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A04357	A brand, Titio erepta On the fift day of Nouember last, before the Honourable Lordes of his Maiesties Priuie Councell, and the graue iudges of the law, &c. this sermon preached by the Reuerend Father in Christ, William, Lord Bishoppe of Rochester.	Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1607 (1607)	STC 1447; ESTC S100897	22,514	44

144. 5. Homo est nihilum quid Man verily is a thing of nought and therefore the holy Ghost vouchsafeth not euery ordinary man the honor to be called Titio a Brand which is in scripture attributed to none but either to whole States as vnto Ierusalem Amos 4. 11. or vnto great Princes as Esa 7 4. and in this place Iste Such as in this next Chap. ver 14 are called Filii Olei Zerobabel Iehoshua Princes and Priestes annointed qui Dominatoriterrae assistunt Counsellors and States-men which supply Gods place execute his lawes and promote his cause ' For what is in Man as hee is a Man that can procure an other mans enuie or treacherie Haue they not all one father saieth the Prophet Mich. 2. 11 If there be a generall equality there is no matter for Enuie to worke vpon Were all the Trees in the forrest Figge-trees or O liues or Vines the Cedars of Lebanon neede not feare that same ignem de Rhamno Iud. 9. 15. that fire out of the Bramble to deuoure them Therfore as a Brand by reason of the composure thereof being partim ignea partim lignea is more attractiue of flame more capable of fire then either a green sticke neuer scorcht or a perfect cole thorough burnt So men which neuer were eminent either in place or quality or hauing been haue lost both are not so subiect either to Satans rage or the malignity of his instrumentes as they which are excellent in eyther It is not euery stone that procures offence but if it bee Lapis angularis Psal. 118. 21. a corner stone In quo tota domus inclinata recumbit that is lapis offendiculs the stone that causeth offence Rom. 9. 22. Dig out that stone at least digge at it Not euery mothers childe is so narrowly watcht by the Diuel but if the Womā clothed with the Sunne trauell with a Child that shall gouerne the whole earth with his scepter him Rufus Draco the red fierie Dragon will eye at a pinch that he may deuoure him Apoc. 12. 4. To keep our selues to this Metaphor if it be Vdh an ordinary Brand that is good for nothing but smoake God almighty himselfe will say it is not worthy regarding Esa. 7. 4. But if it bee Audh as Arias Montanus reades it here the letters all one in both but this vttered in a Dipthong a master Brand such an one as it seems by him they vse in Spaine and wee here where there wanteth an yron forke for ordering the fire to stirre it if it burne not fresh to lay vp the wood if it be faine to remooue that which is superfluous to remble the ouen to trie whether it be hot or no c. As such a Brand is very subiect to catch a flame by reason of the oft imployments in the fire So great Men who by their place are to order both Church and State and by their office must dissipare Mala Prou. 20. 26. reprooue censure direct execute c. are more obnoxious to be traduced and scortcht by the fierie spirits of Satan and his Impes then those whom Prou. 22. 29. Salomon calleth Chashukkim Men of meane birth of obscure place of no imploymentes As hee that walketh in the suune cannot shunne a blacke shadow to accompany him whereas he thatsits in the darke yeeldes no reflection for incounter We may see in the chiefe Branch for so our Sauiour is called vers 8. how it was made a Brand so long as he was at his supposed Fathers occupation Marc. 6. 3. Nonne hic Faber and was a Carpenter employed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Iustin Martyr describes him making of Bedsteads and Ploughes on hee went without any impeachment but no sooner was hee baptized crowned with the Holy Ghost and testified from heauen to be his fathers delightfull sonne which was Mat. 3. 17 but presently in the very next words Tunc ductus est he was euen then carried into the wildernes to he tempted by the Diuell And this is the case in priuate persons as true Christians by experience finde in themselues so long as a man giueth his members ouer to vnrighteousnes to serue sinne on hee shall goe without any incounter of Conscience either monendo to forewarne him before hee commit sinne to say to himselfe with Ioseph Gen. 39. 