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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

Vintner that keepes a better cup of wine for his owne tooth then that he drawes out to his customers they are so farre from being moved with our doctrine which they see crossed and contradicted by our doings that in their hearts ever somtimes with their tongues they bid us Physitians * Luke 4.13 Cure our selves and then they will follow our prescripts otherwise they wil neither be phlebotomized by such Quacksalvers nor be dyeted by such Empericks And indeed to looke more curiously into the point is it likely that we should draw others unro good when our selves are so bad is he probable to be a good steward to another that never knew how to thrive himselfe nemo dat quod non habet can he beare others on his back as Aeneas his father x Apud Virg. AEneid Anchises out of the Trojan flames that like Mephiboshe●h y 2. Sam. 9.3 or Asa is lame or z 1. King 15. gowtie himselfe can he guide others amongst Cole-pitts or Lime-pitts that 's blinde himselfe can he in whose affections there 's death to any good and in whose life dissolution kindle in others devotion can a dead coale kindle greene wood can any light his candle at a stinking candles snuffe that hath onely like hell fire heate without a See Master Green-woods tormenting Tophet but chiefly B Bilson of Christs descension into Hell in folio alledging the Fathers and scholemen cōcerning hell fire light stinke to offend no light to delight can one drinke pleasingly at a puddle can one bring that which is cleane from that which is uncleane can the poore people gather the b Math. 7.15 figges of nourishing edification or the pressed grapes of right application from the thornes and thistles of an unholy and vaine conversation or not rather the grapes of Sodome the gall of c Deut. 32.32 Gomorrah such unsavorie rotten d Ier. 24.2 figges as will surfet the soule and such sower grapes as will set the teeth on edge Therefore to conclude this point these premisses considered let all us whom God hath fixed in higher orbes move regularly that we may have a sweete and gracious influence upon these inferiours that our perswasions joyned with our practise may fall as the first and latter e Deut. 32.2 raine upon the tender hearbes yea as the dew of Hermon upon the fruitefull Vallie Oh we know that masters worke goes best forward which saith not onely to his servants Doe yee for so his trust and credulitie way bee abused but Doe wee such and such a businesse that sets his owne hand to the worke The wals of Ierusalem are like to bee reedified and their decayed houses rebuilt by the remainder of the captivitie when there is such a superintendent as f Nehem. 7. vers 1.2.3.4.5 Nehemiah and when the Princes and Peeres and Elders contribute so largely and * vers 70 71. liberally as here in this Chapter in Davids time the worke is likely to go forward so when the great Architects the maine master builders in the Church Common-wealth and familie set to their hands and hearts to the building of Gods spirituall Temple to the setting forward of Gods plough to the planting of Religion supplanting of profanesse and superstition then are wee likely to have many spirituall Temples erected Dagon and Baal dejected then may wee hope to see as in the dayes of David and Salomon a flourishing Church and weale-publike then may wee hope for Ioviall and Saturnall times a golden age not an age for gold Halcyon dayes expect a happie harvest of peace mixt with grace when we have such seeds-men When there is such light in the eyes the whole body is like to be g Math. 6 2● inlightned yea this triple bodie Oeconomicall Polliticall Ecclesiasticall inlightened inliv'ned chiefly we in the ministerie when our lights shine before men This tends to the glorie of the Father h Math. 5.16 of lights this shewes others the way out of the darkenesse of Poperie and profanesse Oh our light of holy life and learning like the piller of fire in the i Exod. 40.38 wildernesse leades many out of the desarts of Zin of sin to their celestiall Canaan as an adjunct to the light of Grace taking light from the word of k Verbum praedicatum light or that word l Verbum incarnatum Iohn 1. v. 1. Christ who is the m vers 4. light as the Moone from the n Haurit lucem a sole ut spongia aquam Melichius in lib. 2. ca. 9. Plinij ergo ab Arist. libr. 4. de gen anim c. 10. alter Sol dictus Sunne as the Starre did the Easterne o Math 2 10 11. Magi wee lead many to Christ Oh when such a man as Moses and Aaron goe p Exod 13 18 19. before what Israelite will not follow after and come cheerefully out of the Aegyptian bondage of sinne and the power of the spirituall Pharaoh the Devill to the constant resolved service of the true God in the wildernesse of the world When the generall is a Lion it will put valour into the Souldiers though but Harts and Hares The name of a Scipio or Cesar doth Romanize and Masculine the most effeminate spirit Oh when such an Angell or q Revel 2.1 3.1 Scarre is fixt in a setled Ministerie of whom the hearts of Gods people can give such testimonie as Saint Luke doth of r Act 11 24 Barnabas Paul of ſ Tit. 1 4. Titus and t 2. Tim 1 5 Timothy Augustine and Chrysostome of u De landibus Pauli hom Paul Possidonius of w In vita Augustini Augustine Basill of x In orat funebri Nazianzen Beza of y In vita Calvini Calvin Melancthon of Luther the Church of Geneva of Beza Virell Faius and Farrell Zunch of Zuinglius Tygare of Gualter many Churches and Common-wealths of that zealous Zanchy learned Peter Martyr solid Bullinger acute Bucer with other laureat z As that deep Whitakers learned Raynolds zealous Perkins eloquent Humfrey quicke Fulke melifluous Playfere holy Greenham deering Dent painefull Willet c. cum multis alijs English Germaine and Belgicke lights shining in illumination of knowledge and sanctification of life Such a man such a Phoenix such a messenger one of a Iob. 33.23 a thousand shall declare unto man his righteousnesse binde up the broken b Esay 61 v 1. hearted speake a word in due season to him that is wearie turne the hearts of the Fathers to the Children as was said of Iohn c Luke 1 v 17. Baptist Where such a one is his verie fame as an oyntment powred d Cant ch 1 2. out gives a sweete perfume drawes hearers to him as the Adamant Iron as the Caecian windes the e Plin. lib. 2. ca. 43. Aulus Gellius ex Arist noct Attic. lib. 2. cap. 22. clouds yea as Orpheus his

