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A19399	A quaternion of sermons preached in Ireland in the summer season: 1624. By George Andrevve Master of Arts, and deane of Limmericke. The severall titles, texts, time and place are set downe in the next page	Andrewe, George, 1575 or 6-1648.	1625 (1625)	STC 583; ESTC S115917	66,132	116

was this visibilitie two hundred yeares agoe It was not seene before Luthers time I answere That the externall visibilitie and splendor of a particular Church doth not alwayes shine alike You see Sion in the Text but yet in Time it is not seene For a long season Israel was without the true God without a Priest to teach 2. Chron. 15.8 and without Law and yet it was even then the Church of God Doe you not see that the Sun is sometimes under the clouds yet Who doth denie even then the bodie light of the same S. Augustine Aug Epist. 48. compares the Church to the Moone which sometime shineth out at another time it is deprived of a great portion of her light and sometime shineth not at all yet it is though it is not seene And doe you not observe in your owne Element that the fire is raked up in the ashes and in the silence of the night it is not seene yet in the morning when the ashes are removed it is found So That brightnesse and splendor of the Church which shewed it selfe in the time of Christ of his Apostles the Primitive Church was sometimes darkened by the clouds of creeping errors which over-shadowed it and for many yeares oppressed by fraud or force through the injury of men in the time of ignorant and sleeping Prelates Math. 13.25 Tares were sowen and all for the unthankefulnesse of men whom God gave over to beleeve lyes 2. Thes 2 10.11 because they would not beleeve the truth But yet in everie age since the time of Christ unto this day even in the season when Sathan was let loose the Lord hath raised up men Revel 20.3 of an heroical spirit divine understāding who opposed thē selves against the doctrine of the Papacie and eyther by their preaching or writing or suffering or other open testimony gave witnesse to the truth And Though the beautie of the Church of England in the blessed time of King Edward the sixt was besmeared with the bloud of the Saints in the Raigne of Queene Marie that our Sion seemed wholy to be darkened yet even then such a light was kindled by the fire of their Martyrdome that wee trust shall never be put out 7 Lastly wee come to Sions victorie Many are the sorrowes of the righteous saith David so Psalm 34 1● Many are the sores of Sion but at length there is health Manie a wound doth it receive from them without from them within Psalm 129.5 but at last it gets the Victorie They that hate Sion Rom. 16.20 shall all be turned backeward The God of peace shall tread downe Sathan shortly under your feete Even then when Death Revel 20.14 and Hell shall be cast into the lake of fire So that now we may inscribe this propertie of Sion as David doth many of his Psalmes Lamenat seach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vincenti To him that overcommeth But Who is this Conqueror that overcommeth Is there any sensible demonstration of this victorie in the word Yes That so Graphicall and lively a description in the fourteenth of the Revelation Revelat. 14.1 that nothing can be more Iesus Christ that Lambe stands upon the top of Sion What is this that wee heare We have laboured by these XXI steps to climbe up to the top of Sion and now that wee are come thither Whom have wee found standing there Our elder brother our Saviour our Redeemer Socra Eccle. hist lib. 1. cap. 1. In hoc vince In HIM overcome Here let us cast Anchor this is our Period our Haven our Heaven That Sion which is the subject of our Text hath gotten such a crest The Lambe of God such a Christ even Iesus the righteous that nothing could be told us more to our consolation Oh! What encouragement is this to draw us unto the love of Sion when Christ lyeth not downe as overcome but standeth up as a Conqueror on the top of Sion to see us to save us to heare us to helpe us to descrie to destroy our Adversaries that in the fulnesse of time he may reach forth his hand and pluck us up unto the beaurie of our inheritance even to that Triumphant Sion which is above Wee have ended now with all these Encomia set out in a Threefold Septenarie of Meditations cōcerning Sion whereof wee make a Threefold Vse Threefold Vse The first Vse First Vse to outstrip the Papists