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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

prerogatives given them by the inspired a 1. Pet. 2.9 Apostles of a royall Priesthood a holy Nation a chosen generation c. To whom were the Oracles of whom came Christ according to the b Rom. 9.4 flesh wee doe not onely weigh and paralell blessings with them layd in equall ballance but all things duely pondered wee as farre mee thinkes exceede them as they exceeded once the invironing Nations and this will plainely and perspicuously appeare if wee and they Britam mans and Iewes be compared together as c In his lives Plutarch compared the Greekes and the Romanes both in our best and worst our dignities received from God our obliged yet neglected dueties that wee owe to God wee shall bee found to beare the bucklers from them Repetens ab origine primo to begin then from the beginning c. First wee know the Lord of his meere mercie and Philanthropie entred into covenant with the Iewes gave them the seale of the covenant Circumcision initiated with their father d Gen. 17. v. 1.2 7 9.10.11.12 Rom. 4.11 Abraham he by this e Ioshuah 5. ve 5.6 Deut. 5. v. 1.2.3 covenant elected and selected them from all the Nations Kingdomes and kinreds of the earth to bee a peculiar people to himselfe of them and amongst them he had his Church instituted prescribed and established his owne worship gave them lawes and ordinances Morall Ceremoniall Iudiciall as farre exceeding the lawes of Solon Numa Pompilius Mercurius Trismegistus Adraco or any other Legifers amongst men in equitie puritie and perfection as the Gold exceedes the Brasse or Tynne by these hee hedged and limited them within their bounds all that he exacted of them againe in reciprocall requitall of his mercies was onely f Deut. 5.40 obedience to his lawes and statutes His love he first set upon g Deut. 5 v. 34.35.36.37.38 them and choose them not they him not for any merit or worthinesse that was in them but of his meere mercie and paternall good will adopting them unto himselfe repudiating and in a manner rejecting for a time all other people whom hee shut up in unbeleefe in respect of them as Moses oft times urgeth unto them So to reflect upon our selves for this our English Israell hath not the Lord sequestrated and separated us from Pagans and Heathens yea even from Turkes and Iewes themselves whom for a time he hath rejected for their h Rom. 11.20 unbeliefe to be a Church unto himselfe a people zealous of good workes were we not once as wee may see our faces in the glasse of the i Rom. 1.29.30.31 Romanes k 1. Cor. 6.9.10.11 Corinthians Thessalonians l Ephes 2. v. 2.3 vers 11.12 Tit. 3. vers 3. Ephesians in their pristine estate before their conversion in the uncircumcision of the flesh serving lusts and vaine Idols without God in Christ strangers from God and Aliens from the Common-wealth of the true Israell in the power of m Act. 26.18 death in the power of darkenesse having our very understandings n Ephes 4.18 darkned as ignorant of the true God and of the way and meanes of life and salvation were wee not once even darkenesse it selfe an obscure people even to the world devided and cast out as it were into an unknowne corner and o Divisos ab orbe Britannos etc. Virgil. angle though now as a Candle on a Table as a Beacon on a Hill as a Citie on a Mountaine that cannot bee hid giving light and luster to the gazing and admiring world whose eyes are upon our eminencie * De laudibus Angliae nostrae lege apud Cassaneum in Catalogo par 12. pag. 348. Beromensem in Chronicis lib. 4 but in respect of our spirituall estate wee were like other Gentiles walking in the vanities of our mindes children of disobedience in whom the Prince of the Ayre ruled wilde p Rom. 11.24 olives ere wee were ingrafted But even when we were thus in our blouds the Lord past by us and said we should q Ezech. 