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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

the water we shall find he is gracious and merciful if that be not enough let vs dig deeper and we shall find hee is of great goodnesse plentious in goodnesse and one that is sory for any euill that hapneth vnto vs. Our Sauiour openeth the breasts of consolation vnto vs now the more the breasts of a nurse are drawen by sucking the more ease it is vnto her by sucking therefore these breasts and calling for mercy at his hands shall we not please him yes as one desiring a vent for his abundant mercie he cries and saith Come vnto mee all yee that are heauy laden and I wil ease you He our Head is ascended into heauen and now aboue the water temptations may assayle vs but they cannot ouercome vs so long as the head is aboue the water we that are his members can neuer be drowned therfore let vs with an intemerate faith make way through honour dishonour good report and bad report and dismaied with nothing take holde on Christ Iesus he he will trauerse the inditement cancell the debt suspend the rigorous doom acquit our soules and this pardon will be ripened with an influence from aboue with the best aspect the trine aspect the holy Trinity will say Amen vnto it Ephraim sinned well had Ephraim been if hee had turned vnto the Lord by repentance mournfully by reformation holily by cleauing vnto Christ Iesus hopefully but he did not he sought not the Lord as the text saith of which point I spake vnto you out of the 7. ver therfore now I pass it ouer nay Ephraim was so far frō cleauing vnto God that Ephraim was like a doue deceiued without heart Like a doue that was good be ye innocent as doues a doue deceiued that was naught be you wise as serpents also But the diuel took such order to infatuate that wisdom that he gained possession of the tower the strongest holde the hart vnto which al the affections owe suit seruice Fight against neither smal nor great but only against the king of Israel quell the the captains all the souldiers wil be amated the tēper of the head spring is either the sweetning or the poisoning of the streams the heart being surprised the retinue of affections must needs doe their homage follow after But whither did the affectiōs of the men of Ephraim follow their harts to Aegypt to Ashur where there were the sinnews of might strength the earths terror Ottoman hath not greater at this day but see how vnsurely the foote of worldly pomp standeth they stood in slippery places though they did call to Aegypt though they did go to Ashur Simple doues being well in their doue-house the Church of God where they wanted neither meat nor nest nor warmth nor the protection of God they could not be content but lured with the charms of Aegypt Ashur flew willingly into their nets and there changing their gold for copper forfeited their estates in Gods prouidence they wanted help though being vnder Gods wing they were moe that were with them then they that were against them yet did they call to Aegypt and goe to Ashur I call to minde two kindes of doues deceiued without heart the one in matters spirituall the other in matters temporall In matters spirituall those that in the quest and pursuite of their saluation make not to Almighty God the strong rocke of their defence but they make wracke vpon the sands vpon the vnsure ground of masses trentalls indulgences pardons the number not the weight of praiers nay vpon their owne good works which are no better then sinnes passing the sands in number and there might they drowne their sinnes being as red as scarlet if God in his mercy did not make the sinners as white as the snowe in Salmon The spider hath many legges and little or no bloud If you aske why the church of Rome standeth vpon so many legges and leaneth vpon so many helps not warranted by the scripture it is because they haue too little confidence in the bloud of Christ. Among other their reeds of Aegypt they stand to the mercie of the Pope who pretends to haue the key of the churches treasury and can sell or lend good workes vnto them that want as though he were worthy to be of Gods priuie counsell I reade of one Verconius in the time of Alexander Seuerus who pretending familiarity with the Emperour took mens money for preferring their suites abused them did them no good at all beeing conuented before the Emperour he was iudged to bee hanged vp in a chimney and so perish with smoke for that he solde smoke to the people The man of sin makes great boast of familiarity and power with God Though he take mens money for indulgences yet how little good he doth them the wise can iudge he sells but smoake and if Gods mercy be not all the greater he may perish by the smoake or by the fire of the valley of Tophet that was prepared of olde In the countrey of the Abisanes where Prester Iohn gouerneth there bee certaine mountains called Montes lunae out of which the riuer Nilus issueth with such violence that it would ouerflowe the lower countrey which now the Turk possesseth if it were not receiued into certaine deepe pittes and dammes in the country of Prester Iohn to whom for that cause the Turke yeeldeth a yeerely tribute the deluge of sinne is so great that it would ouerflow vs body and soule but that Prester Iohn or Presbiter Iohn Iohn the Priest Christ both King and Priest for euer doth swallowe vp sinne and burie it in the depth of his mercie Shall wee not then yeelde a tribute for his fauor yes and all too little As Zisca that valrous Bohemian did not onely quell his enemie beeing aliue but commanded that when he was dead there should bee a drumme made of his skinne thereby to terrifie him So Christ Iesus for our sakes did not onely when hee was aliue breake the head of the Serpent by his preaching and miracles but by his death and after his death also hee vvrought the Diuells woe and our good he dyed for our sinnes and rose againe for our iustification So now non gens sed mens as Iulius Aemilianus said in his Embleme or Poesie not onely Iewes but Gentiles also if they feare God finde fauour at his hands While we walke through the valley of Mulberie trees or of miserie as diuers translations render it wee may vse these meditations as pooles of water to refresh vs and learne to flie to God not to Ashur not to Aegypt As I haue noted vnto you a kinde of doues deceiued vvithout heart in matters spirituall concerning their soules so I note another kinde that are as much deceiued in matters temporall shrinking from God and leaning vpon the broken reeds of Aegypt O thou auncient