of the glorified Saints are eternally uncessantly imploied namely in standing about the Throne of the Lambe n Revel 5. v. 15 12.13.14 Eâ—ch 7. v. 9.10.11.12 Christ clothed with white robes Palmes in their hands as Emblemes of victorie over that triple Câ—rberus the flesh the world the Devill and crying with a loud voyce Salvation to our God which sits upon the throne and unto the Lambe Blessing and glory and wisedome and thankesgiving and honour and power and might be unto our God for ever and ever Amen This is the continuated voyce of the Saints of the Elders that serve God day and night in his Temple Thus they sing Haleluiah in heaven for the judgements upon the great Romish o Revel 19. v. 1.2.4 whore which hang over her head for avengment of the blood of so manie of Gods servants innocent Martyres which causelessely shee hath effused Thus they rejoyce too at the marriage of the Lambe and for the graces alreadie given to the Bride the Church chiefly the Iewels of the Gospell by which shee is daily fitting her selfe for the solemnization of her espousals in p Vide Bright-mannum nostrum in locum heaven This indeede is vita celitum vita coelestis the heavenly life their life in heaven who are ever standing before the Lambe yea according to the distinction of q Zanch. de sex operibus de Angelis Distinguit in ministrantes assistentes Zanchie and r Casmannus in sua Angelographia Casman this is the life too of these that are ministrantes ministring from God For as the Devils where ever they be whether limitted or confined to the earth or dispersed in the Ayre or in the fire or in the waters or in the Mines or cranneyes under the earth or in the Center of the earth or below the center as some thinke ther 's locall hell as most probable because most remote from heaven or confined to some climate some Province some Towne some Circuite of ground some mountaine some fountaine some Court some Pallace some chamber some Nunnery or Monastery where they have played reakes and Å¿ Instat Cardan in lib. 4. de parieâ— c. 176. Langius li. 1. epist. an 1539 Wier de prastig l. 4 ca. 9.10.11 pranckes yea or to the bodies of some men as once in the t Cald ventriloquisis by Text contra Marrion c. 25. by Chrys in 1. Cor. 12. by Oecumens in Act. 16. v. 16. because the devill spoke within their bellies as once in the Serpent Pythonists ordinary in the dayes of Christ and extraordinarie now where ever according as the learned discusse and determine these u As Delrius discus Magicar lib. Tyareus de locis infestis Wâ—er de praestig daemonuÌ„ Perer. de Magia Laur. Ananias de natur daemonuÌ„ cum alijs intricates he bee permanent or transient he carryes still his Hell about with him as murtherers traytors adulterers blasphemers his darling sons carry their petty Hels in the gnawings of their consciences So on the coÌ„trary the good Angels where ever they be whether in BethleÌ„s fields with the Shepheards or in Daniels w Dan. 6. v 22 den with Daniel or in the fiery furnace with Sydrach Misaach and x Dan. 3. v. 25. Abednego or in Sodom with y Gen. 19. v. 15. Lot or in the doore of the Tent with z Gen. 18.2.3 Abraham or whether with Manoah and his a Judg. 13.9 wife in the fields or with the Virgin Mary in her b Luk. 1.26.27 Closet or where ever else they ever carrie their heaven about with them they are still in heaven or heaven in them in respect of Gods c Luke 1. v. 19. presence which fils them as the Moone is filled with the light of the Sunne and in this fulnesse of joy which they have in from God they cannot but resonate and resound backe againe their prayses to God for even when these heavenly souldiers are on earth with Bethlems d Luk 2.13.14 Shepheards as if they had beene in these highest Emperyall heavens into which Paul was e 2 Cor. 12.2 rapt they sing Glory to God on high on earth peace and amongst men good will Now to act our parts as we pray in that best of f The Lords prayer preferred by Cyprian by Daneus de Orat Dominica by Alstedius in Theolog. Catech. prayers in respect of the Author matter manner and method Thy will be done in earth of us mortall men readily promptly g Math. 6.10 See Brimsley and lately M. Bernard in their plaine paraphrases upon the Lords prayer sincerly c. as it is in heaven of the immortall Angels so unlesse wee meane to prate and prattle rather then pray as did the h Math 6.7 heathens and our vulgar i â—n their Tantologies Battilogies Latin prayers Papists unlesse we will take Gods name in k Abuse of prayer by M. Perkins in his Golden chayne by Alsted Theol. Catech is made a maine breach of the third Command vaine and abuse this primary and principall part of Gods l Gen. 4.26 Vide Scultetum de praecatione pag. 4 5. c. worship unlesse wee will verba dare dally with deceive and delude the Almightie we must straine and studie desire and indeavour to practise as wee pray wee must blesse God on earth as the Angels doe in heaven we must not blaspheme on earth the God of heaven which the Angels doe not dare not cannot doe wee must prayse God not pinch God as the angry Curre may the stoutest Lion Wee must magnifie God as the Angels doe not martyr God murther God teare and crucifie over and over againe as Augustine alludes the glorified humanitie of Christ worse then the Iewes on the Crosse as hellish and profane spirits doe not sparing his wounds his bloud his heart his head nay not his feete his nayles and his guts as our roarers our rake-hels our rascalities and ragga-muffins doe such as in their practise have turnd just renegadoes Iulianists Oecebolians Apostaites worse then Turkes and Mahumetans forsaking Christ nay opposing Christ more fearefully then Witches and Conjurers Oh this is indeede to be like unto the Angels like unto the Gods as the Devill Iesuitically m The Devill first taught the doctrine of equivocation the Iesuite in it is not a scholler to Iesus non cuÌ„ Iesuitis qui itiâ— cum Iesuitis c. equivocated with Adam and n Gen. 3.5 Eritis sicut dâ— ludit deludit in hoc verbo dâ— id est eritis sicut Angeli dij dicti sicut daemones id est sicut mali angeli dij vel daemones dicti a scientia Eve But what Gods What Angels even Angels of darkenesse not Angels of light For surely to curse teare blaspheme God is the very life course practise of damned spirits the tortured ghosts of Devils and men reprobate Angels and reprobate men Cain Iudas Esau Saul
Ambrose David here and his people their holy hymnes gratulatorie prayses Iö Paeans as our plantations this day to the glory of the God of glorie the giver of all grace And sure if ever I saw heaven upon earth it is when a religious Pastor and a zealous people are assembled together in Gods house upon the Lords Sabaoths or a religious familie as a private or pettie Church hearing and preaching the word as in Pauls time continued the whole r Act 20 7 day expounding Scriptures as in Ezras Å¿ Neh 8.5.6 7 8 time in publicke prayers early in the morning as in Tertullians dayes and the Primitive t Pliny the Iunior testifies so much of them in epistle to Traian apologizing for Christians times in some places and Churches in our times singing of Psalmes as our Saviour with his Disciples at his last Supper Oh sure here is an Image indeed of heaven here is in some parts of Gods worship vita coelestis vita celitum the life of the Saints in earth and in heaven here is Bethell Gods owne w Gen. 35 7 house the place is holy x Exod 3 5 ground God himselfe here is present u Marke 14 26 walking in the middest of the y Revel 2.1 golden Candelstickes as he was with Sydrach Mysaach and z Dan. 3.24.25 Abelenago singing in the Babylonian flames and with these joyfull Saints Saunders a Apud Foxum in Mart. â—ilogiâ— Glâ—ver and others who rejoyced and triumphed in the middest of that Romish Babylonian flames in which the Martyres were tortured in Queene Maryes dayes here Christ himselfe is present and president too as hee was with his Disciples after his b Luke 24. Resurrection and Ascension in the dayes of c Act. 2.1.2.3 Pentecost according to his promise Whether there be naturall Musicke in nerves arteries and sinewes the simularie or dissimularie parts of the bodie of d Opinio Heripinli Medici Albereâ— Durerâ— Tyurdei l 2. Musices vide Tolosaeuum Syntax arâ—is Mirabilâ— l. 12 c. 8 pag 189 man or whether elementarie musicke in the elements as e In Tymeo in Platonem Marsil Ficinus Plato f In sonno Scip. Macrob. in Ciceronem lib 2. c. 1 Tully Matrobius thought or whether celestiall and heavenly musicke in the Spheares as Pyâ—hagoras first g Apud Athen. lib. 14. cap 14. imagined and to which manie learned men since in all ages have in some h Vt inter Philosophos Plat. li. 10. Reip. pa. 670. Macrob. lib. 2. de somn Scip. c. 3. p. 90. Plutarch de musica tom 2 pa. 707. Inter Poetas Aristoph in nubibus act 1. scan 3. pa 169. Virgil. Aeneid pag 167 Manilius l. 1. pa. 25. Iuter Theologes Anselm demundi magine ca. 24. tom 3. pag. 300. Beda de musica practicit tom 1. p. 417. Maâ—imus Tâ—ius serm 21. p. 256. ser 23. pag. 280. sense subscribed though by others contradicted others disputed others doubted these musicall controversies to me are not much materiall Here is that musicke which as David said of Goliahs sword 1) 1. Sam. 21.9 ther 's none like unto it Here is the musicke of musickes as Salomons Canticles are called the song of songs to which the Quier of heaven joynes with the Chorus of Saints in earth At this the Angels rejoyce 2) Luke 15 vers 10. as at tht conversion of sinners With this God himselfe is delighted his spirit ravished refreshed more then ever Alexander or any other was wrought upon by modulations of anie earthly man Where on the contrarie to make application to our owne times if ever I saw the verie image and picture of hell it is when a carelesse Emperick of Soules a doltish Sir Iohn-lack Latin a blinde Pholypheme a profane Esau one of Ieroboams priests 3) 1. King 12. vers 31. is placed over a people of Sodom 4) Isay 1. v. 10. as a Wolfe over goats whereupon Gods owne Saboths which should be consecrated as glorious daies to the Lord 5) Ier. 17.27 are perverted profaned rather to the service of Bacchus Priapus and Venus as once the heathenish Floralia Bacchanalia c. that the Devill should so rule and raigne in the popish or profane parish keepe such a rackett as the chiefe steward both with Pastor people that neyther barrell being better Hering in stead of preaching there should be pyping or idle prating playing as the Israelitish wantons once with the Moabitish women Numb 25. in stead of Devotion dauncing in stead of singing of