9. Quo-modo hoc faciam How should I commit so great a sinne or mordendo to reprooue him when he hath done it with the Prophets Quid feci Ier. 8. 6 What haue I done But on he shall goe as a man without sense to commit sin euen with greedines But if once the spirit of God strike at his heart as that voice to S. Paul Act. 9 Quid me persequeris Why doest thou crucifie afresh the sonne of God with thy wicked and vnrepentant life If the fire of the Holy Ghost the spirit of Regeneration be effectual in him make him to renounce sin and to reform his life then goes the Diuel to work Satā erit a dextris both without within without setting vpon him those whom S. Peter caleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Pet. 4. 4. that shal howte at him as a strange thing What th eluxurious branch thus scorched that young gallant a mortified conuert Within that which S. Paul calleth Legem membrorum Rom. 7. 22 his Lust and concupiscence rebelling and boyling and prouoking him more then before making him as a man distraught insomuch that v. 19 what he would hee cānot do what hee wold not that he shal do yea which is worse if Satā see him to bee Titio a Brand indeede capable of flame inclinable to sorrow hee will put fire to the cole and a sorrowing hee will set him till he be burnt vp and deuoured with sorrow 2. Cor. 2. 7. These are Satans Ethikes in the priuate course of particular men and such as are his Politiques also in the publique gouernement of States for who are his Brandes there whome hee endeuoureth to set on fire Wee will goe no further then this Story 1. Zorobabel the Head of the people Chap. 4. 6 Kinges and Princes 2. Iehoshúa ver 1 of this Chap. the chiefe Priest Church Gouernours 3. Socii vtriusque ver 8. Counsellors of State Chiefe Officers both of Church Realm these are the Brandes thus fitted for the fire But what is the attractiue to draw on the flame of Satans enuie of Satanical treachery to consume these more then others wee shall finde them here also two in number 1. inward in themselues their purpose and endeuour to build the Temple to restore Gods worshippe Cap. 4. 10 Establishment of true Religion a violent attractiue of Treasonable plots 2. Outward in God both that Murus igneus Cap. 2. 5 in that hee is a wall of fire to enuiron the State from Tatnai and Sanballat Nehem. 4. the

daungerous counterplotters and disturbers of the worke as also that same pupilla oculi verse 8. Gods louing fauor Hee that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye Nothing so enrageth Satan and his coraplices as Gods speciall protection of a Nation and his tender care ouer the Gouernors thereof So yee see who are the Brands and the causes which so expose them to the flame A word of each of these for explanation and so forward First for Zorobabel the King and Soueraigne It is no maruaile that to whom God hath giuen the Principalitie of our Estates to them S. Paul would haue vs giue the Principality of our Prayers 1. Tim. 2. 2 Pray for all men first for Kinges c. For if S. Iames rule bee good Iam. 5. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is a man disquiet in mind Let him pray Surely Kinges haue need both continually to pray and to be praied for sithence that euen to be a King is the minds continuall disquietnes I speake not of euill Kinges either vsurpers or impious who haue their torment within them an affrighting and an affrighted conscience whieh like a curst wife as Plutarch out of the Poet compares it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 burns without a Brand inwardly and inuisibly or which is the Prophetes Metaphor Esa 57. 20. Quasi mare seruens like the boiling sea worketh rageth though there bee no wind stirring that is sayeth Salomon are in a continuall feare though there be no cause emergent Prou. 28. 1 But euen of good Kings and they most rightfully possest not Heathen onelie who hauing felt the hazardes of a Crowne made this their conclusion Simulista posuit Conditor Mundi Deus Odium regnum That hatred and feare are vnseparable attendantes vpon a Diademe which make it no happy though a beautifull attire as Philip of Macedon saide But scripture Kinges and the best of them Dauid at least one in his person and place Psal. 89. 39. Posuisti firmamentum formidinem the place I thought surest there I find most feare And this is one misery saieth Salomon Eccles 10. 