breeds another but there is too much already in word and deed of this badde matter Now let vs with ioy looke againe on the Kings sonne trie his spirit hitherto vnvanquished smell the sweetnesse of his pretious oyntments which the Popes dead flies haue not yet corrupted Fathers behold the Kings sonne and see of what fashion opinion and affection your sonnes should be he smels as Iacob did Iacob did smell of Christ Psal 12.1 all of truth I must confesse my sorrow of heart in that iust complaint for the faith and truth are diminished from among the children of men There are many numbers of them like idoles of the heathen which haue eyes and see not or in speciall like Harpocrates the dumbe god which did see as they supposed but could not or would not speake To all those whatsoeuer they be we may truly say Quid igitur profuit te vidisse veritatem quam nec defensurus es nec secuturus As the nice dame which can looke vpon the table richly furnished with sumptuous prouisions and hath no stomacke to put them vp It hath beene vrged against the Separatists long agoe that the perfection of the Church is aboue and not belowe in heauen and not on earth And to this purpose are instances pressed out of Pater noster which was all hands without eies and our Father which is all eies with out few hands But see here the true proportion of true religion both hands to doe and eies to see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prince and the Princesse in mutuall armes embracing and feeding one the other as Prou. 8 Exalt her and she shall exalt thee This sonne is filius dextrae the right sonne royall the sonne of the right hand compendium gratiarum a treasure of the treasures of gladnesse The eies of the multitudes looke on him and the noblest of all the Nobles say of him thou art worth ten thousand of one of vs. 2 Sam. 18.3 The true sonne and true heire to a true King The son the heire the title the inheritance the creation all sauour of truth Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field Heere wee must leaue the second riuer where mercy and truth are mette together in the Prince as the light and warmth of the sunne to reioice together as two riuers of Paradise to runne one with an other So that the Prince may happilie say in the end Psal 119.32 I haue runne the way of thy commandements and the Lorde may say of the Prince Behold the smell of my sonne Now are wee come to the cordiall waters of righteousnesse There is among men a Merchants Righteousnesse There is among men a poore mans Righteousnesse There is among men a proud mans Righteousnesse There is among men a Christians Righteousnesse The first is the righteousnesse of a prophane Merchant who selles all his righteousnesse for smoke of vaine glory Matth. 6.1 Take heede of this righteousnesse The second is the righteousnesse of a proud Lady a proud heart in a beggers purse Thou saiest I am rich and increased with goods and haue neede of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable Apoc. 3 Matth. 5. and poore But except your righteousnesse do exceed the righteousnesse of Scribes c. The third is the righteousnesse of the man with a gold ring and goodly apparell who must euer bee the best of the company What hath God commanded which he will not do This man is as the foole which hearing that God commanded man to walke streight neither turning to the right hand nor the left he would ouer hedge and ditch hilles and houses till hee fell and could passe no further Eccle. 7.17.18 There is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice but be not thou iust ouermuch The fourth is Abrahams righteousnesse Hee beleeued and it was counted to him for righteousnesse So vnderstand this Scripture that good Christians may put off that slander of Solifidians For the true Christan is not fier without heat or day without light No the way of the righteous shineth as the light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day This is Iaacobs righteousnes glistring with his father Abrahams righteousnesse both righteous in Christ The ground in which wee find this current of righteousnesse is called a field where wee haue of field roome good store In the word of God we finde diuerse fields the field of the fatherlesse the field of beasts Prou. 23.10 Psalm 8.7 Prou. 24 and the sluggards field In the field of the fatherlesse the wild Boare doth often roote and the greedy Wolfe doth make subtill entrance In the field of beasts Nebuchadnezar liued all in pride blasphemie rapine lust drunkennesse as too many in our times Psalm 104 liue more like beasts then men where all the beasts of the field doe meete and