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A77115	Urbs deplorata. A sermon preached in course in the cathedral church of St. Mary Lincoln on the tenth Sunday after Trinity, Aug. 19. 1666. Happening at the time of the general assize. By Edward Boteler, prebendary of that church, rector of Wintringham in that county, and one of his Majesties chaplains.	Boteler, Edward, d. 1670.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3803B; ESTC R223809	21,876	69

necessity indispensible necessity There is not onely the necessity of a duty in it We sin if we be Ignorant but the necessity of a remedy We die unless we know him whom to know is eternal life It is Maxime enough that of Fulgentius Gravius Lex agnita quam ignorata condemnat Knowledg damns deeper then ignorance but yet ignorance condemns too Capernaum is damn'd with a Strapado exalted up to Heaven and then thrown down to Hell because they heeded not the advantages of the Gospel but yet Sodom and Gomorrah with whom the comparison is made destitute of such means shall also suffer the vengeance of eternal fire Vt mitius ardeant is all the miserable mercy which Ignorance can pretend to it may alleviate cannot acquit and what is that when nothing of Hell is less then intolerable To say thou never taughtest in our streets will be but an insecure plea in that day when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels 2 Thes 1.7 8. in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that know not God And that for Si Cognovisses If thou hadst known They were Ignorant But that 's not all Here 's an Et Tu beside or a Vel Tu as Beza Even Thou A personal or rather a national aggravation of this Ignorance If thou hadst known Even Thou Thou with an Emphasis Thou that hast most cause and from whom it might most justly be expected having bin brought up under the Paedagogy of Moses disciplin'd by the Prophets and taught of God Thou rather before above all others for it is a tacit comparison of Hierusalem with the other cities of Judea with the whole world so notable a Thou is this Even Thou And that the Emphasis may appear in greater force and vigour please to look at this Thou through the following particulars 1. Thou And that Thou was Vrbs in the foregoing verse He beheld the City saying If Thou It was no rude and untutour'd village no infrequented Town and so void of commerce with what was more ingenuous and civil but a City a place of Order and Discipline under the immediate administration of Law and Covernment full of Synagogues and Schools the chaffering place of opinions the Empory for tongues Nations Psa 122.5 and Languages There were set Thrones of Judgment the Thrones of the house of David Gadara was Swinish knew not to prize a Saviour discharged him their coasts Micah was doltish got a house full of Gods made an Ephod and Teraphin and consecrated a Priest yet the less to blame because one of them was a Country-Town the other a Grange onely on Mount Ephraim few paths of knowledge led to them they were out of wisdom's walk But thou Even Thou A City full of people great among the Nations the joy of the whole Earth and a Type of Heaven A chief place of Concourse a Confluence of Priests and Elders and Scribes and Rabbi's and long Robes and yet be ignorant Thy Glory is thy shame Thou the City that 's the First 2. Thou and that Thou was Vrbs electa the chosen City Psal 132.13 14. The Lord hath chosen Zion to himself he hath desired it for an habitation this is my rest for ever here will I dwell It was the place he chose out of all the earth to place his Name there Deut. 14.23 Cant. 6.9 She was the onely One of her Mother She was the choice One of her that bare her the Daughters saw her and blessed her the Queens and the Concubines and they praised her Others were vile Psal 60.8 and refuse in his eyes Moab is my Wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my Shooe Isa 43.4 But thou wast precious in mine eyes and honourable Deu. 32.9 Am. 3.2 The Lords portion is his people Israel is the Lot of his Inheritance You onely have I known of all the families of the earth Psa 10.4 And now through the pride of their countenance they will not know nor seek after God Deut. 32.6 Do you thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Shall he that hath chosen you complain of you Psal 81.11 Israel would none of me It is an Ingratitude incomparable a guilt could lie at no door but thine If Thou hadst known Even Thou 3. Thou and that thou was Vrbs Adamata The beloved City What the Jews said when they saw his tears for Lazarus we may say when we hear him weeping over this City Joh. 11.36 Behold how he loved it Psal 47.4 Psal 87.2 This was the Excellency of Jacob whom he loved The Lord loveth the Gates of Zion more then all the dwellings of Jacob. Jacob more then all the world and Zion more then all Jacob. The time of this people was a Time of love says Ezek. 16.8 Ezekiel of love and marriage and all says Esai Isa 62.4 Thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy Land Beulah for the Lord