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A43053	King David's sanctuary, or, A sermon preached before His Majesty the fourth of Febr. 1643 at Christ-Church in Oxford by Richard Harwood ...	Harwood, Richard, d. 1669.	1644 (1644)	Wing H1106; ESTC R18253	18,335	31

penetrating unto all things or else restrained to Gods pleasure as he shall open or shut the vaile to them If unlimited then the knowledge of a Saint must be as infinite as the divine not a mystery of State not a record written in that great diary of the world the Mind of God from the beginning but must be published to the creatures view All there must be of Gods Cabinet counsell and nothing kept secret in that Kingdome Things past present and future the very thoughts of our hearts the knowledge wherof hath ever yet been Gods peculiar Yea that Arcanum Dei the day of indgement which our Saviour protests no man knowes not the Angells in heaven no not the Sonne of man Every Saint would behold in this Chrystall If their knowledge be confined to his will as he shall please to draw the curteine aside more or lesse to them since the Scripture assures mee not that God hath or will discover my necessities how absurdly must I fall upon my knees to beseech God to reveale that to my Saint which I first prayed my Saint to reveale to God This were to mediate for my Mediatour as Saint Augustine once scoffed at Aplló Lib●● decir Dei Interpres Deorum eget interprete the interpreter of the Gods must speake by an interpreter himselfe May we not then be so unwise as to goe from the living fountaine to the broken cisternes for the water of life from the bright sunne to the languid beames for the light of knowledge from our powerfull King to the impotent Subjects for the Crowne of glory We acknowledge no Mediatour but our Redeemer He is not worthy the name of an Intercessour that hath not his garments dyed in bloud Christ alone is the Center where God and man must if ever meere friends and why should we range about the circumference Chemnit exam concil T●id de invoc Sanctor Sarcerius relates how that George Duke of Saxony lying upon his death-bed and the Monks striving who should commend the most propitious Saint to his devotion one of his Nobles told him In publicis negotiis In matters of State your highnesse alwayes used this Proverbe Rect a sine ambagibus progredi Viam esse maximé compendiariam to proceed without deviations was the most compendious method And in a businesse of so high concernement as your eternall felicity will you fetch a compasse to it and not rather goe directly to Christ in whose power are the keyes of life and death can you thinke that he who breathed out his soule on the crosse for us will spare any breath to plead our cause in heaven that he who poured out his precious heart bloud for our redemption will not also poure out hearty prayers for salvation Never doubt of your cause so long as you have such an Advocate a Iesus in heaven With what boldnes may we addresse our selves to the throne of grace when he that is sued unto is easy to be intreated Pater non Judex a Father not a Judge he that petitions for us is gracious to prevaile Filius non peregrinus an onely Sonne not a Stranger Et quando pater a filio Deus avertetur a Christo how can a father deny his sonne Prosper God his Christ when he shall supplicate with strong cryes and teares Heb. 5 7. When all the Saints in heaven shall sit with cheerefull and dry eyes and he alone shew the frailty of a man to move compassion for us Nay when he shall come before him Heb. 12. v. 24 with that Rhetoricall bloud of sprinkling that speakes better things then the bloud of Abell when the wounds he received on earth shall becōe oratours for us in heaven Quot vulnera tot ora each wound being a mouth to beg mercy for us Saint Ambrose can hold no longer but cryes out O Domine Jesu Amb l. de interpell 4. c. 12. tu portio mea c. O Lord Jesus thou art my portion a bounding to mee in all things whom because I have in heaven I desire nothing else on earth which brings mee from the Expostulation to the pious Resolution the second part of the song There is none upon earth that I desire besides thee Lo chaphasti 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 None that I desire love trust or delight in All in tha word and because Vnisons all I shall tune them together The procession of the creatures from the Creatour is like a ray shot from the body of the Sun 3. The Resolution which is weakned and spent by extension and hath no way to recover it strength or vigour but by reflexion on the point that first sent it forth even God himselfe In Plato our desires are styled Vela animi the sayles of the minde because in this life the soule is tossed in an unconstant motion she hath no security till she hoist sayle for heaven no haven of peace but in the Deity 'T is a Rabbinicall observation that all the letters in Gods name Ichovah are quiescent preaching unto us that Quies animae Drus. q. heb the soules rest is in God alone For in God there is such a confluence of goodnesse such a quintessence of perfection that the soule of man cannot desire with what it may not be satisfied from the bountie of his fulnesse As Origen said of the Israelites Manna that it answered every mans tast even the most curious courtlike palate so there are such infinite delicacies in the deitie that there cannot rise án appetite in the longing soule that may not be satiated with his plenty Philosophie rankes our desires into those of the Vnderstanding after truth of the Will after virtue and of the Affections after felicitie Now to all these God is a full satisfaction to the intellectuall with his infinite wisdome to the voluntarie with his transcendent goodnesse to the affective with his eternall glory and if the senses can desire Origen saith he is singul a Can● ●● 30 singulis a most pleasing object to every sense Beauty for the eye musick for the eare b Joh. 6.48.53 bread for life for the tast c Cant 1. v. 2 a perfume to delight the smell and d Joh. 20.24 Hom 1. in cant flesh for the incredulous touch but why doe we looke on these objects at the wrong end of the glasse what we call beauty is indeed deity musick felicitie life eternitie sweetnesse perfection perfection essence essence what shall I say Honours riches peace I am too short yet All things how should this enflame our love to God who like another Proteus as I may say converts himselfe into all formes and natures to please the covetous heart of man He that seeks contentment in any created good layes a foundation in the moving ayre for when the figure of the great Empires were represented to Zachary in a vision Zechar. 6. V. 5 the Angel told him isti sunt quatuor venti those are but

