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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

leaving for the time all their morall affaires to hazard of invasion of forraine enemies or of domesticke casualties as carnall good husbandrie would conceit What inconveniences in the eye of flesh bloud did this subject them unto in respect of their outward estate besides the paines and perils the trouble and toyle and tediousnesse of the journey Now there is no such taske no such burthen imposed on our shoulders for how ever wee are not strict according to the good pollicie in first dividing and distinguishing people into severall Churches Parishes and Congregations to tye a man perpetually to his owne Church as to his owne wife or wife to her owne husband her owne house as a tradesman to his owne shop or a bird that constantly keepes her owne Nest or as a beggar that still keepes his owne stand his owne circuite as the Milne horse not so jayling or imprisoning men to an ignorant and profane Ministerie as some Land-lords strictly tye their Tennants to grinde at their owne Milnes how ever abused in their grinding or moulter by the ignorance or knaverie of the Milner though I say I see neyther reason nor religion tying any man so constantly to the Ministery of his own Parish Priest to sucke at drie dugges to drinke at drie brookes to seeke foode or fruite at a barren tree but that if Iacob and the house of Iacob any true Israelite want foode in his owne Canaan hee may seeke for corne in p Gen. 42.2 Egypt elsewhere as the beggar that hath no bread at home seekes abroad else people should be in worse case for their soules stricter laced then for their bodies since in free libertie if they wholy want or have but the outcast and refuse of any commoditie in anie Mart or Market they may seeke further for better or what drugge or physicall receite one Apothecary shop yeeldes not may be sought in another and from an Empericke Quacksalver they may commit their health life to a learned Physitian yea else Gods people should be in worse case for their soules then Israell once for their Iron tooles who when there was no smith in q See the Sermon extant on that Text There was no smith in Israell 1. Sam. 13.19 Israell yet went to the Philistines to make or mend their plough-shares and other iron workes yea in worse case then the Horse and Mule who if hee wants water seekes up and downe the pasture though never so large and wide The waters of life though they be not at home being better worth our search then those which Ahab and Obediah sought from one end of the land to the r 1. King 18.5.6 other or those waters of the Well of Bethlem which David so ſ 1. Chro. 11.17 desired yet neverthelesse though we may go further from home for better foode in christian liberty ere we starve or eate meate ill cook'd for all this we are not so punctually precisely ceremoniously obliged tyed to any one speciall place of Gods worship to this Church or that Chappell this Cathedrall or that Temple as the Iewes were tyed to Salomons Temple though the Papists who in this as in other things runne against the haire and swim crosse against all Gods Ordinances will needes in their superstitious folly lay on their owne neckes a Iewish yoke in worshipping at this stone and that shrine this roode and that altar this Crosse and that Chappell rather at Rome or Loretto in Italie in Compostella in Spaine at the Roode of Yoghell in Ireland c. yea still in their blinding bewitching superstition as if they were turn'd t Read a book in 4. called the picture of a papist you shall see it proved that Papisme is a meere mixture of Iudaisme Turcisme Paganisme Turkes or Iewes even in Mahumitanized Ierusalem But now as our Saviour tels the Samaritane woman is the time that wee shall neyther Iew nor convert Gentiles worship the Father in this mountaine or that nor at Ierusalem but in spirit and u Iohn 4. ve 20 21.22.23 truth in everie place lifting up pure w 1. Tim. 2.8 hearts and pure hands to the Almightie whether in our owne houses with x Dan 6.10 Daniell or in the fields with y Gen. 24.63 Isaac or in the garden with Augustine and z Confessionum lib. 8. Alixius or in our beds with a Psal 6.7 David and b 2. King 20.3 Ezekias or on the Sea with c Ionas 1.6 Ionas or on the shoare with d Act. 20.36 Paul or in prison with e Act. 16.25 Silas f 2. Chronic. 