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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

Ambrose David here and his people their holy hymnes gratulatorie prayses Iö Paeans as our plantations this day to the glory of the God of glorie the giver of all grace And sure if ever I saw heaven upon earth it is when a religious Pastor and a zealous people are assembled together in Gods house upon the Lords Sabaoths or a religious familie as a private or pettie Church hearing and preaching the word as in Pauls time continued the whole r Act 20 7 day expounding Scriptures as in Ezras ſ Neh 8.5.6 7 8 time in publicke prayers early in the morning as in Tertullians dayes and the Primitive t Pliny the Iunior testifies so much of them in epistle to Traian apologizing for Christians times in some places and Churches in our times singing of Psalmes as our Saviour with his Disciples at his last Supper Oh sure here is an Image indeed of heaven here is in some parts of Gods worship vita coelestis vita celitum the life of the Saints in earth and in heaven here is Bethell Gods owne w Gen. 35 7 house the place is holy x Exod 3 5 ground God himselfe here is present u Marke 14 26 walking in the middest of the y Revel 2.1 golden Candelstickes as he was with Sydrach Mysaach and z Dan. 3.24.25 Abelenago singing in the Babylonian flames and with these joyfull Saints Saunders a Apud Foxum in Mart. ●ilogi● Gl●ver and others who rejoyced and triumphed in the middest of that Romish Babylonian flames in which the Martyres were tortured in Queene Maryes dayes here Christ himselfe is present and president too as hee was with his Disciples after his b Luke 24. Resurrection and Ascension in the dayes of c Act. 2.1.2.3 Pentecost according to his promise Whether there be naturall Musicke in nerves arteries and sinewes the simularie or dissimularie parts of the bodie of d Opinio Heripinli Medici Albere● Durer● Tyurdei l 2. Musices vide Tolosaeuum Syntax ar●is Mirabil● l. 12 c. 8 pag 189 man or whether elementarie musicke in the elements as e In Tymeo in Platonem Marsil Ficinus Plato f In sonno Scip. Macrob. in Ciceronem lib 2. c. 1 Tully Matrobius thought or whether celestiall and heavenly musicke in the Spheares as Py●hagoras first g Apud Athen. lib. 14. cap 14. imagined and to which manie learned men since in all ages have in some h Vt inter Philosophos Plat. li. 10. Reip. pa. 670. Macrob. lib. 2. de somn Scip. c. 3. p. 90. Plutarch de musica tom 2 pa. 707. Inter Poetas Aristoph in nubibus act 1. scan 3. pa 169. Virgil. Aeneid pag 167 Manilius l. 1. pa. 25. Iuter Theologes Anselm demundi magine ca. 24. tom 3. pag. 300. Beda de musica practicit tom 1. p. 417. Ma●imus T●ius serm 21. p. 256. ser 23. pag. 280. sense subscribed though by others contradicted others disputed others doubted these musicall controversies to me are not much materiall Here is that musicke which as David said of Goliahs sword 1) 1. Sam. 21.9 ther 's none like unto it Here is the musicke of musickes as Salomons Canticles are called the song of songs to which the Quier of heaven joynes with the Chorus of Saints in earth At this the Angels rejoyce 2) Luke 15 vers 10. as at tht conversion of sinners With this God himselfe is delighted his spirit ravished refreshed more then ever Alexander or any other was wrought upon by modulations of anie earthly man Where on the contrarie to make application to our owne times if ever I saw the verie image and picture of hell it is when a carelesse Emperick of Soules a doltish Sir Iohn-lack Latin a blinde Pholypheme a profane Esau one of Ieroboams priests 3) 1. King 12. vers 31. is placed over a people of Sodom 4) Isay 1. v. 10. as a Wolfe over goats whereupon Gods owne Saboths which should be consecrated as glorious daies to the Lord 5) Ier. 17.27 are perverted profaned rather to the service of Bacchus Priapus and Venus as once the heathenish Floralia Bacchanalia c. that the Devill should so rule and raigne in the popish or profane parish keepe such a rackett as the chiefe steward both with Pastor people that neyther barrell being better Hering in stead of preaching there should be pyping or idle prating playing as the Israelitish wantons once with the Moabitish women Numb 25. in stead of Devotion dauncing in stead of singing of Psalmes discharging of oathes like vollies of shott and roarings of Canons with full foole foule mouthes even in the very face of the Almightie Oh the difference betwixt Davids dayes and ours those Ioviall Saturnall golden dayes in which he lived and our Iron irefull times Davids people had they acted such publicke parts of Gods prayses in our dayes worshipped God so seriously so solemnely so sincerly now they had beene counted and called Puritans Precisians every mothers sonne of them many an i Gen. 21.9 Ismalite would have scoft them manie a k 2. Sam. 20.6 Micholl mockt them yea