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A14985	English paradise Discouered in the Latine prospect of Iacobs blessing. Preached at S. Buttolphs without Aldersgate at London, on the holy Sabboth commonly called Trinitie Sunday, in that ioifull season of the festiuall solemnities for the blessed creation of the most gracious Prince of Wales.	White, John, 1570-1615.	1612 (1612)	STC 25293; ESTC S119683	64,468	65

so lowly in his seruice to think so highly of God and so truly of himselfe Aquae descendunt ad valles God giueth grace to the humble to bee frequent at praiers sermons holy quiers as if his cheefe desire were as Dauids was to dwell in the courts of the Lord to bee a friend to the Church and a stay to the Altar as good Iosiah was 4 Reg. 23 Quanto magis arbor abundat fructibus tanto magis inclinatur more any tree doth abound with fruite more doth it bend it selfe to their commodity who are vnder it Thus doth he increase in fauour with God and man Charilaus the peoples ioy all his garments smell of the Sanctuary his fathers ioy as Iacob was to Isaac Who doth not ioy in the smell of this Violet The Prince hath the Corne-care holy workes in his faith as if hee had digested that counsell of the wise-man All that thine hand shall finde to doe Eccl. 9.8.10 doe it with all thy power for there is neither worke nor inuention nor knowledge S. Augustine nor wisdome in the graue Qui vult sine fine remunerari debet sine fine bonum operari hee which would haue endlesse reward 1 Pet. 2.15 must haue endlesse perseuerance for so is the will of God that by well doing you put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men Iob. 29 as Iob did who continued an e●e to the blind and a foot to the lame If any enemie thinke heere hee can smell oleum peccatoris I professe to hate it splendiduml ubricum dulce damnosum as yee for slipping and the cup of a whore for poisoning And I dare bee bold to giue in an instance for mine owne defence that of al others we poor despised Ministers haue cause to blesse the daies of the Prince Why so for Christ his Mandrakes haue sweetned his and his Mandrakes haue sweetned ours O heauenly Mandrakes graces of the spirit which dispose to the conception of good workes The Church is Abigaile her fathers ioy and Christ hath lodged with her the Prince is a sonne and heire in the Church and Christ hath lodged with him by spiration of his holy word by inspiration of his holy Spirit that the Prince may say Cant. 5.4 as the Church hath said My bowels were mnooued towards him Heere is our true cause of ioy without sophistically oppilations Therefore seeing his inclination to good workes by those spices of our Sauiour which haue spiced him wee all consent in that concent of the Canticle of Christ Cant. 7.13 Thy Mandrakes haue giuen a smell and in our gates are all sweet things The Princes words are often as the words of the seuenth day words of grace apples of gold in pictures of siluer Prou. 2.11 Leu. 25 his works are as the works of the seuenth yere works of grace a goodly tree full of fruites You may know the tree by the fruites Apoc. 2 and praise the fruites for the smell This smell is as Smirna all sweet myrrhe and wee all are refreshed with the smell of this Corne-care Now then let vs compare Iacob and Iacob Hebrew and English vterinos fratres two twins both in one womb of the Church both as Castor and Pollux Act 28.11 the badge of our Ship Castor is descended and as the Sun gone vnder a cloud he was gathered to his people and is gone to sleep with his fathers Gen. 49.33 What then albeit he sleep he is aliue shall rise againe as the Sun in his faire horizon Exod. 3.6 God is the God of the liuing the God of Abrahā Isaac Iaacob But I say Castor is layd down in peace and Pollux is vpon our Ship in daily aduentures for the golden flece When I was of younger yeares Apollonius Theocritus I did reade of the famous Acts of Castor and Pollux in that egregious voyage for the Golden Fleece But what idle dreames were those with all their resolutions to the high resolutions of religious hearts for the golden fleece the fleece of the Lambe the Lambe of God the inualuable righteousnesse of the Lambe of God is the golden fleece Ioh. 1. Iacob and Iacob are both naked as Adam before the Lord without this fleece Consider the amplitude of the honour and efficacie of this fleece Rom. 4. Psal 32. wherewith