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The ioy of Ierusalem and woe of the worldlings. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 18. of Iune. 1609. By William Loe Batcheler of Diuinity.
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Loe, William, d. 1645.
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and also ab illo malo from the deuill and all his designements Lastlie it is the perfection of the church if we respect the time to come for hee is the ancient of daies not to bee antiquated by length of time He is the perfection of our soules and bodies in the resurrection and in a word our exceeding great reward So he praieth verse 24. That we may be where he is that we may behold his glorie which was from euerlasting Of this knowledge of the power of Christs praier manifold is the holie and deuine vse practise 1. Of hope which quickneth vs. For while we pray heere on earth wee knowe and beleeue assuredly that Christ praieth for vs and pleadeth our cause as an aduocate in heauen In his humiliation hee praied for vs in his exaltation then assuredlie oh Angelicall Manna 2. Of reuerend boldnesse which the spirit of God exhorteth Seeing Heb. 4. 14. 15. 16. then that wee haue a great high Priest which is entered into heauen euen Iesus the Sonne of God Let vs hold fast our profession for wee haue not an high Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all things tempted in like sort yet without sin Let vs therfore goe boldly vnto the throane of grace that we may receiue mercie and finde grace to helpe in time of neede 3. Of resolution if the praier of Elizeus was powerfull to restore 2. Reg. 4. 36. Act. 20. 12. to life the Sonne of the Shunamite and of Paul to bring againe the breath of Eutychus Why should not wee resolue to trust in the Lord albeit hee kill vs for he killeth and maketh aliue againe he laies vs in the dust and raiseth vs vp to euerlasting and euerliuing glorious felicitie 4. Of confirmation for heere are all the blessings of Garazim and the dew of Hermon which falleth vppon the hill of Sion which is Gods Church where the Lord promiseth his peace and blessing for Zach. 2. 5. euermore this is not murus aheneus but murus igneus not a wall of Brasse but of fire wherein is not onely protection but terrour and vtter destruction Protection to Gods Children a terrour to their enemies euen a far off but if they bee so foole hardie as imagining their skins to be thunder proofe and approach to hurt his church they and theirs shall bee vtterlie consumed 5. Of precedent wee ought also to pray for our selues and for our brethren for that is a countermure against all assaults of Sathan and therfore Christ our Sauiour so aduiseth vs Pray continually Luk. 18. Lastly of direction Christ praieth to God the Father immediately wee therefore in his name onely ought to send out our praiers not to Saint or Angell for that is an iniurie to the whole Trinitie First to God the father who is the obiect of our praiers so himselfe speaketh Call Psa 50. 15. vpon me in the time of trouble and I will heare you 2. To God the Sonne for he is the one and onely mediatour of our praiers There being but one God and one mediatour betweene God and man 1. Tim. 2. 5 which is the man Christ Iesus 3. To God the holy Ghost for he is the breath of our praiers Wee in our selues knowing not what to pray for Rom. 8. 26 nor how to pray as we ought but the spirit it selfe maketh request for vs with sighes vnutterable Now let vs descend from the person which is the Sonne of God vnto the parties which are the Sonnes of men First as they are designed by titles of fauour honour Secondly as they are distinguished by notes of separation from the world I pray for them which are my Sonnes by adoption my Saintes by calling my Princes and Priests by conuersation my beloued by decree my baptized by institution my Illuminates by purpose and mine Associates by promise His Sonnes so Saint Iohn stileth Iohn 1. 12. them As many as receiued him to them he gaue prerogatiue to bee the Sonnes of God An heauenlie priuiledge The Sons of men become the sonnes of God by knowing acknowledging Iesus Christ The same diuine in words of admired demonstration pointeth this out saying Behold what loue the father hath giuen to vs that wee wretches should be called the Sonnes of God And because the Euangelist thought it not enough that wee should be so called he addeth further Deerely beloued now are we 1. Io. 3. 1. 