the like according to his travails and desires that all those differences divisions contentions betwixt Prelacie and Presbetery in our English Israel about blacke and white and square and round and sitting and kneeling with such ceremonies so hotly controverted by the tongues and pennes of so many zealists on both sides pro contra in our Churches Pulpits Houses and private as sometimes publicke Tables that all this might meete as right drawne lines in one Center of x Read the extant Treatises of our moderate Cassanders as D. Sparkes M. Sprint M. Asâ—aew his brotherly reconcilement peace that as wee agree in doctrine with all reformed Churches notwithstanding all papisticall cavils calumnies to the contrarie so we might agree also in discipline in the circumstances as well as in the substance of Religion not dissenting in the colour forme or fashion shape lace of the garment when wee consent in the choyce goodnesse of the cloath Oh that as we professe confesse one God the father of all one Christ the redeemer of all one * Eph. 4 4.5 Spirit the sanctifier of all the Elect yea one Faith one Baptisme one Hope one Life one way to this life as one Sunne but one Soule in man one y De Phoenice etiamsi multi dubitant asseruÌ„t tamen Mela li. 3. cap. 4 Herod li. 2. c. 5. Solin c. 35. Imo describit Ruffinus enpos Symbol Isodor li. 12. c. 7. Aug. ser 18 allegantur etiam quaedam in Concil Aquisg c. 112 113 Phoenix in the world c. so that wee would as one in one minde by one z Psalm 3.16 rule worship this God in a Iohn 4.24 Spirit in truth in unitie in uniformitie of judgement and affections And surely this harmonie I desire to see to heare as earnestly as Augustine desired in his time a Timothy or Paul againe in the b Augustin desired to see Christum in carne Paulum tonitruantem Pulpit to effect with best mentall musicke Oh that those strings what ever they be which are put out of Tune would come up to these that are in Tune yea if I may speake it without offence to God or man as Paul in some cases wisht himselfe cut c Rom 9.3 off and Moses his name blotted out of the booke of d Exod. 32.32 life for the zeale of Israel I wish even my mummiamized earth and dead ashes might quench at last these unnaturall flames and fires in our English Church about these adiaphora these indifferent * Adiaphorists things as they are call'd that like Aetna that Vetruvius the fâ—ogges smoaks of scandals offences might no more breake out to the choaking smothering of the unsetled ignorant unstable But as was the meditation once of * D. Hall our English Seneca in his meditations quem honoris causa nomino another I feare as the e De mirabili amore Pellicani sanguine proprio pulloi resusscitatis Aelian lib. 15. Vincent libr. 16. cap. 127. Et applicant ad Christum Aug. enarrat in Psal 101. Gregor in Psalm 6. Pellican in love to her young about whose nest the Indian shepheards make fires thinking to quench the flames doth but scorch her owne wings by which shee is taken so in too much intermedling by the scorching tongues of censure I prejudice my selfe without profiting the publike cause Therfore stearing from these rockes I desire to reflect upon this meditation That all are here well affected to God the King all thankefull for mercies all worshippers all sacrificers There was not one notified specified Cham in the Arke not one Iudas amongst these docibles if not Disciples not one at this feast without the wedding * Math. 22.11 garment not a Tobiah and Sanballat that counterfeited their helpe to the Temples * Neh 4.1.2.3 building not a Sheba not an Achitophell not a Popish Kerne not a rebellious spirit amongst them all not a Corab or g Numb 16.12.13 a Dathan in this goodly we may hope godly Congregation despising h Iude vers 8. governement resisting authority not a tongue wagges as in former times We have no parte in the Sonne of i 2. Sam 20.1 Isai shall this man raigne over k 1. Sam. 10.27 us to thy Tents oh Israel not one that preferred a forraine Bramble l Iudges 9.15 before their owne Cedar not a man of them Iesuited but if the oath of allegeance had beene put to them would have subscribed with heart and hand not one Recusant amongst all these that refused in the same religious maner to worship God as his King worshipped not an infected sheepe amongst all this flocke not a string out of Tune in all this musicall * Multitude is eyther an instrument Musicall or that Bellua multorum capitum multitude not a contradicting superstitious Cananite an Idolatrous Egyptian amongst all these Israelites but all of them for as much as man could judge with one heart voice and spirit as the rushing of so many waters as the sound of so many Trumpets as the noyse of so manie Cornets so many Cymbals and loud Cymbals with united spirits as Organs and instruments of Gods glory rightly tuned resonate and resound the prayses of the Almightie Oh that I might be an auditor a spectator of such mentall Musicke in these dayes Many musicall men have writ m Boetius lib. 5. Musices c. 1. Glareamus li. 1. Dodechacordon c. 1. Athan. libr. 14. Dipnos cap. 5. cap. 14. Iulius Pollux libr. 4. Onomast cap. 8. 9.10.11 c. â—elius Rhodig Antiq lect lib 5. cap 23 25.26 Ottom Luscivius libr. 1. Musurgia Plato lib. 3. de Rep diversas numerans Musicae species variaque instrumentoruÌ„ genera very curiously and exactly of the varieties excellencies and excellent effects of n De admiranda vi Musices coÌ„sâ—â—â—e Arist. Iob. 8. polit 5. Plato dial 6. de Legibus Galenum li. 3. cap. 5 de Mâ—pocrate Amatum lib. 2. in Dis or â— 50 Gellium noct Attie lib. 1. cap. 10. Atheneum li. 14. Diâ—nos c. 11. lib. 1 c. 7. Infistento in Terâ—â—dro Thaleto pheo Amphion in Cythar Agamemnon Musicke and have distinguished it into Vocall Instrumentall Lidian Doricke Naturall Artificiall Elementary Celestiall Regular Choreall Gregorean Figurall Mensurall disputing about the preheminence of one of these before another most preferring vocall which they call solemnization before instrumentall But for my part as much as I preferre the Soule before the bodie I preferre the musicke of soules and spirit uno animo una voce with one unanimous concord consent rightly tuned in the best key by the finger of the spirit with holy hearts rather theÌ„ musicall Harps singing as once the Angels and the Bethelem o Luk 2 14 Shepheards Moses p Exod. 14 Miriam Augustine q They are said to be the Authors of that holy hymne which call Te Deum
motions historically when I consider how the verie brute beasts have beene faithfull and loving to their Masters in their brutish kinde more then one man to another as those three famous Horses Alexanders o Plin. lib. 8 ca. 42. Solin cap. 46 Bucephalus Caesars horse and the horse of Antiochus King of Syria who as Emblemes of faithfull wives would suffer none to intermeddle with them but their owne Masters Yea the very dogges to the very shame of all temporizing sycophants treacherous Zibaes trencher Parasites false hearted Ioabs viperous Iudasses hollow-hearted friends that have the Ave of hony in their mouths but the gall of Cave in their p Multis annie iam transactis nulla fides est in pactis Mel in ore verba â—actis Felin corde fraus in factis Sphinx philosophica hearts that are unthankefull to their professed friends as many millions and my selfe amongst q Ionathan and Iudas ere long to be printed many can give a probatum est I say the very dogges that have beene faithfull to the very death to those Masters whom they have loved followed as the dogge of Vlysses that was to him in his kinde as firme as his Penelope knowing acknowledging him when he returned home from the Troyan warre The dozen dogges of Masinissa the Numidian King as safely guarding him as the French or Scottish Guard their King The Athenian dog Caparus that kept the treasurie in Aesculapius his r Aelian hist li. 7. cap. 13. Temple better then the gagling Centinels the Romane Capitoll The dogge of Lysimachus cald Druides that died with his Master Å¿ Plin. lib. 8. c. 40 Lysimachus as the dogge of Hiero that like an Indians best beloved t The beloved wives of the Indians burne themselves quicke in their husbands funerals Mazius Acosta in histor Iud. wife leapt into the same slame which burnt his Master The dogge of Titus Sabinius who never forsooke his Master no not in prison nay that brought meate to his Masters mouth when he was dead and fetcht the dead bodie of his Master out of Tyber into which it was u Plin. libr. 8. ca. 40. Zonaras in Tiberio cast The dogge of Darius who in his fight and flight from Alexander being murthered by his treacherous servant Blessus stayed with the dead corps of his slaughtered w Aelian lib. 6. cap. 24. Lord with other dogges which as wee know by histories and experience have eyther died with their Masters as Aelianus Instances in the dogges of Polus the tragedian and of Theodorus the Musitian who leapt into the funerall flames of their x Aelian libr. 7. cap. 33. 