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A01580	Hold fast a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse vpon Sunday being the xxxi. of October, Anno Domini 1624. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11705; ESTC S115878	32,349	76

a fiery and bloody triall prize not this transitory life aboue the word of life Gods Gospell and aboue the Lord of life Gods only begotten Sonne and aboue eternall life Gods bountifull and free gift Reu. 2.10 Esto fidelis Be thou faithfull vnto the death and Christ shall giue thee the Crowne of life Thou that art a fruitefull Vine planted by Gods owne right hand and watered with the dew of Heauen take heed that thy branches be not torne away by the violent blast of persecution when God shall be pleased to suffer such tempests to trouble the lower region of the Ayre in this militant Church Hath God planted thee in a fruit full hill Esay 5. fenced thee and gathered out the stones from thy Vineyard by Reformation take heed that thou suffer not thy fence to be troden downe be watchfull that the enuious man doe not throw in againe those stones by deformation Be carefull also that thy boughes and limmes be not stollen away by night by those that creepe through the hedge into the vineyard Take heed that the little foxes do not vndermine thine inclosure and purloine away thy best fruit when they pretend to look another way and professe onely to request courteous harmlesse harbour for a while in thy ground but in the mean time work themselues in dig their earths and bring in their yong cubbes thither which will soone learne not onely to climbe vp to the top of the vine and crop the fairest branches but also scratch vp the root of it Of these I will say nothing let the Spirit speake Cant. 2.15 Cant. 2.15 Take vs the foxes the little foxes that spoyle the Vines for our Vines haue tender grapes That I dwel not too long vpon Vniuersals giue me leaue now to descend vnto particular application of this precept by discussing what kind of Church it most properly concernes and who are they that fruitfully vse or peruersely abuse this wholesome spirituall counsell Tene quod habes Hold that thou hast First for the hauing The Church of Rome arrogateth vnto it selfe the prime possession of this spirituall tenure that they only hold it in Capite from Christ himselfe in their own head the Pope that al other Christian Churches are but vnder-tenants as holding by deriuation of petty leases from this vniversall Land-lord that they haue an indefeasible perpetuity therof as intailed vnto the Pope sibi haeredibus in perpetuum to him his heires world without end that other Churches haue no other Charter of it then a Transcript from that Originall and no longer can hold it then whilest they are conformable and seruiceable in Tenancie of vassalage or villenage to the Lords of the Mannor of Rome A vaine fond incroching forgery of vsurpation as authenticall as the pretended donation of Constantine of the patrimony of Saint Peter and other priuiledges vnto Siluester the Pope To these we may wel say with the Apostle Came the word out from you 1. Cor. 14.36 or did you preach the same 1. Cor. 1. or were wee baptized into the name of S. Peter or S. Paul If Prioritie imply originall tenure in faith surely Ierusalem must bee the grandmother Church Isai 2.3 For de Sion exiuit lex Out of Sion shall goe forth the Law and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem The ancient Fathers reckoned not one but many Tertul. de Praescript aduers Haret Ecclesias matrices originales fidei motherly originall Churches wherein the faith was planted seuerally by diuers Apostles not by one And therfore whersoeuer any church can shew conformity vnto the Charter of the Scriptures it may rightfully plead this Habeo as well as any other the Church of the world As for the church of Rome we deny not but in the primitiue and better times it might wel say Habeo I haue this pledge of Truth Teneo I keepe it intire and sincere But the present Roman Church or rather the Papall faction in the Westerne Church hath long since left that Hold the present Church there hauing little else but locall prescription for propertie herein The ancient Christian Romans according to the instruction of the great Apostle expressed vnto them were not ashamed to hold Rom. 3.24 that we are iustified freely by grace The present in Rome or depending on Rome imbaseth this doctrine by mixture of workes preparatory satisfactory and superrogatory The old Christian Romans were so obedient vnto their Instructors as to imbrace his doctrine when he said Rom. 13.1 Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers The now new Romanists subduce from this yoke their Clergie and Votaries nay they subiect the Scepter of Princes to the Popes becke S. Chrysost in Rom. 13. Chrysostome vpon the aforesaid words of the Apostle said Si Propheta si Euangelista Though thou be a Prophet or an Euangelist yet thou art a subiect