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A15398	Ecclesia triumphans: that is, The ioy of the English church for the happie coronation of the most vertuous and pious prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defendour of the faith, &c. and for the ioyfull continuance of religion and peace by the same. With a briefe exposition of the 122. Psalme, and fit application to the time: wherein are declared the manifold benefits like to grow by these good beginnings to the church and common-wealth of England. Dedicated to the most gratious ladie and vertuous princess, Ioland Anne, by the grace of God, Queene of England, Scotland, France, &c.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1603 (1603)	STC 25676; ESTC S114434	63,703	152

The people of God flocking togither to Gods house are resembled to doues that flie in at their windowes Isa. 60. 8. as birds that flicker to their nests Psal. 84. 3. So euen as the sparrowes and swallowes beeing chased doe resort vnto their nests so the house of God is a place of rest to a troubled soule And as in the poole of Bethesda the lame and diseased when the waters were stirred by the angel found remedie for their disease so in Gods house the waters of life doe issue forth to the health of all that thirst after them 4. Great cause then haue the people of God to frequent the Lords Sanctuarie because the Lord sitteth betweene the Cherubins Psal. 99. 1. Gods way is in the Sanctuarie Psal. 77. 13. Gods power and beautie are in his Sanctuarie Psal. 96. 6. who then would not desire to enioy God● presence to behold the beautie of his face to see the Lord in his word to tast him in the sacraments to feele him by the operation of his spirit to talke with him by praier 5. Wherefore we all this day are much bound to giue thankes to God that in his mercie still graunteth vs to haue free accesse to his temple This gratious entercourse of religion we had iust cause in respect of our sinnes to feare least it might haue beene stopped but God hath giuen vnto his gospel in this land an open doore againe which should haue beene for euer shut vp vnto vs if the Popes curses and Papists wishes and Iebusites practises could haue preuailed How good yet and louing is God to Israel in many countries to this day Gods house is desolate and his true worship abolished they which feare God are driuen to heare the word in corners in woodes and solitarie places O therefore let vs reioyce in England that we may safely goe vp to Gods house Some while they haue beene seruing God in his house haue beene robbed and spoiled at home some in the Church haue beene put to the sword the house hath beene fired ouer their heads their blood shed in the sanctuarie as the Galileans blood was mingled with their sacrifice Luk. 13. 1. Thus we read that 20. thousand Christians in Nicomedia were burnt beeing all assembled in the Church to celebrate the natiuitie of Christ vnder the cruel persecution of Dioclesian Thus cruell Miniers commaunded his captaine Iohn de Gaxe to put diuers of the Merindoliās to the sword which were gathered togither in the Church Hierome also maketh mention in his time how that at Ments in Germanie the cittie beeing taken diuers thousands were slaine in the Church Thankes be to God wee neither feele nor see any of these euils Wherefore my brethren let vs loue Gods house and make much of this blessing while we may let no man contemne or neglect the holy assemblies let not any worldly businesse drawe vs from the house of praier let not vaine pleasure hinder vs. How many are there that of purpose put off their iourneys to the Lords day thinking the time gained that is spared from the exercises of religion How many that sit quaffing and tipling trifling and toying when they should present themselues before God Let these things be nowe amended and let vs begin to reioyce that the Gospel hath yet a free passage among vs and lay we vp in our store-house plentie of spirituall instruction against the euill day The wise man sendeth vs to the Pismire Goe to the Ant thou sluggard behold her waies and be wise Prou. 6. 4. which similitude Augustine doeth very fitly thus explicate Vide formicam Dei surgit quotidie currit ad Ecclesiam Dei audit lectionem recondit intus grana electa de horreo Behold Gods Ant he riseth daily goeth to Church heareth the word laieth vp the cheifest cornes c. The time of winter commeth some euill or crosse befalleth him modo intus formica comedit labores aestat is now he doth within to himselfe enioy the gatherings of summer Let vs in like sort learne wisdome of the Ant nowe while we may to lay vp store of spirituall foode in the granaries of our hearts that we may be prouided against the time of dearth famine come The 5. meditation Let vs goe or we will goe into the house of the Lord. The people did encourage one another to goe vp to Gods house whereby we are taught that it is euery mans part to helpe forward his brother and to stirre him vp vnto the exercise of godlinesse 1. Thus Isay prophesied of the last times Many people shall say come and let vs goe vp to the mountaine of the Lord Isay 5. 