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A10226	The kings tovvre and triumphant arch of London. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August. 5. 1622. By Samuel Purchas, Bacheler of Diuinitie, and parson of Saint Martins Ludgate, in London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 20502; ESTC S114343	37,106	105

Towre of saluation to the Towre of all his the King Turris salutum Regis sui Hee is a Towre of saluation for his King Aboue this Towre is onely the crosse immensitie and eternitie Super Imperatorem non est nisi Deus qui fecit Imperatorem Quantus Deus qui deos facit Thus for the ascent of our Text. The latitude of it latum mandatum tuum nimis saith the Psalmist is from Hierusalem to London from Dauid to all Kings yea from Zion to the worlds end First and literally to Dauid and his seede the whole historie of Dauid in the two books of Samuel and the first of Chronicles this Psalme twice repeated with others are Commentaries of the Text for his person as the rest of the Bible-historie for his feede Wee should powre water into the Sea and abuse your patience to expatiate at large in this sense Secondly this is true in mysticall Dauid our King that is Christ and his seede all Christians who together with him are not the seedes as many but the seede as one one Vine one Temple one new Man one Christ. And in this sense wee will first handle it ascending-wise and after that come to a third application descending this Scala coeli to Kings the Dauids of their Countries especially Christian Kings the Heads of the Tribes of Israel His Kings ouer His People most especially This King ouer This People whom the GOD of Iacob long preserue The defender of the Faith This indeed is most proper to the day and therefore in the other sense fertile enough for many Sermons we will be more sparing then otherwise wee would in the little Map of this Text beholding our Catholike Commons and Christian Immunities the rather to incite vs to obserue the Royall Prerogatiue in the last place for which the Text was chosen Verbum dici in die suo First Hee is a towre of saluation that is giueth great deliterance to vs all as to his Kings IESVS giueth Ieshugnoth that is is named Sauiour because hee saueth his people his Kings from their sinnes For God is the entitie and immensitie of Goodnesse Greatnesse Blessednesse which in fellowship with him we enioy In thy light shall wee see light in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy c. But your inquities saith Isayah haue separated betweene you and your God and your sinnes haue hid his face from you Neither can any separate our sinnes these Separaters of vs from God euery Creature owing all it is hath can to the Creatour in whom by whom and for whom it is and was created And therefore hee which had made man after Gods Image made himselfe after mans Image to free vs from that Image of the old man and old Serpent which sinne had portrayed in our soules and body throughout He was made sinne for vs that we might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him In sinne are foure things the fault 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The strength of sinne is the Law thereby broken and taking hold of the forfeiture Secondly Reatus the guilt which is a Latitat Out-lawrie Witte of Rebellion an Arrest out of all Courts which our owne consciences will and shal execute The third is macula whereby the Sinner as a selfe-prisoner vnder the arrest of Conscience is cast in Irons and further polluted and intangled in the cords and corruption of his owne sinne the old remayning and new Actions and Indictments as new sores breaking out are entred against him euery day The fourth is Poena the finall punishment and curse Ite maledicti O the miseries of that Sinner easelesse endlesse remedilesse where he shall euer be dying and his death neuer be dead How sweet were saluation to such an apprehension and how sweete is he that preuents the apprehension with deliuerance Blessed is the man whose wickednesse culpa is forgiuen and whose sinne reatus is couered which hath a Supersedeas from Suite from Arrests a Protection Yea blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute iniquitie giues a pardon quoad poenam and in whose spirit there is no guile the macula is emaculata and hee is now in another predicament Beati immaculati in via The deliuerance from sinne deliuereth from Hell Death the Deuill and all Actions and Suits betwixt God and the Soule deliuereth from the power of darknesse and translateth into the Kingdome of his deare Sonne the Sauiour of his people from their sinnes who now remoto prohibente doth secondly exaltare addes new Priuiledges and becomes a second Adam the Authour by Regeneration of a new life to vs not onely giuing great deliuerance to his King washing vs in his bloud from our sinnes and by his death crucifying this death in vs that sinne may neither be imputed to vs nor reigne in vs but adding great prosperitie by his Spirit and the vertue of his Resurrection animating actuating and formalizing vs into one Mysticall Bodie with himselfe renewing vs into a new Creature and transforming vs by his Word and Spirit into the image and likenesse of himselfe that as by carnall generation wee haue receiued humane nature and corruption which is the putting on of the old man from the first Adam so by spirituall Regeneration from the second wee may put on the new man and be made as Peter calleth it partakers of the Diuine Nature that we may not liue saith Saint Paul but hee may liue in vs whereby wee are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone and because he liues wee shall liue also a life begun in grace and growing into endlesse glory when our vile bodies shall be made like the Firmament shine as the Starres like the Sun in his brightnesse yea like the Son of Righteousnes himselfe shal be made like his owne glorious bodie and with their revnited spirits in eternall societie of Saints and Angels shall enioy fulnesse of ioy at his right hand and pleasures for euermore And will he neglect in a miserable Wardship his Sonnes and Heires No Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that which is to come Our Text saith magnificans salutes hee giueth great deliuerance and great prosperitie both great prosperitie in bodie and soule both and both in this life and that which is to come both And He that hath giuen vs his owne Sonne how shall hee but with him the Heire of all things giue vs all things all which wee can see or heare or conceiue nay more then all these hath God prepared for them that loue him He is DEVS ad salutes saith Dauid which he expoundeth by leading captiuitie captiue receiuing gifts for men and loading vs with benefits euen to a Selah a note aboue Ela the highest tune of our Song of our conceit So Ion. 2.9 Ieshugnathah saluations of the Lord which the Grammarians obserue cum

