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A10583	The solace of Sion, and ioy of Ierusalem. Or consolation of Gods church in the latter age redeemed by the preaching of the Gospell vniuersallye. Beeing a godly and learned exposition of the Lxxxvij. Psalme of the princelye prophet Dauid: written in Latine by the reuerend Doctor Vrbanus Regius, pastor of Christes Church at Zelle, in Saxonie. 1536. Translated into english by R. Robinson citizen of London 1587.; Psalmus octuagesimus septimus, de gloriosa Christi ecclesia	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1587 (1587)	STC 20852; ESTC S119789	35,218	86

most liuely blessednesse But the Gretians doe reade this verse thus The dwelling in thee is as it were of all them that doe reioyce The Prophet Dauid héere speaketh of a Spirituall Joy which true beleeuers onely in Christe doe possesse Concerning which S. Peter in 1. Epist Chapt. 1 saith Whom yee haue not seene and yet loue him in whom nowe though yee see him not yet do you beleeue and reioyce with ioy vnspeakable and glorious ver 8 Receiuing the end of your faith euen the saluation of your soules vers 9. True ioy cannot be but where the sorowfull person is deliuered from all euils The greatest mischiefes are to be cast away from god to remaine in sinne to suffer the tyranny of death and to bee reserued to eternall damnation For al the euils of this world being compared to these horrible and eternall euils are euen scracely shadowes of Euils But true deliuerance from vndoubted and greatest Euils may no where else be found but in SION as it is said by the Prophet Ioel. 2. Chap. Euery one which shall call vpon the name of the Lord shal shall bee saued For in Mount Sion and Ierusalem shalbe deliuerance as the Lord hath said and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call vers 32. No where else then but in the Church the true SION can there bee true ioye Wherefore the dwelling or habitation of al them which truely reioyce by reason their sins are forgiuen thē through Christ and saluation by him restored vnto them is in SION alone They that are with out Sion are in their sinnes therfore they are the bondslaues of death and the deuil When as therefore they lye in most gréeuous eternall paines enthralled what place of true ioy may be ther yea though they fully wholly possesse in the meane time euen al the pleasures of this world Marke also that he saith Of all them that reioyce is to vnderstand not onelie that the Iewes but also the Gentiles are to bee admitted to the true Joy of SION by the promise of God which thing the Scripture euery where witnesseth In y e 46. Psal The Gentiles are called by name vnto this heauenly ioye O clappe your hands together all yee people O sing vnto God with the voyce of melody Hee is the great King ouer all the earth vers 1. 2. And Paul in 15. Rom. Praise the lord all ye Gentiles and laud yee him all people together vers 11. And the Prophet Esay Chap. 11. The Gentiles shall put their trust in him according to the translation of the 70. Interpreters And this Prophet Dauid singeth in his 63. Psalm The righteous shal reioyce in the Lord put his trust in him and all they that are true of heart shalbe glad vers 10. Beholde he saith not the lewe onely shall reioyce in the Lord but the iust is no man iust then but the Iew Aske of Paul who in Rom. 3. teacheth That the Iew is not iustified by the workes of the Lawe but by faith in Christ the righteous and onely iustifier And by and by hee after that saieth Is hee the God of the Iewes onely Is hee not also the God of the Gentiles verses 29 30. Yes of the Gentiles is he also God which iustifieth Circumcision by faith and vncircumfition through faith And in the 9. Rom. ver 30. he saith What shal wee say then That the Gentiles which followed not righteousnes haue attained vnto righteousnes euen the righteousnes which is of faith Heere the Scripture openly teacheth so farre as vnto iustification pertaineth that there is no difference betweene the Iew and the Gentile all haue sinned and haue neede of the glory of God but by the alone grace of Christ they are iustified And as S. Peter in Acts 15. confesseth god so much as to iustification belongeth made no difference betweene the Iewes and the Gentiles vers 9. If hee made no difference betwéene them if he also iustifie the Gentiles by faith in Christ euen then againe shall the Gentiles be founde iust by Christ If they be iust then also do they reioyce in the Lorde they reioyce in SION They haue