duobus signis foemininis Tau He ad augendum sensum salus salus Euen as they note also on the word Ashre blessed that it is both abstract and plurall to shew the perfection of beatitudes which God giueth which is secretis malis omnibus cumulata bonorum complectio such is Ieshugnoth heere a deliuerance from all euils and secondly an exaltation to all good He is Magnificans salutes his name in both is wonderful wonderful great wonderfull many are his saluations Wee were strangers and forreiners hee hath made vs by his saluations free of the heauenly Hierusalem Citizens with the Saints yea and of the houshold of GOD his Domesticks and Seruants in ordinarie which the Queene of Sheba applauded in Salomon's seruants Blessed are thy men that stand in thy presence and heare thy wisdome But a greater then Salomon is heere and heere in his presence are you assembled to heare his wisedome to saluation But of seruants some are Slaues and Tenants in villainage he hath exalted vs aboue the name of seruants henceforth saith hee I will call you friends Friends in Alliance and Consanguinitie are more then friends but saith he of such Loe heere my Brother my Sister my Mother loe heere euen they which heare his word and doe it Yea but Amor descendit true in vs it is weake in the ascending and collaterall lines but heere is also a descent Loe heere am I and the children which thou hast giuen me Children sweet pledges other selues but yet one is the Heire and Gauell-kind-tenure weakeneth the greatest Inheritance Not so heere all the Heires all haue all and are haeredes ex asse the Inheritance is a transcendent beyond the Predicaments of substance quantitie too and therefore indiuisible the Inheritance of the Saints in light which as the light is communicable without diminution as well to millions of millions as to two or three beholders Son and heire of God coheire with Christ is there a sweeter name yea the loue of women is prouerbiall the Wife in the bosome sometimes gets a Monopoly and this interceding Moone ecclipseth the Sun's light to his dearest Progenie Be it so yet this also is ours he hath espoused vs to him for euer How doth hee himselfe sing his Amoretti if not Epithalamion his loues in that Song of Songs how did hee put on our nature in his Incarnation to woo vs and put it off as it were in his Passion to winne vs Yea the Deuill 's skin for skin and Wife for life lyeth not heere hee hath made vs of r his flesh and bone and one with himselfe in mysticall vnitie and in more then miraculous charitie hath not cut off the member for the head but hath permitted committed the head to die for the members hee died for our sinnes he rose againe for our iustification he ascended to giue gifts vnto vs and is set downe at the right hand of GOD to make intercession for vs sinners to take possession for vs mortals in his fathers house where are many mansions that whereas he is we may be also The third obseruation is that he is not onely a Sauiour in deliuerance and prosperitie but Salus saluation Of the Iudges it is said Dedisti eis saluatores Obadiah saith of Ministers by whom yee beleeue Ascendent saluatores and they were men of Belial which denyed this to the King How shall this man saue vs and wee are bidde saue our selues Act. 2. These saue as Instruments but originally Saluation is the Lords as essentially as Deitie I euen I am the LORD and beside mee there is no Sauiour He is Salutare Inbilemus Deo salutari nostro the sunne of saluation yea in another extent he is salus Hee is my light and my saluation Say vnto my soule I am thy saluation He is as Tremellius readeth it omnimoda salus Alijs dimensa huic immensa salus Others saue imperfectly as This saluation sauiour pleaseth to impart sometimes and some persons in some measure in some manner and soone are at some end of their sauing yea the King heere needeth a Towre of saluation for himselfe But He is Saluation it selfe infinitly perfect perfectly infinite totus tota salus the Alpha Omega spring and sea center and circumference of saluation In him it pleased the Father that all fulnesse should dwell euen the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily Neither is there saluation in any other The Virgin whom some salute Saluatrix beginneth her Magnificat with GOD my sauiour hee is magnificans salutes he is magnifica salus Factus est mihi in salutem saith Dauid twice in the 118. Psalme most properly for Verbum caro factum est The Word which is supersubsisting saluation was made flesh did assume into personall subsistence the humane nature and factus est in salutem is become saluation by comming in the flesh And thus this inaccessible abstract is made a sensible concrete a treasurie of saluation his manhood being the cisterne into which the waters of saluation euer flow and ouerflow from the immense fountaine of the Deitie and by the Word and Spirit are as by the conduits