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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

Ierusalem is the greatest object of pittie my eye ever beheld Oh that God wold stirre up some Ezras Nehemiahs to replāt repayre the ruines of the goodliest kingdome of the world for fish flesh fowle wholsome ayre wanting nothing but Religion Money Munition Ah si fas dicere sed non fas Bels unlesse you had them Bonfires other solemnities to testifie your affections after which motions also the countrie moved by their presence approving not emulating your performances so I thought in my willingnesse of spirit though corporeall weakenesse as you know not to be behind hand in acting my part according to my place profession discharging my conscience my calling alwayes in judgement practise approving delighting in as desiring that best of Musicks the harmony and wished correspondencie betwixt Moses and Aaron David Nathan Salomon Zadocke the sword word the Magistracie Ministery powers Civill Ecclesiasticall for the performance of any good worke Morall Polliticall or Religious of pietie towards God of Charitie or Christianitie towards man In which golden yoke as you Sir h Apostrophe to the Soveraigne have begunne to draw that are as this yeare our Annuall Soveraigne subordinate to three other soveraignes as I tould you when you were installed in your place First to God the soveraigne Monarch of heaven and earth by whom Kings i Prover 8.15 Raigne from whose ordinance is all rule authority all superioritie k Rom. 13.1.2 subordination in all conditions Secondly the Kings Majestie the Lords high Steward Vicegerent over us our terrestriall l Psal 82.2 1.6 God Thirdly to the R. Ho. Richard Lord Boyle the Earle of Corke the prop of these parts our best m De harmonia Politica Arist lib. 8 politic cap. 3. states-Musitian under his Majestie to tune all right what 's disioynted luctaite our n Quomodo conveniunt Medicus Minister Magistratus vide apud Berchorium in suo reducterio Morali lib. 4. cap. 28. pag. 106. 107. 10● stats-physitian to purge out our worst humors and preserue us in sound loyaltie to our Prince love unitie amongst our selves as our whole countrie who findes the sweetnesse of his prudencie prouidence so improued in publike priuat for the peace prosperity of all in generall of euery one in particular cannot but subscribe unto acknowledge unlesse blinded by papisticall prejudice or possest with that hellish Hagge the Devils eldest daughter Enuie or his grand-childe detraction I say as you even already haue by your bounty prouidence circumspection giuen some good glimpses promissing prologues of your succeeding gouernment so all that I will recommend unto you at this time for incouragment or further direction is this Perge pede quo coepisti Spartā quam nactus es hāc orna I bone virtus quo te tua vocat I pede fausto goe forward as you haue begun do not extremo actu deficere faile not in your last part for the o Finis honum convertuntur end is the perfection of euery worke both morall spirituall The praise the palme of euery race that 's atcheiued whether performed by man or beast horse or greyhound is not onely speed of the hand then to lagge and dragge in the midst but truth to hold out to the end though the course be lōg strong It 's nothing for a new Beesome to sweepe ●●eane for a new knife to cut sharpe for a new seruant to be industrious for a new Bride to be louing whilst it is honie Moone for a people to be new fangled of a new preacher as the Iewes were of Iohn the p Math. 3.5 Luke 3.7 8 Baptist as children are of flowers after to throw them away reject them as the Iewes did q 1. Sam. 8.5 Samuel r Ierem. 18.18 Ieremie yea to hang head them if they could as Herod did with ſ Mark 6.20.27 Iohn I could apply this to the Magistracie but verbū sat c. a word a winke is enough to the wise Continuance perseverance crow●es euery action therefore let your last workes be better still then the t Revel 2.19 first as Aleinious Garden let your last fruites rellish the ripest the sweetest reserue your best Wine for you last u Vt apud Iohn cap. 2.10 feast use aright those fasces w Apud Livill Fenestellam magistratus those rods of rule fetcht from the Romanes those worthy Patriots famoused by all writers Vse aright as I publikely prescribed you those ●ods of beautie and of x Zeh 11.7 bands in the right mixture of ●●●thie and justice as of white and red in the damaske Rose I will not give you now Cramba bis cocta Coleworts twice sod only thus much Vindicate Gods glory upon Drunkards Swearers Idolaters profaners of the Saboth chiefly against these Cormorants or Cornvorants that forest all the Markets inhaūce the price of Corne in grosse and so purloine from the poore so the bellies of the poore shall blesse you as they did y ●●b 29.13 Iob. Stand for God aswell as for Cesar as did z Exod. 32 v. 29 Levit. 9.23 24 Numb 14.39.40 41. vers Moses a Nehem. 