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A vvord of comfort. Or A discourse concerning the late lamentable accident of the fall of a roome, at a Catholike sermon, in the Black-friars at London, wherwith about fourscore persons were oppressed. Written for the comfort of Catholiks, and information of Protestants, by I.R. p
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Floyd, John, 1572-1649.
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nequam omne debitum dimisi tibi c. Superbia crudelitate impulsus Osiand Epitom hist fol. 30 Qui manet in charitate in Deo manet 1. Io. 4.16 Qui non diligit manet in morre 1. Io. 3.15 Valerius Max. l. 4. c. 4. Daniel 12. ◠for that was the subiect his sermon preching the Precept of charity perswading his deuout Auditours to loue their enemyes to forgiue iniuryes to roote reuenge and rancour cleane out of their hart From the eyes of one sparkled fire of anger and Martiall fury not to be quenched but with the bloud of his enemyes From the eyes of the other sprunge teares of Deuotion and Piety which by Sympathy caused waters of Contrition in the harts of his hearers which flowing out at their eyes might serue as a second Baptisme to wash their soules pure in that moment of dissolution and death Is there any man so voyd of Christianity that will not preferre this death in charity and therfore in God before that death of hatred and reuenge and therfore a death not of body only but euen of soule Oh that the Spirit of God with the gale of his aspiring Grace would driue away the cloudes of human sorrow that ouer-whelme the harts of flesh and bloud that pure Christian Fayth shining in her proper brightnes might giue sentence of the quality of this accident Then we would not soe much pitty as enuy such happy passages out of this life nor tearme them disastrous but rather if I may so speake Astruous deaths For that I may apply the wordes of a prophane Authour vnto a true subiect Non ita homines ex spirant sed Astra sedes suas repetunt These be deaths by which men fall not to the ground but STARRES returne vnto their heauenly home those starres I meane wherof Daniel sayth They that informe men vnto righteousnes shall shine as STARRES in the firmament for all eternity Certainly his body fell not so fast to the ground but his soule flew vp as fast vnto heauen like the Doue into Noe his Arke with the branch of Oliue the Word of Peace and Charity in mouth King Euander in the vntimely death of his only sonne tooke comfort to consider he dyed in a glorious enterprize of human friendship in the conducting of his exiled friends into theit promised Country of rest professing that he would euer ioy in the memory of that heroicall death Ducentem in Latium Teucros cecidisse iuuabit What greater or more glorious endeauour of Diuine Charity then to guide soules made to Gods image into the felicity of their cecestiall Country that is the blissefull vision of the face of their Creatour Seing it was Gods holy pleasure to take them out of the world whose longer liues in our iudgment would haue byn beneficiall vnto his Church though we cannot but feele their immature death yet we cannot also but ioy in this happy circumstance therof that they dyed in the exercise of the highest act of Christian Mercy that their last breath was in calling men vnto God most blessedly spent that the sweat of death they felt was no other but the sweat of burning charity towardes God and man Ducentem ad caelos animas cecidisse iuuabit Here we may with reason take into our mouth King Dauid his funerall songe in prayse of Abner As the slouthfull vse to dy thou didst not dye O Abner 2. Reg. 2.3 not groning breathing forth thy soule and spirit in bed but thundering and breathing forth Gods holy Word and spirit in pulpit Thyne handes were not bound but still mouing in charitable deedes so long as they had motion of life Thy feete were not put into fetters but free and that of them particularly the Prophet may seeme to haue spoken Isa 52.7 How beautifull are the feete of him that doth preach Peace that doth denounce the best things For what thing better then charity loue as men fall before the sonnes of iniquity so thou fallest a Martyr in the sight of God his Angels though the persecutor appeared not in the sight of men What shall I say more I will conclude with the words of our Sauiour Matth. 24.45 so proper to set forth the happines of this death as I shall not need to adde so much as a word by way of application Who is the faythfull and prudent seruant whom his Lord hath put ouer his family to giue them MEATE in tyme Non in pane sed in VERBO Blessed that seruant whom his Master coming shall finde SO DOING Verily I say vnto you he will place him ouer all his goodes Protestants that were present at this Sermon defended SOme vrge this accident as a iudgment of Gods vengeance not so much agaynst Catholikes as agaynst Protestants that hauing preachers of their owne would resort vnto this Catholike Sermon whom I will refell briefly not by way of Rhetoricall discourse but by way of Syllogisme prouing by their owne principles these fower ensuing propositions vnanswerably The first Proposition Protestants by the Law of God may heare Catholike Sermons THis is proued Because Protestants may heare the Ministers of Gods holy Worde that haue Diuine Order Diuine calling Diuine Commission to preach it For whom may they heare if they may not heare them whom God appoynts But the Priests of the Roman Church haue Diuine Order Diuine Calling Diuine Cōmission to preach Gods holy Word as now Protestants euē Luther did who sayth The Papists haue the TRVE office of Preaching In Papatu est VERVM prudicandi officiū Luth. cōt Anabapt Mason his booke of this argument acknowledge with full consent yea they pretend and contend to haue a Diuine Order Calling and Commission to preach and administer Sacramēts by the Tradition of our Church from handes of Catholike Bishops originally from the Pope Therfore Protestants by the law of God may heare the Sermons of Catholike Priests at the least with the same prouiso wherwith they heare their own to approue what they find to agree with Scripture and reproue what they find preached agaynst it The second Proposition Protestants should rather heare Catholike Sermons then Puritan THis is proued Because wisedome teacheth that in doubtfull Questions we choose the surest side specially in affayres that concerne the euerlasting saluation of our soules Wherfore in this question whether Catholik or Puritā Preachers are to be heard we must rather choose the certainest part But that Catholike Priests are the Ministers of God endued with Diuine Order and authority to preach his Word and consequently the Men who by Diuine Ordination are to be heard is most sure and certayne because all agree therin in so much as Protestāts as I sayd chaleng their Orders from the Roman that if the Roman ordination be not currant M. Bridges defence of the Gouern pag. 1276. much lesse can theirs be currant as sayth the Protestant Bishop of Oxford If the Roman Priests be not Ministers then