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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

Ambrose David here and his people their holy hymnes gratulatorie prayses Iö Paeans as our plantations this day to the glory of the God of glorie the giver of all grace And sure if ever I saw heaven upon earth it is when a religious Pastor and a zealous people are assembled together in Gods house upon the Lords Sabaoths or a religious familie as a private or pettie Church hearing and preaching the word as in Pauls time continued the whole r Act 20 7 day expounding Scriptures as in Ezras ſ Neh 8.5.6 7 8 time in publicke prayers early in the morning as in Tertullians dayes and the Primitive t Pliny the Iunior testifies so much of them in epistle to Traian apologizing for Christians times in some places and Churches in our times singing of Psalmes as our Saviour with his Disciples at his last Supper Oh sure here is an Image indeed of heaven here is in some parts of Gods worship vita coelestis vita celitum the life of the Saints in earth and in heaven here is Bethell Gods owne w Gen. 35 7 house the place is holy x Exod 3 5 ground God himselfe here is present u Marke 14 26 walking in the middest of the y Revel 2.1 golden Candelstickes as he was with Sydrach Mysaach and z Dan. 3.24.25 Abelenago singing in the Babylonian flames and with these joyfull Saints Saunders a Apud Foxum in Mart. ●ilogi● Gl●ver and others who rejoyced and triumphed in the middest of that Romish Babylonian flames in which the Martyres were tortured in Queene Maryes dayes here Christ himselfe is present and president too as hee was with his Disciples after his b Luke 24. Resurrection and Ascension in the dayes of c Act. 2.1.2.3 Pentecost according to his promise Whether there be naturall Musicke in nerves arteries and sinewes the simularie or dissimularie parts of the bodie of d Opinio Heripinli Medici Albere● Durer● Tyurdei l 2. Musices vide Tolosaeuum Syntax ar●is Mirabil● l. 12 c. 8 pag 189 man or whether elementarie musicke in the elements as e In Tymeo in Platonem Marsil Ficinus Plato f In sonno Scip. Macrob. in Ciceronem lib 2. c. 1 Tully Matrobius thought or whether celestiall and heavenly musicke in the Spheares as Py●hagoras first g Apud Athen. lib. 14. cap 14. imagined and to which manie learned men since in all ages have in some h Vt inter Philosophos Plat. li. 10. Reip. pa. 670. Macrob. lib. 2. de somn Scip. c. 3. p. 90. Plutarch de musica tom 2 pa. 707. Inter Poetas Aristoph in nubibus act 1. scan 3. pa 169. Virgil. Aeneid pag 167 Manilius l. 1. pa. 25. Iuter Theologes Anselm demundi magine ca. 24. tom 3. pag. 300. Beda de musica practicit tom 1. p. 417. Ma●imus T●ius serm 21. p. 256. ser 23. pag. 280. sense subscribed though by others contradicted others disputed others doubted these musicall controversies to me are not much materiall Here is that musicke which as David said of Goliahs sword 1) 1. Sam. 21.9 ther 's none like unto it Here is the musicke of musickes as Salomons Canticles are called the song of songs to which the Quier of heaven joynes with the Chorus of Saints in earth At this the Angels rejoyce 2) Luke 15 vers 10. as at tht conversion of sinners With this God himselfe is delighted his spirit ravished refreshed more then ever Alexander or any other was wrought upon by modulations of anie earthly man Where on the contrarie to make application to our owne times if ever I saw the verie image and picture of hell it is when a carelesse Emperick of Soules a doltish Sir Iohn-lack Latin a blinde Pholypheme a profane Esau one of Ieroboams priests 3) 1. King 12. vers 31. is placed over a people of Sodom 4) Isay 1. v. 10. as a Wolfe over goats whereupon Gods owne Saboths which should be consecrated as glorious daies to the Lord 5) Ier. 17.27 are perverted profaned rather to the service of Bacchus Priapus and Venus as once the heathenish Floralia Bacchanalia c. that the Devill should so rule and raigne in the popish or profane parish keepe such a rackett as the chiefe steward both with Pastor people that neyther barrell being better Hering in stead of preaching there should be pyping or idle prating playing as the Israelitish wantons once with the Moabitish women Numb 25. in stead of Devotion dauncing in stead of singing of Psalmes discharging of oathes like vollies of shott and roarings of Canons with full foole foule mouthes even in the very face of the Almightie Oh the difference betwixt Davids dayes and ours those Ioviall Saturnall golden dayes in which he lived and our Iron irefull times Davids people had they acted such publicke parts of Gods prayses in our dayes worshipped God so seriously so solemnely so sincerly now they had beene counted and called Puritans Precisians every mothers sonne of them many an i Gen. 21.9 Ismalite would have scoft them manie a k 2. Sam. 20.6 Micholl mockt them yea had but part of this Congregation assembled in the night as the persecuted Christians were sometimes occasioned for their securitie and the Disciples after Christs l Acts 12. v. 12 Ascension had there beene any religious m Chiefly a Damosell Rhoda as Act. 12.13 Shee would be counted called too an ●●rodias women amongst them though Mary Magdalens Salomees or Susanas they should all have beene taxed and traduced to have beene of the Family of love or lust Adamits or Anabaptists they had beene censured everie one their devotions had been turned on the tipp of malignant tongues into promiscuous daunces they had escaped no better then the Primitive Christians or then the sincerest in those dayes at least they had beene counted more precife then wise