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A68403	The ioy of Ierusalem and woe of the worldlings. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 18. of Iune. 1609. By William Loe Batcheler of Diuinity.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1609 (1609)	STC 16685; ESTC S102897	35,331	132

he testified That he liued not but Christ liued in him In like manner the spouse also in the Canticles expostulateth with temptations I haue put off my coate how should I put it on againe that is shee had cast away the works of darknes how should she take them againe I haue washed Can. 5. 3. my feete how should I defile them that is I am become cleane in being purified by faith in the blood of Christ and haue done away all my former filthes how can I now that reioyce that I am thus deliuered return into that bondage and slauerie againe The vse of this then is because I hasten that we deceiue not our selues for what semblance soeuer wee make outwardly of christian profession yet if we doe not sanctifie our selues in some measure there is no truth in vs and we doe but cosen our owne consciences and become traitors to our owne soules For this is positiue That Psal 19. 1. Ioh. 3. 3. the feare of the Lord is cleane And he that hath a hope of heauen doth purge himself If I might craue of you blessed people to remember but this paralel of scripture it shal be sufficiēt for me to blesse al the daies of my life this my poore laboure and trauel And so I wil descend vnto my third note of Separation whereby those that here Christ prayeth for are distinguished from the world to wit Euangelical Charitie which is indeed the Cognisance of a true Catholike Christian So our Sauiour testifieth saying By this shall all men know you to be my Ioh. 13. 35 disciples if ye loue one another which Loue is not in the mouth tong onely but in truth and veritie That this is the true outward distinction 1 Ioh. 13. 3. of a true Catholike Christian it appeareth to all of vs heere present For it is common to all professors to be receiued into the Church by Baptisme to enter into the assemblies to praier and preaching to bold vp their handes and cast vp their eies to heauen to crie Lord haue mercie vppon vs and in conclusion to say Amen Yet many of these are counterset Christians fained and false dissemblers but Charitie and Loue Euangelicall notifieth vnto vs the faithfull professor from the fained and false dissembler There are foure fountaines from whence Loue springeth the. 1. of Nature and that euen is also the instinct of brute beastes The. 2. of Blood and that is of Naturall men as they are meerely naturall The 3. of Reason and that is the league and amitie of Philosophers who take Reason to bee their Pilot and Loue no farther than they haue Reason The. 4. of Grace and that is properly of true Christians and that I call Euangelicall Charitie The properties whereof are 1. To sympathize with others in their distresse Beare one anothers burthen 2. To pray for one another The Christian Sacrifice 3. To suffer beare and forbeare euen with the conditions of them that hate vs yea and doe good vnto them and this is indeed the exaltation of Christian charity which Euangelicall and gratious charitie is twofold either in affectu or in effectu In affection onely the poore shew their loue from whom the Lord accepts the will euen as the deed for he requireth not that of them which he giueth not vnto them but in the rich this charitie must bee effectuall in distributing and despersing the blessings and benefits of the Lord to his poore people Witnesse therfore blessed auditorie in the Lord Iesus this day that it is a slander and calumniation of the Papist who saith that we teach you negatiue doctrines onely and not affirmatiue For wee eft-soones proclaime vnto you from this place and all other the like in this kingdome that your Catholike Faith is a dead and desperate follie if it worke not by loue for loue is the euidence to your selues and to the world of your Faith to God But alas with horror and amazement be it spoken how many are there that make profession of this Catholike faith and Euangelicall charitie and yet are degenerated beneath brute beasts in the course of nature and bloud as becomming a cruell Oedipus to their father and a cursed Nero vnto their mother Yea euen in their reason become more vnthankfull then Iudas and that to those to whom they owe Phil. v. 19. in all right and reason euen their owne soules yet are they inhumane as the Dog and cruel as the Lionesse whereas Euangelicall charitie as hath beene said is extended euen vnto our enemies after the example of our God who shineth with his sun vpon the good and bad and of Christ Iesus our Captaine and of the Protomartyr Saint Stephen our fellow souldier who praied for their tyrannous persecutors but much more then to our brethrē to the distressed needie and afflicted members of our Lord Christ Let it bee then a brand of impietie against that soule in the day of account who heareth this and regardeth it not seeing it is the peremptorie and positiue assertion of the Sonne of God That by this Euangelical charitie Ioh. 3. 35 all men shall know who are his And thus much for the person praier and parties both designed and distinguished Now let vs proceed to the reasons why hee praieth for them 1. Donatiue which thou hast giuen me This giuing of vs to God the father is nothing else but a manifestation of the determinate purpose of God in Iesus Christ for as God the father hath predestinated vs to the end which is his glory euerlasting life so also hath he predestinate vs to the meanes to bring vs therunto they cannot be eluded The father hath giuen vs to his Sonne to serue him in foure especiall suites and seruices 1. in deuoted religion euen as the sonne himselfe doth who saith heere in this chapter verse 4. I glorifie the father so must we that bee Christs seruants Let our light so shine before Mat 5. 16. men that they seeing our good works may glorifie our Father which is in heauen 2. In the zeale of soules For the zeale of the Lord must euen Psal 69. 9 eate vs vp Monica the mother of Augustine is a rare President heerein What prayers sighes and groanes did that godly mother Aug. Confess make for her sonne Augustine yet being a Maniche that hee might become an Orthodox Such was the zeale of that pious mother for the soule of her deere Sonne Paul also became all vnto all that hee might winne the more who was weake and he was not weake Thirdly in humilitie Mich. 6. 8. for the Prophet Micheas expostulating this point wherewithall hee should come before the Lord in the end concludeth that a man must humble himselfe to walke with his God shewing that there is no other meanes whereby man may tread the steps of the holy seruice of God but by an humble deiectment of himselfe to the maiesty of God So also our Sauiour himselfe

