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A07839	Scotlands welcome a sermon preached at Needham in the countie of Suff. on Tuesday, April 5, 1603, vpon Pro. 11. 10 : in the prosperitie of the righteous the citte reioyceth, and when the wicked perish, there is ioy / by Miles Mosse ... ; with some notes and allegations then omitted by reason of the time, and the capacitie of the audience.	Mosse, Miles, fl. 1580-1614.	1603 (1603)	STC 18210; ESTC S456	28,263	88

reioice in the Prosperity of this religious Prince on the other side let vs pray to God both to affect his heart with large purposes of our common good and to prepare our hearts to intertaine the good which his comming to the Crowne seemeth to promise vnto vs lest we stand in our owne light by our owne vnto wardnesse it be said of vs as it is of the Isrealites in the daies of Iehoshaphat The high places were not taken away the king could not doe the good that he would haue done in the land for the people had not yet prepared their hearts vnto the God of their fathers 4. There is yet a fourth Obseruation to be made from these words of Salomon In the prosperity of the Righteous the citie reioiceth For it teacheth vs what account we are to make of those whose affections are moued with no ioy to see good men grow vp and Righteous men to Prosper vpon earth Verily it argueth that they are such as haue euill will at Sion and Their eie being euill because God is good it sheweth that they are an enuious and malicious generation Either they are no Citizens or no sound hearted Citizens to the city of God For Enuy hateth that which it maligneth Sudat frigidus intuens quod odir When Nehemiah reedified the walles of Ierusalem the true hearted and naturall Iewes ioined with him and strengthened their hands to good But Sanballat and Tobiah mocked them and conspired together to hinder them And no maruell for they were no Iewes The one was an Horonite that is a Moabite and the other was an Ammonite both of which nations were olde professed enemies to the people of God Againe when Paule came to Paphus Sergius Paulus desired to heare the word of God But Elimas withstood them and sought to turne away the Deputy from the faith No maruell For he was a Iewe and a Sorcerer and therefore could neither beare the trueth nor the holinesse of Christian Religion So hath it alwaies beene in the world Ammonites and Moabites Iewes and Sorcerers men of corrupt life and religion could neuer take pleasure in the building of Ierusalem nor in the propagating of the Gospell Whereof it is that they haue alwaies maligned the rising vp of the Righteous for feare that the worke of God should prosper in their hands Heere therefore learne we to iudge of what sort and qualitie those are among vs which grinde their teeth and hang their heads at this new day of Englands Prosperitie Of which ranke and company are the ding-thrifts of the lande who hauing wasted their owne goods with riotous liuing hoped now to haue parted other mens stakes in the time of ciuill dissention Those also which raised not themselues by their Righteousnesse but climbed on high by symonie by briberie by flattery abusing the gracious time and speciall ministers of the state by corrupting and peruerting inferior officers Those againe which assumed the Magistracie not to doe iustice but to gaine reputation and entered the ministerie not to labour but to liue at ease not to feed the slocke but to feed vpon the flocke These and diuerse others fearing lest in an alteratino their euill might come to light as when a man remooueth his house many a thing is pulled out that laie hid while he was setled in some dark corner they can not but in apparance onely reioice at this prosperitie But to omit these and some others there are now two especiall sorts of male-contents in the land that sigh at the heart though they smile with their countenance at this common peace and ioy in the kingdome The Lord giue his Maiestie grace prudently to discerne them and puissantly to suppresse them as enemies to God and chiefe hinderances to the Gospell 1. The one sort are the Atheists I meane the Mocke-gods of our time which make a scorne of all religion and saie with the Foole in their hearts There is no God Of such grosse and senselesse Atheists I speake not of such as the Papists make of the Protestants For with them Erasmus is an Atheist because I now he imitated Lucians stile in deriding their absurdities With them Caluine is an Atheist because he maketh God the authour of all things Not being able seely schollers to distinguish between the