so lowly in his seruice to think so highly of God and so truly of himselfe Aquae descendunt ad valles God giueth grace to the humble to bee frequent at praiers sermons holy quiers as if his cheefe desire were as Dauids was to dwell in the courts of the Lord to bee a friend to the Church and a stay to the Altar as good Iosiah was 4 Reg. 23 Quanto magis arbor abundat fructibus tanto magis inclinatur more any tree doth abound with fruite more doth it bend it selfe to their commodity who are vnder it Thus doth he increase in fauour with God and man Charilaus the peoples ioy all his garments smell of the Sanctuary his fathers ioy as Iacob was to Isaac Who doth not ioy in the smell of this Violet The Prince hath the Corne-care holy workes in his faith as if hee had digested that counsell of the wise-man All that thine hand shall finde to doe Eccl. 9.8.10 doe it with all thy power for there is neither worke nor inuention nor knowledge S. Augustine nor wisdome in the graue Qui vult sine fine remunerari debet sine fine bonum operari hee which would haue endlesse reward 1 Pet. 2.15 must haue endlesse perseuerance for so is the will of God that by well doing you put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men Iob. 29 as Iob did who continued an eâ—e to the blind and a foot to the lame If any enemie thinke heere hee can smell oleum peccatoris I professe to hate it splendiduml ubricum dulce damnosum as yee for slipping and the cup of a whore for poisoning And I dare bee bold to giue in an instance for mine owne defence that of al others we poor despised Ministers haue cause to blesse the daies of the Prince Why so for Christ his Mandrakes haue sweetned his and his Mandrakes haue sweetned ours O heauenly Mandrakes graces of the spirit which dispose to the conception of good workes The Church is Abigaile her fathers ioy and Christ hath lodged with her the Prince is a sonne and heire in the Church and Christ hath lodged with him by spiration of his holy word by inspiration of his holy Spirit that the Prince may say Cant. 5.4 as the Church hath said My bowels were mnooued towards him Heere is our true cause of ioy without sophistically oppilations Therefore seeing his inclination to good workes by those spices of our Sauiour which haue spiced him wee all consent in that concent of the Canticle of Christ Cant. 7.13 Thy Mandrakes haue giuen a smell and in our gates are all sweet things The Princes words are often as the words of the seuenth day words of grace apples of gold in pictures of siluer Prou. 2.11 Leu. 25 his works are as the works of the seuenth yere works of grace a goodly tree full of fruites You may know the tree by the fruites Apoc. 2 and praise the fruites for the smell This smell is as Smirna all sweet myrrhe and wee all are refreshed with the smell of this Corne-care Now then let vs compare Iacob and Iacob Hebrew and English vterinos fratres two twins both in one womb of the Church both as Castor and Pollux Act 28.11 the badge of our Ship Castor is descended and as the Sun gone vnder a cloud he was gathered to his people and is gone to sleep with his fathers Gen. 49.33 What then albeit he sleep he is aliue shall rise againe as the Sun in his faire horizon Exod. 3.6 God is the God of the liuing the God of AbrahaÌ„ Isaac Iaacob But I say Castor is layd down in peace and Pollux is vpon our Ship in daily aduentures for the golden flece When I was of younger yeares Apollonius Theocritus I did reade of the famous Acts of Castor and Pollux in that egregious voyage for the Golden Fleece But what idle dreames were those with all their resolutions to the high resolutions of religious hearts for the golden fleece the fleece of the Lambe the Lambe of God the inualuable righteousnesse of the Lambe of God is the golden fleece Ioh. 1. Iacob and Iacob are both naked as Adam before the Lord without this fleece Consider the amplitude of the honour and efficacie of this fleece Rom. 4. Psal 32. wherewith all our sins are couered Many many thousands haue yeelded vp their blood for this fleece hoc expeditionum Christianarum praetium praemium This hath beene the faire paiment for many Christian aduentures The holy lambe alloweth vs his flesh to feed vs Ioh. 6.1 Tim. 6.8 his fleece to couer vs. Therefore when we haue food and raiment let vs be therewith content Such was Iacobs contentment in his new coate when he got the blessing in his elder brothers coate Christ is our elder brother our first borne a sonne to Iacob yet elder then Iacobs grandfather before Abraham was I am A lambe without spot was this Lambe Ioh. 8 yet that he might lend his spotlesse coate to spotted Iacob hee was slaine from the beginning of the world Apoc. 13.8 Behold then a world of wonders in these two Iacob the elder and the younger notwithstanding sundry generations betwixt them doe