THE CHURCH'S GLORY SHOWN FORTH IN A SERMON. Preached at the HAGUE. Before their Majesties THE KING & QUEEN. of Bohemia. By J. E. Preacher to the Company of English Merchant Adventurers in Hamburgh. Ecclesiae non jungitur qui ab Evangelio separatur. Cypr. de lapsis. TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. etc. MAny commend the Church's glory, but few imitate it, because they never truly known it; somewhat they have read, & heard of it but never truly saw it, for with carnal eyes they behold her spiritual beauty & cannot discern it. An ignorant person looking on the picture of Helena drawn by Zeuxes, said, that she seemed not to him to be so fair. Nicomachus, the Pamter answered him, Take my eyes & you will Sume meos oculos & De am judicabis. think her a Goddess. The best way to judge of the Church's glory is to get it, & within our hearts to feel it, a Rev. 2. 17. none knows the new Name that Christ writes on his, but he that receives it Whosoever hath once felt within him, the excellent & unspeake able benefit of the pardon of his sins, peace of conscience, joy in the holy Ghost, power of faith, quiet fruit of patience, comfort of obedience yea the sweetness of the very tears of repentant, with other parts of the Church's ornaments, will say with Peter when he saw but part of Christ's glory in his transfiguration b Mat. 17. 4. It is good being here & with the c Rev. 12. 1. Woman in the Revelation, clothed with the Sun, viz Christ's righteousness, tread the Moon, viz all earthly changeable glories under feet. And though your Majesty knows more of the Church's glory by your inward feeling of it, than I can discover, yet in all dutiful acknowledgement of your Majesty's favours & gracious countenance of my Ministry, with an hearty desire to do your Majesty any good service, were it but to bring Pins to the Temple, in the least to further your spiritual dressing & glory, I am bold to present to your Majesty's view this small treatise of the Church's glory. And what you were pleased once to hear (being called by your command to preach) vouchsafe I humbly desire now to read. Being confident of your Majesty's gracious acceptance hereof for the matter sake, (though not set forth with show of words, which the truth needs not, the Church's glory being sufficient of itself to commend it, plain work being best & most in use, & curious wrought plate not regarded,) I commend your Majesty to God & to the word of his d Act. 20. 32. grace which is able to build you up & to give you an inheritance among all them that are sanctified, e 1. Pet. 1. 4. an inheritance incorruptible, & undefiled, that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you. Your Majesty's most obliged Chaplain. JER: EL-BOROUGH. THE CHURCH'S GLORY. Psal. 45. v. 13. The king's daughter is all glorious within. IT is uncertain, who made this Psalm, but certain that he was a Prophet & holy man: for S. Peter a 2. Pet. 1. 20 tells us that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretaetion, but holy men of God spoke as they were inspired by the holy Ghost. It is also certain, that it was made concerning King Solomon & his Queen, to set forth the glory of his kingdom. But most certain, that the author looked higher than Solomon, & his Queen, & chief intended by them, & their outward great worldly glory, to express the inward & spiritual fare greater glory of Christ & his Church; for neither Solomon or his Queen in all their glory were clothed like one of these. And that this was the Prophet's scope appears by some sayings in this Psalm which cannot be attributed to Solomon but to Christ: as b v. 6. Thy throne O God is for ever & ever for though Kings in the word of God are called c Psa. 82. 6. 2. Thes 2, 4. Gods (in respect of their office, not their nature for d Psa. 82. 7. they shall dye like men) yet this word here, God, is spoken of the son of God, as appears plainly, Hebr. 1. 8. Unto the son he saith, Thy throne O God is for ever & ever as also Solomon's throne was not for ever but Christ's. Moreover it is e v. 16. said In stead of thy fathers shallbe thy children whom thou mayst make princes in all the earth: but this is not true of Solomon, for Rehoboam his heir was so fare from enlarging his dominion on earth, that he lost the greatest part of his father's kingdom, neither read we that any of the rest of his children ever attained to that Kingly glory their father had: but this is true of Christ & his Church for in stead of the fathers, Abraham Isaac & Jacob etc. they had children Peter, John, Paul, & other Apostles, who spiritually overcame all nations by the preaching of the Gospel; so whereas Christ set up his throne only in Judaea in his life time as King of the Jews these children enlarged his dominions to the uttermost parts of the earth. And since the f Mat. 12. 