from that cisterne conueyed to our Faith and wee out of his fulnesse receiue grace for grace who is salus and salus saluation and saluation grace and glorie IESVS is this Ieshugnoth Physician and Physike too our Redeemer and Sauiour yea our saluation and redemption the price which was payed for vs in his stripes wee are healed there is liberatio and to me to liue is Christ I liue not but he liueth in mee There is grace the first part of exaltation And the Lambe is the Temple Sunne and light of that Citie and all the sealed and saued innumerable numbers crie Saluation to our God which sitteth vpon the throne and vnto the Lambe this is the second part of exaltation our superexaltation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dedit se in meritum dahit se in proemium Hee gaue himselfe to buy vs hee will giue himselfe to crowne vs. Nothing else could saue from infinite euill of sinne and therefore he was made sinne for vs to saue his people from their sinnes was betrayed to his enemies to deliuer vs from ours exinaniuit se or as Tertullian readeth it exhausit as Beza ex Omni seipsum ad nihil redegit to exalt vs and is therefore exalted that hee may be made vnto vs wisedome righteousnesse iustification redemption Once hee is all in all which Saint Paul makes the state of saluation That God shall bee All in All. O the height the bredth the depth the length O the loue the saluation of Christ that passeth knowledge but oh the height the bredth the depth the length the sinne of man that passeth knowledge some so careles
Towre of saluation to the Towre of all his the King Turris salutum Regis sui Hee is a Towre of saluation for his King Aboue this Towre is onely the crosse immensitie and eternitie Super Imperatorem non est nisi Deus qui fecit Imperatorem Quantus Deus qui deos facit Thus for the ascent of our Text. The latitude of it latum mandatum tuum nimis saith the Psalmist is from Hierusalem to London from Dauid to all Kings yea from Zion to the worlds end First and literally to Dauid and his seede the whole historie of Dauid in the two books of Samuel and the first of Chronicles this Psalme twice repeated with others are Commentaries of the Text for his person as the rest of the Bible-historie for his feede Wee should powre water into the Sea and abuse your patience to expatiate at large in this sense Secondly this is true in mysticall Dauid our King that is Christ and his seede all Christians who together with him are not the seedes as many but the seede as one one Vine one Temple one new Man one Christ. And in this sense wee will first handle it ascending-wise and after that come to a third application descending this Scala coeli to Kings the Dauids of their Countries especially Christian Kings the Heads of the Tribes of Israel His Kings ouer His People most especially This King ouer This People whom the GOD of Iacob long preserue The defender of the Faith This indeed is most proper to the day and therefore in the other sense fertile enough for many Sermons we will be more sparing then otherwise wee would in the little Map of this Text beholding our Catholike Commons and Christian Immunities the rather to incite vs to obserue the Royall Prerogatiue in the last place for which the Text was chosen Verbum dici in die suo First Hee is a towre of saluation that is giueth great deliterance to vs all as to his Kings IESVS giueth Ieshugnoth that is is named Sauiour because hee saueth his people his Kings from their sinnes For God is the entitie and immensitie of Goodnesse Greatnesse Blessednesse which in fellowship with him we enioy In thy light shall wee see light in thy presence is fulnesse of ioy c. But your inquities saith Isayah haue separated betweene you and your God and your sinnes haue hid his face from you Neither can any separate our sinnes these Separaters of vs from God euery Creature owing all it is hath can to the Creatour in whom by whom and for whom it is and was created And therefore hee which had made man after Gods Image made himselfe after mans Image to free vs from that Image of the old man and old Serpent which sinne had portrayed in our soules and body throughout He was made sinne for vs that we might bee made the righteousnesse of God in him In sinne are foure things the fault 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The strength of sinne is the Law thereby broken and taking hold of the forfeiture Secondly Reatus the guilt which is a Latitat Out-lawrie Witte of Rebellion an Arrest out of all Courts which our owne consciences will and shal execute The third is macula whereby the Sinner as a selfe-prisoner vnder the arrest of Conscience is cast in Irons and further polluted and intangled in the cords and corruption of his owne sinne the old remayning and new Actions and Indictments as new sores breaking out are entred against him euery day The fourth is Poena the finall punishment