the Gospel and liue yea and reigne enioy a threefold Kingdom all beyond names of time and one also beyond all space of place Awaken you rich men which listen after great purchases which make others poore yea which make your selues poore to make your selues rich which liue poore to die rich and buy some patch of the World with making your selues patches and the vilest things that you and the World haue Be no Pedlers be Royall Merchants three Kingdomes three Worlds giue mee a Chapman And lest out of your owne vse and guiltinesse yee suspect me of fraude see the proofe and goodnes of them The first of these is this Vniuerse a large Kingdome to which Great Alexander's would haue beene but a petie-petie principalitie not enough for a Peere of this Kingdome Off with thy Harpies-hands and fancie-frenzies Anabaptist wee remooue not the Land ma●…es nor confound Proprieties Downe with thy Magnifico-mouse-births sententious Mountebanke wordie Paradoxicall Stoicke Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu He and he onely is rich free wise a King where 's his euidence hee hath dreamed of that which is indeed the Inheritance of grace not nature and therefore ours because Christ. the heire of all things is ours and therefore not ours in subuerting Proprietie because Christ came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it and where were Thou shalt not steale if all had proprietie in all All things are yours saith S. Paul and you Christs and Christ GOD'S Inuert the Order and see your Pedigree and right All things are GOD'S and The Father hath loued the Sonne and giuen him all things God so loued the World that he gaue his Sonne and with him all things as appurtenances to the free-hold To vs a Sonne is giuen and to as many as receiue him he giueth power to be the Sonnes of GOD and therefore heires coheires euen as many as beleeue in his Name The Christian hath the Vniuerse but in an Vniuersall tenure which hee enioyeth thus his minde by contemplation his conscience in libertie his bodie in lawfull vse of what God sends q sanctified by the Word and Prayer his heart with contentednesse supplying all defects and fixing it selfe on God which is ours whatsoeuer else be wanting by whose onely will and prouidence other things are wanting and which giues himselfe before hee take away any thing and takes away other things that he might make vs capeable of himselfe This is Manna of all tasts we need not the flesh-pots of Egypt this is generous Wine what care I if I haue no troubled Ale this is delightsome light which hauing viewed I cannot I care not much for baser Obiects Christian libertie frees not from duties to doe what we list but giues a lust to do our duties and like the Sunne shines through Aire and Water without corrupting them and as the soule fils the bodily members not consuming but consummating and perfecting them it addeth Sanctitie dissolueth not Proprietie Once God is the Towre of his King and the World is the Towre-hill Court or Liberties and if hee bee our portion needs must it whereas the vngodly because he hath not God hath a Humane and Ciuill not a Spirituall right and his conscience is polluted in the vse of that which hee calleth his owne like Cain a Vagabond in his owne ground To the impure all things are impure The second World whereof this Towre of saluation makes thee King is thy selfe lesse in quantitie then the former but greater in value for that was made with his Word Dixit facta sunt omnia but The Word himselfe was made a man for man dixit multa gessit mira saith Saint Bernard pertulit dura that hee might re-giue vs our selues And if a man be not sui compos what can the World benefit him any otherwise then the great Inheritance of a Foole Mad-man or Infant which being sui impotes are with all that they haue at other's disposition or what right hath he more then a slaue whose all is his Lords Others are Infants Fooles Madde and Slaues to the Deuil the World the Flesh the true Christian is Lord of himselfe though hee be a Slaue and is both King and Kingdome too in this Microcosme The Regions Climates of this World are his bodily members the Subiects euery particle of bodie and facultie of minde euery action and passion the Freedome is the wil freed the Law is Gods Word Reason is the Court Conscience Iudge the Affections Sheriffe and Iusticers to put in execution the externall Senses Officers Common-sence Clerke Phantasie Cryer Memorie Register the Court continuall in selfe-sessions And were it not for this selfe-authoritie whereby a man commandeth himselfe and doth good or bad willingly there were neither Vertue nor Vice in which respect the Slaue being the Lords Freeman willingly and for conscience is subiect to doe and suffer his Superiours wil as seruing the Lord and not man And hee that is thus King of himselfe is Lord of Fortune suis ea cuique fingitur moribus of Death it is but like Goliahs Sword his owne Executioner and killeth the remainder of death in vs of the Deuill who hath the power of death of the World whereof hee is God that his Concubine and of our Lusts the Bawdes the Traytors beeing exiled and executed the Deuill and the World haue no power Thus that Noble Armie of Martyrs did what they might and when by Gods countermand they might not doe they suffered and by willing suffering tormented their Tormenters and conquered their Conquerours O Noble Armie of Martyrs their names written in a second red shining brighter euery day the other in the dust that I descend no lower In all these things the Philosophers talke walke stalke it like a King in a Play but were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they called Saint Paul and mocked at the Mysteries of this State which they knew not And how then could they know that third Kingdome and World meerely supernaturall and supermundane it is not for Athenian Owles but Heauenly Eagles to face that Sunne and flye in such light The Reuersion is heere made sure by Faith and Christ leauing his pledge with vs his Spirit is gone thither with our pledge and in our nature hath taken possession Of which hauing said somewhat before heere we cannot say much saue onely that it is beyond what wee can say or thinke a World of Worlds in substance not subiect to alteration corruption passion motion in quantitie many dwelling places the walles twelue thousand furlongs in qualitie a Paradise faire shining delightsome the streets of pure Gold shining like vnto cleere Glasse a meere transcendent where all are Kings of all these three Worlds and the King of Kings shall dwell with them and bee