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A73533
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Jesus Nazarenus, Rex Judaeorum. Or, a tract concerning the inscription fastned by Pilates command
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Bourchier, John, Sir, d. 1660.
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whom God hath called to the inheritance of his Saints in loue stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free not suffering our soules to be entangled againe with the yoake of bondage Gal. 5.1 Their service is nothing but misery and wretchednesse For Mundus decipit Caro inficit Diabolus destruit The World will deceive us the Flesh will infect us and the Devill will destroy us from such Kings Good Lord deliver us Onely O blessed King of the Iewes bee thou our spirituall Soveraigne thou art wise and wilt instruct us thou art liberall and wilt reward us thou art mighty and wilt defend us thou art just and wilt not forget us thou art severe and wilt not suffer the wicked to tryumph over us thou art peaceable yea our peace for thou hast wrought Reconciliation with God the Father who with thee bee glorified for ever-more Fly then thou sinner from bondage to liberty from death to life from misery to glory Behold The King of the Iewes calls thee Come unto me all yee that are weary and heavy laden and I will refresh you Math. 11.28 Here is a Proclamation of pardon for thy revolt if thou wilt seeke it if thou wilt embrace it He that is King of the Jewes waites when thou wilt become his Subject Behold saith hee I stand at the doore and knocke if any man open unto me I will come in and suppe with him and he with me Rev. 3.20 Set open the gate of thy heart and the King of glory will come in Psal 24.7 He will come tibi si credis contra te si non credis If thou receive him with faith and repentance hee will come to comfort thee if neither with faith nor repentance hee will come to confound thee If thou become a Subject hee will defend thee if thou continue an enemy hee will destroy thee Now is Christ comming into thy Soule as once hee came to Ierusalem Oh beleeve that he is thy King entertaine him joyfully cut downe the Branches of old Adams corruption put off the ragges of sinne spread them in the way and let thy Saviour trample on them Receive him with hearty acclamations and say Hosanna to the Sonne of David Blessed is hee that commeth in the Name of the Lord Hosanna in the highest Thus much touching the Office of our Jesus He is a King Now for that a King does necessarily presuppose a Kingdome for they are Relatives the next thing wee are to treate of is his Kingdome There was never any earthly Empire but had his limits and was bounded with some parts of the habitable World The Assyrian Grecian Roman and Turkish Emperors though they spread themselves farre and wide yet was there alwayes some Lands Nations and Kingdomes exempt from their Dominion There was never any earthly Monarchy that was perpetuall but as it had a time of increase so hath it a time of decrease being either by sedition or forraigne invasion or some vice or other brought to ruine herein resembling the naturall body of man which hath a time to bee conceived a time to bee nourished and a time to bee brought unto perfection But when it hath attained his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His full growth it declines againe as the Sunne when hee is come to the Meridian and in tract of time either by its owne imbecility or it may be sooner by diseases or soonest of all by sudden Death droppes into the Grave As it is with this Little world Man so is it with that Great Man the world subject it is to change and alteration Now herein Christs Kingdome exceeds all Kingdomes which as it is boundlesse for place so is it endlesse for time infinite in extent and eternall for continuance Hee shall reigne over the House of Iacob for ever there is his perpetuity and of his Kingdome there shall bee no end there is his infinitenesse The Kingdome of Christ is twofold Superius and Inferius His Kingdome which is above and his Kingdome which is below Or rather they are one Kingdome differenced by two degrees though usually we call one The Kingdome of Grace and the other The Kingdome of Glory The Kingdome of Grace is that which our Saviour sayes is within us Regnum Dei intra vos est The Kingdome of God is within you Luke 17.21 Luke 17.21 wherein CHRIST solely reignes without substituting any Viceroyes or Depuâ—â—â—s For