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The ioy of Ierusalem and woe of the worldlings. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 18. of Iune. 1609. By William Loe Batcheler of Diuinity.
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Loe, William, d. 1645.
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11. 19 so I say heere is a Seperation of true Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The notes of this diuine Separation are three 1. A Catholike faith toward God 2. Integritie of life and conuersation in themselues 3. Euangelicall charitie toward others By a Catholik Faith I vnderstand not a Romish rotten ragged nouel profession nor as these rare illuminated Iesuits vnderstand Catholike who among manie and manifold other their trauersing the point how to vnderstand Catholik at last conclude verie holie God wot that none are Catholik professors and of that faith but such as are vnder the Catholike Bishop the Pope of Rome in the gouernment and tie of their soules and consciences and vnder the Catholike King of Spaine in the regiment Sparing Discouery of Eng. Iesuits of their bodies goods And this deuice was then hatched when they intended to haue raised that Phillip of Spaine to haue beene the western Monarch of this part of the world Thus doe these Iesuiticall impostours abuse and abase these sacred mysteries of Faith and the seruice of God to damnable and detestable policie But wee beloued of the Lord vnderstand a catholike faith either as the current of the fathers that is the orthodoxe Faith or as Vincentius Lyrinensis Vincent Contr. Hor. Ca. 3. thirteene hundred yeares agoe interpreteth Catholike to wit That which hath beene receiued and beleeued euerie where in the christian world in al places at all times and of all true confessors Heb. 12 And without this faith wee conclude with the Apostle That it is impossible to please God The resience whereof is in the heart for with the heart we beleeue to righteousnes Ro. 10. 10 So Philip the Euangelist teacheth the Eunuch If thou beleeue with Act. 8. 37. all thine heart thou maist bee baptized The effects of this Catholike faith are foure manifested in the word 1. A resolued trust in God 2. A reuerend boldnesse toward him 3. An euidence of things not seene 4. A plenarie perswasion and full setling of the heart The two first are reuealed in one vers Seeing then that we haue such trust ◠Cor. 3. 12 saith Paul we vse great boldnesse of speech The fourth is verified as of Abrahams faith which is a perfect paterne so of all the faithfull That hee was fully perswaded that he Rom. 4. 24 which had promised was able to performe it and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnes The third is positiuely set downe of the spirit of God That faith is the ground of Heb. 11. 1 things hoped for and the euidence of things not euident Thus may we discerne a Catholike Faith by the stile and by the effects Furthermore we may descrie it by looking vpon those halfe faced christians which haue not this true character stamp vpon them As first those are not of this Catholique Faith who obserue part of the commandements reiect the other part as an Hypocriticall Faith doth For the hypocrites are precise in the obseruance of the first table but remisse in the cautions of the second table And this is Sans question an infallible note of a precise Hypocrite if you mark it Secondly those that willingly beleeue part of the Articles of our creed and neglect the other part are not of this Catholike faith For whereas the whole summe of our Faith is referred to those three heads 1. Ad esse Matura 2. Ad esse Gratiae 3. Ad esse Gloriae The christiā partee perpale as the heralds speak condiscendeth to the credit that God made the world which is the first generall head and willingly heareth of the promised glory in the world to come but when he is brought to the humiliation death and resurrection of Christ and is bound hereby to humble mortifie and conforme himselfe according to the Image of the sonne of God there hee faileth and leaueth off his procession and going on in this Catholike Faith Thirdly those are not of this Catholike Faith who thinke they may serue Idols outwardly so they keepe their Faith to God inwardly like vnto Peter in the Pallace of the High priest and the ancient Heretiques the Helchisitae who imagined they might doe as others doe in the outward worship so that they kept their consciences and hearts to God as though God were not the Creator of their bodies as well as of their soules required not the whole man to serue him Fourthly they are not of this catholik faith who serue God onely outwardly as do all worldly christians Fiftly they are not of this Catholik faith who serue God onelie in their time of prosperitie for both these sorts are condemned and reiected by our Sauiour in the parable of the seed Lastly they are not of this Luke 8. Catholike Fath who serue him in certaine places as in the court and not in the countrie in the countrie and not in the court These are such as Christ praieth not for but are excluded from the holy Communion of his blessed intercession Dauids spirit faith was other wise for he saith I will Psal 119 speake of thy testmonies before kings and will not bee ashamed What an hideous shame was this euen in the time of Christs Incarnation That among