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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

God if they serue him by halfes performe some things but not all according to the lawe of the Lord Halfe prayer halfe preaching halfe Sacrament halfe Saboath will serue their turne in their demi-deuotion but Ioseph and Mary performed all Secondly such as do performe a seruice but after their own fashion vsing for doctrines of the Lord mens traditions in a voluntary religion and will worship neuer taught from Horeb neuer enioyned of the Lord to whom I may say with the Prophet Who required these things at your hands Moses was faithfull from the gold to the goats haire our faithfulnesse is more in the haire then in the gold The vse of al is this by the example of Ioseph and Mary to ayme at perfection in all our actions with God who requireth thee to bee faithfull and neuer to breake off thy course till thou hast finished the race for what will it profite thee to begin at the Font and to breake off ere thou come to the Graue to begin in the spirit and to end in the flesh to haue ingresse in Christ and egresse in Anti-christ sacramentally to reteyne Christ by baptisme really to forsake faith by breaking the vow I say what wil it profit thee to shift from Sodome vpon the Lords commaund and to looke backe and lust after it ere thou come at Zoar Irridebunt te sane Daemones Diuels will deride thee as one saith say hic homo coepit edificare non potuit consummare He began to build but he could not finish Iobs constancy was no lesse if not of greater perfectnesse in the feare seruice of his God whē he said Chap. 27. vers 36. So long as my breath is in mee and the spirit of God within my nostrels my lippes surely shall speake no wickednesse and my tongue shall vtter no deceipt God forbid that I should iustifie you vntill I dye I will neuer take away mine innocency from my selfe Paule Paule thy contentions were many for the truth yet was thy constancy aboue all thy contentions when thou saydst with perfect faith and feeling 2. Tim. 4.7 I haue fought a good fight I haue finished my course I haue kept the faith The second thing clearing the humanity and incarnation of Christ is his persecution in this that they Returned into Galily to their owne city Nazareth Implying thereby that immediately after he was presented in the Temple and his mother was purified according to the law and hauing now recouered the strength shee had lost in her late labor wherby she became more able to vndergo the iourney Now must they to Aegypt ere they might returne into Galily to their owne City Nazareth This their flight foreseene of the Lord and foretold to Ioseph is set down at large by Matthew in the second chapter of his Gospell but omitted by Luke in this place To teach vs that it is vsual with the Euangelists oftē one to omit that which another hath some one to supply that which is wāting in the rest so as all in one and not any one for all doe make perfect the circle of Christ his line life death and doctrine So is the body of all the Scriptures soulelesse and imperfect if you stand vppon any one booke without the supply of all but liuely absolute and perfect in their ioynt and iust proportion like the vision of wings wheeles beasts mentioned in Ezechiel which neuer goe but as they are chained linked and locked together The vse then is this that if you wil vnderstand one Scripture you must examine it by another and if you will bee ignorant in none you must giue your diligence to the reading of all according to that of Christ Search the scriptures for in them ye thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me Not Scripture but Scriptures Some are of opinion to whom I assent not that Ioseph and Mary after they had performed the sacrifice of purgation returned to Bethlem that they might dwell there but it was not to be imagined that Ioseph had a dwelling place there where hee was so vnknowne that he could not finde a place to remain in as a guest And therefore I doe easily graunt that the iourney into Egypt was between these that is after the purification and presentation and before their returne backe to Nazareth So as that which Luke sayth of their dwelling again in their own City Nazareth was in order of time after their flight into Egypt which Matthew reporteth Chap. 2.19 c. Where if the story report aright Christ with his parents remained in exile full seuen yeares for so they calculate the time from Herode his slaughter of Innocents to the daies of Archelaus his sonne at what time Ioseph againe heard from the Angel of the Lord Arise and take the Babe and his mother and goe into the land of Israel for they are dead which sought the Babes life All to testifie that which was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet Out of Egypt haue I called my sonne A wonderful worke and prouidence of God that the Sauiour of Iudah should be cast out of Iuda and Egypt should nourish him Egypt I say euen Egypt from whence neuer any thing came before but euen that which was deadly to the Church of God If the Princes of Iuda will persecute Ieremy and cast him into the dungeon the Lord wil raise vp Ebedmeleck the Nigro to deliuer him out of that danger And true it is that the wise king saith If a mans wayes do please the Lord he will make his enemies at peace with him And it may be the Prophet meant this or the like prouidence of God towards our Sauior here and Saints else where when he saith The VVolfe shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall lye with the Kid and the Calfe and the Lyon and the fat beasts together and a little child shall leade them and the sucking child shall play vpon the hole of the Aspe and the weaned child shal put his hand vppon the Cockat●ice hole The Lord can play with poyson and tame the cruellest in his prouidence when he pleaseth to preserue either Saint or Sauiour If his prouidence be vpon the fire it burneth not if vppon the water it drowneth not if vppon the seas they swell not if vppon the windes they blow not if vppon the Lyons they deuoure not if vpon Egypt it persecuteth not if vpon the sonne it goeth not if vpon the graues they detaine not but deliuer vp their dead to the glory of their God according to that of Augustine Vbicunque fuerit prouidentia frustrātur vniuersa contraria Where the Lord hath his prouidence all crosse incounters are defeated But the vse is this though Egypt did preserue him yet Iudah did persecute him and soone it pricked that would be a thorne for if you search with care and sound with iudgement you