delighteth in thee and thy Land shall be married They shall be mine Mal. 3.17 saith the Lord of Hosts in the day when I make up my Jewels They his and he not theirs That 's not fair Isa 1.2 Hear O Heavens and give Ear O Earth Nay Isa 5.3 Let the Inhabitants of Hierusalem and even of Judah themselves judge betwixt God and his Vineyard Amor amoris praetium and it is a reasonable price too to repay one love with another The Spouse thought so Cant. 2.16 My beloved is mine and I am his St. John makes the same account We love him because he loved us first 1 Joh. 4.19 And this people were of that mind once God remindes them of it by the Prophet I remember thee Jer. 2.2 3. the kindness of thy youth the love of thine espousals when thou wentest after me in the Wilderness in a Land that was not sown Israel then was holiness unto the Lord But now false and faithless that thou art Thou hast forgotten me days without number Jer. 2.32 and hast forsaken thy first love Thou even Thou Rev. 2.4 It was Vrbs adamata that 's the third 4. Thou and that Thou was Vrbs Sancta The holy City Hierusalem made Greek carries holiness in the name Zech. 12.20 Sanctum Domino is the Motto and Impress of it Holiness unto the Lord. It was dedicated to God betimes there Abraham sacrificed Gen. 22.13 having commuted his Offering when it was as yet but Mount Moriah And after that it was made the Residence and Station of the Arke where God did exhibit and presentiate himself Heb. 9.1 2 3. where were Ordinances of Divine Service the Tabernacle the Sanctuary and the Holiest of all so the Apostle enumerates them Hither the Tribes go up Psal 122.4 the Tribes of the Lord unto the Testimony of Israel to give thanks unto the name of the Lord so the Psalmist applauds them To be short Hier. Ep. ad

Si Cognovisses quae ad pacem If thou hadst known the things which belong to thy peace The Lawyer is thought somebodie in his Country and how usefully knowing some may be in that eminent Profession we need not seek out of this Assembly for evidence The better World payes a just honour to the merits of some here present Baron Hales c. may their share be as great in the best knowledge that they may never hear a Si Cognovisses quae ad pacem to implead them at the great Tribunal If thou hadst known the things which belong unto thy Peace The Physitian hath found a new stream through the old Lake of blood rifled the bosome and raved into the bowels of Causes gone deep to lay the Foundation of his Mineral Kingdom pretending to make some pretty little Immortalities here below but he dies like the Fool Psa 49.10 and the bruitish person and sadly reflects upon himself with a Si Cognovisses quae ad pacem If thou hadst known the things which belong unto thy Peace The Vertuoso disdaining the shoulder of the tallest Philosopher to help him up looks over all Antiquity by new Modes and Methods of his own findes out the Original of Forms sees those Effluviums of kindness that pass betwixt attractive bodies and their Objects discovers how the Species of things are laid up in the Memorie and each comes up and presents it self at the call of the Understanding whilst the rest lye still reads Lectures of Magnitude upon the most Minute Bodies looks wishly into the Air and findes it all stones and those animated too takes the Heavens with his Telescope holds intelligence with the Stars knows all their Gests and Journeys no Travailer is better versed in the ways of this lower World and yet happily at last is convinced that Si Cognovisses quae ad pacem is infinitely desirable before them all If thou hadst known the things that belong unto thy Peace All these are Dross and Dung nothing or worse then nothing to Quae ad pacem to the excellencie of the knowledge of Jesus Christ so St. Paul who was Scholar enough charged by Festus for over-much by none for over-little learning When they of Ephesus began to know Quae ad pacem and the Name of Jesus the Prince of Peace was magnified the Conjuring-Books and Papers of curiosity were burned not now fit to remain as waste Paper though formerly of great value more worth then many of our whole Libraries There is still some inconvenience haunts and attends all knowledge but this of Quae ad pacem Scientia inflat other knowledge puffs up but this edifies Scientia destruitur other knowledge shall vanish away but this is above the power of the grave keeps us company into the other world All other is but Saltus Cicadae like the short skips of a pitiful Grashopper this is Volatus Aquilae the soarings of an Eagle in the face of Heaven When we have gotten as much knowledge as our heads can hold we shall finde Quae ad pacem is all in all to know the things that can make us happy that belong unto our Peace And now the Apostle if you please shall lead us to a close of all Let us follow after the things which make for peace Rom. 14.19 and things whereby one may edifie another Quae pacis sunt the very appurtenances of peace are precious and worthy our pursuit My Lords the Judges and you the Magistrates remember