actition which is euer of God and the euill of the action which is euer of man himselfe Againe they say of Bukchennane that he was Atheus Poëta a godlesse or Athetsticall Poet because perhaps he compiled Dauids Psalmes in Poeticall verses Yea in their esteeme all of vs are little better then Atheists because we acknowledge not euery seuerall Saint for a petie God in religion As the Athenians condemned Protagoras for an Atheist consultè potius quàm prophanè disputantem Who disputed rather aduisedly like a Christian than prophanely like an Atheist So Arnobius iudgeth and so I doe conceine him For certainly his purpose was neuer to say There was no God but that those were no gods which the Athenians worshipped But of that by the way Such fatte Atheists made the Gentiles of the Philosophers and such Atheists make the Papists of vs but of such I speake not in this place The Atheists which I intend are those to whom Religion is nothing but Policie and the Scriptures are but Quaint deuices and Moses his leading of the people through the red sea was but his wisdome to finde the chanell and to take the time when the tide was out and such like odious blasphemies These persons no man I trow can call Christians and yet of themselues and their followers they are reputed deepely wise and learned Let vs grant them therefore if we grant them any thing to be Heathen Philosophers but then the question is of what sort or sect they might take their denomination Verely Epicures they are for they hunt after pleasure as after their chiefest good Their Mote is like to Sardanapalus Epitaph Ede lude bibe charum praesentibus exple Deliciis animum post mortem nulla voluptas Stoikes they are for though they loue to dispute of Action and Practise yet themselues couet to sit in ease and quietnesse Yea in their affectation of Communitie they are Academikes for by their good willes no mans wife should be proper to her husband But with the Peripatetians to enquire after felicitie or vertue or to account the gifts of the mind their most excellent parts or the seeking of common good their greatest glorie these are tunes that sound harsh in their eares because they sauour somewhat of Righteousnesse Prosperitie and pleasure and ease and abundance are things which they affect but Vertue and Righteousnesse they affect not These men seeing now a change euen in the Head for Princes are the heads of the people and knowing that Mutation is an alteration in the same kinde into more or lesse as

thou be a Righteous man the City will reioice in thy prosperity Sometimes God turneth it otherwise for he will be tied to no rule but that it is commonly so this Prouerbe of Salomon iustifieth in this place 3. This sentence admonisheth vs of a speciall duty of Brotherly loue which each Christian man oweth to another Christians must be Inquisitors after their neighbours religion and Surueiers of their neighbours waies Not as busy-bodies medling with that which belongeth not vnto them but as men imagining that they haue their part in any Prosperity or aduersity that betideth to their bretheren They must cast their eies about them and obserue who in that corner or country feareth God and loueth Righteousnesse and then withall they must make surueie how 〈◊〉 a man prospereth in the world and how he fareth in his outward 〈◊〉 And both these must they doe to th●… end that when they finde any child of God that washeth his pathes 〈◊〉 butter and whose rocke poureth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 uers of oile as Iob speaketh of 〈◊〉 Prosperity then with him and 〈◊〉 him they may reioice and be 〈◊〉 And when they shall see an h●…st man humbled and labourin●… 〈◊〉 the crosse then with him and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to mourne lament 〈◊〉 how shall we practise that precept of the Apostle Reioice with them that reioice and mourne with them that mourne Or how shall we shew our selues liuely members of the same body if when one member suffereth we suffer not with it and if when one of our members is had in honor we reioice not with it We read of Nehemiah that holy Reedifier of the holy city that howsoeuer himselfe were at ease yea 〈◊〉 in office at court for he was the kings cup bearer and so might haue liued voluptuously to himselfe alter the maner of our Sole-self-louing ●…iers yet his thoughts were occupied about his bretheren the Iewes and his city Ierusalem and therefore inquireth earnestly of them and their 〈◊〉 And hearing of the affliction of the people and desolation of the citie he mourned and wept and fa●…ed and praied as