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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Prince and blessed Progenie the only remaine of our religious hope Nor hath the Lord yet failed vs in his prouidence but his mercie towards vs is stretched out stil fortie foure yeares wee enioyed a peerelesse Prince and a Maiden Queene as was her name so was her nature ordained of GOD to giue vs his peace for so is Elizabeth euen Gods rest But when her glasse was runne and done she must to demurre with death Then I say euen then if the Lord had failed vs in the right of succession we might haue said as Beâ—seba did to Dauid in the like extremitie If thou Lord doe not appoint a successor I and my sonne Solomon shall be reputed vile I say if any Romish Adonias had succeeded Elizabeth all the Protestants in the Land ere this had beene reputed vile but thou Lord God of the spirits of all flesh hast not failed vs but appointed a man ouer the congregation to lead vs out and in that the congregation of the Lord shoulde not bee as sheepe which haue no shepheard And as Moses praied for Iosua so doe we for thine annointed O giue him of thy glorie that all the congregation of the children of Israell may obey And so to come and close with the rest I ayme at hauing passed by the Lords prouidence so many Iordens of dangers and hauing enioyed so many merciful refreshings like the sweet running waters of Shiloas that goe softly by Sion hauing I say bene made blessed by so many deliuerances of old and now by this of new the greatest of all endangered by men but deliuered by God now let vs ioyntly giue him the glory who hath made vs so glorious by deliuerance Dread Soueraigne deare Queene sweet Prince and progenie cast downe your Crownes at the feete of your Sauiour and say Wee haue beene saued by thee Earles Nobles and Barons lay by your Robes of estate with your ensignes of honour praise him who hath preserued you and say We haue beene saued by thee You officers in Court resigne vp your staues into the handes of God and say We haue beene supported by thee Ye learned Bishops and Fathers of the Church slide from your Consistories and say to the great Bishop of your soules Wee haue beene kept by thee Ye Knights Squiers and Gentry of the Land vnarme your selues and with your Crests lay your Lawrell in the lappe of Christ and say Wee haue conquered through thee Thou high Court of Parliament dissolue for a time and say O Angell of the great Counsell we will consult with thee And lastly Thou Lord God of Gods and preseruer of men let there bee silence in heauen for the space of halfe an houre till these Saints praises and praiers be offered vp So shall wee sing with a godly Ouation and a grace in our hearts Kings of the earth and all people Princes al Iudges of the world yong men and maides olde men and babes praise the name of the Lord for his name onely is excellent and his praise aboue heauen and earth hee hath exalted the horne of his people his Saints shall praise him euen the children of England whom he loueth and hath made so glorious by deliuerance Praise the Lord O virgin daughter London Praise thy God O England the glorie of Kingdomes and beauty of all Europes honor for he hath made fast the barres of thy gates and hath blessed thy children within thee hee hath set peace in thy borders and satisfied thee with the flower of wheat Let the praise of God therefore bee euer in thy mouth and a sharpe two edged sword in thy hands to be auenged of the Heathenish Atheist and to rebuke the bloudie Papist such honor haue al Saints And now to speake to you Authors and Abettors of these desperate Treasons Cease your Rebellions lay by your bloudie designes recount with your selues your former both faithlesse and fruitlesse attemptes against the Lord and against his annointed Reckon with your selues your former losses in the yeere 1588. wheÌ„ the windes the Seas Rocks and Shelues fought for vs when the Riuer Kishon swept them away from our English Coast to Dingie Cush in Ireland with a Beesome of such destruction to their great Armadae and frighting to our English Fugitiues abroad of their fauorites at home as by the grace of God hath brought them out of all heart out of all abilitie and possibilitie euer to atteÌ„pt the like Learne what it is to fight with GOD Wee must increase you must decrease for Babilon is fallen so told you by the Angel as a thing already past and done and doubled in speech like Pharaos dreame to tell you of the certaintie and expedition thereof Cease O cease to prouoke the Lord any longer and ende your mallice against his Saints ere malice end you lest hee say vnto you as he did vnto Mount Seir Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred and hast put the Israell of God to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie when their iniquitie had an end Therefore as I liue saith