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A70378	The true euangelical temper wherein divinity and ecclesiastical history are interwoven, and mixed, both to the profit and delight of the Christian reader, and moderately, and soberly fitted to the present grand concernments of this state, and church / preached in three sermons at St. Martins in the Strand ... by Jo. Jackson.	Jackson, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing J76B; ESTC R24398	51,187	243

fall a telling the panes of glasse as fast as a Papist doth his Beads Is he not often so pursued by the blood-hounds of his owne Conceits as he is forced to cry out with Anthony in Ecclesiasticall Story d Lord quoth he I thirst for salvation but my thoughts scarce will allow mee the hope of it O Lord represse them and save me And if they grow as often they doe so immodest and importunate as they can neither bee prevented by divine meditation nor ejected by fervent prayer nor corrected by serious repentance then man growes a sorry and miserable creature indeed For they jangle all out of tune the sweet Bels of reason and judgement and makes him at the best mopish if not frantick This of the first use the second followes which is The Vse of improofe or Redargution ANd the Elench here lyes directly and point-blanck against the Papists For bring both Religions ours and theirs unto this test and see whether is more pacifique and charitable and by consequent whether is the more Euangelicall and Gospell-like For so farre as my interest in Religion goeth and surely that is a very aery soule whose chiefe rest and stay is not his Religion I shall willingly put it wholly upon this issue But let us a little set out the bounder-stones of this disquisition upon which we are fallen and stretch the scrutiny to that Angelicall birth-Caroll of our blessed Lord Glory bee to God on high and on earth peace and from thence take out this safe and grand rule of enquiry That Religion which gives most glory to God and nourisheth most peace with man let a Crowne be set upon the head of her and let all other Sects bow the knee and cry abrech before her And for the first of these two Touch-stones without any unjust scandalizing of the Papist or any undeserved justifying of the Protestant the termes betwixt us and them stand just thus For the originall of our salvation we place it wholly in the grace of God for the middle of it wee put it wholly in the merits and righteousnesse of Christ and for the end of it wee refer it wholly to the glory of God Thus making God the e Alpha and Omega the front and the reare the beginning middle and end of our salvation On the other hand the Papist cryes in the language of Solomons Harlot dividatur let it be divided For the originall of salvation they make to be partly Grace and partly Free-will the middle they put partly in mans merits and partly in Gods mercy the end they refer partly to the glory of God and partly to the honour of the creature in their Idolatrous worshipping of Saints c. So giving that to the Creature which is proper to the Creator to whom be praise for ever and ever Amen But bring them both to the second touchstone wch is indeed the touchstone of the Text and that Religion which is more turbulent seditious and stormy let it be throwne over-board to lighten the ship of the Church that it miscarry not before it thrust into the f faire Havens And that which is more calme quiet peaceable charitable lesse rampant and more couchant which both teacheth and practiseth the lying downe and dwelling together of the Wolfe and Lambe let it be received and the other refused And here I doubt not but the day will bee ours It is true wee have separated our selves from the Church of Rome and that by right for it was after a thousand Complaints Disputations Protestations against their Errors after many meeke Colloquies and Conferences nervous and sinewy Arguments humble Petitions plaine Declarations grievous sufferings and Martyrdomes and all wee got was scorne and laughter no pity to our side no redresse to theirs So as though the time of our ignorance God passed by yet when he had opened our eyes to see the truth we could not but fall off from them except wee should have proculcated and trampled under foote most faire hopes of immortality unto glory We durst not partake any longer of her sinnes lest wee should be made also to partake of her plagues But yet this our falling off is onely from their doctrine not from their civill society this g defection is from them onely in point of faith not of charity Though the Scepter be departed from them and I hope shall ever so continue yet have they had all faire usage from Cesar all convenient connivences and compliances from the State and Church all freedome and immunities with other subjects in civill matters yet is there so much of the Wolfe and Lyon in them that they will not dwell peaceably with us nor eate and lye downe with us I meane not only in our Churches to serve God with us but not in our Common-wealth in our Citties Townes Villages They are goads and pricks in our sides h they intend evill against us when we dwell without feare by them They strive with us causlesly when we doe them no harme Their coūtenances fall upon us as Cains upon his brother They deride our worship and zeale as Michall did Davids They revile and word-beate our persons as Shimei They plot treason to our State like Athalia And because wee will not seeke far for instances here will come about in the anniversary observation thereof within these three or foure daies a day which stands in our Almanacks like a pillar of salt a day which God made i of a black and unlucky one a most white and happy one to people of England as Lucullus spake in alike case a day which mee thinks they should speake of as Iob of his birth-day k Let that day be darknesse let not God regard it from above neither let the light shine upon it Let darknesse and the shadow of death staine it and let a cloud remaine upon it let it not be joyned unto the dayes of the yeare nor let it come into the count of the months Yea desolate be that night and let no joy be in it Let the starres of the twilight bee dimme let it looke for light but have none neither let it see the dawning of the day because it shut not up the doores of their mothers wombs that no such miscreants and deperdite wretches as they proved should ever have stepped into the world a day which we would forget if they would remember it with such shame and sorrow as would well become them but whereas some of them justifie it others excuse it and some begin to deny it we must be as a thred or gimmall ring about their finger to put them in mind of their sin A plot hatched out of Plutoes braine as Minerva out of Iupiters invented one would imagine not by men but by Cacodaemons a hyperbolicall diabolicall nay hyperdiabolicall plot moulded in the depths of satanicall contrivances in the acting of which what did they meane to antedate the resurrection of all those

