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A04390	Englands iubilee, or Irelands ioyes Io-pæan, for King Charles his welcome With the blessings of Great-Britaine, her dangers, deliuerances, dignities from God, and duties to God, pressed and expressed. More particularly, Irelands triumphals, with the congratulations of the English plantations, for the preseruation of their mother England, solemnized by publike sermons. In which 1. The mirrour of Gods free grace, 2. The mappe of our ingratitude, 3. The meanes and motiues to blesse God for his blessings. 4. The platforme of holy praises are doctrinally explained, and vsefully applyed, to this secure and licentious age. By Stephen Ierome, domesticke chaplaine to the Right Honourable Earle of Corke.; Irelands jubilee	Jerome, Stephen, fl. 1604-1650.	1625 (1625)	STC 14511.5; ESTC S103354	215,774	330

Salmon to swim against the streame to wash an a Ierem. 13.23 Ethiopian to white a Blackmore to take out a Leopards spots by water to cleane a peece of clay as Gardner said in his policies in another b He meant La Elizabeth should rather have beene cut off as he Bonnet laboured the meaner people martyred Foxe Mart. case to strike off the branches and to leave the roots according to the allusion of Anacharsis to seeke to catch the little flyes in the webs of our lawes and to suffer the great ones to breake through SECT IV. More speciall application to Masters of families LEaving them looke into private families and we shall see like Master usually like man like father like sonne like crow like egge yea of as in Ahab and c 1. King 19.1 21.8 Iezabell Ananias and d Acts 5.1 2 3 4. Saphira like husband like wife eyther combined in evill as Simeon and Levi e Gen. 49.5 in bloud or as Zachary and Elizabeth f Luk. 1. v. 6. Aquila and g Act. 18. v. 2. Priscilla united in good Yea generally such a governour such a family if Abraham beleeve his whole houshold at Gods commandement are h Gen. 17. v. 23 circumcised if he sacrifice Isaac of a child is acquainted with i Gen. 22.7 sacrificing and is able to discourse of it if Adam sacrifice Abel offers up too the best of his k Gen. 4.4 lambes if the Iewes spread the high wayes with boughes in the honour of l Ioh. 12.13 Christ the children will cry Hosanna to the highest if the father blesse and praise God and sing Psalmes in the family as Praecentor beginning the quire the rest yea the least follow in their holy anthems even as the Congregation here follow David their first mover who sets the rest on work as the m Philomena sic dictus â Philos quod est amor mene defectus quasi deficiens amore cantandi c. De tuius cantilenis vide apud Plin. lib. 10. cap. 29. cap. 42. Theologice applicat Berchorius reductorij moralis li. 7. c. 30. fol. 199. Nightingall by her prick in her brest first awakens her selfe and then by her carrolling sets a worke the Marle the Finch the Linnet the Larke and all the quiristers of the woods and fields Where on the contrarie where the Governors or Masters usually make no bones of oathes no not of the wounds and bloud of Christ which in their madnesse sometimes they teare as Doggs doe Kydds or Lambes you shall heare the servants yea the children as the croakings of so manie Toads the hissings of so many Snakes casting out of their mouthes squibs and firebrands against the Almightie the young Cocke learning as the old crow as the young Nithingales are said to repeate and crowd such tunes alone as they learne from their males So that you shall as easily discerne by the tongues of children abroad how their parents are affected at home to Religion to the Word to the Preachers the Ministerie yea whether Protestants or Papists as you shall discerne fire in the house by the smoake of the chimney For why doe those forty children deservedly devoured by two Beares blaspheme the Prophet n 2. King 2.23.24 Elisha with Come up thou bald pate as some profane impes abase and abuse the Ministers of these dayes but that their irreligious parents had given them a preceptorie practicall lecture of imitation So for servants Abraham hath a servant as faithfull unto him as his owne o Gen. 24. pertotum soules why so Abraham himselfe is faithfull to God and traines him and the rest in p Gen. 18. v. 18 religious as well as militarie discipline q Gen. 14. v. 14 The Centurion hath his souldiers obedient unto r Math. 8.8.9 him it s no marvell for he himselfe is obedient to Christ even in the obedience of ſ vers 10. faith Cornelius hath his souldiers fearing t Acts 10.7 God whom he sends to Ioppa for Peter but the Encomium of himselfe is first That he was a u vers 1.2 devoute and religious man So on the contrary Is Pharaoh churlish against Moses and * Exod. 10.28 Aaron his Courtiers thrust them out of his presence Is Absalon bloudie hearted against x 2. Sam 13.22 Ammon his servants upon the least y vers 28.29 motion are bloudie handed Is that rich churle cruell against Lazarus giving more to his hounds and spannels then to the poore we shall see his servants so too there 's more mercie in the medicinable tongues of the z Luke 16.21 Dogges then in eyther Master or men Yea lastly doth Ioshua serve the Lord then all his houshold will serve the a Iosh 24.15 Lord. Doth Zacheus beleeve then salvation because justification and sanctification comes to his whole b Luk. 19.9 house The convert Iaylor baptized then is his whole house c Acts 16.31 32 33. baptized There 's a Church said to be in the house of Chrispus Stephanas d Philem. v. 2. Philemon in respect of religious duties why so their masters are religious whereas in some houses there 's no more shew of religion then in the house of a Turke a pagan or a savage Barbarian unlesse idle and vaine jangling rybauldrie talke hellish contentions Thebane e Invented at the siege of Thebes cōdēned in their eyther superstitious abuse as lotts or covetous abuse in getting gayning both by Cyprian our Daneus in tractates writ expresly against them as also by the civill common law as appeares in the Digests lib. 11. tit 5. lib. 1. Cod. lib. 3. tit 43. C epist. 