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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44703	Basilidi dōron. or, The royal present as it was delivered in a sermon, in the parish-church of Boston, Octob. 9, 1663, at the arch-diaconal visitation of the reverend and right worshipfull Raphael Throckmorton, D.D. and arch-deacon of Lincoln / by Obadiah Howe ...	Howe, Obadiah, 1615 or 16-1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing H3049; ESTC R43267	23,016	38

Tributaries the glory of Lebanon firr pine and box 1. The Treasury-or the Thee in the Text set out in a double expression 1. My Sanctuary 2. The place of my feet 2. The Treasure or the Quare in a double expression 1. To beautifie 2. To make glorious 3. The Quid or the Tributaries in a double Classis 1. The glory of Lebanon 2. The firr pine and box together The one to lead the other to follow but all to concenter in Sions glory To consider all these parts by themselves by way of Gloss and interpretation of the Text. First The Cui or the Thee in the Text. The Text shews us who it is to save us the labour of enquiry v. 14. telleth us it is Sion the City of the Lord. And that this is the Church in Gospel-times the Apostle is our warrant Heb. 12.22 23. where his own Paraphrase upon Sion is the Church of the first-born and this is called in the Text by a double name sanctuary and the place of his feet My sanctuary because of thy temple at Jerusalem saith the Psalmist Psal 68.29 and its needless to enquire why the Temple was called the Sanctuary though it was but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 9.1 a worldly Sanctuary i. e. temporaneum caducum and with the rest to vanish yet it was relatively holy holy to the Lord and was called the holy place Or why the Church of Christ typed out by it should be called the sanctuary is as needless to enquire the Apostle is so express in it 1 Pet. 2.5 it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a spiritual house they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a holy Nation and there we find 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 too a holy priest-hood to offer up spiritual sacrifices to God So that a Temple they must be and an holy one too Thus saith the Apostle Eph. 2 21. they grow up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a holy temple and 1 Cor. 3.17 The temple of the Lord is holy which temple ye are But The place of my feet This is something more obscure and look not awry upon this expression or upon the Church by reason of it thereby to stay your hearts and hands and lessen your Present to her treasury because she is called here the place of his feet The phrase indeed is sometimes used in Scripture as importing shame dishonour and contempt in which respect Conquerours used to have their Captives under their feet as it was the greatest indignity that Bajazet the Grand Seigniour ever suffered when Tamerlain had him under his feet or Valerian that Tyrant when Sapore the Persian King trod upon his neck according to that of the Poet Qui Constantini toties perterruit urbem Sub Tamberlano sella canisque fuit And true it is that the members of Christ are under the head the sheep of Christ in his hands the lambs of Christ in his arms the Spouse of Christ in his bosom but the enemies of Christ are under his feet Yet think not that when God is thus commanding our bounty that he thus detracts from her beauty as to bespeak her in this sense the place of his feet This phrase is therefore to be observed and that not rarely importing love familiar converse and delight and thus an expression of honour and dignity Locum pedum meorum dicitur ut coelum sedes terra scabellum ejus saith Lyra It s the place of my feet as heaven is his seat and earth his foot stool But this I think is much too short For I would not render or paraphrase that phrase the place of my feet by that other my foot-stool but rather his Garden where he will walk or his Galleries wherein he will take and make his delightful recesses as he is said to walk in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks Rev. 1. And so it s no more the place of his feet then the place of his heart his house to dwell in his throne to rule in his temple to be served in the place of his feet to walk in And thus they are put together Ezek. 43.7 And if it be Sions glory when our feet stand in her gates a thing now too much neglected as Psal 122.6 much more must it be when she is made the place of Gods feet Secondly For the Quare or the Treasure it s here set down in a double expression Beauty and Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a double word in the Text and in the Translation the first to beautifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is decorare to adorn or make beautiful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the substantive is decor nitor inherent beauty or comeliness and this is in honorate as the Church is the fairest among women whatever men judge of her The other word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is gravare or honorare to load with dignifying titles and honours this is in honorante in the person honouring Thus all must come to contribute whatever may tend to inward and outward glory to make her to be truly so and to make her to be publickly acknowledged so to make her the excellency of many generations and the praise of the whole earth that as in Psal 76.4 she may be more excellent then the mountains of prey and as Psal 87.3 Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City of God Thirdly For the Quid or the Tributaries what or who must come To this end we have them in a double Classis the glory of Lebanon to come and the firr and pine and box together But what are these In the letter it s very clear they were those trees which Solomon fetched from farr to build and beautifie the Temple of old but what these are in the mysterie deserves a melius Inquirendum It argued the imperfection of the blind mans half restored sight but it will be the perfection of ours to fee as he Mark 8.24 men walking like trees to Sions glory Our Prophet Isaiah doubtless looked beyond the material Temple to another whose glory should exceed the former as Hag. 2. not in an outward splendor and pomp but a more spiritual glory The Apostle Peter jumps right with our Prophet and calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 2. a spiritual house and so must have more spiritual materials and he tells us of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living or lively stones so here we must look out some lively or living trees for timber for this spiritual house she needing no Cedar Firr Pine nor Box to patch up an outward magnificence and yet to this the glory of Lebanon the firr the Pine the box must come and all in a mystery And here Lyra will help us who tells us per tales arbores possunt intelligi personae notabiles ad ortum Ecclesiae per fidem venientes by these trees are signified some eminent and notable p●rsons coming to the rising and growth of this Church But to make a more particular enquiry after these comers