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A69188	The ile of gulls As it hath been often acted in the Black Fryers, by the Children of the Revels.	Day, John, 1574-1640?; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1633 (1633)	STC 6414; ESTC S109425	90,057	188

him to be so desirous to goe to Church Now to apply what hath beene spoken and to make such vse of it as is fit to come to the marke it selfe whereat I first aimed when I first made choise of this Text. To behold the faire beauty of the Lord and to visit his Temple Little wrong was done to Saul by the woman of Israel when they made it the burden of their song Saul hath slaine his thousand and David his ten thousand The vnlike deserts of these two Princes saith a worthy Divine of our daies might iustly admit an vnlike commendation Our Saviour in the Gospell indeed preferreth olde wine before new but in the same Gospell if we marke it he preferreth the New Testament before the old There is no greater Prophet then Iohn saith he among them that are begotten of women neverthelesse he that is least in the kingdome of God is greater then he the kingdome of God being there taken as the kingdome of heauen Matthew the third at the second verse and the Gospell of the kingdome Matthew the fourth at the three twentie verse and the word of the kingdome Matthew the thirteenth at the nineteenth verse in a word as our Savior meant when he said The kingdome of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a Nation which shall bring forth the fruits thereof Matthew the one and twentieth at the three and fortieth verse These things thus Beloved it shall be no disparagement to the Temple here in this place if so be we preferre before it the Beautie of our Temples The Beauty I told you of this Temple consisted in two points First in regard of the Parties that there were present Secondly in regard of the Things performed in those Assemblies The Parties present were first the Lord himselfe then the Priests thē the People The Things performed in those Assemblies was the Publique Solemnitie of Gods worship both in the Word and Sacraments and Sacrifices and Prayer and Prayses and doth not the Church of God whereof our Assemblies are every of them parts and parcels of the selfe same nature the Church is evē the meanest Assembly that is so it be a Congregation doth not the Church I say so far excell that Synagogue as the Sunne in his brightnesse the meanest starre Begin wee first of all with Gods presence and is it not more in Christian Assemblies thē it was to the Israelits in that Temple At sundrie times and in diuers maners saith the Apostle to the Hebrews God spake in the old time to our Fathers by the Prophets in these last dais he hath spoken to vs b●… S●nne never spake Prophet ●…e the Son Iohn the seaventh ●…e sixe and fortith verse O but you ●…ay God him selfe spake to Moses ●…es hard his owne voice I grant he did and was not the same voice of the same God hard also in the new Testament first vpō the baptisme of our Savior Matthew the third at the seavēteenth vers secondly at another time Iohn the 12 at the eight and twenty verse True it is it was at those times it was then it is not now howbeit as S. Austen in the matter of the Tongues To one that should say saith he if thou hast received the Holy Ghost why then speakest thou not as did the Apostles with diversity of tongues thou mayst answer him againe yes I speak with diversity of tongues for I am in the body of Christ that is the Church which speaketh with such diversitie right so may we say in this case no particular Church whatsoever but in regard this was spoken to our Savior Christ the head thereof but hath the benefit of those words and may bee said to haue hard the voice of God Nowe as wee haue God the father here the first Person in Trinity so haue we here God the sonne to even as he testified of himselfe where two or three saith he are gathered togither in my name there am I in the midst of thē Not as he was in the midst betweene the two theeues giving influence to the one and none at all to the other Luke the three twētith at the three and fortith verse but as he was in the midst of the Doctors or in the midst of the eleaven Apostles or if not so personally for he is nowe at the right hand of God there setteth as speak the Scriptures yet as he was in the midst of the candleslickes Revelation the first at the thirteenth verse Over and besides the Sonne of God we haue God the holy Ghost to of whō our Saviour himselfe said that hee should abide with vs for ever and is therfore called by Tertullian The Vicar of Christ vpō earth True it is they had in their Temple this Trinity as well as we the Father and Sonne and Holy Ghost for they were but one God both then now ever but come to the manner of their being there being with vs in our Assemblies and it was a ridle to the Iewes we that haue plowed with Sampsons heyfer that is with the holy Scriptures haue easily found it out You shall heare Dichers Delvers saith Theodoret of the Christians in his time and he spake it not in skorne neither reasoning about the Trinity Over and besides the Holy Trinity we haue the Angels to here present in regard of whom the Apostle in his Epistle to the Corinthians The woman ought to haue power on her head that is to haue her head covered because of the Angels Nor are they present only as Spectators but they assist vs after a sort I they solace themselues in the beauty of this house according to that of St Peter The which things the Angels desire to behold speaking of the misteries published in the Gospell The word Beholding there vsed being the same that was vsed of himselfe when he lookt so diligently into the sepulcher and the Apostle alluding thereby as it is thought to the figure of the Cherubins that were so fashioned by the hand of the work man as if they had looked into the Arke Concerning the other Parties that were present namely the Priestes and People how infinitly in each of them doe we Christians out strip the Iewes First concerning our Priests they are not in deede so gorgeous in attire as they were but being Ministers of better things how are they more beautifull notwithstanding How beautifull saith the Apostle are the feet of them wh●ch bring glad tidings of peace and bring glad tidings of good things And St Chrysostome he compares thē in one place to the Angels in another place he prefers them farre before thē To them saith he that inhabit the earth and are conversant therein is committed the dispensing of those things which are in h●avē They haue that power given vnto them which he neuer gaue to