the cheefe Rulers many beleeued in him but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him lest they should bee cast out of the Synagogue but the reason ensueth Ioh. 12 They loued the praise of men more then the praise of GOD. O foolish and faithlesse people be ye Gouernors Rulers Iudges or Inferiors heare your doome with what measure yee mete withall shall bee measured to you againe christ auoucheth it whosoeuer saith he shall confesse mee before men Mat. 10 32 33. him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen But whosoeuer shall denie mee before men him will I also denie before my Father which is in heauen And Luk 9 26 againe whosoeuer shall bee ashamed of mee and of my words of him shall the Sonne of man bee ashamed when hee shall come in his glorie and in the glorie of the father and of the holy angels Thus much of the first note of true christianity which is a Catholik faith toward God The second is Sinceritie and Newnes of life and conuersation in our selues And herein appeareth the wonderful power maiestie of our God in that wee haue strength through him to sanctifie in some measure our wretched and accursed nature For as the true Christian for whom Christ here prayeth liueth two liues a natural life a supernatural so hath god giuen him two forms whereby those liues are sustained For first as by the soule which is the naturall forme we liue a naturall life in all our powers and sences so of grace which is the supernatural forme proceed all the vertues and gifts of Gods spirit whereby wee liue a supernaturall life This was Pauls life after he was conuerted when as
But their precedent generation hath denounced a woe against saying Woe be vnto them that either wash or clippe the coine whereon the Lord hath set his stampe Yea your ancestours commonly vsed these words in their donations Let their Ex aribiuis â—alleg Gland accouÌ„t be without fauor in the day of the Lord whether they be our heires or successors who shall dare to diminish or alter the lands reuenues and inheritance that we haue consecrated to the Lord. If the iudgement of your elders be required this impious and iniurious surprising of Church estates hath beene condemned both by Christian bishops and also by Christian Emperors who euer were willing rather to lay downe their liues then that the prosperity of the church should bee impeached or the goods thereof wickedly imbeazeled or diuerted from the godly intendments of her well disposed benefactors But you see beloued that Christs Church hath bene surprised and dispoyled of her possessions that whereas the Psalmist saith The earth is the Lords The men of the earth with their earthly mindes haue left our Lord as the Iewes no place to rest his head so they no land to set his foot vppon Hence are your lacklatines your lacklearnings which you fondly and furiouslie obiect vnto the reuerent Beaupeers of the church the Bishops whereas you your selues haue made such priests by robbing the Church as church-Pyrats by famishing the Church-men in taking away their bread and liuelihood by vsurping the possession of others For who should serue your foure pound fiue pound twentie nobles cures if such were not ordained to holde your plough your Church and parish would lie fallow yea that poor pittance which is left to maintaine a few better qualified persons is so caught and dailie vndermined by bare weather beaten desperate courtiers forlorne Gentlemen Cyclopâ—cal scatizers that al wisdom godlie policie of the reuerend Bishops and faithfull councellers of state vsing their best endeuors vtmost fidelitie is little enough to retaine it so far are they from any hope of a succession or godlie deuoted generation who would studie to promote the wealth of the Church But let this generation know that the world is giuen vp to a reprobate sense and if they follow it they also are in no better estate Good Lord where is the blessing and fruite of the ancient time Happie is he that preacheth to an attentiue eare and to an intelligent heart and an obedient soule Worthy Ridley in one sermon to that famous renowned Christian Prince Edward the sixt preuailed that Christ-Church hospitall the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomews in Southwarke and Bridewell were at once erected But now in an hundred Sermons the ministers of Christ must become like to the Friars Mendicants and yet not so far preuaile euen in this place with this Hono. citie us to purchase entertainement I hope I shall be the last that euer shall mention it And to conclude my blessed brethren seeing that al the things of this world are accursed without Christ seâ— before your eies Paul and Dauid as presidents and motiues to exhort you to resolution Paul was crucified to the world Gal. 6. 14. and the world to him and accounted all things as losse and dung for the lucre Phil. 9. 