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 Å¿ 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. â—ilogiâ— Glâ—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 Albereâ— Durerâ— Tyurdei l 2. Musices vide Tolosaeuum Syntax arâ—is Mirabilâ— 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 Pyâ—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. Maâ—imus Tâ—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 â—â—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
chiefly as some histories instance for their sanguinolent devilish malignant disposition in using to crucifie some children as upon our good friday still in derision of our Messias when I see how all nations are weary of theÌ„ as a tender stomack of unholsom meate ready to disgorge theÌ„ how as th'Apostle speaks of theÌ„ even to this day God they please not and are contrarie to all men 1. Thes 2 15. How as is said of o Gen. 16. v. 12. Ismael like Ismalits rather then Israelits their hand is against every man everie mans against theÌ„ how even the Turkes detest theÌ„ above any nation for killing their own Prophet Christ the best Prophet they say that ever was excepting Mahomet will not admit any amongst them except he first turne Christian and then a Turkish Renegado In their reproach also using a kinde of imprecation if this be not true would God I might die a p M. Purchase in his pilgrimage Iew as our perverse Irish use a worse when I doe such or such a thing I le turne Protestant and goe to Church I say laying to heart and desiring all and everie of us to lay to heart these premisses this strict and severe though just and legall proceeding of God with these his owne people in these specified particulars together with his multiplied accumulated renued mercies to us in giving us so many blessings forgiving or forbearing us still after all our rebellions and provocations by which even wee racke and stretch his patience as cloath on the tentor hookes not cutting us off as hee might doe and hath done them roote bough and branch but giving us a large space of repentance as hee did to q All the time that â—oâ— lived amongst them Sodom to the old r All the time the Arke was in building world to Å¿ Revel 2.19 Iezabell not fortie dayes as to t Ionas 3. Ninive but fortie yeares in the pure and powerfull preaching of the Gospell under a gracious Deborah and more then twentie yeares added since under so wise and worthie a King all this while manuring and managing and pruning us as once his Israelitish u Esay 5. vers 1.2 3.4.5 Vineyeard hedging us in and invironing us with so many mercies of adornation and preservation as would stretch Arithmeticke to number them and Geometrie to measure them making us as famous over the whole world as they are infamous us as much feared as was Ioshuah of the Cananites Alexander of the Indians Taubut of the French w A Drumme was made of his skin to terrifie his enemies when hee was dead teste â—ranâ—zio in VaÌ„dalia libr. 11. cap. 9. Maiol colloq 7. pag. 270 Et Akiatâ— in Emblem sic câ—te detracta Ziseas c. Zoenus potuit vincere Pontifices Zisca of the Popish amongst the Bohemians Constantine amongst the Pagans and Bellisarius and Narses amongst the Gothes and Vandals yea as much loved and admired of our friendes and confederates and awefully feared of our enemies as they all are of all hated and detested with an Anathema Maranatha till the vayle be removed that they love and receive yea beleeve in the Lords Christ their expected Saviour Yea when I consider how the Lord by the word preached by the inward motions and suggestions of his spirit which sometimes in some flashes knockes at the doore of the heart of a x Numb 23.10 Balaam a carnall y Ioh. 6.34 Iohn 7.46 Iew a z Iohn 4.15 Samaritane a a Pilate Math. 27.23.24 Iohn 18.38 Heathen an b Act. 26.28 Agrippa by crosses by afflictions which wrought on c 2. Chron. 33.10.11 Manasses and the Gospels d Luk. 15.16.17 prodigall yea sometimes on these Iewes e Hosâ—â— 6. v. 1.2 themselves by fatherly castigations and corrections paternall admonitions and expostulations legall Cominations and redargutions Evangelicall promises and consolations yea even by mercies and judgements nay even by signes and wonders from the earth from the heavens from the ayre by Comets blazing starres visions and apparitions as often to these Iewes before their f See the book extant called Doome forewarning to judgement where at large is recited the voice commanmanding some to goe to Pella the crying of one Iesus woe woe to Ierusalem with manie visions and wonders destruction as prodigious and prognosticating as anie recorded by g Texter in Officina de Miraculis Textor or h Lycosthenes hath write a great booke onely de Prodigijs Lycosthenes How I say by all these the Lord hath lured us unto him laboured to weane us from our sinnes as the childe from the desired dugge that iniquitie bee not our i Ezek. 18.30 destruction as it was to these Iewes c. when I see hee hath rowled everie stone touched everie string used all meanes for our conversion to prevent our confusion chiefly drawne us with the cordes of love using to us the rod of beautie as our indulgent Shepheard to them the rod of bands making us above any Nation in the World patternes and presidents of his mercie as they of his justice to present times and to all posteritie making them exemplarie markes of justice to us not us to them as our sinnes deserved I say thus comparing mercies and judgements together as white with blacke as the Heathens Venus with Vulcan our mercies this day ballanced and poyâ—ed with their miseries have such a luster that if we see them not wee are blinde if with David and his people we blesse not the Lord for them wee are as much past grace as past gratitude CHAP. XIIII Speciall deliverances of our Princes Peeres and people from Romish Treasons THus have wee opened the Boxe and seene the pearles the blessings of great Brittaine comparing Nation with Nation our English with the Iewish Sion but to come neerer still to my scope and ayme and to instance in moe specialties the priviledges and prerogatives that wee have had even in our owne memories to omit former times equall with the Iewes in the happie and prosperous Regiments of our Kings and Governours may notably serve as a further pricke and goade to true gratitude so pressed and prescribed for in some particulars wee shall have the ballancing if not the casting scales I cannot enumerate all as hee that comes into a garden pluckes not everie flower but some choyce ones compare our late Deborah our mother in Israell Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie with their David our present Liege Soveraigne with their Salomon not onely in the propagation and continuation of true Religion together with the two goodly Daughters of so gracious a Mother Peace and k Religio peperit divitias ast filia devoravit matreÌ„ Plentie in which wee sympathize with them nay farre exceede them for as our times have not beene so turbulent so truculent so bloudie and boysterous as Davids that was a man of warre and shed much bloud as hee
snowes in Summer or in Harvest raine Or as some pardons executions done Apologize it 's well thou camest thus * Est aliquid prodire tenus si non detur ultra soone Since all that Time which lent thee speaking breath Thou staidst for presse well nie till prest to death Yet lame a 2. Sam. 16.3.4 chap. 18. vers 24.25.26 Mephibosheth thou bringst a heart Better then Ziba though he act first part Say more how Tyme so clipt swift Fames flig wing That till Novembers fift she scarse did bring Those gladding newes to our Hibernian coast Of Charles returne which we desired most So oft our trusts were voyd so guld our Ioyes By flying Lying Fictions Newes Tales Toyes So fluctuate we were twixt Hopes and Feares As feathers pendent in the windes and ayres That Hearing truths by common votes shoutes cryes We scarse durst trust our eares without our eyes For even when Prince was come Plebean crew Vox populi cries still too good for true But when trueths Trumpe by vulgar breathes was blowne Our Ioyes reviv'd as out of Feares dead sowne As when hot Phoebus gleames to life doth bring Hymens dead seeming b Sylphae Culex Scarabei Cicada cancri saepinâ— mori reviviscere censentur ab Aristot anim lib. 8. c. 17. Idem affirmat Vincent de Pulicibus lib. 20 ca. 151. Idem Isidor lib. 12. cap. 8. Aelian lib. 2. ca. 29. De Muscis alij de alijs infectis infects Batts in spring Our Sunne reshines from that eclypsing cloud Of doubts and dangers which her lightes did shrewd As out of fearefull dreames in which she slept Our Irish Muse wakes laughes who earst had wept In Cyntheas circuite Circle of one Moone Mournefull Melpomine mirthfull is become And now as nimble Corybant she praunceth In our Ioyes Iubilees she friskes Trips daunceth That anchored in her Port she safe doth rest Fre'd from windes waves of doubts which tost her brest And with a foote as swift as Pegassus To mother Albions coast to scattered us Swarmes from her Hive whom Tyme Hibernifieth Live King Live Prince our glad Thalia crieth Let after ages Caesar Charles enroule Their names Fames facts Fates in eternall scroule That in their Nestors yeares desired dayes Our poore Plantations may their hopes helps rayse Whose Times expir'd above the Planets Seaven As they plant us great Iove plant them in Heaven IRELANDES IVBILEE OR IOYES IO PAEAN 1. Chron. Chap. 29. Vers 20.21.22 20 And David sayd to all the Congregation Now blesse the Lord your God And all the Congregation blessed the Lord God of their fathers and bowed downe their heads and worshipped the Lord and the King 21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord and offered burnt offrings unto the Lord on the morrow after that day even a thousand Bullockes a thousand Rams and a thousand Lambs with their drinke offrings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel 22 And dâ—d eate and drinke before the Lord on that day with great gladnesse and they made Salomon the sonne of David King the second time and annoynted him unto the Lord to be the chiefe Governour and Zadok to be Priest SECTIO I. The Preface or Prologomena to the whole AS we have heard by true certaine and infallible report the newes of the Prince his arrivall which we most delighted most desired to heare of all others in which before time we were wonderously devided and distracted betwixt hopes and feares as a Ship driven too and fro with contrary windes and waves by reason of the uncertainty of rumors and flying lying a Fama malum quo non velocius ullum fame every man speaking as he would have it rather then as the truth was as they were well affected or infected demonstrating themselves as the Damosell told Peter their very tongues bewraying them b Mark 14.17 as Shibboleth Sibboleth distinguished betwixt Ephramites and Gileadites c Iudg c. 12.5.6 as the proverbe is As the man is thinking so is the Bell still ringing As now I say it is certainely writ and fixt on the columnes of truth that the Prince is prosperously and safely in the outward and inward man arrived out of Spain to the English Court of which we have so many testimonies from such a cloud of eye eare d Oculati au riculares testes witnesses as the Apostles and Disciples had to the exhilerating of their formerly sadded e Math. 27. v. 7.8.9 Mark 16. v. 1.2.6.7 Luk. 24.36.41 hearts of the resurrection of their Saviour he now being more incredulous then that Didymus f Iohn 20 v. 25. which will not beleeve his eare in that which is vox populi without the sight of his owne eye So as we already have solemnized his arrivall with our heartiest gratulations we are here againe assembled to resolemnize it and to renue our commemorations by the addition of another succeeding exceeding mercie the mercifull marvailous and miraculous protection and preservation of our Soveraigne King our now Illustrious Prince our Noble Peeres the reverent Prelats the Gentrie the Cleargie the Commonaltie the whole body of the Kingdome our lives our wives our Children together with the Gospell and Religion who all at one blowe had perished g We had lost rem Regem gregem legem Regimen Religionem in the Powder Treason had that fatall blowe beene given that was intended which blowe the Lord Protector of great Brittaine the Watchman Centinell Shepheard of * Psal 35. v. 1. our English Israel prevented by putting a manacle on the bloudy Traytors hand by a speciall and peculiar providence even in an instant as once a hooke in the nosthrils of Sannacharib h 2. Kings 19.28 in the like exigent a halter about the necke of Haman i Esth. 7. v. 9. a gagg and a boult on the tongue of Balaam k Numb 23. ve 7.8 a moussell on the mouth of Tobiah and Shanballat l Neh. 6.14 a dart from heaven into the bowels of the Apostate Iulian h In his warre with Sapor the Persian King wounded with an arrow from heaveÌ„ he threw his bloud into the aire crying vicisti Galilee vicisti Thou hast overcome ô Galilean apud histor tripartit when they in their damnable resolutions intended mischiefe to the Church and people of God To teach all the proud pestilent and perverse spirits of the world what it is to kick against the pricke n Act 9. v. 5. swim against the streame for flesh and bloud to contend against God o 1 Cor. 10.22 who sitting in the heavens knowes in a trice how to confound them and their devices to crush their Cockatrice egges to sweepe down their Spiders webs to breake them as a potters vessel p Psal 29. as easily as a brasen head breakes in fitters a head of glasse q Impar congressus apud Al ciatum in suis Emblem all their Counsels plots projects and
