come when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth sometime for sincerity in our conversation Ioh. 3. 21. hee that doth truth commeth to the light an Israelite in whom is no guile Ioh. 1. 47. Sometime for the rule of Gods law Rom. 2. 8. Disobeying the truth and obeying vnrighteousnesse and 1. Pet. 1. 22. Your selves are purified by obeying the truth Sometime for the sincere doctrine of the Gospell Gal. 2. 5. that the truth of the Gospell might continue with you Sometime for Iustice Prov. 20. 28. Mercy and truth preserves the King Sometime for such a truth as depends not vpon Opinion which may erre but for that Metaphysicall truth which is affectio Entis and such I take it to be here and so in God it cannot faile so taken Rom. 3. 7. If the verity or truth of God hath more abounded through my lye and so vpon the premisses this doctrine builds it selfe There is nothing more certaine to come to passe in a due and true performance then the truth of all Gods promises Wee neede not stand to prop the truth of this truth vpon any weake foundation of mans building for his truth is himselfe Exod. 34. 6. aboundant in goodnesse and truth Man may be said to be true mercifull just but God is truth mercie and justice it selfe in the abstract so the Prophet here brings his truth in the second place as the sure performer of his mercifull kindnesse whatsoever saith Calvyn He doth promise by his mercy he doth faithfully performe because his mercy and truth are vndissolubly knit together they goe hand in hand and cannot be seperated and as he cannot lye nor deny himselfe Tit. 1. 2. No more can his truth faile Num. 23. 19. God is not as man that he should lye or the sonne of man to repent his truth is confirmed strengthened veryfied and so corroborated toward us for so the word translated great in the Originall signifieth that if we would we cannot put it from us but it will overcome us to acknowledge it if the Lord speake it even to the miraculous continuing of the Meale in the barrell and the Oyle in the Cruse 1. King 17. 14. Even in the preservation and maintenance of the Patriarch Iacob Gen. 32. 10. I am not worthy the least of thy mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed vnto thy servant heere is finem non habitura fides his truth is even decked and clothed with constancy and firmnesse we cannot obiect against him as the Poet against Iason and in him against vnstable Man Mobilis AEsonide vernaque incertior aura Cur tua polliciti pondere verba earent Inconstant sonne of AEson fickle wight and more vnconstant then the wind in spring How is it that thy words are growne so light to want that weight should be in promising He deserves not with Antigonus to be called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who promised much and performed little neither with Thaeaginus to be called smoake who promised much being very poore neither with Hermodorus will he sell his words he doth not will not cannot equivocate with man in the truth of his promises as he that promised centum oves and performed centum ova he hath given us an hand-writing and obligation of promises made himselfe our debter not by owing but promising sayth the great Bishop of little Hippo the heavenly Augustine that we cannot say vnto him give that thou owest but we must pray vnto him for what he promiseth his promises are not like the golden shewes nor showers of the World who like Sathan Mat. 4. 9. promise what they cannot perform inverting the words of the wise Phocion who would have great matters performed not promised as Stobaeus witnesseth but they promise golden mountaines the opulency of Lidian Craesus which in performance prove but moale-hills Among the sonnes of the earth some indeed performe that which after ward they repent as Ioshua did to the Gibeonites Ios 9. 23. some promise what they can doe but meane it not as Iacobs sonnes to the Sichemits Gen 34. 26. Some promise willingly but give vnwillingly as Herod Iohn Baptists head to Herodias Mar. 6. 16. Some promise but after deny it as Laban dealt with Iacob Gen. 29. 23. as is complained Cap. 31. 41. Thou hast changed my wages tenne times but the promises of God are to the faithfull in hope without hope above hope and against hope the father of the faithfull proved all this to be true Rom. 4. 18. Who against hope beleeved in hope that he might be the Father of many Nations the ground of whose Faith was the promise according to that which was spoken so shall thy seede bee Gen. 15. 