and the promise Rom. 9. 8. The children of the promise are counted for the seede we which were a farre off Zach. 6. 15. must come to build in the temple of the Lord the last house whose glory shall exceed the first Hag. 2. 10 that is the spirituall Temple not that which was reedified by Cyrus for to this came the liberality of Alexander and the kings of Egypt with many other nor the magnificence of Seleucus 2 Machab. 3. 3. a king of Asia who of his owne rents was liberall toward the materiall temple But we are called to build the spirituall Temple as it came to passe at the calling of the Gentiles how many Master builders more cunning than Vitruvius came in to lay the lively stones of this spirituall structure as Luke the Evangelist from Antioch Barnabas from Cyprus Timothy and Titus from Greece Aristarchus Aquila Dionysius Areopagita Onesiphorus Hermes with infinite more and in ages following Irenaeus Tertullian Hierom Basill Ambrose Augustine c. To come nearer to our own times what famous Luminaries and lights have shined from Belgia and other parts as Luther Calvin Oecolampadius Marlorat Bucer Bullinger In our owne times out of our owne nation our owne tribes and families reverend Fulke Whitaker Raynolds Field Willet Perkins Andrewes the late Byshop of Winchester and the present famous Doctor Hall now Bishop of Exeter all which have issued out of the darke celles of gentilisme which have brought their gold theit silver and some their lives to the building of this spirituall Temple What should this I say teach us but in tender compassion to the Iewish nation to pray heartily for their restoring since they were cut off that we might be grafted on Rom. 11. 19 they were the holy seede the first borne the first and naturall heires to the Gospell Mat. 15. 22. I am not sent but unto the lost sheepe of the house of Israel God chose them above all nations Deut. 7 6. he loved them Deut. 10. 15. Iacob was his portion Deut. 32. 8. and he hath promised though for their ingratitude he hath for a while rejected them and suffers them as Caines and vagabonds to wander without any abiding place yet in the end to call them home Zach. 12. 10. He will poure upon the house of Iacob and the inhabitants of Ierusalem the spirit of grace and supplication that is the Holy Ghost with the graces thereof and which restoring Paul proves Rom. 9. and 11. that they shall be called and acknowledge CHRIST and wisheth to be separated from CHRIST in the ardency of his love toward them so that they might be restored O pray then for the peace of Ierusalem that thy God would performe his promise in their conversion with David Psal 51. 18. Be favourable unto Sion and build the wals of Ierusalem and Paul my hearty desire for Israel is that they may be saved Let thy heart be greived then to see the horrid desolation of them as Nehemiah 1. nothing could be so pleasant unto him as the desolation of Ierusalem was greivous He is but a mercilesse Samaritane that neglects his duty and woe to him that is an enemie to Israels common wealth but let us pray for Ierusalem that prosperity may be within her wals and peace within her pallaces People that is as we formerly noted the Iewe of the stocke of Sem which God knew before all nations Amos 3 2. and thus beloved were they not in regard of themselves but of Gods free election So the difference betwixt these two seedes is not because the one embraced CHRIST and the other refused him for how can there be a refusall where the Messias was not knowne but among the Gentiles he was not so much as named Rom. 15. 20. as their owne Doctor witnesseth These Iewes were Gideons fleece which was watered when all the world beside was a barren desert the name of God the Gospell of CHRIST his love and favours were appropriated onely to the land of Iury Mat. 10. 5. Goe not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritanes enter ye not They thought his providentiall care reached no farther but was limited within the narrow skirts of Palestina and onely to have a care over them as Theodorit speakes of them they were as the signet upon his right hand as the apple of his eye he that cursed them was cursed and they that blessed them were blessed nay there is no inchantment against Iacob nor divination against Israel Num. 22. 23. he set a beautifull crowne upon their heads Ezech. 16. 12. that is established the Kingdome of his grace among them Yet when they yeelded not correspondence to his word in dutifull obedience and thanksgiving it came to passe as truth it selfe had denounced against them Math. 21. 43. The kingdome of God which was their crowne and honour should be taken from them and given to a nation that should bring forth the fruites thereof Ierusalem was the city which the Lord did choose to place his name there 2 Chron. 6. 6. She was a faithfull citie Esay 1. 21. How is the faithfull city become an Harlot But departing from her former stepps crucifying the Sonne of God and killing his Saints she was rejected and cast off a voyce from heaven giving warning of her imminent rejection saying Let us depart hence And Almighty God like old Iacob layes his right hand upon the head of Ephraim the younger and his left hand upon Manasses the elder Gen. 48. 14. Now one cluster of the grapes of Ephraim are better than a whole Vintage of Abiezer Iudg. 8. 2. So now the right hand of honour is laid upon the Gentile and the Iewes degraded as the birth-right was convayed from Esau to Iacob the Priesthood translated from Abiathar to Zadock and the regall dignity from Saul to David the prodigall Gentile must have the fat calfe killed and be brought into the Kings Cellar when the Elder hath not wherewith to make merry with his friends Luke 15. 23 c. Hence this doctrine God is not tyed to any place or people If the chosen Iewes will not bring forth fruits worthy of the Gospell but despise it hee will provoke them to envie even by a people which sought him not and for sinne will remove his love and favour his word and worship and make it a free passage for the flood-gates of his wrath to their inevitable destruction and unavoydable ruine For confirmation of this truth wee need goe no further than our proposed patterne and example of this people which was a chosen Cedar among all the trees of the Forest so long as holinesse kept residence there the Cisterne into which the Fountaine of all grace powred his blessings by many Conduit-pipes and meanes but they left their first love Rev. 2. 4. cryed loud for Christs bloud to fall upon them and their children Math. 27. 25. and so
the zeale love constancy knowledge of those noble Patriarches and those constant Martyrs in the Primitive times every drop of whose bloud bred and sprung up a new Saint if thou wert glorious as an Angell thy meat as Manna thy garments as Aarons Ephod thy breath as sweete as the perfume of the Tabernacle from the life of Nature to the life of Grace and so to the life of Glory all is from this Fountaine which is God Nay even that thou art not wicked as the most debauched creature in the world it is from the supporting and restrayning grace of God upon whom thou leanest in the wildernesse of this world as the Spouse upon her beloved Cant. 8. Or as Moses hands were supported by Aaron and Hur Exod. 17. 12. Or as the Altar of the Sanctuarie at the base thereof had Lyons for supporters so thou the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah else how is it in man to direct his wayes aright without this Though Peter à Petra a Rocke surnamed Cephas for his stedfastnesse yet fell into a fearefull Apostacie Godly David moulded in the mint of Regeneration into Adultery and Murther these and much more hadst thou committed if God had not prevented Marshall then all thy guifts and graces together let them face one another as the Cherubins upon the Mercy-seate and all looke upon God For of him and through him and for him are all things Rom. 11. 