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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12160	Corona charitatis, = The crovvne of charitie a sermon preacht in Mercers Chappell, May 10. 1625. at the solemne funerals of his euer-renowmed friend, of precious memory, the mirroir of charitie, Mr. Richard Fishburne, merchant, and now consecrated as an anniuersary to his fame; by Nat: Shute, rector of the parish of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, London.	Shute, Nathaniel, d. 1638.	1626 (1626)	STC 22466; ESTC S117282	35,817	55

owne experience chatters thus much to mee that when the presentations of these new-borne Benefices shall bee deuolued vpon you that many wandring Doues will flie to your Arke and that the Fountaines aboue and below will bee moued Power from great ones and friends among your selues moulded on purpose for some priuate ends Therefore then looke vpon the Picture of this Gentleman I meane his Will Let neither Might nor Partialitie blow away that care he entrusted you withall And though many lines be requisite to make a faire Image and many gifts to make a Preacher yet principally I would set forward one request vnto you that you would adorne your Election not with men too young and of the first head but with men of temper whose braines were setled long since For a Minister without discretion is like Sampson without his eyes fitter for a Mill then a Church and so I resigne the rest to your wise considerations and ioyne my selfe againe to my former argument If any shall turne the point of this Obiection against this Mercy and say that this Gentleman was a single man and had no children therefore his Charitie bore the lesse price hauing no wayes else so faire a way to direct it I now answere for his ashes First Many a single man leaues the World as the Assyrians left their Campe with a noyse and a tumult and out of confusion dispose iust nothing Secondly Though he had no children yet he wanted not these of his name and kindred one of which he might haue adopted and haue powred all this Oyle into one Vessell if he would haue hunted as many doe after a worldly continuance of his name Whatsoeuer men blatter to the contrary I shall still send out my Prayers vnto Heauen that this Mother of Israel this Honourable Citie may bring forth many such Children But enough for his life If I haue broken my limits and bankes with too long a discourse I craue pardon because though I may haue ouer-runne my selfe in affection to his person yet I haue not ouer-reacht in the truth of the cause And so I come to his death which was like Sampsons death no lesse famous if not more famous then his life for euer as the premises are so is the conclusion and a good life drawes after it a good death Shall I colour out vnto you his deuout and comfortable receiuing of the Sacrament in his sicknesse the vse of which howsoeuer now some Opiniasters after so long a dissent of practice arraigne at their owne barres An iustitia fortitudo fuerint animalia Sen. ep 113. for this is an age to question any thing euen whether vertues be Creatures yet lyes it so faire to the eye if wee will not ride all Antiquitie and Reason that they that will kick at this Nec fi solem ipsum manibus gestemus fidem commodabunt Lactant. l. 7. c. 1. will not lend vs their faith though wee should carrie the Sunne in our hands Shall I set before you that iudicious confession of his Faith which hee made at that time I cannot vnrip euery peece thred by thred the time forbids me Shall I conduct you to the desire hee had to the absolution of the Church which was accordingly performed I know there are some who would haue Religion to bee like a coate without shape or decencie who thinke it fitter to breake ope heauen gates with an vntempered violence Non claue sed clauo then to open them with a key and these with their Iron hornes push at this practise of the Church as if it were some Syrian some Popish rag But I craue passage for a word or two First I doe not beleeue that there is the same power in the Minister as in God authoritatiuè by originall and prime power to expiate and purge sinne Verè tanquam dei ministriab solvunt id quod deus ipse efficit Catechis Rom. pa. 2. c. 5. uum 15 Haec soluendi ligandi potestas non minor est in Ecclesia quam in Christo Cusan epist 2. ad Bohemos nor yet the same in substance and differing only in degree of eminencie in God and ministerie in man as our aduersaries auerre for if it were the same in kind with Gods power whether originally or by deriuation to forgiue sinne it must needes be alwaies effectuall as it is in God and the keyes should neuer erre which the Papists themselues will not defend for the key of our absolution may sometimes bend or turne round and not open the gate of heauen Secondly if that proper and neuer-erring power of forgiuing sinnes bee not in the Minister then reason binds vs to beleeue that it is some other act improper and indirect which is onely attributed to man in forgiuing sinnes as first by disposing a man in the vse of the word publicke or priuate to repentance and so to make him capable of remission of sinnes Secondly vpon probable signes of repentance to pronounce such a man penitent absolued Thirdly by actuall absolution of him as in a Patent the Conditions are first drawne Secondly the Patent is sealed Thirdly it is deliuered and applied so doth Christ attribute to the Ministers for the honour of their Ministrie a neerer act of remission of sinnes and saith Whosesoeuer sinnes yee remit they are remitted vnto them Joh. 20.23 for hee that onely disposeth a man to forgiuenesse or pronounceth him forgiuen is remotely said to forgiue Yet this actuall absolution is not a proper act of forgiuing neither namely such a one as hath a direct necessarie and physicall influence into the effect of absolution but onely it is causa moralis or concilians a cause morall whereupon God is stirred vp seeing the preparation of the Penitent and the absolution of the Minister that is his owne ordinance to concurre with that act of the Minister and to forgiue sinnes And this doth neither too much Idolize this power of forgiuing sinnes with the Papists nor yet too much tread it vnderfoot with others whom the false fire of their owne Imagination leades to thinke that the Absolution appointed by the Church and confirmed with other things by Act of Parliament is a superfluous and Popish obseruation Statut. Eliz. 1. and that God hath lent no power at all to it But I will draw in my breath One thing I am sure of that after the receipt of this Sacrament and the forme of absolution God blew vpon that Garden of Spices his heart and raised him a great deale of comfort as others can beare a part with mee in this testimonie Shall I bring forth all his religious sayings which passed from him during all the time of his sicknesse Amongst many others Hee did blesse God that hee was to die in such a Religion where the Ministers gaped not after dying mens goods as the Popish Priests doe but after their soules For indeed they doe not so much giue the sicke oyle as take from