even in their owne element They are laborious in setting forth the properties of the Church but Wee doe sound forth the Trumpet of her prayses aswell as they It is but a jest of Campian Audito Ecclesiae nomine hostis expalluit No Cāpian Campian ration red acad. rat ● No children waxe not wanne to heare of their mothers name but wee blush to see thy vanitie being more full of Rhetoricall declamation then Theologicall demonstration Wee know that the Church is the Spouse of Christ his Love his Dove his undefiled Cant 4.7.9 1. Tim. 3.15 The house of God the pillar and ground of truth But withall wee know that a Particular cannot be an Vniversall neyther can a Romane be the Catholicke Church Oh! How many impostures doe our Romanists vent unto the world under the name of the Church making it as a rich Arras to cover the mud-walles of their deformities Leo in epistol ad Mona in Palest Their owne Leo may fitly say to them in generall as he wrote to certaine Monkes in particular Ecclesiae nomine armamini contra Ecclesiam dimicatis Yee are armed with the name of the Church and yet fight against the Church The second Vse Second Vse to observe the extraordinarie care that God hath of his Church Sion Sion againe her Towers her Bulwarkes her Palaces Hee commaunds everie Tower to be told nay to be bookt for that seemes to be the Etymon of the word Sipheru Nay 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liber The Lord takes notice of every Pot in Ierusalem Ezech. 14.20 Exod. 25.38 Yea of the very Snuffers snuff-dishes Oh! with what precise observāce ought the Princes of the earth to take notice of these things Ephes 5.1 Psal 12. ● 7 9. that they being followers of God as deere children may procure the wealth peace and prosperitie of Sion of the house of God The third Vse Third Vse is to stirre up the sonnes of men to runne into the bosome of the Church the spirituall Sion Psal 4.8 23 2 132.8 where they may have their safe repose their repast their rest that God being their Father and the Church their Mother they may be nourished in his family untill they come to their not deserved 1. Pet. 1.4 but reserved inheritance And hitherto of the Subject of this Text namely of Sion Now to the Action which being manifold according to my first Division I reduce it unto Two viz. To Compasse Sion and to Marke

A QVATERNION OF SERMONS PREACHED IN JRELAND in the Summer season 1624. BY GEORGE ANDREVVE Master of ARTS and Deane of Limmericke The severall Titles Texts Time and Place are set downe in the next Page DVBLIN Imprinted by the Societie of STATIONERS Printers to the Kings most excellent Majestie Anno 1625. The first Sermon The Title The Temple-purger The Text 2. Chron. cap. 29. vers 3.4.5 Time place May 16 at Dublin The second Sermon The Title The Marchant commodities The Text 1. Kings cap. 21. vers 2. Time place Iuly 13. at Limmericke The third Sermon The Title The Shepheard and the sheepe The Text Iohn 10. vers 27.28 Time place Iuly 20. at Ennis The fourth Sermon The Title Sions compasse The Text Psalm 48. vers 12.13.14 Time place August 15. at Limmericke THE FIRST SERMON Viz. The Temple-purger Preached at CHRIST-Church in Dublin on Whitsunday May 16. 1624. Before the Most Honourable the Lord Deputie of Ireland and Councell of State in that Kingdome By G. A. Imprinted at Dublin Anno Dom. 1625. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE LORD HENRIE CARIE VISCOVNT FALKLAND LORD DEPVTY OF IRELAND Most Honourable THe Evangelist S. Luke mentions a quaternion of Souldiers Act. 12.4 and I a quaternion of Sermons that is Polemicall this is Theologicall And out of this which the desire of many faithfull ones the importunitie of some judicious friends have drawne from me I have presumed to set forth two to stand Sentinell before your Honor. The first was naturally yours for I came from farre to give it The last is necessarily yours for you came from farre to take it Both preached before you both graced by you your honourable presence your attention So both are yours and you are Christs 1. Cor 3.22.23 and Christ is Gods I confesse they are the two extreamest in this Booke for so the order of time required but he which is Alpha and Omega the first and the last Revel 1.11 no doubt will give a blessing unto them both in regard that the extreames and the meane and the maine and all was intended for his glory They are my first Infants which the light hath seene nature bids me to seeke forth a nourisher and whom sitter can I finde then him who under God was the chiefe cause of their life Isa 49.23 and is the common nursing Father of this Church Vouchsafe therefore Right Honourable to reflect upon him vvho desires to expresse his dutie towards you now by sight as then by speach especially in a worke that is accompanied with hope of profit and comfort to the Church of God Even so Right Noble Lord Ride on and prosper with the word of truth and righteousnesse Keepe open the dores of the Temple and repaire it Nehem. 