finde a place from the face of the serpent but if she should find none there yet in y Ioh. 14. 2. her fathers house are many mansions the Kings sonne her husband is gone before to provide a place for her The Churh may want sometimes what she desires but never what God knowes good though the King denye his daughter one thinge he may give her a better And though she be a Queene married to the Kings sonne it is fitting she acknowledge her father the King may suffer her to want because he would have her come to him for he is the King wil be sought to great reason he should Because she is the Kings daughter she Lookes the King should looke after her so sets still does not stirre up her selfe to take hold of the King nor call upon him with that humility fayth fervency constancy she ought to doe which if she would doe so dispatch her prayers as extraordinary Embassadours to the King of heaven she should receive a gracious answere z Isa 54. 11. oh thou afflicted tossed with tempest not comforted the Lord a 6. hath called thee à woman forsaken grieved in spirit for a moment have I forsaken thee but with great mercies will I gather thee in a little wrath I hid my face from thee but with everlasting kindnesse will I have mercy on thee Let the Church then with Queene Hester goe in to the King he will hold out the scepter of his grace the devises of wicked Hamans shal be brought on their owne heads b Ps 122. 6. Pray then for the peace of Ierusalem for she is the Kings daughter they shall prosper that love thee Peace bee within thy walls prosperity within thy palaces c Isa 63. 19. Looke downe from heaven wee beseech thee O King of heaven behold from the habitation of thy holynesse of thy glory for the glory of thy name suffer not men on earth to doe thee this dishonour to abuse thy daughter where is thy Zeale thy strength the sounding of thy bowels of thy mercies are they restrayned O thou who hast the hearts of Kings in thy hands put into the hearts of the Kings of the earth to hate the whore that is drunck with the blood of thy saints Arise o Lord God of our salvation smite thine enemies in the hinder parts put them to perpetual reproach Oh d 64 9. remember not our iniquities for ever neyther he wroth very sore behold see we beseech thee we are thy people thus much for the Queenes comfort Vse 3 Thirdly this also teaches the Church her duty for is shee the Kings daughter let her then behave her selfe like a daughter to so great a King shew forth in her conversation the e 1. Pet. 2. 9. vertues of him that hath called her out of darknesse into his marveilous light walke as a child of light be holy as the King is holy be mercifull as her heavenly father is mercifull abhorre sinne as a base thinge sinfull wicked persons as unworthy the company countenance of the Kings daughter Psa 101. 7. It is an abhomination to Kings to commit wickednesse f Prov. 16. 12 sayth Solomon so is it also to Kings sonnes daughters who as they are above others in state so they should be higher in their vertuous behaviour as King Saul g 1. Sam. 10. 23. higher by the head shoulders then the rest of the people h v. 9. When Samuel had annoyuted Saul King it is sayd that God gave him another heart a heart befitting a King to great persons God gives heroick spirits to doe great thinges but to his owne children he gives his owne spirit so there is another spirit in them then in the world for as i Rom. 8. 14. many as are led by the spirit of God are the sonnes of God now the fruit of k Gal. 5. 22. the spirit is love joy peace long suffering gentlenesse fayth meekenesse temperance Bet ye there fore followers of God as deare children walke in Love as God hath loved us but l Ephc. 5. 1. all uncleanesse or covetousuesse let it not be once named among you as becommeth Saints or the Kings daughters Thus farre of the relation the Kings daughter Glorious SEcondly is to bee considered her qualification she is glorious Glorious in being gracious First because grace is true glory therefore the saints are called the m Psa 16. 3. excellent ones upon earth by the prophet n Isa 4. 5. Isaiah the glory 2. Ly because her graces are as so many tokens of Gods grace love to her in which she glories for let o 1 Cor. 1. 31 him that gloryes glory in the Lord a wife glories in shewing others her rings jewels costly apparrel not only for the value of the thinges but also for that her husband gave them which she thereforealso esteemes of will keepe as evidences of her husbands love 3. Ly because her graces are the way to eternal glory for p Heb. 12. without holynesse no man shall see the Lord. The Church is glorious in that she is the Kings daughter by her spirituall adoption but glorious also in her justification her sanctification The q Ioh. 8. non generis dignitate sed morum nobilitate jnnotescere debemus dist 40 c. 3. ex Greg. qui genus suum jactat aliena laudat sen H. F. