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A05280	The first step, towards heaven, or Anna the prophetesse sacred haunt, to the temple of God. Preached at Standish Church in the Countie of Lancaster. By VVilliam Leigh, Batchillor of Diuinity and paster there. With the second edition of great Brittaines deliuerance, newly corrected and enlarged by the author.	Leigh, William, 1550-1639.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639. Great Britaines, great deliverance, from the great danger of popish powder.	1609 (1609)	STC 15424; ESTC S103610	66,134	240

thinke diuinity too base for their profession O that wee had the gleanings of our noble gentle and princely bloud for the credit of our religiō weaned vowed and dedicated as Anna did her Samuel Nazarites for the Lord and in her owne words thus I will bring him that he may appeare before the Lord and there abide for euer The Lord from Horeb inioyned this exercise to all fathers that they should teach their children thus when thy sonne shall aske rhe in time to come What mean these testimonies and ordinances and lawes then thou shalt say vnto thy sonne c. Hezechiah rehearseth it as a benefit to all posterity that godlinesse should flowe from faithfull fathers to faithfull children The liuing the liuing hee shall confesse thee as I doe this day the father to the children shall declare thy truth And Paule leaueth it for an instruction irreuocable Ye fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in instruction information of the Lord. Of the Tribe of Ashur That Anna her testimony of Christ might bee of greater credit shee is here commended for the tribe wherof she came which was Ashur the eight son of Iacob but before I come to speak of that tribe in particular giue me leaue a little to tell you of the tribes in generall And why the spirit of God hath beene so carefull to distinguish tribe frō tribe in the course of all the scriptures which was I assure you for no other cause but to find out the promised seede euē Christ the Messias and sauiour of all the world his blessed line and linage I say to proue the incarnation that sith it was his good pleasure to bowe the heauens and come downe to bee manifested in the flesh it might appeare in what flesh For as in the search of Achās stealth Iosua seuered tribe from tribe and family from family mā from man till he came to Achan the sonne of Carmi of the tribe of Iuda and he was taken So search the scripture you shall finde in the booke of generations how carefull the Spirit hath been to seuer tribe frō tribe house from house man from man till it came to Iesus Christ the son of Dauid the sonne of Abraham the father of all the faithfull and so of Isaac Iacob and Iudah Now that Anna the prophetesse is of the tribe of Ashur and neither of the tribe of Leui or Iudah it is much to instruction and consolation to see that neither the spirit of prophesie is tyed to Leui nor saluation onely to the tribe of Iuda nor we must dispaire of the grace of God sith the Lord hath giuen saluation apparantly to those that were of another tribe yea to gētiles aliants from the common weale of Israel For if you looke into the booke of God yee shall find that Ashur was the sonne of Zilpa handmaid to Lea. Gen. 30.12.13 O Lord how wonderfull are thy mercies and waies past finding out The lawful wife despised the handmaid respected of her must come Ashur one of the tribes in Israel and of that tribe sealed vnto saluation as many as of the tribe of Iuda euen twelue thousand Now in this particular tribe of Ashur whereof Anna came I doe obserue a double blessing prophesied of one by Iacob honorable of much fruit and great aboundance thus Concerning Ashur his bread shall be fat and he shall giue pleasures for a king By Moses a religious and as it were a pregnant prophesie of this Anna the daughter of Phanuel for saith he Ashur shal be blessed with children and he shall be acceptable vnto his brethren and shal dip his foote in oile Thy shoes shall be iron and brasse and thy strēgth shall continue as long as thou liuest For the first it may seeme that Ashur was an honourable Tribe and for honour to be humbled to the obedience of Christ and of his gospell is a rare thing in this wicked world for not many mightie not many noble are called but GOD hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and God hath chosē the weake things of the world to confound the mightie things and vile things of the world and things which are despised hath god chosen and things which are not to bring to nought the things that are that no flesh should reioice in his presence Nay many in respect of this that they are great noble princely haue dipt their foote in oile as was said of Ashur they take occasion thereby to wax proud vaine cruell against the poore grieuous ouer the Saints of God respecting religion with like reuerence as Rubē did his fathers bed who defiled it and so do they therefore I may say as he did your dignitie is gone Honour noblenes and gentility stand not so much in your descēt as in your ascēt not how you are descended of men but how you doe ascend to God it is not the greatnesse of your bloud but the generosity of your spirit soaring like Eagles where Christ is feeding vpon him your selues bringing him downe for others repast to iustifie that Kings shall be thy nursing fathers Queenes shall be thy nurces they shal worship thee Which and if you doe not then take heede to your place high callings for Potētes potēter tormēta pat●ētur the mighty shall be mightily tormēted Topheth is prepared of old euen for the mightie it is prepared Fulmen petit culmen The higher the spire the nearer to fire But come we to Moses prophesie of Ashur which seemes more proper to the present occasion as it were a pregnant prophesy of Anna Ashur shall bee blessed in his children c. Ashur in Phanuel Phanuel in Anna Anna in her Christ of whō shee trauelled in expectation till shee saw him in the flesh presented in the Temple Ashur was blessed in his children Anna in her Christ. Ad to the blessing of the faithfull children a singular and rare constancy in the faith by such obedience thereunto as appertaineth mentioned in this Thy shoes shall bee yron and brasse and thy strength shall continue as long as thou liuest or as it is in one translation according with the originall Sicut dies iuuentutis tuae ita et senectus tua True in Anna if euer in any of that tribe whose shoes were yron and brasse she stedily stoode to the faith of Christ from the first day of her virginity to the last day of her widdowhead I say so long as she liued shee did continue a virgine a wife a widdow and was found faithfull and constant in all estates Sicut dies iuuentutis ita et senectutis As was her youth so was her age A iust reproofe to the men and women of these our wretched dayes wherein for the most part all are shod with corke for shoes of brasse and yron wee are not of Ashur stidy