42. Queen of the South came from the uttermost parts of the earth to behold the glory of King Solomon, let us also come with our best attentions to behold the glory of the King of Solomon, & his Queen, for behold greater than Solomon or his Queen are here. The Parts of this Psalm are two. The 1. concerning Solomon. this is the literal sense. The 2. concerning his Zueene. The 1. concerning Christ. this is the mystical sense. The 2. concerning his Church. Solomon is commended for is g v. 2. beauty. fairer than the children of men. for his h ibid. eloquence, for his i v. 3. power. for his virtues of truth, meekness, k v. 4. righteousness. For his l v. 8. riches in his costly garments. his ivory palaces. All which were but types of the fare exceeding spiritual beauty, eloquence, power, graces, & riches. of Christ. For m Cant. 5. 10 he is white & ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand n joh. 7. 46. never man spoke like him; o Mat. 28. 18 all Power in heaven & earth is given him: p joh. 14 6. he is the way & the truth: we must Learn of him for he is q Matt. 11. 29 meek & lowly: his name is the Lord our r jer. 23. 6. righteousness; he is perfumed with s Cant. 3. 6. myrrh & frankincense & all powders of the merchants: heaven is t Is. 66. 1. his throne & the earth his footstool. Happy woman may some think that hath such a husband as Solomon more happy soul that hath Christ. Solomon's Queen is 1. instructed 2 commended Instructed, u v. 10. to forget her own people & King Pharaoh her father's house & the reasons hereof are three. 1. for then the w v. 11. King her husband will desire her beauty & love her. 2. He is her Lord & she must worship him, in respecting him more than her father, & be ruled by him. 3. though she leaves the glory of King Pharaohs court, yet she enjoys the glory of King solomon's, & shall live in as great honour & magnificent pomp as ever she formerly did, for the daughter x v. 12. of Tyre & the rich among the people shall entreat her favour. So the Church of the Gentiles (of which this Gentile Queen might be a Type) must forsake the idolatry, & superstitious vanities in which she was brought up, & embrace the true faith of the Gospel, & the right manner of worshipping God, as her Lord & husband Jesus Christ would have her do, who will then delight in her, & her condition shallbe more honourable than ever before, for y Isa. 49. 23. Kings shallbe her nursing fathers, & Queens her nursing mothers, they shall bow down to her with their faces, toward the earth. Commended, in the words of the text. Her commendation is laid out. 1. by her relation, the King's daughter. 2. by her qualification, she is glorious. 3. by the amplification of her glory First in respect of the universality, all glorious. Secondly in respect of the sincerity, within. The King's daughter is all glorious within. By the King is literally meant Pharaoh King of Egypt, by his daughter, Solomon's Queen, for he z 1. Kings 3. 1. married Pharaohs daughter. But mystically by the King, is meant God, by his daughter, the Church, the spouse of Christ: which sense being chief intended (as I have formerly shown) by the author of this Psalm, I will also follow, in the handling of these words. the King. That God is a King I think none will deny it, except Atheists that deny God though too many in their rebellious deeds seem not to acknowledge it. King David says he is a a Psa. 95. 3. great God & a great King above all Gods. not as other Kings of particular countries, but a great King over b Psal. 47. 2. all the earth. King Nabuchadnezzar confesses him of a truth to be a c Dan. 2. 47. Lord of Kings yea the King of heaven. other Kings are borne, or d 4. 37. made Kings, but he is an e 1. Tim. 1. 10. aeternal King, others are subordinate, for by him f Prov. 8. 15. Kings reign but he is a supreme & absolute King, others mortal, but he an g 1. Tim. 1. immortal & h jer. 10. 10. everlasting King. He hath made all things in heaven, and earth, he governs all, & when he please he can destroy all, therefore ye is King of all. Use 1 The consideration whereof serves for an instruction to Kings on earth to fear this King of heaven & earth, who hath made them Kings on earth, who can make them Kings in heaven, who can make them no Kings on earth for those i Dan. 4. 37 that walk in pride he is able to abase even him who was a k 2. 37. King of Kings, Nabuchadnezzar, who was driven from men among the beasts of the field to l 4. 32. eat grass as oxen till he knew that the most high ruleth in the kingdoms of men; m jer. 10. 7. who would not fear thee O King of nations. Be wise then O the Kings be instructed ye that are judges of the earth (is the counsel of a n Ps. 2. 10. 11. King) & this is that they should learn to serve the Lord in fear, for the o Pro. 9 10. fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It is good counsel that S Bernard gave the p Lewis 7. French King, that he should remember that God his Creator gave him that great & honourable charge, not to govern after his own pleasure, but for God's honour, to whom he was to give an account whensoever God should demand it. L' history de France, par Seigneur du Haillan. p. 692. S. Paul q Col, 4. 1. counsels masters to give their servants what is just, & oequal, because they also have a master in heaven, & for the same reason should Kings (whose name in Latin r Reges a recte agendo vocati ideoq recte faciendo regis nomen tuetur, peccando amittit lib. de sum. bon: Isidore thinks to be from well doing) govern their subjects with justice & equity for they also have a King in heaven. Use 2 Secondly, this should teach us all to fear & obey this great King: the s Pro. 16. 