that true aqua vitae the waters of life the promises of grace made to the i Esay 55.1 Matth. 5.6 thirstie It s more mercie as the object is more excellent to comfort a sicke soule as Christ did sorrowing k Ioh. 21 15 16 Peter weeping l Luke 7.50 Mary Magdalen Paul the penitent m 2. Cor. 2.6 7. Corinthian Ananiaes humbled n Acts 9.17 Paul Peter the heart-pricked o Act. 2.37 38. Iewes Paul and Silas the affrighted and afflicted p Act. 16.30 31 Iaylor then to helpe and heale a sicke bodie Seventhly pray for all men 1. chiefly for Kings and q 1. Tim. 2.2 Rulers as the Iewes did for the Princes of Chaldea in their captivitie Ier. 20. the primitive Christians for the Emperours 2. for Ministers and Preachers as the Churches of Colossia Thessalonica Rome Corinth r Rom 15. ●0 Coloss 4.3 1. Thess 5.25 2. Thess 3.1 others did for Paul 3. for thy wife children as Zachary for his ſ Luke 1.13 Elizabeth Isaac for his t Gen. 25.21 Rebeccha Abraham for his u Gen. 17.18 18.23 Ismael David for his sick * 2. Sam. 12.16 childe 4. for thy houshold servants as the Cēturion for his Matth 8.5 and Abraham for his x Gen. 24. Steward for thy enemies and persecutors as Stephen for those that stoned a Acts 7.60 him Christ for those that crucified b Luke 23.3 him Samuel for those that rejected c 1. Sam. 12.19 him Moses for d Exod. 8. so for rebelling Israel Numb 16 22. for Miriam Numb 12.13 Pharaoh that opposed and hated him lastly for all men even Iewes Turkes and Pagans except for those that sinne unto e 1. Iohn 5.16 death as did Iudas f See D. Deuisons Sermon of the sin against the holy Ghost Iulian and the wilfull malicious * Marke 3.28 Pharisees yea for our enemies as is a Matth. 5.44 Luke 6.28 Rom. 12.14 1. Pet. 3.9 commanded and hath beene g Gen. 20.17 Num. 16.22 21.8 1. Reg. 13.6 Psal 109.4 Ier. 11.13 19. 1. Cor. 4.12 Exemplo Mosis Davidi● Ieremiae Pauli c. practised Lastly you must submit your selves even to performe these dueties morall and politicall that are prescribed you Masters to servants servants to masters Husbands to wives wives to husbands Parents to children children to parents Magistrates to subjects subjects to magistrates paying scott and lott taxes and subsidies homage and honour tribute to whom tribute belongeth All which because they are very manie and numerous in their particulars I referre you to such as have generally intreated of them onely in all these speciall and specificall duties I enjoine your submissive obedience this day As Davids people yeelded themselves to one so doe you to one and every one of them To day if you will heare the Lords voyce harden not your hearts as in the h Heb. 3.15 provocation Be not clay lest you be crusht asunder but melting waxe taking the seale and impression of grace draw like silver threeds in the furnace bow your neckes to God take on you the yoake of i Matth. 11.29 Christ that is easie and his burthen which is light which wee as his mouth and messengers impose upon you If you consent and obey you that are here planted shall eate the good things of the k Esay 1.19 land but if you refuse rebell you shall be devoured by the sword or famine or other plagues for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it you shall be spewed out and disgorged as the * Iudg. 1. 2. c. Cananites and wiped as a man wipeth a dish turning it topsi-turvie upside downe I set life and death before you this day chuse life l Deut. 30.19 chuse whether you will be Oakes stubbornly resisting God and his ordinances in the Magistracie and Ministrie as did the m Ier. 3.15 18.12 1. Sam. 8.19 Iewes or Reedes bowing bending flexible docible obedient to whatever the Lord in and by us shall enjoyne you as this people were here unto David Knowing that the despising and resisting of us is the despising yea despiting of God n Luke 10.16 1. Thess 4.8 himselfe as the contempt of Ezekiahs o 2. Chr. 30.10 Posts and of Davids Embassadors were p 2. Sam. 10.6 revenged as the contempt of these two Kings SECT IV. Obedience Civill Ecclesiasticall Theologicall the life and soule of Religion OH let us know that as disobedience is as the sinne of witchcraft yea plaine treason and rebellion against the q 1. Sam. 15.25 Lord so obedience is the very life and genius and soule of Religion 1. If a weeping eye did speake a man religious then r Heb. 12.16 Esau Israel at her worst had teares at ſ Deut. 1.43 44. command like the t Vincentius ex Physiologo nat hist. ii 17. c. 606. Crocodile or u De Astuia Hyena lachrymantu lege Arist lib. 8. c. 5. Vincent lib. 19. c. 61. Aelian l. 6. c. 13. Hyena even when bloodshed and fratricide was hatched in the heart of the one and flat rebellion purposed in the heart practised by the hand of the other 2. If a hearing eare did speake and proclaime a religious man we have Herod hearing * Mark 6.20.28 Iohn yet beheaded Iohn hearing him as a Saint living still in his lust as a beast butchering the Baptist as a Divell we have the Scribes the Pharisees Iohns auditors yet a generation of x Matth. 