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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19372	Foure sermons whereof two, preached at two assizes, this present yeare, 1638. at Maidestone in Kent, the other two, in his own charge. By Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1639 (1639)	STC 58; ESTC S100378	53,626	193

9. flesh is weake and hee is never angry if yee follow him as deare children in workes of imitable mercy Onely know this is Gods Salvis prietate justitia rule that mercy must never bee shewed but when piety and justice can bee kept safe and sound Thus doe and yee shall this day be Iephtahs appealing to the Lord the Judge to judge betwixt the children of Israel and the children of Ammon And that yee may doe thus the Lord the Judge grant unto you who lookes upon no man in his person all men in their cause and hath made himselfe to you a patterne of executing justice and mercy and that for IESVS CHRIST his sake who is the Lambe of mount Sion the Saviour the Lion of the tribe of Iudah the Iudge and is angry with them that honour not the father kisse not the Sonne and grieve resist quench and despise the Spirit to the which coessentiall coeternall and coequall Trinity bee all kingdome power and glory henceforth and for ever Amen NATURES ASSIZE OR A SERMON ON MATH 7. 12. Therefore all things whatsoever yee would that men should doe to you doe ye even so to them for this is the law and the Prophets RIght Honorable Right worshipfull and beloved the last time I presented unto you the Assize of God and now I shall if God please lay before you the Assize of nature if both shall meete in Gods rule example and your imitation ye can not faile in the work of the day All scriptures are good and fit to make perfect yet have 2 Tim. 3. 17. they an accidentall difference as instruments of musick Some like Iacobs hasel rods Greg. Mar are partly pilled and partly covered some like Ahabs Heb. 5. house of Ivory are without a covering Some are like milke some like stronger meate Some are so cleare that the 2 Pet. 1. 19. 2 Cor. 3. day-starre ariseth with them in our hearts and some are darke through the vaile upon 1 Cor. 15. our minds As one starre differeth from another in glory yet are all heavenly bodies so is it with the scriptures some are large in handling weighty matters same bind up much in a word This heere is of the playner sort as all highly necessaries are So cleare that he is blind that sees it not so emphaticall that hee is an adamant that is not mooved so short that a snaile hath more blood then Plus habet limax sanguinis quam ille sensus hee hath sense that receives not much in a little Yet must you suffer a little more then a word of exhortation to convey unto your soules that little which I can commend from them They containe a sure rule of justice but every word must be scanned to bring it to the practise even of a willing people The very first word therefore 1 Therefore what it concludes is not without a knot for it may be asked upon what it is inferred Some thinke it to referre to the justice in the chapters foregoing but this Quest conclusion would be too farre separated from the premises by the God of order Some thinke it to bee redundant as many elegancies in the Scriptures are But certainely it is Answer not in vaine It is of good use and a note of an excellent conclusion to be for ever held out of it selfe Nature teacheth it the law and the prophets revive it therefore hold it doe it The last words have a 2 How this is the law and the Prophets greater knot For how can this bee said to bee the law and the prophets seeing they set downe the love of God and the promises of salvation by Christ as well as Iustice to each other Hereupon two questions are disputed in the schooles Quest Whether more then one precept Rom. 13. 9 First whether in the law there be more then one precept yea or no The doubt ariseth thus Saint Paul saith if there be any other commandement it is briefely comprehended in this thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe And Christ saith heere doe as you would bee done unto for this is the law and the prophets therefore it seemes there is but one But Answer seeing the Apostles mentioneth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 2. 15. Aquin. 1a 2 ae q. 99. Art 1. one law of many commandements it is resolved thus that there is but one precept with the respect to the full end charity but there are more with reference to the meanes subservient to it Secondly hence it is asked Quest Whether there be a connexion of all vertues Iam. 2. 10. whether there be such a connexion of vertues that where one is in truth there are all the rest This doubt ariseth from two texts too Saint Iames saith whosoever shall keepe the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all If it bee thus in breach it is thus in complement For there is but one body of legall justice either to doe or sinne against And Christ saith here that to Io. de corb com theol lib. 5. c. 8. doe as we would be done unto is the law and the prophets If justice to men bee the law and the prophets then surely where that is in truth all that they require is by way of concatenation and chayning Wall Eth Arist Majores extravitia quàm intravirtutes together This question is expounded to be understood of perfect and gratuitous vertues which are by infusion not of such as are acquired by industry Of these it is said of the grave moralists of old that they are greater in being without vice then in being within the lists of true vertues Of those there are some that are more noble then others and therefore are they called the mothers of vertue Thus Faith is the mother of vertue in originall Matres virtutum 1 Origine 2 Educatione for out of the acts of faith these flow Charity in education for it feedes them all with faiths provisions humility in conservation for they being raked up in her ashes are kept alive and prudence 3 Conservatione 4 Regimine in government for it she doe not order them all they are not carried without a blemish Though these have thus their due glory yet where one is in truth there are all the rest in linke Some subtile doctors goe against Scotistae this being overswayed as they thinke enough by experience But though of the shadowes of vertues this be true yea and this bee as true of true vertues that some are more conspicuous then others by humane aptnesse fitnesse of the instrument office time and occasions yet Answer it is better resolved affirmatively The subject requires it a vertuous man who can not bee at one time good and bad happy and unhappy which yet he could be if hee had some vertues and wanted others Gods bounty requires it which gives not one vertue to fit receivers without the