to the higher powers And S. Bern. Bern. Qui conatur excipere tentat decipere He that would except any goeth about to deceiue But the moderne Order of Iesuits are more learned then these Fathers and more wise then the very Apostles of Iesus The ancient Christian Romans learned of S. Paul Rom. 10.14 How can they call on him on whom they haue not beleeued And therefore as they beleeued only vpon God in Christ so in prayer they called only on him But the present Romanists fill their churches altars of Inuocation oblation with ten Saints for one Christ The old Romans beleeued S. Paul when he wrote vnto them Stipendium peccati mors Rom. 6.23 the wages of sinne is death But the new Romanists distinguishing of sinnes mortall and veniall maintaine that there be some sins for which death is not due The old Romans beleeued that eternall life is the gift of God Rom. 6.23 but the new that it is due to the worth of good workes The ancient Christian Romans learned no doubt the same doctrine of this Apostle which he taught their brethren the Corinthians 1 Cor. 11.26 As oft as yee eat this bread and drinke this cup ye shew forth the Lords death vntill he come But the new Romanists robbe vs all of the Bread by a pretended Miracle of Transubstantiation and the Laitie of the Cup by a tricke of Concomitancie But I am not here to read a Lecture of the differences and degenerations of the present Roman Church which are soundly and plentifully demonstrated by the lights of the reformed Churches in their controuersall Bookes Only this I inferre that of all Christian Churches that I know extant this day in the World the Roman troope especially in the superlatiue Tenents of the Iesuites can least of all iustifie themselues and say either Habui quod teneo I had it from Christ that which I now hold or Teneo quod habui what I receiued from Christ and his Apostles I still maintaine intire and incorrupt such

mee and for all that loue his comming And surely if wee loue this his comming wee cannot loue sinne nor the world nor our flesh as it is sinfull and wee cannot but loue our brethren who shall bee knit together with vs in one bundle by the Angels that shall gather vp Gods haruest The last thing we are to consider is the celeritie of this comming 3. Cito Vento cito I come quickly This expectation is not long our deliuerance is neere at hand Venio not veniam not I will come but I am now comming I come and that quickly Heere the Epicure and worldling obiecteth Obiect where is this citò quickly How quickly when as so many ages haue passed since his promise was vttered and yet he is not come Of these Saint Peter prophecieth that there shall come in the last daies scoffers 2 Pet. 3.3 saying Where is the promise of his comming Nay but they arme themselues with a pretended reason from experience For since the Fathers slept all things continue as they were Our Fathers haue runne their race and other generations haue succeeded and yet the world indures yet no dissolution of it by any such comming of the Sonne of man to iudgement That God may be iustified Resp and men found lyers hereto we answere First to the Persons Marke what those obiectors are Scoffers and men walking after their owne lusts The cloud of lust hath darkened in them the light not onely of religion but also of reason They are willingly ignorant Secondly to the matter it selfe 2 Pet. 2.9 There can be no slacknesse in God such as men account slacknesse Men make a false reckoning of those times and seasons which God hath kept in his owne bosome To Gods eternitie such times can make no difference with him a thousand yeares are as a day and a day as a thousand yeares Nouissimi dies are to him all the time of grace after the first comming of the Sonne of man in the flesh Lastly wee must interpret Iudgement not only as generall to the whole world but also as particular to euery singular man In the first Christs comming hath depended many large reuolutions of naturall time and how long it shall he only knoweth that commeth In the second acception Christ commeth to euery of vs Citò very quickly in a proper sense First in regard of the shortnesse of their liues For euen those that liue vnto decrepid age yet passe away Citò quickly The life of man is but a span long our dayes passe like a Weauers Shuttle nimbly our life ends like a tale that is told Secondly our owne luxuries fill vs full of diseases which yet more shorten this our short day of life and set our Clock forward that it striketh dead before the time of our naturall circle is gone about Nay where moderation and care is vsed for preseruation of health yet God for our sinnes sendeth common scourges and calamities of ranging publike diseases by the distemper of the Aire and seasons or otherwise Hereof at this present we feele a taste not only in this City but also generally through this Land by strange new feauers God giue vs the grace to bee true Physicians to see the cause thereof in our selues namely our