and also ab illo malo from the deuill and all his designements Lastlie it is the perfection of the church if we respect the time to come for hee is the ancient of daies not to bee antiquated by length of time He is the perfection of our soules and bodies in the resurrection and in a word our exceeding great reward So he praieth verse 24. That we may be where he is that we may behold his glorie which was from euerlasting Of this knowledge of the power of Christs praier manifold is the holie and deuine vse practise 1. Of hope which quickneth vs. For while we pray heere on earth wee knowe and beleeue assuredly that Christ praieth for vs and pleadeth our cause as an aduocate in heauen In his humiliation hee praied for vs in his exaltation then assuredlie oh Angelicall Manna 2. Of reuerend boldnesse which the spirit of God exhorteth Seeing Heb. 4. 14. 15. 16. then that wee haue a great high Priest which is entered into heauen euen Iesus the Sonne of God Let vs hold fast our profession for wee haue not an high Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all things tempted in like sort yet without sin Let vs therfore goe boldly vnto the throane of grace that we may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede 3. Of resolution if the praier of Elizeus was powerfull to restore 2. Reg. 4. 36. Act. 20. 12. to life the Sonne of the Shunamite and of Paul to bring againe the breath of Eutychus Why should not wee resolue to trust in the Lord albeit hee kill vs for he killeth and maketh aliue againe he laies vs in the dust and raiseth vs vp to euerlasting and euerliuing glorious felicitie 4. Of confirmation for heere are all the blessings of Garazim and the dew of Hermon which falleth vppon the hill of Sion which is Gods Church where the Lord promiseth his peace and blessing for Zach. 2. 5. euermore this is not murus aheneus but murus igneus not a wall of Brasse but of fire wherein is not onely protection but terrour and vtter destruction Protection to Gods Children a terrour to their enemies euen a far off but if they bee so foole hardie as imagining their skins to be thunder proofe and approach to hurt his church they and theirs shall bee vtterlie consumed 5. Of precedent wee ought also to pray for our selues and for our brethren for that is a countermure against all assaults of Sathan and therfore Christ our Sauiour so aduiseth vs Pray continually Luk. 18. Lastly of direction Christ praieth to God the Father immediately wee therefore in his name onely ought to send out our praiers not to Saint or Angell for that is an iniurie to the whole Trinitie First to God the father who is the obiect of our praiers so himselfe speaketh Call Psa 50. 15. vpon me in the time of trouble and I will heare you 2. To God the Sonne for he is the one and onely mediatour of our praiers There being but one God and one mediatour betweene God and man 1. Tim. 2. 5 which is the man Christ Iesus 3. To God the holy Ghost for he is the breath of our praiers Wee in our selues knowing not what to pray for Rom. 8. 26 nor how to pray as we ought but the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes vnutterable Now let vs descend from the person which is the Sonne of God vnto the parties which are the Sonnes of men First as they are designed by titles of fauour honour Secondly as they are distinguished by notes of separation from the world I pray for them which are my Sonnes by adoption my Saintes by calling my Princes and Priests by conuersation my beloued by decree my baptized by institution my Illuminates by purpose and mine Associates by promise His Sonnes so Saint Iohn stileth Iohn 1. 12. them As many as receiued him to them he gaue prerogatiue to bee the Sonnes of God An heauenlie priuiledge The Sons of men become the sonnes of God by knowing acknowledging Iesus Christ The same diuine in words of admired demonstration pointeth this out saying Behold what loue the father hath giuen to vs that wee wretches should be called the Sonnes of God And because the Euangelist thought it not enough that wee should be so called he addeth further Deerely beloued now are we 1. Io. 3. 1. 2 the Sonnes of God but yet it is not manifest what wee shall bee If then we be sonnes some vertue together with the seede is transfused Bonus sanguis non mentitur Honourable blood cannot counterfeit Whereupon the spirit of God warneth vs that we shew our selues as Sonnes not as bastards for Heb 12. 8 whome hee praieth not 2 I pray for them which are my saints by calling whome I haue purged by my blood and sanctified by my spirit The blood of Iesus 1. Ioh. 1. 7 Christ purging vs from al our sinnes And Paul testifieth that Iesus Christ was declared mightilie to be the sonne of God by the spirit of sanctification Rom. 1 not onely in himselfe which was powred out on him without measure but also vppon euerie one of his in some measure We ought therefore to bee holy as our heauenlie father is holie wee beleeuing also a communion of Saints which is seene by faith and not by eie 3. I pray for them which are my Princes my Priests by conuersation So Peter entituleth 1. Pet. 29 them ye are of the Royall Priesthood Royall therefore Princes Priesthood therefore Priests Princes in swaying their affections Priestes in sacrificing their pleasures and in offering their daily sacrifices to God for themselues others In euerie true christian there shineth a certaine princely maiestie seasoned and sorted with a Priestlie modestie and humilitie Chrysostome saith they are knowne by their gate by their looke by their vesture by their voice Their going princely being shod with the Eph. 6. 15. shoes of preparation of the Gospell Psal 131. 1 Their lookes Princely being lifted vppe vnto the hils from whence commeth their helpe Their vesture Priestlike al glorious Psa 45. 13. within Their voice Priestlike soft and milde as Iacobs voice and these are those for whome Christ heere praieth 4. I pray also for them which are my beloued by decree Beloued before they were Iacob haue I loued Beloued when they were children Hos 11. 1 when Israel was a childe I loued him Beloued when they were men Zorubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel shal be as the signet vpon Hag. vlt. my right hand Beloued when they are not Right deere in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints yea albeit Beggers yet beloued for angels attend them in after death Luc. 16 22 to carrie and conuey them to rest 5 I pray for them which are my Baptized outwardly by