the wilde Asses quench their thirst In the sluggards field are thistles and nettles as a wicked mans life is all full of offensiue transgressions for want of Christian exercise But I haue thought to speake of other fields Luke 6.1 Iohn 18.1 There is ager frumenti the corne-field where Christ walked hortorum the field of gardens where Christ praied the field of bloud the potters field bought with the price of bloud and ager Meridianus the sun-shine field whither Christ is ascended This Meridian field is the ioyfull Theatre for all true beleeuers whither Iaacob and Iaacob are risen with Christ Colos 3 the one spe the other re one initians the other initiatus one in via the other in patria one in possession 1. Joh. 3.14 Ioh. 5.24 the other in infallible assurance For we know that we are translated already from death to life But what field is Iaacob a corne-field so haue we heard of him in the corne-eare that his Corne and Wine and Oile increased Faith Hope Cant. 4 16. and Loue. Iaacob is a field of gardens all of vigent flowers and pinguous hearbes of grace that of his owne heart he may say with excellent desire Let my beloued come into this garden and eate his pleasant things Let come prosperity aduersity or terror or flattery or what ill blast soeuer Ionah 4 7. Iob. 1 Cant. 4.16 as on Ionahs gourd or Iobs house yet this field shall prosper and the more it is blowen more sweet it smelles Arise O North and come O South and blow on my garden that the spices thereof may flow Iacob is a field of bloud the vndefiled bloud of the Redeemer was sprinkled vpon him Apoc. 14.1 the bloud of the Lambe of God which standeth on mount Sion The bloud of the Lambe was let out by his enemies in the field of bloud but it was shed vpon his friends as water on the thirsty ground to comfort it This is the bloud of the Testament which God hath appointed vnto you Hebr. 9.12 Yea this precious bloud was powred
that we may more desire them and bid them better welcome At the length that Ecce and wonder of the world was borne for none of the Lords words shall fall to the ground one liuing fruit of two dead stockes 1. Sam. 3.19 his father an hundred Gen. 17 19. and his mother ninetie yeares old Aske his name it was Isaac all laughter Gen. 21.6 well may he laugh which winnes well did he winne which did winne Christ in whom all the nations of the earth are blessed Isaac praeludium Christi de quo fideles rident Guil. Lugdunensis ex quo omnia Dei dona in fidelibus rident Isaac was Christ his prologue for whom all true hearts haue pleasant thoughts and all faire gifts of God in his Saints are through him very delectable But yet the blessing resteth ad aras as if God had euery day a consultation with himselfe for the progresse of this blessing Isaac was not directed to his wife till hee was fourtie yeares olde Gen. 25.20 and Rebecca was barren till twentie yeares after What is Gods promise come vtterly to an end no all this staie was the whetting of Abrahams faith and the exercise of Isaacks patience longing for Ecce Quamuis in Isaac promissa esset successio tameÌ„ implenda erat precibus Dei praefinitio Albeit the Lord had giuen assurance of succession in Isaac yet the performance was so ordained by zealous petitions it should be obtained The praiers of them both in good time preuaile with God though sorrow continue for a night Psal 30. yet joy commeth in the morning after praier They and their assistants pray for a blessing and the blessing falls double on the ground Cant. 7. Gen. 25. Rebecca's two sonnes are like two yong Roâ—os that are twins for Isaacs wife conceiued and shee bare two nations in her wombe Shee for a while went weeping 1. Sam. 1.8 Psal 126. as Hannah did albeit shee had an husband better then tenne sonnes and carried pretious seed yet shee did returne with ioy and brought her sheaues double Vita humana plus aloes quaÌ„ mellis habet Gen. 26. I shall not need to fill this Ecce with the various and perisous temptations which came to Isaac If I might shew them all you all might maruell that euer he could reach this Ecce Let this one instance suffice which was a lamentable distresse vpon him Wallensis that hee had not so much as sweet waters to nourish him Fidelium profectus impij non ferunt aequanimiter Auicetus The wicked pine away at the prosperitie of the godly All his enemies labour vtterly to subuert him and euery neighbour seemed to him an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle labouring to subuert him that he might be vtterly ruinated but the Lord was his deliuerance as he hath been ours in an oppression much like or worse then this For what portions of truth