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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81794	The change: or, the blind eye opened. A double discourse on Ephes. 5.8. Yee were sometimes darknesse, but now are yee light in the Lord shewing the great alteration that is wrought in a man regenerate from what he was in his unregeneracy. Presented, first to the eare, now to the publike eye, by the author Thomas Dugard, Mr. of Arts, Cambr.	Dugard, Thomas, b. 1587 or 8.	1641 (1641)	Wing D2462; ESTC R231073	3,909	29

THE CHANGE OR The Blind Eye Opened A double Discourse on Ephes 5.8 Yee were sometimes Darknesse but now are yee Light in the LORD Shewing the great Alteration that is wrought in a man Regenerate from what he was in his Unregeneracy Presented first to the Eare now to the publike Eye By the Author THOMAS DVGARD Mr. of Arts CAMBR Quantum mutatus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isaeus But yee are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified 1 Cor. 6.11 LONDON Printed by G M. for George Edwards dwelling in Greene-Arbour at the signe of the Angell 1641. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL his much honoured Unkle M. RICHARD DVGARD Batchelor of Divinity and President of Sidney-Sussex Colledge in Cambridge Sir A Course of Literature as the most a Dulces ante omnia Musae Virgil Georg. l. 2. Sweet and b Pro. 8.11 Satisfactory I ever affected and have now for more then two decads of yeeres according to Ability and Opportunities prosecuted As for Oportunities none may recount them with more rejoycing then my Selfe Having had the happinesse of Grammaticall Foundations from so Famous a c M Henry Bright late Master of the most flourishing Kings Schoole in the City of Worcester Master and of Academicall Superstructions from as Famous a Tutor Great were my Engagements to Him but Vnspeakable to You. Vnder whom so Fatherly in Affection so Painefull in Precepts and so Rare an Example of Learning and Piety my Seven yeeres service for the Liberall Sciences was as delightfully spent as d Gen. 29.20 Iacob's for his beloved Rachel And although I have now been absent from the Fountaine as many yeeres as I enjoyed it and wanted the Breast as long as I sucked it as Pharaohs e Gen. 41.30 seven yeeres of Plenty were sueceeded with as many of Famine yet hath there not been a Cessation of Your Deserts but a continuall Obligation of mee to further Duty I have not drunk at the Fountaine but Your inexhausted Goodnesse hath streamed upon mee with ink-influence I have not sucked the Breast but you have fed mee with the Quill Those Pretious Letters I meane so full of Affection to mee and of happy Discord within themselves whether their Gravity of Counsell or Elegancie of Latine stile should obtaine the Preheminence These as often as I read and there is none of them but I have read it as often as they f Literae Principum sunt ter legende say the Letters of Princes are to be read mee thinkes I heare your old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and see you hanging againe on the Eares of your Flock those Pretious Iewells Labour to keepe your Consciences Tender Study to approove your hearts to God Secretum Domini Timentibus eum Ministerium onus est Angelicis humeris formidandum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Surgunt indocti coelum rapiunt nos cum Doctrinis nostris sine Corde ecce ubi volutamur And a Thousand such All which inculcated to us in Common together with those wherewith you have been pleased to enrich Mee in particular should I according to their Desert desire to commend to publike intelligence I must not thinke of a little Epistle but a large Panegyricke For the greatest part of Thirty yeeres you have beene exercised in that Pupillary Imployment In which space what a Pillar you have beene to the House what an Ornament to the Vniversity and how greatly Instrumentall to the Church and Commonwealth as I know you desire not to heare so all know I need not to speake With You it hath not beene as with Some who either have not taken more Pupils then One like the g Markan Turkey-henne which if shee see but one of her chickens following her regardeth not what becommeth of the rest or if they have taken many have refused to take just paines with them And therefore as I have beene credibly informed when their consciences have beene wakened by their last sicknes have complained of their Remisnes in that kind as of one of their most pressing Grievances Your Number hath beene Great almost Fifty have I knowne in the Colledge together under Your Name and above Thirty of them Under-graduates Some like the fruit in Alcinous his h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. Odyss l 7. Orchard ripening Others fully ripe and fit to be set forth for publike service And for your Singular Care of them that as Socrates told i Habebo curae ut te metiorem tibi reddā quàm accepi Senec. de Benef. l. 1. c. 8. Eschines you migh● restore them bette● then you received them your Constan● and earnest endeavours of joyning the Muses and Graces of making them bo●h Learned and Good as you cannot want abundant Comfort within Your Selfe so may you worthily be a President