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A collection of sermons ... together with Notes upon Jonah / by Thomas Fuller.; Sermons. Selections
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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Corruption that it hindreth the spirituall breathing of all our affections Yet God is pleased to take our Widows Mite of Sorrow in good worth knowing it proceds from poverty yea which is more Heaven can smile to see a sinner grieve that he cannot grieve for his sins and God is pleased to see him squeeze the bottles of his eyes though he can wring no moisture out of them Twist these severall Cords together into one Cable of comfort which tied to the Anchor of hope will keep the pensive soule from sinking in despaire though he cannot weep so bitterly for his sinnes as he doth for outward afflictions 19. However seeing it is the bounden duty of all to endeavour to sorrow for their sinnes this serves to confute the jollity of this Age. Wherein instead of weeping bitterly we have laughing heartily and quaffing constantly and faring daintily and talking wantonly and lying horribly and swearing hideously and living lazily and dying desperately In those dayes the Lord began to cut Israel short 2 Kings 10. 23. And God now begins to cut England short short in men short in meat short in money short in wealth so that it is to be feared that Great Britain will be Little Britain and remain great onely in her Sins and Sufferings And is this a time for men to lengthen themselves when God doth shorten them Is this a time for people to affect fond fashions when it is to be feared we shall be all brought into the same fashion of Ruine and Desolation A strange People who can dance at so dolefull musique as the Passing-bell of a Church and Common-wealth Take heed Atheisme knocks at the doore of the hearts of all men and where Luxury is the Porter it will be let in Let not the multiplicity of so many Religions as are now on foot make you carelesse to have any but carefull to have the best 20. O Beloved take the Fruit though you should throw away the Basket though you should slight the Preacher embrace his Counsel Think not that Christ will call each of you immediately from Heaven as he did Saul Saul why perscutest thou me or that with S. Austin you shall here a voice saying to you tolle lege take up thy book and read or that with St. Peter before wee repent the cock must literally crow and Christ Corporally look upon us Every reproofe of the Preacher is the crowing of the Cock every check in your Conscience is the crowing of the Cock every spectacle of Mortality presented before you every affliction inflicted upon you every motion to Repentance arising within you is the crowing of the Cock These you must listen to and obey And yet we read of the Sybarites a luxurious people in Graecia who that they might better enjoy their case and quiet commanded that no Cocks should be kept in their City that so they might sleep the more soundly not having their heads troubled with the proclamations of those Heraulds of the Morning So I am afraid there be some that could wish that there were no more Preachers in England then at one time there were smiths in Israell no Cocks to crow no wayes to waken them out of the sleep of their carnall security 21. But I hope better things of you and such as accompany salvation Neitherneed I to use any other motive to incite you to spirituall sorrow then the very words of our Saviour Mat. 5. 4. Blessed are those that mourn for they shall be comforted Peter was comforted afterwards yea he had an expresse of Comfort dispatch'd and addressed to him in particular Mark 16. 7. But goe your way and tell his Disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Gallilee 22. Yea all Gods Saints shall taste of spirituall comfort As Joshua when he entred to Jericho was carefull to spare her house at whose window the Red Lace did hang out so God will be carefull to preserve such at whose windows at whose eyes Rednesse made by their mourning as a signe of their sorrow doth appeare and at the last day as it is Isaiah 25. 8. The Lord God will wipe away teares from all their faces The Papists have a tale that as our Saviour sweated with carrying his Crosse a worthy woman one Veronica met him and gave him a handkerchief therewith to wipe his face Which ragge they say still remaines at Rome fit therein to wrap up the rest of their Apocraphal Traditions Grant it a tale that this Saint gave a handkerchief to him it is a truth that he will give one to every good Saint to take away their teares and he will wipe the face of that Magdalen who wiped his feet 23. It is reported of Aristotle that great Philosopher that being unable to unriddle that mystery of nature the motion of the Sea impatient of his ignorance he wilfully drowned himselfe in that water which Posed him with these words Quid ego non capio te tu capias me because I cannot conceive thee thou shalt containe me no little foolish deed of a great carnall wise man But seeing that the happinesse Heaven mounteth so High that it cannot enter into the heart of man to conceive it let us labour so to live here that in due time going hence we may enter into those Joyes which cannot enter into us and be received by that Blisse which cannot be conceived by our braine Where amongst many other worthy Saints we shall meet with S. Peter though not in the Pensive posture wherein we find him my Text then Singing sweetly who in my Text went out and wept bitterly Amen FINIS THE BEST ACT OF OBLIVION ECCLES 12. 1 Remember now thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth LONDON Printed for JOHN STAFFORD at Fleet-bridge 1655. The best Act of Oblivion PSAL. 25. 7. Remember not Lord the sins of my youth IN these foure Psalmes which immediately follow one another we may find the soul of David presented in all the several postures of Piety lying standing sitting kneeling In the 22. Psal he is lying all along falling flat on 's face low groveling on the ground even almost entring into a degree of dispaire Speaking of himselfe in the History of Christ in the Mystery My God my God why hast thou forsaken me 2. In the three and twentieth Psalme he standing and through Gods favour in despite of his foes trampling and triumphing over all opposition The Lord is my sheepherd therefore shall I lack nothing 3. In the 24 Psalme he is sitting like a Doctor in his Chaire or a Professor in his place reading a Lecture of Divinity and describing the Character of that man how he must be accomplished who shall ascend into the holy hill and hereafter be partaker of happinesse 4. In this 25 Psalme he is kneeling with hands and voice lifted up to God and on these two hinges the whole Psalm turneth the one is a hearty beseeching of Gods mercy the other a humble bemoaning of his own