thy Hand be upon the Man of thy right Hand whom thou hast made so strong for thy self Keep him as the Apple of thine Eye Hide him under the shadow of thy Wings Let his Days be many and his Reign prosperous and under his shadow let both Church and State long flourish And let them be confounded and driven backward as many as have Evil Will at Sion To furnish out an Office for such daily Devotions 't is but to take your Psalter along with you in your Hand which is full of them But especially let me commend to you that Decad of Psalms which begins with the 54 th and so on which may seem to have been put together on purpose for such an Occasion This would be indeed effectually to transcribe holy David's Copy in this his Exemplary and ardent Devotion which is the second Duty requir'd in the Text to prepare us for the protection of God's Wing There is but one more behind and that is 3. Constant Perseverance in both the former In the two former you have seen Holy David putting himself under the shadow of God's Wings and making good his Refuge there by Acts of Faith and Devotion And being once there no Storm shall beat him off no Discouragement shall drive him away no Delay shall weary him out If God kills him 't is all one hee 'l trust in him still and die in his Arms For here he hath set up his Rest and Donec transierinâ—t he is steddily resolv'd his Refuge is and shall be here till these Calamities are over-past But here we must take heed of a great Mistake There are that hold the Donec in the Text too hard and stiff are too punctual and precise with God in it who will trust in him it may be and ply their Devotions just so long as till the Calamity be past But then on the sudden their Trust grows feeble and their Devotion cold and heartless No sooner deliver'd but like old Israel they forget God at the Sea even at the Red-Sea Use him like Themistocle's Planetrees under which Men run for shelter in Storm but the Shower once over they pluck off the Branches turn their Backs and away Nay but there is in Scripture Language an infinite and an interminable Donec which never expires He knew 〈◊〉 not till she brought forth Nay he never knew her In spight of Helvidius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Church stile her A Virgin before and in and after the Birth of our Lord and for ever Ay that 's the Virgin 's Soul indeed that keeps ever close to her heavenly Spouse Not only runs under his Wings for Shelter when Calamities affright her saying Spread thy Skirt over me and then strays away again as soon as ever the flattering Calm and Sun-shine of Prosperity tempts her abroad As our Lord hath given us an everlasting Donec Lo I am with you saith he till the end of the World Not that he will leave us then but take us yet nigher unto himself and so we shall ever be with the Lord as the Apostle speaks So must we also have One for him of the same Latitude and Extension For ever under the Shadow of his Wings till this single Tyranny as in the old Translation till these Calamities as in the New or as the Hebrew implies till all and every of our Calamities be overpast Both before and in and after Calamities still under the Shadow of God's Wings While they last 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I trust and when they are past 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I rejoyce that 's all the Difference As the Scenes shift our Devotion must improve and Advance too till our Prayer be heighten'd into Praise as I trust e're long it will be our Hope swallowed in Enjoyment and our Trust sublimated and made to flowre up into Joy and Triumph When the same God that rais'd David from the Cave to the Throne shall translate us also from the Shadow of his Wings into the Light of his Countenance To the Beatifical Vision whereof he of his Mercy bring us who hath so dearly bought it for us Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with thee O Father and God the Holy Ghost be ascribed of us and all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth Blessing Honour Glory and Power both now and for evermore Amen FINIS A CATALOGUE OF SOME BOOKS Printed for and are to be Sold by Thomas Bassett at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street A Practical Discourse concerning Christian Conversation purposely Written to Vindicate and Improve the Religious Societies of late Years erected in the Cities of London Glocester c. 