14. wrath of a King is as messengers of death how much more is the wrath of the King of Kings; We fear them that can kill the body, much more is he to be t Mat. 10. 28. feared that can destroy body & soul in hell we fear Kings on earth because of their power, much more should we fear him from whom Kings have u Rom. 13. 1. all their power, for the powers are of God S. w 1. Pet. 2. 17 Peter bids us fear God & honour the King Some honour the King for their own honours & preferments, but the true ground of honour to Kings on earth is the fear of the King of heaven, who hath so commanded. And of such as dishonour Kings, much more of such as seek to depose & murder them we may truly say there is no fear of God before their eyes, neither are they Peter's successors: their not honouring the King proceeds from their not fearing God, & so being faithless to one King, they will never be faithful to the other. It is then wisdom in Kings not to command their subjects against God, yea to command them to serve, & fear God & keep his Laws, forthen they will honour the King & keep his Laws: but if Kings in their commands obey not God as good subjects, they teach their subjects to disobey them, for it is better to obey God then man, & the command is to x Pro. 24. 21 Aquo secun dus, post quem primus Tert. apol. c. 30. fear God & the King, first God & then the King; God is called the King y jer. 48. 15. the Lord of hosts because all the creatures are his subjects and soldiers, he sayeth to one go & he goeth, to another do this & he doth it, to the sun stand still, or go back, to the sea be dry land, to the earth open, & they do so, z Psa. 148. 8. the fire, hail, snow & vapours fulfil his word & since all the creatures as good subjects yield obedience to their King, it is a shame that men should fail in their duty especially such who in their baptism have taken the vow of allegiance: and since not only other creatures but even Kings on earth obey this King of heaven & earth, their example should move other men to this duty to fear God their King; who prefers his Courtiers to be Kings in heaven, but all such as will not have him to reign over them though a Rev. 6. 15. Kings of the earth & great men, rich men, chief captains & mighty men shall hide themselves in dens & in the rocks of the mountains, & say to the rocks & the mountains Fall on us & hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. King Alexander had two friends, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one loved him as Alexander, the other loved him as king, Let us do both, love him who is our God & so fear him for b Hos. 3. 5. his goodness, love him who is our king & so fear him for his power. Daughter. SEcondly by the King's daughter Filiae Regis, animae fidelis. Hier. in Loc. is meant the Church, or the faithful. All creatures are this king's subjects but the faithful have a nearer relation to him, in being his daughters & sons, for c 2. Cor. 6. 18 I will be a father unto you & ye shallbe my sons & daughters saith the Lord almighty: so that it may be alike truly said that faithful men are his daughters & faithful women his sons, for there is no respect of persons with God, there is neither Jew or Greek King or subject, rich or poor, d Gal. 3. 28. male or female, but are all one in Christ Jesus. We know not Christ any more after the flesh saith e 1. Cor. 5. 16. S. Paul, neither doth Christ know us after the flesh, for f Mat. 12. 50. who soever shall do the will of his father which is in heaven, the same is his brother his sister & mother: therefore the Church of Rome to little purpose applies the latter part of this Psalm concerning the King's daughter & her honourable women to their g Mollerus in loc. Nuns at their consecration, since it belongs to men as well as women to the married as the unmarried even to the whole Church of what nation, sex or condition soever they be: but the prophet in allusion to Solomon's Queen here terms them daughters; who in other places are called the h Matt. 5. 9 Rom. 5. 2. 8. 14. sons of God. Jesus Christ as God is the only i Heb. 1. 2. son of God by natural generation, as man, the only son of God by k Luk. 1. 35. personal union, the l job. 38 7 Angels, m Luk. 3. 38. Gen. 1. 26. Adam & Eve & in them all men & women are the sons of God by creation after God's image in righteousness & holiness, but men being in honour through their fall in Adam lost this image & honourable condition of being the sons of God, & are now by nature the n Eph. 2. 3. children of wrath, & sons of iniquity: but God out of his love to man sent his own son o Heb. 1. 3. (who is the express image of his person) to be man, to restore man to the image of God in being the sons of God, for p joh. 1. 12. to as many as received him to them he gave this honour to be the sons of God, even to them that believe in his name & so the faithful only are restored to this honourable estate of being sons & daughters to the King of heaven, for q Gal. 3. 