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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37274	Sermons preached upon severall occasions by Lancelot Dawes ...; Sermons. Selections	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1653 (1653)	Wing D450; ESTC R16688	281,488	345

the Gospel of peace his ministers the Ambassadours of peace his natural Son the Author of peace his adopted sons the children of peace if then ye will be the sons of the most highest your endeavor must be this to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace Consider what I say and the Lord give you wisdome and understanding in all things Finally to speake unto all and so to make an end of all seeing that we are all Tenants at will and must be thrust out of the doors of these earthly Tabernacles whensoever it shall please our great landlord to call us hence let us have our loines girt and our lampes continually burning that whensoever the Lord shal call us hence in the evening or in the morning at noon-day or at mid-night he may find us ready Happy is the man whom his Master when he comes shall find watching Let us every day sum up our accounts with God Ita aedificemus quasi semper victuri ita vivamus quasi cras morituri let us build as if we would ever live but let us live as if wee were ever ready to dye Then may every one of us in the integrity of heart and syncerity of conscience when the time of his departing is at hand say with the blessed Apostle If have fought a good fight and have finished my course I have kept the faith from hence forth is laid up for me a crowne of righteousnesse which God the righteous Judge shall give me at that day Unto this God one eternall omnipotent and unchangeable Iehovah in essence three persons in manner of subsistence the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit be ascribed all honour and glory power might and majestie both now and forever more Amen Galathians 3. 10. As many as are of the workes of the Law are under the Cuurse for it is written cursed is every man that continueth not in all things which are written in the booke of the law to do them IN which words observe two things 1. A Doctrine 2. A Reason of the doctrine in the former part the reason in the latter I have spoken of the doctrine I purpose now to speake only of the reason for it is written c. wherein observe three things 1. It is to no purpose to begin a good course of life unlesse thou hold it out and continue till the end 2. It s not enough for a Christian to performe obedience to some of Gods precepts and to bear with himself wilfully in the breach of others Cursed is he that continueth not in all 3. That the rule of our obedience is no unwritten tradition but the written Word of God that are written in the booke of the Law But before I speak of these I gather from the connexion this conclusion That no man can in this life perfectly fulfill the Will of God it followeth thus because as it is written Cursed c. So it is written This doe and thou shalt live and the man that doth these things shall live in them So that the Apostle takes this for granted or else his argument is of no force this is evidently confirmed by many places of Scripture 1 Kings 8. 49. Eccles 7. 22. Psal 143. 2. Isa 64. 6. Acts. 15. 10. Acts. 13. 39. 1 Ioh. 1. 8. 2. It is confirmed by reason the first is drawn from the corruption of nature which is in the best Christians from which wee may thus argue he that consisteth of flesh as well as of Spirit canno● fulfill the Law no not in his best actions but the best Christian that ever lived consisteth of flesh as wel as of Spirit therfore he cannot fulfill the law The minor hath been formerly proved The Major is plaine for as he is carnall he is sold under sinne The wisdome thereof is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be Thus it is proved from the the death of Christ for if righteousnesse be by the workes of the Law then Christ dyed without a cause Gal. 3. 21. and if they which are of the law be heires then saith is made void and the promise is made of no effect Rom. 4. 14. for he came to fulfill the law Matth. 5. 17. which was impossible to be fulfilled of us in as much as it was weake because of the flesh Therefore God sent his sonne in the similitude of sinfull flesh Rom. 8. 3. But the Romish Sophisters answer that this maketh against the Pelagians which were of opinion that a man might by the strength of nature fulfill the law not against them which hold that this abilitie comes from grace and that the good workes of a Christian proceed from Christ as the juice in the branches proceedeth from the Vine To this I answer 1. That neither the Pelagians nor these against whom the Apostle disputeth did altogether exclude grace and therefore if it be strong against them it will be of force against the Papists too 2. Their answer is grounded upon a false supposition as that the works of a Christian doe proceed wholly from Christ for they they doe in part proceed from the flesh and therefore though as they are the workes of the holy Ghost who applieth unto the faithfull the force and efficacie of Christs resurrection they be perfect yet in respect of the flesh they be stained and polluted 3. Christ died for us not by any inherent but by his imputed righteousnesse which righteousness is applyed and appropriated unto us principally by the holy Ghost instrumentally by faith whereby wee are incorporate into Christ and so partakers of his righteousnesse wee might be justified I thinke Abraham was as holy a man as Ignatius the father of Jesuits or Dominicus and Franciscus the founders of Friers in whom saith Bellarmine their very adversaries can find nothing that deserveth reprehension praeter nimiam sanctitatem save their too much holiness and yet it was not his good workes but his faith for which he was counted righteous I know that this imputative righteousnesse is counted with them a putative and imaginarie righteousness but herein the injurie is not done unto us but unto him who saith to him that worketh not but believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is imputed for righteousnesse Even as David declareth the blessednesse of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousnesse without workes saying Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no sinne wee say that faith was imputed to Abraham for righteousnesse now it is not written for him only that it was imputed unto him for righteousness but also for us to whom it shal be imputed for righteousnesse c. A third reason to prove that no man can fulfill the Law is because all have need to say forgive us our debts who more excellent amongst the old people saith Austin then the holy Priests and yet the Lord commanded them that