9 which I haue seene Quod homo homini dominatur in malum suum that a mans souerainety procures his owne misery Particulars will demonstrate this Is a King prosperous in his raigne and are his Territories inlarged it will be Salomōs case 1. King 11. 21 Hadad and Rezan his neighbor Princes will enuie and maligne it and so there is feare of an Inuasion admits hee to his secrets some not popularly applauded or discōtents his subiects with some boone denied there is Rehoboams case 1. Reg. 12 Ieroboam one of his great Lords will make a great head against him either to surprise his person til his fauorites be remoued or rent the State by a diuision till the request be satisfied and there is feare of a Rebellion Is there an heire apparant to succeede It may then be Dauids case that his own deare Absalon shall steale the heartes of his subiects from him 2. Sam. 15. 6 for many loue to adore the Sunne rising and then is there feare of a strong conspiracie so it is there called verse 12 for no insurrection so daungerous as where the next of blood is chiefe at least it may bee Isaac his case for hee had within his limittes a regall authority as a Patriarch that the elder sonne shall thinke his father liues to long Gen. 27. 41. and then euery fitte of a feauer must be a proclamation of death Is the Successor vncertaine either through orbity as in the case of Ochoziah 2. c Chro. 22. 9. Non spes vltra de stirpe or non apparane in a Multiplicity There is an other case of Dauids 1 Reg. 1. 5. Some Adoniah or other will band for the crowne before the breath bee out of the oulde mans body Yea euen in the best estate and when hee is most at ease if hee meane to sit sure his grauest Counsellors will tell him that hee must bee Seruus populo huic 1 Reg. 12. 7. First Seruus a seruant and that is no glorious estate then Seruus populo a seruant to the people and that is no stately seruice thirdly populo huic to this querulous people and in that seruice can bee no contentment for then let him conclude a peace with a Prince of an other Religion it will proue Iehosophats case 2. Chro. 19. 2. and be said as vnto him Wouldest thou helpe the wicked and loue them that hate the Lord Doth he vpon iust reasons either breake the peace with whom he had concluded it or be at enmitie vpon great iniuries offered with a King whom the people approue or trade withall whereby either charges for warre are leuied or their traffique hindered then it will be Moses case Exod. 5. 21 Videat Dominus iudicet The Lord looke vpon you and iudge for you haue made our sauor to stinke before Pharao and before his seruants and ye haue put a sword in their handes to slaie vs. To these fiers to these feares and disasters is this master-Brand exposed in somuch that some Kings haue auowed it if Men knewe the hazzards annexed to a Crowne they would not stoope to take it vp if it lay vpon the ground We now come to Iehoshua the second Brand men of gouernment in the Church As the case standeth nowe neither their eminences nor their preheminence such as it neede feare any danger of riddance by death and yet Ierem. 11. 19 there is a plot laid to poison the Prophet and Act. 23. 12 there was a Conspiracie with a vowe to kill S. Paul But there is a twofold fire which hazzardeth this Brand the first that Iud. 9. 20. Ignis Shechemiticus the fierie spirits of Diui sion and separation which vers 23. the Holy Ghost saith is laid to and kindled by an evill spirit the other that in the 2. Sam. 16. 3. Ignis Shemeiticus fierie tongus reprochful contumelies which Dauid Psal. 120. 4 for the scortching heate thereof calleth carbones Iuniperi the coales of Iuniper the vulgar translates it Carbones desolatorios a fire which laieth waste a mans good name But what is in these Brands that makes them as Salomon speaketh Carbones ad prunas Prou. 25. 21 thus combustible thus attractiue of these flames for ought I can learn in scripture two Scientia and prelatura we will goe no further then the first verse of this Chapter Iehoshua is first a priest and secondly an High priest for the first the priests lips must preserue knowledge Malach. 2. 7. Et in multa scientia multa est indignatio saith Salomon Eccles. 1. 18. Much knowledge breedes much indignation Now Indignation is a fire saith the Prophet it will vexe the partie whom it malignes as fire vexeth the rawe flesh in the rosting or boyling Si aut fiscellam iunco texerem