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A14197	A golden bell, and a pomgranate A sermon preached, at the visitation in Canterbury. 7. of Aprill. 1624. By Mr. Alexander Vdny, Bachelor in Diuinitie, chaplaine to his Maiestie in ordinary, and minister of Hauking in Kent.	Udny, Alexander, minister of Hauking in Kent.	1625 (1625)	STC 24512; ESTC S118896	30,290	49

Ier. 5 7. Ezech. 23.9 reproue the Drunkard with Isaiah the Adulterer with Ieremiah the Swearer with EZekiel the Vsurer with Moses the Hypocrite with Christ Leui. 25.36 the prophane world with John and with Peter let all know there shall be a Iudgement that the people may turne from their euill wayes this must not be done without sense feeling or motion vsing Doctrine without application Application without zeale like a man without a soule or as an Image on a wall If thus wee doe it is an euident token that some are ignorant We must not feare as Ezech. 3.8.9 and cannot powerfully preach being ignorant some are so negligent in their Ministery and will not some are so fearefull to offend their Benefactors Note and dare not some are so wicked and should not alas a guiltie Conscience staies the power of our Ministery and therefore the people are not conuerted for this cause the Lord saith to wicked Ministers Ie● 23.22 If yee had stood in my counsell then should yee haue turned my people from their euill waies therefore Brethren wee may blame our selues that neither our persons nor our calling is regarded Cu●us vita a●spicitur resta● vt ●● pr●edicatio contaminatur but abused and d sgraced and thought to bee the off scouring of the world and refuse of mankind and by our vnfaithfull walking in our Calling God hath iustly made vs base and vile and contemptible in the sight of the people for wee are called the troublers of the State as Ahab did Flias a troubler of Israel but on the other part are wee faithfull in our Calling th●t thought b●s● in our persons poore be our liuings and disp●sed in this world yet the Lord from w●●●● we 〈◊〉 our M●nistery shall reuenge our cause to is glory and our comfort and their ●●cil●sting sorrow therefore l t v● re●●u● all offence on our part that we preach not sa●uat on to oth rs and damn ●o● to ●n● selues for as a de●● P●lical●s the p●●pe to hear● but h ate● nothing in selfe Siegretants accedat aegretus si carboni extincto adij●iator ●●rbo extinctas vel si ●aeto praesictatur caecus what shall they profit one another Praetes mortem ciuerem famum foneam therefore Gregory saith complaining of himselfe Vsurpaus mihi cotis officium qui f●rrum reddit ac●ntum cum sit in ●●●lis ad secundum l'ule brum depinxe hominem Pre●or ●●●s aliosque redigo ●ed perfectionis littus qui ad huc ver●●r in delictorum finelibus who then is to be rep●oued the Ignorant Negligent Timotus Couetous Prophane Pastors but especially those that appeare to be ●tarres Reu. 13.3.4 who are drawne from Heauen and cast vnto the Earth by that great red Dragon this did appeare to be a wonder in Heauen Note but it is no wonder now vpon Earth I say then with Saint Bernard to ●ugenius Mostrosa res est gradus summes animus ●ifimus sedes prima vita Ima Bernard lib 2. de considerat lingua magni loqua manus otrosa Sermo multus fructus nullus vult●● grauis actus leuis caput canum corvanum faci●● rugosa lingua nugosa ingens authoritas nutan● stabilitas I cannot passe by you that are our flock there is not only amongst you Foxes yea little ones who maketh their profession of the Gospell a shelter and couer to their hypocrisie who serue the Gospell so farre as the Gospell may serue your turne for the accomplishing of your worldly pleasures there is also Wolues among you in sheeps cloathing who kill their Shepherds Quo hierophyphyco notatur hereticos sub ●iten solendit a principib●● quod si adolesi etur graetusuterit ●it fututum in emtui facilius Iesuitae suff●cabuntur Isa 50.14.15 wounding them in their good name opprobriously in their bodies dangerously in their state iniuriously renting both their persons and their Parsonages from them for now Religion is hated amongst many true Godlines despised zeale abhored sincerity scoffed at vprightnesse loathed and almost all good men had in derision And therefore we may say that Iudgement is turned away backeward and Iustice standeth afarre for Truth is fa●ne in the streete and Equitie cannot enter and hee that departeth from euill maketh himselfe a prey yet the Lord saw it and was angry Albeit yee will doe no duetie neither for our Master nor message sake yea hardly for your owne saluation 2 Cor. 3.11 2. yet wee knowing the terrour of the Lord w● p●rswade men and beeing Ambassadour for Christ as though Christ did beseech you by vs wee pray you in Christs stead that yee bee reconciled vnto God For this cause Saint Augustine saith That the Word of God must bee to the faithfull Tanquam pis●s hamus capit quando capitur yee must vese topposcis as Nineueh repented at Ionas Sermon Marie sate all the night at Christs feet Acts 17. hearing the Word Yee should say with the good Athenians Let vs