had but part of this Congregation assembled in the night as the persecuted Christians were sometimes occasioned for their securitie and the Disciples after Christs l Acts 12. v. 12 Ascension had there beene any religious m Chiefly a Damosell Rhoda as Act. 12.13 Shee would be counted called too an ●●rodias women amongst them though Mary Magdalens Salomees or Susanas they should all have beene taxed and traduced to have beene of the Family of love or lust Adamits or Anabaptists they had beene censured everie one their devotions had been turned on the tipp of malignant tongues into promiscuous daunces they had escaped no better then the Primitive Christians or then the sincerest in those dayes at least they had beene counted more precife then wise more hypocriticall then holy thus publicke to prayse and worship God which they might have done well enough in private without this Heraulding and Trumpetting Gods prayse and in his their owne perhaps they had not escaped the imputations which Festus gave unto m Acts 26.24 Paul and n 2. King 9.11 Iehues consort Captaines to the annoynting Prophets even of mad men SECT VIII Davids times and ours further ballanced inrespect of multitudes then Religious now Irreligious THus David and his people were as in a plurifie or burning feaver of zeale carried up as o 2. King 2.11 Elias as in a fiery Chariot we are now in a cold palsie frozen as Esops snake yea as p De frigiditate Salamandri Discorides lib. 2. c. 5. Galenus de Temper lib. 3. cap. 4. Et Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 21. cap. 4. Salamanders not to be heated extinguishing all sparkes and fires that are put in us by good motions from God or put to us by good motives from man

snowes in Summer or in Harvest raine Or as some pardons executions done Apologize it 's well thou camest thus * Est aliquid prodire tenus si non detur ultra soone Since all that Time which lent thee speaking breath Thou staidst for presse well nie till prest to death Yet lame a 2. Sam. 16.3.4 chap. 18. vers 24.25.26 Mephibosheth thou bringst a heart Better then Ziba though he act first part Say more how Tyme so clipt swift Fames flig wing That till Novembers fift she scarse did bring Those gladding newes to our Hibernian coast Of Charles returne which we desired most So oft our trusts were voyd so guld our Ioyes By flying Lying Fictions Newes Tales Toyes So fluctuate we were twixt Hopes and Feares As feathers pendent in the windes and ayres That Hearing truths by common votes shoutes cryes We scarse durst trust our eares without our eyes For even when Prince was come Plebean crew Vox populi cries still too good for true But when trueths Trumpe by vulgar breathes was blowne Our Ioyes reviv'd as out of Feares dead sowne As when hot Phoebus gleames to life doth bring Hymens dead seeming b Sylphae Culex Scarabei Cicada cancri saepin● mori reviviscere censentur ab Aristot anim lib. 8. c. 17. Idem affirmat Vincent de Pulicibus lib. 20 ca. 151. Idem Isidor lib. 12. cap. 8. Aelian lib. 2. ca. 29. De Muscis alij de alijs infectis infects Batts in spring Our Sunne reshines from that eclypsing cloud Of doubts and dangers which her lightes did shrewd As out of fearefull dreames in which she slept Our Irish Muse wakes laughes who earst had wept In Cyntheas circuite Circle of one Moone Mournefull Melpomine mirthfull is become And now as nimble Corybant she praunceth In our Ioyes Iubilees she friskes Trips daunceth That anchored in her Port she safe doth rest Fre'd from windes waves of doubts which tost her brest And with a foote as swift as Pegassus To mother Albions coast to scattered us Swarmes from her Hive whom Tyme Hibernifieth Live King Live Prince our glad Thalia crieth Let after ages Caesar Charles enroule Their names Fames facts Fates in eternall scroule That in their Nestors yeares desired dayes Our poore Plantations may their hopes helps rayse Whose Times expir'd above the Planets Seaven As they plant us great Iove plant them in Heaven IRELANDES IVBILEE OR IOYES IO PAEAN 1. Chron. Chap. 29. Vers 20.21.22 20 And David sayd to all the Congregation Now blesse the Lord your God And all the Congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers and bowed downe their heads and worshipped the Lord and the King 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and offered burnt offrings unto the Lord on the morrow after that day even a thousand Bullockes a thousand Rams and a thousand Lambs with their drinke offrings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel 22 And d●d eate and drinke before the Lord on that day with great gladnesse and they made Salomon the sonne of David King the second time and annoynted him unto the Lord to be the chiefe Governour and Zadok to be Priest SECTIO I. The Preface or Prologomena to the whole AS we have heard by true certaine and infallible report the newes of