common sinnes which make diseases so common amongst vs and to apply the true cure Repentance And withall to giue him thankes that in this great and populous City he spareth the fearefull Rod of the Plague in this sickly season Lastly hereto I adde that meanes of particular dissolution whereby in most proper sense God may be said to come Citò quickly and call vs before we bee aware vnlesse we remaine in perpetuall actuall preparation and that is by sudden vnexpected death whether by inward vnknown and vnfelt diseases which sometimes extinguish our Lampe in a moment when wee thinke our selues in best health and strength or outwardly by inundation of Deluge as Noahs Floud When men were eating and drinking the Floud came or by casualtie as by Thunder from Heauen by Earthquakes such as haue swallowed vp euen whole Cities Euseb and some neere the place whereto my Text is written I meane in Greece and some parts of Asia or by ruine of those houses which we inhabite for a shelter to vs so Iobs Children feasted their last when a mighty winde vnioynted the house and their bodies Beloued Christians heere remembrance both dolefull and ioyfull biddeth me stand still and looke neerer home This place but much more this time wherein I speake bids me recount the workes of God This day wherein I speake standeth in center and equall ballance betweene two dayes which I must neuer forget The one of publike danger intended by men but preuented by God the other of danger and damage not intended by men but permitted and disposed by God The one by common gratulation yee are to celebrate in this place fiue daies hence being the fift of our Nouember the other is fit for me to record in my personall thankesgiuing being past fiue daies since namely the sixe and twentieth of October I will not say the fift of the Roman Nouember In both of these the case hath a Venio citò a most sodaine vnexpected dissolution The one intended of our whole State represented in a publike solemne Assembly the other vndergone of some priuate persons in a concealed Conuention In the one Gunpowder Treason the Agents were Romish plotters and pioners Antichristian Molewarps working a most prodigious and neuer paralelled Treason in a subterraneous Vault when with one sulpherous blast there had beene like to haue beene brought a generall destruction vpon Moses and Aaron Princes and Peeres Commanders Commoners yea Church and Common-wealth neither wanted there any thing to the ripenesse and perfection thereof but the last hand to act it In the other were Patients some Romishly seduced but God forbid that I should entertaine so vncharitable a thought as to compare the one to the other in intentions or affections God ouertooke the one in their owne snare and brought them to punishment for their barbarous attempts the other gasped their last in the place and act of their Deuotions The fall of the house at the Blacke-Fryers where perished about an hundred persons being present at a Iesuites Sermon In what manner or measure of chastisement or punishment God came to these when hee cut off their daies tam cito by such a sodaine downefall I cannot I may not iudge their persons I leaue to him that shall come to iudge them and vs all But as for my selfe let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth if I doe not vncessantly acknowledge Gods speciall mercy to mee who spared me from this Veni cito as if hee had vouchsafed me a priuiledge of longer time of repentance which surely in that case I was of corporall and spirituall danger I could not expect much lesse deserue I ran with others into errors nay deeper then others in respect of my Vocation and Profession Math. 9.13 yet hee that calleth not the iust but sinners to repentance preserued this my life when I was ouerwhelmed with the ruines and rubbish of that dolefull house in this Citie not farre from this place Hee that saith to euery of vs Behold I come quickly by the approach of corporall dissolution saith now to mee Beholde when I came quickly to many others round about thee I came not then to thee by vntimely death that that thou mayst come to mee by timely repentance and due thankfulnesse What now remaineth for mee but with the Prophet Dauid to say from my heart The Lord hath inclined his eare vnto mee Psalm 116. therefore will I call vpon him so long as I liue The snares of death compassed mee round about and the paines of hell gate hold vpon mee I was in misery and hee helped mee I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the Name of the Lord. I will pay my vowes vnto the Lord in the sight of his people euen in the midst of thee O Ierusalem The God of Peace who hath redeemed and sanctified his Church by the euerlasting Couenant of his most precious blood sanctifie vs all throughout in Soule Body and Spirit that wee holding fast that holy Faith which wee haue receiued may with hope and ioy heare that blessed voyce Behold I come quickly Euen so Lord Iesus come quickly Amen FINIS