36. Because it is a great part of Gods worship and even the most of that service which he requires at the hands of silly Men David in his Quaere makes it the summe of all Psal 116. 12. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me but onely this I will take the cuppe of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord. For this purpose it is called a sacrifice of praise Heb. 13. 15. The calves of our lippes and the first fruite of faith Acts 2. 46. It is his honour and that hee will not give to another Sing unto the Lord a new song and his praise from the end of the earth c. Esay 42. 10. To teach us not onely to condemne in ourpractise that ingratitude which is a monster in nature As we call the gratefull man a kind man so the ingratefull an unnaturall an absurd soloecisme in manners consisting of two foule vices falshood in not acknowledging iniustice in not requiting a benefit Alexander the Great and Iulius Caesar both renowned the one for liberality the other for patience the one would not give nor the other forgive an ingratefull person Not onely this but forasmuch as every one arrogates a due performance of this duty To teach us how to tread right in the steps of his service And to this purpose consider that God is praised 1. vocally as sing to the Lord 2. Chordally praise him upon the Harpe 3. Pneumatically with Trumpets Shawmes Cimbals c. when our breath is the bellowes 4. Allegorically in our actions contemplations words works life death being not only temples 1 Cor. 3. 16. but also timbrels of the Holy Ghost Know then that thy right praising magnifying of God is thy obedience to his voyce his law his Gospell c. Never boast saith Augustine that thou blessest with thy mouth when thou cursest with thy life and conversation It is not only thy breath but thy breast thy song but thy soule thy voyce but thy life that must be this Davidicall trump of praise thanksgiving 1 Pet. 2. 12. Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles and by this meanes they which are yet without and strangers from God shall have occasion to glorifie God in the day of their visitation Math. 5. 16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Our praise is our obedience and our obedience is nothing else but a subiecting of our will to God So that it is with every disobedient person though he can marshall his words adorne his phrase that they be like apples of gold with pictures of Silver Prov. 25 11. as with a secretly disloyall traytor who in the chamber of Presence is highly extolling and commending the King the State Government but being without the Court gate is opening his poysonous jawes and casting whole Seas of contumelious reproches and outragious slanders against the same who will take this for a true subject and who will account a wicked man the servant of God though with his tongue he praise God when he speaks nothing but contradiction in his life and conversation This false and pseudo-christianity makes the Gospell and sincere professors thereof and even God himselfe to be traduced and as Iacob was accounted with the Sichemites Ye have troubled me speaking to his cruell sonnes to make me stincke among the inhabitants of the land Gen. 34. 30. For this cause Rom. 2. 24. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you professing to knowe God but in workes denying him being abhominable disobedient and to euery good worke reprobate Tit. 1 16. And hence wee see plainely the reason and ground-worke of those foule aspersions daily slanders and Ismaelitish songes of Turkes Iewes Infidels and Papists which are daily cast as dirt into the face of Christianity to be onely our dissolute lives disobedient carriages and disordered conversation Christiani hoc ipso deteriores quo meliores esse deberent Christians are so much the worse as they ought to be better Either then be as thou seemest or seeme as thou art else thou art but like the little bird with the great voyce which the Fowler onely hearing and thinking her to be some great fowle took paines to take her and seeing her little body ill able to countervaile his paines he said Thou art a voice an Eccho an empty outward sound and nothing else Know then that all thine orall profession superficiall adoration and Pharisaicall sepulcher-like guilded outside is in Gods account without the inward subjection of the heart to his holy lawes no better than to cut off a dogges necke to offer swines flesh or to blesse an Idoll Esay 66. 3. so long as thy heart is unsanctified wanting the salt of Grace and remaining unwholesome as the poysonous waters of Bethel Christ reiecteth thy lip-praises and outward service as the sacrifice of fooles Psal 50. 16. Vnto the wicked saith God Why doest thou preach my lawes and takest my covenant into thy mouth wheras thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my wordes behinde thee Christ will not suffer the Devill the father of lies to beare witnesse of his truth Mar. 1. 24. and Paul will not suffer the Pythonesse to proclaime the truth Acts 16. 18. O then the rottennesse of our times how is our obedience if we have any cut short and wee are become like that
thou returne I will bring thee againe and thou such stand before mee and if thou take the previous from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth Where he is given to understand that if he continued in negligence he should cease to be a Prophet unto God which will be sanctified of all but especially of such as carry the vessels of the Sanctâ—ary and goe before the aske The Kindome of Assyria Esay 13. 3. is said to be sanctified for Gods anger in the destruction of his enemies If then there be a kind of sanctification for the worke of destruction then much more for that great and glorious worke of edification in Gods Church When Nadab and Abihu had broken the commandement of God in offering strange fire Moses to satisfie Aaron tells him that the Lord will be sanctified of all them that come before him God hath given man two hands not to build with the one and pull downe with the other but to buld with both Take heede then of falling away with Demias least by thy decay in love to religion thou pull downe the Church of God and 1 Cor. 3. 17. If any man defile the temple of God him shall God destroy for the temple of God is holy which temple ye are If then he spared not the sacrilegious prophaners of his earthly temple as in Balthazar Dan. 5. 1. Helidorous 2 Mac. 3. 15. and that notorious rob-Church Dionysins but brought them to fearefull ends Much lesse will be spare the prophaners of his spirituall Temple but for thy wickednesse will in fatuate thy gifts remove thy calling from thee or thee from it as he did the king dome from Saul and gave it to another or as he dealt with those ingratefull Iowee The world is a Spirituall spittle and in the Church are some languishing in a consumption some sicke unto death in a spirituall leprosy some slumbring in a deepe security in imminent danger yet not perceiving it as the drunkard Prov. 23. 34. sleeping upon the toppe of a mast or poysoned with Aspes which causeth death sleeping or with the roote Halicacobus Some wanting a Cordiall and others a Corrasive some Moses to launce them and others CHRIST to heale them some a sound from Sinai others a song from Sioâ— some the râ—d of Moses others the pot of Mauna Now the Minister here is sent to play the part of a Physitian or Chirurgian as CHRIST himselfe Esay 61. 1. To heale the broken hearted Ezech. 34. 16. the office of a Pastor to seek that which was lost to bring againe that which was driven away to binde up that which was broken and to strengthen that which was weake or as Eliphea testifies of Iob. chap. 40 3. He strengthened the weake hands and fee ble knees CHRIST commends the halfe dead traveller to the Minister as to an hoste to cure his wounds and to care for his promise provision Luke 10. 