33.10.11 Manasses g Ierem. 38.6 Ieremie and our moderne Martyres or in our private clossets as the blessed Virgin or in and with our families as h Iosh 24.15 Ioshuah and that sweete singer of i 2. Sam. 6 20. Israell or in the publicke Congregation as once k 1. King 8.22 Salomon it matters not for the place if wee have the grace to worship God aright for matter and maner in which our Papists and all Moralists Hypocrites and profane men are so grossely defective And indeede this is a greater mercie a greater priviledge then we conceive at the first blush for should those that trot and trudge and drudge up from all the Shires and countries in England and Wales everie Terme time to Westminster or Ludlow or from all the Counties and Provinces in Ireland to Dublin to follow the plough of contention prosecuting wrangling suites de lana l Adagium e● Haratio Caprina about matters triviall of no moment but only that such waspes must shoote their stings discharge their squirte gunnes in forma pauperis sometimes charged onely with paper pellets these creckets and m Arist lib. 5. c. 19. per ignem ambulat Salamandra ●●tinguit Salamanders not being able to live out of the fire of contention should these I say be injoyned as the Iewes to n Before the building of the Temple the Iewes worshipped where ever the Arke was Deut. 12.13.14 Exod. 25.22 1. Sam. 7.5 2. sa 6.2 chiefly in Silo in time of Iudges and Samuell after in mount Sion 2. Sam. 6.12 But after the Temple built thither they were confined 2. Chr. 7.12 1. Reg. 9.3 Luke 19.46 Ierusalem by God or Caesar I will not say foure times a yeare but annually once a yeare they or theirs all Sam to come up to Pauls Crosse or the Spittles in London or to Yorke-minster or to Lincolneminster or to Christs-Church in Dublin or any such remote place in any Kingdome or Province meerely to worship God by hearing Sermons and presenting their prayers before the Lord and offering their spirituall oblations as oft the Iewes in the dayes of Samuel Ezra Salomon c. there corporeall Oh this would be thought durum opus a hard taske as the Disciples said in another case durus o Iohn 6.60 sermo this were a hard

Gospell the faith and patience of the Saints their grouth in grace their forwardnesse in zeale their readinesse to distribute their constancie in profession their perseverance in the truth together with Gods merciefull proceedings with himselfe in turning him in his name and nature from a Saul to a Paul from a Wolfe to a Sheepe a persecuter to a professor a Preacher a Canniball to a Christian a blasphemer to a blesser of r 1. Tim. 1. vers 12 13.14.15.16 17. Christ yea from a Cater-piller to be like Iames Iohn and Cephas a piller from a confounder a founder from a supplanter a planter of the Church of Christ These mercies together with that Tallent of preaching of tongues of knowledge above his fellowes of parts of ſ 2. Cor. 9. 2 Cor. 10. Paulus de ipso per totum paines of patience in doing suffering more then the rest that doore of utterance opened to him so abundantly were as they should be to all in Pauls place of Pauls spirit the ground not of Thrasonicall ostentation luciferian pride and presumption as in t Ierem. 20.1.2 Pashur Hanany u 1. King 22. v. 24. Zedekiah the Romish Iesuites and Baalites as formerly in ſ The intollerable of Arrius Samosaetenus other hereticks Gent. Magd. where Caesar as Pelargus our Iesuites praefat ante suum Iesuitismum Arrius Nestorius Paulus Samosetenus and all other Pseudoprophets Pseudopostles Pseudomartyres Pseudochristians Heretickes Schismaticks but of holy and humble thankefulnesse I might inlarge my meditation in this point if I would wade into ancient and moderne historie from the practise of all other Saints and holy men of God that ever were chiefly millions of Martyres Confessors recorded by Eusebius the Tripartite and the rest of Ecclesiasticall historians Foxe in his Martyrologie nominated by name and described by their states callings whose faiths like the t Arist. libr. 5. cap. 19 Etiamsi Discorides libr. 2 cap. 50. Galenus lib. 3 de tempor cap. 4. contradicant Salamandrum in ignem vivere ignem extinguere asserit tamen Plinius libr. 10 cap. 〈…〉 Plin. 