heare thee of this matter againe And with the conuerted Christians who being pricked in their hearts sayd Actes ● ●7 What shall wee doe men and brethren I say vnto you as Peter vnto them I pray God it may worke the like effect Repent and bee baptized in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes and yee shall receiue the gifts of the Holy Ghost This if you doe how beautifull vpon the Mountaines will the feete of them bee that bringeth glad tidings vnto you And then at the last day of account wee shall say with our Master the Lord Iesus in great ioy Those that thou hast giuen mee I haue kept them and none of them is lost Then wee shall shine as the brightnesse of the Firmament and they that turne many vnto righteousnesse Iohn 17.12 as the Starres for euer and euer If thus wee would shine obey Pauls Exhortation that seeing wee haue this our Ministerie as wee haue receiued mercie w●e faint not but hauing cast from vs the cloakes of shame Dan 1● ● not walking in craftinesse or h●n●ling the Word of God deceitfully but in manifestation of the truth commending our selues to euery mans conscience 2 Cor. 4 1 2. in the sight of God Seeing then that both Pastour and people doe looke for the Kingdome of Heauen where shall bee one Fold and one Sheepheard Let vs all labour for the testimonie of a good Conscience and Christian resolution In life or death and glorie with Paul saying 2 Tim. 4.6 7 8. I haue fought a good fight and am now readie to bee offered and the time of my departure is at hand I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith Henceforth there is layd vp for mee a Crowne of Righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Iudge shall giue mee at that day and not to mee onely 1 Thess 5.23 but to them also that loues his appearance And that both Pastour and people may bee partaker of this ioy vnspeakable and glorious I bid you farewell in the Lord and I pray with Paul that the very God of Peace sanctifie you wholly and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soule and Body bee preserued blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour glorie and praise both now and for euer and euer Amen FINIS

A GOLDEN BELL. AND A POMGRANATE A Sermon Preached at the Visitation in Canterbury 7. of Aprill 1624. By Mr. ALEXANDER VDNY Bachelor in Diuinitie Chaplaine to his Maiestie in Ordinary and Minister of Hanking in Kent Labour till I come LVKE 19.13 GREGO lib. 2. Epist 39. Quod pr●fecto negotium tunc vere ●●s agi●●●● si viuendo loquendo proxi●●●um 〈…〉 LONDON Printed by A. M. and I. N. for Anthony Vphill and are to be sold at the signe of the white Lyon in Pauls Church-yard 1625. REVERENDISSIMO PATRI ET DOMINO SVO VNICE COLENDO GEORGIO CANTVariensi Archiepiscopo totius Angli● Primati QVas animi Dono faetus Amplissime Praesul Pignora perpetui Debita amoris erunt Tu modo quae voueo facili cape munera Dextra Nil meruere vltra in meliora forent Celsitudini vestrae Humillime addictus ALEXANDER VDNEYVS A GOLDEN BELL AND A POMGRANATE COL 4.17 And say to Archippus the Ministerie which thou hast receiued of the Lord see that thou fulfill it GReat is the Mysterie of godlinesse which is God is manifest in the flesh a 1. Tim. 3.16 Great because the Mysterie hid since the beginning of the World and from all Ages but now is made manifest vnto his Saints b Col. 1.26 Luke 24. ●● This manifestation was and is by the Spirit in the Word then opened hee their vnderstanding that they might vnderstand the Scriptures which is a Lanthorne vnto our feet a light vnto our pathes c Psal 119.105 without this light we dwell in the land of the shadow of death d Mat. 4.16 both in sinne and ignorance therefore Paul saith awake thou that sleepest and stand vp from the dead and Christ shall giue thee light e Ephes 5.14 This light doeth shine to him whose name is in the white stone which no man knoweth sauing hee that receiueth it f Reu. 2 17. This knowledge is giuen to him that can take the little booke out of the Angels hand and eate it vp hereby able to Prophesie among the people and Nations and Tongues and to many Kings g Reu. 10.11 For this cause it is that Dauid prayeth open mine eies h Psal 119.18 that I may see the wonders of thy Law Therefore it is the Commandement of the chiefe Apostle of our profession and Bishop of our soules the Lord Iesus beloued in him i 1. Pet. 2 2● that wee should search the Scriptures for his Testimonie and our owne saluation k Iohn 39.5 Non repostores aut serriui colosos vel superstit●sos murmurateres sed ●ram hum●lem vni●●r cognoscendae ample ●ande veritatis cupidaeus Mui●● lus in 5. Ioh. wee should not then negligently or superstitiously search the Scriptures to cauell thereby but with a holy and humble desire to know and embrace the simple trueth And now being my course to Preach at this time before this solemne assembly and publike Conuocation of the Ministerie I haue sought and red in the Booke of the Lord where I might finde a Text short sententious and sitting principally for the Ministeri● exhorting all in a word and euery one as