34. Now if the Physitian himselfe be sicke how can he cure the disease How can he heale the plague-soares of firme that hath the boyle of the same pestilence raging in himselfe First then cure and heale thy selfe cast the beames out of thine owne eyes least God deale with thee as he did to the Minister of Ephesus Revel 2. 5. confiscate thy Candlesticke and take away thy graces and leave thee bare and barren Therefore be carefull to admonish them that are unruly comfort the feeble minded support the weake be patient toward all men 1 Thess 5. 14. The second is concerning the whole body politick and Ecclesiasticall both for the Church and common wealth If the people decay in love to the Word to Religion to holinesse and godlinesse as sometime backsliding Israel did Esay 1. 6. From the sole of the foote to the crowne of the head there is no foundnesse but soares wounde and putrifying bruises and live in drunkennesse prophanenesse atheisme infidelity and contempt of God this will procure the removeall of the Gospell and of all Religion Hos 9. 7. The prophet is a foole and the man of the spirit is mad This is a fearefull judgement and if we aske the cause it is for the multitude of thine iniquitie and the great hatred for the sinne of the whole Church God doth send unsanctified foolish ignorant and wicked Ministers Ierem. 5. 13. For the backesliding Apostacie of Israel the Prophets shall become winde and the Word is not in them Ierem. 14. 14. They prophecie lies in Gods Name Thus doth God give up men to strong delusions to beleeve lies because they love not the truth 2 Thess 2. 13. Thy sins and the sinnes of the Church withhold good things from thee Ier. 5. 25. even to take away from thee his Word as he did the Arke which was the glory of Israel 1 Sam. 4. 22. Heare this then ye prophaners of Gods Name contemners of his Word and yee backesliding Apostates that have turned your Religion into policie your zeale into luke-warnenesse like Ephraim a cake not turned Hos 7. 8. that have a knee for God and a knee for Rimmon 2 King 5. 18. halting betwixt two opinions 1 Kings 18. 21. that can hold the Religion stamped with the Image of the most High and yet mixe it with the paintings and false complexions of the purple Harlot the Whore of Babylon It is recorded of a certaine Soldan which died at the Siege of Zigetum who being perswaded by the Muphti a Bishop or Patriarke among the Mahumetan Turkes not to suffer so many Religions as were in his Dominions He answered that a Nosegay made of divers flowers was the sweeter which may be true in a Posie because they may be all flowers but in Religion they must be all weedes and heresies tares and the conceits of men except onely the flower which is the truth But there is no communion with CHRIST and Beliall with the truth and falshood with God and Baal with the Gospell and Popery Saint John could not endure to be in the bathe with Cerinthus Ieromes pen was like a lance charged against Vigilantius Iovinian and others and Augustine spake in his disputations against the Donatists and Manichces Arians and Pelagians hotte coales of Iuniper words armed with aequa fortis steeped in vinegar and could not endure Idolatry while he reigned If wee rent then the seamelesse coate of CHRIST and become luke-warme Laodiceans Reu. 3. 17. God will speâ—e vs out of his mouth abhorre us as a thing that is rawe What ought wee to doe then that have by our continuall rebellions und wicked backslidings even moved to anger the Holy one of Israel but humble our selves in repentance that God in tender compassion may remove our judgements and continue his Gospell the lanthorne and light of his word the marke and character of his love among us as he hath promised Ier. 18. 8. If that nation against whom I have pronounced turne from their evill I will repent of the evill
come when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth sometime for sincerity in our conversation Ioh. 3. 21. hee that doth truth commeth to the light an Israelite in whom is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Sometime for the rule of Gods law Rom. 2. 8. Disobeying the truth and obeying vnrighteousnesse and 1. Pet. 1. 22. Your selves are purified by obeying the truth Sometime for the sincere doctrine of the Gospell Gal. 2. 5. that the truth of the Gospell might continue with you Sometime for Iustice Prov. 20. 28. Mercy and truth preserves the King Sometime for such a truth as depends not vpon Opinion which may erre but for that Metaphysicall truth which is affectio Entis and such I take it to be here and so in God it cannot faile so taken Rom. 3. 7. If the verity or truth of God hath more abounded through my lye and so vpon the premisses this doctrine builds it selfe There is nothing more certaine to come to passe in a due and true performance then the truth of all Gods promises Wee neede not stand to prop the truth of this truth vpon any weake foundation of mans building for his truth is himselfe Exod. 34. 6. aboundant in goodnesse and truth Man may be said to be true mercifull just but God is truth mercie and justice it selfe in the abstract so the Prophet here brings his truth in the second place as the sure performer of his mercifull kindnesse whatsoever saith Calvyn He doth promise by his mercy he doth faithfully performe because his mercy and truth are vndissolubly knit together they goe hand in hand and cannot be seperated and as he cannot lye nor deny himselfe Tit. 1. 2. No more can his truth faile Num. 23. 19. God is not as man that he should lye or the sonne of man to repent his truth is confirmed strengthened veryfied and so corroborated toward us for so the word translated great in the Originall signifieth that if we would we cannot put it from us but it will overcome us to acknowledge it if the Lord speake it even to the miraculous continuing of the Meale in the barrell and the Oyle in the Cruse 1. King 17. 14. Even in the preservation and maintenance of the Patriarch Iacob Gen. 32. 10. I am not worthy the least of thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy servant heere is finem non habitura fides his truth is even decked and clothed with constancy and firmnesse we cannot obiect against him as the Poet against Iason and in him against vnstable Man Mobilis AEsonide vernaque incertior aura Cur tua polliciti pondere verba earent Inconstant sonne of AEson fickle wight and more vnconstant then the wind in spring How is it that thy words are growne so light to want that weight should be in promising He deserves not with Antigonus to be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who promised much and performed little neither with Thaeaginus to be called smoake who promised much being very poore neither with Hermodorus will he sell his words he doth not will not cannot equivocate with man in the truth of his promises as he that promised centum oves and performed centum ova he hath given us an hand-writing and obligation of promises made himselfe our debter not by owing but promising sayth the great Bishop of little Hippo the heavenly Augustine that we cannot say vnto him give that thou owest but we must pray vnto him for what he promiseth his promises are not like the golden shewes nor showers of the World who like Sathan Mat. 4. 9. promise what they cannot perform inverting the words of the wise Phocion who would have great matters performed not promised as Stobaeus witnesseth but they promise golden mountaines the opulency of Lidian Craesus which in performance prove but moale-hills Among the sonnes of the earth some indeed performe that which after ward they repent as Ioshua did to the Gibeonites Ios 9. 23. some promise what they can doe but meane it not as Iacobs sonnes to the Sichemits Gen 34. 26. Some promise willingly but give vnwillingly as Herod Iohn Baptists head to Herodias Mar. 6. 