6 ve 10.11 chap. 13. v. 11.25.17 Nehemiah David Iosiah in Scripture Iustinian Gratian the two Theodosij Cōstātine in histories in whose glasses see your own faces knowing that a Governour must bee custos utriusque Tabulae having oculum cum Sceptro an Eagles eye a Lions heart to spie redresse and remove at least the mulcts reprove sinnes both against God and man in the breach of the first and second Table otherwayes as in the Church familie so in Cities Corporations in the common-wealth the sins of inferiours untutored unpunished not corrected are set upon the score of the Superiors as the sinnes of Elies sonnes were the taxations of Eli the b 1. Sam. 2.29 father as indeede if the garden be overgrowen with weedes the Corne with Tares wher 's the fault but in the Gardiner and in the Husbandman But hoping that you and all that shall succed you here in the Magistracie as we in the Ministery and Masters in Families will have a care on the mayne chance to wash your hands not in hypocrisie as c Math. 27.28 Pilate but in sinceritie as once d Act. 20.26 Paul free from bloud of all men in Gods great day of retribution I rest To all and every one of you even in that nature you are to me and to my Ministerie affected Stephen Ierome TO THE INGENIOVS INGEnuous Iudicious and well affected Reader FOr to such I purposely write as my Leaves and Lines come from such so they tend and bend as to their right Center to such a spirit such lettice such lippes to such if to such anie needes I satisfactorily apologize that if ever the Proverbes proved true that

take tythes yet their Children forsooth must play the Vicars to say Grace and give thankes Not that I absolutely condemne it as unlawfull for Children to be by degrees trayned to this taske when by Catechizing in the groundes of Religion they come to exceede Parrats by understanding what they say or that I denie but that at their owne repasts and meales they are to be taught to give thankes even as to pray when they rise and lye downe as Abell from s gen 4.4 Adam Sem and Iaphet from t gen 8.20 Noah Isaac from u gen 22.7.8 Abraham were taught how to sacrifice Timothy taught from his Mother and w 2 tim 1.5 3. vers 15. grandmother as was Constantine x Apud Eusebium in vita Constantini of his mother Hellen Or I denie not but that they at the same time the same Table may give thanks when their parents or tutors precede and begin first then I praesequar they may well follow as the little Cock-boat swimes in the same streame after the great Ship and the little tantling Bell that rings sometimes after the great Bow-bels in some Church or Cathedrall But for the Father to take all the burthen from his owne shoulders and to lay it on the Childes as to take the Saddle ftom a strong Stallion and set it on a young Colt to make his Childe his Atturney for him in Gods service as though he were ashamed to doe what David our Saviour y Luke 9.16 Christ the z Vt antea ch 1 sect 1. Apostles did in their owne persons is not onely a breach of the a deut 8. v. 10. Commandement that the greater shall blesse the b hebr 7. v. 7. lesser as Melchisedech did c gen 14.19 Abraham and Iacob his d gen 49. Sonne but shewes a dead or a profane heart and a maine a vaine contempt of God So for another dutie Family-prayer singing of Psalmes praysing of God practised by the e 2 Sam. 6.20 Saints injoyned as the observation of some penall Statutes by the denuntion of a great and greivous f Ier. 10. v. 25. curse an Anathema as terrible as the Thunder or thunder-bolt which hangs over that house and family where God is not invocated even as the naked sword of Dyonisius did hang over the head of that flattering Damocles yea as the cloud of fire and brimstone over Sodom and Gomorrah as sure to fall one time or other unlesse prevented by practicall repentance as that flying booke of g Zaec 5. v. 1.2.3 vengeance shall fall and hath falne as histories and experience relate upon the h He that reads the Theater of Gods iudgmēts in 40. M Perk. of the Gouernmēt of the tongue in fine M. Knewstubs his abuses of Engl. M. Foxe in diverse passages his abridgemēt of the ends of blaspemous persecutors Minerius Ioh. de Roma Eccius Laton Bomel Card. Cres fol. 380. 382. 383 Lonicer in his examples in 3. praecep The histories of our time in 4. p. 319 320. 321. 322. 323. shall see gods heavy hād on blasphemers persons and places where God is blasphemed even as sure as the Chamber called Ierusalem fell on the head of that Nicromanticall Sylvester and as Dagons house hath now twice falne on the heads of Idolatrous Philistines I say even this dutie how many eyther wholly unholily pretermit it or post it off to their servants prentices Iourneymen deputies atturneys they must pray for them the inferior must be the mouth of the superior the man must be the tongue of his master by reading or praying or as they call it saying a few prayers Morning and Evening directly against that Apostolicall Canon Hebr. 7. vers 7. thus making an Historon proteron of all Religion Others againe are so proud or so profane that wanting the spirit of i zach 12.10 Rom. 8. v. 26. praier the Heart or Art to pray they onely desire others to pray for them some good man or Preacher as Pharaoh intreates Moses and k Exod. 8.8 c. 8 2● Aaron Simon Magus requests l Act. 8.24 Peter to pray for them but for themselves they have joynts unlike the m Elephāt enim Regē adorant genua submittunt ceronas porrigū test Plin. l. 8. c. 1 Arist lib. 9. c. 46. Albert. l. 8. tract 5. c. 2. et Aelian hist. l. 13. c. 22. Hi autē profani gennua non flectunt Psal 14. v. 4. An Ovidean or Virgilean fiction or Pythagorean dreame as Master Perkins drawes Purgatories pedegree in his Problemes Elephant that cannot bow hearts like Gaddes of steele that cannot bend tongues and speake not as Idols the mute or dumbe Divell is in them as in some unpreaching Ministers they pray not for themselves they will not they cannot Others againe more foolishly and preposterously trust all to the prayers dirges and suffrages of others when they are departed to sing and bring them out of their Europaean purgatory indeed reall hell as though they hoped a Physitians physicke should revive them after death These are as preposterous in theyr prayers as those that