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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01837	Deliuerance from the graue A sermon preached at Saint Maries Spittle in London, on Wednesday in Easter weeke last, March 28. 1627. By Tho. Goffe, Batchelor of Diuinitie, lately student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Goffe, Thomas, 1591-1629.	1627 (1627)	STC 11978; ESTC S103197	26,929	56

know that I am the Lord. Secondly to whom To his owne people O my people Thirdly by what meanes by most powerfull deliuerance when I haue opened your graues and brought you vp out of your graues Gods care to be knowne first presents it selfe And you shall know that I am the Lord. Two things saith Lactantius GOD hath made man onely to be most desirous of Religionis sapientia Religion and wisdome the two onely Keyes to open that Well sealed vp The knowledge of the Lord. But the Author goes on sed homines ideo falluntur quòd aut Religionem suscipiunt omissâ sapientiâ aut sapientiae soli student omissâ Religione either men in the fury of Religion will breake vp the seales of Gods secrets and so rather discouer him then know him or else they will finde him in the Labyrinths of their subtill braines omitting the best Clue to guide them thorow Religion We may obserue how vnhappy the first intent to know GOD too neere was when He that was the subiect of the knowledge was not the Instructer Shee that was first caught by that golden hooke of knowledge would know God but it should be most ambitiously for shee would know her selfe to bee like Him in the knowledge of good and euill That wretched knowledge she quickly gain'd good she knew by its irrecouerable losse and euill shee knew not onely by knowing but being so her selfe and all because when shee first set her selfe to Schoole the Deuill was her Tutor Glorious apparition of knowledge which fier'd euen innocencie it selfe with a proud affection to it nor could euer since any Age auoyd the spices of that first disease of knowing But like ouer-fleet Hounds wee often out-runne the prey in the pursuite or else tyer'd and hungry fall vpon some dead carrion in the way and omit the Game Else how were it possible that Man who only hath that essentiall consequence of his Reason Capacity of Learning should all his time bee brought vp in a Schoole of knowledge and yet too often let the glasse of his dayes be runne out before hee knowes the Author he should studie Haue not the greatest Epicures of knowledge like children new set to Schoole turn'd from their lessons to looke on pictures in their bookes gazing vpon some hard trifle some vnnecessary subtilty and forgot so much as once to spell the Lord How great a part of this span-length of his daies doth the Grammaticall Criticke spend in finding out the construction of an obsolete word or the principall verbe in a worne-out Epitaph still ready to set out a new booke vpon an old Criticisme How will an Antiquarie search whole Libraries to light vpon an ancient Monument whilest the Chronicle of this LORD who is the Ancient of daies shall seldome be looked into We doe so wearie the faculties of our vnderstanding before-hand by ouer-practising that when wee come at the Race indeed where our knowledge should so runne that it might obtaine it giues ouer the course as out of breath before it haue begun I speake not but to honour learning and knowledge euen the first elements of the Arts they are like the Cryer in the Wildernesse before our Sauiour to prepare his way Nor I thinke ought any to be transported with the pangs of so indiscreet a zeale as to extinguish those first Lampes of knowledge polite and humane studies for though they doe not directly teach vs to know the Lord yet are they the fittest spectacles for vnripe yeeres and tender sights to put on who are not able to endure at the first vehemens sensibile so excelling an obiect as the Lord is God doth not vse now-a-dayes to rauish men extra corpus as Saint Hierome saith hee did this Prophet or as Saint Paul saith he doth not know whether it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whether within or without the body when hee was taken into the third Heauen God leades vs with a more apprehensiue and ordinary hand then either by taking vs vp or sending downe lights and visions from himselfe to make his Spirit to be at command to euery obstreperous vnletter'd Extemporist vt doceat antequam didicit who will vndertake to teach before himselfe hath learn'd and so it often falls out that whilest such are about to make knowne this knowledge of the Lord though their bodies bee confin'd within the compasse of the Pulpit yet is their straggling inuention faine to wander for matter as Saul did ouer Mount Gilboa and many other Mountaines to seeke his Fathers Asses and yet neuer found them It is the comparison of that Kingly Priest who was the late Reuerend Prelate of this Sea All Miracles wee know are ceas't and yet the greatest Miracle that euer God wrought vpon earth the Incarnation of his blessed Sonne excepted the effusion of his Spirit must still be so familiar with vs that the assiduity of hauing it hath brought it amongst too many into a cheape contempt I would not be mistaken for I speake with a reuerend estimation of mine owne and all Christian soules Preaching is an inestimable Iewell and if the Physician of the body is to bee honour'd then much more they that minister 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 restoring Balsame to wounded soules That Angell of our Church reuerend Hooker et tanto nomini semper assurgo his name ought euer to bee mention'd with honour calls Sermons the Keyes to the Kingdome of Heauen Wings by which our soules soare to the heauenly Ierusalem O what a blessing is it frō heauen nay what proportion doth it hold with heauen to heare a Preachers tongue touch't by a Seraphim vtter in the Pulpit labour'd mature thoghts cloathing his sublime Theames in fit Apparell to be presented before that Person whom hee represents yet non tam loquitur fortia quàm viuit his life should be stronger speak more powerfully then his lines and euen then when his words reach as high as the Throne of God his heart should bee as low as the humble Publicans All Gods Prophets ought to be of Dauids mind to esteeme themselues Wormes and no men whilest their Audience are sweetly forc't to repute them little lesse then Cherubims What a blessed Martyrdome it were for any imploy'd in Gods Seruice to breathe forth his soule in sauing others soules Such a Preacher were like the good seruant in the Gospell who when the Lord comes he shall finde so doing That word so qualifies any extremitie that might haue been in his actions like Saint Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so runne running hee obseru'd many perchance too fast therefore he assignes the modum debitum the true path in which wee should runne Men that will be either like him or like the good seruant so doing must not fall into any excesse and bee found ouer-doing which euen in this great businesse of knowing the Lord too many doe It was St.