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A new constellation discovered in a sermon preached at the visitation held at Leicester the 29th of April, 1674 / by Joshua Bonhome.
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Bonhome, Joshua.
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1675
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Wing B3594; ESTC R24665
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Imprimatur Ex Aed Lambethanis Martii 3o. 1674. THO. TOMKYNS A New Constellation Discovered in a SERMON Preached at the VISITATION Held at Leicester the 29th of April 1674. BY JOSHVA BONHOME Rector of Saddington in the County of LEICESTER Chaplain in Ordinary to His MAJESTY LONDON Printed by W. G. and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the sign of the Angel in St. Paul's Churchyard 1675. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY COVENTRY Esq Of His MAJESTIES most Honorable Privy Council and Principal Secretary of State Right Honorable I Could not presume to present this unpolished Discourse in it self unworthy of Your Acceptation under the high Patronage of Your Honour if I did not know by undeserved Experience that as the holy Angels of God which though they be called Principalities and Powers and behold continually the face of the Lord of lords and King of Kings our Heavenly Father yet are of so generous so noble and so loving Condescention that they joyfully undertake to be Ministring Spirits to the meanest Servants of their Lord and Master and to be Instruments in his Divine Hands for their Comfort and Deliverances So Your Honour doth dayly imitate those glorious Spirits in doing good with an unparallel'd Nobleness to all such whose Allegiance and Loyalty to our Soveraign is known to You proving Your self a true Imitatour of him who though he be of all that is good the best and of all that 's great the greatest yet delights to prefer his Goodness before his Greatness All our English Israel knows as well as my self the Eminency of the Place Your Honour enjoyeth in this Kingdom under our Gracious Soveraign but the Experience of Your Noble Favours to me upon several occasions forceth me to conclude this height of Trust and Dignity becomes yet more Honourable and deserves to be more admired in that You are pleased and that frequently to divert Your Eyes from the sight and glory of the tallest Gedars and to impart a glance to the lowest Shrubs like Solomon who spake not only of those goodly Trees in Lebanon but of the very Hyssop that springeth out of the Wall Sir This poor Sermon which I preached in the Audience of many Grave and Learned Divines and which some Well-wishers to the Church of England and the Ministry have thought not to be unworthy of appearing in Publick in order to Disabuse many poor Souls who by Recusants perswasions do not only lightly esteem our Calling but as if they were the only People of God and such they boast themselves to be look upon it as being no better than that of the Priests of Baal for so many of them are pleased to call us and on our most Reverend Prelates and the whole Clergy of this Land as being no better if not worse than the Priests of Antichrist This poor Sermon I say I make bold to present to Your Honour with all possible Respect the best of all I can do being justly due and devoted to Your Honour as a small discharge of my Duty and an hearty acknowledgement of my Obligation Beseeching Almighty God long to preserve Your Honour after the joy of our heart and the breath of our nostrils His Most Excellent Majesty a Friend and Support to all such as fear God and the King That as he hath called You by name to be one of the Valiant men of Israel which compass the Bed of our Solomon he may be pleased to make You more and more Instrumental for the good of this Land and the Service of our Soveraign and fill You like Bezaleel with the Spirit of God in Wisdom and Vnderstanding and Knowledge for the Service both of the Throne and Tabernacle the State and the Church For these and all other Blessings Temporal and Spiritual upon Your Noble person shall ever pray the meanest among the many thousands that are called to the Sacred Priesthood and YOUR HONOURS Most humble most obedient and most obliged Servant JOSHUA BONHOME Revelat. chap. I. vers 16. And he had in his right Hand seven Stars AS God at sundry times Heb. 1.1 and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets to the end that all men might know the greatness and the glory as well as the goodness the mercifull and loving kindness of the Lord so in divers manners and at sundry times hath he appeared in dreadfull and glorious Visions unto his Servants that they might with a better success convince all those they were sent unto of their own Vileness Rebellion and Prophaneness and if I may so speak breed and plant in their sinfull and deceitfull Hearts a godly fear and a holy reverence of so glorious a Majesty and in their Minds a true perfect and earnest submission unto the words of him that commands all men to be holy as he is Holy In such a glorious and fearfull Vision the great Jehovah was pleased to appear not to Moses only but to the whole Camp of Israel in the Wilderness when Mount Sina was altogether on a smoak because the Lord who is a consuming Fire descended upon it in fire Exod. 19.18 and the whole mount quaked greatly Of the same nature was that of the Prophet Esaias when he saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up when his train filled the Temple and above it stood the Seraphims crying one to another Holy holy holy is the Lord of Hosts the whole earth is full of his glory when the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cryed and the house was filled with smoak As you may see in the first Verse of the sixth Chapter of the Prophecy of the same Prophet And that the House of Israel might be convinced and left without excuse for their impudency stiffheartedness and rebellion against the Lord then sent he to his Prophet Ezechiel the Vision of a Whirlwind coming out of the North of a great Cloud a Fire and a Brightness that of the likeness of four living Creatures whose appearance was like burning Coals of Fire and like the appearance of Lamps And the likeness of the Firmament upon the heads of the living Creatures of the colour of the terrible Crystal and above the Firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a Throne as the appearance of a Saphire stone and upon the Throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it And as the living God by these fearfull Ideals and amazing Representations of his Glory would bring the Church of Israel to a sober consideration of the Excellency of his Word that they might at last be perswaded and drawn to an entire and true Obedience to the same and with more diligence and earnestness admit and receive the Holy Instructions of his Prophets whom he had Honoured with these glorious Images and Representations of his Greatness and incomprehensible Infiniteness So in the days of the Gospel wherein he hath spoken unto us by his