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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

where art thou De quibus bonis de qua beatitudine de qua gratia in quam miseriam cecidisti From how many good things blessings and graces into what misery hast thou fallen Non tam interrogatio quam increpatio est it was not so much an interrogation as an increpation Sometimes God vseth to speake by his secret inspiration 2. Kin. 20.4 as to Isaiah 2 Ki. 2. Sometimes by his Angells who speake by voyce onely as to Christ there came a voyce from heauen Ioh. 12. or by vision internall Ioh. 12.28 Ge. 28.12 Ge. 18.1.4 as the ladder that Iacob saw in his dreame Ge. 28. externall in humane shape as to Abraham Ge. 18. By other Creatures either without sense as by fire in the bush to Moses or hauing sense as the Angell spake in Balaams Asse Here because writing remaineth when the voice periseth an Epistle is sent vnto Ephesus teaching the art of the happiest memory whose obiects are good things once practised omitted euill things committed Repentance must follow and doing the first workes Repent and doe the first workes A Spirit of slumber was fallen vpon Ephesus as heauy as that of Adam when he lost his rib or of Isbosheth when hee lost his head The case stood betwixt Christ and Ephesus as betwixt a louing sonne and his sicke father who labouring with a lethargie The Phisitian tels the son that his fathers immoderate desire of sleepe is mortall therefore hee must nor suffer him to slumber The sonne seeing his father heauy pulsat vellicat pietate molestus est hee knocketh pulleth and so seemes to be troublesome but it is because hee loueth him Aug. ho. 11. quinque hom ser 60. do verbis Domini inter se comp AEgrotat humanum genus saith Austin All Mankind is sicke of sinne amongst these Ephesus Christ Iesus the great Phisition cryeth out Awake thou that sleepest open thine eyes that thou sleepe not in death it is now time to arise and repent and doe the first workes Either the Pastors seeing their preaching take little effect grew negligent as Hugo Cardinalis supposeth the fault or they were not so liberall to the poore saith Arethas or wee may vnderstand it with Rich. de S. Victore of all faults now to be amended for Christ will beare no longer hee is impatient of any further delayes and therefore threateneth or else I will come vnto thee quickly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Originall is I will come to thee shortly so the vulgar Latine giueth it to this sense Venio tibi words taken in good part His going forth is prepared as the morning and hee shall come vnto vs as the raine as the latter and former raine vnto the earth Os 6. so Zac. 9. Reioyce greatly O daughter of Sion O● 6.3 Zac. 9.9 shout O daughter of Ierusalem Behold thy King commeth vnto thee But heere it signifieth a iudgement and therefore is rendred by Beza in these wordes veniam aduersum te cito I will come against thee quickly and his comming is for reuenge And will remoue thy Candlestick out of his place The Church shall neuer be vtterly destroyed but for sinne the Gospell is often remoued Merito patietur vltorem Aug. de verb. Dom. se 12. qui noluit audire praeceptorem If men will not heare Gods precepts they must beare his punishments Thus loue is violent and Foelix illa necessitas quae ad meltora compellit Aug. Ep. 45. it is a blessed necessity which enforceth vs to vertue God who forbeareth a long time payeth home at the last by remouing his Church and vpon this the taking away of the Ministry of the Gospell and the profession thereof in stead of truth there must succeed Ignorance Apostacie and Heresie vnlesse repentance and the fruits thereof attend the preaching of the word Remember therefore You see the drift of our wronged Sauiour the sum of the whole is a remembrance vnto Ephesus of a decay in spirituall graces which must be recouered else the meanes of saluation shall be taken away from them Wee may call it a soueraigne remedie against the fearefull sinne of Apostasie or a heauenly qualification of Lawe and Gospell mercie and iudgment or a diuine Remembrancer of al Churches by Ephesus Preacher Iohn an Euangelist Apostle and Prophet whose words which I haue read without racking fall a sunder into two parts 1. A remarkeable meditation for Ephesus Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen repent and doe the first workes 2. A zealous indignation vpon the not practising of this lesson Or else I will come vnto thee quickly and will remoue thy canalesticke out of his place except thou repent The 1. generall part containeth 2. particular circumstances 1. A recollection of time past Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen 2. A Christian resurrection for the time to come And repent and doe the first workes The 2 pointeth out 2. other 1. A speedy visitation Or else I will come vnto thee quickly 2. A terible execution of this commination yet mixed with much compassion And will remoue thy Candlestick out of his place except thou repent The first includeth an accusation of falling deliuered to the memorie The second an inquisition of the former works to keepe from a final Apostasie The third a sudden triall wherein without repentance there must be seuerity The fourth and last the downefall of Religion and pietie Remember Thus Right Honorable Right Worshipfull and blessed Brethren I haue brought you a Text wherein there is not onely Iohn a Sonne of Thunder Mar. 3 17. Act. 4.36 Re. 2.7 If. 51.17 but Barnabas a Sonne of consolation Hee that hath an eare let him heare what the Spirit saith or rather soundeth out for there can be no man vnlesse he haue drunke the dregges of the Cup of slumber but this message must awake him The Temple is opened the lists and land-markes of this holy Land propounded and now come farther to be surueied Let me beseech your Religious and cherefull attention My onely aime shall be the glory of God seruice of the Church discharge of my Conscience and your instruction The solemnity of the time and place required a Passion-Text Repentance is the Passion The Lord grant that it may finde and leaue vs true practisers of it But I must remember to goe backe to the dore of my Text the front and forehead whereof is Remembrance the 1. particular of my 1. generall Remember therfore from whence thou art fallen Amongst all the faculties of the soule there is none which sooner waxeth old then memorie Sins obliquitie hath caused the appetite still to desire yet neuer to be satisfied the affections to denie obedience vnto reason the desire to swell infinite the will is often mad the minde lame the memorie of the best by nature forgetfull and therefore grace must teach vs the art of memorie Man forgetteth himselfe to be man wherevpon the conquering Romans