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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

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa di● Horat. Caskes from their liquor Yea it being betwixt the heads of the Church and the Common-wealth and familie and those bodies of people that have depended on them as betwixt the head of a great fish and the bodie of the * Sic alludant Geminianus in summa exempl lib. 4. de nat volat Petrus Berch reductorij Moralis lib. 9. c. 1 fish for if the fish-head smell well and sweet the bulke bodie of the fish smels well too be it never so great if the head stinke and be corrupt the bodie doth so too The application is obvious to everie one with halfe an eye demonstration seales it For first looke upon the state of Iudea in the dayes of p 1. King 18. v. 21.30 Ahab q 1. King 14. v 9.16 Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat r 2. Chro. 33.6 7 8.9 Manasses s 2. King 1.16 Ahaziah t 2. King 3.1 Iehoram u 2. King 13 v 1 2 Iehoahaz w 2 King 15 vers 8.9 10 11 12 Zachariah and other Idolatrous Princes and you shall see Gods Altars broken downe the true Prophets banished or butchered altars to false gods erected the worship of the true God defac'd why so in à promptu causa their rulers were Idolaters Baalites the fishes head stunke Againe looke upon the state of the Church in the daies of x 2. King 14 vers 3 Ioash y 2 Chro 30.31 32 Chapters Ezekiah z 2 King 22 1 2 Iosias a 1 King 22 v 43 Iehosaphat b 1. King 15 vers 3 Asa and this our David you shall see the Groves of Baal burnt his altars demolished his worship and worshippers abolished his Priests sacrificed Religion planted Gods Altars repayred the Temple purged the people conformed Priests and Levites for preaching and teaching instituted the Passeover solemnely kept and observed why so the Magistrates were religious the Scripture gives this testimonie of them how ever with many mixtures of infirmities in which the good God be mercifull to all his Children they did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. c 2 Chron 30. vers 18 19 Such force you see hath example that Regis ad exemplum d Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis the whole world followes the example of Kings which held even amongst the verie heathens for in the times of Alexander and of Iulius Cesar as the Macedonians so the Romaines were warriours in the times of peaceable Augustus as in the dayes of Salomon men were studious of e Pacem te poscimus omnes peace Ianus his gates were set open in the times of Commodus Heliogabalus Nero and other such luxurious Goates Rome was as f Observatio Guavarrhi in suis Epistolis familiaribus sic Cassianei Iurisc in suo Catalogo gloria mundi a stewes in the dayes of Marcus Aurelius the philosopher all were studious of Philosophie as in the Ecclesiasticall histories in the daies of religious Constantine the Court yea the Campe was as a Church a center of zealous divines in the dayes of Iulian that accursed carelesse Apostate his Court was full of Apostolicall turn-coates So are the common people blowen as g Ignobile mobile vulgus weathercockes even as the windes come from their governours East West North South changing as that h Quo te queram mutantem protea nodo Proteus i Colorem mutat Polipus piscis ad similitudinem loci sic Arist li. 9. de anim c. 37. Solin c. 32. Olaus lib. 21. c. 21. Polipus or k De Camelione haec Plin. hist li. 28. c. 8. Aelian li. 2. hist c. 14. Camelion even as the l De Hyena haec Aelian li. 1. c. 26 Hyena is said to change sex according to their rulers coloures being ever as our common peoples proverbe is and as their practise hath beene and ever will be on that Religion which the King is of as wee say of dogges ever taking the better side If David blesse God as in my Text the people blesse God too If m Calling Christ in derisiō a Galilean the carpenters sonne with the like vituperations apud Theodoretum Iulian the Apostate Rabshakah n 2. King 19. v 10.11 and Senacharib blaspheme God and preferre the gods of the Gentiles before him so will the people blaspheme him too If Pharaoh o Exod. 8. v. 15 harden his heart and distaste Moses and Aaron his Courtiers and the Aegyptians will harden their hearts too as the nether milstone pursuing after Israel till they sinke like a stone in the midst of the Sea If the popish Princes persecute those of the reformed Religion the Prelates are more malignant as the p Luk. 22. v. 2. luk 23.13.18 et c. 24. v. 20. Pharisees were more spitefull against Christ then q Luk. 23 v. 20 22. Pilate himselfe and if Princes and Prelates prove dragons to devoure the poore Saints the plebeians will be at least serpents to sting The Bishop of Aix with the president Cassane the Archbishop of Arles with others had no sooner apprehended a Book-binder for selling of Bibles which they vilified and undervalued below some lascivious pictures which themselves had bought but presently the common r Acts monuments of the Church abridged by M. Mason folio 203. people crie like the howling of so many wolves like the barkings of so manie dogges A Hugenote a hugenote a Lutheran a Hereticke to the fire with him to the fire with him let him fry a faggot An invincible Achillean argument concluding in ferio which Christ himselfe and his Apostles could never have answered had these men had them in their power Such impressions the ring-leading examples of the superiors worke in the common people even more monstruous and hideous then those that are wrought by the force of imagination of which wee have so many wonders related by s