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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83667	The saints sacred laver. By Iames Eglesfield, master of arts, minister of Gods word at Knightsbridge. Preached at Padington, September the first, 1645	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1646 (1646)	Wing E254A; ESTC R231737	12,295	39

with the power of their places they are all but baits for their Innocency So the higher men bee in place the more frequent they ought to be at Prayer so slippery is the condition of greatnesse For who sooner fell then Lucifer who more debased then Nebuchadnezar Dan. 4.24 Who offend God oftner then great Ones A Lecture to the Vermillian robes of Magistracy that their soules be not of the colour of their scarlet their consciences of the same graine with their Coapes is to wash in Innocency Take heed yee great Ones Authority is a glewy pitchey adjunct maivelously contractive of Sinne and therefore should ever be necrest the poole of Bethesda when the Angel 〈◊〉 it so quickly doth it take the soyle so easily doth it catch the staine Wherefore as yee are eminent in place so must you bee righteous in person You must be as Christ himself Cant. 8. not only Rubicundi but Candidi as white per innocentiam cordis as you are ruddy per ruttlatio nem vestis the brightnesse of your garments Your hairs must bee like the Ancient of daies or like wool or like Snow to signifie your wisedome your eyes like a flame of fire to signifie your search and might your feet like fine brasse to signifie the perfectnes of your wayes and your voice like the sound of many waters fearefull and terrible You must put on the glorious apparell of Innocency and trans figure your selves like Christ himselfe upon the mount that your righteousnesse may break forth as the light and the beauty of it as the burning lampe for so saith holy David I will wash my hands in innocency a King by place Now followeth I will wash my hands in Innocency a Prophet in Spirit As I rang in the eares of Magistracie in the former point so ring I now in the eares of Priesthood arraigning mine own spirit in the presence of God and with mine the Spirit of every Levite in this Temple the Soule of every Prophet in this house acknowledging the required innocency of our Condition Wee are the Cherubims and Seraphims of the lower house of God We of the Ministery are Gods by a more peculiar sequestration then the ordinary Sonnes of men Wherefore wee must wash our hands in Innocency who are Prophets in Spirit I will saith David a King then must we if wee will follow the example of the righteous I will saith hee a Prophet in Spirit a party conversant with the religious service of God This is a preface unto us this teacheth us who are of the Tribe of Levi to gird our loines straite with the girdle of Innocency when we enter into the Sanctuary of God For we serve at the Altar wee preach the Law we keepe the book of Covenant we are of Gods privy chamber as it were wee lodge with Moses in the Mount we peruse the Tables of Stone we beare the Arke we bow at the Mercy seate wee are dedicated to God we are consecrated to the Temple wee are tyed to have Vrim and Thummim upon our hearts wee weare the white linnen Ephod in which should shine the Sardin Topaz and Carbuncle A ga●e and Amatist of a holy conversation Exod. 28.17 The Signet engraven upon Aarons forehead is holynesse to the Lord Exod. 28.36 so that the Bill of our report must be pure mettle no tinckling or hollow Cymball in a word wee are forbidden any the least blemish for faith the Scripture cleanse the Levites purifie fetch the Laver of brasse for the Levite All their cloathes must smell of Myrrh Allowes and Cass●●a of a good conscience out of the Ivory pallaces their Innocent and spotlesse hearts whereby they should make themselves glad Let my Priests be cloathed with righteousnes saith the Spirit of God It is the Livery of Aaron the cloath of Levi the mark of distinction the seale of our vocation the Ensigne of the Prophets of God which holy David held out as a Banner of defiance against the Devill though the snailes of our times pull in these hornes of salvation wee being lights which shine not salt which season not clouds which drop not tapers which burne not unsanctified vessels which purifie not Censors which perfume not Ethiops which wash not this was not Davids security this was not his unhallowed precipitation No I will wash a King by place there 's a Caution for great Ones I will wash a Prophet in Spirit ther 's a