5. This was accompted vnto Abraham for righteousnesse saith Ambrese because he beleeved and required no reason so the truth of the Lord endureth for ever Because he hath made his truth as strong as the brazen pillers of eternitie to encourage his servants wholly to relye vpon him expecting the performance of his promises he made them before the foundation of the World inact them in the great Parliament of Heaven before all time Ephe. 1. 5. they were and are firme stable great and precious to make us partakers of the divine nature 2. Pet. 1 4. performed in time when the time of promise came which God had sworne to Abraham given a word of prmoise Rom. 9. 7 in Isaac shall thy seede be blessed purposed salvation for us before the world began 2. Tim. 1. 9. Purchased inheritance of promise Heb. 6. 12. be not sloathfull but followers of them which through Faith and patience inherit the promises adopted as children of promise Gal. 4. 28. Now we brethren as Isaac are the children of promise drawne Covenants of promise Ephes 2. 12. The spirit of truth the Scrivener of them Ephes 1. 13. And sealed with the spirit of promise having set not onely his hand but the signet of his right hand the character ingraven image of his own person Amen The truth of the father 2. Cor 10. 10. All the promises of God are yea Amen in CHRIST which is the truth it selfe Reu. 3. 14. These things saith the Amen the true and faithfull witnesse the new convenant drawne Ier. 31. 31. And the counterpane thereof Heb. 8. 8. Are of more force and vertue then all the bills bonds and obligations be they never so curiously and cunningly framed in the winding Mâ—ander of a Ploydons braine Heaven and Earth shall passe ereone jot or title of these can perish nay if there were neither booke record inke or paper in the world they are written more surely then with a pen of Iron ingraven more firmely then with the point of a Diamond by the spirit of Gods grace and adoption in the heart of every beleever and further we have not onely his bond
At Salem is his Tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion and gives this land a peculiar appropriation to himselfe Psal 108. 8. Gilead is mine Manasses is mine being as the signet upon his right hand yet the Flouds of his favour is shoured downe at last plentifully upon the heads of his long neglected Nation and now he decks them as Isaac his lovely Rebecca and marryes them to himselfe in righteousnesse judgement mercy compassion and faithfulnesse Hos 2. 19. hence this Doctrine God hath according to his word revealed Christ Iesus to be a Saviour to the Gentiles called them out of the night of their superstitious blindnes into the liberty of the sonnes of light and hath made them Choristers in the quire of his Saints and partakers of his grace unto salvation This was shadowed prophecied and testified long before Shadowed in the calling of Abraham out of his owne country Gen. 12. 1. into Canaan where the Canaanite the worst of the Gentiles dwelt This doth notably prefigure the calling both of Iewe and Gentile because he is called the Father of the Faithfull Also in the Candlesticke Exod. 25. 31 which is commaunded to be made of one entire piece but having sixe branches to signifie the multitude of the Churches of Iewes and Gentiles whose Originall is from the same shanke called a little sister Cant. 8. 8. We have a little sister and she hath no breasts viz. small as yet through the rarenesse of her Converts and destitute of the helpe of any outward Ministery whereby she might either beare or nourish children unto God she hath no paps that is knowledge in the Doctrine of Salvation contained in the dugges of the two Testaments whereby she can as a mother suckle her new-borne babes being but newly come out of the wildernesse of damnable superstition the curiosity of Philosophy as the students in Ephesus Gods two Testaments in which onely is eternall life as testifying of Christ which is the truth the way and the life Ioh. 14. 6. are called the Tower of David built for defence a thousand shields hang therein furnished with rich Armorie which affoords infinite wayes of protection and monuments of victory Cant. 4. 4. and These are twins verse 5. like those of Hippocrates or those Socia's in Plautus one so like the other in resemblances that as our Saviour Christ said of the knowledge of his Father If ye have knowne me ye have knowne my Father And these the Gentiles Church knew not as yet which after was supplyed in the time of Constantine and after by those famous Luminaries of the world Chrysostome Eusebius Augustine c. called therefore the gates of the Church having the keyes of knowledge to let in the Godly Shadowed also Hos 1. 