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A68403	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.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1609 (1609)	STC 16685; ESTC S102897	35,331	132

and also ab illo malo from the deuill and all his designements Lastlie it is the perfection of the church if we respect the time to come for hee is the ancient of daies not to bee antiquated by length of time He is the perfection of our soules and bodies in the resurrection and in a word our exceeding great reward So he praieth verse 24. That we may be where he is that we may behold his glorie which was from euerlasting Of this knowledge of the power of Christs praier manifold is the holie and deuine vse practise 1. Of hope which quickneth vs. For while we pray heere on earth wee knowe and beleeue assuredly that Christ praieth for vs and pleadeth our cause as an aduocate in heauen In his humiliation hee praied for vs in his exaltation then assuredlie oh Angelicall Manna 2. Of reuerend boldnesse which the spirit of God exhorteth Seeing Heb. 4. 14. 15. 16. then that wee haue a great high Priest which is entered into heauen euen Iesus the Sonne of God Let vs hold fast our profession for wee haue not an high Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all things tempted in like sort yet without sin Let vs therfore goe boldly vnto the throane of grace that we may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede 3. Of resolution if the praier of Elizeus was powerfull to restore 2. Reg. 4. 36. Act. 20. 12. to life the Sonne of the Shunamite and of Paul to bring againe the breath of Eutychus Why should not wee resolue to trust in the Lord albeit hee kill vs for he killeth and maketh aliue againe he laies vs in the dust and raiseth vs vp to euerlasting and euerliuing glorious felicitie 4. Of confirmation for heere are all the blessings of Garazim and the dew of Hermon which falleth vppon the hill of Sion which is Gods Church where the Lord promiseth his peace and blessing for Zach. 2. 5. euermore this is not murus aheneus but murus igneus not a wall of Brasse but of fire wherein is not onely protection but terrour and vtter destruction Protection to Gods Children a terrour to their enemies euen a far off but if they bee so foole hardie as imagining their skins to be thunder proofe and approach to hurt his church they and theirs shall bee vtterlie consumed 5. Of precedent wee ought also to pray for our selues and for our brethren for that is a countermure against all assaults of Sathan and therfore Christ our Sauiour so aduiseth vs Pray continually Luk. 18. Lastly of direction Christ praieth to God the Father immediately wee therefore in his name onely ought to send out our praiers not to Saint or Angell for that is an iniurie to the whole Trinitie First to God the father who is the obiect of our praiers so himselfe speaketh Call Psa 50. 15. vpon me in the time of trouble and I will heare you 2. To God the Sonne for he is the one and onely mediatour of our praiers There being but one God and one mediatour betweene God and man 1. Tim. 2. 5 which is the man Christ Iesus 3. To God the holy Ghost for he is the breath of our praiers Wee in our selues knowing not what to pray for Rom. 8. 26 nor how to pray as we ought but the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes vnutterable Now let vs descend from the person which is the Sonne of God vnto the parties which are the Sonnes of men First as they are designed by titles of fauour honour Secondly as they are distinguished by notes of separation from the world I pray for them which are my Sonnes by adoption my Saintes by calling my Princes and Priests by conuersation my beloued by decree my baptized by institution my Illuminates by purpose and mine Associates by promise His Sonnes so Saint Iohn stileth Iohn 1. 12. them As many as receiued him to them he gaue prerogatiue to bee the Sonnes of God An heauenlie priuiledge The Sons of men become the sonnes of God by knowing acknowledging Iesus Christ The same diuine in words of admired demonstration pointeth this out saying Behold what loue the father hath giuen to vs that wee wretches should be called the Sonnes of God And because the Euangelist thought it not enough that wee should be so called he addeth further Deerely beloued now are we 1. Io. 3. 1. 2 the Sonnes of God but yet it is not manifest what wee shall bee If then we be sonnes some vertue together with the seede is transfused Bonus sanguis non mentitur Honourable blood cannot counterfeit Whereupon the spirit of God warneth vs that we shew our selues as Sonnes not as bastards for Heb 12. 8 whome hee praieth not 2 I pray for them which are my saints by calling whome I haue purged by my blood and sanctified by my spirit The blood of Iesus 1. Ioh. 1. 7 Christ purging vs from al our sinnes And Paul testifieth that Iesus Christ was declared mightilie to be the sonne of God by the spirit of sanctification Rom. 1 not onely in himselfe which was powred out on him without measure but also vppon euerie one of his in some measure We ought therefore to bee holy as our heauenlie father is holie wee beleeuing also a communion of Saints which is seene by faith and not by eie 3. I pray for them which are my Princes my Priests by conuersation So Peter entituleth 1. Pet. 29 them ye are of the Royall Priesthood Royall therefore Princes Priesthood therefore Priests Princes in swaying their affections Priestes in sacrificing their pleasures and in offering their daily sacrifices to God for themselues others In euerie true christian there shineth a certaine princely maiestie seasoned and sorted with a Priestlie modestie and humilitie Chrysostome saith they are knowne by their gate by their looke by their vesture by their voice Their going princely being shod with the Eph. 6. 15. shoes of preparation of the Gospell Psal 131. 1 Their lookes Princely being lifted vppe vnto the hils from whence commeth their helpe Their vesture Priestlike al glorious Psa 45. 13. within Their voice Priestlike soft and milde as Iacobs voice and these are those for whome Christ heere praieth 4. I pray also for them which are my beloued by decree Beloued before they were Iacob haue I loued Beloued when they were children Hos 11. 1 when Israel was a childe I loued him Beloued when they were men Zorubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel shal be as the signet vpon Hag. vlt. my right hand Beloued when they are not Right deere in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints yea albeit Beggers yet beloued for angels attend them in after death Luc. 16 22 to carrie and conuey them to rest 5 I pray for them which are my Baptized outwardly by

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 ●alleg Gland accoūt 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 Cyclop●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 se● 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 guerdē 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 diamet●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 frō 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 tō 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 Worthingtōs 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 doubtl●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