both part stakes in Christ either of them haue all their riches of Christ yet neither of them haue all which is of Christ either of them haue all Christ for Christ is not diuided 1 Cor. 3. Rom. 11. neither of them haue all that which is Christs for Christ is not comprehended Christ is the Owner of all in the shippe and of the shippe and all and they both are but partie borrowers of all their parts So that Iacob aboue with Christ in glorie and Iacob below with Christ in grace may both sing with that sweet singer of Israel Psal 142. The Lord is my portion in the land of the liuing But now let vs see the distance of perfection betwixt Christ these two brothers Iacob hath the vine and Christ is the vine Iacob possesseth all those pleasant riches in Christ and Christ possesseth them all himselfe Christ is the vine the true vine which runnes all mercie and life to Iacob and all wither and perish which doe not abide in this vine Ioh. 15. Christ is the Oliue the true Oliue stocke what branch soeuer abideth not in him hath no life in it for the branches beare not the roote Rom. 11.18 but the root the branches all fade and fall away which are not grafted into this Oliue Christ is the rose 1. Cor. 13. of all flowers the rose is cheefest and of all vertues loue the chiefest of those three is loue God is loue and he that dwelleth in him dwelleth in loue out of this habitation there is no health nor safetie Christ is the Lillie Cant. 2. Jsidor the most delightfull Lillie for he which is the Rose is the Lillie I am
breeds another but there is too much already in word and deed of this badde matter Now let vs with ioy looke againe on the Kings sonne trie his spirit hitherto vnvanquished smell the sweetnesse of his pretious oyntments which the Popes dead flies haue not yet corrupted Fathers behold the Kings sonne and see of what fashion opinion and affection your sonnes should be he smels as Iacob did Iacob did smell of Christ Psal 12.1 all of truth I must confesse my sorrow of heart in that iust complaint for the faith and truth are diminished from among the children of men There are many numbers of them like idoles of the heathen which haue eyes and see not or in speciall like Harpocrates the dumbe god which did see as they supposed but could not or would not speake To all those whatsoeuer they be we may truly say Quid igitur profuit te vidisse veritatem quam nec defensurus es nec secuturus As the nice dame which can looke vpon the table richly furnished with sumptuous prouisions and hath no stomacke to put them vp It hath beene vrged against the Separatists long agoe that the perfection of the Church is aboue and not belowe in heauen and not on earth And to this purpose are instances pressed out of Pater noster which was all hands without eies and our Father which is all eies with out few hands But see here the true proportion of true religion both hands to doe and eies to see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince and the Princesse in mutuall armes embracing and feeding one the other as Prou. 8 Exalt her and she shall exalt thee This sonne is filius dextrae the right sonne royall the sonne of the right hand compendium gratiarum a treasure of the treasures of gladnesse The eies of the multitudes looke on him and the noblest of all the Nobles say of him thou art worth ten thousand of one of vs. 2 Sam. 18.3 The true sonne and true heire to a true King The son the heire the title the inheritance the creation all sauour of truth Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field Heere wee must leaue the second riuer where mercy and truth are mette together in the Prince as the light and warmth of the sunne to reioice together as two riuers of Paradise to runne one with an other So that the Prince may happilie say in the end Psal 119.32 I haue runne the way of thy commandements and the Lorde may say of the Prince Behold the smell of my sonne Now are wee come to the cordiall waters of righteousnesse There is among men a Merchants Righteousnesse There is among men a poore mans Righteousnesse There is among men a proud mans Righteousnesse There is among men a Christians Righteousnesse The first is the righteousnesse of a prophane Merchant who selles all his righteousnesse for smoke of vaine glory Matth. 6.1 Take heede of this righteousnesse The second is the righteousnesse of a proud Lady a proud heart in a beggers purse Thou saiest I am rich and increased with goods and haue neede of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable Apoc. 3 Matth. 5. and poore But except your righteousnesse do exceed the righteousnesse of Scribes c. The third is the righteousnesse of the man with a gold ring and goodly apparell who must euer bee the best of the company What hath God commanded which he will not do This man is as the foole which hearing that God commanded man to walke streight neither turning to the right hand nor the left he would ouer hedge and ditch hilles and houses till hee fell and could passe no further Eccle. 