Psalmes discharging of oathes like vollies of shott and roarings of Canons with full foole foule mouthes even in the very face of the Almightie Oh the difference betwixt Davids dayes and ours those Ioviall Saturnall golden dayes in which he lived and our Iron irefull times Davids people had they acted such publicke parts of Gods prayses in our dayes worshipped God so seriously so solemnely so sincerly now they had beene counted and called Puritans Precisians every mothers sonne of them many an i Gen. 21.9 Ismalite would have scoft them manie a k 2. Sam. 20.6 Micholl mockt them yea had but part of this Congregation assembled in the night as the persecuted Christians were sometimes occasioned for their securitie and the Disciples after Christs l Acts 12. v. 12 Ascension had there beene any religious m Chiefly a Damosell Rhoda as Act. 12.13 Shee would be counted called too an â—â—rodias women amongst them though Mary Magdalens Salomees or Susanas they should all have beene taxed and traduced to have beene of the Family of love or lust Adamits or Anabaptists they had beene censured everie one their devotions had been turned on the tipp of malignant tongues into promiscuous daunces they had escaped no better then the Primitive Christians or then the sincerest in those dayes at least they had beene counted more precife then wise more hypocriticall then holy thus publicke to prayse and worship God which they might have done well enough in private without this Heraulding and Trumpetting Gods prayse and in his their owne perhaps they had not escaped the imputations which Festus gave unto m Acts 26.24 Paul and n 2. King 9.11 Iehues consort Captaines to the annoynting Prophets even of mad men SECT VIII Davids times and ours further ballanced inrespect of multitudes then Religious now Irreligious THus David and his people were as in a plurifie or burning feaver of zeale carried up as o 2. King 2.11 Elias as in a fiery Chariot we are now in a cold palsie frozen as Esops snake yea as p De frigiditate Salamandri Discorides lib. 2. c. 5. Galenus de Temper lib. 3. cap. 4. Et Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 21. cap. 4. Salamanders not to be heated extinguishing all sparkes and fires that are put in us by good motions from God or put to us by good motives from man
profanesse Iewish usury Cannibal-like crueltie execrable and horrible blasphemies against emulatitions against all that have any shew of religion with other transgressions perpetrated and resolvedly committed against God and man be thankefulnesse all which indeede with the like shew and speake an unthankefull tongue heart and life as the Ivy bush shewes the Taverne the blew spots the plague biles and carbuncles and ploukes in the bodie and face the inward infection of the Liver and the smoake and sulphur the inward brimstonely matter that 's in Etna in Pliny choaking w De Vesuvio Solinus cap. 40. de eo nihil Plinius praesaga forsan mente iude sibi exitium futurum de modo mortis Lege in epistola Plinij Iunioris ad Cornel. Tacitum hostoricum Vesuvius and the like c. I say unlesse this may stand for thankefulnesse as if counterfeit coyne shall stand for pay there 's no further glimpses and sparks of further thankefulnesse in our promiscuous multitudes though we see here the inflamed zealous fires of David and his Congregation CHAP. VII Gratitude to God for all his graces pressed from the practise of all the Saints in the Church Militant THus as Salomon sends the sluggard to the Aunt or a Proverb 16. v. 6. Pismire to learne b De cuius prudentia diligeÌ„tia tam Mira vide apud Plin. libr. 2. cap. 41. lib. 11. cap. 30. Arist libr. 9. cap. 38. Basilium in exem homil 9. providence and diligence to the Connyes the Locusts the Spider to learne wisedome c Prov. 10. vers 25.26.27.28 prudence to the Lion the Greyhound and the hoc Goate for constancie and d Ch. 30. v. 31. courage as Ieremie sends the Iewes to the Almanacke of the Storkes The Turtles and the Swallowes to learne the circumspect observation of times and e Ierem. 8. v. 7. seasons as Christ himselfe our Saviour sends his disciples and in them us to the f Math. 10. v. 16 Dove to learne simplicitie to the Serpent to learne not matchavillian but religious g De mira serpentis solertia pracipuè in capitis custodia in pollis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vide Plevius Plinium libr 8. cap. 27. Aristot. lib. 8. cap. 17. August de Civitat Dei libr. 8. cap. 15. Et Theologice applicant idem Augustin serm 4. ad frat in Eremo Chrysost hom 34. in Matth. tom 2. pollicie So I have according to my Tallent sent this ungratefull age according to my ministeriall mission and commission from God as to the Pagans so even to Birdes Beasts Fishes and Fowle to learne that gratitude to God for all his graces which as I have prescribed David and his people here in my Text piously publikly much more privately practised Now the effecting of this grace being that which purposely premeditatingly projectingly I doe affect that I may roule every h Omnem movere lapidem stone touch every string attempt every meanes use every motive to bring our English-Irish Israel paralell with Davids Israell changing my forme of speech modulating now in another Tune and Tone I desire that every man that desires to have an Israels heart to be a true Israelited i Iohn 1.47 Nathaniel indeede to consider that if the practise of the worst of men the Pagans the worst of beastes too yea the worst of animate creatures except the very Devils and infernall spirits shame not his ingratitude yet that hee would be lured and allured by the imitation vertuous emulation of the best that are or ever were of created natures eyther in earth or in heaven to the performance of this tributary taske which God imposeth upon every soule that hath the organes and instruments of reason rightly k For God requires no praise of fooles naturals mad-men young infants such as have yet no use of reason nor may be admitted to the Eucharisticall Supper fitted even to prayse his great and glorious Name as David and these Davidicans did here as they will answere the contrary to their perill at the great day of audit and great Court of Parliament before the King of Kings And herein first to begin on earth and then by a Theologicall Climax or gradation to ascend up as high as heaven let us looke to the Saints militant here on earth and wee shall see a cloud of witnesses like the cloud and the piller of fire going before Israell to l Exod 40.38 Canaan as the new created starre or the Angell moving in the starre or in forme of a starre going before the Easterne Magi as their conduct and convoy unto m De hà c stella ut de Magis ipsis multa dispâ— at Bosquerus in eccho conom in locit Math. 2 1.2.3 Christ preceeding going before in this never to much pressed till practised dutie inviting inciting us to insist in their steps Repetens ab origine prime to begin as they say from the beginning wee have n Genes 4. v. 4. Abel in true gratitude to God surpassing ungratefull Cain as the Sunne exceeds the pitchy cloud sacrificing the best of his Lambes the first fruites the chiefe and choyse of his o SacruÌ„ pingue dabâ— noÌ„ macruÌ„ sa â—rificabo Sphinx Philosophica Theologica flocke as a free-will offring for a blessing upon the rest though I know too it have a speciall p See Moses unvailed in octavo extant reference to the oblation of Christ the true Paschall q Iohn 1. v. 29. Lambe so Genes 24. vers 17. wee have Abrahams servant blessing the Lord for his mercies to his master Abraham and for making his journey prosperous vers 26.27 so Genes 32. vers 10. wee have Iacob acknowledging himselfe unworthy of the least of the Lords mercies which hee specifically specially enumerates So in token of gratitude for renued mercies as an everlasting testimonie to them and their seede for ever in all succeeding generations how much they poyzed and prized as Courtiers from their King the least mercies and favours from God and to oblige them and theirs in an eternall indissoluble bond of obedience Abraham Isaac Iacob and the rest the best of the Patriarkes where ever they came built Altars set up stones and pillers to the honour of the Name of the r Sir Abraham Gen. 11.8 Gen. 22.14 Isaac Ge. 26. v. 25. Gen. 28 17. Iacob Gen. 31.13 v. 53. Gen. 35.1 v. 7. Lord as the Egyptian Kings in their Å¿ Mela de his li. 1. c. 5. Strabo lib. 16. praecipué Pli. l. 36. c. 12. describit deridet ut vanas etiosaâ— Pyramides Nabuchadnezzar in his t Dan. 4. v. 30. Babel the Nymrodians in their u Gen. 11.1.2 Tower Absalon in his w 2. Sam. 18.18 piller Cyrus in his sumptuous x De hac demo non meminit Pli. ut observat Aldus in Indicae ad Plin. naturalem histor describunt tamen alij
recreation as the Spaniell the waters for our turnes and times for a time for meere necessitie and conveniencie not giving it our hearts nor affections shaking it of when we have done with it for h Seeking only quae ad victâ—â— cultumque necessaria Cicero meate drinke and clothes and imbracing in the inwards of our soules more pure spirituall contentive and satisfactorie delights and desires Oh be as much as thou canst in the mount of spirituall speculation rather then in the vallie of externall actions rather in the lightsome i Gen. 46.34 Exod. 10. ver 23 Goshen with Gods Israell then in the darkesome Egypt with the uncircumcised rather suffer affliction as Moses with Gods k Heb. 11.24.25 people then injoy the pleasures of sinne for a season rather desire with David to be a doore keeper in Gods house then to live in the Tents of Kedar as Lot in l Genes 19. 2. Pet. 2.7 Sodom Ezekiah amongst m Ezek. 2. ver 6 Scorpions rather fast with Gods children the mourners in Sion as Esther with her n Esther 4.16 maydes Mordocheus with the distressed Iewes o Ezra 10. v. 1.2 Ezra p Dan. 10. v. 2.3 Daniel and q Nehem. 