thinke to satisfie for all their usuries and extortions by almes and elymosinarie workes after their death by their executors I would not be mistaken I know its lawfull to desire the prayers of others as Paul did of all the n Col. 4.3 1. Thes 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 Churches as Ezeckiah did from o 2. King 19.2 Esaiah as Esther desired the prayers of p Est 4.10 Mardocheus and the Iewes Daniell of his three q Dan. 2.17.18 Companions and so Luther Calvin Grineus the Martyrs Ridley Latimer Bradley intreat the mutuall prayers of their friends in their zealous Letters I know also its lawfull laudable for noble men to have their Chaplaines for Preaching Praying in their families their Nathans their Levites may be imployed yet so as high and low great and small every Individuum that will be saved must with David personally worship God as the Scriptures injone duties particularly and r Act. 2.22 Heb. 3.12 4. 1. Esa 55.1 Psal 2.10 11. 148.10 11 12. personally CHAP. III. David prayseth God publickly THirdly let it not passe our animadversion that David doth not only praise his God religiously piously personally but also publickly before all the Congregation of Israel He is not ashamed to serve that God before all Israel that in the sight of Israel of the Sun had so served his turnes needs saved preserved him in his exigents dangers by so many severall meanes improving his power his justice his peculiar speciall providence so oft for Davids deliverances and his enemies destruction or at least distractions seeing God so marvellously so miraculously fight for David as oft before in the dayes of Moses and Deborah he fought for Israel against a Exod. 17.11 Amaleck Moab and b Iudg. 5.20 Iabin for Constantine

the like according to his travails and desires that all those differences divisions contentions betwixt Prelacie and Presbetery in our English Israel about blacke and white and square and round and sitting and kneeling with such ceremonies so hotly controverted by the tongues and pennes of so many zealists on both sides pro contra in our Churches Pulpits Houses and private as sometimes publicke Tables that all this might meete as right drawne lines in one Center of x Read the extant Treatises of our moderate Cassanders as D. Sparkes M. Sprint M. As●aew his brotherly reconcilement peace that as wee agree in doctrine with all reformed Churches notwithstanding all papisticall cavils calumnies to the contrarie so we might agree also in discipline in the circumstances as well as in the substance of Religion not dissenting in the colour forme or fashion shape lace of the garment when wee consent in the choyce goodnesse of the cloath Oh that as we professe confesse one God the father of all one Christ the redeemer of all one * Eph. 4 4.5 Spirit the sanctifier of all the Elect yea one Faith one Baptisme one Hope one Life one way to this life as one Sunne but one Soule in man one y De Phoenice etiamsi multi dubitant asserūt tamen Mela li. 3. cap. 4 Herod li. 2. c. 5. Solin c. 35. Imo describit Ruffinus enpos Symbol Isodor li. 12. c. 7. Aug. ser 18 allegantur etiam quaedam in Concil Aquisg c. 112 113 Phoenix in the world c. so that wee would as one in one minde by one z Psalm 3.16 rule worship this God in a Iohn 4.24 Spirit in truth in unitie in uniformitie of judgement and affections And surely this harmonie I desire to see to heare as earnestly as Augustine desired in his time a Timothy or Paul againe in the b Augustin desired to see Christum in carne Paulum tonitruantem Pulpit to effect with best mentall musicke Oh that those strings what ever they be which are put out of Tune would come up to these that are in Tune yea if I may speake it without offence to God or man as Paul in some cases wisht himselfe cut c Rom 9.3 off and Moses his name blotted out of the booke of d Exod. 32.32 life for the zeale of Israel I wish even my mummiamized earth and dead ashes might quench at last these unnaturall flames and fires in our English Church about these adiaphora these indifferent * Adiaphorists things as they are call'd that like Aetna that Vetruvius the f●ogges smoaks of scandals offences might no more breake out to the choaking smothering of the unsetled ignorant unstable But as was the meditation once of * D. Hall our English Seneca in his meditations quem honoris causa nomino another I feare as the e De mirabili amore Pellicani sanguine proprio pulloi resusscitatis Aelian lib. 15. Vincent libr. 16. cap. 127. Et applicant ad Christum Aug. enarrat in Psal 101. Gregor in Psalm 6. Pellican in love to her young about whose nest the Indian shepheards make fires thinking to quench the flames doth but scorch her owne wings by which shee is taken so in too much intermedling by the scorching tongues of censure I prejudice my selfe without profiting the publike cause Therfore stearing from these rockes I desire to reflect upon this meditation That all are here well affected to God the King all thankefull for mercies all worshippers all sacrificers There was not one notified specified Cham in the Arke not one Iudas amongst these docibles if not Disciples not one at this feast without the wedding * Math. 22.11 garment not a Tobiah and Sanballat that counterfeited their helpe to the Temples * Neh 4.1.2.3 building not a Sheba not an Achitophell not a Popish Kerne not a rebellious spirit amongst them all not a Corab or g Numb 16.12.13 a Dathan in this goodly we may hope godly Congregation despising h Iude vers 8. governement resisting authority not a tongue wagges as in former times We have no parte