the Prince his arrivall which we most delighted most desired to heare of all others in which before time we were wonderously devided and distracted betwixt hopes and feares as a Ship driven too and fro with contrary windes and waves by reason of the uncertainty of rumors and flying lying a Fama malum quo non velocius ullum fame every man speaking as he would have it rather then as the truth was as they were well affected or infected demonstrating themselves as the Damosell told Peter their very tongues bewraying them b Mark 14.17 as Shibboleth Sibboleth distinguished betwixt Ephramites and Gileadites c Iudg c. 12.5.6 as the proverbe is As the man is thinking so is the Bell still ringing As now I say it is certainely writ and fixt on the columnes of truth that the Prince is prosperously and safely in the outward and inward man arrived out of Spain to the English Court of which we have so many testimonies from such a cloud of eye eare d Oculati au riculares testes witnesses as the Apostles and Disciples had to the exhilerating of their formerly sadded e Math. 27. v. 7.8.9 Mark 16. v. 1.2.6.7 Luk. 24.36.41 hearts of the resurrection of their Saviour he now being more incredulous then that Didymus f Iohn 20 v. 25. which will not beleeve his eare in that which is vox populi without the sight of his owne eye So as we already have solemnized his arrivall with our heartiest gratulations we are here againe assembled to resolemnize it and to renue our commemorations by the addition of another succeeding exceeding mercie the mercifull marvailous and miraculous protection and preservation of our Soveraigne King our now Illustrious Prince our Noble Peeres the reverent Prelats the Gentrie the Cleargie the Commonaltie the whole body of the Kingdome our lives our wives our Children together with the Gospell and Religion who all at one blowe had perished g We had lost rem Regem gregem legem Regimen Religionem in the Powder Treason had that fatall blowe beene given that was intended which blowe the Lord Protector of great Brittaine the Watchman Centinell Shepheard of * Psal 35. v. 1. our English Israel prevented by putting a manacle on the bloudy Traytors hand by a speciall and peculiar providence even in an instant as once a hooke in the nosthrils of Sannacharib h 2. Kings 19.28 in the like exigent a halter about the necke of Haman i Esth. 7. v. 9. a gagg and a boult on the tongue of Balaam k Numb 23. ve 7.8 a moussell on the mouth of Tobiah and Shanballat l Neh. 6.14 a dart from heaven into the bowels of the Apostate Iulian h In his warre with Sapor the Persian King wounded with an arrow from heavē he threw his bloud into the aire crying vicisti Galilee vicisti Thou hast overcome ô Galilean apud histor tripartit when they in their damnable resolutions intended mischiefe to the Church and people of God To teach all the proud pestilent and perverse spirits of the world what it is to kick against the pricke n Act 9. v. 5. swim against the streame for flesh and bloud to contend against God o 1 Cor. 10.22 who sitting in the heavens knowes in a trice how to confound them and their devices to crush their Cockatrice egges to sweepe down their Spiders webs to breake them as a potters vessel p Psal 29. as easily as a brasen head breakes in fitters a head of glasse q Impar congressus apud Al ciatum in suis Emblem all their Counsels plots projects and

Manserium Bergemensem in supplemento Chronicetum Nicromancer Silvester the second drowned Pharaoh in the a Exod. 14.16 Sea smit proud Herod with b Act. 12.23 wormes devoured Hatto of Mentz with c Recitat historiam Sifridus prasbiter lib. 1. Epitomes anno Dom. 923. Et Maiolus de diebus Canic●l col 7. pag. 254. quanquam author Chronologia computationi sub Ann● Deut. 914. non M●●i●●s tribuit sed Damonibu● Rats that hand which oft as a shiriffe apprehends and as a generall by Martiall-law executes wrath on the wicked ipso actu in the verie act of sinne as on the blinded d Gen. 19.11 Sodomites presumptious e Dan. 4.30 Nabuchadnezzer the Gospels f Luke 12.20 carnalist that hand pulling down Dagons house upon the head of these Philistines these Dagonites in the very midst of their Idolatrous sacrifices by a visible sermon and as by an audible voice from heaven I say speaking to us how much hee honours that Arke of his truth fixed amongst us and to them how much he detests their abominations paying home at last their provocations by this fall also prolonging the fall of their Bell their Babell tutoring them also in their bloudie projects as once Saul what it is to kicke against the pricke to contest with the Lord Protector of Israell I say in all probabilitie leaving Gods secret justice or mercie wee are in a great part to attribute the continuation and succession of these mercies to our English Israel as partly even to the pietie constancie patience zealous prayers teares of