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 80. impres Ha. noviae Jewes gloryed that they were Abrahams children yet did not the workes of Abraham and many glory in their noble birth who are inglorious in a wicked life their birth cannot affoord them so much glory as their life begets disgrace the glory of their birth is anothers prayse but their gracelesse life is their owne shame It is true that our late King of blessed memory relates that for the most part a vertuous civill morall life followes a noble birth wee see many times that none are so base rude in their carriage as such of meane rude parentage But it is true that S. Paul r 1. Cor. 1. 26 sayes that not many wisemen after the flesh nor many mighty nor many noble are called for God hath chosen the foolish thinges of the world to confound the wise the weake things to confound the mighty base things of this world that no flesh should glory in his presence but such as are glorious in the flesh by a noble birth being called by God are farr more glorious in their new birth gracious spirituall life there may bee then a natural noble birth but an ignoble life but whosoever is truly ennobled with the glory of a spiritual birth is also glorious in a gracious life Vse 1 Whereby examination may be had who is the Kings daughter Justification
his Courtiers to be Kings in heaven but all such as will not have him to reigne over them though a Rev. 6. 15. Kings of the earth great men rich men chiefe captaines mighty men shall hide themselves in dennes in the rocks of the mountaines say to the rocks the mountaines Fall on us hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne King Alexander had two friends 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one loved him as Alexander the other loved him as king Let us doe both love him who is our God so feare him for b Hos 3. 5. his goodnesse love him who is our king so feare him for his pover Daughter SEcondly by the Kings daughter Filiae Regis animae fidelis Hier. in Loc. is meant the Church or the faithfull All creatures are this kings subjects but the faithfull have a neerer relation to him in being his daughters sonnes for c 2. Cor. 6. 18 I vvilbe a father unto you ye shal be my sonnes daughters sayth the Lord almighty so that it may be alike truly sayd that faithfull men are his daughters faithfull women his sonnes for there is no respect of persons with God there is neither Jew or Greeke King or subject rich or poore d Gal. 3. 28. male or female but are all one in Christ Jesus VVee knowe not Christ any more after the flesh sayth e 1. Cor. 5. 16. S. Paul neyther doth Christ knowe us after the flesh for f Mat. 12. 50. who soever shal doe the will of his father which is in heaveÌ„ the same is his brother his sister mother therefore the Church of Rome to little purpose applyes the latter part of this Psalme concerning the Kings daughter her honourable women to their g Mollerus in loc Nunnes at their consecration since it belongs to men as wel as women to the maried as the unmarried even to the whole Church of what nation sexe or condition soever they be but the prophet in allusion to Solomons Queene heere termes them daughters who in other places are called the h Matt. 5. 9. Rom. 5. 2. 8. 14. sonnes of God Jesus Christ as God is the only i Heb. 1. 2. sonne of God by natural generation as man the only sonne of God by k Luk. 1. 35. personal union the l Iob. 38 7 Angels m Luk. 3. 38. Gen. 1. 26. Adam Eve in them all men women are the sonnes of God by creation after Gods image in righteousnesse holinesse but men being in honour through their fall in Adam lost this image honourable condition of being the sonnes of God are now by nature the n Eph. 2. 3. children of vvrath sonnes of iniquitye but God out of his love to man sent his owne sonne o Heb. 1. 3. vvho is the expresse image of his person to be man to restore man to the image of God in being the sonnes of God for p Ioh. 1. 12. to as many as received him to them he gave this honour to bee the sonnes of God even to them that beleeve in his name so the faithfull only are restored to this honourable estate of being sonnes daughters to the King of heaven for q Gal. 3. 