Lodov. Vives in his 3. booke of the Soule speaking of feare from imagination Lodovicus Vives t Libr. 6. Des. Richerthes de la France cap. 8. Pasquier u In Comment de monstris c. 17 Winrich the french w In his first book of his Essayes in folio chapter 21. sic in lib. 3. Montaigne x Vives in Comment in c. 25. lib. 12. de Civitate Dei sic Ambros Part. in praedict Comment Winrichi cap. 17. others both Physitians Historians Come frō the generalitie to particulars looke into our countrie Townes and Villages in that reference and relation betwixt Land-lords and Tenants and you shall easily see them drawe both in one yoake to good or evill Religion or superstition pietie or profanesse We neede no other witnesse of this but our eyes and eares in this our Ireland in which we that are Protestants are planted as some handfuls amongst such swarmes of Papists as Israelites amongst

take tythes yet their Children forsooth must play the Vicars to say Grace and give thankes Not that I absolutely condemne it as unlawfull for Children to be by degrees trayned to this taske when by Catechizing in the groundes of Religion they come to exceede Parrats by understanding what they say or that I denie but that at their owne repasts and meales they are to be taught to give thankes even as to pray when they rise and lye downe as Abell from s gen 4.4 Adam Sem and Iaphet from t gen 8.20 Noah Isaac from u gen 22.7.8 Abraham were taught how to sacrifice Timothy taught from his Mother and w 2 tim 1.5 3. vers 15. grandmother as was Constantine x Apud Eusebium in vita Constantini of his mother Hellen Or I denie not but that they at the same time the same Table may give thanks when their parents or tutors precede and begin first then I praesequar they may well follow as the little Cock-boat swimes in the same streame after the great Ship and the little tantling Bell that rings sometimes after the great Bow-bels in some Church or Cathedrall But for the Father to take all the burthen from his owne shoulders and to lay it on the Childes as to take the Saddle ftom a strong Stallion and set it on a young Colt to make his Childe his Atturney for him in Gods service as though he were ashamed to doe what David our Saviour y Luke 9.16 Christ the z Vt antea ch 1 sect 1. Apostles did in their owne persons is not onely a breach of the a deut 8. v. 10. Commandement that the greater shall blesse the b hebr 7. v. 7. lesser as Melchisedech did c gen 14.19 Abraham and Iacob his d gen 49. Sonne but shewes a dead or a profane heart and a maine a vaine contempt of God So for another dutie Family-prayer singing of Psalmes praysing of God practised by the e 2 Sam. 6.20 Saints injoyned as the observation of some penall Statutes by the denuntion of a great and greivous f Ier. 10. v. 25. curse an Anathema as terrible as the Thunder or thunder-bolt which hangs over that house and family where God is not invocated even as the naked sword of Dyonisius did hang over the head of that flattering Damocles yea as the cloud of fire and brimstone over Sodom and Gomorrah as sure to fall one time or other unlesse prevented by practicall repentance as that flying booke of g Zaec 5. v. 1.2.3 vengeance shall fall and hath falne as histories and experience relate upon the h He that reads the Theater of Gods iudgmēts in 40. M Perk. of the Gouernmēt of the tongue in fine M. Knewstubs his abuses of Engl. M. Foxe in diverse passages his abridgemēt of the ends of blaspemous persecutors Minerius Ioh. de Roma Eccius Laton Bomel Card. Cres fol. 380. 382. 383 Lonicer in his examples in 3. praecep The histories of our time in 4. p. 319 320. 321. 322. 323. shall see gods heavy hād on blasphemers persons and places where God is blasphemed even as sure as the Chamber called Ierusalem fell on the head of that Nicromanticall Sylvester and as Dagons house hath now twice falne on the heads of Idolatrous Philistines I say even this dutie how many eyther wholly unholily pretermit it or post it off to their servants prentices Iourneymen deputies atturneys they must pray for them the inferior must be the mouth of the superior the man must be the tongue of his master by reading or praying or as they call it saying a few prayers Morning and Evening directly against that Apostolicall Canon Hebr. 7. vers 7. thus making an Historon proteron of all Religion Others againe are so proud or so profane that wanting the spirit of i zach 12.10 Rom. 8. v. 26. praier the Heart or Art to pray they onely desire others to pray for them some good man or Preacher as Pharaoh intreates Moses and k Exod. 8.8 c. 8 2● Aaron Simon Magus requests l Act. 8.24 Peter to pray for them but for themselves they have joynts unlike the m Elephāt enim Regē adorant genua submittunt ceronas porrigū test Plin. l. 8. c. 1 Arist lib. 9. c. 46. Albert. l. 8. tract 5. c. 2. et Aelian hist. l. 13. c. 22. Hi autē profani gennua non flectunt Psal 14. v. 4. An Ovidean or Virgilean fiction or Pythagorean dreame as Master Perkins drawes Purgatories pedegree in his Problemes Elephant that cannot bow hearts like Gaddes of steele that cannot bend tongues and speake not as Idols the mute or dumbe Divell is in them as in some unpreaching Ministers they pray not for themselves they will not they cannot Others againe more foolishly and preposterously trust all to the prayers dirges and suffrages of others when they are departed to sing and bring them out of their Europaean purgatory indeed reall hell as though they hoped a Physitians physicke should revive them after death These are as preposterous in theyr prayers as those that thinke to