in the Sonne of i 2. Sam 20.1 Isai shall this man raigne over k 1. Sam. 10.27 us to thy Tents oh Israel not one that preferred a forraine Bramble l Iudges 9.15 before their owne Cedar not a man of them Iesuited but if the oath of allegeance had beene put to them would have subscribed with heart and hand not one Recusant amongst all these that refused in the same religious maner to worship God as his King worshipped not an infected sheepe amongst all this flocke not a string out of Tune in all this musicall * Multitude is eyther an instrument Musicall or that Bellua multorum capitum multitude not a contradicting superstitious Cananite an Idolatrous Egyptian amongst all these Israelites but all of them for as much as man could judge with one heart voice and spirit as the rushing of so many waters as the sound of so many Trumpets as the noyse of so manie Cornets so many Cymbals and loud Cymbals with united spirits as Organs and instruments of Gods glory rightly tuned resonate and resound the prayses of the Almightie Oh that I might be an auditor a spectator of such mentall Musicke in these dayes Many musicall men have writ m Boetius lib. 5. Musices c. 1. Glareamus li. 1. Dodechacordon c. 1. Athan. libr. 14. Dipnos cap. 5. cap. 14. Iulius Pollux libr. 4. Onomast cap. 8. 9.10.11 c. ●elius Rhodig Antiq lect lib 5. cap 23 25.26 Ottom Luscivius libr. 1. Musurgia Plato lib. 3. de Rep diversas numerans Musicae species variaque instrumentorū genera very curiously and exactly of the varieties excellencies and excellent effects of n De admiranda vi Musices cōs●●●e Arist. Iob. 8. polit 5. Plato dial 6. de Legibus Galenum li. 3. cap. 5 de M●pocrate Amatum lib. 2. in Dis or ● 50 Gellium noct Attie lib. 1. cap. 10. Atheneum li. 14. Di●nos c. 11. lib. 1 c. 7. Infistento in Ter●●dro Thaleto pheo Amphion in Cythar Agamemnon Musicke and have distinguished it into Vocall Instrumentall Lidian Doricke Naturall Artificiall Elementary Celestiall Regular Choreall Gregorean Figurall Mensurall disputing about the preheminence of one of these before another most preferring vocall which they call solemnization before instrumentall But for my part as much as I preferre the Soule before the bodie I preferre the musicke of soules and spirit uno animo una voce with one unanimous concord consent rightly tuned in the best key by the finger of the spirit with holy hearts rather thē musicall Harps singing as once the Angels and the Bethelem o Luk 2 14 Shepheards Moses p Exod. 14 Miriam Augustine q They are said to be the Authors of that holy hymne which call Te Deum

authore● apud Maiol col 23. tit morabilia pag. 703. house and other proude and ambitious spirits erected monuments and memorials to the glorie of their owne names So in the fifteenth of Exodus wee have Moses Aron Miriam and all the Elders and people of Israell triunphing and gratulatorie rejoycing before the Lord as wee this day for the preservation reservation of our King and Prince for their safe eduction out of Egypt reduction from tyrannizing Phraoh production and protection thorow the red Sea which was to them a walking garden to their enemies a devouring grave In the 33. of Genesis we have the same Moses when he had received the gracious summons of his blessed dissolution as a second Simeon singing his Cygnean and Swan-like y Cantater Cygnus funeris ipse sui song blessing the Lord and the thousands of Israell in their severall Tribes the people of the Lord. To proceede in the first of Samuell Chap. 2. wee have that devout Annaes gratulatory song for her Samuell as Bathshebaes z Prove 31. v. 2. Lamuell the sonne of her desires yea in his corporeall birth as Augustine was to his mother Monica in his spirituall the sonne of her a Vt olim Ambr. Monica de Aug. Manicheo c. non potest perire filius tātarū praecum lâchrymarum prayers and of her b 1. Sam. 1.13 vers 26.27 teares So in the fifth of Iudges wee have Deborah and Baruch and all Israell tripudiating and triumphing before the Lord of Hostes the God of Battles for the overthrow of the Troupes of Iabin and Sisera whom the river Kishon swept away yea that ancient river the river c Iudg. 5.20.21 Kishon the starres also fighting from heaven as once the Sea for our English Eliza and for a Brittaine Drake that gave an overturne to a swelling Dragon as once also for Theodose the like as the Sunne too for Ioshuah So in the first of Kings Chap. 3. vers 6.7 when God appeared unto Salomon in Gibeon as he sacrificed before the Lord as a prologue to his fervent prayer for a wise and understanding heart he first thankefully acknowledgeth the unspeakeable mercie of God to his Father David as also by a corollary and consequence unto himselfe and not to enumerate all particulars which are infinite for this our David besides the Booke of the Psalmes which are in their golden chayned linckes continuated prayses as one cals the very lives of just men like the almes of d Act. 10.1.2 Cornelius if seasoned with grace and not soyled with sinnes perpetuall e Bona vita perpetuae preces prayers So in the second of Samuell Chap. 7. vers 18.19.20.21 c. omitting all other places to fixe on this when God sends to David by Nathan the acceptance as in Abrahams sacrificing of f Gen. 22.16 17 Isaac and in the desires of all his Saints and Servants of his will for the g 2. Cor. 8.12 worke his h Respicit Deus affectum cordis pro affectu operis August affection for the action in building of the Temple reiterating and renuing many large and loving promises concerning Salomon his sonne in what privacie and neerenesse he should be to God even as a