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A10045 David his oath of allegeance to Ierusalem The sermon preached on Act Sunday last in the morning, in St. Maries in Oxford. By Daniel Price Doctor in Divinity. Price, Daniel, 1581-1631. 1613 (1613) STC 20291; ESTC S115204 24,054 46

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better service of God with helpe of sciences and prophane learning and therefore they are to be pitied rather then envied qui suae patrocinantur ignorantiae faith Erasmus Erasm scholia in Ier. ad Pam. Bucer Aemil. Prob. loc 151. Pomer in 1. ad Cor. 2. Cal in 1. Cor. 15 plus inscitiâ suâ fidunt superbiunt quàm alij eruditione suâ saith Bucer rudes et degeneres sūt saith Pomeranus nay Mr Calvine is so absolute for this as that his words vpon the 15. of the 1. Cor. are Colligimus hos esse superstitiosos Wherefore beloved all you of the yonger sort that are to be flowrishing plants in particular societies or are to be transplanted from this Eden of God and to passe into the functions and Sanctions either of Church or Common weale first stay at Ierusalem til the spirit be sent you The gift of tongues was only given at Ierusalem it is morbus comitialis that at our proceedings after the first or second degree some most rude thinke themselues most ripe and forsake the Vniversity never to returne againe I say againe so long as God friends any meanes may be had stay at Ierusalem till the spirit be sent you When you go hence take knowledge with you exercise your talent to the honour of your Master that the retributiō may be good faithfull servant thou haste been faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler over much Otherwise your right hand shal forget her cunning Honourable Lawyers I giue you but that title that your own glorious Emperour gaue you how ever the fat kine haue eaten vp the leane and the law hath almost devoured your law yet in your knowledge which is more honoured in al parts of the Christian world then is our owne land let it be seene that your knowledge and practise turn to the good not the disgrace of the Church Church Churchmē haue enimies more then friends If a poore Prophet or Levite came before the Doctors of the law among the Pharisees the word was Goe in peace Jf ever you come to place of authority and a poore Minister come before you let him haue countenance far be it that your learned lawes should be snares to good minds or quirks for mercenary wits lex et prophetae your Law and Prophets are ever ioined in Scripture divide not divorce them not least your right hād forget her cunning Learned and Honourable Physitians I giue you that title that the son of Sirach giveth it is but Apocrhypha direct your knowledge the right hand of your knowledge to the right vse let praier go before Religion bee an ingredient in al your practise let it not be observed as Innocētius once said and yet in some places though not here yet in the great city of this land is frequently lamentably to be found that dum corpus medici reficiunt aegrotorum animas inficiunt that while irreligious Ephraimiticall Hypocriticall popish Physitians cure the body by some Idolatrous dram they infect the soules of their vnhappy rather them vnhealthy patients Remember donum sanationis was given only to the Apostles practise with care with knowledge with conscience lest your right hand forget her cunning My deere and Reverend brethren in Divinity you know what your Sauiour said be yee not called Doctors for there is but one Doctor which is Christ that is Calvin and Iunius giving allowance to this interpretation be not Pharisaicall Doctors neither idle nor idol Doctors not factious not ambitious for otherwise posuit Christus alios Doctores alios Pastores alios Prophets in Ecclesia though the painted Pharisees of this age envy you this honorable degree The contempt we are liable vnto is much even by those whose fathers saith Iob I would not place with the dogs of the heard Divinity hath lōg been kept on foot cogitur ire pede yet blessed be our God since the first howre of reformation vnto this time Aboue 40 sons of anciently descended knights students in divinitie most of them already ministers now in Oxford never were so many so worthy sonnes of the Prophets many worthily some honourably amōg vs descended and consecrated herevnto Archippus looke to thy charge watch stand fast in the faith pray exhort rebuke with al power with al authority Preach in season and out of season let no man despise yee Cave nedum vita tua mala nō sit per nequitiā Austin videarur mala per negligentiam Sit vestra cura nō nummorum sed animarū saith Bern. seeke not so much the church goods as the churches good lest your right hād forget her cūning All of you Ho. Rever blessed beloued brethrē all of you that are come hither to this great Comitial assembly that are come to this Ierusalem as Ioseph and Mary to find Iesus in the midst of the Doctours remember Ierusalem Religion and knowledge the mother and the daughter nobile par the Naomi and the Ruth the blessed paire of Cherubins over the Mercy seat let them both haue your best wishes and partake of your best workes in that yee doe any thing to these yee doe it to Christ All posterities shall blesse the name of those our worthy present founders whose workes be aspiring quorū iam maenia surgunt The blessing of Iuda the blessing of Levi the blessing of both testaments of both lifes shall be vpon them and their posteritie forever Their names shall be honoured their examples imitated and their workes shall praise thē in the gates and their right hand shall never forget her cunning When wee shall all meet in the higher Ierusalem in that great assembly of all Saints we shall see these rewarded with Palmes in their hands and Crownes on their heads let vs therefore my beloued covet these spiritual things let vs do some service to Religion and truth here that mercy and glory may crowne vs hence Which that wee may obtaine the Lord grant vs all such measure of his spirit of his grace that abounding here in faith and good workes we may receaue the reward promised Come yee blessed of my father receaue the kingdome provided from the beginning of the world To God the Father God the Sonne God the holy Spirit be all praise all Power all honour this day and all the daies of our life in this place and all Congregations of his Saints for evermore Amen FINIS
