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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01580	Hold fast a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse vpon Sunday being the xxxi. of October, Anno Domini 1624. By Iohn Gee, Master of Arts, late of Exon Colledge in Oxford.	Gee, John, 1596-1639.	1624 (1624)	STC 11705; ESTC S115878	32,349	76

HOLD FAST A Sermon Preached at PAVLS Crosse vpon Sunday being the XXXI of October Anno Domini 1624. By IOHN GEE Master of Arts late of EXON Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed by A. M. and I. N. for ROBERT MYLBOVRNE and are to be sold at his Shop at the great South doore of Pauls 1624. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR ROBERT NANTON Knight Master of his Maiesties Court of Wards and Liueries and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Councell RIGHT HONOVRABLE SOme in their Dedicatories employ their Pen not so much to craue Patronage as to buy and purchase it by large and happily deserued commendation of those whose names and fauour they implore How plentifull matter in this kind I might be furnished withall they well know that are able to ballance your pietie learning and othervertues But as Cato resolued to haue a mean Tombe or none at al that it might rather be asked why he had no Monument then why a sumptuous so in my speaking to of your worthy selfe rather would I be asked of many why I said so little thē of any one why so much I therefore here addresse my selfe to your Honour by approach to that side onely which lyeth most conspicuous opportune for my harbour and that is the contemplation of you as you are by his Maiestie appointed the worthy Head and Master of that honourable Court erected for the protection of those who by reason of Nonage are vnable to support themselues against iniury In which imployment out of your religious vertuous resolutions the world knows you most ready to do Iustice and yeeld Protection as by way of Iudicature vnto Orphanes so also in a larger extent by way of fauor countenance to others that need the same especially in cause of Religion My poore selfe though not pleading either Wardable Tenure or Infancie of years yet in the generall as a Churchman and in particular as deuoted to doe all the seruice I may for the maintenance of Religion established presume to cast my selfe as a Ward into your tuition First Ecclesia semper est pupilla the Church by the Ciuil Canon Lawes is said to remaine in perpetuall pupillage and iustly claimeth succour and defence from men in high place as vnable to relieue it selfe against either those Corrupters that wil thrust in with strange fire to pollute the Altar or those Spoilers that would cut short the skirts of Aarons cloathing Then also for my personall case in regard of my disabilities to vndertake so high a taske I must needs acknowledge my selfe to bee a weake Infant Puer sum non possum loqui Ierem. 1.4 and the more liable to wrong because incompassed with aduersaries exasperated against the Truth and mee for speaking Truth Ezck. 2.6 Bryers and thornes are with mee and I dwell amongst Scorpions whose stings are the sharper bent against my breast because I haue indeauored to giue Antidotes vnto the Kings liege people for their defence against such balefull poyson whereof my selfe haue formerly had a taste Nor am I more by mine owne danger driuen then by your goodnesse drawne to cast mine vnworthy selfe and these my poore Labors into the bosome of your Protection Though it bee perhaps none of my least faults that without your Honours leaue I haue intruded vpon your Patronage yet I cannot bee so mistrustfull in so good a cause as to feare your either repulse or offence In this good hope I craue your honourable Pardon and Fauour alwayes praying God whose cause I defend whose truth you aduance to prosper your Honour in all your laudable and religious indeauours London Nouemb. the 11 1624. Your Honours bounden at seruice to be commanded IOHN GEE HOLD FAST REVEL 3.11 Behold I come quickly hold fast that thou hast that no man take thy Crowne AS Iohn the Baptist so much more Iohn the Euangelist was a burning and a shining Lampe Iohn 13.23 He was the Disciple whom Iesus loued hee leaned on his Lords breast è sinu Domini imbiberat Mysteria Aug. in Ioh. from out of the bosome of his Master hee dranke deepe of the fountaine of heauenly wisdome Hee wrote his Reuelations in the latter end of his deepe age and as may seeme by the profit thence vnto Gods Church was to that end in speciall manner and miraculously preserued as if the lampe of his life could not bee put out till hee had kindled all the lampes of his Writings to giue light to the Sanctuary of God vpon earth The tempest of violent death could not dash out the candle of his mortalitie Fasciculus Temporum Euseb Eccl. hist lib. 13 cap. 18. 20. For hee being vnder Traian put into a vessell of scalding oyle yet was not completely martyred And vnder Domitian banished into Patmos one of the Islands called Cyclades or Sporades lying in the West part of Asia the lesse and by the Aegean Sea there his life in extreame age was not consumed amongst the duresses and distresses of that banishment till hee had finished his course and wrote to the neighbouring Churches the last Omega of the Scriptures Christ who present with him in body loued him no lesse loued him being absent And therefore as he appeared to Abraham in the Mount Gene. 22.12 Gene. 28.11 Exod. 3.2 Ierem. 38.6 Daniel 2. Acts 10.6 to Iacob in the Field to Moses in Midian to Ieremiah in the Dungeon to Daniel in Babylon and to Peter in the house of Simon So in good time he doth appeare to his beloued Iohn in this desert Isle and comfort him in his exile with sweet voyces heauenly visions and most glorious Reuclations His first Vision contained in the three first chapters of this Booke is of seuen golden Candlestickes and seuen Starres representing seuen famous Churches and their Angels or Bishops in Asia minor to which hee was directed to write so many seuerall Epistles At the seuenth verse of this Chapter begins the Epistle to the Angel of Philadelphia a Citie of Mysia and one of the Gentile Churches to whom he chose rather to write then to the Churches in Iudea to signifie that now the kingdome of God was come to the Gentiles the partition wall broken downe Rom. 3. the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Arke of the Couenant opened the Gentiles were admitted and adopted into the fellowship of Gods people yet so as vnder the seuerall estates of those seuen Churches Paraeus Bullinger Gorran according to the opinion of learned Expositors the future estate of other Churches is deciphered and the doctrine therein contained so neerely concerneth succeeding times that the conclusion of euery Epistle hath this generall Memento Let him that hath an care heare what the Spirit saith vnto the Churches In the first part of the Predictions and Instructions giuen to this the sixt in order of those Churches the Church of Philadelphia he commendeth the patience of the Angell or Bishop there threatens his