our Queene Maryes * In that quinquenniū Maria as it is called Martyres so more specially and particularly to the gracious humiliations fasts and teares of the faithfull of the land in our distresses and dangers and feares in the absence of our Prince as also to their cordiall and heartie gratulations for his joyfull and triumphall reduction both the positive blessings we injoy and the privitive evils that have beene kept from us both the one and the other are to be ascribed more to the prayers and thankesgivings of the upright in the land then to all the powers and pollicies of man or the arme of flesh for as God blesseth even private families for the cause of some one as the house of Laban for Iacobs d Genes 30.27 cause the house of e Gen. 39.5 Putiphar the Iaylers f Ibid. vers 23. prison yea the Court of Pharaoh for Iosephs g Gen. 47. v. 25 cause preserved by raine h Antonius his army being ● daies without water on the mountaines of Germany by the prayers of a Legion of Christian souldiers was relived by Raine from heaven whereupon as we have already alledged from Iustin Martyr Tertul. Eusebio it was called the thundering legion sent in a wondrous drought the whole armie of an heathenish Emperour for the cause of one Christian Legion saved all that were in the Ship with Paul Acts 27.24 for Pauls cause how much more doth the Lord powre both precious mercies reprive a land from deserved plagues depending judgements for the cause of manie Noahs Davids and Daniels that are upright in the land who upon all occasions are both humbled for judgements thankfull for mercies herein God imitating man who is willing ever to doe most good where hee findes the recipient parties most thankefull casting like the husband-man ever his seede most willingly in that ground which hath recompenced his former laboures and paines in former yeares with the most gratefull interest thankefulnesse for one mercie ever drawing on another as one circle in the water makes another that a third and that a fourth as one lincke in a chaine drawes on another lincke after lincke as indeede why did Iehouah accumulate so manie mercies upon David one after another as one beame of the Sunne reflecting after another making his cup to overflow his lott to fall in a fayre ground giving him a goodly heritage Crowning him with long life spreading his Table leading him still into the greene * Psalm 23. per totum in alijs Psalmis pastures but because he was ever so thankefull to his Shepheard As for further instance David is preserved from a raging Beare a ramping i 1. Sam. 17.34.35.36 Lion he is thankefull for this deliverance after hee is rescued from k 1. Sam. 23. ch 24. chap. 26. Saul more raging roaring ramping then they * Homo homini Lupus Imo homo homini Daemon both After from the Iebusites after from Achitophell from Absalon after from Sheba hee is thankefull whilst hee raigned in Hebron as a pettie King therefore God inlargeth his Territories and plants him in l 2. Sam. 5.1.2.3 Ierusalem as Gods high Stewart now among us being found faithfull in governing the younger Scotland espoused him at last to the elder sister England as Iacob after his faithfull service prudence and patience at last injoyed joyed in his fairest m Gen. 29.28 Rachell as that good servant in the Gospell that was faithfull in a few Tallents was made ruler over many n Matth. 25. v. 20.21.22.23 Cities thus Ioseph also delivered out of a pitt by o Genes 37.28 Ruben no doubt being thankefull for that God delivered him out of a deepe p Prov. 23. v. 27 ditch a more dangerous pit the traynes of a whorish Mistresse the prison of an ungratefull Master So Moses being thankefull for his deliverance from q Exod. 15. per totum Pharaoh and the pursuing Aegyptian host God after takes his part against r Exod. 17.11 Amalek against Moab vindicates his cause against his sister ſ Numb 12.6.7 Miriam aeiuulating Aron being ever readie at all essayes as a friend at neede to bestead him in all his exigents Thirdly thankesgiving sanctifies unto us every blessing yea every creature every action every calling yea what ever wee set our hands too our meates our drinkes our exercise recreations studies mariages journeyes rests primacies companies yea what not as it is a speeies part of * Vide Sculteth de Oratione vel precatione pag. 2.3 prayer without which every thing we intermedle with is like our selves impure and t 1. Tim. 4.1.2.3 uncleane Wee handle them as Colliers or Smiths sometimes eate their meate illotis manibus with unwashen hands yea wee use abuse every blessing as usurpers incrochers yea purloyners where we have no right nor title more then a theefe to a true mans purse leave is light but without thankefulnesse we take leave wee aske none wee are not onely unmannerly but without question more bold with God then welcome CHAP. IIII. Ingratitude a sinne against grace and nature condemned by the very heathens FOurthly a thankelesse heart is an evident signall and demonstration of a gracelesse heart where ther 's no gratitude it 's certaine ther 's no grace for as thankefulnesse is conjoyned with other graces as with