the Lord God I will prepare thee vnto bloud and bloud shall pursue thee except thou hate bloud euen bloud shall pursue thee God is witnesse before whom I stand in the sight of men Angels that I speake not this to seeke the bloud of any their bloud bee vppon themselues and theirs till they haue dried it vp by vnfained repentance I wish the conuersion of all viis modis by all good meanes I wish our Lawes may still be written in milke and that his Maiesties Royall heart may continue a depth of rare mercie I wish our preaching may sauour peace and that the Magistrate may still strike with a trembling hand Yet giue me leaue to pray withall that the rage of the enemy neuer grow so sower as to turne our milke into bloud mercy into iudgement peace into war sythes into swords and them to be hallowed in the bloud one of another which I feare both must will ensue if they grow so great in the contempt of God so grieuous to their Soueraigne and so intollerable to the State which if they doe then be wise O ye Kings be learned ye that be iudges of the earth Let mercy and truth meet together in you Let righteousnes and peace kisse each orher Take the sword into your owne hands and strike O ye Worthies of Israell for Zeba and Zalmana will neuer be killed by the weake hands of Iethro for as the man is so is his strength The Minister may speake the inferior Magistrate may strike and both with a trembling heart and hand like the child Iethro but assure your selues that Romish Zeba and Popish Zalmana will neuer die till you rise vp and with your owne hands fall vpon them as Gedeon did for as the man is so is his strength Sit in vobis materna pietas

â§ TO THE Right worshipfull Sir PETER LEIGH Knight grace be multiplied in this life and happinesse in the world to come AS Hanna dedicated her Samuel a Nazarite to her God at Shilo so am I bold at your intreaty to separate this mine Anna a Prophetesse to the Lord at Ierusalem and do pray ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ may passe vnder the shelter of your worshipfull protection The Saint is but homely arrayed and not for these curious daies wherein wee liue and in which the Son though clad with glory yet cannot runne it course but with censure either of too high a pitch and then it burneth or of too lowe a being and so it heateth not Atheists Papists and Libertynes will censure my plainnesse both in matter of faith and fact I looke for no other but to feele their piercing eye and venomous tooth yet if I escape in some measure the sorrow of my Sauiour sighing and saying Thus was I wounded in the house of my friends I make lesse reckoning of those that are without Haply the Title of the booke may seeme strange and from the subiect therein handled but if you thinke vpon the Ladder Iacob saw in the way to Padan-aram whose first step was on earth and last step in heauen you will finde that none can attaine perfection aboue but first his feete must stand in the Lords presence belowe It was Anna her holy haunt she frequented the Church here that she might come to blessednesse there we may not leap out of our mothers wombe into our fathers ioy but wee must goe by staires from the Temple of grace to the Tower of glory In the meane time this is yours and so am I in all duty and deuotion obliged by many your respectiue fauours to me and mine from you and yours Nor doe I hope you will conceiue the length breadth and depth of the loue I beare you can euer bee contained within the circle of these fewe lines Epistles and papers may point at more loue then they can expresse but the heart is the closet that keepeth all how euer these papers speake And so I leaue you with my very good Lady your wife and all yours to the mercifull protection of the Almightie From London this 14. of December 1608. Your Worships euer in my loue W. LEIGH To my louing Countrymen but especially to the Parishioners of Standish in Lancashire MY deere brethren beloued and longed for these twenty yeares haue I wrastled with God as Iacob did in Bethel in teares and prayers to gaine a blessing to my selfe in the saluation of your soules and with what fruit he knoweth best who knoweth all as a father I haue trauailed in birth againe and againe that Christ might be formed or at least confirmed in you Many a Sabboth haue we sanctified with a double solemnity of prayer praise and prophesie Many a moneth haue we celebrated the Lords Table with the blessed memory of his death and passion Many a time as a Nurse haue I wiped and wrapped vp your stains and many a careful night haue I told in mourning after your defectioÌ„s And for any wrong I euer did you heere I am beare record with me before the Lord before his anoynted whose Oxe haue I taken or whom haue I impleaded God will witnesse with me before whom I stand in the sight of men and Angels that I neuer sought yours but you that you might be moulded for