16. ver 3.4.5.6 live by the light of his word whether by Ioseph of Arimathea or who else or in the dayes of r The Papists contend that this Isle first received the faith in time of Lucius Anno Dom. 180. And in time of Augustine sent by Gregory Anno 600. but as appeares by some passages out of Bede and Peter Cluanensis yea by Tertullian contra Iudaeos Origen homil 4. in Ezech. we received the Gospell long before the time of Eleutherius eyther by Ioseph of Arimathea as Gildas thinkes lib. 4. de Victoria or by Simon Zelotes as Nicephorus affirmes libr. 2. cap. 4. Lucius or else when I dispute not now I say by this light by blessed organs and instruments we were brought first from Paganish after from Popish darkenesse more hideous then the Egyptian or the ſ De tenebris Chymerijs in Oppido illo in Bosphoro sito Multa Plin. lib. 6. cap. 6. c. 11. c. 13. Et Mela li. 1. c. 4. Chymerian and reduced into the lightsome Goshen of the glorious Gospell called to be a people that before as it were were no people gathered to be a Church yea a glorious Church as any in Europe or in Christendome besides for the continuation of the Gospell the propagation and profession of the true Religion the zeale and sinceritie knowledge and answerable practise of preachers and professors puritie of Gods worship freed in a great measure from the leaven of Popish and Paganish Idolatrie and superstition holinesse of life and illumination of judgement shining in many eminent members as pearles in Gold notwithstanding the nevy and warts and spots and blemishes in this of ours as ever have beene in the best reformed Churches by open profane ones and secret hypocrites as wooden legges to the bodie as rotten boughes to the Tree in the true Church like corrupt humors in the bodie rather then of our Church I say Churches of t Revel 24. vers 14.20 Revel 3.15 Asia of u 1. Cor. ch 3.3 ch 5. v. 1.5 ch 6. v. 1. ch 11. v. 1● Corinth and the best that are or ever were Militant on earth till they be Triumphant in heaven for the number of for the sinceritie and measure of Grace in our present and pristine Proselites true Nachaniels zealous professors and confessors constant and couragious Martyres since the dayes of that Belgicke Elias Luther who have upon tryall I am perswaded still would answere their names of Protestants protesting cōfessing for the faith till death sealing the truth with their bloud reflecting on those I may well say according to my hearts perswasion that our English-Scottish Sion our Church of great Brittaine of all other Churches is as the Dove amongst the Birdes as the Lilly amongst the flowers as the Sunne amongst the Planets Christs owne Spouse though w Cant. 1. v. 4.5 blacke yet faire yea

those of Cabriers and Merindoll as the decree of Asuerus against the Iewes in Persia by the meanes of Haman that cursed p Est 3.9 Amalekite whereupon the poore Merindolians their wives children were as poore sheep slaughtered pell mell hunted into the woods as wilde beasts torne and devoured by Mastives fired out of some caves into which they crept like the firing out of Foxes with such barbarous butcheries as have not beene heard of amongst Turkes and Pagans as also their succeeders exceeders in bloud-thirstinesse Gardner bloudie Bonner Weston Story Hopton Morgan Tonstall Steward who used abused not only Peters keyes of strictest discipline but as once * This Iulius threw Peters sword into Tyber and tooke Peters sword for the warres Iulius a Pope of theirs and * This Iulian caused the yong Polonian King to breake his faith with the Turke by which he perished Knoll● hist of Turkes Iulian a Cardinall even Peters pretetended usurped sword to smite unlawfully not for Christ but against Christ kicking against the * Act. 9.6 prick persecuting and prosecuting him with fire and fagots in his members maliciously as once the Pharisees not ignorantly as once q 1 Tim. 1.13 Paul for five yeares together in that quinquennium Mariae bloudie raigne of Queene Mary effusing in that short space more Protestant bloud as is plaine by computation then there hath beene for Religion effused unlesse for Treason Popish bloud these threescore yeares in our Albion I say these and all such as these which might infinitely be enumerated as birds of that black base and bloudy feather Eagles Crowes Vultures Harpies flocking from Rome to be drunke and drunke againe with the bloud of the r Rev. 17.6 Saints as drunke before with the cup of the Whores ſ Rev. 14.8 fornications I say did such as these give any demonstration that they were ever possessed with Davids heart Davids spirit affection resolution to advance publickly before men the glorie of that God who had advanced them By the best retaliation to stirre up Gods glory who had set up them to honour God by their graces who had honoured them by their great and eminent places Nay verily If persecuting of Christ in the Church his bodie be the praising and lauding of Christ their head if as did once persecuting t Acts 22.3 Gal. 1 13.14 Acts 