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A12481	Sermons of the Right Reuerend Father in God Miles Smith, late Lord Bishop of Glocester. Transcribed out of his originall manuscripts, and now published for the common good; Sermons	Smith, Miles, d. 1624.; Prior, Thomas, b. 1585 or 6.	1632 (1632)	STC 22808; ESTC S117422	314,791	326

to vnhonest embracings with the Macedonian Gentlewomen and that they paid full dearely for itcost them their liues though they were Embassadors This is to be seene at large in Herodotus and what Writer doth not afford many such examples Therefore if you will haue incontinency banished out of your City doe your best to banish drunkennesse first of all for that is the mother of fornication so Chrysostome calleth it vpon the 13. to the Romanes yea it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the mother City of all mischiefe so saith Athenaeus there was an Oracle giuen to them of Lacedemon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Couetousnesse will be the ouerthrow of Sparta and nothing else This was a Prophesie for the time to come There is a complaint in Plinie for the time present and past Latifundiâ perdiderunt Italiam Italy is vndone by large seuerals We may take vp the like complaint against drinking that Multifundia I meane multum infundendo the powring in of much liquor is the shame of this Kingdome already and will be it is to be feared the vtter vndoing of it How can it choose when it doth so much hurt publikely and priuately Publikely for whence are quarrels blading wounds without cause and many times vntimely death bee they not hence euen of Choler that boyleth in their gall inflamed by wine whence breaking of houses and Robberies but to supply wants occasioned for the most part by lauish spending If it were not for drunkennesse or too much drinking neither needed Iustices of the Peace so much to be troubled for granting of Warrants of Peace nor their Clarkes with Recognizances nor the Honorable Iudges themselues against their clement nature be forcedto sentence so many to death as many times they doe For drunkennes causeth foule behauiour and foule behauiour bringeth on a foule end To be short it maketh many vnprofitable which otherwise might be seruiceable both in Church Common-weale Priuately it starueth many a family if the goodman of an house be so giuen yea causeth much brabbling betweene man and wife if either of them be so giuen yea causeth many a parent to breake his heart or her heart if their child be so giuen What a griefe was it to Nouellus Torquatus his father if he liued that his sonne was such a quaffer as he was and that he got thereby the name of Tricongius What a shame to Bonosus that he should be called after his death Amphora To Diotimus of Athens that he was called being yet aliue Infundibulum Some man will say To what purpose is this inuectiue against drunkennesse except you know and would tell vs what is good against it as if a Physician should tell his patient in what danger he stood and in the meane time should administer nothing vnto him I answere that there is Balme in Gilead there is helpe for it if yet euery man will doe his best for the remouing of it The best thing that I know is first to lay to our hearts the commandement that is in my Text Be not drunke The Apostle commandeth this in his Name that hath power to giue life and to destroy Secondly that we take heed vnto the exhortation that speaketh to vs as vnto children Take heed to your selues lest at any time your hearts be oppressed with ●urfetting and drunkennes Thirdly that you sit not too long at the table but that you follow the counsell of the wise Grecian and to rise vp 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fourthly that you thinke that the Law that Minos made for Creete whereof Plato maketh mention in his Dialogue called Minos is very necessary for them of this Land 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to drinke one to another His Maiesty hath beene graciously pleased to set forth his Proclamation against Combatants it may please God also to moue his Royall heart to proclaime against Compotants against such as drinke healths thereby to ouerthrow their owne health and while they drink healths to the great Ones they may shew some small affection but they doe them no good for the very prayer of a drinker is abominable Tephillash shotheh tognabah so saith Baal Turim and it is not contradicted by Christians how much more then is their drinking Lastly in my iudgement it were very profitable yea necessary that in euery City and Towne there should be certaine persons appointed in Cities some of the chiefest Aldermen that are of speciall reputation for piety grauity in Towns also and Villages some of the most substantiall Parishioners and these Censors should haue power not onely to enter into tippling houses to take forth such as they finde drunke or to haue lyen soking any long time and to commit them to Ward till they be sober and doe edormiscere villum but also such as are scandalous in the streets reeling to and fro not like a drunken man as it is in the Psalme but starke drunke and swinishly ●umbling in the gutter these also would be especially punished by Censors because they sinne openly that the euill being taken away God may be intreated toward the Land Why should the name or office of a Censor be odious vnto vs albeit I stand not vpon the name let such be appointed that will proceed as farre-forth as the common Law or locall ordinance will warrant and I haue my desire It was not refused by the Romanes when they were at the proudest but being free they subiected themselues to the yoke of discipline euen the most noble of them did So I could tell you that a great politician and a very wise man findeth this fault with the Venetians that hauing such a world of Officers as they had yet they had neuer a one that looked to mens behauiour to see the publicke peace were not violated on the other side the same authour commendeth a City that shall be namelesse at this time though he were not of the same sound Religion that is practised in that City that by their discipline they kept men in such awe and order that seldome whiles any grosse offenc● is committed and sinne seemeth there rather to be preuented than punished But what is the Common-wealth the better if one City be reformed for one sinne of drunkennesse when the whole head is sicke and the whole heart is heauy when from Dan to Beersheba from one end of the Land to the other all the foundations of the earth be out of course Shall the righteousnes of a few diuert a common destruction or shall it deliuer the righteous themselues in the euill day what good then will it doe Much verily First a booke of remembrance shall be written before the Lord for them that feare the Lord and thinke on his Name and in the day of death they shall haue enough and in the day of publike calamity they shall either be deliuered as Rahab in Iericho Ieremy in Hierusalem in Nebuchadnezzars time the Iewes that were turned Christians in