sonne is to a father David upon this Embassage as a second Niobe melting and dissolving his heart wholly liquifying as waxe and Ice before the Sunne of these mercies in the most zealous and fervent expressions of his soule as fire breaking out long smothered in the soliloquies of his soule such as wee reade proceeding from Augustine Bernard Basill and other zealous spirits in imitation of David hee thus bespeakes his God Who am I Lord and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto and this was yet a small thing O Lord God but thou hast spoken also of thy servants house for a great while to come and is this the manner of man O Lord God and so goes forward to the end everie word having an emphasis every phrase as is said of the Epistles of i Referunt pectus ardore pleum Cyprian shewing a heart brimfull of grace of gratitude So come to the new Testament indited by the same spirit what ere the blaspemous Manichees blatter to the k Contra Manicheos praeter August Patres erudite scripsit Granatensis in suo symbolo Bernardinus de Bustis in concionibus postillis in quarto in Initio libri pen● contrary the Saints pertaking of the same grace have expressed the same in their gratulations To begin with Simeon he had no sooner Christ that expected incarnate Shiloh in his armes as his spirit in his heart but he breathes out his gratulatorie blessing blessed Nunc l Luke 2 28.29 dimittis So Zachary being long strucke m Luke 1.20 dumbe as the fruite of his incredulitie had no sooner his imprisoned tongue unjaled but he improves the first fruites of his speach to Gods n Luke 1.63.64 65. prayse darting out as a pellet out of a Gun in the suddaine flashes of the spirit the inward conceptions of his soule by the outward modulations of his mouth I might instance in that o Luke ● 36 Anna in the two best mothers of the two best sonnes that ever were borne of woman the Virgin mother Mary and her cousin Elizabeth who visiting one another in the most warrantable journyes not gadding to a trotters feast as our common Gossups and for the best ends not to tattle and talke and prattle and prate like Parrats and jangle like jayes and chatt like Dawes and Pyes on this subject and that abject not to calumniate and vilipend the absent but to comfort and corroborate one another in the mercies of God at first incounter as two instruments rightly tuned in the best key by the finger of the spirit in a holy and heavenly harmonious melodie resonate and resound the prayses of p Luke 1.42.45 46.47 God as did also all the rest which looked for and expected the now exhibited Patriarke-promised prefigured Messias the consolation of Israel which pretermitting without further inlarging view the Apostle Paul the inspired Doctor of the Gentiles and wee shall see that as hee had as holy and as sanctified a heart except his crucified Master as ever was inclosed and included in a body of flesh he hath as so many Epistles yea in some places as so many leaves and lines so many breathings yea breaking out and eructations in the prayses of God Yea in every q Rom. 1.8 Rom. 16.27 1. Cor. 1.4 2. Cor. 1.3 Ephes 1. v. 3 Phil. 3. v. 20. Col. 1.3 1. Thes 1.2 2. Thes 1 3. 2. Tim. 1.3 Epistle it 's observable that the Alpha and Omega the beginning and end of it is prayer and prayse oftimes both in the antecedent and concluding consequent the subject or matter of which petitions and thankesgivings being the happy successe of the Word the propagation of the

pag. 26.27.28.29 ●● 49. c. Religion is in vaine And know further what I have heretofore more inlarged that a man begins eyther his heaven or hell in this q Hic vita aeterna tenetur a●● amutitur life Here he is in the suburbs of one of the two of Saint Augustines r Aug. de 〈◊〉 vit Cities eyther Ierusalem which is ſ Gal. 4.26 above or Sodom whcih is here below Here by grace a man hath Charter and interest after liverie seisure and possession of glorie Here it 's easily seene which way he walkes even by what he t Loquere ●t t● videam Socrates ad Ephebum quendam talkes A man neede not wish with Momus a window into a mans heart let him looke into his mouth there he hath the best prognosticatum of his minde as the un●erring truth it selfe hath u Math. 12. ver 32.33.34.35.36 determined Figges never grew from Thistles nor Grapes of * Iam. 3.12 Thornes nor sweete streames ever came from a poysoned corrupted w Iam. 3.11 fountaine let us make the inside cleane then all is cleane So shall we be able in earth as the Angels in heaven in sinceritie without hypocrisie in filiall love not in servile feare incident to the x Iam. 2.19 Devills and reprobates with purged and in good measure purified spirits even here on earth inchoatively and after in heaven perfectly to make one Quyre with the Angelicall spirits to the ever blessing and praysing the God of spirits SECT II. I Doe not denie indeede but a wicked and a gracelesse man may sometimes speake good wordes not onely savouring of Morall wisedome of experience and deepe observance as the sentences sayings and Apothegmes of Socrates Solon Bia● Thales c. and the Greeke and the Romane y Recorded by Valerius Maximus Diogenes Laertius Brusonius Lycosthenes and others Sages yea the expostulations of z 2. King 9.31 Iezabell with Iehu the disswasives of a 2 Sam. 24 3. Ioab to David the speaches of some even of the unbeleeving b Iohn 7.40.46 Iewes the censure of Gamahel concerning c Act. 5.35.36 Paul the counsell of Pilates wife concerning d Math. 27.19 Christ which many such specialties doe demonstrate but he may speake wordes even in outward shew and appearance savouring relishing of grace as appeares in Balaams e Num. 23.10 wish Agrippaes f Act. 26.28 flash the first to die the second to be a true Christian besides the Pharisees g Luk. 18.11 prayer the foolish Virgins crying h Matth. 