conspiracies perishing as an Embrio withering as the grasse on the house topp dissolving as the waxe before the fire r Ps 58 6.7.8 as the snow before the Sunne and scattering as the dust and chaffe before the winde Å¿ Psal 1.4 There being neyther power nor strength against the Almightie who can turne even the wisedome of a Friarly and Iesuited Achitophell t 2. Sam. 15.31 into folly and the curses of the great Balaam of Rome against his Christian Sion v Numb 23.20 into blessings he that rules in heaven w Psal 2.4 laughing all the enemies of himselfe and his Church to scorne the holy one of Israel as appeares in the experience of this day having them in derision It being as probable as possible for that Antichristian man of Rome according to his projects and the Thrasonicall bragges of his Canonists and Gnatonicall claw-backes to depose Kings dispose kingdomes x The Pope Sycophants make him beleeve that hee may deponere Reges as Iehoida did Achaliae and disponere regna as wheÌ„ he proudly deposed King Papin of France with Petrae dedit Petro Petrus Diadema Rodulpho with such pranks as these unlesse the Lord first depose them as he did Saul y 1. Sam. 15.26 Balthazar z Dan 5 26. and Nabuchadnezar a Dan 4.34 using him as he did Tamberlaine and Ashur b Esai 10. v. 5. and now the Turke as the rod of his wrath as the Iudge and the Shiriffe may use a hangman to execute follons as God himselfe hath used the Divell to torment the first King of Israel c 1 Sam. 16.14 I say unlesse God let loose his chained mastives whether Turke or Pope to the punishing the sinnes of the King or of a Kingdome all their attempts against the Lords annoynted are but to fight against God as the Centaures the old Gyants in the fable were said to wage warre against Iupiter d Apud LucianuÌ„ in Dialogis They may aswell endevour to turne the Sea to dry land to turne Iordan backward e Vt olim Elisha 2. King 2. v. 14. to plucke the Sunne out of the firmament yea God himselfe out of heaven as to pull any Christian King Gods Lieutenant and Vice-gerent of Gods setting and planting out of his throne unlesse they have as the Divell sometimes hath but the Pope never had a speciall commission or permission from God as a tryall of a righteous Prince or the punishment of the reprobate Oh well may Traytors like them undoe themselves by their doings as did Absalon f 2. Sam. 18.14 Adoniah g 1. Kings 2.25 Aâ—halia h 2. King 11. v. 1.14.15 Sheba i 2. Sam. 20. v. 22. the Romane Cateline k Apud Salust Seianus l Apud Plutarchum the French m See both their tragedies polished in our English tongue Bâ—ron Lopus Ravillack the Belgicke Bâ—rnwell our English Squire Parry Babington the Romish Garnet Campian and these unfortunate English Gentlemen as their owne call them Digby Catesby Winter Faux bringing as did Ioab the bloud upon their owne head which they thought to shed from others falling into that pit which they digge for others n Nec lex aequior ulla est quam necis artifices arte perire sua scorching themselves like the fond Flea Pyrausta o De Pirausta vel Pyrali vel Pyrogono Plin. libr. 11. nat hist c. 36. Aelian lib. 2. cap. 2. at those flames they thought to quench shooting like him that shootes up at the Sunne arrowes to fall on their owne pates the wild-fire balles of their treasons as cast against an Iron wall rebounding backe againe upon themselves to their breaking or burning as he that gripes thornes or the prickling Vrchin or the edge of a sharpned steele pricks his owne fingers and bloods himselfe but hurts no man else Themselves comming to their immature and unglorious ends like Haman cum cede sanguine as is usually seene with that bloud and slaughter upon their owne nocent heads which they intended against the innocents and innocuous like the inuentor of Perillus his Bull first hanzelling and acting in that tyrannie which their treachery intended and invented against others So let thy enemies perish ô Lord p Iudg. 5. v. 31. so let them perish that rise up against thee and against thine annoynted that draw the sword of warre as did Ioab against Abner q 2. Sa. 3.27.28 and Amasa r 2. Sa. 2.20.10 in the time of peace Let them perish with the sword that strike unlawfully with the sword Å¿ Math. 26.52 if any rebell against God and Cesar let him be Anathema Maranatha execrable accursed let him die ungloriously t Ier. 22. v. 24.28 like Iechonia let none say Alas my brother as the old Prophet did for the young v 1. King 13.30 let his name here stinke as a Fox or a Poulcat or a Carrion after rott with his carkas buried in the Leth of oblivion let him like w 1. King 21.20 Ahab x 1. King 16.26 Ieroboam y Gen. 4.14.15 Caine Balaam z Iohn 17. v. 12. Iudas and our English Banister a Servant to the Duke of Buckingham trecherously betraying his distressed Lord to Richard the 3. Speed Hollinshed in Chronicis never be remembred but with some brand marke of obloquie some addition of infamie Let his wife be a widdow as David sings of his and Christs enemies prophetically his children vagabounds b Psalm 22. his seede fatherlesse c Iudg. 8.7 and his house desolate yea let them perish like smoake and the untimely fruite of a woman Let them be like Zeba and Zalmunna and them of Penuell whose flesh Gideon tore with the bryers of the wildernesse or as the ungratefull Ammonites d 2. Sam. 10.19 whom David brought under with Iron Sawes as Pharaoh and his Egyptians that were drowned in the redd Sea e Exo. 14.25.26 as Iabin and the hoste of Sisera f Iudg. 5.21 whom the river Kyshon swept away yea that auncient river the river Kyshon But let them that love and feare thee say alwayes as we this day The Lord be praysed Praysed be the Lord out of Sion which dwelleth at Ierusalem And sure the concurrence of these two extraordinary mercies the reflecting on the one as by past his Majesties preservation the present fruition of the other the generally welcommed reduction of our Illustrious Prince kept safe by that Bonus Genius or good Angel who went along with him as once with Iacob a Gen. 28. v. 16 48.26 with Abrahams Steward b Gen. 24.7 and that Apocryphall Tobiah and those Easterne Magi c Matth. 2.9 Bosquier in his Eccho concionuÌ„ disputes that the starre was some good Angel but concludes that it was stella de novo creata in all incident perils by Sea and by Land in the Spanish expedition
terrestriall to joyne together with all the servants of the Lord to praise the Name of the Lord. And sure as the Romaine Scipios the Carthagenian Haniball the Greeke Meltiades and of latter times the Turkish Bashawes and other valiant Generals by their Orations and exquisite speeches of incouragement oft viewing and ryding through their Armies themselves as did that resolute French Henry the t See the book of his warres in 4. extant in English 4. of famous memorie Charles the u Paulus Iovius Thuanus de Carolo Quinto 5. Henry the 7. of w See his exact historie in folio pend by our English Tully Sir Frances Bacon England with other vigilant and valiant worthies put vigour and courage in their Armies vivacitie and spirit in the feeblest souldier and according to the pollicies of warre by sounds of Trumpets and Shalmes beating of Drummes and other Martiall instruments sought to inkindle sparkes of valour even in those that were as naturall Cowards as that Clineas or Dametas in the Arcadia So a good and godly Superior by his expostulations as once x Nehem. 13. v 17.18.25.26 Nehemiah y Ezra 8.17 Nehem. 8.4.5 Ezra and that z Iudges 2. ver 3.4.5 Angell that was sent from Gilgall to the Iewes 2. by his exhortations as a Iosh 24. per totum Ioshua and b 2. Chro. 20. v. 15. Iehosaphat to the Israelites 3. by his provocations and excitings as David here and oft elsewhere ought to stirre up all and every one of their depending inferiors to fight the Lords battles not to yeelde cowardly to sinne and sathan to march valiantly like c 2. King 9.20 Iehu to use dexterously all the parts of that spirituall compleat furniture prescribed by the d Eph. 6.13 Apostle to goe forth against that triple Cerberus the alluring flesh deceaving world deceitefull Devill daily arm'd as David against e 1. Sam. 17. v. 45. Goliah Abraham against the five f Gen. 14. v. 14.19 Kings Ioshuah against g Exod. 17. v. 9.10.11 Amalek with the power of the might of God Almightie and when wee have got the least victorie to be unfainedly thankefull as were the Israelites in the dayes of h ibid. v. 15.16 Exod. 15. per totum Moses i Judg. c. 5. per totum Deborah k 1. Sam. 11.15 cum Isralitis Saul l 2. Sam. 6.5 David m In apocryphis Holoferne occiso Iudeth to the Lord of hosts the God of battles testifying this thankefulnesse in our words workes lives and loves as Davids Congregation testified theirs in my Text by blessing God and by offering Sacrifices and oblations SECTIO II. Application of the premisses to Magistrates Ministers and Masters of Families IN which duties as we prescribe and perswade them so wee must precede in practise Kings in their Courts Magistrats in Cities and Corporations Bishops in their Diocesses Ministers in their Churches Cures and charges Masters Mistresses and Dames in their houses and families must goe before as the greatest male n Euntes velnatantes in CypruÌ„ in Corcyram fortissimi praeceduÌ„t secuÌ„duÌ„ plin li 8. nat hist c. 32 Solix 21. Aelian li. 5. c 56 Deare before the Heard as the bel-weather before the flocke as the couragious Captaine before the Souldiers giving the first onset The superior in every place in every case which concernes Gods glorie the spirituall corporeall publicke politicke or private good of anie must say to the Governed as Abimelecke in another o Iudges 9. vers 49. sence As you see me doe so doe you and that Apostle of the Gentiles Estote imitatores Be yee followers of me as I of Christ Wee in the Church you in the Common-wealth and familie in every dutie Moral and Theologicall must set a good paterne write a good copie draw a faire sample to those that are under us even in our owne particulars for their writing imitating and following Yea we must also lend them pennes pluckt like the quils of Turkeys and Porcupins even out of our owne wings we must by our right lines rule their bookes and by our right lives lead their hands yea their hearts we must lend them also working silkes extracted like the silke-wormes p De hac Bombice vel verâ—t Indico multa Albertus libr. animal 26. Vicent lib. 20. cap. 138. pracipue quae retulis Vincent c. 67. prater Basilium in exem hom 8. applicat Ambrosius pie Theologice Laemeron l. 5. cap. 23. clew out of the bowels of our practise we must excite exhort them by our word but chiefly allure or lare them by our workes drawe them though iron-hearted by the q De vi usâ— Magnetis nigra habes apud Plin. lib. 6. hist c. 22. apud Vicent nati li 8. cap. 2 apud August de Civit. Dei li. 21. c. 4 c. ut magnes sic magnus adamant of our practise to every dutie commanded in the word commended by the practise of the Saints as David here by speaking as an Orator pleades but by his example as an exorator prevailes with the whole Congregation to blesse the Lord. Wee in the Ministerie as wee are called lights as Christ called his r Math. 5.14 Disciples and as the Iewes called Iohn the s Lucerna ardens c. vide apud Pontanum in Bibliotheca concionum apud Bosquier in Marcum c. 6. v 20. in his eccho concionum in initio de laudibus Iohannis Baptist and the primitive t Orbis terrarum Doctor oculus Ecclesia atlas fidei dictus ab antiquis ut August alius mallens haereticorum c. cum alijs times Athanasius so wee must by our lives and learning like those lights that are hung up in some tradesmens shoppes which inlighten those without doores aswell as the journeymen and prentices within both have light within our selves and shine to others We must be like those lightes or lanthornes hung out in some Havens in a darke night to give the Marriners ayme every passenger over the u Mundus mare Christiani viateres ut cursores in cursu Ecclesia navicula de quibus eleganter alluduÌ„t Pontan tom 3. Bibl. Gord. in postill Dom. 4. post Epiph. praecipue Hugo de Sancto Vict. in postillis part 1. p. 297. 359. cum alijs Sea of this world how to steare from the rockes of sinne and to come safe to the port of Grace you in the Magistracie and you masters petty Kings to rule Priests to pray and to sacrifice prayses Prophets to instruct in your w Rev 1.6 vid. expositionem loci apud August de Civit. Dei lib. 20 cap. 10. families as Divinitie rightly tearmes x De spiritualibus hostijs nostris Id. August passim praecipue Serm. 152. de Tempore in quest vet et nov Test q. 112. Lege Bachmad in qu. Theol. Centur. 1. quast 57. pag. 136.137 sint ne
