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A17028	A sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester the 24. day of Februarie last, before Sir Laurence Tanfeild knight, Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of the iustices of the Court of Common-pleas. By Abraham Browne prebend: of the Cathedrall Church of Winton.	Browne, Abraham, d. ca. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 3906; ESTC S119312	28,509	46

his day and to set out another would require good warrant Put breake this and to put in no other will be irreligion The Sabaoth day to be kept holy should be accounted though not so expressed in statute yet necessary in his vnderstanding but he vsurpeth another Phrase as Arrests to be good any commandement from God notwithstanding and so a priuate man will make iudgement for the whole Kingdome Is it not breaking of an holy Sabaoth day to doe occupations of the world on the Sabaoth day as to Cart and Plow and is it nothing to vse violence and to draw to prison the Iaylor to attend Scriuener to be called for Obligations to be made money to be payed Iudge righteous iudgement shew not Art of Law in the lawes of men against the law of God There is a Prophesie in the Scripture concerning the Church of Christ as that the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall be with the Kid and the Calfe and the Lyon and the fat beasts together and a little Childe shall leade them What are these beasts but men of diuers natures which haue subscribed to the faith and Religion of Christ some proud and haughty in minde strong and by nature rauenous fat some in the pleasures of this life and in the abundance of wealth others meeke gentle poore and miserable and who is this Childe that doth leade them vp and downe to their pastures and feeding in the word but that Minister and Preacher of the Word in respect of such a great worke as a Childe weake and simple yet ordereth their wayes And when the common Barretor and his neighbour the Vsurer and his Captiue shall sit before the Childe in one Church if not in one Pew the common Barretor shall learne a lesson of peace charity and the Vsurer taught mercie and his Debtor learne to borrow and pay againe Shall the borrower be as an excommunicate person for a miserie that may be could not be auoided and shall God leese his right because man will haue his destruction and ruine is prophesied to that place where man is preferred before God If it be said that if we loue not our brother whom wee see how will we loue God whom we see not Let these cruell men haue their brethren brought into a place that they may see them to make experience if loue of brother be in them if not how then the loue of God The conclusion of these shall be take heede of this generall Assise Psalme saying What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behinde thee Our Sauiour saith Light is come into the world but men loue darknesse more then light For euery one that doth euill hateth the light neither commeth to the light least his deedes Ioh. 3. 19 should be reproued But he that doth the truth commeth to the light that his deedes may be manifest that they are wrought in God It is no small inducement for men to runne to the Popish Religion because there is to be had this ordering of wayes very particularly like as it was done by Iohn Baptist when they came to be baptized of him confessing their sinnes euen at an auricular confession to doe it a grace if it be a grace not to be had with vs will be a defect I cannot denie but that it is an ordering but not an ordering aright of the wayes of Christians For that ordering is cursorie after this manner A deputed Priest for that purpose a most particular enumeration and telling of sinnes pennance proportionably enioyned and absolution administred To examine these in order as they are set downe The first a Priest Deputed for Confessions And where in the new Testament is this Deputed Priest Is it euery Priest St. Iames albeit he had said If any man be sicke let him call the Presbiters Elders or Priests as they will haue it to Chap. 5. 14. pray ouer the sicke person and to annoint him yet in the very next verse speaking of Confessions of sinnes or faults saith Confesse one to another sinnes or faults neither doth he will the Priest to enioyne it but biddeth the Christians one to another to confesse sinnes And if it be but to pray one for another that Act is not onely for Priests but common with euery Christian and it is not absolue one another but pray one for another that they may be healed And the prayer is of a iust man but onely Priests are not iust And for the second point which is so particular an enumeration and telling of sinnes this I will say that the deuising of questions about the breaking of the ten Commandements by the Confessor is worthy the reading that we may see the multitudes of trespasses and offences for our instruction And farther to helpe euen for the amendment of things in our soule much amisse but the confession of a crime and haynous fault how can it be repeated I haue read it in a printed confession booke after this manner That since I was at Confession or as the words are first I acknowledge my selfe guilty vnto Almighty God vnto our Lady St. Marie and to all the Company of heauen and to you my ghostly father that sith the time of my last Confession I haue offended my Lord God greeuously and specially in the seauen deadly sinnes and comming to the ten Commaundements he saith I haue sinned fleshly with person that beene wedded and other moe and more would if I might haue had time and place Such a Confession had neede to be auricular tolde in the Priests eares and kept close But what pennance shall be set out for such a man The saying is Hee that will not pay it in his body must pay it in his purse And will that be an ordering of wayes And shall hee be thus absolued from time to time then will it not be washing a Sow that walloweth in the mire You Papists say that our Religion is an easie Religion you meane because you fast often in abstaining from eating of flesh for that is all you taske your selues with Prayers and vndergoe penancies but if this ordering of wayes bee your Religion your Religion will bee the easier Religion for it is easier to mortifie the flesh then to mortifie the deedes of the flesh you call it the Sacrament of penance if penance be the Sacrament you will deceiue the more persons laden with sinne and to thinke themselues lighted of the burthen of sinne when sinne still from time to time ladeth them Speake plainly ●nd say it is repentance and forgiuenesse is the Sacrament as our Sauiour saith to vs Preachers setting downe our Commission Thus it is written and thus it behooued Luke 24. 46. Christ to suffer and to rise againe the third day and that repentance and forgiuenesse of sinnes should be preached in his name among all Nations

