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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

but sing k Psalms and Hymnes before the dawnings of the day c. And here againe takes place fitly the Certificate of Graninianus the Emperour Adrian his Proconsull in Asia that the Christians were persecuted and killed i without any fault at all being guilty onely of a name and sect. Lastly Consult Baronius especially in his second Tome touching the manners of the ancient Primitive Christians and there you shall find ex scriniis most honourable verdicts testimonies of their lamb-like child-like integrity not onely from their friends as Origen against Celsus Tertullian to Scapula c. but even their enemies being Judges such as Porphyrie Iulian the Sibylls the Oracles c. That they were temperate chast peaceable farre more vertuous livers then the Philosophers of the Gentiles That they would not lye that they abhorred Theaters and publique spectacles especially of blood that they were kind liberall mercifull especially to such as were in bonds for Christ that they were faithfull subjects valiant Souldiers profitable Cōmonwealths men thankful in prosperity cheerefull in adversity These and such like are by the most faithfull Writers of the story of those times given in to be the guise of those worthy Saints But I shall shame our selves in recounting their just praises Their Panegyrick is our Libell their Encomium our Invective and Satyre Our conversations compared to theirs are but as foyles to set off the lustre of those militant glories 2. In and at their deaths What meeke Lambs and innocent Babes there too wee cannot say of them as Samuel to Saul m What meaneth this bleating of Sheepe and lowing of Oxen No the Saints in their most unjust sufferings and undeserved deaths have not beene bleating sheepe but dumb Lambs Esay 53.7 not lowing Oxen but m●●e Oxen as Aquinas before mentioned When n Marshall Biron will dye like a mad man and Parry like a o braggard then shall Gods sheepe lye dumbe before the shearer They shall keepe silence in that day because it is an evill day Come then let us draw neere them and sit downe on the ground beside them in the day of their sorrow as Iobs three friends and we shall not heare them charge God foolishly though their griefe be very great Yea goe neerer and draw the Curtaines of their death-beds and heare them exspiring and breathing out their last breath with a perfumed Comfite or a Sugar-plumbe in their mouth that is p with a word of piety as Nazianzene testifieth S. Basil did both to sweeten the sorrowes of death to themselves and to minister grace unto the hearers And first I must needs begin with Ignatius the most blessed Bishop of Antiochia full sixteene hundred yeeres agoe within five and S. Peters q immediate Successor in that Chaire when he was throwne to the Beasts said no more then thus I am Gods graine and must be ground betweene the upper and nether milstone of these beasts teeth that I may make pure bread unto God Loe if his soule were not even as a weaned child and indeed r some say he was that very child that Jesus tooke up in his armes in the Gospel The example doth so suite the Text that I could not pretermit it here though it be mentioned s before neither is it coleworts twice sod Next him let us make mention of Polycarpus Bishop of Smirna and some say that Individuall Angel of the Church of Smirna whereunto the second of those seven Asiatique Epistles are written Hee was disciple to S. Iohn and Master to Ireneus and in a word a man so venerable amongst both the Christians and Heathen that his ordinary style was The Doctor of whole Asia He when the cursed Proconsull tempted him to deny Christ and hee should save his life answered meekely as a Lamb I have served Christ these fourescore and six yeares and hee never harmed me and shall I now deny t and blaspheme my King and Saviour Cyprian Bishop of Carthage may well bee remembred next who was of noble descent and both Oratour and Senatour of Carthage before he was by publique applause u elected Bishop hee suffered banishment and the next yeare martyrdome about 260. years after Christ when hee came to the block hee gave his heads-man 20. pieces of Gold and dyed also meeke as a Lamb or Kid with these words in his mouth God be thanked for vouchsafing my soule this Gaole-delivery out of the dungeon of my body S. Ambrose Bishop of Millane dyed in Millane on Easter eve in the yeare of Christ 397. Count Stilico made suite unto him when hee was fastened to his bed that for the publique good of the Church he would seeke by his prayers to obtaine of God the prolongation of his owne life S. Ambrose answered I have not so lived amongst you that I am ashamed to live longer neither doe I feare to dye because I have a good Lord Did hee not herein though he were the great Shepheard of Millane speake like a Lamb w a speech onely worthy of S. Ambrose and so gnomicall and waighty that x S. Augustin highly commends it But let us come now a great deale lower in tract of time Queene Elizabeth of famous memory who like another Deborah judged this Israel forty yeares and that so happilie that even y the French Historian saith shee proved thereby to the world that a Woman might governe as well as any man when in her Sisters quinquennium shee was one day apprehended to bee carryed shee knew not whither seeing some of her servants standing aloofe off shee said no more but these two words tanquam ovis alluding to Isaiahs Prophesie of Christ As a sheepe to the sl●●ghter c. Iohn Picus z Earle of Mirandula a most diligent searcher into the secrets of nature and an exact both Philosopher and Divine before he was capable of transgressing Moses his Law in cutting the tuffes of his beard in a word The wit of the world If Christs death and our own said he were ever in our eyes how could we sin welcome death not as an end of trouble but as an end of sin Ferdinand Earle of Darby who died in Queen Elizabeths dayes having at his death foure Physitians and two Divines the Bishop of Chester and Mr. Leigh his own Chaplaine said to one of his Physitians the day before he died a I know for a certainty I must now die and I will take away with me only one part of mine armes I meane mine Eagles wings so will I flee swiftly into the bosome of Christ my Saviour Nobly and Christianly spoken indeed and therefore the more noble because the more Christian-like The b Jewell of Bishops Iuell Bishop of Sarisbury riding to preach at Lacock in Wilts a gentleman meeting him on the way and seeing his body weak and spent with divine labours advised him to return back again replied Nay c it becomes a Bishop