in their learned Treatises de Antichristo proved they must doe little in teÌ„porall things in spirituall things nothing without their light ayme from Peters pretended usurping successor to whom they are in submission and subjection as a wife to her husband as a childe to his Father as a pupill to his tutor as a schoole-boy foole-boy yea I say further as a servant or prentice to his Master or which is yet more servile as a Warde to his Guardian or a Captive to his Conquerour without whose placet they must eyther sit still or rise and fall Such a yoake of Romish bondage by their owne grosse superstition with which they are both blinded and bewitched have Christian Princes layd upon their owne neckes more intollerable then ever those Aegyptian Moabitish Midianitish Cananitish Caldean and Babylonian yoakes which for their sinnes or trials the Lord successively layd on the necke of that untamed c Deut. 32.15 Heyffer Iesurun rebellious Israel David was wiser then thus he was not as seduced Israel as a Dove without a heart he sends not to Rome for either leave or light though leave be light to manage what belongs either to his Civill or Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction as the Councell of Trent that could not proceede in anie of their superstitious blasphemous conclusions without posting and reposting to fetch the holy Ghost from d See the book in folio called the Councell of Trent set out by the well deserving paines perils too of M. Breut Rome as a Bee in a boxe as the jest was who came at last and frighted in the forme of a black dogge one of their chiefe e agents out of his wits Or if David had inquired for a Pope in his dayes unlesse he had found out the Pagan * Annius Rex hominuÌ„ Phoebique Sacerdos Virgil. Pontifex or some high Priest amongst the Iewes hee might as well have sought for a man in the Moone with a bush of thornes on his backe or for a Needle which had beene needlesse in a bottle of Hay for we cannot say as Polycarpus said of Marcion that the Pope was the first begotten sonne of the * Novi te primogenuuÌ„ Satâ—anae Devill nay as they speake of some Toades or Serpents that breede in the braynes and f Plin. li. 10 hist c. 66. Isidor c. 4. et Aelian li. 2. c. 53. marrowes of dead men hee was hatcht since by the warmth of that cockatrice the Devill in the poysoned corrupted braines of men living or rather as it 's said of Gnats Insects that breed of bloud dung g Cardinal Cresâ—ence writing letters to the Pope March 25 was affrighted by the Devill in forme of a blacke Dogge Sleâ—daâ— Coment 23. He died at Verona See Gâ—uiarâ— french history translated pag. 197. g Vt Scarabens in pila ex fimo facto masculum gignit Aelian li. 9. ca. 16. Aug. de morib Manic c. 17. retract 2. cap. 7. putrifaction bloud was his first breeding as since feeding for from the bloud of Mauritius the Emperour unjustly effused by that trecherous Phocas some gnats of a stinging conscience gnawing and vexing the Traytor as once h Gen. 4.13 Cain and most murtherers he having in this perplexitie reference to Boniface the Bishop of Rome as i Math. 17.1.2 Iudas had to the Pharisees after hee betrayed Christ as to his spirituall physitian and being superficially baulmde and his wound skind over by this Quak-salver he in requitall gave him what the Devill tempted Christ with and what hee most gaped after worldly k Math. 4.8.9 honours and glories even this glorious Title of Vniversall Bishop of the whole world his Diocesses extending as farre as the Devills Thus crept he first out of his shell in which he had beene long inclosed the mysterie of iniquitie being long a working by degrees l Vide MorneuÌ„ de progressu Papalus in folio commencing and sitting in the Chayre of pestilence But in Davids time and in the time of the Patriarks Prophets Apostles yea and the first sixe hundred yeares after called the Primitive times as we m Bishop Iewell his challenge in his apology for the Church of England offer the triall a man might as soone have seene a mil-stone fly in the ayre as eyther Pope or point of Poperie as now it stands for all their vociferations and false lap-wings cries of their Old Religion Old law Mother Church and I know not what Nay David here askes not leave eyther of Gad or Nathan or Abiathar or Zadok though hee were now Gods high Priest for the institution of this solemnitie and for the Congregating of Israel to performe these gratulatorie sacrifices and oblations in my Text. David knew hee was sui iuris free of himselfe and stood on his owne legges and that in all things that hee lawfully commanded in God and for God which limits indeed both the power of Princes and the obedience of subjects n August serm 6. de verbis dom epist. 666. in Psal 124. Basil reg 7. ex Brev 114. 202. 204. in Decreto 11.9 ch 92.93.94.95 habetur ex patribus restitere ergo illicitis MagistratuuÌ„ mandatis Daniel tres puers Dan. 3.19 Ambrosius Theodosio Christianus quidam Iuliano apud Theodor. l 3. cap. 22. active though not passive as the learned discusse and determine Nathan and Zadok were to be obedient and subordinate to him not hee to them which had beene a grosse confusion and a historen proteron in Theologicall rhetorick Indeed David consults o Sam. 7.2.3 with Nathan about building the Temple as Saul and p 1 Sam. 14.8 Samuel about sacrifizing and indeed it 's an excellent harmonie and the most Lidian consort to see a Moses an q Exod. 4.14 5.1 Aron a Iehoash and a r 2. King 12.2 Iehoiada a David and a Å¿ 1. King 2.32 Nathan a Baruck and a t Iudg. 4.8 5 1. Deborah a Iosias and a u 2. Reg 22.14 Huldah a Salomon * 1. Chron. 29 22 and a Zadok an Ezekiah and an x Esa 7.21 Esay a Nehemiah and an y Nehem. 8 9. Ezra an Ambrose and a Theodosius the Word and the Sword Magistracie and Ministrie the Prince and the Prophet consult together as his Majestie at this day as in the high Court of Parliament occasionedly since with his Lords Spirituall aswell as Temporall about even matters Ecclesiasticall as Politicall about building or repayring or purging or perfecting Gods spirituall TeÌ„ple establishing ratifying rectifying his true and sincere worship And if this liberty were not given to Christian Princes to consult with their Clergie that are made of their privie Councell they should be straighter tyed then the very heathenish Romanists that usually advised with their Augurists and Flamins and the Persians Chaldeans that advised with their * Apud Cellium Rhodiginum Aulum Gellium
that true aqua vitae the waters of life the promises of grace made to the i Esay 55.1 Matth. 5.6 thirstie It s more mercie as the object is more excellent to comfort a sicke soule as Christ did sorrowing k Ioh. 21 15 16 Peter weeping l Luke 7.50 Mary Magdalen Paul the penitent m 2. Cor. 2.6 7. Corinthian Ananiaes humbled n Acts 9.17 Paul Peter the heart-pricked o Act. 2.37 38. Iewes Paul and Silas the affrighted and afflicted p Act. 16.30 31 Iaylor then to helpe and heale a sicke bodie Seventhly pray for all men 1. chiefly for Kings and q 1. Tim. 2.2 Rulers as the Iewes did for the Princes of Chaldea in their captivitie Ier. 20. the primitive Christians for the Emperours 2. for Ministers and Preachers as the Churches of Colossia Thessalonica Rome Corinth r Rom 15. â—0 Coloss 4.3 1. Thess 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 others did for Paul 3. for thy wife children as Zachary for his Å¿ Luke 1.13 Elizabeth Isaac for his t Gen. 25.21 Rebeccha Abraham for his u Gen. 17.18 18.23 Ismael David for his sick * 2. Sam. 12.16 childe 4. for thy houshold servants as the CeÌ„turion for his Matth 8.5 and Abraham for his x Gen. 24. Steward for thy enemies and persecutors as Stephen for those that stoned a Acts 7.60 him Christ for those that crucified b Luke 23.3 him Samuel for those that rejected c 1. Sam. 12.19 him Moses for d Exod. 8. so for rebelling Israel Numb 16 22. for Miriam Numb 12.13 Pharaoh that opposed and hated him lastly for all men even Iewes Turkes and Pagans except for those that sinne unto e 1. Iohn 5.16 death as did Iudas f See D. Deuisons Sermon of the sin against the holy Ghost Iulian and the wilfull malicious * Marke 3.28 Pharisees yea for our enemies as is a Matth. 5.44 Luke 6.28 Rom. 12.14 1. Pet. 3.9 commanded and hath beene g Gen. 20.17 Num. 16.22 21.8 1. Reg. 13.6 Psal 109.4 Ier. 11.13 19. 1. Cor. 4.12 Exemplo Mosis Davidiâ— Ieremiae Pauli c. practised Lastly you must submit your selves even to performe these dueties morall and politicall that are prescribed you Masters to servants servants to masters Husbands to wives wives to husbands Parents to children children to parents Magistrates to subjects subjects to magistrates paying scott and lott taxes and subsidies homage and honour tribute to whom tribute belongeth All which because they are very manie and numerous in their particulars I referre you to such as have generally intreated of them onely in all these speciall and specificall duties I enjoine your submissive obedience this day As Davids people yeelded themselves to one so doe you to one and every one of them To day if you will heare the Lords voyce harden not your hearts as in the h Heb. 3.15 provocation Be not clay lest you be crusht asunder but melting waxe taking the seale and impression of grace draw like silver threeds in the furnace bow your neckes to God take on you the yoake of i Matth. 11.29 Christ that is easie and his burthen which is light which wee as his mouth and messengers impose upon you If you consent and obey you that are here planted shall eate the good things of the k Esay 1.19 land but if you refuse rebell you shall be devoured by the sword or famine or other plagues for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it you shall be spewed out and disgorged as the * Iudg. 1. 2. c. Cananites and wiped as a man wipeth a dish turning it topsi-turvie upside downe I set life and death before you this day chuse life l Deut. 30.19 chuse whether you will be Oakes stubbornly resisting God and his ordinances in the Magistracie and Ministrie as did the m Ier. 3.15 18.12 1. Sam. 8.19 Iewes or Reedes bowing bending flexible docible obedient to whatever the Lord in and by us shall enjoyne you as this people were here unto David Knowing that the despising and resisting of us is the despising yea despiting of God n Luke 10.16 1. Thess 4.8 himselfe as the contempt of Ezekiahs o 2. Chr. 30.10 Posts and of Davids Embassadors were p 2. Sam. 10.6 revenged as the contempt of these two Kings SECT IV. Obedience Civill Ecclesiasticall Theologicall the life and soule of Religion OH let us know that as disobedience is as the sinne of witchcraft yea plaine treason and rebellion against the q 1. Sam. 15.25 Lord so obedience is the very life and genius and soule of Religion 1. If a weeping eye did speake a man religious then r Heb. 12.16 Esau Israel at her worst had teares at Å¿ Deut. 1.43 44. command like the t Vincentius ex Physiologo nat hist. ii 17. c. 606. Crocodile or u De Astuia Hyena lachrymantu lege Arist lib. 8. c. 5. Vincent lib. 19. c. 61. Aelian l. 6. c. 13. Hyena even when bloodshed and fratricide was hatched in the heart of the one and flat rebellion purposed in the heart practised by the hand of the other 2. If a hearing eare did speake and proclaime a religious man we have Herod hearing * Mark 6.20.28 Iohn yet beheaded Iohn hearing him as a Saint living still in his lust as a beast butchering the Baptist as a Divell we have the Scribes the Pharisees Iohns auditors yet a generation of x Matth. 3.9 Vipers 3. If a confessing tongue did alwayes demonstrate a religious heart we have Cain bellowing out his y Gen. 3.13 murther Iudas roaring out his own treason z Matt. 27.3 in the languishing anguish of their soules Saul himselfe with much adoe bleating out I have a 1. Sam. 15.23.24 sinned yet the first branded for a b 1 Ioh. 3.12 Reprobate c Gen. 4 12. Runnagate the second for the sonne of d Ioh. 17 12. 6.70 perdition the third for a man ejected rejected of e 1. Sam. 15.26 28. God vexed by f 1. Sam. 16.14 Sathan in all probabilitie as certainly damned as Salomon was g De salute Saelonionis lâ—gatur Soto maior praef in Cantic Lorinus in Eccl. c. 1. allegantes Patres argumenta producentes saved though some Scepticques question both the one and the h Praecipue Bellarm. confut á Zanchio de preservatione Sanctorum nostrum Willâ—tt in fine Synopsis Papismi other as if they would finde a knot in a * 2. Sam. 7.13 Bul-rush 4. If praying did alwayes prognosticate piety we have the Pharisee i Luke 18.10 prayers preying upon the poor under pretext of Fasting and prayer devouring widdowes houses we have the worst of the Iewes like evening Wolves in their extremities howling upon their bedds yea the proudest Pharisee that ever shewed to the Lord all