the least ray of the Deity Though thou beholdest our King dishonoured our religion martyr'd our fortunes ruined and whatsoever is deare unto us in this world threatned with destruction Nunquid tibi Deum sayes Angustine yet they cannot rob us of our God keepe we our interest in him we have yet a Treasure inexhaustible an Army invincible a Castle impregnable a Treasure an Army a Castle All in our God what would you have if Peace againe he is Deus pacis If more power he is Dominus exercituum Psal 144. v. 10 If Victory It is he that giveth victory to Kings and delivers David his servant from the perill of the sword Peace Power Victory All from our God Aske no more who will shew us any good Psal 4.6 but Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us For he alone can be all these to us who now begs all these for us our partrimony on earth our patron in heaven which brings mee from Quem praeter te to Quis mihi who pleads for mee not any Saint or Angell but thou O Lord thou art my redeemer thou my advocate Whom but thee 3. Quis mihi why Is the new Hierusalem become desolate what use of many mansions if no inhabitants there Or if inhabited why but thee O Lord Can God be solitary among so many regiments of Cherubims and Seraphims or hath David never a friend in that Army of Martyrs to usher his prayers to the Allmighties care were the Court of heaven like a Kings on earth Exam. decret concil Tridentini part 3. loc de Invoc Sanct. 13. many might conclude as the man in Chemnitius hearing a Bishop on this subject Tunc simplicitér actum conclamatum nobiscum or at least despaire of a gratious answer that have no friende at Court But the Almighties care is not confined to a privy chamber he that would speake with God needs not bribe any Saint or Angell to be his Sollicitour a creature so base and servile on earth that the heavens scorne the use of him the finitude of the Kings presence requires an officer of state to state our requests to His Majesty but the ubiquity of God needs not the flattery of a creatures mediation His eare is omnipresent as his essence Itur ad reges per tribunos a tribune or Lord must open the doore for a petition to the King Ambros in Rom. 6.1 ad Deum suffragatore non opus est sed mente devotâ To speake with God we need no other Key but a devout heart this unlocks the heavens and presents the suite to the Kings owne hands Indeed mediation supposes a quarrell for 't is scarce sense to say I will reconcile friends had God and man never fallen our there had beene no use of a Mediator but now we all bend our knees to an offended justice and might despaire of mercy for ever unlesse as Themistocles once to the King of Molossy we present our requests under the protection of the Kings onely sonne Plut. Mor. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most prevalent kind of supplication If Manoah offer sacrifice Exod. 25. v. 16 Gen. 27. v. 27 Judg. 13.20 this Angell must open heaven for it If Moses ascend to God he must be covered with this cloud If Jacob would obtaine the blessing He must enter in the garments of this elder brother Eph. 3. v. 12 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by him alone our persons have admission into the royall presence of the Allmighty But Quis praeter te is no antheme for the Popes quire who allowes as many mediatours as he hath Canonized Saints Though he fill his Calendar from Tyburne Masters of requests he will have for all necessities Saint Geogre for the field and to open the roule no farther Saint Gregory for the Schooles Yea as great a turne of State or if you will reformation you have in heaven as we now feare on earth Christ is put out of his office and Saint Francis stept into the mediatour-ship the Church of Rome being therein as bold with the King of heaven Anselm I 'de excellentia Virg. Bonavint in Spec. c. 8. Mendoz in 1. lib. Reg. c. 4. n. 11. An. 12. Sect. 1. as some are with our King on earth not onely to counterfeit the Great Seale in the Sacraments but to deny him the choice of his owne officers Nay they have given away halfe the Kingdome that of Mercy to the Virgin Mary so free are they of the divine prerogative allowing God himselfe but the dreadfull tribunall of Justice of purpose to draw all suiters to her Court Ambr. in 1. cap. ad Rom. Aug. l. 8. de civile Dei prolixe A Platonicke superstition that hath too many gray haires upon it to survive to this age of the Gospell for either the Jesuite doth Platonize or Plato did Jesuitize when he first sent abroad his Deos intermedios A sacrilegious religion to rob the very Deity they worship of his honor An impious piety ot degrade our high Preist of that honourable title he hath purchased with his bloud How doe they defloure the memory of the blessed Virgin whilest they force her loyall Spirit into the Throne of God there to dispense those Acts of grace which are in the sole power of the King of Kings 't were too ridiculous to heare Francisco del campo at his thanksgiving that he swam over a river with his armes a Sculler that never before tryed the waters yet made very nimble and kept to the true stroke by the helpe of our Lady When though necessity hath wrought greater miracles a spaniell shall doe more without imploring the Virgins ay de A Pure Virgin she is still for any violence the Church of England ever offered her which hath alwayes given her Due honour but not Adoration 1. Tim. 2. 5● Habemus legem We have a Salicke law in Scripture that will not allow of any Queene Regent in heaven Christ called her Woman who was his mother that we might not esteeme her a Goddesse who was but a Woman She may desire our salvation but cannot bestow it Wish us well in heaven yet not know much lesse releive our wants on earth Ignorance of our misery is some part of the Saints happinesse As Saint Hierome reads the Epitaph on Nepotians tombe Foelix Nepotianus qui nec videt nec audit haec omnia happy Nepotian who neither seeth nor heareth the sinfull affaires of this world But their own Schoolemen have fancied the Deity Abulensir Durandus Cajetan All transparent and as the bright Opall presents to the eye the various colours of all precious stones so the Saints have a cleare sight of all affaires in the world if they cast but a looke on the divine essence Indeed the whole world is resplendent in the Deity yet by no meanes do we make it a looking-glasse for the Saints curiosity For either their vision is unlimited and