aswel their dwelling place as the Iewes the flesh of Abraham haue in SION out of which citie no man is excluded but by that incredulitie which with the vnfaithfull Iewes he reiecteth because they embraced not Iesus Christ the king of SION Whome the Father himselfe as Dauid saith appointed ruler ouer Syon his holy hill And placed him as the head of the Gentiles Therefore the dwelling place of all which truely reioyce that is to say of Christians is in SION namely the Church of Christe concerning which ioy of y ● Christians the Prophet Esay thus Prophecyeth in the 51. Chapiter Ioye and gladnesse shal be founde in SION thanksgiuing the voice of praise ver 3. And the redeemed of the Lorde shall returne and come with ioy vnto Sion and ●uerlasting ioy shall be vpon their heades they shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and mourning shal flee away ver 11. I euen I am he that comfort you Who art thou that thou shouldest feare a mortall man and the son of man which shall be as withered grasse ver 12. Which true and perfite ioy neuer to bee taken away from vs. Ioh. 16. Christ our Lord God who be blessed for euer vouchsafe to giue vs heereby true faith in him and in the world to come by the cleare and manifest beholding of him Amen They that impugne our Catholique faith which we haue confessed sixe yéeres agone in a very great assembly before y ● Emperour States of the Romane Empyre at Augusta will haue themselues accounted onely Catholique doe tye the Church to the Seuenhilled Babilon and so describe her that she may be seene and p●rceiued with our very eyes as if indeede shée were a worldly Monarchy wherein a visible heade and Uicar generall might beare rule They I say with their finger point at that Spirituall SION But the Scripture both heere in this place and elsewhere often ynough teacheth that the Head the builder and King of that Sion is Spiritual and the City Spirituall not earthly also the Citizens of that glorious Citie to bée newe creatures in Christ reioysing singing and leaping for ioy not openly ryding on stately stéedes in kings Pallaces al prodigalitie of this world but in the Spirit for being saued through hope as S. Peter saith with inward ioy they looke for that blessed hope and appearance of the glorie of the great God and our Sauiour Iesus Christ in the day of our ful redemption But in the meane time they wéepe lament in this world Contrariwise the world reioyceth and is glad And as Christ saith in the worlde they Finde affliction but in themselues peace through Christ the ouercommer of the worlde For if a man beholde the Church according to her outward shewe shée shall not beséeme

in this place called the Citty of God But some would say is not God euery where yea euen among the Turks why thē is the Church onely that is the congregation of Christians called the Cittie of GOD For Esay the Prophet saieth Cap. 66. Heauen is my seat and the earth is my footstool I answere God is euery wheare by power and essence but not euery whear by grace but in Christians onely whoe beléeue in Christ the Mediator Thereis God saide to dwell in his Church because the Church is that peculier people of God sanctified in the blood of Christ consecrated to God in Baptisme by the holy Ghost that it may be a liuely Temple and Tabernacle of God wherin hée dwelleth whereinto he powreth out his holy spirit with his guitts on which he bestoweth through Christ incorruptibility and eternitie For as touching Christians God specially faith in 26. Leuit. I will set my Tabernacle in the middest of you and my soule shall not loath you I will walk amōgst you and I wil be your God and you shal be my people vers 11 which place y e holy Apostle S. Paul 2 cor 6. referreth vnto all Christiās which are the people of God the true Church of Christ ver 19 And y e holy Euangelist S. Iohn in reuel cap 11. writeth Behold the tabernacle of god is with mē he wilbe with thē they shall be his people and God himselfe shal be their god with thē And the Prophet Ezechiel saith cap. 37. My tabernacle shall be in thē and I will be their God they shal be my people vers 27. After this maner doe the Prophets cal Christians the Citty of God As it is in the 46. Psalme The riches of the flood shal make glad the city of god the most highest hath sanctified his Tabernacle God is in the midst of her ther fore she shal not be remooued God will giue help vnto her and that right early And herevpon Aurelius Augustinus that reuerend and most exercised deuine in Scriptures when as he did