7.17.18 There is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice but be not thou iust ouermuch The fourth is Abrahams righteousnesse Hee beleeued and it was counted to him for righteousnesse So vnderstand this Scripture that good Christians may put off that slander of Solifidians For the true Christan is not fier without heat or day without light No the way of the righteous shineth as the light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day This is Iaacobs righteousnes glistring with his father Abrahams righteousnesse both righteous in Christ The ground in which wee find this current of righteousnesse is called a field where wee haue of field roome good store In the word of God we finde diuerse fields the field of the fatherlesse the field of beasts Prou. 23.10 Psalm 8.7 Prou. 24 and the sluggards field In the field of the fatherlesse the wild Boare doth often roote and the greedy Wolfe doth make subtill entrance In the field of beasts Nebuchadnezar liued all in pride blasphemie rapine lust drunkennesse as too many in our times Psalm 104 liue more like beasts then men where all the beasts of the field doe meete and the wilde Asses quench their thirst In the sluggards field are thistles and nettles as a wicked mans life is all full of offensiue transgressions for want of Christian exercise But I haue thought to speake of other fields Luke 6.1 Iohn 18.1 There is ager frumenti the corne-field where Christ walked hortorum the field of gardens where Christ praied the field of bloud the potters field bought with the price of bloud and ager Meridianus the sun-shine field whither Christ is ascended This Meridian field is the ioyfull Theatre for all true beleeuers whither Iaacob and Iaacob are risen with Christ Colos 3 the one spe the other re one initians the other initiatus one in via the other in patria one in possession 1. Joh. 3.14 Ioh. 5.24 the other in infallible assurance For we know that we are translated already from death to life But what field is Iaacob a corne-field so haue we heard of him in the corne-eare that his Corne and Wine and Oile increased Faith Hope Cant. 4 16. and Loue. Iaacob is a field of gardens all of vigent flowers and pinguous hearbes of grace that of his owne heart he may say with excellent desire Let my beloued come into this garden and eate his pleasant things Let come prosperity aduersity or terror or flattery or what ill blast soeuer Ionah 4 7. Iob. 1 Cant. 4.16 as on Ionahs gourd or Iobs house yet this field shall prosper and the more it is blowen more sweet it smelles Arise O North and come O South and blow on my garden that the spices thereof may flow Iacob is a field of bloud the vndefiled bloud of the Redeemer was sprinkled vpon him Apoc. 14.1 the bloud of the Lambe of God which standeth on mount Sion The bloud of the Lambe was let out by his enemies in the field of bloud but it was shed vpon his friends as water on the thirsty ground to comfort it This is the bloud of the Testament which God hath appointed vnto you Hebr. 9.12 Yea this precious bloud was powred
English Paradise DISCOVERED in the Latine prospect of IACOBS Blessing GEN. 27.27 Ecce odor filij mei sicut odor agri à domino benedicti PREACHED AT S. BVTTOLPHS without Aldersgate at London on the holy Sabboth commonly called Trinitie Sunday in that ioifull season of the festiuall solemnities for the blessed creation of the most gracious Prince of WALES LONDON Printed by WILLIAM HALL for Richard Redmer and are to be sold at the Starre at the west end of Pauls 1612. TO THE MOST VVORthie Knight Sir John Hollise Comptroller to the Prince his highnesse house-hold prosperitie with aeternitie SIR it is long since you did first looke on mee with your helpfull fauour I haue for twentie yeeres after those times stood below in the common place of the Church yet sometimes I haue beene drawne vp aboue the obscure shades of the Countrie and by forceable intreaty risen higher then is ordinary for such an heauy lumpe of refuse mettall Pistillo retusius And being in London at a festiuall triumph I was a partner of the common ioy for the ioyfull prosperity of our most hopefull Prince of Walles Then and there I was pressed forth aere amicabili with a friendly motion to become an actor in that great assembly I must confesse I was willing on my way which made my labour more light so that I hallowed that holy Sabbath with two Sermons as a paire of Pigeons or two yong Turtles Luk. 2.24 I did wish richer offerings to bestow in such a solemne sacrifice of Vowes but I brought my best to testifie for my heart What though I am vnworthy of respect as the least Bell in the Temple imo ne tintinnabuli in fiâ—bria vestimenti Araonici not worth a little Bell vpon the skirt of Aarons Ephod Exo. 28.33.34 Yet I thought it my duty without any intreaty to ring my Bells that day in the holy place When I had comfortably ended my daies worke it came to passe beyond my thoughts that one of my auditors and I exchanged thoughts He as it seemed a francke Popeling of his charity offered me his thought that I was too officious I for a present reward bestowed my thought on him that I was excusable as the man which being requested to goe a mile with his friend would goe twaine Matth. 