35. Masters like loving curres as they were or else for their masters famishing themselves upon their Masters graves as did the dog of y Eupolide mortuo in aegina cauis media extinctus est Aelian lib. 9. cap. 42. Enpoldes and some in our z See some instances also in this kinde in M. Topsell our English Gesner de Quadrup in â—â—l De Cunibus Also the booke called the Pilgrimage of Princes in quarâ—o pag. 103. times These and all these faithfull gratefull brutes to their breeders to their feeders crie shame upon ungratefull man that for all mercies hee hath received to his bodie to his soule is not so loving so loyall so thankefull to his maker his heavenly Master his Creator preserver Redeemer as horses and dogges for Grasse Hay Oates bones and crusts have beene to mortall man Againe when I consider how submissive and obedient not onely domesticke and house creatures but even these that have beene more sylvane and wilde have beene unto man once wonne and trayned and lured by meate or musicke or by teaching made docible and tractable as namely when I read how a Nightingall would ever sing at the command of a De his omniâ—â—s apud Zwinâ—erâ—â— in Theaâ—o vitae huâ—ianae â—lin Anl. Gell. â—lexand ab Aâ—â—xandro Celium â—hodigin Camer 〈◊〉 Maiolum c. Stenchorus onely to pleasure him of Marthes his Crow if wee credit Celius Rhodiginus that would carrie letters which way soever the King directed * Sic de Columbis Hirundinibus literis portantibus lege plutima enempla apud â—iâ—ceâ—t l. 16. c. 54. Plin. l. 10. c. 37. c. 24. apud Fabium Pictorem in annalib Et â—rantium Vand. l c. 7 her Of the Dragon that attended Heraâ—lides the Philosopher Of a Serpent that wayted upon Aiax in Locresia a Thrush on Agrippina the Empresse a wilde Bull on Pythagoras at Tarentum Of another Bull as also a trayned Doue that would come at a call to that impostor Mabomet Of a Lion that as a Page followed that manumitted Androdius his whilom Physition up and downe the streetes of Rome Of a Seale fish that would come at a call from the Sea to the shoare and take meate of a man dwelling at the Shieldes as I credibly heard when I lived where my b As Queene Mary is said to say of Callis that if she were dead it would be found writ in her heart c. heart still lives at Newcastle on Tyne me thinkes man is more brutish as Esay himselfe or God in c Esai 1.4 Esay complaines on him then the most savage sylvane of brutes that 's disobedient to his God that 's more refractory then the wilde d Iob 39.6 Asse that snuffes up the winde then the wilde e Nec vult Panthera domari semel tamen cum Hoedo domestice fuit educatae Aelian li. 6. hist c. 2 Heyffer that will not admit the yoake then the wilde Panther that will not bee tamed Even as when I consider the mercies of some beastes to man more then of one man to another as of that shee f Bergomensis histor libr. 4. Coepella tractat de Imper. Milit. elig col 12. Cassaneuâ— Catalogo gloriae mundi parte prima pag. 45. Wolfe which fostered Romulus the first King of the Romanes that shee bitch which fed Cyrus when he was exposed by his cruell grandsire g Apud Zenophontem in paedag Astyages that shee Beare which sustayned Prince Alexander when destined to death by his father Priamus those Bees which fed Plato with hony those Ants which are said to feed Midas with graines when they were in their cradles those Ravens which fed Elias the persecuted h 1. King 17.6 This bite with the i De alijs per creaturas miracâ— lose praeservatis lege apud Procopium de bello Gâ—thorum lib. 2. apud Lugerum in epistola ad Riâ—fridum cap. 10. apud Surium 10.2 like comparing these with the cruelties of a Nero a Domitian a Dionysius a Caligula and others such which Canniball-like feede upon man as birdes and beastes and fishes of pray the greater upon the lesse the stronger upon the weake I have thought that one man is a wolfe to k Homo homini Lupus another yea a Devill to l
ENGLANDS IVBILEE OR IRELANDS IOYES IO-PAEAN 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 DVBLIN Printed by the Society of STATIONERS Anno Dom. M.DC.XXV TO THE VVORSHIPFVLL HENRY WRIGHT ESQVIRE Soveraigne of the Borough and Corporation of Tallaugh together with Master Recorder the Burgesses his brethren with the whole bodie of the Corporation of the English Plantation there adjoyning GEntlemen and my Christian friendes welwillers as this Text from which I extract this Gratulatorie Tractate as is well knowne to the best and most of you was sent me to preach upon the very day before our solemnities by Gods prouidence and the choosers prudence comming to my handes speedily without much seeking or searching like a Gen. 27 v. 20 Iacobs Venison so I have as I could on a suddaine like your running banquets catered and cooked it Rebecca like however not costly and curiously for time permitted not yet so cauteously though cursorily that if you have not left or lost your spirituall gust as b Numb 11.6 Israell was once cloyed even with Manna it selfe these my mentall dishes added to your corporeal shall be which is the Cookes chiefe commendation both wholesome and c Omne nilit pâ—nctum qui miscuit utile dulci toothsome And now as the chiefe of you in this place as the head and eye and mouth of the rest sent lent me this Scripture as that great Master in the d Math. 25.14 15. Gospell put forth his Tallents to his servants to occupie and trafficke withall till his comming so by labour and industrie vehement and violent perhaps for the time desirous to be found neither unfaithful nor unfruitefull at the great Auditory In the summoning of my best powers and spirits by paralelling uniting annexing other Scriptures as digging in those best Mines I haue regained this treasure as you see which as a cake from your owne meale as the flowre of your owne Corne grinded onely by my Milne I have sent you home as your owne bagged and wrapped up in these printed sheetes And indeede as these lucubrations were first hatched at your motion and by your meanes prest abroad thus publicke souldier-like to doe service to their Prince and Countrie so of whom should they have a spect and respect but from your selves from whom they have both their first trayning forth and their principall pay Besides as at my first planting in these parts by the minde and meanes of our ever Honourable Earle the very Nerves and Sinewes under God and his Majestie of these partes with the Eagled eye of his farre famoused wisedome ever vigilant as a noble Centinell for the spirituall aswell as temporall good of these Plantations I was at my first arrivall comming over with my Honourable Mecenas the Lord Beamont Viscount of Swords here first desiredly entertayned and by some of you ever since till now lovingly and liberally retayned amongest you I see not but that both in reason and religion you should receive the first fruites of my publike paines since you have already payd for them aforehand by your pension Moreover since I am here a stranger amongest you why may I not challenge for these my mentall issues and legitimate of springs of my understanding part the priviledge of our England graunted to the corporeall issue of the poorest Parents to be cast on the charges of the Parish where they were borne Lastly you know it is our Irish fashion as indeede in manie things we are too much hybernified to expose our Children to foster-fathers in which streame of custome though corrupt I now swimming as carried with the time e Omnia secum ventus unda rapis tide as providing manie strings for one Bowe least some breake I have chosen manie fosterers to one Orphane though it be not so worthy that you should contend for it as some Cities were said to doe for Homer yet such is my judgement or opinion of you all that love me in truth for the truth that I thinke the meanest of my friends in the best bound in Town or countrey to whose strong loves to my person and profession I am indeared indebted worthie enough to cherish this fruite as they have demonstrated their affections to the Tree But to leave this descant which perhaps with some that can finde a knot in f Nondum in Scirpo quaerere a bulrush may subject me to construction as your desires mine sympathize and concurre with our best hearts affections powers and performances to congratulate with all true English hearts that un Iesuited unleavened from Rome are loyall to God to Caesar this double blessing as two streames meeting in one brooke to make our joyes brimfull from one Ocean and fountaine of mercie First the mercifull marvailous miraculous preservation of the breath of our nosthrils our Soveraigne King with the Peeres Nobles Prelates whole body of the Land together with the Gospell Religion from that hellish horrid barbarous bloudy had it beene effected as affected Popish powder plot as it 's christened cald Secondly his preservation hitherunto amongest us as the very Atlas pillar under the supreame Majestie of Heaven of our Church Common-wealth as also the safe reduction of our Illustrious Prince from Spaine anchored fixed here againe in his own countrey the English Court every way as sound as at his departure in his body soule spirit so calming baming our grieves for his absence in the midst of the fluctuations of our feares blessinges great unspeable in which we here dispersed in this land as the Christian Iewes once in Asia Pontus even from Vlster to Connaght as all in great Brittaine even from Dan to Beersheba from Barwicke to Dover from Edenbrough to the utmost Orcades have such interest as Israell had in their David Salomon 2. as you that were the heades imitating Limericke Yoghell other well governed places who set you a coppy gave you a perfect president were not vvanting by your cares costs your paines providence by feastings festivities discharging of Guns advancing of pikes for you cannot ring g The want of â—â—ls one of our â—rish eye sores eare sores bloudy Bellona â—attering our â—els our belâ—rayes our Townes our TeÌ„ples laying them as level in many places as Rome did Carthage the Greekes Troy Titus
