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A02610	A sermon preached in the cittie of Glasco in Scotland, on the tenth day of Iune, 1610 At the holding of a generall assembly there. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1611 (1611)	STC 12739; ESTC S103775	17,702	37

the power that he hath in both So Paul determineth of this point for the new Testament when hee willeth prayers to be made for Kings and men in authoritie that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty And what meanes can wee haue from Kings for godlinesse and honesty none verily but by their authoritie and power whereby as Guardians of both Tables of the Law of God they make Edicts for obseruation of the one and other Now to the Psalme which consisteth of three parts the first expresseth Dauids ioy the second containeth the causes thereof the third hath a praise of Ierusalem and a prayer for the same my purpose is to treat of the two former Dauids ioy teacheth vs that Gods children be not Stoiks a kinde of Philosophers that desired to be without affections And further it informeth vs that godlinesse standeth not in solempne or sowre lookes The most godly haue their affections God planted them in man when he stood in perfect integritie vnstained with sin And Christ himselfe was not without them Then it is no part of holinesse to shake off all affections but to subdew and temper the heate of them when they are blowne with the bellowes of concupiscence that no flame be kindled against God against our neighbours against our selues against our owne saluation this is a speciall kinde of godlinesse of pietie of holinesse of Christianitie Take away sorrow in afflictions and all chastisement of discipline shall proue vaine Where will that godly sorrow be that worketh repentance not to be repented of Take away ioy in prosperitie and no place will be left for thankes-giuing Take away both the Apostles rule must cease reioyce with them that reioyce and weepe with them that weepe Seeing then the affection of Ioy is naturall planted in our hearts by the Creator of great vse and necessitie for performance of many good offices the conclusion followeth that it cannot be but lawfull Yet the corruption of our nature doth peruert many things that be good and lawfull and by our abuse we make them euill and vnlawfull So we doe in this particular affection when we studie when we spend our thoughts and time in chearing vp our owne hearts without regard of our sinnes without regard of the afflictions of Ioseph without all feeling and feare of Gods iudgements In like sort a great number peruert and change the nature of this affection when they set their whole ioy and delight in circumuenting their brethren others when they wallow in the mire of their owne filthinesse and sensualitie others in heapes of their riches with the foole in the Gospell in their surfets drunkennesse and excessiue riot with the rich Glutton in the venime and poyson of their slanderous tongues with Dauids Tyrant Psal 52. All these and such like are glad when they haue done euill and reioyce in the worst things therefore wee will call their ioy carnall Christ pronounceth a woe to them Woe vnto you that laugh now for you shall weepe You passe your dayes in ioylities and in a moment you shall goe downe into hell Iob. 20. Momentaneum est quod delectat aeternum vero quod cruciat O remember that your pleasures are but transitorie and your torments euerlasting There is another kinde of ioy called Spirituall because it proceedeth from the holy Ghost and is reckoned amongst the fruits of the Spirit Gal. 5. It is promised to the faithfull Esay 35. They shall obtaine ioy and gladnesse and sorrow and mourning shall flie away The Apostles felt the fruit hereof when they departed from the Councill reioycing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name The like comfort befell those Saints that the Apostle speaketh to yee suffred with ioy the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selues how that yee haue in heauen a better and an enduring substance Hebr. 10. Of this sort was Dauids ioy here as by the causes thereof shall appeare The first cause of his Ioy was the readinesse the alacritie and chearefulnesse that hee obserued in the people stirring vp one another with a sweete correspondencie or consent and encouraging themselues with mutuall exhortations to go into the house of the Lord. This good Prince knowing the manifold graces of God that be dispensed in the Church reioyceth in spirit and heart to see his people inflamed with a desire of that place where they might enioy them all By this example hee doth teach and admonish vs to conceiue double ioy when God by his holy spirit doth not onely frame euery one of vs to the obedience of his word but bringeth others also with vs into the same obedience that wee may all hold a kinde of harmonie and fellowship in faith Therefore if wee will be like Dauid wee must ioy wee must take a delight and pleasure in the pietie of our brethren and as euery one is first called so to labour and stirre vp others to the like vocation We ought to doe it first in respect of Gods glory which we are commanded to aduance And if God be to be glorified in all things of vs that are created for no other purpose How carefull should wee be to seeke his glory in the saluation of mankinde the most pretious thing in the world if you value it by the price Or if the friends of the woman did reioyce with her when shee found her groat how much more worthily may we triumph in an holy and spirituall kinde of ioy at the finding of that pretious groat which carryeth the stampe and Image of our