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A55810	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle, on Wednesday in Easter weeke Aprill 13th, 1642 before the Right Honovrable the Lord Maior, the aldermen and sherifs of this famous city of London / by William Price...	Price, William, 1597-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3402; ESTC R18549	33,074	54

to enter Canaan To faint in the view of the goale to sinke within ken of the Harbour To summe up this point which is indeed the summe of the Text and therefore my length in it may be justified Deare Christians march on valiantly till you finish your Christian course Be like your selves Alwayes the same Sempercadem was Queene Elizabeths Motto Christ loved the youngest Disciple because he began so soone and the oldest because they held out so long Move toward heaven without turning as the milch-kine went with the Arke toward Bethshemesh without any diversion or digression Psal 19. Be unwearyed as Davids Sun Stand not still as Joshuahs Sun goe not back as Ahaz's Sunne He that sayes come unto me saith also abide in me Nature hath provided breasts to bring up Mat. 11.28 Io. 15.4 as well as a womb to bring forth The Lawyers make Tenendum as neefull as Habendum to hold as to have Physicians cry out against relapses O be as tender of that sparke of Divinity in you your soules as you are of your states and bodies When God had created every dayes worke he said at the end thereof still it is good not so in particular of man after his creation Gregorie gives the reason Man was not to be praysed afore hee were tryed he was not to be judged by his beginning but his end Homo probandus antequam laudandus Greg. Christ was Alpha for his happy beginning and Omega for his thrice happy end Constancy onely shall be crowned O thou great gift of perseverance He that wants thee cannot be saved hee that hath thee cannot be damned That reward that is not leasewise for terme of time but eternall is reserved onely for those whose fore-heads are marked with the letter Tau the last letter in the Hebrew Alphabet as it is in Ezekiel Ezek. 9.4 alluding to perseverance It may be wee may for the present encounter with temptation vaine opposition persecution here But yet a little while Heb. 10.37 and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Our time is for the brevity compared sometimes to a day sometime to a night sometime to a watch in the night sometimes but to an houre nay to a moment Iob 14.6 Psal 30.5 Psal 90 4. Rev. 3.10 2 Cor. 4.17 Gal 6.9 1 Cor. 15. ult therefore be not weary of well-doing for in due time you shall reape if you faint not Be stedfast immoveable alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour shall not be in vaine in the Lord. Never let it be said of you it is perpetuated to posterity as of Ierusalem in my Text. How is the faithfull City become an harlot c. I have yet pursued my Text but in the lump the grosse I shall now take the termes of this Apostacy in pieces acquainting you from what and to what Ierusalem fell exhorting you to the first dehorting you from the latter But the streights of time will compell me to deale with these particulars as Colmographers doe in their Maps of the world set downe a line for a River and a spot for a whole Country There are three periods in the Text I will take them as they lye in order I may compare each of them to the cloud that led the Israelites light on the one side and darke on the other In the first period the bright side is faithfulnesse Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fides quam credimus quâ credimus qua credimur Neemanah the faithfull City It is an usefull distinction of faith into a Faith which we beleeve Thus our Creed is objectively called our faith A Faith by which we beleeve the habite the grace of faith enthronized in the soule which is the grace of graces as Athens was call'd the Greece of Greece And a Faith by which we are beleeved trusted by others whereof I conceive my Text speakes We are used to call it fidelity or faithfulnesse Which is sometimes ascribed to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 10 13. T it 2.10 God is faithfull Sometimes to man as in particular to servants who are to shew saith Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all good fidelity Now this fidelity is expressible towards God and towards man And indeed the one seconds and attends the other Therefore was Ioseph faithfull to his Master Potiphar because faithfull to his God Constantius the father of Constantine the Great would not trust the faith of any Souldier Cen. 39.8 9. 1. that had violated his faith to Christ Fidelity towards God under a threefold relation as our King our husband as our Lord and Master Fidelity to God as our King beares the name of homage fealty allegiance and loyalty to him Fidelity to God as our husband is as much as chastity whereby we reserve our selves as spotlesse Spouses entire to him Ephes 5 27. 1 Tim. 3.11 as Paul expresses it Who elsewhere also tells us that wives must be faithfull in all things Fidelity to God as our Lord and Master is a compound made up of many ingredients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Singlenes of heart opposed to eye-service Zeale for his name honour and service diligence and rigorousnesse in his businesse not sloathfull in businesse Col. 3.22 23. Rem 12.11 fervent in spirit serving the Lord saith Paul Carefull custody of those ordinances which he hath deposited in our hands holding fast the faithfull word Tit. 1.9 earnestly contending for the faith once delivered to the Saints Iude 1.3 whereof they are feoffees in trust Precisely following his directions in his worship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without will-worship as Moses is said as a servant to be faithfull in all Gods house keeping to his patterne In a word improving and imploying to Gods honour and advantage Heb. 3.5 not napkinning up burying or embezelling those talents of strength wit eloquence morall gifts or graces like a good and faithfull servant Mat. 25.21 according to that eulogy in the Gospell Next fidelity to man in our severall relations stations spheares Which displayes it selfe in making good our lawfull promises vows or oaths once passed though to our disadvantage And in unswayed uprightnesse in keeping touch in bargains trafik cōmerce with all men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Application This is termed faithfulnes in that which is another mans But all this is rather to be wished then expected in the generality of men The heathen man complain'd that he had not seene a faithfull man many a day Most men saith Salomon will proclaime every one his owne goodnesse but a faithfull man who can find Prov. 20.6 The Church of Rome had in the primitive times the precious treasure of the Gospell committed by the Apostles to her trust How she hath disappointed and betrayed that trust appeares by their adulterating and obscuring the Gospell with their corrupt traditionall glosses By