16. Some promise but after deny it as Laban dealt with Iacob Gen. 29. 23. as is complained Cap. 31. 41. Thou hast changed my wages tenne times but the promises of God are to the faithfull in hope without hope above hope and against hope the father of the faithfull proved all this to be true Rom. 4. 18. Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might be the Father of many Nations the ground of whose Faith was the promise according to that which was spoken so shall thy seede bee Gen. 15. 5. This was accompted vnto Abraham for righteousnesse saith Ambrese because he beleeved and required no reason so the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Because he hath made his truth as strong as the brazen pillers of eternitie to encourage his servants wholly to relye vpon him expecting the performance of his promises he made them before the foundation of the World inact them in the great Parliament of Heaven before all time Ephe. 1. 5. they were and are firme stable great and precious to make us partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1 4. performed in time when the time of promise came which God had sworne to Abraham given a word of prmoise Rom. 9. 7 in Isaac shall thy seede be blessed purposed salvation for us before the world began 2. Tim. 1. 9. Purchased inheritance of promise Heb. 6. 12. be not sloathfull but followers of them which through Faith and patience inherit the promises adopted as children of promise Gal. 4. 28. Now we brethren as Isaac are the children of promise drawne Covenants of promise Ephes 2. 12. The spirit of truth the Scrivener of them Ephes 1. 13. And sealed with the spirit of promise having set not onely his hand but the signet of his right hand the character ingraven image of his own person Amen The truth of the father 2. Cor 10. 10. All the promises of God are yea Amen in CHRIST which is the truth it selfe Reu. 3. 14. These things saith the Amen the true and faithfull witnesse the new convenant drawne Ier. 31. 31. And the counterpane thereof Heb. 8. 8. Are of more force and vertue then all the bills bonds and obligations be they never so curiously and cunningly framed in the winding Mâ—ander of a Ploydons braine Heaven and Earth shall passe ereone jot or title of these can perish nay if there were neither booke record inke or paper in the world they are written more surely then with a pen of Iron ingraven more firmely then with the point of a Diamond by the spirit of Gods grace and adoption in the heart of every beleever and further we have not onely his bond
was full of anguish refusing comfort ready to enter the Port of blacke dispaire verse 7. Will the Lord cast off for ever and will hee be favourable no more hath he forgotten to be gracious c. yet hee checks himselfe Verse 9. This is mine infirmity and weaknesse So must weâ— in the middest of our fiery tryals when the old Serpent layes the strongest siege at the Castle of our faith seeking by the roaring Cannons and murdering Bassaliscoes of diffidence and distrust to weaken our hope in the truth of Gods promises And to shake our faith the anchor of our Soule onely able to stay it in the swelling surges and boysterous waves of all temptations and crosses Heb 6. 19. But let thy faith which is the ground of things hoped for the subsisting of things which are not seene Heb. 11. 1. grounded upon the truth of God which purposed framed confirmed and inacted thy happinesse in the starrie coast of Heaven before the foundation of the world counter-guard thy heart against all the deepnesse strength power and pollicy of Sathan build thy selfe upon the rocke Mat. 7. 24. Which is CHRIST 1 Cor. 3. 11. and Wee are stones built upon him 1 Pet. 2. 5. say of this truth as Gamaliel in such a case Acts 5. 39. This is of God it cannot be destroyed or frustrated be not faithlesse but beleeving sinke not with Cephas in the pit of diffidency Mat. 14 31. but let his truth be thy supporter in all thine adversities let thine helpe stand not upon the sandy foundation of thine owne weakenesse but in the name of the Lord Psal 121. 2. Rowse up thâ— selfe with the cripple at the beautifull gate of the Temple Act 3. 8. for He that trusts in the Lord is as Mount Sion which cannot be remooved Ps 125. 1. Secondly out of the stedfastnesse of this truth learne further that in it are considerable 2 things Hos 2. 23. First on Gods part Thou art my people Secondly on our part Thou art my God hee promiseth confirmeth and performeth happinesse wee holinesse hee glory wee duty hee heaven wee obedience hee to be a father wee to become children hee is tyed to us by oath and we are bound to him in the strayte irrepealable condition of vowe if we want not in obedience he cannot in performance and if wee expect his performance let us looke unto our owne part which is obedience which if wee should doe with the reflecting optique and perspicill of true judgement and consider the crookednesse of our pathes he backwardnesse of our obsequence and the perverse carriage of our lives wee may with our tongues say with Saul to Samuell 1. Sam. 15. 13. Blessed bee thou of the Lord I have fulfilled the Commandement of the Lord but it might justly bee retorted against vs and sheathed in the inmost closset of our consciences in Samuels reply What meaneth then the bleating of the Sheepe in mine eare and the lowing of oxen which I heare Thus might it be replyed to our pretended holinesse and obedience what meane those troupes of Blasphemers Atheists Drunkards Lyers c. which like the frogs of Egypt cover the whole land and yet presumptuouslie daring claime the promises of God and scarce bearing the outward face of Christians yet are impudently bold with the gaine-saying Iewes to cleere themselves and say Mal. 3. 8. Wherein have wee trespassed When in the meane time our consciences testifie that wee have wearyed the Almighty pressed and oppressed him as a Cart with sheaves Amos 2. 13. with our enormous transgressions and rebellions committed with an high hand Num. 15. 13. seated in the chayre of the scornefull Masked with brasen-faced impudencie that we blush not Ier. 8. 12 with a blockish benummednesse a calumne and brawny dulnesse of heart that we cannot enter into the chambers of our heart in the consideration of our wayes not once crying in the remorse of soule Alas what have I donne Ier. 8. 6 the very tryall of our countenances testifying against us Esay 3 9. that wee can lay no sure tiâ—l to the Covenant and promise of Mercy because wee â—ilfully treâ—â— under foote the vowe of obedience but even that God in the rigour of his justice 1 Sam. 3. 11. should make our two eares to tingle and our bellies to tremble Hab. 3. 16. and not to be mercifull to such an one Deut. 29. 19. that addeth drunkennesse to thirst blood to touch blood Hos 4. 3. heaping one sinne upon another as one wave of the Sea followeth in the necke of another where is now the correspondence of this obedience when thou hast delt thus falsely in Gods covenant Psal 44. 67. When thine eares and thine heart are uncircumcised thy necke not used to the yoake thy rebellions growne so sinewie and strong that they cannot bowe and the promises of mercy for all this being made the Argument of thy security like the Sycamoore the more wet it receives the dryer it is so thou the more mercy the lesse obedience what part of Gods truth canst thou clayme but that of his justice even to be brayed and brayned with the foole in the morter of his wrath though thou be in no dammage like other men but flo wrish like a greene bay tree as David and that thy breasts be full of milke and the collops of prosperity appeare in thy flancke as Iob and though thou lye upon beds of Ivorie and stretch thy selfe upon thy couches eating Lambes out of the flocke and the calves out of the middest of the stall chaunting to the sound of the viall and inventing to thy selfe instruments of Musicke like David as Amos sayth Chap 6. 