26. we are all the sons of God by faith in Jesus Christ. The Church than is the King's daughter in law by the grace of adoption in a spiritual union by faith being married to the King's son. Use 1 When saul's servants communed with David to take in marriage the King's daughter, David answers r 1. Sa. 18. 23. Seemeth it a light thing to be a King's son in law: but I may say, seemeth it a light thing to be the King of King's daughter in law: It was a great honour wherewith God magnified the blessed Virgin to be the foelicius eum corde quam carne gestavit. Aug. de S. Virg. c. 3. mother of a King, of God, but a greater happiness to her that she was a daughter of the King her God: Is it a great honour to be borne of earthly Kings, & not a greater to be borne of a heavenly King? If all worldly honours of Kingly Parentage, Kingly marriage, Kingly magnificene, alliance, beauty, wit, eloquence, courage, or what soever else may be of higher esteem added hereto, be laid all together in balance with this only honour to be the King's daughter, they willbe found too light even lighter than vanity, in respect of this spiritual dignity; this is that crowns all the rest, & let us so esteem of it as the best flower in our garland. Cease then, cease blind, old, doting world to judge them the ofscowring of the world who are the happiest people therein, and though thou natural man perceive not the things of God, yet the time shall come when in anguish of heart thou shalt say s Wisd 5. this is he whom we had sometime in derision, we fools, accounted his life madness & his end to be without honour, how is he now numbered among the children of God & his lot among the saints. Use 2 And as this makes, for the Church's honour so it affords her comfort; for is she the King's daughter, she shall then never want any thing that is fitting or good for her. A good King's care is to provide for all his subjects much more for his own children: God causes his sun to shine on the wicked but the hottest beams of his favour shall reflect on the righteous: this King that hath so much loved us when we were his enemies as to give his own Son to be married to us, how shall he not with him give us all things being reconciled & made his daughters: Kings on earth may want power & cannot help, may want love & will not help, may want life for they are mortal, & though they have both power & will yet help not, put not then your trust in princes saith the t Ps. 146. 3. Psalmist nor in the son of man in whom is no help, his breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth & in that day his thoughts perish; but the King's daughters help is in the name of the Lord who hath made heaven & earth; he is the King of Kings & can help, a loving father & will help, an eternal King & the living God, & can at all times when he sees fitting, help; when u Psal. 27. 10 father & mother forsake then the Lord taketh us up, & though Abraham be ignorant of us & Israel acknowledge us not yet thou art our w Isa. 63. 16. father our redeemer, thy name is from everlasting. The King may indeed suffer his daughter sometimes to be troubled, like the woman in the x Rev. 12. 14 Revelation forced by the Dragon to fly into the wilderness, but even there, where little hope of feod. is she shallbe nourished, & find a place from the face of the serpent; but if she should find none there, yet in y joh. 14. 2. her father's house are many mansions, & the King's son her husband is gone before to provide a place for her. The Church may want sometimes what she desires but never what God knows good, & though the King deny his daughter one thing, he may give her a better; And though she be a Queen married to the King's son, it is fitting she acknowledge her father, & the King may suffer her to want because he would have her come to him, for he is the King & willbe sought to & great reason he should, Because she is the King's daughter she Looks the King should look after her & so sets still & does not stir up herself to take hold of the King, nor call upon him with that humility, faith, fervency & constancy she ought to do; which if she would do, & so dispatch her prayers as extraordinary Ambassadors to the King of heaven, she should receive a gracious answer z Isa. 54. 11. oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest & not comforted, the Lord a 6. hath called thee a woman forsaken & grieved in spirit, for a moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee, in a little wrath I hide my face from thee, but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee: Let the Church then with Queen Hester go in to the King, he will hold out the sceptre of his grace, & the devises of wicked haman's shallbe brought on their own heads b Ps. 122. 6. Pray then for the peace of jerusalem (for she is the King's daughter) they shall prosper that love thee, Peace be within thy walls & prosperity within thy palaces; c Isa. 63. 