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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

my chiefe spirituall weapons Secondly prescribe meanes as the ordering of my Ranckes Thirdly remove * Quod primum in intentione ultimum in executione I have not fully prescribed the meanes nor removed the lets or remoraes as I intended because the booke contrary to my first project swels so great alreadie but quod defertur non aufertur I promise them God willing if ever these bee thought worthy reprinting otherwise satis est voluisse vl●ru posse non est esse impediments as the discoverie of Ambushments and these will we doe as God and your patience shall permit First for the motives as ayming still method take them eyther generall or more especiall 1. Generall as they concerne all Christians to be thankefull of what sort sexe qualitie conditions soever they bee for all mercies of what nature soever reiterated or renewed to their soules or bodies and above all things to steare from this rocke of ingratitude eyther to God the principall author and agent or to man the mediate organ and instrument of any good to them or theirs 2. Speciall as they concerne the solemnization of these late mercies in which we promise and purpose to commemorate and congratulate as David and his subjects here in their times the mercies of adornation or preservation to our English Israel in which even we now English-Irish have deepely shared 1. For the first if any soule here present or to whom soever these presents shall come finde himselfe infected with this leprous disense of ingratitude which as a fellon or gangreen hath spread over the whole bodie almost of our Nation and as poyson corrupted the blouds of so many Let him take these physicall purgatives for the cleansing and purifying of his infected spirits the killing of the humor and tumour of pride the originall of it together with some Iulupps Cordials to corroborate his heart against it and to breed and increase in him this good spirit this good vitall bloud of true gratitude the fayre daughter of a fruitefull mother true grace CHAP. II. Motives to thankefulnesse FIrst let him know that this thankefulnesse hath his speciall mandate and injunction from God in severall g Psalm 50.15 Psalm 107. 1. Thess 15.16.17 Scriptures it hath his warrant and signe in the great Court of heaven it comes from the great Monarch of the world to every Microcosme and little world it is enacted in the highest Parliament as Gods Statute law and upon penaltie to the contrarie to be executed by everie one It 's that taxe and Subsidie and spirituall tribute imposed and exacted upon everie subject not denied crossed or contradicted by any unlesse by some that like stuborne Forts and Castles stand in opposition or as Kearnes come out in rebellion against the supreame and soveraigne Majestie of God himselfe The King of Kings yea this must be payd in our owne persons of high low rich poore learned and unlearned Prince Peere Potentate Duke Marquesse Earle Baron Knight Gentleman Yeomen Husband-man Labourer Plebeian Common-beggar wee cannot doe this dutie by a deputie or atturney none can make affidavit one for another as in our Civill Courts even David a King is not exempted from this homage neyther other Kings much lesse the vulgars if not Senatours Magistrates and Patritians Secondly the easinesse of this taske if neglected and unperformed admits no apologie no plea nor excuse great Subsidies and Customes imposed as appeares in our Chronicles all Histories have occasioned mutterings murmurings mutinies rebellions in the Subjects as perplexed Israel against perverse h 1. King 12.18 Robeam and so in i See Stowes Hellinsheds Chronicles England about paying of Poll-money and Peter pence But this imposition of gratitude to God if God give grace is as easily performed as injoyned What great inconvenience was it for Naaman the Syrian to wash in k 2. Kings 5. Iordan for the halt to wash in the Poole of l Iohn 5 4.5 Bethsaida for the Leaper to goe shew himselfe to the m Luke 17.14 Priest for the poore widdow to throw n Luke 21.2 a mite into the Treasurie for a man to open his mouth and the doore of his lippes or rather of the heart to God as the Marry-gold opens to the Sunne and shewforth his prayses if the Prophet had commanded thee some great thing say the servants to that Syrian thou oughtest to have done o 2. King 5 ●● it So if the Lord should command us in requitall of all his mercies to give to the poore not onely halfe with p Luke 19.8 Zacheus but as he tryed that young Iustitiarie in the q Math. 19.11 Gospell even all our goods wee ought to give all to him for him that hath given all to us If he injoyne us to sacrifice our sonnes as once r Gen. 22.1.2.3 Abraham to give our bodies to be burned as once the Martyres in the Paganish Arrian and Popish persecution wee should not grudge the Lord our