8 of Christ And Dauid wondred That any man should desire ought in heauen but the Lord or esteeme any thing in earth in respect of his God Let vs not then bee like sucking babes who rather cleaue to their nurse then to their owne naturall mother This world is our drie nurse the Church is our true mother Let vs then that are able to receiue strong meat learne to distinguish But if for al this you despise this counsell set at naught these aduertisments and addict your selues wholly to the world listen and heare how the world will deale with you in the end Serue it neuer so long yet as Churlish Laban dealt with Iacob in bringing foule Leah to his mariage bed insteed of faire Rachel so the world wil promise you gladsomnes but will performe loathsomnesse will promise you the finest and gaiest speciousnes but will performe with you in deceitfull spitefulnes Let the experienced say if by the world they found any thing but worldly care in gaining the world wordly fear in retaining it worldly sorrow in losing it Yea this is the meede of their life and in their death insteed of Tumulus giue them cumulus an heape of stones as had Achan who touched the execrable thing so these haue some painted Sepulcher or some specious or pompous funerall and there is Catastrophe the guerdeÌ„ that the world affords them But you beloued and blessed in the Lord lift vp your hearts to him that praieth for you in whome you are the Sonnes the saints the Princes and Priests the Beloued and the Baptized the Illuminates and Associates of the highest by whose sufferings you are seperated and distinguished with works of saluation from the residue of the world through whom God dwelleth in you by the liuerie and seison of his gratious spirit in this life and will after this life is ended be in full possession of you both in soule and bodie eternallie in the glorious rest of heauen To moue you now therfore to are solution to leaue this world all worldly fleshly and diuelish practises of the worldlings and such as are ex diametâ—o contrariant to all heartie and vnfained Christians to cleaue vnto the Lord that doth thus pitie you in praing for you honour you in making choice of you froÌ„ among others and in gracing you by vouchsafeing to receiue you as pledges of his fathers loue and accounting you as his own I cannot propone a more forcible motiue to stir vp and quicken your hearts to a sad serious thankfulnes then to put you in minde that you certainely are the people that Christ hath praied for euen you I meane the faithfull of this Land and state who haue sought the Lord in sinceritie and hearty deuotion And that I may not now in the Epilogue of this my weake endeuour send you farre backe I shal desire you to looke and with open and displaied eies beholde the louing kindenes of the Lord toward our kingdome and countrie euen in the memory view of our whole nation and all Christendome How escaped we the furious and mischeeuous complotments of manie weightie and malitious deadly enemies in all the peaceable raigne most happie and neuer enough admired gouernment of that deere Lady our late soueraine Qu. Elizabeth of pretious memorie Did not Christ pray for vs when all those secret designements popish thunder Cardinal conspiracies Iesuiticall proiects and domesticall treacheries were discouered set vpon the stage Did not Christ pray for vs when our state tottered at the decease of our late Soueraigne and to the wonder of al the Christian world did as an earthquake shake settle in a moment when all nations about vs stood looking at the things likely to ensue What frustrated the Popish prophecie of Worthing toÌ„ the Iesuit when forespeaking as he hispaniolized traitor wished That the fall of one Ladie would be the raising of an other Meaning that the death of Ladie Elizabeth would bee the Diadem of Izabella Infanta Eugenia Clara who brought to scorne also the surmise of Weston the Iesuite another false prophet who seeing his fellow WorthingtoÌ„s spel take no effect went on and tooke longer time as the manner of bankrupts is and said That the sinnes of England were not ripe at the death of Weston de tripl offic Queen Elizabeth But when England had fulfilled the measure of her sinnes as the Ammorites did then would the Lord vtterly destroy vs. Which Gen. 15. 16 prophecie of his doubtlâ—s intended the powder Treason which if it had beene effected then had Weston deserued to haue been notified with a red letter in the list of Anabaptisticall prophets But then euen then also Christ Iesus praied for vs and Worthington with his coopse-mate Weston are found lyars and we our prince and people are maruellously and miraculously deliuered from the sulphurous blast complotted at Rome proiected at Rhemes fortified at Doway practised in England yea and that which was some certain yeeres in intendment and purpose was frustrated in a moment Oh then seeing not onely the whole land but euen the very particular person here present can capitulat in specie what great things the Lord hath done for them where in we now reioice let it be sufficient for me to commemorate in generall and for euerie one of vs in indiuiduo to commune with his owne heart and write this lesson there with the pen of a Diamond that neither day nor night tide nor time weale nor woe may obliterate or blot out the character of his diuine lesson and angelicall consolation but resolue that our whole life bee a deuoted sacrifice of thankfulnes seruice to the liuing God of eternal maiestie through Iesus Christ our faithful intercessor to whom with God the father God the sanctifying spirit be rendred al power praise might and maiestie this day and euermore Amen The very God of peace sanctifie you 1. Thes 5. 23. throughout and I pray God that your spirits soules and bodies may bee kept blameles vnto saluation through Christ Iesus this day and euermore FINIS