satisfie for all their usuries and extortions by almes and elymosinarie workes after their death by their executors I would not be mistaken I know its lawfull to desire the prayers of others as Paul did of all the n Col. 4.3 1. Thes 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 Churches as Ezeckiah did from o 2. King 19.2 Esaiah as Esther desired the prayers of p Est 4.10 Mardocheus and the Iewes Daniell of his three q Dan. 2.17.18 Companions and so Luther Calvin Grineus the Martyrs Ridley Latimer Bradley intreat the mutuall prayers of their friends in their zealous Letters I know also its lawfull laudable for noble men to have their Chaplaines for Preaching Praying in their families their Nathans their Levites may be imployed yet so as high and low great and small every Individuum that will be saved must with David personally worship God as the Scriptures injone duties particularly and r Act. 2.22 Heb. 3.12 4. 1. Esa 55.1 Psal 2.10 11. 148.10 11 12. personally CHAP. III. David prayseth God publickly THirdly let it not passe our animadversion that David doth not only praise his God religiously piously personally but also publickly before all the Congregation of Israel He is not ashamed to serve that God before all Israel that in the sight of Israel of the Sun had so served his turnes needs saved preserved him in his exigents dangers by so many severall meanes improving his power his justice his peculiar speciall providence so oft for Davids deliverances and his enemies destruction or at least distractions seeing God so marvellously so miraculously fight for David as oft before in the dayes of Moses and Deborah he fought for Israel against a Exod. 17.11 Amaleck Moab and b Iudg. 5.20 Iabin for Constantine

but to praise the name of the g Psal 119.62 Lord Yea early in the morning he will rise h Ps 5.3 8● 13 sic Iudei Ose 5 15. Christiani ●lim ut test Plin. Iun. epist. ad Traianum preventing the morning watch what 's the businesse not to follow drunkennesse * Esa 5.11 till he be inflamed but as spiritually drunke with the wine of i Ebria Anna ●st vino devotionis devotion as was said of Anna to call upon God to prayse him for his mercies to offer sacrifices as k Iob 1.5 Iob did for him and his All come not thus farre all have not Davids measure yet it s well if we come thus farre as this people here He that hath a heart to pray a heart to blesse God let him blesse God even for giving him such a heart non cuivis contigit c. It s a mercie above all mercies to have such a heart a blessing above gold and pearles the earth and all her treasures pleasures doth not equalize it as it is the greatest plague and spirituall judgement to have a l Exod 8.15 Pharaohs heart a m 1. Sam. 25.37 Nabals heart a hardned a sluggish a sensuall a sottish n Esa 6.10 Matth. 13.14 heart chiefly a grudging a murmuring a blasphemous heart as the carnall Israelites had If thou hast rather heart then Art how to expresse thy praises be not altogether discouraged a sparke of fire is fire and a sparke of grace is o See M. Perkins his graine of Mustard seed his Dialogues M. Greenham his consolatory letters M. Howard his strong help chap. 19 20 21. M. Downam his Christian warfare quastiones Bachman Cent. 1. q. 55 56. pag. 131 132 133. grace but fuellize this sparke grow in this and other graces in the use of the meanes For as a dead coale that burnes not is no fire as a dead trunck that sprouts nor growes not hath in it no lively sap so grace that growes not that moves not more then a dead child in the womb is no grace more then a painted fire is true fire it s meerly imaginay eutopean conceited the verie Idea of the braine ungrounded in the heart Therefore strive for perfection get thy heart soule and spirit in tune to praise thy God Oh there 's no greater argument of the sinceritie of any grace then that it is of a growing nature as the childe that growes in the womb from an Embrio to perfection as the corne that growes from the seed to a blade from the blade to the eare from earing to a ripening harvest It must not stand still like Ioshua's p Iosh 10.12.13 Sunne nor go back as in Ahaz q 2. King 19.11 Dyall but forward as in the firmament Everie Christians motto must be that which was Charles the fift's Vlterius still forward And for this cause imitate as Sempsters the best patterne write after the perfectest copie He that will have a pleasing object for his eye had better view the Sunne then any Starre he that will Poetize will rather imitate Virgil or Ovid then Bavius or * Qui Bavium non amat odio tua Menius he that would be a good Rhetorician will imitate Tully r Vid. Institut Quintil. Demosthenes or Osorius rather then an obsolete barbarous * Such as Menos Bartlet discipulus de tempore or such whose Latin is as barbarous as their matter oft fabulous Fryer Oh as we imitate the best in Nature in Art let us be as wise for grace Now excepting Christ himselfe I know not a better patterne of imitation of meere men then David therfore as Thesius is said to be restlesse in spirit in his emulation of r Apud Cassaneum in catalogo gloriae mundi Hercules Achilles in imitation of Thesius Alexander in imitation of Achilles Caesar in imitation of Alexander And as Themistocles is said to take no rest after that hee had heard of the Trophees of Miltiades so I wish that wee in consideration of that excellent spirit of zealous devotion gratulation sanctified affections in David might be stirred up to pray as ſ 2. King 2.9 Elisha once for the spirit of Elias that it might be doubled or at least singled upon us that with this Congregation