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A10056	Recusants conversion a sermon preached at St. James, before the Prince on the 25. of Februarie. 1608. By Daniell Price Master of Arts, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1608 (1608)	STC 20301; ESTC S115205	21,005	38

then the oile of Aaron more fructifiing then the deawe of Hermon That so we maie be al knit together without anie disiūction that whether we bee supplicants to the throne of grace wee maie al of vs come togither as ioint petitioners or whether we be the singers of thanksgiuing in the house of the Lord we maie al sing in the harmonie of the spirit or whether we be as the company of an army to stand in the gap to entreat for Cōditions of peace we may all cry togither Spare vs good Lord spare thy people bee not angrie with thine inheritance so al of vs being as so many beames issuing from the Sun of righteousnes all as brookes comming frō the fountaine of goodnes al of vs as nerues proceeding frō the head of wisdom al of vs as arteries springing from the hart of loue all of vs as veines deriued from the liver of life al of vs as lines drawne from the center of grace Al of vs going one way through truth vnto life through light vnto truth through loue vnto light hauing one hope one faith and grace of God in Christ Jesus the one only meanes of our saluation The vse hereof is to exhort al the Saints Vse seruāts of God to an vniformity in Christianity and the profession thereof that so there may be no diuision in the body for seeing a body a house a kingdome cannot stand if once deuided Alas how shal the Church of Christ the body of Christ the houshold of the faithful the kingdome of heauen vpon earth stand if there be so manie Sizers and Concisers Cutters Carvers of her members Liuie Rome in that ciuil or rather vnciuil discord betweene Crassus and Caesar and Pompey had almost lost by this threefold discorde the threefold cord of their concorde and many other Cōmon wealths haue been much wasted and impaired by the monster dissention Tacitus in vita Agrico lae Tacitus in the life of Agricola describing the figure fashion complexion chiualrie and resolution of the Britaine 's in that time obserueth this also that they were then drawne into pety partialities and factions Britan gens vali dissima Tacit and the greatest helpe that the Romanes had adversus validissimas gentes as he calleth our natiō was that they had no cōmon coūcel togither but each citty fought against their neighbours Et ita dum singuli pugnant vniversi vincūtur whilest one by one fighteth al are subdued The Romanes are againe entring our land they expect an aduantageous successe by our home-bred factions and schismes dissentions But Lord let it neuer come to passe let our Common-wealth and Church be as Ierusalem a Citty at vnitie safe as Mount Syon that shal neuer be remoued Let thy Church here be for euer the house of peace O let not her Peace-makers be her Peacebreakers let not her fathers be foster-fathers of dissention but let Patrones be patternes of vnity let her Presidents be the presidēts of vnity her Antients beare the standards of vnity let her be begirt with the wals of vnitie let her and her seruants her sonnes be guided by thee O God the God of vnity till the comming of thy Sonne Christ Iesus to iudgment J knowe J speak to an intelligent and ingenious auditorie J need not expatiat in this of the profit pleasure blessing faelicitie of vnitie You al know that she is the greatest gift of God cheifest ioy of Angels highest happines of mē fearfullest terror of diuils holiest harmonie of Saints heauenlyest Antheme of Celestial Cherubins The Empresse of the world whose priuie Counsel be the vertues whose Ladies of honor bee the Muses whose nearest attendants bee the Graces whose Gard be the Angels whose Court is prosperitie whose state is felicitie whose statuts veritie whose continuance eternitie David his Ecce as the roial vsher of this Empresse bids you behold how good gratious and happy and holy and heauenlie a thing it is to dwel together in vnity Hold it and behold it entertaine her retaine her that you maie al saie as these converts Come let vs goe vp And so J end this point and follow them in their going vp Come and let vs goe vp The life of a Christian is not the life of speculation 2 Obs not a professing life but a practising not a talking life but a walking they must not only Come together but goe together they must walke goe clime goe vp Goe repent goe vp perseuerance 1. Repent This ditty their dutie Come and let vs goe vp Jn the word go we may note their repentance in their going vp their perseuerance For the first they had lōg layen vpon the lees of vngodlines vnstird vnmoued they sat in the seat of the scornful or if they stood vp they stood but in the waie of sinners or if they walkt they walked but in the counsell of the wicked gressus digressus but now they take a newe iourney in hand they chuse new liuing waies they goe egressus regressus they goe goe out and goe on and goe vp and turne from the waie of their wickednes and from the wickednes of their waies Doctrine The doctrine gathered from the word goe is this that it is a certaine signe of salvation in a penitent sinner vpon the first knowledge acknowledgment of his sinnes to goe to the throne of grace Austin Reason St Austin giueth the reason of this doctrine Man by his going from God is deformed and poluted and altogether void of al spiritual blessings and by his returne and going back to God he obtaineth al those blessings he formerlie lost Excedendo frigescit ascendendo fervescit Recedendo tenebrescit revertendo clarescit therfore these conuerts resolue here as those did of whom St Austin speaketh In 70. Psal Conferamus nos ad te bene erit nobis de nobis malum est nobis de nobis quia commisimus malum dimisisti nos nobis The state of Christians in their conuersion is vndoubtedly most heauenlie that though Sathan hath assaulted them and sinne hath wounded them and the world tempted them and the flesh betraied them and temptation entrapped thē yet al these enimies remoue their beeseedg when the soule is desirous to turne to his God O how happie is the Christian then when he hath the father calling the sonne mouing the holy spirit perswading the word directing the rewarde inuiting Saints conuersing Angels reioicing and he himselfe singing that sweet holy Hymne Nūc dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace from the wicked waies of the world the flesh the deuil and frō the companie of al infernall complices loe J come J walke J goe J runne J clime J goe vp to the house of the Lord J repent my sinns past video meliora proboque J follow hard to the marke for the high price of my saluation Thus

