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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01562	Practique theories: or, Votiue speculations vpon Abrahams entertainment of the three angels Sarah, and Hagars contention. Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah. Iohn Baptists natiuity or birth decollation or beheading. S. Peters calling. confession. denyall. repentance. vpon Sauls cruely. Pauls conuersion. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11690; ESTC S118745	112,147	433

Act. 22.20 I stood by and consented to his death But By-standers may be accessory to the same fault and offence Nor yet yeelds the man as he sayes but helpes to doe mischiefe For not to forbid sinne is to further it Either was his degree aboue the office of an Executioner or his age was vnder it yet if he may not be a Partner in euill will he be a Witnesse yea and a Witnesse of the witnesses Act. 7.58 The Witnesses layd downe their cloathes at a yong mans feet named Saul No Age is innocent there is an euill peculiar to euery Age. The Childe vaine the Youth riotous the Man euery way iniurious and the Old-man alway couetous According to which common course of Age and Euill who would not haue thought the Young man should haue beene reioycing in his youth When he is now enuying the truth In stead of being vaine in pleasures he is violent in persecution H● is ● monster of sin● 〈…〉 more ill then old A very prodigie of iniquity is it when our sinnes doe forestall our yeares Is there not force enough in a yong man● hand to cast a stone at a Martyr there is malice enough in his heart to hold their cloathes that cast them What gaine soeuer they get hereby hee 'le looke they they haue no losse Hee is willing to stand still and keepe their cloathes that they might the rather busie themselues to cast with more frequency and greater violence To haue an hand in all their cruelties so held he all their cloathes Had all hands there stoned Steuen but Sauls yet his heart stoned him with them all Saul so stones Steuen in all their hands as if his owne hands onely were not enough to stone him and does him farre more violence by stirring vp others then if himselfe had stoned him Pilats hands were somewhat cleaner from the bloud of Christ then Sauls of Steuen Hee but yeelded to what he vrged Nay I guesse Saul not much freer from Steuens then Iezabel from Naboths stoning Iustice hath well learned to measure and repay action with intention accordingly Whether hands shall I iudge the cleaner These are actually imbrued Those keepe a loofe off yet either by command counsell consent or concealement are polluted I take consent in anothers euill especially to bee worse then the commission For as much as to commit euill is but to execute it to consent vnto it is to approoue it For thee Steuen thou man of passions and patience a Deacon thou wast the least in order yet art thou of Disciples the first in Passion a Master in Martyrdome though not a Disciple in Degree Hast thou lost thy bloud for him that shed his owne for thee it was recompenced ere rendred Expires the Witnesse vnder a shower of stones so did the Sauiour within a hedge of thornes Not a stone cast at thee deare Saint fals to the ground The coursest flint in thy Crosse is a pretious gemme in thy Crowne Prayedst thou so for thine enemies loe they returne into thine owne bosome Yea and O the effectuall feruent prayer of a faithfull man hence is it that Saul now thy foe becomes afterward Paul thy fellow Seruant That he that was once a Persecutor and against thee on earth is now a partner with thee in heauen His stones but sent thee from earth to heauen thy prayers brought him to an heauen vpon earth Great pitty had it beene the Church should haue wanted his Person or thy Prayers Another would haue now neglected his friends yet prayest thou for thine enemies There is no charity to that of Christians who are taught to loue their enemies to blesse them that curse them to doe good to them that hate them to pray for them that persecute them And of all Christians no charity to that of Martyrs which haue so willingly and chearefully both done and suffered as they haue beene taught Thou breathest milde words for them while they breake hard stones against thee Why prayest thou so for Persecutors but as irkeing their impieties more then thine owne sufferings grieuing rather for their sinnes wounding their owne soules then their stones thy body Rest now patient soule in the Lord from all thy labours Thy momentany bitternesse is eternally seasoned and sweetened vnto thee As thy Name importeth so thy soule inioyeth Martyrdomes most blessed Crowne That I were but worthy to suffer any thing for the Name of the Lord Iesus It shall be my prayer howeuer according to diuine wisedome be the euent Lord let me dye the death of the righteous and with their meed may my last end bee repayed The bloud of Abel cryed for vengeance vpon Caine So had the bloud of Steuen opened as wide a mouth against Saul but that the bloud of Christ spake better things for Saul then the bloud of Steuen Yea and farre vnlike to Abels the very Martyrs bloud cryed not so fast for iustice against them as did his mouth for mercy vpon them Lord Act. 7.60 lay not this sinne to their charge If Steuen amonst the rest had not here prayed for Saul the Church sayes one might haue wanted a Paul Rather then the Church shall want vs Lord let vs not want the prayers of the Church Heare me my God for my Brother heare my Brother for me heare vs one for another heare vs all for Christ Saul was so well fleshed in the gore of Christs Protomartyr that by this time hee is become a mighty hunter before the Lord. The flesh of St●uen yet stickes in this Wolfes teeth Nor is it the d●uouring and sharing the life of one silly Lambe can satiate the bloudy appetite of this one greedy Wolfe Nay that hee got a snatch at one sheepe makes him bolder euen to seize vpon the whole Flocke His hands are scarce either dry or cold from the dye of luke-warme bloud and yet it seemes oh sinfull insatiacy the bloud of Steuen doth but water his mouth to a full carouse in the bloud of Saints Why Saul was it not enough for thee to yeeld to destroy a Saint but dost thou also seeke to dissolue a communion of Saints Could neither the consideration of the miracles he did nor the words he spake nor yet the prayers hee made admonish thee how thou didst further meddle with his Fellowes Alas alas no consideration can once forbid an vnconuerted heart from sinning or make it forbeare againe to sinne Sinne if at the first time it may but creepe on to consent the next time such is the vnhappy growth of this ill weede it makes bold to runne on to commission and after that euen to iteration He who erewhiles would scarce seeme to lay hands on a single Saint now stickes not to make hauocke of an whole Church Saul was but potentially agreeing to the death of Steuen but in the hauocke of the Church is personally imployed Of a Spectatour formerly he is now become an Actour and is so much the worse as he acts his