David preceding us we might in some good measure some sanctified manner blesse God as David did since not one of us in a multitude but for one mercy or other we have occasion in particular besides generalls as David had Oh that we would not suffer our eyes to sleepe nor our eye-lidds to t Psal 132.3.4.5.6 slumber neither the Temples of our head to take any rest till we found our hearts the Temple-house and habitation of that spirit which would cause us to doe as David did Expostulation But alas my doubts and jealousies be that we have frozen and congealed hearts turned as hard as crystall by a u De generatione Christalli lege apud Plin. li. 36. cap. 22. Vincentium lib. 5. ca. 80. Arist li. Meteor vigitabilibus continuall freeze that as Nebuchadnezzars Image though we have many excellent heads of * Dan. 2.32.33 gold both in the Magistracie and Ministry abounding in this and other graces yet the feet of our Commonaltie be of meere clay hardned rather for breaking then dissolved as waxe melting as did once Davids mollified heart by the Sunne of * 2 Sam. 12.7.8.13 vers mercies SECTIO II. Israels obedience in duties Morall Theologicall AGaine see the obedience of this people how flexible how docible David no sooner exhortes them to prayse and blesse God but all the Congregation blessed God David prevailes with one word with one motion This people a patterne of all good subjects in obedience to the Magistracie of all good Auditors in their obedience to the Ministerie are to him as the Centurions servants in the Gospell Hee bids them do this they doe x Math. 8.9 it yea I may say without exception I hope or construction they are to him as the creatures unto God in their first production dixit factum y Gen. 1. v. 11. est Such quarters Davids people keepe with his prescript that his will nay his word is their worke there is you see as it were an Identitie of will betwixt this best Prince and these good people as in perfect friendship unum cor una anima z As amongst the Disciples ●ct 2. v. 45.46 ●nd primative ●hristians in ●hat measure ●nd maner vide ●nd Lorinum in ●cum fol. 142. 1●3 c. one heart one minde or as should bee in all Christians unitie and amitie They did walke by the same rule minding the same thing as Saint Paul prescribes his Philippians Philip. 3. vers 16. No sooner is the counsell out of Davids mouth but consent in an instant in puncto temporis even in a trice is in the peoples

by that be some of his wrath the all devouring plague and pestilence the arrow raging and destroying at noone-day as he did with Israel in the dayes of o 1. Chron 21 vers 14. David and of p 1. Corinth 10 8 Moses and with other countries since in Italie Austria q Grossius in his Tragicall histories in quarto about the beginning of his Booke reckoning the greatest plagues in the Christian world saith of Italie and Vienna that the dead were moe then the living Viena and elsewhere he hath layd his verie Axe to the rootes of our English Trees and hath cut downe and lopt off by many hundreds in one weeke tall Cedars loftie Pines greene Poplers strong Oakes of Bashan white Almond Trees of all sorts from the Peeres to the plowman high and low young and old even in our chiefe Cities our Metropolitanes our mother Citie Troynovant our corporate Townes our countrie Villages yea even in our private houses and Cabbins the pestilentiall feaver as a raging torrent of water carrying all along with it that stood in the way Fourthly as Israell was not reclaymed for all these proceedings of God with them eyther in mercie or justice but still grieved the Lord not onely for fortie yeares in the wildernesse but even in the land of Canaan when their sinnes like ours did increase in the land of plentie like weedes and bryers in a fat moyst ground and as fleas and vermin in the hot Summers Sunne eyther not repenting at all hardning their hearts as that Egyptian r Exod. 7.13 Pharaoh upon the message of his Prophets and summons of his judgements or else repenting superficially dissembling with a double heart shedding Crocodiles ſ De his lachrimis de proverbio vide apud Vicentium nat hist libr. 17. cap. 606. teares and fasting for a fashion as once t 1. King 21.29 Ahab and another of their irreligious Israelitish u 2. King 6.30 Kings teares being in their eyes and rebellion in their hearts both at one w Deut. 1.44.45 instant like Esau that wept for the x Hebr. 12.17 blessing yet intended the murther of his y Gen. 27.41 brother all with one breath howling and crying like wolves when Gods hand was upon them confessing their sinnes as traytors on the rack when they were oppressed by the Moabites Midianites Ammonites and other z Iudg. 3.9.13 chap. 4.3 Cananites but as soone as ever delivered by such temporarie saviours types of the spirituall Messias Othniell Gideon Iepthah Baruch Sampson as he sent for their rescue as he stird up Abraham to rescue a Gen. 14.15 Lot they returning againe to their former Byas Idolatrie extortion oppression as the dogge to his b 2. Pet. 2.19 vomite the sow to her mire provoking him as much as ever by their rebellions like the Ice seeming to be thawed yet freezing and conjealing againe in their dregges in which like Moab they setled they could not be removed Thus it is with us their case is ours we like some impatient Patients have beene rather worse then better for Gods physicke our sores by our inveterate and wellny uncurable corruptions have beene increased by our salves the Lord would have healed us but like the Babell wee would not bee healed our disease is epidemicall generall and continuall the fluxe of our