5.41 I was willing to be warned and to take better heede to double diligence abundans cautela non notet Heere I resolued neuer to perach vp to the presse among the learned sages and holy writers Vitiligatores tantum extimescens therefore did I seriously resist all louing importunities intising mee to venture loose coppies of this and other my weake labours into the hands of my chiefe friends My reason for my deniall was quia nescit vox missa reuerti a man may shoot foorth two arrowes with more ease and speede then fetch one backe againe Yet now at the length I haue yeelded my selfe and presumed to send my first fruit to my first friend liuing in your acceptance to liue or dy I must confesse my desire is that you would accept it as a welcome present of my humble thanks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and thinke my thanks as hearty as I meant them You haue heard the cause wherefore I stayed these twins at home so long after their birth with a centurie of their naked brothers Agrippo steriâ—or I doe willingly acknowledge mine owne pouerty by which I thought my selfe vnable to cloth them with decent apparel And I was ielous of their rude education least I should heare worse of them abroad then at home If I haue beene too slow I craue pardon with my feare to be too hastie Ne incalciatus in montes Let it be said of me that I am too like to many of Adams kindred and mine owne that I haue learned more good rules then I can obserue as that of Columella Matura satio saepe decipit sera semper mala est Yet I rest in hope of your loue which I haue chieflie loued I might adde some expert extenuation of this seruice which spark of Art may better become my betters Namque si Scotista Rhetoricetur he is easily espied vt Graculus inter musas It is inough for me in this illustrous age of high Science and rich Art Craesi pecuniae teruncium addere Therefore to preuent many needlesse words in these few I yeeld my selfe to owe so much vnto you that I must remaine your debtor for euer and yours Ih. Wh. ENGLISH PARADISE GEN. 17.17 Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed IT may be that some among you doe no more need a Seer to shew you the mysteries of this Text then Eagles want spies for the space of their flight Job 39.32 Their eies behold afarre off Yet I must make bold to tell you that which some of you can scarce beleeue That this Text is Paradise And it is more likely so because the head of it is Ecce and Christ is Ecce the head of Paradise of the Church as the husband is the wiues head Eph. 5.23 Christus est fidelium domicilium aeternale vt Paradisus erat innocentum temporale The riuers of this Paradise are these foure Odor Filius Ager Benedictus all issuing out of Ecce as those foure riuers which did run out of the head fountaine of Eden And out of Eden went a riuer to water the garden and from thence it was diuided and became into foure heads Christ is Ecce the head fountaine of Eden propter eminentiam continentiam influentiam for beautie plentie and bountie a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid Zach. 13.1 The riches of Paradise are excellent for in the floods of one riuer is Gold Bdelium and the Onix stone In the Gold is truth glorie and incorruption Gen. 2.12 in Bdelium mercie sweetnesse and medicine and in the Onix faith aduantage for the sight of the eies the glasse of the soule 1. Cor. 11. Come forth ye daughters of Sion and behold king Salomon with the Ecce He shall giue you drinke out of the riuer of his pleasures Psal 36.8 In the Ecce of my Text Mercie and truth are met together Psal 85.10 righteousnesse and peace haue kissed each other all holy streames of Paradise Holy streames indeed for euery one of them is a riuer of this Garden Numb 20.11 running out from Ecce for the reliefe of thirstie soules as the waters which gushed out of the rocke abundantly 1 Odor is mercie all sweet smell of mercie life to the Church life in Christ Ludolphus Psal 141.2 Vt apes praeciquè flores quaeritant ita sancti misericordias dei Caietan Arbor sufficiens resiciens vt mortui resurgant or resumpti viuant in aeternum Ioh. 14.6 1. Cor. 1.20 Psal 42.12 in whom all our praiers are as incense and the lifting vp of our hands as the euening
