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A13272	Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset.	Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?	1637 (1637)	STC 23573; ESTC S118116	163,580	323

refused with a secret checke Mat. 8.19 whilst another that in a religious excuse would needs goe bury the Dead bury perhaps his owne dead his corruptions the Lord commanded instantly to goe and preach the Kingdome of God Luk. 9.60 Thus the intruder upon divine Ordinances doth justly meet with his Quomodo huc introisti Friend how camest thou hither When the humble man that chides his owne abilities by undervaluing them shall be honour'd with an Ascende altius Friend sit up higher and in that height findes worship with all that are about him Luke 14.10 It is the observation of Saint Augustine that Christ was boldly invited to the house of a Pharisee but modestly denyed the roofe of a Centurion Audi saith the Father in domo erat D. Aug. de ver Dom. in Mat. Serm. 6. in corde non erat hee was in the house of the Pharisee not in his heart And why the Pharisee was ambitious and pride is not the seate of Religion On the other side In corde erat in domo non erat hee was in the heart of the Centurion not in his house why the Centurion was humble and humility is the ground-worke of all spirituall advancement And doubtlesse hee that is thus accommodated is fittest for a sacred designe whither for Gods call or choice or employment for to call to choose and to employ Ieron part 3. Tract 15. Ep. 82. are termes distinct upon which some of the Fathers playing as well the Criticke as the Divine would have the word vocation to belong indifferently to God and man election properly and solely unto God the Church say they might Multi sunt vocati magistri per omnes ecclesias multi vocati m nistri sed nescio an electi magistri min stri Ibid. and did then vocare but not eligere Hence it was that Saint Ierome tells his Heraclius That there were Masters and Ministers in the Church to his knowledge abundantly called but whither chosen or not he left to the searcher of their hearts and his And thereupon concludes that it was with some Pastors as with some Martyrs Qui vocati sunt Martyres non electi he instances in those Qui postea to rmentorum Agones Ierom. ibid. Carcerum non usquè ad finem in Confession is toler antiae perseverarunt So that belike that Pastor that shrinkes and gives ground in time of persecution is but Pastor vocatus But he that so buckleth on his armour that neither Sword the Fagot nor the Wheele nor all the dreadfull Engines of the Tormentor can startle one inch from the constant profession of his faith He is electus Pastor or rather Pastor coronatus the Lord assuring him that if he be faithfull unto death he will give him a crowne of life Rev. 2.10 But doubtlesse the Father there by the word Electus meant rather the eternall then the temporall election That to the everlasting Kingdome not this barely to the Priesthoode For if we examine the body of divine writ we shall finde that the usuall liveries of God's speciall servants are in this kinde principally two Missio and Vocatio or else the Dabo vobis in the text I will give you Hence it is that we so often meete with a mitto Prophetas and a mittet Operarios and a mittam Legatos and a dabit Angelos Labourers and Messengers and Prophets Mat. 23.34 Mat. 9.28 Mar. 1.2 Mat. 26.53 and Apostles and Embassadors and Angells themselves are under the condition of a mittam vos or a dabo vobis he sends or gives or calls them And certainly they were not so neerly Gods if God did not so send or call them Those are not truly Pastors that have not heard the voyce of the great Shepheard that have not beene acquainted with his whistle or his Call The sonnes of Zebedee were but poore fishermen mending their nets 'till the Lord call'd them Math. 4.12 Saint Paul is in fury running to Damascus 'till by the grace of God he was called Gal. 1.15 Nay the great Byshop and Shepheard of our soules Christ Jesus himselfe comes not to his office without a calling neither I have called thee in righteousnes saith the Prophet and I have called thee from the Wombe From the Bowells of thy mother have I made mention of thy name I have made thy mouth as a sharpe sword and as a polished shaft in my Quiver have I hid thee Isai 49.1 2. verses Thus unbidden Guests may not come to the supper of the Lord and a wedding garment is requir'd to the marriage of the Kings sonne Whom God employes in his