35. c 42.43 carding and dycing racketting and bandying of blasphemous oathes be religion Why so There 's no life in the head no heate in the heart no zeale no grace in the Governours therefore the governed be eyther luke-warme f Rev. 3.15 16. Laodiceans or key-cold even altogether godlesse and gracelesse Not that I denie but that an Abraham may have to his sonne an g Gen. 21.9 10. Ismael an Isaac an h Gen. 26.34 Esau a Iacob an incestuous i Gen 35.22 49.3 Reuben a bloudy k Gen. 34.25 Simeon a No●ha l Gen. 9.22 Cham nor that I am ignorant that an m 2. King 5.26 Elisha may have servant a lying Gehezai a n Philem. v. 11 Philemon a runna-gate Onesimus the best Master the worst servant even Christ himselfe a o Iohn 6.71 Iudas or that the worst Master may not sometimes be p Gen. 29.20 blest in and by a q Gen. 30 27. good servant as Laban in Iacob or that a Nabal may have such about him as are honestly affected to r 1. Sam. 25.14 15. David and to such as feare God Which instances prove thus much only That God is a free spirit and gives his grace freely

Theodosius Athanasius Chrysostome against the Pagans and c Passim apud Centuriatores Magd. Osiand epitom Arrians for England in the yeare d Oh fortunate nimium cui militat aether coniurati veniunt ad Classica venti 88 for Rochell as once for Ierusalem in the dayes of Ezekiah when strictly besieged for Grineus against the plots of Faber e Apud Manliū in suis Calloquijs Stapulensis for Luther against that roaring Leo that barking f Apud scriptores vitae Lutheri apud Sleidanum Eccius and all the malignant fry of the Romish Synagogue Now as Davids preservations were publique so proportionably were his praises and benedictions as God honors David so mutually and reciprocally in the sight and eye of all Israel David honors God againe So did Moses the servant of the g Deut. 32. Deut. 33. Lord Ioshuah the sonne of Nun advanced to be leaders of h Iosh 24.1 Israel Samuel i 1. Sam. 3.20 called to be the Lords chiefe k 1. Sam. 12. per totum Prophet Ioseph l Gen 41.41.42 honoured in the Court of Egypt Mordocheus in the m Ester 6.11 Persian Daniel in the Babylonian n Dan. 2.47 48. Court Nehemiah preferred to be the o Nehem. 13. per totum Prince Ezra to be the chiefe Scribe p Ezra 11. 12. in Israel Iacob advanced from a poore Shepheard to be a mighty man q Gen. 32.9 in meanes Othniel Iudah Iephte and other religious Iudges in Israel Asa Iosiah Iehosaphat Ezekiah and other religious Kings in Israel to omit Constantine so praised by r In vita Constantini Eusebius Theodosius by ſ In vita Theodosij Ambrose Alphonsus of Aragon by Panormitan t In vitâ Alphonsi the Canonist with all other religious Kings Kesars Tetrarches Monarches Princes Peeres Legifers Rulers Governours recorded and renowned by the unerring pen of the holy Ghost in Scripture by Civill or Ecclesiasticall Historians in former or latter times As they have received their Crownes dignities diadems rodds of magistracie rule and superioritie from u Rom. 13.1 Tit. 3.1 God by whom Kings w Prov. 8.5 raigne the poore are fetcht from the dust to sit with x Psal 113.7 8 Princes so by their speeches tongues actions wholsome lawes established and executed their planting of religion their supplanting of Idolatry and Idolaters their discountenancing of sinne and sinners their gracing of the sonnes of grace the upright in the land as outward demonstrations of their inward inflamed thankefull affections they have beene ever studious to improve what honour dignitie glory authoritie they have received from God even before the whole world to honour glorifie dignifie and extoll that great and glorious God with it againe This hath beene their marke ayme desire and endevour to magnifie the grace to propagate the glory of that God from whose free mercie without their demerits they have received their lives their honours their tallents their places their graces A Glasse wherein all Rulers may see their owne faces In which as the best may have occasion to rejoyce if they finde their actions and affections to answer these recited as face answers face so manie Athisticall persecuting Popish profane carnall carelesse sleepie secure Magistrates of the former and in these present evill times may in the consciousnesse of their guilts seeing their spots hang down their heads being ashamed as the huge y De magnitudine Elephantis Plin lib. 8. ca. 1. Arist lib. 2 ca. 1. lib. 3. cap. 9. Elephant that 's sad when he reflecteth upon the hideous vastnesse of his owne bulke in the cleere waters chiefly such as even publickly fight against z Act 5 39. Acts 7.51 God as once the Nimrodian a Gen. 11.3 Gyants opposing and persecuting the Gospell and all Gospellers as they call them by their lawes edicts suppressing religion and the religious defacing mangling mingling poysoning with their owne dreggs and druggs of superstitious traditionarie vanities toyes blasphemies if not quite abolishing the pure and sincere service and worship of God so wounding God in his glorie his Saints his servants his Ministers members even with his owne weapons these swords and rodds of authoritie * Fasces magistratus apud Livium Fanestellam which he hath put into their hands In the numbers and rankes of these were Ahab and Iesabell that persecuted b 1 King 19.2 Elias imprisoned c 1. Kin. 22.26 Michay fed and maintained as too many Popish Princes their whipping Baalites and fatt Abby-lubbers since at their owne tables the