I beseech you that you carry Quae ad pacem in your Commissions and Title and let the troublers of Israel know that you carry not the sword in vain Let the Clergy remember that it is a promise at least made at the Ordering of Priests to set forward peace and love among all Christians that we may have no more of that dismal wild-fire thrown abroad from the Pulpit which probably kindled but most certainly increased our late flames Quam speciosi pedes Evangelizantium pacem How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace Let the Gentlemen of the long Robe hug no quarrels under it but Love Quae ad pacem better then commonly they do It is below you with Demetrius and his Fellows not to ' bate an Hair of your Diana because by this craft you have your wealth Assure your selves Quae ad pacem will get you a better name build you a surer house make you a happier Exit Mark the just man Psa 37.37 and consider the upright for the end of that man is peace And as to the Commonalty me thinks Quae ad pacem should do well with them after such noise of the Warriour and Garments rolled in blood And though it may justly be suspected there are some still whose words are softer then butter but War is in their hearts yet it is to be hoped God will ere long scatter those people that delight in War and give his people the blessing of Peace That we may see Augustus his peace the Temple of Janus shut Janum Quirinis clausit Hor. li carm 4. Od. 15. peace of Nations Orbem pacatum a constant petition in the Common-prayers of Tertullian's days a quiet World Hierusalem's Peace the Peace of the Church Psal 122.6 Let them prosper that love it Hamor's Peace the Peace of the Common-wealth Gen. 34.21 These men are peaceable with us let them dwell in the land and trade therein Peace of Commerce St. Paul's Peace Peace and joy the ceasing of the storm and the breaking out of the Sun Peace of Conscience Jacob's Peace Peace with God a Ladder from Earth to Heaven Peace of Correspondence Hezekiah's Peace Peace and Truth in our days Peace all our lives Simeon's Peace Peace at our death Pacem in Novissimis Lord now lettest thou thy Servants depart in Peace And so at last come to the Disciples Peace a little before the Text Pacem in Coelo Peace in Heaven and Glory in the Highest To which Peace he brings us who hath bought it for us with his Precious Blood and is our Peace-maker the Mighty God the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Unto him be Glory in the Church throughout all Ages World without end Amen HALLELUJAH FINIS

into a Well an Ocean Ch. 9.1 Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the Daughter of my People It was the last Item which our Lord that Man of Sorrows Isa 53.3 gave them in that black walk to his passion where it seems some had the good nature to lament him Daughters of Hierusalem weep not for me Luk. 23.28 but weep for your selves and for your children But since they had not the grace to do it for themselves he hath the compassion to do it for them for He beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace You see by this time whose the saying is and what it means Patent viscera St. Bern. per vulnera as his bowels did appear by those wounds which they after made in his body so are they here audible from his tongue legible in his eyes all parts of him speak his passionate thoughts for the sins and sufferings of Hierusalem Sins and sufferings they were not parted in his must not be in our mourning We care not for them in conjunction are over-apt to divide them Sufferings we quickly feel and heavily complain of scarce a word of our sins we go under them as if we were insensible Tears for sufferings overflow our cheeks often for sins seldome fill our eyes When we suffer we can weep showers but we put off our sins with a few heat-drops and rarely they get them too But this is a squandring away that precious Eye-water intended for better use and meets with few or no Comforters Rachel wept and would not be comforted she wept for her losses Mary Magdalen wept and found joy she wept for her lusts Sorrow was made for sin is good for nothing else and whatsoever streams run another way are straglers and have lost their Channel Let us then borrow from our sufferings to bestow upon our sins Isa 61.3 this will bring the Garment of Praise for the spirit of heaviness This is Aquam fluentem in Cloacam deducere in hortum as St. Augustine expresseth himself to turn the water which ran through the Sink and bring it to the sweeter and more delicious service of the Garden And certainly we have cause enough never more our sins are many our sufferings not a few The Sword hath slain its thousands and the Plague it s ten thousands and the Fire hath devoured our Habitations a Fire only short of that threatned in Jeremy Jer. 21.12 To burn and none can quench a fire only second to that in Deuteronomy which burns to the lowest hell Ch. 32.22 and sets on fire the foundations of the Mountains And for our sins who can number them How shall we list those Anakins which are