goods our blouds our sonnes yea our verie soules as was once the case of ſ Exod. 32.32 See D Willes his Comment in his Comment in his Hexapla in L●cadum in locum Moses and of t Rom. 9. Paul himselfe to vindicate and redeeme the glorie of God to which every creature in heaven and earth must be subordinate but now he injoynes us a more facill and ready way which wee may honour and glorifie him and that 's by our Thankefulnesse our Cordiall and heartie acknowledgement of his mercies a yoake that is not heavie but easie a burthen not laborious but u Math. 11.29 Psalm 33.1 light a thing not unseemely but seemly a thing not incongruous any way or undecent but exceeding good Psal 92.1 Yea pleasant and comely Psal 147.1 Now how can wee be wanting to this Eucharisticall spirituall dutie that hath in it all the requisites of the Pagans morall * Vtile honestū in●undum Cicero in Offic. E● omne tuli● pūctum qui miscuit utile dulci. good being honest pleasant profitable unlesse we will be a wanting to Gods glorie and our owne goods 1. had God commanded us onely to sacrifice our eyes blinde Bartimeus and such as had beene borne blinde as he in the 9. of Iohn could not have offered this sacrifice 2. or onely our eares and tongues the deafe and the dumbe had beene excluded his service 3. or our wealth and full bagges the poore had beene to seeke for his sacrifice as that poore Persian for his * Apud Alexandrum de Alexādro Fusius gift when suddenly he met with his King But now since the Lord requires neyther thousand Rammes out of the flocke nor the Goates from the hills nor the Bullockes from the stalles nor such Hecatombs Psalm 50. nor the eare nor the eye nor tongue for these the hypocrite and temporizer give him but onely a cordiall and a gratefull y Deut. 5.24 Prover 23.26 heart actively passively

you may see vers 18.19.20 to the end of the chapter as one saith of the Epistles of Cyprian * Referunt pectus ardore plenum Erasmi cēsura everie word is emphaticall and shewes a wondrous ardent and inflamed affection But especially peruse all the Psalmes of David so denominated of him because he penned the greater better part of * Denominatio sequitur maiorem partem them though some were pen'd by Moses n Vide prafat Lorini ante Comment in psalmos Asaph and others and you shall see besides those that are doctrinall precatory deprecatory propheticall penitentiall as they are distinguished by the learned * Vide Musculum Mollerum Bellarm. praefationib ante Comment in psalmos David more then halfe of them are Eucharisticall or Psalmes of gratulations now for this mercie positive in good receaved or privative in evills prevented or removed yea throughout the whole Booke of Psalmes the whole Syntagma or body of it almost in every psalme in the beginning middle or end of it Davids thankefull heart runnes all along as the bloud within the veines the marrow within the bones and the waters within the Crannyes of the Earth Ponder and peruse with Davids heart and spirit for thine owne edification and consolation in the serious Soliloquies of thy Soule Psalme 9.18.23.31.33.34.40.57.66.81.89.95.96.103.104.105.106.107.108 113.116.118.135.144.145 146.147.148.149 150 together with manie moe which I purposely pretermitt and thou shalt finde by comfortable experience the veritie of that which I have observed SECTIO III. Still urging Davids thankefulnesse YEa indeed the whole life of David is nothing else but a practicall Comment of that which is prescribed by o Iames. 5.13 Saint Iames and which should be practised of every Christian namely Is any one afflicted let him pray Is any man merrie let him sing Psalmes For is David afflicted in his outward man by p 1. Sam. 24. v. 11.14 Saul pursuing as the Hauk the patridge by q 2. Sam. 15.30 Absalons rebelling r vers 31. Achitophels complotting or moved or grieved in his spirit by s 2 Sam. 6.20 Michols mocking t 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semeis rayling v 1. King 2.5 Ioabs murthers w 2 Sam. 3.33 Abners death x 2. Sam. 1.23 Ionathans untimely fall his y 2. Sam. 13.21 daughters deflowring z vers 14. Ammons works wages incest a vers 29.30 death or by the like crosses Is hee in spirit perplexed b Ps 38.5.6.7.8 roaring as a Lion by his anxieties first for his filthie pollutions c Psal 51.3 secondly bloudie murther d vers 14. thirdly presumptuous pride in numbring his people e 2. Sam 24 10. fourthly his rash vowes against f 1. Sam. 25.22 Nabal fiftly his partialitie and injustice toward Miphishbosheth g 2. Sam. 16.4 syding with sycophantizing Ziba h 2. Sam. 19 29. sixtly dissembled madnesse in a heathenish Court i 1 Sam. 21.13 seventhly and for like transgressions slips frailties and infirmities to which Sathans temptations his owne corruptions and sinning condition subjected him In these exigents upon these causes and in these afflictions in the outward and inward man he powred out