3.9 Vipers 3. If a confessing tongue did alwayes demonstrate a religious heart we have Cain bellowing out his y Gen. 3.13 murther Iudas roaring out his own treason z Matt. 27.3 in the languishing anguish of their soules Saul himselfe with much adoe bleating out I have a 1. Sam. 15.23.24 sinned yet the first branded for a b 1 Ioh. 3.12 Reprobate c Gen. 4 12. Runnagate the second for the sonne of d Ioh. 17 12. 6.70 perdition the third for a man ejected rejected of e 1. Sam. 15.26 28. God vexed by f 1. Sam. 16.14 Sathan in all probabilitie as certainly damned as Salomon was g De salute Saelonionis l●gatur Soto maior praef in Cantic Lorinus in Eccl. c. 1. allegantes Patres argumenta producentes saved though some Scepticques question both the one and the h Praecipue Bellarm. confut á Zanchio de preservatione Sanctorum nostrum Will●tt in fine Synopsis Papismi other as if they would finde a knot in a * 2. Sam. 7.13 Bul-rush 4. If praying did alwayes prognosticate piety we have the Pharisee i Luke 18.10 prayers preying upon the poor under pretext of Fasting and prayer devouring widdowes houses we have the worst of the Iewes like evening Wolves in their extremities howling upon their bedds yea the proudest Pharisee that ever shewed to the Lord all

Philo the Philosopher for pulling one of her young ones out of a pit that she would not leave him till she had safely convayed him out of the woods from the danger of other p Bruson lib. 1. exemp pag. 54. in 4to beastes Was a Dragon so thankefull to Thoas a boy who had brought him up at home and and fed him that afterwards this feeder falling into the hands of theeves in a desert the Dragon knowing his voice with winged speed rescues and delivers him Was an Eagle so loving to a virgin at Sestos that at her buriall shee threw her selfe with her into the funerall q Idem ibidem flames as a Robbin-red-breast as wee call him would needes flly into the grave of one Hopkinson the clearke of Hutherfield in the West of Yorke-shire as there be yet living witnesses who in his life had used him to his hand and fed him in the Church with r It was credibly related to me by my worthy and worshipfull friend Sr. J.R. at my last sojourning at Longly bread Was even an Aspe so thankfull for the good entertaynment shee had being fed at the Table of a certaine Egyptian that one of her young ones ungratefully stinging to death a Childe of her hosts shee was so just and respectfull that killing that young murtherer shee layd it dead before them at the Table was never after she nor hers seene more to haunt the ſ Apud Bruson ibidem house Are t Haec omniae his maiora non solum Soli. c. 43. Plin. libr. 10. c. 23. Sed Basil memorat de Cicorijs in exem ho. 8 applicans parentibus filijs Storkes so thankfull that to the shame and confusion of unnaturall Children they feede their aged parents when they are unfeathered and unplumed which things the Crowes likewise are said to doe yea cover them brooke them and keepe them warme with their own feathers in the stormes and coldes and as tradition is as good Emblemes both of gratefull guests and just tythers doe they in requitall of their house-roome throw one young one out of their nest as their hosts part to the Germaine Bower in whose house they u Mirae etiam de gratitudine huius avis erga benefactores Aelia lib. 8. cap. 21. builde Yea have even Wolves whether naturally or supernaturally I dispute not beene found so respective and indulgent to humane nature that if w Tom 2. meuse Aprili Surius be not unsure and x Guagnin libr. 10. Gregor Turon histor Fran● lib. 2. c. ●4 Guagin deserve no gagg for fabling even young children as they instance in some have beene suckled with their milke fed with flesh and restored againe to their own mother in their wolvish courtesie Nay from beastes and birdes to come to fishes that I may speake nothing traditionarily or legendarily of that thankefull Ape who when hee could nothing else skips up into Trees and knaps downe boughs to the speedy loading of a poore old man who lived by selling of wood in requitall of his pulling one of her cockered young out of the pit Even Dolphins have beene so enamoured on boyes that have fed them with bread that at the call of Sinion in which name Pliny saith they delight they have come to the shoare and in gratefull sport as sea horses as once that y Arionis fabulam memorat Olaus Magnus lib. 20. cap. 12. Sic Albertus anim cap. 24. cum multis alijs Dolphin did musicall Arion they have swim with them into the Sea brought them backe againe to land one of them above the rest drowning his over burthening burthen in a suddaine storme in revenge of himselfe layes and dyes on the shoare would never more returne to the Sea againe as a Animal libr. 9 cap. 48. Aristotle Albertus b Animal cap. 24. in Delphinis Magnus c Parte prima colloq 9. pag. 325 Theophrastus d Libr. 9. histor cap. 8. Simon Maiolus e Pliny the elder and Pliny the younger Instance in manie particulars at Hyppo Puteolum Tarentum Naupactum and other places where such pageants were playd Oh? have beastes beene thus gratefull to men even the irrationall creatures by an instinct of Dame nature and shall man indued with reason and understanding above the brutes the very Sunne irradiating his Microcosme and little world be so destitute both of grace and good nature as we say as to be unthankefull to well deserving men but chiefly to the all meriting mercie of God Yea I say more as beastes have beene gratefully respective to man so have