more hypocriticall then holy thus publicke to prayse and worship God which they might have done well enough in private without this Heraulding and Trumpetting Gods prayse and in his their owne perhaps they had not escaped the imputations which Festus gave unto m Acts 26.24 Paul and n 2. King 9.11 Iehues consort Captaines to the annoynting Prophets even of mad men SECT VIII Davids times and ours further ballanced inrespect of multitudes then Religious now Irreligious THus David and his people were as in a plurifie or burning feaver of zeale carried up as o 2. King 2.11 Elias as in a fiery Chariot we are now in a cold palsie frozen as Esops snake yea as p De frigiditate Salamandri Discorides lib. 2. c. 5. Galenus de Temper lib. 3. cap. 4. Et Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 21. cap. 4. Salamanders not to be heated extinguishing all sparkes and fires that are put in us by good motions from God or put to us by good motives from man

recreation as the Spaniell the waters for our turnes and times for a time for meere necessitie and conveniencie not giving it our hearts nor affections shaking it of when we have done with it for h Seeking only quae ad vict●● cultumque necessaria Cicero meate drinke and clothes and imbracing in the inwards of our soules more pure spirituall contentive and satisfactorie delights and desires Oh be as much as thou canst in the mount of spirituall speculation rather then in the vallie of externall actions rather in the lightsome i Gen. 46.34 Exod. 10. ver 23 Goshen with Gods Israell then in the darkesome Egypt with the uncircumcised rather suffer affliction as Moses with Gods k Heb. 11.24.25 people then injoy the pleasures of sinne for a season rather desire with David to be a doore keeper in Gods house then to live in the Tents of Kedar as Lot in l Genes 19. 2. Pet. 2.7 Sodom Ezekiah amongst m Ezek. 2. ver 6 Scorpions rather fast with Gods children the mourners in Sion as Esther with her n Esther 4.16 maydes Mordocheus with the distressed Iewes o Ezra 10. v. 1.2 Ezra p Dan. 10. v. 2.3 Daniel and q Nehem. 1. v. 4 Nehemiah then feast with the profane Balthezars and drunken Nabals of the world rather sing songs of Sion with Moses Deborah Miriam Zachary the two Annas and the spirituall Israell of God to the laude and praise of God then songs of Sodom to the Lute and Tabret and Harpe to the dishonour of God with that carnall r Amos 6.6 Esay 22. vers 13 Israell Avoyd the companie of the wicked fly from their societie as Manes the Calcedon Bishop did from Iulian the Apostate Iohn from Cerinthus Origen from Paulus Samesetenus Polycarpus from Marcion Athanasius Chrysostome and the ſ Of all these there is ample mention made by Socrates Eusebius the Germaine Centuries c. As I have alledged them already in my Origens repentance Orthodoxes Alexandrians and Antiochians from the blaspemous Arrians as from a dogge a t Cane poenis angue adagium snake and a devill Come no neerer them then to the plague who have hot mouths like Armenian Dragons hot as Ovens with fire from hell spitting burning venomous sparkes of blasphemies in the face of Heaven For to converse with such is to have our Hell on earth but to praise God with the Saints yea withall the creatures magnifie him in all his glorious attributes this is to have heaven on u Vita celitum vita caelestis earth Oh happie as holy is that soule who in imitation of the Larke and the singing Quyristers of the Ayre hath his chiefe delight to be mounting upwards and singing above as neere to God as he can get and useth this grosser earth but onely for foode and meere necessaries making no stay below till it soare up againe that it be intrapped as these incautelous birdes in the lime-twigs of lustes in the gins of temptations Oh happie he that not contented with ordinarie duties with our common Protestants materially and cursorily performed such as their stinted tasks of saying rather then praying Prayers reading of Chapters singing of a Psalme saying Grace before and after meate as they use to say by themselves or children their atturneys running daily in these unlesse by carnalite or profanesse omitted as in a Laborynth or Circle like a Milne-horse ever in one pace without ever quickening their motion what extraordinarie occasion soever come eyther of prayer in humiliation or praysing God in true Gratulation those that besides these ordinaries can sequestrate times to dedicate and consecrate their very soules and spirits to the very God of spirits extraordinarily in manner and measure as occasion is offered eyther of mourning such as was in the dayes of w Esay 22. v. 13. Esau x Osee 6 v. 1.2 Osee y Dan. 9. v. 1.2.3.4.5 Daniel z Ioel. 1. v. 5.8.11.13 cha 2.15.16.17 Ioel a Ezra 10.3.5 Ezra b 1. Sam. 1.10 Anna c Iob. 3.24 Iob d Ierem. 