profanesse Iewish usury Cannibal-like crueltie execrable and horrible blasphemies against emulatitions against all that have any shew of religion with other transgressions perpetrated and resolvedly committed against God and man be thankefulnesse all which indeede with the like shew and speake an unthankefull tongue heart and life as the Ivy bush shewes the Taverne the blew spots the plague biles and carbuncles and ploukes in the bodie and face the inward infection of the Liver and the smoake and sulphur the inward brimstonely matter that 's in Etna in Pliny choaking w De Vesuvio Solinus cap. 40. de eo nihil Plinius praesaga forsan mente iude sibi exitium futurum de modo mortis Lege in epistola Plinij Iunioris ad Cornel. Tacitum hostoricum Vesuvius and the like c. I say unlesse this may stand for thankefulnesse as if counterfeit coyne shall stand for pay there 's no further glimpses and sparks of further thankefulnesse in our promiscuous multitudes though we see here the inflamed zealous fires of David and his Congregation CHAP. VII Gratitude to God for all his graces pressed from the practise of all the Saints in the Church Militant THus as Salomon sends the sluggard to the Aunt or a Proverb 16. v. 6. Pismire to learne b De cuius prudentia diligētia tam Mira vide apud Plin. libr. 2. cap. 41. lib. 11. cap. 30. Arist libr. 9. cap. 38. Basilium in exem homil 9. providence and diligence to the Connyes the Locusts the Spider to learne wisedome c Prov. 10. vers 25.26.27.28 prudence to the Lion the Greyhound and the hoc Goate for constancie and d Ch. 30. v. 31. courage as Ieremie sends the Iewes to the Almanacke of the Storkes The Turtles and the Swallowes to learne the circumspect observation of times and e Ierem. 8. v. 7. seasons as Christ himselfe our Saviour sends his disciples and in them us to the f Math. 10. v. 16 Dove to learne simplicitie to the Serpent to learne not matchavillian but religious g De mira serpentis solertia pracipuè in capitis custodia in pollis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vide Plevius Plinium libr 8. cap. 27. Aristot. lib. 8. cap. 17. August de Civitat Dei libr. 8. cap. 15. Et Theologice applicant idem Augustin serm 4. ad frat in Eremo Chrysost hom 34. in Matth. tom 2. pollicie So I have according to my Tallent sent this ungratefull age according to my ministeriall mission and commission from God as to the Pagans so even to Birdes Beasts Fishes and Fowle to learne that gratitude to God for all his graces which as I have prescribed David and his people here in my Text piously publikly much more privately practised Now the effecting of this grace being that which purposely premeditatingly projectingly I doe affect that I may roule every h Omnem movere lapidem stone touch every string attempt every meanes use every motive to bring our English-Irish Israel paralell with Davids Israell changing my forme of speech modulating now in another Tune and Tone I desire that every man that desires to have an Israels heart to be a true Israelited i Iohn 1.47 Nathaniel indeede to consider that if the practise of the worst of men the Pagans the worst of beastes too yea the worst of animate creatures except the very Devils and infernall spirits shame not his ingratitude yet that hee would be lured and allured by the imitation vertuous emulation of the best that are or ever were of created natures eyther in earth or in heaven to the performance of this tributary taske which God imposeth upon every soule that hath the organes and instruments of reason rightly k For God requires no praise of fooles naturals mad-men young infants such as have yet no use of reason nor may be admitted to the Eucharisticall Supper fitted even to prayse his great and glorious Name as David and these Davidicans did here as they will answere the contrary to their perill at the great day of audit and great Court of Parliament before the King of Kings And herein first to begin on earth and then by a Theologicall Climax or gradation to ascend up as high as heaven let us looke to the Saints militant here on earth and wee shall see a cloud of witnesses like the cloud and the piller of fire going before Israell to l Exod 40.38 Canaan as the new created starre or the Angell moving in the starre or in forme of a starre going before the Easterne Magi as their conduct and convoy unto m De hàc stella ut de Magis ipsis multa disp● at Bosquerus in eccho conom in locit Math. 2 1.2.3 Christ preceeding going before in this never to much pressed till practised dutie inviting inciting us to insist in their steps Repetens ab origine prime to begin as they say from the