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A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

conclusion Ion. 2.4 a horrible sinne crossing Gods loue which many waters cannot quench neither can the flouds drowne it Cap 8. It crosseth his truth which proclaimeth that if the wicked will turne from all his sins that Cap. 88. hee hath committed and keepe all his statutes and doe that which is lawfull and right he shall surely liue and not dye Ez. 18.21 Ez. 18. His power which is able to subdue our iniquities cast all our sins into the depthes of the sea Mic. 7.19 Mic. 7. His iustice who hath layd vpon Christ the iniquity of vs all Is 53. His mercy Is 53.6 which vpon our returne will abundantly pardon Is 55. A sinne which beeing yeelded vnto in a Melancholique nature Is 55.7 the Diuels forge putteth many bloudy instruments into the hands of a man to destroy himselfe Quid nunc diuitiae quid fului vasta metalli Congeries Claudian Heapes of gold and siluer wife Children friends and pleasures seeme then miserable comforters but the elect yeeld not God forbid they should Here were leaping from the panne into the fire Qui nihil potest sperare desperet nihil Sen. Misericordiae Domini nec mensuras possumus conere nec tempora definire Leo It is an vnlawfull murtherous damnable riot whether it be to preuent bondage as Cato Vticensis because he would not be in subiection to Caesar killed himselfe or Nero being censured of the Senate or when any thing falleth out contrary to expectation as many hoorders vp of corne in dearths seeing plenty or to preuent sinne and shame as Lucretia rauished by Tarquinius or preposterously desiring to tast of happines as Cleombrotus reading Platoes booke of the immortality of the soule or vpon horror of Conscience as Saul and Iudas For death is an enemie and therefore not to be procured The Beasts hurt not themselues and shall men Euery man should be nearest vnto himselfe 1. Co. 15.26 Our life is the guift of God hee onely must resume it It is an iniury to the common wealth the glory whereof is in the multitude of Subiects Patriarks Prophets Apostles Martyrs haue walked another path Ber. de vita solit patiently wayting for a dissolution Ionas was in a dangerous pang yet at last ouercame There is a veruntamen a yet or notwithstanding Tantam absur ditatē in dicando refutasse arbitror Jer. Ep. 54. which as the rudder in the sentence turneth it another way I will looke againe towards thy holy Temple Gods child cannot fall finally or vtterly Gods fauour not depending vpon mans free will but his owne free election whose decrees are vnalterable and guifts without repentance I might shew you here Sathan against Sathan the Iesuits against the Rhemists Viegas words crossing the former glosse Non amisit charitatem sed de charitatis feruore nonnihil remisit Ephesus fell not from charity but was not so hot as before The mention of the Rhemists opinion confuteth it so of their other errours The time would faile me to remember Rome of her great fall in many other particulars Au. l. de vnit Eccl. c. 16. Her miracles being like the wonders of the Donatists in S Augustines times Aut figmenta mendacium hominum aut portenta fallacium spirituum Either fictions of lying men or fantasies of dreaming Deuils Claudius Espencaeus 2. Tim. 4. dig 2● their owne writer confesseth No stable is so full of dung as the Legends full of fables yea fictions are contained in their Portesses They haue fallen from the faith in Miracles Sacramental li. 1. c. 7. p. 30 Their Merits is a doctrine of Pelagianisme saith Waldensis neuer allowed saith iudicious Perkins of the sound professors for a thousand yeares after Christ Romes Cusanus maintaineth Dem● Probl. cir Excit l. 9. that Christs death was onely of abilitie to merit eternall life They haue fallen from the faith in merits So in satisfaction another twig arising from the same roote then which no opinion is more iniurious to the death of Christ wherein it were a shame to speake what Suarez To. 1. disp 4. Durand and other grosser Papists haue discoursed But their Bayus sticketh not to grant that there is but one satisfaction only vnto God euen that of Christ De indulg t. vlt. Let them remember how they haue fallen in satisfaction So in Purgatory worthy of a Satyre which Luther in a frumpe called Stercus humanum Popish Doctors cannot agree among themselues of the fire the torments