Prophets of d 1. Kin. 18.19 Baal as also Ieroboam the son of Nebat that caused Israel to e 1. King 14.9 sinne Salomon that by permission if not approbation so long as he was in his adulterous and Idolatrous slumber as too uxorious in pleasing his wives built Temples and Altars for the Gods of the f 1. King 11.5 6 7 8. Sidonians Ammonites and Moabites with other Idolatrous Kings of Iudah and Ierusalem And such as these omitting Nero Commodus Decius Severus Traian c. and other bloudie butchers of millions of g See the Acts and Monumēts of the Church epitomized fol. 3 4 5 6 7. martyrs as Pagans that know not God were Valens Constans Constantinus and other Arrian h Hist. tripart passim apud Euseb Socr. Emperours opposing by their swords the Dietie as Arrius Aërius Eumonius Nestorius Paulus Samosatenus and other blasphemous k De quibus omnibus apud August Epiphan de haeres Hereticks some the Divinitie some the humanitie some the will some the two natures some the person some the offices of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ And not to wade further then our owne times and times of our forefathers that French Henry the second slaine by tilting in midst of jollities with that Apostate of Navarre who from a seemingly religious Protestant turned as another Iulian by the perswasion of the Duke of Guize the Cardinall of Lorraine his brother a professed l See the French Chronicles of Hen. 2. Also the Acts of the Church abridged fol. 385. Papist that Duke de Maine and the Guizian faction that bound themselves by a sacramental oath to ruinate and roote out the Protestants whom disgracefully they stiled Lutherans Hugenotes that Duke d'Alva who by crueltie and treacherie so raging as an evening Wolfe in the low Countries by his bloudy massacres and Farnestius that vowed to make his horse swim up to the belly in the bloud of the m Apud Sleidanum Lutherans that Iohn Miners n President of the Councel of Aygues that so heartily and desiringly executed that o Acts of the Church abridged fol. 203. decree writ like Dracoes lawes with bloud which went out from the French King by the procurement of the Bishop of Aix and other bloud sucking horseleeches against

like the Camomile the more spurnd and trod as it was with the Apostles and Disciples the more Pharisaicall beating and threating they were restrained the more by the spirit they were constrained to preach i Act. 5. v. 17.18.19.20.21 sic vers 28.29 Christ As in the primitive times the moe that suffered by the Pagans and Arrians the moe like spirituall Souldiers stood in their rankes and doubled their fyles as their fellowes k Apud Euseb Centuriatores passim sic sanguis Martyrum semē Ecclesiae fell And though they were mockt and branded with the nicke-names of Cruciferians in derision of Christ for Hell and irreligion had not then hatcht the names of Puritanes and precisians yet though they met not in the nights as one well l Lorinus Comment in cap. 2. Actuum notes to avoyde scandall and construction they desisted not eyther for bloudie or unbloudie persecution by tongue or sword to meete in their m Preter Tertull in apolli sub finem de Corona Militis asserunt Euseb libr. 3 cap. 26 Orosius libr. 7. cap. 12. Nicephorus lib. 3. cap. 17. Cyprian de Orat Dom. Cyrillus Catechismus 6. Imo Plinius Secundus libr. 10. Epist 97. ad Traianum Temples earely in the morning even in Tertullians time and before Oh where 's this zeale courage profession in the milkesoppes and mole-harted Christians of our Time who having by the Ministery and the spirit sometimes some good sparks kindled in them the least disgracefull word from a Father a Mother a brother a husband a Naball a neighbour a nebulo quencheth all againe As Snailes they plucke in their heades againe in the least storme of opposition they looke back againe with Lots o Luke 17.32 wife and returne againe to the flesh-pots of p Exod. 16.3 Aegypt to open professed profanenesse in the least lett and disturbance they have to the heavenly Canaan Oh that we could be heated with Davids fires to professe and practise everie man in his place as David did Oh even this outward profession if in sinceritie else its Pharisaicall and double q Simulata sāctitas duplex iniquitas iniquitie what glory would it bring to r Math. 5.16 God what an adamant to draw on the weake what a reall confutation of the s 1. Pet. 3.16 wicked what a gagg and muzzle to the mouthes of t 1. Pet. 2.15 blasphemers what an argument of the fire of u Psal 116.10 Ro. 10. v. 10. faith and inward Grace if it would shew it selfe thus in outward heats and smoakes whereas the want of this heat outwardly shewes our hearts but dead coales Yea joyning profession and practise together leaves and fruites words and workes else our estate were no better then Cains Sauls Herods Iudas his w See Doctor Wakemans sermon called the true professor or Demas his we should inwardly rejoice in life here with x Rom. 8. Paul have more peace in death with y 2. King 20.3.4 Ezekiah and z Nehem. 