19 Look down from heaven we beseech thee O King of heaven behold from the habitation of thy holiness & of thy glory, & for the glory of thy name suffer not men on earth to do thee this dishonour to abuse thy daughter; where is thy Zeal & thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels & of thy mercies are they restrained O thou who hast the hearts of Kings in thy hands, put into the hearts of the Kings of the earth to hate the whore that is drunk with the blood of thy saints. Arise o Lord God of our salvation, smite thine enemies in the hinder parts & put them to perpetual reproach. Oh d 64 9 remember not our iniquities for ever neither he wrath very sore, behold, see we beseech thee we are thy people. & thus much for the Queen's comfort Use 3 Thirdly this also teaches the Church her duty, for is she the King's daughter let her then behave herself like a daughter to so great a King & show forth in her conversation the e 1. Pet. 2. 9 virtues of him that hath called her out of darkness into his marvellous light & walk as a child of light, be holy as the King is holy, be merciful as her heavenly father is merciful, abhor sin as a base thing & sinful wicked persons as unworthy the company & countenance of the King's daughter. Psa. 101. 7. It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickedness, f Prov. 16. 12 saith Solomon, so is it also to King's sons & daughters, who as they are above others in state, so they should be higher in their virtuous behaviour as King Saul g 1. Sam. 10. 23. higher by the head & shoulders then the rest of the people. h v. 9 When Samuel had annoyuted Saul King it is said that God gave him another heart, a heart befitting a King, & to great persons God gives heroic spirits to do great things, but to his own children he gives his own spirit, so there is another spirit in them then in the world, for as i Rom. 8. 14. many as are led by the spirit of God, are the sons of God, now the fruit of k Gal. 5. 22. the spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance: Bet ye there fore followers of God as dear children, & walk in Love as God hath loved us, but l Ephc. 5. 1. all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becometh Saints, or the King's daughters. Thus fare of the relation, the King's daughter. Glorious. SEcondly, is to be considered her qualification, she is glorious. Glorious in being gracious. First because grace is true glory, & therefore the saints are called the m Psa. 16. 3. excellent ones upon earth & by the prophet n Isa. 4. 5. Isaiah the glory 2. Lie because her graces are as so many tokens of God's grace & love to her in which she glories, for let o 1 Cor. 1. 31 him that glories glory in the Lord; a wife glories in showing others her rings, jewels, & costly apparel, not only for the value of the things, but also for that her husband gave them, which she thereforealso esteems of & will keep as evidences of her husband's love. 3. Lie, because her graces are the way to eternal glory, for p Heb. 12. without holiness no man shall see the Lord. The Church is glorious in that she is the King's daughter by her spiritual adoption, but glorious also in her justification & her sanctification. The q joh. 8. non generis dignitate, sed morum nobilitate jnnotescere debemus. dist. 40 c. 3. ex Greg. qui genus suum jactat, aliena laudat. sen. H. F. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 80. impres. Ha. noviae. Jews gloryed that they were Abraham's children yet did not the works of Abraham: and many glory in their noble birth, who are inglorious in a wicked life, their birth cannot afford them so much glory, as their life begets disgrace; the glory of their birth is another's praise, but their graceless life is their own shame. It is true that our late King of blessed memory relates, that for the most part a virtuous (civil & moral) life follows a noble birth, & we see many times that none are so base & rude in their carriage as such of mean & rude parentage: But it is true that S. Paul r 1. Cor. 1. 26 says that not many wisemen after the flesh nor many mighty, nor many noble are called, for God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, & the weak things to confound the mighty; & base things of this world, that no flesh should glory in his presence: but such as are glorious in the flesh by a noble birth, being called by God are far more glorious in their new birth & gracious spiritual life; there may be then a natural noble birth, but an ignoble life, but whosoever is truly ennobled with the glory of a spiritual birth, is also glorious in a gracious life. Use 1 Whereby, examination may be had who is the King's daughter: Justification & sanctification are evident signs & fruits of our adoption, If a man glories he hath the Philosopher's stone, yet goes in rags, we will not easily believe him, neither him that says he is the child of God & lives in sin, for he that s 1. joh. 3. 9 10. is borne of God sinneth not, (not willingly going on in a sinful course without repentance) & in this the children of God are manifest & the children of the devil, who soever doth not righteousness is not of God. Use 2 And from hence also we may Fax mentis honestae gloria S. Ital. Phil. 3. be exhorted to seek for this the truest glory. Some glory in their sins, whose glory is in their shame some glory in their riches & worldly honours, but this world passeth away & the glory of it, some glory in their fine , but all this is vain glory, & too often keeps man from attaining true glory; how can ye believe saith Christ t joh. 5. 