the subiects the duration the exequutioners the condition of the soules there detained It was vnknowne to the Church 1100. yeares after Christ Their Suarez denieth their greatest argument To. 4. in Th. d. 46. the walking Ghosts of the dead They must remember whence they haue fallen into Purgatorie So in their Inuocation of Saints and number of Mediatours sometime making Christ S. Francis and S. Francis Christ as Turselline I am Franciscus erit qui modo Christus erat A tongue worthy to be cut out of his mouth while he liued as Ierom spake of his Vigilantius Hence came the 7. ceremonies of canonizing to be inscribed in a Calender with redde letters praying erecting Churches Bell. de sanct Beatit l. 1. c. 8 ● Dices ministring the Eucharist and saying Canonicall howers to them and in their honour dedicating holy daies setting vp Images and worshiping their Reliques yet the Saints canonized may be no Saints and the miracles whereupon their canonization is grounded may be false saith their Caietan Others complain Tract de concept et de indulgent they haue worshipped many for Saints in heauen who may be presumed to be tormented with the Diuells in hell They haue fallen in his So in their Transubstantiation going about to ouerthrow the truth of Christs humanity which maketh vs cry out in much passion as Auerroes iested of old Is it possible that Christians should make themselues a God of bread An errour contayning as many absurdities as there haue bene minuts of time from the first forming of it that is from the Councell of Laterane vntill this hower Anno 1215. They haue fallen in their precepts and practise of eqiuuocation and mentall reseruation worse herein then the Diuell The Reu. B. of Salisbury in his Sermon called The old way for hee equiuocated to hide his ignorance of that which he could not reueale these equiuocate to hide their knowledg of that they an and ought to reueale In their King-killing doctrine In their assertions that Dogs Mice and Swine eating their consecrated Host Aq. p. 3. q. 80. art 3. do eate into their bowels the very body and blood of Christ That it is more lawfull for a Priest to commit fornication Coster enchir c. 15. Rota indecis 1. Nu. 3. in Nouiss then to marry a wife That the Popes power is greater then the Apostles And that the Pope may derogate from the Apostles sayings That the

holy Scripture Hosius de expresse verbo Dei as it is aleaged of Catholiques is the word of God but as it is aleaged of Heretiques so they call Protestants is the expresse word of the Diuell Heer is the marke of a reprobate illusion They receiue not the loue of the truth that they might be saued 2. Thess 2.12 therefore they belieue lies that they may be damned 2 Thess 2. I leaue them to God come neerer to our selues Remember c. Vse 1 A Lesson to reproue many prodigall Sinners who runne so long vpon the score of Sathan that they can neuer indure to heare of a reckoning and remembrancer Like Dicaearchus the Philosopher who because it was hard for him to conceiue what the nature or properties of the soule were Tull. Tuse therefore affirmed the soule to be nothing So these because they haue lost the sense and sting of sinne thinke nothing they doe to be sinne though as Austin spake of the drunkard they be all sinne How many are there who think that because they are not as bad as others therfore they are good enough Hence is it that the offers of Gods mercie are so disdainefully entertained and so commonly reiected Men not knowing their owne necessity doe despise the riches of Gods bountie Heb. 10.29 and tread vnder feet the sonne of God Heb. 10. One coloureth a grosse sinne with a tolerable name that so either it may not be seene or may not appeare in its owne likenes calling haughtines magnanimity ignorance innocencie Aug. cons l. 2. c. 6. Sen. ep 45. heresie deepe learning Machiauelianisme pollicie giddinesse zeale furie manhood oppression the making the most of a mans owne Vsury interest or vsage or putting out any thing saue plaine vsurie Another draweth a false conclusion out of Gods mercie and will continue in sinne that grace may abound like the Diuels conclusion to our Sauiour Cast thy selfe downe for the Angels shal beare the vp Mat. 4 6. as if a man should poyson himselfe presuming vpon a counterpoyson or desperately surfeit because he is nere to a Physitian Dauid confessed There is forgiuenes with thee that thou