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A20805	The lambes spouse or the heauenly bride A theologicall discourse, wherin the contract betwixt Christ and the church; the preparation against the mariage; and the solemnization it selfe, and the exclusion of hypocrites and temporizers, is plainly and profitably, with the partucular vses, set forth. Whereunto is annexed an exact preparatiue to the Lords Supper. By T.D. Minister of the word of God.	Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 7185; ESTC S114693	59,295	211

shall found forth this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or thankesgiuing and they cried saying saluation commeth of our God that sitteth vpon the throne and the lambe and they shall fall before the throne on their faces and worship God saying Amen praise and glory and wisdome and thankes and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euermore Amen Finally their voice shal be like the voice of great ●aters and as the vyoce of strong thunder saying halleluia our Lord GOD all mighty hath raigned Apoc. 19. 6. more-heareof 〈◊〉 may read Isai. 66. 22. Apo. 21. 3. Apoc. 11. 17. but this Sabboth shal be without peculier Preist for all shal be preists vnto God it shal be without Temple or Ceremonies for God and the Lambe are the Temple of it and shall supply these occasious Wherefore seeing that there is an eternall rest in Heauen and that our Sabboth which according to Christ his institution the Apostles practise the custome of the vinuersal Church we keepe the first day of the weeke in memory and honour of Christs resurrection is a tipe and representation of it it must reach vs to obserue it both incorruptly touching the out-ward forme and spiritually touching the the inward disposition of our mindes and hearts or els we shall neuer keepe it in heauen for God will neuer honour vs in Heauen Luke 9. 26. vnles we honour him in earth and neuer perfect vs in heauen vnlesse by the workes of sanctification wee begin it heare Apoc. 20. 6. 7. The second priuiledge and prerogatiue is the actuall and eternall inheritance and possessing of the new heauen and the new earth part of the dowry ioynter of the Saints 1. Pet. 1. 4. Apo. 5. 10. 2. Pet. 3. 13. Rom. 8. 21. 22. Math. 5. Now whether they shall sometimes by locall motion and bodily presence albeit some new and learned writers out of the. Apoc. 5. 10. and Apo. 21. 8. 2. Pet. 3. 13. before named and from the nature of a glorified body that can both ascend and discend at his pleasure doe collect and would conclud it or which is more probable and likely by vision and heauenly contemplation and noe absurdite for if Saint Steuen being on earth and hauing noe doubt his eyes for the present clarified looked vp into Heauen and saw Christ sitting on the right hand of God Act. 7. ver 56. why may not a glorified body by his glorified eyes and the aire and skye being also purified looke downe from Heauen and contemplate the Earth c. But because this poynt is difficult and the knowledg of it is rather coniecturall then certaine wee must bee content to bee ignorant of it vntell the day when all secrets shal be made manifest and let vs in the meane time make some vse of the point as most may concerne vs Here is matter of consolatiō for poore Christians that either neuer actually possessed any worldly goods lands or liuings as Lazarus and others or haue beene with the religious Hebrewes by the enimies of the truth dispoiled and depriued of them Heb. 10. 34. or els by the men of the earth whose portion is as it is to be feared in most or many of them only in this life and that enclose and hedge in al to themselues and their proper vses vnmercifully turning men out of home house and liuing well let them possesse their soules in patience and in faith and hope apprehend and waite for it for they shall one day inherite the new Heauen and the new Earth they shall haue roome enough and larg demaines when their enimies repining at it shall remaine foreuer excluded and excomunicated from them and it The third preuiledge is that the Godly then compleatly and perfectly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shal be all kings preists Prophets Apoc. 5. 10. and so partake of Christ his dignity and offices As Kings they shall raigne with Christ and triumph ouer Satan and all the wicked yea and treade them vnder their feete Rom 6. 20. Mal. 4. 3. As Preists they shall eternally praise God and the Lambe for the redemption of his people c. and perfectly obey his will Apoc. 22. 