beginning wee have n Genes 4. v. 4. Abel in true gratitude to God surpassing ungratefull Cain as the Sunne exceeds the pitchy cloud sacrificing the best of his Lambes the first fruites the chiefe and choyse of his o Sacrū pingue dab● nō macrū sa ●rificabo Sphinx Philosophica Theologica flocke as a free-will offring for a blessing upon the rest though I know too it have a speciall p See Moses unvailed in octavo extant reference to the oblation of Christ the true Paschall q Iohn 1. v. 29. Lambe so Genes 24. vers 17. wee have Abrahams servant blessing the Lord for his mercies to his master Abraham and for making his journey prosperous vers 26.27 so Genes 32. vers 10. wee have Iacob acknowledging himselfe unworthy of the least of the Lords mercies which hee specifically specially enumerates So in token of gratitude for renued mercies as an everlasting testimonie to them and their seede for ever in all succeeding generations how much they poyzed and prized as Courtiers from their King the least mercies and favours from God and to oblige them and theirs in an eternall indissoluble bond of obedience Abraham Isaac Iacob and the rest the best of the Patriarkes where ever they came built Altars set up stones and pillers to the honour of the Name of the r Sir Abraham Gen. 11.8 Gen. 22.14 Isaac Ge. 26. v. 25. Gen. 28 17. Iacob Gen. 31.13 v. 53. Gen. 35.1 v. 7. Lord as the Egyptian Kings in their ſ Mela de his li. 1. c. 5. Strabo lib. 16. praecipué Pli. l. 36. c. 12. describit deridet ut vanas etiosa● Pyramides Nabuchadnezzar in his t Dan. 4. v. 30. Babel the Nymrodians in their u Gen. 11.1.2 Tower Absalon in his w 2. Sam. 18.18 piller Cyrus in his sumptuous x De hac demo non meminit Pli. ut observat Aldus in Indicae ad Plin. naturalem histor describunt tamen alij

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

and distractions of families incumbrances from your callings and what other lets disturbance impediments and remoraes whatsoever which doe everie way in this your warfare here imbondage and inthrall you from the performance of this or any other spirituall duetie in that measure and perfect manner that you would or should of which you daily complaine with the h Rom. 7.23 Apostle and all the faithfull and against which you daily strive and fight in the Christian conflict and bickering i Gal. 5. v. 17. duell betwixt grace and nature the flesh and the spirit Oh let it be your living dying yet never dying comfort that you that begin cordially and Christianly to blesse God here after this short life is ended which is as brittle as k Esai 40 6. 1. Pet. 1.24 glasse as wavering as the winde as frayle as the Ice as swift as a poaste or a weavers shittle as melting as snow as fading as smoake or the fields flower as vanishing as a dreame you shall joyne your spirits to the spirits of the just to sing and ring forth your everlasting Hosannahes and Haleluiahs to the God of spirits for which end as Pauls wish and hearts desire was that Israell might be l Rom. 10.1 saved so my wish and hearts desire is that all of you might here be so farre sanctified that innitiated in this life as prentices to this heavenly science or as journey-men or journing men even strangers and pilgrimes with m 1. Chr. 39.15 David the Patriarkes and n Hebr. 11.13 1. Pet. 2.11 Prophets travelling and peregrinating in this vaile of miserie in your few evill o Genes 47.9 dayes ere you sleepe with your p 1. King 2.10 fathers you would so learne to speake the language of Canaan with the tongues and Tones of Angels that at the last as free Denizens free Citizens infranchized and priviledged in all the liberties of grace and glorie you may keepe a perpetuall Iubilee an everlasting Sabbath of prayses and holy expressions in that heavenly Canaan celestiall Ierusalem Mount Sion which is q Gal. 4.26 above to which my hopes be that you are my desires be that you may be travelling breathing and aspiring SECT II. Motives further urging here to begin the l●fe of Grace after of Glorie OH suffer the word of exhortation I beseech you as heavenly Quyristers begin even here even now even this day the Quyre on earth It 's not thanke worth to be eternally thankefull in heaven you must doe it you can doe no otherwayes if you once come there It 's as naturall if I may use that word for the blessed spirits to blesse and prayse the Lord as for the fire to burne the Sunne to shine the waters to move the Seas to ebbe and flow r Aelian hist li. 10. c. 44. Plin. li. 5. cap. 9. Nilus to overflow or any other creatures celestiall or sublunary animate or inanimate to move and worke and produce effects according to their natures and severall proprieties But to prayse God here joyfully cordially constantly to breake here through all impediments as Davids three worthies through the Garryson of the Philistines to fetch the desired waters of ſ 1. Chr. 11. vers 