his Soule to the Lord as appeares in his penitentiall k Psa 6. psal 38. Psal 51.1 Vide Vegam in psalm Poenitentiales Psalmes in humble heartie faithfull fervent penitent Prayer hee supplicates intreats pleades for pardon as a guilty selfe-accusing fellon before his strict Iudge he takes that course which l Exod. 14.15 Exod. 17.11 Numb 16.22 Moses Aaron Iacob n 1 Sa. 1.13.14 Anna o 2. Chro. 1● 11 Asa p 2. King 19.15.16 Ezekiah q Da. 6.10 chap. 2.16 17. Daniel r Esth 4 16. Esther s Nehem 2.4 Nehemiah t 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Paul yea u Luk 22.41 42 Christ himselfe tooke with all his w vers 46. Saints namely to call vpon God in the time day of his trouble in the depths of his miseries he hath recourse to the throne of grace and of x Ps 5.1 ps 7.2 17.1 et 22.2 et 28.1 et 31.7 mercie as he y psal 32.5 professeth and prescribeth to z vers 6. others On the contrary as an excellent patterne of right imitation vertuous emulation to all great men to all good men doth the Lord loose his bonds a Ps 116. v. 16. free him from his troubles take him out of the Nett free him from the snares of these Fowlers the gins and traps of these bloudie hunters which pursue his soule envious bloud-thirstie b 1. Sam. 24. 1. sam 26. v. 21. 1. sam 23.27 Saul matchavillian c 2. sam 17.14 Achitophell dogged d 1 sa 22.9.10 Doegg the factions of the sonnes of e 2 sam 16.10 19.22 Zerviah the treachery of the f 1. sam 26. v 1 Ziphites c Doth the Lord rid him of his enemies domesticke and forreine bring under the g 2 sam 5. v. 20 25. Philistins cast out the h ibid. v. 6.7.8 Iebusites subdue the nations bring him backe to Ierusalem after he i 1. sam 19.13.14.15 was exiled by his owne unnaturall bowels that fayre foule viperous Absolon yea doth the Lord every way hedge and inviron him in with his mercies advance him from the dust bring him from the sheepe-hooke to the k 2. sam 12.8 Scepter set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head let him see his desire upon l psal 54.7 his enemies sweepe away their plots as Spiders m ps 58.6.7.8 webs confounding them that come about him like Bees and Hornets Doth he make his sword ever victorious against the Philistines Ammonites * 2. sam 8. per totum cap. 10 Amalekites c Doth he recover Ziglah with his wives and o 1. sam 30.17 18. children doth he blesse him with the rarest of Iewels so faithfull a friend as p 1. sam 20.42 Ionathan But especially Doth he ponder the mercies of God of adornation or preservation to his Church his Sion his people Israel over whom hee was Prince doth the Arke returne safe from the q 2. sam 6. Philistines is there a stone directed to the forehead of blaspemous r 1. sam 17.49 Goliab the terrour of s v. 24. Israel as Tamberlaine once to the Turke and Tawbut to the French doth hee see the Temple likely to go forward by the large contributions of the Peeres t 1. chro 29.8.9 people doth he see the willingnesse of his Subjects to goe up to the house of the Lord doth hee see with his owne eyes and as in my Text his sonne Salomon on whom were all the eyes hopes of all Israel sixt the second time u Hee was invested once before 1. King 38.39 more solemnely and publickely by the united hearts votes and desires of all invested into his owne

those of Cabriers and Merindoll as the decree of Asuerus against the Iewes in Persia by the meanes of Haman that cursed p Est 3.9 Amalekite whereupon the poore Merindolians their wives children were as poore sheep slaughtered pell mell hunted into the woods as wilde beasts torne and devoured by Mastives fired out of some caves into which they crept like the firing out of Foxes with such barbarous butcheries as have not beene heard of amongst Turkes and Pagans as also their succeeders exceeders in bloud-thirstinesse Gardner bloudie Bonner Weston Story Hopton Morgan Tonstall Steward who used abused not only Peters keyes of strictest discipline but as once * This Iulius threw Peters sword into Tyber and tooke Peters sword for the warres Iulius a Pope of theirs and * This Iulian caused the yong Polonian King to breake his faith with the Turke by which he perished Knoll● hist of Turkes Iulian a Cardinall even Peters pretetended usurped sword to smite unlawfully not for Christ but against Christ kicking against the * Act. 9.6 prick persecuting and prosecuting him with fire and fagots in his members maliciously as once the Pharisees not ignorantly as once q 1 Tim. 1.13 Paul for five yeares together in that quinquennium Mariae bloudie raigne of Queene Mary effusing in that short space more Protestant bloud as is plaine by computation then there hath beene for Religion effused unlesse for Treason Popish bloud these threescore yeares in our Albion I say these and all such as these which might infinitely be enumerated as birds of that black base and bloudy feather Eagles Crowes Vultures Harpies flocking from Rome to