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

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 vl●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 ●● 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 ſ Exod. 32.32 See D Willes his Comment in his Comment in his Hexapla in L●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 honestū in●undum Cicero in Offic. E● omne tuli● pūctum 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 Alexādro 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

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 ſ 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 1● 3 knowledge into him by e Epi●● 3.16 faith we grow up with him as planted in f Io●● 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 ſ 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 Suet●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

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 p●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 ●●ls one of our ●rish eye sores eare sores bloudy Bellona ●attering our ●els our bel●rayes our Townes our Tēples laying them as level in many places as Rome did Carthage the Greekes Troy Titus

the Pedlars pack of the trumpery of his owne Iustitiarie workes we have him in the Temple as busie as a Bee praying or prating at the least Yea that Papist that will eate his breaden god upon a bargaine of k The speech of Northampton extent in print against the powder traytors bloud even when he goes by a plot as deepe as Hell to blow up the Parliament house as high as heaven will pray over and over his Rosarie roule out a hundred Aves and Pater nosters sollicite every hee and shee saincted friend that he hath in the court of heaven to prosper his bloudie project yea this meritorious act must be committed and commended too to the prayers of their Church So a profane man whose mouth runnes over as the scumme of a seething pot with the froth of all lewd and vitious speeches banding and darting moe damnable oathes and blasphemies in the very face of God in one houre then there be pores in his spongie tongue or teeth in his jawes or joynts in his hand this blatrant beast for God holds him no * Wicked men in the Scriptures are oft compared to beasts Psal 57.4 58.4 Esa 1.4 Matth. 7.6 Luke 13.32 Tit. 2.12 better will have sometimes such a fit and good mood come on him that he will dribble or rather l Matth. 6.7 babble out a prayer or two nay you shall have the swinish drunkard in midst of as much profanation as * Dan. 5.1 2 3. Baltazar ordinarily jeast out such a prayer God forgive me my sinnes c. As usually is this in his mouth but when it is countercrossed with an oath as the cough or the flegme in the mouth of some consumed old man 5. Yea generally if the outward profession of religion to knit up all in one word did speake and prophesie a man to be truly religious wee should have moe wayes to heaven then to anie town or citie in Christendom for the Belgick Dany Gorgean Anabaptist Brownist Familist Arminian as in former ages the Arrian Aërian Monotholite Nestorian Lutichians with all the rest of the hereticall rabble profest themselves as our Papists now the onely true Catholickes they had manie as blindedly zealous in their kindes as Paul for his m Act. 22.3 Pharaisisme Nay to keepe within the bounded mount the limits of the Scriptures Have we not the worst of sinners professing like Saints Cain n Gen. 4 3. sacrificing Balaam o Numb 23.7 prophesing the Harlot p Prov. 7.14 vowing Iudas q Luk. 9.1.2 preaching Simon Magus r Act. 8.13 baptized Demas a companion to ſ 2. Tim. 4 10. Paul himselfe yea Ananias and t Act 5.1.2.3 Saphira as forward in outward formalities as any of the rest yea wee have the carnall Israelite loading Gods Altars with sacrifices wearying him with his Sheepe and Calves Bullockes his u Esai 1.11 Psal 50.8.9 Sabaoths his new Moones All which with the rest of the formall sacrifices of the w Ier. 6.20.21 wicked God protests his soule hates loathes and abhorrs as hee doth the offring up of Swines bloud or the cutting off a doggs x Esai 66.3 necke the howlings and bellowings of profane spirits being to him no more then the hissings of so manie Snakes the croaking of so manie Frogges all their sacrifices with their persons being execrable and abominable to the Lord yea stinking as Carrion in his nosthrils Why so because they wanted the true salt of the Sanctuarie the life and soule of all which should vivificate and animate these their observances and oblations that 's in one word Obedience as God himselfe reveales y 1. Sam 15.22 Psalm 50.23 Esai 