caution for Prophets And as I have hitherto spurred on the Magistrate and the Minister to a provident and watchfull superintendency whiles they stand in the gates of Sion So come I now to the meanest and shallowest proselite in this assembly I will wash my hands in Innoncency not onely as I am a King and so may be dangerously disposed to doe evill neither as I am a Prophet and so strictly tyed to do well but also as I am a Saint by calling an Israelite a professor within the Arke within the Covenant within the Church for without are none but unhallowed Caitifes profane adulterers outcasts from Heaven As I am therefore thine through thy mercy admitted into the family of Saints enrowled in the parchment of heaven registered among the blessed ones as I am thus regenerated by the spirit adopted by grace confirmed by the Sacraments united to the Church and out of thy mercy made a lively member of the same as every person under this holy roofe in all seeming appearance is why even for this will I wash my hands in Innocency saies David seeing my Calling is holy my God his Altar my vow holy my inheritance holy I therefore thus inhabited thus adopted though my Scepter had lickt the dust and so I had been no King though the gift of prediction had failed mee and so I had been no Prophet yet for the grace shewed me in the benefit of my calling as being called to serve for the greater praise of thy Name I who am thus sequestred from the world and sanctified from my infancy to thy service will wash my hands in Innocency And in this respect the poorest person in this Congregation is tyed to an holy preparation for though we bee not all Kings by place nor Prophets in Spirit with David yet we are all Saints by calling with David I therefore when I come into the house of God will wash my hands in Innocency must be the generall resolution of all men For Innocency is aswell the Sacrifice of Trades-men as Prophets if they once be inaugurated to the name of Christians baptised to the death of Sinne. For then as punishable shall Alexander the copper-smith bee for opposing the spirit of God as Balaam for taking the wages of iniquitie So then we sonnes of Aaron must not so urge Davids holy preparation as hee is a King by place as that we neglect it as hee is a Prophet in Spirit neither must you Mechanicks so presse our Innocency who are of the Priesthood and so Prophets by

spirit as that you neglect your owne who are of the Church and so Saints by calling The bright sunne of our righteousnes must not quite ecclipse the Star of yours but wee are all to shine though one exceed another in glory Wherefore to conclude this point when David saith I will wash my hands in Innocency as I am a King he satisfies the Magistrate as he is a prophet he sanctifies the Minister as a Saint by calling he sanctifies the people Thus you see he speakes to all sorts of people all trades of life to every condition of persons to every Mammonist none are exempted from holynes whether Demetrius the silver-smith Act. 19.24 or Andrew the fisher-man Matth. 4.24 or Gamaliel the Lawyer Act. 22.3 or Lydia the purple seller 16.14 or Dorcas the Semster 9.36 or Simon the Tanner 6.43.20.9 or to be short the meanest of all the Congregation is mixt and therefore I pray request you all to leave your dissimulation and to wash your hands in Innocency Thus much for Quis now followeth Quo modo praeparat and that is by washing I David Wash Now me thinkes I heare a voice which tells mee we are all a leprous generation a viperous and infectious brood full of sores ulcers and botches scarlet soules crimson consciences ramish unsavoury loathsome sinnes if so then let us see the remedy and that induceth two things the Bath and the Parts bathed and first of the Bath Innocency See but the ingredients and you shall easily see the vertue This Bath is made of Holinesse righteousnesse charity hope faith joy humility peace prayer thanksgiving meditation vigilancy equity sanctity chastity contrition repentance perseverance with many other heautious ornaments of the house of God All holinesse of mind righteousnesse of soule charity towards thy neighbour hope in thy Jesus Faith in his merits Joy in the Holy Ghost peace of conscience humility of carriage serventnesse of prayer meditation of Gods mercies delight in his word vigilancy over our affections sanctity of heart equity towards all men chastity of thought repentance for sinne heat of devotion and perseverance the Crowne of holy and vertuous actions Lo here 's a holy water for the Church