4. Yet it shall not goe well with the wicked hee that sowes iniquiâ—y must reape affliction Prov. 11. and he that soweth righteousnesse shall reape a sure reward it is thy goodnesse not greatnesse thy obsequious obedience onely holds plea in this case though thou post thy wickednesse upon the wings of the silent night and hide thy sinnes in the secret cavernes and subteraneous cloysters and valts of the earth yet the Lord will search Ierusalem with a lantherne The eyes of the Lord are upon thee Hab. 2. 20. and his eye lids consider thy wayes Psal 11. 4. though he now winke and seeme to sleepe considering with his eye lids the crookednesse of thy wayes taking leisure and respite ere hee bring them to light yet he goes with thee all this while as hee did with the old world 120 yeares and a long time with Sodome and Gomorrha as a publike notary marking thy courses till thou run thy selfe to perdition then opening his eyes which seemed shut seazing upon thee with this dierfull redargution Psal 50. 21. These things hast thou done I held my tongue thou thoughtest wickedly that I was even such a one as thy selfe but I will reproove thee and set before thee the things which thou hast done all the time of Gods patience wicked man
dreames of nothing but peace making God the approoving Parron of his villanies and if hee were not acknowledged Heb. 11. 6. To be a rewarder both of the righteous and of the wicked rendering to the one honour glory and immortall life and to the other indignation wrath tribulation and anguish Rom. 2. 7. hee might justly be reputed as the wicked themselves but it is as possible to change and alter the nature and essence of God as for the obstinate unjust person to escape the instruments of death prepared for him Psal 7. 12. Even the iust shall reioyce when he seeth the vengance Psal 58. in the performance of this truth Consider then what danger it is to weare the livery of disobedience to treade upon the egges of a Cockatrice to hatch their poysonous egges which who so eateth dyeth and that which is crushed breaketh into a viper to weave the Spiders webbe Isa 59. 5. to have any thing to doe with the unfruifull workes of darkenesse but to inherite shame and confusion Be ye then like the kine of Beth-sheemosh drawing the Arke 1 Sam. 6. 12. though their calves lowed to them and they to their calves yet being yoaked to the Arke they could not turne backe so resolve with thy selfe that though thy calves thy brutish affections cry after thee and thy deareling sinnes like so many swarmes of Bees troupes of beloved friends or dearest children as Augustine confesseth of himselfe upon his conversion from a dissolute Manichey incompasse thee on every side for reentertainement yet being tyed to the Aâ—ke by thy covenant of obedience refuse renounce shake them off and cast them away as Ephraim his Idols If thou wilt needs follow thine imaginations which are evill Gen. 6. 5. and suffer thy selfe to lye sottishly chayned in the inchaunted Castle and fooles Paradise of sinne Pitching thy tents in the Bethaven and house of vanity drowned in the Soporiferous Nepenthick dregs of the cyrce and bewitching corruption of thine owne heart silencing the thoughts and vailing the eyes both of sinne and punishment the very visions of thy head will one day make the affraid Dan. 4. 2 an evill conscience will be unto thee as Iobs messenger Ioh 1. 19. a disasterous nuncio to torment thee Prov. 28. 1. cause thee to flye when no man pursueth thee smite thee with astonishment of heart Deu. 28. 28. Lev 26. 17 give thee the oyle of sadnesse in stead of gladnesse cause thee to say of laughter thou art madde when the best of thy comforts is buâ— from the teeth forward with Nero thou may est change thy chamber but not thy chamber fellowe for the eyes which sinne hath shut punishment doth open the whole world of the damned sufficiently testifying as we see in Bal tazar Dan. 5. in the time of Gods silence what a Iolly fellow he was God gave him a Kingdome Majestie and honour all Nations tremble before him he put downe and exalted whom he would securely carrowfing with hi Queenes and his Concubines his Princes and proceres in the sacred bowles of the Temple praysing the Gods of golde and silver but the God in whose hands his breath was he regarded not his counsels and hests he obeved not tell me now when his countenance châ—ngeth and his knees knocke one against another what an unquiet house is here when his Iudge is but writing against him with a little finger thus it is with wicked men in the time of their disobedience and Gods patience as cold congealeth together things of quite contrary natures as wood stones Iron c. till the fire come to dissolve them so the soule of man hath frozen together sinnes of all sorts and because man is Sathanically blinded God hath appoynted the fire of his judgement to dissolve them letting them see what a horrid confusion they have brought upon their owne heads and what a confused Babel and disordered heape of enormities they have piled and compiled together against the day of wrath the just Judge of the world is not like Phillip of Macedon who heard the poore womans cause while he slept and so gave sentence against her but true and just in all his sayings whether they be Menaces or Mercies even the word which I have spoken unto you shall judge you at the last day Iohn 12 48. Eodem constanciae firmitatis elogio ornabitur clementia veritas The mercy and trueth of God are commended in the same title of constancy and stabilitie both grounded upon himselfe if hee be thy Master then where is thy dutifull feare and if thy father then where is thy filiall obedience Mal. 1. 6. If thou expect his promises looke to thine owne vowe squaring thy obedience by the rule of his law which must be thy compasse Cynosure and loadstarre to guide thee to the inherritance which is sealed by his promises in Heaven to be the happy portion guerdon of all obedience respected more than sacrifice 1 Sam. 15 22. Eccles 4. 17. Hos 6. 6. Ier. 7 22. This unmeasurable truth of God teacheth us as dutifull children in this matter to imitate the father of truth in our awfull and lawfull oathes our promises and simple asseverations let truth be the character and image of the inward affection of our hearts and our tongues the true ambassadors of our Soules the mouth and the minde are coupled together in an holy Marriage Math. 12. 34. Out of the aboundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and doth a fountaine send forth at one conduit bitter water and sweete water Iam. 3. 11. so when the tongue speaketh that which the heart never thought it is conceived in Adultery and he that bringeth forth such bastards offends not onely the rule of charity but infringes the inviolable bond of chastity makes a dangerous breach in that morall verity which is incomparably more beautifull among Christians than the farre-admired Helena was accompted among the Grecians for she crownes all those that dye her Martyrs The King is strong women is strong wine is strong but the truth is above all it liveth and conquereth for evermore 1 Esd 4. 38. Fidelity in keeping promises is a fruit of the Spirit and called Faith Gal. 5. 22. a property of him that is qualified to dwell in Gods Tabernacle and rest upon his holy Mountaine Psal 15. 4. It is Gods owne precept Ephes 4. 15. Put away lying and speake truth every man to his neighbour it is our armour of proofe able to abide the fiery tryall to make truth our proposition honesty our assumption and conscience our conclusion In this wee are like to God himselfe whose wayes are mercy and truth hee whose soule is fraught with this may safely with undaunted boldnesse launch foorth into the depth of his enemies set saile and direct his course to the haven of Heaven to the father the God of truth Psal 30. To the Son which is truth it selfe Iohn 14.