and curse Ite maledicti O the miseries of that Sinner easelesse endlesse remedilesse where he shall euer be dying and his death neuer be dead How sweet were saluation to such an apprehension and how sweete is he that preuents the apprehension with deliuerance Blessed is the man whose wickednesse culpa is forgiuen and whose sinne reatus is couered which hath a Supersedeas from Suite from Arrests a Protection Yea blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute iniquitie giues a pardon quoad poenam and in whose spirit there is no guile the macula is emaculata and hee is now in another predicament Beati immaculati in via The deliuerance from sinne deliuereth from Hell Death the Deuill and all Actions and Suits betwixt God and the Soule deliuereth from the power of darknesse and translateth into the Kingdome of his deare Sonne the Sauiour of his people from their sinnes who now remoto prohibente doth secondly exaltare addes new Priuiledges and becomes a second Adam the Authour by Regeneration of a new life to vs not onely giuing great deliuerance to his King washing vs in his bloud from our sinnes and by his death crucifying this death in vs that sinne may neither be imputed to vs nor reigne in vs but adding great prosperitie by his Spirit and the vertue of his Resurrection animating actuating and formalizing vs into one Mysticall Bodie with himselfe renewing vs into a new Creature and transforming vs by his Word and Spirit into the image and likenesse of himselfe that as by carnall generation wee haue receiued humane nature and corruption which is the putting on of the old man from the first Adam so by spirituall Regeneration from the second wee may put on the new man and be made as Peter calleth it partakers of the Diuine Nature that we may not liue saith Saint Paul but hee may liue in vs whereby wee are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone and because he liues wee shall liue also a life begun in grace and growing into endlesse glory when our vile bodies shall be made like the Firmament shine as the Starres like the Sun in his brightnesse yea like the Son of Righteousnes himselfe shal be made like his owne glorious bodie and with their revnited spirits in eternall societie of Saints and Angels shall enioy fulnesse of ioy at his right hand and pleasures for euermore And will he neglect in a miserable Wardship his Sonnes and Heires No Godlinesse hath the promises of this life and that which is to come Our Text saith magnificans salutes hee giueth great deliuerance and great prosperitie both great prosperitie in bodie and soule both and both in this life and that which is to come both And He that hath giuen vs his owne Sonne how shall hee but with him the Heire of all things giue vs all things all which wee can see or heare or conceiue nay more then all these hath God prepared for them that loue him He is DEVS ad salutes saith Dauid which he expoundeth by leading captiuitie captiue receiuing gifts for men and loading vs with benefits euen to a Selah a note aboue Ela the highest tune of our Song of our conceit So Ion. 2.9 Ieshugnathah saluations of the Lord which the Grammarians obserue cum
the Gospel and liue yea and reigne enioy a threefold Kingdom all beyond names of time and one also beyond all space of place Awaken you rich men which listen after great purchases which make others poore yea which make your selues poore to make your selues rich which liue poore to die rich and buy some patch of the World with making your selues patches and the vilest things that you and the World haue Be no Pedlers be Royall Merchants three Kingdomes three Worlds giue mee a Chapman And lest out of your owne vse and guiltinesse yee suspect me of fraude see the proofe and goodnes of them The first of these is this Vniuerse a large Kingdome to which Great Alexander's would haue beene but a petie-petie principalitie not enough for a Peere of this Kingdome Off with thy Harpies-hands and fancie-frenzies Anabaptist wee remooue not the Land maâ—…es nor confound Proprieties Downe with thy Magnifico-mouse-births sententious Mountebanke wordie Paradoxicall Stoicke Simia quam similis turpissima bestia nobis Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu He and he onely is rich free wise a King where 's his euidence hee hath dreamed of that which is indeed the Inheritance of grace not nature and therefore ours because Christ. the heire of all things is ours and therefore not ours in subuerting Proprietie because Christ came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it and where were Thou shalt not steale if all had proprietie in all All things are yours saith S. Paul and you Christs and Christ GOD'S Inuert the Order and see your Pedigree and right All things are GOD'S and The Father hath loued the Sonne and giuen him all things God so loued the World that he gaue his Sonne and with him all things