was destroied a little arke deliuered that al Sodome was burned and little Soar defended that all Aegypt was plagued little Goshen preserved behold these with trembling and adde vnto these this that the Iewes that were receiued are reiected and the Gentiles that were reiected are received Shall I in one word tel you of the cōsumption destruction subversion desolation of the worthiest structures and Piles that ever the sunne lookt vpon how Noe that was ful of people and Babilon that sate as a Queene Iericho that was the citty of Palme trees and Tirus rich with the seed of Nilus and Ierusalem the ioie of the whole earth were overthrowne and all vtterly consumed Yet none of these are Paralel to this Cataclisme and Inundation of desolation that the Iewes the first and best and one only beloved people who had Abraham for their father Israell for their name Moses their Prophet Aaron their Priest Manna their meat Canaan their Countrie Kings their Captiues David their king yea Christ himselfe their kinsman and yet these Jewes reiected and Gentiles received Vsus O consider this all yee that forget God howle yee Firre trees that these Caedars haue fallē the Oliue tree hath lost her fatnesse the Vine tree her sweetnesse the Cedar her fairenesse the Figge tree her fruitfulnesse O what then remaineth for the brambles and briers thornes and thistles but the fire of wrath and the wrath of fury O did the world and the pompe the glory thereof consider this did those places that now in ioie enioy the pleasures of the worlde duly regarde this Did Venice so blessed with riches Bononia with fruits Naples with Nobility Millaine with beautie Ravenna so honoured for antiquity Forraine Countries or Florence for policie did these I say in the height of their pride cast downe their eies vpon the dust and ashes and rubble of the worlds more ancient monuments they would now Our owne Land euen now in the daies of their peace thinke vpon the time of their visitation Did our owne land endowed as gloriously as graciously with the blessings of peace plenty prosperity as euer Caanan was Did our Land meditate vpon this it would not so far put frō her the day of desolation The Citie London Did the Citty prowd of her wals and bulwarks puft vp in the wealthinesse of her inhabitants glorying in the goodlinesse of her building vanting her selfe to be the mother citty of the land the Metropolis of the Country the seate of the kingdome and the Chamber of the King did this Citty remember this then her graues would not bee so ful her houses often so empty her howlings so many her plagues so mighty Yea to come neerer St Iames Did this Court wherein I speake and you the starres of this Zodiake consider this it would serue to let you blood in the swelling vaines of pride to launce the impostumes of greedy desires to purge your ambitious malitious voluptuous thoughts to cure wantonnes to curbe the lest thought of wickednesse Wherefore let euery mā make particular vse of this doctrin that seeing the Iewes haue fallen they take heede to that coūsel of S. Paule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 10.12 Let him that standeth take heed lest he fal Be not deceived flatter not thy selfe equivocate not with thy soul though thou seeme to bee the deare childe of God presume not there vpon thou maiest fal thou art not more sober then Noah more strong then Sampson more wise thē Salomon more chast then David more secure then Peter Cecidere duces the Columnes Arches Pillers Piramides haue fallen Israels strong mē haue fallen yea Israell the very first and best chiefest of Gods people haue fallē their strength hath bin weakned their beauty blemished their blossoms blasted their honour obscured their glory ecclipsed mē haue fallen the best of men more glorious then the best of mē Patriarchs haue fallen Prophets haue fallen Apostles haue fallen Starres haue fallen Angels haue fallen A second lesson that we learne in these Gentiles 2 da. 2 dae is their vnity and mutual society in their conuersiō exhorting one another They were not deuided in their wils not separated in their actiōs not disioind in their affections but in a heauenly harmony they all ioine togither mutually inciting Come and let vs. The one and only God and father of vs al who is God for euerlasting blessed world without end he in the riches of his wisdome knowledge hath appointed that not only the world in things natural but that his Church also in things spiritual should begin encrease continue Aristotle and be perpetuated by vnity The Naturalist looking through the windowes of Nature beheld the one found Vnity to be the apeasement of al Cōtraries of contrary Elements in the worlde of contrarie humors in the body of cōtrary affectiōs in the minde of contrary factions in the Common wealth and in things spiritual it is so heauēly as that it is truly esteemed to be the bond of the Patriarkes the Chariot of the Prophets the refuge of the Apostles the Cōfort of Confessours and the salue of the Saints And therefore God himselfe hath made his faithful people to be al as one his a Cant. 6.8 Church he hath made one He hath giuen them b Mat 25.34 one kingdome and c Ioh. 17 21 one wil d Ier 32.29 one hart one way e Eze. 1.16 one minde and one spirit So like in loue as that with the f Esec 1 16. Cherubins in Ezechiels visiō they seem to haue but one face So louing in qualitie and condition as that with al g Iudg. 20.1 Israel they are gathered together as one man so constant in faith and affection as that they h Acts 2 46. continue with one accord in the Temple So did these Conuerts they conioine themselues together as the true members of Christes bodie one thought one wish one desire one hart one tongue with al which they ioine Come and let vs. So that the doctrine which hence ariseth is this Doctrine that it is a sure signe of Christianitie in the Children of God to be at one in the vnitie of the spirit The reason of the doctrin is that seeing there is but one God one Father one Redeemer one Comforter one milk of the word one food of the Sacraments Reason seeing there is but one faith one Lord one baptisme seeing we all inhabite one vale of miserie and valley of teares seeing we all fight against one enemie the old serpent seeing we al run for one goale all wrestle for one garland al striue for one crowne al partake in one bodie and one spirit we might al be one in the Lord Iesus And so might enioie the blessing of vnitie and amitie and vnanimitie more plesant then the pools of Heshbon more glorious then the Towers of Lebanō more redolent