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A68403	The ioy of Ierusalem and woe of the worldlings. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 18. of Iune. 1609. By William Loe Batcheler of Diuinity.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1609 (1609)	STC 16685; ESTC S102897	35,331	132

institution Inwardly being washed from their blood with that clean water which Ezekiel speaketh of washed Ez. 16. 9. in mine owne pretious blood which maketh their garments white contrarie to al other blood which staineth for so haue the Saints washed themselues and Apoc. 7. 14 their robes washed also in the lauoure of the new birth wherby Tit. 3. 5. they are regenerate to life euerlasting 6 I pray for them which are mine Illuminats by purpose which once were darkenes but now are light in the Lord for I enlighten euerie one that commeth into the world but not any that loueth the world These dwell in Goshen where is alwaies light and all other sit in darkenesse and in the Aegiptian shadow of death These mine Illuminates are pure in hart being purified by faith they therfore see God in a three-folde mirrour 1. They see him in his word in the mirrour of Iesus Christ 2. They see him in his works with Mat. 5. 8 another eye then the worldling doth in the great displaied book of heauen and earth 3. And lastlie heereafter shall see him face to face in heauen with Iesus Christ and the holie Angels 7 I pray for them which are mine Associates by promise partaking of mine owne name beeing Christians Act 11. 26 At Antioch they were first called Christians now heere and in all the Christian world Saint Ambrose his iudgement of these Associates was so deere that hee reades that place Gal. 5 24. Qui sunt Christi in the nominatiue plurall not as it is vulgarly taken in the genitiue singular As if hee should obserue that so manie Christians are so many Christs by reason of this holy and heauenlie vnion and Association The vse then blessed Brethren is that wee seeke and endeuour by all might and meanes to correspond these gratious glorious and ennobled titles Otherwise what are wee with these pretious titles but like the boxes and pots of the Apothecarie which outwardly haue some goodlie exotique inscription when within is some vnwholesome vnsauory drug or like the Mahumetanes which at this day call themselues Sarasins as if they came of Sara the free woman when as indeede Zozom Eccles Hist 6. 38. they are Hagarines of Hagar and Ismael as Zozomen a thousand yeares agoe obserued which appeareth euen yet by their wicked and dissolute condition at this day Or like those that row in a bote sit with their faces toward you but row the bote backward so some make semblance of going on in a direct course and christian carriage when their actions and proceedings are directlie contrariant With such I may expostulate and say what hast thou to doe with the name of Sonne when like a bastard thy condition is to shame thy father and dishonor thy mother Thou causest God whome thou boastest to bee thy father to bee contemned and the Church thy mother to be despised What hast thou to doe with the name of Saint when as thou art a Slaue to sinne and a bondslaue to sathan what hast thou to doe with the title of Prince or Priest when as thou canst finde in thine heart nay boast of it that thou art an agēt against Prince Priest in the vilest actions Or why boastest thou of the honour of beloued when as thou art hatefull to God good men or of thy Baptism seeing thou art of that folish Pro. 30. 12 fond generation that are pure in their own conceit and art not clensed baptized from their vncleannes Or of thine Illumination when as thou gropest at mid-day as did the ancient heretikes the Gnostikes who imagined that they had an impropriatiō of Gods spirit that none had true knowledge but they and as the Anabaptists Iesuits with the late foūded order of the confoūded congregatio Oratorij who at this day in this glorious light of the Gospell of Christ grope in Cymmerian darknesse and gape after vnwritten reuelations Lastlie what haue you to doe with the name of christian when as ye are indeed Cretians of whome that of Tit. 1. 2. Epimenides is fully verified The Cretians are alwaies liars euil beasts slow bellies But I am perswaded better things of you my brethren Attend you therefore as Sonnes and if ought afflict you call and crie vnto your heauenlie father who doth tender you as Sonnes and as Saints resolue that here we haue no abiding Citie but we seek one to come let your conuersation bee therefore as they that looke for so glorious an estate in heauen And as Princes and Priests Psal 119. 164. Dan. 6. 10. with Dauid seauen times a day and with Dauid three times a day Pray praise the Lord. You that are the beloued of the lord let neither life nor death separate you from that vnspeakeable loue nor the power of darkenesse nor the gates of hell for none of all these preuaile against the beloued of the Lord. And as truely Baptized children and washed in the righteousnes of Christ say with the spouse in the Can. 5. 