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A44703	Basilidi dōron. or, The royal present as it was delivered in a sermon, in the parish-church of Boston, Octob. 9, 1663, at the arch-diaconal visitation of the reverend and right worshipfull Raphael Throckmorton, D.D. and arch-deacon of Lincoln / by Obadiah Howe ...	Howe, Obadiah, 1615 or 16-1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing H3049; ESTC R43267	23,016	38

ΒΑΣΙΛΙΔΙ ΔΩΡΟΝ OR The Royal Present As it was Delivered in a SERMON In the Parish-Church of BOSTON Octob. 9. 1663. at the Archi-Diaconal Visitation of the Reverend and right Worshipfull RAPHAEL THROCKMORTON D. D. and Arch-Deacon of LINCOLN By OBADIAH HOWE A. M. sometimes Student of Magd. Hall Oxon. now Vicar of BOSTON in Lincoln-shire Because of thy Temple at Jerusalem therefore they shall bring presents unto thee Psal 68.29 The Daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift the rich among the people shall entreat thy favour Ps 45. LONDON Printed by E. Cotes for A. Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1664. To the Right Reverend Father in God BENJAMIN Lord Bishop of the Diocess of Lincoln My LORD I Sometimes finde an Apologue which the Jewes have in their Talmud of the Grapes in Babel sending to the Vine-leaves in Judea to cover them with their shadow I must make my way to your Lordships hands by this humble Petition that your Goodness may act the Mythologist here and cast your shadow over this immature and indigested fruit I know I may justly fall under a severe censure that such an empty present from so an unknown and worthless hand should covet so high as to thrust it self into your Lordships hands But my Lord it is your ennobled Candor which makes me thus presume and presse which I hope will find cause from it self to accept what I should from my self finde no confidence to offer and make the pardon easie where the error is out of Reverence and the end not to give any thing to your worth but to gain something to the work Abigail her modest Apology for her slender Present of Figgs and Raisins to David 1 Sam. 25.27 must be mine to your Lordship This slender and worthless piece as being much below your higher Speculations Let it be for the young men which walk at your Lordships feet Yet I know not to whom upon better accompt either of Reason or Duty I should apply my self upon such an occasion and such a subject than to your self whom Providence hath raised to stand as a tall Cedar in our Lebanon These Conceptions such as they are were by command delivered at a Visitation where your Lordship is present though not in Person yet in Power And thus they yet pursue their main end in lying at your feet with this earnest and humble Prayer that you as a Cedar and we all as the Firre Pine and Box may make the place of his feet glorious I conclude with this craving Impress or Motto of him who setting down only Ciphers in his Roll wrote this adde vel unum These following pages I have Impress'd as so many Ciphers if your Lordship will please to adde this one thing your acceptance and patrociny they will thence gain both number and weight and Crown the opportunity which as one that is under your Episcopal care and government I gladly lay hold of to let your Lordship know that I am and do in all humility subscribe my self My LORD Your most humble and obliged Servant in all Duty and Service Obadiah Howe THE ROYAL PRESENT Isa 60. v. 13. The Glory of Lebanon shall come to thee the firr the pine and the box together to beautifie my sanctuary and to make the place of my feet glorious TO reconcile the Text and the Time a word must be spoken of the Praphesie a word of the Chapter and the rest of the Text. As to the Prophesie we must know that Prophesies and Promises are in their predictions as Maps and Land-skips are in their descriptions present things contracted and at a distance In the one we say as the Queen of Sheba of Solomons glory half was not told me 1 King 10. or as the Apostle 1 Joh. 3.2 It doth not appear what we shall be And in the other as of the Patriarchs Heb. 11.