〈…〉 Civit. Dei lib● 21. cap. 4. Salamander and that Pyralis or Ce●astia living even in the fires and hotest persecutions even in the midst of flames as Paul Silas in the lower prisons have sent out the sparks of holy prayses in hymnes and Psalmes and spirituall songs c. But above all which is instar omnium in stead of all as the best president to us Christians we have the un-erring as precept so practise of Christ every action of his humanitie being our u Omnis Christi actio nostra est instructio instruction as he prayed continually rejoyced evermore in all things gave w 1. Thes 5.16.17.18 thankes chiefly for the propagation of the Gospell the subjugation of spirits to his disciples the falling downe of Sathan like lightning yea in the very benediction of the creatures abounding with prayses to his heavenly x Matth. 11.25 Matth. 26.30 father so should wee if wee be Christians in truth and sinceritie as in name profession imitate our Christ as members of his bodie branches of his Vine and docible disciples to that best of Masters otherwayes as Augustine once noted that it was incongruous under a thorney head to looke for soft and delicate effeminate y ●ub spinoso capite non debēt membra esse mol●a Augustinus members it 's as incongruous under a blessed blessing head to have as many Christians have execrable execrating cursing accursed blasphemons members CHAP. VIII Gratitude further proved and pressed from the Saints and Angels in the Church triumphant with thunderbolts against this blaspeming in stead of blessing Age. BVt if the examples of the Saints on earth move us not I wish that sursum corda wee would lift up our hearts and eyes a little higher paulo maiora canentes unto the Saints and Angels in heaven looking to the soules and spirits of the just in the nature Angelicall and humane we have a fairer coppie to write after a more resplendent white to shoote at in the Church Triumphant then wee can have in the Church Militant where the whitest Swan hath his blacke feete the purest gold his drosse the fairest face of grace his moale the most eminent light his cloud or eclypse as may be instanced besides a Gen 19. v. 36. Lot b Gen. 9.21 Noah c Iohn 10. v. 25. Thomas d Math. 26.70.72 Peter c. Patriarks Apostles even in two of the best for great men good men the world ever had in David Hezekiah the one committing such e 2. Sam. 11. 2. Sam. 24.1.2.3 2. Sa. 16.1.2.3.4 sinnes the other omitting such f 2. Chron. 3● 24.25.26 a dutie as both soyled their graces and put them to wash away those tinctures and staines with penitentiall g Psal 6. v. 6. 2. King 20.3.4 teares by the heate of renued love drawne out of the best distillatorie limbeckes of broken hearts and compunct spirits so that it 's dangerous to imitate the best men that ever were except the sanctifier and Saviour of men in every point of their practise least like the motion of that h Materia compacta in instina acris regione noctis frigore constipata vent●rum vi aliquando a malo Angelo agitata Simon Maiolus de diebus caui● p. 1. c●ll 1. pag. 9. ignis fatuus or transient fire cald in my countrie Maude with wispe they leade us wrong in the darke night of some errors into the Devious by pathes of irregularities But to imitate the Angels and soules spirits of the just in heaven their example is the right cynosure the streight line of our actions and affections the right Carde and compasse of our conversation the very Pole according to which to steare our practise in our manifold fluctuations and dangerous aberrations in the Sea of this world because they being inseperably united unto God to be like unto them is to be like unto God even partaker of the divine i 2. Pet. 1.4 nature they are fixt in their port and haven their heaven not subjected now like us in our surges to any shipwracke of faith or k 1. Tim. 1.19 conscience therefore it 's good for us to cast anchor as neere them as wee can to build our Tents and l Math. 17.4 Tabernacles as neere theirs as we may to ascend up the Mount to them by meditation contemplation imitation as in other things so especially in this dutie in singing and ringing forth here below as they above the prayses of their God and our God in joyning our quire to theirs in this holy Anthem Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy m In Te Deum glory If wee looke into that mysterious revelation wee shall see what the very life of the Angels is in what the spirits