a better life and that Christ might be formed in you Yet may I say in some sort as it is in the Prophet This day is a day of tribulation and rebuke for the children are come to the birth and there is no strength to bring forth I speake not of all for many of you hath the Lord chosen and you are my hope my ioy and reioycing in the presence of our Lord Iesus Christ at his comming but of many I may say I feare left I haue bestowed vpon them labour in vaine While some with Reuben abide among the sheepfolds to heare the bleatings of the flocke they are couetous Some with Gilead abide beyond â—orden in the greene fields and medowes of their delights and they are carelesse Some with Dan remaine in ships and are gone beyonde the seas they dote vpon their Romish Idols and they are faithlesse Some with Meroz sit at home in the cels of their superstition and they are resolute recusants who will not come to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mightie Well I say no more but this These diuisions of Tribes are great thoughts of heart yet may we not bee heartlesse but hold on our course with vnwearied diligence hoping that if we sowe in teares we shall reape in ioy as did they of whom it is sayd by the Psalmist Ibant flebant mittentes sua semina They went weeping and carried precious seede but they shall returne with ioy and bring their sheaues A glayning of which sheaffe formerly fallen into your eares but now I feare forgotten and gone out of your hearts I haue thought good againe to present vnto your carefull and christian viewe for it grieueth me not to rehearse the same things often and for you it is expedient Asaphs song was melodious though Israel soÌ„g it ofteÌ„ the Arks marching about Iericho seuen times was no shame in the siege sacking of Iericho As it is an office of the holy Ghost to leade vs into all truth so is it to bring all things to our remembrance which haue been told vs seldome told often forgotten and who is sufficient for these things You are nailes of the Sanctuary and it is not one stroke can fasten you to your hold but you must be often riuited with the same heart hand and hammer I hope to see you in the high feast of Christ his Natiuity towards yet for that I know not how the Lord may dispose of me and of mine occasions abrode I haue sent you this first step towards heauen as an exercise for the time It was Anna her holy haunt looking and longing for Israels coÌ„solation I pray God you may trace it on earth as she then did so shall you be sure to treade it in heauen as she now doth My good worshipfull friend required it I may not deny it your soules need it I may not withdraw it Take it then as a pledge of my deerest loue euer in my praier with you euer in my practise for you And now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout so as both in soule spirit and body you may be kept blamelesse vnto the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ faithfull is he which calleth you which will also do it Brethren pray for vs and the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all Amen From London this 14. of December 1608. Yours in the Lord assured W. LEIGH ANNA HER HOLY HAVNT LVK. 2. 36 ANd there was a Prophetesse one Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of

Asher which was of a great age after she had liued with an husband seuen yeares from her virginity 37 And she was widow about fourescore and foure yeares and went not out of the Temple but serued God with fastings and prayers night and day 38 She then comming at the same instant vpon them confessed likewise the Lord and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Hierusalem 39. And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord they returned into Galile to their owne city Nazareth AMbrose saith well Morale est vt qui fidem exigunt fidem astruant It standeth with all congruity that such should publish faith as languish after faith of which number I hold this Anna to be produced of the holy Ghost in this text as a worthy witnesse of Christ his blessed birth and incarnation and so to be preached in the high feast of this his solemnity In whom I obserue three things of speciall note for the practise and imitation of all such as loue the Lord Christ and his profession First the description of her person full of modestie Secondly the practise of her life full of pietie And lastly the profession and publishing of her Christ full of verity And with this threefold cable of modesty pietie and veritie is she haled vp to heauen and hauing powred this pretious balme vpon the head of Christ on earth why may not this Gospell be preached throughout all the world as a memoriall of her that she did it to bury him in her dearest thoughts And first for the person ye see here a woman described in your sight not wanton in her lookes garish in her apparell with painted face curled haire