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A16557	The third part from S. Iohn Baptists nativitie to the last holy-day in the whole yeere dedicated vnto the right religious and resolute doctor, Mattheuu Sutcliffe, Deane of Exeter / by Iohn Boys ...	Boys, John, 1571-1625.	1615 (1615)	STC 3463.3; ESTC S728	114,320	152

whole world Aaron the Priest was anoynted Elisa the Prophet anoynted Saul the king anoynted In the Sauiour which is Christ all these meet that he might be a perfect Sauiour of all he was all A Priest after the order of Melchisedeck Psal. 110. 4. A Prophet to be heard when Moses should hold his peace Deut. 18. 18. A King to saue his people whose name should be the Lord our righteousnes Ieremy 23. 6. Dauids Priest Moses Prophet Ieremyes King these formerly had met double two of them in some other Melchisedeck King and Priest Samuel Priest and Prophet Dauid Prophet and King neuer all three but in him alone and so no perfect Christ but he but he all and so perfect Thus in S. Peters confession euery particle and article hath his force thou which art the son of man as being borne of Mary the Virgin art the Christ the son of the liuing God S. Luke reports that Peter answered the Christ of God and S. Marke sayth only thou art Christ whereas our Euāgelist here thou art the Christ the son of the liuing God but all in effect is one seeing Christ alone is the whole for he that confesseth thoroughly Christ is thoroughly a Christian and doth hereby confesse him to be the son of God and sauiour of men euen that anoynted Bishop of our soules who dyed for our sinnes and is risen againe for our Iustification and appeareth in the sight of God for vs as our agent and aduocate Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Iona vpon Peters answere thou art the Christ the son of the liuing God Iesus replyed after this sort as if he should haue sayd I am the naturall son of God as thou art the son of Iona. Mystically Simon signifieth obedience and Ionas a doue to signifie that euery Scholler in Christs Schoole must haue these two properties obedience and simplicitie Curious pride is a great let in Christianitie God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble The Philosophers in professing themselues to be wise became fooles and were so far from acknowledging Iesus for the son of God as that the preaching of Christ crucified seemed foolishnes vnto them 1. Cor. 1. 23. or Simon is called the son of a doue because flesh and blood reuealed not this mystery but the holy spirit which appeared in the likenes of a doue Matth. 3. 16. or as Hierome Bar-Iona is put for Bar-Iohanna the sonne of Iohn as Christin the 21. Chap. of S. Iohns Gospel at the 15. vers Now Iohanna signifies the grace of God insinuating as the same Father and other Doctours obserue that Peter in vnderstanding this hidden mystery was the son of grace so Christ in the words immediatly following flesh and bloud hath not opened that vnto thee not my flesh and blood for if thou looke vpon me with a corporall eye thou seest a man and nothing else not thy flesh and blood non consanguinei thy father and thy mother taught it not this knowledge comes not from other men or from thy selfe no flesh and blood that is the will and wit of man as Paul Galat. 1. 16. I communicated not with flesh and blood I say the wisdome of man hath not opened this vnto thee but my father which is in heauen as Le●… the great glosseth it non opinio te terrena fefellit sed inspiratio caelestis instruxit Faith is the worke of God and no man knowes the sonne but the father and no man commeth vnto me except my father draw him Iohn 6. 44. Blessed art thou therefore Simon Bar-Iona because my father which is in heauen h●…th inspired this confession into thee blessed art thou here yet more blessed hereafter as hauing hereby the promises of the life present and of that which is to come So truth it selfe telleth vs expresly this is eternall life to know God and whom he hath sent Iesus Christ. He that is a true beleeuer is blessed in the City blessed in the field blessed in his going forth and blessed in his comming home blessed in the labours of his hands in the fruit of his ground in the flocks of his sheep blessed in his wealth and blessed in his woe blessed in his health and blessed in his sicknes also for the Lord will comfort him when he lyeth sick vpon his bed and make his bed in his sicknes Psalm 41. 3. blessed in all his life blessed in his houre of death and most blessed in the day of Iudgement when he shall haue perfect consummation of blisse both in body and soule Come yee blessed inherit yee the kingdome c. Vpon this rock will I build my Church Stephen Gardiner preaching vpō this text before King Edward the 6 sayd It is a marueilous thing that vpon these words the Bishop of Rome should found his Supremacy for whether it be super Petram or Petrum all is one matter it makes nothing at all for that his purpose This place quoth he serues only for Christ and nothing for the Pope but afterward in the dayes of Queene Mary reading this Scripture with the Popes owne spectacles he maintained that the bishop of Rome was the supreme head of the Catholick Church and he bloodily persecuted all those which held the contrary doctrine And after him in our age Bellarmine Baronius and other Papists of most eminent note for learning cite this text as a pregnant testimonie to proue S. Peters Lordship ouer the rest of the Apostles and so though inconsequently the Popes vnlimited Iurisdiction ouer all the Bishops in the world wherein as our Diuines haue shewed they contradict 1. the Scriptures 2. the Fathers 3. their owne writers 4. their owne selues The Scriptures affirme plainely that the Church is built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone to wit a tryed stone a pretious stone a sure foundation and other foundation can no man lay then that which is laied which is Iesus Christ. The Fathers auow likewise that Christ is the rock vpon which his Church is built so S. Augustine in many places of his works Petrus à Petra non Petra à Petro quomodo non à Christiano Christus sed à Christo Christianus vocatur vpon this rock then I will build my Church is nothing else but vpon my selfe the sonne of the liuing God I will build my Church aedificabo te super me non me super te and whereas he did once construe this of Peter he retracted his opinion and expounds it of Christ Hierome Gregory the great Primasius Anselm accord in the same iudgement Other of the most ancient fathers interpret it thus vpon this rocke that is vpon this faith as being a firme rocke vpon this confession thou art the sonne of the liuing God I

