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A09056	The first fruites of the Gentiles In three sermons preached in the cathedrall church at Sarum. By Bartholomevv Parsons Batchelor in Divinitie, and vicar of Collingborne-Kingstone, in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1618 (1618)	STC 19347; ESTC S114080	47,600	70

1. Tim. 6.12 euen the Eyes and View of the present World and with Dauid not to be ashamed to speake of Gods Testimonies before Kings f Psal 119.46 not to swarue from Gods Testimonies though our Persecutors and Oppressors were many g Psal 119 157 Heerein wee must be followers of Christ Iesus the Author and finisher of our Faith who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate the Iudge that condemned him h 1. Tim. 6.23 and of Abraham the Father of the Faithfull who built Alters to the Lord and called vpon the name of the Lord when the Canaanite an Idolatrous Nation that serued other Gods was in the Land i Gen. 12.6.7 For then wee especially shew that the loue of Christ is in vs when we abide with him in tribulation that wee come to him sinceerely when wee take vp the Crosse and follow him k Mat. 16.24 Non est magnum si tunc a Dei Testamonijs non declines cum te nullus persequitur It is no great matter if then thou goest not astray from Gods Commandements when no man persecuteth thee It is no great matter to bee as resolute as Peter when no daunger is at hand to march vnder the banner of religion when authority alloweth it honour and prosperity followeth it but then to indure when the heate of the Day ariseth when the firie tryall commeth is a proofe of our rooting and grounding in Christ The Deuill himselfe knoweth that Trouble is the best Triall of Religion and therefore thinking Iob to bee but a Temporizer one that serued God for wordly neede hee would haue him tryed by aduersity Lay now thine hand vpon all that hee hath and he will curse thee to thy face a Iob. 1.11 Scilicet vt fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides Good gold from drosse is in the sornace tri'de And faith from falsehood in trouble descri'de The souldiers courage is not so well seene in the campe as in the battaile when they cloase together Pede pes densusque viruir foote by foote and man cloase with man The marriners skill is not so well discerned Cum placidum ventis stabit mare When there is not a wagge of winde as when vnâ Eurusque Notusque ruunt creberque procellis Africus c. When all the windes hurry together And the constancy and courage of the souldier of Iesus Christ is best seene and showne when tribulation ariseth when he can indure to the end though he be hated of all men for Christs sake b Matt. 10.22 It is the protestation of the Church of the Iewes That their heart was not turned backe nor their steps declined from Gods way though God had sore broken them in the place of Dragons and couered them with the shadow of death that they had not forgotten the name of their God nor holden vp their hands to any strange God though for his sake they were killed all the day long and counted as sheepe for the slaughter c Psal 44.18.19.20.21.22 Shidrach Meshach and Abednego would not forsake the Lord their God whom they serued to fall downe before the idole that Nebuchadnezzar had set vp though the Kings anger were the messenger of death vnto them but were euen fortiores ignibus stronger then the fire it selfe d Dan. 3. Daniell would not intermit his ordinary deuotions which he had formerly vsed no not for a little time though the decree of his casting into the Lyons Denne were signed and vnalterable according to the Law of the Medes and Persians a Dan. 6. Let vs not then be ashamed of Christ and his Gospell when for the same we come before the Herodes the Princes of this world but let vs confesse him boldly before them who when they haue killed this mortall body the baser part cannot come neere our immortall soule the better part And let vs not with Nichodemus be such cowardly professors that wee should come to h m by night b Ioh. 3. doing the workes of light in the darkenesse nor with Ioseph of Arimathea bee his Disciples in hidde-locke for feare of trouble c Ioh 19 38. nor with the Parents of the blinde man d Ioh. 9.22 and many of the Iewes beleeue in him but not dare to confesse him for feare of being put out of the Synagogue e Ioh. 12.42 but let vs be stronge in the Lord and in the power of his might that we may be able to stand and withstand in the euill day f Eph. 6.10.13 let vs with Paul be ready not be bound onely but also to die at Ierusalem for the name of the Lord g Act 21.11.12.13 not passe for all that may happen nor reckon our life deare so that we may fight the good fight of Faith and a good Conscience and let vs cast our expences count what it will cost vs and resolue to indure the heate of the day as Chrysostome did to beare whatsoeuer the Empresse Eudoxia would inflict vpon h Histor tripart lib. 10. cap. 18. him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith he i Chrys in Epist ad Cyriaeum Episcopum If the Empresse will banish mee let her banish me the earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof If shee will saw me asunder let her I haue Esay for an example If she will throw mee into the Sea I remember Ionas If she will cast me into the Fornace I haue the three Chrildren that counsell me this If she will cast me to wilde beasts I remember Daniell cast to the Lions in the Denne If shee will stone mee let her I haue Stephen the first Martyre If she will take mine head let her take it I haue Iohn the Baptist If shee will take my goods let her take them naked came I out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I return The Apostle telleth me that God accepteth not the person of man and if I should yet please men I were not the seruant of Christ and Dauid armeth me saying I spake before Kings and was not ashamed I haue beene sufficiently accountable for the first particular I passe to the next the moouing cause that bringeth them to come and enquire For we haue seene his starre in the East Of all the senses wherewith God hath indued man for preseruation of nature there are two the hearing and the seeing that are as windowes wherby he reueileth Diuine misteries and conueieth supernaturall truthes vnto the minde For by hearing he acquainteth vs with his will and word faith commeth by hearing a Rom. 10.17 and let h m that hath an eare heare what the spirit saith to the Churches b Reu. 2.7 And by seeing his workes either of nature in the creation and preseruation of the vniuersall or beyond nature in the wonders that he doth we learne that the workeman is God alone that none is like him c Isai 46.9 and that he