13. Nehemiah and in judgement a Marke 8.38 Christ would not be ashamed of us no more then we here of him CHAP. IIII. SECT I. David prayseth God Primarily FOvrthly David doth not onely thus Piously Personally Publickely blesse God but Primarily he begins himselfe to leade this heavenly dance and by example and his authoritie to unite these two in one provokingly and procuratorily he excites and stirres up others even the whole Congregation to doe the like to move after his religious motion he as a patterne still to all zealous Magistrates faithfull and fruitefull Ministers like unto the a Gallus vigilantis Magistratus typus apud Rensner et Alciatum in suis emblem ac etiam Episcopi apud Maiolum in diebus canicularib col 6. pag. 210. Cocke by the clapping of his owne wings first awakens stirres up b De Gallo haec vid. apud Plin. l. 10. c. 22. apud Albert. libr. 23. Litera G. himselfe from sleepe saying Awake Lute and c Psal 108. v. 2 Harpe awake my Heart awake my Tongue my Glory I my selfe will awake right earely c. And then by his Crowing his Heraulding Trumpetting and proclayming the mercies of God he awakens d Psal 32.5.6 others as here and in severall Psalmes Come ye Children saith he hearken yee unto e Psal 66.16 me and I will tell you what God hath done for my Soule as Moses tould Iethro his Father in-in-law what God hath done for f Exod. 18.8 Israel in their eduction out of Aegypt and preservation in the red Sea Thus ought wee that are publicke persons to have heate in our selves and to inflame others to have salt in our g Math. 5.13 selves and to season others to have light in our h vers 14. ibid. selves and to lighten others to bee as Candles on the Tables as Beacons on a Hill to illuminate the Countries where wee preach chiefly the Places Parishes Houses in which we live to shine to k vers 15. others as starres in a darke night as Lots in l Gen. 19.7 2. Pet. 2. v. 17 Sodom as m Dan 4.8.9 Daniels amongst Babylonians as Iobs amongst the n Iob. 1.8 Vzzites as Abrahams amongst the o Gen 23.6 Hevites as Isaacs amongst the p Gen. 26.28 Philistines We must be as the Northern Pole to the Sea-man as the Card Compasse to the Mariner yea as the Steare-men in Ships as Centinels amongst an Armie to give ayme to the rest and to have an eye over all and every one of those that depend on our charge as a father over every Childe old and young a Captaine over every Souldier trayned and untrayned a Schoole-master over everie scholler apt or unapt as a good q Bonus magistratus pastor populi ut olim Homerus de Agamemnine frugi pastor vt Suetonius de Tiberio plura autem de officio Patris praeceptoris magistratus vide apud Alstedium part 2. pag. 711. 721 732. in suae Theologia naturali Sheepheard over everie sheepe weake strong Rammes Lambes not willing that anie should perish by the craft of the Foxe or their owne default in eating Rot-grasse yea we should bee as the loving r De amore gallinae circa pullos vide Glossam in Math. 23. v. 37. Arist. Palludiū Berchoriū reductorij libr. 7 pag. 202. Hen who having a naturall storge to everie chick both fights for it against the Hawke and Kyte and clockes it with the whole brood after her Thus David stirres up all and every man of the Congregation from the heads the elders to the youngest and meanest to blesse God as he oft s Psal 134.135.147.149.150 chiefly 148. per totum excites in the Psalmes He would have high and low young-men and maydes old-men and babes all and every one to performe this taske yea the Creatures animate inanimate sensitive vegetative celestiall

Iaylor with his whole houshold is g vers 30 31 32 converted one Sermon from Peter Cornelius is confirmed the holy Ghost by his friends and houshold h Acts 10 44 received by another Sermon three thousand even Christ-crucifying Iewes touched in heart wounded in i Acts 2 37 38 soule and conscience Yea still to keepe to my grounds though I run descant never so oft never so farre how all this people as heavenly Queristers in my text are ringing and singing the prayses of God upon the first begun straines of David their Precentor Comparing all these with our secure and sensuall and sinfull times that are not wrought upon by anie meanes not reclaimed more then the * De feritate huius animalis Pli. l. 28 c. 8. lib 8 c. 17. tametsi si cū hedo assuefiat domescit instat Aelian lib. 6 c. 2 Panther can be tamed by any mercies not to be turned from our vaine courses discourses more then the Seas out of their channell by many by any motives our hearts so crustie so brawny not to be pierced and penetrated more then the scales of a Dragon by any edge of the word the sword of the Spirit our diseases so desperate so dangerous not to be balmed salved with any balme of * Ier. ● 22 Gilead our hearts so foule like that Augean k One of Hercules his workes to clense it moralized by Maiolus col 1 part 1. pag. 13. And by Natales Comes in his Mythiologies Stable not to be rensed clensed with all the waters of the sanctuary Yea more when I seriously ponder what some Historians pen how docible how pliable how teachable how tractable even some brute creatures have beene to l As a Hart to Sertorius Maiolus Colloq 7. pag 276 a Panther to the father of Philin Plin. libr. 8. cap. 17. man as m B●tephalus Alex. Solin c 46 Isidor lib. 12. c. 16 Sic alij aequi alijs apud Diod. libr. 12. Ael●an libr. 16. cap. 23. Horses n De docilitate Canum multa Plin. lib. 8. cap. 40 Aelian 8 c. 30 lib 6 c. 61. li. 5 c. 26. li. 7. 10. 18 Zonaras in Tiberio Dogges Apes p Mira de docilitate Elephantis Aelian lib 4. cap. 9. 7.39 Arist. lib. 9. cap. 46. Albert lib. 8. tract 5 cap. 2 Sic de Camelo Plin. lib. 8 cap. 18. Leonius p 8. Elephants Crowes yea if we beleeve some writers how officious even Wolves and * De Leone famulante Androdium apud Gillium de noct Attic. lib. 5. cap. 14. Aelian lib. 7. cap. 43. Sic de Leonibus Lupis Corvis famulantibus Sanctos quosdam apud Surium com 6. in prato spir cap. 107. Et in vita Sanctorum pag 3 cap. 7 Lyons have beene to man their acknowledged Lord and yet that man himselfe should be so hardly tutored and trayned without strayning and constrayning by the Iron rodds and whip-cords of manie crosses and afflictions inward and outward as Gods last and best Physick to yeeld homage fealtie honour and service submission and subjection and all the tributary duties of invocation humiliation gratulation c. to his maker Lord protector preserver and redeemer Yea lastly and to conclude all when I ponder how easily wee are perswaded by any indifferēt