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A19399	A quaternion of sermons preached in Ireland in the summer season: 1624. By George Andrevve Master of Arts, and deane of Limmericke. The severall titles, texts, time and place are set downe in the next page	Andrewe, George, 1575 or 6-1648.	1625 (1625)	STC 583; ESTC S115917	66,132	116

FOVRTH SERMON Viz. Sions Compasse PSALM 48. Vers 12.13.14 12 Compasse about Sion and goe round about her tell the Towers thereof 13 Marke well her bulwarkes Consider her Palaces that yee may tell it to your posteritie 14 For this God is our God for ever and ever Hee shall be our guide unto death MOst Honourable it is said of Iehosaphat King of Iudah 2. Chron. 19.4.6 that dwelling at Ierusalem hee rose up and went thorough the people of the land from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim and as he went he cried Take heede what yee doe Yov as Vice-Roy of another Iehosaphat are risen up from your Metropolis to goe thorough the people of this Land almost from Dan to Beersheba give me leave I pray to say unto you as you passe along in the wordes of Iehosaphat Take heede what yee doe or in the words of David Compasse about Sion and goe round about her Tell the Towers thereof Marke well her bulwarkes Consider her Palaces that yee may tell it to your posteritie For this God is our God for ever and ever hee shall be our guide unto death But as that which CHRIST said to his Disciples That which I say unto you Mar. 13.37 I say unto all men Watch so this our present Text speaketh unto all witnesse for us Tremelius Tremel Iun. in locum Ecclesiam hortatur He exhorteth the Church that is all the members of the Church And witnesse for them Iacobus de Valentia Iacob de Valent in locum Omnibus Christianis loquitur Hee speakes to all Christians Compasse about Sion that is observe diligently the state of the Church of God What helpes it hath received from God What hurts from man Behold marke consider tell it unto others for it is the worke of God even Our God who as hitherto he hath assisted his Church so he will assist it still hath promised in the Text to be our director aswell in this as in all other good things even unto the end of our dayes This is the Summe of the Text And now to the Parts Which are Two viz. A Precept and A Reason In the Precept I observe Two things The Subject and The Action The subject five-fold And The action five-fold The fivefold subject Sion Sion againe Her Towers Her Bulwarkes Her Palaces All which wee will reduce unto One namely unto Sion The fivefold Action Compasse Goe round about Tell. Marke Consider All which wee will reduce unto Two viz. To Compasse and To Marke Now for the Reason it shewes it selfe to be Twofold Drawne from the cause Finall and Efficient Finall in respect of man To tell it to Posteritie Efficient in respect of God and that Foure wayes viz. His. Greatnesse Elohim God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goodnesse Elohênu our God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eternitie in respect of himselfe for ever and ever Constant love in respect of us untill death Thus much for the Division of the Whole Now unto the Matter as it is branched into his severall parts And first of the First namely Of Sion which is the maine subject of this Text And therefore though it be but a word yet it must take up the largest portion of our Time Sion was one of the foure Mountaines Travell of the Patriarchs p. 7. Psalm 48.2 2. Sam. 5.7 Psalm 48.1 upon which Ierusalem was situated It was the joy of the earth Here was the fort of Sion the City of David nay it 's called The Citie of God Now it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confessed of all sides that Sion for very many respects is accounted The type of the Church of Christ Witnesse Esay Isai 59 20. witnesse David in twentie places of his Psalmes in this respect He saith Many glorious things are spoken of thee Psalm 87. ● thou Citie of God Awake ô my glory Psalm 57.8 my tongue and my heart that I might set forth the prayse of Sion In handling this subject I must propose seven Meditations concerning Sion and so as I passe along to applie it to the Church of God 1 The first Meditation is The compactnesse of Sion like a Citie Psalm 122.3 a tearme used by David who twice also in this Psalme cals Sion by the name of a Citie In everie Citie there is Grex Lex Rex Inhabitants Lawes and