ad Dardanum none being exempted vpon any worldly pretence would amount it may be gathered by that great multitude that were come to Ierusalem to keepe the Passeouer when Vespasian the Emperour beganne his siege against it a Iosephus alij being as the Histories of those times report tricies centena millia thirty hundred thousand And whereas by the letter of the Law the Males onely were bound to appeare it is worth the marking that the blessed Virgin would not take liberty in that kinde but went with Ioseph to celebrate those feasts the father and the mother of Iesus went to Ierusalem after the custome of the feast day b Luk. 2.42 But in our daies amongst vs when Gods worship is tied to no one place neither to Ierusalem nor to the mountaine c Ioh. 4 21. but our Temples and Houses of prayer wherein Christ is to be found are according to the number of our Cities and Townes so that it is but a steppe to them that dwell neerest a Sabbath daies iourney to them that are remotest to come vnto them there are too many that whereas they should thrice a weeke appeare before the Lord scarce tread in the Courts of the Lords house thrice in a yeare that with Simeon they may see the Lord Christ d Luk. 2.26.27 there are too many dainty dames amongst vs that are so farre from offering this free will offering with the Virgin that they will not doe the least part of that duty that is required of them in appearing before God in Sion that are so farre from neuer departing out of the Temple with Anna e Luk. 2 37. that on the other side they almost neuer come into it and had need to be dealt withal as those in the highwaies and hedges were to bring them to the marriage feast f Luk. 14.23 euen compelled by the vigor of authority to come in that Gods house might be full on his Holiday But enough hath beene spoken of the place from whence they come I will therefore proceed to speake of the place whither they come To Ierusalem Iesus being borne at Bethelehem they come to seeke him at Ierusalem As the Church her selfe at the first sought her beloued and found him not a Cant. 3.1.2 and 5.6 so these first fruits of the Church that God would call of the Gentiles at the first seeking for Christ finde him not But how commeth it to passe will some man say that hauing runne well hitherto they should now goe out of the way that hauing hitherto followed the guiding of the heauenly light and the shewing of the starre that went before them b Leo in Epiphan they should now haue a mist before their eies wander in darknesse The answere is that out of the context telling vs that when they went towards Bethlehem after their conference with Herode behold the starre which they had seene in the East went before them againe c Vers 9. Colligere promptum est saith Piscator Wee may gather that that starre was hid from them for a time which seemeth to haue begunne when they came into Iudea Ex hoc c e Chrys in opere imperfect in Matt. homilia 2. out of this place it appeareth that when the starre had brought the wise men somewhat neere to Ierusalem it was hidden from them that being forsaken of the starre they might be compelled to aske for Christ and to manifest him also in Ierusalem Their light fayling them then they soone went out of the right way if a man walke in the night he wil both stumble f Ioh. 10.11 and turne out of his way And as these hauing lost the starre their guide soone loose their way like the ship that without the Magneticus index the sea compasse or needle would quickly run aside vpon rocks and shelfes so the ship of Christ the Arke of his Church if hee the starre of Iacob the day spring from an high g Luk. 1.78 should not visit it to giue light vnto it if the day starre of his Gospell h 2. Pet. 1.19 should not shine vnto it to shew it the way would neuer come into the hauen where it would be but either fall vpon the rocks of heresie or runne aground into the sands of Impiety where it would stick fast till it were broken in pieces with the violence of the waues of wickednes like that ship that Pauls sailed to Rome in i Act. 27.41 Now in that when they know not whither to goe they come to Ierusalem to seeke for Christ they haue both motiues and inducements in themselues to doe so and also God who sitteth at the sterne and ouerruleth not only the falls infirmities of his seruants but also the impieties of the Prince of darknesse and the children of disobedience for the fulfilling of his will the shewing of his power and declaring of his name glory a Rom. 9.17 hath his hand his worke and purpose herein In themselues they haue a double motiue First from naturall reason euen the wisdome of the flesh for where should they seeke the King of the Iewes but in the mother City of the Iewes Which aboue the other Cities of Iudea excelled amongst all the inhabitants as the head in the body b Ioseph de bell Iudaico lib. 3. cap. 2. Hierusalem ciuitas regia est c. saith Remigius c Remig in catena aurea Ierusalem is the Kingly City and they beleeued that such a child ought not bee borne but in the Kingly City Humano sensu c. saith Leo d Leo serm in Epiphan By humane reason they imagined that the birth of the King which was shewed vnto them was to bee sought in the Kingly City Here then by the way for I meane not to insist vpon the point we may obserue that if the wisdome of the flesh be our leader in the things of God it will soone mislead vs. For the world with all her wisdome cannot know finde out the things of God e 1. Cor. 1.21 the naturall man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth not receiue apprehend the things of the Spirit of God f 1. Cor. 2.14 If flesh and bloud be our Counsellor it will soone mistake with Nicodemus g Ioh 3.9 in the great Misteries of godlinesse For as the bands of men which Benhadad King of Syria sent to lay hands on the Prophet Elisha being smitten with blindenesse in stead of comming to Dothan went into the midst of Samaria h 2. King 6.19 so there hangeth such a mist of naturall blindnesse ouer all the eyes of the sonnes of Adam that in stead of seeking a Christ made of no reputation they are ready to dreame of and seeke a Christ all glorious without rejoycing in the flesh and crowned at Hierusalem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 With great pompe and Solemnity A second motiue that they had to seeke Christ at Hierusalem