be drunke and drunke againe with the bloud of the r Rev. 17.6 Saints as drunke before with the cup of the Whores ſ Rev. 14.8 fornications I say did such as these give any demonstration that they were ever possessed with Davids heart Davids spirit affection resolution to advance publickly before men the glorie of that God who had advanced them By the best retaliation to stirre up Gods glory who had set up them to honour God by their graces who had honoured them by their great and eminent places Nay verily If persecuting of Christ in the Church his bodie be the praising and lauding of Christ their head if as did once persecuting t Acts 22.3 Gal. 1 13.14 Acts 26.11 Paul their predecessor in blinde bloudie zeale the causing of the Saints to u Acts 26.11 blaspheme as much as they could by their exquisite tragical tortures If this be in the sight of the sunne of all Israel with David to blesse God then I shal unweave what I have woven recant and recall these apostulatorie taxations And if these things were not plaine and undeniable they might hold them as we hold their Popish Bulls excommunications execrations even * See the book in octoavo called Brut. Fulmē Bruta fulmina as meere squibs and paper bullets yea they might account these imputations as I hold their Masses Trentalls Dirges Purgatories Limboes but chiefly their satanicall accusations of our doctrine and Doctors x See their railings in G●ffords Calvin Turcism in Kellisons survay in Feuerdentius upon Iude their hellish slanders in Coccius Bolsterus writing the life of Luther chiefly their calumnies laid downe in our Wallets Tetrast Papismi and answered in D. White his way to the true Church in fine libri and by his apologizing brother since his lamented death al. o in fine libr. Luther Melancton martyr and other our famous English and Belgick lights meere toyes trickes chimeraes fictions and fables SECT II. Davids profession animating and directing professors and profession BVt that which I further urge is this That David publickly and purposely prayseth God I say professedly that I may from Davids practise and president honour this word and tearme of Profession which is almost verbum obsoletum worne out of request banished like zeale and conscience to whom it professeth friendship and affinitie well nye out of the country as was once Themistocles and some well-deserving Romane Patriots as it were by ostracisme or at least entertained and welcommed of most as water into a ship or raine in harvest I am sure strangely and sternely entertained examined like some outlandish disguised man whether it be the kings friend or no. Others whoot at it as at an Owle or an Arabian Monster others flying from it as some roving Orators from their Theames and Texts as though the very plague were in it or on it standing aloofe from it as Iobs friends from a Iob 2.13 Iob as though it were so distressed and persecuted they might get much prejudice by their acquaintance with it Well what strange conceits and imaginations soever we have of this profession the tearme of a Professor being to every moralist and profaner amongst us distastfull as was the tearme of a Galilean to Apostate Iulian of a Christian or Cruciferian to the Pagans of an Orthodoxe to the Arrians of a Protestant held a Lutheran a Hugenote a hereticke to a professed Papist of a disciplinarean Brownist or Anabaptist to a conformitant of a Calvinist to a ridged b Such as was Hunnius Huberus Eccardus in Thessibus in Fasciculo controversiarum and other such hot spurrs who more raile upō and revile the Calvinists as they terme them then they doe the very Papists or the Turkes Psal 1.9 per totum Lutheran yet neverthelesse David is a Professor herein my Text he professeth and proclaimes by his tongue and act his words and practise the service and worship of the true God he Heralds and trumpets out the praise of Iehovah in the eye and eare of all Israell The like profession he makes elsewhere chiefly in the 116. Psal v. 16. Oh Lord saith he truely I am thy servant I am thy servant with an ingemination and resolution not to flinch from that he had said but to stand to it to the verie death with a gratefull acknowledgement of some honourable favours he had received from the best Master Thou hast loosed my bonds freed me as a bird from the snares of these bloudie hunters which by their plots and stratagems thought and sought to intrap me Yea what are all the Psalmes penned and published to be sung by Asaph and the chiefe Musitians before the thousands of Israel in the great Congregation but loud proclamations to the Church to the whole world to present and after times of that neere and deare necessitude union and relation betwixt his God and him he receiving the influence of mercies from God he returning tribute of prayses againe unto God Chiefly in the 119. Psalme which of all the rest for matter manner method quantitie qualitie is as the Eagle or Phenix amongst c The Commentators exceedingly extoll that Psal both for the matter Davids love to the word and manner there being in it as many parts as letters in the Hebrew Alphabet every part

