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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96073	A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq;	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656	120,565	278

do good and to suffer evil for so doing Alas Alas it is not grace but perverse nature that byasses men to varnish over their rotten posts with the gold and azure of the Sanctuary Holinesse loves not the periodiques how intentions and anon remissions of Zeal It loves not salutations of Markets not the highest Seats at Feasts not the Title of Rabbi not the shouts of popular madnesse 't is delighted in converse with and likenesse to God 'T is counting its glory from its stripes above measure its imprisonments its labours its watchings its fastings and is cleared up to be what it is by its purenesse knowledge long-suffering kindenesse by the holy Ghost and by love unfeigned 2 Cor. 6. 5 6. How do the Primitive times upbraid us who yet boast that Christ is more set up now then ever while never any age gave greater Testimony to self-admiration then this doth The Apostolike Counsell was Let every one prefer another before himself Now Christians think of nothing but their own advantage Nemo eorum coelum putat nemo jusjurandum servat nemo Jovem pluris facit sed omnes apertis oculos bona sua computant When Cardinal Caraffa a man of a strict life and humble diet comes to be Pope then no dyet would serve his turn but that befitted a Prince no ordinary solemnity at his Coronation but an unusuall pomp must be expressed then his way is in all actions to keep his degree with magnificense and to appear stately and sumptuou● then the humble Priests words are That he was above all Princes that he would not have any Prince his Companion but all Subjects under his feet O Prelate Oblivious of the Masters Mandate It shall not be so amougst you O Mortall prodigiously elated and hellishly intumour'd by worldly ambition to a contempt of those whom thou oughtest to honour O Antichristian Monster that thus confrontest thy Lord whose Vicar thou pretendest to be but yet wilt be loftier then was he who took bread and fish not only before but also after his resurrection Joh. 21. 13 14 and who washed his Disciples seet when thou countest Princes worthy only to be thy Footstool whom God hath elected to power and place inferiour only to himself How unfit art thon to rule the Church of Christ who knowest not the mean of Self-Government How unlike is thy tongue to be infallible which hath deceived thee in this over-valuation of thy self But thanks be to God though Paul the 4 th be such a spirit yet all Popes affected not that vanity 'T is said of Adrian the 6 th That he was never so taken with the Popedom but he preferred a private life above it Gregory the great would not be called Vniversall Bishop Cel●stine was loth to come from his Wildernesse and when he was forced to Rome was thought for his humility unfit to stay there and therefore retired again to his solitude Marcellus the second would not change his Name l●st the world should conclude honours had changed him Groperus Coloniensis refused the Cardinals Cap and would not from the favor of Paul the 4 th receive either the Title or Ornaments When I see men in holy Orders greedy after prefermeuts ravelling out their lives in progging after great Friends and Fortunes as if godlinesse were a Bustrophe a course of going forward and backward to the right and left hand for advantage sake I think of that Speech of the Lord Bardolf to Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury made Chancellor to K. John Sir quoth he If you would well consider the dignity and honour of your calling you would not yeeld to suffer this yoak of bondage to be laid on your shoulders and for my part it shall be ever my judgment to shun seekers of preferment of men least worthy for and least fitted to them Fides integra non manet ubi magnitudo quaestuum spectatur In the time of King Rufus there was an Abbots place void and two Monks of the Covent went to the Court resolving to bid largely for it The King perceiving their covetise looked about his Privy-Chamber and there espied a private Monk that came to bear the other two Company whom eyeing he guessed a more sober and pious man The King calling him asked him What he would give to be made Abbot of the Abby Nothing Sir quoth he for I entred into this Profession of meer zeal to the end that I might more quietly serve God in purity and holinesse of conversation Saist thou so Replied the King Then thou art he that art worthy to govern the House Honest men cannot with Marcus Arethusius do the least evil to gain advantage nay to save life dare not flatter as did Teridates when he came to Nero as to his God and worshiped him as he did the Sun for a petty Crown under him No they are contented to be in their stations and to walk before God in the light of their own Candle to keep within the warrantable Circle of their Vocation and if they see dangerous honours pursue them they fly it and wish in Davids words That they had the wings of a Dove that they might fly away and be at rest Thus did holy Moses disable himself being willing to be excused from rule Exod. 3. 11. God will send Moses and Moses cries Lord who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring forth the Children of Israel out of Egypt God tels him He will be with him It matters not much how weak the Instrument be which God employs on his Embassies since power goes along to perfect weaknesse Moses demurs yet Nature will have a Miracle ere it resigns its doubtings Whom shall I say hath sent me What is thy Name v. 14. God gives answer that He by whom Pharaoh is and is King of Egypt sends thee I AM THAT I AM sends thee O but my Lord What if the Egyptians will not beleeve me upon my bare word cap. 4. v. 1. God tels him he shall go provided the rod in his hand shall become miraculous and his Call to that Office appear divine from the signs that God gives of his extraordinary power his Rod turns into a Serpent and returns into a Rod again v. 3. His hand put into his bosome whole becomes leprous and put into his bosome again returns perfect and sound flesh v. 6. 7. And if these two miraculous indigitations of Gods powre prevail not then a third is appointed for Moses to convince them by Take of the water of the River and pour it upon the dry Land and it shall become bloud upon the dry Land v. 9 One wonld think now Moses is at a Non-plus Modesty ought not to diffide it self where God by miracle affists and by Election witnesseth sufficiency but nothing will satisfie Moses but self-disablement O Lord cries he I am not eloquent neither heretofore nor since thou hast spoken to thy Servant but I am