58.3.4.5.6 himselfe Therefore I say to thee to conclude this point As the Israelites here in my Text even before they offered their burnt offrings and drinke offrings their Oyle and their Wine their Rammes and their Lambes they first offer as the best Vsher prologue of acceptance their obeysance externall yea better their obedience internall to God and the King So doe thou otherwise as Peter said to Simon z Act. 8.20 Magus though baptized Thou and thy money perish together I say to thee though a professor if a profaner in sinnes committed in such duties omitted as formerly prescribed Thou and thy praying thy blessing thy hearing thy Sacramentall receiving deceiving and all thy professing confessing profaning disioyned from the obedience of the Law legall from the obedience of faith Evangelicall perish together A ●rotestant was once in Popish crueltie unjustly burnt with a Bible about his a See M. Masons abridgement of the acts and Monuments pag. 203. Gen. 42.20 necke but thou maist in Gods justice justly burne in hell with Bible in thy mouth and profanesse in thy heart life Therefore as Ioseph said of bringing * Benjamin I of sincere obedience Bring it or else never stand before the Lord anie more in his holy Temple unholy unhappie man that thou art I cannot pretermit another observance without bringing by application some of their Honie into our owne Hive These people are not onely obedient to the jussions and summons of their Prince but as the grace of this Grace as a pearle in gold their obedience is speedie as quicke as thought as lightning Davids word is the watch-word they are in a readinesse his command gives fire they discharge presently a whole volly of blessings Which promptnesse of theris justly blames and shames the refractorie obstinacie of manie Christians in all degrees and professions for manie inferiors wives to their husbands Children to their Parents servants to their Masters subjects to their Governours as they give their Superiors an absolute negative by their words or practise that they will not doe such and such duties injoyned morall matrimoniall naturall Theologicall but rather crosse and contradict as Ziphorah did the circumcision of her b Exod. 4.25 Sonne So when at last though long first they are perswaded it is with such a haling and pulling and drawing as the Beare to the stake the Bull to the ring the Asse to his burthen What they doe is haled and extorted from them as almes from an Vsurer prece * Nihil car●●●● emitur quam quod precibus precarie they are either as Haukes lured to it by faire words and promises as the * Laudando saltant onera gravissima portant 〈◊〉 turres armatat Atlia etc. li. 4 cap. 23. Basilius exem hom 9 Albertus lib. 22. Elephantes to draw great burthens by the praises or flatteries of their keepers like Wind-mils grinding nothing nor once wheeling about without the winde of applavses or wonne by gifts as Children to their Bookes by Nuts and Apples or whipt and beat to it as trewantly boyes to their schooles or lazie prentices to their workes How ever what they doe in anie prescribed dutie goes against the haire invita Minerva as the proverbe is against Gods forbid Hence

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. As●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 asserūt 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 f●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. ●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 instrumentorū genera very curiously and exactly of the varieties excellencies and excellent effects of n De admiranda vi Musices cōs●●●e Arist. Iob. 8. polit 5. Plato dial 6. de Legibus Galenum li. 3. cap. 5 de M●pocrate Amatum lib. 2. in Dis or ● 50 Gellium noct Attie lib. 1. cap. 10. Atheneum li. 14. Di●nos c. 11. lib. 1 c. 7. Infistento in Ter●●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 thē 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