44. that receive honour one of another & seek not the honour that cometh from God only, whose hearts & time is taken up wholly in an ambitious affecting honour from men, can spare no time to seek after the true honour from God, they that too much love the praise of men, too little care for the praise of God; Bad people Nullarun fere pretiosior cultus est, quam quarum pudor vilis est. Cyp. de hab. virg. may wear good , & base minded men step up to worldly honour & glory, but the King's daughter only is truly glorious in being gracious. Let that argument move us which commonly preveyles every where, & that is the fashion Let your u 1. Pet. 3. 4. adorning then be in the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of an humble, meek, & quiet spirit which is in the sight of God great of price, put on by the hand of faith the fine w Rev. 19 8. linen which is the righteousness of the saints, cover your heads with the fear of God hang at your ears, wind about your wrists, I mean your hearts the precious jewel of God's word more x Psa. 19 10. worth than thousands of gold silver & choicest pearls, girt about your loins the y Eph. 6. 14. girdle of truth, your z v. 15. feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace, wash hands & face I mean your souls in the blood of Christ, for be they never so high coloured, were your sins as a Isai. 1. 18. red as scarlet they shallbe as white as snow, For this is the King's daughters clothing of wrought gold, this her raiment of needle work, this is the Queen's fashion, she will never change it, but live & dye in it, & I pray God give us all grace to follow it, & then shall the King have pleasure in our beauty, And when the glory of all earthly Kings & kingdoms shall cease & be brought to nothing, then shall the King's daughter appear in her glory, for we are b 1. joh. 1. 18. now the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what we shallbe, but we know that when the King our husband Jesus Christ our saviour shall appear with all the glory of heaven & earth that we shallbe like him & c Col. 3. 4. Rev. 21. 2. appear with him in glory, thus prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, clothed with the glory of God in a kingdom of glory, crowned with an incorruptible crown of glory, to which let us d Rom. 8. 18. account all the momentary light afflictions of this world not worthy to be compared, but go on from grace to grace from glory to glory e 5. 2. rejoicing in the hope of the glory of God. Allglorious. THe third thing to be considered, is the amplification of this glory: & First by the universality of it, all glorious. First by the grace of justification for Christ's blood cleanseth her from f 1. joh. 1. 7. all her sins, & so God seethe no iniquity, because he does not g Psa. 32. impute it to her, her iniquities are forgiven, her sins covered, & the absolute perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ is h Rom. 4. to her, & in this respect Christ says of her thou art i Cant. 4. 7. all fair my Love & there is no spot in thee. Secondly, by the graces of sanctification, wherewith her whole person in all the faculties of her soul, & members of her body, is adorned, her understanding enlightened with saving knowledge, so that with open k 2. Cor. 3. 18 face she beholds the glory of God & is changed into the same image from glory to glory, her will being conformed to Gods will, her affections rightly ordered, her love, fear, joy, & hope set on other objects, contained within the limits of due moderation, her outward senses & members of her body l Rom. 6. 13 instruments of righteousness unto God, & in this respect also all glorious: For as by sin the whole person is corrupted, so by grace the whole person, even in m 1. Th. 5. 23. soul, spirit, & body, is sanctified; the old man is cast of with his works & beggarly rags, & the new man is put on, which after God is created in righteousness & true holiness; he hath respect to n Ps. 119. 6. 3. all God's commandments & does no iniquity & though in this life the King's daughter be not so glorious, as to be perfectly sanctified in full measure through the relics of sin in her, though forgiven, yet is she in some measure sanctified in perfectio graduum & partium. all the faculties of soul & members of her body, & so perfectly sanctified, & in this sense I dare affirm universality of grace; for where the flesh is, there is the spirit also, & this spirit of sanctification striveth against corruption; thus though she be black yet is she o Cant. 1. 5. comely, but here after when the body of sin shallbe destroyed, & all tears wiped from her eyes she shallbe all p Eph. 5. 