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A55810	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle, on Wednesday in Easter weeke Aprill 13th, 1642 before the Right Honovrable the Lord Maior, the aldermen and sherifs of this famous city of London / by William Price...	Price, William, 1597-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3402; ESTC R18549	33,074	54

to enter Canaan To faint in the view of the goale to sinke within ken of the Harbour To summe up this point which is indeed the summe of the Text and therefore my length in it may be justified Deare Christians march on valiantly till you finish your Christian course Be like your selves Alwayes the same Sempercadem was Queene Elizabeths Motto Christ loved the youngest Disciple because he began so soone and the oldest because they held out so long Move toward heaven without turning as the milch-kine went with the Arke toward Bethshemesh without any diversion or digression Psal 19. Be unwearyed as Davids Sun Stand not still as Joshuahs Sun goe not back as Ahaz's Sunne He that sayes come unto me saith also abide in me Nature hath provided breasts to bring up Mat. 11.28 Io. 15.4 as well as a womb to bring forth The Lawyers make Tenendum as neefull as Habendum to hold as to have Physicians cry out against relapses O be as tender of that sparke of Divinity in you your soules as you are of your states and bodies When God had created every dayes worke he said at the end thereof still it is good not so in particular of man after his creation Gregorie gives the reason Man was not to be praysed afore hee were tryed he was not to be judged by his beginning but his end Homo probandus antequam laudandus Greg. Christ was Alpha for his happy beginning and Omega for his thrice happy end Constancy onely shall be crowned O thou great gift of perseverance He that wants thee cannot be saved hee that hath thee cannot be damned That reward that is not leasewise for terme of time but eternall is reserved onely for those whose fore-heads are marked with the letter Tau the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet as it is in Ezekiel Ezek. 9.4 alluding to perseverance It may be wee may for the present encounter with temptation vaine opposition persecution here But yet a little while Heb. 10.37 and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Our time is for the brevity compared sometimes to a day sometime to a night sometime to a watch in the night sometimes but to an houre nay to a moment Iob 14.6 Psal 30.5 Psal 90 4. Rev. 3.10 2 Cor. 4.17 Gal 6.9 1 Cor. 15. ult therefore be not weary of well-doing for in due time you shall reape if you faint not Be stedfast immoveable alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. Never let it be said of you it is perpetuated to posterity as of Ierusalem in my Text. How is the faithfull City become an harlot c. I have yet pursued my Text but in the lump the grosse I shall now take the termes of this Apostacy in pieces acquainting you from what and to what Ierusalem fell exhorting you to the first dehorting you from the latter But the streights of time will compell me to deale with these particulars as Colmographers doe in their Maps of the world set downe a line for a River and a spot for a whole Country There are three periods in the Text I will take them as they lye in order I may compare each of them to the cloud that led the Israelites light on the one side and darke on the other In the first period the bright side is faithfulnesse Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fides quam credimus quâ credimus qua credimur Neemanah the faithfull City It is an usefull distinction of faith into a Faith which we beleeve Thus our Creed is objectively called our faith A Faith by which we beleeve the habite the grace of faith enthronized in the soule which is the grace of graces as Athens was call'd the Greece of Greece And a Faith by which we are beleeved trusted by others whereof I conceive my Text speakes We are used to call it fidelity or faithfulnesse Which is sometimes ascribed to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10 13. T it 2.10 God is faithfull Sometimes to man as in particular to servants who are to shew saith Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all good fidelity Now this fidelity is expressible towards God and towards man And indeed the one seconds and attends the other Therefore was Ioseph faithfull to his Master Potiphar because faithfull to his God Constantius the father of Constantine the Great would not trust the faith of any Souldier Cen. 39.8 9. 1. that had violated his faith to Christ Fidelity towards God under a threefold relation as our King our husband as our Lord and Master Fidelity to God as our King beares the name of homage fealty allegiance and loyalty to him Fidelity to God as our husband is as much as chastity whereby we reserve our selves as spotlesse Spouses entire to him Ephes 5 27. 1 Tim. 3.11 as Paul expresses it Who elsewhere also tells us that wives must be faithfull in all things Fidelity to God as our Lord and Master is a compound made up of many ingredients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Singlenes of heart opposed to eye-service Zeale for his name honour and service diligence and rigorousnesse in his businesse not sloathfull in businesse Col. 3.22 23. Rem 12.11 fervent in spirit serving the Lord saith Paul Carefull custody of those ordinances which he hath deposited in our hands holding fast the faithfull word Tit. 1.9 earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the Saints Iude 1.3 whereof they are feoffees in trust Precisely following his directions in his worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without will-worship as Moses is said as a servant to be faithfull in all Gods house keeping to his patterne In a word improving and imploying to Gods honour and advantage Heb. 3.5 not napkinning up burying or embezelling those talents of strength wit eloquence morall gifts or graces like a good and faithfull servant Mat. 25.21 according to that eulogy in the Gospell Next fidelity to man in our severall relations stations spheares Which displayes it selfe in making good our lawfull promises vows or oaths once passed though to our disadvantage And in unswayed uprightnesse in keeping touch in bargains trafik cōmerce with all men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Application This is termed faithfulnes in that which is another mans But all this is rather to be wished then expected in the generality of men The heathen man complain'd that he had not seene a faithfull man many a day Most men saith Salomon will proclaime every one his owne goodnesse but a faithfull man who can find Prov. 20.6 The Church of Rome had in the primitive times the precious treasure of the Gospell committed by the Apostles to her trust How she hath disappointed and betrayed that trust appeares by their adulterating and obscuring the Gospell with their corrupt traditionall glosses By

