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A44703	Basilidi dōron. or, The royal present as it was delivered in a sermon, in the parish-church of Boston, Octob. 9, 1663, at the arch-diaconal visitation of the reverend and right worshipfull Raphael Throckmorton, D.D. and arch-deacon of Lincoln / by Obadiah Howe ...	Howe, Obadiah, 1615 or 16-1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing H3049; ESTC R43267	23,016	38

ΒΑΣΙΛΙΔΙ ΔΩΡΟΝ OR The Royal Present As it was Delivered in a SERMON In the Parish-Church of BOSTON Octob. 9. 1663. at the Archi-Diaconal Visitation of the Reverend and right Worshipfull RAPHAEL THROCKMORTON D. D. and Arch-Deacon of LINCOLN By OBADIAH HOWE A. M. sometimes Student of Magd. Hall Oxon. now Vicar of BOSTON in Lincoln-shire Because of thy Temple at Jerusalem therefore they shall bring presents unto thee Psal 68.29 The Daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour Ps 45. LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for A. Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Right Reverend Father in God BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of the Diocess of Lincoln My LORD I Sometimes finde an Apologue which the Jewes have in their Talmud of the Grapes in Babel sending to the Vine-leaves in Judea to cover them with their shadow I must make my way to your Lordships hands by this humble Petition that your Goodness may act the Mythologist here and cast your shadow over this immature and indigested fruit I know I may justly fall under a severe censure that such an empty present from so an unknown and worthless hand should covet so high as to thrust it self into your Lordships hands But my Lord it is your ennobled Candor which makes me thus presume and presse which I hope will find cause from it self to accept what I should from my self finde no confidence to offer and make the pardon easie where the error is out of Reverence and the end not to give any thing to your worth but to gain something to the work Abigail her modest Apology for her slender Present of Figgs and Raisins to David 1 Sam. 25.27 must be mine to your Lordship This slender and worthless piece as being much below your higher Speculations Let it be for the young men which walk at your Lordships feet Yet I know not to whom upon better accompt either of Reason or Duty I should apply my self upon such an occasion and such a subject than to your self whom Providence hath raised to stand as a tall Cedar in our Lebanon These Conceptions such as they are were by command delivered at a Visitation where your Lordship is present though not in Person yet in Power And thus they yet pursue their main end in lying at your feet with this earnest and humble Prayer that you as a Cedar and we all as the Firre Pine and Box may make the place of his feet glorious I conclude with this craving Impress or Motto of him who setting down only Ciphers in his Roll wrote this adde vel unum These following pages I have Impress'd as so many Ciphers if your Lordship will please to adde this one thing your acceptance and patrociny they will thence gain both number and weight and Crown the opportunity which as one that is under your Episcopal care and government I gladly lay hold of to let your Lordship know that I am and do in all humility subscribe my self My LORD Your most humble and obliged Servant in all Duty and Service Obadiah Howe THE ROYAL PRESENT Isa 60. v. 13. The Glory of Lebanon shall come to thee the firr the pine and the box together to beautifie my sanctuary and to make the place of my feet glorious TO reconcile the Text and the Time a word must be spoken of the Praphesie a word of the Chapter and the rest of the Text. As to the Prophesie we must know that Prophesies and Promises are in their predictions as Maps and Land-skips are in their descriptions present things contracted and at a distance In the one we say as the Queen of Sheba of Solomons glory half was not told me 1 King 10. or as the Apostle 1 Joh. 3.2 It doth not appear what we shall be And in the other as of the Patriarchs Heb. 11.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they saw them afarr off Yet all are not equally short and distant some more to the life and bring things nearer us by much Of which sort this of the Prophet Isay is whose work we find to be to set forth the glory of the Kingdom and Church of Christ And he doth it so exactly and to the life as if with S. Paul he had been wrapt up into the third heavens or caught up into Paradise 2 Cor. 12.2 4. or with S. John in vision had seen the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven as a Bride adorned for her husband In those legal administrations Evangelium was sub velo the Gospel was under the vail that glorious pearl was locked up in its Cabbinet and this royal pair lay behind the Curtains But this our Prophet hath almost quite drawn them and in all he so speaks as if he had been John Baptists contemporary or as one of those ear and eye-witnesses 1 Joh. 1.1 declared what they had heard and seen ut non tam de futuris vaticinari quam de praeteritis historiam texere videatur ideo non Prophetia est sed Evangelium so that he appears not so much a Prophet as an Historian and the whole rather a Gospel then a Prophesie Alapid in los. The Chapter is the Prophesies Epitome those scattered Rays of glory all over the whole are here contracted so the more strong The Chapter may be well termed an Act for a free voluntary and Royal Present to the King of Kings that is to his royal Queen whose relation and representation interests Christ himself in all those services which are done to her Hence it is that in Psal 45. what is spoken of her v. 12. The daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift is Psal 98.29 spoken of Christ himself Because of thy Temple at Jerusalem they shall bring presents unto thee This royal present is full and free It is full we have it in the total summ v. 5. abundance of the Sea and the wealth of the Gentiles what Earth and Sea can contribute must fill her Treasure If we look for a more distinct Inventory we find it afterwards Midians Camels Epha's Dromedaries Seba's Gold and Incense Kedar's Flocks Nebaioth's Rams and in the Text Lebanons Glory Kings to minister Isles to wait Ships to waft and sons of Strangers to build her Walls Whatever conduceth to the Beauty or Being of the Church must be brought And it is as free as full Kings shall come Riches shall flow and fly as a Cloud flock as Doves Isles shall wait Flocks shall gather themselves together and the glory of Lebanon shall come as if all were acted by the impulse of an ambitious emulation who should first court this royal Queen The Text is the Compendium of the whole wherein we have presented to us 1. The Cui 2. The Quid. 3. The Quare or 1. The Treasury 2. The Treasure 3. The Tributaries 1. The Cui or the Treasury that 's to thee 2. The Quare or the Treasure whatever may make Glorious 3. The Quid or

