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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86088	The loyall subiect's retiring-roome, opened in a sermon at St Maries, on the 13th day of Iuly, (being Act-Sunday) in the after-noone. A.D. 1645, before the Honourable members of both Houses of Parliament, assembled in Oxford. / By R, H. M, A. [sic].	Harwood, Richard, d. 1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing H1107; Thomason E300_1; ESTC R200251	23,584	36

what he did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 after the manner of men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athanasius saies Athan Apol. pro suga is common to the whole kind And shall nature be so cruell a Step-mother to our tribe only as to deny us the priviledge she indulgeth all her sonnes Look into the Saints Geography you shall find a double Synode 1. Kin. 18.13 each consisting of fifty Prophets in a cave The first Apostolicall Councell held in Golgotha Quaresmius Tom. 2. elucid terrae sanctae l. 4. c. 1. peregrin 9. et c. 22. peregr 7. among dead mens bones The Apostles had no other Convocation-house Quaresmius saies but a larg cave or an ample sepulchre Nor did they like men but beasts In Latibulis in their denns and burrowes Shall I give you a map of S. Paul's flight out of his covert at Damascus Latibulum Pauli fuit antrum in plagâ meridionalt Damasci Quares t. d. l. 7. c. 1. per. 6. to Iconium from Iconium to Lystra from Lystrato Ephesus thence to Macodonia You cannot forget old Polycarpe * Euseb Eccles hist l. 4. c. 15. Ribad to Vit. S. Aug. Ille in Vit. S. Basilij Soz. hist Eccles l. 6. c. 2. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hid in the cockloft when his persecuters search't the house for him S. Cyprian in his chamber when the people cryed Cyprianum ad Leones Away with him to the Lions S. Augustine lock't within doores when the Manichees that could not confute him with argument would have done it with the ponyard S. Basil in the solitude of Pontus when the peevish Prelate Eusebius molested him at Caesaroa And though Origen in his youthfull yeares was such a hot spurre as to run upon danger yet in his riper age and judgement when Alexandria was too hott for him he was glad to accept of a corner to save his life What should I tell you of S. Chrysostome Non t●…ultil ut judices ferat c●…s qui essent manefesti hostes Soz ●… 8. c. 17. who when there was a Synode pack't by Theophilus to condemne him withdrew himself and sent them word by Demetrius that they must not take him for Tàm slultum so very a fool as to be tryed by such Iudges as were his professed enemies but in a full convention he would make his defence Nay great Athanasius Socrat Schol. l. 1 6 35 l. 2. c. 1 c. Ri●ad in l●it Athan. who for forty six yeares was chased up and down by those Arian bloud hounds Constantine Constantius Julian and Valens with so much malice and severity that scarce any of the foure Elements did dare protect him but he was compelled to live in a Cisterne and sometimes in his Fathers toomb like a dead man And here I cannot passe by that false imputation which Thammerus casts on this reonowned Prelate Thammerus de fug l. 1. fol. 16. viz. That the occasion of his flight was his own Avarice in engrossing the corne Constantine sent to the poore of Alexandria A foule crime in a Bishop Socrates l 2 ●… 19 ad 28 Niceph. l. 9. c. 9. Theod. biss Eccles l 2 c 7 8. c. Lib 1 d●…c 25. ad 32. S●… l 1. c 35 to rob the poore but of this and other false accusations preferr'd against him by the Arians he was acquitted before the Emperour and in a Councell at Sardica a city in Illyria when Julius Bishiop of Rome sent a sharp Epistle to the Bishops of Antioch for endeavouring to stain so Spotlesse an innocence the true cause of his flight being the bloudy malice of the Arian faction against him Fugiant cum corum quisquam specia●ter a persecutori●us queritur c. Aug Ep. 180. ad Honorat And truely where the life or liberty of a Minister is sought as at this day I am to learne what obligation should stay him for ruine For he is not so much the peoples but he is still Lord of his owne life Nor because he hath the care of their soules is it any warrant he should neglect his owne Our charity may begin at our selves though I would not have it end there If my my conscience tells me I shall not be able to contest with the temptation that I have not patience for aprison nor courage for a stake Mat. a. v. 13. Then as the Angell said to Ioseph Arise I must and take the young Childe My weak faith and fly into Aegytt Better a prudent flight then a presumptuous residence I had rather accept of S. Paul's basket at Damaseus and keep my faith Act 9 25. then fit by the high Preists fire with Peter Mat. 26. 691 and deny my Master Pet. Mart. Ep ad Lucens Euseb l. 14. c. 14. With Peter Martyr rather leave my Church at Luca enjoy a good conscience then keep my Living and loose my faith with Quintus Sure he cannot be faid to deny Christ by flying who flyes least he should deny him Nay what more reall and publique confession can he make of his faith then to leave all for his Saviour Lock upon his plunder'd house his scatter'd patrimony nay the poor man's cheeks that were fed with his bread and doe they nor all suffer a kind of Martyrdome for his Allegiance Can you behold his Wife and Children the constant addition and companions of his misfortunes and doe they not all see me to you so many confessours of his Loyalty Nay where another Curate can't be had what if I should say Domus ipsa divinat The very Parsonage house can Preach obedience to the whole Parish Tell me now which denyes Christ before men He that sits secure at home and Rebels or He that exposeth himselfe to all difficulties to keepe a good conscience He that stayes in his house and goes to Masse or He that flyes to keep himselfe from Idolls Peter Martyr upbraydes the presumption of his Parishioners who esteemed him a Coward for his prudence and boasted that they were Equites Christi fortes probati Valiant and approved Cavaleirs of Heaven Pet Mart Ep. 2. ad fra Lucens p. 1104. that would rather dye then stirre a foot from Christ's Banner and yet ranne to the enemy and faught under a Popish Ensigne O quàm multos fefellit haec vana spes How many hath this vaine hope deceived whil'st they despise this common remedy of weaknesse or rather true Christian policy they run their consciences on a wilfull and deserved ruine Nor is the Ministers absence vncharitable where his presence is vnprofitable For it is not his absence but the peoples profession that exposeth them to the Wolfe not his flight but their faith that invites the persecuter Or if he did stay when his office ceaseth He is spiritually absent the worst of the two though corporally present yea how unable were he to confirme the weake who himself is the weakest so that where the people can have