heauenly King Againe this care is recommended vnto vs in that charitie which wee are commanded to yeeld vnto our brethren That charging vs with a speciall care of their temporall liues their name and goods doth impose a more holy care for their religion faith soules saluation and all things thereto belonging Therefore I make that anther note out of this place and example that we ought to call vpon our brethren and to exhort one another to the exercises of religion Despise not this example but imagine that these words be now no more the speach of the Israelites incouraging one another but of the holy Ghost rowsing vs all to the like endeauour We will goe into the house of the Lord. The benefits that God dispenseth in his house are of such consequence that they may well breed in euery man a loue and liking of the Church Whether you looke to the Tabernacle the Temple or the Church God promiseth his presence and propitiation to euery one of them particularly For the Tabernacle he saith Exod. 25. They shall make me a sanctuary and I will dwell in the middest of them Of the Temple 1 Kings 9. I haue heard thy prayer and supplication that thou hast made before mee I haue hallowed this house and my eyes and my eares and hart shall be there perpetually Of the Church where two or three he gathered together in

my name I am in the midst of them Now where God is present and ready to help what good thing can be that is not there to be found Seeing he is the fountaine of all goodnesse no good thing can be lacking where he dwelleth There is peace ioy saluation comfort and happinesse On the other side where God is not present no mischiefe is wanting nor anguish nor affliction nor heauinesse nor feare nor the worme that dyeth not nor the fire that cannot be quenched How miserably was Saul distressed when God left him 1 Sam. 18. euen so are the godly as oft as they are bereaued of of the Tabernacle of the Temple of the Church because they want Gods presence they thinke themselues to be in a kinde of hell Woe is mee that I am constrayned to dwell with Mesech and to haue my habitation amongst the tents of Kedar Besides Gods presence in the Church wee haue Christ ther also our Mediator Ther he exerciseth the office of his headship there he gouerneth guideth quickneth and nourisheth his members and as a true head communicateth his owne liuelihood and happinesse with them Furthermore in the Church the holy Ghost is inspired by the distribution and influence of his graces vpon the faithfull Last of all in the Church and holy assemblies the power of Gods word and Sacraments is most effectuall And if the Queene of Saba did account them happie which attended King Salomon to heare his wisedome how much greater is their happinesse that attend the places where they heare wisedome not of man but the heauenly wisedome of Almightie God sounding effectually in his word If we seeke our owne ease we neede not to goe far for it as the Iewes did to Ierusalem it is brought home to our dores euery man may talke of it with his neighbour vnder his Vine and figge-tree If we looke for profit it is godlinesse onely that hath promises of this life and of the world to come What would you haue that is not in it Pleasure O taste and see how sweet and gracious the Lord is The testimonies of the Lord are right and reioyce the heart more to be desired then Gold yea then much fine gold sweeter also then hony and the hony combe If the pleasure that commeth out of the Word be inestimable such as eye hath not seene eare hath not heard and neuer entred into the hart of man If godlines be great riches that pretious pearle which is to be purchased of wise Marchants with the losse of all we haue If nothing be more easie for vs then to heare the word of God and to feede our soules at the Lords sacred Table If this be that one thing that our Sauiour Christ saith is necessarie then I beseech you by the mercifulnesse of God and in the bowels of Iesus Christ that yee come to it henceforth with more preparation and diligence heare it with more heede and attention and practise it with more zeale and obedience then you haue done formerly And God the father of lights from whom euery good and perfect gift commeth blesse vs all with the grace of his holy spirit that we may so doe indeed These Iewels and treasures which cannot be found out of the casquet of the Church may kindle a burning flame of loue and affection to it but the commandement of GOD doth increase it yet further Leu. 17.5 The children of Israel shall bring their offrings which they would offer abroad in the fields and present them at the doore of the Tabernacle of the congregation and he that faileth herein that man shall be cut off from his people The equitie of this law is great and remaineth still viz. that nothing be attempted in the worship of God without speciall direction and warrant of his word Which equitie in this particular of bringing their offrings to the doore of the Tabernacle is grounded vpon two reasons First that the Ministers of the Altar might thereby haue a due proportion of maintenance Secondly that by these publike assemblies the puritie of doctrine might be kept inviolate As for the first there is an honour due vnto the Ministers for their intertainment Who goeth a warfare of the owne cost Who planteth a Vineyard and eateth not so the fruit thereof Who feedeth a flocke and eateth not of his milke of the flocke That which was commanded in the Law to be giuen was the Tenth part of all their increase which being once sequestred from priuate vses and consecrated to the worship of God may not for any thing I see be altered For I take Tythes to