sinnes like the bloudie c Mark 5.26 issue of that woman in the Gospell is not to be stopped it 's vulnus d Vulnus insanabile ense resecandum insanabile past cure as it seemes so past care As the land hath long mourned by reason of oathes other sinnes so wee have mourned for a time when Gods hand hath beene upon us wee have proclaymed generall fasts as once e Jam. 3. v. 6.7 Ninive besides many an Esther and a Mordocheus many a Daniell and a Nathaniell that have mourned alone besides the house of f Zach. 12. v. 12 13.14 Nathan the house of Aron and the house of Levi many religious families that have mourned a part the g Ioel. 1.11 Husband-man the Vine-dresser and the tender Virgin the h vers 13. Priests and the Elders yea the bride and the i Ioel. 2.16 bride-grome that have fasted mourned and lamented before the Lord as once k 2. Sam. 12.16 David did in the case of his sicke childe when wee have eyther felt or feared the heavie hand of God chiefly when the land hath beene whipt with his rodd and ferula for her transgressions when judgements have beene threatned or executed when as once Elias in another case wee have seene the l 1. King 18.44 cloudes or felt the storme of showred or powred downe vengeance then as the m De cruentis Ethnicorum sacrificijs immolationibusque homine virginū puerorum Marti Saturno Iovi ira to vide apud Plutarchum libellum de superstitione Heroditum in Melpomine Strabonem libr. 11. Ovidiū in 2. Fast Dionys Halycarn libr. 1. Euseb libr. 4. praeparat Evang talibusque sacrificijs usi sunt Iulianus Apostat Heliogabalus vt testantur Hedrenus Godfridus Celius Lampridius Heathens the Savages and the n De quibus Benso Mazius Acosta in suis libris Purchasius noster in sua perigrinatione Lilius Giraldus in historia deorum Syntagmate 17. Indians at this day and in former times have offered sacrifices in some common plague to appease some angrie Nemesis some exasperated imaginarie God so have we offered sacrifice to the true God but excepting some few some true Nathaniels hardly in truth we have abstained from meate but not from sinne fasted from the creatures as the carnall o Esay 58.3.4 Iewes and dishonoured the Creator we have not losed the bonds of the p vers 6.7 poore relieved the cause of the fatherlesse and widdow made restitution of goods ill got as q Luk. 19.8 Zacheus and the Iewes in the time of r Ierem. 34.10 though after they revolted vers 16. Ieremie chiefly we have not as a man from a whorish wife given a bill of divorcement to those sensuall sinnes and belluine lusts which have made a separation and ſ Esay 59.2 Ierem. 5.25 sequestration betwixt the Lord and us and occasioned his hand to bee upon us c. Yet wee have had many a Moses an Aron and a Phineas to stand in the gappe betwixt Gods judgements and our sinnes Such Phoenices our lands have afforded Thus have we sympathized with Israell in these particulars in her blessings received her sinnes renued and her gratitude neglected CHAP. XII Many mercies recited Temporall and Spirituall in which we farre exceede the Iewes by many degrees BVt to hoyse up my sailes a little higher and to looke our faces in the glasse or theirs in ours both in Gods glasse the Sacred Scriptures glossed and commented by experience and to paralell the Brittanicall and the Iewish Church and Policie in

that true aqua vitae the waters of life the promises of grace made to the i Esay 55.1 Matth. 5.6 thirstie It s more mercie as the object is more excellent to comfort a sicke soule as Christ did sorrowing k Ioh. 21 15 16 Peter weeping l Luke 7.50 Mary Magdalen Paul the penitent m 2. Cor. 2.6 7. Corinthian Ananiaes humbled n Acts 9.17 Paul Peter the heart-pricked o Act. 2.37 38. Iewes Paul and Silas the affrighted and afflicted p Act. 16.30 31 Iaylor then to helpe and heale a sicke bodie Seventhly pray for all men 1. chiefly for Kings and q 1. Tim. 2.2 Rulers as the Iewes did for the Princes of Chaldea in their captivitie Ier. 20. the primitive Christians for the Emperours 2. for Ministers and Preachers as the Churches of Colossia Thessalonica Rome Corinth r Rom 15. ●0 Coloss 4.3 1. Thess 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 others did for Paul 3. for thy wife children as Zachary for his ſ Luke 1.13 Elizabeth Isaac for his t Gen. 25.21 Rebeccha Abraham for his u Gen. 17.18 18.23 Ismael David for his sick * 2. Sam. 12.16 childe 4. for thy houshold servants as the Cēturion for his Matth 8.5 and Abraham for his x Gen. 24. Steward for thy enemies and persecutors as Stephen for those that stoned a Acts 7.60 him Christ for those that crucified b Luke 23.3 him Samuel for those that rejected c 1. Sam. 12.19 him Moses for d Exod. 8. so for rebelling Israel Numb 16 22. for Miriam Numb 12.13 Pharaoh that opposed and hated him lastly for all men even Iewes Turkes and Pagans except for those that sinne unto e 1. Iohn 5.16 death as did Iudas f See D. Deuisons Sermon of the sin against the holy Ghost Iulian and the wilfull malicious * Marke 3.28 Pharisees yea for our enemies as is a Matth. 5.44 Luke 6.28 Rom. 12.14 1. Pet. 3.9 commanded and hath beene g Gen. 20.17 Num. 16.22 21.8 1. Reg. 13.6 Psal 109.4 Ier. 11.13 19. 