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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68403	The ioy of Ierusalem and woe of the worldlings. A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the 18. of Iune. 1609. By William Loe Batcheler of Diuinity.	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1609 (1609)	STC 16685; ESTC S102897	35,331	132

he testified That he liued not but Christ liued in him In like manner the spouse also in the Canticles expostulateth with temptations I haue put off my coate how should I put it on againe that is shee had cast away the works of darknes how should she take them againe I haue washed Can. 5. 3. my feete how should I defile them that is I am become cleane in being purified by faith in the blood of Christ and haue done away all my former filthes how can I now that reioyce that I am thus deliuered return into that bondage and slauerie againe The vse of this then is because I hasten that we deceiue not our selues for what semblance soeuer wee make outwardly of christian profession yet if we doe not sanctifie our selues in some measure there is no truth in vs and we doe but cosen our owne consciences and become traitors to our owne soules For this is positiue That Psal 19. 1. Ioh. 3. 3. the feare of the Lord is cleane And he that hath a hope of heauen doth purge himself If I might craue of you blessed people to remember but this paralel of scripture it shal be sufficiēt for me to blesse al the daies of my life this my poore laboure and trauel And so I wil descend vnto my third note of Separation whereby those that here Christ prayeth for are distinguished from the world to wit Euangelical Charitie which is indeed the Cognisance of a true Catholike Christian So our Sauiour testifieth saying By this shall all men know you to be my Ioh. 13. 35 disciples if ye loue one another which Loue is not in the mouth tong onely but in truth and veritie That this is the true outward distinction 1 Ioh. 13. 3. of a true Catholike Christian it appeareth to all of vs heere present For it is common to all professors to be receiued into the Church by Baptisme to enter into the assemblies to praier and preaching to bold vp their handes and cast vp their eies to heauen to crie Lord haue mercie vppon vs and in conclusion to say Amen Yet many of these are counterset Christians fained and false dissemblers but Charitie and Loue Euangelicall notifieth vnto vs the faithfull professor from the fained and false dissembler There are foure fountaines from whence Loue springeth the. 1. of Nature and that euen is also the instinct of brute beastes The. 2. of Blood and that is of Naturall men as they are meerely naturall The 3. of Reason and that is the league and amitie of Philosophers who take Reason to bee their Pilot and Loue no farther than they haue Reason The. 4. of Grace and that is properly of true Christians and that I call Euangelicall Charitie The properties whereof are 1. To sympathize with others in their distresse Beare one anothers burthen 2. To pray for one another The Christian Sacrifice 3. To suffer beare and forbeare euen with the conditions of them that hate vs yea and doe good vnto them and this is indeed the exaltation of Christian charity which Euangelicall and gratious charitie is twofold either in affectu or in effectu In affection onely the poore shew their loue from whom the Lord accepts the will euen as the deed for he requireth not that of them which he giueth not vnto them but in the rich this charitie must bee effectuall in distributing and despersing the blessings and benefits of the Lord to his poore people Witnesse therfore blessed auditorie in the Lord Iesus this day that it is a slander and calumniation of the Papist who saith that we teach you negatiue doctrines onely and not affirmatiue For wee eft-soones proclaime vnto you from this place and all other the like in this kingdome that your Catholike Faith is a dead and desperate follie if it worke not by loue for loue is the euidence to your selues and to the world of your Faith to God But alas with horror and amazement be it spoken how many are there that make profession of this Catholike faith and Euangelicall charitie and yet are degenerated beneath brute beasts in the course of nature and bloud as becomming a cruell Oedipus to their father and a cursed Nero vnto their mother Yea euen in their reason become more vnthankfull then Iudas and that to those to whom they owe Phil. v. 19. in all right and reason euen their owne soules yet are they inhumane as the Dog and cruel as the Lionesse whereas Euangelicall charitie as hath beene said is extended euen vnto our enemies after the example of our God who shineth with his sun vpon the good and bad and of Christ Iesus our Captaine and of the Protomartyr Saint Stephen our fellow souldier who praied for their tyrannous persecutors but much more then to our brethrē to the distressed needie and afflicted members of our Lord Christ Let it bee then a brand of impietie against that soule in the day of account who heareth this and regardeth it not seeing it is the peremptorie and positiue assertion of the Sonne of God That by this Euangelical charitie Ioh. 3. 35 all men shall know who are his And thus much for the person praier and parties both designed and distinguished Now let vs proceed to the reasons why hee praieth for them 1. Donatiue which thou hast giuen me This giuing of vs to God the father is nothing else but a manifestation of the determinate purpose of God in Iesus Christ for as God the father hath predestinated vs to the end which is his glory euerlasting life so also hath he predestinate vs to the meanes to bring vs therunto they cannot be eluded The father hath giuen vs to his Sonne to serue him in foure especiall suites and seruices 1. in deuoted religion euen as the sonne himselfe doth who saith heere in this chapter verse 4. I glorifie the father so must we that bee Christs seruants Let our light so shine before Mat 5. 16. men that they seeing our good works may glorifie our Father which is in heauen 2. In the zeale of soules For the zeale of the Lord must euen Psal 69. 9 eate vs vp Monica the mother of Augustine is a rare President heerein What prayers sighes and groanes did that godly mother Aug. Confess make for her sonne Augustine yet being a Maniche that hee might become an Orthodox Such was the zeale of that pious mother for the soule of her deere Sonne Paul also became all vnto all that hee might winne the more who was weake and he was not weake Thirdly in humilitie Mich. 6. 8. for the Prophet Micheas expostulating this point wherewithall hee should come before the Lord in the end concludeth that a man must humble himselfe to walke with his God shewing that there is no other meanes whereby man may tread the steps of the holy seruice of God but by an humble deiectment of himselfe to the maiesty of God So also our Sauiour himselfe