These two mercies I say meeting in one Center as Chrystalline brookes in one Torrent running to that Ocean and Sea of mercie from whence they flow should so water as Nilus d De Nilo Aelianus hist lib. 10 cap. 44. Seneca natur libr. 4. c. 2. Plin. lib. 5. c. 9. doth Egypt all the Israel of God that they should cause even the most barren heart to be abundant in blessings and fruitefull in thankesgivings SECTIO II. The division or Logicall Analysis with the Theologicall explanation of the Text. BVt not to make in these preparatory prologues the dore too great for the house nor the gates for the city for some Cynick e Vt olim Diogenes to scoffe at and deride from these prefacing generalities I come to the strict particular inclosures of my Text which being the expression of those Eucharisticall Gratulations of David and the Elders and people of Israel for a double mercie received from the Lord as wee have already intimated that I may according to my tallent as God shall give the doore of utterance speake by it and from it unto your braines and understanding part by explanation and in which the chiefe Soule and Genius of preaching f Vide Kickermannum in sua rethorica Eccles Perkins nostruÌ„ de arte prophetandi Hunnium Zepperum de Methodo concionandi consists unto your hearts and affections by usefull applications fitting it as I may as the Shooe for the right foote and the Glove for the right hand to the solemnization of this day Because Method is the mother of memory g Methodus memoriae mater to lay downe some Basis and foundation to build upon observe with me the fountaine of this Scripture running into these five streames or Tree-like budding and spreading into these five maine Branches with some sprigs of divisions or subdivisions First the subjects of these Eucharisticall gratulations and those be 1. and Primarily David as appeares both here vers 10.11.12.13 where both the Matter Manner Method and partes of his thankefulnesse is laid downe 2. Secondarily the whole Congregation moving after his motion consisting 1. Of the heads 2. The Captaines of thousands and of hundreds 3. The Rulers of the Kings workes vers 6. 4. The whole body of the Congregation blessing the Lord vers 20. Secondly the expression of this their Gratitude and Thankefulnesse and that foure wayes 1. By blessing the Lord 2. Worshipping 1. The Lord as internally in their hearts so externally by bowing downe their heads God as creating preserving saving redeeming so requiring both Bodie and Soule in his worship 2. Worshipping the King not by any Religious or superstitious adoration such as the Listrians would have given to Paul h All. 14. v. 12 13. Cornelius unto i Act. 10.25 Peter k Revel 19.10 Iohn to the Angell which as the Divell exacted of Christ l Math. 4.9 so the Pope that Saul or Paul of Rome that pretended Peter Sathans Lieutenant exacts expects and accepts of the Kings and Rulers of of the earth as Alexander once of Fredericke in Saint Marks Church It s no such Idolatrous worship as our popish Proselites give to their dead Saints Antichristian man of sinne dumbe Images painted shrines erected Crosses carved Crucifixes feined Relicks and breaden God All which they would salve with their worne-eaten threed-bare distinction of Latria and Dulia which by often cashiering is shaven more bare and balde then any of their Fryers Crownes But that I may scoure the passages and explaine and pave the way as I goe By worshipping the King is meant that Civill reverence veneration which the ancient Persians Turkes those of Morrocho China and of the country of Prester Iohn and the great Mogull give to their Emperours and Kings to this day Such as we also give to our Princes and Rulers that are Christians even such veneration and reverent respect as Abraham gave to the Hethites m Gen. 23 7. as Iacob to Pharaoh n Gen. 47.7 and to his brother Esau o Gen. 33.3 as Abigail p 1. Sam. 25.23 the woman of Tekoah q 2. Sam. 14.4 Bethshebah and Nathan r 1. King 1.23 gave to David 3. They testified their gratitude by Sacrifices and oblations described 1. For their Nature burnt offrings and drinke offrings 2. Their Matter Bullockes Lambes Rams 3. Their Number and Measure 1. Generally in abondance 2. Particularly a thousand Rammes a thousand Lambes a thousand Bullockes They did not as we now scant Gods part they thought nothing as we the least things too deare for God 3. They had Faith to beleeve that though they offred thus much yet God could and would still increase their store as indeed it was unto them as they beleived for it comes home with the holiest happiest interest multiplying as the widdowes oyle Å¿ 2. King 4.5 â— that 's given or lent to the Lord. 4. The end of their sacrificing is expressed and that 's for all Israel 4. The fourth expression of their gratitude is by feasts and festivities they did eate and drinke which is not meant of the ordinary use of the creatures but more fully and freely as in their solemne feasts Thirdly the object of all this Blessing Worshipping Sacrificing Feasting is layd downe and that 's before the Lord for so the Text runnes 1. They blessed the Lord with his added attribute the God of their Fathers 2. They Woorshipped the Lord. 3. They Sacrâ—ficed to the Lord. 1. There was not a Pagan amongst them that worshipped any strange God as did Ionas his Marriners t Ionas 1.5 neyther Iupiter Iuno Mercury c. the hoste of heaven or any created nature in the heathenish divelish diversified Idolatries 2. Neyther any Idolatrous Iew to worship Baall Asteroth or any of the Gods of the Nations 3. Neyther was there any Papist hatched in these dayes Popery is a Cockcatrice egge of an after clecking it was as u Nilus incertis orius fontibus Plin. libr. 5. c. 9. Et Seneca natur lib. 6. c. 8. Petrus etiam Alvares de origine Nili lib. hist. 18. Nilus his head unknowne unshowne as that Terra incognita or the Phylosophers Stone unfound out there was not so much talke of it as wee of old Brasil or Guianahs gold but no sight nor apparitions of it in Davids daies nor in the daies of Adam and Abraham Patriarkes or Prophets how ever they gull the credulous world-deluded ignorants with their old Religion old Religion old Law c. as the Gibeonites deceived with their old Shooes and old Bottles w Iosu 9.12.13 There was not a Cananite an Aegyptian in all this goodly-godly Company that offred to any God save Iehovah There was not a Papist in the whole Congregation that offred any sacrifice to any Angell or Archangell except to Iacobs Angell x Genes 48.16 the great Angell of the Covenant y Iud. 9. Michael that overcame the Dragon Christ the
