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A39283	The fifth sermon preach'd before the King and Queen in Their Majesties chappel at St. James's upon the feast of S. Francis Sales, Jan. 29, 1685/6 by Ph. Ellis.	Ellis, Philip, 1652-1726.	1686 (1686)	Wing E594; ESTC R24954	9,315	32

of an Arsenius crying to you as the unknown voice did to him si vis salvus esse fuge If you wou'd be saved flie into Solitude and hide your self in the covert of a Rock you wou'd think I deserve that desert whether I invite you But while my Saint commands me to tell you that your estate is not desperate tho' it be dangerous and that the Lilly may florish among Thorns that you may be Innocent in the midst of Corruption why do you abandon your selves as those that have no hope If I shou'd propose to the Ladies a Paula melting in a continual stream of Tears a Magdalen in her Grott a Mary of Aegypt feeding upon Roots a Francisca covered with Sack-cloth and add to it hoc fac vives this you must do to be Saved I shou'd turn this Chappel into a valley of Tophet the Preachers voice wou'd be drown'd with execrations upon his head and acts of despair wou'd eccho from every Breast But while my Saint commands me to set before your Eyes a Philothea nobly Born St. Franc. Sales directs all his Instructions in the Book of the Introduction to a Devout life to every pious Soul under the name of Philothea nicely Bred easie and gentle in her Behaviour neither scrupling a decency in Cloaths nor in Attendance allowing her self an inoffensive cheerfulness in Discourse and other Recreations not unbecoming either her Sex or Condition and all this without any prejudice to her Innocence reflection upon her Reputation or impediment to her Sanctity what colour of excuse is left you to cover that of your Confusion Why are you not merry without dissolution affable without effrontery gentile without profuseness Such was Philothea She allows you Visits and Recreations but not at the expence of your Innocence She allows you a good Table but not that your Neighbours fame shou'd be the Salt to every Meat and every thing tast insipid which do's not relish of the Satyr Philothea did not so Why do you corrupt your lawful Diversions into criminal excesses your Apparel into a subject of Vanity and occasion of Scandal and turn those Riches into Ostentation which ought to be hid in the bosom of the poor if you wou'd either preserve your Innocence redeem your offences or perfect your Sanctity And this was the Practise of Philothea In a word decebat ut talis esset so sitting and even so necessary was it to all states and conditions that when Vice began to establish his Throne upon the ruins of Piety when Relaxation Invaded the Rights and Usurped the Title of Religion when Vertue was Pictured like a fury with Scourges in her Hands and was as much apprehended as she was before neglected so fitting and even so necessary I say it was the Divine providence should shew such a Bishop to the World whose Authority might convince an incredulous Generation and whose Example might encourage the weak whose meekness might soften the most obdurate whose advices might strengthen the languishing hand and inspire the dejected heart and in fine whose pathetick Exhortations might melt down the Heart of stone and fetch Waters out of the hardest Rock when he teaches us both by Word and Example that the way to Heaven is neither so craggy nor so steep as the discent of Hell that you may climb the one with less pains then plunge down the other that there are pleasures attending Innocence to which the most indulged Appetites can never arrive that Vertue has more Charms then Vice that Sanctity is but high Reason and when you live like Gentlemen you commence Saints For what can be so reasonable as to live soberly justly and piously in this World What more gentile What more sordid and base then the contrary Vices Yet in these Three Heads our Saint after St. Paul summs up all your Obligations renders them familiar by his Practice and softens them in his instructions Here the Bishop learns how to support with ease the formidable burthen of his charge the Ecclesiastick to perform the Duties of his Character the Religious to maintain the Innocence of his Life and the Secular Man experiences the facility of Vertue The Great and the Rich are taught the advantage of their condition by having the power to do good to others a Godlike capacity The Virgin is instructed how to secure that great Treasure an Angelical purity The Married Person has methods laid down how to extract Antidotes out of Poyson and as Fish live in salt-Salt-water without drawing the Brine so to converse in the great Sea of the World without taking in either its Vanities or Corruption If you be a Man i. e. St. Francis Sales's admirable treatise of the Love of God you have a Theotimus for your Pattern a Philothea if you be a Woman if you aspire to perfection what better guide can you chuse then his love of God which rises every line till it lose both the Reader and it self in an Ocean of Charity till it plant the imitator in the Third Heaven If you cannot follow so great a flight despond not you have his Introduction to a Devout life so accommodated to all Capacities and Conditions that we may without Impiety apply to it what St. Gregory said of the holy Scripture ubi agnus ambulat Elephas natat where the Lamb walks and the Elephant swims the more simple Reader is satisfied and the more elevated understanding is transported If you are unsettled in matters of Religion read his Triumph of the Cross and you will sit down abundantly contented and more than sufficiently convinced If the care of others be committed to you what so moving as his Sermons What so persuasive as his Instructions Smooth as the profound current perspicuous as the shallow resembling the Nile flowing with sweetness and faecundity but comparable only to themselves If you want spiritual comfort or advice let his Entertainments and Letters be your Counsel which solve every emergent difficulty dispel every scruple satisfie your doubts and set the most perplext cases in the clearest light To conclude as out of the abundance of the Heart the Mouth speaketh so out of the Innocence and Sanctity of his Life he Copied his Instructions His Writings are his Obelisk his own Panegyrick and if you imitate they are yours too if you desire to imitate they are most excellent directions but if you will not they are your Sentence and Condemnation For is it not as much your duty to embrace Innocence and to press forward to Sanctity Is it not as much your Interest Have you not the same Capacity the same Encouragements and Assistance Do you want either Liberty or Grace Neither Do you want Knowledge or Instruction You cannot pretend it But if you want Will and Application who can you blame but your selves Perditio tua ex te O Israel if you fall you cast your selves down the precipice if you perish it is by your own hands Why will you die O House of