wee haue found in the word of truth as wells of liuing waters to nourish vs and our children the Popelings vitiate them De caudis vulpes cognoscas de fimbrijs texturas They either equiuocate vpon them this their double dealings or hide them by the ingruences of their multiplied Index expurgatorius fal shood in fellowship or stop them vp with glosses and earthly traditions this their packe of knackes lest our Chruch should thriue too fast But some will say why say you so of the Papists they are our neighbours It is true as the Philistims were neighbours to Isaac Enuied welleth at the next doore Quotvicinos habemuo totidem hostes and a man doth often bring his worst companion from home 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our kinsmen are our in-bred vipers as Parsons eiusdemfa rinae millenarij and thousands of the same vnpurged leuen Here is the cause why wee haue so much a doe to keepe cleere waters in the welles which our fathers haue digged Hi sunt qui Ecclesiam in vagientem extinguere adultam conati sunt haretics Gen. 26.15 they for very spite haue filled with mudde and stopped them vp with earth which they haue digged out of their infernall pits to this purpose Thus the Philistims had enuie at him and filled vp with earth all the welles which his fathers seruants digged in his father Abrahams time See then how vnlikely it is for vs to hold in the breath of diuine knowledge as for Isaac to abide in the spirit of life if God were not with vs. Sed à Deo adiuti refodimus puteos paternos ab inuidis palestinis obturatos but in the name of the Lord we discouered our fathers fountaines which Philistinian enuie had hidden from vs. Thus the Lord was on Isaacks side Feare not Isaac for I am with thee and will blesse thee and will multiply thy seed Now then to goe on with Ecce behold on thing more strange Rebecca's two children were at strife in the mothers wombe like the two Hebrewes at strife in the field Potuit esse naturalis causa sed accessit mystica supernaturalis for that wonder there be reasons rendred in nature but there was a supernaturall respect aboue reason The two younglings are both wrestlers Hipolitus both wrestling for a wonderfull prize for a blessing a birth-right a crowne O blessed crowne of immortall glorie 1. Pet 5.4 Rupertus Collidebantur paruuli eodem Dei nutupermoti quo irrationalia pecora inanimata elementa futurorum praesagio permoueri solent The tender younglings werre stirred to their conflict by the same motion in which we sometimes see both beasts without reason and elements without life to stirre that their stirres might be Calenders of after-claps Luc. 21. So shall there bee signes in the Sunne and Moone and Starres Surely the guerdon was greater then the wrestlers thought of yet their thoughts seeme to contend for the prize which the weaker winnes by grace The Weezell doth raise his force against the Basiliske for soueraigntie in that place where they meet and shee being armed with Rue Succus rutae palet contra serpentes vt gratia Dei â—ontra Diaboâ—os Rupertus â— Hierome Septuagine Symmachus preuaileth in the combate Thus the younger sapling Iaacob being armed with the hearbe of grace vincit fratrem Basiliscum he puts his brother to the foyle The strife is diuersly described in the varietie of translations some conquassare to shatter irruere to rush one on another some confringebantur collidebantur they did offer mutuall violence one to another some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ludebant calcitrabant they did kicke one the other some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in similitudinem nauis in superficie ferebantur they seemed to swimme in their mothers bellie But here a Schollers braines may swimme in superficiall obseruation to little purpose Wee yeeld to that which wee reade with approoued iudgement Fratrum diuortium portendit ebrionum collisio â—ucherius â—aietane Sed non
to the time of the vintage This is now the time of the vintage the sweete wines of the Scripture and Sacraments of Christ and the holy Ghost are pressed out that after we may drinke anew of the fruit of the vine in the kingdome of God When yee haue gathered the fruit of the Land yee shall keepe an holy feast vnto the Lord. This life is the season of gathering sweet grapes of grace next is the feast the time of glorie But I must remember where I am and bind short all other circumstantiall tidings together Esau proud Esau contemnes his brother vt Diobolarem as the irefull Woolfe the little Kidde Hee sold the title but hee purposeth perforce to hold the inheritance In which example were may take a view of the common