1. v. 4 Nehemiah then feast with the profane Balthezars and drunken Nabals of the world rather sing songs of Sion with Moses Deborah Miriam Zachary the two Annas and the spirituall Israell of God to the laude and praise of God then songs of Sodom to the Lute and Tabret and Harpe to the dishonour of God with that carnall r Amos 6.6 Esay 22. vers 13 Israell Avoyd the companie of the wicked fly from their societie as Manes the Calcedon Bishop did from Iulian the Apostate Iohn from Cerinthus Origen from Paulus Samesetenus Polycarpus from Marcion Athanasius Chrysostome and the Å¿ Of all these there is ample mention made by Socrates Eusebius the Germaine Centuries c. As I have alledged them already in my Origens repentance Orthodoxes Alexandrians and Antiochians from the blaspemous Arrians as from a dogge a t Cane poenis angue adagium snake and a devill Come no neerer them then to the plague who have hot mouths like Armenian Dragons hot as Ovens with fire from hell spitting burning venomous sparkes of blasphemies in the face of Heaven For to converse with such is to have our Hell on earth but to praise God with the Saints yea withall the creatures magnifie him in all his glorious attributes this is to have heaven on u Vita celitum vita caelestis earth Oh happie as holy is that soule who in imitation of the Larke and the singing Quyristers of the Ayre hath his chiefe delight to be mounting upwards and singing above as neere to God as he can get and useth this grosser earth but onely for foode and meere necessaries making no stay below till it soare up againe that it be intrapped as these incautelous birdes in the lime-twigs of lustes in the gins of temptations Oh happie he that not contented with ordinarie duties with our common Protestants materially and cursorily performed such as their stinted tasks of saying rather then praying Prayers reading of Chapters singing of a Psalme saying Grace before and after meate as they use to say by themselves or children their atturneys running daily in these unlesse by carnalite or profanesse omitted as in a Laborynth or Circle like a Milne-horse ever in one pace without ever quickening their motion what extraordinarie occasion soever come eyther of prayer in humiliation or praysing God in true Gratulation those that besides these ordinaries can sequestrate times to dedicate and consecrate their very soules and spirits to the very God of spirits extraordinarily in manner and measure as occasion is offered eyther of mourning such as was in the dayes of w Esay 22. v. 13. Esau x Osee 6 v. 1.2 Osee y Dan. 9. v. 1.2.3.4.5 Daniel z Ioel. 1. v. 5.8.11.13 cha 2.15.16.17 Ioel a Ezra 10.3.5 Ezra b 1. Sam. 1.10 Anna c Iob. 3.24 Iob d Ierem. 9. v. 1.2 Ieremie or of rejoysing such as in the dayes of David both herein my Text and elsewhere when David penned his Eucharisticall Psalmes sung publickly in the Church he and the Elders of Israell as also in the dayes of his sonne Salomon Ezekiah and Iosiah after him exulting and triumphing before the Lord. Oh happie he that can marry as some Fathers besides e Stella Bona ventura in Lucam Fryers have alluded both Martha and f Luke 10. vers 41.42 Mary Rachell and Leah can unite and so conjoyne the fruitefull thoo-bleare eyed life of action as lesse faire with the more beauteous life of contemplation that in his generall calling as he is a Christian can make holy and spirituall duties the unbending of his bow sauce to his meate his verie recreation and best preparing to the duties of his speciall and particular calling as he is a man such a man is indeede a Phoenix amongst men Rara avis in terris as the Hevites said of g Gen. 23. v. 6. Abraham even a Prince of God amongst men yea he that can be a regular observant of these few rules by blessing the Lord with his heart and mouth the members of his bodie and faculties of his soule here in grace shall inchoate and begin even in the vallie of the world in the vaile of his flesh the life of glorie such an one shall attaine to more Evangelicall perfection then ever did Iew Papist or Pelagian in the meere observation of Moses his Legals whether Morals Cerimonials or Iudicials Yea by these rules he shall come neerer God shoote neerer heaven walke more in the light of the Sunne as every way more perfect Yea I say further he shall inherit and injoy sweeter extasies of soule raptures of spirit comforts of conscience peace of heart joy in the holy Ghost then ever any superstitious popeling regular Fryer or Monasterian in this earth had notwithstanding all their Thrasonicall bragges and boasts to the contrary of ther feined revelations apparitions and enthusiasmes by their strictest observance of the rules of their Saint Francis Benedict Dominick c. or these that are forged and fathered on Basill h De regulis Francisci Basilij Augustini c. vide Fusius apud Hospinianum de origina Monocatus Augustine or any other recorded by i Vide Cassiani collationes SuriuÌ„ Lippomanum Pomerium de sanctis Marulum Abdiam Gregorium in dialogis Cassianus and their owne writers Oh could we trie how good and gracious the Lord is had we but a spirituall gust of the comforts of grace If wee did but once eate the spirituall Manna that 's hid from the world Could wee turne the bread of life in succum sanguinem into bloud and moysture Could wee be weaned from the world to be fed as children truely newly k 1.
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 78â— 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. ventriloquuÌ„ Tertull. contra Maro c. 25. aut infra cutem daâ—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 Å¿ 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
Basil in Psal 33. Epiphan Mer. 51. Chrys ho. 3. ad c. 1. ad Coloss Cyril lib. 4. contra Iul. Procopius cum cateris grounding on Gen. 48.16 on Math. 18. vers 10. and on Act. 12.11.15 Prince have his bonus Genius his protecting Angel both by land and sea in every coast countrey where he came having reduced brought him backe again after this large circumference to the English Court his own center in health honour prosperitie and safetie both in bodie and soule not somuch as the least infected dust cleaving to his feete much lesse any corrupted Popish ayre infect his royall bloud such was the antydote preservative of grace of which his highnesse hath given more then Mathematicall demonstration even since his comming home Oh this is a mercie to his highnesse in particular to the land realme all us in generall interested in him past expression Chiefly wheÌ„ I consider how unworthy we have walked of former mercies how like these nine clensed lepers we have beene b Luk. 17.16.17 unthankefull how there is at this day a controversie whether God is more mercifull to us or wee more sinfull against him we wounding the Lord with his own weapons abusing our peace plentie all other Tallents as Bawdes Panders to uncleanesse as fuell to the fire of our licentiousnesse as if a whorish woman should with these Iewels love tokens she receives from her husband mantaines an adulterous lover or a favorite with these lands revenues he hath received from his Prince assist animate a professed rebell wee imploying still Gods favours in the service of sinne sathan our sinnes like Ierusalems yea like c Ezeth 16.49 Sodoms pride idlenesse fulnesse of bread yea fulnesse foulnesse of drinke too extortion oppression increasing and springing with our blessings the sins of every countrey the German drunknesse Asian luxurie Cretian lying Carthaginian perfidiousnesse Italian wantonnesse Iewish usurie Turkish crueltie the French complementall formality with the vices vanities of every other Nation meeting in our land as in their Center entertained retained as Lawyers their Clients Physitians their Patients Noble-men their jeasters fooles because they bring sackes to our Milnes pleasures to our mindes or profites to our purse c. Yea withall when I ponder too how little use we have made of the Lords judgements plagues pestilence dearths inundations of waters sicknesses diseases deaths of the Honourable of the Martiall of the Senatour of the d Esai 3.1.2.3 Counsellour that have beene taken from us but chiefly the eclypsing of that bright sun that once shined so gloriously in our hemispher th' death of that our Illustrious farre famoused Prince Henry as greivous to our hearts as the death of that worthie e By the malice of Roxama cut off by his bloudy father Solyman in any great thing that happens the proverbe is Mustapha is dead Mustapha was once to his Martiall Ienisaries or the death of that noble Zisca to his zealous valerous Bohemians of whose death in not dying since to any sinne as humbled by this judgement we have made so little use that by our greivous provocations and as a just punishment of our former ungratious ingratitudes in the absence of our Prince the Lord having lately the Ball at his foote as hee hath ever to goale it to our griefe whereas hee might have brought on us now stouping plague indeede and have payed us home once for all by many meanes which I leave to all Christian hearts to excogitate yet when wee experimentally see that as in the first creation hee hath brought light out of darkenesse good out of our feared evill glory to himselfe prayses to his Majestie as before prayers for the preservation of our thrice honoured Prince Is not all this the Lords doings and it is marvailous in our eyes Oh if David and his Nobles were thankefull for the mercies towards their Salomon the instrumentall builder of their materiall let us be thankefull for our Salomon the builder of the spirituall Temple the propagator and continuer of true Religion the planter of Gods true worship the supplanter of Idolatrie If Cain bee avenged seven times then Lamech seventie times said that f Genes 4.24 Polygamist If the Iewes have cause of gratulation seaven times for Gods mercies towards their Church and Common-wealth Kings and people wee have occasion seventie times seven times If the undersong of Davids Psalmes much more of our spirituall Hymnes may well runne in this torrent to the God of mercies for his mercie endureth for g Psal 136. per totum ever Oh then let all of us this day this houre with our mother great Britaine by all meanes expresse our thankfulnesse by our rejoycings in the outward and inward man Blow with your Trumpets as in the new Moone strike your Drummes advance your pikes I wish I could say as in England ring your Bells make your bonfires sound your Cornets display your Banners charge and discharge your Guns apply your powder make good use of Match or as more certaine use your fire lockes march like Martialists daunce your measures as David did before the Arke Let the day of our preservation from the powder treason of the Coronation of our King the reduction of the Prince be to us as the Iewes h â—â—â—h 9.26 Purim let them be writ in red Letters inserted in our Calender but for ever these mercies with their memorials let them be as Moses commands i Deut. 6.6.7.8 Israell be ingraven better then in Brasse and Marble in the Tablets of our gratefull hearts perpetuated traditionarily to our Children children Let our Hearts Lives Loves Votes Voyces Tongues Soules Spirits joyne with all the blessed Quyre of Angels in Heaven and Saints in Earth for all his mercies to praise the father of mercies the God of spirits To whom bee honour and glorie of us and in all Churches for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Sic Correcta 1. Iaunnus for Janus pag. 9. post literam f. 2. optative for operative p. 12. initio pagina 3. God for good ibid. 4. Denuntion for denuntiation initio pag 20.5 Farnestius for Farâ—â—sius initio pag. 24. 6. of for oft pag. 43. Sect. 6. lit c pag. 46. in fine sect 6. those words must headded post verbum Queene Mary with many moe doe sympathâ—â—e one with another and hang together like burres 7. Zinick for Zurick p. 51. post lit y 8. wafted for wafted p. 53 post lit b 9. Menius for Mevius p. 59 post q 10 pag. â—6 in fine pawne they for they pawne 11 p. 97. prolonging for prolonging post f 12 p. 99 priâ—â—aces for privaces linea prima 13. p. 104. post u bewitching for butchering 14. p. 106. Zapirus for Zopirâ—s post f 15. p. 110. mike for milke post w pag. 111. in lit m it is for is it 16 pag. 136. chippe for chirpe post lit z 17 p. 138. initiation for imitation post lit p In the Margino also there be some maine defects which yet with your pen may be cured pag. 25. lit x Bolsâ—ecus for Bolsecus p. 33. lit q Magnetis nigra for Mira pag. 120. lit f adde to intolerable pride deleatur where Caesar make it as Pelargus of the p. 9â— lit s Hexapla in Lucadum for in Exodum with sodoe other of lesse moment