to Rome to the Prefect of the City to enquire into the Colledges and assemblies for them But nothing that can bee produced here but is lesse then the testimony of the noble and learned Tertullian who now wrote that famous Apologie of his to Scapula in the behalfe of Christians a They esteeme us Christians saith he to be the cause of all publique misery or epidemicall incommodity if Tiber swell up unto the walls if Nilus water not the Corne fields if Heaven stand or earth move if there be famine or pestilence c. presently they cry out Throw the Christians to the Lions The sixt Persecution ANd as if Severus had transpired his soule into Maximinus the stirrer up of the sixt Persecution he now became the Wolfe and Leopard c. a man of both barbarous body and mind that is declared by those titles which even his own gave him calling him Cyclops Busyris Phalaris Sciro Trypho Gyges it was occasioned from certaine grievous earth-quakes which according to the usuall scandall was ascribed as a punishment to the Christians because they would not doe worship to the Heathen gods and though it were limited both to a short time for it was precinct with a trienniall girdle and only to the Clergy as the fomenters and nourishers of the Religion yet did it so scorch within the Tropicks of the Church that many thousands suffered and that by divers and sundry kinds of death in so much as now Orige● wrote a notable booke de Martyrio to comfort the afflicted state of Christians The seventh Persecution ANd now Decius took place upon the Stage to play the beast in the seventh Persecution wch hitherto is judged to bee the most cruell of all by farre insomuch as many lapsed and apostatized from the faith to the great both dishonour and disadvantage of the Religion which occasioned Cyprians notable Booke de Lapsis Hee acted a double part first using the violence and force of the Wolfe Leopard Lion and Beare for when hee saw Christ served in every place and the fanes of the Heathen Gods to lye forlorne and neglected hee threatned and menaced bitterly his Prefects and Presidents with all kindes of ignominies and tortures if they did not forthwith compell the Christians to worship the Gods whereupon they vyed cruelties and strove who should overcome each other therein So did hee vexe the Church b with various interchangeable pomp of sufferances as Gregorie Nyssen speakes Secondly hee made use also of the Serpentine craft of the Aspe and Cockatrice For his torments were so lengthened and wire-drawne to the end Christians might feele themselves dye and tast of the sorrowes of the grave to the utmost that S. Cyprian called them c torments without the hope or comfort of death and S. Hierome complaines that hee was the Christians d crafty and subtile enemie so wearying out their patience by tedious sufferances that hee sought rather to kill their soules then their bodies The eighth Persecution THe eighth Persecution lies more blinde in Church-story then the other and the lines of it are drawne more darke and uncertaine who was the chiefe Wolfe Valerian or Aurelian or Gaellus and Volusianus remaines in some difference some of the chiefe Lambes and Kids that were devoured were Cornelius Bishop of Rome and Cyprian Bishop of Carthage c. in it many were flead alive and many for feare fled into desarts and caves witnesseth S. Ierome in the life of Paul the Eremite The ninth Persecution THen arose the ninth Persecution when Dioclesian was the Wolfe for ten whole yeares together without any intermission when saith the e Historian the people of God was depopulated and almost the whole world besmeared with the sacred blood of the Martyrs it was occasioned by a Prophecy or Oracle spread abroad that if all the Christians were but once slain the Romane Empire should notably flourish whereupon the tyrant raged without all mercy in so much as in one moneth above 17000. suffered Eusebius was an eye-witnesse of these things who tels a most tragicall story hereof how some were shaven some racked some whiped some burned some drowned some beheaded some hanged some crucified some famished some pulled in pieces without all respect of modesty women were exposed naked to torture it was free for every one to bastinado a Christian where he met him with staves stickes clubs bridles rods whips ropes Many had their thighs broken others inverted with feet upward and head downward and a fire being underneath were so smoaked and suffocated to death others anointed with scalding lead others with hot water others given for meat to the beasts of the field others to fish of the Sea others had sharp needles thrust under their nailes others tyed to stakes and trees and famished till they did gnaw the flesh off their owne armes and feete In a word this Beast did boast of two things of the f increase of the Empire and of the blotting out of the very name of a Christian The tenth Persecution LAstly Iulian that Apostate and Renegado from the Christian faith played both the strong and subtle Beast whilst he shut up the schooles of the Christians that so he might introduce ignorance and barbarisme whilst he prohibited them of bearing any publique office inflicted both corporall smart and pecuniary mulcts upon them called them himselfe and commanded others to nick-name them Galileans restored the Temple to the Jewes to despight the Christians appointed some to be torne in pieces with horses caused the bellies of Women and Virgins to bee ript up filled with oates and barly and set as troughs to the swine c. I have mee thinkes beene telling a long and a sad story and Lupus in f●bula still a Wolfe and a Leopard and a Lion and a Beare and an Adder is in one end of it And if enquiry were made lower have there not beene are there not now as very Wolves and Leopards as these what was Bonner and Gardiner in Queene Maries dayes what was H. 8. of whom a Cabala or tradition goes that on his death-bed he confessed hee had never spared man in his wrath nor woman in his lust what was Charles the fift g who was guilty of the blood of 50000. Protestants whilst he was in the low Countries what was the Duke of h Alva who destroyed 18000. Protestants in Belgia in sixe yeares time only what was the incendiary of the Massacre in France August the sixt Anno 1572. when in one night there were ten thousand Protestants butchered with wicked and cruell hands what a kennell of these Wolves Leopards c. was there in France where one hundred and forty thousand were thus served in the space of two and twenty yeares i beginning the accompt at the yeare of the last patience of the Saints 1564 And lastly that it may appeare indeed what bloud-hounds the Papists are what a Shamble their Church is consult● grand