worship of God in the Temple For the Eunuch in the Acts as S. Chrysostome observeth came not to see the Tēple but to performe worship in Ierulalem And while this worship continued God called Ierusalem Chrys in Act. Domus mea but when this fire was gone out Domus vestra Syon is my hill saith the Lord Ierusalem my city the Temple Domus mea but when they forsooke him he forsooke them when their Religion expired he thē departed they change the property he forsook the patronage it was Domus mea now Domus vestra once Domus mea per amoris antiquitatē now Domus vestra per peccati iniquitatem as a Glosse noteth now when the life of their liues and blood of their soules Religion ceased it is become Loruhamah Loamint Domus vestra a den of theeues Fearefull is that place of the Apostle Heb. 10.38 if any man draw backe my soule shall haue no pleasure in him David was borne in Bethlehē annointed in Bethlehē yet hee preferreth Ierusalem in his song it did reioice him when they went to Ierusalem that his feet might stand in thy gates O Ierusalem O pray for the peace of Ierusalem let them prosper that loue thee Peace bee within thy wals plenteousnesse within thy palaces The honour of Bethlehem in Micah is much thou Bethlehem Ephrata though thou be litle amōg the thousands of Iudah yet out of thee he shall come forth vnto me that is to be ruler in Israel Obserue the continuance and perpetuity of honour done to little Bethel Mic. 5.25 The 1 covenant made by God to Abraham Gen. 12.8 the first altar made by Abraham to God was in Bethel Neere the same place Isaac his sonne built his first altar and the Lord first appeared here to Isaac In the same Bethel Gen. 26.24 Iacob his sonne receaueth his vision God maketh his covenant with him In the same Bethel Gen. 28.20 God commands Iacob to build him an altar here Iacob giueth it that name the house of God In the same Bethel David of the line of Iacob was borne annointed and in the same Bethel Gen 35.15 1. Sam. 16. now the city of David was Christ of the seed of David borne Loe thus shall bee done to the place that the Lord doth honor thus shal be done to the place where God his name is called vpon It is not the loftinesse of the building the aspiring of the towres the multiplicitie of their turrets the seats of iudgement houses of the High Priests schools of the Prophets th●cknes of their senced vault round about the city in which were one hundred and fiftie thousand men which Strabo maketh to be two hundred fiftie paces nor those 400 catechising houses which the Ribbins mention in the city nor the Palaces of the Princes nor the sepulchre of their kings nor the 11 orders of the city or the 9 fountaines or 12 gates or ninetie turrets which Villalpand describeth Villal in Ezek. or the mountaines aboue it or valleyes about Ierusalem no not the Temple it selfe that was 7 yeares building by the dayly labour of a hundred fifty three thousand men but it was the worship of God Religion that gaue the grace countenance Iosephus that made it the golden head of the picture Lady of the world seate of the Monarchy Virgin of the East ioy of the earth so deare to our Prophet as that he cryeth out If J forget thee O Ierusalem then let my hand forget her cunning Vse A Doctrine that should be as fearefull for terrifying as powerfull for instructing all those places persons that the Lord hath blessed by placing his name word among them Tyrus Purple or Iericho's Palmes or Samariahs kings or Ninivehs buildings continue not Canker and Corruption hath vtterly consumed them not a stone remaining on a stone they are forsaken because by them Religion is forsaken Quinzay in the east Mexico in the west Millaine as it is Antwerpe as it was Paris in her late glory Venice in her now beauty cannot continue because Religion continueth not The prime city of this land the heart of the kingdome and chamber of the king hath beene often swept her foūdation hath beene shaken the multitude of her offences hath consumed multitudes of her inhabitants and that Nabuchadonosor the plague hath kept visitation in her Senec. Trag. Iuvenesque senibus coniungens gnatis patres funesta pestis and why haue these ecclipses often hindred the sunshine of her Citizens but for their neglect of Religion Wherfore my beloued seeing that religion this day maketh a proclamation vnto you as wisdome in the Proverbs entertain her let her be the bracelet tablet frontlet of each Christiā whē the names of the great ones shall rot their bodies rot on the earth Pro. 1. and their soules rot in Sheol and their memories rot amōg the posterities thy name to thy posterity if thou be religious shal be a happy patrimonie David is more honoured in Scripture for being a Prophet thē a King Solomon more regarded for being a preacher then a Prince Job not honoured for his Camels his sheepe Iob 1. his oxen his riches but because he was a righteous man Abrahams religion and obedience gat him the title of father of the faithfull military men may remember the faith religiō of the Centurion honored not for his band or command that he had power to bid one come and he came another goe he went but for his word non sum dignus Citizens and Townesmen may bee remembred by Symon the Tanner Courtiers by the Eunuch women by Lydia young men by Titus servants by Onesimus who ever thou art thou art not left vnexcusable ô man examples precepts blessings for the practise curses for the neglect of religion are offered dayly to thy meditation The praises of Religion should not only incite but astonish thee Kings her nursing fathers Queenes her nursing mothers for louelines shee is a Roe for fruitfulnesse a vine for holynesse a priesthood for brightnes the morning for safetie moūt Syon for Royaltie a Queene for beautie the Sunne for priviledges the godly and religious in themselues they be blessed in the citie blessed in the field blessed in the fruit of the body Deut. 28. blessed in the fruit of the ground in the fruit of the cattell in the increase of the kine in the flocks of sheepe blessed in the basket and the store blessed when thy goe in and when they goe out and blessed in every thing they shall put to their hand For their Family and the preservation thereof thousands shall fal before him tenne thousandes at his right hand it shall not come nigh him no evill shall come neere his dwelling For his children the seed of the righteous is blessed I haue beene young saith David and now am old Ps 37. yet I never saw the righteous forsaken or his seed begging their