of Rome to wash in here 's a Jordan for all leprous Naamans to cleanse in t is no river of Damascus but of Israel here 's a poole of Bethesda for our lame and creeple conditions here 's a river of life as cleere as cristal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb in midst of which groweth the tree of life Revel ult Who so enters into the Temple of God without these who so offers to set foote within the porch which is called Beautifull without these doth but only peep through a craney of the mount Horeb but shall never with Moses ascend up his holy hill they only sound forth harsh melody into the ears of God through the untuneablenesse of their spirits which should sing Gorapically as the Coristers of heaven for holinesse becometh thy house for ever Nazianzen is so religiously scrupulous and conscionably timerous of his unworthy approach into the house of prayer that it hath often affrighted mee saith hee from the Mercy feat of God not that I shund the beauty of his Altar but that I feared mine owne unhallowed presence and so consequently the suddain vengeance of Heaven I am ashamed saith he of those that come with unwashen hands and unsanctified hearts to such holy mysteries as these are I feared to draw neere said hee and yet my hands were innocent mine eyes cleare my heart single mine eare erect and attentive my speech savoury and my members were weapons of righteousnesse and like so many Instruments to tune forth the praise of my Creator Here was an innocent and vertuous Churchman well known squared and cut out of a spirituall building of a holy and heavenly tincture and yet he feares his own weaknesse But is there the like devotion found among us No For were it as it is not it would draw many a brinish teare from the eyes of these marble and Stone witnesses to see our irreverent and hallowed approaches for wee come with our hands filthy our feet polluted with sleepy eyes with drowsy heads with full stomacks with quailes in our mouthes and our bellies full of bread Some sleepe with Euticus Act. 20.9 some are offended with the Scribes Pharisees Joh. 7.48 some are angry with Herod Mat. 2.16 some seoffe with Ahab 1 Reg. 22.8 some glance laciviously with Iesabel some are only lukewarm with Agrippa Act. 26.28 and some make bargaines with Iudas Matth. 26.15 Few here with a chaste and dove-like simplicity few with patience few with Faith scarce one with a good conscience No our eyes are playing the harlots our hearts are gon a whoring our eares are stopt with the adder our tongues broaching vanity our hands in our counting-houses our feet prickt with thornes never at ease ever straite at the instep till we can whip forth of the holy congregation and make it the house of folly So that it is Gods great goodnesse wee are not stricken dead with Nadah and Abihu Numb 3.4 for offering strange fyer upon his Altar It is his infinite mercy that we are not burnt down with the men of Sodom Lev. 10.1.2 or swallowed up quick with Corah Dathan and Abyram Numb 16.1 for comming thus rashly and unprepared into his holy Sanctuary our hearts being full of evill intentions which is to play the hypocrite But David saith I will wash and so must it bee with all those that approach the face of God Thou must arise oh Sion thou must put on the garments of thy beauty oh Ierusalem thou must shake the dust of thy feet and unloose the yoak from thy neck when thou drawest neere unto the presence of the most high Nay yee ought to use all reverence with fervency of Prayer with fire of devotion with sanctity of life with purity of Spirit with contrition of heart and the like acceptable offices in the eye of heaven Then shall thy righteousnesse break forth before God as the light and thy just dealing as the nooneday Therefore bath thy heart often in sorrow full sighs and desire the Lord saying O Lord grant I beseech thee an equitie towards all men piety towards thee my God honesty of mind and a heart seasoned with the leauen of Religion that is a Soule ever prepared to come into the house of my God and visit towards his holy Temple And thus much of the Bath Innocency Now for the partes bathed Hands I will wash my hands c. There is a glorious stipend set downe in Scripture for such as have cleane hands who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord Even he that hath cleane hands Ps 24.4.18.20 Againe God shall recompence me according to the cleannesse of my hands So then we must know that as innocency shewed the vertue of the Bath so Hands the wisedome of the party Bathing