that Isaac doth cheerefull bestow that good turne on Iaacob which hee reserued for Esau Why so S. Bernard Odor Christi sentitur antequā videatur vt corpus aromaticum ante patres et post filios emittit odores because hee did not smell of the ranknesse of the sheep-coate but of the pleasures of the field The blessing doth consist of two respects as a garden of pleasant fruit and delicious smell Heere are praiers for Iaccob in prophesies and promises of his sweete and wholsome fruites And heere is the praise of Iaccob for his delightfull smell Isaac his motiue whereby he was inuited to blesse Iaccob is plaine in these words Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed Now after all this inference of Ecce it may bee said to me as once it was to the Citizens of Myndus viri Myndij claudite portas shut your gates least your City runne out at your mouth and your little corporation vanish through your great heat Indeed a great gate may be too wide for a little pingle but albeit I cannot now cut my doore lesse yet I may well inlarge this garden plot to make it greater so may the proportion be more equall First then to fit and finish vp this portall Ecce behold The word is very specious in the original Ree and in the translation vide but commonly Ecce as if the meaning were to call all the world to come and see Ioh. 1.46 as Philip called Nathanael to Christ come and see The word is sometime of ostension sometime of admiration and sometime of both Ostension is againe two fold by their counterfeit shadow or true exhibition Of counterfeit shadow as behold heere is Christ and there is Christ Mat. 24. a counterfeit shadow of true exhibition as behold the Lamb of God John 1. O true exhibition Sometime Ecce is of admiration and stands at a gaze and doth gaze at a wonder behold a Virgin shal beare a sonne miraculum mirabiliter mirabile a virgins childe and God and man both one a light of all maruelles A man so weak that he must die Psal 76.3 a God so strong that he could conquer death behold there brake he the arrows of the bow the shield the sword and the battell Selah Behold a wonder In some places this Aduereb Ecce is of admiration and demonstration both together and diuersly of diuers strangers either difficult or new or sudden Now may you stand vpon the top of Ecce as vpon a mount and behold all the pleasures of this text as the plaine of Iordan watered eueiy where First the difficulty of this Ecce is note worthy that euer Iacob could rise to this blessing Christ ascend to his glory and the Prince of Wales attaine to his Principality Where was the Ecce of Iacob when his father Isaac was in offering for sacrifice Genes 22. Gen. 27.41 or whilest his brother Esaus Vow stood on foot to sacrifice his brothers bloud to his fathers funeralles The daies will come shortly of mourning for my father◠〈◊〉 where was the Ecce of Christ the glory and riches of his God-head Difficultate partes periclitatur ecclesia sed euincuntur hostes vt Gorgones a Persio vel verius vt Draco a Michacle when as the Serpent in the wildernesse he was lift vp vpon the crosse and one of the souldiers with a speare piersed his side Where was the Ecce of the Prince when the Lion and the Lions Whelp were vowed to the massacre inconspiratione plusquā Catilinaria in the gun powder-treason Wee doe read of Catiline that firebrand of old that to fasten his confederates in their mercilesse intent he did mingle mans bloud with wine as Pilate mingled the bloud of the Galileans with their owne facrifice This drinke thus prepared hee carried vp and downe to his partners as the Priests of Rome doe now beare their hoast and consecrated wedges heere and there to their abetters When he came to place and company fit to his purpose he did in this drinke carowse and swallow vp his impious vow In this draught all his associates must follow him to make their sword drunke with the bloud of their Country and wholly to subuert the present glory of Rome But this monstrous Catilines brood among vs Iob. 31.33 was more monstrous in eating and drinking as they supposed the blood of Christ to ratifie their vowes concealing iniquity in their bosomes Thus they did bind themselues in an holy league like Romane Saints of these daies to reioice together for the finall expiration of King and Prince and the mournfull desolation of Church common wealth So euery man may see how our Ecce hath escaped fire and sword by God mercie for the honour and ioy of England But is it difficultie alone no it is noucltie also There are nouelties past in the holy Testament nouelties present in the new children of regeneration and nouelties to come in the stole of glorie The new Testament was a noueltie the Lord had written the old law in tables of stone but that the penne of the Writer should indite a law in the inward parts of mans heart this was worth