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A05417	Two sermons one preached at Paules Crosse December 20. By Roger Lea Master of Arts, of Iesus-Colledge in Cambridge: and preacher at S. Leonards Shorditch, in Middlesex, by London. Another preached in Paules-Church, Decemb. 26, being S. Steuens day, by Iohn Squire, Master of Arts, of the same Colledge: and preacher of the same parish	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.; Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653. Sermon preached in Pauls church upon Saint Stevens fay. 1618. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 15569; ESTC S103084	38,824	74

shall shortly follow mine as it is in the 〈◊〉 Psalme Thou bringest our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told Let our endeauors then concurre that we may profit by the worke and enioy that end in the beginning of the text Then commeth the end c. So may the word of God appeare perfect for the law of God is a perfect law conuerting the soule in the seauenth verse of the forenamed Psalme that which is perfect may make perfect shewing in it selfe a sound perfection because it workes in vs a sincere conuersion These words may be taken as an argument of the resurrection among sundry other reasons that I omit because of abundance of matter herein conteined For Christ must be an absolute king to honour and aduance his subiects into glory by raising them vp into life eternall and confounding his aduersaries the last whereof is death And as it augmenteth the glory of a king to reigne a long time to make a manifest and a large declaration of his power in sundry ages and much variety so Christ doth not on the suddaine end the world but deferres his accomplishment thereof til he hath raigned a certaine time To put all his enemies vnder his feete Secondly these words are for comfort If any should be ouer hasty to leaue this life to come to that better kingdome here S. Paul seemeth to giue a reason of Christs long tarrying we must not expect our end before our Lord appoints it but continue in the field and keepe our rankes against the enemies vnder our captaine till he end the warre and bring vs to a place of rest Because as Caluin saith Non est consentaneum medio stadio nos coronari We must not enioy our crowne before we runne our race but as constant runners hold out till we come at the iournies end We may deuide these two verses in the words of Aquinus here is first adaptio boni the performing of good remotio mali the remoouing of euill Both here by Christ are wrought as a patterne to all rulers that for the time they are in office their conscience may tell them this good haue I done and this euill haue I represt For he that will hurt none and doe good to none but thinkes it good sleeping in a whole skin and the safest course not to meddle carrieth a resolution not worthy the minde of a superiour but by our Sauiours example hee must hazard and put forth himselfe So in the 24. verse hee sets by the good Then shall be the end when he shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to the Father And in the 15. verse expels the bad He must reigne till he hath put all his enemies vnder his seete And as Anchises gaue counsell to his sonne in the which the Romans seemed to bragge for executing the precept Parcere subiectis debellare superbos Aenec 6. To spare the subiects and to pull downe the proude The first is practised here in the 24. verse parcere subiectis To spare or rather to honour the subiects Then shall be the end when he shall haue deliuered the kingdome to the Father and the second is expressed in the 25. verse there he pulls downe the proude He must reigne till hee hath put all his enemies vnder his feete Concerning the verses in themselues seuerally considered In the 24. verse consider first an end of the old world Then shall be the end the estate of the new world he shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to the Father and the manner of gouernment without degrees of secular power by God immediately He shall put downe all rul and all authority and power In the 25. consider The kingdome and the conquest the kingdome he must reigne the Conquest till he hath put all enemies vnder his feete In the last consider the parties vanquished his enemies and their miserable ouerthrow discomfiture vnder his feete They are put vnder feete In the first place we haue the last estate of all the world to consider Then commeth the end In euery businesse the last issue must bee first concluded as in running a race we first agree of the end to which the swift motion of the course must aime and approach In shooting the marke and scope it first set vp Therefore it is obserued that practicall sciences must be handled per methodum analiticam ● fine admedia We first set downe the end and then the meanes that leadeth to the end Of ends there are two sorts first an end of destruction and secondly an end of accomplishment when a thing is finished The one is a bad end the other a good by the one a thing is ended that is to say consumed by the other a businesse or worke is ended that is it is perfected In this place Beza vnderstands the latter the world shall be ended that is it shall be perfected But to speake properly we may vnderstand both For an accomplishment cannot bee without the destruction of some thing Generatio vnius est corruptio alterius when a new thing is formed the old thing must be altered according to the 36. verse of this chapter That which thou sowest is not quickned except it die Briefely then of these two ends in order First the world and the inhabitants and all things that we enioy must haue an end they must be destroyed and consumed Euery thing that seemeth most strong and beautifull must in the end vanish and fall away The cause of this is sinne for when things are in their height they abuse their time they beare not themselues aright in the middest of their glory the gifts of God are abused and therefore he plagues the earth and destroyes the world men are the abusers and therefore that time which giueth them leaue to sin bringeth them likewise to an end and burieth them in a common destruction This is the nature of sinne it is still a destroyer God did threaten Adam in paradise at the first with moriendo morieris in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death And euer since where sinne hath bin committed with a stubborne hand God hath punished with destruction and desolation Euen from hence must euery one confesse that he is a sinner because he carrieth a body subiect to corruption and in time death shal sease vpon him When as the Lord did see that the wickednesse of man was great vpon the earth before the flood hee brought that deluge to ouer-flow the world that the waters might breake the heart and strength of the earth that mens liues might be shortned by the putrefaction of the Elements and so weakenesse bee brought vpon the world We may see it by examples Noe liued 950. yeares Terah the father of Abraham liued but 205. yeares and Ioseph that was in a neere generation in the descending line from Terah died at the age of an hundred and ten in the 50. of Genesis and the last verse So the