Egyptians as Iacobs seed in the lightsome y Gen. 47.27 Goshen of the Gospell it being popish z Exod. 10. v. 23. darkenesse round about us horrid and fearefull more then Aegyptian or a Cimmor oppidum in Bosphoro secundum Plin. lib. 6. c. 6. c. 11. c. 13. velinter Baias Cumas in Jtalia secundum festum Ciceronem academ 8. vbi raro aut nuÌ„quam Sol splendescit vel secundum Solinum c. 21. ibid. Sex meÌ„ses perpetua nox una die una nocte totus volvitur annus Oiaus li. 1. c. 1. Hinc adagium Erasmi mutuatuÌ„ à Mela Plinio Lactantio lib. 4. Iustit Cimmeriae tenebrae sic Ponticae tenebrae at magis formidabiles papisticae Cimmerian See we not our selves in respect of them like the armie of Israel in the time of Ahab as some little flocks of Kyddes here and there scattered they being as those Syrians that filled the b 1. King 20.27 countrey hath there not beene meanes used both by Word and Sword to purge their popish leaven to bring them as once the Gentiles out of the power of c Act. 26.18 darkenesse to annoynt them with d Rev. 3.18 eye-salve to plucke them as brands out of the e Iud v. 23. fire to bring them to the knowledge of the f 2. Tim. 2.25 truth but all in vaine have wee not lost our oyle and labour are they not setled worse then Moab in their popish dreggs are they not like Babell g See M. Crashawes zealous learned sermon on that Text and subiect incurable doe they not yet as if they were possest with deafe Devils stop their eares with the deafe h In psal adder and will not heare the voyce of the Charmer charme he never so wisely Doe they not fly our Churches congregations worse then the serpent flieth the Ash or as Moses fled from his i Exod. 4.3 rod as though there were some serpentine venom in our doctrine or discipline can they be brought into our spirituall k Luk. 14. v. 23. feasts by any reasonable compulsion are not their hearts like clay in Summer growen harder and harder even as l Exod. 10.20 Phraohs as their eyes more m Matth 13.13 14. ex Esa 9. blind their wils more perverse their mindes more n Rom. 11.8 malignant Now from whence growes all this obstinacie obduracie refractorie perversenesse Besides the common plea which as a payre of Shipmens hose or as a nose of waxe fits them at all assayes That they must doe and will doe for wickednesse is ever o Ier. 18.12 Psalm 12.4 wilfull as their predecessors fathers and forefathers have done Poperie like frenzie madnesse and some lethargicall sicknesses running in a bloud and being like their intaled lands hereditary As thogh some northren blew-cap borderer should argue My father was a taking man and never died in straw but went up Hemp-street down Gallowes gate and therefore I le goe that way too Or as though some young Dalilah should argue My mother was a good Catholicall universall woman did good service in the Stewes both to the Seculars Clergie of Rome therfore I le do so too Besides I say this pestilent and peevish plea the chiefe p Echineis piscei qui sistens navigio detinet adversus ventot velas Aelian li. 1. cap. 27. Plin li. 32. c. 1. Albert. lib. 24. anim ex Arist hist anim lib. 2. cap. 14. recitat Basil in Exemero hom 7 Instat Plin. in praioria navi Anthonij Remora that holds them from obedience to God and Caesar the chiefe block in their way to Religion the chiefe filme and scumme which is over the eyes of the multitude even that fax fex populi the promiscuous common people is the practise of their superiors the example of their Landlords for so they vent and reveale themselves in plaine termes And so wee see indeed in their practise that if their Landlords go to the Church the tenants will go too even as Baruch said to Deborah If thou wilt go to the Battell I will go too if thou wilt stay I will stay q Iudges 4.8 too as Ruth said to r Ruth 1.16 Naomi as Ittai Å¿ 2. Sam. 5.21 said to David Surely whithersoever they go these will go too they cleave like burrs to their Landlords so that bring them to Church that are heads and the commonaltie follow as the shadow the bodie the practise of the great ones as the needle drawes on the threed as the aule or bristle drawes on the shoomakers tach draw on the meane ones yea for ought that I see our common Irish depend on their Landlords for their bodies and estates as on their Priests for their soules for religion or superstition heaven or hell more then on the Word on Moses the Prophets the Apostles more then on Caesar or on God himselfe Eyther of t The Seminarie Priests and their LaÌ„dlords wholly sway the bodie of our Irish Papists these are as u Magus dictus non quia scrutator naturae qualis magus fuit Apollonius Tyanaeus apud Iustin q. 24. Philastrat in eius vita quaies magi perfici apud Philon. lib. de legibus apud Proclum lib de Magia qualis magus noster Cardanus inno ipse Salomon Alverius Magn. cum alijs sed Magus Demoniacus ut olim Elymas Acts 138. Iannes and Iambres Exod 7.11 Faustus Cornelius Agrippa diverse Fryers Simon Magus to the Samaritans as Diana to the Ephesians Act 19.28 as the Penates or houshold-gods to the Gentiles even all in all Instar omnium their Delphick * De Delphico vel Dodonei Apollonius oraculo cum responsionib ambiguis Creso Cambysi Agamemnoni Amilcari Epimanondae Eschilo Philippo Dionysio cum alijs vide apud Valerium lib. 1. cap. 8. Pauson in Arcadicis Heroditum lib 3. Diodorum lib. 20. lib. 15. apud Ciceronem de Fato Suidam Plutarchum in Alexandro praecipue apud Maiolum in diebus canicularibus part 2. coll 2. pag 96 97. 98 99 c. Oracle speaking ex tripode their Pythagoras their ipse x Aâ—tos epha dixit their Domine dic factotum on whose sleeves they pin their soules to carry them whither they please eyther to heaven as the Angels did y Luke 16.12 Lazarus or to hell as Mephastophilus did their Doctor Faustus or to Purgatory as they thinke the Paganish Traian z Helpt out by the prayers and suffrages of Gregory the great went So that get the Landlord to the Church as he that pulls but one linke of a chaine drawes all the rest wee shall draw our otherwise obstinate Irish to our Church as if chained and linked by the eares but without removeall of their Priests which poyson them and by mulcts or what else moving their Landlords to conformitie all our paines preachings perswasions impositions upon the Comminaltie is but with the Dolphin and
my chiefe spirituall weapons Secondly prescribe meanes as the ordering of my Ranckes Thirdly remove * Quod primum in intentione ultimum in executione I have not fully prescribed the meanes nor removed the lets or remoraes as I intended because the booke contrary to my first project swels so great alreadie but quod defertur non aufertur I promise them God willing if ever these bee thought worthy reprinting otherwise satis est voluisse vlâ—ru posse non est esse impediments as the discoverie of Ambushments and these will we doe as God and your patience shall permit First for the motives as ayming still method take them eyther generall or more especiall 1. Generall as they concerne all Christians to be thankefull of what sort sexe qualitie conditions soever they bee for all mercies of what nature soever reiterated or renewed to their soules or bodies and above all things to steare from this rocke of ingratitude eyther to God the principall author and agent or to man the mediate organ and instrument of any good to them or theirs 2. Speciall as they concerne the solemnization of these late mercies in which we promise and purpose to commemorate and congratulate as David and his subjects here in their times the mercies of adornation or preservation to our English Israel in which even we now English-Irish have deepely shared 1. For the first if any soule here present or to whom soever these presents shall come finde himselfe infected with this leprous disense of ingratitude which as a fellon or gangreen hath spread over the whole bodie almost of our Nation and as poyson corrupted the blouds of so many Let him take these physicall purgatives for the cleansing and purifying of his infected spirits the killing of the humor and tumour of pride the originall of it together with some Iulupps Cordials to corroborate his heart against it and to breed and increase in him this good spirit this good vitall bloud of true gratitude the fayre daughter of a fruitefull mother true grace CHAP. II. Motives to thankefulnesse FIrst let him know that this thankefulnesse hath his speciall mandate and injunction from God in severall g Psalm 50.15 Psalm 107. 1. Thess 15.16.17 Scriptures it hath his warrant and signe in the great Court of heaven it comes from the great Monarch of the world to every Microcosme and little world it is enacted in the highest Parliament as Gods Statute law and upon penaltie to the contrarie to be executed by everie one It 's that taxe and Subsidie and spirituall tribute imposed and exacted upon everie subject not denied crossed or contradicted by any unlesse by some that like stuborne Forts and Castles stand in opposition or as Kearnes come out in rebellion against the supreame and soveraigne Majestie of God himselfe The King of Kings yea this must be payd in our owne persons of high low rich poore learned and unlearned Prince Peere Potentate Duke Marquesse Earle Baron Knight Gentleman Yeomen Husband-man Labourer Plebeian Common-beggar wee cannot doe this dutie by a deputie or atturney none can make affidavit one for another as in our Civill Courts even David a King is not exempted from this homage neyther other Kings much lesse the vulgars if not Senatours Magistrates and Patritians Secondly the easinesse of this taske if neglected and unperformed admits no apologie no plea nor excuse great Subsidies and Customes imposed as appeares in our Chronicles all Histories have occasioned mutterings murmurings mutinies rebellions in the Subjects as perplexed Israel against perverse h 1. King 12.18 Robeam and so in i See Stowes Hellinsheds Chronicles England about paying of Poll-money and Peter pence But this imposition of gratitude to God if God give grace is as easily performed as injoyned What great inconvenience was it for Naaman the Syrian to wash in k 2. Kings 5. Iordan for the halt to wash in the Poole of l Iohn 5 4.5 Bethsaida