maist be feared Psa 130. Ps 130 4. But these vse it as if it made God neglected Others runne on in all kinds of riot hoping to satisfie for all by some speciall deuotions A deuice by which many worldlings deceiue themselues who hauing by rapine and extortion by grinding the faces of the poore and eating them vp as if they were bread raked much together imagine to remedie all this with God and the world by some largesse to the poore and therfore wil stick at no violent indirect course I pray God I be not now in some of your bosoms that heare me this day S. Austin propoundeth the case thus The Extortioner saith thus vnto me De verb. Apo. ser 21. to 10 I am not like the rich man in the Gospell I feast the poore I send sustenance to the prisoners I cloath the naked I entertaine the strangers to whom he answereth Dare te putas tollere noli et dedisti Thou thinkest thou giuest doe not take away and thou hast giuen Hee reioyceth to whom thou hast giuen but hee weepeth from whom thou hast taken away It is not sufficient to cease from euill but wee must learne to doe good It is not enough to stand still in the path of goodnes but wee must goe on Euery man must examine himselfe search out his owne wants and remember from whence hee is fallen Else if men fall and will not arise if they turne away and will not returne if they slide backe if they repent not of their wickednesse saying what haue we done euery one turning to his course as the horse rusheth into the battaile Their wiues shall be giuen vnto other men and their fields vnto them that shall inherit them Ie. 8.7 Ier. 8. Had I the voyce of more then a man and louder then a Trumpet I would cry vnto all the world as S. Iohn vnto Ephesus Remember from whence thou art fallen Miserrimum est fuisse beatum It is most wofull to haue beene happy O it is a great misery to haue been zealous and now to bee luke-warme to haue put our hands to the Plough and now to looke back to haue a beginning laudable but an end damnable Doth not thy owne soule proclaim thee guilty neither do I but be not deceiued God is not mocked Wee all either goe forward or backward If wee fall back As in the dayes that were before the flood They were eating and drinking marrying and giuing in marriage vntill the day that Noah entred into the Arke Mat. 24.38.39 and knew not vntill the flood came and tooke them all away So shall the comming of the Sonne of man be vnto vs except wee remember from whence wee haue fallen Vse 2 An instruction to vs all to recollect our best thoughts for our forepassed liues Is 1.3 Shall the Oxe know his owner and the Asse his maisters cribb shal the Storke in the heauens know her appointed times and the Turtle and the Craine Ie. 8.7 and the Swallow obserue the time of their comming shall not we consider the passages of our liues Doe wee with Agathocles a Potters sonne made a King carry about vs earthen vessels which may remember vs of our mortality and yet forget death Shall it be with vs as in the time of Simonides who complayned that after the vse of letters was inuented the vertue of memory decayed The more the Gospell is preached and mercy offered shall wee be the more dull Blessed Christian bee not like a painted Tombe guilded without rotten within tipping thy tongue with godlines and filling thy soule with bitternes bearing a bible in thy hand and Mammon in thy heart Remember thy oath in Baptism many vowes and resolutions since If wee haue broke them wee must be answerable vnto God It is not with vs as it was with Fabius Maximus who in prolonging the time stayed assuaged by degrees the fiercenes of Hannibal and by delay deliuered the commonwealth of Rome For God cannot indure delay in heauenly matters O then Now sit downe looke vpon thy life catechise thy selfe as he did Anima quid fecisti hodie O my soule what hast thou done If with Demas wee haue forsaken Paul whom once wee loued 2 Ti. 4.10 and are intangled in the world Let vs remember from whence we haue fallen If with Peter we haue failed in our true seruice vnto Christ let vs remember this word of my Text Remember that this life is but horoe momentum yet in this moment of an hower we saue or loose all O before thy weake dayes come wherein one poore Ague or some other disease shall shake all the frame of the house summe vp thy thoughts words actions before the time come wherein thou must await the heauy doome of the Physitian as