men shewed a kinde of gratitude to beasts as Alexander though heathenishly bestowed buriall on his dead f Plin. libr. 8. cap. 8. Bucephalus as a Masse priest did once on his dogge as is g The french Stephens in his Apologie for Herodotus called as translated the world of wonders related yea lamented his death as Crassus did the death of his h M●crob lib. 3 cap. 15. Murena as I have seene some and heard of moe that have fed their old horses and eldest dogges even Mastives Greyhounds Spaniels setting dogges Hounds Braches Beagles when they have beene spent and done as old Almanacke● past date yea of some that have bequeathed not onely their rationall but irrationall old servitors legacies pensions and portions to keepe them even after their old masters deaths for the good service which they have done Some being of a better mould then to cast of their old friends and favorits as Bawdes Panders and Whores doe prodigals when they have spungd and suckt them dry as a man casts of his cloake after raine and the spaniels shake of the waters on the shoare when they have no more use of them and have served their needes turnes and ends by them and with them Like a man that cares not for the best dish of meate when as a helluoh he hath glutted himselfe with it no some mens respect is as the i ●yome virescit nascitur in marirubro Plin. libr. 13. cap. 25. lawrell greene even in Winter shrinkes not like some ill wrought westerne cloath in wetting but is more to them that have once well deserved more at the last then at the first Now shall there be such mutuall gratitude from beastes to men from men to beastes as we have heard and shall not man be thankfull to man for benefits received and all every one thankfull to God from whom as all blessings flow so all kinde of reciprocall blessings backe againe are as due and deserved as exacted and injoyned Oh shall man be like the horse mule without u Psalm 32.9 understanding nay worse so dull so dead hearted so stupid so blockish that hee hath no shew no demonstration no expression of thankefulnesse to God eyther vocall reall or cordiall as is seene in too many Miriades millions of men Which unlesse Swinish drunkenesse So domitish uncleanesse Esaus

thine own m Iude v. 13. shame and thy soules n Exod. 20 7. Psalm 25.3 Zach. 5.3 destruction Time may come that rather then thou shouldest blaspheme God with it as thou hast done in the least particular thou wouldst bite it off more freely then the hunted Beaver his o Apud Plinium stones thou wouldst spit it out of thy mouth as once a primitive Martyr upon an p Apud Osiandrum in Epitom Centuriatorum occasion spit his in the face of a Tyrant Yea thou wouldst suffer it to have more tortures here then that rich churles in q Luke 16.24 hell to be sod in bloud as Tomiris did the tongue head of r Apud Iustinum historicum Cyrus to be prickt through and through with Needles as ſ Vxor Anthon● inimica Ciceroni vt olim Eudoxia Chrysostomo Herodias Iohanni Iezabell Eliae Fulvia did Tullies tongue rather then it should pricke and stabb and torture the humanitie of thy once painefully crucified now glorified Saviour Nay with that good Hilarion were the choyce offered thee thou wouldest rather die the death againe and againe then once to blaspheme that God who hath beene so good so gracious and so propicious unto thee What shall I say more what stone shall I further roule what string shall I touch what arguments shall I further use to plant this blessed grace of blessing to supplant this accursed plant of the Devils owne planting in the ground of thy corruption of blaspheming the God of heaven which is so usuall in the mouthes of all sexes and sortes of men women and children from the heads to the tayle of our people to the shame of u Read Master Downam in his foure Treatises against this abhominable swearing sect 8 9. 10. 11. 12. c. pag. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. c. As also M. Phillip Knew-stubs his Abuses of England a Sermon of little M. Gibbins on this Text The land mournes because of Oaths Christianitie the just scandall to the Gentiles who more respect their feined Iupiter and Hercules then wee our Christ as the stumbling blocke before the Iewes who by our little respect of our Christ and by Popish Idolatrie which they daily see for which their forefathers so smarted are kept mainly from being Christians Oh that I may still harpe on this tongue string till it be in tune inure thy selfe to blesse God thou wilst by dissuetude then cease to blaspheme him learne to speake the language of Canaan thou wilst forget the language of Ashdod even as the children that are Spanish or of the Natives here our Irish if once they live amongst the English and are Anglified they forget for want of use their owne tongue as Pharaohs daughter forgot her fathers house and w Psal 45 10. people Oh as one nayle drives out another one passion drives out another one burning heats out another according to some surgery so the fire of the spirit were it once in thee would eate out all that hellish fire that Ignis fatuus in thy tongue all that filthy and stincking matter that foames out at thy mouth as froath from a Boare as the sulphurious smell from Aetna or Vesuvius which steames and stinckes in the nosthrils of God and all good men as the stirring of Aiax or the raking of a buried carrion all this I say would be washed rensed and clensed as were once the uncircumcised Corinthians in their wordes and workes from this filthy and putrified matter as sore mouthes are washt by Allum and Sage by the waters which flow from the sanctuarie the healing waters of the word and x 1. Cor. 6. vers 10.11 