services he calls and whom he calls he cloaths giveth as well abilities of doing as authority to doe And where both these are the Lord hath some speciall interest If Saint Paul have a doore of utterance God himselfe must open it Coloss 4.3 If the Apostles speake wonderfully the mysteries of God Act. 2.3 the holy Ghost must come downe upon them in fiery tongues If Isaiahs lipps be purified from their uncleannesse a Seraphim must touch them with a coale from the Altar Isai 6.6 There is nothing to be done in spirituall undertakings without this dabo vobis I will give you Hence it was that in time of consecration certaine peeces of the Sacrifice were given or put into the Priests hands under the Law Exod. 29. the ceremonies of that age looking belike to those of ours where as an emblem of our Ite and Praedicate the Byshop in time of ordination gives a Bible into our hands not only as a rule and platforme of that which should direct us but also a sacred witnesse of that profession into which we are by a divine hand invested Hereupon the Hebrewes of old were wont to stile consecration T. G. Iewish Antiq. lib. 1. cap. 5. the filling of the hand so it stands upon record against Ieroboam as his perpetuall wound and infamy whosoever would he filled his hand that is consecrated whom he list and out of the basest of the people made priests of the high places Kings 13.33 The Church of God is never so much sensible of her Blemish Dishonour as when her Pastors are thus sifted out of the very drosse rubbish of the multitude And therefore in the first plantation of it God himselfe gives Moses an especiall charge and Moses Aaron that his Levites for the text saies they were wholly his should be first severed from among the children of Israell and then their cloathes washed were presented as an Offering before the Lord. Numb 8. v. 14 15 21. Now their manner of Severing was double Numb 3.15 First in the initiation of their office which was when they were but a moneth old Numb 8.24 then at their consecration at the age of 25. which was solemnly done through the imposition of handes by the sonnes of Israell some reade others by the first borne of Israel who were then the

to great that wee should dare compare those Poeticke Rhapsodies with his sacred Harmony their sensuall Elegies and Madrigals with his diviner Sonnets O procul hinc procul ite prophani 'T is true his verses consisted of number and feet as well as theirs and he was as criticall in their Observation as the daintiest Lyrick or Heroicke yet there was a vast disparitie both for sublimity of matter and elegancie of expression Insomuch that Petrus Damianus the great adorer of Humane Eloquence and one whose very soule was charm'd with their prophaner Sonnets was inforc'd at length to his Dulcius immurmurat filius Iesse The Thracian Harpe and the Mercurian Pipe and the Theban Lute were but harsh and grating when the Jewish Psaltery came in place One touch of the sonne of Iesse one warble of the Singer of of Israel was more melodious than all their Fabulous incantations Clem. Alexan. paed lib. 1. c. 2. their Syrenicall fictions which were but Iucunda quaedam auribus Raucedo a kinde of plausible hoarsenesse in respect of those sweet murmures of that heavenly Turtle An Iliad of Homer or an Ode of Pindarus or a Song of Anacreon or a Scene of Aristophanes have not the juyce and blood and spirits and marrow the acutenesse elegance vigor majesty that one of his sacred Ditties are ballac'd and fraught withall And God forbid that those Ventosae nugae and Expolita mendatia those Superbi errores and Gacculae Argutiae D. Aug. Ep. 131. as Saint Augustine stiles them to his Memorius their garnished and beautifull lyes their windy trifles their vaine-glorious errours their elaborate kick-shawes their ingenious nothings should stand up in competition with one Michtam of David his Jewell his golden Song farre above their buskin'd raptures their garish Phantasmes their splendid vanities the Pageants and Land-skips if I may so terme them of prophaner wits And yet there have been some Hereticks of old Gnosticks and Nicolaitans which have rejected the Psalmes as prophano Sonnets the births of humane fancie and invention without any influence or aspiration of the holy Ghost whereas the very Spirit of God our Saviour himselfe and the Uni-vocall Consent of all the Apostles nay the hallowed Quire of Heaven and earth of Saints and Angels have acknowledged that God spake by the mouth of his servant David that he was the sweet Psalmist of Israel that his Word was in his tongue Act. 4.24 2 Sam. 23.2 he in Spirit calling him Christ the Lord Mat. 22.43 Notwithstanding he that hath a little traversed Primitive Records shall meet with one Paulus Samosetanus Euseb l b. 7. cap. 26. 