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A36109	A Discourse presented to those who seeke the reformation of the Church of England wherein is shewed that the new church discipline is daungerous both to religion, and also to the whole state : together with the opinions of certaine reverend and learned divines, concerning the fundamentall poynts of the true Protestant religion : with a short exposition upon some of Davids Psalmes, pertinent to these times of sedition.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1616; ESTC R41098	212,174	304

part haue no Commission to commend that reading vnto you Vers 6. Yet haue I set my King vpon my holy Hill of Sion As much to say as notwithstanding all this maugre the Folly and Fury and Vproares of the People maugre the Wit and Pollicy and Cunning of the Magistrate I God the Father the First Person in Trinity Vncreate Incomprehensible Eternall Almighty maker of Heauen and Earth and of all things Visible and Invisible and disposer of all things to their truest ends Haue set my King that is my holy One my beloued Sonne in whom I am so well pleased vpon Sion to wit the Church vpon my holy Hill of Sion my holy Catholike Church For p Aug. in Joh. Tract 115. Sion ille Mons ille non est de hoc Mundo This Sion and this Hill is not of this world Quod est enim eius Regnum nisi Credentes in eum Non ait Nunc autem Reguum meum non est hîc sed non est hînc For what is his Kingdome p Aug. in Joh. Tract 115. saith S. Austen but those that beleeue in him He saith not My Kingdome is not hêre but my Kingdome is not hence Concerning the Hill of Sion there is much speech in holy Scripture The Hill of Sion q Ps 48.2 saith our Prophet in another place is a faire place and the ioy of the whole earth vpon the North side lieth the City of the great King God is well knowne in her Palaces as a sure refuge Againe r Ps 68.15 As the Hill of Basan so is Gods Hill even an high Hill as the Hill of Basan Why hop yee so yee high Hills This is Gods Hill in the which it pleaseth him to dwell yea the Lord will abide in it for ever And yet againe ſ Ps 78.68 He refused the Tabernacle of Ioseph and chose not the Tribe of Ephraim but chose the Tribe of Iuda euen the Hill of Sion which he loued And there he builded his Temple on high and laid the foundation of it like the ground which he hath made continually Now it is here said that the Lord hath placed his Annointed vpon this Hill of Sion for that Sion and Ierusalem were the very first places in the World from whence this Gospell did first beginne Come yee t Esay 2.3 saith the Prophet Esay and let vs goe vp to the Mountaine of the Lord to the House of the God of Iacob and he will teach vs of his waies and we wil walke in his Paths for out of Sion shall goe forth h●● Law the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem It is called here Holy Hill or in regard of that peculiar presence which the Lord at that time afforded to it like as he said to Moses u Exod. 3.5 The place whereon thou standest is holy Ground or in regard of the Temple and divine worship therein exercised like as Ierusalem is tearmed The holy City both by x Esay 48.2 Esay the Prophet and by y Mat. 4.5 S. Mathew Vers 7. I will preach the Law whereof the Lord hath said vnto me Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee The Prophet in the Verse before declared vnto vs what the Father said of the Sonne concerning the Kingdome in this Verse he declareth concerning the said Kingdome what it is the Sonne himselfe saith Which is thus much in effect I for my part shall bee farre from opposing force to force I will not seeke humaine helpes and encounter in like sort with the Folly or Fury or Pollicy of mine Enemies I will only rely on that Word which the Lord hath said concerning me and it shall bee powerfull enough against all resistance Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee This Word this Law this Decree of God aboue is powerfull enough and much more sharpe then any two edged Sword It is mighty through God to the pulling downe of strong bolds z 1. Pet. 1.24 Al Flesh is as Grasse and all the glory of Man as the Flowre of Grasse the Grasse withereth and the Flowre thereof falleth away but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever Concerning the words here Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee the Arrians laid hold vpon them to impugne therby the Eternity of our Saviour all for because forsooth mention is here made of Hodie this day Wherevpon S. Austen Quid me stimulas Arriane rides cum audis hodie Arrian a Aug. de quinque Haeresib c. 4. saith S. Austen why dost thou iog me on the elbowe and laughest in thy sleeue when thou hearest these words This day Why man with God it is neuer to Morrow nor Yesterday but alwaies this Day The Yeare is not turned about with the Circles of the Months the Month is not passed ouer with Daies that are still comming and still going the Houres are not changed the Times and Moments are not altered the Day is not finished with bonds limits nor begun with any beginning Againe in his Confessions speaking vnto God Thy Yeares b Aug. Confess l. 11. c. 13. saith he nether come nor goe but these of ours both goe and come that all at length may come All thy Yeares are altogither and all for because they are nor they that goe are excluded from them that come because they passe not but these of ours shall all of them bee when as all shal not be Thy Yeares are one Day and thy Day is not Quotidie every Day but Hodie this Day because thy Hodiè this Day giues not place vnto to Morrow the reason is for that it succeeded not Yesterday Thy Hodiè this Day is no whit lesse then Eternity it selfe and therefore thou didst beget one Coeternall to thy selfe whenas thou saidst This Day haue I begotten thee And yet againe in another place The Baptisme of Christ c Aug. Enchirid. ad Laurent c. 49 saith S. Austen is not in water only as was the Baptisme of Iohn but also in the Holy Ghost that whosoeuer beleeues in Christ might bee regenerated by that Spirit by whom Christ being regenerated needed no Regeneration Wherevpon that voice of the Father that came vnto him at his Baptisme This day haue I begotten thee pointed not out that one Day of time wherein he was Baptized but that of immutable Eternity thereby to shew that his being a Man pertained to the Person of his only Begotten For where the Day is nether begun with the end of a former nor is ended with the beginning of any that followeth there is alwaies This Day There are that d Vid. D. Boys Festiv Thursd in Easter week interprete these Words Thou art my Sonne this day haue I begotten thee of the day of our Saviours Incarnation the Apostle S. Paul he interpreteth it of the Day of his Resurrection e Act. 13.33 We i saith he declare vnto you glad Tidings how that the Promise

