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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68609	Certaine sermons preached by Iohn Prideaux, rector of Exeter Colledge, his Maiestie's professor in divinity in Oxford, and chaplaine in ordinary; Sermons. Selected sermons	Prideaux, John, 1578-1650.	1636 (1636)	STC 20345; ESTC S115233	325,201	634

more famous then that for goodnes and Integrity And in what haue wee read in succeeding age of the like abominations Who more proud then some of their Popes and Cardinalls and who more stupidly deboisht then some of their Friers Anachorites Few haue generally more learning then the Iesuits and commonly few more Ignorance then their common Masse Priests Their Cleargy and Monkes must not marry to avoid pollution yet concubines and somewhat worse shall finde Advocates to plead for them and Indulgences to allow them A Nunnery and a stewes the silent Carthusian with the Capuchine an frollick Iacobine the Neat Iesuit and the nasty Franciscan shall finde a ioynt entertainement in the large lappe of Mother Church The Souldier shall haue his sword the Melancholy his Cell the Superstitious his Beades and bayre cloath the dissolute his pardon and absolutions the incestuous his dispensation the Scholler his Library and the Ambitious his preferment Every humour shall be pleased to giue all content that all may speake for them So that I may well conclude as the Oratour did of Catiline Cic. pro Coelio There had never beene that advantage gotten vpon the Common-wealth of Rome as it then stood Nisi tot vitiorum tanta immunitas quibusdam facilitatis patientiae radicibus niteretur And so it was impossible that the Pride incroaching and Tyranny of the Pope and his Complices should haue put the Church of God to such a plunge but that they masked all their villanies with a varnish of devotion and humility 6 But this is not that humility which the Apostle makes the groundworke for true exaltation The Prophet David advanced from a sheephooke to a scepter hits right vpon it Lord I am not high minded Psal 131. I haue no proud lookes I doe not exercise my selfe in great matters which are too high for me but I refraine my soule aad keepe it low as a child that is weaned from his mother yea my soule is even as a weaned child Such a child our Saviour set in the midst of his disciples Math. 18. that contended for superiority and lesson'd them vpon it Mat. 18. Verily I say vnto you except ye be converted and become as litle children ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven S. Augustine discussing the poynt why simple people in primitiue times were more forward to receiue Christianity then the learned Phylosophers renders this for the apparant reason Quia Christus humilis Illi autem superbi Because Christ was humble and meek but they supercilious and presumptuous This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Basil termes it haughty and contemptuous carriage in Augustine the Monke Epist 10. when he came to treat with our playner Brittish Bishops Bed Eccles Hist l. 2. c. 2. breakes off all Christian communication betweene them to the great distraction and almost destruction of the poore Church in this I le And I pray God the like causelesse strangenesse and statelinesse of some so different from Apostolicall humility to their meaner and weaker brethren haue not made more Schismatiques and as we call them Puritans then all the vantages that could bee evertaken against gainst the sacred order of our Reverend Bishops or any part of our Church-discipline or ceremonies Tell yee the daughter of Sion Behold thy King commeth vnto thee meeke and sitting vpon an Asse Zach. 9.9 but now most of this meeke Kings followers will stomacke to be so meanly mounted Pride makes vs ashamed of our humble Masters lowlinesse we like well of the promised Crowne but shunne the burden and yoke that leads vnto it Enter wee would willingly into the heavenly mansions but had loth striue and stoope to contract our selues and bow at the streight gate But alas Beloued what finde we in our selves to make vs proud or obserue in others that we should much envy or despise them Our roote taynted our birth lamentable all the dayes of our Pilgrimage few and evill not assured so much of any thing as of infinite vncertaintyes Those that haue most may quickly part with it and those that know most vnderstand not their own ignorance we forget that which is past stagger at the present and ambiguously expect that which is to come What a presumption therefore is it to talke of merits supererrogation naturall abilityes to doe all or more then is required or the like No Beloued our approches to Gods tribunall must be by humble Petition with feare and trembling in regard of our owne vnworthinesse Abraham hath taught the way Gen. 18. Behold now I haue taken vpon me to speake vnto the Lord which am but dust and ashes Come let vs worship and fall downe kneele before the Lord our maker Iacob treads the same path O God of my father Abraham God of my father Isaac I am not worthy of all thy mercyes and all the truth Gen. 32. which thou hast shewen vnto thy servant Deut. 26. Moses hath a forme for it A Syrian ready to perish was my father and he went downe into Egypt and soiourning there with a few there was evill intreated thence was with a mighty hand deliuered now brings vnto thee O Lord the first fruits 2 Sam. 15. which thou hast given me David most Pathetically practised it in his flight from Absolon If I shall finde favour in the eyes of the Lord thus and thus will he doe as it there followes But if hee say thus I haue no delight in David behold here I am fiat voluntas tua let him doe to me as it seemeth good vnto him Such bruised reedes such smoaking flaxe such broken and contrite hearts Humbling and prostrating and begging and by such meanes offring violence to the kingdome of Heaven the bowells of the tender compassion of the most highest will not breake quench or despise But shew his strength in their weaknesse by extending his mighty hand which assureth the Patrones ability in the next place to be considered 7 Humble your selues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As it abateth our presumption to finde our selues vnderlings so the mighty hand of God must needes make vs confident This Might appeareth in a twofold manner first in plucking downe those who proudly exalt themselues next in exalting the humble against all oppositions Whence God is said by some to haue two hands the one to depresse the other to lift vp Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezar felt the first and the Church distressed by them the second The Bush may bee on fire but consumeth not the heat of the furnace seaven fold augmented yet sindgeth not the vpper garments of the children cast into it whom the mighty hand of God protecteth Whence we may safely gather that God hath inough in store to guard and supply all suiters to their full content To make this good vnto vs who are too much bent by nature to dote vpon our owne plots and to distrust any