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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10906	A visitation sermon preached at the Lord Archbishops trienniall and ordinary visitation, in St. Margarets in Canterbury, vpon Aprill the fift, 1630. By Francis Rogers, Doctor in Diuinity, and minister of that parish.	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 21176; ESTC S116094	13,546	28

Pope Eugenius This our calling so honorable serueth First to instruct our selues Secondly others For our selues Is this our calling so excellent Then know Generatio optima corruptio pessima The best things corrupted proue the worst for Omnis corruptio est in contrarium all corruption is into the contrary See by the Angels most glorious in their creation most loathsome in their degeneration As I hold none more to bee reuerenced then a good Minister so none more base then one deboshed in his life Thus our Sauiour Yee are the Salt of the earth but if the Salt be vnsauoury it is fit for nothing but to be cast on the dunghill and trod vnder foote Then as we are the light of the world So Our light must shine before others that they seeing our good workes may learne to glorifie our Father which is in Heauen Ille granditer dicit qui non contemptibiliter viuit He preacheth well that doth not liue contemptibly sayth Augustine Among Grammarians he is excellent that can speak well for Grammar is an art of speaking But among Deuines not onely words but workes are required Turpe est doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum Men sayth Lactantius had rather haue good examples then good words for it is easie to speake well but hard to doe well Priests must be verbarij et operarij preaching in doctrine and in life for Ille solom praedicat viua voce qui praedicat vita et voce He only preacheth with a liuely voyce which preacheth with his life and voyce Omnia in sacerdote debent esse vocalia sayth Saint Ierome All things in a Diuine must preach his apparrell must preach his Diet must preach his pleasures must preach all his life must preach 1. Tim. 4.12 Hee must bee an ensample in word in conuersation in spirit in fayth in purenesse Quid Antistes ad dominum nisi pro delictis populi Intercessor eligitur sayth Gregory Why is the Minister chosen but to intercede for the people and to reconcile the people to God And with what confidence dare hee presume to reconcile others to God when himselfe is vnreconciled by his wickednesse Will one enemy reconcile a third person to his vtter enemy Sacerdotis Christios mens manusque concordent The hands the mouth and the minde of the Minister of Christ must agree together sayth Ierome Sic oculos sic ille manus sic ora ferebat A learned Fryer at a Councell complayning of the abuse of the Clergy preaching before the Emperour wished him to begin reformation of the Clergy a minoribus from the inferiour sort of Clergy The Emperour thanked him for his Sermon and sayd He had rather begin a maioribus from the better sort of Clergy So the more eminent a Clergy man the more shining let him bee in vertuous liuing Ministers are like great stones in a building if one stone in the side of this Church fall there will follow a Cart-load of rubbish after So one bad example of a Minister especially of a great one will cause thousands of poore sheepe to fall into the ditch and we must redresse the smallest faults Plutarke reporteth Cymon a iust man was blemished because he dranke wine Pompey the great was esteemed effeminate because he scratched his head with one finger Worthy Scipio was checked because hee was giuen to sleepe much And so moates in Preachers will be iudged beames For as Eccles 10.1 Dead Flies and a Fly is but a small creature cause to stinke and putrifie the Oyntment of the Apothecary So a little folly him that is in estimation for wisedome and glory So wee especially of all men should make vse of the Italian Prouerbe The want of a nayle is the losse of a shoo the losse of a shoo the hurt of an horse the hurt of an horse the death of a Captaine the death of a Captaine the ouerthrow of an Army the ouerthrow of an Army the vtter ruine and desolation of a whole Kingdome There is a Fable That the Axe wanted an helue and comming to a great Wood begged onely so much wood as to make the helue alledging that it would be no hurt to the Wood which was so great and that parcell of wood so small this being granted no soone● was the helue fitted to the Axe but presently the Axe did cut downe the whole Wood. And so take we heede how wee harbour the smallest faults and giue scandall in the least things for time may come that these in the end may grow so big as That euill doome may befall the Church which did in Henry the eyghth his time which God in his mercy preuent Nay to auoyd from scandall wee ought to abstaine euen a licitis from things lawfull For as Erasmus obserueth That which is a vertue in God is oftentimes a sinne in man For example it was infinite mercy in God to forgiue Dauids murder and adultery but it would be a blot in iustice to a King to pardon such a double offence in any subiect So what is commendable in others will be vicious in vs. Therefore Saint Pauls rule is true Though all things are lawfull yet all things are not expedient It was a foule sinne in Balaam to bee both ambitious and auaricious but it was more foule in him so to perseuere that his Asse should bee wiser then himselfe and able to proue him So it is euill in the Clergy to bee sinfull in their conuersation but it is too bad when they grow to such an height as that the asses of this age the simple Artificer and plaine Countreyman shall be able to discerne and condemne him and poynt with the finger saying Ditior hic est there is one which is a lewd Minister one which is scandalous in his conuersation Secondly for the people Is our calling so honourable as to be Gods Ambassadours Then ought yee to reuerence our persons and honour our function He which despiseth you despiseth me but he which receiueth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall haue a Prophets reward But alasse our Gospellers are like the Romanes Saint Augustine speaketh of l. 2. de ciu Dei cap. vlt. They could allow of Playes to be acted in honour of their gods but they esteemed those which acted them to bee most base So wee allow of Prayers preaching c. but these which are set apart for such dueties are esteemed men of the meanest ranke and condition Vnder the Law the Kings would be Prophets and sonnes of Kings would serue at the Altar Nay Christ the Sonne of God tooke vpon him the Office of a Priest in the Church of Rome Dukes Earles and Nobles desire admittance into holy orders But among vs a Gentleman an elder brother a Priest were Rara auis in terris nigroque simillima Cygno you may as soone see a blacke Swan swim downe the riuer nay but for necessity none of a Gentle family and yet were it not for the Priesthood there would be many a hundred