all our sins are couered Many many thousands haue yeelded vp their blood for this fleece hoc expeditionum Christianarum praetium praemium This hath beene the faire paiment for many Christian aduentures The holy lambe alloweth vs his flesh to feed vs Ioh. 6.1 Tim. 6.8 his fleece to couer vs. Therefore when we haue food and raiment let vs be therewith content Such was Iacobs contentment in his new coate when he got the blessing in his elder brothers coate Christ is our elder brother our first borne a sonne to Iacob yet elder then Iacobs grandfather before Abraham was I am A lambe without spot was this Lambe Ioh. 8 yet that he might lend his spotlesse coate to spotted Iacob hee was slaine from the beginning of the world Apoc. 13.8 Behold then a world of wonders in these two Iacob the elder and the younger notwithstanding sundry generations betwixt them doe both part stakes in Christ either of them haue all their riches of Christ yet neither of them haue all which is of Christ either of them haue all Christ for Christ is not diuided 1 Cor. 3. Rom. 11. neither of them haue all that which is Christs for Christ is not comprehended Christ is the Owner of all in the shippe and of the shippe and all and they both are but partie borrowers of all their parts So that Iacob aboue with Christ in glorie and Iacob below with Christ in grace may both sing with that sweet singer of Israel Psal 142. The Lord is my portion in the land of the liuing But now let vs see the distance of perfection betwixt Christ these two brothers Iacob hath the vine and Christ is the vine Iacob possesseth all those pleasant riches in Christ and Christ possesseth them all himselfe Christ is the vine the true vine which runnes all mercie and life to Iacob and all wither and perish which doe not abide in this vine Ioh. 15. Christ is the Oliue the true Oliue stocke what branch soeuer abideth not in him hath no life in it for the branches beare not the roote Rom. 11.18 but the root the branches all fade and fall away which are not grafted into this Oliue Christ is the rose 1. Cor. 13. of all flowers the rose is cheefest and of all vertues loue the chiefest of those three is loue God is loue and he that dwelleth in him dwelleth in loue out of this habitation there is no health nor safetie Christ is the Lillie Cant. 2. Jsidor the most delightfull Lillie for he which is the Rose is the Lillie I am

Tamsubito Cygnus qui modo consonus erat Who could perswade himselfe that a crow in a trice could be turned into a swanne Of the second sort was that light of angels and the spirit of God Luc. 24.4 Act 1.10 There were some looking for Christ and behold two men stood suddainely before them in shining vestures There were some looking on Christ and behold a light did shine suddainly from heauen Act. 2. There were some gathered in daily expectation of the comforter whom Christ promised to send and suddainly there came a sound from heauen Nescit tarda molimma gralia S. S. as of a rushing and a mightie wind What then came those illustrious messages without hope or no Indeed hope was much weakened as one trauailing long is wearie but it did but seem weake they hoped still for that vigorous resurrection they looked still for that glorious ascension they longed still for the gladsome comming of the holy Ghost Beda Yet all those maruellous vertuous famous workes were suddaine As wee all looke for that hopefull appearing of the Iudge of quicke and dead and how long soeuer his stay may be with whom a thousand yeares are but as a day hope maketh not to be ashamed Spes est sanctorum baculus de quo sustinentur ne cadant sustentātur ne deficiant Matth. 24.27 yet for all our serious vigilancie commanded it shall be suddaine As the lightening which flieth from the East to the West so shall the comming of the sonne of man be O blessed Iacob thy long promised blessing is come suddainely in a day thou thoughtest not our blessed Sauiour annointed with the oyle of grace aboue his fellowes was long and often foretold yet is his comming exceeding suddaine Therefore call his name make haste make speed Esay 8. speed to the pray and haste to the spoile Our gracious Prince his honour hath stated long in the glowing eares of ten thousand whose eies burned with zealous desire to behold it And behold of a suddaine the smell of my sonne This is the stemme of honour for which great Britaine