their preferring the vulgar edition which they confesse abounds with hundreds of faults afore the originall By advancing the autority of the Church above the Scripture And many other pranks which time will not suffer me to instance in And what their fidelity is to men-ward Fides cum haereticis non servanda we may collect from that maxime of theirs that faith is not to be kept with heretiques And how true they have beene to this tenent their dealing with John Hus at Constance will declare whom they there burnt to death notwithstanding the publicke faith passed by the Emperour for his safe conduct And it is recorded to the lasting infamy of the Romish faith the Christians League confirmed by oath with Amurath the Grand Signiour of the Turkes broken by Vladislaus at the perswasion of Iulian the Cardinall Tur● Histor Upon which breach Amurath in a battle with the Christians seeing all goe against him and beholding the crosse in the displayed Ensignes of the Christians pluckt the writing out of his bosome wherein the late League was comprized and holding it up in his hand with his eyes cast up to heaven sayd Behold thou crucified Christ this is the League thy Christians in thy name made with me which they have without cause violated Now if thou be a God as they say thou art and as we dreame revenge the wrong now done unto thy name and me and shew thy power upon thy perjur'd people who in their deeds deny thee their God After which saying victory inclined to his side But to looke homeward Though Rome be unfaithfull yet all unfaithfulnesse is not at Rome There is a vow a promise we all made by our sureties in Baptisme to our God We have repeated and ratified that vow as oft as we have administred and received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper besides under the scourge the gout the stone the strangury upon our beds of languishment we have renew'd and redoubled our vowes But we have infringed dissolved ' crackt all those ties obligations engagements as Sampson did his cords like so many twined threads Our promises ebbe into emptinesse though we should reckon them in the inventory of our estate not onely what others make to us but what we to others We promise liberally as Saul to his Courtiers 1 Sam. 22.7 Numb 22.17 Xenophon As Balak to Balaam As Croesus to Anacharsis As Cyrus to his Souldiers But performe slenderly As Andrew the Hungarian King promised to goe to the holy warres as they called them and went with his Forces and bathed himselfe at Ierusalem as one discharged of his promise and returned backe againe And our covenants and agreements with men though subscribed and sealed by us are as brittle as the glasses we drinke in No bounds will hold us Graeca fides Wee rob the Grecians of their Proverb and owne it our selves For some persons among us to say they will doe this or that is as much as if they had sworne they would not doe it Unlesse it be when we embarque our selves in unwarrantable actions and then the Sunne may sooner be thrust out of his spheare then we diverted from our adamantine resolutions Attilius Regulus a heathen will judge us who chose rather at Carthage to suffer the most exquisite tortures then to be branded with perfidious unfaithfulnesse Take to heart your former guilt in this kind And now thinke it the most glorious stile that can sticke upon you guild and honour you to be intituled a faithfull City If any of the Honourable Assembly of Parliament be present may hee be pleased to remember that hee utters not his owne words he is the mouth of a Countrie betrusted by thousands with important affaires and that it will be his honour and happinesse to be faithfull And you Right Honourable that preside in this famous City consider that the Sword of Justice is committed to your hands to hew downe irrefragable incurable offenders and to countenance Religion Deut. 1.17 and Justice you are but betrusted The judgment is Gods it will be your honour and security to be faithfull You that are the mouth of the people to God in prayer and the mouth of God to the people in preaching bethinke your selves that you are but Stewards appointed to divide to every of Gods houshould his portion in due season 1 Cor. 4.2 Now it is required of a Steward that he be found faithfull saith Saint Paul Put not your spirituall patients bones halfe in joynt Ier. 6.14 heale not the daughters of Gods people slightly It is Gods expression Study not rather to be Placentini then Veronenses Schollers reach my meaning You are betrusted with precious soules the meanest whereof out-weighs the minerals of the West-Indies and the perfumes of the East Be faithfull None is of so inferiour an alloy in this congregation whom his God hath not burthened and honoured with some trust or other some of you are feoffees in trust some executors administrators be faithfull let the sums of money in your hands run cleare in their native proper current which by them that betrusted you they were design'd for let not the least rivolet be drayned another way Some of you have servants and children they are not yours alone God hath betrusted you with them consecrate them to him by strict education and government Elies over-indulgence to his sons proved the losse of the Priest-hood to his house 1 Sam 3.13 1 Sam. 13.5 Sustin And Samuels fondnesse occasioned the change of the civill government and Artaxerxes was so unhappy as not to have one good child among fifty therefore you have need to be faithfull All of you though in a different degree are blest with some talents qualified with some endowments or other whether they be supernaturall graces or natural dispositions as a golden wit a quick fancy a marble memory an acute understanding a profound iudgment a flowing melifluous expression of your minds or whether they be intellectuall habits that by vertue of education industry art observation experience make you linguists disputants Orators Lawyers Physitians Statesmen Artizans Or whether they be the goods of the body Bo●a corporis bona fort●nae ●t crescuntdona crescuntrationes donerum Grog as sym netry proportion eucracy health beauty strength or adventitious Goods as extraction from a noble Stock honour riches reputation as your talents encrease so doe your accounts be faithfull Your faithfulnesse justifies your faith afore men as your Faith justifies your persons afore GOD Fidelity sets a grace and glosse upon Christianity it is the souls Harmony and peace like the contemperation of the elements in a naturall body like the aeviternall unclashing sway of the Orbs in the heavens Fidelity is the silken string that runs through the Pearle-chaine of all vertues and duties It is the Ecliptique line under which reason and Religion moves without deviation Be faithfull unto the Death I will give thee a Crown of Life