to Others It is Your great Honour as Cornelia that Noble Matrone accounted her Of-spring her greatest h Haec Ornamenta mea sunt Val● Maxmus l. 4. c. 4 exemp 1. Ornaments that out of your Nursery hath proceeded so Great a Number that you have beene so Literally Fruitfull as to spread your Branches in abundance over the face of the Land Some Pleaders at the Barre some Preservers of fraile nature Many Instructors of l Cereus in vitium flecti c. Horat. untutord youth bu● Most and some o● them of all Degrees and others very eminent Interpreters o● Sacred Oracles Al● which with the Sons of Nobles and the Gentry were they put together and a Royall Head set on the top of them would make the Better part of a little Kingdome And none of which I assure my selfe but esteemes it his great Happinesse ●hat his fresh vessell hath beene m Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu Horat. seasoned with your Principles But such Passages ● feare give you Offence Yet I am sure I doe you no wrong not ●respasse upon the Truth And if you take it for my Fault others will account it my Duty Give mee leave I beseech you to rejoyce that I am of so neere Relation to such Exemplary Vertue especially since the very n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plutarch in vita Acati mention thereof i● an Incentive to imitation and to acquain● the world what you● Goodnesse hath beene to Him who earnestly o N hil mihi fuit optatius quàm ut primùm abs te ipso deinde à caeteris omnibus quàm gratissimus erga te esse cognoscerer Cicero ad Dentulū Ep. fam l 1 ep 5. Desires to approve himself Thankfull bu● cannot reach to any higher Expression thei● this slender ●iscourse The Issue it ìs o● not many daies study and altogethe● p Ita à nobis editur ut voluntati quorū dam amicorum obsecuri magis quàm judicium nostrum secuti fuerimus Casaub in calce Nor in N.T. unworthy if not of Light yet of your Acceptance However as you formerly did the Parent who now therefore adventureth his Head to shew you his q Excutienda damus Praecordia quantaque nostrae Pars tua sit animae tibi Ostendisse juvat pulsa dignoscere cautus Quid solidum crepet pictae tectoria linguae Et quod sequitur apud Pers Sat 5 ad Corn. Heart vouchsafe it I humbly pray you your Tuition and so further oblige Your most devoted Nephew THOMAS DVGARD To the Reader I Shall not need to make a long Apology for the practice of such publike spirits as desire by setting forth divine Tractates in their native language to edifie the Church of God Thou too well knowest what a multitude of prophane Pamphlets flie abroad in the world which serve to no other use then to corrupt mens hearts and lives If there were not some counter-poyson to prevent the infection which such Discourses cause I cannot see how almost any should be free from the plague sores of pestilent impieties Shall Physitians be esteemed for finding out and making common Preservatives for the Body and shall Ministers be condemned of folly an● rewarded with reproach for compounding and communicating Antidotes for the Soule Certainely it is either ignorance or envie that hath opened the mouthes of some men who yet would seeme somthing for Learning and Religion to calumniate this pious course which by experience is found to have done so much good in the Church For how many by reading holy Treatises have beene converted from the a Jam. 5.20 er●or of their way Others ●ave beene confirmed in ●e truth gained much ●gmentation to their ●races and Comforts Object 1. They have Moses and the Pro●hets the Holy Scrip●●res in a knowne tongue ●et them reade them ●bey are all-sufficient Answ 1. The greatest part of men are ignorant and cannot understa●● what they reade witho●● a Guide and all men ha●● not a Guide at hand to c●rect them 2. All Guide have not the same gift some have more dexter●tie in opening and a●plying Scripture th●● others Now all Go●● people have interest●● the gifts of all his s●●vants and therfore w● should they be rob'd their right Object 2. There English Bookes enough ●ready and therefore to ●●d more is superfluous An. 1. There be too ma●● of a worse nature and ●is there a daily additi●● 2. The Churche's Trea●●e consists mainely in ●●d Books the more they multiplied the richer Church growes and ●●l the Church be ●ught too rich ●b 3. Many and wor●● are the labours of o●s already extant upon this Argument An. 1. Thou knowes● what is ordinarily answered In the mouth of man● witnesses Truthes are more confirmed and men left more inexcusable 2. Those Truths cannot be too often taught that ar● never sufficiently learned 3. Thou shalt find in reading This Treatise many things which thou never mettest withall specially some Scriptures sweetly explicated and above the rest that in the 1 of Ioh 3.9 which Bellarmine b Variae sunt ●ujus loci qui omnium est difficillimus expositiones Bellarm de Iustif l. 3. c. 15. sayes is the hardest in all the Scrip●ure that is urged for per●●verance in grace Thou ●●alt also find either that ●he Author had never ●ead any others that writ of this Subject or if thou findest for Substance some of the same things as who can travaile in such a way without trea●ding somtimes in the steps of former passengers