29. a branded Hereticke and many other wayes infamous who in open assemblies inveighed against Expositors of Holy Story Psalmes sung to the Honour of our Lord Jesus hee caus'd to bee expung'd and raz'd out from the Church accounting them but the work-manship of noveltie the forgeries of some Neotericks and Vpstarts in the Church Instead whereof in the body of the Temple upon the high Feast of Easter he suborned cetaine women flickering and unstable creatures whom he had moulded to his owne purposes to sing loud Sonnets of his praise Though some favourers of the Heretick have been pleas'd to blaunch a little the foulnesse of his practise Pol. Syntag. l. 1. c. 32. and would not have it thought a disparagement of the Psalmes of David but of the Hymnes and holy Songs which Christians in a religious vow and zealous endeavour made afterwards in the honour of Christ and the commemoration of his Name But were they religious Songs or Psalmes that had beene thus sacrilegiously debarr'd the inheritance of the Church I stand not curiously to discusse I am sure the custome was abominable to chant their loud Panegericks there where onely should be sung Hosannahs to the Lord. For as Temples were first dedicated to the glory of God so they were still continued to the worship of his Name of his Name onely except where Superstition had interpos'd Ignorance or Heresie taken foot and so Apostates and Idols nay Devlis themselves have sometimes shar'd in that worship which was peculiar to the Lord of Hostes Or else perchance the purblind zeale or devout errours of others who have erected their glorious Pyramides to the memory and it were well only to the memory to the Adoration of some Saint or Martyr which in their primitive institution were proper onely to the God of both And for this Gods better Reverence and Majestie in his Service the Churches of old have generally mix'd Psalmes with their Devotions and Melody with their Psalmes Melody as well of Instrument as of Voyce which as it hath beene a gray-hair'd custome of most times and places so not so obsolete now or super-annuated that it should beburied wholly with that Law of Ceremonies for besides the countenance and authoritie which it found in the first ordinance it hath been the practice of Gods best servants in most ages of the Church nay in most ages of the world except that first age of Sacrifices when we read of no publike Service but by Holocaust of no Church but the Tents of Patriarchs no preaching of the Word but by Dreame or Vision when Altars wore the tongue of Religion and devotions were cast up by Incense and not by Voice But not long after them when there was not yet a Temple built but an Arke onely a mysticall porch or entrance to that Temple to come we finde a Representative Cathedrall amongst the Iewes Singing men and Psalmes and Instruments of Musicke and all the Complements of a full Quire 'T is true in the first rearing and forming of the Arke wee reade onely of Priests and Levites with their attendance and charge of no Songs or Iestruments either prepar'd yet or enjoyn'd onely two Trumpets of Silver made by Moses at the command of God and these the Israelites used not meerely for the calling of Assemblies and journying of the Camp and the Alarums for Warre but in solemne daies and times of Gladnesse the Sonnes of Aaron were to blow them over their Burnt Offerings and the Sacrifices of their Peace-Offerings as if on speciall Festivals and times of joy God could not bee prais'd sufficiently without this louder Harmony and therefore the Text sayes It was to them for a memoriall before God Numb 10.10 But afterwards the Israelites setting forward in their journey when the Arke was to remove from the Mountaine of the Lord wee finde a kinde of To Deum laudamus amongst the people Numb 10.35 Moses beginning a Magnificat to the Lord Rise up Lord let thine enemies be scattered and let them that hath thee flee before thee And this Surge Domine is by David afterwards speaking of the removing of the Arke voic'd into a Cantate Domino Sing unto the Lord sing praises unto his Name extoll him that rideth upon the Heavens by his Name JAH and rejoyce before him Psal 68.4 After this I reade no more of