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A10583	The solace of Sion, and ioy of Ierusalem. Or consolation of Gods church in the latter age redeemed by the preaching of the Gospell vniuersallye. Beeing a godly and learned exposition of the Lxxxvij. Psalme of the princelye prophet Dauid: written in Latine by the reuerend Doctor Vrbanus Regius, pastor of Christes Church at Zelle, in Saxonie. 1536. Translated into english by R. Robinson citizen of London 1587.; Psalmus octuagesimus septimus, de gloriosa Christi ecclesia	Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.; Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1587 (1587)	STC 20852; ESTC S119789	35,218	86

w●ek of the yeares which Daniell declareth Cap 9. vers 27. but imagine themselues another Sauiour or Sacrifice offered I know not whom it is impossible for them to vnderstande the sacred misteries of the Gaspell in the Prophets which are not vnderstoode but by the gouernment and guide of y e spirit of Christ who speaketh in the Prophets And none haue the spirit of Christ but they which beleeue in Iesus Christ Wherefore also in this Psalme as yet still pleasantly dreame they of that same auncient Cittye of Sion in time past ouerthrowne and laide waste by the 〈…〉 ● as Daniell also witnesseth neuer to be restoryd againe But the Church of Christe which hath the holye Ghost and thereby also true vnderstanding of the Scripture knoweth indeede that Ierusalem and Sion was in time past beloued of God For at Ierusalem was the Priesthoode of the Leuites the Sanctuarie propiciatorie a place dedicated for religion or true worshipping of God that same notable treasure of sacred Scriptures the Law and the Prophets wherein is the Gospell of eternall saluation And in Ierusalem was the Kings royall Throane vpon the which should sit that same true King of Israell the Messias which was to be born of the seede of Dauid but all this should come to passe in a certaine other order then other Kinges had their gouernment In this Sion were glorious thinges begun For the same Ruler ouer Israell Iesus Christ came into this Sion and into his holy Temple Malachy 3 Therin preached he the vnsearcheable Riches of his grace Therein beganne he that mighty Kingdome of his by the woorde of his Gospell and by his spirite which was miraculously powred vpon his Apostles in Sion The Law and the Prophets were in that place accomplished For Iesus of Nazareth the sonne of Dauid after the flesh the true Messias came into Sion riding vhon an Asses Colte the true and eternall King of Sion and in the same Cittie celebrated the true feast of Passouer and néer vnto the same offered vppe himselfe to GOD his Father the full accomplishment of all figuratiue sacrifices the sacrifice of true redemption and the verye immaculate Lambe died he at the feast of Easter for the sinnes of all the worlde and all this did he the alone high Prieste who with one onely oblation purchased euerlasting redemption vnto Israell Out of Sion afterwards plentifully issued the Gospell of Gods grace into the worlde by the Apostles And the Primitiue Church which at the firste was but very small in number wente out of Sion and disperst her selfe into the four partes of the world that the Scriptures might be fulfilled Concerning the calling of the Gentiles vnto the grace of the Gospell The Church I say knewe e●●n the earthly Sion to ●ee for a season beloued preserued of God vntill Siloh that is the promised Sauiour came into her and out of her by the remnants of Israll saued should Sion the true Church of Christ come foorth into all the worlde as the mother of all true beléeuers in Christe And shee also knewe euen that same Sion in Canaan to haue ben a figure of the true Sion the Church of God dispearsed throughout the world which is the heauenly Ierusalem As it is also saide by S. Paule 13. Hebr. Ye are come vnto the hil of Sion and to the Cittye of the liuing God the heauenly Ierualem c. Although therefore the Holy Ghoste fore-prophested these things touching the earthly Ierusalem and the earthly Sion as by a Type or Figure yet he intituled this Psalme especiallye of the true Sion the Church of Christ which is to be gathered from among the Iewes and Gentiles also neither had he respect only vnto the earthly Cittie her walles of stone but vnto the spirituall Cittye and her spirituall Scituacions and vnto farre greater matters then the faithlesse Jewes could conceiue of The holye Ghost chieflye recorded this touching The holy Cittie the newe Ierusalem descended from Heauen prepared as a Bride trimmed for her Husbande Apoc. 21. vers 2. And as S. Paul saith in the former Epistle and 11. Cap. Heb. Hauing the foundations of the Cittie whose Builder and maker is not man alone but GOD himselfe made man verse 10 The holy Ghost premeditated this as concerning the true foundation of Sion The liuely stone of men indeed refused but of God chosen and had in reputation Mat 21. He foresignified the liuely stones also builded vpon the approoued corner stone chosen precious and liuely as that spirituall house the Tabernacle and Temple of the liuing God Yea he prefigureth The Mountaine of the house of the Lord prepared in the toppe of the Mountaines exalted aboue