25.11 Lord Lord the carnall Iewes desiring the i I●hn 6.34 bread the adulterous Samaritane desiring the waters of k Iohn 4.15 life with many moe It cannot be denied also but the best men may sometimes speake wordes at first blush savouring of a carnall spirit such as have hardly the prints and impression of grace as appeares in Abrahams l Genes 12.13 simulation or dissimulation Ioseph his swearing by the life of m Gen 42.15 Pharaoh Eves tempting of n Genes 3 6. Adam Iudahs solliciting of his incestuous o Genes 38.16 Thamar Davids murtherous vow against p 1. Sam 25.22 Naball his folly in commanding his people to bee q 2. Sam. 24.1.2 numbered his bloudie jussion in the slaughter of r 2. Sam. 11.15 Vria● his unjust verdict against ſ 2. Sam. 16.4 Mephibosheth in Peters t Math. 26. Luk. 23. deniall his disswasion of Christs u Math. 16.22 passion the culpable request of Iames and w Mark 10.35 Iohn the incredulitie of Saint x Iohn 20.25 Thomas with many moe verifying that of Saint y Iames. 3.2 Iames that he is a perfect man indeede which offends not with his tongue yet neverthelesse that is true in Divinitie which the eternall truth hath revealed that wordes justifie or z Math. 12.37 condemne that the mouth speakes the man eyther good or bad as it eyther blesseth or blasphemeth God or a Iames. 3 9. man For first this is to be presupposed that usually the just pure have pure b Proverbs words their hearts their consciences and their spirits being c Titus 1. v. 15. pure Abraham prayes for d Genes 18.25 Sodom for Ismael e Genes 17.18 Isaac for f Gen. 25 2●● Rebeca Moses blesseth the children of g Deut. 33.1 Israell Iacob blesseth his h Genes 49. 48.15 sonnes and the sonnes of i Gen. 48.20 Ioseph Samuel and Ioshuah exhort to the service of the true k 1. Sam. 12.13 Ioshuah 24. God Lot exhorts the l Genes 19 7. Sodomites Boaz comforts m Ruth 2.11.12 Ruth Eli reproves his n 1 Sam. 2.23 sonnes Gideon pleades against o Iudg 6 31.32 Baall the Prophets pray and prophecie the Disciples preach all that looked for the consolation of Israell blesse with Zachary the God of Israell for the incarnation and exhibition of Iacobs Shiloh the promised Messias as David cals his tongue his p In psalmi● glory So all the godly have made doe make except in some temptation or the breaking out of hereditary sinful corruption their tongues organs and instruments of the glory of God as againe the wicked when they speake usually unlesse when they faine and straine to the contrarie pronouncing Parrat-like such wordes of which they have no feeling against the heart and against the haire coldly comming from them as from sicke men or are over ruled by a speciall hand as q Numb 23.5 Balaam and r Iohn 18.14 Cayphas in his prophesie Pharaoh Neco in that which hee told ſ 2. Chro. 35.21 Iosias or out of common gifts as Iudas in his preaching Saul in his t 1. Sam. 10.6 prophecying the wise men amongst the Heathens from Morall Philosophie or the verie Ethickes of nature I say usually except in these specified cases when the wicked speake their wordes speake them wicked even as what bitter streames the fountaine sends forth these streames speake the fountaine no better then bitter since nemo dat quod non habet none can give what he hath not or shew better stuffe then he hath within him the mouth of a good man being as the opening of heaven which never opened but there was alwayes some remarkeable good thing happened as eyther Christ u Act. 1.11 ascending or the spirit w Iohn 2.32 descending or the like the mouth of a wicked man being as the opening of hell out of which never proceeded as into which never entred ever ought that good was or it is as the opening of the Tryoan Horse in which were armed Greekes fatall to Ilium or as the opening of Pandoras boxe out of which flew all leprosies and diseases or as the opening of Curtius his gulfe of the Sicilian x Plin. lib. 2. cap 106. August de Civit. Dei lib. 3. cap. 31. Aetna or that

o 2. King 2.11 Elias in the fiery chariot of zeale that we could strive even in this life to enter at least the suburbs of the heavenly Citie that we had our p Phil. 3.20 conversation even in Heaven our Heaven begun here on earth Sursum corda that being risen with q Collos 3.1.2 Christ we might seeke those things that are above placing and planting our affections not on things in earth but on things in heaven that we could send our hearts as the Disciples their hearts and r Act. 1.11.12 eyes after Christ that is ascended that ſ A man in his incarnation a Lambe in his passion a Lion in his resurrection an Eagle in his ascension Eagle high mounted at least that we could soare up to his Crosse in Golgotha in the meditation of his passion not to breede compassion towards him who now from suffrings is entred into t Luk. 24.26 glorie as the superstitious Fryers as may be seene in u In his mount Calvarie Guevara Lodowicke de w In his Soliloquies grounded from severall Gospels Ponte and x His meditations Granado c. make that the chiefe end of their mentall meditations of his sufferings and of their Idolatrous crucifixes but to resolve to suffer with him that we may be glorified with him to feele the power of his death to die to sin the power of his y Rom. 6.8.9.10 resurrection to rise againe to newnesse of life to blesse and prayse the z Apoc. 5.9 Lambe because he hath redeemed us from all the nations and kingdomes and kinreds of the earth If for this end we tract and trace our incarnate crucified saviour from Ierusalem to a Matth. 