for the Leaper to goe shew himselfe to the m Luke 17.14 Priest for the poore widdow to throw n Luke 21.2 a mite into the Treasurie for a man to open his mouth and the doore of his lippes or rather of the heart to God as the Marry-gold opens to the Sunne and shewforth his prayses if the Prophet had commanded thee some great thing say the servants to that Syrian thou oughtest to have done o 2. King 5 â—â— it So if the Lord should command us in requitall of all his mercies to give to the poore not onely halfe with p Luke 19.8 Zacheus but as he tryed that young Iustitiarie in the q Math. 19.11 Gospell even all our goods wee ought to give all to him for him that hath given all to us If he injoyne us to sacrifice our sonnes as once r Gen. 22.1.2.3 Abraham to give our bodies to be burned as once the Martyres in the Paganish Arrian and Popish persecution wee should not grudge the Lord our goods our blouds our sonnes yea our verie soules as was once the case of Å¿ Exod. 32.32 See D Willes his Comment in his Comment in his Hexapla in Lâ—cadum in locum Moses and of t Rom. 9. Paul himselfe to vindicate and redeeme the glorie of God to which every creature in heaven and earth must be subordinate but now he injoynes us a more facill and ready way which wee may honour and glorifie him and that 's by our Thankefulnesse our Cordiall and heartie acknowledgement of his mercies a yoake that is not heavie but easie a burthen not laborious but u Math. 11.29 Psalm 33.1 light a thing not unseemely but seemly a thing not incongruous any way or undecent but exceeding good Psal 92.1 Yea pleasant and comely Psal 147.1 Now how can wee be wanting to this Eucharisticall spirituall dutie that hath in it all the requisites of the Pagans morall * Vtile honestuÌ„ inâ—undum Cicero in Offic. Eâ— omne tuliâ— puÌ„ctum qui miscuit utile dulci. good being honest pleasant profitable unlesse we will be a wanting to Gods glorie and our owne goods 1. had God commanded us onely to sacrifice our eyes blinde Bartimeus and such as had beene borne blinde as he in the 9. of Iohn could not have offered this sacrifice 2. or onely our eares and tongues the deafe and the dumbe had beene excluded his service 3. or our wealth and full bagges the poore had beene to seeke for his sacrifice as that poore Persian for his * Apud Alexandrum de AlexaÌ„dro Fusius gift when suddenly he met with his King But now since the Lord requires neyther thousand Rammes out of the flocke nor the Goates from the hills nor the Bullockes from the stalles nor such Hecatombs Psalm 50. nor the eare nor the eye nor tongue for these the hypocrite and temporizer give him but onely a cordiall and a gratefull y Deut. 5.24 Prover 23.26 heart actively passively
Pharaoh Nero Caligula Heliogabalus Holofernes Apostate Iulian whorish Pope Ioane Nicromanticall Sylvester Alexander the sixt athisticall Caesar Borgias treacherous Absalon serpentine Achitophell soule poysoning Mahumet blasphemous Arrius Michael o Burned in Geneva vide in fine Aretij locor communium Servetus with millions moe Would you know what they are now doing Their bodies are jayled and imprysoned in the grave till Gods generall assises But what of their soules Thus in the middest of their exquisite tortures in hell unlesse God gave speedie grace to some to die better then they lived even with their father the Devill whom they sympathize as in sinnes so in p Math. 25 41 sufferings they rave they rage they fret they fume they revile they blaspheme they execrate they curse the Majestie of the Almightie they wreake their Teene and wrath on God as that madded Baiazet cope't up in an iron Cage did upon q See besides Knels his Turkish historie the history of Tamb. extant in quarto Tamberlaine even by raging and reviling like madded dogges tyed up in iron chaines they barke and fome at the mouth and belch out blasphemies as the condemned miscreant that curseth the Iudge the Iurie and the Bench when their malignant malice and mischiefe can proceede no further And indeed as wicked men are by the spirit of God cald the sonnes of r 1. Sam. 1.16 1. Sam 9.27 Beliall the children of the very Å¿ Iohn 8. v. 44. 1. Ioh. 3. v 10 Devils so Doe they not patrizare are they not as like their father as if they were spit out of his mouth Do they not look as like him as egge to t Non â—vâ—â—m evâ— similius egge snow to snow or rather pitch to pitch Do they not resemble him as face answers face in a glasse Hee blasphemes God in hell they blaspheme God here on earth He is the old u Revela 12.9 Dragon they are as yet but w Rev. 16. v. 9. Serpents yet growing to be Dragons and as full of venom for their measure as he is whose names they beare whose nature they have Should such die in this state and condition blaspheming the name of God as so many thousands doe in the world especially if they be never so little crost or toucht by the hand of God or tongue or hand of man then letting their oath-pellets fly from their hell-heated mouthes as did Michaes x Iudg. 17.1.2 mother the contesting Isralite in the dayes of y Lev. 24.10.11 Moses and these accursed carnalists prophecied of in the z Apoc. 16.9 Apocalypse I pray you to let such reflect a little on their case and condition d Math 5 35.36 August ad consentium de mendac cap. 15. Chromat in locum Iames 5.12 Psal 25. v. 3. Zachar. 5.3 Deut. 28.58 in Apocryph Eccles 23. v. 11. if God would please to open their hood-winckt eyes besides the Scripture that 's infallible true firme above heaven a Matth. 5.18 earth irrevocable above the decrees of the Meedes and b Dan. 6.8 Persians to be verified in every letter title and syllable according to qualifications of objects in workes of justice as of mercie I say besides the verdict of the word which must in due time be verified else God were no c Numb 23.19 God and the word but a fable like these of Esopes or Lucians which were blasphemy to imagine I say yet againe and againe besides the thunderbolts from Gods own mouth that strikes the swearer as low as e Psalm 9.17 hell the center of profanesse nothing keeping him out of it but a small twine threed of life every day and night as a blacke worme and a white gnawing this threed and at last a blatrant f M. Perkins allusiue simile in one of his Legall motives in his Treatise of repentance beast cald death perhaps suddenly lopping and cropping this threed and sends the customarie swearer into the lower pit without ever bayle or maineprize remission or redemption If there were no word or if the word were as carnall life heart g Psalm 14.1 Athists account it of no more certaintie then mother Hubbardes tales Bebelius h Bebilij facetiae extant in octavo jeasts or Melanders i Alelandri Iocoseria extant in decimo sexto jocoseria yea then the lying legend of the k Papists their Limbo Patrum and picke purse Purgatorie yet even in reason let me expostulate with an impious and profane spirit and whisper but some few wordes into the eare of a blasphemous swearer how fit he is for hell and how unfit for heaven if he should die suddenly as some of his predecessors have done and be swept away as dust and l Psalm 1.4 chaffe in an instant as were reveiling Corah Dathan and m Numb 16.32.33 So Anastasius the blasphemous Arrian Emperour was struk with a thunderbolt from heaven as also Olympius the Arrian like Ioab with three darts blaspheming the Trinitie See in the end of Zegedine his Common places in folio de his cum multis alijs Abiram for alas what should he doe in heaven being conditioned and qualified as he is what worke is there for him that he could doe that he would doe In heaven there is perpetuall sempiternall blessing of God as we have proved which taske he is as fit for as yet as an Asse for n Asinus ad Lyram Sus Minervam Erasmi chiliad a Harpe a Sow for a Sack-bot he that cannot sequestrate one minute of an houre one houre in a day one moment of time to prayse God hee that hath as much heart to this or any other spirituall dutie as a Beare to the stake the Bull to the ring the coward to the battle or the Asse to the race he that 's wearie in the Church or in a religious familie to beare one part or burthen in a Psalme which is indeede his burthen or chayned but to a Sermon or a Sacrament for an houre hath his eares taken up as by commission sore against his will his heart being o As Ezechiels auditors EZche 33. vers 31.32 a wooll-gathering rogeing stragling like Dinah perhaps in the p Gen. 34. v. 1. fields in the Towne in the Taverne in the Theator the tappe-house the Tobacco shop the brothell-house perhaps in his baggs in his Barnes in his coyne his counting house his corne-heapes or amongst his sheepe and brutes Is it probable or possible judgement finding a man just as death leaves him the Tree lying as it q Ecclesiastes fals that this man should dying in this tune and temper be fit to joyne his untuned spirit with the heavenly Quire of Angels to blesse and laud the Lord for ever ever Oh lesse fit is this man for this spirituall motion then Saul to be amongst the r Estne Saul inter Prophetaâ— 1. Sam. 19.24 Prophets then drunken Philoxenus to
