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Saint Peters rocke vnder which title is deciphered the faith of Peter, the foundation of the church, Christs sacrificehood, and the comfort of the holy Spirit. Done by Alexander Top Gent.
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Top, Alexander.
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greater subiection can there be than for euer yea for euer and euer to abide a slauish vassall in all seruitude horror trembling Therfore suppose not that the Holy one saw other corruption than in flesh for he droue the prince of darknes into a corner where the sink of all corruption is Now what perfection he could draw out of this sink that he himself had cursed let the consciences of all men try and iudge and be warned with Peter that they defile not the things that the Lord hath purified and that they cleaue not so fast to corruption as to peruert the Lords waies and besot their own vnderstanding Concerning the word Apoc. 6. 8. Hell it is written Behold a pale horse and his name that sate on him was Death and Hell followed after him and power was giuen to them ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger with death and with the beasts of the earth Heer we see that our expositors plainly take Hel for the graue that is alwaies woont to follow after death Pet. 2. 13. So when the day of the Lord shall come by which the heauens being on fire shall be dissolued and the elements shall melt away with heat and a new heauen and a new earth established wherin dwelleth righteousnes Apoc. 21. 1. and the first heauen and the first earth passed away and when the Lord shall creat new heauens and a new earth and the former not remembred For Isai. 65. 19. saith the Lord as the new heauens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me Isai. 66. 22. so shall your seed and your name continue and from moneth to moneth and from sabaoth to sabaoth shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord and they shall go forth and looke vpon the carkases of men that haue transgressed for their worm shall not dy neither shall their fire be quenched and they shall be an abhorring vnto all flesh This is the miserable condition of the wicked ones the second death the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Apoc. 2. 8. at the opening of the books the resurrection of all flesh which is to say when the sea death and Hell shall giue vp their dead Apoc. 20. 1. which are in them and they shall bee iudged according to their works then both death and Hell which haue all this while had power ouer flesh to cut it off from inheritance of this life through the curse shall at the last resurrection be vanquished to all flesh and cast into the burning lake by our Lord sauiour Iesus Christ our forerunner In this world shall the cursed endure his damnation and the happy shall feel his blessednes He that liueth in this world an hundred yeeres shall dy a yoong man neither shall any be called a child of yeers but he that buildeth in this world shall inhabit and they that plant vineyards shall eat of the fruit neither shall they plant and another eat but they shal inioy the works of their own hands and shall not be made to labour in vaine and bring foorth in fear for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their buds with them Yet concerning his descension remaineth this one thing he made his graue with the wicked with the â—ich in his death though he had done no wickednes neither was any deceit in his mouth Now in that it is said he made him a graue he chose him a place in the earth whereinto he vouchsafed to descend and be buried for our saluation though many wicked and rich men lay as glorious as he whom the cell of the earth was far vnworthy to conteine Dan. 12. 2. Where the many that sleep shall awake to euerlasting life and some to shame and perpetuall contempt Againe that he was buried and descended also into hell read the ancient Christian meaning of the word Hell in the example of the rich man written by Luke the Euangelist translated into Saxonish many yeeres ago which saith thus ha peand re peleza dead and paer on Hell bebynzed which is now as much as to say And the rich man died and was buried in hel I should think it very absurd therfore farther to vrge any comment or exposition for the word Hell seeing no doubt these expositors of the Gospels sufficiently vnderstood what they said in their owne language Nay whosoeuer will not yeeld vnto so plain a testimony of truth the mark of controuersie he may be thought little zealous yea obstinate in his own profession Now of such as would haue Hell to be in the earth and to meane the place of the damned and would prooue it by the word Luk. 16. 26. Gulf that was betweene Abraham and the rich man the worde in the Greek originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HIATVS FISSVRA a gap or cliffe as Virgil citeth the word properly foorth of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TELLVS IMA DEHISCAT Let the earth cleaue But we vnderstand the word Gulf a concaue and a deuouring place which is hardly argued by the circumstance following seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signify neither vp nor downe but passing ouer as it were from shore to shore as TRANSCENDERE and TRANSRIMARE agreeing with the prophets words before recited they shall go foorth and look vpon the carcases of men c. And beside Saint Iohn proueth a further punishment to insue after death and hell which is to say the burning lake Let vs absteine therfore farther to inquire of the places which the Lord hath shut vp from vs and our vnderstanding For saith the Lord Gen 3. 22. Behold the man is becom as one of vs to know good and euill And now least he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and liue for euer therfore the Lord God sent him foorth from the garden of Eden to till the earth whence he was taken And the Lord hath set Cherubims and the blade of a sword shaking to keep the way of the tree of life Heer we see that the iealous God excluded Adam out of the garden least he should attain to see the state of the eternall Wherfore the plaine and open things are for vs and our children to obserue and do but the secret and hidden things pertaine vnto God only The prophet Ionah was a most excellent figure of our sauiour if a man do diligently mark his prophesie 2. King 14. 25. First his name signifieth a doue in the Hebrue voice in the likenes wherof Iesus receiued the spirit of his father from heauen wher he himself confesseth Math. 3. 16. that he saw the heauens open and the spirit of God descending like a doue Psal. 74. 16. and lighting vpon him the true turtle doue whose soule the beast had neuer power of Ionah his message was to
Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come as you haue seen him go into heuen Abraham receiued three Angels with the presence of God Gen. 18. 2. Lot receiued two Angels as messengers from God of his saluation in the absence of the Lord Gen. 19. 3. for the Lord sent them to destroy the city In such places is the office of the Trinity to be marked and most diligently considered Likewise that he ascended it appeereth by S. Lukes words Luk. 24. 51. And it came to passe that as he blessed them he departed from them and was carried into heauen into that ancient and euerlasting house of his father where the riches and treasure of Christs kingdome lay where neither rust nor moth could corrupt nor theeues break through and steale which is the farthest height of heauen and aboue all heauens that we can imagine as is abouesaid Let vs not therfore be gazers woonderers or strangers to the things that ought to be most familiar vnto vs. For nothing appeereth plaine to them that know not God and him whom he sent our sauiour Iesus Christ. HE SITTETH AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY Who being the brightnes of glory and the ingrauen forme of Gods person and bearing vp all things by his mighty word Heb. 1. hath by himselfe purged our sinnes and sitteth at the right hand of his fathers maiesty in the highest place Ephes. 1. Heer commeth to passe the spirituall prophesie of Dauid saying The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enimes thy footstoole which is to say at the right hand that ruleth all the wolrd this is the right hand that shall find out them that hate him Psal. â—1 8. strong is his hand Psal. â—9 and high is his right hand The right hand of the Lord hath the preheminence Psal. 118. the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to passe Dauid being a prophet and speaking vnto men was to vse the phrase of men and also to allude vnto the manners and power of men for all the preferment that hath been among men hath been to place authority on the right hand seeing all actiuitie worthines prosperity readines and facility consisteth in the right hand of a man This was the reason of Dauid his figuratiue speech to make men vnderstand the preheminence of the most High wheras indeed God is all spirit and hath no communion with flesh as it is already prooued His right hand is a threatning hand to them that hate him but it entertains them kindly that loue and worship him in spirit and true holines as doers of his will and obseruers of his commaundements Which thing the prophet slacked not when he said Lo I com for in the book of life it is written of me shewing his election by the holy spirit Yet why doth he so stedfastly affirme that it is written of him c surely his owne soule told him For saith he Psal 40. I desired to do thy good wil O my God yea thy law is within my hart and I say thy right hand Psal. 44. thine arme and thy cheerfull countenance saueth and defendeth all such as thou fauorest Againe Psal. 18. thy right hand hath staied me and thy louing kindnes made me grow I beheld the Lord alwaies before me saith he and he is at my right hand Acts. 2. there shall I not be shaken By this we may well perceiue the worthines of Christ receiued by his father into that holy place into which he entred a sacrificer for sinne once for all so there is one God one mediator betwixt God and man Iesus Christ. Wherfore lift vp your harts vnto the Lord let your soules be lifted vp on high yea and fly vnto heauen as a bird with a most cheerfull note and a new song praising God and saying Hosanna in the highest which is to say Saue vs O thou that dwellest in the most high FROM THENCE HE SHALL COME Euen as the men of Galile saw him go Acts. â— 11. and he shall come riding vpon Cherub Psal. 18. 10. and flying vpon the wings of the wind Behold he will come with his fan in his hand Math 3. 12. and he will make clean his floore and gather his wheat into his garner but he will burne vp the chaff with vnquenchable fire Wherfore shall hee come thence TO IVDGE THE QVICK AND THE DEAD Now Gods throne is a firy throne whose comming to iudgement no man knoweth who at his comming shal baptise with the holy Ghost and with fire comming suddenly as a theef in the night or as a maister whose return the seruant knoweth not least the wicked should be forewarned to flee from the anger to come and aduaunce themselues concerning the aduantage of this life therfore they shall giue account to him that is ready to iudge both the quick and the dead 1. Pet. 4. 5. Iudge nothing O people of the earth before the time vntill the Lord commeth who will lighten things that are hid in darknes and make the counsels of the hart manifest and then shall euery man that doth so haue praise of God Christ commanded his Apostles to preach that he was ordained of God a iudge of quick and dead Saint Paul saith I witnes before God and the Lord Iesus Christ that shall come againe to iudge the quicke and the dead at his appeerance and his kingdom 2. Tim. 4. which is to say when his kingdome shall come that we daily pray for in the Lords praier in which kingdom the Lord make vs partakers of his sonnes inheritance euen as we growe in him vnto the house of the liuing Amen I BELEEVE IN THE HOLY GHOST Heer againe is the first tenor of our confession repeated to wit I beleeue in which ought to haue relation wholy and seuerally to the three persons only least we make a confusion of all as some do which take it literally without discerning the sense at all but saying in haste I beleeue in the holy Ghost the holy catholike church the communion of saints c. Heer the simple except he be taught cannot vnderstand but that he beleeueth in the catholike church and in the communion of saints c. so far foorth as in the holy Ghost or in the other two persons but of this point anon more at large I beleeue in the holy Ghost Why I beleeue in the father and the sonne as is abouesaid and the holy Ghost is all one with the father and the sonne for he proceedeth both of the father and the sonne and with the father and the sonne togither is glorified therfore I equally beleeue in the holy Ghost as in the father or the sonne or as in both father and sonne For bicause the holy Ghost is exempted from neither it pertaineth to each one and to both alike The holy Ghost was the father and