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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28192	The divine and spiritual ambassadour described in a sermon preached at the visitation at Alisbury, Com. Bucks. Octob. 14, 1662 by J.B. B.D.	J. B. (John Bird), b. 1584 or 5.	1663 (1663)	Wing B2952; ESTC R14806	31,553	42

Therein no doubt expecting no lesse respect from you towards his Ambassadours then which your selves are wont to yield the common Ambassadors of worldly Princes Tull. de Autusp respond concerning whom it is a received sentence Jus Legatorum cum hominum prasidi● munitum sit tum etiam d●vino jure esse vallatum In somuch that the calling of such Ambassadors is so honourable among us at this day that by the custome and courtesy of the land I take it he that hath once been employed therein takes place above all men of his ranke which have not done their Prince the like service Why should I recount so many noble families in this Nation raised to great estates for their dexterity in these expeditions when by the law of nature the very Heathens have highly honoured them though they came from Countries of which they were sure that they wish'd them no good As we read especially of the Persians how they made all the Grecians wealthy who came to them in this kinde heaping such honourable presents and preferments upon them that the Athenians condemned Timagoras to death for very envy Plutar● in Pi●opid rather then for justice seeing that as the Historian justly noteth they patiently endured Epicrates a drudg and tankard-bearer when he did not only confess that himself had taken gifts of the King of Persia but also professe openly that he would make a new law as they did yearly choose nine officers to govern the City that so they should choose nine of their poorest and meanest Citizens to be sent Ambassadors to the King of Persia that they might return home joyfully enriched with his guifts Nay Val. Max lib. 6. c. 5 6. which is more notable the Romans dismissed some with honour and rewards which had been somewhat too busy in tampering against their own state and Ambassadors To move you Velut si eg●egi● reprendas corpore navos Hoc l. 1. Sat. 6. 1 Cor. 4.1 though some slips should escape us unawars yet not to take all advantage or the worst exception against every wart or mole in a fair body but with more tendernesse of conscience to attend our Apostles counsell let men so esteeme of us as the Ministers of Christ and stewards of the Mystries of God lest the evill spirit rise up in judgement against all that deny us our due honour putting them to silence with that often repeated confession Act. 16.17 These are the Servants of the most high God which shew unto us the way of Salvation 31. The consideration whereof might procure among all men greater favour and respect toward us if it were not for a pack of shuffling Momes and Malecontents who cannot abide to hear these things spoken but presently they cry out that this is a common place in which every one can be eloquent for himselfe and we may spare our labour of telling them that which they know already so well as our selves May not this fitly call to mind that excellent pill to purge their choler Horat. Tacitus pasci si posset corvus haberet plus dapis rixa multo minus invidiaeque It 's to be feared most of them wish our silence in this subject not because they intend to give us our dues without asking but that they might carry them all away without any noise or check or controle not onely in private contempt and disgrace to our persons but with open violence to our estates and patrimonies Which some think more cleanly carryed by the three-headed Cerberus of multiplied impropriations customes and prohibitions But to make up the messe a fourth sort have outstript all pretending most against Popery and yet deluded with a Popish design of reviving Abbas Joachims Monasticall conceits Platina Et Guliel de sancto amore In test verit temp p. 468. Et M. Sulli de de Monach. cap. 8. fol. ●4 for propagating their Apocryphal Evangelium aeternum to evacuate all the canonicall Oracles of God Which device hath drawn them aside to associate and bandy together in a direfull League to weary and weed up all both root and branch Moses and Aaron Kingdome and Church Law and Gospell all together to be feld and stockt up at one blow Howsoever some indeavor since to excuse and daube up the matter that they never intended it should have come to that passe yet the more indiscreet and unadvised they who prest the plot so fiercely Jud 12.6 for the Shibboleth to try their Brethren and expose them to the spoile when they should have built up Jerusalem Psal 47.2 and gathered together the Outcasts of Israel never forecasting that it must needs have proved thus in the event if as Histiaus sewed up the garment Gr. Nazlan ad versus Julian Orat. 4. so Arist●goras might have had leave to put it on and liberty to have marched forward under the Banner of self-denying ordinances to subdue all unto the bondage of their self-seeking Yoke 32. A strange adventure though sometimes privately attempted Hieron ad E●agr quaest Heb. in Gen. yet never openly abetted since the Grace of God first saluted the Nation When the Hebrew Doctors hold this tradition that all the first born of Noah from Shem to Aaron managed the Sacerdotal with the Sovereign power when Saint Jerom hath left us this observation De quast Hebr. in Par●l that in the Books of Kings the Sons of David the Priests are recorded in the Chronicles to have been principle at the Kings hand and both saith he to the same sence for their nobility and priority in the sight of the King When Jeboash King of Judah did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his dayes 2 Reg 12.2 wherein Jehoiada the Priest was at his hand to instruct him When Joash the King of Isra●l came down to the prophet Elisha sick to death 2. Reg. 13 14. and wept over his face saying oh my Father my Father the Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof therein confessing that the Prophet had been to him a father indeed procuring more blessing and comfort for him then he could find in any of his own chariots 2 Reg. 13.16 and horsemen At which time also when he was directed to put his hand upon the bow Elisha put his hands upon the Kings hands thereby pointing as with the mark of a hand in the margent to this memorable note that the Kings hands are never so powerful prosperous as when they are assisted with the Prophets hands though weak in body yet strong in the Spirit when the cruel enemies of the Church in their ●●rest persecutions have made strictest inquisition against Bishops as the surest Pillars and supporters of the right and sound Faith Because they cannot be ignorant of this custome alwaies prevailing in the Church Vine Lir. C●m monit cap. 1. ut quo quisque flore●et religiosior eo premptior novellis adinventionibus contrairet At whose