Centaures and Cyclopes of the world which hold al per fas et nefas all by strong hand hee wil haue all lawfull which is vnlawfull and will be as the Lion was his owne caruer Neither was that fraus vulpeculae wanting in Esaus designes for to strengthen himselfe that hee might be able to beare downe his brother hee maketh matches with two wiues without liking consent or knowledge of his parents He was as the Scrpent which was more subtill then any beast of the field clandestinas aucupatur consultationes contra iustitiam et pacem Brunus hee putteth the snare of the hunter to ouerthrow all righteous peace with noysome pestilence This is the man which will bee more wise then God his meaning is otherwise then God meant Hee will match especialy Genes 12.7 26.3 with the Princes daughters of the Philistines whom the Lord did purpose to root out In these coherences hee pretendeth peace with all men A peaceable man is Esau hee will haue peace with all the world It was then with him as it was long after with the Arrians and other succeeding Hererikes in their subtill contriuements iust as it is now with the Romanists when their shew is best their intent is worst But all this great hast to be great Ose 1.7 was without good speed and all his confidence in the flesh of mans arme is vaine for he cannot hold that inheritance by bow or sword or battell or horses horse-men or kins-men whose tenure was not of the willer not runner Rom 9.16 but of the mercy of God Much like to this was Salomons seducement miscarried with worldly wisdome to confidence in carnall power He concludeth matches with his Aegyptian neighbors Moab Ammon Edom Zidon and Heth and yet his great sonne and heire for all his fathers cunning 3 Reg. 11 lost tenne Tribes at once of his owne kingdome What saith Roboam after the extinction of his father 3 Reg. 12 what My little finger shall bee greater then my fathers loines O Roboam by mee Kings reigne but the armes of the wicked shall be broken Psalm 37.17 Afterward when Salomon slept with his fathers Roboam had a smarting feeling of Gods power in the proofe of Ahijah his Prophesie 3 Reg. 11 For as the Prophet caught hold on the new garment on Ieroboams backe or his owne and rent it off in twelue peeces so Roboams new kingdome was rent from his Scepter and none followed the house of Dauid but the Tribe of Iudah only Had not he cause to cry out as he fled to Ierusalem for feare crucior bolum tantum mihi esse ereptum tam subito è faucibus I am troubled out of measure Psal 119.137 to see my meat in spite of my teeth to fall out of my mouth and my selfe vnable to with-hold it but iust art thou O God and iust are thy iudgements And thus it doth often prooue with them which make their reckoning without God as Mauritius did the cast of their anchor is preuented their treasures are but coales and their nuts but shelles Psalm 146 both their pleasures and profits are cut short of their accounts Therefore trust not in Princes nor in any sonne of man for there is no helpe in him Thinke then if it be thus that those malepert confederacies of surly Esau with Infidels both against faith and good manners were as pricking thornes to Isaac and Rebekah Ge. 26.34.35 But Isaac after many tedious daies of his wearisome pilgrimage his eies beeing dimme expecteth his end and to set his house in order before hee die he disposeth himselfe to his last will and testament He knowing also that Esau was numerous in children Zeno. and cunning in his plots and that Iacob was both childlesse and wifelesse and plain he doth fully purpose to bequeath the great predominancy to the elder brother Make me sauoury meat such as I loue and bring it to mee that I may eate Gen. 27.4 and that my soule may blesse thee before I die By these thoughts of Isaac we may perceiue that God seeth not as man seeth ante pedes only for man purposeth and God disposeth All is Gods to dispose or transpose at his pleasure as he tranlsated the Egyptian riches to the Israelites hands I. Osorius that they might handle them better You know that when Iaacob was to blesse his sonne Iosephs two sonnes so that his right hand was vpon the yonger sonne and his left hand on the elder incongrua videbatur illa manuum impositio Iosepho ignaro prouidentiae Dei that imposition of hands which was orderred by Gods prouidence looked like an iniurious fact to Ioseph not beeing at that time acquainted with Gods purpose Ioseph did thinke his aged father was in feeblenesse and error Gen. 48.17 Iunilius and would haue changed his hands Surely a good man was Ioseph and a Prophet but not alwaies enlightened alike with the spirit of prophesie nor for