27. glorious without any spot or wrinkle, holy without blemish. Use. 1 By the consideration whereof we may discern true grace from counterfeit. Herod will hear John gladly & do many glorious good things, but he will not part with Herodias, & this blemishes ye rest, & discovers him to be of base Idumaean birth, & no true Israelite: many glory of their good intentions, & that they mean as well as the best, yet their mouths are full of rotten communication, & so we may know the tree by the fruit to be of no good kind: others, glory of their good deeds, but their thoughts are free, their hearts full of uncleanness, malice, & covetousness. It is ordinary with many, in much vehemency to inveigh against, & to handle roughly the sin, they are not subject to, but their beloved sin must not be touched, they are as tender of it as a King of his prerogative, whoso touches it hurts it; the chief Priests & Pharises will not q joh. 18. 28. enter the common hall lest they be defiled, behold their conscience; but scruple not to defile their Souls in shedding innocent blood, behold their baseness. they tithe also r Matt. 23. 23 eummin & mint, but neglect judgement, mercy & faith, the greater things of the Law: but the King's daughter is more generous she is all glorious, in hating all sin, & willing to all good how beautiful are thy feet O princes daughter, if therefore thou art not all glorious thou art not truly glorious, if there be not grace in every part, no true grace in any part, no true friend of Christ's that does not (in his willing & ready endeavours) what soever he commandeth, neither doth he truly hate joh. 15. 14. any one sin that hates not every sin, nor his obedience sound in any good he does, that is not willing to every good, for this universality of obedience is true grace's evidence. It is an honourable qu'il aimeroit mieux mourir que faire une meschant act. S. du Haillan p. 987. report that History gives of the French King that he often said, he had rather dye, then do any wicked thing. Use. 2 Let us then as many as would seem to be, or rather have the comfortable assurance to be the children of God, cleanse ourselves from all filthiness both of flesh & s 2. Cor. 7. 1. spirit, & perfect our holiness in the fear of God. A little leaven, leavens the whole lump, a spark of fire may burn a whole Town, one fly corrupt a whole box of precious ointment, one spot blemish a fair picture, & one sin given way too blemish the Souls glory. Men are careful to have their apparel suitable, (for it is ridiculous to see one clothed in velvet breeches & a canvas doublet) let it be our care to suit our Souls with the variety of heavenly graces, not to plough with an Ox & an Ass, to serve God & Baal, to hold with the hare & run with the hounds for if it be glorious to be good in some things, it is more glorious to be good in all things: he that is t Rev. 22. 11. filthy let him be filthy still the dog will to his vomit & the swine to the mire; but he that is righteous let him be righteous still, & he that is holy let him be holy still, behold the King, the bridegroom comes quickly, & his reward is with him to give every man according to his works: hold fast what thou hast that none take thy u Rev. 3. 11. crown from thee, & go on with undaunted courage & settled resolution in the all glorious paths of grace, & the Lord be with thee, his grace willbe sufficient for thee till thou come to thy race end & be with the Lord: & he that hath blessed the with w Eph. 1. 3. all spiritual blessings in heavenly things in Christ here, will bless thee with all eternal blessings in heavenly places with Christ hereafter; thus shallbe done to the man whom the King will honour. Within. SEcondly, this glory is amplified by the sincerity of it. Within Not outward (say some) as the glory of earthly Kings & Queens in riches, worldly honours, & other outward pomp, temporal magnificence, for this is the whores dressing in purple & scarlet x Rev. 17. 4. decked with gold & precious stones, but the Church's glory is inward in the purity of doctrine, right administration of the Sacraments, & Ecclesiastical discipline, & the spiritual ornament of heavenly graces, which glory is befitting the Church as daughter & spouse to such Kings as have no carnal eyes to look on & love her for any outward respects though never so glorious. True; the Church's best glory is inward, & that is her only beauty for which the King Loves her & delights in her; she is more glorious in her golden Priests then golden cups, in being rich in faith & good works then rich in the world; but the outward glory is not to be neglected when it pleases God to give it, only we are to be cautionate that the outward do not allure our eyes & take up our hearts more than the in ward. She that hath the outward only without the inward is the whore. She that hath the inward, without the outward is the King's daughter & a true Church, but where is both inward & outward it is an addition to that Church's glory. The poverty & from thence the contempt & from thence the confusion & miserable disorder of some Churches, where like Jeroboams priests the meanest of the people even hospital children (for the most part,) are made Pastors, (which is not a nations glory but shame in so contemptible (though it should not be a ministry) may cause us to bless God for his mercies to our English Church both in her inward & outward glory. The voice might have been as truly uttered, that poison was poured into the Church, when the live were taken away, as when great revenues given, she had once too much, now