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heaven_n	aaron_n	beard_n	clothing_n	13	3	12.3595	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14985	English paradise Discouered in the Latine prospect of Iacobs blessing. Preached at S. Buttolphs without Aldersgate at London, on the holy Sabboth commonly called Trinitie Sunday, in that ioifull season of the festiuall solemnities for the blessed creation of the most gracious Prince of Wales.	White, John, 1570-1615.	1612 (1612)	STC 25293; ESTC S119683	64,468	65

top of Aarons head to the beard Psal ●33 2 the skirts of his clothing This blessing of absolute power is Gods onely to giue who at his pleasure can bestow temporall or eternall gifts Sometimes temporall vpon the creatures for man or vpon man in the vse of the creatures Ephes 1.3 Sometimes eternall vpon the Saints as he blessed the elect with all spirituall blessings in Christ chosen before the foundations of the world Aquinas This blessing hath no match and therefore it is said benedicere Dei est causare bonitatē there is none but God which can create goodnesse in man The other Superiour blessing is by commission to Gods Deputies which blessing is either more-common or more rare The common blessing is praier sent as an Angell to fetch the blessing of God from the top of the ladder in heauen to the foot of the ladder on earth Thus the superiours in the Church for which cause we thinke superiority expedient do pray for the blessing of God inward and outward and ex officio doe shew that God will bestow them wich are necessary This blessing is dayly or ought to bee of Kings to their subiects Pastors to their flocke and Parents to their children The blessing of the King to his subiects Iosh 22 1 Paralip 16 3 Reg. 8 as Ioshuah blessed the Rubenites as Dauid blessed the people in the name of the Lord or as Salomon blessed all the congregation of Israel Thus shall the King prolong his daies in the kingdome and his sonnes in the middest of Jsrael The blessing of the Pastor to the flock Deut. 17.20 Nomb 6.23 Leu. 9.23 Hebr. 7.1 ought to be as Aaron blessed the people at Gods appointment as Moses and Aaron blessed the people when the glory of the Lord appeared and as Melchisedec blessed Abraham the Priest of the most high God met Abraham c. blessed him This blessing when it is directed according to the prescript and allowance of the word of God is then of great power by the power of God annexed by promise The blessing of parents to their children is also of good vse and commendable among vs in England for the good speede commonly obserued in these blessings Apud Britannos inprimis sacra antiquitatis vestigia etiamnum hodie clara in hac parte sunt Hyperius Raedius Britannicarum claritatum speciosus The Britanes are most honourable aboue all Nations for the continuance of this holy ordinance This is without all doubt an holy order which the Lord ordeined from the beginning that children might bee preserued within the compasse of dutifull obedience to their parents and might esteeme greatly of their great office ouer them Moreouer this obseruation beeing a comely correspondence to the fifth commandement doth thereby approue it self that in our religion it should not be neglected or reputed a stranger And this is more manifest by the reasons of the Wise man in which hee lappeth his counsels for the precious estimation of the parents blessing Eccles 3.11 For the blessing of the father establisheth the house of the children and the mothers curse rooteth out the foundations I might here lift vp some monuments on which it hath been proued and written how the blessings curses of parents haue kindled fire of heauen or hell as if Gods will and the parents were all one In this purpose an heathen speaketh as if he had been a Diuine in the skill of secrets Si affirmabit pater aduersus nos pati nos oportet quod ille faciat cuius potestas plus potest God doth iustly effect that which man doth iustly craue But of all blessings by commission that is the highest and of most power which is called the Patriarchall or Propheticall blessing With this blessing Isaac blessed Iaacob and Iaacob after blessed his sonnes This is called a blessing of excellency for that those holy men indued with the spirit of Prophesie did blesse with the blessing of God which could not be supplanted I haue blessed him and he shall be blessed These blessings were as delectable nuts in the Church because in them beeing words of men there was deliuered the blessing of God Cant. 6.10 as the kirnell in the nut So