vigorousnesse in his extreme old age that he confesseth that hee was as lusty at eighty fiue yeeres of age as he was at forty and as sufficient for managing matters of warre or matters of peace as you may see Ioshuah 14. Thus there is a reward with the Lord and a speciall reward for them that cleaue fast vnto the Lord and doe sanctifie him both in their hearts and in their tongues as Peter doth in my Text and will not be carryed away by the example of the multitude to thinke or say as they doe But on the contrary side you know in the Psalme they are condemned who seeing a Thiefe runne with him and are partakers with the Adulterers Yea Saul though he threw neuer a stone at Saint Stephen yet because he kept the clothes of them that stoned him he may be reckoned among the persecutors Yea Moses himselfe that Saint of the Lord at other times so zealous so faithfull so couragious yet because at the waters of Meribah he did not sanctifie the Lord and rebuke the people for their rebellion with that edge and resolution as he ought to haue done is told plainely by God himselfe that he should not enter into the Land of Promise see it he should but put his foote in it he should not See the 20. Chapter of Numbers and the 32. of Deuteronomy Let vs consider of these things Beloued It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God It is a dangerous thing to deale remissely in his businesse who is jealous of his seruice and requireth the whole man If this were done to Moses a greene Tree what shall be done to a dry And if Moses were condemned because he was not so hot as he should haue beene doe they thinke to escape that are key-cold This I say because some thinke that they make Religion beholding to them and God their debtor for euer if they doe not fall away from it as well as others and if they doe not openly blaspheme and raile vpon it though in the meane time they speake neuer a word for it But as God said to Moses I will make thee a greater Nation and a mightier then these though all these should be brought to nought And as Christ said in the Gospell I tell you the truth that if these hold their peace the stones shall speake So we may write vpon it that God is both able and willing to defend his Truth howsoeuer many shall agree to betray it and rather then he will leaue it vnmaintained he will open the mouthes of the dumbe and the children that are yet vnborne shall praise the Lord. In the meane time as it is said in Genesis The Nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I iudge saith God And in the Gospell Woe be to that man by whom offences shall come and especially Woe be to the man by whom the Sonne of man shall be betrayed So let these men-pleasers and place-pleasers know that as they are ashamed to confesse Christ before men so he will not be pleased to confesse them before his Father which is in heauen Gordius the Martyr was of that minde for being exhorted by a friend of his to keepe his conscience to himselfe and not to professe it made answer as Basil writeth that the Truth is not onely betrayed of them that doe plainely forsake it but of them also that will not publikely confesse it Fulgentius was of the same minde Nec immeritò talis seruus abijcitur punitur c. Such a seruant saith he is worthily reiected and punished because by one and the same silence he establisheth error who being forestalled by error or time doth not by meanes of his silence vouch and maintaine the Truth Euen as further saith he he that doth not establish Gods glory doth euacuate it and he that doth not refute and ward the blow of dishonour from God doth no lesse then heape it vpon him Why my Brethren our cause is good it is Gods we haue proued it so to be in hundreds of discourses the times are fauourable we haue the Bride-groome with vs why then should any mans heart faile him ô verè Phrygiae neque enim Phryges 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They that be in pace Cerui I inuert Tertullians words will they be in praelio Leones will they be as valiant as the Lyon in the day of battell when the wicked compasse them about at their heeles and draw them before Rulers yea and peraduenture to a fiery tryall that shew themselues as fearefull as the Deere in the dayes of peace in Alcyon dayes They feare where no feare is saith the Psalmist the shadow of the mountaines maketh these to feare saith one in the booke of Iudges By the Art of dissembling many thinke they haue great aduantage The Protestant taketh them for theirs for their comming to Church The Romanist theirs because they speake neuer a word against them so they gaine on both sides Wherefore if they should be any thing busie so they call sincere dealing then they should leese such a Gentlemans custome and such a Gentlewomans fauour c. Thus the loue of man casteth out the loue of God and the feare of man casteth out the feare of God But where is Elias euen he himselfe said Elizeus Where is Brutus I would thou wert aliue Brutus it was once written vnder his statue We may say Where is Peter and his spirit He confesseth in my Text and denieth not but saith plainely that there was none worth the looking after but Christ nor no Doctrine worth the harkening after but his It was a great blot to Osius of Corduba his reputation that had beene a faithfull Confessor in the dayes of persecution that following the sway he was seene to be present and an abettor in the Conuenticles of the Arrians and so those other Bishops did themselues most hurt that deserued the imputation of Nazianzen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All sauing a few followed the time On the other side Paphnutius is much renowned in Story for withstanding the greatest part of the Councell of Nice in a cause of truth wherein he also preuailed And so in these last perilous times Vergerius the Italian and Dalthius the Hungarian and Fricius the Polonian excellent learned men and great Statists and two of them Orators from great Princes deserued no lesse honour though they had not so good successe for Trent Conuenticle would not be like Nice Councell in manfufully proposing and defending many points of Christian Religion euen as they are taught and vrged by vs. They learned it of the Prophet I will speake of thy testimonies before Kings and will not be ashamed Or of Saint Peter in my Text who answered boldly and cared not who heard him that Christ was to be followed and he onely Let vs also Beloued be followers of Saint Peter in this point and let this be our first note or lesson To be