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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

thē that she might lick vp the dust of the sanctuary Nor did this seruice flow from a seruile feare but from a filiall loue according to that Ye haue not receiued the spirit of bōdage to feare againe but ye haue receiued the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba father She serued him purely and nothing with him shee serued him onely and nothing beside him she serued him truely and nothing for him but woe is me to tell we are so farre from seruing him that we make our God to serue vs euen in our sinnes according to that of Esay Thou boughtest mee no sweet sauour with money neither hast thou made mee drunke with the fat of thy sacrifice but thou hast made mee to serue with thy sinnes and wearied me with thine iniquities Now come we to the manner how she serued God in the Temple expressed in these words with fasting and prayers Not that she put any merit in the one or in the other but vsed both as meanes to strengthen her faith in the Messias whom after she did confesse and professe And therefore it is said she serued God with them and not merited by them or was iustified through them beeing a seruice it was no desert but a duetie wherein when shee had done all that euer shee could yet was she vnprofitable till she confessed the Lord and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Ierusalem This therefore is the right vse of our prayer and fasting to bee vnto vs as it were bellowes by which our faith in Christ is refreshed and inflamed And it is specially to be obserued that fasting is put in the first place of her seruice to god thereby to teach vs that we must be broken by abstinence ere we cā be well prepared to any good deuotiō For as if you put an eg or chesnut into the fire break it not the heat no sooner cōmeth vnto it but it bursteth leapeth out yet not so if before you put it in you break it neuer so little in the head So may we say of mē presuming to come before the maiesty of their God who is a cōsuming fire if they come vnbrokē fat full and not hūbled with fasting prayer watching they easily leap out of the fire of their deuotions fall away frō heauenly contēplation Not so Pueri illi Babylonici mētioned in Daniel who refused the portion of the Kings meat choose rather to feed vpon pulse They would bee broken with prayer abstinence fasting the rather to abide the fiery furnace out of which they were deliuered So Moses was with God vpon the holy mount forty daies and forty nights without meate or drinke he was broken like a chesnut with abstinēce that he might the rather indure the fire of Gods maiesty So this holy Anna would bee broken like a chesnut with prayer fasting watching in the temple night and day to mortify the flesh that it might not abate the vigor of the spirit in the heat of her deuotions It is therefore expedient my deare brethren that by your abstinence ye keepe vnder the flesh especially in your deuotions and seruice of God and so as you may say with the blessed Apostle whether in the body or out I cannot tell God he knoweth For the flesh is that Eue tempting vs to eate of the forbidden fruit The flesh is Putiphars wife prouoking chaste Ioseph to filthy lust The flesh is that Iael beguiling Sisera with faigned loue to his destruction The flesh is that Dalila who pleasantly tooke Sampson into her bosome and betrayed him vnto the Philistins cut his haire put out his eies and made him a scorne to all the people The flesh is that dancing minion whom nothing could please but the head of Iohn Baptist on a platter Finally the flesh is that dore-keeping damosell Ad cuius vocem Christum negamus at whose voice Peter abiured his Christ and so doe we In regard of all which it stands vs vpon as we loue the saluation of our soules in the seruice of our God that with blessed Anna here and Paul elswhere we beate down our bodies with prayer fasting watching to bring it in subiection to the spirit lest by any meanes after wee haue preached to others wee our selues should bee reproued Night and day Anna her deuotion is here exemplified by circumstance of the time she bestowed in the seruice of God which was both night and day as it is in the text spoken by way of trope not that she euer dwelt in the Temple for how could it be said then that shee came at the same instant vppon them Or that her fastings were such or prayers so many as she had no leisure either to eat in the day or rest in the night for how could she euer then haue come to such maturity and length of dayes But the speech is familiar and meaning such as doth imply from the spirit which spake it that she was frequent in her deuotions and a continual Church commer As we say of him who is a painfull student that he is neuer from his booke nor from the presence of his Master or of him who praieth much we say he is alwayes in prayer Or of him who is a good hearer why such a one is neuer from the Church sermō and sacraments So may it be said of Anna the Prophetesse that she was much in prayer and fasting hoc opus hic labor hoc artificium hoc exercitium it was her worke it was he● labor it was her art it was her exercise When euer any holy thing was performed in the Temple were it in the morning or in the euening Praesto aderat she was euen at hand nor did shee at any time neglect the publick seruice but was still present Holines saith the sweete Singer of Israell becommeth thine house for euer holy saint holy shrine holy God holy people holy temple holy Anna did hallow it night and day with her holy presence prayer and fastings Here learne then by Anna her due deuotion and daily practise of godlines and piety how to frame your selues for the Church holy assembly handle not the holy things with vnwashen hands but rather say with Dauid I will wash mine hands in innocency and so will I go to thine altar Psalme 26.6 Learne with Anna to loue the Church where a mans treasure is there is his heart Can there be greater treasure anie where then in the temple of God where hee hath promised that his eie eare heart shall be perpetually Say with Dauid Lord I haue loued the habitation of thine house and the place where thine honour dwelleth Psal. 26.8 Is his presence there is his honour there Why should we then denie to honour it with our presence Is his heart there to loue it darest thou to loath it One thing saith the Prophet I desired