it were by his owne name to holy and full knowledge faith and diligence in his vocation and I haue found these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Holinesse to the Lord l Exod 2● ●● Kodeth la Iehouah ●agias●era ●urion which was grauen on the high Priests Miter as signets are grauen for in the man of God what is required but Holinesse in spirit in soule in speach in action in all things Holinesse to the Lord and vpon the bridels of the horses holinesse to the Lord yea the very pots in Ierusalem and Iudah shall be holinesse vnto the Lord of hostes m Zach. 14. ● ●1 holinesse is Christs marke like the signe Thau vpon the foreheads of them that mourne for the abominations that he done in the middest of the Citie n ●ach 8.4 And I haue found a line and a golden reed wherewith I intend to mete the Temple of God and to measure the Citie withall o Reuel 11. ●●1 15 The●● l●nes were ●●lled ●hacte ●idda suu● mensores In the Epistle to the Collossians these words And say to Archippus for as the first Scripture comprehended all the worke of the Ministerie in one word Holinesse so this Text comprehends the same in one word of power and authoritie commanding euery one in one fulfill this dispensation of God which is giuen me vnto you ward to fulfill the word of God p Col. 1. ●5 For what is it to bee a good Minister of the Lord but to fulfill and end perfectly the worke of ministration and dispensation of the Gospel of his graces that wee may bee bold before God and man Angels and our conscience Micha 3.8 with Micha to say I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of iudgement and of strength to declare vnto Iacob his transgression and to the house of Israel their sinne q Act. 23. ● And with Paul I haue liued in all good conscience before God vntill this day that we may all say so I say O generation see ye the word of the Lord r Iere. 2.31 The holy and perfect worke of the Ministerie Holinesse and maner thereof are by these two Scriptures comprehended in two words Holinesse and Fulnesse or Holy Fulnesse or Full Holinesse would y● then desire a better Scripture for this time which may bee called the Ministers Text then one of those two or both in one making so sweete an harmonie like two parts of Musicke set together to praise the Lord in whom dwelleth all fulnesse whereupon I shall descant God willing according to the commandment of Scripture without any discord and that it may found also well in your eares as it did to the Collossians and their Ministers let mee craue of you as hee of them that ye would pray for mee that God would open vnto mee the doore of vtterance that I may speake the Mysterie of Christ fully The Apostle hauing laide downe the foundation of Christian religion by Christ in his person and office Cohesion Colo. 1.14 Colo. 2.1 whereby we are reconsciled then hee doeth diswade from Eronious Doctrine hee doeth exhort vnto Christian conuersation Colo. 3.1.2 that wee set our affections on things which are aboue and hauing added salutations to his friends in loue in the end doeth exhort the Collossians that they should admonish Archippus to be faithfull in the worke of the Lord. The argument of this Text is this in a short summe Argument Paul and Timothy after Epaphras his declaration what state and condition the Collossians and their Ministers were in in respect of Christian Religion writ their admonition and exhortation from Rome to them both that they should stand fast and grow still in the knowledge and vse of the Gospel against all corruption to the Ministerie

with the hand how excellent is the Eye of the Soule well exercised together in the worke of the Ministery and of our owne saluation If naturall gifts bee so excellent What is required of the hand how excellent are the diuine gifts of Gods holy Spirit What shall all the outward senses profit vs If the windowes of the Soule be blind what shall the knowledge of God and of his Creatures profit the soule if there bee no practise but to be beaten with many stripes doth not the saluation of the body depend vpon the saluation of the soule doth not all the stedfast standing of eternitie depend vpon a moment of transitory time well spent in knowledge and doing the will of the Lord and namely to vs of the Ministery that must thereby saue our selues and others must our eye bee tyed to see and our hand to fill the ministration we haue receiued of the Lord what shall wee doe then to obey this admonition behold with our eies fill with our hands the ministery we haue receiued of the Lord ioyne practise and vse with knowledge and strength continually we must neuer turne our eie from our worke to behold vanitie with Lots wife but like Paul haue our eyes on the worke before and not on things behind we must not take our hand from our worke till it bee full and compleate like Bazaleel and Aholiab building the Tabernacle that did not take away eye Numb 3.24 hand or foote till the Tabernacle was ended the Leuits are compared to Souldiers seruing as in warfare in the Ministery Sam. 1.9 9. that they might see