be due to the Ministers of the Word by the lawes of God and Nature a matter that will be thought hard to proue Yet first vnderstand the errour of those that suppose Tythes to haue drawen their originall from the Leuiticall Law and that being abrogated they imagine Tythes also to cease or at least to remaine by positiue law alone Behold a double misconceit First Tythes were payd amongst Gods people long before any Law was giuen As we read of Abraham Gen. 14. he gaue vnto Melchisedech the tenth of all his spoyles And Iacob vowed in Bethel that hee would giue God the Tythe of all he had Gen. 28. Againe in case the originall of Tythes had beene by the Leuiticall Law yet Tythes need not cease as soone as that was abrogated I hold this for a rule that those Lawes are perpetuall which haue a perpetuall cause But the Law of Tythes hath a perpetuall cause namely the entertainment and maintenance of the seruice of God Therefore the Law of Tythes is perpetuall Consider againe what Abraham did he gaue the tenth of all things To whom To Melchisedech the Priest of the high God When Surely 400. yeares before GOD gaue any Law for Tythes Whereupon I doe infer that this Law of Tythes was grauen in the heart of man before it was written in Tables And so consequently it was the Law of Nature Else how came it to passe that Iacob did vow and Abraham did pay nothing but Tythes What should we thinke That Tythes were payd by Abraham and vowed by Iacob at all aduenture And so they stumbled by chaunce vpon that which God afterward established by Law No no these Patriarches though they were reuerend and holy men gaue God no precedent to make his Law by But God by a secret instinct moued these holy men to doe those things before Law which afterward he established for Law When the Gentiles hauing no Law yet by nature doe the workes of the Law are they not saith the Apostle a Law to themselues And why because they shew the worke of the Law written in their hearts After this sort he moued Iudah to giue sentence against whoredome before any Law was written to punish it So he moued Noah to condemne Cham for his vnreuerend behauiour before the commandement was giuen to honour father or mother So he moued Iacob to detest theft and to

and water but of hearing the word of God And was it not then time to leaue them Let them refuse their Synagogues forsake their broken Cysternes that will hold no water returne to that true auncient faith that was renowned through the world and we will giue them the right hands of fellowship With ioy will wee ioyne together with them and goe into the house of the Lord. If they will not I call heauen and earth to record against them this day that they are fallen from the Gospell from truth from word from Sacraments from Religion from the house of God from God himselfe And all these our Churches studie with great endeuour to maintaine in their perfect integrity O pray pray forget not to pray for that most excellent instrument of GOD that hath established these things amongst vs by holy Lawes and good authoritie Peace be within his walls and plentiousnesse within his Pallaces Yea the God of peace and plenty blesse him for these blessings that hee hath brought vpon vs a thousand and ten thousand fold both here and in the world to come And beloued cease not to crie out vnto God to fill our hearts with praise and our mouthes with thankes-giuing for these inestimable mercies When Gods benefits are receiued with thankfulnes and due account then hee doth multiply them exceedingly Seeing then that all the enemies wee haue cannot shew one point of doctrine maintained contrarie to the wholesome forme set downe in the word and proportion of faith seeing they cannot iustly reproue our administration of the Sacraments Let not these graces of God towards our Churches be extenuated by scornefull reproofes or slaunderous Pamphlets least there follow questions whether they be the houses of God or no least they be forsaken by fanaticall and giddie spirits as if they were the Synagogues of Sathan These be the fruits that vnaduised whisperings wil bring forth and this vse the enemie of mankinde hath made of them They haue serued him as a pedagogie an A B C or introduction of Schisme of frenzie of Anabaptisticall confusion Two errors I haue obserued that are the grounds and occasions of these enormities The first is an immoderate desire of Christian libertie The second an importunate challenge of equalitie in gouernement of the Church As to the former many are deceiued therein and deceiue others whilest they set Christian libertie vpon Tenter-hookes and stretch it further then the nature thereof will beare seeking not onely a liberty of minde and conscience in things indifferent but a freedome also in their actions Christian libertie hath place in minde and conscience alone It contenteth it selfe if there be no burthen of merit of iustification of holinesse or pleasing God vrged vpon the conscience that is the seate of Iesus Christ and if that be left free vnto him Christian libertie is safe and sound It respecteth nothing but that which is betweene God and thee And is not this a goodly libertie when we know that such and such things doe neither iustifie nor condemne vs afore God If this content you not vnlesse you may haue freedome also in your actions to doe what you will you haue left Christian libertie which reacheth not to our actions and respecteth not that which is betweene thee and thy neighbour and thou act come to a licentious immunitie This difference being obserued may appease manie controuersies about indifferent things Wherein if brethren will hold but that moderation which