must bee wrought by the weakest meanes and in the growth of a child will be all our gaine Lastly Christ his humanity is cleared in this that he did growe in strength and increased in wisedome and fauour both with God and man But his diuine and

princely Pallace Westminster write vpon thy seats of Iustice and high Court of Parliament write vpon thy Vaults Cells and Sepulchers write vpon thy doores posts and passages Beer-lahai-roi and say Thou God lookest on mee Thou Emperiall seate of great Brittaine fragrant for thy flowers and for thy Coller of Mirtles twisted with the Roses of both houses dignified with the Diadem of Rubies wreathed with the armes and supporters of both kingdome I say thou great Brittaine famous as at the first for thy old name honorable now for thy new birth and euer blessed for thy happy and so desired an vnion whereby our former ruines are repaired streames of bloude are stopped old malice is worne out and deadly fude is forgotten for all which abundant great mercies as also for this thy late deliuerance write Ruhamah Ruhamah Mercy Mercy Write vpon thy Ports Holds and Castles Mercy Write vpon thy Towers Townes and Temples Mercy Write vpon thy fields waies and wastes Mercie Write vppon thy Corne Coine and Cattle Mercy Say the Lord hath had mercy vpon vs hee hath had pleasure in his people and hath made the meeke glorious by deliuerance For all which Mercies say God is my King of old the helpe that is done vpon the earth hee doth it himselfe Say with Eliphas Iob his friend but Great Brittains Prophet When others are cast downe then shalt thou say I am lifted vp and God shall saue the humble person for the innocent shall deliuer the Iland and it shall be preserued by the purenesse of thine hands Innocent King innocēt Queene innocent Prince Peere Prophet and people if not for fiftie sa●e yet for fortie If not for fortie yet for thirtie If not for thirtie yet for twentie If not for twenty yet for ten iust persons the Lord hath put by this terrible blow of these wicked Shebaes For should not the God of al the world do according to right Pleade thou our cause O Lord with them that striue with vs and fight thou against them that fight against vs Let them not say in their hearts There there so would we haue it neither let them say We haue deuoured them Which and if they had then might wee haue said with the prophet There is a crying in the streetes all our ioy is darkened the mirth of the world is gone away in the Cittie is left desolation the gate is striken with destruction Then might we haue sung with Dauid the mournfull Lamentation hee vttered of his King to his Country O noble Israell hee is slaine vpon thy high places how are thy mighty ouerthrowne Saul and Ionathan were louely in their liues and at their deaths they were not diuided Then might wee haue said that vpon the fift day of Nouember we should neuer haue kept merrie feast the day of the dissolution of so blessed an estate We might haue said indeede that this yeere 1605. had beene a yeere of Reuolution and that Tuesday were our dismall day Criticall in Scotland the fift of August for Cowry his treason and dismall in England the fift of Nouember for Faukes his designe plotted by bloudy Papists the bane of Christendome and Dolmans dogges now warranted by a new doctrine to barke at Kings and bite the Lords annointed if they be not pleasing to their deuotions And here a little pardon me in your patience if in further detestation of Popish Impietie I let you see a strained Paradox of that enormeous sect who to make good their foule fault of parricide for what are Kings but nursing fathers to the Church of GOD haue brought in a doctrine to maintaine that the Pope may depose subiects may depriue their kings both of life and liuelihood if they faile in faith or obedience to the Apostolike Sea as may appeare by Dolman Cymanca Rosseus and Feu-ardentius belowes aduanced to blow the fire of distempered spirits pointing at nothing more then woefull desolation if by distraction of parts and dissolution of the whole they might bring into Christian states confusion the mother of ruine and all mischiefe Surely if not to pray for a king be an vndoubted sinne it is a greater sinne to thinke vpon the killing of a King to commit the murther and doe the deede is double to that but to traduce and draw the lawfulnesse thereof into a doctrine thereby to poyson the posterity is a treble sinne and wel deserueth a double death But it is no wonder to see such workes flie abroad from Italienated spirits who haue filled the world with the froth and furie of their owne madnesse one is not ashamed to write a book in praise of Sodomy another to put out proiects and pictures of shameful villany and why not Dolman with the rest of his ranke and rabble Authoritate Apostolica to write books in praise of Parricide and that not of meane men but of Magistrates yea euen of Kings and of the Lords annointed But good Lord how long and what will be the title of their next treatise surely some Popish Pamphlet or other of mentall reseruation to maintaine a moderne mischiefe by a Popish paradox but we will leaue them to the lust of their extrauagant thoughts and still follow the streame of the Lords many goodnesses and mercies towards vs and as of the present so with some memorie of precedent mercies whereof we may say that if euer any people vnder heauen felt the royall presence the particular prouidence or stable promise of their GOD in familiar sort it is and hath beene this English Nation The time was when Tullie said of our pouerty to Trebatio In Britannia nihil esse audio neque auri neque argēti I heare there is nothing in great Brittaine either of gold or siluer but were Tullie now aliue to see how the Lord hath enriched this Nation with his hidden treasures and made it of more esteeme then those hills of robbing Rome he would cease to mocke at our pouerty and admire our plenty whose earth is an Eden and Clowdes drop downe fatnesse The time was when a Pagan Poet plaide vpon our barbaritie ioyned vs with Scythians put vs out of the world and said Britanni diuisi ab orbe but were he now aliue to see how God hath softned our hearts with the sweet rellish of his heauenly science Quae Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros he would cease to say Orbis in vrbe and thinke the whole world were within our continent The time was when all our garments were tumbled in bloud and as in Troys destruction so in ours bright burnings gaue vs light when diuers conquests sundry inuasions the Barons warres with the destruction of the houses of Yorke and Lancaster and many a foughten field betweene the two Kingdomes rent our state and wasted it with much fire and wofull hostilitie But now by the prouidence of almightie God our Riuers runne milke the houses with the Kingdome are both vnited in a peaceable