all Commanders Pride Luxury Prophaneness Atheism Irreligion Whoredome Drunkenness and Oaths of the new fashion Propter hoc lugebit terra Hos 4 3. therefore shall the Land mourn Because of these Ne faceat pupilla oculi Thren 2.18 Let tears run down day and night let not the apple of thine eye cease We may well weep for sin who are all sin when he wept who knew no sin we heartily for our selves when he so affectionately for others He wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace The words are very passionate and so somewhat broken like the language of Mourners Griefs can hardly speak out The Book of the Lamentations is observed to have no Title in the Original Cor. a Lapid Arg. in Thren that which it now wears was bestowed on it by the Seventy two Interpreters Sorrow is none of the best Speakers Flevimus gemitus Luctantia verba repressit The affectionate thoughts of our Lord abounded till they crouded one another so that like a multitude at a small Port each hindred the others pass broken words coming from a broken heart a Soul sighing it self out in love and with an earnest compassion crying out Oh that thou or If thou hadst known c. Nor doth the Aposiopesis or repression of some words make so wide a breach in the sense that we need fetch in any kind of Fillers to make it up Indeed if we make the If conditional only then we must resolve with the Commentator Maldonat in Loc. Dictio si exigit aliquod verbum ubi quodammodo quiescat there must be something brought in for it to lean and rest upon and it will need a larger Supplement If thou knewest what There must be an object for knowledge it will starve if it have nothing but second notions to feed upon If thou knewest what then It must be to some purpose or else it makes but a sounding brass and a tinkling Cymbal To supply these defects Interpreters have busied themselves more then needed they might have spared their Paralipomenon's with more thanks Some of them are not worth naming I 'le only present you with two or three of the better sort If thou The people in thee and the chief of thee knew me as this poor company of Disciples doth and as those lesser Cities which have acknowledged and received me Annot. in Locum So the Italian Diodati If thou knewest Ruinam scilicet subversionem quae tibi imminet how near thou art to ruine and destruction thou wouldest weep who now rejoycest So our Country-man Gorran In Loc. If thou knowest sicut ego cognosco says Gregory and Bede Homil. 29 in Evang. What I know and see coming upon thee thou wouldest weep as I do and have a more serious sense of thy sad and deplorable condition But this Conditionality ingageth it's followers in unnecessary difficulties and gives the Text not so much a supply as a surfet Nor is it so safe Verba foris accersere Beza in Annot. says a learned pen upon the place For if we may call in words at pleasure we shall soon open a way to heretical depravations If we must have condition that of Saint Cyril Augustine and Theophylact is doubtless best who rest the Si cognovisses upon the following Quae ad pacem tibi and so make but one supply thus If thou knewest the things which belong unto thy peace thou wouldest not neglect the opportunity now put into thy hands But what need this If be conditional when it may be Optative may better be so Praestat ut in optandi forma legamus quam cum reticentia Oh that thou had'st known or Would thou had'st bin so happy as to know the things that belong unto thy peace in this thy day And then we have the compleat sense within us and the sentence will be more emphatical nor doth this want the countenance of the best Authors for besides that it is usual in the elegant Lucian the

Marcel To tum mysterium istius nostrum urbis vernaculuus est what ever rarity sojourned in therest of the World was at home in that City Had it been Dan or Bethel that had not known him it had been less wonder the infection of Jeroboam might still stick by them they were his nurseries of Idolatry and Rebellion He durst not let them know the worship of the true God for fear they should honour the King and return to the house of David Nor had it been so much for Beersheba they were naught by prescript corrupted to a custom The manner of Beersheba liveth as it is in Amos Secundum usum Beershebae Cha. 8 14. And Samaria may go in the same rank with them The Statutes of Omri are kept there Mic. 6.6 they were devoted to the follies of Ahab their founder But Thou the City of God of which such excellent things are spoken the City of his holiness Coeleste in terris Sacrarium the Repository of all that 's mysterious and sacred Thou to carry an Inscription like that Altar at Athens Act. 17.23 To the unknown God Thou to be confuted by the Oxe that knows his owner and be like the Beasts that perish Thou thus to unhallow thy name Hier. Ep ad Eustoch Palma vitiorum est honesta polluere This heightens thy sin and hastens thy ruine If Thou hadst known even Thou It was Vrbs Sancta The holy City be that the last I shall pass this particular by