26.11 Paul their predecessor in blinde bloudie zeale the causing of the Saints to u Acts 26.11 blaspheme as much as they could by their exquisite tragical tortures If this be in the sight of the sunne of all Israel with David to blesse God then I shal unweave what I have woven recant and recall these apostulatorie taxations And if these things were not plaine and undeniable they might hold them as we hold their Popish Bulls excommunications execrations even * See the book in octoavo called Brut. Fulmē Bruta fulmina as meere squibs and paper bullets yea they might account these imputations as I hold their Masses Trentalls Dirges Purgatories Limboes but chiefly their satanicall accusations of our doctrine and Doctors x See their railings in G●ffords Calvin Turcism in Kellisons survay in Feuerdentius upon Iude their hellish slanders in Coccius Bolsterus writing the life of Luther chiefly their calumnies laid downe in our Wallets Tetrast Papismi and answered in D. White his way to the true Church in fine libri and by his apologizing brother since his lamented death al. o in fine libr. Luther Melancton martyr and other our famous English and Belgick lights meere toyes trickes chimeraes fictions and fables SECT II. Davids profession animating and directing professors and profession BVt that which I further urge is this That David publickly and purposely prayseth God I say professedly that I may from Davids practise and president honour this word and tearme of Profession which is almost verbum obsoletum worne out of request banished like zeale and conscience to whom it professeth friendship and affinitie well nye out of the country as was once Themistocles and some well-deserving Romane Patriots as it were by ostracisme or at least entertained and welcommed of most as water into a ship or raine in harvest I am sure strangely and sternely entertained examined like some outlandish disguised man whether it be the kings friend or no. Others whoot at it as at an Owle or an Arabian Monster others flying from it as some roving Orators from their Theames and Texts as though the very plague were in it or on it standing aloofe from it as Iobs friends from a Iob 2.13 Iob as though it were so distressed and persecuted they might get much prejudice by their acquaintance with it Well what strange conceits and imaginations soever we have of this profession the tearme of a Professor being to every moralist and profaner amongst us distastfull as was the tearme of a Galilean to Apostate Iulian of a Christian or Cruciferian to the Pagans of an Orthodoxe to the Arrians of a Protestant held a Lutheran a Hugenote a hereticke to a professed Papist of a disciplinarean Brownist or Anabaptist to a conformitant of a Calvinist to a ridged b Such as was Hunnius Huberus Eccardus in Thessibus in Fasciculo controversiarum and other such hot spurrs who more raile upō and revile the Calvinists as they terme them then they doe the very Papists or the Turkes Psal 1.9 per totum Lutheran yet neverthelesse David is a Professor herein my Text he professeth and proclaimes by his tongue and act his words and practise the service and worship of the true God he Heralds and trumpets out the praise of Iehovah in the eye and eare of all Israell The like profession he makes elsewhere chiefly in the 116. Psal v. 16. Oh Lord saith he truely I am thy servant I am thy servant with an ingemination and resolution not to flinch from that he had said but to stand to it to the verie death with a gratefull acknowledgement of some honourable favours he had received from the best Master Thou hast loosed my bonds freed me as a bird from the snares of these bloudie hunters which by their plots and stratagems thought and sought to intrap me Yea what are all the Psalmes penned and published to be sung by Asaph and the chiefe Musitians before the thousands of Israel in the great Congregation but loud proclamations to the Church to the whole world to present and after times of that neere and deare necessitude union and relation betwixt his God and him he receiving the influence of mercies from God he returning tribute of prayses againe unto God Chiefly in the 119. Psalme which of all the rest for matter manner method quantitie qualitie is as the Eagle or Phenix amongst c The Commentators exceedingly extoll that Psal both for the matter Davids love to the word and manner there being in it as many parts as letters in the Hebrew Alphabet every part