of the glorified Saints are eternally uncessantly imploied namely in standing about the Throne of the Lambe n Revel 5. v. 15 12.13.14 E●ch 7. v. 9.10.11.12 Christ clothed with white robes Palmes in their hands as Emblemes of victorie over that triple C●rberus the flesh the world the Devill and crying with a loud voyce Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and unto the Lambe Blessing and glory and wisedome and thankesgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen This is the continuated voyce of the Saints of the Elders that serve God day and night in his Temple Thus they sing Haleluiah in heaven for the judgements upon the great Romish o Revel 19. v. 1.2.4 whore which hang over her head for avengment of the blood of so manie of Gods servants innocent Martyres which causelessely shee hath effused Thus they rejoyce too at the marriage of the Lambe and for the graces alreadie given to the Bride the Church chiefly the Iewels of the Gospell by which shee is daily fitting her selfe for the solemnization of her espousals in p Vide Bright-mannum nostrum in locum heaven This indeede is vita celitum vita coelestis the heavenly life their life in heaven who are ever standing before the Lambe yea according to the distinction of q Zanch. de sex operibus de Angelis Distinguit in ministrantes assistentes Zanchie and r Casmannus in sua Angelographia Casman this is the life too of these that are ministrantes ministring from God For as the Devils where ever they be whether limitted or confined to the earth or dispersed in the Ayre or in the fire or in the waters or in the Mines or cranneyes under the earth or in the Center of the earth or below the center as some thinke ther 's locall hell as most probable because most remote from heaven or confined to some climate some Province some Towne some Circuite of ground some mountaine some fountaine some Court some Pallace some chamber some Nunnery or Monastery where they have played reakes and ſ Instat Cardan in lib. 4. de parie● c. 176. Langius li. 1. epist. an 1539 Wier de prastig l. 4 ca. 9.10.11 pranckes yea or to the bodies of some men as once in the t Cald ventriloquisis by Text contra Marrion c. 25. by Chrys in 1. Cor. 12. by Oecumens in Act. 16. v. 16. because the devill spoke within their bellies as once in the Serpent Pythonists ordinary in the dayes of Christ and extraordinarie now where ever according as the learned discusse and determine these u As Delrius discus Magicar lib. Tyareus de locis infestis W●er de praestig daemonū Perer. de Magia Laur. Ananias de natur daemonū cum alijs intricates he bee permanent or transient he carryes still his Hell about with him as murtherers traytors adulterers blasphemers his darling sons carry their petty Hels in the gnawings of their consciences So on the cōtrary the good Angels where ever they be whether in Bethlēs fields with the Shepheards or in Daniels w Dan. 6. v 22 den with Daniel or in the fiery furnace with Sydrach Misaach and x Dan. 3. v. 25. Abednego or in Sodom with y Gen. 19. v. 15. Lot or in the doore of the Tent with z Gen. 18.2.3 Abraham or whether with Manoah and his a Judg. 13.9 wife in the fields or with the Virgin Mary in her b Luk. 1.26.27 Closet or where ever else they ever carrie their heaven about with them they are still in heaven or heaven in them in respect of Gods c Luke 1. v. 19. presence which fils them as the Moone is filled with the light of the Sunne and in this fulnesse of joy which they have in from God they cannot but resonate and resound backe againe their prayses to God for even when these heavenly souldiers are on earth with Bethlems d Luk 2.13.14 Shepheards as if they had beene in these highest Emperyall heavens into which Paul was e 2 Cor. 12.2 rapt they sing Glory to God on high on earth peace and amongst men good will Now to act our parts as we pray in that best of f The Lords prayer preferred by Cyprian by Daneus de Orat Dominica by Alstedius in Theolog. Catech. prayers in respect of the Author matter manner and method Thy will be done in earth of us mortall men readily promptly g Math. 6.10 See Brimsley and lately M. Bernard in their plaine paraphrases upon the Lords prayer sincerly c. as it is in heaven of the immortall Angels so unlesse wee meane to prate and prattle rather then pray as did the h Math 6.7 heathens and our vulgar i ●n their Tantologies Battilogies Latin prayers Papists unlesse we will take Gods name in k Abuse of prayer by M. Perkins in his Golden chayne by Alsted Theol. Catech is made a maine breach of the third Command vaine and abuse this primary and principall part of Gods l Gen. 4.26 Vide Scultetum de praecatione