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A21197 The churches glory shewed forth in a sermon preached at the Haghe before Their Majesties the King & Queene [brace] of Bohemia / by J.E. ... Elborough, Jeremiah. 1625 (1625) STC 7550.5; ESTC S120080 16,073 56

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THE CHURCHES GLORY SHEWED FORTH IN A SERMON Preached at the HAGHE Before their Majesties THE KING QUEENE of Bohemia By J. E. Preacher to the Company of English Merchant Adventurers in Hamburgh Ecclesiae non jungitur qui ab Evangelio separatur Cypr. de lapsis TO HER MAIESTIE THE QUEENE OF BOHEMIA c. MAny commend the Churches glory but few imitate it because they never truly knewe it somewhat they have read heard of it but never truly saw it for with carnall eyes they behold her spirituall beauty cannot discerne it An ignorant person looking on the picture of Helena drawne by Zeuxes sayd that she seemed not to him to be so fayre Nicomachus the Pamter answered him Take my eyes you will Sume meos oculos De am judicabis thinke her a Goddesse The best way to judge of the Churches glory is to get it within our hearts to feele it a Rev. 2. 17. none knowes the new Name that Christ writes on his but he that receives it VVhosoever hath once felt within him the excellent unspeake able benefit of the pardon of his sinnes peace of conscience joy in the holy Ghost power of fayth quiet fruit of patience comfort of obedience yea the sweetnesse of the very teares of repentante with other parts of the Churches ornaments will say with Peter when he saw but part of Christs glory in his transfiguration b Mat. 17. 4. It is good being heere with the c Rev. 12. 1. VVoman in the Revelation cloathed with the Sun viz Christs righteousnesse tread the Moone viz all earthly changeable gloryes under feet And though your Majestie knowes more of the Churches glory by your invvard feeling of it then I can discover yet in all dutifull acknowledgment of your Majesties favours gracious countenance of my Ministerie with an hearty desire to doe your Majestie any good service vvere it but to bring Pinnes to the Temple in the least to further your spirituall dressing glory I am bold to present to your Majesties view this small treatise of the Churches glory And what you vvere pleased once to heare being called by your command to preach vouchafe I humbly desire now to reade Being confident of your Majesties gracious acceptance hereof for the matter sake though not set forth vvith shew of vvordes vvhich the truth needes not the Churches glory being sufficient of it selfe to commend it playne vvorke being best most in use curious vvrought plate not regarded I commend your Majestie to God to the vvord of his d Act. 20. 32. grace vvhich is able to build you up to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified e 1. Pet. 1. 4. an inheritance incorruptible undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you Your Majesties most obliged Chaplaine JER EL-BOROUGH THE CHURCHES GLORY Psal 45. v. 13. The kings daughter is all glorious within IT is uncertaine vvho made this Psalme but certaine that he vvas a Prophet holy man for S. Peter a 2. Pet. 1. 20 tells us that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretaetion but holy men of God spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost It is also certaine that it vvas made concerning Kinge Solomon his Queene to set forth the glory of his kingdome But most certaine that the authour looked higher then Solomon his Queene chiefly intended by them their outvvard great vvorldly glory to expresse the invvard spirituall farre greater glory of Christ his Church for neither Solomon or his Queene in all their glory vvere clothed like one of these And that this vvas the Prophets scope appeares by some sayings in this Psalme vvhich cannot be attributed to Solomon but to Christ as b v. 6. Thy throne O God is for ever ever for though Kinges in the vvord of God are called c Psa 82. 6. 2. Thes 2 4. Gods in respect of their office not their nature for d Psa 82. 7. they shall dye like men yet this vvord heere God is spoken of the sonne of God as appeares plainly Hebr. 1. 8. Unto the sonne he sayth Thy throne O God is for ever ever as also Solomons throne vvas not for ever but Christs Moreover it is e v. 16. sayd In stead of thy fathers shal be thy children whom thou mayst make princes in all the earth but this is not true of Solomon for Rehoboam his heire vvas so farre from enlarging his dominion on earth that he lost the greatest part of his fathers kingdome neither reade vvee that any of the rest of his children ever attayned to that Kingly glory their father had but this is true of Christ his Church for in stead of the fathers Abraham Isaack Jacob c. they had children Peter John Paul other Apostles vvho spiritually overcame al nations by the preaching of the Gospell so vvhereas Christ set up his throne only in Judaea in his life time as Kinge of the Jevves these children enlarged his dominions to the uttermost parts of the earth And since the f Mat. 12. 42. Queene of the South came from the uttermost parts of the earth to behold the glory of Kinge Solomon let us also come vvith our best attentions to behold the glory of the King of Solomon his Queene for behold greater then Solomon or his Queene are heere The Parts of this Psalme are tvvo The 1. concerning Solomon this is the literal sense The 2. concerning his Zueene The 1. concerning Christ this is the mystical sense The 2. concerning his Church Solomon is comended for is g v. 2. beauty fairer then the children of men for his h ibid. eloquence for his i v. 3. povver for his vertues of truth meekenesse k v. 4. righteousnesse For his l v. 8. riches in his costly garments his ivory palaces All vvhich vvere but types of the farre exceeding spirituall beauty eloquence povver graces riches of Christ For m Cant. 5. 10 he is white ruddie the chiefest among ten thousand n Ioh. 7. 46. never man spake like him o Mat. 28. 18 all Power in heaven earth is given him p Ioh. 14 6. hee is the way the truth wee must Learne of him for he is q Matt. 11. 29 meeke lowly his name is the Lord our r Ier. 23. 6. righteousnesse hee is perfumed with ſ Cant. 3. 6. myrrhe frankinsence all powders of the merchants heaven is t Is 66. 1. his throne the earth his footstoole Happie vvoman may some thincke that hath such a husband as Solomon more happie soule that hath Christ Solomons Queene is 1. instructed 2 comēded Instructed u v. 10. to forget her owne people Kinge Pharaoh her fathers house the reasons hereof are three 1. for then the w v. 11.