spirit CHAP. X. To blesse God the onely way and meanes to be blessed of God AS Abraham said in another case to y Gen. 18. v. 32 God I say to man let me speake once more so have I done my motives to this Gratitude so prest and urg'd ayming my conclusion with some diss●vasives further against ingratitude this all positively I have to say in this point that by this blessing of God as did David and his Israelites in my Text for matter and manner thou takest the best way the most compendious course Gods owne prescribed method to blesse thy selfe to procure blessings to thy selfe and thy seede to perpetuate and intayle as did z Ge. 12.2 cha 15. vers 18. Abraham a Gen. 17.19 Isaac and Iacob even blessings to thy posteritie walking in thy holy wayes and steps even as wicked men cursed spirits propagate as some doe their frenzies their leprosies and hereditarie diseases corporeall this dangerous and damnable disease spirituall of lincked chayned curses even to their seede bloud families sympathizing with their cursed sinnes and accursing judgements Oh the blessed interest and happie usurie of blessing God! it brings blessings redoubled multiplied by Gods Arithmeticke upon our selves even as he that in the best imployment of his preaching tallēt in Divinitie or teaching tallent in Humanitie reading Arts Authors to others gets and gaines by Gods blessing more knowledge to b Qui docet indocto● c. Ipse brevi reliquis doctior esse queat Et scire tuum nihil est te scire hoc sciat alter himselfe both Theologicall and Morall by causing others to c Habenti dabitur Math. 25.29 know and as he that with d Iob. 29.15.16 17. Iob as a good Steward in the right dispensing of the unrighteous Mamon makes the backes and bellies of the poore to blesse him causeth also God to blesse him in the increase of his store as the Harvest to that seede that 's cast upon the e Eccles 11. v. 1 waters as the f 2. King 4.7 oyle and the g 1. King 17 16 meale of the two poore widdowes were multiplied that were so respective to the two good i Elisha Elias Prophets as Abedmelech the Ethyopian saved his owne life by saving Ieremies k Ier. 39.15.16.17 life as a rich man even in pietie and Christian pollicie increaseth his stocke of money when conscionably without any usurious contract or l It 's the compact this pactū this covenant to gaine how ever the other lose a certaine summe which makes the usury and that which bites too See D. Fentons Treatise on usurie compact of biting interest securing onely the principall he sets up or helpes the trafficke of honest and conscionable poore tradesmen participating in equitie some of their gaine as God gives a blessing to their getting thus in helping them not hindering but helping himselfe doing good to himselfe as experience hath shewed when he does good to others so in the fittest application according to my first proposition a man by blessing of God blesseth also himselfe by a necessarie consequence even as he that lookes upon the Sunne by the light sees light even as is veryfied in all histories which are the hostages of speach

if comparisons were not odious I would say as faire as any of those wee call reformed in France Helvetia Bohemia Saxony Denmarke c. or any other in x See the book extant in octavo of the Confessions of the reformed churches Belgia yea I except not Geneva and we may put in for the armour of Aiax with Amsterdam it selfe Secondly as in the Church of the Iewes multitudes and millions of carnall Israelites yea the whole generalitie except some few whom the Lord reserved as a few names in y Revel 3.4 Sardis a few cornes in chaffe as some few of Elias his z 1. King 19.18 Rom. 11.4 spirit amongst Baalites broke and infringed this covenant of God by apostaticall revolting and backe-sliding as the Lord expostulates with them by his Angell sent from a Iudg. 2. vers 1.2.3.4 Gilgall by Samuell in b 1. Sam. 7.56 1. Sam. 12.6.7.8.9.10 Mizpeth and by all the Prophets after the death of Moses and c Iudg. 2. vers 8.9.10 Ioshuah and those Elders of Israell who saw the miracles in Egypt the wildernesse and the redd Sea forgetting the d See Psal 78● throughout Lord that bought them and brought them into that good land flowing with milke and hony So hath not the God of Israell as just a quarrell and controversie with the commonaltie and generalitie of our Nations for breaking our covenant in Baptisme by which we were as strictly obliged to his service and worship to faith and obedience as ever they by their Circumcision For were ever any Nation more perfidious or fedifragous one to another the Carthaginians to the Romanes the e Cretenses semper mendaces Titus 1.12 Cretians f Creta fides Grecians or worst dissemblers yea even the very g See their perfidiousnesse in Knols his Turkish historie Turkes to Christians then Christians unto God How many miriades and millions at this day to goe no further to former times by their pledges and sureties their God-fathers as they are called or fathers for God in the publicke Congregations in the presence of God men and Angels calling heaven and earth to record have promised and protested to forsake the flesh the world and the Devill to serve and worship the true Iehovah when they were initiated matriculated as it were into the Church by Baptisme admitted into Christs Colledge the number and ranke of Christians as souldiers sworne to their Generall who yet have hardly kept their covenant so well as Regulus with the g Apud Plutarchum Carthaginians and other Pagans even in things morall For if I may in briefe lance and cut and discover the ulcers diseases of the times How many as yet even serve the verie Devill as really