7 Canticles I haue washed my feete how should I defile them I will by no meanes wallowe againe in the mire You are illuminated of the Lord by the pretious eye salue of his truth being blind and darkned before through the ignorance that was in you Giue glorie therfore vnto the Lord as the blind in the Gospel who were restored to their sight And lastly as true christians associated to Iesus Christ bee zealous in the Lords seruice as were the Christians in the primitiue church who being in persecution and dailie subiect to bloudie butcherie yet praied and praised the Lord in the dens caues of the earth as Plinius Secundus euen their aduersarie in the time of Traianus the emperour testifieth of them But you blessed brethren haue your oratories open your pulpits frequented with free and gratious passage let not the feruencie of these distressed Christians rise vp against you in the day of iudgement who are thus blessed euerie way and beloued euerie day of the Lord of heauen and of earth that he may pray for you and so you may be euermore blessed in the surpassing fauour of Iesus Christ Remember also that as you are thus designed by titles of fauour and honour that you also shew your selues both to your owne soules to others as the people that are distinguished and separated from the men of this world For our Sauiour heere in this place saith I pray not for the world but for them which discretiue But distinguisheth demonstrateth that you are not of the world albeit you are in the world That you are not of the world three infallible notes of separation must declare And here let no man traduce this word Separation for I vnderstand not thereby anie Anabaptisticall or Brownish seperation but the same that Paul meneth though in a diuers matter For as he speaketh of Separation or setting apart of Preachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ro.

But their precedent generation hath denounced a woe against saying Woe be vnto them that either wash or clippe the coine whereon the Lord hath set his stampe Yea your ancestours commonly vsed these words in their donations Let their Ex aribiuis ●alleg Gland accoūt be without fauor in the day of the Lord whether they be our heires or successors who shall dare to diminish or alter the lands reuenues and inheritance that we haue consecrated to the Lord. If the iudgement of your elders be required this impious and iniurious surprising of Church estates hath beene condemned both by Christian bishops and also by Christian Emperors who euer were willing rather to lay downe their liues then that the prosperity of the church should bee impeached or the goods thereof wickedly imbeazeled or diuerted from the godly intendments of her well disposed benefactors But you see beloued that Christs Church hath bene surprised and dispoyled of her possessions that whereas the Psalmist saith The earth is the Lords The men of the earth with their earthly mindes haue left our Lord as the Iewes no place to rest his head so they no land to set his foot vppon Hence are your lacklatines your lacklearnings which you fondly and furiouslie obiect vnto the reuerent Beaupeers of the church the Bishops whereas you your selues haue made such priests by robbing the Church as church-Pyrats by famishing the Church-men in taking away their bread and liuelihood by vsurping the possession of others For who should serue your foure pound fiue pound twentie nobles cures if such were not ordained to holde your plough your Church and parish would lie fallow yea that poor pittance which is left to maintaine a few better qualified persons is so caught and dailie vndermined by bare weather beaten desperate courtiers forlorne Gentlemen Cyclop●cal scatizers that al wisdom godlie policie of the reuerend Bishops and faithfull councellers of state vsing their best endeuors vtmost fidelitie is little enough to retaine it so far are they from any hope of a succession or godlie deuoted generation who would studie to promote the wealth of the Church But let this generation know that the world is giuen vp to a reprobate sense and if they follow it they also are in no better estate Good Lord where is the blessing and fruite of the ancient time Happie is he that preacheth to an attentiue eare and to an intelligent heart and an obedient soule Worthy Ridley in one sermon to that famous renowned Christian Prince Edward the sixt preuailed that Christ-Church hospitall the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomews in Southwarke and Bridewell were at once erected But now in an hundred Sermons the ministers of Christ must become like to the Friars Mendicants and yet not so far preuaile euen in this place with this Hono. citie us to purchase entertainement I hope I shall be the last that euer shall mention it And to conclude my blessed brethren seeing that al the things of this world are accursed without Christ se● before your eies Paul and Dauid as presidents and motiues to exhort you to resolution Paul was crucified to the world Gal. 6. 14. and the world to him and accounted all things as losse and dung for the lucre Phil. 9. 