Countrey they are Christened by a new name called Ignatiani in Spaine Theatin◠in Italy Iesuini Campania Scosiotti in Ferrara Presbyteri in St. Luciae in Bononia reformati Sacerdotis in Mutina with many more And as in their names so in their natures ambiguous for being asked what a Iesuite is they answere Every Man they have two Soules in one body as is confessed in their Catechisme besides all these and their severall projects in themselves and their darke Disciples what tortuous Leviathans are they in their amphibolous amphibious enigmaticall ennuciations and mungerill propositions like so many Colour-changing Camelions as doubtfull as Proteus or Vertumnus Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo In what strong Chaine can any tie this Changelings face to know him by Wee may well say of their Labyrinth-like windings and crooked Heterogenials as Ierome sometime spake of the darke abstruse riddles of Iovinian No man can reade these Letters except the Prophetesse Sybill or as Martiall in the like case None but some learned Apollo can vnfold these Mysteries these Maeanders or as Plautus in the like case Has equidem pol credo nisi Sybilla legerit interpretari alium possi neminem which hollow equivocating hath translated vpon them the ancient infamie of the Spartanes called by Andromache Kings of Lyers and that which Apuleius layes vpon the Scicilians triple-tongued these be the Gibeonites the Iebusites the Iesuites onely in Hypocrisie bearing the name of IESVS though often shadowed under the winges and shrowded as poysonous Vipers in the bosome of Kings have shewed themselves to bee the onely underminers of States and Kingdomes advancing themselves by perverting the Truth against the God of truth who will smite them for whited Walls and painted Sepulchers but leaving them to themselves let us which are the children of Light love the Truth and when all Lyers and dissemblers shall have their portion with the Father of lyes the Truth which maketh not ashamed shall translate us and carry us upon his unconquered wings from these dirty and dusty Cottages of clay into everlasting habitations to the innumerable company of holy Angels and hie Saints for ever Now followes the object of Gods unutterable Mercy and uncontroleable Truth Toward vs which though David seeme to speake in the person of the Iewish Church and Nation the Patriarkes and Fathers of that time who had already and did continually taste of his favours though not so fully as we doe they having in promise wee in full performance that great mystery God manifested in the Flesh the matriculation and incarnation of our blessed Saviour IESVS CHRSIT yet no doubt hee had an eye vnto all succeeding Generations both of Iew and Gentile which were Gods elect and chosen and in time to bee brought into his Chambers Cant. 1. 4. To be made partakers of his Mercy and Truth as when hee stood arraigned hee stood not in his owne place but in ours making his personall appearance on our behalfe so in his resurrection the whole Church arose in him Ephes 2. 6. hee hath raised us up together and made us fit together in the heavenly places in CHRIST IESVS where we plainely see the Mercies and promises of God especially this concerning the promised seede called The truth of the Father were performed to the fathers before and after the flood in the worke of redemption and salvation and now confirmed in the same title unto us who live after the incarnating of that immortall word from which we gather this truth There is but one way of Salvation and Happinesse to the Fathers and also to us and that by the same IESVS CHRIST For confirmation of this we see the unchangeable purpose of almighty God in gathering his Church Hebr. 13. 8. IESVS CHRIST yesterday to day and the same forever Rom. 15. 8. Now I say that IESVS CHRIST was a Minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirme the promises made unto the Fathers c. Rev. 13 8. The Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world which though manifested in the latter times and afternoone of the world like a Roe or young Hart comming skipping over the Mountaines of Bether Cant. 2 vlt. yet all the holy Men and women from Adam inclusively were saved by his blood many of which as Noah Isaac Ioseph c. were tipes and shadowes of him the Ceremonies and Leviticall sacrifices tending to little other purpose but to nourish them in hope of the Messiah the slaughter and death of which beasts was to acquaint them with the mysterie of redemption which stood as under a vaile shadowed in the auncient complement of the Law Iohn 8. 56. Abraham saw my day and rejoyced Luke 1. 47. that hee might shew mercy towards our Fathers Acts 26. 6. the Apostle Pauls religion was concerning the hope of the promise made unto the Fathers Cephas the Pillar of truth Acts 15. 10. joyneth the Fathers faith with ours wee beleeve even as they so to them that lived before his Incarnation hee was crucified in the sacrifices and to us hee was likewise crucified in the word and Sacraments Galath 3. 1. CHRIST IESVS evidently set forth and crucified among you not in Roods Masses and Crucifixes but in his Holy and Sacred Ordinances To confirme and teach us in the first place that no length of time is able to disanull abrogate or make voyde the counsels of the Ancient of dayes or extenuate and make lesse the worth efficiacie and powerfull enargie of CHRISTS sacrifice the same which was Preached to Adam in Paradise Gen. 3. 15. promised to Abraham and David and the Church of the Iewes foretold by all the Prophers concerning CHRIST belōgs to us by faith they looked upon CHRIST as up to the Serpent in the wildernesse Iohn the 3. 14 as he was to bee crucified by faith wee looke upon him as he is crucified like the two Cherubins at the two ends of the Mercie-seate having their faces one toward another and both upon the Arke Exod. 25. 18. So the age primitive which is past and all our after-gatherings of all-measuring Time looke either on either and both upon CHRIST there is no other way nor hath or can be Salvation in any other Acts 4. 12. Secondly it serves to comfort every true beleever though never so base dejected rejected dispised and dispited though he lye among the pots Psal 68. 13. or behind the Ewes with young Psal 78. 72. though hee be Lord and Master of few or none of these outward things as Lazarus Luke 16 yet is he by CHRIST called to the same Salvation admitted into the same fellowship made partaker of the same Heaven with those auncient worthies Mat 8 11. sitting downe with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of happinesse The contrary whereof viz. a deprivation and losse of that Heavenly Vision called by the Schoolemen