an Ecce Nouitas amaena ful of delicate and healthfull pleasure Behold the daies come Ier. 31.31 that I will make a new couenant c. The wise man said in his time there was nothing new vnder the sunne yet euery regenerate man yong or old Eccles 1.10 is a new creature Both these are true because our new birth is not of earth but of heauen not of mortall seed but of immortall 1. Pet. 1.23 aboue the Sunne All the adopted sonnes of God are borne not of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of the will of God our new birth is aboue the Sunne Thus is Iacob a new man a new creature in Christ O Christ Iesus Gal. 8. Psal 65.11 Vt ignus fortis forti flatu fortius inflammatur minutatim all my fresh springs shall be in thee for thy steps droppe fatnesse Thus is the Prince a Prince of God Abner his fathers candle lightened with fire from the Altar whose sweet conditions tempered with the oyle of grace beare witnesse that he is not onely borne of an earthly king belowe but borne againe of an heauenly King aboue that the King aboue and the king belowe may both reioyce in their sonne Behold the smalle of my sonne c. But Ecce againe behold a suddaine ioy sometimes wonderfull things breake out of their closets as lightening out of the clouds when there is not any expectation or hope attending and sometimes when desire more or lesse is waiting for their appearance Of the first sort was the suddaine light which came downe from heauen outward before the face of Saul to astonish him Act 9. inward into the heart of Saul to conuert him that of him it is rightly said
shall be as the Oliue tree and his smell as Lebanon Iaacob had the Vine true faith in his heart his father Abrahams faith not an agnus Dei about his necke or hanging in a tablet at his brest Fides purificans cor est vna integra vera viua Ioh. 12.3 as some abused Saint Iohns Gospell but a sound faith growing within and without his heart all his affections as the branches of a vine for his Sauiour all the vine as a bower to rest in and all the bower as the house filled with sweet sauour what a smell is the smell of this vine Iacob had the Oliue victory in his faith Colos 1.13 against all Principalities and powers of darknesse hee was short of Christ in respect of circumstance of time but he had the substance which cheered his heart at all times with thoughts of his Captaine the Siloe the Conquerer the Lion Gen. 49 whose paw should be in the necke of his enemies By this power Iaacob wanne the victory of the world so sweete is the smell of this Oile Iacob had the Rose-loue in his faith Ezek. 47 whose leaues did not fade inuincible loue as appeareth by his wrestling Let me be gone saith the Angel for the morning appeareth Genes 32 What let thee goe my life and my glory I will not let thee goe vnlesse thou blesse mee Lord let me loue the smell of this Rose Iacob had a Lilly chastity in his faith a faire Lilly within the borders of his paradise Eccles 50.8 as the Lillies by the springs of waters white as the light and faire without spot His brother hastened to his Cananitish women and sent an ill sent into the soules of his parents yet Iacob kept his vessell in holinesse O honour let me counsell you all to keep the smell of this Lilly 1 Thess 4 4 Iacob had the Violet humble deuotion in his faith the Violet groweth low by the ground so doth humble deuotion to daily praiers Bartholomaes Gen. 17.3 1 Sam. 1.13 as Abraham fell vpon his face and Hannah was humbled before the Lord. Shall I stay you a while to heare Iaacobs daily praiers All yee which liue in plenty or scarsity remember Iaacobs Vow Wee are all in our iourny as Iaacob was and desirous as hee to come to our fathers house our father wich is in heauen Iaacob vowed a Vow saying Gen. 28.20 If God will be with me and will keepe me in my iourney which I go and will giue mee bread to eat and cloathes to put on so that I come againe to my fathers house in safetie then shall the Lord be my God Here was sweet contentment in a lowly estate humble contentation was Iacobs staffe which did flourish all with Violets as Aarons Rod did but with flowers and almonds with this staffe came I ouer Iordane Surely there is an wholesome breath in the smell of this Violet Iaacob had the corne eare the fruites of faith Nomb 17.8 Gen. 32.10 Gal. 5 Gen. 41.5 those praise-worthy fruites of the spirit Loue Ioy Peace Long Suffering Meeknesse Temperance Goodnesse all specious vpon one faith as those seuen eares of corne ranke and goodly all vpon one stalke Shall I make bold to inuite you all to taste this corne for the smell of this corne eare Now Prince of Wales where is thy smell Hast thou neither Vine Oliue Rose Lilly Violet nor Corne-eare Surely then thou art a poore Prince and they are poore whom God hateth Behold here the smell of the fauour of God to the Prince The Prince