Ierusalem is the greatest object of pittie my eye ever beheld Oh that God wold stirre up some Ezras Nehemiahs to replaÌ„t repayre the ruines of the goodliest kingdome of the world for fish flesh fowle wholsome ayre wanting nothing but Religion Money Munition Ah si fas dicere sed non fas Bels unlesse you had them Bonfires other solemnities to testifie your affections after which motions also the countrie moved by their presence approving not emulating your performances so I thought in my willingnesse of spirit though corporeall weakenesse as you know not to be behind hand in acting my part according to my place profession discharging my conscience my calling alwayes in judgement practise approving delighting in as desiring that best of Musicks the harmony and wished correspondencie betwixt Moses and Aaron David Nathan Salomon Zadocke the sword word the Magistracie Ministery powers Civill Ecclesiasticall for the performance of any good worke Morall Polliticall or Religious of pietie towards God of Charitie or Christianitie towards man In which golden yoke as you Sir h Apostrophe to the Soveraigne have begunne to draw that are as this yeare our Annuall Soveraigne subordinate to three other soveraignes as I tould you when you were installed in your place First to God the soveraigne Monarch of heaven and earth by whom Kings i Prover 8.15 Raigne from whose ordinance is all rule authority all superioritie k Rom. 13.1.2 subordination in all conditions Secondly the Kings Majestie the Lords high Steward Vicegerent over us our terrestriall l Psal 82.2 1.6 God Thirdly to the R. Ho. Richard Lord Boyle the Earle of Corke the prop of these parts our best m De harmonia Politica Arist lib. 8 politic cap. 3. states-Musitian under his Majestie to tune all right what 's disioynted luctaite our n Quomodo conveniunt Medicus Minister Magistratus vide apud Berchorium in suo reducterio Morali lib. 4. cap. 28. pag. 106. 107. 10â— stats-physitian to purge out our worst humors and preserue us in sound loyaltie to our Prince love unitie amongst our selves as our whole countrie who findes the sweetnesse of his prudencie prouidence so improued in publike priuat for the peace prosperity of all in generall of euery one in particular cannot but subscribe unto acknowledge unlesse blinded by papisticall prejudice or possest with that hellish Hagge the Devils eldest daughter Enuie or his grand-childe detraction I say as you even already haue by your bounty prouidence circumspection giuen some good glimpses promissing prologues of your succeeding gouernment so all that I will recommend unto you at this time for incouragment or further direction is this Perge pede quo coepisti SpartaÌ„ quam nactus es haÌ„c orna I bone virtus quo te tua vocat I pede fausto goe forward as you haue begun do not extremo actu deficere faile not in your last part for the o Finis honum convertuntur end is the perfection of euery worke both morall spirituall The praise the palme of euery race that 's atcheiued whether performed by man or beast horse or greyhound is not onely speed of the hand then to lagge and dragge in the midst but truth to hold out to the end though the course be loÌ„g strong It 's nothing for a new Beesome to sweepe â—â—eane for a new knife to cut sharpe for a new seruant to be industrious for a new Bride to be louing whilst it is honie Moone for a people to be new fangled of a new preacher as the Iewes were of Iohn the p Math. 3.5 Luke 3.7 8 Baptist as children are of flowers after to throw them away reject them as the Iewes did q 1. Sam. 8.5 Samuel r Ierem. 18.18 Ieremie yea to hang head them if they could as Herod did with Å¿ Mark 6.20.27 Iohn I could apply this to the Magistracie but verbuÌ„ sat c. a word a winke is enough to the wise Continuance perseverance crowâ—es euery action therefore let your last workes be better still then the t Revel 2.19 first as Aleinious Garden let your last fruites rellish the ripest the sweetest reserue your best Wine for you last u Vt apud Iohn cap. 2.10 feast use aright those fasces w Apud Livill Fenestellam magistratus those rods of rule fetcht from the Romanes those worthy Patriots famoused by all writers Vse aright as I publikely prescribed you those â—ods of beautie and of x Zeh 11.7 bands in the right mixture of â—â—â—thie and justice as of white and red in the damaske Rose I will not give you now Cramba bis cocta Coleworts twice sod only thus much Vindicate Gods glory upon Drunkards Swearers Idolaters profaners of the Saboth chiefly against these Cormorants or Cornvorants that forest all the Markets inhauÌ„ce the price of Corne in grosse and so purloine from the poore so the bellies of the poore shall blesse you as they did y â—â—b 29.13 Iob. Stand for God aswell as for Cesar as did z Exod. 32 v. 29 Levit. 9.23 24 Numb 14.39.40 41. vers Moses a Nehem. 6 ve 10.11 chap. 13. v. 11.25.17 Nehemiah David Iosiah in Scripture Iustinian Gratian the two Theodosij CoÌ„staÌ„tine in histories in whose glasses see your own faces knowing that a Governour must bee custos utriusque Tabulae having oculum cum Sceptro an Eagles eye a Lions heart to spie redresse and remove at least the mulcts reprove sinnes both against God and man in the breach of the first and second Table otherwayes as in the Church familie so in Cities Corporations in the common-wealth the sins of inferiours untutored unpunished not corrected are set upon the score of the Superiors as the sinnes of Elies sonnes were the taxations of Eli the b 1. Sam. 2.29 father as indeede if the garden be overgrowen with weedes the Corne with Tares wher 's the fault but in the Gardiner and in the Husbandman But hoping that you and all that shall succed you here in the Magistracie as we in the Ministery and Masters in Families will have a care on the mayne chance to wash your hands not in hypocrisie as c Math. 27.28 Pilate but in sinceritie as once d Act. 20.26 Paul free from bloud of all men in Gods great day of retribution I rest To all and every one of you even in that nature you are to me and to my Ministerie affected Stephen Ierome TO THE INGENIOVS INGEnuous Iudicious and well affected Reader FOr to such I purposely write as my Leaves and Lines come from such so they tend and bend as to their right Center to such a spirit such lettice such lippes to such if to such anie needes I satisfactorily apologize that if ever the Proverbes proved true that
my chiefe spirituall weapons Secondly prescribe meanes as the ordering of my Ranckes Thirdly remove * Quod primum in intentione ultimum in executione I have not fully prescribed the meanes nor removed the lets or remoraes as I intended because the booke contrary to my first project swels so great alreadie but quod defertur non aufertur I promise them God willing if ever these bee thought worthy reprinting otherwise satis est voluisse vlâ—ru posse non est esse impediments as the discoverie of Ambushments and these will we doe as God and your patience shall permit First for the motives as ayming still method take them eyther generall or more especiall 1. Generall as they concerne all Christians to be thankefull of what sort sexe qualitie conditions soever they bee for all mercies of what nature soever reiterated or renewed to their soules or bodies and above all things to steare from this rocke of ingratitude eyther to God the principall author and agent or to man the mediate organ and instrument of any good to them or theirs 2. Speciall as they concerne the solemnization of these late mercies in which we promise and purpose to commemorate and congratulate as David and his subjects here in their times the mercies of adornation or preservation to our English Israel in which even we now English-Irish have deepely shared 1. For the first if any soule here present or to whom soever these presents shall come finde himselfe infected with this leprous disense of ingratitude which as a fellon or gangreen hath spread over the whole bodie almost of our Nation and as poyson corrupted the blouds of so many Let him take these physicall purgatives for the cleansing and purifying of his infected spirits the killing of the humor and tumour of pride the originall of it together with some Iulupps Cordials to corroborate his heart against it and to breed and increase in him this good spirit this good vitall bloud of true gratitude the fayre daughter of a fruitefull mother true grace CHAP. II. Motives to thankefulnesse FIrst let him know that this thankefulnesse hath his speciall mandate and injunction from God in severall g Psalm 50.15 Psalm 107. 