that Iaacob gone towards his blessing might say I went downe into the garden of nuts The Lord had so enacted the couenant of grace with those gracious fathers that it did rest in custodie vt sanctum depositum as an holy pledge deliuered in trust They by their solemne blessing might conuey this treasure to their posterities in whose families the Church and life of saith was to continue till Christ his comming Thus Noah blessed his sonne Sem before and Moses blessed the twelue Tribes after Concerning Noah his blessing the question is asked wherefore that largesse of Patriarchall blessing was bestowed on Sem when as Iaphets fauourable demeanour towards his father was of equall reuerence and care for his fathers honour as Sems was The answer to this question is plaine that the holy ghost did foresee how from Sem should spring Abraham and all his holy followers of whom the most blessed fruite that euer did grow was to come into the world Therefore to Sem was that great Patriarchall blessing conueyed yet had Noah an other blessing for Iaphet as Abraham had for Ismael and Isaac had for Esau This secondary blessing was far short of the first as the light of a starre is short of the light of the sunne Yet this blessing might be inlarged to Iaphet if hee would light his starre at the sunne and dwell within the light of the Church within the tents of Sem according to the condition of the blessing God perswade Iaphet that he may dwell in the tents of Sem. And thus is it happilie with vs Gentiles conuerted and perswaded to fetch our light at Christ in the tents of Sem our blessing is inlarged by him and the Church with his blessing is inlarged by vs. Now then let me shew you how Iaacob the Hebrew and our English Iaacob are a blessed field The superiour blessing is vpon them both and their blessing is made manifest vnto vs in three most worthy allowances The first is for scituation the second for plants and the third for fruitfull vantages of watering In the first Iaacob is a blessed field scited in the sunne the fairest funne the Sonne of God which alway shines A blessed scite is Iaacobs conscience thus neighboured with the sun his conscience is asweet lodging sweetned with the ioies of Christ as his father Abrahams bosome O blessed Iacob thy fathers blessing hath Iodged thee in the bosome of Christ as the spouse in the bosome of her husband Cant. 2.4 Hee brought me into his wine-seller and loue was his banner ouer me God dwelling with Iaacob and Iaacob is two waies One in tabernaculo personali in the flesh of man the other in tabernaculo mistico in the

people He giueth pleasures vnto Kings pascit thronos Cyril potestates virtutes angelos who feedeth Patriarks Kings Prophets and the Princes of beleeuers Thus may you perceiue blessing and blessednesse well met in him who hath in himselfe such power of blessing that he can make others blessed This happinesse is the high crowne of immortality which wee all desire to reach as Hester did the top of her husbands Scepter The meanes whereby this blessing is inclined to vs Hester and the staires whereby wee climbe vp to it are mercies and graces gifts of Gods blessing In these the Lord beckneth to vs to come to him as Ahashuerosh held out the golden Scepter to the Queene So Hester drewe neere and touched the top of the Scepter Many naturall men haue troubled themselues in vaine with many examinations of this blessednesse to proue what it is I may not stand here to rip vp the secrets of profound Philosophers from whose curious eies were hidden those treasures which they neuer found Therefore they neuer had true peace Psalm 14.3 for the way of peace haue they not knowne they are all gone out of the way Their highest point neerest to our truth is this that man hath no true blessednesse vntill hee be ioyned to the first of all things that can be vnderstood This is an high flight and far beyond the sublunary thoughts of baser mindes yet far short of the mount of true Diuinity God is blessednesse it selfe and to bee vnited vnto God is the perfect blessednesse of man in Iesus Christ Emanuel to knowe him confesse him and delight in him But God is the obiect of mans faith not the subiect of his intellect the heart of man is too narrow a circumference to compasse God in his vnderstanding Therefore is Gods name incomparable I am that I am in the Present tence whom no power can shift out Some haue translated more properly I will be who I will be to shew that God is able of himselfe to hold his being and happinesse against all rebellion Stabilisque