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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..
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Clapham, Henoch.
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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.
by God at mount Sinai so well as the ecclesiasticall it was subiected to the pleasure of straungers then where was their beauteous Constitution And at the end of seauenty yeares Babels Monarch was subiected to the Medes and Persians who licenced Iudah to returne for building their Cittie and Temple which after some nine and fortie yeares were reedified but where was the sacramentall Arke of God his presence Where was Moses originall copie Where was Vrim and Thummim for decision of extraordinarie scruples What was become of Aarons rod and the sacramentall Manna And that which was not least what became of their Iudiciall pollicie from that time vnto Christ Iesus Somewhat I know there was but farre from the first patterne Curtailed they were of their Mosaicall constitutions First by Babels monarch secondly by that of Medes and Persians thirdly by the Greekes Alexander fourthly by the two legged gouernement of Aegypt and Syria springing out of the third Monarch and lastly by that last Monarch Rome swallowing vp the former togither with Messiahs appearance who had so manacled Iudah that they coulde not condemne Iesus but by the policie of wicked Rome This being the condition of the typical church it followeth say we that the New-testaments-church be in some measure thereto analogized And then onely it is so when we find after her fulnesse of grace a declining thereof running into schismes and desperate apostacies whereby God is prouoked to lessen her light to diminish her glory to ouer-turne her constitution to abbreuiate her pollicie Scripture II. Secondly the scriptures which inferre such lamentable ruine of the church they be many wherof a few to this purpose pregnant That 89. psalme is a typicall prophecie of Christ his kingdome who grants not wherein wee first see a glorious large kingdom giuen to Christ for his possession but anon behold as grieued at his Messiah or vncted who hath sinne considered as vpon him but in his members he casteth his crown on the ground he breaks downe his walles ruinates his fortresses and leaues him to be spoyled rebuked of the multitude Wherof the learned monke Folengius thus writeth These things may be applyed to the Christians times and perchance to our present times Presently whervpon he plainely saith that Religion is conculcate and trode vnderfoote And Aben-ezra citeth a certayne Spanish Iew so amazd at this psalm for the Iews dreame Io. Baptista Fol. in psa 89 40. Ad christianorum tempora forsanque praesentia aptari possunt that Messiahs kingdome shoulde be according to the worlds glory so perpetuall as he refused to reade it euen as the Romanists at this day can not abide to hear or reade any thing that crosses their Iudaicall opinion touching the outward face of Messiahs kingdome Nor maruell I thereat seeing heere in the person of Aetham brought in by the holy Ghost expostulating the cause of such downfall wee are taught howe hardely our nature brooketh the cast-down estate of Messiahs outward glorie Another Scripture wee haue in the foure and twentieth of Mathew whereas our Sauior euidently foretelleth the notable intricate estate of the faithfull in after times namely that many false christs false apostles false prophets shoulde arise in the church to the seduction of many charitie growing colde and iniquitie hauing the vpper hande Yea heerewithall that seduction and delusion as in the second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians and the second chapter should be so strong that if it were possible the very elect of God shoulde be seduced This generalitie of false prophecie of horrible iniquitie and mightie delusion it can not stand with a notable and glorious visibilitie of the Church nor yet can be considered where the constitution and pollicie is as at first sounde and vnshaken Nay it argueth according to that of Saint Paul in 1. Tim. 4.1 2 3. and 2. Timoth. 3.1 2 3 4 5 c. and that of Saint Peter 1. epistle 2.1 c. that all shall lie in horrible confusion and disorder do the holy men of GOD what they can Which also is denoted by the * This I haue manifested largely in my Antidoton Hieron in Zeph. 1.12 Recte aeutem Ierushalem c. parable of tares Math 13.24 c Touching which first and latter estate of the Church hearken what Ierome writeth on Zephaniah 1. Chronic. verse 12. I will search Ierushalem with candles Rightly Ierushalem that is the church which first was called Iebus that is trode vnder foote Because it was conculcate of the Gentiles and was a laughing stocke to the Deuils it was called Iebus And after the peace of the Lord began to dwell in it and his place made in peace it was called Ierushalem But because in the last-times as I haue oft said Charitie shall freeze and Iniquitie shall be multiplied yea the light of the Sun shall withdraw from Ierushalem and the vastation shall be so great that the verie elect of God shall hardlie be saued the Lord therefore then with the Lanthorne of his word and Reason will search all the vices in Ierushalem and bring them into sight Another plaine scripture we haue in Reuel 6. where after our Salomon hath rid foorth vpon the cleere word of Truth Ps 45.4 and Meeknes and Iustice and by the bowe of his right hand hath subdued a people vnto him We presently after see bloodie persecution scarsitie death slaughter together with a fearfull darkning of the Sunne blood stayning the Moone accompanied with a generall Apostacie of the Church-starres from the kingdome of heauen vnto earthly conuersation effecting therewith a generall dissolution of all good order All which thinges can be but mystically vnderstood according to the nature of prophecie and so a plaine declaration of the Church turned vpside downe with a losse of her large visibilitie and glorie Other Scriptures may of Romanistes be held more litigious these shall here suffice Besides the type and plaine euidence of Scripture III Experience I will adde the argument of experience signed by Antiquitie For the first 300. yeeres and better after Christes incarnation we are not ignorant of a reasonable glorious estate of the Church for the which some haue not altogether vnfitly vrged that of the Apocryphall Esdras 2. Esd 7.28.29 a thing that he might gesse at by comparison of Scripture where in the person of the Lord he saith My sonne Iesus shall appeare with these that be with him and they that remaine shall reioyce with him 400. yeeres After these yeeres shall my son Christ dye and all men that haue life as if he should say Christ shall liue in his Church 400. yeeres then shal he dye and the Church be darkned And indeed for so long we find the writers giuing in a more excellent testimonie then for the 200. yeeres after But after 600. yeeres or there abouts I trow that by one litle horne starting vp at Rome and an other in the East vniuersall Pope and