27 Luk. 23. Marke 15. Iohn 19. Golgotha with his sword pierced weeping mother the dolefull daughters of Ierusalem Ioseph of Arimathea and the Centurion and for this end looke upon him whom our sinnes have b Zach. 12.10 pierced with the Eagle eye of our faith as the Antitype of the Brazen Serpent whom Moses erected in the c Numb 21.9 Iohn 3.14.15 wildernesse looking on him also in the glasse of the Gospell where we may see him as the Apostle of the Gentiles tels the convert Corinthians even crucified amongst us if by this sight of him we can get unto him by saving d Iohn 1● 3 knowledge into him by e Epi●● 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Io●● 15.4 him by the sappe of the spirit we make a blessed speculation of his passion Oh that besides the fruite of his passion we could get here some glimpse of his transfiguration a true type of his glorification some glimmering and reflection of the heavenly Canaan as Moses a perfect view and Synopsis of the g Deut. 34.1.2.3 earthly here seeke some glimpse of heavenly light as the prisoner the gleames or beames of the Sunne through some crannie in the walle or doore or key-hole through the vaile of thy flesh as the spouse in the Canticles that had a glimpse of her h Cant. 5.4.5.6 welbeloved looking through the hole of the doore and her heart was affectioned to him Here in thy greatest pressures of bodie soule and spirit get some refection by reflection with that primitive Protomartyre i Act. 7.56 Stephen and the rapt k 2. Cor. 12.4 Apostle on Christ crucified and glorified and of the glorie of Christ prepared purchased layd up as revealed Here get some warmth and heate in your hearts as the Apostles and the two disciples that went to l Luk. 24.32 Emaus by oft talking communing with Christ by the word and m Oratio oris ratio vel colloquium cum Deo Isidore prayer by that meanes receiving from Christ that best new-yeares gift that love token promised by Christ to all his n Iohn 14.17.18.19 elect exhibited as once in the o Act. 2.3 forme ever in the effects of p The Spirit like fire c. 1. Illuminates with knowledg 2. Heates with zeale and love 3. Mollifies the heart 4. Causeth sparkes of praier 5. Purgeth drosse of sinne 6. Purifies the heart 7. Changeth with what it meetes with in to it owne nature Geminianus in summa exemplorii similit fire Oh that we could breake off companie and societie with man chiefly wicked men so much as our callings and charge to be discharged will permit that in our meditations and soule Soliloquies in innitiation of Saint Augustine Bernard Anselme and other heavenly minded men we might be more conversant with God Oh why doe wee not retire our selves as q Genes 24.63 Isaac into the fields as Augustine and Alixius into the r Libro Confessionum related fully and applied in Parsons Resolution orchard as Ioseph of Arimathea into our ſ Iohn 19 41. Garden or immure our selves according to Christs t Math. 6. vers 6. precept and his Virgin u Luk. 1.28 mothers practise into our private closet or chamber for some sequestrated time there to meditate of the mercies of God of the merits of Christ of the priviledges of grace of the Christians dignitie of the joyes of a better life c there to exhilerate our selves according to the Apostolicall counsell and command and according to the president set us in my Text by David and his nobles to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord more then the carnalists and the moralists of our times in their Corne and Wine and Oyle w Psal 4.7 increased more then Laban in his x Gen. 29.2 sheepe Naball in his y 1. Sam. 25.36 feast Balthezar in his z Dan. 5.2 drinke Herod in his a Mark 6.17 Herodias Saul in his b 1 Sam. 16.16 23. Harpe Nero in his c Suet●nius in Nerone qualis artifex pereo Musicke the carnall Iewes in their d Amos. 6. v. 6. Minstrelsie then the Philistines in their e Iudges 16.23 Dagon and madding mirth or any other licentious libertines in their luxurious and sabaritish delights Oh why doe wee not retire and sequestrate our soules our thoughts our actions our affections from all carnall delights desires more fully more freely to converse with God setting times a part even for the verie nonce to prayse God as did f Psal 55.17 David as Daniel did for g Daniel 6.10 prayer arising with that man after Gods owne heart even at midnight to give thankes unto the Lord Oh that my wordes like spurres and goads like the pricke under the Nightingals breast that is said to awaken her in the night from sleeping to singing might excite and stirre you to this neglected and too much pretermitted dutie And for this purpose I wish we might here use this world as though we used it not as the Marriner the Seas and his Ship as the Souldier his armes as the traveller his Inne as the Student his