up to the House of the Lord all Nations shall flow unto it Zach. 14.16 All Nations shall goe up from year to year to worship the Lord and keep the Feast of Tabernacles and Ps 122.2.4 Our feet shall stand in thy gates O Jerusalem whither the Tribes goe up to give thanks unto the name of the Lord Sions glory is most ecclipsed when her wayes are most unoccupied and then the wayes of Sion mourn when none come to her solemn Feasts Lam. 1.4 I have here a word ad populum to the people who come in for a share in the Box and Firre and Pine here is some work for you and you must come the Apostle telleth you how 1 Cor. 11. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when you come together into one place thus may you come together to Sions glory and here the Prophet brings in his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Israel shall come and Judah together to seek the Lord and ask the way to Sion Jer. 50.4 the Apostle Rom. 9.4 joyns the service of God and glory together and the Prophet Isa 4.5 Assemblies and glory together as if they would tell us that concourse and multitude of Sions Worshippers make her glorious as the conflux of Starrs makes the glory and the beauty of the Galaxy or milky way in the firmament then was Sion glorious when David could say Ps 42.4 I went to the House of God with a multitude and as if the Emphasis of the Text and the brightness of Sions glory lay here he ingeminateth the express with a multitude that kept holy-day then are the Tabernacles amiable when men goe thither by troops and every one appear before God in Sion Ps 84.7 when men appear not as single Starrs but as Constellations in her Horizon then Sion shines bright the Text telleth you the Firre Pine and Box must come together then St. Pauls to the Hebrewes must be mine to you Heb. 10 25. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Forsake not the assembling of your selves together and as Heb. 13.15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually c. If Sion be the place of Gods feet she may well be the place of ours if he dwell there our feet may well stand there if God come down the Tribes of the Lord may well goe up thither It is a Lamentation and may be for a Lamentation that our unhappy Divisions have mouldred us into such uncomely separations that Sion seems to be forsaken of her Sons such thin and slender Assemblies as we see daily within Sions walls seem to bespeak her not worth the owning and her glory must needs be under a cloud when her Solemn Assemblies become a reproach as Zeph. 3.18 flock thither as Doves to their windowes Let her be no more tearmed forsaken and desolate but let us as well as God himself give her her name Hephzi-bah and Benlah as Isa 62.4 to shew that as the Lord so we delight in her then shall she be as a Royal Diadem and Crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and you shall as in the Text as the Firre Pine and Box come to make Sion glorious 4. From v. 21. Thy people shall be all righteous the branch of my planting that I may be glorified and as further explained Isa 62.12 They shall call them the holy people here lyeth the true glory of God in that he is the Holy One the glory of the Temple lay here in that it was the holy place of the new Jerusalem in that it is the holy City and so of his Church in that they are the people of his holiness this made the Spouse the fairest among women in that she was without spot Cant. 4.7 and then Christ presents her glorious when without wrinkle or blemish Eph. 5.26 Holiness becomes his House his Priests his People Here I have a word both ad Clerum and ad Populum as those that joyntly come to Sion being cal'd by the Apostle 1 Pet. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy nation and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy Priesthood God calleth for holiness to make Sion glorious as the Prophet Zach. 14.20 In that day upon the Bells of the Horses and every Pot in Jerusalem there shall be holiness to the Lord But chiefly this directs a word to the Clergy in whom holiness is most required and all impurity most visible Aaron had his garments for glory and beauty so God will have all his Saints but chiefly his Priests cloathed with righteousness Psal 132.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Sacer and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Sacerdos and the Hebrewes observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the one signifying a Priest the other a Bridegroom come both from the same root as teaching us that a Priest in his service should be adorned as a Bridegroom for his nuptial solemnity Aaron had his Thummim as well as his Urim and a plate of gold upon his breast inscribed Holiness to the Lord Exod. 28.26 under the Law the Levite was to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Gospel-Minister is to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without rebuke Vessels of Honour if fit for the Masters use must first be sanctified 2 Tim. 2.21 they are Lights and with John Baptist they must be burning and shining Lights their Lives must be visible Sermons and their practice Comments upon their Preaching Suadet loquentis vita non oratio saith the Poet It s the Life not the Language of the Preacher that perswadeth most the Jewes have a saying fit for us to this purpose Semper homo doce at discipulos suos viâ brevi Let every man teach his Schollers the shortest way What that is the old Adage will tell us Per precepta longa per exemplum breve the shortest by example But when Sions Watch-men degenerate and her Gold becomes dim the Sons of Sion that should be fine Gold become like Earthen Pitchers or the very scum of men as to their morals her Nazarites that should be whiter then snow their visage is blacker then a coal not with suffering but sinning those that should have wings tipped with silver and feathers with yellow Gold are as if they had lyen among the Pots with the tincture of a debauched looseness upon them when God may complain as Jer. 23.11 The Prophet and the Priest are prophane and from them Iniquity is gone forth into all the Land So that they become Populi odium et Ministerii scandalum a bait to the people and a blemish to their profession in this case the Cedar Box and Pine come not together to make Sion glorious 5. From v. 4.5.7.13 it s the burden of the Chapter They shall be gathered together they shall flow together and they shall come together A blessed Peace and Unity is a great ingredient into Sions glory This is the good crasis and temperature of the body mystical this is both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and sigillum