or naked brests prepared for the Theater of men but graue in countenance modest in behauiour and garnished with all religious vertues within fit for the temple of God Such saints are seemely to speak to the praise of our Sauiour to professe his name to witnesse his truth to swaddle the babe and to sing his Lullaby as this day in solace of their saued soules and full solemnity of his blessed birth and incarnation And now that a woman doth witnesse see the mercifull prouidence of our God who would haue the comming of his Christ to be declared by all sorts of people and sexe that all might be inexcuseable who did not beleeue him and all might be cleared who did professe him He took testimnoie froÌ„ the pure nature of Angels who sung to his praise Glory be to God on hie and in earth peace c. He took testimony froÌ„ the cleer nature of the heauens which shined to his praise when he said Vidimus stellam eius in oriente We haue seene his starre in the East Simple shepheards witnessed this truth when as it is in the text All that heard them wondred at those things which were told them of the shepheards Old Simeon lapped him in his armes and layd him in his heart with this profession of his praise Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word I haue seene enough I haue my loue I haue loued enough I haue my life Aged Anna here an holy widow confessed likewise the Lord and spake of him to all that looked for redemption in Ierusalem Yea Iohn in the wombe springing and children in Rama crying coÌ„fessed Christ in their death ere they could speake of him in their life Finally Christ would be professed both of men women virgins wiues and widowes of old men and babes yong men and maids of holy Patriarches inspired Prophets renowned kings that all states and both sexes might exspect redemption by grace from which they were fallen by transgression Whereunto accorded Ambrose when hee sayd Prophetauerat Symeon prophetauerat copulata conâ—ugio prophetauerat virgo debuit etiam vidua prophetare nequa aut professio deesset aut sexus Simeon prophecied the maried wife prophecied a virgin prophecied yea and a widow must prophecie too lest Christ might seeme wanting to either sexe or to any profession And it is further to be obserued for the credit of the cause in hand that none must witnesse their Christ or publish his praise but such as liued to loue him according to that I haue beleeued therefore I haue spoken Abraham was glad to see my daye saith Christ and therefore he spake of him Moses longed after him that should come and therfore he sayd Mitte quem missurus es Dauid sighed after him and therefore he said I will not go into the tabernacle of mine house nor into my bed nor will I giue mine eyes sleepe or rest to the temples of my head vntill I find out the place that is appointed for my Lord the tabernacle of the mighty God of â—acob Now the mystery being reuealed vnto him he said presently Behold we haue heard it at Ephrata which is Bethleem and found it in the wood and we will enter into his tabernacle and worship before his footestoole Esay ioyed at the birth and therefore he spake of him said A child is borne and a sonne is giuen Ieremy of Anathoth in the land of Beniamin was full of the newes and therefore he spake and testified thus Behold I will create a new thing vpon the earth A virgin shall inuiron a man So was Ezechiel by the riuer Kebar and Daniel by the bankes of Vlay both Captiues in Babylon yet full of spirituall deliuerance by Christ and therefore they testified much of his blessed birth death and resurrection with full deliuerance of all the faithfull in and through the Messias What should I say more Simeon longed Anna expected Mary sighed Elizabeth languished after Israels consolation all liued to loue their Christ and for that were chosen to publish his praise and witnesse the truth of his blessed Natiuity The vse of the doctrine in respect of vs is this that if men will be Prophets to professe Christ and women with Anna wil be prophetesses to confesse the Lord to speake of him to all that looke for redemption in Israel they must both beleeue the Lord loue the Lord and liue in him Else will the Lord say as he did to the wicked Why takest thou my word in thy mouth and thou thy selfe hatest to be reformed Or else as he did to the damned diuell when he called him the holy one of God yet the Lord rebuked him saying Hold thy peace and come out of him as and if he should say Tush diuell though thou tell the truth yet will I not be witnessed oâ— by thee Like that of Paul to the Pythonesse when he was grieued to heare Satan witnesse of God his saints saluation Where you see that each mouth is not for all meate nor all apparell for euery backe each lambe is not for the sacrifice nor all trees are for the fabricke of the temple Christ will not

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