3. Saint Paul also mooueth the brethren one to comfort another ● Thess. 4. 18. One to exhort and edifie another 1. Thess. 5. 11. Neither yet where Ieremie saith in those daies they shall teach no more euery man his neighbour and euery man his brother saying know the Lord Ierem. 31. 34. is this prophet contrarie to Esay but this saying must be vnderstood comparatiuely that in regard of the aboundance of knoweledge vnder Christ there shall not be such neede of mutuall instruction as was before vnder the lawe 2. Thus Iacob encouraged his seruāts and whole familie Clense your selues and change your garments we will rise vp and goe to Bethel and I will make an altar there vnto God Gen. 35. 2 3. The shepheards vnto whome the angels declared the glad tidings of the birth of Christ said one to another Let vs goe vnto Bethlem and see this thing that is come to passe Luk. 2. 15. Thus Andrew brought Peter and Philip Nathaniel vnto Christ Ioh. 1. 41. 45. 3. Like as then two are better then one as the Preacher saith if they fall one will lift vp the other c. If two sleepe togither they shall haue heate Eccles. 4. 10. 15. So by the fellowship of brethren and their mutuall exhortations zeale is increased and spirituall strength augmented And as in the bodie one member helpeth another and doe communicate their offices so should we beeing one bodie in Christ seeke and procure the good one of another 4. See we not the wicked howe they one prouoke another to mischeife and entise vnto euill Come we will lay waite for blood c. cast in thy lot among vs we will haue all one purse Prou. 1. 11 14. They do claspe togither as briers Mich. 7. 4. Much more should Christians one stirre vp and prouoke another to goodnesse For this is the propertie of charitie it seeketh not her owne things 1. Cor. 13. 1. it desireth to impart what gift soeuer it hath to the good of many as Bernard well noteth vpon the 134. Psalme It is like to the pretious ointment vpon the head that runneth downe vpon the beard euen vpon Aarōs beard which went downe vpon the border of his garments Non remaneat in barba Aaron tota vnctio salutaris capiat sane prima

waies haue of late in the Church of England set a foot some popish doctrines mingling the sweete lumpe of the gospel with sowre leauen of their owne Such teachers I trust will hereafter be better aduised and fill their hands with better seede that no more cockle and darnell be scattered in good ground God graunt a generall consent in iudgement and concord in heart both in teachers and hearers that we may goe vp together to Gods house and that our feete may stand stedfastly in Ierusalem that as Ambrose well alludeth Sicut rotam intra rotam vidit propheta currentem ita teres vita sanctorum est ita sibi concinens vt superioribus posteriora respondeant as the Prophet saw one wheele runne within another so the life of the Saints should be round and currant and so consorted together as one part may answer to another The 8. meditation In thy gates O Ierusalem This citie God made especiall choise of as it is in the pslame God loueth the gates of Sion aboue all the habitations of Iacob psal 87. 2. It was called the citie of God v. 3. the citie of the great king math 5. 35. the holy citie mat 4. 5. there Abraham was bid to sacrifice his sonne Gen. 22. of this citie was Melchisedeck founder and king Gen. 14. yet notwithstanding all these priuiledges this citie was often for their sinnes besieged by Pharao Necho 2. king 22. 23. by Nabuchadnezzer 2. king 24. 11. destroied by the king of Babylon 2. king 25. and at the last vtterly ruinated and made desolate by the Romanes Whereby we learne that there is no citie or countrie though indued with neuer so great priuiledges but if they continue in sinne may be in Gods iustice cast off 1. The Prophet saith He turneth a fruitfull land into barrennes for the wickednes of the people that dwel therein Psal. 107. 34. God is able both to change cities and countries to bring them to perpetuall ruine and desolation because of the sinnes of the inhabitants 2. Thus the Lord dealt with Samaria 2. king 21. 13. and with Shiloh where three hundred yeares the arke of God rested Goe vnto my place which was at Shiloh where I set my name at the beginning and behold what I did vnto it for the wickednes of my people Israel Ier. 7. 12. What is become now of Babylon the chiefe citie of the Chaldeans of Niniue of the Assyrians of Reuatane the great citie of the Medes Susis of the Persians there is no monument of them left but as Seneca saith Ipsa fundamenta consumpta sunt nec quicquam extat quo appareat illas saltem fuisse the very foundations are worne out and it doth not appeare that there were any such cities 3. As God hath dealt with these citties so he can offer the same occasion to others I will stretch ouer Ierusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Achab and I will wipe Ierusalem as a man wipeth a dish which he wipeth and turneth it vpside downe 2. King 21. 