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and set our Neast again amongst the Stars And now when restless and unquiet Men the true Spawn of him whose Tail drew the third part of the Stars of Heaven and cast them to the Earth would fain by their Hellish Plots and Contrivances bring us down again from thence even down to the very Ground and lay all our Honour in the Dust When by their secret Machinations they are at work on all Hands to hurry us back into the old Confusions in Hope that out of that disordered Mass they may at length rear up a new World of their own But what a World A World made up of a new Heaven of Superstitions and Idolatries a new Earth too of Anarchy first and pretended Liberty but of Tyranny insufferable at the next Remove In such a dangerous State of Affairs as this whether should we rather nay whether else can we run for Help and Deliverance but under his Protections the Stretching out of whose Wings fills the Breadth of thy Land ô England He can make all these Cockatrice Eggs on which this Generation of Vipers that eat out the Bowels of their Mother have sat so long abrood windy at last and addle and he will do it So that out of the Serpent's Root shall never come forth an Adder to bite us or a fiery flying Serpent to devour us He will confound these Babel builders with their City and their Tower or Temple their Foreign Politie and their strange Worship their novel Modes and Models of Government in Church and State and scatter them abroad from hence upon the Face of all the Earth Like as a Dream when one awaketh so shall he despise their Images and their imaginations too and cause them to vanish out of the City and make the whole Bulk of their vast Contrivance to consume away like a Snail and become like the untimely Fruit of a Woman which shall never see the Sun He that at first made all things with an Almighty Word said only Let it be and it was so can with the same Facility unmake and annihilate those Worlds of Wickedness which these great Architects of Mischief have been so long projecting and building up 'T is but for him to say It shall not prâ—sper or This shall not be and behold the mighty Machin cracks about their Ears and sinks into Ruin into Nothing leaving no Effect behind it more real or conspicuous than a more firm and lasting Establishment of that which God 's own Right Hand hath planted amongst us When the Earth at first was without Form and void and Darkness hovered over the Face of the Deep the Spirit of God saith the Text mov'd upon the Waters The word in the Original as St. Hierom tells us from the Hebrew Traditions implies that the Spirit of God sate abrood upon the whole rude Mass as Birds upon their Eggs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a Greek Author speaks elegantly and hatch the Chaos into World by degrees digesting and in the mean time preserving and susteining it by kindly Heats and vital Incubations And to the like benign and gracious purposes doth God still spread the Wings of his good Providence over his People and their Affairs in calamitous times such as this is when he may seem to stretch out upon the Political World the Line of Confusion and the Plummet of Emptiness Tohu and Bohu the very Words which describes the first Chaos as 't is Es. XXXIV 11. And if hereupon we put our selves as we ought under the saving Influences of his Wings he will either digest our Confusions into greater Order and Beauty than before or at least support and chear us while we lye under them which is the third and last Privilege implyed in this Expression 3. Comfort and Refreshment in Calamities while they are upon us For the Wing is not only the Retreat of Safety from Calamities as in the first particular Nor only the Instrument of Deliverance out of Calamities as in the second 'T is also the Seat of Comfort and Fountain of Refreshment when they lye heaviest upon us And here I might spend the Hour with much Delight for the Prospect is fair and large before me But I am sensible that I have already staid too long upon the first Head of Discourse propounded and so perhaps comply'd too much with the common Humour which loves rather to be tickled and amused with high Privilege than instructed in necessary Duty I shall therefore make hast to seize what remains of the Time and improve it to let you see That All I have said hitherto and the Much more I might have said upon that first Head of Privileges signifies nothing at all is all blank and Cypher to them that go not on chearfully to the Second that of Duty II. They that would be safe under God's Wings must not only please themselves with the general Speculation that Safety and Protection is there to be had They must also make their Refuge there they must put themselves under the Shadow of those Wings by their special Act and Deed must deliberately chuse and