them doe violence to no man neither accuse any man falsely and be content with your wages And by these we may make a rule for others as no doubt he did Who did the like to Herod rebuking him for keeping his brothers Luke 3. 19. wife And at one word this is the truth of which our Sauiour spake of to the woman of Samaria when he said the true worshippers must worship the Father in spirit and in Iohn 4. 23. Rom. 12. 1. truth in offring vp our bodies in a true rep●ntance and holy sacrifice vnto God If the Apostles had medled with lawes of carnall commandements they had transgressed the rule therefore they meddle not with any thing but with matters of truth in squaring out duties for subiects to their Magistrates and high powers with reciprocall duties betweene husband and wife father childe Master seruant And generally this to be Gods Commandement to beleeue in 1. Iohn 3. ●3 the name of his Sonne Iesus Christ and to loue one another as he hath commanded If this method had heene continued betweene Pastor and Flocke the new Testament had beene alwaies seene in his true colours which afterwards by the Church of Rome was bedawbed with golden but vnkinde and vnnaturall ceremonies Notwithstanding the Primitiue Church kept his matter of ordering of waies a long time And to giue you a view thereof I will bee so bold as to deuide this Auditorie into these particular estates As here are honourable Iudges Iustices of peace Counsellors at law Gentlemen Soldiours Merchants Handycrafts-men and Husbandmen For the Iudges such honourable and wise persons I will say no more then God blesse them and of the rest I cannot in so short a time speake particularly But that generally somewhat may be said of Waies I will take out two which in the primitiue Church were in some question concerning their waies those are the Merchant and the Soldiour The Merchant was called into question as not hauing the right course of a trade because hee is nothing laborious as others are but easie selling whole sale of no action neither in hand or in speech for properly that is a trade which getteth gaine by his labour and after gayning returneth still to his labour as the Handycraftsman maketh his worke gayneth and returneth to his worke againe so the Plowman soweth and reapeth and returneth to the Plow againe so vocations of words haue their gaines and their returnes to labour againe For it was said to Adam in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eate bread till thou returne to the earth for out of it wast thou Gen. 3. 19. taken because thou art dust and to dust thou shalt returne Notwithstanding this question of the Merchant was not alike defined but men of good iudgement dissented and I suppose that Iohn Baptist would not haue made any exception against him who excluded not the Publican neither is the Merchant an idle man but much occupied and looketh vp vnto the heauens to haue successe and blessing from God You may say that rather they might haue made exception against him whom I named a Gentleman vnto that I answer that our kinde of Gentlemen were not extant in their dayes But I will helpe to admonish them to take heed that that which is in the booke of Wisdome be farre from them as to say of the pleasures and Wisdome pastimes of this life this is our portion this is our lott Remember what Abraham said to his sonne being in hell torments Thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things As for the Soldiour the exception against him was not to be receaued into the ministerie of the Word But there are more kindes of trades and one there is not so easie to be condemned because the Law is to be the ground of his action but he is so often in law that he is lesse in charitie and filleth whole parishes with vncharitablenesse To discribe him I must borrow a tearme from the common Law which may bee comprehendeth not so generally these kinde of trades But the tearme is a Common Barretor With these kinde of men no trespasses must be taken vp by neighbours and bretheren in one faith and one Church but all must be tryed by law that the offender if he refuse that tryall must redeeme his peace with a great price This trade is so violent so hurtfull and such a cunning extortion that our Sauiour both remembreth it and giueth counsell to his Disciples saying If any man will sue thee at the law and take away Math. 5. 40. thy coat let him haue thy cloake also If therefore Christs Disciple must deliuer coate and cloake whose Disciple is he that taketh them There is an other Tradesman if wee may call him a tradesman I meane the Vsurer tollerated in Common-wealths Psal 15. 5. condemned in the word of God None of the Disciples of Christ in whom there must be nothing but that which is perfect that we may be like to our Master who was perfect His Disciples therefore must not lend looking for something againe but lend looking for nothing againe And in the new Testament how can it be that to him shall be shewed the saluation of God when in the old Testament He shall not dwell in the holy hill In this thing they are both a censured euill by the word of God and an euill end will be the encrease of riches in their great abundance to them that vse it The abundance of riches so blindeth his iudgement that he seeth no euill but thinkes that he hath God by the finger when he hath the diuell by the fist In the olde Law one might not lend in Vsurie to his brother according to the flesh and may he now lend to his brother according to the spirit Let the Preachers of the Word and deuiders of the Word take heede least while they teach some vsuries small that they may be done they by so teaching and so doing become least in the Kingdome of heauen Let the Disciple hearken vnto his Master and heare Christ saying If ye loue me keepe my cōmandements A Lawyer being asked concerning Arrests Ioh. 14. 15. vpon the Sabaoth day answered that the Arrests were good in Law but the parties that executed the Arrests punishable shall we so answer for the Vsurer that his vsurie is good in law but the Vsurer culpable so that he shall not dwell in the holy hill And to speake somewhat of Arresting on the Sabaoth day whereby I say our wayes are not ordered aright how can that be good in the law of any Common-weale that breaketh any one of the ten Commandements the ten Commandements are not very subtill hard to be discerned but grosse euen the law of nature Let vs put a God and what Nation doth not put it no lesse can be then to haue one set day to worship in Breake that day so commanded and where then is our Religion To put out