18. Bethlem to strive here against all discouragements as in the Olympicke t De his ludis multa apud Celium Rhodignū historicos Poetas sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse iuvat c. Horat. games for Masteries to swim against the streame of all oppositions as is said of the u Arist anim lib. 9. cap 48. Dolphin and Samon to be resolute against all repugnances of the false and flattering flesh that bids the spirit as Peter bade Christ favour it selfe The tempting Devill the persecuting world who by the imputations of hypocrisie humorousnesse fantasticalitie singularitie at least of Puritanisme and Precisnesse seeke to quench in every zealist all sparkes of Devotion as soone as ever kindled yea as w Math. 2.16 Herod and x Exod. 1.22 Pharaoh to drowne murther even Christ and Christianitie in all the Israell of God as soone as ever new borne I say those that can thus digest all those bitter pilles as physicall and can be as was Davids y 2. Sa. 6.21.22 case with Micholl more zealous in this and all other duties the more they are opposed like the fire that burnes the more the more it is z Quo magis premitur eo magis astuat ignis supprest this indeede is prayse worthy everie inferior birde can chippe and croude it in the spring and can sing in the Sunne shine that is a birde indeede that can sing in the storme and charoll it in the Winter every fish can play in the calme the Dolphin and some moe can play in the tempest everie man can blesse God in the Sunne-shine of his prosperitie with full bagges full barnes full bellies and clothed backe But to blesse God in adversitie in the stormes of affliction with Iob on the a Job 1. v. 21. dunghill Daniel in the Lions b Dan. 6.21.22 den with the three companions of c Dan. 3.23 Daniels in the furnace with the Martyres at the d Many had that strength grace given them in the paganish Arrian popish persecution nominated in the Martyrologie but chiefly by him who hath epitomized all the booke of Martyres fol. 3.4.5.6 7.8.9.10 to fol. 18. c. stake to sing songs of Sion here in a strang land this is that which is most acceptable to the Almightie Oh then that my words might prick and fasten like the goades and nayles of the sanctuarie that I might plead and prevaile with you Even now with Noahs e Genes 7.9 Dove to enter into the Arke to leave the carrion and fleshly lusts of the world on which the worlds Crowes Dogs and Vultures prey and glutt themselves here to be at rest in God and on God Oh let my counsell be f Dan. 4.24 acceptable here strive to enter into the Bride-grome g Math 25.10 chamber to rejoyce as Paranymphs and friends of the h Math. 9 15. bridegrome to sing with Salomon a divine Epithalamium in honour of the spirituall espousals betwixt Christ and his Church Oh that you could here sleepe in quiet rest and tranquilitie of the soule in heavenly contemplations as that Endimion is said to have slept with the i Apud Natalem Comitem in Methiologijs Moone in the phylosophicall speculations here be conversant in the mount with God as k Exod. 19.3 Moses get a glimpse of the glorie of Christ in the mount with Peter Iames l Math. 17.4.5 2. Pet. 1.17 Iohn for in the mount of high and heavenly thoughts and meditations God will bee seene Christ will bee found in m Luk. 2.46 Ierusalem which is the vision of n Visio Paci● peace Oh that we could ascend up from earth to heaven with

if comparisons were not odious I would say as faire as any of those wee call reformed in France Helvetia Bohemia Saxony Denmarke c. or any other in x See the book extant in octavo of the Confessions of the reformed churches Belgia yea I except not Geneva and we may put in for the armour of Aiax with Amsterdam it selfe Secondly as in the Church of the Iewes multitudes and millions of carnall Israelites yea the whole generalitie except some few whom the Lord reserved as a few names in y Revel 3.4 Sardis a few cornes in chaffe as some few of Elias his z 1. King 19.18 Rom. 11.4 spirit amongst Baalites broke and infringed this covenant of God by apostaticall revolting and backe-sliding as the Lord expostulates with them by his Angell sent from a Iudg. 2. vers 1.2.3.4 Gilgall by Samuell in b 1. Sam. 7.56 1. Sam. 12.6.7.8.9.10 Mizpeth and by all the Prophets after the death of Moses and c Iudg. 2. vers 8.9.10 Ioshuah and those Elders of Israell who saw the miracles in Egypt the wildernesse and the redd Sea forgetting the d See Psal 78● throughout Lord that bought them and brought them into that good land flowing with milke and hony So hath not the God of Israell as just a quarrell and controversie with the commonaltie and generalitie of our Nations for breaking our covenant in Baptisme by which we were as strictly obliged to his service and worship to faith and obedience as ever they by their Circumcision For were ever any Nation more perfidious or fedifragous one to another