Ierusalem is the greatest object of pittie my eye ever beheld Oh that God wold stirre up some Ezras Nehemiahs to replāt repayre the ruines of the goodliest kingdome of the world for fish flesh fowle wholsome ayre wanting nothing but Religion Money Munition Ah si fas dicere sed non fas Bels unlesse you had them Bonfires other solemnities to testifie your affections after which motions also the countrie moved by their presence approving not emulating your performances so I thought in my willingnesse of spirit though corporeall weakenesse as you know not to be behind hand in acting my part according to my place profession discharging my conscience my calling alwayes in judgement practise approving delighting in as desiring that best of Musicks the harmony and wished correspondencie betwixt Moses and Aaron David Nathan Salomon Zadocke the sword word the Magistracie Ministery powers Civill Ecclesiasticall for the performance of any good worke Morall Polliticall or Religious of pietie towards God of Charitie or Christianitie towards man In which golden yoke as you Sir h Apostrophe to the Soveraigne have begunne to draw that are as this yeare our Annuall Soveraigne subordinate to three other soveraignes as I tould you when you were installed in your place First to God the soveraigne Monarch of heaven and earth by whom Kings i Prover 8.15 Raigne from whose ordinance is all rule authority all superioritie k Rom. 13.1.2 subordination in all conditions Secondly the Kings Majestie the Lords high Steward Vicegerent over us our terrestriall l Psal 82.2 1.6 God Thirdly to the R. Ho. Richard Lord Boyle the Earle of Corke the prop of these parts our best m De harmonia Politica Arist lib. 8 politic cap. 3. states-Musitian under his Majestie to tune all right what 's disioynted luctaite our n Quomodo conveniunt Medicus Minister Magistratus vide apud Berchorium in suo reducterio Morali lib. 4. cap. 28. pag. 106. 107. 10● stats-physitian to purge out our worst humors and preserue us in sound loyaltie to our Prince love unitie amongst our selves as our whole countrie who findes the sweetnesse of his prudencie prouidence so improued in publike priuat for the peace prosperity of all in generall of euery one in particular cannot but subscribe unto acknowledge unlesse blinded by papisticall prejudice or possest with that hellish Hagge the Devils eldest daughter Enuie or his grand-childe detraction I say as you even already haue by your bounty prouidence circumspection giuen some good glimpses promissing prologues of your succeeding gouernment so all that I will recommend unto you at this time for incouragment or further direction is this Perge pede quo coepisti Spartā quam nactus es hāc orna I bone virtus quo te tua vocat I pede fausto goe forward as you haue begun do not extremo actu deficere faile not in your last part for the o Finis honum convertuntur end is the perfection of euery worke both morall spirituall The praise the palme of euery race that 's atcheiued whether performed by man or beast horse or greyhound is not onely speed of the hand then to lagge and dragge in the midst but truth to hold out to the end though the course be lōg strong It 's nothing for a new Beesome to sweepe ●●eane for a new knife to cut sharpe for a new seruant to be industrious for a new Bride to be louing whilst it is honie Moone for a people to be new fangled of a new preacher as the Iewes were of Iohn the p Math. 3.5 Luke 3.7 8 Baptist as children are of flowers after to throw them away reject them as the Iewes did q 1. Sam. 8.5 Samuel r Ierem. 18.18 Ieremie yea to hang head them if they could as Herod did with ſ Mark 6.20.27 Iohn I could apply this to the Magistracie but verbū sat c. a word a winke is enough to the wise Continuance perseverance crow●es euery action therefore let your last workes be better still then the t Revel 2.19 first as Aleinious Garden let your last fruites rellish the ripest the sweetest reserue your best Wine for you last u Vt apud Iohn cap. 2.10 feast use aright those fasces w Apud Livill Fenestellam magistratus those rods of rule fetcht from the Romanes those worthy Patriots famoused by all writers Vse aright as I publikely prescribed you those ●ods of beautie and of x Zeh 11.7 bands in the right mixture of ●●●thie and justice as of white and red in the damaske Rose I will not give you now Cramba bis cocta Coleworts twice sod only thus much Vindicate Gods glory upon Drunkards Swearers Idolaters profaners of the Saboth chiefly against these Cormorants or Cornvorants that forest all the Markets inhaūce the price of Corne in grosse and so purloine from the poore so the bellies of the poore shall blesse you as they did y ●●b 29.13 Iob. Stand for God aswell as for Cesar as did z Exod. 32 v. 29 Levit. 9.23 24 Numb 14.39.40 41. vers Moses a Nehem. 