the Hilles wherunto the People shal ronne and many nations shal make haste as it were vnto a Fort of refuge to learne the waies of the Lorde and to walke in his pathes Micheas 4. vers 1 and 2. He in whome and for whome God hath promised true and assured benefites vnto his elect is King not of this world or an earthly person but is spirituall heauenly and eternall Wherefore the elect ones of GOD are not to looke after the benefites of this worlde for the which we neither were baptized nor haue beleeued But we must seeke for the assured good things vncorrupt and eternall Undoubtedly Augustine saieth verie godlily writing vpon the 91. Psalme We are not Christiās but for the world to come Let no man hope for the good things in this life let no mā promise him selfe the prosperity of the world because be is a Christian No Cittie vpon earth which shal soone perish must we look for but the true Cittie whose walle and foūdation God himselfe is vpon whom all the praiers of the godly ones do rest of whome in the exilement of this life they are continually mindfull as of the true Cuntrey To the possession wherof they refer and wholy bend all the deteminations and deedes of their life For they seeke after true glory honour and blessed immortalitie which they finde not in Citties and transitorie benefites of this Countrey but in the heauenlie Kingdome or Cittie of God Herehence hath this Psalme that same his abropt● beginning for it saieth Her foundations when as not withstanding there is not any one word goeth ●efore in the verse concerning the same Cittie Wherfore the Pronoune Relatiue Her is to bee referred vnto the Church of God which hee nowe not as a Guest or inhabitant but as a felow Citizen of the Saintes and housholde Seruants of God by the spirite reueiling sawe with the eyes of Faith and sore sighed after with moste seruent prayers as he which knew that there is no rest peace life nor saluation without the Limittes of this Cittie of God Such cogitations Christians haue whose conuersations are in heauen as Paule saieth Philip. 3. Who when they are risen from the death of sinne seeke for and are carefull after heauēly things and

THE Solace of SION and Joy of IERVSALEM Or Consolation of Gods Church in the latter age redeemed by the preaching of the Gospell vniuersallye Beeing a godly and learned exposition of the Lxxxvij Psalme of the Princelye Prophet DAVID Written in Latine by the reuerend Doctor VRBANVS REGIVS Pastor of Christes Church at Zelle in Saxonie 1536. Translated into english by R. Robinson Citizen of London 1587. Ioel 2. vers 32. But whosoeuer shall call vpon the name of the Lord shall be saued For in Mount SION and in Ierusalem shall be deliuerance as the Lorde hath said and in the remnant whome the Lord shall call Psal 45. ●egina à dextris ●●i c vers 9. Psal 113. Qui facit mulierem orbā habitare cum familia sua matrēque filiorum laetam fore vers 9. ●ex concupiscet ●ecorem tuum ● vers 11. Qui Structor Ecclesiae suae est Angul ●risque Lapis Rex SION Salem Leo Iudae Flosque Iessae Nutritiosque creat Reges Nutricesque Reginas Ecclesiae suae protegat inquam CHRISTVS Reginam ELIZABETH Scuta Regalia sua Liberae vt SARA● filij multi fiant Donec nos in SION Dei Ciuitateque Viui SALEM sic Caelesti coagaudea●nus omnes CIVITAS LONDON Ps 101. Annūcictur in Sion nomen Domini laus eiꝰ in Ierusalem vers 26. Ex omnibus Ciuitatibus edificatis O Deus san●… To the Right Honorable Sir George Barne Knight Lord Maior of the City of London to the Right worshipful his Brethren the Aldermen of the same Grace Mercy Peace and plenitude of Temporal and eternal Beatitude in Christ Iesus our Lorde and Sauiour Euerlasting KNOVVLEDGE of GOD by his holy wil word works omnipotent conceiued Faith in his heauenly prouidence presence and promises al sufficient perceiued and obedient thankfulnesse for his inestimable bounty benefits blessing permanent receiued Right Honorable Worshipfull and Reuerend in the Lord as they are three most excellent plants of deuine vertue of whose fruite if our first Parents in Paradise had taken tasted and disgested aright as they did of a contrarie not onely their solace there had beene without Sorrowe their ioy without anoy and their life without death to the inspeakable solace and infinite ioy of the eternall GOD their Creator But also both they and all their posteritie had beene freed from the thraldome of Sathan sinne Death and Hell from time to time euen for euer For thereby in steede of knowledge wilful boldnes for want of faith incredulytie and for obedi●… i●●o paine prosperity into aduersitie health into sicknes life into death and blessings into cursings Albeit the same our omnipotent Creator mercifull Redeemer gratious sanctifier according to his holy will word and work by his heauenly prouidence presence and promises by hi● bountie benefites and blessings afterwarde● finding better fruites of knowledge repentance faith and obedience in thē comforted and confirmed both the same our first sinfull parentes their seede after them videlize● SETH ENOS KAINAN MALALIEL ●ARED ENOCH with long and happie daies vpon earth Of which seauen ENOCH especially euen aliue the rest of the fathers beholding the same was from thence translated into