1. Thess 15.16.17 Scriptures it hath his warrant and signe in the great Court of heaven it comes from the great Monarch of the world to every Microcosme and little world it is enacted in the highest Parliament as Gods Statute law and upon penaltie to the contrarie to be executed by everie one It 's that taxe and Subsidie and spirituall tribute imposed and exacted upon everie subject not denied crossed or contradicted by any unlesse by some that like stuborne Forts and Castles stand in opposition or as Kearnes come out in rebellion against the supreame and soveraigne Majestie of God himselfe The King of Kings yea this must be payd in our owne persons of high low rich poore learned and unlearned Prince Peere Potentate Duke Marquesse Earle Baron Knight Gentleman Yeomen Husband-man Labourer Plebeian Common-beggar wee cannot doe this dutie by a deputie or atturney none can make affidavit one for another as in our Civill Courts even David a King is not exempted from this homage neyther other Kings much lesse the vulgars if not Senatours Magistrates and Patritians Secondly the easinesse of this taske if neglected and unperformed admits no apologie no plea nor excuse great Subsidies and Customes imposed as appeares in our Chronicles all Histories have occasioned mutterings murmurings mutinies rebellions in the Subjects as perplexed Israel against perverse h 1. King 12.18 Robeam and so in i See Stowes Hellinsheds Chronicles England about paying of Poll-money and Peter pence But this imposition of gratitude to God if God give grace is as easily performed as injoyned What great inconvenience was it for Naaman the Syrian to wash in k 2. Kings 5. Iordan for the halt to wash in the Poole of l Iohn 5 4.5 Bethsaida for the Leaper to goe shew himselfe to the m Luke 17.14 Priest for the poore widdow to throw n Luke 21.2 a mite into the Treasurie for a man to open his mouth and the doore of his lippes or rather of the heart to God as the Marry-gold opens to the Sunne and shewforth his prayses if the Prophet had commanded thee some great thing say the servants to that Syrian thou oughtest to have done o 2. King 5 â—â— it So if the Lord should command us in requitall of all his mercies to give to the poore not onely halfe with p Luke 19.8 Zacheus but as he tryed that young Iustitiarie in the q Math. 19.11 Gospell even all our goods wee ought to give all to him for him that hath given all to us If he injoyne us to sacrifice our sonnes as once r Gen. 22.1.2.3 Abraham to give our bodies to be burned as once the Martyres in the Paganish Arrian and Popish persecution wee should not grudge the Lord our goods our blouds our sonnes yea our verie soules as was once the case of Å¿ Exod. 32.32 See D Willes his Comment in his Comment in his Hexapla in Lâ—cadum in locum Moses and of t Rom. 9. Paul himselfe to vindicate and redeeme the glorie of God to which every creature in heaven and earth must be subordinate but now he injoynes us a more facill and ready way which wee may honour and glorifie him and that 's by our Thankefulnesse our Cordiall and heartie acknowledgement of his mercies a yoake that is not heavie but easie a burthen not laborious but u Math. 11.29 Psalm 33.1 light a thing not unseemely but seemly a thing not incongruous any way or undecent but exceeding good Psal 92.1 Yea pleasant and comely Psal 147.1 Now how can wee be wanting to this Eucharisticall spirituall dutie that hath in it all the requisites of the Pagans morall * Vtile honestuÌ„ inâ—undum Cicero in Offic. Eâ— omne tuliâ— puÌ„ctum qui miscuit utile dulci. good being honest pleasant profitable unlesse we will be a wanting to Gods glorie and our owne goods 1. had God commanded us onely to sacrifice our eyes blinde Bartimeus and such as had beene borne blinde as he in the 9. of Iohn could not have offered this sacrifice 2. or onely our eares and tongues the deafe and the dumbe had beene excluded his service 3. or our wealth and full bagges the poore had beene to seeke for his sacrifice as that poore Persian for his * Apud Alexandrum de AlexaÌ„dro Fusius gift when suddenly he met with his King But now since the Lord requires neyther thousand Rammes out of the flocke nor the Goates from the hills nor the Bullockes from the stalles nor such Hecatombs Psalm 50. nor the eare nor the eye nor tongue for these the hypocrite and temporizer give him but onely a cordiall and a gratefull y Deut. 5.24 Prover 23.26 heart actively passively
Gospell the faith and patience of the Saints their grouth in grace their forwardnesse in zeale their readinesse to distribute their constancie in profession their perseverance in the truth together with Gods merciefull proceedings with himselfe in turning him in his name and nature from a Saul to a Paul from a Wolfe to a Sheepe a persecuter to a professor a Preacher a Canniball to a Christian a blasphemer to a blesser of r 1. Tim. 1. vers 12 13.14.15.16 17. Christ yea from a Cater-piller to be like Iames Iohn and Cephas a piller from a confounder a founder from a supplanter a planter of the Church of Christ These mercies together with that Tallent of preaching of tongues of knowledge above his fellowes of parts of Å¿ 2. Cor. 9. 2 Cor. 10. Paulus de ipso per totum paines of patience in doing suffering more then the rest that doore of utterance opened to him so abundantly were as they should be to all in Pauls place of Pauls spirit the ground not of Thrasonicall ostentation luciferian pride and presumption as in t Ierem. 20.1.2 Pashur Hanany u 1. King 22. v. 24. Zedekiah the Romish Iesuites and Baalites as formerly in Å¿ The intollerable of Arrius Samosaetenus other hereticks Gent. Magd. where Caesar as Pelargus our Iesuites praefat ante suum Iesuitismum Arrius Nestorius Paulus Samosetenus and all other Pseudoprophets Pseudopostles Pseudomartyres Pseudochristians Heretickes Schismaticks but of holy and humble thankefulnesse I might inlarge my meditation in this point if I would wade into ancient and moderne historie from the practise of all other Saints and holy men of God that ever were chiefly millions of Martyres Confessors recorded by Eusebius the Tripartite and the rest of Ecclesiasticall historians Foxe in his Martyrologie nominated by name and described by their states callings whose faiths like the t Arist. libr. 5. cap. 19 Etiamsi Discorides libr. 2 cap. 50. Galenus lib. 3 de tempor cap. 4. contradicant Salamandrum in ignem vivere ignem extinguere asserit tamen Plinius libr. 10 cap. 〈…〉 Plin. 〈…〉 Civit. Dei libâ— 21. cap. 4. Salamander and that Pyralis or Ceâ—astia living even in the fires and hotest persecutions even in the midst of flames as Paul Silas in the lower prisons have sent out the sparks of holy prayses in hymnes and Psalmes and spirituall songs c. But above all which is instar omnium in stead of all as the best president to us Christians we have the un-erring as precept so practise of Christ every action of his humanitie being our u Omnis Christi actio nostra est instructio instruction as he prayed continually rejoyced evermore in all things gave w 1. Thes 5.16.17.18 thankes chiefly for the propagation of the Gospell the subjugation of spirits to his disciples the falling downe of Sathan like lightning yea in the very benediction of the creatures abounding with prayses to his heavenly x Matth. 11.25 Matth. 26.30 father so should wee if wee be Christians in truth and sinceritie as in name profession imitate our Christ as members of his bodie branches of his Vine and docible disciples to that best of Masters otherwayes as Augustine once noted that it was incongruous under a thorney head to looke for soft and delicate effeminate y â—ub spinoso capite non debeÌ„t membra esse molâ—a Augustinus members it 's as incongruous under a blessed blessing head to have as many Christians have execrable execrating cursing accursed blasphemons members CHAP. VIII Gratitude further proved and pressed from the Saints and Angels in the Church triumphant with thunderbolts against this blaspeming in stead of blessing Age. BVt if the examples of the Saints on earth move us not I wish that sursum corda wee would lift up our hearts and eyes a little higher paulo maiora canentes unto the Saints and Angels in heaven looking to the soules and spirits of the just in the nature Angelicall and humane we have a fairer coppie to write after a more resplendent white to shoote at in the Church Triumphant then wee can have in the Church Militant where the whitest Swan hath his blacke feete the purest gold his drosse the fairest face of grace his moale the most eminent light his cloud or eclypse as may be instanced besides a Gen 19. v. 36. Lot b Gen. 9.21 Noah c Iohn 10. v. 25. Thomas d Math. 26.70.72 Peter c. Patriarks Apostles even in two of the best for great men good men the world ever had in David Hezekiah the one committing such e 2. Sam. 11. 2. Sam. 24.1.2.3 2. Sa. 16.1.2.3.4 sinnes the other omitting such f 2. Chron. 3â— 24.25.26 a dutie as both soyled their graces and put them to wash away those tinctures and staines with penitentiall g Psal 6. v. 6. 2. King 20.3.4 teares by the heate of renued love drawne out of the best distillatorie limbeckes of broken hearts and compunct spirits so that it 's dangerous to imitate the best men that ever were except the sanctifier and Saviour of men in every point of their practise least like the motion of that h Materia compacta in instina acris regione noctis frigore constipata ventâ—rum vi aliquando a malo Angelo agitata Simon Maiolus de diebus cauiâ— p. 1. câ—ll 1. pag. 9. ignis fatuus or transient fire cald in my countrie Maude with wispe they leade us wrong in the darke night of some errors into the Devious by pathes of irregularities But to imitate the Angels and soules spirits of the just in heaven their example is the right cynosure the streight line of our actions and affections the right Carde and compasse of our conversation the very Pole according to which to steare our practise in our manifold fluctuations and dangerous aberrations in the Sea of this world because they being inseperably united unto God to be like unto them is to be like unto God even partaker of the divine i 2. Pet. 1.4 nature they are fixt in their port and haven their heaven not subjected now like us in our surges to any shipwracke of faith or k 1. Tim. 1.19 conscience therefore it 's good for us to cast anchor as neere them as wee can to build our Tents and l Math. 17.4 Tabernacles as neere theirs as we may to ascend up the Mount to them by meditation contemplation imitation as in other things so especially in this dutie in singing and ringing forth here below as they above the prayses of their God and our God in joyning our quire to theirs in this holy Anthem Holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy m In Te Deum glory If wee looke into that mysterious revelation wee shall see what the very life of the Angels is in what the spirits