the Pedlars pack of the trumpery of his owne Iustitiarie workes we have him in the Temple as busie as a Bee praying or prating at the least Yea that Papist that will eate his breaden god upon a bargaine of k The speech of Northampton extent in print against the powder traytors bloud even when he goes by a plot as deepe as Hell to blow up the Parliament house as high as heaven will pray over and over his Rosarie roule out a hundred Aves and Pater nosters sollicite every hee and shee saincted friend that he hath in the court of heaven to prosper his bloudie project yea this meritorious act must be committed and commended too to the prayers of their Church So a profane man whose mouth runnes over as the scumme of a seething pot with the froth of all lewd and vitious speeches banding and darting moe damnable oathes and blasphemies in the very face of God in one houre then there be pores in his spongie tongue or teeth in his jawes or joynts in his hand this blatrant beast for God holds him no * Wicked men in the Scriptures are oft compared to beasts Psal 57.4 58.4 Esa 1.4 Matth. 7.6 Luke 13.32 Tit. 2.12 better will have sometimes such a fit and good mood come on him that he will dribble or rather l Matth. 6.7 babble out a prayer or two nay you shall have the swinish drunkard in midst of as much profanation as * Dan. 5.1 2 3. Baltazar ordinarily jeast out such a prayer God forgive me my sinnes c. As usually is this in his mouth but when it is countercrossed with an oath as the cough or the flegme in the mouth of some consumed old man 5. Yea generally if the outward profession of religion to knit up all in one word did speake and prophesie a man to be truly religious wee should have moe wayes to heaven then to anie town or citie in Christendom for the Belgick Dany Gorgean Anabaptist Brownist Familist Arminian as in former ages the Arrian Aërian Monotholite Nestorian Lutichians with all the rest of the hereticall rabble profest themselves as our Papists now the onely true Catholickes they had manie as blindedly zealous in their kindes as Paul for his m Act. 22.3 Pharaisisme Nay to keepe within the bounded mount the limits of the Scriptures Have we not the worst of sinners professing like Saints Cain n Gen. 4 3. sacrificing Balaam o Numb 23.7 prophesing the Harlot p Prov. 7.14 vowing Iudas q Luk. 9.1.2 preaching Simon Magus r Act. 8.13 baptized Demas a companion to Å¿ 2. Tim. 4 10. Paul himselfe yea Ananias and t Act 5.1.2.3 Saphira as forward in outward formalities as any of the rest yea wee have the carnall Israelite loading Gods Altars with sacrifices wearying him with his Sheepe and Calves Bullockes his u Esai 1.11 Psal 50.8.9 Sabaoths his new Moones All which with the rest of the formall sacrifices of the w Ier. 6.20.21 wicked God protests his soule hates loathes and abhorrs as hee doth the offring up of Swines bloud or the cutting off a doggs x Esai 66.3 necke the howlings and bellowings of profane spirits being to him no more then the hissings of so manie Snakes the croaking of so manie Frogges all their sacrifices with their persons being execrable and abominable to the Lord yea stinking as Carrion in his nosthrils Why so because they wanted the true salt of the Sanctuarie the life and soule of all which should vivificate and animate these their observances and oblations that 's in one word Obedience as God himselfe reveales y 1. Sam 15.22 Psalm 50.23 Esai 58.3.4.5.6 himselfe Therefore I say to thee to conclude this point As the Israelites here in my Text even before they offered their burnt offrings and drinke offrings their Oyle and their Wine their Rammes and their Lambes they first offer as the best Vsher prologue of acceptance their obeysance externall yea better their obedience internall to God and the King So doe thou otherwise as Peter said to Simon z Act. 8.20 Magus though baptized Thou and thy money perish together I say to thee though a professor if a profaner in sinnes committed in such duties omitted as formerly prescribed Thou and thy praying thy blessing thy hearing thy Sacramentall receiving deceiving and all thy professing confessing profaning disioyned from the obedience of the Law legall from the obedience of faith Evangelicall perish together A â—rotestant was once in Popish crueltie unjustly burnt with a Bible about his a See M. Masons abridgement of the acts and Monuments pag. 203. Gen. 42.20 necke but thou maist in Gods justice justly burne in hell with Bible in thy mouth and profanesse in thy heart life Therefore as Ioseph said of bringing * Benjamin I of sincere obedience Bring it or else never stand before the Lord anie more in his holy Temple unholy unhappie man that thou art I cannot pretermit another observance without bringing by application some of their Honie into our owne Hive These people are not onely obedient to the jussions and summons of their Prince but as the grace of this Grace as a pearle in gold their obedience is speedie as quicke as thought as lightning Davids word is the watch-word they are in a readinesse his command gives fire they discharge presently a whole volly of blessings Which promptnesse of theris justly blames and shames the refractorie obstinacie of manie Christians in all degrees and professions for manie inferiors wives to their husbands Children to their Parents servants to their Masters subjects to their Governours as they give their Superiors an absolute negative by their words or practise that they will not doe such and such duties injoyned morall matrimoniall naturall Theologicall but rather crosse and contradict as Ziphorah did the circumcision of her b Exod. 4.25 Sonne So when at last though long first they are perswaded it is with such a haling and pulling and drawing as the Beare to the stake the Bull to the ring the Asse to his burthen What they doe is haled and extorted from them as almes from an Vsurer prece * Nihil carâ—â—â—â— emitur quam quod precibus precarie they are either as Haukes lured to it by faire words and promises as the * Laudando saltant onera gravissima portant 〈◊〉 turres armatat Atlia etc. li. 4 cap. 23. Basilius exem hom 9 Albertus lib. 22. Elephantes to draw great burthens by the praises or flatteries of their keepers like Wind-mils grinding nothing nor once wheeling about without the winde of applavses or wonne by gifts as Children to their Bookes by Nuts and Apples or whipt and beat to it as trewantly boyes to their schooles or lazie prentices to their workes How ever what they doe in anie prescribed dutie goes against the haire invita Minerva as the proverbe is against Gods forbid Hence
authore◠apud Maiol col 23. tit morabilia pag. 703. house and other proude and ambitious spirits erected monuments and memorials to the glorie of their owne names So in the fifteenth of Exodus wee have Moses Aron Miriam and all the Elders and people of Israell triunphing and gratulatorie rejoycing before the Lord as wee this day for the preservation reservation of our King and Prince for their safe eduction out of Egypt reduction from tyrannizing Phraoh production and protection thorow the red Sea which was to them a walking garden to their enemies a devouring grave In the 33. of Genesis we have the same Moses when he had received the gracious summons of his blessed dissolution as a second Simeon singing his Cygnean and Swan-like y Cantater Cygnus funeris ipse sui song blessing the Lord and the thousands of Israell in their severall Tribes the people of the Lord. To proceede in the first of Samuell Chap. 2. wee have that devout Annaes gratulatory song for her Samuell as Bathshebaes z Prove 31. v. 2. Lamuell the sonne of her desires yea in his corporeall birth as Augustine was to his mother Monica in his spirituall the sonne of her a Vt olim Ambr. Monica de Aug. Manicheo c. non potest perire filius tātarū praecum lâchrymarum prayers and of her b 1. Sam. 1.13 vers 26.27 teares So in the fifth of Iudges wee have Deborah and Baruch and all Israell tripudiating and triumphing before the Lord of Hostes the God of Battles for the overthrow of the Troupes of Iabin and Sisera whom the river Kishon swept away yea that ancient river the river c Iudg. 5.20.21 Kishon the starres also fighting from heaven as once the Sea for our English Eliza and for a Brittaine Drake that gave an overturne to a swelling Dragon as once also for Theodose the like as the Sunne too for Ioshuah So in the first of Kings Chap. 3. vers 6.7 when God appeared unto Salomon in Gibeon as he sacrificed before the Lord as a prologue to his fervent prayer for a wise and understanding heart he first thankefully acknowledgeth the unspeakeable mercie of God to his Father David as also by a corollary and consequence unto himselfe and not to enumerate all particulars which are infinite for this our David besides the Booke of the Psalmes which are in their golden chayned linckes continuated prayses as one cals the very lives of just men like the almes of d Act. 10.1.2 Cornelius if seasoned with grace and not soyled with sinnes perpetuall e Bona vita perpetuae preces prayers So in the second of Samuell Chap. 7. vers 18.19.20.21 c. omitting all other places to fixe on this when God sends to David by Nathan the acceptance as in Abrahams sacrificing of f Gen. 22.16 17 Isaac and in the desires of all his Saints and Servants of his will for the g 2. Cor. 8.12 worke his h Respicit Deus affectum cordis pro affectu operis August affection for the action in building of the Temple reiterating and renuing many large and loving promises concerning Salomon his sonne in what privacie and neerenesse he should be to God even as a sonne is to a father David upon this Embassage as a second Niobe melting and dissolving his heart wholly liquifying as waxe and Ice before the Sunne of these mercies in the most zealous and fervent expressions of his soule as fire breaking out long smothered in the soliloquies of his soule such as wee reade proceeding from Augustine Bernard Basill and other zealous spirits in imitation of David hee thus bespeakes his God Who am I Lord and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto and this was yet a small thing O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man O Lord God and so goes forward to the end everie word having an emphasis every phrase as is said of the Epistles of i Referunt pectus ardore pleum Cyprian shewing a heart brimfull of grace of gratitude So come to the new Testament indited by the same spirit what ere the blaspemous Manichees blatter to the k Contra Manicheos praeter August Patres erudite scripsit Granatensis in suo symbolo Bernardinus de Bustis in concionibus postillis in quarto in Initio libri pen◠contrary the Saints pertaking of the same grace have expressed the same in their gratulations To begin with Simeon he had no sooner Christ that expected incarnate Shiloh in his armes as his spirit in his heart but he breathes out his gratulatorie blessing blessed Nunc l Luke 2 28.29 dimittis So Zachary being long strucke m Luke 1.20 dumbe as the fruite of his incredulitie had no sooner his imprisoned tongue unjaled but he improves the first fruites of his speach to Gods n Luke 1.63.64 65. prayse darting out as a pellet out of a Gun in the suddaine flashes of the spirit the inward conceptions of his soule by the outward modulations of his mouth I might instance in that o Luke ◠36 Anna in the two best mothers of the two best sonnes that ever were borne of woman the Virgin mother Mary and her cousin Elizabeth who visiting one another in the most warrantable journyes not gadding to a trotters feast as our common Gossups and for the best ends not to tattle and talke and prattle and prate like Parrats and jangle like jayes and chatt like Dawes and Pyes on this subject and that abject not to calumniate and vilipend the absent but to comfort and corroborate one another in the mercies of God at first incounter as two instruments rightly tuned in the best key by the finger of the spirit in a holy and heavenly harmonious melodie resonate and resound the prayses of p Luke 1.42.45 46.47 God as did also all the rest which looked for and expected the now exhibited Patriarke-promised prefigured Messias the consolation of Israel which pretermitting without further inlarging view the Apostle Paul the inspired Doctor of the Gentiles and wee shall see that as hee had as holy and as sanctified a heart except his crucified Master as ever was inclosed and included in a body of flesh he hath as so many Epistles yea in some places as so many leaves and lines so many breathings yea breaking out and eructations in the prayses of God Yea in every q Rom. 1.8 Rom. 16.27 1. Cor. 1.4 2. Cor. 1.3 Ephes 1. v. 3 Phil. 3. v. 20. Col. 1.3 1. Thes 1.2 2. Thes 1 3. 2. Tim. 1.3 Epistle it 's observable that the Alpha and Omega the beginning and end of it is prayer and prayse oftimes both in the antecedent and concluding consequent the subject or matter of which petitions and thankesgivings being the happy successe of the Word the propagation of the