effectually place their last Resort there and if they will partake the Benefits must comply with the Obligations of such a State God is our Refuge and our Strength saith holy David most devoutly and most Methodically too For we must first make him our Refuge by flying to him before we can hope that he will be our Strength In vain do they dream of God's saving Protections that turn their Backs upon his Precepts and cast his Laws behind them 'T is true God's Altars are our Sanctuary an inviolable Asylum in our Sufferings and in our Sorrows in our Calamities and in our Dangers for our Ignorances and for our Infirmities But are our Crimes too privileg'd and protected there That were indeed to turn God's Temple into a Den of Thieves and Murderers the notorious Abuse of the modern Sanctuaries and to set up the Wing of Abominations spoken of by Daniel the Prophet even in the Holy Place Nay but pluck them from mine Altars saith God or slay them there that sinâ— presumptuously and with a high hand God will not be so merciful to those that offend of malicious Wickedness as to receive them with all their Sins about them under that sacred and saving Protection The holy Dove broods not a Kite or a Vulture They are Birds quite of another Feather If in good earnest we would be foster'd and cherisht under God's Wings we must first be hatch'd into his Likeness and Similitude be renewed after his Image and be made Partakers in some Measure of the Divine Nature To hover no longer in Generalities the fruitful Metaphor of the Text as you have distinctly seen it big with our Privilege so to qualifie us for that 't is as remarkably pregnant with our Duty also Among the Rest it clearly suggests to us in three noble Instances of our Duty so many apt and proper Qualifications
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The second Edition Corrected The Works of Ben. Iohnson which were formerly Printed in two Volums are now Re-printed in one to which is added a Comedy called The New Inn with Additions never before Published Now in the Press a Catalogue of the Common and Statute Law Books of this Realm with Additions The Principles and Duties of natural Religion Two Books By the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn late Lord Bishop of Chester to which is added a Sermon Preached at his Funeral By William Lloyd D. D. Dean of Bangor and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty FINIS * Ne ijs quidem omissis quae prae fuga temporis viva vox exequi non potuit a Adv. Marcion l. 5. in fine b Vide S. Hieron in Catalog Script Eccles. c 1 Tim. iii. 15. d Vide D. Blondelli Pseudo-Isidor e De Doct. Christian. l. 4. c. 16. f 1 Pet. 2. 25 g Vide Reverend Armachan de Orig. Metropolis pag. 71 72. h II. O. i Gen. xviii 12. Versio Lxx. l Ib. v. 13. Vulg. Et Dominum innix um scalae Lxx. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Psal. cxxxiii 2. n Matth. xxviii 18. o Joh. xx 21. p Theophyl â—n Hypoth q Suar. adv fect Angl. l. 3. c. 12. f. Bellarm de R. Pont. l. 1. c. 11. f. c. 23. Magal in l. Tim. Proaem Sect. 11. 13. r Act. 13. 2. s Hist. Act. Ap. c. 70. t Anacleti Felicis I. Inn. I. u As our Church seems to have determined See the Exhortation before the Litany in the Consecration of B. B. w 2 Tim. 1. 1. x Gal. 1. 1. y 1 Tim. 1. 1. Chap. 1. 11. v. 12. v. 15 16. v. 16. v. 18. z Chap. 11. v. 1. v. 6. v. 9. v. 1. v. 9. a De Synod lib. 1. cap. 14. p. 509. c. b Pag. 571. Vnusquisque ritè creatus potest Discipulos suos ritè creare c See Dr. H. H. Letter of Resolut c. Quer. 5. d Advers Sect. Angl. lib. 3. cap. 8. num 12. e Vide Hist. Concil Trid. lib. 7. f Act. xx 38. g Acts xxvi 25. h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Talm. in Kidduschin fol. 41. 2. i Acts xviii 6. k v. 7. l v. 11. m 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n Vide Munst. Vatabl. alios in Obad o 2 Cor. ii 12. p Tit. 1. 4. q 2 Cor. 11 12 13. r 2 Cor. 7. 6 s Epist. 150. ad Hedib qu. 11. t Divinorum sensuum Majestatem digno non poterat Graeci elâ—quii explicare sermone S. Hieron ibid. Vide Baron Tom. 1. Ann. 45. n. 32 â—c u Photius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 w Antiq. l. 20. c. ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 x In locum y In Titum II. z Vide Sulteti Obss. in Tit. 1. c. 2. a Homil. 1. b Vide Baron Ann. 58. c Apoc. 3. 17. d Isid. Pelus lib. 1. Ep. 149. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 e Hesych 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lege 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f Tit. 1. 10. g Dr. H. Hammond in c. 1. 9 16. h v. 10. i v. 11. k v. 16. l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Ch. 11. 