1. Cor. 4.12 Exemplo Mosis Davidi● Ieremiae Pauli c. practised Lastly you must submit your selves even to performe these dueties morall and politicall that are prescribed you Masters to servants servants to masters Husbands to wives wives to husbands Parents to children children to parents Magistrates to subjects subjects to magistrates paying scott and lott taxes and subsidies homage and honour tribute to whom tribute belongeth All which because they are very manie and numerous in their particulars I referre you to such as have generally intreated of them onely in all these speciall and specificall duties I enjoine your submissive obedience this day As Davids people yeelded themselves to one so doe you to one and every one of them To day if you will heare the Lords voyce harden not your hearts as in the h Heb. 3.15 provocation Be not clay lest you be crusht asunder but melting waxe taking the seale and impression of grace draw like silver threeds in the furnace bow your neckes to God take on you the yoake of i Matth. 11.29 Christ that is easie and his burthen which is light which wee as his mouth and messengers impose upon you If you consent and obey you that are here planted shall eate the good things of the k Esay 1.19 land but if you refuse rebell you shall be devoured by the sword or famine or other plagues for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it you shall be spewed out and disgorged as the * Iudg. 1. 2. c. Cananites and wiped as a man wipeth a dish turning it topsi-turvie upside downe I set life and death before you this day chuse life l Deut. 30.19 chuse whether you will be Oakes stubbornly resisting God and his ordinances in the Magistracie and Ministrie as did the m Ier. 3.15 18.12 1. Sam. 8.19 Iewes or Reedes bowing bending flexible docible obedient to whatever the Lord in and by us shall enjoyne you as this people were here unto David Knowing that the despising and resisting of us is the despising yea despiting of God n Luke 10.16 1. Thess 4.8 himselfe as the contempt of Ezekiahs o 2. Chr. 30.10 Posts and of Davids Embassadors were p 2. Sam. 10.6 revenged as the contempt of these two Kings SECT IV. Obedience Civill Ecclesiasticall Theologicall the life and soule of Religion OH let us know that as disobedience is as the sinne of witchcraft yea plaine treason and rebellion against the q 1. Sam. 15.25 Lord so obedience is the very life and genius and soule of Religion 1. If a weeping eye did speake a man religious then r Heb. 12.16 Esau Israel at her worst had teares at ſ Deut. 1.43 44. command like the t Vincentius ex Physiologo nat hist. ii 17. c. 606. Crocodile or u De Astuia Hyena lachrymantu lege Arist lib. 8. c. 5. Vincent lib. 19. c. 61. Aelian l. 6. c. 13. Hyena even when bloodshed and fratricide was hatched in the heart of the one and flat rebellion purposed in the heart practised by the hand of the other 2. If a hearing eare did speake and proclaime a religious man we have Herod hearing * Mark 6.20.28 Iohn yet beheaded Iohn hearing him as a Saint living still in his lust as a beast butchering the Baptist as a Divell we have the Scribes the Pharisees Iohns auditors yet a generation of x Matth. 3.9 Vipers 3. If a confessing tongue did alwayes demonstrate a religious heart we have Cain bellowing out his y Gen. 3.13 murther Iudas roaring out his own treason z Matt. 27.3 in the languishing anguish of their soules Saul himselfe with much adoe bleating out I have a 1. Sam. 15.23.24 sinned yet the first branded for a b 1 Ioh. 3.12 Reprobate c Gen. 4 12. Runnagate the second for the sonne of d Ioh. 17 12. 6.70 perdition the third for a man ejected rejected of e 1. Sam. 15.26 28. God vexed by f 1. Sam. 16.14 Sathan in all probabilitie as certainly damned as Salomon was g De salute Saelonionis l●gatur Soto maior praef in Cantic Lorinus in Eccl. c. 1. allegantes Patres argumenta producentes saved though some Scepticques question both the one and the h Praecipue Bellarm. confut á Zanchio de preservatione Sanctorum nostrum Will●tt in fine Synopsis Papismi other as if they would finde a knot in a * 2. Sam. 7.13 Bul-rush 4. If praying did alwayes prognosticate piety we have the Pharisee i Luke 18.10 prayers preying upon the poor under pretext of Fasting and prayer devouring widdowes houses we have the worst of the Iewes like evening Wolves in their extremities howling upon their bedds yea the proudest Pharisee that ever shewed to the Lord all

Homo homini aut Deus aut damon another and that there 's more mercie in beastes then in beastly men So I say comparing the subjection submission subordination of even the worst of brutes and beastes to man their superior everie creature by a naturall instinct fearing the very face of m Observatio Magiri in sui● Comment man as their deputie King and superintendent under God with the rebellious and indomable heart of man himselfe to the soveraigne Majestie of his maker whose Image he beares I finde more obedience in beasts to man then in man to God But to come still more punctually to my proposed pointes when I consider how not onely loving faithfull and mercifull but even gratefull Birdes Beastes and Fishes have beene to their breeders and feeders their friends and benefactors and how ungratefull man is to his God in walking unworthy of his mercies in turning his grace into wantonesse in sinning presumptuously and proudly that grace may n Rom. 6.1 abound abusing the patience and long suffering of God that leades to o Rom. 2.5.6.7 repentance heaping sinne upon sinne as once the feined Centaures Pelion upon p Apud Lucianum in Dialogis Ossa And so consequently wrath upon wrath God giving him as he did to q Revel 2.19 Iezabell r Ionas 1. Ninive and ſ Matth. 23.27 Ierusalem a space of repentance in this day of grace and of the Gospell yet hee not knowing the day of his t Luke 19.42 visitation neglecting Gods call hardens his heart as the neather milstone makes his brow of brasse and his spirit of u Ierem. 