pag. 26.27.28.29 â—â— 49. c. Religion is in vaine And know further what I have heretofore more inlarged that a man begins eyther his heaven or hell in this q Hic vita aeterna tenetur aâ—â— amutitur life Here he is in the suburbs of one of the two of Saint Augustines r Aug. de 〈◊〉 vit Cities eyther Ierusalem which is Å¿ Gal. 4.26 above or Sodom whcih is here below Here by grace a man hath Charter and interest after liverie seisure and possession of glorie Here it 's easily seene which way he walkes even by what he t Loquere â—t tâ— videam Socrates ad Ephebum quendam talkes A man neede not wish with Momus a window into a mans heart let him looke into his mouth there he hath the best prognosticatum of his minde as the unâ—erring truth it selfe hath u Math. 12. ver 32.33.34.35.36 determined Figges never grew from Thistles nor Grapes of * Iam. 3.12 Thornes nor sweete streames ever came from a poysoned corrupted w Iam. 3.11 fountaine let us make the inside cleane then all is cleane So shall we be able in earth as the Angels in heaven in sinceritie without hypocrisie in filiall love not in servile feare incident to the x Iam. 2.19 Devills and reprobates with purged and in good measure purified spirits even here on earth inchoatively and after in heaven perfectly to make one Quyre with the Angelicall spirits to the ever blessing and praysing the God of spirits SECT II. I Doe not denie indeede but a wicked and a gracelesse man may sometimes speake good wordes not onely savouring of Morall wisedome of experience and deepe observance as the sentences sayings and Apothegmes of Socrates Solon Biaâ— Thales c. and the Greeke and the Romane y Recorded by Valerius Maximus Diogenes Laertius Brusonius Lycosthenes and others Sages yea the expostulations of z 2. King 9.31 Iezabell with Iehu the disswasives of a 2 Sam. 24 3. Ioab to David the speaches of some even of the unbeleeving b Iohn 7.40.46 Iewes the censure of Gamahel concerning c Act. 5.35.36 Paul the counsell of Pilates wife concerning d Math. 27.19 Christ which many such specialties doe demonstrate but he may speake wordes even in outward shew and appearance savouring relishing of grace as appeares in Balaams e Num. 23.10 wish Agrippaes f Act. 26.28 flash the first to die the second to be a true Christian besides the Pharisees g Luk. 18.11 prayer the foolish Virgins crying h Matth. 25.11 Lord Lord the carnall Iewes desiring the i Iâ—hn 6.34 bread the adulterous Samaritane desiring the waters of k Iohn 4.15 life with many moe It cannot be denied also but the best men may sometimes speake wordes at first blush savouring of a carnall spirit such as have hardly the prints and impression of grace as appeares in Abrahams l Genes 12.13 simulation or dissimulation Ioseph his swearing by the life of m Gen 42.15 Pharaoh Eves tempting of n Genes 3 6. Adam Iudahs solliciting of his incestuous o Genes 38.16 Thamar Davids murtherous vow against p 1. Sam 25.22 Naball his folly in commanding his people to bee q 2. Sam. 24.1.2 numbered his bloudie jussion in the slaughter of r 2. Sam. 11.15 Vriaâ— his unjust verdict against Å¿ 2. Sam. 16.4 Mephibosheth in Peters t Math. 26. Luk. 23. deniall his disswasion of Christs u Math. 16.22 passion the culpable request of Iames and w Mark 10.35 Iohn the incredulitie of Saint x Iohn 20.25 Thomas with many moe verifying that of Saint y Iames. 3.2 Iames that he is a perfect man indeede which offends not with his tongue yet neverthelesse that is true in Divinitie which the eternall truth hath revealed that wordes justifie or z Math. 12.37 condemne that the mouth speakes the man eyther good or bad as it eyther blesseth or blasphemeth God or a Iames. 3 9. man For first this is to be presupposed that usually the just pure have pure b Proverbs words their hearts their consciences and their spirits being c Titus 1. v. 15. pure Abraham prayes for d Genes 18.25 Sodom for Ismael e Genes 17.18 Isaac for f Gen. 25 2â—â— Rebeca Moses blesseth the children of g Deut. 33.1 Israell Iacob blesseth his h Genes 49. 48.15 sonnes and the sonnes of i Gen. 48.20 Ioseph Samuel and Ioshuah exhort to the service of the true k 1. Sam. 12.13 Ioshuah 24. God Lot exhorts the l Genes 19 7. Sodomites Boaz comforts m Ruth 2.11.12 Ruth Eli reproves his n 1 Sam. 2.23 sonnes Gideon pleades against o Iudg 6 31.32 Baall the Prophets pray and prophecie the Disciples preach all that looked for the consolation of Israell blesse with Zachary the God of Israell for the incarnation and exhibition of Iacobs Shiloh the promised Messias as David cals his tongue his p In psalmiâ— glory So all the godly have made doe make except in some temptation or the breaking out of hereditary sinful corruption their tongues organs and instruments of the glory of God as againe the wicked when they speake usually unlesse when they faine and straine to the contrarie pronouncing Parrat-like such wordes of which they have no feeling against the heart and against the haire coldly comming from them as from sicke men or are over ruled by a speciall hand as q Numb 23.5 Balaam and r Iohn 18.14 Cayphas in his prophesie Pharaoh Neco in that which hee told Å¿ 2. Chro. 35.21 Iosias or out of common gifts as Iudas in his preaching Saul in his t 1. Sam. 10.6 prophecying the wise men amongst the Heathens from Morall Philosophie or the verie Ethickes of nature I say usually except in these specified cases when the wicked speake their wordes speake them wicked even as what bitter streames the fountaine sends forth these streames speake the fountaine no better then bitter since nemo dat quod non habet none can give what he hath not or shew better stuffe then he hath within him the mouth of a good man being as the opening of heaven which never opened but there was alwayes some remarkeable good thing happened as eyther Christ u Act. 1.11 ascending or the spirit w Iohn 2.32 descending or the like the mouth of a wicked man being as the opening of hell out of which never proceeded as into which never entred ever ought that good was or it is as the opening of the Tryoan Horse in which were armed Greekes fatall to Ilium or as the opening of Pandoras boxe out of which flew all leprosies and diseases or as the opening of Curtius his gulfe of the Sicilian x Plin. lib. 2. cap 106. August de Civit. Dei lib. 3. cap. 31. Aetna or that
and distractions of families incumbrances from your callings and what other lets disturbance impediments and remoraes whatsoever which doe everie way in this your warfare here imbondage and inthrall you from the performance of this or any other spirituall duetie in that measure and perfect manner that you would or should of which you daily complaine with the h Rom. 7.23 Apostle and all the faithfull and against which you daily strive and fight in the Christian conflict and bickering i Gal. 5. v. 17. duell betwixt grace and nature the flesh and the spirit Oh let it be your living dying yet never dying comfort that you that begin cordially and Christianly to blesse God here after this short life is ended which is as brittle as k Esai 40 6. 1. Pet. 1.24 glasse as wavering as the winde as frayle as the Ice as swift as a poaste or a weavers shittle as melting as snow as fading as smoake or the fields flower as vanishing as a dreame you shall joyne your spirits to the spirits of the just to sing and ring forth your everlasting Hosannahes and Haleluiahs to the God of spirits for which end as Pauls wish and hearts desire was that Israell might be l Rom. 10.1 saved so my wish and hearts desire is that all of you might here be so farre sanctified that innitiated in this life as prentices to this heavenly science or as journey-men or journing men even strangers and pilgrimes with m 1. Chr. 39.15 David the Patriarkes and n Hebr. 11.13 1. Pet. 2.11 Prophets travelling and peregrinating in this vaile of miserie in your few evill o Genes 47.9 dayes ere you sleepe with your p 1. King 2.10 fathers you would so learne to speake the language of Canaan with the tongues and Tones of Angels that at the last as free Denizens free Citizens infranchized and priviledged in all the liberties of grace and glorie you may keepe a perpetuall Iubilee an everlasting Sabbath of prayses and holy expressions in that heavenly Canaan celestiall Ierusalem Mount Sion which is q Gal. 4.26 above to which my hopes be that you are my desires be that you may be travelling breathing and aspiring SECT II. Motives further urging here to begin the lâ—fe of Grace after of Glorie OH suffer the word of exhortation I beseech you as heavenly Quyristers begin even here even now even this day the Quyre on earth It 's not thanke worth to be eternally thankefull in heaven you must doe it you can doe no otherwayes if you once come there It 's as naturall if I may use that word for the blessed spirits to blesse and prayse the Lord as for the fire to burne the Sunne to shine the waters to move the Seas to ebbe and flow r Aelian hist li. 10. c. 44. Plin. li. 5. cap. 9. Nilus to overflow or any other creatures celestiall or sublunary animate or inanimate to move and worke and produce effects according to their natures and severall proprieties But to prayse God here joyfully cordially constantly to breake here through all impediments as Davids three worthies through the Garryson of the Philistines to fetch the desired waters of Å¿ 1. Chr. 11. vers 18. Bethlem to strive here against all discouragements as in the Olympicke t De his ludis multa apud Celium RhodignuÌ„ historicos Poetas sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse iuvat c. Horat. games for Masteries to swim against the streame of all oppositions as is said of the u Arist anim lib. 9. cap 48. Dolphin and Samon to be resolute against all repugnances of the false and flattering flesh that bids the spirit as Peter bade Christ favour it selfe The tempting Devill the persecuting world who by the imputations of hypocrisie humorousnesse fantasticalitie singularitie at least of Puritanisme and Precisnesse seeke to quench in every zealist all sparkes of Devotion as soone as ever kindled yea as w Math. 2.16 Herod and x Exod. 1.22 Pharaoh to drowne murther even Christ and Christianitie in all the Israell of God as soone as ever new borne I say those that can thus digest all those bitter pilles as physicall and can be as was Davids y 2. Sa. 6.21.22 case with Micholl more zealous in this and all other duties the more they are opposed like the fire that burnes the more the more it is z Quo magis premitur eo magis astuat ignis supprest this indeede is prayse worthy everie inferior birde can chippe and croude it in the spring and can sing in the Sunne shine that is a birde indeede that can sing in the storme and charoll it in the Winter every fish can play in the calme the Dolphin and some moe can play in the tempest everie man can blesse God in the Sunne-shine of his prosperitie with full bagges full barnes full bellies and clothed backe But to blesse God in adversitie in the stormes of affliction with Iob on the a Job 1. v. 21. dunghill Daniel in the Lions b Dan. 6.21.22 den with the three companions of c Dan. 3.23 Daniels in the furnace with the Martyres at the d Many had that strength grace given them in the paganish Arrian popish persecution nominated in the Martyrologie but chiefly by him who hath epitomized all the booke of Martyres fol. 3.4.5.6 7.8.9.10 to fol. 18. c. stake to sing songs of Sion here in a strang land this is that which is most acceptable to the Almightie Oh then that my words might prick and fasten like the goades and nayles of the sanctuarie that I might plead and prevaile with you Even now with Noahs e Genes 7.9 Dove to enter into the Arke to leave the carrion and fleshly lusts of the world on which the worlds Crowes Dogs and Vultures prey and glutt themselves here to be at rest in God and on God Oh let my counsell be f Dan. 4.24 acceptable here strive to enter into the Bride-grome g Math 25.10 chamber to rejoyce as Paranymphs and friends of the h Math. 9 15. bridegrome to sing with Salomon a divine Epithalamium in honour of the spirituall espousals betwixt Christ and his Church Oh that you could here sleepe in quiet rest and tranquilitie of the soule in heavenly contemplations as that Endimion is said to have slept with the i Apud Natalem Comitem in Methiologijs Moone in the phylosophicall speculations here be conversant in the mount with God as k Exod. 19.3 Moses get a glimpse of the glorie of Christ in the mount with Peter Iames l Math. 17.4.5 2. Pet. 1.17 Iohn for in the mount of high and heavenly thoughts and meditations God will bee seene Christ will bee found in m Luk. 2.46 Ierusalem which is the vision of n Visio Paciâ— peace Oh that we could ascend up from earth to heaven with