heauen not onely for a repentance vnto the nations in this life but also to signify the immortalitie of the bodies soules of the Lord● elect after this life euerlastingly And hereupon the best approued Interpreters and writers gather that as the Lord in sixe daies created the world ●ested the seauenth day so the same shoulde endure six thousand yeares the seuenth thousand shold be the Sabath of eternal rest and as the first sixe Fathers from ADAM to ENOCH died by course of nature and the seauenth was translated aliue into Heauen so during the first 6000. yeares death should rai●●●n the world but in the 7000 should begin th●●●●●●ednesse of life in the world euerlasting Here then conseque●●● after ENOCH we now for our time haue great cause of consolation To remember how yet in the first age God calling NOAH a rest or ceasing with his famelye into the Arke and they obediently entring were saued when al the world besides were consumed Gen. 6 And how in the second age of the worde SH●● the renoumed of whome the first Iewes came IAPHETH enlarged of whome the first Gentiles came both the sonnes of the same NOAH should being blessed ioine handes together towards the building of the earthly SION and heauenly IERVSALEM when their brother CAM crafty for his disobedience was accursed Genes 9 And his children the Cananites an idolatrous and wicked people were confounded in their presumtuous building of the earthly BABEL How also the second age expired and in the 23. yeare of the third beginning ABRAHAM the father of a multitude being called by God out of the Citie of HARAN in Mesopotomia into Palestine euē there amongst the infidels receiued the promise concerning Christ incarnate of his seed that the world shoulde by him recouer the blessings that it lost through ADAM Genes 12. Which was by the will of God more amply perfourmed in the Lords couenāt vnto Dauid beloued of the tribe of IVDA the yongest sonne of ISHAY Who from keeping of sheepe being called to be a king ruled in SION and in IERVSALEM with great solace and ioy of his people a Conqueror of their enemies a comforter of their friendes and as a princely deuine 〈…〉 Lords annointed receiued the effectual promise concerning Christ● incarnate to come of his 〈…〉 and the sure safe stability of his euerlasting kingdome 2 Sam. 7. and though he builded not the Lord a materiall Temple yet hee endeuoured most religiously to aduance Gods glorie in his congregation with de uine seruice and worship according to the holie will of the Lord solemply celebrating the same with heauēly harmony of sacred songes and with Psalmes of prayer and praise appointing ASAPH H●MAN IDITHVM and the sonnes of KORACH most skilful Musitions to play vpon and sing to melodious instruments with sweet solace ioy in the Lord. After whom SOLOMON peaceable his sonn succeeding being appointed of the Lord to builde and beautify the Temple for religion wisedome wealth power and prosperitie incomparably florished at the first But in his elder years forgetting God and falling vnto Idolatrie he procured Gods displeasure the hatred of his enemies and decay of his kingdome And in the third age the Lorde thinking vpon his promise made vnto Dauid aforesaid by his prouidence ordained the most godly wise prosperous and victorious kinges of IVDA as Asa Iosaphat Ioathan Ezechias and Iosias and after them Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes kings of Persia with Zerubbabel Ne hemias Esdias their helpers to build the Lords house destroy all Idolatry bring the people out of Babilonical thraldome and set them forwards in the way of the promised heauenly SION and Ierusalē In whose daies also the Lord stirred vp his holy Prophets Esay Ieremy Ezechiel Daniell

and the rest to pronounce vnto the Nations his holy wil word works to preach vnto al true beleeuers his prouidēce presence promises in his church kingdome by Christ and his Gospel of euerlasting saluation In the fourth age of the 〈…〉 the Prophets Christ Iesus the sonne of God came into the world for the saluation of al true beleeuers whō the very Gentiles of the ●ast at his first comming acknowledged worshipped the Iewes afterwards scatered here and there among the Gentiles and many of their Rulers beleeued in him Though the Pharises Scribes and Hipocrites with other wicked Iewes despised his doctrine and persecuted his person and his Apostles also of whom the denying Peter a penitent Pastor among the Iewes and the persecuting Saule a conuert Paul among the Gentiles were also mightie messengers workmen of their maister Christ when with thē the other Appostles and many christian Doctors Martires and mēbers of the Primitiue Church vnder 12. persecutions for the same causes and effectes liued and died the faithfull seruants of Christ and Inheritours of the promised heauenly SION and Ierusalem And as euen in that age the Romane Antechriste began his kingdome to constitute mans traditions a boue Christs institutions whome Tyrants Epicures Sophisters and manifolde miscreantes vpheld had in honor So euen then in the fift age of the world the Lord God stirred vp good and gratious Emperors and kinges godly spiritual persons and religious mēbers of his Church to settle and defend his trueth