3. And as Prophets they shal as far forth as is possible for a finite and circumscriptible creature knowe GOD and see him and exquisitely vnderstand all things that shall concerne their felicitie 1. Ioh. 3. 3. 2. Cor. 12. Vse Wherefore if euer wee looke and hope to be Kings Priests and Prophets in Heauen let vs as spiritually so conscionably practise these offices in earth for the practise of them in this life and in the life to come differ not in essence and substance but onely in place and degrees let vs then as Kings rule and raigne ouer ●ur affections and desires and gouerne our familyes like so many little Churches in the feare of GOD. Let vs as Priests consecrate our selues soules and bodies to Christ and his worship and seruice and pray continually to GOD in behalfe of our selues and our domestiques Lastly let vs as Prophets labour to bee rich in the knowledge and vnderstanding of Gods will and so to our vtmost power and skill impart it as occasion and our calling shall require vnto others especially to those of our owne family Gen. 18 ver 17. 18. The fourth priuiledge of the Saints in glory is their glorious and perpetuall triumph and perfect victory ouer sinne death hell satan and his angels and all the reprobate whatsoeuer Sinne and death and hell shal be a bolished and cease foreuer 1. Cor. 15. 55. 56. 57. in respect of the Godly bee destroied as Apoc. 20. 14. Antichrist and his members shall no more assaulte and persecute vs for the beast and the false Prophet shall be cast aliue into the lake of fire burning with brimstone Apoc. 19. 20. and all the members and worshippers of the beast shall drinke of the pure wrath and ●ee tormented in fire and brimstone before the Holy Angels and before the Lambe Apoc. 14. 10 11. they shall goe forth and looke vpon the Carcases of the men that haue transgressed Isa. 66. 24. Finally the Saints shall treade downe sathan and all their enemies vnder their feete Rom. 16. 20. and shall stand before the Throne and before the Lambe cloathed with long white robes Uiz. of purity and inocency and hauing palmes in signification of victory in their hands Apoc. 7. 9. Vse Wherefore the due consideration of this last prerogatiue as also of the former must kindle and worke in vs an earnest and continuall expectation and longing after our full and finall redemption and perfect glorification The dutifull wife should not so long and looke for the returne of her husband farre and long time absent the husbandman so hope and waite for the haruest the Mariner the hauen the wayfaring-man his iorneyes ende the woman in trauell her deliuerance the Captiue his liberty as wee should wish and waite for pray for and expect the time of

in their sicknesse and otherwise These heads foundations viz. they that shall either with Atheists deny al or with the Church of Rome deny or by consequence ouerthrowe most of them or with the common or vulgar protestant bee ignorant of them cannot possibly for the time present haue true faith for faith can no more then a temple a house or any other edifice bee without his many grounds and foundation Wherefore if we erre or bee ignorant in these or in the like principles of faith let vs by diligent hearing of the word reading of the Scriptures and Orthodoxe bookes by consulting the Godly learned and by earnest prayer to GOD for illumination and vnderstanding seeke to bee better informed and resolued The second point to bee considered is whether Christ with his onely merites and obedience bee the onely Obiect of our faith so that in matter of saluation wee vtterly disclame and renounce all other feined merites satisfactions intercessions of men and Angells for Christ alone is our perfect redeemer and mediator Act. 4. 12. Heb. 7 25. Phi. 3. The third point whether our faith doe not onely rest in abare and naked knowledge and history of Christ as the fayth of the deuills and reprobates doth but also apply and appropriate Christ yea and enclose as it were him and all his merits vnto themselues and their owne saluation for as without vse and application of the weapon there is no defence or anoyance without vse and application of medicine no cure without vse and applie of meate and drinke no continuance of life without putting on of apparell no warmth or hiding of our vnseemly partes without acceptance and perticuler acknowledgement of the Kings generall pardon there is no forgiuenesse so vnlesse we apply and appropriate Christ with all his obedience and merites vnto our selues wee haue no comfort helpe and benefit by him wee do ebut beate the ayre run at randome and shoote at the rouers Wherefore to conclude this point wee must say with Dauid O Lord my strength and my redeemer and with Thomas the Apostle My Lord and my God and with the Church in the Canticles my welbeloued is mine and I am his Cant. 2. 