u in the eight yeare of Neroes raigne S. Luke the beloved Physitian an Oxe indeed and so the Painters draw him with an Oxe by him for he did write so w in order of all both that Iesus did or taught that he did x mow and low the Gospel abroad over all the world as Albertus Magnus spoke of Aquinas who for his naturall silence and taciturnity was called bos mutus a dumbe Oxe and after with two hornes he had gored all unbeleevers with his Gospel and with his Acts of the Apostles the Annalls of the Primitive Church and had also been a plain itinerant in Preaching the Gospel y in France Italy Dalmatia and Macedonia he z suffered many things for the name of Christ a dyed a holy Martyr although some doubt thereof b S. Iohn lastly having written his Eagle sighted Gospel and towred aloft into the highest mysteries of Divinity seene and written his Divine Revelations founded and governed all the Churches of Asia suffered casting into a hot Caldron of oyle banishment into Pathmos and was a Martyr in will though not in deed being spent with old age died in his second childhood at Ephesus preaching love and charity threescore and eight yeares after the passion of his Lord and Master c And thus much of the foure Euangelists And next unto them let us behold the Apostles of Christ and see whether they also were not sent forth as sheep among Wolves whether in their lives they were not innocent as sucking children and in their deaths As the sheepe before the Shearer Before the Shearer Nay that was not all to be shorn onely they were oves occisionis withall sheepe for the slaughter they light of such Wolves as did not tondere but deglubere not fleece them onely but devoure them also Begin with S. Peter the great Apostle of the circumcision who after he had streamed downe upon the Church such abundance of sincere milk as himselfe styleth it and that at two breasts his two most Catholike most orthodoxe most inspired Epistles and Euangelized abundantly with his tongue in preaching the Gospel as well as with his hand in writing he lastly was crucified under Nero as his Master was but after a diverse forme with his head downward just like a Sheep upon the Cambrell d S. Andrew the Apostle also though he have added nothing to the Canon of Scripture yet much increase came to the Church by the labour of this Oxe for he preached the Gospel in many Countries in Thracia Scythia Achaia went over Cappadocia Galatia and Bythinia unto the Euxine Sea c. and having finished his course he was lastly apprehended by Aegeas the Proconsull shut up in Prison grievously whipped and beaten crucified upon an Olive tree where he hung two dayes Euangelizing to the people e S. Philip f after he had converted almost all Scythia to the faith of Christ at Hierapolis a City of Asia was fastened to the Crosse and stoned to death treading the steps both of his Master and of Stephen the Protomartyr S. Iames g called Iames the lesse and Iames the just and Iames the brother of our Lord and first Bishop of Jerusalem was knockt in the head like an Oxe or Calfe after he had been thrown down from a Pinacle of the Temple and his thigh broke S. Iames h the brother of S. Iohn the Euangelist was about the feast of Easter beheaded of Herod Agrippa S. Bartholomew i first as a good sheep gave his fleece and milk by diligent divulging the Doctrine of the Kingdome and then his skin also like another Zisca the Bohemian Captain for he was excoriated and flead his skin pulled over his eares alive S. Thomas k called the Apostle of India having blown the trumpet of the Gospel to the Parthians Medes Persians Hyrcans and Brachmans and lastly comming into India after he had there also thrust in the tender plants of Christian Religion was by the Kings command thrust through with darts Iudas Thaddeus l after he had like an Oxe strong to labour ploughed up the fallow grounds of Judea Galile Samaria Idumea Arabia Syria and Mesopotamia and had thrown in the seed of the Gospel died one of the glorious witnesses of Jesus Christ some say slaine by the Idolatrous Priests Simon the Canaanite m fellow-Martyr as well as fellow-Apostle with Thaddeus after he had brought the glad tidings of salvation into India and entred Persia together with Thaddeus having by their joynt endeavours brought an innumerable company of soules to subject their necks to the yoak of Christ both together received the crowne of Martyrdome Matthias n elected into the roome of Iudas Iscariot having promulgated the Gospel in Judea and Ethiopia was served like the rest Martyred by the Axe or Hatchet Lastly S. Paul the Doctor of the Gentiles o after manifold labours in taking upon him the care of all Churches and both by preaching and writing giving so much milk that he may be resembled to the Cow in the seventh of Esay which was so fruitfull at the Paile that for the abundance of milk she did give the owner might eate butter Hee I say though he scaped Neroes hands the first time of appearance before him yet the second time he was devoured of the Lyon Thus we have seene not one of the foure Euangelists not one Apostle Saint Iohns miraculous deliverance onely excepted went to their graves Sicca morte with a dry winding-sheet All of them were Lambs Kiddes Calves Fatlings Cowes Oxen Babes in their fruitfull and innocent lives in their patient and silent deaths But we must not here breake off let us continue on the story down lower still from the Apostles and Euangelists unto their Disciples and Scholars and there we shall see the very same that they were Lambs both in their lives and in their deaths 1. In their lives Heare first the Apostles evidence Heb. 11. wch though there spoken of the Fathers of the Old Testament yet most applicable to the primitive Saints of the New Thorough faith they subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnesse obtained promises stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of the fire escaped the edge of the sword out of weakenesse were made strong waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens women received their dead raised to life againe others were tortured not accepting deliverance that they might obtaine a better resurrection And others had tryall of cruell mockings and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment They were stoned they were sawne asunder were tempted were slaine with the sword they wandered about in sheepe skins and goate skins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom the world was not worthy c. Next let Plinius Secundus Vice-roy to Trajan under the third Persecution witnesse who in his Epistles yet extant certifies his Lord about the blamelesse behaviour of Christians and how they did