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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07515	A description of new Jerushalem being the substaunce of two sermons deliuered at Paules Crosse. Containing, a briefe discouery and conuiction of certayne doctrines held of Romanists and Brownists against the Catholike and Apostolike faith. / By Henoch Clapham..	Clapham, Henoch.	1601 (1601)	STC 5336.5; ESTC S91453	37,377	126

Sun when he riseth in his fortitude But here some will obiect Either Iehouah dwelleth not in and about his Church or els he hath promised no such protection for we see many of his people to fall by the sword c. I answer there is no contradiction in all this for as he dwelleth in and round about them for protection so he denieth them not the thing he promiseth but performes it with aduantage He lets Abels blood to be spilt he suffers Stephen to be stoned c. but what then Hath he not protected them to the death It is appointed that all men shall die for death is gone ouer all and then commeth iudgement Abell did but die Stephen did but die and all must die But marke those that die in the Lord are blessed for they thenceforth rest from their labours Reuel 14.13 This life is but a vallie of teares a prison a purgatorie when his people remoue hence teares are taken away no more prisoners free from necessitie of purgation no more labours for they rest in the Lord yea they enter into Abrahams bosome of blisse as did Lazarus they are with Christ Iesus in the kingdome of glory euen the very howre of “ Consider that in Iohn 19.31.32 and it cannot be easily iudged but at the very vpshot of the day he dyed and that day he was to be with Christ Luk. 23.43 their death as was promised to the penitent thiefe on the Crosse At the eleanenth houre he entred into the vineyarde the Church and in th end of the twelfth houre for the day hath but twelue houres he receiued the penny Matth. 20.9 and as saint Paule beleeued when hee concluded that it was best for him to die that so hee might goe to the Lorde and no maruell for pretious saieth the Psalmist in the eies of the Lorde is the death of his Saints If it bee good for them to stay heere they shall with Iudahs three yong gentlemen be vnsinged in the fornace vnharmed with Daniel of the greedy Lions for the Lorde knoweth howe to deliuer His in the day of trouble If it bee not good in some respect for them here to stay then he remoues them from an inconstant estate to a constant from sadnes to gladnes from a temporary life to an eternall in a word from hell to heauen They loose a rusty counter and therewith obtaine eternall treasure Furthermore protection is for good not for euill therefore no longer hee protecteth them heere because longer it shoulde not bee good for them to be here Agayne their body onely looseth such protection not theyr soule for the blessed Angelles attend the poorest Lazarus for conveying the soule into eternall blisse Besides neyther is the body in trueth howsoeuer in shewe vnprotected in death and graue for as not an haire shall fall but by the heauenly Fathers appoyntment so neyther is the body vnguarded of his good Spirite seeing that the flesh doth rest in hope Lastly although theyr bodies fall by sundry deaths and all but death yet euer are they victors First in that their soules the chiefer part they triumph nor can of man be slain Secondly in that the whole body of this Citty neuer can of man be put to death but as the pruining of a vine causeth it rather to encrease in good so is all cutting afflictions sanctified to the Churches encrease Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiae And warriours neuer say they are conquered notwithstanding the losse of many men when so the day is theirs in the end of the day And euer in the end the Church is found the conquerour her enemies dying for euer but her members raized vp to glorie as not euer slaine but hauing been in a sleep or slumber Iehouah-Shammah the Lorde is with his Church and if the Lord be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with vs then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who can be against vs Nor diuell nor man much lesse inferiour creature Though Rom. 8.36.37 c. we be killed all the day long accounted as sheepe for the slaughter neuerthelesse in all these things we are more than Conquerours through him that loued vs. For I am perswaded sayeth S. Paul to the Romanes that neyther death nor life nor angells nor principalities nor powers nor thinges present nor thinges to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shal be able to seperat vs from the loue of God which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. What shall we returne vnto the Lord who of * So is the Hebrew lo gnammi Not-my-people hath made and pronounced vs gnammi my people that where before we were many Nations now he hath made vs One people one nation Beda in 1. Cor. 12. ex Aug. ps 85. Vna gens vna patria c. Wee now are sayeth a holy Father of this Citty One Nation One Countrey Our countrey is heauenly our countrey is Ierushalem Whosoeuer is not thereof a Cittizen he pertaineth not to this people But whosoeuer is thereof a Cittizen he is of this people of God And this people is stretched forth from the East to the West from the North and the sea it is stretcht through the foure parts of the whole world For all his exceeding fauours irradiating this Citty this Church this People it resteth that we all walke more worthie our holy calling more worthy such a Gouernour as is Iehouah Shall I with the Psalmist say vnto all our soules * Lift vp your heades ye gates and lift ye vppe yee euerlasting doores the King of Glory shall come in Yea I say so and I moreouer say Take heede you fetch not in the Lorde of life with spreading braunches garments and crying to day Hosanna then to morrow betray him cry Cruci-fige It beseemeth Princes to cut traitors from their Citty and it shall neuer vnbeseeme God to execute speedy vengeance on the wicked This Citties gates Saint Iohn seeth euer open to the Elect such as cleanse themselues by vnfained repentaunce come they from what coast soeuer Vpon euery coast open three gates and euery gate an entire pearle by sacred Trinitie in vnitie euen by their sweete loue of more worth than any pearle al must enter For Porters there stand Angells euen the twelue great Angels of the particular Churches who by God his word inuite the repentant If Dauid accounted it such an happinesse to stand on this Cities thresholde what glory must it bee to walke in the streetes of pure golde to haue the face of Iehouah for theyr Sunne-shine to haue the Lord God almighty and the Lambe for their Temple and to haue for fellow Citizens Adam Habel Sheth Henoch Noah Shem Heber Abraham Isaac Iaakob Ioseph Moses Aaron Ioshuah Samson Samuel Dauid Salomon Hezekiah Iosiah Daniel Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah in a word all the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles true Martyres and Confessors of all ages As all waters returne into the Sea so all happinesses returne into this Citties vnitie gathered by the Holy-ghost founded on Iesus Christ gouerned by God almightie But without this Cities vnitie * Reuel 21.8 are dogs and inchaunters and whoremongers and murtherers and Idolaters and whosoeuer loueth or maketh lyes The holy enlightned as Israel in Goshen but the vn-holie darkned as the Aegyptians in the land of Mizraim God within the Deuill without for as there is no third gouernour so there is no third Place These that are not of Michaels side all these are of the Dragons side who shall fight but not preuaile neither shall they haue any place in heauen As the Prophet Ezekiel with reuerent admiration shutteth vp his Prophecie with this The name of that Citie that is of the New-testaments Church from a Day euen from the time of typicall Ierushalems ende shal be Iehouah-Shamma The Eternall is there so I with S. Iohns speach will finish my Sermon Reuel 22.14 Blessed be they that doe his commaundements that their right may be in the Tree of lyfe and may enter in through the Gates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into That Citie FINIS Errata in this Booke correct thus Page 16. line 8. for that reade this Page 40 line 19. reade departed Pag. 45. li. 22. for Chron. reade chap.