9. v. 1.2 Ieremie or of rejoysing such as in the dayes of David both herein my Text and elsewhere when David penned his Eucharisticall Psalmes sung publickly in the Church he and the Elders of Israell as also in the dayes of his sonne Salomon Ezekiah and Iosiah after him exulting and triumphing before the Lord. Oh happie he that can marry as some Fathers besides e Stella Bona ventura in Lucam Fryers have alluded both Martha and f Luke 10. vers 41.42 Mary Rachell and Leah can unite and so conjoyne the fruitefull thoo-bleare eyed life of action as lesse faire with the more beauteous life of contemplation that in his generall calling as he is a Christian can make holy and spirituall duties the unbending of his bow sauce to his meate his verie recreation and best preparing to the duties of his speciall and particular calling as he is a man such a man is indeede a Phoenix amongst men Rara avis in terris as the Hevites said of g Gen. 23. v. 6. Abraham even a Prince of God amongst men yea he that can be a regular observant of these few rules by blessing the Lord with his heart and mouth the members of his bodie and faculties of his soule here in grace shall inchoate and begin even in the vallie of the world in the vaile of his flesh the life of glorie such an one shall attaine to more Evangelicall perfection then ever did Iew Papist or Pelagian in the meere observation of Moses his Legals whether Morals Cerimonials or Iudicials Yea by these rules he shall come neerer God shoote neerer heaven walke more in the light of the Sunne as every way more perfect Yea I say further he shall inherit and injoy sweeter extasies of soule raptures of spirit comforts of conscience peace of heart joy in the holy Ghost then ever any superstitious popeling regular Fryer or Monasterian in this earth had notwithstanding all their Thrasonicall bragges and boasts to the contrary of ther feined revelations apparitions and enthusiasmes by their strictest observance of the rules of their Saint Francis Benedict Dominick c. or these that are forged and fathered on Basill h De regulis Francisci Basilij Augustini c. vide Fusius apud Hospinianum de origina Monocatus Augustine or any other recorded by i Vide Cassiani collationes Suriū Lippomanum Pomerium de sanctis Marulum Abdiam Gregorium in dialogis Cassianus and their owne writers Oh could we trie how good and gracious the Lord is had we but a spirituall gust of the comforts of grace If wee did but once eate the spirituall Manna that 's hid from the world Could wee turne the bread of life in succum sanguinem into bloud and moysture Could wee be weaned from the world to be fed as children truely newly k 1.

that they which honour God God will honour them as he told m 1. Sam. 2. ●0 Samuel as hee honoured beleeving n Gen 12. Ge. 17 Gen. 18.17.18 Abraham in Chaldea and Mesopotamia Isaac amongst the o Ge. 26.12.28 Philistines Ioseph in p Genes 41.39.40.41 42. Egypt q Esth 6.10.11 Mordocheus r Esth 2 9 Esther ſ Dan. 2.46 48. Daniell Sydrach Mysaach and t Dan. 3.28 Abednego in Babylon u 1. Sa 18.7.16 David x 1. Sam. 3.19.20.21 Samuel and y 2. Chro. 35.18 24. Iosiah in Israell Boaz Ruth in z Ruth 4.11 Bethlem the beleeving a Math. 8.10 Centurion the Cananitish b Math. 15.28 woman the weeping c Luk. 7.44 45. Penitent the fluxe cured d Marke 5.34 Patient Devoute Mary e Ioh. 12.7 cha 20.16 Magdalen patient f Job 1.8 Iob. 42.16.17 Iob meeke g Numb 12.7.8 Iosuah 1.6 Moses publikely before the sonnes of men heraulding their prayses even in the face of their maligning or contesting enemies yea against even Sathan himselfe and his accusing sathanists On the contrarie shaming and dishonouring them that dishonour him as he veryfied as well as threatned against Hophney and h 1. Sam. 2.33 34. Phineas and the house of Israell against the Sodomites burning them with stincking i Gen. 19.24 sulphure as well as fire as their sinnes stuncke against the proud rebelling Nymrodians whose Tower he overthrew and confounded their k Ge. 11.7.8.9 language against wicked Haman all whose honours were in one houre strangled at the l Esth 7.10 Gallowes in his dogge-like death against rebelling m 2. Sam. 18.14.17 Absolon whose name now stinckes as foule as his face was once n 2 Sam. 14 25 faire against proude o Act 12.23 Herod whom the wormes eate proude Nabuchadnezar who usurping more then a man in his imagination for seven yeares was worse then a beast in state and p Dan 4 30 See how this transforming was in D Willes Hexapla in this place fate yea verifying this against his owne Israell who for their owne rebellions though they were the head yet were rhey made the tayle of other people as they were given over to the power of the q Iere. 39.9 Chaldeans r Iudges 6.2 Midianites ſ Iudges 3 14 Moabites t Iudg 13.1 Philistines at severall times but chiefly in Iehoiakim who as hee lived wickedly he died wretchedly and dishonourably having the verie buriall of an u Iere. 22.18.19 Asse none lamenting him As it was also with that blasphemous Arrius and other w Of Gods judgements against Arrius Nestorius and other heretickes and apostates See in the end of Zegedines tables in folio heretickes with Iulian and other accursed apostates with Cain x Act. 1.24.25 Iudas and other bloudie murtherers y 2. Sam. 20.22 Shebah z 1. King 2.31.32 Ioab and other Traytors with Iezabell Cleopatra Messalina a 2. King 11.16 Athalia our English Rosamond Iane Shore all other impenitent profane ones who as they lived without grace and holinesse died in disgrace without honour a debaushed life being usually accompanied with a dishonourable death even so that from this circumference I may conclude the point in the right center that soule that is active in truly blessing God is also passive in receiving blessings from God he is that truly blessed man which is described in the b Psal 1. ps 112. psalm 119 1. Math. 5.3.4.5 Psalmes and in other Scriptures all those blessings shall accrew unto him and come upon both him and his seede which Moses both c Deut. 28.1.2.3 Levit. 