o 2. King 2.11 Elias in the fiery chariot of zeale that we could strive even in this life to enter at least the suburbs of the heavenly Citie that we had our p Phil. 3.20 conversation even in Heaven our Heaven begun here on earth Sursum corda that being risen with q Collos 3.1.2 Christ we might seeke those things that are above placing and planting our affections not on things in earth but on things in heaven that we could send our hearts as the Disciples their hearts and r Act. 1.11.12 eyes after Christ that is ascended that Å¿ A man in his incarnation a Lambe in his passion a Lion in his resurrection an Eagle in his ascension Eagle high mounted at least that we could soare up to his Crosse in Golgotha in the meditation of his passion not to breede compassion towards him who now from suffrings is entred into t Luk. 24.26 glorie as the superstitious Fryers as may be seene in u In his mount Calvarie Guevara Lodowicke de w In his Soliloquies grounded from severall Gospels Ponte and x His meditations Granado c. make that the chiefe end of their mentall meditations of his sufferings and of their Idolatrous crucifixes but to resolve to suffer with him that we may be glorified with him to feele the power of his death to die to sin the power of his y Rom. 6.8.9.10 resurrection to rise againe to newnesse of life to blesse and prayse the z Apoc. 5.9 Lambe because he hath redeemed us from all the nations and kingdomes and kinreds of the earth If for this end we tract and trace our incarnate crucified saviour from Ierusalem to a Matth. 27 Luk. 23. Marke 15. Iohn 19. Golgotha with his sword pierced weeping mother the dolefull daughters of Ierusalem Ioseph of Arimathea and the Centurion and for this end looke upon him whom our sinnes have b Zach. 12.10 pierced with the Eagle eye of our faith as the Antitype of the Brazen Serpent whom Moses erected in the c Numb 21.9 Iohn 3.14.15 wildernesse looking on him also in the glasse of the Gospell where we may see him as the Apostle of the Gentiles tels the convert Corinthians even crucified amongst us if by this sight of him we can get unto him by saving d Iohn 1â— 3 knowledge into him by e Epiâ—â— 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Ioâ—â— 15.4 him by the sappe of the spirit we make a blessed speculation of his passion Oh that besides the fruite of his passion we could get here some glimpse of his transfiguration a true type of his glorification some glimmering and reflection of the heavenly Canaan as Moses a perfect view and Synopsis of the g Deut. 34.1.2.3 earthly here seeke some glimpse of heavenly light as the prisoner the gleames or beames of the Sunne through some crannie in the walle or doore or key-hole through the vaile of thy flesh as the spouse in the Canticles that had a glimpse of her h Cant. 5.4.5.6 welbeloved looking through the hole of the doore and her heart was affectioned to him Here in thy greatest pressures of bodie soule and spirit get some refection by reflection with that primitive Protomartyre i Act. 7.56 Stephen and the rapt k 2. Cor. 12.4 Apostle on Christ crucified and glorified and of the glorie of Christ prepared purchased layd up as revealed Here get some warmth and heate in your hearts as the Apostles and the two disciples that went to l Luk. 24.32 Emaus by oft talking communing with Christ by the word and m Oratio oris ratio vel colloquium cum Deo Isidore prayer by that meanes receiving from Christ that best new-yeares gift that love token promised by Christ to all his n Iohn 14.17.18.19 elect exhibited as once in the o Act. 2.3 forme ever in the effects of p The Spirit like fire c. 1. Illuminates with knowledg 2. Heates with zeale and love 3. Mollifies the heart 4. Causeth sparkes of praier 5. Purgeth drosse of sinne 6. Purifies the heart 7. Changeth with what it meetes with in to it owne nature Geminianus in summa exemplorii similit fire Oh that we could breake off companie and societie with man chiefly wicked men so much as our callings and charge to be discharged will permit that in our meditations and soule Soliloquies in innitiation of Saint Augustine Bernard Anselme and other heavenly minded men we might be more conversant with God Oh why doe wee not retire our selves as q Genes 24.63 Isaac into the fields as Augustine and Alixius into the r Libro Confessionum related fully and applied in Parsons Resolution orchard as Ioseph of Arimathea into our Å¿ Iohn 19 41. Garden or immure our selves according to Christs t Math. 6. vers 6. precept and his Virgin u Luk. 1.28 mothers practise into our private closet or chamber for some sequestrated time there to meditate of the mercies of God of the merits of Christ of the priviledges of grace of the Christians dignitie of the joyes of a better life c there to exhilerate our selves according to the Apostolicall counsell and command and according to the president set us in my Text by David and his nobles to rejoyce before the Lord and in the Lord more then the carnalists and the moralists of our times in their Corne and Wine and Oyle w Psal 4.7 increased more then Laban in his x Gen. 29.2 sheepe Naball in his y 1. Sam. 25.36 feast Balthezar in his z Dan. 5.2 drinke Herod in his a Mark 6.17 Herodias Saul in his b 1 Sam. 16.16 23. Harpe Nero in his c Suetâ—nius in Nerone qualis artifex pereo Musicke the carnall Iewes in their d Amos. 6. v. 6. Minstrelsie then the Philistines in their e Iudges 16.23 Dagon and madding mirth or any other licentious libertines in their luxurious and sabaritish delights Oh why doe wee not retire and sequestrate our soules our thoughts our actions our affections from all carnall delights desires more fully more freely to converse with God setting times a part even for the verie nonce to prayse God as did f Psal 55.17 David as Daniel did for g Daniel 6.10 prayer arising with that man after Gods owne heart even at midnight to give thankes unto the Lord Oh that my wordes like spurres and goads like the pricke under the Nightingals breast that is said to awaken her in the night from sleeping to singing might excite and stirre you to this neglected and too much pretermitted dutie And for this purpose I wish we might here use this world as though we used it not as the Marriner the Seas and his Ship as the Souldier his armes as the traveller his Inne as the Student his
recreation as the Spaniell the waters for our turnes and times for a time for meere necessitie and conveniencie not giving it our hearts nor affections shaking it of when we have done with it for h Seeking only quae ad victâ—â— cultumque necessaria Cicero meate drinke and clothes and imbracing in the inwards of our soules more pure spirituall contentive and satisfactorie delights and desires Oh be as much as thou canst in the mount of spirituall speculation rather then in the vallie of externall actions rather in the lightsome i Gen. 46.34 Exod. 10. ver 23 Goshen with Gods Israell then in the darkesome Egypt with the uncircumcised rather suffer affliction as Moses with Gods k Heb. 11.24.25 people then injoy the pleasures of sinne for a season rather desire with David to be a doore keeper in Gods house then to live in the Tents of Kedar as Lot in l Genes 19. 2. Pet. 2.7 Sodom Ezekiah amongst m Ezek. 2. ver 6 Scorpions rather fast with Gods children the mourners in Sion as Esther with her n Esther 4.16 maydes Mordocheus with the distressed Iewes o Ezra 10. v. 1.2 Ezra p Dan. 10. v. 2.3 Daniel and q Nehem. 1. v. 4 Nehemiah then feast with the profane Balthezars and drunken Nabals of the world rather sing songs of Sion with Moses Deborah Miriam Zachary the two Annas and the spirituall Israell of God to the laude and praise of God then songs of Sodom to the Lute and Tabret and Harpe to the dishonour of God with that carnall r Amos 6.6 Esay 22. vers 13 Israell Avoyd the companie of the wicked fly from their societie as Manes the Calcedon Bishop did from Iulian the Apostate Iohn from Cerinthus Origen from Paulus Samesetenus Polycarpus from Marcion Athanasius Chrysostome and the Å¿ Of all these there is ample mention made by Socrates Eusebius the Germaine Centuries c. As I have alledged them already in my Origens repentance Orthodoxes Alexandrians and Antiochians from the blaspemous Arrians as from a dogge a t Cane poenis angue adagium snake and a devill Come no neerer them then to the plague who have hot mouths like Armenian Dragons hot as Ovens with fire from hell spitting burning venomous sparkes of blasphemies in the face of Heaven For to converse with such is to have our Hell on earth but to praise God with the Saints yea withall the creatures magnifie him in all his glorious attributes this is to have heaven on u Vita celitum vita caelestis earth Oh happie as holy is that soule who in imitation of the Larke and the singing