16. Fourthly we are a little to consider take a view of some pregnant remarkable signes and effectes of true faith whereby as by certaine trusty intelligencers we may be informed and certified whether we haue true fayth or not First it is one signe of a beleeuer to ioyne and associate himselfe to those assemblies and those people wherein and amongst whom the true sincere worship of God is professed and established for in the 2. of the Acts of the Apostles it is sayd the Lord added to the Church from day to day such as should be saued Act. 2. 47. And it is a note of perdition for a man to forsake the holy assemblys so to withdraw himselfe and his faith from GOD. Hebrewes 10. 25. and 39. Thomas absenting himselfe from the Apostles and their fellowship but some eight daies or there abouts was so hardned in vnbeleife that he would not beleeue the testimony and asseueration of the rest of the Apostles that told him that Christ was risen except hee might see the print of the nailes and put his finger into the print of them and put his hand into his side and had not CHRIST beene so mercifull vnto him as to condescend to his infirmitie and withall to molli●ie his heart hee had perished in his obstinacie What then is to bee sayd of them that seldome that negligently yea that neuer come into GODS Chamber of presence to heare the blessed Preaching of his word and to pertake of the Heau●nly Manna of the Sacraments surely they are in a most dangerous and desperate case A second note of faith is constantly wisely and boldly to confesse and maintaine the doctrine of saluation and all the foundations of fayth when we are therevnto called For we must beleeue with the heart and confesse with the mouth Rom. 10. 10. We must haue Christ his name written in our forheads Apoc. 14. 1. Wee though we liue wheresathan hath his throne must keepe Christs name and not deny the faith Apoc. 2. 13. Whereso ● it standeth vs vpon to looke to our selues and to beeware that wee bee not daunted with scoffes and slaunders terrified with feare of trouble and persecution seduced with flattery ouercome with false perswasions and corrupted with offer of profit and preferment For if wee bee ashamed of Christ our good Lord Maister and Redeemer he wil be ashamed of vs if wee deny him hee will deny vs before his Heauenly Father and all the Holy Angells and contrarywise if wee confesse and honour him before men hee wil confesse and honour vs. Finally wee are then onely made partakers of Christ if wee keepe sure vnto the end 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est the beginning of our assurance or wherby we are vpholden Heb. 3. 14. A third euidence of fayth is to shew and make knowne our dislike and hatred of errour and false doctrine yea to set and oppose our selues against it so farre forth as our calling will warrant Thus Dauid professeth that hee hateth all false waies Psal. 119. 104. and 128. Thus Paul being at Athens and seeing the Citty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est that is addicted to Idolatry it is sayd that the Spirit in him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was prouoked to indignation Acts. 17. 16. and thus the Angell of the Church of Ephesus is commended because hee could not forbeare them that were euill because hee did examine the ●alse Apostles found them out Apoc. 2. 2. A 〈◊〉 and that a more inward and in●allible note of faith is with Ezechias Dauid Iob Anna Gedeon and others to beleeue and depend vpon God euen then when wee haue for the present no feeling and when in trouble we see no meane of deliuerance for this is a demonstration that we rely wholy and only on his helpe and therefore is most acceptable to his maiesty yea if God in our seeming and apprehension should wound vs bee an enemy vnto vs write bitter things against vs yea and kill vs yet must wee trust in him 2. Chro. 32. 31. 32. Isay. 38. ver 2. 3. Psalm 77. 7. 8. 9. Iob. 13. vers 15. 1. Sam. ver 15. ●udg 6. 13. 2. Sam. 15. 26. For God many times leaueth his Children without sense and feeling of present comfort that partly to bring them to repentance for sinnes past Iob. 13. 26. partly to make them knowe themselues for the time present Deut. 13. 2. 3. partly to preuēt sinnes in time to come 2. Cor. 12. 7. 8. A fourth note is the gift practise of prayer or the inuocation of Gods name in the only mediation of Christ for this is a speciall character and note of an elect of God whereby he is discerned from an Infidell or reprobate