26.3.4 5. conditionally and d Deut. 33.6.7.8.9 absolutely pronounceth upon the Israell of God even as on the contrary he that loveth cursing the curse shall come upon him even as a stone or pellet of Lead that 's throwne up in the ayre may fall upon the head of the thrower and crush it as did that stone which an Eagle let fall upon the head of Eschylus the Poet or as a ball that 's throwne against an Iron-walle rebounds backe againe on the breast or face of the thrower as the curses of e 2. King 1● Rabsakah of f 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semei of Balaake redounded on their owne heads not on the heads of Ezekias of David and of the Israelites as the Popes curses at this g See the book called Brutum ●ulmen day against the Orthodoxe Protestants whom he execrates under the names of Calvinists Lutherans Hugenotes Heretickes fall patt upon himselfe and the declining Sea of the Papall Hierarchie who begins to ebbe by the just revolting of Kings and Christian kingdomes from Babylon as fast as ever by the mysterious working of h Reade that noble French Morney now Englished in folio of the progresse of popery since it was first hatcht Sathan it had a time to flow the causelesse curse as an arrow shot to no purpose in the ayre ever returning in vaine So that to draw this point to a further head as the Lord is Iust lege Talionis by a just i Pana culpa protionata retaliation in other particulars to punish sin so to curse the cursers as most * See Gods hand upō those that used to curse and imprecate instanced by Kellay lib. 8. Guicardine lib. 17. in the death of Charles Duke of Burbon by Crantius libr. 6. chap. 45. by Wierus lib. 4. de Magia cap. 10. by Iohn le Gast in his Table-talke volum 2. pag. 131. by Benso in his historie of the new World lib. 2. cap. 17. by Philip Camerarius hist. Med. cap. 86. in the Tragicall ends accustomed cursers accursed according to that of the Psalmist As he loved cursing so let it come unto him as he delighted not in blessing so let it be farre from him as he clothed himselfe with cursing as with a garment so let it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones let it bee unto him as the garment which covereth him and as a girdle wherewith he is girded k Psal 109. ver 17. ●8 continually so why may we not argue that by a retaliating proportionable mercie seeing both in mercie and justice the Lord keepes an Arithmeticall or Geometricall proportion in rewarding as revenging he blesseth those that blesse him and that blesse his for if he told Abraham that those who blessed him he would l Genes 12. v. 3. blesse and hath ever verified this promise in blessing and prospering the friends of the Church the spirituall seede and sonnes of Abraham as some of our m Gorlicius in axiomatibus theologicis ex Melācthone Sarigelli● alijs Neotoricis Modernes instance in the two Theodosij in Constantine in Gratian in Valentinian and other Christian Emperours who as they were nursing fathers and nursing mothers to the Church the Lord went out and in with

if comparisons were not odious I would say as faire as any of those wee call reformed in France Helvetia Bohemia Saxony Denmarke c. or any other in x See the book extant in octavo of the Confessions of the reformed churches Belgia yea I except not Geneva and we may put in for the armour of Aiax with Amsterdam it selfe Secondly as in the Church of the Iewes multitudes and millions of carnall Israelites yea the whole generalitie except some few whom the Lord reserved as a few names in y Revel 3.4 Sardis a few cornes in chaffe as some few of Elias his z 1. King 19.18 Rom. 11.4 spirit amongst Baalites broke and infringed this covenant of God by apostaticall revolting and backe-sliding as the Lord expostulates with them by his Angell sent from a Iudg. 2. vers 1.2.3.4 Gilgall by Samuell in b 1. Sam. 7.56 1. Sam. 12.6.7.8.9.10 Mizpeth and by all the Prophets after the death of Moses and c Iudg. 2. vers 8.9.10 Ioshuah and those Elders of Israell who saw the miracles in Egypt the wildernesse and the redd Sea forgetting the d See Psal 78● throughout Lord that bought them and brought them into that good land flowing with milke and hony So hath not the God of Israell as just a quarrell and controversie with the commonaltie and generalitie of our Nations for breaking our covenant in Baptisme by which we were as strictly obliged to his service and worship to faith and obedience as ever they by their Circumcision For were ever any Nation more perfidious or fedifragous one to another the Carthaginians to the Romanes the e Cretenses semper mendaces Titus 1.12 Cretians f Creta fides Grecians or worst dissemblers yea even the very g See their perfidiousnesse in Knols his Turkish historie Turkes to Christians then Christians unto God How many miriades and millions at this day to goe no further to former times by their pledges and sureties their God-fathers as they are called or fathers for God in the publicke Congregations in the presence of God men and Angels calling heaven and earth to record have promised and protested to forsake the flesh the world and the Devill to serve and worship the true Iehovah when they were initiated matriculated as it were into the Church by Baptisme admitted into Christs Colledge the number and ranke of Christians as souldiers sworne to their Generall who yet have hardly kept their covenant so well as Regulus with the g Apud Plutarchum Carthaginians and other Pagans even in things morall For if I may in briefe lance and cut and discover the ulcers diseases of the times How many as yet even serve the verie Devill as really as once that S. Christopher fictitiously in the Popish fable How many wicked Pseudochristians by their lives testifie that as the Scripture cals such as they the h Iohn 8.44 1. Iohn 3.8 sonnes the i Rom. 6.16 1. Iohn 3.8 servants and the k 1. Tim. 6.10 2. Tim. 2.26 slaves of Sathan so they are at his command and obeysance as the servant of l Gen. 24.10 Abraham and m Act. 10.7 Cornelius yea of that other n Math. 8.9 Centurion to their earthly Masters He