as appurtenances to the free-hold To vs a Sonne is giuen and to as many as receiue him he giueth power to be the Sonnes of GOD and therefore heires coheires euen as many as beleeue in his Name The Christian hath the Vniuerse but in an Vniuersall tenure which hee enioyeth thus his minde by contemplation his conscience in libertie his bodie in lawfull vse of what God sends q sanctified by the Word and Prayer his heart with contentednesse supplying all defects and fixing it selfe on God which is ours whatsoeuer else be wanting by whose onely will and prouidence other things are wanting and which giues himselfe before hee take away any thing and takes away other things that he might make vs capeable of himselfe This is Manna of all tasts we need not the flesh-pots of Egypt this is generous Wine what care I if I haue no troubled Ale this is delightsome light which hauing viewed I cannot I care not much for baser Obiects Christian libertie frees not from duties to doe what we list but giues a lust to do our duties and like the Sunne shines through Aire and Water without corrupting them and as the soule fils the bodily members not consuming but consummating and perfecting them it addeth Sanctitie dissolueth not Proprietie Once God is the Towre of his King and the World is the Towre-hill Court or Liberties and if hee bee our portion needs must it whereas the vngodly because he hath not God hath a Humane and Ciuill not a Spirituall right and his conscience is polluted in the vse of that which hee calleth his owne like Cain a Vagabond in his owne ground To the impure all things are impure The second World whereof this Towre of saluation makes thee King is thy selfe lesse in quantitie then the former but greater in value for that was made with his Word Dixit facta sunt omnia but The Word himselfe was made a man for man dixit multa gessit mira saith Saint Bernard pertulit dura that hee might re-giue vs our selues And if a man be not sui compos what can the World benefit him any otherwise then the great Inheritance of a Foole Mad-man or Infant which being sui impotes are with all that they haue at other's disposition or what right hath he more then a slaue whose all is his Lords Others are Infants Fooles Madde and Slaues to the Deuil the World the Flesh the true Christian is Lord of himselfe though hee be a Slaue and is both King and Kingdome too in this Microcosme The Regions Climates of this World are his bodily members the Subiects euery particle of bodie and facultie of minde euery action and passion the Freedome is the wil freed the Law is Gods Word Reason is the Court Conscience Iudge the Affections Sheriffe and Iusticers to put in execution the externall Senses Officers Common-sence Clerke Phantasie Cryer Memorie Register the Court continuall in selfe-sessions And were it not for this selfe-authoritie whereby a man commandeth himselfe and doth good or bad willingly there were neither Vertue nor Vice in which respect the Slaue being the Lords Freeman willingly and for conscience is subiect to doe and suffer his Superiours wil as seruing the Lord and not man And hee that is thus King of himselfe is Lord of Fortune suis ea cuique fingitur moribus of Death it is but like Goliahs Sword his owne Executioner and killeth the remainder of death in vs of the Deuill who hath the power of death of the World whereof hee is God that his Concubine and of our Lusts the Bawdes the Traytors beeing exiled and executed the Deuill and the World haue no power Thus that Noble Armie of Martyrs did what they might and when by Gods countermand they might not doe they suffered and by willing suffering tormented their Tormenters and conquered their Conquerours O Noble Armie of Martyrs their names written in a second red shining brighter euery day the other in the dust that I descend no lower In all these things the Philosophers talke walke stalke it like a King in a Play but were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they called Saint Paul and mocked at the Mysteries of this State which they knew not And how then could they know that third Kingdome and World meerely supernaturall and supermundane it is not for Athenian Owles but Heauenly Eagles to face that Sunne and flye in such light The Reuersion is heere made sure by Faith and Christ leauing his pledge with vs his Spirit is gone thither with our pledge and in our nature hath taken possession Of which hauing said somewhat before heere we cannot say much saue onely that it is beyond what wee can say or thinke a World of Worlds in substance not subiect to alteration corruption passion motion in quantitie many dwelling places the walles twelue thousand furlongs in qualitie a Paradise faire shining delightsome the streets of pure Gold shining like vnto cleere Glasse a meere transcendent where all are Kings of all these three Worlds and the King of Kings shall dwell with them and bee