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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03763	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 4 of December, 1597 wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling of spirituall promotion is vnlawfull / by Iohn Howson ...	Howson, John, 1557?-1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 13882; ESTC S2747	34,824	48

A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 4. of December 1597. Wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling of Spirituall promotion is vnlawfull By IOHN HOVVSON Student of Christes-Church in Oxeford AT LONDON Printed for Th. Adams 1597. ❧ A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 24. of December 1597. by Iohn Howson Student of Christs-Church in Oxford The text And Iesus went into the Temple of God and east out all them that sold and bought in the Temple ouerthrew the Tables of the money-changers and the seates of them that sold doues And said to them it is written mine house shall be called the house of prayer but yea haue made it a denne of theeues Mat. 21.12 13. IT is affirmed by them that haue best laboured and euen spent their spirites to discouer the profound mysteries of the holy scriptures that the text contextus the webbe of it is so cunningly and so skilfully wouen by the holy spirit of God that it is omnibus accessibilis but paucissimis penetrabilis Aug. Epist 5. that is to be handled felt of any man but few eies can pierce to the ground-worke of it Which truth wrought this confession in Chrysologus an ancient learned and deuout Writer so called for the golden sentences which proceeded from him that Singula scripturae verba si libris singulis mandarentur c. Serm. 64. which is If there were a booke written a particular booke of euery particular word almost in the holy Scriptures yet the misteris of them could not by that meanes bee sufficiently discouered to vs. Wherefore right Honourable c. it is not to bee expected at my handes that in this short time limited to the measure of my strength and your patience I should deliuer vnto you whatsoeuer is noteable or noted alreadie by so many reuerend and learned Fathers old and new of the litterall historicall morall or allegoricall sense of this scripture nor to make application according to the variety and abundance of sense which the spirit of God hath imparted to you most reuerend Fathers and learned Diuines for I doe not presume to speake that quod potissimum dicendum esset which is indeed most fitte to bee spoken seeing it is a great matter and aboue the common and ordinary reach nihil dicere quod dicendum non est Hug in Ecclesiast Hom. 1. to say nothing which were not better vnsaid than spoken Wherfore as Saint Luke diuided his first Sermon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act. 1. his Ghospell which comprehended the whole life of our Sauiour Christ into two partes into those things quae coepit Iesus Facere Act. 1. Docere which hee did and which hee taught into his Dooings and into his Sayings so doo I diuide this Text in Factum Dictum into a Deed of his and into a Speech of his into an Action of his and the Reason of it The Action in these wordes And Iesus went into the Temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the Temple c. The Reason And said vnto them it is written c. The Action The Action was a reformation of certaine abuses or prophanations of the Temple of God In which I obserue these circumstances First the Author vvho secondly the Time vvhen thirdly the Place vvhere fourthly the Matter vvhat and fiftly the Manner how this reformation was performed 1. The author For the first the Author of this reformation is our Sauiour Christ Iesus who performed it not as a man onely or the true sonne of the blessed Virgin Mary or the supposed sonne of Ioseph not as hee was factus sub lege Galath 4. made vnder the law nor to suffer in the flesh 1. Pet. 4. nor to bee crucified concerning his infirmitie 2. Cor. 13. but as the onely begotten of God the chiefe Priest and the King of Kinges whose dominion is from sea to sea and from the riuer to the endes of the land Psal 72. whose office and authority that is his Kingdome and Priesthood was prefigured by the two crownes the siluer and the golden crowne which were hung vp in the Temple Zach. 6. Now in this Author of this reformation Two thinges required in a reformer I obserue for this present two things which are required in al good reformers One is his authority that hee is a King and a Priest the other his conditions and qualities that hee is without fault him-selfe that reformeth other Without the first that is authority there can bee no reformation without the second hardly any good reformation That it was performed by our Sauiour who was King and Priest it argueth how conuenient the counsell and knowledge of the Priest is for the ciuill magistrate in reforming the Temple for as the Priest may attempt nothing no alteration without the prince and therefore Saint Paul when hee came to Athens though hee saw Idols and Altars Act. 27. and one ignoto Deo to the vnkowne GOD yet hee offered no violence but preached vnto them the GOD which they knew not and though hee saw Idols and Idolatry in the Temple of Diana yet hee offered no violence Acts. 19. but preached only they were not Gods that were made with handes and pulled not downe the signe of Castor and Pollux in the shippe of Alexandria that carryed him to Rome Acts. 28. so it is conuenient that the Princes and ciuill Magistrates in their reformations of the Church and Religion take counsaile and aduise of the Priestes and the Prophets and therefore King Dauid when he would haue built the Temple 2. Sam. 7. hee sent for the Prophet Nathan and tooke counsaile of him 4. Reg. 12. And Ioas did nothing amisse in the presence of God so long as he was informed by Iehoiada the Priest And Ezechias did the thing that pleased the Lord and remained stedfastly in the waies of Dauid his father Eccles 48. while Esay the great Prophet and faithfull in his vision commanded him And God stirred vp the spirit of Zorobabel the Prince of Iudah Agg. 2. and the spirit of Iehosua the high Priest that they ioyntly together might restore the building of the Temple all which argue that the wisdome and knowledge of the Priest is to be ioyned with the authoritie of the Prince in establishing or reforming the Church of God 2. Heb 7. 1 ●et 2. 2 Cor 5. 1 Ioh 3. 8. Iohn Secondly that it was performed by our Sauiour Christ who was holy harmelesse vndefiled who did noe sin as Saint Peter saith who knew no sinne as Saint Paul saith who hadde no sinne in him as Saint Iohn saith and therefore might safely say which of you can rebuke me of sinne It argueth that they which are reformers of Churches yea and of Common-wealths should be holy harmelesse vndefiled and vncorrupt as much as may bee least vnder the colour of reformation they bring in a deformation and where they