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A83667	The saints sacred laver. By Iames Eglesfield, master of arts, minister of Gods word at Knightsbridge. Preached at Padington, September the first, 1645	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1646 (1646)	Wing E254A; ESTC R231737	12,295	39

Lord. When shooke the Earth at the presence of the Lord. When melted the Heavens at the presence of the Lord. When were the waters dryed up At the presence of the mighty God of Iacob the least falme of this bush dasht Moses out of countenance This fiery pillar burnt Iobs goods and cattle This burning heate made the children of Israel stand a farre off Wherefore with St. Jeromes Marcella we are to desire the proper interpretation of all the Names of God every one ministring occasion of spirituall growth yet are wee most to desire it when wee approach the Sanctuary of God to prefixe this Name before our eyes the name of the Lord It being the Ensigne of his power and the tempest going before his face the Embleme of his Majesty the thunder of Mount Sinai where Gods seate is by vertue of which hee breatheth hailestones and coales of fire This holy meditation of his Majesty turned Abraham into dust ashes This stript Iob of all humane and vaine conceits this cloathed David in Sackcloath this made him a worm and no man a thing of nought And I doubt not but if wee seriously entertained it this would burne downe the stubble of humane opinions in us and lay us prostrate yea even breathlesse before the face of God with the very thought of our wretched unworthynesse Wherefore Beloved let the reverent opinion of the presence of the Lord be evermore our curb when we come to the propitiatory of his Mercy seate Let this calme the Sea of our affections and worke in us an awfull and religious Obedience Let us knowe the presence of God is not the presence of Dagon that hath no eyes nor of Nisroch which hath no eares but the glorious and present beauty of Syon the al-seeing Eye of God the discovery of Heaven This Memento will cause us to wash to cleanse our hearts and search the very concavity of our spirits This will beget not only an holy preparation before we come but a cautelous and strong attention after we are come and the expectation of an happy benediction ere we goe fearing each moment the arrow of his displeasure the merit of our owne presumption and the doome of Heaven Thus much for the Majesty now followeth the Mirror O And so will I go to thine Altar O Lord. This interjection howsoever smothered in the Latin and Greeke Syntaxe yet hath it in the English an Emphaticall use and speciality it being the flood-gate of mans extasie and the dilatation of his Spirit when he is transported with the high and sublime speculation of the presence of God Neither is it only vented when we thinke of his presence but when wee speake of his Attributes or any the extraordinary or transcendent workes of his Diety O the depth and riches of his Mercies cries Paul in one place O the inscrutabilitie of his Judgements in another place O his wonderfull workes in the deepe cries David in one place O how amiable are thy dwellings in another Thus wonders Mortality when it droopes and hangs the wing being strook with the Majesty of God This should cause humble dejection in our spirits a poore and lowly esteeme in our selves when we enter into conference with God Now there is nothing will sooner draw us to this practise then the paralelling of our estate with Gods our condition challenging the wonderment of Lamentation and Gods of Praise and Exaltation For in this Gods O of Mercy will answer to Mans O of misery See it in the wrestling of Paul O miserable man that I am cryes he when he took Survey of his fleshes rebellion O the riches of the Mercies of God! when he weighs the depth of Christ's Propitiation See it likewise in the methode o● David O remember not my sinnes and offences cryes he when he scan'd the measure of his owne misery O call to mind thy loving kindnesse ô Lord when hee recollects the Balme of Gods mercy O how short is my time when he spann'd the life of Man O God thy seat endureth for ever when he would fathome the Auncient of dayes The like meditation will drive us to the same to the same astonishment when wee shall conscionably think of our owne unworthyness● with an O how inferiour are we by reason of our many pollutions to stand before the face of God and it will make us say as David doth here I will wash my hands in Innocency c. Thus much of the holy presence I come now to the holy place in this word Altar Where note two things first the Reverence of his Progresse So. Secondly the Reference of the place Thine And so will I go to thine Altar So not otherwise though the Devil upon the pinacle should promise mee the Kingdome of the world for why should we presume to come to the marriage of the Lambe without a wedding garment or Samuels Ephod So will I goe saith David adorned with these unto thine Altar And if ever ●his So was dedicated to the obtaining of Eternity if ever to the joy of Angels and ●omfort of the Elect it was then done when David renounced the whole body of Sinne turned to his Creator that made him Lastly if ever this So did procure the An●els of Heaven to rejoyce then may it now ●●use us to shed teares of gladnesse since the ●eauty of Holines the Lamb of God Inno●●ncy hath offered himself upon the Crosse and become an advocate to the father for our sinnes Here was a So worthy to bee remembred for ever for he dying turned our death into Life that is our sinnes to righteousnesse Thus much for the Reverence now followeth the Reference Thine The Pronoune Thine is a partition wall twixt God and Dagon and sanctifies the edifices of the Temple For this seperates all Idolatrous places of worship Not any Altar but the Altar of God and not any place but the place where his honour dwelleth So that by this word Thine is meant the habitation of his Glory the holy Temple of the eternall and ever living God To which whosoever comes thus washed and prepared shall enjoy the mount of Syon and the hill of the new Ierusalem Montem pinguem being a fat mountaine in respect of the multitude of spirituall grace Montem Dei because God himselfe dwells there and Montem coagmentatum so strongly congealed and knit together as that it is impossible it should ever be removed Thus by Gods assistance and your gentle patience I have cleared my hand of my Text. Now the God of mercy and compassion which opened the heart of Lydia to conceive opened the eyes of Elisha to see and opened the lipps of David to speake say Ephata to your hearts eares and eyes that you may ever hunger and thirst after righteousnesse that you may ever seeke the Lord and serve him in faith and in the revealed mysteries of his word Washing your hearts and hands in Innocency that so you may for ever obtaine Grace here in this world and eternall glory in the world to come which God grant unto you all Amen Soli Dei Gloria

