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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66890	Anti-boreale an answer to that seditious and lewd piece of poetry upon Master Calamy's late confinement, supposed his who wrote Iter boreale.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3334; ESTC R31824	84,472	126

amiable are thy dwellings O Lord of Hosts My soul longeth yea even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord for one day in thy Courts is better then a thousand Psal 84.1 2 4 10. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God blessed are they that dwell in thy house And there is nothing more welcome to a holy soul then an invitation to such a Coelestial entertainment I was glad when they said unto me Psal 122.1 2 we will go into the house of the Lord and there he desires to fix his station Our feet shall stand within thy gates O Jerusalem Yea they shall joy as the joy in harvest as the joy of those that divide the spoil a Isa 9.3 I will go unto the Altar of God unto God my exceeding joy b Psal 43.4 Such a joy of heart as overflows the banks thereof and causeth exultation in the body too My heart danceth for joy and not so only but my heart and my flesh also rejoyceth in the living God And much more the glory of the flesh the best member of it the tongue They shall sing in the ways of the Lord that great is the glory of the Lord. The service of God should be like the celebration of a solemn Jubilee Jubilate Deo O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands Psal 100.1 serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song and again O come let us sing unto the Lord Psal 95.1 let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our Salvation If we had that zeal of Gods glory or that sense of our own duty or if we had but that regard to our own interest and advantage that we should have it were impossible we should be either so slack in our approach or when present so cold and dull in our attention to Gods solemn service Are we not in some danger of Gods displeasure for this awkward carriage towards him does he not threaten his people for it Deut. 28.47 45. Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulnesse and gladnesse of heart for the abundance of all things therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in want of all things he that cannot delight himself in the Solemnities of Gods house in that his gracious presence where there is in some sence a fulnesse of joy Psal 16. ult it is pity he should ever come to his right hand where are pleasures for evermore you must approach with Alacrity 3. You must approach the Ark with unanimity As Jerusalem was builded Psal 122.3 so it was govern'd as a City at unity in it self Psal 95.6 The kingly Prophet invites O come let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord O magnifie the Lord with me Psal 34.3 and let us exalt his name together And at that great solemnity of Solomon's when he dedicated the house of the Lord we find all Israel in consort with him 2 Chron. 7.4 The King and all the people offered sacrifices before the Lord. God hath an expectation it should be so amongst us too for he saith by his Evangelical Prophet And it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains Isa 2.2 3. and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it And many people shall go and say Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his pathes For then as the Lord saith by another Prophet will I turn to the people a pure language Zeph. 3.9 that they may all call upon the name of the Lord to serve him with one consent crouding in to the holy Assemblies with one shoulder as the original importeth And that it might be so amongst us how earnestly doth the Apostle conjure us in the persons of the Church of Philippi if there be therefore any consolation in Christ Phil. 2.1 2. if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels of mercies fulfil ye my joy and what is that that ye be like-minded having the same love being of one accord of one mind For Christ hath but one Church My love my undefiled is one there is one body and one spirit and ye are called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism Eph. 4.4 5 5. one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all What a multiplicity of Arguments hath the blessed Apostle twisted together to make the unity that should be amongst Christians indissoluble And if the advantages hereof were duly weighed these alone were enough to make it so See Magal in Josh c. 6. §. 1. Annnot 3. Origen weighing that verse of the Psalmist Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound Psal 89.15 He quaeres what it is that renders a people blessed He saith not blessed are the people that do righteousness or blessed are the people that understand mysteries or are able to give an account of the heaven of the earth and of the stars but he saith blessed are the people that know the sound the jubilation In other places the fear of the Lord maketh blessed but it maketh but one man blessed for so it is said Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord. Else where we find also that more are blessed as blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are the meek blessed are the peace makers blessed are the pure in heart But here in the Psalmist the blessedness is profuse and I know not what so great cause of blessedness is intimated that it should make the whole people blessed that hears the Jubilation Unde mihi jubilatio videtur indicare quendam concordiae unanimitatis affectum whereupon it seems to me that this Jubilation doth import an affection of concord and unanimity which if it clasps the hearts and hands of two or three Disciples together in Prayer it makes them so prevalent offering up their devotions in the name of Christ that the heavenly Father grants all they pray for And if it be so great a blessedness that a whole people are unanimous that they all speak the same thing being joyn'd together in the same mind and in the same judgment the united devotions of such a people may be as prevalent as theirs were in the Acts of the Apostles They were of one heart and of one soul Acts 2.1 Chap. 4.31.32 they were with one accord in one place and there was a great earth quake where they prayed in unanimity and the place being shaken the holy Ghost descended The joynt devotions of an unanimous faithful people might be thus effectual terrae motu facto destruentur