Pharaoh Nero Caligula Heliogabalus Holofernes Apostate Iulian whorish Pope Ioane Nicromanticall Sylvester Alexander the sixt athisticall Caesar Borgias treacherous Absalon serpentine Achitophell soule poysoning Mahumet blasphemous Arrius Michael o Burned in Geneva vide in fine Aretij locor communium Servetus with millions moe Would you know what they are now doing Their bodies are jayled and imprysoned in the grave till Gods generall assises But what of their soules Thus in the middest of their exquisite tortures in hell unlesse God gave speedie grace to some to die better then they lived even with their father the Devill whom they sympathize as in sinnes so in p Math. 25 41 sufferings they rave they rage they fret they fume they revile they blaspheme they execrate they curse the Majestie of the Almightie they wreake their Teene and wrath on God as that madded Baiazet cope't up in an iron Cage did upon q See besides Knels his Turkish historie the history of Tamb. extant in quarto Tamberlaine even by raging and reviling like madded dogges tyed up in iron chaines they barke and fome at the mouth and belch out blasphemies as the condemned miscreant that curseth the Iudge the Iurie and the Bench when their malignant malice and mischiefe can proceede no further And indeed as wicked men are by the spirit of God cald the sonnes of r 1. Sam. 1.16 1. Sam 9.27 Beliall the children of the very Å¿ Iohn 8. v. 44. 1. Ioh. 3. v 10 Devils so Doe they not patrizare are they not as like their father as if they were spit out of his mouth Do they not look as like him as egge to t Non â—vâ—â—m evâ— similius egge snow to snow or rather pitch to pitch Do they not resemble him as face answers face in a glasse Hee blasphemes God in hell they blaspheme God here on earth He is the old u Revela 12.9 Dragon they are as yet but w Rev. 16. v. 9. Serpents yet growing to be Dragons and as full of venom for their measure as he is whose names they beare whose nature they have Should such die in this state and condition blaspheming the name of God as so many thousands doe in the world especially if they be never so little crost or toucht by the hand of God or tongue or hand of man then letting their oath-pellets fly from their hell-heated mouthes as did Michaes x Iudg. 17.1.2 mother the contesting Isralite in the dayes of y Lev. 24.10.11 Moses and these accursed carnalists prophecied of in the z Apoc. 16.9 Apocalypse I pray you to let such reflect a little on their case and condition d Math 5 35.36 August ad consentium de mendac cap. 15. Chromat in locum Iames 5.12 Psal 25. v. 3. Zachar. 5.3 Deut. 28.58 in Apocryph Eccles 23. v. 11. if God would please to open their hood-winckt eyes besides the Scripture that 's infallible true firme above heaven a Matth. 5.18 earth irrevocable above the decrees of the Meedes and b Dan. 6.8 Persians to be verified in every letter title and syllable according to qualifications of objects in workes of justice as of mercie I say besides the verdict of the word which must in due time be verified else God were no c Numb 23.19 God and the word but a fable like these of Esopes or Lucians which were blasphemy to imagine I say yet againe and againe besides the thunderbolts from Gods own mouth that strikes the swearer as low as e Psalm 9.17 hell the center of profanesse nothing keeping him out of it but a small twine threed of life every day and night as a blacke worme and a white gnawing this threed and at last a blatrant f M. Perkins allusiue simile in one of his Legall motives in his Treatise of repentance beast cald death perhaps suddenly lopping and cropping this threed and sends the customarie swearer into the lower pit without ever bayle or maineprize remission or redemption If there were no word or if the word were as carnall life heart g Psalm 14.1 Athists account it of no more certaintie then mother Hubbardes tales Bebelius h Bebilij facetiae extant in octavo jeasts or Melanders i Alelandri Iocoseria extant in decimo sexto jocoseria yea then the lying legend of the k Papists their Limbo Patrum and picke purse Purgatorie yet even in reason let me expostulate with an impious and profane spirit and whisper but some few wordes into the eare of a blasphemous swearer how fit he is for hell and how unfit for heaven if he should die suddenly as some of his predecessors have done and be swept away as dust and l Psalm 1.4 chaffe in an instant as were reveiling Corah Dathan and m Numb 16.32.33 So Anastasius the blasphemous Arrian Emperour was struk with a thunderbolt from heaven as also Olympius the Arrian like Ioab with three darts blaspheming the Trinitie See in the end of Zegedine his Common places in folio de his cum multis alijs Abiram for alas what should he doe in heaven being conditioned and qualified as he is what worke is there for him that he could doe that he would doe In heaven there is perpetuall sempiternall blessing of God as we have proved which taske he is as fit for as yet as an Asse for n Asinus ad Lyram Sus Minervam Erasmi chiliad a Harpe a Sow for a Sack-bot he that cannot sequestrate one minute of an houre one houre in a day one moment of time to prayse God hee that hath as much heart to this or any other spirituall dutie as a Beare to the stake the Bull to the ring the coward to the battle or the Asse to the race he that 's wearie in the Church or in a religious familie to beare one part or burthen in a Psalme which is indeede his burthen or chayned but to a Sermon or a Sacrament for an houre hath his eares taken up as by commission sore against his will his heart being o As Ezechiels auditors EZche 33. vers 31.32 a wooll-gathering rogeing stragling like Dinah perhaps in the p Gen. 34. v. 1. fields in the Towne in the Taverne in the Theator the tappe-house the Tobacco shop the brothell-house perhaps in his baggs in his Barnes in his coyne his counting house his corne-heapes or amongst his sheepe and brutes Is it probable or possible judgement finding a man just as death leaves him the Tree lying as it q Ecclesiastes fals that this man should dying in this tune and temper be fit to joyne his untuned spirit with the heavenly Quire of Angels to blesse and laud the Lord for ever ever Oh lesse fit is this man for this spirituall motion then Saul to be amongst the r Estne Saul inter Prophetaâ— 1. Sam. 19.24 Prophets then drunken Philoxenus to
pag. 26.27.28.29 â—â— 49. c. Religion is in vaine And know further what I have heretofore more inlarged that a man begins eyther his heaven or hell in this q Hic vita aeterna tenetur aâ—â— amutitur life Here he is in the suburbs of one of the two of Saint Augustines r Aug. de 〈◊〉 vit Cities eyther Ierusalem which is Å¿ Gal. 4.26 above or Sodom whcih is here below Here by grace a man hath Charter and interest after liverie seisure and possession of glorie Here it 's easily seene which way he walkes even by what he t Loquere â—t tâ— videam Socrates ad Ephebum quendam talkes A man neede not wish with Momus a window into a mans heart let him looke into his mouth there he hath the best prognosticatum of his minde as the unâ—erring truth it selfe hath u Math. 12. ver 32.33.34.35.36 determined Figges never grew from Thistles nor Grapes of * Iam. 3.12 Thornes nor sweete streames ever came from a poysoned corrupted w Iam. 3.11 fountaine let us make the inside cleane then all is cleane So shall we be able in earth as the Angels in heaven in sinceritie without hypocrisie in filiall love not in servile feare incident to the x Iam. 2.19 Devills and reprobates with purged and in good measure purified spirits even here on earth inchoatively and after in heaven perfectly to make one Quyre with the Angelicall spirits to the ever blessing and praysing the God of spirits SECT II. I Doe not denie indeede but a wicked and a gracelesse man may sometimes speake good wordes not onely savouring of Morall wisedome of experience and deepe observance as the sentences sayings and Apothegmes of Socrates Solon Biaâ— Thales c. and the Greeke and the Romane y Recorded by Valerius Maximus Diogenes Laertius Brusonius Lycosthenes and others Sages yea the expostulations of z 2. King 9.31 Iezabell with Iehu the disswasives of a 2 Sam. 24 3. Ioab to David the speaches of some even of the unbeleeving b Iohn 7.40.46 Iewes the censure of Gamahel concerning c Act. 5.35.36 Paul the counsell of Pilates wife concerning d Math. 27.19 Christ which many such specialties doe demonstrate but he may speake wordes even in outward shew and appearance savouring relishing of grace as appeares in Balaams e Num. 23.10 wish Agrippaes f Act. 26.28 flash the first to die the second to be a true Christian besides the Pharisees g Luk. 18.11 prayer the foolish Virgins crying h Matth. 25.11 Lord Lord the carnall Iewes desiring the i Iâ—hn 6.34 bread the adulterous Samaritane desiring the waters of k Iohn 4.15 life with many moe It cannot be denied also but the best men may sometimes speake wordes at first blush savouring of a carnall spirit such as have hardly the prints and impression of grace as appeares in Abrahams l Genes 12.13 simulation or dissimulation Ioseph his swearing by the life of m Gen 42.15 Pharaoh Eves tempting of n Genes 3 6. Adam Iudahs solliciting of his incestuous o Genes 38.16 Thamar Davids murtherous vow against p 1. Sam 25.22 Naball his folly in commanding his people to bee q 2. Sam. 24.1.2 numbered his bloudie jussion in the slaughter of r 2. Sam. 11.15 Vriaâ— his unjust verdict against Å¿ 2. Sam. 16.4 Mephibosheth in Peters t Math. 26. Luk. 23. deniall his disswasion of Christs u Math. 16.22 passion the culpable request of Iames and w Mark 10.35 Iohn the incredulitie of Saint x Iohn 20.25 Thomas with many moe verifying that of Saint y Iames. 3.2 Iames that he is a perfect man indeede which offends not with his tongue yet neverthelesse that is true in Divinitie which the eternall truth hath revealed that wordes justifie or z Math. 12.37 condemne that the mouth speakes the man eyther good or bad as it eyther blesseth or blasphemeth God or a Iames. 3 9. man For first this is to be presupposed that usually the just pure have pure b Proverbs words their hearts their consciences and their spirits being c Titus 1. v. 15. pure Abraham prayes for d Genes 18.25 Sodom for Ismael e Genes 17.18 Isaac for f Gen. 25 2â—â— Rebeca Moses blesseth the children of g Deut. 33.1 Israell Iacob blesseth his h Genes 49. 