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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10061	The laver of the heart; or Bath of sanctification Preached at Pauls Crosse the first of September last, 1615. By Gabriel Price, minister and preacher of Gods word.	Price, Gabriel.	1616 (1616)	STC 20306; ESTC S102929	54,546	178

for sommer and warme for winter for you must know that gold is too heauie for any but for the beasts of the earth to carry Neuerthelesse in humilitie be it spoken sith Moses Aaron by Gods ordinance went hand in hand I see nothing from God to the contrarie but we ought to haue an honorable Ministerie as well as an honourable Magistracie and that a good Minister be as well allowed as a good Magistrate Look to it my beloued the contempt of Ministers and Preachers hath alreadie wrought bad effects amongst vs. Men brethren and fathers haue weeping eyes and a king hearts to see this in the florishing time of the Gospell lest the Lord punish the land for the contempt of his seruants For beleeue it this sinne maketh a way for Atheists and Papists and Vters and Newters for Solifidian● and Nullifidians and to make this good I might bring a cloud of Fathers to prouoke you to cleanse your harts from this wickednesse But I feare if these sins be not reformed God will enter into iudgment with thē that haue taken the Lords houses from him into their possessions And so much may suffice concerning Superiours to be amended in themselues Sins in Iuseriours Now that God may haue his due honour by your meanes from the people I should name to you the wickednesse that rote in our streets and call to you in the magistracy for reformation as to you the redresse thereof of right belongs The first is the Prophan●tion of the Sabbath The second is the taking of Gods name in vaine The third is Pride The fourth is Contention The fifth is Contempt of Gouernment These be the Roters that grudge if they be not satisfied they cause the land to mourne and the grasse of the earth to wither away they will hasten the Lords vengeance if speedily they be not reformed For the first touching the Sabbath the Lord God hath commanded and so doe the lawes of this Realme yea so did the late commendable Proclamation of this renouned Citie that the Sabbath day should be kept holy that the people should cease from sinne as well as from labour that they might serue God in trembling and feare not thinking their owne thoughts not speaking their owne words vpon the Lords holy day But neglect of zealous executiō of good lawes ill custome and toleration hath brought it to passe that the multitude doe most shamefully prophane the Sabbath Looke to it I beseech you and suffer not your hearts to bee defiled with this wickednes For not onely the Iewes and Turks crie shame of vs for this but the very Papists make more of the Satterday and Saints dayes then wee doe of the Lords solemne feasts The second euill among the people is the taking of Gods name in vaine Here I stand amazed to consider that the lawes of nations haue taken order for the vaine and idle taking of the names of Princes in mens mouthes so as none dare but such as are sold to treason speake of their Kings and States but reuerently with an vncouered head and yet no law made against vaine swearing and common blaspheming of the most sacred name of the King of Kings In mens ordinary talke lamentable it is to heare in euery house in euery shop yea in euery street how in ordinary talke euery one mingle words and fill vp their sentences with needlesse oathes as if that which is of al sins a most notorious d●shonor to God were but a small sinne but much more horrible and odious is that blasphemous and furious and outragious swearing of many men that if they be neuer so little offended and their mind displeased then they fall to disgorge their filthy stomacke vpon the glorious name of their Creator It is recorded by Herodot lib. 6. that Nicanus pitched a field on the Sabbath day against the Iewes but for his blasphemie lost both the battell and his life and his head his hands and blasphemous tongue was cut off and hanged on the pinnacles of the Temple at Ierusalem And well worthie of greatest shame because this vice of all other carrieth with it the most detestation for that it bringeth least delight of a●● other sinnes For all other vices a man may wring out some excuse from nature to lessen the greatnesse but this admitteth no vaile at all Is it not a desperate case for a man in mirth to sweare by that blood the remembrance of which should strike sorrow to the most obdurate hearts that blood I say the losse of which gained redemption to the whole world Me thinkes relenting thoughts should wound the heart of a Christian to name the wounds of Christ But where reuerence is laid aside there deuotion is cold But to heate your zeale and to put an edge vpon your deuotion remember what God saith Mat. 23.23 I am bold to tell you in the Lords behalfe that our tithing of Min● and Commin and leauing the waightier parts of the Law vnlooked vnto is to bee feared will draw the Lords wrath downe vpon vs and bring into our Cities townes Zach. 5.4 and houses Zacharies flying booke to consume them with the timber and stones thereof For it is decreed in heauen that if thou wilt not keepe and do all the words of this Law that are written in this booke and feare this glorious and fearefull name Deut. 28.58 the Lord thy God thē the Lord will make thy playne wonderfull and the plagues of thy seed euen great plagues and of long continuance and sore diseases and of long durance For if it be true that Hosea prophecieth Hosea 4.8 then long since because of swearing the Lord hath a controuersie with the land For who seeth not that for oathes the land mourneth Ierem. 23.10 and the inhabitants are smitten and they feele it not But the houre-glasse calleth mee to the pride of the Land The prophet Zephaniah 1.8 saith It shall bee in the daye of the Lords wrath that the Lord will visit all such as are clothed with strange apparell Pride hath so many feathers added to her wings that shee couereth all the earth with her shadow If we looke to men who should be both wisest strongest they are growne so effeminate and our women so manlike that if it might bee they would exchange kindes What modest eye can with patience behold the immodest gestures and attires of our time no sooner is infancie put of but impudencie is put on Many seemes to imitate Nero in prodigality of apparel Cap. 30 to verifie that in thēselues which was said of him by Suetonius In Nerone nullam ves●●us bis indust Many there be amongst vs that put not on one apparell nor one fashion twice till at length they come to haue no apparell to put on Many inuent fashions to please the world but the secret iudgement of God crosseth their desires for they displease more then they please but if their brauerie condemne them before men