a lamentation and name that Ichabod for the glory is departed from Israel and we the true Sons of the Church of England in the condition that Israel was in when they sate by the waters of Babylon and wept they hung up their Harps which were now grown uselesse because their sorrows for the desolations of Zion had silenced all their melody And yet we are call'd upon to believe that all these violences were design'd but to shake the dust out of the Badgers skins and to brush the Curtains and to Reform the Tabernacle that the pure gold of the Ark might shine the brighter in the simplicity of its own lustre That is just as the Souldiers came with Swords and Staves from the High Priests to apprehend and secure the Lamb of God and brought him before Pilate out of kindness that he might have the honour to clear and acquit himself But what became of the Ark of God in the midst of these disorders Why we heard of the same at Ephrata we found it in the wood Psal 132.6 some harmless Country people would tell us some tydings of it but it was in the wood like one bewildered strip'd of its due Attendants and Solemnities And yet as forlorn as it was its Captivity was a punishment not only to the Jews but also to the Philistims to them that triumph'd over it as well as to them that had lost the possession and forfeited the blessings of it The adversaries could not destroy it nor could they court it into their assistance The Dagon which they set up for themselves to worship fell before it with the loss of hands and head deprived not of strength only but of counsel too They provided a new Cart for it such was the new Discipline hewn out and rudely put together by Mr. Calvin and others in this last Century and the Classes were the Wheels of it and this the Faction drove on furiously for a while and stop'd not no not at the Red Sea they drove it into a Sea of blood but the Cattle that were yoked together to hurry it away were so unreasonable and head-strong they could not agree where or how to set it up and that they might not hurry it into utter ruine God was pleased to look thorow a frightful Cloud upon them Exod. 14.24 25. and took off their Chariot-wheels to trouble and discomfit them At last David the King being preserved and return●n by as great a miracle of providence as the Ark it self in order to his own settlement he gives order to prepare the Tabernacle for the settlement of the Ark and summoneth all the heads of the Priests and Levites with the Nobles and Elders of the people So they brought the Ark of God c. We are no less happy then they in the decent situation of our Ark I pray God we may be no less dutiful in our gratulation for it To which purpose me ●hinks every devout soul should be a breathing out that Quaere of the Psalmist Psal 116. Quid Retribuam what shall I render unto the Lord for this great this signal benefit done unto us you can do no better than resolve with him I will come into thy house with burnt offerings I will pay thee my vows which I promised with my lips Psal 66.13 14. and sp●ke with my mouth when I was in trouble for the Ark of God And because God takes no pleasure in the flesh of beasts neither will he drink the blood of Bulls or Goats but requires of us a spiritual a living and a reasonable Sacrifice Rom. 12.1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service Having nothing else that can be acceptable to him who gave himself for us we should have the same devotion the same mind that was in the holy Martyrs we should have our hearts and wills prepared if duly call'd to it to be made a sacrifice by others in the mean time we should make an Oblation of our selves have our whole spirits souls and bodies devoted to Gods service and the service of his Church Such a devotion was in the great Apostle Phil. 2.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If I be offered up as a libamen a liquid oblation upon the Sacrifice and Liturgy of your faith I joy and rejoyce with you all But Here is a twofold oblation recommended to us by the example before us in the Text. 1. A burnt sacrifice And 2. A peace-offering and such we must offer in a spiritual sense and we must offer 1. A burnt sacrifice and that upon a double account as such sacrifices use to be offered up upon 1. To acknowledge Gods Power and Dominion and Revere his signal Goodness herein demonstrated David hath furnished us with a Psalm to this purpose Psal 124. wherein the Church blesseth God for a miraculous deliverance of her self and the Ark of God setled in her possession If it had not been the Lord who was on our side now may Israel say If it had not been the Lord who was on our side when men rose up against us Then they had swallowed us up quick when their wrath was kindled against us Then the water had overwhelmed us the stream had gone over our soul Then the proud waters had gone over our soul Blessed be the Lord who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler the snare is broken and we are escaped Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth Non nobis Domine non nobis therefore not unto us Lord not unto us but unto thy name be the praise Thou art worthy to receive glory and honour and praise but to us there belongeth nothing but shame and confusion of face for we contributed only to the reproach and captivity of Gods Ark and solemn worship its happy restitution and settlement we ow to thy signal power and goodness great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorifie thy name Rev. 15.3 4. 2. A second design of our spiritual burnt sacrifice must be to make an atonement for those miscarriages which forfeited our interest in the Ark and betrayed it into captivity It was good advice of the Priests and Diviners to the Philistims when they consulted them about returning the Ark of God 1 Sam. 6.3 Oh! send it not away empty said they but in any wise return God a trespass-offering with it that you may be healed The captivity of that Ark wrought a strange conviction in the Philistims as well as in the Jews The Philistims saw clearly they had no reason to triumph in this defeat they had given Israel for though they had won the field they had got no