6 ve 10.11 chap. 13. v. 11.25.17 Nehemiah David Iosiah in Scripture Iustinian Gratian the two Theodosij Cōstātine in histories in whose glasses see your own faces knowing that a Governour must bee custos utriusque Tabulae having oculum cum Sceptro an Eagles eye a Lions heart to spie redresse and remove at least the mulcts reprove sinnes both against God and man in the breach of the first and second Table otherwayes as in the Church familie so in Cities Corporations in the common-wealth the sins of inferiours untutored unpunished not corrected are set upon the score of the Superiors as the sinnes of Elies sonnes were the taxations of Eli the b 1. Sam. 2.29 father as indeede if the garden be overgrowen with weedes the Corne with Tares wher 's the fault but in the Gardiner and in the Husbandman But hoping that you and all that shall succed you here in the Magistracie as we in the Ministery and Masters in Families will have a care on the mayne chance to wash your hands not in hypocrisie as c Math. 27.28 Pilate but in sinceritie as once d Act. 20.26 Paul free from bloud of all men in Gods great day of retribution I rest To all and every one of you even in that nature you are to me and to my Ministerie affected Stephen Ierome TO THE INGENIOVS INGEnuous Iudicious and well affected Reader FOr to such I purposely write as my Leaves and Lines come from such so they tend and bend as to their right Center to such a spirit such lettice such lippes to such if to such anie needes I satisfactorily apologize that if ever the Proverbes proved true that

you may see vers 18.19.20 to the end of the chapter as one saith of the Epistles of Cyprian * Referunt pectus ardore plenum Erasmi cēsura everie word is emphaticall and shewes a wondrous ardent and inflamed affection But especially peruse all the Psalmes of David so denominated of him because he penned the greater better part of * Denominatio sequitur maiorem partem them though some were pen'd by Moses n Vide prafat Lorini ante Comment in psalmos Asaph and others and you shall see besides those that are doctrinall precatory deprecatory propheticall penitentiall as they are distinguished by the learned * Vide Musculum Mollerum Bellarm. praefationib ante Comment in psalmos David more then halfe of them are Eucharisticall or Psalmes of gratulations now for this mercie positive in good receaved or privative in evills prevented or removed yea throughout the whole Booke of Psalmes the whole Syntagma or body of it almost in every psalme in the beginning middle or end of it Davids thankefull heart runnes all along as the bloud within the veines the marrow within the bones and the waters within the Crannyes of the Earth Ponder and peruse with Davids heart and spirit for thine owne edification and consolation in the serious Soliloquies of thy Soule Psalme 9.18.23.31.33.34.40.57.66.81.89.95.96.103.104.105.106.107.108 113.116.118.135.144.145 146.147.148.149 150 together with manie moe which I purposely pretermitt and thou shalt finde by comfortable experience the veritie of that which I have observed SECTIO III. Still urging Davids thankefulnesse YEa indeed the whole life of David is nothing else but a practicall Comment of that which is prescribed by o Iames. 5.13 Saint Iames and which should be practised of every Christian namely Is any one afflicted let him pray Is any man merrie let him sing Psalmes For is David afflicted in his outward man by p 1. Sam. 24. v. 11.14 Saul pursuing as the Hauk the patridge by q 2. Sam. 15.30 Absalons rebelling r vers 31. Achitophels complotting or moved or grieved in his spirit by s 2 Sam. 6.20 Michols mocking t 2. Sam. 16.7.8 Semeis rayling v 1. King 2.5 Ioabs murthers w 2 Sam. 3.33 Abners death x 2. Sam. 1.23 Ionathans untimely fall his y 2. Sam. 13.21 daughters deflowring z vers 14. Ammons works wages incest a vers 29.30 death or by the like crosses Is hee in spirit perplexed b Ps 38.5.6.7.8 roaring as a Lion by his anxieties first for his filthie pollutions c Psal 51.3 secondly bloudie murther d vers 14. thirdly presumptuous pride in numbring his people e 2. Sam 24 10. fourthly his rash vowes against f 1. Sam. 25.22 Nabal fiftly his partialitie and injustice toward Miphishbosheth g 2. Sam. 16.4 syding with sycophantizing Ziba h 2. Sam. 19 29. sixtly dissembled madnesse in a heathenish Court i 1 Sam. 21.13 seventhly and for like transgressions slips frailties and infirmities to which Sathans temptations his owne corruptions and sinning condition subjected him In these exigents upon these causes and in these afflictions in the outward and inward man he powred out his Soule to the Lord as appeares in his penitentiall k Psa 6. psal 38. Psal 51.1 Vide Vegam in psalm Poenitentiales Psalmes in humble heartie faithfull fervent penitent Prayer hee supplicates intreats pleades for pardon as a guilty selfe-accusing fellon before his strict Iudge he takes that course which l Exod. 14.15 Exod. 17.11 Numb 16.22 Moses Aaron Iacob n 1 Sa. 1.13.14 Anna o 2. Chro. 1● 11 Asa p 2. King 19.15.16 Ezekiah q Da. 6.10 chap. 2.16 17. Daniel r Esth 4 16. Esther