Quyristers of the Ayre hath his chiefe delight to be mounting upwards and singing above as neere to God as he can get and useth this grosser earth but onely for foode and meere necessaries making no stay below till it soare up againe that it be intrapped as these incautelous birdes in the lime-twigs of lustes in the gins of temptations Oh happie he that not contented with ordinarie duties with our common Protestants materially and cursorily performed such as their stinted tasks of saying rather then praying Prayers reading of Chapters singing of a Psalme saying Grace before and after meate as they use to say by themselves or children their atturneys running daily in these unlesse by carnalite or profanesse omitted as in a Laborynth or Circle like a Milne-horse ever in one pace without ever quickening their motion what extraordinarie occasion soever come eyther of prayer in humiliation or praysing God in true Gratulation those that besides these ordinaries can sequestrate times to dedicate and consecrate their very soules and spirits to the very God of spirits extraordinarily in manner and measure as occasion is offered eyther of mourning such as was in the dayes of w Esay 22. v. 13. Esau x Osee 6 v. 1.2 Osee y Dan. 9. v. 1.2.3.4.5 Daniel z Ioel. 1. v. 5.8.11.13 cha 2.15.16.17 Ioel a Ezra 10.3.5 Ezra b 1. Sam. 1.10 Anna c Iob. 3.24 Iob d Ierem. 9. v. 1.2 Ieremie or of rejoysing such as in the dayes of David both herein my Text and elsewhere when David penned his Eucharisticall Psalmes sung publickly in the Church he and the Elders of Israell as also in the dayes of his sonne Salomon Ezekiah and Iosiah after him exulting and triumphing before the Lord. Oh happie he that can marry as some Fathers besides e Stella Bona ventura in Lucam Fryers have alluded both Martha and f Luke 10. vers 41.42 Mary Rachell and Leah can unite and so conjoyne the fruitefull thoo-bleare eyed life of action as lesse faire with the more beauteous life of contemplation that in his generall calling as he is a Christian can make holy and spirituall duties the unbending of his bow sauce to his meate his verie recreation and best preparing to the duties of his speciall and particular calling as he is a man such a man is indeede a Phoenix amongst men Rara avis in terris as the Hevites said of g Gen. 23. v. 6. Abraham even a Prince of God amongst men yea he that can be a regular observant of these few rules by blessing the Lord with his heart and mouth the members of his bodie and faculties of his soule here in grace shall inchoate and begin even in the vallie of the world in the vaile of his flesh the life of glorie such an one shall attaine to more Evangelicall perfection then ever did Iew Papist or Pelagian in the meere observation of Moses his Legals whether Morals Cerimonials or Iudicials Yea by these rules he shall come neerer God shoote neerer heaven walke more in the light of the Sunne as every way more perfect Yea I say further he shall inherit and injoy sweeter extasies of soule raptures of spirit comforts of conscience peace of heart joy in the holy Ghost then ever any superstitious popeling regular Fryer or Monasterian in this earth had notwithstanding all their Thrasonicall bragges and boasts to the contrary of ther feined revelations apparitions and enthusiasmes by their strictest observance of the rules of their Saint Francis Benedict Dominick c. or these that are forged and fathered on Basill h De regulis Francisci Basilij Augustini c. vide Fusius apud Hospinianum de origina Monocatus Augustine or any other recorded by i Vide Cassiani collationes SuriuÌ„ Lippomanum Pomerium de sanctis Marulum Abdiam Gregorium in dialogis Cassianus and their owne writers Oh could we trie how good and gracious the Lord is had we but a spirituall gust of the comforts of grace If wee did but once eate the spirituall Manna that 's hid from the world Could wee turne the bread of life in succum sanguinem into bloud and moysture Could wee be weaned from the world to be fed as children truely newly k 1.
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 disseÌ„ted 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 â—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 Å¿ 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
delusions to believe m 2. Thes 2.9 lyes persecuting after the death of Christ the n Act. 5.18 chap. 7.58 Apostles chiefly Saint o Act. 9 23. cha 14.2 Paul throughout the Acts that preached the true Christ unto them with such virulencie that putting away the Gospell from them and judging themselves unworthy of eternall life Act. 13.46 their golden Candlesticke was removed their vineyeard let out to other husbandmen The halt and blind and lame wee sinners of the Gentiles were called in to that marriage feast of mercie by that Gospell which they p Math. 22.8.9.10 refused But when I consider againe as consequent upon the former Gods judgements upon their very bodies and outward man upon them and their seede and posteritie in all ages since the death of Christ and in all places where they are as the dust dispersed that curse and fearefull execration his bloud be upon us and our children so fully q Math. 27.25 verified that hee that reades their Tragedies by r Iosep de bell Iudaico antiq Iosephus and Å¿ Iosippus Heb. Iosippus both Englished in our tongue writ as it seemes not with inke but bloud and prosecuted since by Eusebius Nicephorus Dion Nicetus Caesar Baronius Ioseph Scalliger Peter Galatinus Damianus a Goes Iohn Renclin our Master Foxe in his Martyrologie and many moe Authenticke Authors that in all times since have observed Gods heavie hand upon them and his strict proceedings with them in all countries where they are scattered if he have not a heart of flint or marble hewen out of Caucasus hee cannot but relent But more particularly when I ponder and seriously consider those infinite slaughters and massacres that were made of them by Titus Vespasian after that by divine Oracle the Christians were warned to flie to t Euseb hist eccles lib. 3. cap. 5. Pella as Lot out of Sodom the Magi and Ioseph out of Iudea as first eleven hundred thousand of them perishing in the sacking of their Citie Secondly the rest eyther killing themselves or being sold for u Ioseph de bello Iud. reckons of slaves 97000. l. 7. cap. 17. Petrus Gal. de arcanis l. 4. ca. 21. recensit 200000. accounting all as slaves under 17 yeares slaves or after the Romane custome reserved for triumph Thirdly besides the murther of their Priests the ruination of their Temple like the wals of w Iosh 6.26 Iericho never to be reedified though attempted by cursed x Hist Tripart Greg. Nazia orat 4 in Julio Iulian in despight of Christs prophesie for which they had a Sect and Order of y Ioseph Scalig. Elench trihar ser cap. 13. Mourners Heraclitus his off-spring which solemnely did nothing else but weepe and lament it Fourthly and besides the spoyling of their sacred vessels or profanely as once before z Dan. 5.2 3 etc Balthazar imploying them to the adorning of the heathenish Temple of peace Fiftly besides the slaughters that at severall times Adrian the Emperour made of a Ioseph de bello Iud. lib. 7. cap. 24. them some eight and fortie yeares after their first overture by Vespasian for their rebellion under their impostor Benchochab or Barcosba cutting off by Severus his Lieutenant 580000. by the b Dion Nicei Adrianus sword besides those that perished by famine sickenesse and fire or as others number them killing at Alexandria in Egypt 700000. of them in such multitudes that if we may beleeve their owne c Lib. Echa rabbethi writers the bloud reached to the horses mouths and runne downe from the place of effusion foure miles to the Sea it coloured and made swell two d Lib. Massechith Ghittin Rivers yea served the Heathens seven yeares after to fatten their ground with it as their bones stood Adrian in good stead to hedge in a Vineyeard of manie miles compasse those that revived being prohibited from ever comming neere Ierusalem or looking towards it saith e Euseb Eccles hist libr. 4. cap. 6. Eusebius out of Ariston Pelleus with manie other f Plurima vide apud Niceph. lib. 3. cap. 24. punishments and vexations together with the wondrous massacres the Emperour Trajan made of theÌ„ Adrians predecessor who for their rebellions in g Egypt and Cyrene under their Captaine Luke or Andrew as Dion cals h him by the meanes of Martius Tubo cut off many thousands of them but moe by Lucius Quietus that made them ever quiet who destroyed them utterly in Mesopotamia And more when I consider how every way miserable they are at this day in their inward and their outward man their bodies and their soules how they are a mocke and derision to all Nations as they mockt and derided Christ how they have beene sold for slaves yea thirtie of them for one peece as they bought Christ of the traytor Iudas for thirty peeces how they are held under as slaves in every