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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84939	The gale of opportunity. Or, A sermon preached (at Lidbury-North) at the funerall of the worshipfull Humphrey Walcot, of Walcot, Esq. June 8, 1650 and now published, by Thomas Froysell, Minister of the Gospell at Clunne in Shropshire.	Froysell, Thomas, d. ca. 1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing F2249A; ESTC R177209	46,742	52

over-throw his Estate yet he cares not repents not for 't is not his End to preserve himselfe but to serve Jesus Christ upon him selfe 3 Holinesse is no upstart Vunder which notion the world lookes upon it as if precisenesse in Religion were a new fashion taken up and put on by some but of late No Holinesse was the first Suite that ever was put upon the back of mans nature 'T is elder then Sin 'T is the first borne God made man Righteous 'T is more naturall to man to be righteous Sin is against nature T is a defect of nature It came as I may say of the wrong side of the Hedge a meer Bastard God is not the Parent of it it hath nothing of God in it 't was the Devil that begat it upon mans nature and therefore 't is of a later Edition then grace Grace was when sin was not Let us make man saith God in our Image after our likenesse You see Grace is of a most ancient house of the highest antiquity and therfore if any thing will it will ennoble you 4 And that you may be beated into zeale for Jesus Christ Live in the Scripture fire as the Salamander they say lives in the fire so doo you live in the Scripture as your Element It will scorch you into en holy love to Jesus Christ No book becomes your hand like the Bible It made David wiser then his Teachers 'T is this Book that makes Preachers and this Booke is the best Preacher This Booke will preach to you in your Chamber By this Booke all Preachers and Hearers must be judged at the last day This Booke will expound to you that hidden Booke that is within you your Conscience The Booke of Conscience is a secret and intricate piece very few are well read in it most deceived by it but this Booke of Scripture I say this Booke will discover it and shew you all the Errata in it it will search your very heart and tell all its secrets to you nay this Book will tell out Gods heart to you and his minde concerning you cc Ego odi libros meos saepe opto eos interire quod metuo ne morentur lectores abducant a lectione ipsius Scripturae quae sola omnis sapientiae fons est c. Luther hated his owne Bookes and saith hee I often wish they were all lost fearing least they should hold Readers in delay and take them off from reading Scripture Ierome gives a strange narrative of himselfe how he was dragged to the Tribunall because he had read Cicero more greedily then he did the Scripture Being asked of my condition saith he I answered I was a Christian Thou lyest saith the Judge Ciceronianus es non Christianus Thou art a Ciceronian not a Christian for where thy Treasure is ther 's thy heart also Presently saith he I was put to silence and had not a word to say and among the stripes for he had commanded me to be beaten I was scorched more with the fire of Conscience considering with my self that Verse In the Grave who will give thee thanks Then I began to cr● Have Psalm 6. mercy upon me O Lord have mercy upon me This voice sounded loud amidst the scourgings At last they that stood by casting themselves downe at the Presidents knees prayed him that he would pardon my youth and give place of Repentance to my Errour Then he requiring punishment if at any time I read heathen Books I who in such a case would have promised greater matters began to sweare deeply saying Lord If at any time I should read those secular Books I have denyed thee And so upon this Oath he was dismissed And he addes moreover Neither was this a sleep or a vaine dreame with which we are often deluded Witnesse that Tribunall before which I lay witnesse that severe judgement which I trembled at that I pray God I never fall again into such examination by torment I confesse I had my shoulders black and blew and felt the blowes after my sleep and have since read Gods word with such endeavour as I never read before any humane writings Thus far Saint Jerome Now let this passage awake you and all of us Let us lay aside the sublimest curiosities of mans witt all Volumnes for Scripture And all imployment for Heaven Wing your haste you have the flourishing plumes of Age upon you How farre might you fly and soar up quite to an heaven of experience and communion with Jesus Christ if you would loose no time I say if you would loose no time I hope you will not I pray you may not For you may see in this Sermon That opportunity is an unvaluable Treasure and yet a transient Treasure it carrieth lasting things along with it and yet it selfe lasts not stayes not with us You may see in this Sermon what great things you may loose if you loose your opprotunity you may loose your selfe if you loose your opportunitie God hath set you upon the higher ground above many in the world Act highly for him Lay up a Rich stock of Grace within you that you may have an heart to act for him in publick I wish you prosperity here felicity hereafter Accept t his Dedication from him who doth and shall ever rest Your real Servant in CHRIST JESVS THO. FROYSEL CLUN Octob. 8. 1651. JOHN XII VIII For the Poore alwayes yee have with you but me yee have not alwayes Mee-thinks I see a sad concourse of people before me this day and truly who can be here and not bee sad A great man and a good man is fallen this day He lived amiable and dyed desirable I am perswaded you could all finde in your hearts to wish him into life againe but that you are loath to displease God Wee must submit and kisse the hand of providence in the death of our dearest Friends and Saints We are now to performe our last office to him wee have brought him from his house to his house I meane his grave which must house him up till the great day of the Resurrection Eccles 12. 5 You see what Death doth it plucks up the tree by the roots the Cedar as well as the Shrub To day we are green within a little while we are not seen Stay but a few dayes and such a day as this will be thy day And therefore that we may make a serious and spirituall use of this occasion turne your eye and cast your thoughts upon the words of my Text. For the poore ye have alwayes with you but me yee have not alwayes These words are the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and they are an Apology or Defence which he makes for a poor Saint who having done a good worke an act of love to Jesus Christ was censured for it 1 The worke which was done you shall see in the third ver Then tooke Mary a pound of ointment of Spikenard very costly