s Nehem 2.4 Nehemiah t 2. Cor. 12.8.9 Paul yea u Luk 22.41 42 Christ himselfe tooke with all his w vers 46. Saints namely to call vpon God in the time day of his trouble in the depths of his miseries he hath recourse to the throne of grace and of x Ps 5.1 ps 7.2 17.1 et 22.2 et 28.1 et 31.7 mercie as he y psal 32.5 professeth and prescribeth to z vers 6. others On the contrary as an excellent patterne of right imitation vertuous emulation to all great men to all good men doth the Lord loose his bonds a Ps 116. v. 16. free him from his troubles take him out of the Nett free him from the snares of these Fowlers the gins and traps of these bloudie hunters which pursue his soule envious bloud-thirstie b 1. Sam. 24. 1. sam 26. v. 21. 1. sam 23.27 Saul matchavillian c 2. sam 17.14 Achitophell dogged d 1 sa 22.9.10 Doegg the factions of the sonnes of e 2 sam 16.10 19.22 Zerviah the treachery of the f 1. sam 26. v 1 Ziphites c Doth the Lord rid him of his enemies domesticke and forreine bring under the g 2 sam 5. v. 20 25. Philistins cast out the h ibid. v. 6.7.8 Iebusites subdue the nations bring him backe to Ierusalem after he i 1. sam 19.13.14.15 was exiled by his owne unnaturall bowels that fayre foule viperous Absolon yea doth the Lord every way hedge and inviron him in with his mercies advance him from the dust bring him from the sheepe-hooke to the k 2. sam 12.8 Scepter set a Crowne of pure gold upon his head let him see his desire upon l psal 54.7 his enemies sweepe away their plots as Spiders m ps 58.6.7.8 webs confounding them that come about him like Bees and Hornets Doth he make his sword ever victorious against the Philistines Ammonites * 2. sam 8. per totum cap. 10 Amalekites c Doth he recover Ziglah with his wives and o 1. sam 30.17 18. children doth he blesse him with the rarest of Iewels so faithfull a friend as p 1. sam 20.42 Ionathan But especially Doth he ponder the mercies of God of adornation or preservation to his Church his Sion his people Israel over whom hee was Prince doth the Arke returne safe from the q 2. sam 6. Philistines is there a stone directed to the forehead of blaspemous r 1. sam 17.49 Goliab the terrour of s v. 24. Israel as Tamberlaine once to the Turke and Tawbut to the French doth hee see the Temple likely to go forward by the large contributions of the Peeres t 1. chro 29.8.9 people doth he see the willingnesse of his Subjects to goe up to the house of the Lord doth hee see with his owne eyes and as in my Text his sonne Salomon on whom were all the eyes hopes of all Israel sixt the second time u Hee was invested once before 1. King 38.39 more solemnely and publickely by the united hearts votes and desires of all invested into his owne

thanksgivings Hymnes Songs Psalmes as David in the Psalmes as hee and his people here as Augustine Bernard Anselme in their meditations and soule-soliloquies This is that pith that marrow that luster that life of Religion that power of godlinesse * See this particular largly soundly discussed convicted by M. Bolton his discourse of true happiness on Psalm 1. and M. Dike of the deceitfulnesse of mans heart M. Negus his Posthumus booke of mans active obedience which a naturall man a Civill a Morall honest man an Hypocrite a Pharisee a meere out-side Christian a Ceremonious observant Papist never attained to by many degrees never knew it never felt never found it in his owne soule It 's a riddle harder then Sampsons a mysterie an Aenigma which they know not because they plow not with the best heyffer the spirit It 's a marke they never hitt a Note above Ela this which never anie sung but the Lords true Nathaniels And this sacrifice of true praise Davids Princes people offer up to the Lord joyntly and mutually with David which argues they were possessed with the same spirit which workes the verie same effects in severall subjects Gods severall servants how ever diversified and differenced in respect of age sexe state or condition of life yea how ever separated in respect of times or place as the same Sunne hath the same power heate light influence how ever differing in degrees in severall Climates on the scorched Negro the tawnie Muscovite the remote Indian the Russian Persian Turke Christian Barbarian and who ever it reflexeth upon SECTIO III. Obedience to God and Cesar in God and for God inioyned every Christian THat which concernes our selves as grapes pressed for our physicall drinke by application is this That we should sympathize with Davids people as we that are the heads and eyes must be studious by governing and teaching to go in and out before you