profit or pleasure No marvell though they think so well of themselves who dare as did Alexander command their own deificacations in dayes of their Triumphs with Octavius remove the statues of the Nations god Not only weep upon view of the Image of one that lived before and had been conquerour beyond him but also dream I and have the confidence to tell the dream that he had committed a rape upon his mother as did Julius Caesar which the standers by interpreted to portend his Empire over the world or to disown manhood and to profess openly Ira Dei ego sum orbis vastitas as that Eastern Temires said of himself These I say may not be wondered at But for Christians who beleeve in a crucified Saviour and expect a Kingdom not made with hands but eternall in the Heavens for them to take such bye pathes and forsake the way of Christ Jesus who bids us strive to enter in at the narrow gate and decline the broad way which leads to destruction is much my wonder For as Gregory Nazianzen piously writes Let Thrones Princedomes Greatness Riches Fortunes adiew as vild and contemptible glories and theatrique follies which perform nothing of what they promise it is the Christians part to make Gods word his delight and to study communion with God as that which can only and lastingly make him happy c. for Christianity is no abrodiaeton wherein is professed pleasure and delicacy but mortification and self-deniall Yet not so strange as true for there have no greater practiques of sensuall pollicy been acted by any then Christians in name and in profession such Pope Alexander warres against the French and rather then that warre should not be followed invites the Turk to his ayd and consents that the money gathered in Spain for a Crociata against the Infidels should be imployed against the French Coesar Borgia maligned his brother bastard the Duke of Candy because he was corrival with him in his Mistris and for that their common father Pope Alexander the 6 th had bestowed great dignity on the Duke hereupon Borgia caused him to be murthered one night as he rode thorow the streets of Rome and after to be cast into Tyber The same Borgia desired a match with the Daughter of Frederick King of Naples and to have in dower with her the Principality of Taranto not by that alliance to strengthen the Interest of declining Frederick but that thereby he might be the better able to justle him out and distress him Mauregat the 7 th King of Oivedo and Leons about the year after Christ 383 that he might hold his Kingdom under the Moors who had invassail'd all made himself a Tributary to Abdiramis their King in Spain and though he were a Christian yet consented to a Tribute uuworthy any Christian namely to yeeld him yearly 50 Damsels of Noble extract and linage and as many other meaner mens daughters and them to send him as a present to his lust Nicholaus Catalusius Prince of Mytelene turned Turk to gain the favour of Mahomet the Great and save his life after he was circumcised Mahomet caused him to be apprehended and put to death Henry the second of France burned many Protestants upon pretence of heresie and in favour of true Religion as was said but untruly for it was but to fill the purse of Diana Valentina the Kings Mistris of pleasure to whom he had given the confiscation of all goods for heresie throughout his Dominions Vladislaus King of Hungary concluded a very noble peace with Amurath and swore to it with very great solemnity yet afterupon pretensions of very great disadvantage to the Christians by that peace and by solicitations of Cardinal Julian he broke it most barbarously and was well paid for his faedifragousness in the loss of the battell of Varna When the Turk in Charls the 5 th his time invades Transilvania on the one side and Ferdinand Arch-Duke of Austria puts hard for it on the other side promising to keep it for the young sonne of John Vayode George Martinaccio Bishop of Veradino a man of excellent wisdom and great reputation in that countrey willing to keep it in freedom and being unable to wage warre both with the Turk and Arch-Duke at one time adhered to the Arch-Duke which the Austrians knew would effect their purpose they to oblige the good Bishop promised a Pension of 80000 Crowns and the Emperour obtained of the Pope a Cardinals Cap for him but when the Anstrians discovered that nothing wrought with Martinaccio to prefer the house of Austria above his native countrey some of the Arch-Dukes ministers had command to murther him and they did 10 and the bruit was that he held Intelligence with the Turk whenas good man he had nothing but honour and honesty in his eye and they blood in their hearts and on their hands But these are but pettytoes to the great Goliah Richlieu the late French Cardinall against whom the blood of many cries but in chief that of Monsieur Le Thou the famous Historian and most accurate Scholer whose memoriall published in the names of all the grandees of Europe remembers great dishonour to his once Eminence The words as I finde them in a notable Author are these Sub fortunatissimo Rege nuper malis artibus fascinato ob Reginae filiorum parentis jura summo studio contra nefarios ausus secundum regni leges adserta ob expetitam regalis familiae dignitatem libertatemque Franciscum Augustum Thuanum magnis adhuc in juventa virtutibus illustrem Baestia sevissima de Arena saphistica Latro Cardinalis Hostis senatus Pestis Patriae dedecus Ecclesiae per Tyrannicae potestatis satellites subornata judicio trucidavit Omnes Europâ tota Optimates praestantissimi Thuani desiderio maestissimt posuere I forbear his projects on both the Queen-Mothers let S t Germine blazon them though methinks one hath already fully done it in these few words Reginae matris beneficiis ditatus curis prometus potestate potentior factus illam gratiâ regis libertate bonis Galliâ demùm exulem Coloniae vita privavit ne mortuae parceret supr●mas ejus voluntates rescendi insepultum cadaver per quinque menses post quos ipse extinctus est incubiculo relinqui voluit Thus my Author But I enlarge not this nor do I call to memory the deaths of Memorancy and many others of which he is said to have been notoriously guilty that exquisite revenge on Puyleaurens gives an essay of the man and tells us he was none of those that did aperto vivere voto No marvell though a man of those tricks were termed seculi sui tormèntum non ornamentum He must needs be covetous of glory who was not ashamed to boast in print Volui fidelitatem necessariam esse non liberum docui obedientiam caecam atque in hâc parte penè religiosos volui esse