many specialties the Lord hath come neerer unto us then ever to them and hath beene as a kinde father both more liberall in his portion of blessings and more indulgent in sparing pitying our sinnes and delinquences and first for the largenesse of his mercies wee receive as Isaac from t Gen. 25. v. 5.6 Abraham as Ioseph from u Gen. 48.22 Iacob as Benjamin from w Gen. 43.34 Ioseph a double yea a trible portion as it were wee seeme Iacob like even to carrie away the x Gen. 25.32 33 blessing and the y Gen. 27.30 birth-right too from them and that in these specialties both of temporall and spirituall blessings in mercies of adornation and preservation as they come to hand with pretermission of innumerable moe To begin with the best first To them God gave the law in the hand of z Gal. 3.19 a mediator to us he gave the Gospell by the mediation of a Luke 2.9.13.14 Angels now in how many degrees the Sun exceedes the Moone our Messias exceedes their Moses our Iesus their Ioshuah our High Priest their * Heb. 7. Heb. 8. Heb. 9. per totum sic Hebr. 10.10.11 12.13 c. Aron the bloudy one and onely propitiatorie sacrifice of his bodie the Annuall sacrifices of their high Priests the Typicall sacrifices of their beastes and Bullockes our Heaven their Canaan so farre our Gospell which is a quickening spirit exceeds their law which without Christ is but a killing Letter To them indeede saith the Apostle were the holy Oracles committed they had the Law and the Testament Moses and the Prophets but wee have the Gospell more plainely more perspicuously then ever they had I denie not indeede but in their Law there was the Gospell included besides personall Types in their Ceremoniall law Christ was shaddowed b See the li●tle Booke called Moses unvailed prefigured and in their severall oblations of all sorts typified and represented as hee was promised to c Genes 3.15 Adam the promise renued to d Gen. 12.3 Abraham and the e Gen. 28.14 Patriarkes and prophecied of by all the Prophets from Moses to f Deut. 18. ●5 Malachy so in their severall ages and generations he was expected to be exhibited by all that looked for the consolation of Israell longed for desired that hee would breake the heavens and come g Esay 44.1 downe as they strongly beleeved that he should come Hence according to Theologie the Patriarkes and Prophets before and under the Law in the Old Testament were saved by beleeving that Iacobs i Gen. 49.10 Shiloh the promised Messias should come as we now in the times of grace are saved by beleeving that hee is come there being but one k Ephes 4 5. Christ but one faith as but one Sunne to the world both to Iew and Gentile one * Acts 4.12 Act. 10.43 Acts 13.39 Rom. 10.4 Gal 3.22 meanes of life and grace to all that are justified sanctified and saved Hence Christ is sayd to be that Agnus occisus in Gods decree and infallible promise that Lambe of l Iohn 1.26 God slaine from the beginning of the world to take away the sinnes of the whole l Iohn 1.26 world of the elect as m Rom. 11.12.15 2. Cor. 5.19 Iohn 1.2 v. 2. Scriptures and n Distinguit Augustinus inter mundum electorum ● damnatorum Tract 87. in Iohannem sic per mundum intelligitur sol●● modo mundus credentium per Rupertum in Iohannem lib. 3.5 3. Et Commēs in 2. Corinth 5. mundus regenerationum pro quibus Christus mortuus per Augustinum serm 20 serm 44. serm 109. de verbis Apostoli per Haimonem in Rom. 5. per Prosperum libr. 1. Re●p pro Augustin obqui De quo vide plura apud Augustinum de corrupt gratia cap. 12. Tract in Iohan. 2.77 K●midentium de R●demptione Perkinstum de Praedestinatione fathers limit that universall Hence also is the Theologicall axiome that Christ who is the verie end of the Law to which it points as once Iohn the Baptist as the hand in the Dyall pointes to the Sunne and to which as a sharpe Schoole-master it o Gal. 3 24. drives and directs that this Christ is typified in the Old p Christus in Veteri Testamento velatus in Novo revelatus libricus in Clavi script Testament and revealed in the New Hence it is also that Abraham and so consequently all the beleeving Patriarkes the sonnes of Abraham by faith is said to have seene the day of Christ and to have rejoyced But how was Christ seene darkely obscurely as under a vaile as the prisoner sees the Sunne through a little chincke or grate as the Spouse in the Canticles had a glimpse of her beloved through the hole of the q Cant. 5.4 doore So was Christ seene of them but wee now see him plainely perspicuously as walking amidst the Golden r Revel 2. vers 1. Candlestickes as we see the Sunne in his solstitium or at noone-day in the plaine and powerfull preaching of the Gospell wee see him not duly and deadly as the Papist in a stone or a piece of brasse pictured in a Crosse or Crucifixe Idolatrously worshipped but as Paul tels the Corinthians even crucified as it were amongst us in the plaine evidence of the spirit Therefore saith the same Apostle The Grace of God hath ſ Tit. 2.11.12 appeared this Gospell of grace hath appeared the phrase is observable even as the Sun that peepes and breakes from under and appeares from the obscuring cloude yea the day Starre from an high hath visited us saith t Luke 1.78 Zachary yea light is come into the u Iohn 3.19 vvorld saith hee that is himselfe the w Iohn 1. v. 4.5 life and the light even to inlighten those that like Zebulon and x Luke 1.79 Nepthaly sate in darkenesse and the shadow of death Here is our priviledge above the Iew. Secondly Besides as a Corolarie to this point God at sundry times and in diverse maners spake in time y Hebr. 1. v. 1. past unto these Iewish Fathers by z Iere. 35. v. 15 the Prophets yea and by a Gen. 18.1.2 Genes 19.1.2 Iudg 13. v. 3. Angels too by Oracles by dreames and b Numb 12 7. visions by Vrim and c Exod. 28. v. 30 Thummim but in these last dayes he hath spoken to us by his d Heb. 1. v. 1. Son whom hee hath appointed e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Heire of all things by whom also he made the worlds Thirdly Moreover to them he stirred up temporarie typicall Saviours and Iudges who delivered them out of the hands of those that spoyled them Iudg. 3. vers 16. e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Moses and f Exod. 34.9 Ioshuah and g Iudg. 1.2 Iudah and