Nation without Vrim without Thummim without Temple or true Priesthood Ministerie or Magistracie Office place or Government as made the tayle and not the head where ere they come their names smelling as a fowmart or Foxe the name of a Iew being as odious as the name of a i At zante they are so hated that from MoÌ„day Thursday till Saturday noone they come not abroad least the people stone them Purchase libr. 2. cap. 10. Iudas everie place in Europe Affricke and Asia being wearie of them excepting k They have built them in Rome five Synagogues See the Relation of Religion in the West partes Rome that makes use of their tollerated usurie as of their Stewes and curtizans meerely for gaines how everie countrie after a time hath eyther held their nose to the grindstone miserably afflicting them as they were used here in England in the dayes King Richard the first Edward the first and King Iohn as our Chronicles mention or extreamely pilling and polling them by taxes l Iohn the second king of Portingall made theÌ„ pay 8. Crownes for a poll Emmanuel did the like Ann. Dom. 1497. with manie moe impositions and confiscations of goods as they pill and poll Christians by their biting yea bloudie usurie fleeting them as the Turke useth to doe with his Bashawes and phlebotomizing their full purses to prevent a plurisie or else banishing them and casting them out as the Sea casts her froth to the shore as they were used by the three Philâ—pps but chiefly by Ferdinand and Isabella in m Anno Dom 1592. it's thought they were banished 120000. families of them or 420000 persons as are computed by Ioâ—annes Reâ—clinus Cabal lib. 1. Spaine by some Popes also in n As Paul the fourth Pius or impious the fift though received againe as loth to forgoe such good customers by Pius the fourth and Siâ—ius the fift Rome by some of our Kings in England or else massacring them with the sword or stoning them to death by the rage of the people
Basil in Psal 33. Epiphan Mer. 51. Chrys ho. 3. ad c. 1. ad Coloss Cyril lib. 4. contra Iul. Procopius cum cateris grounding on Gen. 48.16 on Math. 18. vers 10. and on Act. 12.11.15 Prince have his bonus Genius his protecting Angel both by land and sea in every coast countrey where he came having reduced brought him backe again after this large circumference to the English Court his own center in health honour prosperitie and safetie both in bodie and soule not somuch as the least infected dust cleaving to his feete much lesse any corrupted Popish ayre infect his royall bloud such was the antydote preservative of grace of which his highnesse hath given more then Mathematicall demonstration even since his comming home Oh this is a mercie to his highnesse in particular to the land realme all us in generall interested in him past expression Chiefly wheÌ„ I consider how unworthy we have walked of former mercies how like these nine clensed lepers we have beene b Luk. 17.16.17 unthankefull how there is at this day a controversie whether God is more mercifull to us or wee more sinfull against him we wounding the Lord with his own weapons abusing our peace plentie all other Tallents as Bawdes Panders to uncleanesse as fuell to the fire of our licentiousnesse as if a whorish woman should with these Iewels love tokens she receives from her husband mantaines an adulterous lover or a favorite with these lands revenues he hath received from his Prince assist animate a professed rebell wee imploying still Gods favours in the service of sinne sathan our sinnes like Ierusalems yea like c Ezeth 16.49 Sodoms pride idlenesse fulnesse of bread yea fulnesse foulnesse of drinke too extortion oppression increasing and springing with our blessings the sins of every countrey the German drunknesse Asian luxurie Cretian lying Carthaginian perfidiousnesse Italian wantonnesse Iewish usurie Turkish crueltie the French complementall formality with the vices vanities of every other Nation meeting in our land as in their Center entertained retained as Lawyers their Clients Physitians their Patients Noble-men their jeasters fooles because they bring sackes to our Milnes pleasures to our mindes or profites to our purse c. Yea withall when I ponder too how little use we have made of the Lords judgements plagues pestilence dearths inundations of waters sicknesses diseases deaths of the Honourable of the Martiall of the Senatour of the d Esai 3.1.2.3 Counsellour that have beene taken from us but chiefly the eclypsing of that bright sun that once shined so gloriously in our hemispher th' death of that our Illustrious farre famoused Prince Henry as greivous to our hearts as the death of that worthie e By the malice of Roxama cut off by his bloudy father Solyman in any great thing that happens the proverbe is Mustapha is dead Mustapha was once to his Martiall Ienisaries or the death of that noble Zisca to his zealous valerous Bohemians of whose death in not dying since to any sinne as humbled by this judgement we have made so little use that by our greivous provocations and as a just punishment of our former ungratious ingratitudes in the absence of our Prince the Lord having lately the Ball at his foote as hee hath ever to goale it to our griefe whereas hee might have brought on us now stouping plague indeede and have payed us home once for all by many meanes which I leave to all Christian hearts to excogitate yet when wee experimentally see that as in the first creation hee hath brought light out of darkenesse good out of our feared evill glory to himselfe prayses to his Majestie as before prayers for the preservation of our thrice honoured Prince Is not all this the Lords doings and it is marvailous in our eyes Oh if David and his Nobles were thankefull for the mercies towards their Salomon the instrumentall builder of their materiall let us be thankefull for our Salomon the builder of the spirituall Temple the propagator and continuer of true Religion the planter of Gods true worship the supplanter of Idolatrie If Cain bee avenged seven times then Lamech seventie times said that f Genes 4.24 Polygamist If the Iewes have cause of gratulation seaven times for Gods mercies towards their Church and Common-wealth Kings and people wee have occasion seventie times seven times If the undersong of Davids Psalmes much more of our spirituall Hymnes may well runne in this torrent to the God of mercies for his mercie endureth for g Psal 136. per totum ever Oh then let all of us this day this houre with our mother great Britaine by all meanes expresse our thankfulnesse by our rejoycings in the outward and inward man Blow with your Trumpets as in the new Moone strike your Drummes advance your pikes I wish I could say as in England ring your Bells make your bonfires sound your Cornets display your Banners charge and discharge your Guns apply your powder make good use of Match or as more certaine use your fire lockes march like Martialists daunce your measures as David did before the Arke Let the day of our preservation from the powder treason of the Coronation of our King the reduction of the Prince be to us as the Iewes h â—â—â—h 9.26 Purim let them be writ in red Letters inserted in our Calender but for ever these mercies with their memorials let them be as Moses commands i Deut. 6.6.7.8 Israell be ingraven better then in Brasse and Marble in the Tablets of our gratefull hearts perpetuated traditionarily to our Children children Let our Hearts Lives Loves Votes Voyces Tongues Soules Spirits joyne with all the blessed Quyre of Angels in Heaven and Saints in Earth for all his mercies to praise the father of mercies the God of spirits To whom bee honour and glorie of us and in all Churches for ever and ever Amen FINIS ERRATA Sic Correcta 1. Iaunnus for Janus pag. 9. post literam f. 2. optative for operative p. 12. initio pagina 3. God for good ibid. 4. Denuntion for denuntiation initio pag 20.5 Farnestius for Farâ—â—sius initio pag. 24. 6. of for oft pag. 43. Sect. 6. lit c pag. 46. in fine sect 6. those words must headded post verbum Queene Mary with many moe doe sympathâ—â—e one with another and hang together like burres 7. Zinick for Zurick p. 51. post lit y 8. wafted for wafted p. 53 post lit b 9. Menius for Mevius p. 59 post q 10 pag. â—6 in fine pawne they for they pawne 11 p. 97. prolonging for prolonging post f 12 p. 99 priâ—â—aces for privaces linea prima 13. p. 104. post u bewitching for butchering 14. p. 106. Zapirus for Zopirâ—s post f 15. p. 110. mike for milke post w pag. 111. in lit m it is for is it 16 pag. 136. chippe for chirpe post lit z 17 p. 138. initiation for imitation post lit p In the Margino also there be some maine defects which yet with your pen may be cured pag. 25. lit x Bolsâ—ecus for Bolsecus p. 33. lit q Magnetis nigra for Mira pag. 120. lit f adde to intolerable pride deleatur where Caesar make it as Pelargus of the p. 9â— lit s Hexapla in Lucadum for in Exodum with sodoe other of lesse moment