bids them goe and they goe doe this and they doe it lye steale murther sweare blaspheme they are obsequious their spirits and natures as Tynder and powder take presently the fire of everie temptation 1. He rules them as the rider the horse he rules over them as a Tyrant in an usurped Kingdome they obey him as the Iewes that Idumean Herod Yea he rules in them inthronized in their hearts as once in the treacherous heart of o Iohn 13.27 Iudas the hypocriticall heart of p Act. 5.3.4 Ananias the envious hearts of the q Math. 9.34 Marke 3.22 Luke 11.15 Pharisees at the least he takes totall possession of their whole man by his deputies and Lieutenants some one or moe deare darling sinnes ruling and raigning in them yea he doth not onely set them a worke as he did Iudas in betraying the Iewes in crucifying Christ but he even speakes in their hearts athistically in their mouths blasphemously as once in the bodie of some r Ex Imo ventre vox prodit secundum Originem lib. 7. contra Celsum Chrys in 1. Corin. 10. Et exinde damonem Pythonem ventricosum vocat Origenes libr. 3. Peryarch cap. 3. ventriloquū Tertull. contra Maro c. 25. aut infra cutem da●on se ostentat per pectus loqui videtur qualem Celius Rhodiginus se vidisse memorat Ant. Lect. lib. 8. cap. 10 Pythonists and within that Serpent which he used as he useth Serpents Foxes and Vipers still in every countrie Citie and almost Village as the organ and accursed instrument of mans seduction intended destruction So the world for all our covenant and obligation to forsake it how many swarmes of earth-wormes carnalists and coveteous Phylargurists have wee not onely ever rooting in the earth as Moales Swine without ever an eye to looke upwards but as trunckes and Trees even rooted and eradicated in the earth turnd all into earth even lumps of earth as ſ Suetonius in vita Caligulae Caligula was called a lumpe of clay and bloud conjealed being all for earth even for white and red t Gold Silver dust which per fas nefas by hooke or crooke right or wrong Lionly force or Foxely fraude they scrape and rake together as greedie Harpyes or snatching Eagles their desired prayes all being fish that comes to the net though it breake the Net or like the Eagles coale in the u Apud Aesopum fable set all on fire though they gaine by their ill-gotten goods as Achan by his stolne w Ioshuah 7.1.21.25 wedge as Iudas by his Saviour selling x Math. 27.3.4 5. silver as that Mydas like our coveteous Alchumistes since by his bad y What he toucht turnd into Gold ant mentinutur Poeta Alchumy by which they and all such in all ages have z Infunditur aurum à Mithridate ere Aquilij ducis Romani Plinius hist. 33. c. 3. perished as if all that 's ill got were Tholouse a Per aurum Tholosanum periere Q. Cepio Consull M. Crassus cum multis alijs Aul. Gel. noct attic c. 9 Gold carried on Sejanus his b Equus Scianus omnibus possessoribus infanstus videlicet Scio Cascio c. Gellius ibid. Horse for a sumpter horse So for the flesh and fleshly lusts how many are given over to all voluptuousnesse lovers of pleasures more then lovers of c 2. Tim. 3.4 God serving diverse lustes and d Tit. 3. v. 3. pleasures as if they were yet in their naturall estate fleshly minded men walking after the e Rom. 8.2 flesh savouring the things of the f Rom. 8.5 flesh as the dogge savours carrion verie

leaving for the time all their morall affaires to hazard of invasion of forraine enemies or of domesticke casualties as carnall good husbandrie would conceit What inconveniences in the eye of flesh bloud did this subject them unto in respect of their outward estate besides the paines and perils the trouble and toyle and tediousnesse of the journey Now there is no such taske no such burthen imposed on our shoulders for how ever wee are not strict according to the good pollicie in first dividing and distinguishing people into severall Churches Parishes and Congregations to tye a man perpetually to his owne Church as to his owne wife or wife to her owne husband her owne house as a tradesman to his owne shop or a bird that constantly keepes her owne Nest or as a beggar that still keepes his owne stand his owne circuite as the Milne horse not so jayling or imprisoning men to an ignorant and profane Ministerie as some Land-lords strictly tye their Tennants to grinde at their owne Milnes how ever abused in their grinding or moulter by the ignorance or knaverie of the Milner though I say I see neyther reason nor religion tying any man so constantly to the Ministery of his own Parish Priest to sucke at drie dugges to drinke at drie brookes to seeke foode or fruite at a barren tree but that if Iacob and the house of Iacob any true Israelite want foode in his owne Canaan hee may seeke for corne in p Gen. 42.2 Egypt elsewhere as the beggar that hath no bread at home seekes abroad else people should be in worse case for their soules stricter laced then for their bodies since in free libertie if they wholy want or have but the outcast and refuse of any commoditie in anie Mart or Market they may seeke further for better or what drugge or physicall receite one Apothecary shop yeeldes not may be sought in another and from an Empericke Quacksalver they may commit their health life to a learned Physitian yea else Gods people should be in worse case for their soules then Israell once for their Iron tooles who when there was no smith in q See the Sermon extant on that Text There was no smith in Israell 1. Sam. 13.19 Israell yet went to the Philistines to make or mend their plough-shares and other iron workes yea in worse case then the Horse and Mule who if hee wants water seekes