hath them all as Iacob had them he is all Suckoth Suckoth as the Tabernacles of God his eies eares lippes heart all Suckoth Tents of godlinesse pitched in Rephidim the mansion of the medicines of Gods blessings The Philosophers describe an house of desier non quidem opulentam et ambitiosam stuffed with the pelfe of the world and faced with proud ambition No sed cui nihil testit in se supellectilis with workes not any thing of necessarie vse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Behold here is that house as that happy little world all furnished with necessaries And here is one thing more then all those necessaries and more worth Luke 10.42 John 13.1 that one thing which is necessary and cannot be taken from him For whom God loueth hee loueth to the end This the smell of my sonne The Prince hath the Vine the Gospell in his faith it is the fountaine in which he doth daily refresh his soule it is the lauour through which he doth daily wash himselfe This is his Bason and Ewre of honour the Gospel is the Ewre his heart the Bason This is a Princely Bath the Kings Bath all perfumed with health all with sauing health Let young and old and all wash themselues in this Bath Knights of the Bath all the which are souldiers in this militant life vnder the banner of Iesus Christ Christ is the Prince who gaue himselfe Eph. 5.26 that he might sanctifie you and clense you by the washing of water through the word The Prince is knight of the order of the comely order of King Salomon Cant. 4.15 washed in the springs of Lebanon perfumed with Spikenard Saffron Calamus Cynamon and all sweet spices Cant. 4 2. Knights of the Bath come forth like a flocke of sheep in good order which goe vp from the washing come forth as the daughters of Sion and behold King Salomon with the crowne in the day of the gladnesse of his heart Knights of the Bath come forth and behold your Prince let him be your looking glasse as the ruiers of waters are to the faire doues washed with milke The Prince is bathed and washed in lordan seuen times the leprosie and luxurie which doth commonly cleaue to the youth of our age euen to the sides of their house is washed away It is written of Otho Suetonius one of the Emperours that hee repaired often to his glasse to see his face that he might keepe it cleane The Prince as report telleth vs goeth often to his glasse the streames of the waters of life Psal 23. the still streames where Dauid walked Indeed Dauid calleth them waters of comforts right worthy of that title where he perceiued himselfe saued by the washing of the new birth in the blood of the vine Thus is the Prince washed Tit. 3.5 his heart clensed his affections purified his delights sanctified Nobilitas morum plus ornot quam genitorū all like clusters of the vine who would not smel at the smell of this vine The Prince hath the Oliue victorie in his faith victorious holinesse It was told vs long our eyes were blessed with the sight of our most prudent King that he hath the print of a Lyon vpon him I doe beleeue it though I did neuer see it that the Lyon of the tribe of Iudah is printed vpon him he hath put on Christ And loe
increase and multiply you and establish my couenant with you A most happie performance that now we haue hope for feare truth for doubt righteousnesse for iniustice peace for warre right heires for wrong as firre trees for thorns Esay 55.13 and mirrhe trees for nettles Now are our fairest riuers in the South the faire streames turned hither in righteousnesse with ioy and honour to themselues and all iust men Lord thou hast turned our captiuitie as riuers in the South How did the ioyes of good subiects hearts sparkle out at their eies attending to the Kings comming as the Angel of the Lord to leade his people The King came first and his Angel came after as the hawke doth flie by thy wisdome Iob. 39.29 stretching out his wings towards the South It is written of the South-winde that his originall is in the North but when he passeth the coasts of the Zodiacke towards the South there to meet the sunne as the sole Lord of all those beautifull passages then is he whot and moist and yeeldeth power to all the nurseries of Nature to worke from the worme that creepeth to the bird which flieth If I doe not mistake the likenesse this is a likely president of the faire arriuall here of the King and the Kings sonne to the gladnesse of Nature and Art and Grace and to the common solace of poore and rich both naked wormes and feathered fowles Now all true subiects eased of all their feares may sing vnder their owne vines Loe how our clothes are warme Iob. 37.17 when he maketh the earth quiet through the South winde In what corners are those to be found which doe not reioyce in this ioy Henrie Prince of Wales is our Meridian field richly mantled with pleasant varieties of high