the Carthaginians to the Romanes the e Cretenses semper mendaces Titus 1.12 Cretians f Creta fides Grecians or worst dissemblers yea even the very g See their perfidiousnesse in Knols his Turkish historie Turkes to Christians then Christians unto God How many miriades and millions at this day to goe no further to former times by their pledges and sureties their God-fathers as they are called or fathers for God in the publicke Congregations in the presence of God men and Angels calling heaven and earth to record have promised and protested to forsake the flesh the world and the Devill to serve and worship the true Iehovah when they were initiated matriculated as it were into the Church by Baptisme admitted into Christs Colledge the number and ranke of Christians as souldiers sworne to their Generall who yet have hardly kept their covenant so well as Regulus with the g Apud Plutarchum Carthaginians and other Pagans even in things morall For if I may in briefe lance and cut and discover the ulcers diseases of the times How many as yet even serve the verie Devill as really as once that S. Christopher fictitiously in the Popish fable How many wicked Pseudochristians by their lives testifie that as the Scripture cals such as they the h Iohn 8.44 1. Iohn 3.8 sonnes the i Rom. 6.16 1. Iohn 3.8 servants and the k 1. Tim. 6.10 2. Tim. 2.26 slaves of Sathan so they are at his command and obeysance as the servant of l Gen. 24.10 Abraham and m Act. 10.7 Cornelius yea of that other n Math. 8.9 Centurion to their earthly Masters He bids them goe and they goe doe this and they doe it lye steale murther sweare blaspheme they are obsequious their spirits and natures as Tynder and powder take presently the fire of everie temptation 1. He rules them as the rider the horse he rules over them as a Tyrant in an usurped Kingdome they obey him as the Iewes that Idumean Herod Yea he rules in them inthronized in their hearts as once in the treacherous heart of o Iohn 13.27 Iudas the hypocriticall heart of p Act. 5.3.4 Ananias the envious hearts of the q Math. 9.34 Marke 3.22 Luke 11.15 Pharisees at the least he takes totall possession of their whole man by his deputies and Lieutenants some one or moe deare darling sinnes ruling and raigning in them yea he doth not onely set them a worke as he did Iudas in betraying the Iewes in crucifying Christ but he even speakes in their hearts athistically in their mouths blasphemously as once in the bodie of some r Ex Imo ventre vox prodit secundum Originem lib. 7. contra Celsum Chrys in 1. Corin. 10. Et exinde damonem Pythonem ventricosum vocat Origenes libr. 3. Peryarch cap. 3. ventriloquū Tertull. contra Maro c. 25. aut infra cutem da●on se ostentat per pectus loqui videtur qualem Celius Rhodiginus se vidisse memorat Ant. Lect. lib. 8. cap. 10 Pythonists and within that Serpent which he used as he useth Serpents Foxes and Vipers still in every countrie Citie and almost Village as the organ and accursed instrument of mans seduction intended destruction So the world for all our covenant and obligation to forsake it how many swarmes of earth-wormes carnalists and coveteous Phylargurists have wee not onely ever rooting in the earth as Moales Swine without ever an eye to looke upwards but as trunckes and Trees even rooted and eradicated in the earth turnd all into earth even lumps of earth as ſ Suetonius in vita Caligulae Caligula was called a lumpe of clay and bloud conjealed being all for earth even for white and red t Gold Silver dust which per fas nefas by hooke or crooke right or wrong Lionly force or Foxely fraude they scrape and rake together as greedie Harpyes or snatching Eagles their desired prayes all being fish that comes to the net though it breake the Net or like the Eagles coale in the u Apud Aesopum fable set all on fire though they gaine by their ill-gotten goods as Achan by his stolne w Ioshuah 7.1.21.25 wedge as Iudas by his Saviour selling x Math. 27.3.4 5. silver as that Mydas like our coveteous Alchumistes since by his bad y What he toucht turnd into Gold ant mentinutur Poeta Alchumy by which they and all such in all ages have z Infunditur aurum à Mithridate ere Aquilij ducis Romani Plinius hist. 33. c. 3. perished as if all that 's ill got were Tholouse a Per aurum Tholosanum periere Q. Cepio Consull M. Crassus cum multis alijs Aul. Gel. noct attic c. 9 Gold carried on Sejanus his b Equus Scianus omnibus possessoribus infanstus videlicet Scio Cascio c. Gellius ibid. Horse for a sumpter horse So for the flesh and fleshly lusts how many are given over to all voluptuousnesse lovers of pleasures more then lovers of c 2. Tim. 3.4 God serving diverse lustes and d Tit. 3. v. 3. pleasures as if they were yet in their naturall estate fleshly minded men walking after the e Rom. 8.2 flesh savouring the things of the f Rom. 8.5 flesh as the dogge savours carrion verie