Governours So in the Church of God Grex sunt Fideles Lex est Charitas Rex est Christus The Faithfull are the flocke Love is the Law and Christ is the King 2 The second Meditation is Sions fairenesse for so it is commended in the second verse of this Psalme And in our Text there is mention made of Palaces which no doubt were faire yea Sion is called The perfection of beautie Psalm 50.2 Cant. 4.7 Cant. 1.4 So is the Church counted faire in the sight of God It is true that shee calleth her selfe Blacke and no marvaile for whiles shee dwels in this Cabin of the flesh shee is begrimed with the Coales of sinne and sorrow yet the compassionate Lover even her Christ hath washed her with his bloud Revelat. 1.5 Ezech. 16.14 made her faire and perfect thorough his beautie which he hath set upon her Psalm 48.2 3 The third Meditation is the Forme of Sion a Hill for so it is tearmed in this Psal 2.6 and the second Psalmes The Members of the Church Math. 5.14 Homil. 10. in Math. are set upon an Hill for so Chrysostome applies it not onely to the Apostles but ad Ecclesiam sanctorum The whole Congregation of Saints Wee are made a gazing to Men and Angels 1. Cor. 4 9. and it is not much amisse there is little danger in being descried Let them looke upon us that we perish not in the workes of darknesse and being set upon a Hill we are so much the farther from the vale of death But there is somewhat else remarkeable in this Hill of Sion Many of Christs actions were done upon an Hill His Preaching His Praying Math. 5 1. Luke 6.12 Math. 17.1 Math. 28.16 Act. 1.12 His Transfiguration His conference after his Resurrection And lastly His Ascension And all this to quicken our dulnesse We are wedded to this lumpe of Earth We leave the Hill of contemplation and runne into the valley of everie vanitie Oh! Psalm 121.1 That we would Lift up our eyes to the Hils from whence commeth our helpe and aspire by those same Mesilloth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psalm 84.5 Colos 3.1 steps and exaltations to that which is to be found above 4 The fourth Meditation is Sions foundation Rockie for herein was a strong forte 2. Sam. 5.7 Travell of the Patriarches p 9. Psalm 125.1 and probably therefore it was rockie and in the Itinerarie it is directly said that in Sion was a Rocke then Mount Sion as David saith cannot be removed God doth not build his Church upon the Sand. But if the

was this visibilitie two hundred yeares agoe It was not seene before Luthers time I answere That the externall visibilitie and splendor of a particular Church doth not alwayes shine alike You see Sion in the Text but yet in Time it is not seene For a long season Israel was without the true God without a Priest to teach 2. Chron. 15.8 and without Law and yet it was even then the Church of God Doe you not see that the Sun is sometimes under the clouds yet Who doth denie even then the bodie light of the same S. Augustine Aug Epist. 48. compares the Church to the Moone which sometime shineth out at another time it is deprived of a great portion of her light and sometime shineth not at all yet it is though it is not seene And doe you not observe in your owne Element that the fire is raked up in the ashes and in the silence of the night it is not seene yet in the morning when the ashes are removed it is found So That brightnesse and splendor of the Church which shewed it selfe in the time of Christ of his Apostles the Primitive Church was sometimes darkened by the clouds of creeping errors which over-shadowed it and for many yeares oppressed by fraud or force through the injury of men in the time of ignorant and sleeping Prelates Math. 13.25 Tares were sowen and all for the unthankefulnesse of men whom God gave over to beleeve lyes 2. Thes 2 10.11 because they would not beleeve the truth But yet in everie age since the time of Christ unto this day even in the season when Sathan was let loose the Lord hath raised up men Revel 20.3 of an heroical spirit divine understāding who opposed thē selves against the doctrine of the Papacie and eyther by their preaching or writing or suffering or other open testimony gave witnesse to the truth And Though the beautie of the Church of England in the blessed time of King Edward the sixt was besmeared with the bloud of the Saints in the Raigne of Queene Marie that our Sion seemed wholy to be darkened yet even then such a light was kindled by the fire of their