honours His Father Apollo the King hath watered him his excellent father his God his high father hath increased him in holy infusions of grace and rich ornaments of the purest Discipline Now is the Prince his Court more seemely to behold then the bankes of the Muses all bright and famous with faire fountaines of knowledge all garnished as a mellifluous garden where many Bees doe gather hony vnder the Master Bee Lord of the soyle Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field Some write of the magnanimous aduentures of the Holy Land Mantuan Sotterus Eusebius Faber some of the spatious propagation of the Gospel through Ethiopia Egypt India and Grecia in the time of the Apostles some of the wide spreading of the triumphant banner of Iesus Christ in these latter times among the Arabians Persians and Indians but who can write wherefore God hath giuen such iudgements to the King and such righteousnesse to the Kings sonne Psal 72. this were worth the Penne of a ready writer This wee all ought to doe to offer vp our hands and hearts and all our aid to the King and the Kings sonne The Gospel is yet in bondage in our neighbour countries and states remote and there is no Prince in the world of more assurance for Gods assistance Psal 144.1 to teach his hands to warre and his fingers to fight There is none more likely to helpe by the smell of his field all zealous pietie and resolute integritie that euery confident heart may say to him who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time In my weake meditations I haue found that God hath fowen his diuers kinds of seeds in three sundry fields in Paradise in the wide World and in the soule of man In Paradise a pure man in the world a pure word and in the soule of man pure seedes of grace In Paradise the first man Adam was made a liuing soule 1. Cor. 15.45 without hang-bies of originall sinne or in-bred hostilities of strong preuaile Therefore the complaint of mans fall is two-fold one against mans securitie the other against the Serpents enuie whilest Adam slept the enuious man sowed tares Matth. 13. Thus was man corrupt both within and without in his body and his soule when the pure Adam receiued in the impure sting of sinne as Ishbosheth liuing receiued in his sleepe his deaths wound 2. Sam. 4.6 Man did not continue in honour but became like vnto the beasts which perish Psal 49.12 In the second field the Lord hath bestowed his liuely word of which the great sower saith himselfe For this cause was I borne Ioh. 18.37 Esay 1.9 Rom. 9.29 and for this cause came I into the world Therefore well may we say Except the Lord had reserued seed for vs wee had beene as Sodome and like to Gomorrha Here then among many indifferent questions of the Astrologers I reioyce much in this one to know where is the best influence of the heauens Many men haue many opinions and if it may please you to accept mine among them all I thinke the best is there where is a most plentifull prosemination of the word of God This is the sacred aspersion wherewith the most parts of our nation is copiously sprinckled Therefore Iacob shall reioyce and Israel shall be glad Psalme 14.7 This was the pleasant meate and drinke wherewith the King of the Prophets did cheere vp the hearts of his friends and his owne he shewed his word vnto Iacob his statutes and his iudgements vnto Israel he hath not dealt so with euery nation Psa 147 19 20 all people haue not had such wholesome influence This was Ecclesiae gloria circumfluens vbertim mala superans Pellican the satiable riches of the Church Thus the mercy and kindnesse of the Lord doth follow vs hee maketh our cuppe to ouerflowe Yea this blessed influence filleth innumerable orchards full of figge-trees Christian consciences full of the fauours delights of God The word of God is a fig tree worth keeping and tending where we haue our daily nutriment and comfort Prou. 27.8 For he which keepeth the figge-tree shall eate the fruit thereof But shall I speake what I haue heard from the clamours of the wisdome of the world That this great allowance of the word of God is abundant and superfluous To such I haue offered a bold some will say a blinde answere That their wisedom is the sooles bable which hath said in his heart There is no God Psal 14.1 Excellentia regiminis Christiani non est ex opinatione politica sed ex ordinatione dominica dirigenda Jac. de Valen. Aqua nobilis ex frigore saepe gelatur There are too many wise men of the West which hold opinion of common preaching as some Philosophers doe of the light about the Southerne pole That as by the absence of the Sunne there the aire is not hindred in his light so by the want of ordinary preaching religion is not darkened in her beautie Circa polum Australem per absentiam solis non defieit lumen conueniens ad vitam felicem Indeed some to compare