if himselfe had beene plunged in the same calamity And verily if the spirit of Nehemiah did breathe in our brests we would not be so wholly giuen vp to Selfe 〈◊〉 the cause of all sinne as we would altogether neglect what betideth our bretheren but we would be euer inquiring what good men liued about vs and how they fared what Churches God had planted abroad and how they thriued how the Churches of Christ flourished in France Germany Scotland Denmarke Sweeueland and else where And when we shall vpon due inquisition or suruey be giuen to vnderstand that God prospereth any one good man particularly or any company of good men generally then not to enuy or maligne them as Haman enuied Mordecaies fauour with the king or as Saule maligned Dauids reputation with the people or as some in our time haue belched out reproches against the neighbour Churches and the worthy men that liued in them but we should reioice with them as affected with their good and ioifully wish the continuance and increase of their Prosperity If we know but one Gaius in a country which is Paules host and the host of the church we should wish to him as Saint Iohn wisheth to his Gaius Beloued I wish chiefely that thou prosperedst and faredst wel If we see about vs an vpright minded man which serueth not the time nor professeth religion onely for shew but feareth God inwardly and walketh in the honesty of his conscience we should pray for him with the Psalmist Doe well ô Lord to those that be good and true in their hearts If we see any Church striuing to cast out Popery and to intertaine sincerity we should pray for it and the fauourers of it O pray for the peace of Ierusalem let them prosper that loue thee And certainly if we be true hearted Citizens of the holy city new Ierusalem we will not onely pray for it and for all that doe belong vnto it but also when any good betideth it or them which they needed and we praied for we will be ready to reioice with them and to praise God for them according to this sentence of Solomon In the prosperity of the righteous the city reioiceth And heere now is sit place and iust occasion offered to stirre vs vp with thankfulnesse to be ioyfull and with ioifulnesse to be thankfull vnto God for all those holy and gracious persons by whole rising vp and Prosperity so much good hath beene done in our time and country Among all which we are bound in the first place to performe high and honorable Obsequies to her who while she liued 〈◊〉 the first and highest place in the kingdome I meane The high and migh●… Princesse our late most renouned and soueraigne Lady Q. Elisabeth Mundi tot●… vna decus The glory of the world as master Beza called her and of whom that may be said as truly as it was of Luther in his time Rome ruentis 〈◊〉 maximus She was the very terror of that declining Popedome No honest man doubteth I trow to number her with the Righteous who planted the word of Righteousnesse among vs and susteined the intolerable malice of all Papists enemies vnto Righteousnesse gouerned by Righteous lawes and ministred right to men yea lastly was an harbour to all distressed Christians that fled hither from diuers places for Righteousnesse sake I trust God hath heard the millions of holy praiers made for her while she liued and hath giuen her a rich inheritance with the Righteous and a large portion in that Christ whose Gospell by her means had so free passage in the lande and was glorified by the conuersion and saluation of so many thousands But to the purpose How Prosperous this Queene was in all her waies the Papistes obserue with grinding their teeth but we should applaud with clapping of hands Farre vnlike was her state to her sister Q. Marie for of her M. Foxe recordeth that nothing euer succeeded well which she tooke in hand But of this we may auouch that Prosperitie of Iob Gods light shined vpon her head and Gods prouidence was vpon her tabernacle She was renowmed at home and abroad Euery eare that heard her blessed her and euery eye that saw her gaue testimony vnto her From her youth she was reserued as it were to the Crowne by want of issue in her brother and sister All Queene Maries daies she was woonderfully preserued euen by the meanes as was thought of that Philip of Spaine who afterwards became her deadly enemie Shee that then was ledde homely tanquamouis as a sheepe to the prison was not long after attended magnificently as a princely Lionesse to the scepter and when shee was once setled in the throne what Prosperitie euer betided a Prince wherewith her cup did not abundantly ouerflow Tertullian describing