friend to ought that concerns our morall good as Moses by his Father in-in-law Iethro to admitt of a helpe in his q Exod 18 24. Magistracie r 2. King 5 13 14. Naaman to wash in Iordane or disswaded from what is prejudiciall to us as the ſ Acts 16 29 30 Iaylor from killing himselfe David from killing t 1 Sam 25 32 33 ●● Naball chiefly how inclinable to our Lawyer or Counsellor laying our Case or Action thus or thus moving in this Court or removing to that as may be to our best advantage but especially to our Physition that by his prescript wee take druggs and pils and potions though never so bitter as Aloes Rubarb and the like be content to be dieted to abstaine from what we love as from Wine in the Goute Milke in a Feaver Eeles Porke goose c. such stirring meates in case of a greene wound for feare of * See Gales chirurgery the Generall practise of physicke in these cases Impostumation yea and for the preservation of health prevention of sicknesse to part with the bloud of our veins I say pondering these and laying all these preceding paralels in one ballance with the present condition of manie millions that carelesse of their soules as Esther once of her life If they perish they u Esth. 4.16 perish are so hard to be drawen by God or man by the Word or Sword by preaching or beseeching threatning or intreating either from the leaving or loathing of committed sinnes or constant and conscionable performance of omitted duties I say in the serious meditation and consideration of these premisses I cannot but lament the sinners follie mans native naturall stupiditie * Ierem. 8.6 inconsideration miserie our English Irish sensualitie securitie impietie impenitencie that though we have moe meanes moe mercies moe cals to grace then ever Iudea or these formerly recited yet we make lesse use of them then they eyther in the Theorie or Practise of such gracious such gratulatorie duties as the Peeres and people after the prescript and patterne of their Prince here performed SECTIO VII The universalitie of Israels gratitude with our universall ungracious ingratitude paralelled and compared MOreover to examine our grounds a little further this first spring of my Text abounding you see with spirituall waters to refresh the Israel of God there being no word letter syllable or hebrew pricke superfluous or unsignificant in the language of Canaan as in Tully Demosthenes Eschins Hortensius and other following Orators humane as the learned in the Originall tongues have w Drusius in suis annotationibus Ren●etius in suae Pantheologia Lelius de expresso Dei verbo Merneus de veritate Religionis Zanthius de sacra Scriptura observed and from thence argued the infallible veritie excellencie of the Scriptures above all humane authors as aqua vitae and distillatorie waters above conduit waters It 's verie remarkable here the generalitie of their gratulations the conformitie unity uniformitie of their worship their sacrifices it 's sayd all the Congregation though great and populous blessed God all worshipped all sacrificed all feasted before the Lord. There was not a man of them of a contrarie minde heart spirit judgement will in the best of workes they all drew as in one yoake walked as by one rule or line sung one note kept one tune there was not one crosse refractorie spirit that is taken notice of in the whole multitude but they joyne together their hearts and voyces to the blessing of God Oh here was a blessed object to Davids eare and eye I wish our David could see

places assigned their powers as Iupiter in the Heavens Iuno in the Ayre Neptune in the Seas Pluto in the infernall hels the Fawnes and Satyrs over the Woods the Driades over Trees and Mountaines their Naides over fountaines as also in which still our k See a conceited Booke called the Bee-hive of the Romish Church one M. Emerod his picture of a papist chiefly D. Sutcliffe his Turcopap●smus against Giffords Calvino Turcismus Papists sympathize over severall professions and functions Liberall Illiberall Military Physicall Mechanicall as Minerva over the learned Phoebus over the Muses Aesculapius over physicke and Physitians Vulcan over smiths Venus and Cupid over love and lovers Mercury over Cheaters and Cuni-catchers Mars and Bellona over warres and warriours Lucina over women in childe-bed and so of the rest So when they perceived or but conceited that any thing prospered better or any feared or felt evill was prevented by the tuition and protection of their titulary gods So in imitation of the Iewes in their sacrifices to the true Iehovah they have shewed their thankefulnesse by their Eucharisticall oblations and l De diversis sacrificijs Romanorum vide apud Fenestellam passim apud Livium Graecorum Aegyptiorū apud Maiolum de diebus canicular part 2. col 1. pag. 55. sacrifices yea by the presenting of gifts unto them as our Papists still loading the Altars before Images and Shrines and by significant Emblems and symbols representing their powers inclinations and operations as appeares by the assigning unto Vulcan a hammer to Pan a pipe to Sibill a Bell to Bacchus a Tyger to Venus a Swan to Saturne a Serpent to Aesculapius a Snake to Minerva an Owle to Mars a Wolfe to Mercury a Caducean wand to Diana a Hart and doggs to Phoebus a Crow to Bacchus a Panther to Pallas a Speare to Iupiter an Eagle to Cupid bow and arrowes to Iuno a Peacocke to Hercules a club c. so the rest Now shall superstition be more thankefull to her false Gods then true religion to the true God Shall the Devill deluding these Pagans as at this day our Papists by his sleights and operations working as by once speaking in Edens Serpent Dodons oake Apolloes Oracle and oft in Images by and in these imaginarie dieties his owne ends Shall he which as Gods Ape and emulator he above all things desires obtaine more honour of these Idolaters then the true God of us his professed servants Shall Pagans be more thankefull then Christians as purposely by more paines I have expressed sure as the Ninivites the Queene of m Matth. 