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A70378	The true euangelical temper wherein divinity and ecclesiastical history are interwoven, and mixed, both to the profit and delight of the Christian reader, and moderately, and soberly fitted to the present grand concernments of this state, and church / preached in three sermons at St. Martins in the Strand ... by Jo. Jackson.	Jackson, John.	1641 (1641)	Wing J76B; ESTC R24398	51,187	243

but sing k Psalms and Hymnes before the dawnings of the day c. And here againe takes place fitly the Certificate of Graninianus the Emperour Adrian his Proconsull in Asia that the Christians were persecuted and killed i without any fault at all being guilty onely of a name and sect. Lastly Consult Baronius especially in his second Tome touching the manners of the ancient Primitive Christians and there you shall find ex scriniis most honourable verdicts testimonies of their lamb-like child-like integrity not onely from their friends as Origen against Celsus Tertullian to Scapula c. but even their enemies being Judges such as Porphyrie Iulian the Sibylls the Oracles c. That they were temperate chast peaceable farre more vertuous livers then the Philosophers of the Gentiles That they would not lye that they abhorred Theaters and publique spectacles especially of blood that they were kind liberall mercifull especially to such as were in bonds for Christ that they were faithfull subjects valiant Souldiers profitable Cōmonwealths men thankful in prosperity cheerefull in adversity These and such like are by the most faithfull Writers of the story of those times given in to be the guise of those worthy Saints But I shall shame our selves in recounting their just praises Their Panegyrick is our Libell their Encomium our Invective and Satyre Our conversations compared to theirs are but as foyles to set off the lustre of those militant glories 2. In and at their deaths What meeke Lambs and innocent Babes there too wee cannot say of them as Samuel to Saul m What meaneth this bleating of Sheepe and lowing of Oxen No the Saints in their most unjust sufferings and undeserved deaths have not beene bleating sheepe but dumb Lambs Esay 53.7 not lowing Oxen but m●●e Oxen as Aquinas before mentioned When n Marshall Biron will dye like a mad man and Parry like a o braggard then shall Gods sheepe lye dumbe before the shearer They shall keepe silence in that day because it is an evill day Come then let us draw neere them and sit downe on the ground beside them in the day of their sorrow as Iobs three friends and we shall not heare them charge God foolishly though their griefe be very great Yea goe neerer and draw the Curtaines of their death-beds and heare them exspiring and breathing out their last breath with a perfumed Comfite or a Sugar-plumbe in their mouth that is p with a word of piety as Nazianzene testifieth S. Basil did both to sweeten the sorrowes of death to themselves and to minister grace unto the hearers And first I must needs begin with Ignatius the most blessed Bishop of Antiochia full sixteene hundred yeeres agoe within five and S. Peters q immediate Successor in that Chaire when he was throwne to the Beasts said no more then thus I am Gods graine and must be ground betweene the upper and nether milstone of these beasts teeth that I may make pure bread unto God Loe if his soule were not even as a weaned child and indeed r some say he was that very child that Jesus tooke up in his armes in the Gospel The example doth so suite the Text that I could not pretermit it here though it be mentioned s before neither is it coleworts twice sod Next him let us make mention of Polycarpus Bishop of Smirna and some say that Individuall Angel of the Church of Smirna whereunto the second of those seven Asiatique Epistles are written Hee was disciple to S. Iohn and Master to Ireneus and in a word a man so venerable amongst both the Christians and Heathen that his ordinary style was The Doctor of whole Asia He when the cursed Proconsull tempted him to deny Christ and hee should save his life answered meekely as a Lamb I have served Christ these fourescore and six yeares and hee never harmed me and shall I now deny t and blaspheme my King and Saviour Cyprian Bishop of Carthage may well bee remembred next who was of noble descent and both Oratour and Senatour of Carthage before he was by publique applause u elected Bishop hee suffered banishment and the next yeare martyrdome about 260. years after Christ when hee came to the block hee gave his heads-man 20. pieces of Gold and dyed also meeke as a Lamb or Kid with these words in his mouth God be thanked for vouchsafing my soule this Gaole-delivery out of the dungeon of my body S. Ambrose Bishop of Millane dyed in Millane on Easter eve in the yeare of Christ 397. Count Stilico made suite unto him when hee was fastened to his bed that for the publique good of the Church he would seeke by his prayers to obtaine of God the prolongation of his owne life S. Ambrose answered I have not so lived amongst you that I am ashamed to live longer neither doe I feare to dye because I have a good Lord Did hee not herein though he were the great Shepheard of Millane speake like a Lamb w a speech onely worthy of S. Ambrose and so gnomicall and waighty that x S. Augustin highly commends it But let us come now a great deale lower in tract of time Queene Elizabeth of famous memory who like another Deborah judged this Israel forty yeares and that so happilie that even y the French Historian saith shee proved thereby to the world that a Woman might governe as well as any man when in her Sisters quinquennium shee was one day apprehended to bee carryed shee knew not whither seeing some of her servants standing aloofe off shee said no more but these two words tanquam ovis alluding to Isaiahs Prophesie of Christ As a sheepe to the sl●●ghter c. Iohn Picus z Earle of Mirandula a most diligent searcher into the secrets of nature and an exact both Philosopher and Divine before he was capable of transgressing Moses his Law in cutting the tuffes of his beard in a word The wit of the world If Christs death and our own said he were ever in our eyes how could we sin welcome death not as an end of trouble but as an end of sin Ferdinand Earle of Darby who died in Queen Elizabeths dayes having at his death foure Physitians and two Divines the Bishop of Chester and Mr. Leigh his own Chaplaine said to one of his Physitians the day before he died a I know for a certainty I must now die and I will take away with me only one part of mine armes I meane mine Eagles wings so will I flee swiftly into the bosome of Christ my Saviour Nobly and Christianly spoken indeed and therefore the more noble because the more Christian-like The b Jewell of Bishops Iuell Bishop of Sarisbury riding to preach at Lacock in Wilts a gentleman meeting him on the way and seeing his body weak and spent with divine labours advised him to return back again replied Nay c it becomes a Bishop