all things therefore his father beeing better guided with a superior degree of light at that time continueth his blessing and createth Ephraim the son of his right hand Gen. 48.19 So that as then the primacy was giuen to the younger brother Prouidentia Dei est ordinatio aptorum mediorum ad finem contrary to the fathers desire the Lord ruling the lots thus must it now be by the disposition of the same power And now it is plaine that Esau hath met with his match hee is wily for himselfe but God is of counsell with Iaacob Looke vpon the contriuement Esau is sent on hunting whiles Iaacob taketh the prey coruum delusit hiantem and is instauled into the blessing Heere let Esau complaine that hee hath waried himself in the waies of wickednesse drawing out the cords of vanitie Quid nisi victis dolor Esay 59.5 Luke 5.5 and weauing the Spiders web and at length is become as the fishers which labored all night and caught nothing In a word these words of my text lap in the reason of inducement to Isaac to doe that which he meant not to haue done The Lord is such a considerate and powerfull agent in the businesse
so lowly in his seruice to think so highly of God and so truly of himselfe Aquae descendunt ad valles God giueth grace to the humble to bee frequent at praiers sermons holy quiers as if his cheefe desire were as Dauids was to dwell in the courts of the Lord to bee a friend to the Church and a stay to the Altar as good Iosiah was 4 Reg. 23 Quanto magis arbor abundat fructibus tanto magis inclinatur more any tree doth abound with fruite more doth it bend it selfe to their commodity who are vnder it Thus doth he increase in fauour with God and man Charilaus the peoples ioy all his garments smell of the Sanctuary his fathers ioy as Iacob was to Isaac Who doth not ioy in the smell of this Violet The Prince hath the Corne-care holy workes in his faith as if hee had digested that counsell of the wise-man All that thine hand shall finde to doe Eccl. 9.8.10 doe it with all thy power for there is neither worke nor inuention nor knowledge S. Augustine nor wisdome in the graue Qui vult sine fine remunerari debet sine fine bonum operari hee which would haue endlesse reward 1 Pet. 2.15 must haue endlesse perseuerance for so is the will of God that by well doing you put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men Iob. 29 as Iob did who continued an eâ—e to the blind and a foot to the lame If any enemie thinke heere hee can smell oleum peccatoris I professe to hate it splendiduml ubricum dulce damnosum as yee for slipping and the cup of a whore for poisoning And I dare bee bold to giue in an instance for mine owne defence that of al others we poor despised Ministers haue cause to blesse the daies of the Prince Why so for Christ his Mandrakes haue sweetned his and his Mandrakes haue sweetned ours O heauenly Mandrakes graces of the spirit which dispose to the conception of good workes The Church is Abigaile her fathers ioy and Christ hath lodged with her the Prince is a sonne and heire in the Church and Christ hath lodged with him by spiration of his holy word by inspiration of his holy Spirit that the Prince may say Cant. 5.4 as the Church hath said My bowels were mnooued towards him Heere is our true cause of ioy without sophistically oppilations Therefore seeing his inclination to good workes by those spices of our Sauiour which haue spiced him wee all consent in that concent of the Canticle of Christ Cant. 7.13 Thy Mandrakes haue giuen a smell and in our gates are all sweet things The Princes words are often as the words of the seuenth day words of grace apples of gold in pictures of siluer Prou. 2.11 Leu. 25 his works are as the works of the seuenth yere works of grace a goodly tree full of fruites You may know the tree by the fruites Apoc. 2 and praise the fruites for the smell This smell is as Smirna all sweet myrrhe and wee all are refreshed with the smell of this Corne-care Now then let vs compare Iacob and Iacob Hebrew and English vterinos fratres two twins both in one womb of the Church both as Castor and Pollux Act 28.11 the badge of our Ship Castor is descended and as the Sun gone vnder a cloud he was gathered to his people and is gone to sleep with his fathers Gen. 49.33 What then albeit he sleep he is aliue shall rise againe as the Sun in his faire horizon Exod. 3.6 God is the God of the liuing the God of AbrahaÌ„ Isaac Iaacob But I say Castor is layd down in peace and Pollux is vpon our Ship in daily aduentures for the golden flece When I was of younger yeares Apollonius Theocritus I did reade of the famous Acts of Castor and Pollux in that egregious voyage