and fulfill the same the Prophets were named Seers from seeing and Gods from doing the worke of the Lord Isaiah was made a Watchman Isai 31.6 Isai 62 6. Isai 27.6.12.6 to tell the things that they should see concerning the destruction of Babylon and to stand continually vpon his watch Tower both day and night and did see but the figures of the armies whereby Cyrus and Darius ouercame Babylon how much more must we stand on our watch towre to see Babylon fall that Romish idoll enemie vnto Christ and the children of God gathered together in the holy Citie Exod. 31.1 Moses must behold the forme of the Tabernacle and to whom it is to be committed and like Zerubabel his beholding till the last stone bee laid in the second Temple In despite of enemies Zach. 4.9 Genes 41.41 shall Ioseph behold and see that blacke polluted Countrie of ignorance and fore-see as hee did what things were profitable and what were hurtfull and shall not wee behold and fulfill the Ministration of the Holy and lightsome Land of Iudah ●od dwelling in the middest thereof Zach. 2.11.12 The Lord speaking after the manner of men declares that his Church is euer before his eyes watching and looking vpon it and in this respect it is sweete vnto vs and in this place he commands that it should neuer bee out of our sight like Paul in spirit at Collosse in Phrigia beholding their ordour Chap. 2.3 Albeit in body in Italy at Rome in bonds Isai 21.21 O Lord I how sweete a sight should it be vnto vs sleeping and waking when we see the image and care of Gods holy Church before our eyes in her garments of beautie the glory of the Lord shining vpon her rather then in her mourning weed couered with the thicke cloud of his wrath O Lord God if we would see and fill our Ministerie how might the Church bee edified and her enemies destroyed like Moab dispairing of their men and gods Thus much for the admonition in generall the Lord open our eyes to see and our hands to fill the Ministration which wee haue receiued of the Lord The reason followeth in these words Which thou hast receiued of the Lord. The Lord Iesus the Authour of the glorious Gospel Sixe points in the reason hath opened thine eyes and silled thee with his holy Spirit and committed vnto thee a part of the worke of his Ministerie and grathering together of his Saints vpon condition that beholding and fulfilling the same thou mayest receiue an euerlasting Crowne of Glory if not to be banished from his presence for euer therefore see and fulfill thy Ministerie The generall reason is full of singular arguments all arguing and proouing necessarily our faithfulnesse in the worke of the Ministerie The arguments are sixe Argument 1 The first is the insufficiencie of Archippus himselfe to whom this worke is committed 1. Tim. 1.12 Thou 〈◊〉 but an carthen vessell vnable of thy selfe to thinke a good thought and yet allowed and put in credite and made powerfull by the grace of God in thee then stirre vp and neglect not the gift that is in thee but see and consider fulfill an lend thy Ministration Paul thankes the Lord that hee made him strong and put him in the Ministerie Amos 7 1● 14 15 16 17. Amos considering that it was not himselfe nor of mans institution that hee Prophesied but of the Lord that had taken him from the sheepe Was bold to see and fulfill his Ministerie in despight of all his enemies at Bethel in the Kings Chappell Argument 2 Secondly the power and authoritie of the cheife Pastor and Authour of this Gospel and Ministration is the Lord Iesus who is Prince and Go●ernor of his Church in whom all the fulnesse of the God-head dwelleth fully The good shepheard that knoweth all things hath put th●e Archippus in the Ministerie albeit not immediatly but me●iatly by the ordination of the Church Paul vses this argument to mooue Timothie to bee faithfull as wee should all bee because the Lord Iesus is the Authour thereof therefore let vs see and fulfill our Ministration which wee haue receiued of the Lord. Argument 3 Thirdly the excellent worthinesse of that so precious a thing put in his hand to bee kept 2. Tim. 1.14 that is the glorious Gospel of the blessed God thou has● receiued this great Mysterie of godlinesse and the Gospel of Gods grace to declare it perfectly and fully to the world But let v● see and consider the glory of the Gospel by Pauls owne comparison of a treasure and Dauids golden treasure Gold hath sixe properties wherefore the word of God is compared to it First gold of all other mettélles hath not onely a sweete smell but pleasant in taste and cordiall Gold compared to the Gospel in su●e properties euen so the word of God is sweeter then the hony or the hony combe Secondly gold taketh no soile neither doeth it foule any thing for it is fatnesse that defileth and ●s burnt 2. Cor. 4.7 Psal 19.72 1. Pet. 1.7 Pro. 8.10.15 as all that are mixed therewith so Gods word is purer then th● gold seuen times tried in the fire and makes our soulos cleane from the staine of sinne Thirdly gold is the heauiest of all mettalles so the word is of most weight yea all