o 2. King 2.11 Elias in the fiery chariot of zeale that we could strive even in this life to enter at least the suburbs of the heavenly Citie that we had our p Phil. 3.20 conversation even in Heaven our Heaven begun here on earth Sursum corda that being risen with q Collos 3.1.2 Christ we might seeke those things that are above placing and planting our affections not on things in earth but on things in heaven that we could send our hearts as the Disciples their hearts and r Act. 1.11.12 eyes after Christ that is ascended that Å¿ A man in his incarnation a Lambe in his passion a Lion in his resurrection an Eagle in his ascension Eagle high mounted at least that we could soare up to his Crosse in Golgotha in the meditation of his passion not to breede compassion towards him who now from suffrings is entred into t Luk. 24.26 glorie as the superstitious Fryers as may be seene in u In his mount Calvarie Guevara Lodowicke de w In his Soliloquies grounded from severall Gospels Ponte and x His meditations Granado c. make that the chiefe end of their mentall meditations of his sufferings and of their Idolatrous crucifixes but to resolve to suffer with him that we may be glorified with him to feele the power of his death to die to sin the power of his y Rom. 6.8.9.10 resurrection to rise againe to newnesse of life to blesse and prayse the z Apoc. 5.9 Lambe because he hath redeemed us from all the nations and kingdomes and kinreds of the earth If for this end we tract and trace our incarnate crucified saviour from Ierusalem to a Matth. 27 Luk. 23. Marke 15. Iohn 19. Golgotha with his sword pierced weeping mother the dolefull daughters of Ierusalem Ioseph of Arimathea and the Centurion and for this end looke upon him whom our sinnes have b Zach. 12.10 pierced with the Eagle eye of our faith as the Antitype of the Brazen Serpent whom Moses erected in the c Numb 21.9 Iohn 3.14.15 wildernesse looking on him also in the glasse of the Gospell where we may see him as the Apostle of the Gentiles tels the convert Corinthians even crucified amongst us if by this sight of him we can get unto him by saving d Iohn 1â— 3 knowledge into him by e Epiâ—â— 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Ioâ—â— 15.4 him by the sappe of the spirit we make a blessed speculation of his passion Oh that besides the fruite of his passion we could get here some glimpse of his transfiguration a true type of his glorification some glimmering and reflection of the heavenly Canaan as Moses a perfect view and Synopsis of the g Deut. 34.1.2.3 earthly here seeke some glimpse of heavenly light as the prisoner the gleames or beames of the Sunne through some crannie in the walle or doore or key-hole through the vaile of thy flesh as the spouse in the Canticles that had a glimpse of her h Cant. 5.4.5.6 welbeloved looking through the hole of the doore and her heart was affectioned to him Here in thy greatest pressures of bodie soule and spirit get some refection by reflection with that primitive Protomartyre i Act. 7.56 Stephen and the rapt k 2. Cor. 12.4 Apostle on Christ crucified and glorified and of the glorie of Christ prepared purchased layd up as revealed Here get some warmth and heate in your hearts as the Apostles and the two disciples that went to l Luk. 24.32 Emaus by oft talking communing with Christ by the word and m Oratio oris ratio vel colloquium cum Deo Isidore prayer by that meanes receiving from Christ that best new-yeares gift that love token promised by Christ to all his n Iohn 14.17.18.19 elect exhibited as once in the o Act. 2.3 forme ever in the effects of p The Spirit like fire c. 1. Illuminates with knowledg 2. Heates with zeale and love 3. Mollifies the heart 4. Causeth sparkes of praier 5. Purgeth drosse of sinne 6. Purifies the heart 7. Changeth with what it meetes with in to it owne nature Geminianus in summa exemplorii similit fire Oh that we could breake off companie and societie with man chiefly wicked men so much as our callings and charge to be discharged will permit that in our meditations and soule Soliloquies in innitiation of Saint Augustine Bernard Anselme and other heavenly minded men we might be more conversant with God Oh why doe wee not retire our selves as q Genes 24.63 Isaac into the fields as Augustine and Alixius into the r Libro Confessionum related fully and applied in Parsons Resolution orchard as Ioseph of Arimathea into our Å¿ Iohn 19 41. Garden or immure our selves according to Christs t Math. 6. vers 6. precept and his Virgin u Luk. 1.28 mothers practise into our private closet or chamber for some sequestrated time there to meditate of the mercies of God of the merits of Christ of the priviledges of grace of the Christians dignitie of the joyes of a better life c there to exhilerate our selves according to the Apostolicall counsell and command and according to the president set us in my Text by David and his nobles to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord more then the carnalists and the moralists of our times in their Corne and Wine and Oyle w Psal 4.7 increased more then Laban in his x Gen. 29.2 sheepe Naball in his y 1. Sam. 25.36 feast Balthezar in his z Dan. 5.2 drinke Herod in his a Mark 6.17 Herodias Saul in his b 1 Sam. 16.16 23. Harpe Nero in his c Suetâ—nius in Nerone qualis artifex pereo Musicke the carnall Iewes in their d Amos. 6. v. 6. Minstrelsie then the Philistines in their e Iudges 16.23 Dagon and madding mirth or any other licentious libertines in their luxurious and sabaritish delights Oh why doe wee not retire and sequestrate our soules our thoughts our actions our affections from all carnall delights desires more fully more freely to converse with God setting times a part even for the verie nonce to prayse God as did f Psal 55.17 David as Daniel did for g Daniel 6.10 prayer arising with that man after Gods owne heart even at midnight to give thankes unto the Lord Oh that my wordes like spurres and goads like the pricke under the Nightingals breast that is said to awaken her in the night from sleeping to singing might excite and stirre you to this neglected and too much pretermitted dutie And for this purpose I wish we might here use this world as though we used it not as the Marriner the Seas and his Ship as the Souldier his armes as the traveller his Inne as the Student his
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 victâ—â— 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 Å¿ 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 SuriuÌ„ 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.
them and was present with them in all their affaires in warre and in peace as hee was present with o Ioshuah 1.5 Ioshuah p Iudg 6.12 Gideon q Gen 39.2.21 Ioseph r 1. Sam. 18.12 David Å¿ Dan. 4.5 chap. 5.12.14 Daniell and other his servaÌ„ts ever also according to his threat cursing those that cursed Abraham and were malignant enemies and opposites to the true t Gene. 12. v. 3. Church his Israell veryfying and sealing all the curses in his flying booke of vengeance upon u Reade the curses threatned against Egypt Moab Ammon Edom Tyre Sidon Medea Arabia and all wicked Provinces and people in Ieremie th 25 vers 15.16.17.18.19 Moab Ammon Amalech Ieconiah Ahab Iezabell Haman Nero Caligula Iulian Antiochus Maximinus w Reade the Theater of Gods judgements in quarto written by D. Beard on which in the Titles of Apostates and bloudie persecuters these named with many moe are spectacles of vengeance Maxentius and of latter times on Iohannes de Roma Minerius Gerson Cassaneus Weston Bonner Story Gardiner and other bloudy butchering x See Master Foxe in his Booke of Martyres but especially in a booke epitomizing the Actes of the Church where you may see the ends of these named with many moe folio 377. 378. 379. 380. 382. 383. c. See also Andrew Husdore in his Theater of examples on the 3. and 4. Commandement in Latin in quarto persecutors ancient and moderne then sure as the argument holdes much more from the lesser to the greater affirmatively both Logically and Theologically the Lord will blesse those that blesse him as he will curse those that curse him If he will blesse those that blesse Abraham much more will he blesse those that blesse the God of Abraham since indeede none can blesse God cordially and sincerely but such as the Lord first inspires with his grace and spirit even as the instrument makes no sound till it first be tuned and touched with the hand of the Musitian as the Organ-pipe is not musicall but dead till it be filled with the windy bellowes from the Organist for none can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God So that the blessing of the God of spirits with upright hearts and spirits as David and his Israelitish Elders did here being but as a sparke of the spirits fire as streames from that fountaine as reflecting beames from that Sunne it is an evident demonstration that such are truly actually really blessed already and as a preparative beaver to a greater Banquet at the supper of the y Revel 19.7 Lambe potentially to be further blessed of God in the highest heavens the throne of God the bosome of Abraham the prepared mansions and seates of the blessed All which affirmatives me thinkes have their corroboration from this Theologicall axiome that as the seale leaves the impression in the waxe be it gold or silver c. as the Sunne by reflection leaves his shaddow on the opposite cloude so what mercie soever the Lord bestowes on us as a dignitie hee workes in us the same grace demonstrating it selfe in some proportionable dutie as for instance 1. Hath the Lord elected me to life from eternitie He gives me grace to elect chuse him again to be my God 2. Hath he called me to the knowledge of his truth He gives me his spirit to call him Abba z Rom. 8.15.16 father in spirit and truth 3. Hath Christ died for me and my sinnes and risen againe for my a Rom. 5.6 justification He hath mutually given me power to die unto sinne and to rise againe to holinesse and righteousnesse of life mortification of my fleshly b Coloss 3.5 lusts and crucifying my affection by the power of his c Gal 5.24 death vivification and quickning of the spirit d Ephes 2 v. 1. by the power of his resurrection 4. Is he ascended into heaven really for me He virtually causeth me to ascend thither after him in my e Coloss 3. v. 1.2 heart affections 5. Is he my high Priest to pray for me He as his legacie to his Church bequeaths unto me the spirit of grace f Zâ—ch 12 10. Rom. 8.26 prayer to pray againe unto him 6. So for conclusion Doth hee blesse me with all blessing in heavenly things He gives me the heart by the same grace to blesse him againe as all his Saints have done such print and impression the seale of his spirit leaves in my heart as answerable to it selfe as face answeres face in a glasse Oh then as ever thou desires to be blessed blesse God here be not so ignorant on idle as to dreame of the kernell without breaking the g Qui vult nucem nucleum frangat shell of eating the meale without grinding in the milne of the h Beneficium postulat officium dignitie without the duetie of ever being blessed but cursed without blessing God Oh thinke on all these motives in generall everie one in particular and let them be as goades and spurres to excite thee to this pressed duetie At least let all and ever of them be so many Bittes and Bridles curbs and remoraes to restraine and keepe us from ingratitude the bane of every grace yet the ulcer and spreading leprosie and Gangreene of every place yea of this Province and our English here planted if I might digresse by expostulations CHAP. XI The application of all by comparing as and our times with Israell in all times ANd now for speciall and specificall application of all that hath beene said unto our selves to reape the harvest of all this seede and to drinke the Wine from these pressed grapes that I may Bee-like bring all these rapsodicall collections home to the English-Irish Hive of our owne Church Common-wealth all these generall motives being but preparatives to prolong and prepare the way to my intended scope or as a foundation to a subsequent building If ever Nation and people under the cope of heaven had cause and occasion to act the part of David and his worthies since they left the stage of life in blessing the Lord as the very wordes of my Text are wee are the people for in the blessings and benefits we have received from God both of adornation and preservation Spirituall and Temporall externall and internall generall and speciall our mother Albion and wee here Hybernified layd in an equall scales I will not so undervalue us to say ballanced with all the inhabitants of the Christian Pagan Papall Octoman world compared with the famousest kingdomes European Asian Affrican and American not excepting the Cham of Cathy the great Mogull the Souldan of Egypt Prester-Iohn the Kingdomes of Fez and the most flourishing that are or ever were but equally poyzed with the best people in their prime in Davids and Salomons time that ever were taken even in their best as answering all their priviledges and