for the Golden Fleece But what idle dreames were those with all their resolutions to the high resolutions of religious hearts for the golden fleece the fleece of the Lambe the Lambe of God the inualuable righteousnesse of the Lambe of God is the golden fleece Ioh. 1. Iacob and Iacob are both naked as Adam before the Lord without this fleece Consider the amplitude of the honour and efficacie of this fleece Rom. 4. Psal 32. wherewith all our sins are couered Many many thousands haue yeelded vp their blood for this fleece hoc expeditionum Christianarum praetium praemium This hath beene the faire paiment for many Christian aduentures The holy lambe alloweth vs his flesh to feed vs Ioh. 6.1 Tim. 6.8 his fleece to couer vs. Therefore when we haue food and raiment let vs be therewith content Such was Iacobs contentment in his new coate when he got the blessing in his elder brothers coate Christ is our elder brother our first borne a sonne to Iacob yet elder then Iacobs grandfather before Abraham was I am A lambe without spot was this Lambe Ioh. 8 yet that he might lend his spotlesse coate to spotted Iacob hee was slaine from the beginning of the world Apoc. 13.8 Behold then a world of wonders in these two Iacob the elder and the younger notwithstanding sundry generations betwixt them doe both part stakes in Christ either of them haue all their riches of Christ yet neither of them haue all which is of Christ either of them haue all Christ for Christ is not diuided 1 Cor. 3. Rom. 11. neither of them haue all that which is Christs for Christ is not comprehended Christ is the Owner of all in the shippe and of the shippe and all and they both are but partie borrowers of all their parts So that Iacob aboue with Christ in glorie and Iacob below with Christ in grace may both sing with that sweet singer of Israel Psal 142. The Lord is my portion in the land of the liuing But now let vs see the distance of perfection betwixt Christ these two brothers Iacob hath the vine and Christ is the vine Iacob possesseth all those pleasant riches in Christ and Christ possesseth them all himselfe Christ is the vine the true vine which runnes all mercie and life to Iacob and all wither and perish which doe not abide in this vine Ioh. 15. Christ is the Oliue the true Oliue stocke what branch soeuer abideth not in him hath no life in it for the branches beare not the roote Rom. 11.18 but the root the branches all fade and fall away which are not grafted into this Oliue Christ is the rose 1. Cor. 13. of all flowers the rose is cheefest and of all vertues loue the chiefest of those three is loue God is loue and he that dwelleth in him dwelleth in loue out of this habitation there is no health nor safetie Christ is the Lillie Cant. 2. Jsidor the most delightfull Lillie for he which is the Rose is the Lillie I am
the Kings sonne Behold the smell of my sonne THE SECOND SERMON GEN. 27.27 Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed I Am returned to remeditate our ioies in the manifold causes of our many ioies The sonne to whom I am next now in my text doth display many ioies all causes of ioy to vs all if we all as birds of the day be in loue with this sonne Now to the second riuer all of truth My Sonne Heere I might deale forth vnto you many multiplicities of the sonnes of nature grace and glory but heere Laconismus is best welcome There is a sonne of nature and a sonne of grace which both haue interest in this riuer of the truth of God One as the owner and Lord Pooramont the other as tenant and inholder The sonne of God by nature is Iesus Christ the truth it selfe and God of truth the sonne of diuine generation the onely begotten sonne of God Symbolum Nicâ— Iohn 3. begotten before all worlds There is a sonne of grace the sonne of regeneration borne againe of the spirit of God borne vnto glory in the celestiall Ierusalem among the company of innumerable Angels Hebr. 12.22 Such a sonne is Iaacob a pleasant sonbne by the holy participation of the communicable graces of the naturall sonne of God Heere may wee take a ioyfull view of our release from the post-fines of sinne both feare and shame Frigius The superbious Stagge cannot but feare the little Dogge Why so because he is but nature And albeit hee be procerous in comparison and beareth strong armes vpon his head yet doth he fly with shame The true Israelite albeit hee be but a yongue stripling and the least of all his brethren as Dauid was yet he cannot feare the roring Lion Why so because he hath grace a priuilege aboue nature Why Iohn 17.12 what is Iacob by nature a sonne of the earth of flesh darknesse death wrath hell and perdition