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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69188	The ile of gulls As it hath been often acted in the Black Fryers, by the Children of the Revels.	Day, John, 1574-1640?; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1633 (1633)	STC 6414; ESTC S109425	90,057	188

Angels no not Archangels theÌ„selues Concerning the People they indeed were a NatioÌ„ but they were but one Nation we the whole world And therefore as our Saviour said to his disciples Go and teach all Nations so they went and taught them severally S. Iohn the Asians S. Andrew the Achaians S. Matthew the Ethiopians S. Philip the Phrygians S. Bartholmew the Indians S. Thomas the Parthians and so forth their souÌ„d saith the Apostle went out through all the earth and their words into the end of the world Or if so be they went not to all places in their owne proper persons as S. Austen seemes to be of opinion yet hath every Nation now or at the least wise hath had the benefit of that doctrine which the Apostle delivered to those nations that in their owne persons they then visited We may well adde vnto this point that peculiar honour and testimoniall that is given vnto Christians in that they are saide so many times to bee themselues the Temple of God I every of them in particular in regard of their bodies to be the Temple of the holy Ghost But thus much of outstripping them in regard of the Parties present that we no lesse outstrip them to in regard of the Pub like Solemnity of Gods worship namely in the Word and Sacraments and Sacrifices and Praier and Praises remaineth now to be declared first concerning the Word First then concerning the Worde they had Moses I grant and they had the Prophets Moses as speakes Theodoret who was the Ocean of Diuinity and instructed mouth to mouth as it were by God himselfe the Prophets who were the floods and so many riuers as it were derived from him Moses he delivered them the Law the Prophets they were the Interpreters of that Law Both Moses and Prophets so complete at that time for the salvatioÌ„ of the Iews that that of Abraham vnto Diues concerning the salvation of his Bretheren then living They haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them was an argument that woulde not admit of any reply that Diues made For when hee answered therevpon Nay Father Abraham but if one come vnto them from the dead they will amend their liues the Patriarch holds himselfe to his first resolutioÌ„ If they heare not Moses and the Prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rise from the dead againe Now if they were then taught so wholy and perfectly by Moses the Prophets alone howe much better is our case who haue the Apostles and Evangelists annexed vnto them Moses and the Prophets indeede being a light as S. Peter speaketh that shineth in a darke place but the Apostles and Euangelists as the day star arising in our hearts And thus much of the Word How far we outstrip them in the Sacraments S. Austen wil bear vs witnes who speaking of theirs and ours we saith he are not pressed with the heavy burden they were but our Lord his Apostles haue delivered vnto vs a few Sacraments in steed of many and the same in performing most easie in signification most excellent in obseruation most reverend and he nameth in that place Baâ—tisme and the Supâ—er True it is the Apostle saith they were all vnder the clowd and all passed through the sea and were baptised vnto Moses in the clowd and in the sea and againe they did all eate the same spirituall meate and did all drinke the same spiritual drinke for they dranke of the spiritual rocke that followed them and the rocke was Christ howbeit this which the Apostle saith is in regard of the substaÌ„ce effect of the Sacraments the signification of our Sacraments is much more cleere theÌ„ theirs was In our Sacrifices we are farther before theÌ„ then in our Sacraments having had in our church the selfe same Sacrifice really acted whereof al their Sacrifices were but shadowes For if the blood of Buls saith the Apostle and of Goates and the ashes of an Haifer sprinckling them that are vncleane sanctifieth as touching the purifying of the flesh how much more shall the blood of Christ which through the eternall spirit offered himself without spot to God purg your conscience from dead works to serue the living God And againe a little after The law saith he having the shaddow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can neuer with those Sacrifices which they offer yeare by yeare continually sanctifie the commers therevnto For it is impossible that the blood of Bals and Goats should take away sinnes Now if so be we would know the vertue of our Sacrifice though it were but one their Sacrifices being many with one offering saith the Apostle hath he consecrated for ever theÌ„ that are sanctified And he had said a little before As it is appointed vnto men that they shall once die after that commeth the iudgement so Christ was once offered to take away the sinnes of many And comparing his Priesthood with theirs Among them saith he many were made Priests because they were not suffered to endure by the reason of death but this man because he endureth ever hath an everlasting Priesthood And againe a little after Such a High Priest it became vs to haue which is holy harmelesse vndefiled separate from sinners and made higher then the heavens which needed not dayly as those High Priests to offer vp Sacrifice first for his owne sinnes and then for the Peoples for that did he once when he offered vp himselfe Comparing then those Sacrifices with this of ours I may say of them as did Theodoret of the like offered by the Gentiles they were such kind of Sacrifices as were fit for Hucksâ—ers and Butchers to make Lastly concerning Prayer wherein I comprehend with the Learned not only the asking of things needfull for vs and deprecation of things hurtfull but the confession of our sins the praises of God and giving thanks for benefits receaved at his hands how far we outstrip the Iewes witnes that of the Prophet Malachie who coÌ„paring both together theirs ours From the rising of the Sun saith he vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the Gentiles in every place Incense shall be offered vnto my name a pure offering Now what is this Incense but Prayers for so the Holy Ghost himselfe interprets InceÌ„se Revelation the fift at the eight verse And that this Pure Offering is the same witnesse that of Tertullian a Pure Offering that is a Pure Prayer froÌ„ a conscience that is pure for it so be as speakes the same Father in another place the Conscience blush Prayer it selfe will blush too I but you will say since these our Prayers must needes tast of the caske from whence they come and the caske is very impure be it the Conscience or the Heart of man how can they be the Pure

