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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

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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