did sacrifice their daily prayers our bounteous Queene did breath out her iust desires our renowmed king did yeeld his sacred promise and now of a suddaine is that ioyfull day come the day of playing of Organes of singing of birds and sounding of Trumpets Now is the day come in which king Iames doth pay his vowes his vowes to God his right to the Prince his honour to the Land his fauour to the subiect his word to the Queene assuredly thy sonne Salomon shall raigne after me 3. Reg. 3.30 O King liue for euer Vita hominis sabillum animae The life of man is but a small point and hath slipperie hold on earth Lex mortis firma non abrogatur mutatur Bosquier dispensatur c. Deaths doome is bound vp so fast that it cannot bee loosed It is set downe that euery man must die once Seriùs ant citius mortem properamus ad vnam I am perswaded Serniamus regi precibus qui seruit Deo legibus that neither Queene nor Prince nor any Impe royall that none truely noble or gentle or true Christian desireth to see thy last day Yet is mans life but a span long and now here is a pawne for the state a nurserie for grace the standard to religion a beautie to the crowne the peace health and wealth of the land this is Salomon the Kings sonne Behold the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed Thus much for Ecce the head of the Text and head of the springs Behold Now to the Smell the first riuer of the head Here might I shew you many delightsome turnings to many wholesome walks in this word There is odor merus metaphoricus Againe odor metaphoricus est Christiaut Christianorum But I must necessarily passe by these paths till I find other oportunitie and more leisure The common partition of Odour is into good and euill but what haue wee to doe with euill Quid argijs cum sacrificijs quid canibus cum sanctis There is no communion betwixt God and Belial without shal be dogges and idolaters Apoc. 21. all their smell is of the sulphure of Sodome Et si doctores illi scientissimi ductores aulici porcos obscaene defaedatos ne vno digitorum ostendant aut verbulo corripiant quid ego miser homuncio aut Balaami asinus I know that bookes and sermons which are admonitions of other mens faults as the blacke bill are exceeding necessarie in these times of darkenesse but they are all out of my way All our labour here should bee spent in searching out the good Odours of Iacob Christ and the Prince and thrice happy both they which haue Christ the sauour of life betwixt them All their sweet smell is of the sauour of his oyntments O blessed Sauiour Cant. 2.3 Cant. 1.2 these are the virgins which delight in thy sauour Thy name is as an oyntment powred out therefore the virgins loue thee But it is high time to distinguish of good Odours There is a good odour of pietie a sweet sacrifice Phil. 4.18 2. Cor. 2.15 2. Cor. 2.14 a good odour of good report so Saint Paul his name had a good smell a good odour of the Gospel so is it a garland all of sweet flowers a good odour of zealous prayer so is it as the perfume of the Censor Apoc. 8.4 Shall I tell you more what a sauour is there where all these meet in one soule as the incense of one altar pure religion sweet conuersation true faith and holy loue they are altogether as the offering of Noahs Altar And Noah built an Altar to the Lord and tooke of euery cleane beast and of euery cleane bird and offered burnt offerings to the Lord. Genes 8 How them what was the issue Reade further and the Lord smelled a sauour of rest Such is the smell of all faithfull hearts as the smell of Noahs Altar to the Lord Iaacobs heart is as Noahs Altar Behold the smell of my sonne But I haue more in my way of my poore readings in which I find good odours of many distributions There is one smell of the flower of the Vine S. Gregorie another of the Oliue of the Rose of the Lilly of the Violet and of the Corne-eare and all sweet The Vine is Faith the Oliue is Victory the Rose is Charity the Lillie is Chastity the Violet is Humility the Corne-eare is many cornes good workes in their ripenesse all in one odour Such Vines and Oliues and Roses and Lillies and Violets and Corne-eares were the Philippians Phil. 4.18 an odour that smelleth sweet a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God Such as Israel whilst the dew was vpon him hee shall grow as the Lillie Ose 14.6.7 and fasten his roots as the trees of Lebanon his beauty