48.15 sonnes and the sonnes of i Gen. 48.20 Ioseph Samuel and Ioshuah exhort to the service of the true k 1. Sam. 12.13 Ioshuah 24. God Lot exhorts the l Genes 19 7. Sodomites Boaz comforts m Ruth 2.11.12 Ruth Eli reproves his n 1 Sam. 2.23 sonnes Gideon pleades against o Iudg 6 31.32 Baall the Prophets pray and prophecie the Disciples preach all that looked for the consolation of Israell blesse with Zachary the God of Israell for the incarnation and exhibition of Iacobs Shiloh the promised Messias as David cals his tongue his p In psalmiâ— glory So all the godly have made doe make except in some temptation or the breaking out of hereditary sinful corruption their tongues organs and instruments of the glory of God as againe the wicked when they speake usually unlesse when they faine and straine to the contrarie pronouncing Parrat-like such wordes of which they have no feeling against the heart and against the haire coldly comming from them as from sicke men or are over ruled by a speciall hand as q Numb 23.5 Balaam and r Iohn 18.14 Cayphas in his prophesie Pharaoh Neco in that which hee told Å¿ 2. Chro. 35.21 Iosias or out of common gifts as Iudas in his preaching Saul in his t 1. Sam. 10.6 prophecying the wise men amongst the Heathens from Morall Philosophie or the verie Ethickes of nature I say usually except in these specified cases when the wicked speake their wordes speake them wicked even as what bitter streames the fountaine sends forth these streames speake the fountaine no better then bitter since nemo dat quod non habet none can give what he hath not or shew better stuffe then he hath within him the mouth of a good man being as the opening of heaven which never opened but there was alwayes some remarkeable good thing happened as eyther Christ u Act. 1.11 ascending or the spirit w Iohn 2.32 descending or the like the mouth of a wicked man being as the opening of hell out of which never proceeded as into which never entred ever ought that good was or it is as the opening of the Tryoan Horse in which were armed Greekes fatall to Ilium or as the opening of Pandoras boxe out of which flew all leprosies and diseases or as the opening of Curtius his gulfe of the Sicilian x Plin. lib. 2. cap 106. August de Civit. Dei lib. 3. cap. 31. Aetna or that
o 2. King 2.11 Elias in the fiery chariot of zeale that we could strive even in this life to enter at least the suburbs of the heavenly Citie that we had our p Phil. 3.20 conversation even in Heaven our Heaven begun here on earth Sursum corda that being risen with q Collos 3.1.2 Christ we might seeke those things that are above placing and planting our affections not on things in earth but on things in heaven that we could send our hearts as the Disciples their hearts and r Act. 1.11.12 eyes after Christ that is ascended that Å¿ A man in his incarnation a Lambe in his passion a Lion in his resurrection an Eagle in his ascension Eagle high mounted at least that we could soare up to his Crosse in Golgotha in the meditation of his passion not to breede compassion towards him who now from suffrings is entred into t Luk. 24.26 glorie as the superstitious Fryers as may be seene in u In his mount Calvarie Guevara Lodowicke de w In his Soliloquies grounded from severall Gospels Ponte and x His meditations Granado c. make that the chiefe end of their mentall meditations of his sufferings and of their Idolatrous crucifixes but to resolve to suffer with him that we may be glorified with him to feele the power of his death to die to sin the power of his y Rom. 6.8.9.10 resurrection to rise againe to newnesse of life to blesse and prayse the z Apoc. 5.9 Lambe because he hath redeemed us from all the nations and kingdomes and kinreds of the earth If for this end we tract and trace our incarnate crucified saviour from Ierusalem to a Matth. 27 Luk. 23. Marke 15. Iohn 19. Golgotha with his sword pierced weeping mother the dolefull daughters of Ierusalem Ioseph of Arimathea and the Centurion and for this end looke upon him whom our sinnes have b Zach. 12.10 pierced with the Eagle eye of our faith as the Antitype of the Brazen Serpent whom Moses erected in the c Numb 21.9 Iohn 3.14.15 wildernesse looking on him also in the glasse of the Gospell where we may see him as the Apostle of the Gentiles tels the convert Corinthians even crucified amongst us if by this sight of him we can get unto him by saving d Iohn 1â— 3 knowledge into him by e Epiâ—â— 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Ioâ—â— 15.4 him by the sappe of the spirit we make a blessed speculation of his passion Oh that besides the fruite of his passion we could get here some glimpse of his transfiguration a true type of his glorification some glimmering and reflection of the heavenly Canaan as Moses a perfect view and Synopsis of the g Deut. 34.1.2.3 earthly here seeke some glimpse of heavenly light as the prisoner the gleames or beames of the Sunne through some crannie in the walle or doore or key-hole through the vaile of thy flesh as the spouse in the Canticles that had a glimpse of her h Cant. 5.4.5.6 welbeloved looking through the hole of the doore and her heart was affectioned to him Here in thy greatest pressures of bodie soule and spirit get some refection by reflection with that primitive Protomartyre i Act. 7.56 Stephen and the rapt k 2. Cor. 12.4 Apostle on Christ crucified and glorified and of the glorie of Christ prepared purchased layd up as revealed Here get some warmth and heate in your hearts as the Apostles and the two disciples that went to l Luk. 24.32 Emaus by oft talking communing with Christ by the word and m Oratio oris ratio vel colloquium cum Deo Isidore prayer by that meanes receiving from Christ that best new-yeares gift that love token promised by Christ to all his n Iohn 14.17.18.19 elect exhibited as once in the o Act. 2.3 forme ever in the effects of p The Spirit like fire c. 1. Illuminates with knowledg 2. Heates with zeale and love 3. Mollifies the heart 4. Causeth sparkes of praier 5. Purgeth drosse of sinne 6. Purifies the heart 7. Changeth with what it meetes with in to it owne nature Geminianus in summa exemplorii similit fire Oh that we could breake off companie and societie with man chiefly wicked men so much as our callings and charge to be discharged will permit that in our meditations and soule Soliloquies in innitiation of Saint Augustine Bernard Anselme and other heavenly minded men we might be more conversant with God Oh why doe wee not retire our selves as q Genes 24.63 Isaac into the fields as Augustine and Alixius into the r Libro Confessionum related fully and applied in Parsons Resolution orchard as Ioseph of Arimathea into our Å¿ Iohn 19 41. Garden or immure our selves according to Christs t Math. 6. vers 6. precept and his Virgin u Luk. 1.28 mothers practise into our private closet or chamber for some sequestrated time there to meditate of the mercies of God of the merits of Christ of the priviledges of grace of the Christians dignitie of the joyes of a better life c there to exhilerate our selves according to the Apostolicall counsell and command and according to the president set us in my Text by David and his nobles to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord more then the carnalists and the moralists of our times in their Corne and Wine and Oyle w Psal 4.7 increased more then Laban in his x Gen. 29.2 sheepe Naball in his y 1. Sam. 25.36 feast Balthezar in his z Dan. 5.2 drinke Herod in his a Mark 6.17 Herodias Saul in his b 1 Sam. 16.16 23. Harpe Nero in his c Suetâ—nius in Nerone qualis artifex pereo Musicke the carnall Iewes in their d Amos. 6. v. 6. Minstrelsie then the Philistines in their e Iudges 16.23 Dagon and madding mirth or any other licentious libertines in their luxurious and sabaritish delights Oh why doe wee not retire and sequestrate our soules our thoughts our actions our affections from all carnall delights desires more fully more freely to converse with God setting times a part even for the verie nonce to prayse God as did f Psal 55.17 David as Daniel did for g Daniel 6.10 prayer arising with that man after Gods owne heart even at midnight to give thankes unto the Lord Oh that my wordes like spurres and goads like the pricke under the Nightingals breast that is said to awaken her in the night from sleeping to singing might excite and stirre you to this neglected and too much pretermitted dutie And for this purpose I wish we might here use this world as though we used it not as the Marriner the Seas and his Ship as the Souldier his armes as the traveller his Inne as the Student his
the earth as Paulus Emilius that died in Cynna Titus Gracchus in Lucania Augustus Caesar in Nola Traian the good Emperour in the East part of the d De istis omnibus vide apud Fulgosum Brusonium Lycosthenem Textorem Zwingerum in Theatro world Secondly when I consider how many renowned yong Princes beauteous blossoms of excellent luster have been in their verdant spring as a tryall or punishment to their subjects cut off from the Tree of life cropt by that blatrant beast death their Sun setting on a suddaine even in the first rising or in their height solstitiü going backe againe by degrees as the Sun in Ahaz e 2. King 20.11 Diall 1. Sometimes eclypsed by the immediate hand of God as that zealous yong Prince Edward the VI. and the staffe of our hopes our so lamented Iosiah that so faire promising Heroes whom as one cals Iulius Scaliger Picus Mirandula we may truly call worthy wonderful spirit now translated to the God of spirits 2. some made away by the malice of man by treasonable plots and conspiracies as Britanicus the sonne of Claudius slain by Nero in the 14 yere of his age the nephews of Richard the 3 the Duke of Clarence his mate rooted out by the bloudy Celidonian Bore in their springing buddes 3. yea some exposed to death in their very infancie as Romulus Renus that Lamusius that was cast into a ditch young Cyrus by his grandsire Astyages c. Some by this meanes perishing though some againe as these nominated marvailously preserved 4. some cut off by the sword of the enemie as Iosiah by Pharaoh f 2. Chro. 35.23.24 Necho that loving Ionathan by the sword of the g 1. Sam. 31.2 Philistines Ladyslaus the yong King of Bohemia slaine by the Turke in a fatall battle together with Hippolitus h This Iulius perswaded the young king to breake his league and sworn truce with the Turke by which he perished Iulius Cardinals that held themselves in their pride as good as Princes in the 21. yeare of his age 5. others cut off by sicknesses incurable diseases or other dismall accidents from which the Diadems of Emperors the k Mors sceptra ligonibus aequaÌ„s Crownes of Kings the Myters of Popes are not exempted as Hierome Vrsmus who died of a wound which hee received in Rome Henry Rauzovius crushed to death by a fall in the waters Medices the father to the great Duke of Hetruria slaine by the breach of