them and was present with them in all their affaires in warre and in peace as hee was present with o Ioshuah 1.5 Ioshuah p Iudg 6.12 Gideon q Gen 39.2.21 Ioseph r 1. Sam. 18.12 David ſ Dan. 4.5 chap. 5.12.14 Daniell and other his servāts ever also according to his threat cursing those that cursed Abraham and were malignant enemies and opposites to the true t Gene. 12. v. 3. Church his Israell veryfying and sealing all the curses in his flying booke of vengeance upon u Reade the curses threatned against Egypt Moab Ammon Edom Tyre Sidon Medea Arabia and all wicked Provinces and people in Ieremie th 25 vers 15.16.17.18.19 Moab Ammon Amalech Ieconiah Ahab Iezabell Haman Nero Caligula Iulian Antiochus Maximinus w Reade the Theater of Gods judgements in quarto written by D. Beard on which in the Titles of Apostates and bloudie persecuters these named with many moe are spectacles of vengeance Maxentius and of latter times on Iohannes de Roma Minerius Gerson Cassaneus Weston Bonner Story Gardiner and other bloudy butchering x See Master Foxe in his Booke of Martyres but especially in a booke epitomizing the Actes of the Church where you may see the ends of these named with many moe folio 377. 378. 379. 380. 382. 383. c. See also Andrew Husdore in his Theater of examples on the 3. and 4. Commandement in Latin in quarto persecutors ancient and moderne then sure as the argument holdes much more from the lesser to the greater affirmatively both Logically and Theologically the Lord will blesse those that blesse him as he will curse those that curse him If he will blesse those that blesse Abraham much more will he blesse those that blesse the God of Abraham since indeede none can blesse God cordially and sincerely but such as the Lord first inspires with his grace and spirit even as the instrument makes no sound till it first be tuned and touched with the hand of the Musitian as the Organ-pipe is not musicall but dead till it be filled with the windy bellowes from the Organist for none can say that Iesus is the Lord but by the spirit of God So that the blessing of the God of spirits with upright hearts and spirits as David and his Israelitish Elders did here being but as a sparke of the spirits fire as streames from that fountaine as reflecting beames from that Sunne it is an evident demonstration that such are truly actually really blessed already and as a preparative beaver to a greater Banquet at the supper of the y Revel 19.7 Lambe potentially to be further blessed of God in the highest heavens the throne of God the bosome of Abraham the prepared mansions and seates of the blessed All which affirmatives me thinkes have their corroboration from this Theologicall axiome that as the seale leaves the impression in the waxe be it gold or silver c. as the Sunne by reflection leaves his shaddow on the opposite cloude so what mercie soever the Lord bestowes on us as a dignitie hee workes in us the same grace demonstrating it selfe in some proportionable dutie as for instance 1. Hath the Lord elected me to life from eternitie He gives me grace to elect chuse him again to be my God 2. Hath he called me to the knowledge of his truth He gives me his spirit to call him Abba z Rom. 8.15.16 father in spirit and truth 3. Hath Christ died for me and my sinnes and risen againe for my a Rom. 5.6 justification He hath mutually given me power to die unto sinne and to rise againe to holinesse and righteousnesse of life mortification of my fleshly b Coloss 3.5 lusts and crucifying my affection by the power of his c Gal 5.24 death vivification and quickning of the spirit d Ephes 2 v. 1. by the power of his resurrection 4. Is he ascended into heaven really for me He virtually causeth me to ascend thither after him in my e Coloss 3. v. 1.2 heart affections 5. Is he my high Priest to pray for me He as his legacie to his Church bequeaths unto me the spirit of grace f Z●ch 12 10. Rom. 8.26 prayer to pray againe unto him 6. So for conclusion Doth hee blesse me with all blessing in heavenly things He gives me the heart by the same grace to blesse him againe as all his Saints have done such print and impression the seale of his spirit leaves in my heart as answerable to it selfe as face answeres face in a glasse Oh then as ever thou desires to be blessed blesse God here be not so ignorant on idle as to dreame of the kernell without breaking the g Qui vult nucem nucleum