in many places too little: I have often Wondered at the most gross & almost heathenish, common, ignorance, & from thence profaneness of some poople; which I conceived to proceed through want of able Preachers, which proceeds through want of sufficient maintenance, which makes so many weavers & Tailors to become y That cannot speak Latin Dutch Clerks (as they say) in their Churches; & I am sure this is a deformity, not a glory, in reformed Churches. But I think by the Church's glory, Within, to be meant the sincerity of her glory: She is glorious because gracious (as I have already showed) which is her spiritual glory, but this glory is not in outward shows & ostentation only before men, which, were hypocrisy, but in private also, which argues the uprightness & sincenity of her heart before God; Solomon's Queen not only put on her glorious clothing of wrought gold, & her costly raiment when she came publicly before the King, or abroad in the view of the people, but within also, in private, in her closet, or bedchamber when she was alone she wore such glorious clothing as her ordinary, daily apparel: so the King's daughter, viz. the Church, is all glorious, viz. gracious, not only in the public assemblies before men, but also when she is alone in private, she adorns her Soul with heavenly meditations, fervent prayer, faith in gods promises etc. yea the more private, the more glad & careful is she in the exercise of spiritual duties, as having more fit opportunity & liberty to deck up her soul. What she seems to be in her life, she is the same in her heart, & the same at home in private, that Is. 63. 8. she is abroad in public, she will not lie, glorious, yea all glorious without, glorious & all glorious within, goes forth & comes home (Cato like eodem vultu) with the same countenance, the same in all places, like herself glorious. Use. 1 Which condemns the hypocrisy of many, making a great show of outward devotion, having only the outside of religion, but no true inward affection to goodness, nor private practice of piety, z Matt. 7. 5. face-takers as the Syriack terms them, taking only the face of goodness, & that abroad, but put it off in private. The Pharisee is more careful to wash his hands before meat, than his heart, the outside then, the inside of the cup: he will give a Matt. 6. alms, fast, & pray, one would think him right bred & borne of God, but in giving alms he sounds a trumpet, in his fasts he disfigures his face, & he prays, but in the Temple & corners of the streets to be seen of men; there is neither piety in his prayers, humility in his fasts, or charity in his alms, but all done for his own vain glory, nothing to God's glory, all done out of love to humane praises, not of any love to those heavenly graces, & this you may perceive if you follow him home, in private he is another man, does none of these, nor thinks of these but abroad: like some women too careful & curious to trim up themselves when they go forth, but none more careless & sluttish when they are at home, or like some men, that regard not what course & foul linen they wear next their shin, so they have over it a half shirt of fine linen to be seen, or to use our Saviour's comparison like b Mat. 23. 27 painted sepulchers, fair without, rotten within. Use. 2 But beloved I am persuaded better things of you, & such as accompany salvation. It is our duty to be good abroad, & to show our faith by our good works; we have no cause to be ashamed of goodness, it is the Queen's glory, lest Christ be ashamed of us, our good works must shine before men, that they may glorify our father in heaven, but let us take heed we do not good only to be seen of men: Pray, fast, give alms with other duties of piety to God & charity to man in public with the whole Church, but forget not to do these at home, for remember, the King's daughter is all glorious within, not excluding her glory without, including her glory within, for she is both: & as I shown before, universally glorious in all parts, so sincerely glorious in all places, at all times, but indeed more glorious within then without. When she is abroad, she sometimes forbears to show forth her glory, to avoid suspicion of vain glory & hypocrisy, but when she comes home, & enters into her chamber, where none but God sees her, she unmaskes her face, lays open her beauty & casts abroad all the brightness of her glory, in pouring out her soul with more freedom & zeal in her prayers & other glorious good duties, to make amends for that restraint in public. Psa. 39 1. 2. The King her father, the King her husband sees her in secret, beholds her carriage, hears her prayers & putts her tears in a bottle, will reward her openly & bring forth her righteousness as the c Ps. 37. 6. light; And when all vain glorious hypocrites relying on their outward devotions, shallbe cast out into outward darkness where is weeping & gnashing of teeth, then shall the King's daughter who is all glorious within, be received within the kingdom of glory & d Mat. 13. 43 shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of her father. Consider what hath been said, & the Lord give you understanding in all things.