7. n Lib. 10. Epist. 82. ad Eccles. Vercel o Lib 1. Epist. 319. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p Inaccusabilis Cajetan q Ch. 11. 1. r Ch. 1. 9. s Ch. 11. 7 8. t Prov. xxiv 30 31. u Contra Haeres lib. 1. c. 1. Contra Aerian v 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 w 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 x In locum y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plut. in Theseo z Argum. in Tit. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. xiii 49. xiv 6 7. b Act. xiv 24 xvi â— 5. c See Mr. Hooker's Preface d Glos. Philox Cyrilli e Centum urbium clarâ— fama Plin. lib. 4. cap. 12 f In 〈◊〉 pag. 183. â— g See the Learned Primates ' s Excellent Discourses of the Original of Metrop and the Procâ—nsular Asia h Concil Laodic Sarâ—ic Tolet. 12. i q. d. Non in oppidâ— k Ne vilescat nomen Epiâ—copi l Ann. 716. m Or vâ—amba n Imprimis ex Epistola 〈…〉 ut Episcopes per civitates constituere debeat praecepit c. Concil Merlin Tom. 1. pag. 135. â— o Cap. 17. Centum constipaâ—i vebibus quarum principatus est penes Gorâ—y p Euseb. l. 4. cap. 〈◊〉 q In Catalago Sâ—ript Eccles. r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 s 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 u Matth. xvi 19. w Contra Haeres lib. 3. contr Aerium x 〈…〉 y Plaut in Milite z Act. xxvii 15. a Vers. 21. b Ibid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c See Mr. Hooker's Preface d Magin pag. 182. 38. e Solin cap. 17. f Camd. Brit. pag. 3. ex Lycoph Cassand g Creta ab Insula Creta ubi â—elior est Isidor lib. 16. cap. 1. h Magin pag. 182. 38. i In Tit. Hom. 1. k Gal. iii. 1. l v. 12. m Joâ— xiii 7. n Lib. 8. cap. 58. o Cap. 17. p v. 13. q In Tit. iiâ— 1. r Jud. ix 27. s v. 10. t Gal. v. 1. u Jer. viii 22. w Isa. lviii 12. x Joâ— iii. 4. y Isa. lxi 3. z Hos. â—i 6 7. a Tunicâ puâ—ire molestâ Juvenal Sat. 8. b Vide Baron Tom. 1. Ann. 66. n. 4. c 1 Tim. â— 3. d 1 Cor. xv 32. e Genes xxxviii 28 29. f Baron Epist ad Papam Clem. viii T. 7. g Psal. cxxvi 3. h v. 4. i Judg. xiv 18. k Psal. cxxvi 1. l Act. xii â— c m V. 9. n V. 16. o V. 4. p In â—ocum q 1 Pet. i. 2. 2 Pet. i. 2. r Matt. xiii 4â— s 2 Cor. vii 5. t Weet-Wolves Loups-garons Ver. 1. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lacrymaâ— Vulg. Rom. xi 19. Ezek. xxx 〈◊〉 Dan. xii Ver. 19. Ezek. xi 1â— 2 Tim. 3. 6 7. Ezek. xvi 8. Hos. xi 4. Job xi 12. Col. iii 10. Epheâ— iv 24. V. Lactant. lib. v. Theogn Ethic. v. Hom. 12. in S. Matth. C. xxiv 15. Salvian Ex. xx 18 19. Luc. v. 8. Ps. cxiv 7 8. Ps. cvii. 34. Ps. cxix 53. Hebr. xii 21. Mat. xxiv 29. Hom. 77. in Matth. Sueton. l. v. n. 51. Dan. v. 6. Ps. xivi 8. Isa. xl 15. Apoc. xv 3 4. Matth. xi 26. Heb. xi 21. Joâ— ii 10. Ps. cxix 137. Psal. xxxvi 6. Ps. xcvii 2. The King's Declaration 2 Thes. i. 8. 1 Cor. 15. 52. Amos iii. â— Deut. xxxiii 2. Heb. x. 27 2 Pet. iii. 6â—7â— Wisd. v. 20. Dan. ix 7. 2 Pet. iii. 16. P. o. xviii 17. Cap. xxiv 2. Cap. ix 32 33. 3. S. Ambrose Suo jure omnibus Dei opâ—ribus super ingreditur supernatat Psal. cxxxv 7. Psal. xxxi 23. Ps. xciv 12. ` H 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal. lxxxi 13. Isa. i. 5. Prov. i. 32. Psal. xi 6. Ps. xxvii 14. Ps. cxli. 5. 2 Sam. xxiv 14. Gen. xviii 27. Lam. iii. 22. Ch. xxvii 8. Cap. xxv 9. Amos. v. 24. Matth. vii 12. Jam. ii 8. Matth. xxii 38 39. Ps. cxix 96. Prov. 30. 20. Luc. xxiii ii Ps. cxii 9. Isai. lviii 7 8. Iuvenal 〈◊〉 xiv 2. Cor. vii 2. Lib. 1. Epist. 14. ad 〈◊〉 Matth. xxxv Zach. ix 4 5. Luc. xix 41. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. xviii in Ephes. Acts xxiv 25. Eccles. ix 10. Joh. xvi 21. Lib. 7. Ep. 27 Ps. lxvi 14. Verse 10. 1 Joh. iii. 7. Phil. iii. 16. Acts xi 26. 2 Pet. iii. 11. Cap. xxvii 9. Prov. ix 17. 1 Cor. x. 22. Job xxviii 3. Isa. xxxiii 14. Rom. ii 4. 2 Pet. iii. 〈◊〉 1 Sam. â—v 32 Psal. xxxii 〈◊〉 Jer. xivii â— Diâ—merbr de pâ—ste Noviomag Exod. ix 8 9. Psal. xc ii Rom. 1. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. â—ude 6. Orig. Philocal p. 59. Ps. CV 39. Jac. I. 11 L. 17. c. 1â— In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1â— 8. 18. 10. Ps. xviii 10. Ex. xix 4. 〈…〉 Rev. xii 4. Es. viii 8. Gen. 1. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek Schol. on Aratus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LXVI 1 Chald. Engl. Gen. Psal. CIV 18. Psal. cix 10. Esa. xxx 3. Aristop. De Adorâ—â— lib. 16. Psal. xliv 6. xxxiii 16. Psal. lv 6. See his Life Psal. xxxvii 3 5. 1 Pet. iv ult Prov. xix 29. Psal. xxxii 9. Ps. xxxi 24. 〈◊〉 xxv 20. â—â—â—ix 5. Psal. cxxi 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Matth. i. ult 1 Thes. iv 17.