being the hand the other the mouth of Christ In the world his prouidence extendeth to a falling sparrow and hee will iudge the Gentiles by the creatures in the first to the Romanes But two principall parts doe set out his spirituall regiment His word which comprehendeth the lawes and statutes by which his kingdome must be ordered and the Sacraments that are his oathe of allegiance to sweare his subiects to fidelitie I can not now stand vpon all Onely I will instance is his word for the same will make vs subiects as beeing the chiefe triall of our obedience For the word of God is the iudge and rule of euery word and deede The chiefe rule a man hath within himselfe is his conscience therefore as the conscience is so is the man a good conscience will doe well a large conscience will swallow all a scrupulous conscience is troublesome with nice curiositie Here may then appeare the supremacie of Gods word that whereas the conscience doth rule the man Gods word doth rule and command the conscience For our waies are framed according to our minde and our minde is framed by aduice Christ hath so large a dominion in mens hearts that he ruleth the minds of the most vnruly in the 110. Psalme the second verse Be the ruler in the middest of thine enemies Hee will make the conscience a mans executioner where it can not be a perswader When wicked men doe reiect God by their blasphemous thoughts or will doubt of the life to come because these spirituall things are inuisible yet there will arise a secret thought beyond that which reacheth the Atheist and maketh him to stoope and yeild against his will They that contemne or regard not the Lord will giue testimonie in swearing by his name to shew that he is the iudge of their speeches by him their asseuerations must win credit so they confound themselues Euery Papist will pretend Christ the Turkes speake honourably of him And the Gothes did spare the Christians that fled to the temples for succour when Rome was destroyed a thing vnheard of in other places for among Pagans they burnt and destroyed both Gods and temples as S. Austen obserueth in the first booke De Ciuitate Dei and second chapter Thus doth our Lord rule among his enemies a most large power Earthly Monarches bee their might neuer so boundlesse are kept within their owne precincts and Illa se iactet in aula is all they haue Their power is confined to their owne territories but he who made all ruleth all and that man who is against him he will make turne against himselfe with the sting of conscience Let our consciences therefore entertaine him peaceably otherwise hee will let loose his mastiue dogge to torment vs when he seeth time The conscience of an euill man in this life is like a dogge tyed vp now it pulleth and onely barketh And as a dogge may bee stilled with words or gifts so worldly pleasure and merry company will make quiet the troublesome noise of an vrged conscience But when a man is loosed from the bonds of his flesh and seeth where hee stands that which did barke before will bite then and teare the hard and hardy sinner Alwaies therefore let vs honour and obey his word We haue his kingdome in abundance This place wherein we liue I may truly call in this respect the Chamber of the King suffer him therefore to win you to subdue you by his edicts and proclamations in this place Let this crosse crucifie sinne that he may vanquish vnder his signe as Constantine did Maxentius It is written of him that going once to fight a banner was seene in the ayre hauing a crosse with this writing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In this thou shalt ouercome So yeild your obedient hearts that we may be victorious for our master and not smite the ayre when we should smite your sinne our endeauour we doe but this victory is in the Lords hand When I doe but consider the many combates in this place so much preaching against transgression I can not but say nihil supra scarce can any thing be spoken that is not spoken labourers haue beene so exquisite that a new speaker may double at the first vpon what subiect his thoughts may fasten Sometimes here doe spring bitter hearbes to cure the corrupt diseases and to expell the spirituall pestilences out of this citie Carrie not then so daintie stomacks as to die in sinne rather then take the potion or like children to leaue wormewood and regard the tooth-somnesse rather then wholesomnesse of the hearbe Here ariseth a starre to guide wise men to our Sauiour when the errours of Poperie and other falsehoods are confuted Which light should so guide the learner that the continuall diligent hearers might be furnished with abilitie to controll a Papist or to foile an aduersarie in an ordinarie point if that Mammon the pleasures and distractions of this life did not possesse their hearts that no man almost will goe beyond his profession but leaue learning for those who teach it Although in iudging and censures they flie quite out of compasse Here are administred words of comfort in due season for weake mindes to preuent despaire in not following common corruption Bee not so hard as to scorne and neglect them like the flint to send out the fire of reproch in stead of hearts mollified with grace to receiue impression Thus doe we endeauour that God might rule the best way that you might yeild rather then stand out But I feare we speed as Pompey against Mithridates who often did conquer him in the field neuerthelesse he returned againe with a new armie as if he had gained by the fall In the like manner we are heard and our sayings passe for current Yet whole swarmes and armies of offences doe continue The Lord may complaine of hearing as he did with the Israelites in the three and thirtie chapter of Ezechiel verse 31. They say come I pray you and heare the word that commeth from the Lord and they come vnto thee as the people vseth to come and my people sit before thee and heare thy words but they will not doe them for with their mouth they shew much loue but their heart goeth after their couetousnesse And loe thou art vnto them as a louely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well vpon an instrument for they heare thy words but they doe them not The verie fashion of our times men come to heare sermons as they heare musicke to delight the eare to see a mans skill to passe their censure and there is an end These humours must know this musicke will raise vp a iarring sound in the conscience insteed of a melodious harmonie and will make them sing a sad note at their dying day If Gods word bee a kingdome it must worke vpon the heart There it must subdue a rebell and renew that part of the old man that lurketh