up and downe the pasture though never so large and wide The waters of life though they be not at home being better worth our search then those which Ahab and Obediah sought from one end of the land to the r 1. King 18.5.6 other or those waters of the Well of Bethlem which David so ſ 1. Chro. 11.17 desired yet neverthelesse though we may go further from home for better foode in christian liberty ere we starve or eate meate ill cook'd for all this we are not so punctually precisely ceremoniously obliged tyed to any one speciall place of Gods worship to this Church or that Chappell this Cathedrall or that Temple as the Iewes were tyed to Salomons Temple though the Papists who in this as in other things runne against the haire and swim crosse against all Gods Ordinances will needes in their superstitious folly lay on their owne neckes a Iewish yoke in worshipping at this stone and that shrine this roode and that altar this Crosse and that Chappell rather at Rome or Loretto in Italie in Compostella in Spaine at the Roode of Yoghell in Ireland c. yea still in their blinding bewitching superstition as if they were turn'd t Read a book in 4. called the picture of a papist you shall see it proved that Papisme is a meere mixture of Iudaisme Turcisme Paganisme Turkes or Iewes even in Mahumitanized Ierusalem But now as our Saviour tels the Samaritane woman is the time that wee shall neyther Iew nor convert Gentiles worship the Father in this mountaine or that nor at Ierusalem but in spirit and u Iohn 4. ve 20 21.22.23 truth in everie place lifting up pure w 1. Tim. 2.8 hearts and pure hands to the Almightie whether in our owne houses with x Dan 6.10 Daniell or in the fields with y Gen. 24.63 Isaac or in the garden with Augustine and z Confessionum lib. 8. Alixius or in our beds with a Psal 6.7 David and b 2. King 20.3 Ezekias or on the Sea with c Ionas 1.6 Ionas or on the shoare with d Act. 20.36 Paul or in prison with e Act. 16.25 Silas f 2. Chronic. 33.10.11 Manasses g Ierem. 38.6 Ieremie and our moderne Martyres or in our private clossets as the blessed Virgin or in and with our families as h Iosh 24.15 Ioshuah and that sweete singer of i 2. Sam. 6 20. Israell or in the publicke Congregation as once k 1. King 8.22 Salomon it matters not for the place if wee have the grace to worship God aright for matter and maner in which our Papists and all Moralists Hypocrites and profane men are so grossely defective And indeede this is a greater mercie a greater priviledge then we conceive at the first blush for should those that trot and trudge and drudge up from all the Shires and countries in England and Wales everie Terme time to Westminster or Ludlow or from all the Counties and Provinces in Ireland to Dublin to follow the plough of contention prosecuting wrangling suites de lana l Adagium e● Haratio Caprina about matters triviall of no moment but only that such waspes must shoote their stings discharge their squirte gunnes in forma pauperis sometimes charged onely with paper pellets these creckets and m Arist lib. 5. c. 19. per ignem ambulat Salamandra ●●tinguit Salamanders not being able to live out of the fire of contention should these I say be injoyned as the Iewes to n Before the building of the Temple the Iewes worshipped where ever the Arke was Deut. 12.13.14 Exod. 25.22 1. Sam. 7.5 2. sa 6.2 chiefly in Silo in time of Iudges and Samuell after in mount Sion 2. Sam. 6.12 But after the Temple built thither they were confined 2. Chr. 7.12 1. Reg. 9.3 Luke 19.46 Ierusalem by God or Caesar I will not say foure times a yeare but annually once a yeare they or theirs all Sam to come up to Pauls Crosse or the Spittles in London or to Yorke-minster or to Lincolneminster or to christs-Christs-Church in Dublin or any such remote place in any Kingdome or Province meerely to worship God by hearing Sermons and presenting their prayers before the Lord and offering their spirituall oblations as oft the Iewes in the dayes of Samuel Ezra Salomon c. there corporeall Oh this would be thought durum opus a hard taske as the Disciples said in another case durus o Iohn 6.60 sermo this were a hard

by that be some of his wrath the all devouring plague and pestilence the arrow raging and destroying at noone-day as he did with Israel in the dayes of o 1. Chron 21 vers 14. David and of p 1. Corinth 10 8 Moses and with other countries since in Italie Austria q Grossius in his Tragicall histories in quarto about the beginning of his Booke reckoning the greatest plagues in the Christian world saith of Italie and Vienna that the dead were moe then the living Viena and elsewhere he hath layd his verie Axe to the rootes of our English Trees and hath cut downe and lopt off by many hundreds in one weeke tall Cedars loftie Pines greene Poplers strong Oakes of Bashan white Almond Trees of all sorts from the Peeres to the plowman high and low young and old even in our chiefe Cities our Metropolitanes our mother Citie Troynovant our corporate Townes our countrie Villages yea even in our private houses and Cabbins the pestilentiall feaver as a raging torrent of water carrying all along with it that stood in the way Fourthly as Israell was not reclaymed for all these proceedings of God with them eyther in mercie or justice but still grieved the Lord not onely for fortie yeares in the wildernesse but even in the land of Canaan when their sinnes like ours did increase in the land of plentie like weedes and bryers in a fat moyst ground and as fleas and vermin in the hot Summers Sunne eyther not repenting at all hardning their hearts as that Egyptian r Exod. 7.13 Pharaoh upon the