I might shew you all these flesh-brands in mine owne nature to my shame but my short time cals for better matter What mends hath grace made behold how good and ioyfull a thing it is Iaacob is a sonne of heauen earth abolished a sonne of the spirit flesh mortified a sonne of light darknesse vanished a sonne of delight wrath abandoned Mat. 9.15 1. Cor. 15. a sonne of life death is swallowed vp in victory a sonne of the bride groomes chamber death is swallowed vp in victory and all dishonour is exiled for euer more Such sonnes are Iacob and Iacob Hebrew and English King Salomons loue betwixt them King Salomon made himselfe a Pallace of the trees of Lebanon Cant. 3.9 all white and sweet as Frankincese of Lebanon These two are trees of Lebanon Suauitate candore morum melliti eburnei saccarati lactei sweet and white as the trees of Lebanon Loe here is the smell of my sonne What is it thinke you a small matter to become the Kings son Iaacob is Isaacs sonne and the Prince is the Kings sonne and they all are Gods sonnes Eph. 1.14 elected adopted sanctified iustified and sealed vnto the day of redemption Thus are they all made wise sonnes a wise sonne maketh a glad father and hee that begetteth a wise sonne shall haue ioy of him Prou. 10 Prou. 13 as happely the King hath of the smell of his sonne Shall I now begge a discourse There haue beene euill sonnes of euill fathers as the sonnes of Cain and Cham euill sonnes of good fathers as some sonnes of Dauid good sonnes of euill fathers as Ezechiah the sonne of Achah and Iosiah the sonne of Ammon and good sonnes of good fathers such were Isaac and Iaacob The first sort were a iust recompence that they should bee serued themselues as they had serued others The second sort were vngratefull birds which stained their owne nest Iuda 5 1. Sam. 2 17 and caused their fathers to smell ill before the vncircumcised as Hely his sonnes did He might iustly complaine against his sonnes as the Iewes did iniustly against Moses and Aaron Exod. 5.21 yee haue cause our sauour to bee lothsome before Pharaoh The third sort were a blessed allowance these snined as light in the middest of a crooked generation Phil. 2.15 their fathers before and their sonnes after beeing set vpon euill But the fourth sort is the chiefest honour and splendor of the Church Firmamentuâ—â— veritatu in Christo confirmatum Apoc. 5.8 Prou. 27.9 good sonnes of good fathers all in the Church as the lights in the firmament All these are as the golden Viols full of odors odoriferous and delectable to their parents as ointment and perfume reioice the heart You Nobles Gentles Merchants and Fathers all what are your sonnes euill of euill or euill of good or good of euill or good sonnes of good fathers which is more to bee desired then gold Trie the smell of your children and prooue whether your sonnes and daughters haue beene dedicate to diuels as many were among the children of Israel 4 Reg. 17.17 By euill example many giue their children to the sorcerie of Popery and to all prophanesse of opinion and malefaction Through fier they passe to Priests and Iesuites to the orders and disorders of Rome Ad bullatas nug as magu asâ— piciunt quam ad scripturas vt Asint stramina malunt quam aurum Many of your children are sent to Lypsius his Ladies to seruice and to the Ignatian Friars to schoole The sonnes of the Prophets were discriples and schollers of the Prophets sonnes of good smell many of yours are ali enigenae cuckoo birds strangers to your owne country Church and Prophets and liuing sometimes euen in the middest of all loue not the heart of any The King is the head here in his dominions next vnder God and the Prince is the heart vnder the head your children loue neither of them no nor their parents neither but to serue their owne turne and their great Mistris the Whore of Babylon You may too many of you thanke your selues you haue yeelded them to their course as Daedalus did his sonne in the fiction with wax vpon their wings bullis indulgentialibus linitas Hâ—nc pâ—rtinaciâ— papistica vt Eutichiana in hac fide genitus sum etiam vsque hodie vixi et in ea opto mori Too many of you haue set them in tune or rather out of tune to your owne Romane instruments your hearts Thus your corrupt children are gone backward they are strangers from the wombe euen from the belly haue they erred and speake lies Mandrabuli more worse and worse If you thinke this reason giuen of your sonnes ruines be without reason hearken to the Prophet Thy father was an Ammorite and thy mother an Hittite and in thy natiuity when thou wast borne thy nauell was not cut Vt è sinubus nubium eâ—aculantur fulmina et