Offring here spoken of in this place I answer according to Scripture that there is in heaven a certaine Angel it is indeed our Saviour Christ that goes and stands before the Altar having a golden Censer and much odours given vnto him that he should offer with our prayers Howsoever then as proceeding from our selue sthey are tainted and corrupt yet are they sweetned by our Saviour provided that they be infirmities only that taint theÌ„ not loud crying sinnes for if they once come to that passe then farewell all approching and appearing in Gods sight When you shall stretch out your hands I saith the Lord will hide mine eyes from you and though you make many prayers I will not heare the reason he giues immediatly for your hands are full of blood and yet immediatly after that too as if he were loath to giue even such an vtter repulse Wash you saith he make you cleane take away the Evill of your workes from before mine eies cease to doe evill learne to doe well and so forth Come now and let vs reason together saith the Lord though your sinnes were as crimsen they shall be made white as snowe though they were red like scarlet they shall be as wooll And to this end and purpose hath the Church of God for this sixteen hundred yeares and vpward beene in her severall Congregations continually on her knees We come by troups saith Tertullian that being banded as it were together we may be supplicants enow not so much to beseech as to beseige God with our prayers This force to God is most acceptable The sound of men women children infants saith S t Basil praying in the Church together seems like the sound of the waues beating against the sea shore S t Ierom he likens it to the noise of Thunder and in another place discoursing of the Funerals of Fabiola The Psalmes saith he did sound a loud and the Haleluiah that was sung did shake at that instant the golden feelings of the Temple with the noise it made But of all the Beauties in our Church nothing so beautifull indeed as the Beauty of our Saviour He was saith S t Austen a beautifull God he was the word that was with God he was beautifull in his mothers wombe where he lost not his Divinity and yet he tooke Humanity on him He was beautifull being borne an Infant because when he was an Infant when as he suckt the dug and was carried in his mothers armes the heavens spake the Angels praised him the starres directed the wise men to him he was adored in the manger being to be meat convenient for the mouthes of gentle Beasts And this is that faire beautie which we celebrate this day This day it was that hauing made for himselfe a Tabernacle as speakes Theodoret in the wombe of the Virgin he issued forth from thence both a visible man and a God to be adored Borne of the substance of the Father before all worlds but assuming that of the Virgin Mary which did appeare to the world Borne saith the same Father as it were this day and yet from all eternity Borne of his Father saith S t Austen without a mother he created every day borne of his mother without a Father he hath coÌ„secrated this day so that where as saith he in the worlds beginning man was made to the likenesse of God the case is altered now at this time for this day God is made to the likenesse of man Nor let it seeme incredible saith the same Father that he should be borne of a Virgin who out of the Virgin earth made the first man that ever was These the Beauties of our Church and of every our severall Congregations what remaineth but our desires in respect of them be such as was the Prophets concerning the Temple namely to beholde there these faire beauties and to visit these places that if so be that Beauty were so powerfull with the Prophet which was so farre inferiour vnto ours ours with vs shoulde be more powerfull as being farre more beautifull and so farre superiour vnto theirs Let it ravish then our Soules by way of Contemplation and like a load stone draw our Bodies to by way of Action to these places and let vs ioine here Body and Soule by Contemplation and Action both Let vs not take as Gods name so not his beauty in vaine if so be the Lord wil not hold him guiltles that takes his name in vaine how will he iudge those another day that so much contemne this his Beauty And to the better effecting hereof let vs come often to this House and as the word vsed here is a frequentatiue so let our deedes be frequent to To come not at all with the Popish Recusant or but monthly with the false harted Protestant or in the forenoone or afternoone only with the halfe Christian or when Service is halfe done with the carelesse Gospeller or when there is a Sermon only with the Precisian are vices all of a quality though not al of the selfe same quantity all able to drowne vs though not all after one sort The Precisian hee is drowned as it were in rose water Moses and the Prophets are nothing with him here vnlesse forsooth they be interpreted The carelesse Gospeller in a bole of water a little serues his turne The halfe Christian in mud water The false harted Protestant in a river of water but the Recusant hee that wil never be here and that vtterly shunneth these Assemblies he is drowned in a sea of water drowned in deed as are the rest but the manner of his drowning more dreadfull so much the farther from all hope as he will needs be far thest from all helpe If now you demand of me how often you should come hither I answere even as often as this Beauty here is to be seene in the Publike Service of our God Whether on the Saboth day or on Holy daies or even on the weeke daies to specially Masters Mistresses of families vnlesse as ZaÌ„chius wel states the question our sicknes is such as that we cannot come or our affaires of such importance that we may not defer them till an other time He that at every time else comes when ever opportunitie is offered it is a signe he is enamored with this Beauty of the Lord and he that with this Beauty is so enamoured in this world shall an other day behold his fairer Beauty and visit his other TeÌ„ple in the world to come Of which Beauty which Temple to speake in S. Austens phrase whatsoever a man shall say it is as it were but a drop in comparison of the Sea a sparke in respect of a fire For how saith the same Father should it possibly come into the tongue of man that could never come as yet into the hart of man It being an invincible truth which the

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