conformed to the lawes of God and thine obedience performed unto CHRIST that the word may work alteration to purifie thee mollifie and open thy heart convert thy soule season thee with grace dissolve the workes of darknesse heale thy wounds of sinne make thee fit for Heaven And here come justly to be taxed besides those convicted Recusants who have shaken off the yoke of obedience and given theyr names to the Beast all those that negligently frequent the congregation accompting more of losse and dung of ease pleasure and profit then of the Word which is able to turne Wolves into Lambes Sinners into Saints Isa 11. 6. A congregation gathered together in the Church sayth the father Are like an armie of fighting men armed by prayer and prayses against the spirituall enemies of their soules where the word offers it selfe to be thy loadstarre to CHRIST thy Iacobs staffe to scale Heaven thy lantherne to light and the heavenly Manna to feed thy soule in which place and upon which ordinance CHRIST promiseth a blessing My house shall be called the house of Prayer and where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them take a patterne of the servants of God the primitive Church Acts 2. 46. the Prophetesse Anna Luke 2. 37. and the Church in St. Augustins time which he compares to Ants because they were alway about the Church as the Ant is about her hole or home and let not God for this negligence deprive thee of his Grace and bring upon thee that fearefull curse which is due to those which doe his worke either negligently or not at all Iudg 5. 23. Curse yee Meroh said the Angell of the Lord Curse yee bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty The second sort are not negligent commers but heedlesse hearers hearing line upon line but returning without profit the Scripture sayth Gregory the great is like a River in which the Lambe may wade and the Elephant swim or like an Apothecaries shop in which are Potions and Pils Corrasives and Cordials fit for every occasion for every disease but as Chrisostome sayth when the Minister prayeth or preacheth one walketh another talketh another sleepeth while the Divell rocketh him in his cradle like Ionah securely in the sides of the Ship in the middest of the tempest without profit or desire to be instructed returning as a doore upon the hinges at night in the morning station whereas the word should be as the laver of Brasse to Aarâ—n and his Sonnes to wash thee withall Exod. 30. 18. and thou shouldest bee with the servant in the law boared in thine eare Exod. 21. 6. Thy flesh circumcised thy heart instructed the fallow ground ploughed and broken up Ierem. 4. 4. The soule hammered Ier. 23. 29 and thou wholy framed as a signet fitted for a mans right hand Ier. 22. 24. When this axe is layd to the roote of the tree Math. 3. 10. take heed then to thy feete when thou enterest into the house of God Eccles 5. 1. least in the end thou be taken for an unprofitable servant and in the fearefull case of Ierusalems negligence and heedlesnesse How often would I have gathered thee as a hen her chickens and yee would not Math. 23. 37. A third sort are such as are displeased with what they heare like the Mule kicking the dam that feedes them or like undutifull children at every angry word casting dirt and myer in the face of their Parents or like these Apes which breake every looking glasse because it shewes their deformities whose galled backes or rather unsound consciences no sooner feele the Aqua-Fortis of reproofe but presently as Ahab with Elija they accompt their Minister their enemie 1 Kings 21. 20. or as the same Ahab spoke of Michajah He never Prophecies good unto mee 1 Kings 12. 8. And for all this what hath the righteous done How hath the Minister offended thee when he wounds thy selfe-love and the pride of thine heart and when with the axe of the word hee is hewing and fitting thee as a lively stone for Gods building wee see in the Law Deut. 19. 5. If a man hewing timber in the wood should by chance let his axe fall from the helue and hurt a man hee was to goe to a Citty of refuge for his safety Why should it not then pleade the pardon of thy Pastor when by chance by the sword of the Spirit hee rubbs thy galled sores touches thy Dalilah thy Herodias thy most beloved sinnes and tels thee plainely Thou must not have thy brothers wife thou must leave her or leave thy Heaven and happinesse Consider further that every man being as a brand taken forth of the fire all the Placentia pleasing words comforts and cordials cannot cure him till he be lashed with Moses and driven out of himselfe into CHRIST let not then the poysonous love of sin stop thine eares causing thee to say of it as Abraham of Ismael Gen. 17. 18. O that Ismael my carnall pride prophainnesse might live in thy sight or conceit of it as Lot of Zoar Gen. 19. 20. Is it not a little one Such a sinne is but a peccadillo a little one a small oath an officious lye a sleight excuse these are with thee but small matters whereas thou must give an accompt of every idle word the Divell like a cunning Nimrod and hunter spreads his nets of pleasure profit selfe-love c. To drive thee out of love with the word to esteeme it base or needlesse and so to banish it as the Gargasites did CHRIST or troublesome and contrary to thy peace as Amazia Amos 7 12. Goe thou Seer and flye into the Land of Iuda and there eate bread and prophecie but know beloved as in the Law of Moses Deut. 25. The elder brother dying the younger was to marry his widdow so to rayse up seede unto his deceased brother so by preaching and teaching reproving and exhorting must the Minister as a younger brother unto CHRIST he is the Embassadour in CHRISTS stead to wooe and winne men to be reconciled with God 2 Cor. 5. 18. Suffer then the words of exhortation and reproofe rejoyce with Zacheus Luke 19. 9. Because Salvation is come to thine house let the word win thee that thy Minister by thy profiting in the carefull discharge of his office may answer unto God having brought Beniamin backe Iohn 17. 12. Of all those whom thou hast given mee I have not lost one Secondly consider these repeated words as they containe and enjoyne a duty to be performed Hallelu jah wee saw it in the portall of the text and finde it againe in the end as it were reviving a duty which is and hath beene forgotten of so many in praising God for his manifold mercies and truth continued from him the Creator to the creature in creating preserving maintaining spirituall and
of Mercies Agnosce gratiam ejus cui debes etiam quod non admisisti Aug. O quanta dignatio pietatis fic ingratum gratia conservare In Evang. 7. panum ser 1. Quo diutius expectat eo discrictius judicabit Quod defertur non aufertur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil Adam potuit non mori nos non possumus mori Aug. Vse 1. opera requiruntur necessitate presentiae non efficientiae Aug. Fides apprehensive opera declarative Christ uc effectivae justificant Workes the cause of life everlasting Rhem. annot super 2. Tim. 4. 