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scripture_n	act_n	ghost_n	holy_a	3,043	5	5.4653	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09910	A sermon preached in Saint Maries in Oxford, by Thomas Powell. 1613	Powell, Thomas, b. 1579 or 80.	1613 (1613)	STC 20172; ESTC S103161	12,034	21

be commonly a close adherent vnto the letter of the text Morte dignus est sacerdos à quo vox praedicationis nō auditur That priest is worthy to die from whom the voice of preaching is not heard This is a harde saying if peradventure he meane not by preaching any publishing of the truth and so is the word taken in the 8. of Luke at the 39. verse the man out of whom the divels were departed went into his owne house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and he went away preaching through the whole citty how great things Iesus did for him howsoever his meaning is in this I am confident with Bernard Nobis tacere non licet quibus ex officio incumbit peccantes arguere Silence is intollerable in vs who by our office are bound to reproue offenders If you affected multiplicity of language it were easie to paralell this text with many plaine places of scripture but I referre you to the 56. of Esay at the 10. verse and to the second of the Actes where the holy Ghost commeth downe vpon the Apostles in the likenesse of fiery tongues quia omnes quos miserit ardentes pariter loquentes facit because all that are sent of God vpon this message haue their mouthes opened and their tongues fired from heaven And here by your patience we may taxe negligēce in some who although they haue the tong●es of the learned yet they minister no word of comfort to the afflicted They eate of the sacrifices but they minister not at the altar Is not the pastor resembled in scripture to the Oxe which is a symboll of painefulnesse For Theseus marked his coine with the stampe of an Oxe and in so doing as Plutarch recordeth in the life of Theseus hee provoked his cittizens to industrious diligence in their callings Are not the disciples compared to salt which melteth away by seasoning other things And was not Iohn Baptist a burning candle because hee consumed himselfe by giving light to others Secondly this maketh way vnto a iust complaint against the ignorāce of others the first sort want that fidelity the second sort want that wisedome that is required in a good steward who is a faithful and a wise steward si non fuerit fidelis fraudabit si non fuerit prudens fraudabitur The first sort resēble the Estridges that haue wings but they fly not The second sort resemble the lapwings that runne away with some part of the shell vpon their heads The virgin vestals vowed chastity for the space of 30. yeares in the first 10. they learned their duties in the second 10. they did that which they learned in the last 10. they taught yong novices Our course is preposterous we begin at the last here I accuse my selfe in the first place with Ambrose factum est ut prius docere inciperem quam discere I began to teach others before I was taught my selfe And this I may second with the wordes of the Spowse in the Canticles at the 5. verse the sonnes of my mother made me the keeper of the vines but I kept not mine owne vine or with the words of the mellifluous doctor vpon that place ego huius loci occasione meipsum reprehendere soleo quod animarum susceperim curam qui non meam sufficerem custodire I tooke vpon me the cure of soules before I was sufficient to watch over mine owne The breast and the shoulder were appointed vnto the Priests vnder the law not without some misterie because they must haue a breast for counsell and a shoulder to beare the burthen of care for the flock therefore no man dischargeth the part of a good Pastor vnlesse he haue a breast for counsell and a shoulder to beare that heavy burthen By the law of Moses they were vncapable of the Priesthood that had any outward blemishes in their bodyes Levit. 21. 17 18 19 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these are our types these outward deformitis in the body resembled inward imperfectiōs in the soule that make men vncapeable of ministeriall function in the Church vnder the new Testament At vtinam viveres Cato If Cato maior were now living here is matter of laughing for him for now the people of Rome sent forth Embassadours like vnto thē that went into the Realme of Bithinia that haue neither head nor heart nor feet Nemo egregium munus maximum per indignam mittit personam no man sendeth the greatest present of all by the hand of an vnworthy person saith Ambrose vpon the third to the Ephesians and therefore if any send such they haue the greater sinne and yet on the other side if any refuse the sacraments at their hands that haue the outward calling of the Church this is zeale out of his wits Notably doth the hammer of haereticks beat down thesurging pride of the Donatists in this point in his third booke contra Cresconium grammaticum per ministros dispares Dei munus aequale By Minist●rs of vnequall gifts the gift of God is of equall worth The best gifts are to be desired if they may be had yet the want of them nullifieth neither the calling nor the ministeriall actions of the minister St Paul to Timothy requireth many things to the commendable being of a Pastour yet they are not all necessary to his essentiall being Plato draweth forth a Common wealth and Cicero describeth an orator at such a pitch of perfection that no man ever yet saw the like and yet if any inferre this conclusion vpon the premises therefore there was never any true orator c. Every yesterdaies sophister denies readily the sequell And so from the bells I come to the golden bells In a golden bell I note two things matter sound 1 Precio valet 2 Dulce sonat 3 It is precious in estimation 2 The sound is pleasant to the eare Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. He beereth away the golden bell that delivereth a profitable story in a pleasant style Good matter slubbered vp in rude tearmes becommeth loathsome to the hearers and elegancy of words without soundnes of matter is but a nice vanitie To both these the Psalmist hath respect Psal. 45. at the first verse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my heart bubbleth vp a good matter or a good word for dabor tob signifieth both his meaning then as I conceaue him is this my heart inditeth a good matter in good words The lippes of the spouse they are the preacher of the Church droppe downe hony-combes Koheleth as al the other Prophets hath words of delight and Scripture of right words of truth hee matcheth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dibre Kephets words of delight 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dibre Aemeth words of truth together A preacher must haue words of truth hee must not make the pulpit a chaire of falshood and hee