26. wee are all the sonnes of God by faith in Jesus Christ The Church then is the Kings daughter in law by the grace of adoption in a spiritual union by fayth being married to the Kings sonne Vse 1 When Sauls servants communed with David to take in marriage the Kings daughter David answers r 1. Sa. 18. 23. Seemeth it a light thinge to bee a Kings sonne in law but I may say seemeth it a light thing to bee the King of Kings daughter in law It was a great honour wherewith God magnified the blessed Virgin to be the foeliciê° eum corde quam carne gestavit Aug. de S. Virg. c. 3. mother of a King of God but a greater happinesse to her that she was a daughter of the King her God Is it a great honour to bee borne of earthly Kings not a greater to be borne of a heavenly King If all worldly honours of Kingly Parentage Kingly marriage Kingly magnificene alliance beauty wit eloquence courage or what soever else may be of higher esteeme added heereto be layed all together in balance with this only honour to be the Kings daughter they wil be founde too light even lighter then vanitye in respect of this spiritual dignity this is that crownes all the rest let us so esteeme of it as the best flower in our garland Cease then cease blind old doting world to judge them the ofscowring of the world who are the happiest people therein and though thou naturall man perceive not the things of God yet the time shall come when in anguishe of heart thou shalt say Å¿ VVisd 5. this is he whom we had sometime in derision wee fooles accounted his life madnesse his end to be without honour how is he now numbred among the children of God his lot among the saints Use 2 And as this makes for the Churches honour so it affoordes her comfort for is she the Kings daughter she shal then never want any thinge that is fitting or good for her A good Kings care is to provide for all his subjects much more for his owne children God causes his sunne to shine on the wicked but the hottest beames of his favour shal reflect on the righteous this King that hath so much loved us when we were his enemies as to give his owne Sonne to be married to us how shall he not with him give us all thinges being reconciled made his daughters Kings on earth may want power cannot helpe may want love will not helpe may want life for they are mortal though they have both power will yet helpe not put not then your trust in princes sayth the t Ps 146. 3. Psalmist nor in the sonne of man in whom is no helpe his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that day his thoughts perish but the Kings daughters helpe is in the name of the Lord who hath made heaven earth hee is the King of Kings can helpe a loving father will helpe an eternall King the living God can at all times when he sees fitting helpe when u Psal 27. 10 father mother forsake then the Lord taketh us up though Abraham be ignorant of us Israell acknow ledge us not yet thou art our w Isa 63. 16. father our redeemer thy name is from everlasting The King may indeed suffer his daughter sometimes to be troubled like the woman in the x Rev. 12. 14 Revelation forced by the Dragon to fly into the wildernesse but even there where little hope of feod is she shal be nourished
sanctification are evident signes fruits of our adoption If a man gloryes he hath the Philosophers stone yet goes in raggs wee will not easily beleeve him neyther him that sayes he is the child of God lives in sinne for hee that ſ 1. Ioh. 3. 9. 10. is borne of God sinneth not not willingly going on in a sinfull course without repentance in this the children of God are manifest the children of the divel who soever doth not righteousnesse is not of God Use 2 And from hence also we may Fax mentis honestae gloria S. Ital. Phil. 3. bee exhorted to seeke for this the truest glory Some glory in their sinnes whose glory is in their shame some glory in their riches worldly honours but this world passeth away the glory of it some glory in their fine cloathes but all this is vayne glory too often keepes man from attayning true glory how can ye beleeve sayth Christ t Ioh. 5. 44. that receive honour one of another seeke not the honour that cometh from God only whose hearts time is taken up wholy in an ambitious affecting honour from men can spare no time to seeke after the true honour from God they that too much love the prayse of men too little care for the prayse of God Bad people Nullarū fere pretiosior cultus est quam quarū pudor vilis est Cyp. de hab virg may weare good cloathes base minded men step up to worldly honour glory but the Kings daughter only is truly glorious in being gratious Let that argument moove us which comonly preveyles every where that is the fashion Let your u 1. Pet. 3. 