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A68204	Spirituall preseruatiues against the pestilence. Or Seuen lectures on the 91. Psalme First printed in Anno. 1593. And now reuised, corrected, and published, as generally for the instruction of ignorant people: so specially for the confirmation of the weake seruants of Iesus Christ; descibing the most diuine and most soueraigne preseruatiues against the pestilence. By H. Holland. Hereunto is added a sweete prayer of M. R. Greenhams, neuer before published.	Holland, Henry, 1555 or 6-1603.; Greenham, Richard.	1603 (1603)	STC 13589; ESTC S117101	86,406	214

the Gospel of Iesus Christ. The tongue is a most dangerous member and Dauid heere requireth a heedie watchfulnesse Saint Iames saith plainly that all our profession and religion is in vaine if wee neglect this part and yet more fearefully The tongue is fire yea a world of wickednesse so is the tongue set among our members that it defileth the whole bodie and setteth on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell And to be short for all partes remember watch and so beat down thy body as that thou maist be able to haue it in subiection and to bridle thine vnrulie affections so did the holy Apostle 1. Corin. 9. I beate downe my body and bring it to subiection least by any meanes after that I haue preached to other I my selfe should bee as a refuse or as one reiected and forlorne And that like c. And the like is said of Hillari Ego te asine saith he non hordco sed palca pascam ne me post hac recalcitres O mine asse so he calleth this bodie of sinne I will hencefoorth feed thee with chaffe and not with barley least hereafter thou kicke or strike me with thy foote THE 5. LECTVRE Verse 11. 12. For he shall giue his Angels charge ouer thee to keepe thee in all his wayes They shall beare thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foote against a stone HEre wee haue againe a newe most comfortable doctrine concerning the preseruation of Gods children by the holy Angels of God as against sundry calamities of this present life so against the pestilence the argumēt is thus formed They which haue the custodie and watch of the holy Angels ouer them shall be preserued from euill spirits and comforted in the noysome pestilence But thou true beleeuer which hidest thy selfe by faith in Gods prouidence as in the bosome of the Almightie which art so watchfull ouer thy conscience thy heart and all thy wayes thou shalt bee preserued by the holy Angels of God Wherefore walking thus watchfully in thy wayes thou shalt be kept free frrom wicked spirits and comforted in the pestilence HE commpareth vs in this Argument to infants and the Angels to Nurses most fitly the scandals and offences of this life which hurt and hinder vs in our race to heauen-ward vnto stones which cause vs to stumble in the streetes And surely who so considereth our weaknes the thorns briers we passe through and the dangerous rocks we passe ouer againe Sathans subtilties and infinit snares shall well vnderstand this argument containeth no hyperbole or fained speech for assuredly we could not passe three paces in our wayes towards heauen if that the holy Angels did not as it were carrie vs in the aire and chase away wicked spirites from vs. Here we see the Lord offereth another spirituall preseruatiue of wonderfull vertue power and might against the pestilence We haue in these 2. Uerses these three things most worthy our obseruation 1 That all the holy Angels are vnder the charge and gouernment of the Lord they serue and minister vnto him and where he will 2 How that they haue not onely a generall charge ouer all the faithfull but in particular they must care for and watch ouer euery one Keepe thee beare thee 3 How long their charge lasteth as long as the faithfull walke vprightly and soundly with God in all their wayes appointed for them 5. Question Howe graciously the Lord preserueth his people by his holy Angels in the pestilence TO passe by all needlesse and curious questions of Iewish Rabbins and others concerning the holy Angels of God we shall content our selues when we haue learned only those points which the sacred Scriptures haue recommended and reuealed vnto vs for our comfort and instruction The first point needfull to be knowen as our Prophet here noteth vnto vs is that these holy spirits haue no absolute authoritie of their owne but are vnder the charge of the Almightie they come and go where and when they be sent by him and they doe most faithfully and readily performe all seruice they are commanded So the Psalmist speaketh They do his com●…andement in obeying the voyce of his worde And we be taught what their function and ministry is both by their proper and common names often giuen them in scripture For their proper names are euer significant and shew some part of their seruice for the performance whereof they are sent of God The Angel sent to the holy Virgin is named Gabriel and so he calleth himself this signifieth the strength of God answerable to his message which was to declare the great power of God as in the wonderfull conception of Christ in the Virgin so in all the worke of our redemption The Angell sent to Esay is said to be one of the Seraphins he had his name of Zaraph to burne and fitly for his seruice was to touch Esays lippes with a hote cole from the Altar Thus the Lord confirmed his Prophets both with his word and Sacraments So Ieremie so Daniel The Angel which came to Mancah named himselfe Pelt wonderfull he both miraculously consumed the sacrifice with fire and in the said slame of fire ascended vp and departed from them The Angel which came to Tobias is called Raphael the Lordes phisicke or phisition because he cured him or was sent of God to cure him And in like maner their common names put vs in minde of their seruice and holy ministrie vnto God They are all in generall called thrones dominions principalities powers because the Lorde doth gouerne his empire exercise hi●… dominion and shew forth his principalitie power by their seruice Againe they are said to be the Lords host and the host of heauen because they are of a wonderfull multitude and God ruleth them as kings and princes do an host of men Daniel saith Thousand thousands ministred vnto him and tenne thousand thousands stood before him And Christ affirmeth the same saying Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray my father and he will giue me moe then 12. legions of Angels Againe they are maruellous faithfull and readie in their seruice Ezech. and Daniel doth see them flying they haue no wings and yet are they swift as the windes and ●…eadie to execute with all speed any thing they haue in charge from God He maketh his ministers spirits and his messengers a flame of fire They do their message faithfully and will haue no honor nor worship done to them as the euill angels but all to be done to God Re. 19. Iud. 13. 18. 19. 20. Their faithfulnes great seruice and sincere and constant obedience to God is notably commended by the Prophets where hee saith Praise the Lord yee his Angels that excell in strength that doo his commaundement in obeying the voice of his word Where note first they praise God in their seruice 2. They are of wonderfull streng●…h to