true Diuinitie teacheth and retaine this freedome our Christian libertie in their consciences which is not infringed and conforme their actions that they doe not ouerthwart good order to the disturbance of the Church and offence of the Magistrate How ioyfully might we all goe vp into the house of the Lord and sing in the tune of Angels Ecce quam bonum quam iucundum habitare fratres in vnum For as much therefore as God hath warranted the Magistrates authoritie in these cases and required our obeience let vs no more thinke how to finde out pretences Studia abeunt in mores But if there be any consolation in Christ any comfort of loue any fellowship of the spirit any compassion and mercie fulfill this ioy that ye be like minded hauing the same loue being of one accord and iudgement that nothing be done through contention or vaine glory but that in meekenesse of minde euery one esteeme other better then himselfe That we may all with one way and one heart goe vp into the house of the Lord. As for equalitie which is the other errour when one aduised Lycurgus to establish it amongst the Lacedemonians that so the least and meanest might beare like sway with the greatest The wise man answered that he which called for it should begin it first at home in his owne house And if all men be carefull to exclude paritie out of their priuate families if men experienced in policie and gouernement will not admit it into the common-wealth because that cannot be preserued with equalitie but by authoritie and rule Why are not men as sensible of the house of God as of their owne houses or why should equalitie that is found intollerable in all other societies be obtruded onely to the Church Because distinctions and inequalitie of Pastors cannot be proued by Scripture That is not so There were diuers Pastors vnder the Law but they were not equall For there was one high Priest as it were a transcendent aboue them all But his eminencie was to expresse the soueraignetie of Iesus Christ Then there were Captaines of euery family of the Leuites and that proues an inequalitie Last of all there were two ioyned with the high Priest which are called rulers of the house of God 1 Chro. 24.5 In the new Testament there was distinction and inequalitie betweene the Apostles themselues or else Paul would neuer haue called Peter and Iames and Iohn chiefe and pillars of the Apostles There was distinction and inequalitie betweene the twelue Apostles and the seauentie Disciples We reade of manie Pastors at Ephesus Act. 20. And in the Reuelation Iohn writeth to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus which euicteth necessarily that there was one greater then the rest Par in parem non habet imperium But Paul gaue Timothie authoritie ouer Pastors Therefore hee ordayned and intended an inequalitie and no paritie amongst the Pastors of the Church The reasons of those that call for equalitie in the Ministers are not made to build vp and they are too weake to pull downe Abraham saith grauely vnto Lot Let there be no contention betweene mee and thee for wee are brethren that is one reason Againe the Cananite and the Pherizite are yet in the Land another motiue In which case who knowes not that the aduersaries of our doctrine will sooner be ouercome with vnited then distracted forces and so we that fight the Lords battailes cannot disioyne our selues without preuarication and bootie Away then with all singularitie and admiring of our owne opinions Know yee not that it is the seminarie of inward contention the Spirit of the Prophets must be subiect to the Prophets Let vs haue but one heart and one way that wee may fill the Lords house with garlands of victories that wee may beate our aduersaries from humane merits and bring them to the diuine mercies from free-will and the possibilities of Nature to the grace of God from traditions to the written Word from elauation adoration circumgestation transubstantiation of the Sacrament to the commemoration of Christs death and a sweet fruition thereof by faith From their Hierarchie and visible Monarchie to the headship of our Lord Iesus Christ From superstition to the true vvorship of GOD. O how glorious are these holy triumphs how instantly doe they call vpon vs to combine our selues together that the conuersion and offering vp of the Papists may be acceptable and sanctified I will not dismisse you of the Laitie without some short exhortation to peace The very name of peace is a sweet word but the work is sweeter I cannot alwayes speake of it But that which I cannot alwayes speake of that you may keepe alwayes As for example He that praiseth God with his tongue cannot doe it euer but he that praiseth God with his life and conuersation may euer doe it Euen so doe I commend the words and works of peace vnto you Or if you thinke me vnworthie to commend such a diuine blessing looke if it be not the word of our great and worthiest King He commandeth it vnto vs from the Author of peace Beati pacifici Not pacidici but pacifici Blessed are not the praisers but the practisers of peace Let the mountaines bring peace and the little hils righteousnesse vnto thy people O thou Prince of peace And so the God of peace that brought againe from the dead our Lord Iesus the great Shepheard of the sheepe through the bloud of the euerlasting Testament make you perfect in all good works workking in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ to whom be praise for euer and euer Amen FJNJS 1 Part. 2 Part. Be●●●rd in Can● ser 65 Epist ad protect Angl. 87. pag. 69. Tertul. de praescript De vnitat ecclesiae cap. 3 In 1. cap. Esa Contra Praxeam Chrisost in Epist ad Rom. hom 23.