4. adorning then be in the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of an humble meeke quiet spirit which is in the sight of God great of price put on by the hand of fayth the fine w Rev. 19. 8. linnen which is the righteousnesse of the saints cover your heads with the feare of God hang at your eares wind about your wrests I meane your hearts the precious jewell of Gods word more x Psa 19. 10. worth then thousands of gold silver choisest pearles girt about your loynes the y Eph. 6. 14. girdle of truth shoo your z v. 15. feet with the preparation of the Gospell of peace wash hands face I meane your soules in the blood of Christ for be they never so high coloured were your sinnes as a Isai 1. 18. red as scarlet they shal be as white as snow For this is the Kings daughters cloathing of wrought gold this her rayment of needle worke this is the Queenes fashion she will never change it but live dye in it I pray God give us all grace to follow it then shall the King have pleasure in our beauty And when the glory of al earthly Kings kingdomes shall cease be brought to nothing then shall the Kings daughter appeare in her glory for we are b 1. Ioh. 1. 18. now the sonnes of God but it doeth not yet appeare what we shal be but we know that when the King our husband Jesus Christ our saviour shall appeare with all the glory of heaven earth that we shal be like him c Col. 3. 4. Rev. 21. 2. appeare with him in glory thus prepared as a bride adorned for her husband cloathed with the glory of God in a kingdom of glory crowned with an incorruptible crowne of glory to which let us d Rom. 8. 18. account all the momentary light afflictions of this world not worthy to be compared but go on from grace to grace from glory to glory e 5. 2. rejoycing in the hope of the glory of God Allglorious THe third thinge to be considered is the amplification of this glory First by the universalitie of it all glorious First by the grace of justification for Christs blood cleanseth her from f 1. Ioh. 1. 7. all her sinnes so God seeth no iniquitye because he does not g Psa 32. impute it to her her iniquities are forgiven her sinnes covered the absolute perfect righteousnesse of Jesus Christ is h Rom. 4. to her in this respect Christ sayes of her thou art i Cant. 4. 7. all faire my Love there is no spot in thee Secondly by the graces of sanctification wherewith her whole person in all the faculties of her soule members of her body is adorned her understanding enlightned with saving knowledge so that with open k 2. Cor. 3. 18 face she beholds the glory of God is changed into the same image from glory to glory her will being conformed to Gods will her affections rightly ordered her love feare joy hope set on other objects contayned within the limits of due moderation her outward senses members of her body l Rom. 6. 13 instruments of righteousnesse unto God in this respect also all glorious For as by sinne the whole person is corrupted so by grace the whole person even in m 1. Th. 5. 23. soule spirit body is sanctified the old man is cast of with his workes beggerly rags the new man is put on which after God is created in righteousnesse true holynesse he hath respect to n Ps 119. 6. 3. all Gods commandements does no iniquitye though in this life the Kings daughter be not so glorious as to bee perfectly sanctified in full measure through the reliques of sinne in her though forgiven yet is she in some measure sanctified in perfectio graduum partium all the faculties of soule members of her body so perfectly sanctified in this sense I dare affirme universalitie of grace for where the flesh is there is the spirit also this spirit of sanctification striveth against corruption thus though she bee black yet is she o Cant. 1. 5. comely but heere after when the body of sinne shal be destroyed all teares wiped from her eyes she shal be all p Eph. 5. 27. glorious without any spot or wrinckle holy without blemish Vse 1 By the consideration whereof we may discerne true grace from counterfeit Herod will heare John gladly doe many glorious good things but he will not part with Herodias this blemishes ye rest discovers him to be of base Idumaeā birth no true Israelite many glory of their good intentions that they meane as wel as the best yet their mouths are full of rotten cōmunication so we may know the tree by the fruit to be of no good kind others glory of their good deeds but their thoughts are free their hearts full of uncleanesse malice covet ousnesse It is ordinary with many in much vehemency to inveigh against to handle roughly the sinne they are not subject to but their beloved