2. Goe take unto thee a wife of fornications Where it is observed that Hoseas signifying a Saviour intimates that Christ tooke unto himselfe for his spouse the polluted Church of the Gentiles a wife of fornications in worshipping Idols and Devils in stead of the living God that He might make it unto himselfe a glorious Church not having spot or wrinckle Eph 5. 27. or any such thing but to make it holy and without blame and so The not beleeving wife is sanctified by the beleeving husband 1 Cor. 7. 14. Shadowed also in Ruth the Moabitesse gleaning in the field of Boaz the Iewe and their providentiall marriâ—ge the poore ruthfull Gentile with the rich Iewe Ruth 2. 3. and 4. 13 And shadowed also in Peterâ—nd â—nd Iohn running to the sepulcher Iohn the Iewes they came first to Christ Peter the Gentiles overtaking them though not the sooner yet the sounder It was also shadowed in Christs buriall in Ierusalem where the dying sacrifices had given warning of his death but it was without the city to answere the type Levit. 16. 25 of the Scape goate sent into the wildernesse and to signifie his sufferings belonged to Gentiles as well as to Iewes In his birth borne in the night to signifie that he should lighten the Gentiles that sate in the darkenesse of superstition and ignorance Acts 10. 23. And thus was it shadowed in Peters vessell Act. 17. 11. descending like a Sheet in which the Doctor of the Iewes is taught to call the long rejected Gentiles called by the free mercy of God cleane Shadowed also in Iacob who served for Rachel and Leah Gen. 30. 31. And in the land of Egypt Gen. 41 And likewise in the marriage of Sampson Moses Gideons fleece and Davids building in Araunahs floore It was also fore-prophecyed Gen. 9. 27. God shall enlarge Iapheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Sem which signifieth not the enlarging onely of his borders and dominions and his surprising enchroaching and being in league with Sem for this was also in cursed Cham the Aegyptian and others of that spewed-out seede were in league with the Iewe and sometime enlarged their boarders upon them but gently to perswade them home to theyr Fathers house Luke 15. to become a chosen people partakers of the meanes of salvation and heyres of life The Greekes and Latines by these two languages did open the tents of Sem that is the Hebrew Scriptures layd up in Hebers sacred tongue and made them knowne to the Gentiles and so they were received into the Covenant The Church a long time stood pailed and imparked as a garden enclosed or a spring shut up Cant. 4. 12. Or as Israel in the land of Goshen within the skirts of honoured Palestina but now Christ hath broken downe the partition wall Eph. 2. 14. and hath made all one there is neither Iewe nor Gentile the two wals of Nations bond nor free the two wals of Conditions male or female the two walls of sexe the great two quicke and dead and the greatest two heaven and earth but all are one in Christ Iesus Gal. 3. 28. all these so many combinations all meete in him as in a Center he in the midst of all drawes all and knitts up all in one faith one blessed hope of his comming he is a Corner-stone or coyne to joyne these two walls together Zac. 10. 4. Out of him came forth the corner Zach. 3. 9. Esay 28. 16. c. and so that great gulfe that made a particion against us the Gentiles is taken away and all made one Esay 52. 10. All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God And againe this Evangelicall Prophet or propheticall Evangelist Cap. 11. 10. In that day there shall be a roote of Iesse which shall stand for an ensigne of the people to it shall the Gentiles seeke and Cap. ult 19. They shall declare my glory among the Gentiles So though theyr eyes were as yet dimme as Elie's 1 Sam. 4. 15. and they could not see the light of saving truth yet there should come out of Iesse a light to
lighten the Gentiles Luke 2. 32. being set in the sight of all upon the Candlesticke of the Crosse the Gospell preached in an open field and he borne in a common Inne Luke 2. 7. The desire of all nations shall come Hag. 2. 7. From the rising of the Sunne unto the going downe thereof my name is great among the Gentiles Mal. 1. 11. If yee be Christs yee are Abrahams seede and heires according to the promise For though Abrahams person be but one yet his conditions are diverse as he is a begetting Abraham so the Gentiles are not his children according to the flesh as he is a beleeving Abraham so we are his children according to the faith and according to promise Esay 9. 