2 the Sonnes of God but yet it is not manifest what wee shall bee If then we be sonnes some vertue together with the seede is transfused Bonus sanguis non mentitur Honourable blood cannot counterfeit Whereupon the spirit of God warneth vs that we shew our selues as Sonnes not as bastards for Heb 12. 8 whome hee praieth not 2 I pray for them which are my saints by calling whome I haue purged by my blood and sanctified by my spirit The blood of Iesus 1. Ioh. 1. 7 Christ purging vs from al our sinnes And Paul testifieth that Iesus Christ was declared mightilie to be the sonne of God by the spirit of sanctification Rom. 1 not onely in himselfe which was powred out on him without measure but also vppon euerie one of his in some measure We ought therefore to bee holy as our heauenlie father is holie wee beleeuing also a communion of Saints which is seene by faith and not by eie 3. I pray for them which are my Princes my Priests by conuersation So Peter entituleth 1. Pet. 29 them ye are of the Royall Priesthood Royall therefore Princes Priesthood therefore Priests Princes in swaying their affections Priestes in sacrificing their pleasures and in offering their daily sacrifices to God for themselues others In euerie true christian there shineth a certaine princely maiestie seasoned and sorted with a Priestlie modestie and humilitie Chrysostome saith they are knowne by their gate by their looke by their vesture by their voice Their going princely being shod with the Eph. 6. 15. shoes of preparation of the Gospell Psal 131. 1 Their lookes Princely being lifted vppe vnto the hils from whence commeth their helpe Their vesture Priestlike al glorious Psa 45. 13. within Their voice Priestlike soft and milde as Iacobs voice and these are those for whome Christ heere praieth 4. I pray also for them which are my beloued by decree Beloued before they were Iacob haue I loued Beloued when they were children Hos 11. 1 when Israel was a childe I loued him Beloued when they were men Zorubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel shal be as the signet vpon Hag. vlt. my right hand Beloued when they are not Right deere in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints yea albeit Beggers yet beloued for angels attend them in after death Luc. 16 22 to carrie and conuey them to rest 5 I pray for them which are my Baptized outwardly by
11. 19 so I say heere is a Seperation of true Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The notes of this diuine Separation are three 1. A Catholike faith toward God 2. Integritie of life and conuersation in themselues 3. Euangelicall charitie toward others By a Catholik Faith I vnderstand not a Romish rotten ragged nouel profession nor as these rare illuminated Iesuits vnderstand Catholike who among manie and manifold other their trauersing the point how to vnderstand Catholik at last conclude verie holie God wot that none are Catholik professors and of that faith but such as are vnder the Catholike Bishop the Pope of Rome in the gouernment and tie of their soules and consciences and vnder the Catholike King of Spaine in the regiment Sparing Discouery of Eng. Iesuits of their bodies goods And this deuice was then hatched when they intended to haue raised that Phillip of Spaine to haue beene the western Monarch of this part of the world Thus doe these Iesuiticall impostours abuse and abase these sacred mysteries of Faith and the seruice of God to damnable and detestable policie But wee beloued of the Lord vnderstand a catholike faith either as the current of the fathers that is the orthodoxe Faith or as Vincentius Lyrinensis Vincent Contr. Hor. Ca. 3. thirteene hundred yeares agoe interpreteth Catholike to wit That which hath beene receiued and beleeued euerie where in the christian world in al places at all times and of all true confessors Heb. 12 And without this faith wee conclude with the Apostle That it is impossible to please God The resience whereof is in the heart for with the heart we beleeue to righteousnes Ro. 10. 10 So Philip the Euangelist teacheth the Eunuch If thou beleeue with Act. 8. 37. all thine heart thou maist bee baptized The effects of this Catholike faith are foure manifested in the word 1. A resolued trust in God 2. A reuerend boldnesse toward him 3. An euidence of things not seene 4. A plenarie perswasion and full setling of the heart The two first are reuealed in one vers Seeing then that we haue such trust ◠Cor. 3. 