what end purpose mankinde was created and set in this world after they had driven the matter as far as they might by naturall knowledge at length they concluded some that man was made to know the properties and qualities the convenience or difference of naturall things either in the ayre or in the water or in the earth or under the earth Some other that man was made to consider and behold the Sunne and Moone the Starres course and revolutions of the Heavens And so they judged that man which either had most abundance of naturall reason or beheld and considered the heavens best to be most perfect of all others and that he came nearest to the end of his creation Thus said they as men without feeling of God onely endued with the light of nature But as God himselfe declareth who fashioned us and made us and knoweth us best the very true end why man was made was to know to honour God Therefore whoso knoweth him best and honoureth him with most reverence he is most perfect he commeth neerest the end of his creation When Solomon had described the deceaveable vanities of the world and said vanitie of vanities Eccl. 1. vanitie of vanities all is vanitie When he had concluded by long discourse that riches Empires honour pleasures knowledge and whatsoever else under the Sunne is but vanity he knitteth up the matter with these words Eccles 12. Feare God and keep his Commandements for this is the whole dutie of man that is this is truth and no vanitie this is our perfection to this end are we made not to live in eating and drinking not to passe our time in pleasure and follies not to heap up those things which are daily taken from us or from which we are daily taken away but that in our words in our life in our bodie in our soule we doe service unto God that we look above the Sunne and Moone and all the heavens that wee become the Temples of the holy Ghost that the holy Spirit of God may dwell in us and make us fit instruments of the glory of God Therefore God gave his holy word and hath continued it from the beginning of the world untill this day notwithstanding the Philosophers and learned men in all ages who scorned it out as the word of folly for so it seemeth to them that perish notwithstanding the wicked Princes and Tyrants high powers of the world who consumed and burnt it as false and wicked and seditious doctrine notwithstanding the whole world and power of darknesse were ever bent against it yet hath He wonderfully continued and preserved it without losse of one letter untill this day that we have whereby truly to know him the true and onely God and his sonne Jesus Christ whom he sent Therefore have we Temples Churches places to resort unto all together to honour to worship and to acknowledge him to be our God to joyne our hearts and voices together and to call upon his holy name In such places God hath at all times used to open his Majestie and to shew his power In such places God hath made us a speciall promise to heare our praiers whensoever wee call upon him Therefore are they called the dwelling place and house of God In such places all godly men set their greatest pleasure thought themselves miserable when they were secluded or put off from the same as the Prophet and holy Prince David Psal 122. Laetatus sum in his quae dicta sunt mihi in domum Domini ibimus O saith that holy man my heart rejoyced within my body when my fellowes called upon me and said let us goe into the house of the Lord. Againe I am in love with the beauty of thy house And againe O how beautifull is thy Tabernacle O Lord O thou the God of hosts my heart longeth and fainteth to come within thy Courts His spirits were ravished with the sight majesty of the Tabernacle not for that the place it selfe at that time was so beautifull for in Davids time it was almost rotten ruinous a homely thing to behold nothing in comparison to that Temple that was afterwards built by Solomon But therein stood the shew worthinesse of that holy place that Gods truth and law was opened and proclaimed in it and the Sacraments ceremonies so used in such forme order as God had commanded them to be used and the people receaved them obediently lived thereafter Therefore when the Tabernacle was restored when the Arke was fet home from Obed-edom and set in the mount Sion when religion Revived which through the negligence and malice of Saul was forsaken when he saw his Nobilitie his Bishops his Priests all his people willing forward he could not refraine himselfe but brake out and sang Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus exultemus laetemur in ea This is the day which the Lord hath made let us be glad and rejoyce in it Let us be merry and joy that ever we lived to see it Even so Paul when in his time he saw the Gospell take root and prosper that the savour of life was powred abroad that the kingdome of God was enlarged the kingdome of Satan shaken downe his heart leaped and sprang within him Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile behold now is the acceptable time behold God hath looked downe mercifully upon the world behold the day of salvation is come upon us But the godly man as he rejoyceth at the beauty of Gods house so when contrariwise he seeth the same disordered filthily when he seeth the Sacraments of God abused the truth troden under foot the people mocked the name of God dishonoured he cannot but lament and mourne and finde himselfe wounded at heart When the good King Iosias saw the book of God which was so long hid in the wall and out of remembrance when he considered the blindnesse in which they had lived and the unkindnesse of their fore-fathers he could not forbeare but fell a weeping he feared least God should take vengeance upon them for so great contempt of his word When Ieremy saw the wilfulnesse and frowardnesse of the people which would not submit themselves and be obedient unto God he cried Oh that my head were full of water Ierem. 9. and mine eies a fountaine of teares that I might weep day and night c. Such care had they for Gods people Thus the zeale of Gods house had eaten them up Zeale if any man know not the nature of the word is an earnest affection and vehement love as is the love of a mother towards her children or of the naturall childe towards his mother This zeale cannot abide to see that thing which it loveth despised or hurt Such zeale care carrieth God over his people he loveth them as a mother loveth her children he will not suffer them to be hurt Esay 49. By the