as once that S. Christopher fictitiously in the Popish fable How many wicked Pseudochristians by their lives testifie that as the Scripture cals such as they the h Iohn 8.44 1. Iohn 3.8 sonnes the i Rom. 6.16 1. Iohn 3.8 servants and the k 1. Tim. 6.10 2. Tim. 2.26 slaves of Sathan so they are at his command and obeysance as the servant of l Gen. 24.10 Abraham and m Act. 10.7 Cornelius yea of that other n Math. 8.9 Centurion to their earthly Masters He bids them goe and they goe doe this and they doe it lye steale murther sweare blaspheme they are obsequious their spirits and natures as Tynder and powder take presently the fire of everie temptation 1. He rules them as the rider the horse he rules over them as a Tyrant in an usurped Kingdome they obey him as the Iewes that Idumean Herod Yea he rules in them inthronized in their hearts as once in the treacherous heart of o Iohn 13.27 Iudas the hypocriticall heart of p Act. 5.3.4 Ananias the envious hearts of the q Math. 9.34 Marke 3.22 Luke 11.15 Pharisees at the least he takes totall possession of their whole man by his deputies and Lieutenants some one or moe deare darling sinnes ruling and raigning in them yea he doth not onely set them a worke as he did Iudas in betraying the Iewes in crucifying Christ but he even speakes in their hearts athistically in their mouths blasphemously as once in the bodie of some r Ex Imo ventre vox prodit secundum Originem lib. 7. contra Celsum Chrys in 1. Corin. 10. Et exinde damonem Pythonem ventricosum vocat Origenes libr. 3. Peryarch cap. 3. ventriloquū Tertull. contra Maro c. 25. aut infra cutem da●on se ostentat per pectus loqui videtur qualem Celius Rhodiginus se vidisse memorat Ant. Lect. lib. 8. cap. 10 Pythonists and within that Serpent which he used as he useth Serpents Foxes and Vipers still in every countrie Citie and almost Village as the organ and accursed instrument of mans seduction intended destruction So the world for all our covenant and obligation to forsake it how many swarmes of earth-wormes carnalists and coveteous Phylargurists have wee not onely ever rooting in the earth as Moales Swine without ever an eye to looke upwards but as trunckes and Trees even rooted and eradicated in the earth turnd all into earth even lumps of earth as ſ Suetonius in vita Caligulae Caligula was called a lumpe of clay and bloud conjealed being all for earth even for white and red t Gold Silver dust which per fas nefas by hooke or crooke right or wrong Lionly force or Foxely fraude they scrape and rake together as greedie Harpyes or snatching Eagles their desired prayes all being fish that comes to the net though it breake the Net or like the Eagles coale in the u Apud Aesopum fable set all on fire though they gaine by their ill-gotten goods as Achan by his stolne w Ioshuah 7.1.21.25 wedge as Iudas by his Saviour selling x Math. 27.3.4 5. silver as that Mydas like our coveteous Alchumistes since by his bad y What he toucht turnd into Gold ant mentinutur Poeta Alchumy by which they and all such in all ages have z Infunditur aurum à Mithridate ere Aquilij ducis Romani Plinius hist. 33. c. 3. perished as if all that 's ill got were Tholouse a Per aurum Tholosanum periere Q. Cepio Consull M. Crassus cum multis alijs Aul. Gel. noct attic c. 9 Gold carried on Sejanus his b Equus Scianus omnibus possessoribus infanstus videlicet Scio Cascio c. Gellius ibid. Horse for a sumpter horse So for the flesh and fleshly lusts how many are given over to all voluptuousnesse lovers of pleasures more then lovers of c 2. Tim. 3.4 God serving diverse lustes and d Tit. 3. v. 3. pleasures as if they were yet in their naturall estate fleshly minded men walking after the e Rom. 8.2 flesh savouring the things of the f Rom. 8.5 flesh as the dogge savours carrion verie

delusions to believe m 2. Thes 2.9 lyes persecuting after the death of Christ the n Act. 5.18 chap. 7.58 Apostles chiefly Saint o Act. 9 23. cha 14.2 Paul throughout the Acts that preached the true Christ unto them with such virulencie that putting away the Gospell from them and judging themselves unworthy of eternall life Act. 13.46 their golden Candlesticke was removed their vineyeard let out to other husbandmen The halt and blind and lame wee sinners of the Gentiles were called in to that marriage feast of mercie by that Gospell which they p Math. 22.8.9.10 refused But when I consider againe as consequent upon the former Gods judgements upon their very bodies and outward man upon them and their seede and posteritie in all ages since the death of Christ and in all places where they are as the dust dispersed that curse and fearefull execration his bloud be upon us and our children so fully q Math. 27.25 verified that hee that reades their Tragedies by r Iosep de bell Iudaico antiq Iosephus and ſ Iosippus Heb. Iosippus both Englished in our tongue writ as it seemes not with inke but bloud and prosecuted since by Eusebius Nicephorus Dion Nicetus Caesar Baronius Ioseph Scalliger Peter Galatinus Damianus a Goes Iohn Renclin our Master Foxe in his Martyrologie and many moe Authenticke Authors that in all times since have observed Gods heavie hand upon them and his strict proceedings with them in all countries where they are scattered if he have not a heart of flint or marble hewen out of Caucasus hee cannot but relent But more particularly when I ponder and seriously consider those infinite slaughters and massacres that were made of them by Titus Vespasian after that by divine Oracle the Christians were warned to flie to t Euseb hist eccles lib. 3. cap. 5. Pella as Lot out of Sodom the Magi and Ioseph out of Iudea as first eleven hundred