12.41 42. Sheba and the Sodomites themselves against the ungratefull ungracious Iewes so these Pagans shall testifie against us at the great Tribunall in our omissions of these gratulatorie duties to the true Iehovah which they blindly gave to their Imaginarie n Quomodo Gentiles gratias egerunt dijs suio sacrificijs vide apud Mercurium Trismegistum in Pimandro cap. 1. Gale de usu partiū apud Alsted in sua theologia natural Gods their well deserving deified men CHAP. V. Chrstian and Heathenish ingratitude exemplified SIxtly as these heathens have beene themselves gratefull and thankefull to their gods and to their best meriting men so they have from the light and sparke of nature wondrously distasted detested and declaymed against the ingratitude of others holding an ungratefull man the veryest viper the ugliest monster in the o Ingrato homine terra peius non creat world the most unprofitable bulke and burthen of the earth the Center of all injustice the compendium and abstract of all that can be called ill in p Si ingratum dixeris omnia dixeris a man yea as the best Moralists chiefly q In Moralibus Plutarch r De beneficijs l. 4. c. 21. 27. libr. 5. passim Seneca ſ Libr. 1. Officiorum sic plurima apud Stobaeum tit de beneficijs Tully have given many rules and motives to gratitude telling us that for the benefits wee receive eyther from God or man we must in imitation of the fertile ground render more then wee have received no more grudging to repay thankes backe againe for good turnes done then to redeliver backe againe the pledges and pawnes we have had in our custodie not forgetting the good that from any we have received but the good we have done with many such particular counsells cautions and caveats So these with other grave and learned Historians have severely censured and branded with a perpetuall blot of obloquie and infamie such persons yea such Provinces Nations and Kingdomes as have beene unthankefull to well deserving men much more to their gods making ingratitude the canker in the Rose the Cantharides in the oyntment the soyle and staine of many other excellent gifts parts of such as otherwayes excelled in Armes or in Arts Thus they Satyrically and sharpely taxe the ingratitude of that Paris or Alexander Phrygius in stealing away the wife of Menalaus and treacherously killing the King of Sydon of both whom hee was courteously entertayned against the lawes of nature of Nations and hospitalitie thus also t Appian lib. 2. de bello Civili Appian and all Romane historiographers since lay loade upon the vile ingratitude of Cassius and Brutus Caesars sonne in u Et tu mi Brute cries Caesar whē he was stabd in the Senate house law Domitius Trebonius Tullius Cymber the two Servilij Casca Hala with other confederats in bewitching stabbing Iulius Caesar with bodkins in the Senate house as dispitfully as Gerson was stabbed by his ungratefull schollers by the instigation of emulating-Fryers or as Fulvia Tyranized over Tullies tongue with her needle notwithstanding this worthie Caesar had pardoned some of them with many others of the Pompeyan faction out of that clemencie which w Oratione pro Roscio pro Rege Detotaro alibi Tully every where so commends So who can with patience reade in Livie and Plutarch the ingratitude of the Romanes toward the two Scipioes the Affrican and the Emilian the first whereof though hee were their fortresse in so many fights perished in Leviterium The second for all his Conquests over the Carthagenians and Numantines found in Rome a murtherer but not x Plutarchus in vita Scipionis occisorem invenit non iudicem a revenger The ingratitude of the Athenians towards their Theseus Solon Themistocles whom they banished towards Miltiades whom in remuneration of freeing them from the Persians in the expedition against Darius they imprisoned and famished as also towards their Ten Pretors whom in stead of deserved and expected honours after their victories over the Lacedemonians they condemned to death The ingratitude of the Carthagenians towards their eloquent Hamilcar whom in guerdon of his well performed Embassage with Alexander the great they butchered at his y De his alijs pret●r Fulgosum Bruson exempl libr. 3. pag. 8. in quarto returne

many specialties the Lord hath come neerer unto us then ever to them and hath beene as a kinde father both more liberall in his portion of blessings and more indulgent in sparing pitying our sinnes and delinquences and first for the largenesse of his mercies wee receive as Isaac from t Gen. 25. v. 5.6 Abraham as Ioseph from u Gen. 48.22 Iacob as Benjamin from w Gen. 43.34 Ioseph a double yea a trible portion as it were wee seeme Iacob like even to carrie away the x Gen. 25.32 33 blessing and the y Gen. 27.30 birth-right too from them and that in these specialties both of temporall and spirituall blessings in mercies of adornation and preservation as they come to hand with pretermission of innumerable moe To begin with the best first To them God gave the law in the hand of z Gal. 3.19 a mediator to us he gave the Gospell by the mediation of a Luke 2.9.13.14 Angels now in how many degrees the Sun exceedes the Moone our Messias exceedes their Moses our Iesus their Ioshuah our High Priest their * Heb. 7. Heb. 8. Heb. 9. per totum sic Hebr. 10.10.11 12.13 c. Aron the bloudy one and onely propitiatorie sacrifice of his bodie the Annuall sacrifices of their high Priests the Typicall sacrifices of their beastes and Bullockes our Heaven their Canaan