prerogatives given them by the inspired a 1. Pet. 2.9 Apostles of a royall Priesthood a holy Nation a chosen generation c. To whom were the Oracles of whom came Christ according to the b Rom. 9.4 flesh wee doe not onely weigh and paralell blessings with them layd in equall ballance but all things duely pondered wee as farre mee thinkes exceede them as they exceeded once the invironing Nations and this will plainely and perspicuously appeare if wee and they Britam mans and Iewes be compared together as c In his lives Plutarch compared the Greekes and the Romanes both in our best and worst our dignities received from God our obliged yet neglected dueties that wee owe to God wee shall bee found to beare the bucklers from them Repetens ab origine primo to begin then from the beginning c. First wee know the Lord of his meere mercie and Philanthropie entred into covenant with the Iewes gave them the seale of the covenant Circumcision initiated with their father d Gen. 17. v. 1.2 7 9.10.11.12 Rom. 4.11 Abraham he by this e Ioshuah 5. ve 5.6 Deut. 5. v. 1.2.3 covenant elected and selected them from all the Nations Kingdomes and kinreds of the earth to bee a peculiar people to himselfe of them and amongst them he had his Church instituted prescribed and established his owne worship gave them lawes and ordinances Morall Ceremoniall Iudiciall as farre exceeding the lawes of Solon Numa Pompilius Mercurius Trismegistus Adraco or any other Legifers amongst men in equitie puritie and perfection as the Gold exceedes the Brasse or Tynne by these hee hedged and limited them within their bounds all that he exacted of them againe in reciprocall requitall of his mercies was onely f Deut. 5.40 obedience to his lawes and statutes His love he first set upon g Deut. 5 v. 34.35.36.37.38 them and choose them not they him not for any merit or worthinesse that was in them but of his meere mercie and paternall good will adopting them unto himselfe repudiating and in a manner rejecting for a time all other people whom hee shut up in unbeleefe in respect of them as Moses oft times urgeth unto them So to reflect upon our selves for this our English Israell hath not the Lord sequestrated and separated us from Pagans and Heathens yea even from Turkes and Iewes themselves whom for a time he hath rejected for their h Rom. 11.20 unbeliefe to be a Church unto himselfe a people zealous of good workes were we not once as wee may see our faces in the glasse of the i Rom. 1.29.30.31 Romanes k 1. Cor. 6.9.10.11 Corinthians Thessalonians l Ephes 2. v. 2.3 vers 11.12 Tit. 3. vers 3. Ephesians in their pristine estate before their conversion in the uncircumcision of the flesh serving lusts and vaine Idols without God in Christ strangers from God and Aliens from the Common-wealth of the true Israell in the power of m Act. 26.18 death in the power of darkenesse having our very understandings n Ephes 4.18 darkned as ignorant of the true God and of the way and meanes of life and salvation were wee not once even darkenesse it selfe an obscure people even to the world devided and cast out as it were into an unknowne corner and o Divisos ab orbe Britannos etc. Virgil. angle though now as a Candle on a Table as a Beacon on a Hill as a Citie on a Mountaine that cannot bee hid giving light and luster to the gazing and admiring world whose eyes are upon our eminencie * De laudibus Angliae nostrae lege apud Cassaneum in Catalogo par 12. pag. 348. Beromensem in Chronicis lib. 4 but in respect of our spirituall estate wee were like other Gentiles walking in the vanities of our mindes children of disobedience in whom the Prince of the Ayre ruled wilde p Rom. 11.24 olives ere wee were ingrafted But even when we were thus in our blouds the Lord past by us and said we should q Ezech. 16. ver 3.4.5.6 live by the light of his word whether by Ioseph of Arimathea or who else or in the dayes of r The Papists contend that this Isle first received the faith in time of Lucius Anno Dom. 180. And in time of Augustine sent by Gregory Anno 600. but as appeares by some passages out of Bede and Peter Cluanensis yea by Tertullian contra Iudaeos Origen homil 4. in Ezech. we received the Gospell long before the time of Eleutherius eyther by Ioseph of Arimathea as Gildas thinkes lib. 4. de Victoria or by Simon Zelotes as Nicephorus affirmes libr. 2. cap. 4. Lucius or else when I dispute not now I say by this light by blessed organs and instruments we were brought first from Paganish after from Popish darkenesse more hideous then the Egyptian or the ſ De tenebris Chymerijs in Oppido illo in Bosphoro sito Multa Plin. lib. 6. cap. 6. c. 11. c. 13. Et Mela li. 1. c. 4. Chymerian and reduced into the lightsome Goshen of the glorious Gospell called to be a people that before as it were were no people gathered to be a Church yea a glorious Church as any in Europe or in Christendome besides for the continuation of the Gospell the propagation and profession of the true Religion the zeale and sinceritie knowledge and answerable practise of preachers and professors puritie of Gods worship freed in a great measure from the leaven of Popish and Paganish Idolatrie and superstition holinesse of life and illumination of judgement shining in many eminent members as pearles in Gold notwithstanding the nevy and warts and spots and blemishes in this of ours as ever have beene in the best reformed Churches by open profane ones and secret hypocrites as wooden legges to the bodie as rotten boughes to the Tree in the true Church like corrupt humors in the bodie rather then of our Church I say Churches of t Revel 24. vers 14.20 Revel 3.15 Asia of u 1. Cor. ch 3.3 ch 5. v. 1.5 ch 6. v. 1. ch 11. v. 1◠Corinth and the best that are or ever were Militant on earth till they be Triumphant in heaven for the number of for the sinceritie and measure of Grace in our present and pristine Proselites true Nachaniels zealous professors and confessors constant and couragious Martyres since the dayes of that Belgicke Elias Luther who have upon tryall I am perswaded still would answere their names of Protestants protesting cōfessing for the faith till death sealing the truth with their bloud reflecting on those I may well say according to my hearts perswasion that our English-Scottish Sion our Church of great Brittaine of all other Churches is as the Dove amongst the Birdes as the Lilly amongst the flowers as the Sunne amongst the Planets Christs owne Spouse though w Cant. 1. v. 4.5 blacke yet faire yea
and Eutichius Bernard Peter of Clunes yea amongst the chiefe Bishops of Asia about the celebration of Easter as appears in Ecclesiasticall histor Yea how ever it is excused by Chrys hom 6. de laudibus Pauli by other fathers Paul and Barnabas disseÌ„ted Act. 16.37 Margine Yet since wee all hold the foundation against Papist and Pelagian and Armenian and who ever else which is justification freely by faith in Christ without the workes of the law according to the Scriptures thus building on the rock though there may be amongst us doctrinall or personall errors we are still a Church wee have not totally and apostatically revolted as the Iewes Eightly and yet see still a further mercie to us then to these Iewes though Gods owne peculiar people as indeede as when by a stone throwne in the waters one circle begets another and as in a golden chaine one lincke succeedes exceeds another so in the cordes of a man in the cordes of g Osee 11.4 love one mercie drawes another though our provocations and rebellions haue every way equalized theirs and though in paternall love by fatherly castigations corrections the Lord hath visited our sinnes with roddes our offences with scourges as he threatned h 2. Sam. 7.14 Salomon as he hath dealt with i 2. Sa. 12.10.11 David k 2. Chr. 32 25 26. Ezekiah l Ionas 1.3.4 Ionas and all his transgressing children yet he hath not beene so strict and severe with us as with them for manie ages and generations to scourge us with any Ashur or Assirian any rod of his m Esay 10.5 wrath any forreine power For how ever in our first planting in this Island we have been subjugated and subdued very n See Lanquets Chronicle lib. 2 per totum de Gestis Romanorum in Anglia libr. 3. per totum â—t testatur pag. 136. often by the Pictes by the Danes by the Romanes and since the time of William the Conqueror as appeares in the raignes of severall Kings wee have had bloudie bickerings with neighbouring Kingdomes chiefly the Normans the French and the Scottes now our brethren our neerest and deerest Allies they and we meeting in his Royall Majestie as in the Royall center of love as the Tyrians and the Syrians in one Aeneas and how ever in the Raignes of everie King our Edwards Richards Iohns Henries and the rest since as before the Conquest our land hath beene shaken as with a feaver rent and devided as with the teeth and fangs of madd dogges in Civill warres more or lesse by the factions and rebellions of turbulent malignant humerous proud ambitious and discontented spirits Yet within our memorie or the memorie of our forefathers our great grand-fathers which is a singular mercie both to us their successors and our predecessors wee have not beene brought under any forreine power no externall yoke hath beene layd on our neckes excepting the Romane yoke on the soules of our forefathers as the o Exod. 1.13 Egyptian Chaldean p Esay 10.6 Ierem. 50.33 Assirian q Ierem. 51.34 Babylonian yoke was layd upon the Iewes for many yeares together in grievous pressures wee have not beene subdued in our times by anie forreine enemie as the Israelites were kept under sometimes r Iudg. 3.8.14 twentie sometimes thirtie fortie yeares by the Midianites Moabites Ammonites Philistines and other enemies which the Lord stirred up against them Our land in our time as was once sayd of Venice is a Virgin unconquered unsubdued We have obtained Å¿ 2. Sam. 24.14 Davids desire to fall into the hands of God by plague and famine and other afflictions but not into the hands of man as Sampson did to be mocked of the t Iudg. 16.21.25 1. Sam. 31.4 uncircumcised which was Sauls feare as Abimelech was ashamed to die by the hand of a w Iudg. 9.54 woman quod omen avertat Deus Lastly which is the summe and substance shutting up of all the rest comparing our selves still with them not onely in positive mercies but in privative in respect of our evills of x Malum culpa malum poena sinnes and evils of sufferings wee shall finde though as hath beene said and proved that our provocations are as many as monstrous our demerits as great as theirs all circumstances considered wee having walked as unworthie of Gods mercies as euer they that the Lord hath beene to us in respect of them a mercifull and indulgent father and to them in respect of us a just a severe and unplacable judge to us a father of mercies to them a Iealous and zealous God visiting the sinnes of their fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth y Exod. 20.5 Generation When I consider not onely the judgements of God upon their soules even to this day in giving them over according to his z Deut. 28.28 threate to madnesse blindnesse of minde astonishment of heart to grope as at noone day their hearts being made fatt their eares heavie their eyes a Esay 6.10 shut least they should see with their eyes heare with their eares and understand with their hearts and convert and be healed God giving them over to the spirit of slumber their eyes being darkened the vayle b 2. Cor. 3.15 unremoved blindnesse in part hapning to c Rom. 11.8 ve 25. v. 9. v 32. them untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in their Table being made a snare and a trap and a stumbling blocke and recompence unto them God shutting them up so farre in unbelife that when their Messias came amongst them as his owne his owne received him d Iohn 1.12 not but crucified the Lord of e Act. 2.36 glorie rejecting him that came in his fathers name their promised Shiloh but receiving to their inevitable ruine and destruction both of bodie and soule imposters and deceivers for their Messias as Herod entertained of his f Some thinke the Herodians were so called in that they thought Herod that Idumean the Messias Herodians two Bens or Barcosbas the sonnes of lying as their owne writers g Sanhedrim li. c. Helech Rabb Moses Ben. Maimon That place of Haggai c. 2 7.8 being applied to the one by Rab Akiba tract Meghala Iacobs scarre Num 23. unto the other Talmud Ieros L. Taanith testifie being received even of their great Rabbyns and the propheticall Scriptures applied unto them the one immediately after the Passion of Christ the other in the dayes of Adrian besides that Egyptian Moses that Devill in the shape of a h Socrat. eccles hist. libr 7. c. 37. man who drowned so manie of them in the Sea in the Isle of i Anno 434. Creete with other birds of that blacke feather as that Pseudo-Moses in k Nicephorus Arabia with others moe Thus as our Papists and other heretickes at this day not beleeving the truth the Lord giving them over to strong