pag. 4 5. c. worship unlesse wee will verba dare dally with deceive and delude the Almightie we must straine and studie desire and indeavour to practise as wee pray wee must blesse God on earth as the Angels doe in heaven we must not blaspheme on earth the God of heaven which the Angels doe not dare not cannot doe wee must prayse God not pinch God as the angry Curre may the stoutest Lion Wee must magnifie God as the Angels doe not martyr God murther God teare and crucifie over and over againe as Augustine alludes the glorified humanitie of Christ worse then the Iewes on the Crosse as hellish and profane spirits doe not sparing his wounds his bloud his heart his head nay not his feete his nayles and his guts as our roarers our rake-hels our rascalities and ragga-muffins doe such as in their practise have turnd just renegadoes Iulianists Oecebolians Apostaites worse then Turkes and Mahumetans forsaking Christ nay opposing Christ more fearefully then Witches and Conjurers Oh this is indeede to be like unto the Angels like unto the Gods as the Devill Iesuitically m The Devill first taught the doctrine of equivocation the Iesuite in it is not a scholler to Iesus non cū Iesuitis qui iti● cum Iesuitis c. equivocated with Adam and n Gen. 3.5 Eritis sicut d● ludit deludit in hoc verbo d● id est eritis sicut Angeli dij dicti sicut daemones id est sicut mali angeli dij vel daemones dicti a scientia Eve But what Gods What Angels even Angels of darkenesse not Angels of light For surely to curse teare blaspheme God is the very life course practise of damned spirits the tortured ghosts of Devils and men reprobate Angels and reprobate men Cain Iudas Esau Saul

prerogatives given them by the inspired a 1. Pet. 2.9 Apostles of a royall Priesthood a holy Nation a chosen generation c. To whom were the Oracles of whom came Christ according to the b Rom. 9.4 flesh wee doe not onely weigh and paralell blessings with them layd in equall ballance but all things duely pondered wee as farre mee thinkes exceede them as they exceeded once the invironing Nations and this will plainely and perspicuously appeare if wee and they Britam mans and Iewes be compared together as c In his lives Plutarch compared the Greekes and the Romanes both in our best and worst our dignities received from God our obliged yet neglected dueties that wee owe to God wee shall bee found to beare the bucklers from them Repetens ab origine primo to begin then from the beginning c. First wee know the Lord of his meere mercie and Philanthropie entred into covenant with the Iewes gave them the seale of the covenant Circumcision initiated with their father d Gen. 17. v. 1.2 7 9.10.11.12 Rom. 4.11 Abraham he by this e Ioshuah 5. ve 5.6 Deut. 5. v. 1.2.3 covenant elected and selected them from all the Nations Kingdomes and kinreds of the earth to bee a peculiar people to himselfe of them and amongst them he had his Church instituted prescribed and established his owne worship gave them lawes and ordinances Morall Ceremoniall Iudiciall as farre exceeding the lawes of Solon Numa Pompilius Mercurius Trismegistus Adraco or any other Legifers amongst men in equitie puritie and perfection as the Gold exceedes the Brasse or Tynne by these hee hedged and limited them within their bounds all that he exacted of them againe in reciprocall requitall of his mercies was onely f Deut. 5.40 obedience to his lawes and statutes His love he first set upon g Deut. 5 v. 34.35.36.37.38 them and choose them not they him not for any merit or worthinesse that was in them but of his meere mercie and paternall good will adopting them unto himselfe repudiating and in a manner rejecting for a time all other people whom hee shut up in unbeleefe in respect of them as Moses oft times urgeth unto them So to reflect upon our selves for this our English Israell hath not the Lord sequestrated and separated us from Pagans and Heathens yea even from Turkes and Iewes themselves whom for a time he hath rejected for their h Rom. 11.20 unbeliefe to be a Church unto himselfe a people zealous of good workes were we not once as wee may see our faces in the glasse of the i Rom. 1.29.30.31 Romanes k 1. Cor. 6.9.10.11 Corinthians Thessalonians l Ephes 2. v. 2.3 vers 11.12 Tit. 3. vers 3. Ephesians in their pristine estate before their conversion in the uncircumcision of the flesh serving lusts and vaine Idols without God in Christ strangers from God and Aliens from the Common-wealth of the true Israell in the power of m Act. 26.18 death in the power of darkenesse having our very understandings n Ephes 4.18 darkned as ignorant of the true God and of the way and meanes of life and salvation were wee not once even darkenesse it selfe an obscure people even to the world devided and cast out as it were into an unknowne corner and o Divisos ab orbe Britannos etc. Virgil. angle though now as a Candle on a Table as a Beacon on a Hill as a Citie on a Mountaine that cannot bee hid giving light and luster to the gazing and admiring world whose eyes are upon our eminencie * De laudibus Angliae nostrae lege apud Cassaneum in Catalogo par 12. pag. 348. Beromensem in Chronicis lib. 4 but in respect of our spirituall estate wee were like other Gentiles walking in the vanities of our mindes children of disobedience in whom the Prince of the Ayre ruled wilde p Rom. 11.24 olives ere wee were ingrafted But even when we were thus in our blouds the Lord past by us and said we should q Ezech. 