2. The people which walked in darkenesse have seene a great light they that dwelled in the land of the shadowe of death upon them hath the light shined And thus in a matter so copious I referre you to the fountaine of divine prophecies the rich Cabinet much more worth than the Cabinet of Darius so curiously kept by Alexander the booke of God Thirdly it was manifestly testified in time whose appointed revolution being finished these forlorne forsaken Nations were gathered with as much love and tendernesse as the hen gathereth her chickens under her wings fedde as kindly at the breasts of him whose paps are girt about with a golden girdle Rev. 1. 13. as the young ones at the breasts of the more than naturall Pellican And though in the time of Salomon they had no breasts and of Esay they sate in darknesse and of Hosea they made Lo-ammi not my people Lorucha mai not beloved few in number scarce one among a thousand as yet they did not cry unto God Ier. 3. 4. My Father thou art the guide of my youth They were scarce one of a citie two of a family verse 14. the Apostles with a large mandate commission must goe teach all nations Math. 28. 19. then was the wilde Olive engrafted in and made partaker of the fatnesse of the Olive Rom. 11. 17. the branches were plucked off as the signet of ones finger and she grafted in the Iewes decreased and neare in a falling sicknesse and consumption the Gentiles encreased multiplyed and came forth of their darknesse as the twin kling Cressets of heaven at the setting of the Worlds great Luminarie the Sunne like to that Ezech 16. 17 I have caused thee to multiply as the budde of the field and thou hast encreased and waxen great and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned thine haire growne wheras thou wast naked and bare but a fewe Proselites But after the ascention of our Saviour Christ the very seed and first bud begun to flourish take roote and growe like a Cedar in Lebanon Now consider in this that conversion or calling is twofold First it signifieth repentance of them which have fallen away from the truth of religion to heresie from vertue to sinne c. and afterward returne againe to God Ioel 2. 11. Therfore now saith the Lord turne unto me againe and such was Salomons conversion Secondly it signifies Regeneration when a man is effectually called and converted to the faith which before stood in the way to perdition such Eph. 2. 1. And you hath he quickned which were dead in sinnes and trespasses wherein in time past ye walked Tit. 3. 3. For we our selves were sometime foolish disobedient deceived serving diverse lusts and pleasures living in malice and envie c. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Such were some of you but ye are sanctified but yee are justifyed c. Such is the conversion of the Gentiles Paul Barnabas being sent by the Church through Phaâ—nicia Samaria theyr Countries to make them Christians Acts 15. 3. The good successe which God gave to theyr planting and waterings may easily appeare when the burning Lampe of the Gospell like a flaming fire went over the whole earth by a divine disposing thereof It light upon Candaces Aehiopian Noble Acts 8. by the Ministery of Philip which was made the first fruites of the beleeving Gentiles making good the Oracle of the Prophet Psal 68. 31. Ethiopia shall soone stretch forth her hands unto God this Noble man being the first Preacher of these glad ydings to the Moores This is also manifest in the woman of Chanaan or a Syrophoenician Math. 15 her discreet humble fervent and constant prayer to Christ which goes away with that great commendation O woman great is thy faith as at the faith of the Centurion Math. 8. 10. I have not found so great faith no not in Israel Where we see Christ never wondering at the faith of any Iewe but of the Gentiles because in old time They were strangers from the covenant of Promise without hope without God in the world Ephes 2. 12. And so this is the Lords doing and it is marvailous in our eyes that we the dogs of the Gentiles should become Gods people to magnifie his mercy in our conversion she is called no more Dog but Woman no more an Infidell but a beleever and now like a Spaniell she will not away from her Masters heeles till she get though not a whole loafe yet crummes from his table Testified also in the Easterne Magi Math. 2. 9. which brought offerings to the new incarnate Sauiour whether they were Astrologers which by art Mathematicall knew the power and motion of the Plannets and nature of the Elements or whether they were Magically learned and professors of those divelish mysticall Arts as Iustin contra Triphon Origen lib. 1. contrâ— Celsum Or they were Kings according to that of David Psal 68. 29. Kings shall bring presents unto thee as of Tharsis and the Iles of Arabia and Saba the Queene whereof presented Salomon Christs type odoriferous perfumes c. 1 King 12. which are foretold of these wise men Or whether they came from Persia as Cyril lib. 2. in Esa 2. 