so farre our Gospell which is a quickening spirit exceeds their law which without Christ is but a killing Letter To them indeede saith the Apostle were the holy Oracles committed they had the Law and the Testament Moses and the Prophets but wee have the Gospell more plainely more perspicuously then ever they had I denie not indeede but in their Law there was the Gospell included besides personall Types in their Ceremoniall law Christ was shaddowed b See the li●tle Booke called Moses unvailed prefigured and in their severall oblations of all sorts typified and represented as hee was promised to c Genes 3.15 Adam the promise renued to d Gen. 12.3 Abraham and the e Gen. 28.14 Patriarkes and prophecied of by all the Prophets from Moses to f Deut. 18. ●5 Malachy so in their severall ages and generations he was expected to be exhibited by all that looked for the consolation of Israell longed for desired that hee would breake the heavens and come g Esay 44.1 downe as they strongly beleeved that he should come Hence according to Theologie the Patriarkes and Prophets before and under the Law in the Old Testament were saved by beleeving that Iacobs i Gen. 49.10 Shiloh the promised Messias should come as we now in the times of grace are saved by beleeving that hee is come there being but one k Ephes 4 5. Christ but one faith as but one Sunne to the world both to Iew and Gentile one * Acts 4.12 Act. 10.43 Acts 13.39 Rom. 10.4 Gal 3.22 meanes of life and grace to all that are justified sanctified and saved Hence Christ is sayd to be that Agnus occisus in Gods decree and infallible promise that Lambe of l Iohn 1.26 God slaine from the beginning of the world to take away the sinnes of the whole l Iohn 1.26 world of the elect as m Rom. 11.12.15 2. Cor. 5.19 Iohn 1.2 v. 2. Scriptures and n Distinguit Augustinus inter mundum electorum ● damnatorum Tract 87. in Iohannem sic per mundum intelligitur sol●● modo mundus credentium per Rupertum in Iohannem lib. 3.5 3. Et Commēs in 2. Corinth 5. mundus regenerationum pro quibus Christus mortuus per Augustinum serm 20 serm 44. serm 109. de verbis Apostoli per Haimonem in Rom. 5. per Prosperum libr. 1. Re●p pro Augustin obqui De quo vide plura apud Augustinum de corrupt gratia cap. 12. Tract in Iohan. 2.77 K●midentium de R●demptione Perkinstum de Praedestinatione fathers limit that universall Hence also is the Theologicall axiome that Christ who is the verie end of the Law to which it points as once Iohn the Baptist as the hand in the Dyall pointes to the Sunne and to which as a sharpe Schoole-master it o Gal. 3 24. drives and directs that this Christ is typified in the Old p Christus in Veteri Testamento velatus in Novo revelatus libricus in Clavi script Testament and revealed in the New Hence it is also that Abraham and so consequently all the beleeving Patriarkes the sonnes of Abraham by faith is said to have seene the day of Christ and to have rejoyced But how was Christ seene darkely obscurely as under a vaile as the prisoner sees the Sunne through a little chincke or grate as the Spouse in the Canticles had a glimpse of her beloved through the hole of the q Cant. 5.4 doore So was Christ seene of them but wee now see him plainely perspicuously as walking amidst the Golden r Revel 2. vers 1. Candlestickes as we see the Sunne in his solstitium or at noone-day in the plaine and powerfull preaching of the Gospell wee see him not duly and deadly as the Papist in a stone or a piece of brasse pictured in a Crosse or Crucifixe Idolatrously worshipped but as Paul tels the Corinthians even crucified as it were amongst us in the plaine evidence of the spirit Therefore saith the same Apostle The Grace of God hath ſ Tit. 2.11.12 appeared this Gospell of grace hath appeared the phrase is observable even as the Sun that peepes and breakes from under and appeares from the obscuring cloude yea the day Starre from an high hath visited us saith t Luke 1.78 Zachary yea light is come into the u Iohn 3.19 vvorld saith hee that is himselfe the w Iohn 1. v. 4.5 life and the light even to inlighten those that like Zebulon and x Luke 1.79 Nepthaly sate in darkenesse and the shadow of death Here is our priviledge above the Iew. Secondly Besides as a Corolarie to this point God at sundry times and in diverse maners spake in time y Hebr. 1. v. 1. past unto these Iewish Fathers by z Iere. 35. v. 15 the Prophets yea and by a Gen. 18.1.2 Genes 19.1.2 Iudg 13. v. 3. Angels too by Oracles by dreames and b Numb 12 7. visions by Vrim and c Exod. 28. v. 30 Thummim but in these last dayes he hath spoken to us by his d Heb. 1. v. 1. Son whom hee hath appointed e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Heire of all things by whom also he made the worlds Thirdly Moreover to them he stirred up temporarie typicall Saviours and Iudges who delivered them out of the hands of those that spoyled them Iudg. 3. vers 16. e vers 2. c Exod. c. 3. c. 4. cap 13. Moses and f Exod. 34.9 Ioshuah and g Iudg. 1.2 Iudah and