the greatest Monarch aâ—â— the most righteous Christian in the World is in this case but a fellow subject and therefore hath no rule over the Soule or command over the Conscience in matters divine tending to Gods worship though otherwise in matters Civill and Polâ—â—icall For as I have distinguished Christ from a temporall King so may his Kingdome bee distinguished from the other the one being wholly spirituall the other Per se directè wholly temporall This Kingdome or Grace is nothing else but our spiritual incorporation into the mysticall body of Christ being made lively branches of him who is the true Vine being established through faith in Christ This Kingdome consists not in worldly dignities terrestriall Tryumphs Citties Souldiers Councellours but in Righteousnesse peace and joy in the Holy Ghost Rom. 14.17 Rom. 14.17 All are not Subjects of this Kingdome that are visibly in this Kingdome For some there are that are dead Members rotten Branches having a shew of godlinesse but denying the power thereof Some againe there are which bee but Forraigners and Aliens though suffered to trade and traffique in it yet many of these have gotten the outward habite and have learned the Language of this Kingdome and doe so cunningly counterfeit that they cannot bee discerned from true subjects by any but by the King himselfe This Kingdome is but an initiation of the other Here have wee the first fruits there wee shall have the whole lampe this is but an earnest penny that other the full payment in this wee labour in that we receive the reward This is Christs Viâ—eyard that his place of payment this is his Worke-house that his Treasury this is the Field of War-fare that the place of Tryumph yet here we must reigne over our selves before we can be crowned there For Regnum Coelorum sperare non potest qui propria membra regere non potest Hee can never hope to reigne in Heaven who doth not first reigne over his owne members here on Earth This Kingdome is not so secure as the other heere many fall away others are cut off some intrude without their Wedding-garments and are therefore imprisoned as Spyes This Kingdome is often disturbed by sedition of Heresies and Schisme oft shaken by the gusts of persecution often shrewdly undermyned by privy temptations but never overwhelmed For he who is King thereof is the Rocke whereon this Kingdome is immoveably founded Unto this Kingdome all strangers are invited the gates or Ports are shut to none For Gremium Ecclesiae nulli clauditur But some are
looke with the eyes of pitty and compassion upon us most wretched and miserable Caitiffes separate our sinnes farre from us as farre as is the East from the West blot them all out of thy Remembrance cast them behinde thy backe drowne them in the bottome of the Sea that they may never rise up against us to make a wall of separation between thee and our poore soules Nazarenus Flos or Floridus OH thou flourishing Nazarenus thou sweete smelling Flower sprung out of the stemme of Iesse Thou fragrant Rose of Sharon thou white Lilly of the Valleyes thou who containest all sweetnesse in thy selfe in regard of the sweetnesse of thy Vertues manifested in thy holy conversation wherein thou art a sweet smelling Flower for imitation Thou that doest impart thy sweetnesse to us in regard of thy Passion wherein thou didst offer thy selfe to God a Sacrifice of a sweete smelling savour for our Reconciliation Oh thou eternall sweetnesse which wee shall enjoy hereafter in the Kingdome of Heaven draw us with thy delicious Odours after thee yea unto thee Lead us into thy Garden and comfort us with the fragrancy of thy Celestiall Flowers the Violet the Lilly the Saffron the Rose and the Marygold nay make us O blessed Nazarenus spirituall Gardens to thy selfe set in our Hearts some slippes of those Flowers purge us from the weeds of Vice and Wickednesse as Pride Deceit Gluttony Drunkennesse Envy Malice and Disobedience and insteed thereof make Humility to flourish in our cogitations Innocency in our conversations Temperance in our appetites Charity in our affections and Obedience in all our actions to the salvation of our soules the good example of others and to the glory and praise of thee our sweete Nazarenus King of the Iewes OH Thou Soveraigne Monarch of Heaven and Earth reigning in Heaven by thy Glory in Earth by thy Grace and in Hell by thy Justice Oh thou King of the Iewes who hast sole power to command our Soules take us into thy protection who flie under the shadow of thy