2.19 Ezra 7.21 Nehem. 2.8 Prevent every Sanballat and Geshem and let Ezra and Nehemias be gracious in your eyes Reformation is the worke of the Lord and therefore let not your hands be weake You have an Hezekiah with you even the strength of God To him I leave you and from him I wish you all increase of honour with externall internall eternall peace Your Honours To doe you all humble service in the Lord. George Andrewe THE FIRST SERMON The Temple purger 2. CHRON. CAP. 29. vers 3.4.5 3. He opened the dores of the house of the Lord in the first yeare and in the first Moneth of his raigne and repaired them 4. And he brought in the Priests and the Levites and gathered them into the East streete 5. And said unto them heare yee me yee Levites sanctifie now your selves and sanctifie the house of the Lord God of your fathers and carrie forth the filth out of the sanctuarie MOst Honourable and all right dearely beloved in our Lord and Saviour I have begun already to speake unto you out of this Text Iune 1. 1623. which I then stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Temple-purger since which time our Temples were threatned to have been defiled by our Adversaries for they had conceived hope to have set up their banners in our Congregations Psalm 74.4 But he that sitteth in the Heavens laughed them to scorne Psalm 2.4 and scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart Luke 1.51 The match is put out and the Powder will not take so that for the time past we may comfortably say with David Psalm 114 7. The snare is broken and we are delivered and for the time to come confidently say with Micah Rejoyce not against me O mine enemie though I fall Mic. 7.8 I shall arise I will therefore Christ being my guide proceede in that my Text least withall it be said to mee as is said in the Gospell Luke 14.30 This man began to build and was not able to make an end Now in the first place I must repeate my former division for the Text had naturally three generall heads Who When What. First Who was the purger of the Temple 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hu. He viz. Hezekiah King of Iudah Secondly When was the Temple purged In the first yeare of his raigne and first Moneth Thirdly What course was taken in this purging A twofold course First for the house of God Secondly for the guides of the house Where three considerations are offered 1. The care taken for them 2. The titles given them In the generall Priests and Levites In the particular Priests Levites 3. The paines taken with them viz. What Hezekiah did What he said What he did Two things 4 He brought them in 5 He gathered them into the East streete What he said Two things 1. For the preparation Heare yee me yee Levites 2. For the matter a threefold command Sanctifie now your selves Sanctifie the house of the Lord Carrie the filth out of the sanctuarie Thus much for the division I have alreadie spoken at that other season of the first generall head viz. Who was the purger of the Temple even He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hezekiah the King where I observed That the care of Gods Temple worke of reformation is worthy of a King nay necessarie for a King as I then proved by five arguments viz. The rule of Scripture The consent of the Fathers The example of godly Princes The confession of our Adversaries The practise of our owne The use whereof was threefold viz. First to shew the world what is the right of Kings and that herein Papall power is but usurpation Secondly to tell the world Hart. conf with Ren. cap. 9. d● 4. that it is but a tricke in the Papacie to draw the ground of Regall supremacie onely from the time of King Henrie VIII Thirdly to pray that God would stirre up the spirit of Princes to make use of their owne right and that in due time he would be pleased to send a David into Spaine a Iehosaphat into France a Iosias into Italy a Constantine into Germanie that with our