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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05193	Two sermons The first preached at St Maries in Oxford Iuly 13. 1634. being Act-Sunday. The second, in the cathedrall church of Sarum, at the visitation of the most Reverend Father in God William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, May 23. 1634. By Thomas Laurence Dr of Divinity, and late Fellow of Allsoules Colledge, and chaplaine to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Laurence, Thomas, 1598-1657.	1635 (1635)	STC 15328; ESTC S108386	42,208	80

nō intelligetis that I must belieue before I vnderstand though I vnderstand that I cānot know thee thou hast told me this by the meanest of thy creatures by the spider I see this screw himselfe vp by a thread which I cannot see I wonder how so many ells of bread so much tiffany should bee piled vp in so little a shop that this miracle of nature should spin courtaines for a large window out of a bottome no bigger then a pins head and thou hast told me this by the vilest of thy creatures by my selfe 't is beyond my guesse to say how joy dilates my heart how sorrow contracts it how pride swels and envy wasts mee by what way I remember or dreame how feare should infect my cheekes with palenesse and shame should dye them with red and seeing I vnderstand not what I see how shall I thinke to see what I cannot vnderstand Thou art ô God a center without a circumference and a line without an extremity and a breadth without bounds and a depth without bottome and an originall which cannot be coppied and a beauty which cannot be drawn and a way which is not known and a light which is not seene He that sets me vpō a farther discovery may as well advise me to ramme the earth into a musket or empt the sea into a violl or weight he fire or measure the winde or recall a day that 's gone as the Angell bad Esdras to inclose the world in my hand or comprehend the Heavens with my span It may suffice that this God is a light and because so great a light therefore of vs not seene that this darknesse is no darknesse to him because he vnderstands what we cannot that he hates not the modesty of ignorance but the tympany of knowledge and although there be no darknesse in him he may bee in it the condition of this limitation and my last generall 5 God was especially with Moses here which is essentially every where as my soule is diffused through every fraction of my body which yet principally resides in my heart and what an honour was it for the Priest to be company for God That presence consecrated this cloud and this consecration caused that reverentiall distance that supple adoration of the people for as the chaire of State and court is where is the King so where God is there is a Propitiatory and an Altar Wee are therefore no more idolatrous by our prostration towards the table of the Lord then the Iewes were by theirs towards the Tabernacle of the Lord towards the cloud in the desert here or the mercy seate in the Temple because wee doe it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as that Constantinopolitane Councell speakes vpon another occasion to God which is there not to a similitude of God which is not there and our faith points at Heaven while our eyes are fixt on the Altar nor know I any which applaude that base damnable metaphor that resemblance of this to a dresser but such as stumble in a levell not because the rode of the Church is vneven I. P. but because their discretion is lame such as would feigne slay their beasts and set on their crocks againe in the courts of the Lord as the Iewes once did or lay their Saviour in a cratch by translating his Chappels into stables 2 God was in a cloud and in a showre mists and thunderings and tempests there were Heb. 12.18 c. 19.16 and seldome these without raine for ever since the spirit of God moued on those waters the spirit of God hath beene moved by these waters because the Lord forgives my transgressions by blotting them out saith the Prophet what my impenitency hath written being wiped out by my teares and is then most affected with the wounds of my soule when they bleede at my eyes but Lord what Libertines are wee growne to the severity of elder times fiue yeeres pennance for consulting witches seaven yeeres for adultery ten yeeres for voluntary abortion twenty yeeres for some offences in the Ancyrane counsell c. 19.20.23 con Nic. c. 12. during life for others and 't is to be feared we are out if they were in for why should it be thought such a prodigie to see man in a dew when God was so often in a cloud c. 19.9.18 Heb. 12.18 3. God was in a showre and in a fire in a fire to shew he can be enflamed in a showre to shew this flame may be quenched in a fire against presumption and in a showre against despaire for hee never inflicts a wound before hee provides a remedy draws not a sword which he rebates not first proclaimes not war before he profers conditions of peace and is therefore vsually deciphered in Scripture by his justice and his mercy together nor meane I to divorce those attributes the Holy Ghost hath married by making him all mercy to my selfe 1. Cor. 3.9 Rom. 15.26 all justice to others every hearer is a building and every teacher is a builder saith the Holy Ghost and he shall meddle with no house of mine that throwes downe my walls because they want pointing that cannot repaire Exod. 4.3.4 and mend vnlesse he ruine and destroy for I can with Moses endure a rod though I flee from a Serpent God was in a fire and in a darknesse to shew c. 19.18 c. 20.18 Heb. 12.18 Dan. 3.49 Secund. vulg ed Io. 10.22 that as there was a fire without heate so there may bee a fire without light and such is the fire of that Land of darknesse ignis sine luce fluvius a darknesse wherein they shall see nothing that can comfort and yet wherein they shall see any thing that may torment them God comming here at the giuing of the Law as he will come against the transgressors of the Law in flames to punish but no light to refresh them so that vision in Bede so our Saviour shewes § L. 3. c. 19. goe yee cursed into outer darknesse Math. 8.12 and yet goe yee cursed into everlasting fire too in the fiue and twentieth of that Gospell at the one and fortieth verse 5 God was in a darknesse and a thicke darknesse too demaunding thereby what a madnesse it is from that omniscient God which is in the thickest darknesse to hide in the darke or present this sinfull flesh in the arreare of plushes and tishues for impotent man to embroider and bespangle himselfe with the orient brightnesse of firmament and starres whereas that omnipotent God was apparelled with the gloominesse of a cloud Shall the creature arrogate more glory then the Creator or this shadow then that Sunne Must I that am all vilenesse expose the luxury of my pride to the ostentation of a publique view and my God that is all glory hide in a shade Must the Lord of light bury himselfe in darknesse And these sonnes of darknesse sparkle in the light shall