12 saith Paul we vse great boldnesse of speech The fourth is verified as of Abrahams faith which is a perfect paterne so of all the faithfull That hee was fully perswaded that he Rom. 4. 24 which had promised was able to performe it and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousnes The third is positiuely set downe of the spirit of God That faith is the ground of Heb. 11. 1 things hoped for and the euidence of things not euident Thus may we discerne a Catholike Faith by the stile and by the effects Furthermore we may descrie it by looking vpon those halfe faced christians which haue not this true character stamp vpon them As first those are not of this Catholique Faith who obserue part of the commandements reiect the other part as an Hypocriticall Faith doth For the hypocrites are precise in the obseruance of the first table but remisse in the cautions of the second table And this is Sans question an infallible note of a precise Hypocrite if you mark it Secondly those that willingly beleeue part of the Articles of our creed and neglect the other part are not of this Catholike faith For whereas the whole summe of our Faith is referred to those three heads 1. Ad esse Matura 2. Ad esse Gratiae 3. Ad esse Gloriae The christiā partee perpale as the heralds speak condiscendeth to the credit that God made the world which is the first generall head and willingly heareth of the promised glory in the world to come but when he is brought to the humiliation death and resurrection of Christ and is bound hereby to humble mortifie and conforme himselfe according to the Image of the sonne of God there hee faileth and leaueth off his procession and going on in this Catholike Faith Thirdly those are not of this Catholike Faith who thinke they may serue Idols outwardly so they keepe their Faith to God inwardly like vnto Peter in the Pallace of the High priest and the ancient Heretiques the Helchisitae who imagined they might doe as others doe in the outward worship so that they kept their consciences and hearts to God as though God were not the Creator of their bodies as well as of their soules required not the whole man to serue him Fourthly they are not of this catholik faith who serue God onely outwardly as do all worldly christians Fiftly they are not of this Catholik faith who serue God onelie in their time of prosperitie for both these sorts are condemned and reiected by our Sauiour in the parable of the seed Lastly they are not of this Luke 8. Catholike Fath who serue him in certaine places as in the court and not in the countrie in the countrie and not in the court These are such as Christ praieth not for but are excluded from the holy Communion of his blessed intercession Dauids spirit faith was other wise for he saith I will Psal 119 speake of thy testmonies before kings and will not bee ashamed What an hideous shame was this euen in the time of Christs Incarnation That among the cheefe Rulers many beleeued in him but because of the Pharisees they did not confesse him lest they should bee cast out of the Synagogue but the reason ensueth Ioh. 12 They loued the praise of men more then the praise of GOD. O foolish and faithlesse people be ye Gouernors Rulers Iudges or Inferiors heare your doome with what measure yee mete withall shall bee measured to you againe christ auoucheth it whosoeuer saith he shall confesse mee before men Mat. 10 32 33. him will I confesse also before my Father which is in heauen But whosoeuer shall denie mee before men him will I also denie before my Father which is in heauen And Luk 9 26 againe whosoeuer shall bee ashamed of mee and of my words of him shall the Sonne of man bee ashamed when hee shall come in his glorie and in the glorie of the father and of the holy angels Thus much of the first note of true christianity which is a Catholik faith toward God The second is Sinceritie and Newnes of life and conuersation in our selues And herein appeareth the wonderful power maiestie of our God in that wee haue strength through him to sanctifie in some measure our wretched and accursed nature For as the true Christian for whom Christ here prayeth liueth two liues a natural life a supernatural so hath god giuen him two forms whereby those liues are sustained For first as by the soule which is the naturall forme we liue a naturall life in all our powers and sences so of grace which is the supernatural forme proceed all the vertues and gifts of Gods spirit whereby wee liue a supernaturall life This was Pauls life after he was conuerted when as