means ordinarly conveyed to the Sons of men then by the preaching of the Gospell this is agreeable to the Apostles Doctrine Seeing the World by wisdome knew not God in the wisdome of God it pleased God by the foolishnesse of Preaching So the World of Jews and Gentiles counted it to save them that beleive 1 Cor. 1. How shall they call on him of whom they have not heard how shall they heare without a Preacher Rom. 10. Where Salvation Faith Hearing Preaching are linked together Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach the Gospell 1 Cor. 1. 7. his Commission was for both Go and teach all Nations baptizing them Matth. 28. His meaning then was this that the latter was the principall the other but an appendix unto it Like that Jer. 7. 22. I spake not unto your Fathers when I brought them out of the Land of Aegypt concerning Sacrifice but this is the thing which I commanded them to obey my voice and Hos 6. 6. I will have mercy and not sacrifice obedience and mercy rather then sacrifice or burnt offering So it may be said of us we are by our places to baptize to administer the Sacraments but our chiefe Office is to preach For a Minister then to have the name of an honest man a learned man and seldome or never to come into the Pulpit as some do is as if I should say this man is an excellent Scrivener but never puts Pen to paper an excellent Lawyer but never pleads nor gives counsell an excellent Artificer but neglects his Trade this but takes more from him then my commendation gives him Here I cannot chuse but censure two sorts of men Fist they that cannot Secondly those that can but will not preach Of the first we have not many in these parts of this Diocesse in which Gods name be blessed I dare boldly speak it we have at this present day more Baruabasses Sons of consolation and Be●nerges Sons of thunder ●nd Apollos Eloquent men and mighty in the Scriptures then any one Century of years hath seen since the Gospel of Christ was first preached in this Island yet some few we have the fewer the better Satis pauci satis unus satis nullus in speaking to whom let me take leave as the Apostle speaks to the Gallatians to change my voice as Nurses do when they speak to young Children thou canst not preach Yea but as I have heard a Judge speak to a convinced Malefactor whose life he was desirous to save I cannot read yea but I know thou canst and must read or else I must pronounce Sentence against thee Yea but thou canst preach and preach thou must or else I must say unto thee friend how camest thou in hither I add no more thou wantest Logick and knowledge in the Arts which are hand-maids to Divinity and many other helps which are requisite to a Preacher yet mayest thou teach As an over-weening conceit of a mans abilities so too base an opinion of thy self may be an hindrance to vertue Many had proved great men if they had not thought themselves on the Hils-top before they were at the middest of the way and some of our not-preaching Ministers might prove better then they are if the weakness of their braines did not hinder them from climbing because they despaire of being excellent Preachers therefore they will do no good at all in their Profession they seldome look upon Book but when they are in the Church possunt qui posse videntur A mans conceit that he can do will make him somewhat adventure When John Bradford was unwilling to enter into the Ministry alledging his weakness and inabilities for preaching if thou canst not quoth Martin Bncer feed thy Flock with fine Manchet feed them with brown Bread Non possumus omnes esse Scipiones aut Maximi saith the Orator if thou canst not do as thou wouldst do as thou mayest if thou wantest strong Meat feed with Milk catechise and instruct thy hearers in the ground of Religion pray heare read study confer meditate stir up the Gift of God which is thee kindle and blow up this fire desire the best Gifts 1 Cor. 12. and in so doing God giving a blessing to thine endeavours Si non evaseris in summum at certe multos infra te videbis as Quintilian speaks if thou prove not the best thou shalt not be the worst of thy profession If thy learning be so slender that thou canst not well understand a Latine Author be not discouraged for that We have many excellent Books of morall Divinity in our English Tongue and of controversial writers we have no want furnish thy selfe not with all but with the best Distrahit animum librorum multitudo saith Seneca and qui ubique est nusquam est Read then rather multum then multos much then many books so shalt thou make it thine owne which thou hast read and be able to make use of it for the discharge of thy duty and benefit of the Flock committed to thy charge And if thy learning and judgment be so weak as that thou canst not so skilfully extract the quintessence out of the flower with the Bee then rather give it them in thy Authors words then not at all I confesse I could never approve of those lapwings which having hopped out of their nests with their shels on their heads before they got a feather on their backs Priusquam sacra volumina vel nomine noverint priusquam veteris novi testamenti signa not asque cognoverint as Nazianzen speaks having provided themselves of halfe a dozen Sermons which they have as good right too as Paulus in Martiall had to his Verses Carmina Paulus emit jactat sua Carmina Paulus Nam quod emit poterit dicere jure suum Like jollie fellows make a flourish up and down the Country with them as if they were men of worth I have no more to say to them but onely send them that salutation which Horace sent Celsus Quid mihi Celsus agit monitusque saepe monendus Privatas ut quaerat opes spernere discat Scripta palatinus quaecunque retexit Apollo Otherwise for all their shews the riddle may well be applyed to them Nullus malus magnus piscis But now for such as have Cures where the Stipend is so small that it will not maintain a tollerable Preacher as in some of our large and spacious Parishes there is scarce so much left as the Pharisees petty tiths tithe of Mint and Anise and Cummin little more then would give contentment to a Swine-he ard if these not out of any vain-glorious humour of being reputed that they are not but out of a desire to benefit their Flocks besides the instructions given them by way of catechising they shal commit to memory and deliver other mens labours in St. Austines judgement they are not to be disallowed Nor will I for beside that it will keep them from idleness