49. Basil Hom. 25. de Nativitate Christi Theophylact which calls them Persian Kings Invencus Poeta which is probable from the scituation of the Kingdome the names of the wise men their manner of adoration their gifts c. or from Chaldaea as Hieron super Esa cap. 19. Chalcidicus in Platonis Timaeo cals them the perfectly wise men of the Chaldes Anselmus in 2. Math. Ioachimus Abbas saith This day hath he speaking of Christ revealed himselfe to the Chaldaeans by the leading of a new star and this also is confirmed by many reasons Or from Arabia Faelix they shall bring gold and incense from Saba Esay 60. 6. which is the Metropolis or mother-city in Arabia the happy Cyprian serâ— de stella Magis Epiphanius Hilar. lib. 4 de Trinit Tacitus lib. 5 hist and these were the first converted of the Gentiles Or from Mesopotamia or Aegypt all with one consentand one voyce make theyr
Countrey they are Christened by a new name called Ignatiani in Spaine Theatin◠in Italy Iesuini Campania Scosiotti in Ferrara Presbyteri in St. Luciae in Bononia reformati Sacerdotis in Mutina with many more And as in their names so in their natures ambiguous for being asked what a Iesuite is they answere Every Man they have two Soules in one body as is confessed in their Catechisme besides all these and their severall projects in themselves and their darke Disciples what tortuous Leviathans are they in their amphibolous amphibious enigmaticall ennuciations and mungerill propositions like so many Colour-changing Camelions as doubtfull as Proteus or Vertumnus Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo In what strong Chaine can any tie this Changelings face to know him by Wee may well say of their Labyrinth-like windings and crooked Heterogenials as Ierome sometime spake of the darke abstruse riddles of Iovinian No man can reade these Letters except the Prophetesse Sybill or as Martiall in the like case None but some learned Apollo can vnfold these Mysteries these Maeanders or as Plautus in the like case Has equidem pol credo nisi Sybilla legerit interpretari alium possi neminem which hollow equivocating hath translated vpon them the ancient infamie of the Spartanes called by Andromache Kings of Lyers and that which Apuleius layes vpon the Scicilians triple-tongued these be the Gibeonites the Iebusites the Iesuites onely in Hypocrisie bearing the name of IESVS though often shadowed under the winges and shrowded as poysonous Vipers in the bosome of Kings have shewed themselves to bee the onely underminers of States and Kingdomes advancing themselves by perverting the Truth against the God of truth who will smite them for whited Walls and painted Sepulchers but leaving them to themselves let us which are the children of Light love the Truth and when all Lyers and dissemblers shall have their portion with the Father of lyes the Truth which maketh not ashamed shall translate us and carry us upon his unconquered wings from these dirty and dusty Cottages of clay into everlasting habitations to the innumerable company of holy Angels and hie Saints for ever Now followes the object of Gods unutterable Mercy and uncontroleable Truth Toward vs which though David seeme to speake in the person of the Iewish Church and Nation the Patriarkes and Fathers of that time who had already and did continually taste of his favours though not so fully as we doe they having in promise wee in full performance that great mystery God manifested in the Flesh the matriculation and incarnation of our blessed Saviour IESVS CHRSIT yet no doubt hee had an eye vnto all succeeding Generations both of Iew and Gentile which were Gods elect and chosen and in time to bee brought into his Chambers Cant. 1. 4. To be made partakers of his Mercy and Truth as when hee stood arraigned hee stood not in his owne place but in ours making his personall appearance on our behalfe so in his resurrection the whole Church arose in him Ephes 2. 6. hee hath raised us up together and made us fit together in the heavenly places in CHRIST IESVS where we plainely see the Mercies and promises of God especially this concerning the promised seede called The truth of the Father were performed to the fathers before and after the flood in the worke of redemption and salvation and now confirmed in the same title unto us who live after the incarnating of that immortall word from which we gather this truth There is but one way of Salvation and Happinesse to the Fathers and also to us and that by the same IESVS CHRIST For confirmation of this we see the unchangeable purpose of almighty God in gathering his Church Hebr. 13. 