a Gun as also Heraclas Constantine with moe that might be named all these yeelding the dew to death their debts to nature in the 28. yeare of their age some by one meanes some by another together with Lodowicke the yong king of Hungary that as he was eagerly pursuing the Turks was found dead in a quagmire in the 20 yeare of his age But in the third place when I seriously ponder paralelling histories with our present times not onely the perils and pikes that great Princes have past in their expeditions by land as many Princes and noble Peeres of Christendome cut off in their severall unwarrantable voyages which in their blinde zeale devious devotion they unitedly undertooke for the recoverie of Ierusalem the holy land from the Turke But horresco referens when I deepely ponder the perils by Sea so many so dangerous as the Psalmist l Psalm 65.7 reveales as experience knowes as holy Saints even m Act 27.14 15 Paul himselfe and the disciples of our n Math. 28. â—4 Saviour have tried from which even Kings and Princes have not beene exempted the pietie of that Troyan o Pius Aentas á pietate in Patrem in patriam Aeneas the greatnesse and power of Zerxes or Artaxerxes the felicitie and fortunes of p Caesarem vehaâ— fortunas c. Caesar as hee cald them being but meane Orators and unprevailing pleaders to stay the rage of angrie Neptune when blustring Aeolus hath stird and exasperated him that he roars and fomes insomuch that the wise Byas held Sea-men to be neyther amongst the q Nec inter vivos nec inter mortuos living nor amongst the dead it 's fathered of Cato that he resolved amongst other things never to goe by sea when hee might goe by land to which perils if we credit r A little book newly extant of the Prince his returne Mendoza which now speakes English even his Highnesse was subjected in two or three particulars from which the divine providence mercifully preserved him Yea when I consider how many Princes Peeres great personages have perished in by the Sea in which they have bin intombed in their watry graves as the Egyptian Pharaoh Aegeus of Athens Aiax of Greece Leander of Abaddon yea in our owne Realmes a King a Queene that as that Å¿ Icarus icarijâ— nomina feciâ— aquis Ovid. Icarus before them from being drowned in the waters gave denomination to the waters commenting these many moe examples with that proverbiall adage verified daily by experience that quod cuiquam id cuivis what happens to any one may happen to every one and notwithstanding as I said before all these justly feared stormes which might have befalne us in the leaving or losing of our Prince at home or abroad by sea or by land laying to heart the perils that Kings t As Humber deviding Yorkshire and Lincolneshire and Queene Hive princes are subjected unto even wheÌ„ they are at home amongst their friends favorites as they thinke even in their Castles their Courts their Pallaces secured by their guard as Eglon slaine by Ehud even in his owne parlour Iudg. 3. vers 22 23. Ishboseth murthered by Baanah and u 2. Sam. 4. vers 5.6 Rehab even in his own bedchamber as Plautinus in the like case thought to have dispatched Alexander Severus by the meanes of w The history is at large in Guevara in the life of Severus Secundus as Iudith dealt with Hollosernes in the w Iudith 13.7.8 Apocrypha as the two sonnes of Senacharib with their father whom they slaughtered as he was at his Idolatrous sacrifice much more subjected to more eminent immanent dangers abroad where they know not their friends from their foes yet notwithstanding all these doubts dangers these perils occasioning our perplexitie that good Angell that went out with him as with x Chap. 48 16. Iacob to Padam Aram with Abrahams servant to y Gen. 24.7 Mesopotamia and with that Tobiah in the Apocrypha being his fidus Achates by land his Palinurus best Pilot by Sea his bonus Genius if everie man as everie province much more every a This question Iustine Martyr expounded q. 30. and later our Master Calvine lib. 1. Instit cap. 14.7 The mayor part of all the Fathers the schoolemen affirme it as Clemens Alexandrinus lib. 6. stromat Orig hom 8. in Gen.
and distractions of families incumbrances from your callings and what other lets disturbance impediments and remoraes whatsoever which doe everie way in this your warfare here imbondage and inthrall you from the performance of this or any other spirituall duetie in that measure and perfect manner that you would or should of which you daily complaine with the h Rom. 7.23 Apostle and all the faithfull and against which you daily strive and fight in the Christian conflict and bickering i Gal. 5. v. 17. duell betwixt grace and nature the flesh and the spirit Oh let it be your living dying yet never dying comfort that you that begin cordially and Christianly to blesse God here after this short life is ended which is as brittle as k Esai 40 6. 1. Pet. 1.24 glasse as wavering as the winde as frayle as the Ice as swift as a poaste or a weavers shittle as melting as snow as fading as smoake or the fields flower as vanishing as a dreame you shall joyne your spirits to the spirits of the just to sing and ring forth your everlasting Hosannahes and Haleluiahs to the God of spirits for which end as Pauls wish and hearts desire was that Israell might be l Rom. 10.1 saved so my wish and hearts desire is that all of you might here be so farre sanctified that innitiated in this life as prentices to this heavenly science or as journey-men or journing men even strangers and pilgrimes with m 1. Chr. 39.15 David the Patriarkes and n Hebr. 11.13 1. Pet. 2.11 Prophets travelling and peregrinating in this vaile of miserie in your few evill o Genes 47.9 dayes ere you sleepe with your p 1. King 2.10 fathers you would so learne to speake the language of Canaan with the tongues and Tones of Angels that at the last as free Denizens free Citizens infranchized and priviledged in all the liberties of grace and glorie you may keepe a perpetuall Iubilee an everlasting Sabbath of prayses and holy expressions in that heavenly Canaan celestiall Ierusalem Mount Sion which is q Gal. 4.26 above to which my hopes be that you are my desires be that you may be travelling breathing and aspiring SECT II. Motives further urging here to begin the lâ—fe of Grace after of Glorie OH suffer the word of exhortation I beseech you as heavenly Quyristers begin even here even now even this day the Quyre on earth It 's not thanke worth to be eternally thankefull in heaven you must doe it you can doe no otherwayes if you once come there It 's as naturall if I may use that word for the blessed spirits to blesse and prayse the Lord as for the fire to burne the Sunne to shine the waters to move the Seas to ebbe and flow r Aelian hist li. 10. c. 44. Plin. li. 5. cap. 9. Nilus to overflow or any other creatures celestiall or sublunary animate or inanimate to move and worke and produce effects according to their natures and severall proprieties But to prayse God here joyfully cordially constantly to breake here through all impediments as Davids three worthies through the Garryson of the Philistines to fetch the desired waters of Å¿ 1. Chr. 11. vers 18. Bethlem to strive here against all discouragements as in the Olympicke t De his ludis multa apud Celium RhodignuÌ„ historicos Poetas sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum collegisse iuvat c. Horat. games for Masteries to swim against the streame of all oppositions as is said of the u Arist anim lib. 9. cap 48. Dolphin and Samon to be resolute against all repugnances of the false and flattering flesh that bids the spirit as Peter bade Christ favour it selfe The tempting Devill the persecuting world who by the imputations of hypocrisie humorousnesse fantasticalitie singularitie at least of Puritanisme and Precisnesse seeke to quench in every zealist all sparkes of Devotion as soone as ever kindled yea as w Math. 2.16 Herod and x Exod. 1.22 Pharaoh to drowne murther even Christ and Christianitie in all the Israell of God as soone as ever new borne I say those that can thus digest all those bitter pilles as physicall and can be as was Davids y 2. Sa. 6.21.22 case with Micholl more zealous in this and all other duties the more they are opposed like the fire that burnes the more the more it is z Quo magis premitur eo magis astuat ignis supprest this indeede is prayse worthy everie inferior birde can chippe and croude it in the spring and can sing in the Sunne shine that is a birde indeede that can sing in the storme and charoll it in the Winter every fish can play in the calme the Dolphin and some moe can play in the tempest everie man can blesse God in the Sunne-shine of his prosperitie with full bagges full barnes full bellies and clothed backe But to blesse God in adversitie in the stormes of affliction with Iob on the a Job 1. v. 21. dunghill Daniel in the Lions b Dan. 6.21.22 den with the three companions of c Dan. 3.23 Daniels in the furnace with the Martyres at the d Many had that strength grace given them in the paganish Arrian popish persecution nominated in the Martyrologie but chiefly by him who hath epitomized all the booke of Martyres fol. 3.4.5.6 7.8.9.10 to fol. 18. c. stake to sing songs of Sion here in a strang land this is that which is most acceptable to the Almightie Oh then that my words might prick and fasten like the goades and nayles of the sanctuarie that I might plead and prevaile with you Even now with Noahs e Genes 7.9 Dove to enter into the Arke to leave the carrion and fleshly lusts of the world on which the worlds Crowes Dogs and Vultures prey and glutt themselves here to be at rest in God and on God Oh let my counsell be f Dan. 4.24 acceptable here strive to enter into the Bride-grome g Math 25.10 chamber to rejoyce as Paranymphs and friends of the h Math. 9 15. bridegrome to sing with Salomon a divine Epithalamium in honour of the spirituall espousals betwixt Christ and his Church Oh that you could here sleepe in quiet rest and tranquilitie of the soule in heavenly contemplations as that Endimion is said to have slept with the i Apud Natalem Comitem in Methiologijs Moone in the phylosophicall speculations here be conversant in the mount with God as k Exod. 19.3 Moses get a glimpse of the glorie of Christ in the mount with Peter Iames l Math. 17.4.5 2. Pet. 1.17 Iohn for in the mount of high and heavenly thoughts and meditations God will bee seene Christ will bee found in m Luk. 2.46 Ierusalem which is the vision of n Visio Paciâ— peace Oh that we could ascend up from earth to heaven with