request not that the Lorde did not heare from the beginning but now in the ende he feeleth an answere in his soule that God hath granted his desire As Psal. 69. The Lord hath heard my petition 66. 18. 19. God hath heard me and considered the v●…yce of my prayer Where note two things if we desire to be heard first that we haue a feeling of our wants as here in troubles 2. That we cry mightily and continue God in the end wil heare vs as he did Dauid in the end alwayes and after much crying I will be with him in troubles This is the 2. promise Some man will thinke this no special promise for that God is both by his essence infinit filling heauen and earth by his prouidence watchfull present and carefull ouer all and euery one of the creatures in heauen and earth And yet further is hee not with his beloued children alwayes in a more speciall manner by his spirite of sanctification and comfort effectuallie also working by the ●…ath and resurrection of Iesus Christ to make them new creatures All this is true both of the generall prouidence of God and of his speciall working and grace in the Saints But yet they are not alwayes alike comforted For the Lorde doth otherwhiles more graciously shew himselfe at one time then another For may not the King to those of his housholde more louingly shew his countenance at one time then another and frowne at other times vpon them and yet they bee his seruants So is it with Christ and his members The righteous soules of the faithfull sometimes eate and drinke and feast with Christ yet at other times they cry much they aske many watchmen for him and seeke him with much sweating before they can find him And that the Lord Iesus doth more familiarly shew his face and communicate his graces vnto his Saintes in troubles and in their grieuances the experience of Gods people in al ages can testifie and this we haue before partly vouched Dauid cryeth Hide not away thy face from me for I am in trouble and they cryed to the Lord in their trouble and hee deliuered th●… out of their distresse O that men would therfore prayse the Lord. Master Philpot sayth to Lady Vane Belieue me dear Lady there is no such ioy in the world as the people of Christ haue vnder the crosse These holy ones haue often many desertions and yet in the midst of their agonies Christ will suddenly shine foorth as bright as the Sun after a cloudie blacke tempest as in Maister Glouers storie appeares and many others And this blessed presence wee speake of make so many of Gods people so constantly and so cheerefully to offer vp themselues a liuing sacrifice to bee rosted and tormented with fire in smithfield and many other parts of the world 6. Question What wonderful communion there is between Christ and his holy members best knowen to his people in afflictions Cant. 2. 16. My welbeloued is mine and I am his verse 15. I will bee with him in trouble FIrst let vs here consider in what manner the holy Scripture speaketh of this great communion and fellowship between Christ his members Thus Iohn writeth of it first in his Epistle That I say which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you that ye may haue fellowship with vs and that our fellowship also may bee with the father and his sonne Iesus Christ. Againe in his Gospel most comfortably on this manner I pray not for these alone but for thē also which shall beleeue in me through their word that they all may bee one as thou O Father art in mee and I in thee euen that they all may be one in vs that the world may beleeue that thou hast sent me and the glorie that thou gauest mee I haue giuen them that they may be one as wee are one I in them and they in me that they may bee made perfect in one and that the world may know that thou hast sent mee and hast loued them as thou hast loued mee And the Apostle speaketh of this communion when hee saith Tempt your selues whether you be in the faith do ye not know that Iesus Christ is in you except ye be refu●…es Because this blessed vnion communion and fellowship is spirituall and misticall the holy Scriptures do striue to helpe our weaknesse to conceiue rightly the trueth of it by sundry Metaphors and borowed speeches as Iohn in the sweet parable of the vine and vine branches in which place the whole comparison if we make supply out of other places standeth vpon sundry most familiar similitudes as to expresse the singular loue and care of God ouer his people and the effectuall power of the Ministerie of his holy word wo●… in them so to instruct vs of the VI separ b●… vnion betweene Christ and his holy members 1. The heauenly Father is compared to the husband-man 2. The ministers vnto the husbandmans laborers 3. The people and the Church of God vnto the vineyard or husbandry 4. Christ and his members vnto the vine and vine branch 5. The spirituall vnion li●…e and growth of the faithfull in Christ vnto the naturall coniunction life and growth of the naturall vine and her branches 6. Lastly as the husbandman on earth loueth careth for and purgeth his vine with his handes and instruments his corne fieldes c. so the heauenly father loueth and purgeth his Church and his people by his Spirit word and sacraments c. And like as wise Princes commit their sonnes to the custodie and instruction of wise and faithfull men so the heauenly Father commendeth the education of his children to his holy labourers and by their Ministrie hee prepareth such on eaith as he purposeth to aduance to the kingdome of his glory to be fellow heires with Iesus Christ in heauen Againe all that heauenly and most sweet parable the song of Salomon tendeth principally to expresse this inspeakeable communion comparing it often vnto the holy vnion which is betweene man and wife in that mariage which is in the Lord and so doth the Apostle and concludeth ●…that wee are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones 3 And this firme coniunction which 〈◊〉 in this mysticall body is againe notably ●…id before vs by the similitude of the naturall body and the essentiall parts of the same 1. Cor. 12. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Thus when we see by these few places how the holy spirit doth demonstrate vnto vs a most certaine and reall coniunction and communion betwixt Christ and all the faithfull heere on earth And yet heere is no corporall commixtion of our soules with his or any coniunction of natures neither is this a bare consent of mindes onely but an inspeakeable coniunction is 〈◊〉 by meanes of the words of re●…ation without and the holy spirit of Christ within working effectually almightie in power to knit together