and aduance the glory of his heauenly kingdome to the subduing of the same Antichrist And now are almost 600 yeares entred into the sixt age of the world the Lordin his holy wil word and work perfourming his prouidence presence and promises in his church and kingdome euerlasting by gathering the same out of euery Nation the faithful of his flock who shal partake with him of the celestial solace infinite ioy in the heauenly SION and Ierusalem in the Sabaoth of eternall rest Towardes the well wishing wherevnto Right honorable worshipful reuerēd in the Lord like as the Apostle Paul writ his louing salutatiōs vnto the Romanes at that time the chosen church of Christ and amongst some of them engrafted in the true faith before himselfe was called praied thē to salute VRBANVS his fellow helper in Christ So do ● most humbly and hartely reuerently dutifully recōmend vnto your honour and worships godly fauourable acceptations of this short but sweet Psalm this little but learned labour published by so faithful a fellow helpen of Paul this VRBANVS REGIVS or kingly Citizen of Christ in our time who as he being present in spirite though absent in body for two yeares sent the same in latine as a token of remēbrance vnto the worshipful Senators of Hamborow his friēds So I a poore Citizen of LONDON wel willer of your worships my good benefactors doe dedicate consecrate this my translation of the same In perperuam Mnemosinā prōptitudinis meae in praecatione praxin pro pietatibus vestris And so humbly beseeching your honour worships to accept my great good wil in so smal a substance though great in effect I hartely pray for the happy long encrease of Gods benefites and blessings vpon this City terrestiall for the end les perfruitiō therof with Christ the immaculate Lāb his Angels elders thousandes thousandes of his elect vnto whome with the father and the holy Ghost they incessantly shal ascribe all power riches and wisedome and strength and honor and glory and praise For euer and euer So be it Your honors and worships humble Orator Richard Robinson The Lxxxvii Psal according to the Hebrues Whereof the Title is attributed A Psalme or Songe of the SONNES of KORACH AVGVSTINE saide well that this Psalme was verye briefe in circumstance of wordes but greate in substance of all the sentences For whereas it hath but seauen verses onely yet notwithstanding it describeth profoundlie the Churche of Christ the Heauenly Ierusalem the spirituall Sion as the fruitfull Mother both of the Iewes and Gentiles what a one how large she shall be when as she shal not only haue Citizens from among the Iewes but from among the Gentiles also throughout the whole worlde And out of this Psalme learne we that Article of our faith I beleeue there is one Catholike holy Church the Cōmunion of Saintes And I suppose this is euen very specially necessary for this ou● age that we may exactlye learne and daylie handle this Article out of the holy Scriptures leaste we be seduced either by the Anabaptistes and Chiliasts of our time carnally vnderstanding the predictions of Prophets concerning the Church either els be carried away with admiration of their glorious and stately Titles who at this day thruste foorth into Christians the inuentions of mans braine for and in steede of the true worshipping of GOD vnder pretēce of the Church As if the Church of whome we daylie make mention in the Apostolike Créede were either a worldlye pollicye or the Author of infinite tradicions which at this day false and tyranicall teachers of this latter age do cast as it were snares into the consciences of christian people like as the Prophet Ezechiell in his 13. Chap. speaketh of those deceiuers That they mighte slaye the Soules of them which die not and giue life to the soules that liue not in lying to my People which beleeue their lies Verse 19. The Lxxxvii Psal vers 1. Her foundations are vpon the holy Hilles Pars 1. The Lord loueth the Gates of Sion more thē al the dwellings of Iacob Pars 2. PAVLE the Apostle wrote in 1 Cor. 10. That all thinges happened to the Iewes in Type or figure as it were vnto a People Tipicall or figuratiue wherfore we will herehence enter our purpose from the Type vnto the trueth and from the shadowe vnto the Light it selfe What notable thing soeuer is any-wheare in the Scripture mentioned as touching Sion Ierusalem Iuda and Israel what so deuine promises of Christ and his euerlasting Kingdome are any wheare set downe all this doth the carnall People of the Iewes referre vnto themselues and the earthly Sion Ierusalem Wherefore in these and such like Prophesies the Iewes notably flatter themselues and most arrogantly despise the Gentiles in comparison of them selues Because as S. Paule sayeth 2. Cor. ● Those Gentiles haue the ●o●e●i●● vntaken from their hearts as in the reading of the Olde Testament and the Kingdome of God is taken from them They also erre not knowing the Scriptures neither shall the Veile or Couering of their vngodly ignorance be taken away except they first be conuerted vnto the Lord. verses 14. 15. 16. So ●as whiles they imbrace not IESVS of Nazareth for theire true Messias or Sauiour fore promised in the Lawe and the Prophets and sente vnto vs from God in the last