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A42539	Upon the meeting of the sons of the clergy at a sermon preached before them in Saint Pauls church the eighth of November, 1655 specifying their several capacities, as they stood in the time of the law, and now under the gospel / by E. G.	Gayton, Edmund, 1608-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing G420; ESTC R8940	2,508	10

UPON THE MEETING Of the Sons of the CLERGY At a Sermon Preached before them in Saint Pauls Church the eighth of November 1655. SPECIFYING Their several Capacities as they stood in the time of the LAW AND NOW UNDER THE GOSPEL By E. G. LONDON Printed by T. R. 1655. Vpon the meeting of the Sonnes of the Clergy At a Sermon in Pauls Church Preached on the eighth day of November 1655. O For a new Elisha now your 'r met And in that unrepaired Temple set Who would commission you for stone and wood To build it as wise Salomons stood Or if such glory mayn't be hop'd for well To make it such as did Zerubbabel Though while the much unequall ground-work rears Your joyes are more but more your Fathers Tears Where are the Trumpets now the Cymbals where All is dumb Musick none of Davids there Priests to your office yet and sons of Priests The meaner Levites were the Organists And Musick part keep up th' alternate song The office of the place in th' holy Tongue Though 't be not musicall yet praise the Lord Since 't cann't be had in tune in honest Word It is a great Indulgence that you meet In your own place yet and your Brethren greet How know you whether the Power that is May not restore you your Metropolis ' When some more envious then was lik'd of late ' Of six score odd thought yours too much of eight Complain not with the Sons o' th Prophets that The place wherein you pray or preach is streight 'T is not the many Churches nor the Coaches Are God-sent Prophets Triumphs or Reproaches A little Zoar is enough when Fire Is round obout the ears no more Desire Nor yet with fled and sad Elijah grieve Or of Gods Providence so mean believe Because you see but few are Orthodoxe Therefore the Shepheard 's worried and the flocks Alas fond Augurer yet just condoles Upon a thousand hills in thousand holes God doth preserve whom he doth forthwith call That never yet did bow the knee to Baal Complain not with the scanted sons of Levi When hunger and the Syrian host lay heavy About besieg'd Samaria that your pot Hath death in t 'cause of some bitterer lot Or herb of Rue faln in Wormwood is good For mornings draughts and brown bread is good food And purld estates are best which keep us fixt Unto the hands by which our drink is mixt That he would temper it so 't might not be All Wormwood But {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} for me Should it be bitter unto death indeed Send you Eisha's children and with speed That may unbitter all your Pottage and Give you the antient service of the Land Pottage and Meat That you may meet and pray And praise your God as is done on this day To the Sons of the Prophets as they are under the Gospel of Peace SOns of the Prophets still for still you are Either in Ark or else in Altar care Sons of the Prophets so be alwayes stild But he who knows his Father's a wise child Not then a lineall order as the Jews Nor do's a Priest with us a Priest traduce No Tribe of Levi now distinct as that Which was the third which Prophet Iacob gat Yet from a Father still else how can ye Derive till now a legal Progeny Spirituall Fathers yours yet cal'd as was From the Jews high Priest and so you passe By Ordination not by birth though they That were so born were called in that way A Priest ex traduce but sanctifid And put in Robes this world would not abide Ointm●nts and Mitres Bells and Ephods Breeches More then our this day slighted Rubrick Teaches No Priest though their inheritance unless They did accept th' Installment and the Dresse So Aaron was so Hur initiate So was it alwayes until now of late Onely the Order is not now confin'd Simeon may be a Prophet all the kind And Zebulun and Naphtali and Dan And Issachar and Gad and every man Here is indeed a thorough Prophesie Beyond my Doctour Tailours Liberty Ioel did say it before Ieremy His Spirit upon all the World shall fly And let us now the Prophets meaning know And not in Prophesie too much oreflow No more shall Israel or a tribe of them No more Iudea or Ierusalem Shall be the Church but that shall spread As farre as is the World inhabited You knowing Sons of every Trade shall be Apted and call'd to his high Prophesie So Prophesie is Catholike and we See Butchers sons in Episcopacy So Christ did call but from the net and trade And of Fish-Fishers Fisher-men he made Those he instructed bless'd ordain'd no more Then Fishers in the sense they were before Nor was it an Inlightening onely that But real Orders Presbyterian Plat. Disciples that is Deacons first were sent And made by him in whom was resident The Bishops power nor did Apostleship Flow into seventy but in Twelve did keep And when that one by Providence did fall Not every one was fit but onely one had call Yet all were Presbyters but none could be Apostle made but out of that Degree New hands impos'd upon a Presbyter Learned S. Ierome is our friend thus farre Then I have found you Fathers more than one And your Fam'd Preacher is a double Son Born of a Presbyter and a Priests Father But for the Times I 'd call him Bishop rather Thus from the Shop by learning and the Schools Apted for Doctrine not remaining fools By lawfull imposition all Trades heire May be a Priest and Doctor of the Chair Nay and sometimes we may be retrograde Do as old Simeon fall into a Trade As did Saint Paul when powerfull schismes and Rents And Poverties extreme live by our Tents Labour for victualls in a common weal That won't allow you rather then to steal Now sons of the black coat or cloath that 's all Now left to you of habit Clericall Honour your Parents double honour give To those by whom you all do doubly live And from the banquet of the Ear the quaint Spiritual food now preach't and soul provant Go to your Feast more than Elisha made The sons o' th Prophets and when Grace is said Remember Ioseph sonnes of Levi be Not like Iobs sonnes in gallant jollity While that your Father prayes and perchance fasts And on his watry eyes no feeling casts Take heed unto the House then though it be The Merchant Taylors and my Company But I do know you sonnes of Temperance Who will your Feast to Charity advance Sic vovet totius Cleri in Radice Palmite Flore Autumno Servus Ephestion E. Gayton FINIS 2 Reg c. 6. Ezra 3. 2. Ezra c. 20 1 Chr. 6. Ezra 11. Ezra ●●3 2 Reg. 6. 10. Gen. 19. 23. David in Psal. 10 ● Reg. 19 18. Avert●t Deus Iudas Acts ● 25. Quid potest Episcopus supra Presbyterum praeter ordinationem Gradus Simeonis