16. ver 3.4.5.6 live by the light of his word whether by Ioseph of Arimathea or who else or in the dayes of r The Papists contend that this Isle first received the faith in time of Lucius Anno Dom. 180. And in time of Augustine sent by Gregory Anno 600. but as appeares by some passages out of Bede and Peter Cluanensis yea by Tertullian contra Iudaeos Origen homil 4. in Ezech. we received the Gospell long before the time of Eleutherius eyther by Ioseph of Arimathea as Gildas thinkes lib. 4. de Victoria or by Simon Zelotes as Nicephorus affirmes libr. 2. cap. 4. Lucius or else when I dispute not now I say by this light by blessed organs and instruments we were brought first from Paganish after from Popish darkenesse more hideous then the Egyptian or the ſ De tenebris Chymerijs in Oppido illo in Bosphoro sito Multa Plin. lib. 6. cap. 6. c. 11. c. 13. Et Mela li. 1. c. 4. Chymerian and reduced into the lightsome Goshen of the glorious Gospell called to be a people that before as it were were no people gathered to be a Church yea a glorious Church as any in Europe or in Christendome besides for the continuation of the Gospell the propagation and profession of the true Religion the zeale and sinceritie knowledge and answerable practise of preachers and professors puritie of Gods worship freed in a great measure from the leaven of Popish and Paganish Idolatrie and superstition holinesse of life and illumination of judgement shining in many eminent members as pearles in Gold notwithstanding the nevy and warts and spots and blemishes in this of ours as ever have beene in the best reformed Churches by open profane ones and secret hypocrites as wooden legges to the bodie as rotten boughes to the Tree in the true Church like corrupt humors in the bodie rather then of our Church I say Churches of t Revel 24. vers 14.20 Revel 3.15 Asia of u 1. Cor. ch 3.3 ch 5. v. 1.5 ch 6. v. 1. ch 11. v. 1● Corinth and the best that are or ever were Militant on earth till they be Triumphant in heaven for the number of for the sinceritie and measure of Grace in our present and pristine Proselites true Nachaniels zealous professors and confessors constant and couragious Martyres since the dayes of that Belgicke Elias Luther who have upon tryall I am perswaded still would answere their names of Protestants protesting cōfessing for the faith till death sealing the truth with their bloud reflecting on those I may well say according to my hearts perswasion that our English-Scottish Sion our Church of great Brittaine of all other Churches is as the Dove amongst the Birdes as the Lilly amongst the flowers as the Sunne amongst the Planets Christs owne Spouse though w Cant. 1. v. 4.5 blacke yet faire yea

h Iudg 3.9 Othniell i vers 15. Ehud k Iudg. 4.4 Deborah l Iudg. 4.10 Baruch m Iudg. 6.12 Gideon n Iudg. 11.5 Iepht●ah o Iudg. 16.31 Sampson were raysed up upon their p Iudg. 3.9 15. chap. 4 3. c. cries in their greatest exigents to deliver them from the Egyptians the Mesopotamians the Ammonites the Moabites the Amalekites the Philistines and uncircumcised Cananites but to us as to the rest of the beleeving Gentiles he hath raised q Luke 1.69 up a spirituall Saviour to deliver us out of the hands of our spirituall r vers 71.74 enemies more deadly more dangerous as the soule is more noble and excellent then the bodie Fourthly Againe they were helde as children in their Nonage under the rod and ferula the burthen and the bondage of ſ Gal. 4.1.2.3 Coloss 2.20 ceremonies in their Iewish Pedigogie as touch not taste t vers 21. not handle not c. This creature is cleane this is u Levit. 