applying only as Nathan did his parable to David 2 Sam. 12.7 Thou art the Man This is ours too We are an Emphatical Thou Thou the Church and people of England Psa 72.12 14. delivered when thou wert poor and hadst no helper Redeemed from deceit and violence Am. 4.11 A Firebrand pluckt out of the burning Hos 6.1 2. torne and healed smitten and bound up killed and revived and thou livest in his sight Deut. 33.29 Happy art thou O people who is like unto thee saved by the Lord the shield of thy strength and the sword of thine excellency thine enemies are found liers unto thee and thou treadest upon their high places The Lord hath saved thee to a miracle by Land and shewed many wonders for thee in the deep The eternal God is thy refuge ver 27. and underneath are the everlasting Armes and he shall thrust out the Enemy before thee and shall say destroy Thy mercies are Talleys to Hierusalem's more then second to them O do not overmatch her in sin and sottishness be not the transcript of her unworthiness let it never be said of thee If thou hadst known even thou And that for the first part of the charge against this people their Ignorance hinted in Si cognovisses and aggravated in Et Tu If thou hadst known even thou The first part of our Text hath had a large portion of our time the rest must be put off with less briefly then of the 2. Their Improvidence which is manifest 1. Because of their opportunity it was In Die they had a day for it Day and so it must needs be the Sun was up Mal. 4.2 Malachi's Sun of Righteousness was now risen with healing in his wings Day it was for all was little better then night before Tenebrae or Vmbrae natural darkness or legal shaddows were till now in every Quarter of the World And therefore the estate of the World before this day is described by night and darkness The night is far spent Rom. 13.22 Mat. 4.16 the day is at hand The people which sate in darkness saw great light and to them who sate in the Region and shadow of death light is sprung up Illuxerunt quaedam Coruscationes Orbi terrarum saith St. Prosper of all that little light which the quickest eyes could hitherto discover there were some little glimmerings only broke out and now and then appeared Abraham saw this day and was glad but it was E longinquo afarre off and through the perspective of an extraordinary faith Balaam when his eyes were opened to see the Vision of the Almighty could discover a Star coming out of Jacob. Job saw through those dark times and the darker chambers chambers of the grave St. Hier. Et nec dum natus erat Dominus Redemptorem suum vidit a mortuis resurgentem Saw him rising from the dead before he was seen conversing among the living Act. 3.24 And not onely Moses but all the Prophets from Samuel and those that follow after as many as have spoken have likewise foretold of these days says St. Isa 60.3 Peter in his Sermon at the Temple-Gate Esai saw the Gentiles coming to this light and Kings to the brightness of this rising John Baptist who stood betwixt the Law and the Gospel and is therefore by the Fathers called Fibula utriusque legis brought in some more light yet he was not that light but was sent to bear witness of that light Joh. 1.8 He was onely Day-star to the Sun and it was as yet but Sicut mane expansum super montes 't is Joel's expression Joel 2.21 As the morning spread upon the Mountains It was never till the air was inlightened with that brisking Hodie issuing from the mouth of an Angel This day is born to you a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. It was that I may borrow several tongues to speak withal at once Crepusculum legis The Law 's Twilight Gallicinium Prophetarum The Cock-crowing of the Prophets but now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through the tender mercies of our God the Day-spring from on high hath visited us It was never perfect day till those Beams of light began to gild the World The Sun till then was under the Horizon now he is come to his Zenith and shines from the heights of Heaven And now none can be blind but Vespertiliones fidei post occasum Solis evigilantes in the words of Parisiensis They are Bats and Owles that withdraw and will have no Sun Joh. 3.19 This is the condemnation that light is come into the World and men loved darkness rather then light This was their case it was In die fair day-light with them and yet they would not see they abused their Opportunity The first piece of their Improvidence 2. They had a propriety in this day too it was In dietua In thy day Dies Hebraeorum more dicitur say the Glosses The Hebrews call day that alotment of time in which Overtures for Heaven are made to them in the tenders of the Gospel Which were now so made to this people as never the like to any The Sun shined upon others Radio obliquo upon them Radio directo primarily upon them and directly but obliquely upon the rest of the World Luk. 2.32 He was a light to lighten the Gentiles but the glory of his people Israel They were within the Tropick where the Sun had all his motion his