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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

common plague when no man may safely conuerse with these but the Physicions to cure them nor any with those but graue and wise men to drawe them vnto goodnesse by their good counsel Ouer the arke of the Lord in the tabernacle there were purtrayed cherubins they had their faces and wings looking and pointing one toward an other but all of them toward the arke of testimony So euery one must ayme at an other by their loue but all of them at the Lord they must loue in the Lord and euer maintaine that true loue knot of the communion of Saints And heere for the vse of this doctrine I can not passe ouer a triple caueat which is meete to bee giuen to three sorts of men the first simple men the second men of wandring conceits the third selfe conceited Simple are they who vpon a consideration that all the World is vvicked do sequester themselues from the World affecting a Monasticall life forgetting that God in the Nonage of the World sayd It was not good for man to be alone auoyding perhaps some occasions of doing hurt but forgoing without doubt all meanes of doing good And heere you haue the pedigree of Eremites whose liues were led vnder a bushell whereas both life and doctrine should haue beene on a candlesticke they euer quarrelled with humane society like candles turned downewarde choaking the flame of themselues with the oyle of themselues themselues by their owne peeuishnesse damming vp the light that the world might haue been the better for and so retyring themselues from all occasions of intercourse in their dul iudgements become Antipodes and tread opposite vnto the world their liues are a continuall rowing against the stream and their own houses may seem to deserue the names the inscriptions of their sepulchers S. Francis was one that left the society of men and conuersed with beasts and birds and so much ioyed in solitarinesse a priuate life that the Papists take him to be a man that trāsgressed no one iot of the lawe and therfore they haue compyled hymnes and songs in praise of him as though he had had a maiden soule free from sin yet for all these boastings no question but he al their dearlings were men and had their affections they found many mutinies and rebellions in their little Common-wealths A secōd sort of men ther be who think they cānot sufficiently mingle themselues with euil cōpany at home therfore they affect trauailing abroade that hauing trafficke with forraine countries they may borrow the sinnes of other nations God I confesse hath inriched seueral countries with seuerall commodities that no countrey being absolute of it selfe euery country should craue helpe of an other So the wisedome of God hath decreed that the need of euery countrey should occasion loue among all countries Hence doth arise the necessity of the Marchants trade which triumpheth as a Queene in this honorable City and makes it like vnto Tyrus Esay 23. hauing the riches of the riuer to be a reuenew vnto it her marchants as the Nobles of the world Yet in my opinion the trauelles of manie young gentlemen are more ordinary then beneficiall I do not censure all much lesse condemn them for I know the vse thereof hath beene and may bee behoouefull to our common mother yet many I knowe like Dina the daughter of Iacob haue lost their virginity by going abroad and haue returned home impure and our countrey which in former ages was plaine and downe-right they haue made like Arras full of strange formes and colours hauing in it twisted and wouen the fashions of all countries that are inhabited as though the fowre windes had conspired to blowe their chaffe and their feathers their dust among vs and make a dunghill of our countrey They imbrue their minds in the impieties and sucke vp the infections of other countries and returning home with stomakes fully charged they vomit their poyson in their mothers lap they practice in England what they haue vnhappily learned abroad Salomons outlandish women brought in outlandish religion and conditions and so much estated themselues in the bosom of the king that they drew him and his people to idolatry The same Salomon sent his Embassadours into strange countries for gold and siluer and iuorie So they went ouer and brought them withall they brought apes and peacockes I feare it is the case of many whose friends send them abroad to learn knowledge experience wherby they may better the church and common-wealth which perhaps they leaue behinde and bring home onely the apes and peacockes I meane proude and phantasticall conditions Else what meanes this reuolution of fashions when men that should be meer English are not themselues but compounded men Spanish Dutch Italian and what not I would therefore in the bowells of Christ exhort all you young Gentlemen that intend this course of trauelling that you would striue to bring home not the apes and peacockes but the gold and siluer and iuory viz. that learning and those manners that are pretious so shall you make a sauing voyage vnto your owne soules and gaine that good experience whereby your countrey shall be inriched A third sort of people there bee who pretend such an abhorring of euill company that they looke asquint disdainefully vpon all men as being not holy enough to conuerse with themselues They are so teasty that they quarrell with the orders of the Church reputing them as olde haire which superstition hath shaken off They are Brownists and Barowists peace-breakers of the Church though our countrey now bee not much molested with them yet for the diuisions of Ruben there haue beene great thoughts of heart It is with our soules while wee liue in these houses of clay as with men while they liue in houses neyther can they enioy the full benefit of the sunne but both light and heate is abated neither can our soules of the Sun of righteousnesse there is found such imperfection both in the warmth of loue and in the light of vnderstanding Though the Prophet reproued them that sayde one vnto an other I am holyer then thou Though Christ sayd that tares will growe among the wheate vntill the baruest Though Saint Paul sayth that If we will depart quite from the wicked wee must depart out of the world Yet for all this the Brownists the Barrowists hold opinion that we of the Church of England are not true members of the Church nor our Church the true Church of God because stained say they with irrelligion and impiety The varnish of their owne hypocrisie deludes them so that they make loue vnto themselues and grow amorous of their owne vertues which they drawe farre beyond the staple that of it they may weaue vnto themselues a garment of righteousnesse What could the Pharisie haue done more vvho pleaded his ovvne merite saying I fast