manet daens cuncta moueri To this purpose is that spoken of God Dei esse est Gregory dissimiliter nunquā esse with God is no variablenes Here then let vs acknowledge by faith more then all those deepe schollers could reach by reason that our blessednesse is in our vnion with God Phil. 4.7 our peace which passeth all vnderstanding Among the secrets in the reueiled word these two are great One the hypostaticall vnion of two natures that the word is made flesh The other is our spirituall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nisi vna persona esset Deus et homo non rectè diceretur Dominus gloriae crucifixus est our sure copulation with Christ without confusion That is a mystery beyond naturall capacitie only entertained by faith in the Church This is also a great mystery resembled in short patternes of the head and members knit of the husband and wife vnited In this exact and present worke there are two bonds one on Gods part the other on ours Ex parte Christi Sp. S. ex parte nostra fides nostra est vnionis vinculum Thus by the twist of Gods holy spirit and our hallowed faith we are made one with Christ and he is made vnto vs redemption sanctification wisdome and righteousnes 1 Cor. 1.29 Wherefore are these wonders come to passe but for our happinesse which cannot be had any where but in God the fountaine of blessednesse There doe wee daily tender vnto God that paiment of soueraigntie which we may not yeeld to any other God is sufficient so is none but he sufficient of himselfe so is none but himselfe sufficient for himselfe and for others so is none other sufficient for himselfe and for all and so are not all beside him put all together This is our God Lord who is like vnto thee Qui sedet in coelo repletiue that heauen and earth are full of the maiestie of his glory Psal 71.19 Ephes 1.23 This is our God worship him all yee gods who sits aboue and holdeth blessednes a faire marke in his hand for vs all to runne vnto 1 Cor. 9. We must all runne this life is the course heauen is the goale Expectat nos Deus pater vt haeredes filius vt fratres Sp. sanctus vt vnctos And here we are made a spectacle to the world to Angels and to men Will you behold two runners Iacob and Iacob both running after the Roe Christ is the Roe which runs before them both in the race of happinesse like a Roe on the mountaines of Bether So did Iacob runne and hath obtained by faith so doth Iacob runne that he may obtaine by faith Heb. 11.21 Lord let him so runne that he may obtaine O all yee vacant triflers of the world why stand you heere idle as the men in the market place What stand you for gazing one on another as Iosephs brethren We must all labour in the vine yard that we may receiue wages all striue that we may be crowned all bee exercised that we may be in breath non incipientibus sed proficientibus We must be I organimous that we may continue to the end be blessed Thus did the Apostle runne and continue to his ioy I haue finished my course qui amat ardentius currit velocius loue and great reward makes labour light the reward is blessednesse But it is high time to step out of this digression from the marke to the meanes from beatus to benedictus There are apparant vnto vs in holy Scripture diuers blessings of diuers kindes Some are of the Superiour to the inferiour some of the inferiour to the Superiour and some of the equall to the equall All these haue their speciall distinctions and vse When the vnderling doth acknowledge the goodnesse of the Superiour and sendeth vp to him thankes and praise for his kindnesse Psal 103 1 Psalm 148 this seruice is called the blessing of reuerence Thus the Prophet doth blesse God My soule blesse thou the Lord. And such a sacrifice of praise is that in the melodious hymme of our praier book O all yee workes of the Lord blesse yee the Lord. The other blessing betwixt equals is termed benedictio charitatis when one good christian doth pray for an other as Saint Peters counsell is blesse and Saint Pauls yea blesse I say and curse not But heere I may but touch and goe The first blessing of the Superiour to the inferiour hath this branch also as blessing of absolute power and blessing of authority committed more or lesse Blessing of absolute power hath in himselfe his preferment aboue all blessings as heauen which droppeth on the highest trees hath his preheminence aboue all effusions and drops of trees or mountaines Euery good and perfect gift discendeth downe from aboue to the parts below from heauen to earth as the precious ointment went downe from the