message of his Prophets and summons of his judgements or else repenting superficially dissembling with a double heart shedding Crocodiles ſ De his lachrimis de proverbio vide apud Vicentium nat hist libr. 17. cap. 606. teares and fasting for a fashion as once t 1. King 21.29 Ahab and another of their irreligious Israelitish u 2. King 6.30 Kings teares being in their eyes and rebellion in their hearts both at one w Deut. 1.44.45 instant like Esau that wept for the x Hebr. 12.17 blessing yet intended the murther of his y Gen. 27.41 brother all with one breath howling and crying like wolves when Gods hand was upon them confessing their sinnes as traytors on the rack when they were oppressed by the Moabites Midianites Ammonites and other z Iudg. 3.9.13 chap. 4.3 Cananites but as soone as ever delivered by such temporarie saviours types of the spirituall Messias Othniell Gideon Iepthah Baruch Sampson as he sent for their rescue as he stird up Abraham to rescue a Gen. 14.15 Lot they returning againe to their former Byas Idolatrie extortion oppression as the dogge to his b 2. Pet. 2.19 vomite the sow to her mire provoking him as much as ever by their rebellions like the Ice seeming to be thawed yet freezing and conjealing againe in their dregges in which like Moab they setled they could not be removed Thus it is with us their case is ours we like some impatient Patients have beene rather worse then better for Gods physicke our sores by our inveterate and wellny uncurable corruptions have beene increased by our salves the Lord would have healed us but like the Babell wee would not bee healed our disease is epidemicall generall and continuall the fluxe of our sinnes like the bloudie c Mark 5.26 issue of that woman in the Gospell is not to be stopped it 's vulnus d Vulnus insanabile ense resecandum insanabile past cure as it seemes so past care As the land hath long mourned by reason of oathes other sinnes so wee have mourned for a time when Gods hand hath beene upon us wee have proclaymed generall fasts as once e Jam. 3. v. 6.7 Ninive besides many an Esther and a Mordocheus many a Daniell and a Nathaniell that have mourned alone besides the house of f Zach. 12. v. 12 13.14 Nathan the house of Aron and the house of Levi many religious families that have mourned a part the g Ioel. 1.11 Husband-man the Vine-dresser and the tender Virgin the h vers 13. Priests and the Elders yea the bride and the i Ioel. 2.16 bride-grome that have fasted mourned and lamented before the Lord as once k 2. Sam. 12.16 David did in the case of his sicke childe when wee have eyther felt or feared the heavie hand of God chiefly when the land hath beene whipt with his rodd and ferula for her transgressions when judgements have beene threatned or executed when as once Elias in another case wee have seene the l 1. King 18.44 cloudes or felt the storme of showred or powred downe vengeance then as the m De cruentis Ethnicorum sacrificijs immolationibusque homine virginū puerorum Marti Saturno Iovi ira to vide apud Plutarchum libellum de superstitione Heroditum in Melpomine Strabonem libr. 11. Ovidiū in 2. Fast Dionys Halycarn libr. 1. Euseb libr. 4. praeparat Evang talibusque sacrificijs usi sunt Iulianus Apostat Heliogabalus vt testantur Hedrenus Godfridus Celius Lampridius Heathens the Savages and the n De quibus Benso Mazius Acosta in suis libris Purchasius noster in sua perigrinatione Lilius Giraldus in historia deorum Syntagmate 17. Indians at this day and in former times have offered sacrifices in some common plague to appease some angrie Nemesis some exasperated imaginarie God so have we offered sacrifice to the true God but excepting some few some true Nathaniels hardly in truth we have abstained from meate but not from sinne fasted from the creatures as the carnall o Esay 58.3.4 Iewes and dishonoured the Creator we have not losed the bonds of the p vers 6.7 poore relieved the cause of the fatherlesse and widdow made restitution of goods ill got as q Luk. 19.8 Zacheus and the Iewes in the time of r Ierem. 34.10 though after they revolted vers 16. Ieremie chiefly we have not as a man from a whorish wife given a bill of divorcement to those sensuall sinnes and belluine lusts which have made a separation and ſ Esay 59.2 Ierem. 5.25 sequestration betwixt the Lord and us and occasioned his hand to bee upon us c. Yet wee have had many a Moses an Aron and a Phineas to stand in the gappe betwixt Gods judgements and our sinnes Such Phoenices our lands have afforded Thus have we sympathized with Israell in these particulars in her blessings received her sinnes renued and her gratitude neglected CHAP. XII Many mercies recited Temporall and Spirituall in which we farre exceede the Iewes by many degrees BVt to hoyse up my sailes a little higher and to looke our faces in the glasse or theirs in ours both in Gods glasse the Sacred Scriptures glossed and commented by experience and to paralell the Brittanicall and the Iewish Church and Policie in