5.3 flint I say comparing and paralelling the gratitude of beastes to man whose pride and lust yet subjects them to w Rom. 8.20 vanitie The Horse by his travelling the Oxe by his toyling the Cow by her milke the Sheepe by her mike wooll flesh and dung the Bee by her x Sic vos non vobis mellificatis aves Sic vos non vobis vellera fertis ov●● Virg. hony recompencing and gratefully remunerating the petty costs and paines of man towards them with a full and a fertile usury such as the fieldes yeeld the husband-man for his plough his paines and his seede with the ingratitude of man to God whom God hath made little lower then the y Psalm 8.5.6 Angels crowned him with glory and worship made him ruler over the workes of his hands that he should yet be by sinfull rebellion as unthankefull as the very Devill and damned spirits Oh hinc illa lachrymae this thought confounds my thoughts plungeth and perplexeth my soule makes me even z Quoties cogito toties contremisco ut in alia meditatione olim Cyprianus Planet-strucke Oh it's mans miserie by an unwise an unworthy walking thus to abase thus to abuse Gods mercie Oh when a Psalm 8.4 David considered the priviledges and prerogatives of man he breakes out emphatically Lord what is man that thou art so mindefull of him c. But when I consider mans dignities of which some have writ whole b See the frēch Academie in fol. praefa in partem primam in the french Author in octavo See pag. 1.2.3.4.5 〈◊〉 per totum lib●um Et apud Cassantum in catalogo pa 51. 52. Tracts paralelling this Microcosme with that c Apud Alsted pulchra image in Theolog natural p. 2. pag. 643. 644 Megacosme mans perfections with the whole world with mans neglected dutie of gratitude I say by an inversion from mans perversion Oh ●an what is God that thou art so unmindefull of him or the Sonne of God that thou so little regardest him So vainely so mainely forgetting him and all his benefits and bounties his workes and wonders as once d Psal 106.21 Israel as the Ostridge forgets her e Iob. 39 14. Plin. lib. 10. c. 1. egges and as some have forgot their owne f Vt Messala Corvinus Orator apud Plin●●em li. 7. hist cap 24. apud Solinum cap. 6. names thou forgets the great and glorious name of the Lord thy God Oh doe I beleeve mine eyes and eares that Lions Eagles Panthers yea Dragons Elephantes Aspes Dogges Wolves Apes have beene thankefull to their Eupaters and Benefactors and shall man their pettie soveraigne be claudicant and heteroclite Is he made of a worse mettall his minde cast in a worse moulde then the rest then the best yea then the worst of beastes To adde according to my renued readings and meditations something to my former instances shall there as g In exem ho 9 Basil and h Apud Maiol col 7. p. 1. pag. 228 Ambrose themselves have observed be for some few crusts or crummes such gratitude in dogges to their Masters to a marvaile if not a miracle such fidelitie that they have kept their houses their i Apud Aelian libr. 7. cap. 13. lib. 9. cap. 42. treasuries yea their very wives as if they had beene Turkish Eunuchs Have they found the lost Treasures of their Masters Have they defended it from the incursion of theeves Have they layd by their Masters lost purses or wares till they have famished as once the dogge of a Colliphonian k Aelian lib. 1. cap. 30. Marchant Have the revealed the wrongs done to their Masters by their adulteresse Mistrisses as the little curr of a Sycilian by whrining and scraping at a secret doore is said to discover a hid l Aelian libr. 7. cap. 21. adulterer an armed intended murtherer Have they revealed murthers Have they knowne and flowne upon their Masters murtherers where they have after found them even in publicke Markets till they have caused their apprehension and execution as instances are in m Idem lib 7. c. 13. Plin. libr. 8. ca. 40 Authors and some in experience in our times So for Lions those heroicke creatures it is certaine that a Romane slave n Hanc historiam Fusius recitat A●lus Gellinoct Attic. lib. 5. cap. 14. Aelian li 7. cap. 43. Androdus flying from a cruell Master into the woodes meeting with a Lion whose foote he leached and paid out the thorne after both hee and the Lion being taken and he according to that bloudy sport of the Romanes when his turne came as his deserved punishment being exposed to fight with even that Lion found his enemie so favourable and friendly that knowing him that was his former surgeon in requitall of his surgery he licks his hand fawnes on him a spaniell of rampant to others is of a suddaine couchant to him to the astonishment of the Emperour and all the plebeians spectators Did another Lion shew the same gratitude to Elpis the Samian Mariner that he every day hunted for him and brought him a pray to the shoares for the good turne hee received from him in pulling a bone out of his o Plin. lib. c. 16. throate So for Panthers did a Panther shew her selfe so thankeful to the father of