13. It is no whitte harder for God to bring destruction vpon citties then for the mason to lift vp his line and plummet ouer his worke or then it is to wipe a dish when it is foule 4. The cause why the Lord iudgeth countries and citties is expressed in the case of Israel because they sinned against the Lord their God c. and walked according to the fashion of the heathen c. and had made them images c. therefore the Lord was exceeding wroth with Israel and put them out of his sight 2. King 7. 8 10 18. The like sinnes in any cittie neuer so famous or honourable in the world must needs procure the same iudgements 5. First in that Ierusalem that famous citie is now forsaken of her inhabitants made an habitation of deuils of pagans infidels we learne that Gods church and the true religion is not limited to any certaine place and seeing God hath shewed such indignation toward that countrie nation which put Christ to death what reason had the Romane bishops in time past to incite Christian Princes to mooue such deadly warres for the recouerie of the holy land as they called it After God had polluted his owne cittie and temple and Christ neglected the very place of his birth for the sinnes of the people what cause had Christians so superstitiously to be addicted to that place which was reiected of God Their ouersight herein well appeared by the euent for we shall not read of any warres that continued longer with greater bloodshed and lesse happie successe then these maintained by Christians against the Saracens for the possession of the holy land Hereupon Princes lead with a superstitious conceite take vpon them the crosse to goe fight for Hierusalem as Henrie the 2. Richard the 1. king Iohn with diuerse other who thought simply as Naaman that no earth was so holy as that about Iordan 2. King 5. 17. But our Sauiour hath giuen vs a rule for this The houre commeth when ye shall neither in this mountaine nor at Ierusalem worship the father Iohn 4. 23. The true worship of God is not tied to Ierusalem as Hierome wel expoundeth those words of the Psalme God loueth the gates of Sion more then all the habitations of Iacob Nunquid istas portas diligit Deus quas videmus in cineres favillas conuersas c. Doe you thinke that God loued these gates which are turned to dust and ashes no man is so foolish to thinke so c. And againe he saith Ne quicquam fidei tuae deesse putes quia Hierosolymam non vidisti c. Thinke not any thing therefore wanting to your faith because you haue not seene Ierusalem nor vs therefore better because we haue there our habitation Secondly the like fantasie the Papists haue of Rome which the Iewes had of Ierusalem they imagine that Gods Church cannot possibly faile there as though they euer had the like promise for Rome as the Iewes had for Sion That God would dwell there for euer Psal. 132. 14. Howe would the Papists triumph if they could finde any such text for Rome This is my rest for euer yet if they did such promises are but conditionall for God no longer bindeth himselfe not to forsake a nation then while they doe not forsake him Let proud Rome therefore know that seeing shee is fallen away from the faith of Christ by most grosse idolatrie and other apostasies that shee cannot long escape vnpunished Ierusalem was deerer in gods sight then euer Rome was it was longer protected by him greater miracles had God wrought for them more holy men and Prophets there preached then euer Rome had And Hierome speaking of poore Bethlem saith Puto sanctior locus est rupe Tarpeia quae de caelo saepius fulminata ostendit quod deo displiceat I take it to be a more holy

easily be confuted or auoided which at the first dash bewray all their counsaile but they which agree with vs in many points may easily deceiue simple mindes by their subtile secrecie while they bolster out their poisonfull doctrine by some conformitie c. The 17. meditation They shall prosper that loue thee They which doe but beare good will vnto Sion shall prosper their louing affection to Gods house shall not be forgotten 1. So the Lord by Isaak saith to Iacob They shall be cursed that curse thee and blessed are they that blesse thee Gen. 27. 29. Likewise the Prophet Dauid saith The Lord is with them that vphold my soule Psal. 54. 4. Our Sauiour promiseth that he which giueth but a cuppe of cold water to any of his little ones in the name of a disciple should not loose his reward Math. 10. 42. 2. Thus Laban was prospered for Iacobs sake Gen. 30. 27. because he succoured and entertained him in his house The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his house because of the arke 2. Sam. 6. 11. he receiued it into his house and had a loue and respect vnto it therefore the Lord shewed him fauour againe Thus god deliuered Ebedmelech the Moore because he releeued and fauoured the prophet Ieremie cap. 39. 18. Ierem. And contrariwse they are accursed that doe hate the church of God What gained Ismael by mocking of Isaack he was cast out of his fathers house Gen. 21. 9. 10. Or what did it profit Abimelech to slaie his brethren the sonnes of noble Ierubball was he not himselfe slaine his braine pan broken with a peece of a milstone and after thrust thorough by his page Iudg. 9. 