8. Ruard Tapperus in explic artic Lovan Reward of Favour Debt Vis excidere gratiam tunc jacta merita tua Aug. in Psal 31. Non dìaphorecus sed grumosus sudor Christi Ita gravis est culpa conscientiae ut sine judice ipsa se pumat Ambr. l. 2. de penit Cor meum a te inquietum est donec redeat ad te Aug. li. 1. Confess Mentiris Cain Aug. Vse 2. Ecce quam antea vocaveat a quam nunc appellat vinam lac quae sunt res pretiofissimae Tertull. Socrat. l. 4 c. 16 Theodor. li. 4. cap. 18. Sozom. li. 6. ca. 18. Euseb li. 1. devita Constantini in hoc vince Vse 3. In se revertebat Ierom. A penetent person hath tvvo eyes Sorrow twofold Hysteron-proteron in repentance Hiâ—ron Epist 125 â—â—d Daâ—â—â— vide Willet super locuâ— Mercerus super cap. 39. Genes Peterius in genesin Simon Magus Basilides Eunomius and the Gnosticks Grace and peace inseparable Companions Vse 4. Omnis actio Christi est nostra instructio Act of Mercie wofolde Aelian lib. 13. de varia hist Simile Greg. Nazianzen monodia in Basill mag Ecce misericordiam actiuam praesta mihi passiuam Semen Eleemosynae magis multiplicatur in sterili quam pingui terra Stella sup lucâ— In the law as well Peace offerings as meato offerings Iniurias illataâ— raró iure sed feraro vindicant Munster Ioseph and David both honorable the one in pardoning his Brethren Gen. 50. 21. the other his enemie 2. Sam. 19. 23. Vse 5. Athenaeus in dipnosoph li. 12. Isa 29. ver 8. Rex Biturigum Simile Stellâ— super Luc. Scias oportet quod quem ad modum misericors est it a iustus et rectus Grauissime Iustissime Certissime Misericordia ct justicia parigradum in deo currunt The second motive The severall acceptions of the word truth Doctrine Reas 1. Lib 3. Instit cap. 4. quunque misericorditer pollicetur c. Signifieat aucta confirmata corroberata verificata Hessus super Psal 117. Ovid Epist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus fecit cbirographum promissorum non debendo sed promittendo in verbis dum sedit Luc. ser 31. Magna non promittenda sed facienda hominibus ser de prud In spe extra spem supra spem contra spem Lib. 5. de Abraham cap. 3. Reas 2. 2. Things required in faithfulnesse both in God 1. Abilitie Rom. 4. 21. 1. Thes 5. 24. Willingnesse Deu 32. Isa 49. 7. 8. Heb. 10. Heb. 11. 2. Tim. 2. 13. 1. Pet. 5 7. 1 Ioh. 3. 1. Isa 45. 15. Lib. 2. de Allegoris legiss Que promisse non servate Deos sibi hostes reddidisses Plutarch Reason 3 Psala 1 35. 6 Rom. 9. 19 Prov. 21. 30 Aposse ad esse non valet consequentia in Deo Object Answer Sinus dicuntur loca maris a procellis turbine ventorum Liberima Stella super Luc. 16. 2. A Corner is an inclination or bovving of 2 lines the one to the other and the one touching the other not being directly ioyned together Euclid lib. 1. Element Mat. 21. 42. Psal 118 22 1 Pet. 2. 7 Vse 1. Charitas adoptionis veritas promissionis po test as redditlenis Vse 2. Qui mali sunt habent mala qui boni bona Plaut in Pseudol in prolog Bonis bene malis male Plato Apertio opertio occulorum in deo Aug in Psal 11 Scelerum patronus approbator Moller super Psal Si deus impunitos dimitteretmalos fimilis injustorum inveniretur Haimo sup Psal 50 Aug. lib confession Riusus sardonicus Adag Occulos quos culpa clausit paena aperget Aug. Simile Plutarch in Apophtheg Calvin super Psal 117 Vse 3. Sermosit viva latentis affectio effigies Calv. Incomparabiliter pulchrior est veritas Christianorum quam Helena Graecorum Martyres qui pro ea viriliter ad mortem pugnaverunt coronavit Aug. Da mihi meÌ„dareÌ„ ego ostendam tibi surem Erasm Niceph. Eccl Hist lib. 5. cap. 19. Queene Elizabeth Apud Hypocritarum sensum omnis simplicitas in crimine est Gregor Three things concur in a lie 1 Vntruth in the matter 2 A purpose to deceive 3 Taking pleasure in it Pet. Martyr Vide August in Enchirid. ad laurent Vnum sinum cordis habet in quo videt mendatium alterum in quo concepit veritâ—tem August August de conflict vitij virtutis Ambrose Knolles in his History of Turkie Hist Tripartit lib. 3. cap. 10. Terror eum subito ex quodam conscientiae secreto constriâ—xit cum formidine secuta est ventris effusio Vide Niceph. do dogmatibus Arianorum lib. 8 c. 7. Eccles Hist See a Booke de abstrufioribus Iesuitarum studijs Pap. Masson in Paulo 410. Lib. 2. cap 17. Lib. 3. cap. 26. Centum adde catenas effugiet tamen hac sceleratum vincula Proteus Horat. Has literas nemo pâ—eter Sybillam legat Non lectore tuis opus est sed Apolline scriptis in Pseudole Act 1. Siculi trilingeâ— Henry the 4. of France slayne by the Iesuites plots c. The Object Calcata majestas incarnata divinitas Bernard Christus est veritas pâ—tris Iacob de valent super locum Doctrine Ephes 2. 14 1 Iohn 2. 7 1 Cor. 10. 3 Prosuit antequam fuit They and wee are saved by one and the same Grace by one and the same Faith in one and the same Christ Anglican Confess art 7. Vse 10 Vse 2. Damnati scient gloriam beatorum sed solum in confuso Sâ—ella sup Luc. cap. 13. Hercules hivium Virgil. Aeneid 6. Vse 3 Simile 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fit ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 3. 12. Vnbeleevers placed in the vantgard of the cursed Revel 22. 8. Sub Clypeo fidei subfidio virtutis Vse 4. Concil Trident Sess 6. cap. 9. Canon 13. 16. Nomen sub quo nemini desperandum est Augustin Moritur Christus pro indigenis pro indignis Augustin Ciprianus de mortalitate Amor Dei amorem Deo parit Bernard Ciprian de dupl martyrio Conclusion Repetitions used diversly Post captivitatem Babilonicam Mercer super Gen. Doctrine Verba totius inculcata vera sunt vita sunt sana sunt plana sunt Aug. de adulterijs conjugijs ad Pol. lib. 2 cap. 4. Nibil dictum quod non dictuÌ„ prius Terent. Reas 1. Numquam satis dicitur quod non satis dicitur D. HuÌ„phrey in prefatione partis 1 Iesuitismi Simile Kecker lib 3 Phyfi cap. 12 Vse â— For the Minister Plaine Preaching the bâ—st Iude a briefe of the second Epistle of Pet. and Marke a compendium of Math. c. Divines had in all ages theyr introductions to Religion as Clemens Alexâ—noâ—inus his Paedâ—gogus Lactantius his Institutions Ciâ—il his Caâ—ichismes August his Enchiridion c. Obsâ—urum per aeque obscurum Apâ—anon alta Bernard Vse 2. For the People Hottaman in his treatise of the Embassador Est natura hominum novitatis avida Plin. Tertullian in Apolog. Iâ—desinenter maledicite lunius Trewel 2 In Morall Homil. 24. in Act. So moralized by Gregorie l. 1 cap. 5. pastor curae The second consideration The matter Non est dignus dandis qui non agit gratis pro datis Greg. In vitat ad magna qui gratanter suscipit modica cass Epist 4 Cessat cursus gratiarum ubi cessit recur sus Bern. ser 35 on Cant. GratiaÌ„ gratia parit Sophocl in Oedip. In Epistola ad Marcellinum IngratuÌ„ si dixe ris omniâ— dixeris Ingratum fi amas nihil amas Plaut in Psa Vse 1. Gen. 31. 1 Gen. 40. 23 Exod. â— 8 Exod. 17. 3 Interrogatio sit in detestationem vitij ingratitudinis Stella super cap. 17. Luc. Ignotum invisum vitium maxime repuguaâ—s naturae Stella ibidem The mâ—ner of praising God Spiritus Calvinianus est spiritus melanchoâ—cus Geâ—ner de volatil Plin. lib. 21. c. 13. Natural hist Simiâ—â— Bucchius de conformitate Franciscuâ— Christi Vide Perkins his demonstration of the probleme title Monkes Psal 47. 7 1 Cor. 14 Grinaeuâ— super col 3. 16. In tertia classe scholae Propheticae vaticinio sexto ex Psal 22 The Spirit of God makes ouâ— pipes to gâ—â—â— Macarius ho. 47. God is the bellowes wee the Organs Athenagoras orat pro Christ Vse 1. Qui fecit linguam vt necessariaÌ„ postulet ut creatâ—m Vse 2. Fumus somes luxuriae cibus Diaboli Vivâ—hant ut latr nes sed honorabâ—antur ut Martyres Epist 63. Pie debes Dâ—â—mino ex ultars si vis mundo insultare Rolloc super Coll. 3. 16. Hugo Card.