and Eutichius Bernard Peter of Clunes yea amongst the chiefe Bishops of Asia about the celebration of Easter as appears in Ecclesiasticall histor Yea how ever it is excused by Chrys hom 6. de laudibus Pauli by other fathers Paul and Barnabas dissēted Act. 16.37 Margine Yet since wee all hold the foundation against Papist and Pelagian and Armenian and who ever else which is justification freely by faith in Christ without the workes of the law according to the Scriptures thus building on the rock though there may be amongst us doctrinall or personall errors we are still a Church wee have not totally and apostatically revolted as the Iewes Eightly and yet see still a further mercie to us then to these Iewes though Gods owne peculiar people as indeede as when by a stone throwne in the waters one circle begets another and as in a golden chaine one lincke succeedes exceeds another so in the cordes of a man in the cordes of g Osee 11.4 love one mercie drawes another though our provocations and rebellions haue every way equalized theirs and though in paternall love by fatherly castigations corrections the Lord hath visited our sinnes with roddes our offences with scourges as he threatned h 2. Sam. 7.14 Salomon as he hath dealt with i 2. Sa. 12.10.11 David k 2. Chr. 32 25 26. Ezekiah l Ionas 1.3.4 Ionas and all his transgressing children yet he hath not beene so strict and severe with us as with them for manie ages and generations to scourge us with any Ashur or Assirian any rod of his m Esay 10.5 wrath any forreine power For how ever in our first planting in this Island we have been subjugated and subdued very n See Lanquets Chronicle lib. 2 per totum de Gestis Romanorum in Anglia libr. 3. per totum ●t testatur pag. 136. often by the Pictes by the Danes by the Romanes and since the time of William the Conqueror as appeares in the raignes of severall Kings wee have had bloudie bickerings with neighbouring Kingdomes chiefly the Normans the French and the Scottes now our brethren our neerest and deerest Allies they and we meeting in his Royall Majestie as in the Royall center of love as the Tyrians and the Syrians in one Aeneas and how ever in the Raignes of everie King our Edwards Richards Iohns Henries and the rest since as before the Conquest our land hath beene shaken as with a feaver rent and devided as with the teeth and fangs of madd dogges in Civill warres more or lesse by the factions and rebellions of turbulent malignant humerous proud ambitious and discontented spirits Yet within our memorie or the memorie of our forefathers our great grand-fathers which is a singular mercie both to us their successors and our predecessors wee have not beene brought under any forreine power no externall yoke hath beene layd on our neckes excepting the Romane yoke on the soules of our forefathers as the o Exod. 1.13 Egyptian Chaldean p Esay 10.6 Ierem. 50.33 Assirian q Ierem. 51.34 Babylonian yoke was layd upon the Iewes for many yeares together in grievous pressures wee have not beene subdued in our times by anie forreine enemie as the Israelites were kept under sometimes r Iudg. 3.8.14 twentie sometimes thirtie fortie yeares by the Midianites Moabites Ammonites Philistines and other enemies which the Lord stirred up against them Our land in our time as was once sayd of Venice is a Virgin unconquered unsubdued We have obtained ſ 2. Sam. 24.14 Davids desire to fall into the hands of God by plague and famine and other afflictions but not into the hands of man as Sampson did to be mocked of the t Iudg. 16.21.25 1. Sam. 31.4 uncircumcised which was Sauls feare as Abimelech was ashamed to die by the hand of a w Iudg. 9.54 woman quod omen avertat Deus Lastly which is the summe and substance shutting up of all the rest comparing our selves still with them not onely in positive mercies but in privative in respect of our evills of x Malum culpa malum poena sinnes and evils of sufferings wee shall finde though as hath beene said and proved that our provocations are as many as monstrous our demerits as great as theirs all circumstances considered wee having walked as unworthie of Gods mercies as euer they that the Lord hath beene to us in respect of them a mercifull and indulgent father and to them in respect of us a just a severe and unplacable judge to us a father of mercies to them a Iealous and zealous God visiting the sinnes of their fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth y Exod. 20.5 Generation When I consider not onely the judgements of God upon their soules even to this day in giving them over according to his z Deut. 28.28 threate to madnesse blindnesse of minde astonishment of heart to grope as at noone day their hearts being made fatt their eares heavie their eyes a Esay 6.10 shut least they should see with their eyes heare with their eares and understand with their hearts and convert and be healed God giving them over to the spirit of slumber their eyes being darkened the vayle b 2. Cor. 3.15 unremoved blindnesse in part hapning to c Rom. 11.8 ve 25. v. 9. v 32. them untill the fulnesse of the Gentiles be come in their Table being made a snare and a trap and a stumbling blocke and recompence unto them God shutting them up so farre in unbelife that when their Messias came amongst them as his owne his owne received him d Iohn 1.12 not but crucified the Lord of e Act. 2.36 glorie rejecting him that came in his fathers name their promised Shiloh but receiving to their inevitable ruine and destruction both of bodie and soule imposters and deceivers for their Messias as Herod entertained of his f Some thinke the Herodians were so called in that they thought Herod that Idumean the Messias Herodians two Bens or Barcosbas the sonnes of lying as their owne writers g Sanhedrim li. c. Helech Rabb Moses Ben. Maimon That place of Haggai c. 2 7.8 being applied to the one by Rab Akiba tract Meghala Iacobs scarre Num 23. unto the other Talmud Ieros L. Taanith testifie being received even of their great Rabbyns and the propheticall Scriptures applied unto them the one immediately after the Passion of Christ the other in the dayes of Adrian besides that Egyptian Moses that Devill in the shape of a h Socrat. eccles hist. libr 7. c. 37. man who drowned so manie of them in the Sea in the Isle of i Anno 434. Creete with other birds of that blacke feather as that Pseudo-Moses in k Nicephorus Arabia with others moe Thus as our Papists and other heretickes at this day not beleeving the truth the Lord giving them over to strong