8. IESVS CHRIST yesterday to day and the same forever Rom. 15. 8. Now I say that IESVS CHRIST was a Minister of the circumcision for the truth of God to confirme the promises made unto the Fathers c. Rev. 13 8. The Lambe slaine from the beginning of the world which though manifested in the latter times and afternoone of the world like a Roe or young Hart comming skipping over the Mountaines of Bether Cant. 2 vlt. yet all the holy Men and women from Adam inclusively were saved by his blood many of which as Noah Isaac Ioseph c. were tipes and shadowes of him the Ceremonies and Leviticall sacrifices tending to little other purpose but to nourish them in hope of the Messiah the slaughter and death of which beasts was to acquaint them with the mysterie of redemption which stood as under a vaile shadowed in the auncient complement of the Law Iohn 8. 56. Abraham saw my day and rejoyced Luke 1. 47. that hee might shew mercy towards our Fathers Acts 26. 6. the Apostle Pauls religion was concerning the hope of the promise made unto the Fathers Cephas the Pillar of truth Acts 15. 10. joyneth the Fathers faith with ours wee beleeve even as they so to them that lived before his Incarnation hee was crucified in the sacrifices and to us hee was likewise crucified in the word and Sacraments Galath 3. 1. CHRIST IESVS evidently set forth and crucified among you not in Roods Masses and Crucifixes but in his Holy and Sacred Ordinances To confirme and teach us in the first place that no length of time is able to disanull abrogate or make voyde the counsels of the Ancient of dayes or extenuate and make lesse the worth efficiacie and powerfull enargie of CHRISTS sacrifice the same which was Preached to Adam in Paradise Gen. 3. 15. promised to Abraham and David and the Church of the Iewes foretold by all the Prophers concerning CHRIST belōgs to us by faith they looked upon CHRIST as up to the Serpent in the wildernesse Iohn the 3. 14 as he was to bee crucified by faith wee looke upon him as he is crucified like the two Cherubins at the two ends of the Mercie-seate having their faces one toward another and both upon the Arke Exod. 25. 18. So the age primitive which is past and all our after-gatherings of all-measuring Time looke either on either and both upon CHRIST there is no other way nor hath or can be Salvation in any other Acts 4. 12. Secondly it serves to comfort every true beleever though never so base dejected rejected dispised and dispited though he lye among the pots Psal 68. 13. or behind the Ewes with young Psal 78. 72. though hee be Lord and Master of few or none of these outward things as Lazarus Luke 16 yet is he by CHRIST called to the same Salvation admitted into the same fellowship made partaker of the same Heaven with those auncient worthies Mat 8 11. sitting downe with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdome of happinesse The contrary whereof viz. a deprivation and losse of that Heavenly Vision called by the Schoolemen
Prov. 25. 11. Then to conclude this Treatise of praysing the Lord with Hugo because he is Creator ad esse which gave us our being Conservator in esse preserving us in that being Recreator in bene esse restores us being fallen into a better Glorificatur in optimo esse will glorifie us with the best being of all at the day of the Lord IESVS To whom with the Father of mercies and the Spirit of comfort and consolation be ascribed and given all Praise and Thankesgiving both of Nation and People Iew and Gentile now and for evermore Amen FINIS Quid est quod non in Psalmis Propheticall Didascalicall Eâ—cticall Historicall Epaineticall Lo-ruhamah Lo-ammi Duty O Nullum omnipotenti Deo tale est sacrificium quale est zelus animoruÌ„ Gregor in Ezech Hom 12. Praise Lib. 1. 3. Rhet. The Lord Dominus Deus noster Papa Dij titulares non tutelares Quantus est Dominus qui Dominos fecit August Dicitur omnipotens faciendo quod vult non patiendo quod non vult August de Civit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A love principium c. Friget laus quam sibi quisque assumit nulla necessita te coactus Pineda super Iob cap. 29. ver 12. n. 5. Pâ—ter Martyr super locum Marlorat sup locum As B. Iewell defended his learning against the rayling Papists Vide Plutarch in Comentario Qua ratione quis citra invidiam laudare seipsum potest Qui laudare se appetit superbus esse convincitur Super Psal 5. Peter Martyr Aquinas super locum Object Answ Supplicij causa est suppliciumque sui How Odys Vide Moresinum de origine incremento Papatus Cic. lib. 2. de Divinat Doct. 1. Deus Optimus Maximus Magnificare nihil aliud est quam magnum facere Lexicon Theologicum Psal 150. last verse Reas 1. Galenus Eccles 12. 