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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65548	Miserere cleri, a sermon, presenting the miseries of the clergy, and assigning their true causes in order to redress preached before the right honourable Sir John Vaughan Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of common pleas, and Sir John Archer Knight, one of the justices of the same court : in the cathedral of Saint Peter, Exon, at the Assizes, on Sunday, July 26, 1688 / by Edw. Wetenhall ...	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1505; ESTC R3625	18,089	31

Miserere Cleri A SERMON PRESENTING THE MISERIES of the CLERGY AND Assigning their true Causes in order to Redress Preached before the Right Honourable Sir John Vaughan Knight Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sir John Archer Knight one of the Justices of the same Court In the Cathedral of Saint Peter Exon at the Assizes on Sunday July 26. 1668. By EDW. WETENHALL one of the Prebendaries of that Church 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the SAVOY Printed by T. N. for James Collins and are to be sold by Abisha Brocas Book-seller in Exon. 1668. To the Right Worshipful JOHN TUCKFIELD Esq Sheriff of the County of Devon SIR WEre it not an unpardonable transgression of Decorum to insinuate any thing I present to you on common inducements I should which most justly I might have used the ordinary style of Dedications and said The Vast Obligations which you have laid upon me require some publick testimony of gratitude and I could never evidence it more properly than by making that yours of which you were an Auditour in so publick a capacity But I had rather the world should know I am ignorant where to find a surer Patron for a Discourse of this subject and that your real Zeal and fidelity to the Ecclesiastical laws order and present constitution renders you first a refuge of the constant and faithful sons of the Church and then of whatsoever speaks such faithfulness Where therefore I am assured of so true affection to the Clergy I cannot doubt but their Miseries will find ●asie Pity and their Mournings Patronage And ●his is the true reason which gives you the Trouble of this Address If there should be any expression in what I hastily meditated as my necessary imploiments at present enforce which should disgust any and create wonder that your name should be used to authorise ●ught so harsh you may be pleased to answer what ●s most true That you knew neither of the Printing nor Dedication hereof till the sight of it surprized you That I am a man presumptuous upon my friends and had the boldness to reckon you one of the chief That I did this for what you know on mine own head and possibly carried away herein by an uncontroleable ambition of publishing my self happy that I can pretend to be Sir Of your servants though the meanest Edw. Wetenhall Exon. Aug. 1. 1668 Miserere Cleri A Sermon preached in the Cathedral of St Peter Exon. on the Assize Sunday July 26. 1668. The Text JEREM. XV. 10. Wo is me my Mother that thou hast born me a Man of strife and contention to the whole earth I have neither lent on Vsury nor have men lent to me on Vsury yet every one of them do curse me PAtience doth not exclude a sense of Misery nor contentedness ever seal up the lips against all complaints There may as well be on some seasons a querulous meekness as a patient grief and the suffering Saints we in Scripture read of have little less obliged mankind by their seeming indulging some eruption of passions which shews us what innocently we may do than by their bounding and temperating such indulgences which teacheth us what we ought to do Truly as it is some comfort in our sadness to see that our elder brethren in our Lords house have been in like condition with us so it cannot but erect and sweetly cheer our sinking minds that we find them when in like condition to have been also of like passions with our selves The Man Moses in his more constant temper was the meekest man on earth yet when surprized by the hateful prospect of his peoples idolatries and revolt in a transport of indignation he broke the Tables which not onely the most sacred Law in them written but the writing of the Almighties own finger had hallowed We have heard too of the Patience of Job who though he never in all his misery charged God foolishly yet after the anguish of seven days and seven nights when his grief was very great and none spake a word unto him then opened his mouth and cursed his day In which though some Modern heads for Ancients never did have been pleased to conceive him to have sinned yet who understand the holy Language know that that cursing which the Original word there used signifies is only a light esteeming vilifying or speaking dishonourably of and who understand Poetry will be apt to think the whole Chapter which is supposed to contein that malediction is onely a Tragick Threnody or lofty lamentation of his unhappy self which not improbably may teach us that Big griefs may be allowed not onely to sigh but to sigh deep as themselves and flow in Language which may seem as swoln as the brests from whence it came Hereof another president we have in the present Prophet if not so innocently Chap. 20. 15. yet in the text surely without any other guilt than that of frailty and humane infelicity His eyes and experience had been sad witnesses of the publike corruption and loosness of the age Divine inspiration had acquainted him of the approaching desolation of Jerusalem and captivity of its in habitants Himself had denounced to them this dreadfu● doom and that he might have prevented it with al● passionateness and instance conjured them to repentance but alas without success He had besides with the utmost profusion of affections and all sensible expressions thereof lamented their imminent calamity wishing his Eyes might run down with tears night and day incessantly using the sweetest terms and styling them the Virgin daughter of his people who were most lewdly idolatrous and meretricious and yet could neither notwithstanding the authority with which he came perswade the people 't was true he said nor with all his tears induce them to think he was concerned touching their certain misery Finally he had with the most efficacious arguments he could imagine pleaded and striven with God for mercy in their behalf and found him as inflexible as them his answer not being onely a denial but a protestation of resolute obstinacie Though Moses and Samuel stood before me saith the Lord yet should not my mind be turned toward them but I would cast them out of my sight And after all this his successlesness both with them and the Almighty the sole reception which all his past pains and present Zeal found was from the people Opposition hatred and revilings and from God further imployment in his thankless and as to him it seemed not onely bootless but vexatious office All which seeing and not apprehending himself on one side or t'other likely to do good being now sadly taught by his own particular experience what Solomon before in general delivered that The day of death is better than the day of birth as unable in silence longer to contein such agonies of anguish he bursts out Wo is me my mother that thou hast born me a son of strife and contention to the