52. 53. And Saul had good experience what it is to persecute the innocents and to hate Gods seruants he put the priests to death and caused Doeg in one day to kill of them 85. persons he chased Dauid from place to place what was the issue hereof he himselfe was ouercome in battell and desperately died vpon his owne sword 1. Sam. 31. 4. 3. Like as then the Prophet saith in thy light shall we see light Psal. 36. 9. as a man by beholding the light is himselfe lightened so they which loue the light of Gods trueth shining in his Church shall themselues find light and comfort by it The Lord is said to turne the bed of the mercifull man in his sickenesse Psal. 41. 3. that as the turning and beating of the ficke mans couch doeth yeild more ease and pleasant rest to the sicke and weary bones so the Lord doth minister spirituall comfort and refreshing to the soule of that man that hath beene a comfort vnto others In this respect it is said in the Canticles Thy name is as an ointment poured out therefore the virgins loue thee Cant. 1. 2. that like as they which are neere vnto a precious ointment powred out though they were not annointed with it yet they are filled with the fauour of it So they which loue Christs Church where this oyntment is powred out shall haue the pleasant sauour and smell thereof in their welfare and prosperitie they shall prosper that loue thee 4. For the loue that is shewed to any of Christs members Christ accepteth as bestowed vpon himselfe In as much as he did it to one of the least of these ye did it vnto me Math. 25. 45. And therefore Christ wil recompence the loue of such they shall prosper themselues and be blessed in it 5. First according to this rule They shall prosper that loue thee it were good for vs to measure the current of many accidents in the world there shall we see the miserable ende and vnprosperous successe of such as were enemies to Gods Church and the happie estate and blessed progresse of such as were friends and louers of it What hath beene the ende of those treacherous practisers against the Lords annointed our late Soueraigne and of those haters of religion I meane Babington Ballard Arden Sommeruile Sherwin Parrie Lopez Squire with the rest they brought themselues to a shamefull but well deserued death and haue left behind them a perpetuall note of infamie howsoeuer the Pope hath canonized thē for martyrs of his Church Fit saints for such a chappell and worthie inhabitants of the Popes heauen But God shall prosper the faithfull endeauours of his seruants the teares which they shed in their praiers for Gods Church shall be put into the Lords bottles Psal. 56. 8. They shall eate the bread in the sweate of their browes they shall be partakers of the comfort and prosperitie of CHRISTS Church for the which they haue trauailed And now I trust is the time that it shall be saide to all that loue the Gospel They shall prosper that loue thee The Gospel hath by Gods goodnes prospered and flourished aboue these 40. yeares and now by Gods goodnes is like to prosper still God shall blesse both Prince and people as he hath done alreadie in great measure God hath brought a prosperous king to a prosperous nation His Maiestie the Lord hath aboundantly honoured in one day aduancing him to the princely regiment of an honourable nation to the loue heartie desire of his subiects to a countrey professing religion to the treasures of a rich prince God hath giuen him Salomons portion honour wealth wisdome God we trust shall giue his Maiestie grace and strength with al his power to honour him againe that we may say with the prophet Because the king trusted in the Lord and in the mercie of the most high he shall not slide thine hand shall find out all thine enemies and thy right hand them that hate thee Psal. 21. 7 8. But they that loue him shall be as the Sunne that riseth in his might Iud. 5. 31. Secondly seeing they prosper that loue and beare affection to Ierusalem let men learne to shewe good will vnto Christs Church though as yet they be no ripe schollers themselues in Christs schoole though they be not growne to perfection let them expresse a good affectiō A good will and inclination where strength yet faileth is accepted and a readie disposition is not reiected though thou be not yet of the Saints yet loue the Saints If thou likest and louest that thou wouldest be thou maist be that hereafter which yet thou art not The little birde before shee flieth flittereth with her wings in the nest the child creepeth before he goeth So religion beginneth with affection and deuotion proceedeth from desire A man must first loue that he would be before he cā be that which he loueth It is a good signe when a man affecteth that which he expecteth and doth fauour that which he would more fully sauour He that loueth Sion shall prosper he that loueth vertue shall encrease and prosper in it The day of small things shall not be despised Zachar. 4. 10. neither shall the smoking flaxe be quenched Math. 12. 20. but the smoake shall bring forth fire