frangat shell of eating the meale without grinding in the milne of the h Beneficium postulat officium dignitie without the duetie of ever being blessed but cursed without blessing God Oh thinke on all these motives in generall everie one in particular and let them be as goades and spurres to excite thee to this pressed duetie At least let all and ever of them be so many Bittes and Bridles curbs and remoraes to restraine and keepe us from ingratitude the bane of every grace yet the ulcer and spreading leprosie and Gangreene of every place yea of this Province and our English here planted if I might digresse by expostulations CHAP. XI The application of all by comparing as and our times with Israell in all times ANd now for speciall and specificall application of all that hath beene said unto our selves to reape the harvest of all this seede and to drinke the Wine from these pressed grapes that I may Bee-like bring all these rapsodicall collections home to the English-Irish Hive of our owne Church Common-wealth all these generall motives being but preparatives to prolong and prepare the way to my intended scope or as a foundation to a subsequent building If ever Nation and people under the cope of heaven had cause and occasion to act the part of David and his worthies since they left the stage of life in blessing the Lord as the very wordes of my Text are wee are the people for in the blessings and benefits we have received from God both of adornation and preservation Spirituall and Temporall externall and internall generall and speciall our mother Albion and wee here Hybernified layd in an equall scales I will not so undervalue us to say ballanced with all the inhabitants of the Christian Pagan Papall Octoman world compared with the famousest kingdomes European Asian Affrican and American not excepting the Cham of Cathy the great Mogull the Souldan of Egypt Prester-Iohn the Kingdomes of Fez and the most flourishing that are or ever were but equally poyzed with the best people in their prime in Davids and Salomons time that ever were taken even in their best as answering all their priviledges and

it is that we see manie wives as stuborn against their husbands as Oakes in stead of drawing in the same yoake as when an Israelite and a Cananite chiefly match together like two Sparrowes I have seene tied at the two ends of a packe-threed the one drawes one way to the Church the other to a Masse the one to a Sermon the other to a play their wils mixing together as oyle and water or if Lots wife post varios casus after much parlee and pleading the case bee at last haled out of Sodom to a saving c Genes 19.20 Zoar yet it 's neither with heart nor good will shee lookes backe againe with an aspect to what shee doth respect d Gen. 19.24 aspexit respexit vide Parreum in locum her heart hath no heart to travell with her bodie she hath a months minde to her Masse againe e 2. Peter 2.19 Canis ad vomitum c. So for children How many do we see perverse stubborne against their Parents not to be bowed more then cold Iron or steele as hard waxe unyeelding to anie good impression uncapable of counsell either from father or friend swimming without f Natare fine Cortice Erasmus a Corke disposing of themselves how when and where they please be their Parents willing or nilling walking and jetting up and downe as Iacke-gentleman or as Masterless hounds meere Individuum vagums without any calling wandring g Iud. 13. Planets spending and mispending their monyes and h Luk. 15.13.14.15 Vide Bosquerum de filio prodigo parte secunda in locum meanes as the Gospels prodigall without anie hoe * Hic vbique here or there having so manie homes as a hedge-hogge hath nests or a Foxe starting holes that they have no true home no honie Hive yea which is worst of all some of them so wedded to their i Stat pro ratione voluntas aut voluptas will that they will wed where they will be their Parents pleased or displeased like that profane k Gen. 26.32.35 Esau that will marrie with daughters of Heth. though to the griefe of old Isaac the heart-breake of Rebecca So for servants How manie be there which stirre like posts at their Masters bidding nay at their Masters beating How manie hasten about their businesse as the Oxe to his yoake as swift as snailes with as good wils as captives to their Turkish gallies or fellons to the