motive Bristow and f De visibili Monarcha lib. 7. pag. 730. he prayseth the attempts of these Noblemen pag. 744. Hee prayseth Felton for an honourable Martyr Sanders yea applauded and approved by many Seminarie Priests chiefly by Campian their chiefe g As appeares by his ten Reasons in his Oxford Oration confuted learnedly by Doctor Humfrey champion who for all his cunning h The Deane of Pauls and Windsor disputing with him found him verie subtile sophistrie was found to have a hand and a heart for treason and suppressed by these wise and Martiall worthies which her Majestie imployed in that behalfe as also to survey againe that other conspiracie intended Norfolke but discovered and crusht in the shell and the the chiefe agents executed as also the treason of the Duke of Norfolke and after of the Earle of Northumberland who as hee had a hand in the Northerne rebellion as well as his brother which by the Queenes mercie was remitted entred into a new plot of invading the land as an agent in Throgmortons treason a conspirator with Charles Paget an intended assistant to the Duke of Guize to bring in a forreine Catholicke Prince of which the Popes holinesse had a principall care as also si fas dicere not to be so unmindefull of Gods former mercies no more then David was of his preservation from a Lion and a i 1. Sam. 17.34.35 Beare or Moses for the overture of Israels Egyptian enemies in the red k Exod. 15. Sea or Deborah of Iabins drowning in the River l Iudg. 5. Kishon as to pretermit the discomfiture of that Catholicke m Anno 15â—8 fleete which the pride of Popish Proselites called the invincible Armado by one onely n Sir Francis Drake Drake with some principall o As Charles Lord Howard high Admirall Lord Thomas Howard the Lord Sheffield with other brave spirits besides swiming amongst them with his woodden p So are Ships called walles with the helpe of the windes and waves of the Sea which from the God of the Sea fought against them as the Sunne once fought against the q Iosh 10.12 Amorites and the starres against r Iudg. 5.20 Sisera and for us as once for that good Å¿ Oh â—timium dilecte Deo â—ui militat aether coniurati vaniunâ— ad classica venti c. Theodosius with no lesse glorie to our English then that valourous Greeke had who with his handfull of a few hundreds overthrew that numerous river-drinking cloude-threatning Armie of the Persian Zerxes I say to pretermit these publike dangers with our deliverances managed by all the might and malice prowesse and pollicie of the arme of flesh as also these Priests and Romish Proselites that were deservedly cut off at Tyburne and their treacherous hearts cut out as denying the Queenes supremacie and so consenting unto if not contriving the most horrible treasons amongst the which were Iohnson Forde Shert Kirby Filby Cotton Richardson so to leave others as unworthie naming pestilent vermine or croaking frogges crawling out of the Romish Tyber or as Locusts from the bottomlesse pit to disturb our peace or indanger our Princesse how odious the naming as of a Iew or Iudas how horrid the remembrance as once of him that burned Dianas Temple of these men monsters inhumane Canibals yea generation of vipers that besides strangers and forreiners attempted as by the Devill and Priests first tempted to gnaw the very bowels that bred them yea to lay their bloudie hands on the Lords anoynted a Princesse the most free from vices the most famous for Artes partes and vertues that these moderne admiring times ever look't upon amongst the which that smooth Parasiticall Parry whose sparkes of treason being kindled by the words and writings of the carnall Cardinall Como and inflamed by a Booke of one Doctor Collins sent him out of France in which there were as many warrants for treasons as words and discovered partly by his owne tongue to an Esquire one Nevill and partly by the wisedome of some t The Earle of Leycester and Sir Christopher Hatton counsellours they were quenched smothered and strangled at Westminsters Pallace where hee was executed and another bird of the same feather Francis Throgmorton who by the encitement of one Ienny at the Spaw in the countrie of Leige and Sir Francis Englefield in the Low-Countries with theÌ„ confederacie of one Charles Paget alias Mope alias Spring was made an agent and instrument of discoverie of the most fit and convenient Havens for the landing of such forreine forces as if the great Lord Protectour of England had not prevented and restrained had supplanted us and planted themselves with all the tayle and traish of their Idolatrous worship In the third ranke as rancke Traytors as the rest were Anthonie Babington the head of his confederates as u Act. 1.16 Iudas was of those that apprehended Christ who with thirteene ungentle young Gentlemen moe bound themselves by Oath as those fortie Iewes that vowed the death of Saint w Act. 22.13.14 Paul that by murthering the Queenes Majestie they would eyther settle their Pope againe in his former estate in England or else as deservedly they did reckoning without their hoste even the God of hostes and swimming against the streame even die the death In the same predicament was our x Borne in Tonlerton neer Yorke Yorke-shire Weldon Sutton Hartley priests like Simeon and y Gen. 49.5.6 Levy brethren in bloud hearted like the rest for the invasion of the land the surprizing of the Tower of London the firing of the Citie the killing of some privie z Chiefly the Earle of Leicester was assigned to the pot Counsellors and other such like Catholicall meritorious deedes all drinking of that bloudie cup as freely as a Apud Instin Satiate sanguine quem sitists Tomiris caused Cyrus which they had brewed for us The same poysonous bloudie cup was attempted to be brewed mixed administred by Doctor Lopez the Queenes Physitian with his confederates Stephano de Ferrara de Gama Manuell Lewis Tivaco Portingals with his pension of fiftie thousand Crowne promised for poysoning the Queene by Count Fuentes Secretario Ibarra as Iudas was promised thirtie peeces of silver for betraying of Christ and Ecchius promised a Bishopricke or great b Of which missing he raved and died benefice for disputing at least rayling against Luther Neyther was the treason of Yorke and Williams lesse dangerous lesse monstrous lesse malicious who by the Consultation holden at Bruxels to murther the Queene whereof the Devill that murtherer from the beginning was president as these holy Fathers in the Councell of Trent consulted how to poyson soules and their forefathers the Pharisees how to murther Christ their holy brethren of the Inquisition how to murther his Protestant professed Christians these with one Owens an English rebell were thought the fittests agents of which bloudie purpose fayling with
Basil in Psal 33. Epiphan Mer. 51. Chrys ho. 3. ad c. 1. ad Coloss Cyril lib. 4. contra Iul. Procopius cum cateris grounding on Gen. 48.16 on Math. 18. vers 10. and on Act. 12.11.15 Prince have his bonus Genius his protecting Angel both by land and sea in every coast countrey where he came having reduced brought him backe again after this large circumference to the English Court his own center in health honour prosperitie and safetie both in bodie and soule not somuch as the least infected dust cleaving to his feete much lesse any corrupted Popish ayre infect his royall bloud such was the antydote preservative of grace of which his highnesse hath given more then Mathematicall demonstration even since his comming home Oh this is a mercie to his highnesse in particular to the land realme all us in generall interested in him past expression Chiefly wheÌ„ I consider how unworthy we have walked of former mercies how like these nine clensed lepers we have beene b Luk. 17.16.17 unthankefull how there is at this day a controversie whether God is more mercifull to us or wee more sinfull against him we wounding the Lord with his own weapons abusing our peace plentie all other Tallents as Bawdes Panders to uncleanesse as fuell to the fire of our licentiousnesse as if a whorish woman should with these Iewels love tokens she receives from her husband mantaines an adulterous lover or a favorite with these lands revenues he hath received from his Prince assist animate a professed rebell wee imploying still Gods favours in the service of sinne sathan our sinnes like Ierusalems yea like c Ezeth 16.49 Sodoms pride idlenesse fulnesse of bread yea fulnesse foulnesse of drinke too extortion oppression increasing and springing with our blessings the sins of every countrey the German drunknesse Asian luxurie Cretian lying Carthaginian perfidiousnesse Italian wantonnesse Iewish usurie Turkish crueltie the French complementall formality with the vices vanities of every other Nation meeting in our land as in their Center entertained retained as Lawyers their Clients Physitians their Patients Noble-men their jeasters fooles because they bring sackes to our Milnes pleasures to our mindes or profites to our purse c. Yea withall when I ponder too how little use we have made of the Lords judgements plagues pestilence dearths inundations of waters sicknesses diseases deaths of the Honourable of the Martiall of the Senatour of the d Esai 3.1.2.3 Counsellour that have beene taken from us but chiefly the eclypsing of that bright sun that once shined so gloriously in our hemispher th' death of that our Illustrious farre famoused Prince Henry as greivous to our hearts as the death of that worthie e By the malice of Roxama cut off by his bloudy father Solyman in any great thing that happens the proverbe is Mustapha is dead Mustapha was once to his Martiall Ienisaries or the death of that noble Zisca to his zealous valerous Bohemians of whose death in not dying since to any sinne as humbled by this judgement we have made so little use that by our greivous provocations and as a just punishment of our former ungratious ingratitudes in the absence of our Prince the Lord having lately the Ball at his foote as hee hath ever to goale it to our griefe whereas hee might have brought on us now stouping plague indeede and have payed us home once for all by many meanes which I leave to all Christian hearts to excogitate yet when wee experimentally see that as in the first creation hee hath brought light out of darkenesse good out of our feared evill glory to himselfe prayses to his Majestie as before prayers for the preservation of our thrice honoured Prince Is not all this the Lords doings and it is marvailous in our eyes Oh if David and his Nobles were thankefull for the mercies towards their Salomon the instrumentall builder of their materiall let us be thankefull for our Salomon the builder of the spirituall Temple the propagator and continuer of true Religion the planter of Gods true worship the supplanter of Idolatrie If Cain bee avenged seven times then Lamech seventie times said that f Genes 4.24 Polygamist If the Iewes have cause of gratulation seaven times for Gods mercies towards their Church and Common-wealth Kings and people wee have occasion seventie times seven times If the undersong of Davids Psalmes much more of our spirituall Hymnes may well runne in this torrent to the God of mercies for his mercie endureth for g Psal 136. per totum ever Oh then let all of us this day this houre with our mother great Britaine by all meanes expresse our thankfulnesse by our rejoycings in the outward and inward man Blow with your Trumpets as in the new Moone strike your Drummes advance your pikes I wish I could say as in England ring your Bells make your bonfires sound your Cornets display your Banners charge and discharge your Guns apply your powder make good use of Match or as more certaine use your fire lockes march like Martialists daunce your measures as David did before the Arke Let the day of our preservation from the powder treason of the Coronation of our King the reduction of the Prince be to us as the Iewes h â—â—â—h 9.26 Purim let them be writ in red Letters inserted in our Calender but for ever these mercies with their memorials let them be as Moses commands i Deut. 6.6.7.8 Israell be ingraven better then in Brasse and Marble in the Tablets of our gratefull hearts perpetuated traditionarily to our Children children Let our Hearts Lives Loves Votes Voyces Tongues Soules Spirits joyne with all the blessed Quyre of Angels in Heaven and Saints in Earth for all his mercies to praise the father of mercies the God of spirits To whom bee honour and glorie of us and in all Churches for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Sic Correcta 1. Iaunnus for Janus pag. 9. post literam f. 2. optative for operative p. 12. initio pagina 3. God for good ibid. 4. Denuntion for denuntiation initio pag 20.5 Farnestius for Farâ—â—sius initio pag. 24. 6. of for oft pag. 43. Sect. 6. lit c pag. 46. in fine sect 6. those words must headded post verbum Queene Mary with many moe doe sympathâ—â—e one with another and hang together like burres 7. Zinick for Zurick p. 51. post lit y 8. wafted for wafted p. 53 post lit b 9. Menius for Mevius p. 59 post q 10 pag. â—6 in fine pawne they for they pawne 11 p. 97. prolonging for prolonging post f 12 p. 99 priâ—â—aces for privaces linea prima 13. p. 104. post u bewitching for butchering 14. p. 106. Zapirus for Zopirâ—s post f 15. p. 110. mike for milke post w pag. 111. in lit m it is for is it 16 pag. 136. chippe for chirpe post lit z 17 p. 138. initiation for imitation post lit p In the Margino also there be some maine defects which yet with your pen may be cured pag. 25. lit x Bolsâ—ecus for Bolsecus p. 33. lit q Magnetis nigra for Mira pag. 120. lit f adde to intolerable pride deleatur where Caesar make it as Pelargus of the p. 9â— lit s Hexapla in Lucadum for in Exodum with sodoe other of lesse moment