pag. 26.27.28.29 ●● 49. c. Religion is in vaine And know further what I have heretofore more inlarged that a man begins eyther his heaven or hell in this q Hic vita aeterna tenetur a●● amutitur life Here he is in the suburbs of one of the two of Saint Augustines r Aug. de 〈◊〉 vit Cities eyther Ierusalem which is ſ Gal. 4.26 above or Sodom whcih is here below Here by grace a man hath Charter and interest after liverie seisure and possession of glorie Here it 's easily seene which way he walkes even by what he t Loquere ●t t● videam Socrates ad Ephebum quendam talkes A man neede not wish with Momus a window into a mans heart let him looke into his mouth there he hath the best prognosticatum of his minde as the un●erring truth it selfe hath u Math. 12. ver 32.33.34.35.36 determined Figges never grew from Thistles nor Grapes of * Iam. 3.12 Thornes nor sweete streames ever came from a poysoned corrupted w Iam. 3.11 fountaine let us make the inside cleane then all is cleane So shall we be able in earth as the Angels in heaven in sinceritie without hypocrisie in filiall love not in servile feare incident to the x Iam. 2.19 Devills and reprobates with purged and in good measure purified spirits even here on earth inchoatively and after in heaven perfectly to make one Quyre with the Angelicall spirits to the ever blessing and praysing the God of spirits SECT II. I Doe not denie indeede but a wicked and a gracelesse man may sometimes speake good wordes not onely savouring of Morall wisedome of experience and deepe observance as the sentences sayings and Apothegmes of Socrates Solon Bia● Thales c. and the Greeke and the Romane y Recorded by Valerius Maximus Diogenes Laertius Brusonius Lycosthenes and others Sages yea the expostulations of z 2. King 9.31 Iezabell with Iehu the disswasives of a 2 Sam. 24 3. Ioab to David the speaches of some even of the unbeleeving b Iohn 7.40.46 Iewes the censure of Gamahel concerning c Act. 5.35.36 Paul the counsell of Pilates wife concerning d Math. 27.19 Christ which many such specialties doe demonstrate but he may speake wordes even in outward shew and appearance savouring relishing of grace as appeares in Balaams e Num. 23.10 wish Agrippaes f Act. 26.28 flash the first to die the second to be a true Christian besides the Pharisees g Luk. 18.11 prayer the foolish Virgins crying h Matth. 25.11 Lord Lord the carnall Iewes desiring the i I●hn 6.34 bread the adulterous Samaritane desiring the waters of k Iohn 4.15 life with many moe It cannot be denied also but the best men may sometimes speake wordes at first blush savouring of a carnall spirit such as have hardly the prints and impression of grace as appeares in Abrahams l Genes 12.13 simulation or dissimulation Ioseph his swearing by the life of m Gen 42.15 Pharaoh Eves tempting of n Genes 3 6. Adam Iudahs solliciting of his incestuous o Genes 38.16 Thamar Davids murtherous vow against p 1. Sam 25.22 Naball his folly in commanding his people to bee q 2. Sam. 24.1.2 numbered his bloudie jussion in the slaughter of r 2. Sam. 11.15 Vria● his unjust verdict against ſ 2. Sam. 16.4 Mephibosheth in Peters t Math. 26. Luk. 23. deniall his disswasion of Christs u Math. 16.22 passion the culpable request of Iames and w Mark 10.35 Iohn the incredulitie of Saint x Iohn 20.25 Thomas with many moe verifying that of Saint y Iames. 3.2 Iames that he is a perfect man indeede which offends not with his tongue yet neverthelesse that is true in Divinitie which the eternall truth hath revealed that wordes justifie or z Math. 12.37 condemne that the mouth speakes the man eyther good or bad as it eyther blesseth or blasphemeth God or a Iames. 3 9. man For first this is to be presupposed that usually the just pure have pure b Proverbs words their hearts their consciences and their spirits being c Titus 1. v. 15. pure Abraham prayes for d Genes 18.25 Sodom for Ismael e Genes 17.18 Isaac for f Gen. 25 2●● Rebeca Moses blesseth the children of g Deut. 33.1 Israell Iacob blesseth his h Genes 49. 48.15 sonnes and the sonnes of i Gen. 48.20 Ioseph Samuel and Ioshuah exhort to the service of the true k 1. Sam. 12.13 Ioshuah 24. God Lot exhorts the l Genes 19 7. Sodomites Boaz comforts m Ruth 2.11.12 Ruth Eli reproves his n 1 Sam. 2.23 sonnes Gideon pleades against o Iudg 6 31.32 Baall the Prophets pray and prophecie the Disciples preach all that looked for the consolation of Israell blesse with Zachary the God of Israell for the incarnation and exhibition of Iacobs Shiloh the promised Messias as David cals his tongue his p In psalmi● glory So all the godly have made doe make except in some temptation or the breaking out of hereditary sinful corruption their tongues organs and instruments of the glory of God as againe the wicked when they speake usually unlesse when they faine and straine to the contrarie pronouncing Parrat-like such wordes of which they have no feeling against the heart and against the haire coldly comming from them as from sicke men or are over ruled by a speciall hand as q Numb 23.5 Balaam and r Iohn 18.14 Cayphas in his prophesie Pharaoh Neco in that which hee told ſ 2. Chro. 35.21 Iosias or out of common gifts as Iudas in his preaching Saul in his t 1. Sam. 10.6 prophecying the wise men amongst the Heathens from Morall Philosophie or the verie Ethickes of nature I say usually except in these specified cases when the wicked speake their wordes speake them wicked even as what bitter streames the fountaine sends forth these streames speake the fountaine no better then bitter since nemo dat quod non habet none can give what he hath not or shew better stuffe then he hath within him the mouth of a good man being as the opening of heaven which never opened but there was alwayes some remarkeable good thing happened as eyther Christ u Act. 1.11 ascending or the spirit w Iohn 2.32 descending or the like the mouth of a wicked man being as the opening of hell out of which never proceeded as into which never entred ever ought that good was or it is as the opening of the Tryoan Horse in which were armed Greekes fatall to Ilium or as the opening of Pandoras boxe out of which flew all leprosies and diseases or as the opening of Curtius his gulfe of the Sicilian x Plin. lib. 2. cap 106. August de Civit. Dei lib. 3. cap. 31. Aetna or that