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they saw them afarr off Yet all are not equally short and distant some more to the life and bring things nearer us by much Of which sort this of the Prophet Isay is whose work we find to be to set forth the glory of the Kingdom and Church of Christ And he doth it so exactly and to the life as if with S. Paul he had been wrapt up into the third heavens or caught up into Paradise 2 Cor. 12.2 4. or with S. John in vision had seen the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven as a Bride adorned for her husband In those legal administrations Evangelium was sub velo the Gospel was under the vail that glorious pearl was locked up in its Cabbinet and this royal pair lay behind the Curtains But this our Prophet hath almost quite drawn them and in all he so speaks as if he had been John Baptists contemporary or as one of those ear and eye-witnesses 1 Joh. 1.1 declared what they had heard and seen ut non tam de futuris vaticinari quam de praeteritis historiam texere videatur ideo non Prophetia est sed Evangelium so that he appears not so much a Prophet as an Historian and the whole rather a Gospel then a Prophesie Alapid in los. The Chapter is the Prophesies Epitome those scattered Rays of glory all over the whole are here contracted so the more strong The Chapter may be well termed an Act for a free voluntary and Royal Present to the King of Kings that is to his royal Queen whose relation and representation interests Christ himself in all those services which are done to her Hence it is that in Psal 45. what is spoken of her v. 12. The daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift is Psal 98.29 spoken of Christ himself Because of thy Temple at Jerusalem they shall bring presents unto thee This royal present is full and free It is full we have it in the total summ v. 5. abundance of the Sea and the wealth of the Gentiles what Earth and Sea can contribute must fill her Treasure If we look for a more distinct Inventory we find it afterwards Midians Camels Epha's Dromedaries Seba's Gold and Incense Kedar's Flocks Nebaioth's Rams and in the Text Lebanons Glory Kings to minister Isles to wait Ships to waft and sons of Strangers to build her Walls Whatever conduceth to the Beauty or Being of the Church must be brought And it is as free as full Kings shall come Riches shall flow and fly as a Cloud flock as Doves Isles shall wait Flocks shall gather themselves together and the glory of Lebanon shall come as if all were acted by the impulse of an ambitious emulation who should first court this royal Queen The Text is the Compendium of the whole wherein we have presented to us 1. The Cui 2. The Quid. 3. The Quare or 1. The Treasury 2. The Treasure 3. The Tributaries 1. The Cui or the Treasury that 's to thee 2. The Quare or the Treasure whatever may make Glorious 3. The Quid or

is given to every word singly in the Text Berosh est Cedrus Abies et Buxus say both Shindler and Pagnin the Cedar the Firre the Box For the second Tidhar Laurus et Cedrus saith Shindler Cedrus et Ulmus saith Pagnin thus is this called the Cedar the Laurell the Elm And the third Teashur Myrtus Buxus Abies saith Shindler Cedrus Abies vel Buxus saith Pagnin this is also called the Myrtle Box and Firre and Cedar nay they will leave us in a very great uncertainty what they are when they tell us that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Omnis arbor quae ad Dei honorem plantatur any tree that is planted for the honour of God and that from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 via an t gressus it being in use of old to plant trees of eminency by the places of publique worship populo ostendentes viam cujus rei vestigia in nostris coemeteriis adbuc videre est saith Shindler To direct the people in the way the footsteps of which is yet to be seen in our Church-yards frequently So that could my time or your occasions give leave yet all our curiosity herein could never satisfie And the less reason we have critically to determine in this case because the Spirit of God doth not confine himself to any thing mentioned in this Text not to the glory of Lebanon for Isa 35.2 he telleth us the beauty of Sharon and the excellency of Karmel as well as the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it and not only the Firre and Pine and Box but Isa 41.19 he telleth us he will plant besides these the Shittah the Myrtle and the Oyl-tree As if he would tell us that as many trees with their various uses were brought to the Temple so he would bring many persons with their various offices capacities and endowments to give being and beauty to his Gospel-Church and then these trees appear to be as Lyra his personae notabiles ad ortum Ecclesiae venientes eminent persons coming to the rise of the Church or Quicquid excellens in Ecclesiam invectum iri significat as Lyranus whatever is excellent must be brought to the Church or as Alapid upon the Text Quicquid