Martyrdome that wee trust shall never be put out 7 Lastly wee come to Sions victorie Many are the sorrowes of the righteous saith David so Psalm 34 1● Many are the sores of Sion but at length there is health Manie a wound doth it receive from them without from them within Psalm 129.5 but at last it gets the Victorie They that hate Sion Rom. 16.20 shall all be turned backeward The God of peace shall tread downe Sathan shortly under your feete Even then when Death Revel 20.14 and Hell shall be cast into the lake of fire So that now we may inscribe this propertie of Sion as David doth many of his Psalmes Lamenat seach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vincenti To him that overcommeth But Who is this Conqueror that overcommeth Is there any sensible demonstration of this victorie in the word Yes That so Graphicall and lively a description in the fourteenth of the Revelation Revelat. 14.1 that nothing can be more Iesus Christ that Lambe stands upon the top of Sion What is this that wee heare We have laboured by these XXI steps to climbe up to the top of Sion and now that wee are come thither Whom have wee found standing there Our elder brother our Saviour our Redeemer Socra Eccle. hist lib. 1. cap. 1. In hoc vince In HIM overcome Here let us cast Anchor this is our Period our Haven our Heaven That Sion which is the subject of our Text hath gotten such a crest The Lambe of God such a Christ even Iesus the righteous that nothing could be told us more to our consolation Oh! What encouragement is this to draw us unto the love of Sion when Christ lyeth not downe as overcome but standeth up as a Conqueror on the top of Sion to see us to save us to heare us to helpe us to descrie to destroy our Adversaries that in the fulnesse of time he may reach forth his hand and pluck us up unto the beaurie of our inheritance even to that Triumphant Sion which is above Wee have ended now with all these Encomia set out in a Threefold Septenarie of Meditations cōcerning Sion whereof wee make a Threefold Vse Threefold Vse The first Vse First Vse to outstrip the Papists even in their owne element They are laborious in setting forth the properties of the Church but Wee doe sound forth the Trumpet of her prayses aswell as they It is but a jest of Campian Audito Ecclesiae nomine hostis expalluit No Cāpian Campian ration red acad. rat ● No children waxe not wanne to heare of their mothers name but wee blush to see thy vanitie being more full of Rhetoricall declamation then Theologicall demonstration Wee know that the Church is the Spouse of Christ his Love his Dove his undefiled Cant 4.7.9 1. Tim. 3.15 The house of God the pillar and ground of truth But withall wee know that a Particular cannot be an Vniversall neyther can a Romane be the Catholicke Church Oh! How many impostures doe our Romanists vent unto the world under the name of the Church making it as a rich Arras to cover the mud-walles of their deformities Leo in epistol ad Mona in Palest Their owne Leo may fitly say to them in generall as he wrote to certaine Monkes in particular Ecclesiae nomine armamini contra Ecclesiam dimicatis Yee are armed with the name of the Church and yet fight against the Church The second Vse Second Vse to observe the extraordinarie care that God hath of his Church Sion Sion againe her Towers her Bulwarkes her Palaces Hee commaunds everie Tower to be told nay to be bookt for that seemes to be the Etymon of the word Sipheru Nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liber The Lord takes notice of every Pot in Ierusalem Ezech. 14.20 Exod. 25.38 Yea of the very Snuffers snuff-dishes Oh! with what precise observāce ought the Princes of the earth to take notice of these things Ephes 5.1 Psal 12. ● 7 9. that they being followers of God as deere children may procure the wealth peace and prosperitie of Sion of the house of God The third Vse Third Vse is to stirre up the sonnes of men to runne into the bosome of the Church the spirituall Sion Psal 4.8 23 2 132.8 where they may have their safe repose their repast their rest that God being their Father and the Church their Mother they may be nourished in his family untill they come to their not deserved 1. Pet. 1.4 but reserved inheritance And hitherto of the Subject of this Text namely of Sion Now to the Action which being manifold according to my first Division I reduce it unto Two viz. To Compasse Sion and to Marke