any base or butcherly battel of Frogs and Mice against flesh and bloud but to that great and glorious battel of Michael and his Angels fighting against the dragon and his Angels Apoc. 12.7 Ephes 6.12 Qu●nt Curt● Isa 44.26 that ye may be able to wrestle against principalities against powers against rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickednesse in high places Where our presence with you is not as that of the Carthaginian Ambassadors to the besieged Citizens of Tyre Tacitus annal lib. 2. Philip. 4.17 Magis solatium quàm auxilium but the Lord by us confirmeth the word of his servants and perfo●meth the counsel of his messengers 36. Non ad invidiam ista sed conciliandae misericordiae refere As S. Paul exhorted his Philippians to be bountifull not because he desired a gift but because he desired fruit that might abound to their account so we admonish you in this case to be dutiful that ye may avoid the punishments by all laws enacted against the disobedient Et enim nomen legati epusmodi esse debet Tull. in Verrem lib. 3. Val. Mac. lib. 6. c. 6. ut non modo inter s●ciorum jura sed etiam inter hostium arma incolume versetur Insomuch that the Romans delivered the●r owne fr●ee●s and neighbours who had but justled their enemies Ambassadors bound into their own hands to punish them And when other Nations refused to do them like justice all men have held the way more lawfull and open to right themselves As we see by the grievous tortures which for ●ur●●lling his Ambassadors David with the overthrow of their King and Countrey inflicted upon the Ammonites by putting them under 2 Sam. 12 3● sawes and under harrowes and axes of iron and making them pass through the tile-kilne nay when men were disabled God himself hath by other helps assisted them Witnesse the overthrow of Corinth Carthage Val Ma● l. 2. c 2. Thebes Tyre Tarentum especially in avenging the cause of his own Ambassadours upon the contempt of his own people Both in their first captivity of which we read in the end of their own Chronicles That the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers rising betimes and sending 2 Pa● 36.15 16. because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place But they mocked the messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets untill the wrath of the Lord arose against his people till there was no remedy And also in their second captivity of which our Apostle writeth to the Thessalonians That they killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets and persecuted us saith he and they pleased not God and were contrary to all men forbidding to speak to the Gentiles 1 〈◊〉 2 15 16. that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway for the wrath came upon them to the utterm●st 37. There is no need there to object Idú● Cassianum Cui bono Tull. pro Milone To what good is all this alledged if you will needs have it in plain terms it is all to this end even to make good that voice in S. Cyprians vision for no vaine illusion but a divine and sure prediction Qui Christo non credit sacerdotem facienti postea credere incipiet sacerdotem vindicanti Cypr. l. 4. ep 9. These my brethren are the causes why you are called upon so often to take heed of these sins because there is nothing so sacred which may not sometimes meet with the sacrilegious Quando sacrilegia minuta puniuntur Sen. de trarqu lib. 2. cap. 3. Aul. Gel. lib 3. c. 9. magna in triumphis feruntur lest you should deceive your selves in seeking to escape by riding away in post haste upon the sequestred race of Sejanus horse with the plundered gold of Tolouse In which case the Lord hath threatned such fugitives that because they will flee upon horses Isa 30.16 therefore they shall flee and seeing the● will ride upon the swift therefore they that pursue them shall be swifter Even to overtake and arrest them with the Proverb of Sol●mon which imports a snare worse then that which strangles at the place of execution Even a snare to devour that which is consecrated Prov. 20.25 and after v●wes to make inquiry whether it hath been d●ne well or no. 38. Otherwise for our selves we doe not onely know that as they which wait on the Altar are partakers with the altar so the Lord hath ordained farre doubtless above all ordinances of men that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel But we have also learned 1 Cor. 9.13 14 Phil. 4 11. in whatsoever state we are therewith to be content And yet as we read of the Statute of the Romans in honour of those that miscarried by any untoward calamity in the time of their ambassy abroad how they erected Statues and Monuments for them at home Tull. Phil. 9. to the credit and comfort of their friends and kindred whom they left behind so we doubt not but that God hath provided better things for us Though we labour in vain and spend our strength for nought among men yet surely our judgement is with the Lord Isa 49 4. and our work with our God And though the contempt of our calling be with too many swolne to that height that they make it their grand question whether we may with safe conscience take of men any reward for our pains yet as Ambassadors may Plut. de quaest Rom. 43. without question by consent of all Nations receive from the people to whom they are sent tokens of honour regard and support anciently called Lauteia for their costliness and daintiness but they expect their proper maintenance and wages chiefly from their own Masters so we believe the case stands with us And beside the present maintenance allowed in his Word liberal enough if rightly weighed in the balance of the Sanctuary the Lord himself will make it openly manifest in his deeds at length When every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour Where they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament 1 Co●n 3.9 Dan. 12.3 but they that turn many to righteousness shall shine in a higher degree of glory at the stars for ever and ever And therefore in this hope being supported by the word of truth by the power of God 2 Cor. 6.7 by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left yet we continue and hold out to this day as those who still are now Ambassadors for Christ 39. Fourthly and finally reverend and beloved high and low old and young one with another give me leave now for conclusion to commend one vertue more profitable upon all occasions that nothing may be lost but all tied up fast in the bond of perfectness Col●ss 3.14 Though God who c●mmanded the light