wings Oh suffer us not to deny our Alleageance unto thee let us never make any confederacy or enthrall our selves to the World the Flesh or the Divell who are Enemies unto thee and would faine bring us into subjection unto them get the Dominion over us and make us their vassals And although all worldlings gluttons drunkards uncleane persons and all that doe continue in wickednesse without repentance have made themselves bond-slaves unto these Tyrants yet grant ô powerfull King that we whom thou hast called to the inheritance of thy Saints in love stand fast in the liberty wherwith thou hast made us free not suffering our soules to be entangled againe with the yoake of bondage Wee know that their service is nothing but misery and tyranny the World will deceive us the Flesh will infect us and the Devill will destroy us from such Kings good Lord deliver us Onely thou ô blessed King of the Iewes be our spirituall Soveraigne thou art wise and wilt instruct us thou art liberall and wilt reward us thou art mighty and wilt defend us thou art just and wilt not forget us thou art severe and wilt not suffer the wicked to tryumph over us thou art peaceable and wilt give us peace with God peace with our Neighbours and peace with our owne Soules which is the peace of a good Conscience Yea thou art our peace who hast wrought our Reconciliation with God the Father to whom with thee oh Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes and the Holy Ghost our everlasting Comforter be all honour and glory world without end Amen A Prayer to Jesus of Nazareth King of the Iewes in the behalfe of the Church and all the Members thereof O Thou sweete Saviour of the World thou Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda thou fragrant Rose sprung from the Roote of Iesse wee humbly beseech thee to blesse thy Universall Church dispersed and despised over the face of the Earth and therein comfort all those that are comfortlesse strengthen those that are weake uphold them that stand raise up them that are fallen Send helpe comfort and consolation in thy good time to all thy Children that bee in sorrow neede sicknesse misery or any other adversity More especially we beseech thee to blesse this Church and Common-weale wherein wee live enter not into Judgement with the crying sinnes of the Land but first remove from us our sinnes and then in mercy take away thy heavy Judgments which are already fallen upon us and which is greatly to be feared will every day more and more befall us unlesse with true and unfeigned Repentance wee turne unto thee O Iesu who art both willing and able to save all those that flye to thee for succour Continue wee humbly beseech thee the rich treasure of thy Gospell amongst us give it a free passage dayly more and more convert or else confound all those that are enemies unto the same and which seeke to overthrow that Church which thine owne Right hand hath planted and whereof thou thy selfe art the chiefe corner-stone sometimes of the Builders refused Reforme those things which are amisse in thy Church and grant that thy Glorious Majesty may bee exalted in this Nation ever-more in sincere pure and holy worshipping of thee To this end O good God powre downe all thy blessings both spirituall and temporall upon thy deare Servant and our most gracious Soveraigne whom thou hast appointed to rule over us CHARLES by thy gracious goodnesse King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Blesse him with thy saving Health annoint thine Annoynted with the sweete senting Oyle of Joy and Gladnesse above all his fellows Let the advancement of thy Honour and Glory be the chiefest aime of his desires give unto him a more than ordinarie strength courage and magnanimity fit to sustaine and beare the weight of so heavy a burthen as the weight of so many Kingdomes are Grant unto him the Spirit of Wisedome discretion and government that with all Equity and Justice hee may these his Kingdomes peaceably and quietly governe Defend him from all forraigne invasions and from the mischievous practices of domesticall Traytors scatter all his Enemies abroad make them like water spilt upon the earth never to be gathered up againe blesse him in life with many happy dayes in death with the peace of Syon and in Heaven with the ioyes of Paradise Blesse together with him with abundance of blessings spâ—â—â—â—all and 〈…〉 Majesties 〈…〉 Queene 〈…〉 Charles 〈…〉 succeeâ—◠〈…〉 with all 〈…〉 â—â—all Pro 〈…〉 excellent 〈…〉 Elizabeth the 〈…〉 Sister with 〈…〉