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A19987	Doomes-Day: or, A treatise of the resurrection of the body Delivered in 22. sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Whereunto are added 7. other sermons, on 1. Cor. 16. By the late learned and iudicious divine, Martin Day ...; Doomes-Day	Day, Martin, d. 1629.	1636 (1636)	STC 6427; ESTC S109431	470,699	792

he did addresse himselfe to Ierusalem not comming at Ephesus but sayling by it as wee see Acts 20.17 Act. 20.17 he purposed to sayle into Asia but not to come at Ephesus but to sayle by it and when he came to Miletus which is about three or foure leagues from Ephesus he stay'd there because it was a place that was more private and because the Iews could not so soone have intelligence that hee was there From thence he sent a Boat to Ephesus to entreat the Elders and Seniours to come thither to him and in Acts 20. we read of his conversing with them they tooke the Communion together and hee gave them notice and knowledge that there were Wolves crept into the Church of God and he told them also what their duty was to watch as good Bishops as good Pastors to the flock over which Christ had made them over-seers and hee told them that they should never see his face any more So this was the last journey that ever S. Paul had in the world for going from Philippi he sayled by Ephesus he came not at it and from Ephesus that is from the parts about Ephesus hee went along to Tyre and from thence he came to Cesarea and from Cesarea to Ierusalem And when he came thither hee entred into a vow according to the direction of the Apostle S. Iames and the rest of the Elders at Ierusalem and then the Iewes set upon him and tooke him in the Temple and brought him to the barre and there hee made three or foure Apologies for himselfe and when hee saw that they were cruelly and bloudily set to take away his life hee appealed from them to Caesar the Emperour at Rome being very neere 2000. miles off and by this meanes he saved his life from the cruelty of the Iewes and gained many people in Rome and in Cesars house to the doctrine of Christ So that S. Paul was henceforth a prisoner but the word God was not bound but that ranne swiftly and wonne many to the credit and faith of the Gospell howbeit he being in bonds and being a prisoner hee could not take his scope to see the Countries as before but he lay a prisoner in Rome untill the last yeare of Nero Paul beheaded in the l●st year of Nero. in which time he was beheaded in the latter end of the Emperour Nero as all Historians agree So much of that point I will stay at Ephesus that is if God give me that I have purposed that it may be effected that I shall get to Ephesus and have liberty and scope peaceably to be there I will stay there till I can get a convenient oportunity to goe to Ierusalem to be there about Pentecost but because in the meane time he heard of another thing that the Iewes had laid wait for him that they had beset the Creeks and Ports about Corinth and other parts of Greece and that they had entred into Ephesus and into divers strong parts of Asia where they thought that S. Paul would goe by land Therefore the Apostle takes that meanes that God had set apart and defeats them and comes not at Ephesus but went away by Sea and came safe to Ierusalem where he offered up his last service to God I meane the service to the Saints which was the gift and contribution which the Church of Corinth sent and he stood a true professour of the faith before Felix and before Festus and before the Presidents and before Bernice and before Herod and after that he was cast in prison hee was taken prisoner and sent by a Captaine to Rome to the Emperour Now for the Place where he saith he will abide we are a little to take notice of that I will stay at Ephesus This Ephesus which at this day is called Fesome Ephesus what a Citie in Turkie in Euonia in the lesser Asia which is watered with the river Catristell it was a famous and noble place in respect of the great riches and the great concourse of all Navigators and Merchants thither It was famous also for the Temple of Diana which although it were burned before by that wicked Impe Diostrotus yet it was reedified again by the Kings of Asia and was made the goodliest place in the world where there was also the shrine of Iupiter and the shrine of Diana which came from heaven as the vaine Inhabitants imagine This place was famous for Witchcraft and they had also certaine Letters whereby they could bind and loose and hee that had those Letters about him they thought him able to worke wonders wheresoever he went In summe this Ephesus was a place where the devill had set his throne by Magick and by all kinde of licentiousnesse and loosenesse by most abominable idolatry Great is Diana of the Ephesians great is Diana of the Ephesians The devill had not such a court againe under heaven as he had there for neere unto it was the Oracle Branchyde Branchyde which was the greatest wonder one of them in the world that the devill should fore-tell things to come and that he should speake out of a stone and although that at Delphos Delphos in Grecia were more famous because the Grecians were much inamoured of their owne land yet the Oracle of Branchyde was more true and infallible in the prediction of events then the other was such a place was this which the Apostle Paul had a purpose to abide in For indeed as Chrysostome Chrysost well observes there is no such footing for Christ as where the devill hath made his stay before for when the strong man keepes the house all things are in quiet the devill is compared to the strong man all things were in quiet at Ephesus and there was never any uprore till S. Paul came there and when hee came once to conjure the Conjurer and to over-rule the devill and to pull downe the Shrines and Images and to make Diana and the Silver-smiths that wrought about her to be of little account then all the Citie is in a stirre and in an uprore So here wee see the singular spirit of the Apostle and that spirit that should be in all the Ministers of the Gospell to settle themselves where the devill is most rampant and raging and not to feare danger not to feare his cloven foot but to settle themselves in his habitation that the stronger man may cast out the strong man for as Christ saith when the strong man possesseth the house all things are quiet but when a stronger then he comes hee disrobes him he puts him out of his harnesse and he binds him and casts him out of his house and so takes the house into his owne possession So much of that of the place Now for the time how long hee will stay Part 2. The time that is till Pentecost that is I will stay there that I may have dayes enow to sayle to and arive at Ierusalem by them