princely Pallace Westminster write vpon thy seats of Iustice and high Court of Parliament write vpon thy Vaults Cells and Sepulchers write vpon thy doores posts and passages Beer-lahai-roi and say Thou God lookest on mee Thou Emperiall seate of great Brittaine fragrant for thy flowers and for thy Coller of Mirtles twisted with the Roses of both houses dignified with the Diadem of Rubies wreathed with the armes and supporters of both kingdome I say thou great Brittaine famous as at the first for thy old name honorable now for thy new birth and euer blessed for thy happy and so desired an vnion whereby our former ruines are repaired streames of bloude are stopped old malice is worne out and deadly fude is forgotten for all which abundant great mercies as also for this thy late deliuerance write Ruhamah Ruhamah Mercy Mercy Write vpon thy Ports Holds and Castles Mercy Write vpon thy Towers Townes and Temples Mercy Write vpon thy fields waies and wastes Mercie Write vppon thy Corne Coine and Cattle Mercy Say the Lord hath had mercy vpon vs hee hath had pleasure in his people and hath made the meeke glorious by deliuerance For all which Mercies say God is my King of old the helpe that is done vpon the earth hee doth it himselfe Say with Eliphas Iob his friend but Great Brittains Prophet When others are cast downe then shalt thou say I am lifted vp and God shall saue the humble person for the innocent shall deliuer the Iland and it shall be preserued by the purenesse of thine hands Innocent King innocēt Queene innocent Prince Peere Prophet and people if not for fiftie sa●e yet for fortie If not for fortie yet for thirtie If not for thirtie yet for twentie If not for twenty yet for ten iust persons the Lord hath put by this terrible blow of these wicked Shebaes For should not the God of al the world do according to right Pleade thou our cause O Lord with them that striue with vs and fight thou against them that fight against vs Let them not say in their hearts There there so would we haue it neither let them say We haue deuoured them Which and if they had then might wee haue said with the prophet There is a crying in the streetes all our ioy is darkened the mirth of the world is gone away in the Cittie is left desolation the gate is striken with destruction Then might we haue sung with Dauid the mournfull Lamentation hee vttered of his King to his Country O noble Israell hee is slaine vpon thy high places how are thy mighty ouerthrowne Saul and Ionathan were louely in their liues and at their deaths they were not diuided Then might wee haue said that vpon the fift day of Nouember we should neuer haue kept merrie feast the day of the dissolution of so blessed an estate We might haue said indeede that this yeere 1605. had beene a yeere of Reuolution and that Tuesday were our dismall day Criticall in Scotland the fift of August for Cowry his treason and dismall in England the fift of Nouember for Faukes his designe plotted by bloudy Papists the bane of Christendome and Dolmans dogges now warranted by a new doctrine to barke at Kings and bite the Lords annointed if they be not pleasing to their deuotions And here a little pardon me in your patience if in further detestation of Popish Impietie I let you see a strained Paradox of that enormeous sect who to make good their foule fault of parricide for what are Kings but nursing fathers to the Church of GOD haue brought in a doctrine to maintaine that the Pope may depose subiects may depriue their kings both of life and liuelihood if they faile in faith or obedience to the Apostolike Sea as may appeare by Dolman Cymanca Rosseus and Feu-ardentius belowes aduanced to blow the fire of distempered spirits pointing at nothing more then woefull desolation if by distraction of parts and dissolution of the whole they might bring into Christian states confusion the mother of ruine and all mischiefe Surely if not to pray for a king be an vndoubted sinne it is a greater sinne to thinke vpon the killing of a King to commit the murther and doe the deede is double to that but to traduce and draw the lawfulnesse thereof into a doctrine thereby to poyson the posterity is a treble sinne and wel deserueth a double death But it is no wonder to see such workes flie abroad from Italienated spirits who haue filled the world with the froth and furie of their owne madnesse one is not ashamed to write a book in praise of Sodomy another to put out proiects and pictures of shameful villany and why not Dolman with the rest of his ranke and rabble Authoritate Apostolica to write books in praise of Parricide and that not of meane men but of Magistrates yea euen of Kings and of the Lords annointed But good Lord how long and what will be the title of their next treatise surely some Popish Pamphlet or other of mentall reseruation to maintaine a moderne mischiefe by a Popish paradox but we will leaue them to the lust of their extrauagant thoughts and still follow the streame of the Lords many goodnesses and mercies towards vs and as of the present so with some memorie of precedent mercies whereof we may say that if euer any people vnder heauen felt the royall presence the particular prouidence or stable promise of their GOD in familiar sort it is and hath beene this English Nation The time was when Tullie said of our pouerty to Trebatio In Britannia nihil esse audio neque auri neque argēti I heare there is nothing in great Brittaine either of gold or siluer but were Tullie now aliue to see how the Lord hath enriched this Nation with his hidden treasures and made it of more esteeme then those hills of robbing Rome he would cease to mocke at our pouerty and admire our plenty whose earth is an Eden and Clowdes drop downe fatnesse The time was when a Pagan Poet plaide vpon our barbaritie ioyned vs with Scythians put vs out of the world and said Britanni diuisi ab orbe but were he now aliue to see how God hath softned our hearts with the sweet rellish of his heauenly science Quae Emollit mores nec sinit esse feros he would cease to say Orbis in vrbe and thinke the whole world were within our continent The time was when all our garments were tumbled in bloud and as in Troys destruction so in ours bright burnings gaue vs light when diuers conquests sundry inuasions the Barons warres with the destruction of the houses of Yorke and Lancaster and many a foughten field betweene the two Kingdomes rent our state and wasted it with much fire and wofull hostilitie But now by the prouidence of almightie God our Riuers runne milke the houses with the Kingdome are both vnited in a peaceable