Angels no not Archangels thēselues Concerning the People they indeed were a Natiō but they were but one Nation we the whole world And therefore as our Saviour said to his disciples Go and teach all Nations so they went and taught them severally S. Iohn the Asians S. Andrew the Achaians S. Matthew the Ethiopians S. Philip the Phrygians S. Bartholmew the Indians S. Thomas the Parthians and so forth their soūd saith the Apostle went out through all the earth and their words into the end of the world Or if so be they went not to all places in their owne proper persons as S. Austen seemes to be of opinion yet hath every Nation now or at the least wise hath had the benefit of that doctrine which the Apostle delivered to those nations that in their owne persons they then visited We may well adde vnto this point that peculiar honour and testimoniall that is given vnto Christians in that they are saide so many times to bee themselues the Temple of God I every of them in particular in regard of their bodies to be the Temple of the holy Ghost But thus much of outstripping them in regard of the Parties present that we no lesse outstrip them to in regard of the Pub like Solemnity of Gods worship namely in the Word and Sacraments and Sacrifices and Praier and Praises remaineth now to be declared first concerning the Word First then concerning the Worde they had Moses I grant and they had the Prophets Moses as speakes Theodoret who was the Ocean of Diuinity and instructed mouth to mouth as it were by God himselfe the Prophets who were the floods and so many riuers as it were derived from him Moses he delivered them the Law the Prophets they were the Interpreters of that Law Both Moses and Prophets so complete at that time for the salvatiō of the Iews that that of Abraham vnto Diues concerning the salvation of his Bretheren then living They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them was an argument that woulde not admit of any reply that Diues made For when hee answered therevpon Nay Father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they will amend their liues the Patriarch holds himselfe to his first resolutiō If they heare not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the dead againe Now if they were then taught so wholy and perfectly by Moses the Prophets alone howe much better is our case who haue the Apostles and Evangelists annexed vnto them Moses and the Prophets indeede being a light as S. Peter speaketh that shineth in a darke place but the Apostles and Euangelists as the day star arising in our hearts And thus much of the Word How far we outstrip them in the Sacraments S. Austen wil bear vs witnes who speaking of theirs and ours we saith he are not pressed with the heavy burden they were but our Lord his Apostles haue delivered vnto vs a few Sacraments in steed of many and the same in performing most easie in signification most excellent in obseruation most reverend and he nameth in that place Ba●tisme and the Sup●er True it is the Apostle saith they were all vnder the clowd and all passed through the sea and were baptised vnto Moses in the clowd and in the sea and againe they did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spiritual drinke for they dranke of the spiritual rocke that followed them and the rocke was Christ howbeit this which the Apostle saith is in regard of the substāce effect of the Sacraments the signification of our Sacraments is much more cleere thē theirs was In our Sacrifices we are farther before thē then in our Sacraments having had in our church the selfe same Sacrifice really acted whereof al their Sacrifices were but shadowes For if the blood of Buls saith the Apostle and of Goates and the ashes of an Haifer sprinckling them that are vncleane sanctifieth as touching the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ which through the eternall spirit offered himself without spot to God purg your conscience from dead works to serue the living God And againe a little after The law saith he having the shaddow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can neuer with those Sacrifices which they offer yeare by yeare continually sanctifie the commers therevnto For it is impossible that the blood of Bals and Goats should take away sinnes Now if so be we would know the vertue of our Sacrifice though it were but one their Sacrifices being many with one offering saith the Apostle hath he consecrated for ever thē that are sanctified And he had said a little before As it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die after that commeth the iudgement so Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many And comparing his Priesthood with theirs Among them saith he many were made Priests because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death but this man because he endureth ever hath an everlasting Priesthood And againe a little after Such a High Priest it became vs to haue which is holy harmelesse vndefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens which needed not dayly as those High Priests to offer vp Sacrifice first for his owne sinnes and then for the Peoples for that did he once when he offered vp himselfe Comparing then those Sacrifices with this of ours I may say of them as did Theodoret of the like offered by the Gentiles they were such kind of Sacrifices as were fit for Hucks●ers and Butchers to make Lastly concerning Prayer wherein I comprehend with the Learned not only the asking of things needfull for vs and deprecation of things hurtfull but the confession of our sins the praises of God and giving thanks for benefits receaved at his hands how far we outstrip the Iewes witnes that of the Prophet Malachie who cōparing both together theirs ours From the rising of the Sun saith he vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the Gentiles in every place Incense shall be offered vnto my name a pure offering Now what is this Incense but Prayers for so the Holy Ghost himselfe interprets Incēse Revelation the fift at the eight verse And that this Pure Offering is the same witnesse that of Tertullian a Pure Offering that is a Pure Prayer frō a conscience that is pure for it so be as speakes the same Father in another place the Conscience blush Prayer it selfe will blush too I but you will say since these our Prayers must needes tast of the caske from whence they come and the caske is very impure be it the Conscience or the Heart of man how can they be the Pure