thousand of them perishing in the sacking of their Citie Secondly the rest eyther killing themselves or being sold for u Ioseph de bello Iud. reckons of slaves 97000. l. 7. cap. 17. Petrus Gal. de arcanis l. 4. ca. 21. recensit 200000. accounting all as slaves under 17 yeares slaves or after the Romane custome reserved for triumph Thirdly besides the murther of their Priests the ruination of their Temple like the wals of w Iosh 6.26 Iericho never to be reedified though attempted by cursed x Hist Tripart Greg. Nazia orat 4 in Julio Iulian in despight of Christs prophesie for which they had a Sect and Order of y Ioseph Scalig. Elench trihar ser cap. 13. Mourners Heraclitus his off-spring which solemnely did nothing else but weepe and lament it Fourthly and besides the spoyling of their sacred vessels or profanely as once before z Dan. 5.2 3 etc Balthazar imploying them to the adorning of the heathenish Temple of peace Fiftly besides the slaughters that at severall times Adrian the Emperour made of a Ioseph de bello Iud. lib. 7. cap. 24. them some eight and fortie yeares after their first overture by Vespasian for their rebellion under their impostor Benchochab or Barcosba cutting off by Severus his Lieutenant 580000. by the b Dion Nicei Adrianus sword besides those that perished by famine sickenesse and fire or as others number them killing at Alexandria in Egypt 700000. of them in such multitudes that if we may beleeve their owne c Lib. Echa rabbethi writers the bloud reached to the horses mouths and runne downe from the place of effusion foure miles to the Sea it coloured and made swell two d Lib. Massechith Ghittin Rivers yea served the Heathens seven yeares after to fatten their ground with it as their bones stood Adrian in good stead to hedge in a Vineyeard of manie miles compasse those that revived being prohibited from ever comming neere Ierusalem or looking towards it saith e Euseb Eccles hist libr. 4. cap. 6. Eusebius out of Ariston Pelleus with manie other f Plurima vide apud Niceph. lib. 3. cap. 24. punishments and vexations together with the wondrous massacres the Emperour Trajan made of thē Adrians predecessor who for their rebellions in g Egypt and Cyrene under their Captaine Luke or Andrew as Dion cals h him by the meanes of Martius Tubo cut off many thousands of them but moe by Lucius Quietus that made them ever quiet who destroyed them utterly in Mesopotamia And more when I consider how every way miserable they are at this day in their inward and their outward man their bodies and their soules how they are a mocke and derision to all Nations as they mockt and derided Christ how they have beene sold for slaves yea thirtie of them for one peece as they bought Christ of the traytor Iudas for thirty peeces how they are held under as slaves in every Nation without Vrim without Thummim without Temple or true Priesthood Ministerie or Magistracie Office place or Government as made the tayle and not the head where ere they come their names smelling as a fowmart or Foxe the name of a Iew being as odious as the name of a i At zante they are so hated that from Mōday Thursday till Saturday noone they come not abroad least the people stone them Purchase libr. 2. cap. 10. Iudas everie place in Europe Affricke and Asia being wearie of them excepting k They have built them in Rome five Synagogues See the Relation of Religion in the West partes Rome that makes use of their tollerated usurie as of their Stewes and curtizans meerely for gaines how everie countrie after a time hath eyther held their nose to the grindstone miserably afflicting them as they were used here in England in the dayes King Richard the first Edward the first and King Iohn as our Chronicles mention or extreamely pilling and polling them by taxes l Iohn the second king of Portingall made thē pay 8. Crownes for a poll Emmanuel did the like Ann. Dom. 1497. with manie moe impositions and confiscations of goods as they pill and poll Christians by their biting yea bloudie usurie fleeting them as the Turke useth to doe with his Bashawes and phlebotomizing their full purses to prevent a plurisie or else banishing them and casting them out as the Sea casts her froth to the shore as they were used by the three Phil●pps but chiefly by Ferdinand and Isabella in m Anno Dom 1592. it's thought they were banished 120000. families of them or 420000 persons as are computed by Io●annes Re●clinus Cabal lib. 1. Spaine by some Popes also in n As Paul the fourth Pius or impious the fift though received againe as loth to forgoe such good customers by Pius the fourth and Si●ius the fift Rome by some of our Kings in England or else massacring them with the sword or stoning them to death by the rage of the people

chiefly as some histories instance for their sanguinolent devilish malignant disposition in using to crucifie some children as upon our good friday still in derision of our Messias when I see how all nations are weary of thē as a tender stomack of unholsom meate ready to disgorge thē how as th'Apostle speaks of thē even to this day God they please not and are contrarie to all men 1. Thes 2 15. How as is said of o Gen. 16. v. 12. Ismael like Ismalits rather then Israelits their hand is against every man everie mans against thē how even the Turkes detest thē above any nation for killing their own Prophet Christ the best Prophet they say that ever was excepting Mahomet will not admit any amongst them except he first turne Christian and then a Turkish Renegado In their reproach also using a kinde of imprecation if this be not true would God I might die a p M. Purchase in his pilgrimage Iew as our perverse