wisely and worthily carrying our selves as David o 1. Sam. 18.30 did as being on a publick stage God men and Angels being our spectators our eclipses and slips being too soone discerned and too fatally presaging evils to our selves and others like the eclipses of the materiall Sunne As * Vide apud Lycostenem de prodigijs we I say for many reasons premised must doe famously and worthily in p Ruth 4.11 Ephratah where we are planted and our candlesticks placed so you that are the Commonaltie the Laity bodie of the people must be obsequious to whatever you are legally and warrantably prescribed and perswaded by us first you must like this people be flexible and tractable to what you are moved in religious duties of pietie to God such as 1. hearing the word 2. receiving the sacraments 3. sanctification of the * See D Bound of the sabboth M. Dod on the fourth Commandement Sabboths you and yours 4. frequent and fervent prayer in your owne hearts in your owne houses such as q Iosh 24.15 Ioshuah r 2. Sam. 6.20 David and other religious families used 5. humiliation for sinne such as is prescribed by ſ Ioel 2.12.17 Ioell t Zach. 12.12 Zachary u Apud Johan cap. 3.7 8. Ionas * 1. Pet. 5.6 Peter was practised by x Psal 6.6 2. Sam. 16.12 David y Neh. 1.4 Nehemiah the z Ioh. 3.20 Ninevites a Esth 4.16 Ester Mordocheus b 2. Chr. 32.25 Ezekiah 6. catechizing your children as David and Bethshebab did c Prov. 4.5 Salomon Eunice and Lois d 2. Tim. 1.5 3.16 Timothy Abraham his e Gen. 18.19 c● 22.7 Isaac Hellena her f Euseb in vitâ Constantini Constantine 7. praising of God in the observation of solemne Feasts and thankefull commemorations of mercies received and judgements prevented as for the coronation of our soveraigne Lord the King the safe reduction of our Prince his Majesties preservation from the Gowries conspiracie from the powder Treason as the Iewes solemnized their Purim upon the like g Esth 9.26 occasion 8. or it be the observation of publicke or private Fasts as the King of Ninevie enjoyned his Ninevites Ion. 3. Secondly you must be morigetous and obsequious to duties of charitie enjoyned you to your brethren such as giving to the needie as did h Iob 29.12 13 Iob i Acts 9 36. Dorcas k Luke 19.8 Zacheus forgiving your enemies as did Stephen the l Acts 7.60 protomartyr and Christ himselfe their m Luke 23.34 persecuters David reviling n 2. Sam. 16.11 Shemei Thirdly being hospitable to poore strangers such as here in aboundance come over fat and full like o Ruth 1.20 Naomi but go back again marah poore and bitter lanck and leane as purse-purged Oh relieve such as p Gen. 18.1 2. Abraham and q Gen. 19.1.2 3 Lot the pilgrim Angels in the formes of men as the good old man of Gabes-gilead r Iudg. 19.20 21. lodged the distressed Levite as Gaius the Host ſ Epist Iohan. ad Gaium v. 5. of the persecuted Saints Oh you that are as Iosephs here well planted doe not forget your English brethren t Amos 6. Gen. 43. whom necessitie drives hither to seeke for corne and coine thinking here be golden grapes but deceived as Christ by the promising leaves of the barren u Mat 21.19 figge-tree Fourthly feed the hungry let the backes and bellies of the poore blesse * Iob 29.12 13. you let Lazaras have the x Luke 16 21. crummes in your feasts still remember the afflictions of * Amos 6.6 Ioseph Fiftly be engaged for those that are approved honest though poore that have willing hearts to pay all creditors though weake hands support them as Aron and Hur did wearied b Exod. 17.18 Moses Salomon condemnes not all * Prov 6.2 See the Sermon extant on this Text called a caveat for suerties suretiship but onely gives caveats that a man ensnare not himselfe for carnall carelesse companions charitie both beginning at home and standing with providence and discretion otherwise circumstances swaying It s an act of charitie and Christianitie to undertake for some as Paul did for y Philem. v. 18. Onesimus as Reuben for his brother z Gen. 42.37 Beniamin as the good Samaritan for the wounded a Luke 10.35 Pilgrim Sixthly comfort the sad hearted as Beaz did b Ruth 2.13 Ruth as the Iews did mournfull Martha c Iohn 11.31 and Mary as Christ himselfe comforted the weeping widdow of Nain the disconsolate daughters of Ierusalem e Luke 23.28 and his owne dejected f Ioh. 16.20 21. Disciples chiefly if their mourning be for sinne poure oyle into their wounds binde up the broken g Esay 61.1 hearted speake a word to the wearie in due season declare unto them their h Iob 33.23 righteousnesse revive them out of their dead swoune by application of

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