1. 2. 3. c. Volateran lib. 21. Comment Funcius et Bucholcerus in Chronic. lib. 7. cap. 13. Vbi benè nemo melius ubi malè nemo pejus Sixtus Senen hibl lib. 3. pag. 1â— 7. In Celloquio de Erasmo De spiritu litera cap. 34. Quisquis tibi enuxerat vera merita sua quid tibi enumerita nisi munera tua August Conf. lib. 9. cap. 13. Bonamea dona tua Aug. Confes lib. 10. cap. 4. Cephas in the Syriack tongue a Stone Reas 2. Poculum Eucharistiae Gratiarum actio est actus laâ—â—ig â—quinas Vse 1. Aug Euthimâ—us super Psal ult Clemens Alexandrinus Noli gloriari quod lingua benè dicis si vita malè dicis Super Psal 133. Damascen lib. 3. cap. 4. Salvianus de guhernatione Dei lib. 4. Tues vox nihil praeterea 2 Kings 2. O tempora O mores A. Gellius Nost Attic. Totum hominem totam legem totum tempus Hic homo crubescit timere Caesarem Lauda ut videam Vse 2. Deus est circulus Cic. de natura Deorum Socrat. lib. 6. Tripart Eust cap. 21. N Olans de Attila Pilatus sibiipsi intulit manus Niceph. lib. 2. cap. 10. cap. 13. de morte Herodis suiipsius interemptor divina ultione factus Euseh lib. 2. ca. 7. Eccl hist Iosephus lib. 28 Act. cap. 5. Eutropius lib. 7. Glorie put for all that may be known of God as Exod. 33. 18 Aelian varia Historia Lib. 4. Inventurum se quidem sed ut eo turbatus perierat Cic. de Fato Vse 3. English Chronicle Polyd Virgil lib. 7. Anglicae Historiae Luk. 16. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sic Scorpius à vastando violas Arist Plin. Dioscor Propter venustatem invenustae Chrysost Ornamentum est quod ornat ornat quod honestiorem facit De grege porcorum Horat. Hebraicè Ierome Apicius had 1000. Cookes Dr. Boys Non dispensat sed dissipat bona Domini Angele Dei qui custos es mei c. Ios 5. 13. Iudg. 6. 11. 1 Kings 19. Miitat â—ther Lucan Vesta a vistando Weepe against him Hebraicè Tota creatura est armatura Dei Civitatis eversio est morum non murorâ—m casus Graviores inimici sunt mores pravi quam hostes infesti Mars vltor galeam perdidit res non potuit servare suas In caula de aula in hara de ara loquitur Ingratum si dixeris omnia dixeris Plaut Ingratitudo obstring it manus Dei Marlorat Pabula peccati pocula lethi Exod. 23. 25. Dan. 1. 15. see Psalm 104. 13. 14. 15. Hag. 1. 6. Parturiunt montes Hor. Carpo-balsamum Isidor Inest in viva voce nescio quid latentis energiae lerom Simile Post mortem Iuliani Apostaâ—ae Euseâ— 2 Cor. 5â— 21. Pro 5. 22. 2 Tim. 3. 26 Gal. 2. 20. Esay 32. 15. Acts 4. 10. It lyes not in mans power to beget faith in his owne soule Hab. 1. 16. Menecrates called himselfe in pride before King Philip Rex salut is Ego Rex Medicinae tu Macedoniae Psal 115. 1. Vse 4. Ambr. Origen super Lucam Herm. Trismegistuâ— Quasi homo esset illa omnis creatura 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 creatio Rom. 1. Gal. 6. Que potest â—egere me te Bern. Qui benedicit deo augetur qui maledicit minuitur Aâ— in Rome Psal 103. Aug. lib. 1. de D. Chianna cap. 31. Sem first named in regard of his prerogative as Izaac before Ismael and Iacob before Esau Gen. 9. Psal 18. 49. 2 Sam. 22. 50. Dâ—ut 32. 43. Esay 11. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Appositissimum vaticinium ad comprobandam Gentium vocationem Marlorat Pars pro toto per Synecdochen Doct. * Maldonat ex Chrysost in locum Ex vocatione Abrahae praefigurata est vocatio Gentium Iudaeorum quia pater est fidelium Cyril Hall super Cant. Iacobus de Valentia super Cant. Acts 19. 19. Idem ibidem Portae Ecclesiae dicuntur in quantum iutroducunt bonos in Ecclesiam Ibid. Hieron in Hoseam Iren. lib. 4. cap. 37. Aug. contra Faustum lib. 22. cap 89. â—â—â—pertus lib. 14. Com. in Iohan Math. 8. 10. Bifeild super Col. 2. 1. Tertull. contra Marci lib. 5 Fore-prophecied Blandè reducat Vatablus Rupertus super Genesim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 16. 26 Abraham gignens Abraham credens Testified in time Conversion is twofold Vide Niceph. Eccles Hist lib. cap. 6. Hic primo ex gentibus a Philippo per apparitionem verbi divini sacra consceutus est Euseb lib. 〈…〉 1. Eccl. hist Maldonat super Math. cap. 15. Arte Mathematica vim et discursum noverant Planetarum Elementorum naturam Cyprian Psal 72. 14. Chrysost in Math. Tertul. lib. 3. contra Iudâ—â—s Theophylact. in 2 cap. Math. Chaldaeorum perfectè sapientes viri Hodiè revelavit se Chaldaeis novi syder is indicio Sabaei Arabum propter thura clarissimi Plinius lib. 12. cap. 14. Diod. Siculus Sus Minervam Olitor Eremitâ— Thaulerum Asina Balaam docet Dij laborantes adjuvant Col. 1. 26. 27. Populus Gentium erant laterâ— Diaboli propter conjunctâ—m