Irish use a worse when I doe such or such a thing I le turne Protestant and goe to Church I say laying to heart and desiring all and everie of us to lay to heart these premisses this strict and severe though just and legall proceeding of God with these his owne people in these specified particulars together with his multiplied accumulated renued mercies to us in giving us so many blessings forgiving or forbearing us still after all our rebellions and provocations by which even wee racke and stretch his patience as cloath on the tentor hookes not cutting us off as hee might doe and hath done them roote bough and branch but giving us a large space of repentance as hee did to q All the time that ●o● lived amongst them Sodom to the old r All the time the Arke was in building world to ſ Revel 2.19 Iezabell not fortie dayes as to t Ionas 3. Ninive but fortie yeares in the pure and powerfull preaching of the Gospell under a gracious Deborah and more then twentie yeares added since under so wise and worthie a King all this while manuring and managing and pruning us as once his Israelitish u Esay 5. vers 1.2 3.4.5 Vineyeard hedging us in and invironing us with so many mercies of adornation and preservation as would stretch Arithmeticke to number them and Geometrie to measure them making us as famous over the whole world as they are infamous us as much feared as was Ioshuah of the Cananites Alexander of the Indians Taubut of the French w A Drumme was made of his skin to terrifie his enemies when hee was dead teste ●ran●zio in Vādalia libr. 11. cap. 9. Maiol colloq 7. pag. 270 Et Akiat● in Emblem sic c●te detracta Ziseas c. Zoenus potuit vincere Pontifices Zisca of the Popish amongst the Bohemians Constantine amongst the Pagans and Bellisarius and Narses amongst the Gothes and Vandals yea as much loved and admired of our friendes and confederates and awefully feared of our enemies as they all are of all hated and detested with an Anathema Maranatha till the vayle be removed that they love and receive yea beleeve in the Lords Christ their expected Saviour Yea when I consider how the Lord by the word preached by the inward motions and suggestions of his spirit which sometimes in some flashes knockes at the doore of the heart of a x Numb 23.10 Balaam a carnall y Ioh. 6.34 Iohn 7.46 Iew a z Iohn 4.15 Samaritane a a Pilate Math. 27.23.24 Iohn 18.38 Heathen an b Act. 26.28 Agrippa by crosses by afflictions which wrought on c 2. Chron. 33.10.11 Manasses and the Gospels d Luk. 15.16.17 prodigall yea sometimes on these Iewes e Hos●● 6. v. 1.2 themselves by fatherly castigations and corrections paternall admonitions and expostulations legall Cominations and redargutions Evangelicall promises and consolations yea even by mercies and judgements nay even by signes and wonders from the earth from the heavens from the ayre by Comets blazing starres visions and apparitions as often to these Iewes before their f See the book extant called Doome forewarning to judgement where at large is recited the voice commanmanding some to goe to Pella the crying of one Iesus woe woe to Ierusalem with manie visions and wonders destruction as prodigious and prognosticating as anie recorded by g Texter in Officina de Miraculis Textor or h Lycosthenes hath write a great booke onely de Prodigijs Lycosthenes How I say by all these the Lord hath lured us unto him laboured to weane us from our sinnes as the childe from the desired dugge that iniquitie bee not our i Ezek. 18.30 destruction as it was to these Iewes c. when I see hee hath rowled everie stone touched everie string used all meanes for our conversion to prevent our confusion chiefly drawne us with the cordes of love using to us the rod of beautie as our indulgent Shepheard to them the rod of bands making us above any Nation in the World patternes and presidents of his mercie as they of his justice to present times and to all posteritie making them exemplarie markes of justice to us not us to them as our sinnes deserved I say thus comparing mercies and judgements together as white with blacke as the Heathens Venus with Vulcan our mercies this day ballanced and poy●ed with their miseries have such a luster that if we see them not wee are blinde if with David and his people we blesse not the Lord for them wee are as much past grace as past gratitude CHAP. XIIII Speciall deliverances of our Princes Peeres and people from Romish Treasons THus have wee opened the Boxe and seene the pearles the blessings of great Brittaine comparing Nation with Nation our English with the Iewish Sion but to come neerer still to my scope and ayme and to instance in moe specialties the priviledges and prerogatives that wee have had even in our owne memories to omit former times equall with the Iewes in the happie and prosperous Regiments of our Kings and Governours may notably serve as a further pricke and goade to true gratitude so pressed and prescribed for in some particulars wee shall have the ballancing if not the casting scales I cannot enumerate all as hee that comes into a garden pluckes not everie flower but some choyce ones compare our late Deborah our mother in Israell Queene Elizabeth of famous memorie with their David our present Liege Soveraigne with their Salomon not onely in the propagation and continuation of true Religion together with the two goodly Daughters of so gracious a Mother Peace and k Religio peperit divitias ast filia devoravit matrē Plentie in which wee sympathize with them nay farre exceede them for as our times have not beene so turbulent so truculent so bloudie and boysterous as Davids that was a man of warre and shed much bloud as hee