confute y e Romanes blasphemies by reason of the irruptions of y e Goathes slaundering the way of trueth calleth the Church that is the cōgregation of Christiās because she is predestinate to raign w t God for euer the city of God as in his first booke vnto Marcellinus appeareth for he was persuaded by the sacred Scriptures y t there wer two cities One the church of God which here amongst the vngodly in this world liuing by faith in Christ hath her perigrination or soiourning frō time to time place to place the other is of this world or pertaineth to the Deuil which hath y ● vngodlie ones not beleeuing in y e gospel of christ vessels of wrath prepared for euerlasting destruction w t the deuill his angels He deriueth y ● City of God as beginning at Abell who was a Soiourner in this worlde by grace predestinate vnto life by grace a Straunger on 〈…〉 The other he bringeth from Cain the murtherer which was first borne a Cittizen of this world of whome it is read that he builded a Cittie But of Abell a Pilgrim in this world we read not that he builded any Cittie This Cittie then of the holie ones is from aboue although it bringeth foorth Cittizens heare in this worlde in whom it liueth Stranger-like vntill the time of her Kingdome come when as she shall gather together all her Cittizens rising againe to life euen in their bodies when the Kingdome promised shall be geuen them where with their Prince the King of all holie ones they shall raigne worlde without end as the saide Augustine diligentlie handleth in Lib 15. Cap. 2. De Ciuitate Dei The Psalmograph therefore here saieth Very excellent things are spoken of thee thou Cittie of God Nowe except wee sleepe all too sluggishly and neglect our benefites to come it shall wel please vs to search out and discerne what glorious thinges these may bee which are spoken off touching or in the Church of 〈…〉 spoken of v● which ●e leeue in Christ and confesse Christ First and for most who hath at any time explaned this praise-worthy Title euen by dignity That Christians are called the Cittye of God For in this one Tytle all good thinges are vnderstoode namely y ● she inioyeth very good Lawes a most wise Magistrate faithfull mosts learned Teachers inuintible Warriors a quiet and most obedient People true Peace and Safetie true Holinesse Righteousnes true Joy sure or certain knowledge of speciall things and brieflye true life and Saluation for so is this Citie called because God dwelleth in her as in his owne house his beloued and holye Tabernacle And where God after this manner dwelleth by grace I praye ys what good things may be wanting doth not such a one dwell safelie And the Cittie so safe insulteth with S. Paule against her enemies on this manner If God be on our side who can be against vs. Rom 8. Wherfore if God be King and Lord in her there must ueedes be in her absolute felicitie by al meanes that is to say Righteousnesse and euerlasting saluatiō Christ the king of glorie with al his good graces dwel in the Church by good right then doth Paul first a persecutor and afterwardes a builder and defender of the Church call her glorious as in Ephes 5. And what are these Glorious thinges which are spoken of in or touching this Church The Church is called The holy and beloued spouse of Christ Ephes 5. whom as Oseas saith Christ the king of glory hath maried vnto himselfe for euer in righteousnes in iudgemēt and in mercy and cōpassiō faith that she may know how he is the Lord. cap 2. vers 19 20. The Church is thus diuersly also called The City of the liuing God Heb 13. Esa 60. The city of the great king a beautifull place and the ioy of all the whole earth Psal 47 vers 2. The people that dwell therin shall haue their iniquity forgeuen Esay 33. vers 24. The body of Christ 1 cor 12. Ephes cap 1. The piller and groūd of truth 1 Tim. 3. Mount Sion the heauenlye Ierusalem Heb. 12. vers 22. The hill of the Lord the holy hill Esay ● 63. The Temple of God 1 Cor. 3. vers 17. The Horne of saluation exalted in the house of Dauid the seruāt of God Luk. 1 The house of God Heb 3. 1 Tim. 3. The house of Iacob the seat of Dauid Esay 9. Luk. 1. A City sought out and not forsaken Esay 62. vers 12. Of this Ierusalem it is said Psal 147 Thy God hath made the Barres of thy Gates strong he hath blessed thy Children in thee He setteth peace in thy borders and satisfieth thee with the flower of wheat verses 13. and 14. The Queene on the right hand of God in a vesture of golde of Ophyr wrought with needle worke Psal 45. The King shall