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A40652 The best name on earth together with severall other sermons / lately preached at St. Brides and in other places by T. Fuller. Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. 1659 (1659) Wing F2413; ESTC R28667 34,017 156

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The BEST NAME ON EARTH Together with severall other Sermons lately preached at St. Brides and in other places By T. Fuller Batchelour in Divinitie London Printed for the use and benefit of William Byron Gent. 1659. ANTIOCHIA Behold this ancient Citty from whence cam● As from y e sacred Font the Christians name Heauen grante ●● our once famous London may What Antioch gaue in time not take away Io Qu Iohn Stafford Excu 1657 The BEST NAME ON EARTH Together with severall other Sermons lately preached at St. Brides and in other places By T. Fuller Batchelour in Divinitie London Printed for the use and benefit of William Byron Gent. 1659. Collegium Emmanuelis Cantabrigiae The Best name on Earth Acts 11.26 And the Disciples were called Christians first in Antioch 1. WE meet with four names in Scripture whereby the servants of God converted to embrace the Gospel were called before the time that my text was written These took their denominations from the four Cardinall graces so necessary to mans salvation 1. From their Holinesse Called Saints 2. From their Faith Called Believers 3. From their Love Called The Brethren 4. From their Knowledge Called The Disciples From their Holinesse called Saints Acts 9.13 I have heard by many of this man how much evil he hath done to thy Saints at Ierusalem Acts 9.32 He came down also to the Saints which dwelt at Lydda From their Faith called Believers Acts 5.14 And believers were the more added to the Lord multitudes both of men and women From their Love called the Brethren Acts 9.30 Which when the brethren knew they brought him down to Cesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus Acts 11.1 And the Apostles and brethren that were in Iudea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God From their Knowledge called the disciples The number of the disciples was multiplied Acts 6.2 Called the multitude of the disciples unto them And in my text And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch 2. Observe in the words 1. Who were called The Disciples all they and onely they 2. What they were called Christians 3. Where they were called at Antioch 4. And lastly when they were called First neither sooner nor later but just now when the Church so increased with the preaching of Saul and Barnabas We will chiefly insist on the second and third parts and therein for the more conveniency invert the Order and begin first with the place called Antioch 3. First then Negatively not at Ierusalem and that for two reasons First because Ierusalem had lately lost its credit with the great God of Heaven it was become Bankrupt in its reputation for her ingratitude to God and cruelty to his servants Matthew 23.37 O Ierusalem Ierusalem Thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not Behold your house is left unto you desolate Yea it was utterly unfit that the name of Christians should begin or be born in that place where Christ was so cruelly put to death 4. Secondly because Ierusalem was of a covetous envious and ingrossing nature ready to monopolize and inclose all honour to it self So that had the name of Christians first begun within the walls of Ierusalem the Jews would have been ready alone to lay claim thereunto excluding the Gentiles to have any participation therein As Christ therefore suffered without the walls of Ierusalem thereby proclaiming himself a publick good not appropriated to that private nation and for the same causes the name of Christians began not at Ierusalem but at Antioch 5. Secondly Negatively The name began not at Rome O how would the tide of Tybur have swollen beyond bounds and banks had the name of Christ first begun from that Citie How would the papists boast though not without some cause yet beyond all measure that Rome in a manner was the godmother of true Religion gave her the name of Christianity If a father cannot in his writings vail his bonnet in a civil respect to the citie of Rome and give it a regardfull salutation because it was the imperiall citie of the world if an ancient Ecclesiasticall Historian cannot give it a Rhetoricall complement in respect it was so famous a Church and most ancient Patriarchall Seat having precedency before though not superiority above all other Churches I say if in such cases their expressions are hailed and tugged by popish parasites to signifie contrary to the mind of the speakers the primacy and infallibility of the Romish Church how would they ere now have hollowed it into the eares of deaf men imperiously upbraided the Church of England if the name of Christians had its rise from Rome and originall in the walls thereof But God hath marred their mark and payred their pride and blasted their boasting Christians were first so called not at Rome but at Antioch 6. Here let us enquire orderly into two things 1. What was Antioch 2. What is Antioch What was it I confesse there be many cities in Asia of that name no fewer then seven and twenty which I could easily demonstrate were it not my work to preach heaven unto you and not to read a Geography Lecture 7. The reason why there were so many Antioches is this because there were two Antiochusses successively both puissant princes and eminent Emperours of Asia who founding repairing and enlargeing severall cities called them all after their own name Besides they had many friends and favourites who to ingratiate themselves with these princes called the cities of their own erection after the names of Antiochus 8. But the Antiochia mentioned in the text is certainly known to be Antiochia in Coelosyria so called because lying in a hollow vale interposed between the mountains of Libanus and Antilibanus It was commonly called Antioch the great and was a Metropolis for trade in those Eastern parts 9. Come we now to consider what is Antioch It is a pittifull inconsiderable village famous onely for what it hath been the Churches therein are buried in their own Church-yards It falleth so much under the notice of a Geographer that it falleth not under it generally omitted in most Mapps except some charitable ones which are pleased in pitie to take cognizance thereof Yea which is worst of all a sound Christian and orthodox in his judgement is hardly to be found in that citie where Christianity first began It is at this day infected with Mahumetisme and such few sorry Christians as remain therein are infected in the Fundamentalls of Religion for they follow the Greek Church and deny the procession of the holy spirit from the sonne the second person in the Trinity Use 10. To teach humility to all places of greatnesse not to confide in their own populousnesse but to walk in humility before God seeing Antioch the great that voluminous citie is now epitomized