8 of Christ And Dauid wondred That any man should desire ought in heauen but the Lord or esteeme any thing in earth in respect of his God Let vs not then bee like sucking babes who rather cleaue to their nurse then to their owne naturall mother This world is our drie nurse the Church is our true mother Let vs then that are able to receiue strong meat learne to distinguish But if for al this you despise this counsell set at naught these aduertisments and addict your selues wholly to the world listen and heare how the world will deale with you in the end Serue it neuer so long yet as Churlish Laban dealt with Iacob in bringing foule Leah to his mariage bed insteed of faire Rachel so the world wil promise you gladsomnes but will performe loathsomnesse will promise you the finest and gaiest speciousnes but will performe with you in deceitfull spitefulnes Let the experienced say if by the world they found any thing but worldly care in gaining the world wordly fear in retaining it worldly sorrow in losing it Yea this is the meede of their life and in their death insteed of Tumulus giue them cumulus an heape of stones as had Achan who touched the execrable thing so these haue some painted Sepulcher or some specious or pompous funerall and there is Catastrophe the guerdē that the world affords them But you beloued and blessed in the Lord lift vp your hearts to him that praieth for you in whome you are the Sonnes the saints the Princes and Priests the Beloued and the Baptized the Illuminates and Associates of the highest by whose sufferings you are seperated and distinguished with works of saluation from the residue of the world through whom God dwelleth in you by the liuerie and seison of his gratious spirit in this life and will after this life is ended be in full possession of you both in soule and bodie eternallie in the glorious rest of heauen To moue you now therfore to are solution to leaue this world all worldly fleshly and diuelish practises of the worldlings and such as are ex diamet●o contrariant to all heartie and vnfained Christians to cleaue vnto the Lord that doth thus pitie you in praing for you honour you in making choice of you frō among others and in gracing you by vouchsafeing to receiue you as pledges of his fathers loue and accounting you as his own I cannot propone a more forcible motiue to stir vp and quicken your hearts to a sad serious thankfulnes then to put you in minde that you certainely are the people that Christ hath praied for euen you I meane the faithfull of this Land and state who haue sought the Lord in sinceritie and hearty deuotion And that I may not now in the Epilogue of this my weake endeuour send you farre backe I shal desire you to looke and with open and displaied eies beholde the louing kindenes of the Lord toward our kingdome and countrie euen in the memory view of our whole nation and all Christendome How escaped we the furious and mischeeuous complotments of manie weightie and malitious deadly enemies in all the peaceable raigne most happie and neuer enough admired gouernment of that deere Lady our late soueraine Qu. Elizabeth of pretious memorie Did not Christ pray for vs when all those secret designements popish thunder Cardinal conspiracies Iesuiticall proiects and domesticall treacheries were discouered set vpon the stage Did not Christ pray for vs when our state tottered at the decease of our late Soueraigne and to the wonder of al the Christian world did as an earthquake shake settle in a moment when all nations about vs stood looking at the things likely to ensue What frustrated the Popish prophecie of Worthing tō the Iesuit when forespeaking as he hispaniolized traitor wished That the fall of one Ladie would be the raising of an other Meaning that the death of Ladie Elizabeth would bee the Diadem of Izabella Infanta Eugenia Clara who brought to scorne also the surmise of Weston the Iesuite another false prophet who seeing his fellow Worthingtōs spel take no effect went on and tooke longer time as the manner of bankrupts is and said That the sinnes of England were not ripe at the death of Weston de tripl offic Queen Elizabeth But when England had fulfilled the measure of her sinnes as the Ammorites did then would the Lord vtterly destroy vs. Which Gen. 15. 16 prophecie of his doubtl●s intended the powder Treason which if it had beene effected then had Weston deserued to haue been notified with a red letter in the list of Anabaptisticall prophets But then euen then also Christ Iesus praied for vs and Worthington with his coopse-mate Weston are found lyars and we our prince and people are maruellously and miraculously deliuered from the sulphurous blast complotted at Rome proiected at Rhemes fortified at Doway practised in England yea and that which was some certain yeeres in intendment and purpose was frustrated in a moment Oh then seeing not onely the whole land but euen the very particular person here present can capitulat in specie what great things the Lord hath done for them where in we now reioice let it be sufficient for me to commemorate in generall and for euerie one of vs in indiuiduo to commune with his owne heart and write this lesson there with the pen of a Diamond that neither day nor night tide nor time weale nor woe may obliterate or blot out the character of his diuine lesson and angelicall consolation but resolue that our whole life bee a deuoted sacrifice of thankfulnes seruice to the liuing God of eternal maiestie through Iesus Christ our faithful intercessor to whom with God the father God the sanctifying spirit be rendred al power praise might and maiestie this day and euermore Amen The very God of peace sanctifie you 1. Thes 5. 23. throughout and I pray God that your spirits soules and bodies may bee kept blameles vnto saluation through Christ Iesus this day and euermore FINIS