THE SAINTS SACRED LAVER By Iames Eglesfield Master of Arts Minister of Gods Word at Knightsbridge Preached at Padington September the first 1645. LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper 1646. To the Honourable Knight Sir William Belfore AS Christ himselfe said sometime to a multitude the like may I taking occasion from this my presumption What came ye out to see a Reed shaken with the winde it may be so but what came yee out for to see a Prophet here I must change the note nay lesse then a Prophet for as among the sonnes of women there was not a greater then Hee of whom Christ spake so among the sonnes of women is there not a lesse then he whose pen now presents that service which his tongue ought in its proper place did not the cloud of a darkenned fortun● eclipse his apparition Lesse in maturity and ripenes for so weighty a busines as touching my selfe lesse in opinion of fitnes as touching the esteeme of many who it may be have seene me sweating in the pursuite of my Recreation fishing but never in serving at the Alter of my God Notwithstanding oh my God I am sent as a messenger before thy face and shall prepare the way before thee For by a fit Metaphor drawne from the art and practice of fishing our Saviour Christ hath shaddowed forth both the calling and imployment both of his first choice Apostles and all other Apostolicall succeeding Preachers saying I will make you fishers of men Mat. 4 19. Such you shall bee because such I will make you to be quorum pars parva fui full twenty yeeres exercising this holy function who although with Peter may say I have toyled all the night and caught nothing for my selfe yet with Iohn Baptist Luc. 3.10 I have some reason to beleeve that my labours have not beene altogether unprofitable among the Mennoes and meaner sort I fished for which were the crowd of common people publicans and sinners very slippery Eeles that had long lien in the mud of their misdoings and sanguinary souldiers the Pike and Water-wolves of the Ocean of this world a people naturally diseased with the bloody issue Encouraged therfore by that inabling spirit of grace which of Priscilla and Aquila poor Tent makers were able to pose that great Clerke Apollos with Ieremy I presume to go to the great ones and with Peter will once more let downe my Evangelicall sweep-net which was not composed by the wisedome of man or woven with the deceitfull words of Sophisters but with the words of the Gospell according to that of St Paul 1. Cor. 2.4 Neither is it any materiall net like that in Suidas which one cast over another while they were in single combate together and when he had ensnared him he slew him nor such a cruell barbarous and bloody spirituall net as the Prophet Micah speaketh of Micah 7. All lie in wait for blood every man bunteth his brother with a net But it is that Sagena that sweep net which our Saviour brought downe from heaven even the glorious Gospel of Iesus Christ preached that wil dragg and drawe out all those that are plunged in the darkesome holes of ignorance and in the muddy cares of this World to the light of Truth and love of supernall things Et faelices illi quos haec sagena de profundo criminum et errorum pertrahit ad lucem Amb. Happy oh thrice happy they if this draw net fasten on them and bring them from darkenesse to light from death to life a faeculo from the sea of this World ad faecula saeculorum to the shore of a better life even the land of the living which as I wish to your Worship specially for my bounden duties sake and to your vertuous Lady the field of whose loving sincerity in the remaining course of your lives being fully charged with deeds of charity cannot but be accomplisht with a Crest of Glory So even from my soule I wish it to all that love to Bathe in Innocency and expect the comming of the Lord Iesus Sir I am your humblest servant IAMES EGLESFIELD THE SAINTS SACRED LAVER Psal 26. vers 6. I will wash my hands in innocencie O Lord and so will I go to thine Altar THis verse containes a holy Preparation a holy Presence and a holy Place The holy preparation is in these words I will wash my hands in innocency The holy presence in this word ô Lord And the holy place in this word Altar and so will I goe to thine Altar In the holy preparation note two things 1 Quis praeparat in this word I David 2 Quo modo in this word wash I David ●ash In the Quo modo note two things 1. The Bath Innocencie 2. The parts bathed Hands In the holy presence note two things 1. The Majesty Domine 2. The Mirror in this particle ô In the holy place note two things 1. The Reverence of his Progresse in this word So not presumptuously but humbly like his Servant 2. The reference of the place in these words Thine Altar And so will I go to thine Altar This is the resolution of the Text which I meane by Gods goodnesse to treat of and first Quis that is David a King by place a Prophet in Spirit and a Saint by calling I will wash A King by place as the image of God is more exprest in Kings then in Groomes and vassalles their power being a resemblance of his divine power and their Majesty a Character of his divine Majesty so ought the flames of this Image to be more conspicuous in them then in the inferiour or darker sonnes of God It is not the beauty of his Throne the riches of his Diadem the guard of his person or any the like Dalilah can cut the hair of David or blow him bigge with a Tympany of selfe righteousnesse he being fully bent for his own salvation and his peoples instruction to bath in the Laver of Holines In Innocency will I wash my selfe sayes he I a God by name will do it for so the Scriptures title Kings that when I come before the God of nature my sacrifice may be well accepted What David doth here in person must be the president of Magistracie or rather of Magistrates then any of meane or perfunctorie calling such a levell hath the shaft of Iniquitie against the breast of the great Ones so many are their pit falls so dangerous their examples so contractive of Sinne their consciences Therefore whisper not in their eares the Magnificency of their places it is a temptation nor the solemnity of their worships it is a Temptation for David knew by woefull experience that all the power of worldly dignity was temptation for hee abused his power in the murther of Vriah 2 Sam. 11. hee stained his beauty in the deffowry of Bethsheba he wronged his Throne in the numbring his people And flatter not then the Great Ones with telling them of their Greatnes puff them not up