11. per totum uncleane but wee now as children that are come to riper yeares to full and perfect age as no longer under Tutors and w Gal. 4.3.4.5.6 Governors are now infranchized and set at libertie by saith in Christ and freed from the yoake and pressure of Mosaicall x Gal 5.1 Ceremonies which neyther they nor wee were able to beare unlesse with our Papists and late Threskites we will resolutely put our neckes under the yoake againe of these beggarly y Gal 4 9 Rudiments in an unsupportable bondage Fiftly The Lord exacted and required of them more cost and paines in his service and worship then he doth of us For costs wee know their worship was exceedingly costly in their daily z Of all these offerings sacrifices Levit. chap. 1 2.3.4.5.6 7. vide Theses Senuij de sacrifi sacrifices their Holocausts their whole burnt offrings their free-will offerings as once the a vide Maiolum de cultu oraculis deorum colloq 1. pag. 55. Heathens in their Hecatombs their Hostiae their Lupercalls Armilustrals Orgyes Ferrcations Vinilians Quirinalials Bacchanals Saturnals Vertumnalians Hyacinthians Novendinalians Laurentalialls Solitaurilialls and other feastes and festivals in honour of their imaginarie Deities which it seemes they had in an apish and superstitious emulation b See Mourney of the truth of Religion imitation from the Iewes Gods Altars were loaden with Oxen Buls Sheepe Goates Rams Bullockes in great abundance in their solemne and daily oblations as somtimes in one peace offring as at the dedication of Salomons c 1. King 8.64 Temple were offered twenty thousand Oxen and a hundred and twentie thousand Sheepe another time as in Ezekiahs d 2. Chron 29.32.33 Passeover were offered threescore and ten Bullockes a hundred Ramines and two hundred Lambes besides sixe hundred Oxen and three thousand Sheepe consecrated as in the verse after my Text in the Inauguration of Salomon and the preparation for the Temple there was offered in burnt offerings in one day a thousand Bullockes a thousand Lambes and a thousand e 1. Chro. 29.21 Rammes In so much that but that Gods extraordinarie blessing increast as the Corne and Oyle and Wine so the Cattle of that little countrie of Iudea Palestina which now being under the Turkish Ottoman by a secret curse is as barren as other f I have heard travellers honest and judicious so relate it countries a man would as much wonder from whence they had a continued fresh frye and supply of Cattle for sacrifices besides other offices as hee would wonder of their fresh seminarie and supply of men so many being cut off at sundrie times by civill and forreine g In one battle of Abiah k. of Iudah against Ieroboam king of Israell there was in Abiahs Armie 400000. chosē men on the other partie 8. hundred thousand whereof were slaine five hundred thousand 2. Chro. 13. v. 3.17 Yea one Tribe sometimes afforded 40 thousand valiant men as Ashur 1 Chron. 36. Nephtaly 1000. Captains 37. thousand warriours v 34 warre as we reade of in the greatest Armies of Caesar Pompey Alexander Scypio or the greatest Martialists amongst the h We reade not of any such army as 12 hūdred thousand as this in Iudah Israel either in Iustine Livie Theucidides c or amongst the numerous Turkes since Heathens and sure for my part I perswade my selfe should wee in England or Ireland be injoyned to offer up Monethly Weekly or daily but the tenth Sheepe Beeve or Goate which they offered which sure would amount to more then to the Levites grudged tyth throughout the land Gods altars would stand unfurnisht of the fire of the Altar and the Lampes of the Sanctuarie would die out the one for want of fuell the other of Oyle for he that is now a Naball a coveteous Cremes full handed for Gold but emptie hearted for Grace that hath not now a shilling to spare to the mantayning of a stipendary preacher for the setling of a preaching Ministerie to Gods glorie the conversion and consolation of his owne soule the present and future good of himselfe and others him and his seede after him without churlish grudging swinish gruntling muttering murmuring as once Israell against Moses and Aaron or if ought be wrong from him t●is as the wringing of the bloud out of the nose the wresting of Hercules Club out of his fist or the paring of his nayles to the very quicke at least going against the haire and the heart as when a man eates the meate which his stomacke loathes I say he that is as willing to part with his right hand or to plucke out as Naash once perswaded the Gileadites his right i 1. Sam. 1. ●● eye as part with his pence for preaching in that bad exchange as he imagines when the same man will spend and mispend pence pounds as oyle and fuell to his lusts in carding dycing drinking drabbing till hee be devoured by these lustes as Acteon was of his owne k Ovid ●●eta doggs Is it probable possible that ever he would make God beholden to him for a Bullocke or a Sheepe at once should hee injoyne him such a sacrifice as did the Iewes l See Moses unvailed in 8. So for paines aswell as costs we know that after the building of Salomons Temple which was typicall in a greater mysterie the Iewes were injoyned foure times a yeare at the 4. solemne feastes m At the feasts of Passeover of Penthecost of Tabernacles of Dedication to make their personall appearance there before the Lord old and young men women and children that were fit for travell as we know even the childe n Luk. 1● 41.42 Iesus went with his foster father Ioseph and the Virgin his mother to worship at o Psal 84.67 Ierusalem yea how ever farre distant in place they must appeare even from Dan to Beershebah