many specialties the Lord hath come neerer unto us then ever to them and hath beene as a kinde father both more liberall in his portion of blessings and more indulgent in sparing pitying our sinnes and delinquences and first for the largenesse of his mercies wee receive as Isaac from t Gen. 25. v. 5.6 Abraham as Ioseph from u Gen. 48.22 Iacob as Benjamin from w Gen. 43.34 Ioseph a double yea a trible portion as it were wee seeme Iacob like even to carrie away the x Gen. 25.32 33 blessing and the y Gen. 27.30 birth-right too from them and that in these specialties both of temporall and spirituall blessings in mercies of adornation and preservation as they come to hand with pretermission of innumerable moe To begin with the best first To them God gave the law in the hand of z Gal. 3.19 a mediator to us he gave the Gospell by the mediation of a Luke 2.9.13.14 Angels now in how many degrees the Sun exceedes the Moone our Messias exceedes their Moses our Iesus their Ioshuah our High Priest their * Heb. 7. Heb. 8. Heb. 9. per totum sic Hebr. 10.10.11 12.13 c. Aron the bloudy one and onely propitiatorie sacrifice of his bodie the Annuall sacrifices of their high Priests the Typicall sacrifices of their beastes and Bullockes our Heaven their Canaan so farre our Gospell which is a quickening spirit exceeds their law which without Christ is but a killing Letter To them indeede saith the Apostle were the holy Oracles committed they had the Law and the Testament Moses and the Prophets but wee have the Gospell more plainely more perspicuously then ever they had I denie not indeede but in their Law there was the Gospell included besides personall Types in their Ceremoniall law Christ was shaddowed b See the li●tle Booke called Moses unvailed prefigured and in their severall oblations of all sorts typified and represented as hee was promised to c Genes 3.15 Adam the promise renued to d Gen. 12.3 Abraham and the e Gen. 28.14 Patriarkes and prophecied of by all the Prophets from Moses to f Deut. 18. ●5 Malachy so in their severall ages and generations he was expected to be exhibited by all that looked for the consolation of Israell longed for desired that hee would breake the heavens and come g Esay 44.1 downe as they strongly beleeved that he should come Hence according to Theologie the Patriarkes and Prophets before and under the Law in the Old Testament were saved by beleeving that Iacobs i Gen. 49.10 Shiloh the promised Messias should come as we now in the times of grace are saved by beleeving that hee is come there being but one k Ephes 4 5. Christ but one faith as but one Sunne to the world both to Iew and Gentile one * Acts 4.12 Act. 10.43 Acts 13.39 Rom. 10.4 Gal 3.22 meanes of life and grace to all that are justified sanctified and saved Hence Christ is sayd to be that Agnus occisus in Gods decree and infallible promise that Lambe of l Iohn 1.26 God slaine from the beginning of the world to take away the sinnes of the whole l Iohn 1.26 world of the elect as m Rom. 11.12.15 2. Cor. 5.19 Iohn 1.2 v. 2. Scriptures and n Distinguit Augustinus inter mundum electorum ● damnatorum Tract 87. in Iohannem sic per mundum intelligitur sol●● modo mundus credentium per Rupertum in Iohannem lib. 3.5 3. Et Commēs in 2. Corinth 5. mundus regenerationum pro quibus Christus mortuus per Augustinum serm 20 serm 44. serm 109. de verbis Apostoli per Haimonem in Rom. 5. per Prosperum libr. 1. Re●p pro Augustin obqui De quo vide plura apud Augustinum de corrupt gratia cap. 12. Tract in Iohan. 2.77 K●midentium de R●demptione Perkinstum de Praedestinatione fathers limit that universall Hence also is the Theologicall axiome that Christ who is the verie end of the Law to which it points as once Iohn the Baptist as the hand in the Dyall pointes to the Sunne and to which as a sharpe Schoole-master it o Gal. 3 24. drives and directs that this Christ is typified in the Old p Christus in Veteri Testamento velatus in Novo revelatus libricus in Clavi script Testament and revealed in the New Hence it is also that Abraham and so consequently all the beleeving Patriarkes the sonnes of Abraham by faith is said to have seene the day of Christ and to have rejoyced But how was Christ seene darkely obscurely as under a vaile as the prisoner sees the Sunne through a little chincke or grate as the Spouse in the Canticles had a glimpse of her beloved through the hole of the q Cant. 5.4 doore So was Christ seene of them but wee now see him plainely perspicuously as walking amidst the Golden r Revel 2. vers 1. Candlestickes as we see the Sunne in his solstitium or at noone-day in the plaine and powerfull preaching of the Gospell wee see him not duly and deadly as the Papist in a stone or a piece of brasse pictured in a Crosse or Crucifixe Idolatrously worshipped but as Paul tels the Corinthians even crucified as it were amongst us in the plaine evidence of the spirit Therefore saith the same Apostle The Grace of God hath ſ Tit. 2.11.12 appeared this Gospell of grace hath appeared the phrase is observable even as the Sun that peepes and breakes from under and appeares from the obscuring cloude yea the day Starre from an high hath visited us saith t Luke 1.78 Zachary yea light is come into the u Iohn 3.19 vvorld saith hee that is himselfe the w Iohn 1. v. 4.5 life and the light even to inlighten those that like Zebulon and x Luke 1.79 Nepthaly sate in darkenesse and the shadow of death Here is our priviledge above the Iew. Secondly Besides as a Corolarie to this point God at sundry times and in diverse maners spake in time y Hebr. 1. v. 1. past unto these Iewish Fathers by z Iere. 35. v. 15 the Prophets yea and by a Gen. 18.1.2 Genes 19.1.2 Iudg 13. v. 3. Angels too by Oracles by dreames and b Numb 12 7. visions by Vrim and c Exod. 28. v. 30 Thummim but in these last dayes he hath spoken to us by his d Heb. 1. v. 1. Son whom hee hath appointed e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Heire of all things by whom also he made the worlds Thirdly Moreover to them he stirred up temporarie typicall Saviours and Iudges who delivered them out of the hands of those that spoyled them Iudg. 3. vers 16. e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Moses and f Exod. 34.9 Ioshuah and g Iudg. 1.2 Iudah and