gallowes like Miphibosheth his servant more lame in his love and obedience then his master was on his legs stayes so long in fetching his Masters Mule till the tyde was past the opportunitie lost of meeting David to his no small prejudice by the scycophantizing of l 2. Sam. 19.26.29 Ziba Most servants being so carelesse negligent sluggish and secure now a dayes that what they doe in their Masters occasions is commonly undone being by their negligence oft unseasonable as Raine in Harvest or a pardon after an execution their obedience at last shewing it selfe like exquisite Musicke in the right managing of occasions yet being too long in tuning which disgraceth all So for subjects in the Common-welath How manie millions in manie Christian kingdomes to passe by Iewes Turkes and Pagans are as unlike this people here specified in my Text as Crowes to Eagles as Tygers to Lambes who being commanded by their governours and injoyned these things that immediately concerne the worship of God as to breake down Altars pull downe Images consecrate their hands to the Lord as Moses commanded the Levites in his m Exod. 32.29 time executing Idolaters as n 1. King 18.40 Elias and o 2. King 10 24 Iehu commanded the suppressing of the Priests of Baal and p 2. King 11.15 Iehoida the slaughter of that usurping Athalia or injoyned as our Irish at this day to come to our Church to joyne with us in conformitie uniformitie of worship as sheepe of one folde with the like particulars they prevaile as much with their injunctions mulcts impositions yea in some measure in former times compulsions as Lot prevailed with his sonnes in-law to leave q Gen. 19.14 Sodom or Ieremie with the Iewes to submit themselves to the King of r Ier. 37. cha 38.2.3.4 Babell Nay what ever the Magistrates prescribe or wee perswade in publicke or private with them about the worke what ere wee can say or doe it moves them as colours affect a blinde man or Musicke a deafe man Yea as the ſ Act. 17.32.33 Athenians did with Paul when wee perswade them to leave these unknowen gods which they worship Saints Angels Shrines Images Relickes Crosses t These seven kindes of Idolatries are imputed to them by M. Powel li. 2. de Antichristo by D. Raynolds de Idolatria Romana Ecclesiae Crucifixes and to worship the true God in spirit and truth they now worshipping like the u Iohn 4.22 Samaritanes they know not what exhorting them as Ezekiah by his Poasts and messengers exhorted his people at last to awaken out of their Idolatrous w 2. Chro. 30.6 7.8 9. slumber and to keepe a spirituall Passeover to the true God wee reape the same harvest from this seede which Paul and these Poast-men reaped scorne contempts scoffes and derisions So againe lawes being established against this biting usurie against profaning of the Sabaoth excessiue pride in apparell ingrossing of Corne against thefts robberies rapes and other breaches of Civill and religious peace in sinnes against God and man all which are so many Edicts Statutes Proclamations revealing the will and mindes of Christian Kings Alas how are they observed notwithstanding all the annexed mulcts and penalties against the infringers besides the sins and threatned x Psal 11. ● Psalm 50.18.20 21. Iob. 20.12.13 1. Cor. 6.9 plagues in respect of the soule If I should anatomize our times and rippe into particulars I could more then Mathematically demonstrate that our Commonaltie grow worse by restrainte like the fire that more breakes out the more it is supprest as some running brooke that more swels roares and rageth the more it is stopt as Cammonmile which they say more spreades the more it is trod downe or as some stearne Colt and unruly unbroken Stallion which more friskes and flings and plungeth the more he is curbd and kept in Ruimus in vetitum nefas cupimusque negata and yet the restrainte of the lawes is not the cause of the increasing irregularities no more then fire is cause of colde or then the Scripture is cause of heresies or the chiefe good of the chiefe evill but onely perverse rebellion and native hereditarie corruption breaking out by opposition I might here also expostulate how farre differing from this people are these which are not onely refractorie in things spirituall to Christian Princes having in verie truth no King nay hardly anie God but their Pope whom they make an other God on w Tu