the fetters from Saint Peters feete and the chaines from his hands it brake thorough the first and second watch and opened an iron gate and so deliuered the seruant of God from the waiting of the Iewes What should I say more prayer is so potent that it raiseth the dead it ouercommeth Angels it casteth out Deuils and that which is yet more wonderfull it mastereth euen God himselfe for when Iacob wrestled with God he said I will not let thee goe except thou blesse me when the Lord said let me goe becommeth it Iacob to say I will not let thee goe yea beloued there be some things wherein the Lord is very well content that his seruants striue with him as namely when they haue his word for their warrant it is a commendable strife to take no refusall at his hand and in effect it is nothing else but a constant affirmation that his truth is inuiolable So the woman of Canaan stroue with Christ shee would take no denyall of that which he had promised and blinde Bartimeus made Christ as he passed in his way to stand still hee could not for the multitude lay hands on him and yet his prayers reached vnto him and held him fast vntill he receiued a comfortable answere receiue thy sight thy faith hath saued thee So when almighty God would haue destroyed his people because they worshipped the golden calse saying these be thy Gods O Israel which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt Moses fell downe on his face before the Lord and prayed vnto his God he stood saith the Psalmist in the gap as a mediatour betweene God and his people to turne away his wrathfull indignation and this prayer was so powerfull as that it constrained the Lord in the midst of his anger to say vnto Moses let me alone that my wrath may waxe hot against them all the powers of heauen and the crying of all men on earth are not able to hold the Lord from doing any worke he is about to doe for he can measure the waters in his fist and mete heauen with his spanne and weigh the mountaines in scales and the hils in a ballance what soeuer pleaseth him he doth in heauen and in earth and in the sea yet the prayers of his children are able to binde him hand and foot and to compell him as it were to powre downe an vndeserued blessing and to turne away a iust deserued punishment the very crying of an infant that vtters no distinct voyce moues a mother vnto compassion and so the Lord pitying vs as a father and comforting vs as a mother heareth our very groanes and so fulfilleth our desires if we call vpon him in faith and feare Now the reason why the prayers of the faithfull are so powerfull is because they be not ours but the intercession of Gods owne spirit in vs powred out in the name of Christ his owne sonne in whom he is euer well pleased For as for vs we know not what to pray as wee ought but the spirit it selfe makes request for vs with sighes which can not be expressed it is the spirit whereby we cry abba father as in vs the spirit makes request for vs so with the father he grantes our suites and forgiues our sinnes that for which we pray euen he giueth vnto vs who giueth vs this grace to pray God inuiteth vs to come vnto him and to call vpon him in all our troubles and his holy spirit when as we present our selues before the throne of grace helpeth our infirmities and maketh intercession for vs and therefore no maruell if the Lord be bound by deuoute men with his owne promises as Sampson was by Dalila with his owne haire Let these godly meditations strengthen our feeble hearts and weake handes that they faint not in deuotion but according to the paterne of the Saintes here and the precept of Paul elsewhere we may without ceasing alwayes pray that is vpon all occasions offred as well for our selues as other Omne quod agis ●…ratione obsignato id verò maximè de quo mentem vides dubitantem Behold the Angel of the Lord was there present I am occasioned here to treat of two questions especially The first concerning Angelical protection in generall as namely whether Angels helpe and keepe men from euill or noe The second whether beside the generall protection of many or all Angels in common euery man hath one peculiar Angel as his peculiar guard and guide The doctrine concerning Angelicall protection in generall at the first appearance may seeme strange because the Scripture teacheth vs expresly that the pathes of man are directed by the Lord and Psalm 34. 18. Great are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of all and for this so particular care and prouidence God is often compared vnto a father mother pastour bridegroome buckler Eagle c. To shew that he only is to vs all in all Esay 63. 16. Doubtlesse thou art our father though Abraham be ignorant of vs and Israel know vs not yet thou O Lord art our father and our redeemer As who would say those that are fathers according to the flesh are not worthy of that name if they be compared with thee can a woman forget her childe and not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe though she should forget saith the Lord Esay 49. 15. Yet I will not forget thee behold I haue grauen thee vpon the palme of my hands and thy walkes are euer in my sight If thou beest burdened with vnrighteousnes Christ is thy righteousnes if thou need helpe he is thy strength if thou feare death he is life if thou desire heauē he is the way if thou hate darknes he is light if thou seeke for meate he is food for although he be but one in himselfe yet he is all things vnto vs for the relieuing of our necessities which are without number and therefore if the rule be true non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessitate what need any man expect other side from other powers though Angelicall and neuer so great seeing almighty God himselfe is the keeper of Israel our immediat protectour strength hope and helpe in trouble Answere is made that Angelical custody doth not extenuate but rather extoll the greatnes and goodnes of God toward mankind for as much as it is an execution of his high and holy prouidence For as by the wisedome of an excellent Emperour all the Towers all the Cities all the Castles are fortified with men and munition against the common enemies assault lest by barbarous inuasion they should be destroyed euen so because the deuils are in euery corner raging and ranging for our ouerthrow God hath ordained for our guard that an host of Angels should pitch