ad decorem aut stabilitatem Ecclesiae pertinet Whatever conduceth to the beauty or stability of the Church and upon Isa 35.2 he saith Omnia ornamenta opes delicias spirituales copiosas frondes stores fructus novarum virtutum et novorum fidelium All Ornaments riches and spiritual delights the flowers and fruits of new Graces and new Converts And thus St. Gregory in his 12 Homily elegantly expatiateth himself to this purpose There shall be the Cedar whom no secular cares shall corrupt the Thorn who can prick their hearers at the heart the Myrtle who can temper others passion with their compassion the oyl-tree who can with the Oyl of the promises heal the broken-hearted the Firre who for their height shall contemplate heavenly things the Elm who by their strength bears up the tender Vines being strong support the weak and bear their burdens But that of Brentius is most pertinent Brentius and shal be conclusive who telleth us Altissima Cedrus Petrus Cedrus etiam Paulus et Cedri Apostoli qui sunt Columnae Ecclesiae sunt alii Ministri Ecclesiae et membra qui sunt abies pinus et buxus That is thus Peter was a tall Cedar Paul a Cedar and the rest of the Apostles were Cedars and there are other Ministers and members of the Church which are as the Firre and Pine and Box And this comes up to that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 12.28 and Eph. 4.11 He hath set in the Church saith one Text he hath given saith the other Text some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists some Pastors and Teachers for the edifying the body of Christ some to oversee others to build and others to be as lively Stones layd up in the Fabrick and all with their particular powers offices endowments and graces all to make a glorious Church and thus the glory of Lebanon comes the Firre Pine and Box together And thus you see the whole and yet there are six several particulars to be observed in the Text as the various modifications of these coming materials or tributaries 1. Behold them in their excellency it s not the Hysop upon the Wall or the Shrub in the Desert but the glory of Lebanon that must come to tell us that it is not the Peasants drudgery but the Princes and the Prelates dignity to minister to her and to intend the Churches glory 2. Behold them in their universality and number Cedar the Box and Firre and Pine synecdochically taking in all the rest it was the grand Charter confirm'd to the Church that all things and persons should be for her sake and every Kingdom and person that would not serve her should perish Isa 60.12 Which Charter is renewed in the Gospel 1 Cor. 3.21.21 all things all persons Paul Apolle Cephas things present or things to come all are yours 3. Behold them in their variety every one paying his proper service to the Church the Cedar the Firre Pine and Box some with their height others with their strength others with their sent and smell others with their permanence and duration but all for her glory the variety of the materials in the universe makes up the beauty of it so in the Church In the first Tabernacle and Temple there was the Wood of Shittim for the Ark Altar and Table Cedars for the sieling and inward ornaments the Firre for windowes dores and floors Goats for their hair Badgers and Rams for their skins Egypt for Linnen and Silk as Seba for Gold all this variety did make up but one Temple some for ornament some for security but all for service In a house the vessels of honour and those of dishonour as well those of wood and stone as those of Silver and Gold are for the Masters use 2 Tim. 2.20 In a body natural those members that are more feeble and less honourable as well as those that are our more comely parts God having so tempered the body are for the service of the same body 1 Cor. 12.23.24 and it s no less in the body Mystical the Church all those diversities of gifts administrations and operations 1 Cor. 12.5.6 as they come from one and the same Spirit so they tend to the edifying of the same body all those dona regalia Princely gifts mentioned Eph. 4. those persons and offices considered either in their subordination ordination or variety tend to the same end Every gift whether it be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace or Gifts with their variety or diversity they are given to profit withall In that great Text for this purpose 1 Cor. 3.21.22 Glory not in men all things are yours whether Paul Apollo or Cephas Every one had his proper gift and excellency whereby they did captivate their disciples