from me I will yet plead with you saith the Lord and with your childrens children will I plead Passe over the Iles of Chittim and see and send to Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be any such thing Did ever Nation change their Gods which yet are no Gods but my people have changed their glory for that that doth not profite Be yee astonisht O heavens at this be desolate Verse 19. for my people have committed two great evils they have forsaken me the fountaine of living waters c. Againe Thy backslidings shall reprove thee know therefore and see that it is an evill thing and a bitter Verse 21 22. that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God I had planted thee a noble Vine how art thou turned to a degenerate plant Though thou wash thee with nitre and much Soape Ier. 5.7 yet this iniquity of thine is marked before me saith the Lord. And againe How shall I pardon thee for this neither will you wonder that God should thus take on if you weigh with your selves That there can bee nothing more derogatory from and opprobrious to God then Apostacy Diabolum Domino praepo●it comparationem enim videtur egisse ut ditatur pronunciasse esse eum meliorem cuius ●ursus esse smalucrit Tertul de paen cap. 5. an Apostate prefers the Devill afore God for hee seemes to have compared and weighed them together and trying both at length pronounces him to be the better to whom he chuseth againe to be a vassall saith Tertullian he that once seemed too resolve to please God by repentance studies by a repentance of his repentance to gratifie the Devill who loves with his tayle to drawstars out of the Firmament of Religion Apostacie thirdly makes the wounds of Christ bleed afresh Rev. 12.4 Qui per paenitentiam instituerat Domino satisfacere Diabolo per aliam paeni●entiae * paenitentiam satisfaciet Aug. if now glorified he were not impassible if he were receptive of shame Apostacy would pierce him and dye his cheekes with a blushing Vermillion Christ lost more honour in the defection of Judas then in Herods and Pilates persecution The heathen saith Salvian would thus transfix Christ through Christians sides They read the Gospell and they are unchast They heare the Apostles and they are Drunke Luxurious Heb 6.6 they follow Christ and yet ravin and oppresse Evangelia legunt unpudici sunt Apostolos audiunt inebriantur Christum sequuntur rapiunt Salvian what will the uncircumcised say where are those heavenly raptures you once boasted of in the service of your God are those greene pastures withered wherein you were fed those Christall waters dryed up by which you were led the heart-blood of an Apostate cannot expiate this reproach And yet to see the swarmes of renegadoes Application 1. revolters at least in part from their faith love profession and practice many pretended sons of the Church who are rather wens spots on her face have nibbled at the established vitall Fundamentall poynts of Religion casting an over-weening looke backe to the Romish Sodom longing after the Garlike and Onyons of the spirituall Aegypt Some change Professions as oft as Laban did his Servants wages Many remit of their former fervour and zeale in Religion who once Iehu like did drive furiously and now heavily like Pharaohs Chariots when the wheeles were taken off As Pope Urbane said of Baldwin sometimes Arch-bishop of Canterbury he was a fervent Monke a warme Abbot a luke-warme Bishop and a key cold Arch-bishop many begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh like Ephraims morning dew flying before the morning Sun like a fire of straw soone in and as soone out like a Land-flood soone up and suddenly downe Stella cadens non est Stella cometa fuit like a Comet a Blazing Star glistering more then all the fixed Stars in the Firmament and evaporating in a stinke Time was when you loved and encouraged your painfull Pastors I plead not for dim-wasting false lights but such as spend themselves to give you light and heat now many of you are enamoured on illiterate hinds proficients onely in boldnesse therefore cunning Preachers because they never learnt therefore famous because they were never so unhappy as to see a Colledge for every body now will be ready to set up of our Trade without serving an Apprentice-ship though indeed what need Geese be cackling when there are watchmen enow about the Capitol I ciscountenance none from instructing their own Families but there is a vast difference betweene steering a Boat on a River and a ship in the Sea you plead that God can worke by weake meanes yes and God can give you sounder minds too but it seemes it is not yet his pleasure time was that this City was famous for severe strict government but now it is growne almost too big either to be fed or governed all is turned topseturvie there is little difference betweene Masters and servants but that the servants are commonly the firer prouder stouter I need not be a shamed to speake of that of which you are not ashamed to be guilty The word is a true mirror that will represent to you such faces as you bring to it I might abound in instances of our Apostacy but I have farre to goe and not much time to spend O remember whence you are fallen and repent and doe your first works Rev. 2.5 was the Angels advice to the Church of Ephesus and it shall be mine to you Remember whence you are fallen you that have beene old Mnasons ancient professors Acts 21.16 from what a height of excellency and sweetnesse to what an abisse you have degraded your selves to the state of brute beasts so David termes himselfe nay of Devils Psal 73.22 Iohn 6.70 such our Saviour calls Iudas Remember by what steps and degrees you descended after how many covenants with God stricken and renew'd after many and large experiments of his mercy Upon what slight motives from bubbly honour fleeting riches shadowy pleasures stinking breath of fame you declined Lay your hearts and lives to the naile thereby you may collect how farre you are retrograde as by looking on Ahaz's Dyall men might see how many degrees the Sunne had gone backward Then repent that you have repented you of your goodnesse Calcate me salem insipidum As Eccbolius recollecting himselfe after his revolt cast himselfe downe at the Church doore and cryed to the people kicke me unsavoury salt fit for nothing but the dung-hill And Granmer thrust that hand in a selfe revenge first into the fire wherewith he had subscribed to Popish Articles Then doe your first works Returne returne O Shulamite returne Ier 3.1 returne you are graciously invited backe They say saith God if a wife goe from her husband and become another mans will hee receive her againe no though she returne with blubberd eyes bedewed cheekes