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cause_n	charity_n	effect_n	faith_n	1,561	5	6.8734	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13822	The house-holder: or, Perfect man. Preached in three sermons lately by Ed: Topsell, preacher at Saint Buttolphs without Aldersgate	Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?	1610 (1610)	STC 24126; ESTC S121017	58,032	209

confuteth or confirmeth the Maisters precepts 4 There be causes there be effects there be contraries to Faith all which knowne and discerned doe no onely confirme Faith but transport and transforme it into knowledge and true faith will neuer cease til it come to knowledge as true loue is not at quiet till it haue the seale of Mariage because it traineth to experience and experience resteth in knowing The triall of many thinges begetteth Wisedome and Wisedome the better part of experience maketh triall of euill thinges yet without sinne and keepeth that which is good It was the fault of Hieron his wife that hauing neuer kissed man except her Husband thoght that euery mans breath did smel as ill as her husbandes whereby her husband blamed her and shee was not thought careful inough of him Vntill and vnlesse we know what difference is betwixt a Iewes faith a Turkes faith an Anabaptists faith and a true Christian faith none at all in respect of the forme but the matter the efficient and the ende of beleeuing which is not discerned without knowledge I call the forme of beleeuing not the essence of a true Faith which is a worde impropriated to Diuinity but the beeing of faith in the mindes Morrall and Naturall Vertues Wherefore out of a good doctrine ariseth a good faith not on the cōtrary and out of good Doctrine and Faith a sound knowledge defending maintaining and perswading both This is that knowledge that Salomon saith is better then Golde and Siluer and is not therefore to bee misliked because it is not alway honoured and had in reputation I haue seene saith the Preacher an euil vnder the Sunne The race is not alway to the swift the victory to the strong nor breade to men of knowledge What then God himselfe is not alway so respected as hee ought shall not wee therefore regard him as much as if al the world did agnize him Bread then which nothing is more needfull to mankinde yet is not alway respected of wanton and full-fed Children shall the hungry therefore cast it away God forbid no more let honourable Science and Knowledge loose her reputation because some indiscreete Fooles haue set her in the last least and lowest place 5 God himselfe is a God of knowledge next to God men are the Professors and Students of knowledge for euen the Angels by the church are informed in the secrets of our Redemption A man without knowledge hath no God but himself no heauen but this world and in this through ignoraunce of the world to come they craue a large improuement of their euill daies feeling no other loue or hatred or feare or care or sorrowe or wounds or conscience For as men first sinne and do not care by a long inueterate custome they sinne and doe not knowe From hence men fall into a Reprobate minde hauing no good thing in them like Beastes they are guided by appetite like him that had a thousand Cookes and a thousand Faulconers Reason which should rule is made of the Ladye the Hand-maide and so the yssue of their minds is like Ismael a bastard and a Bondage-generation from which sildom commeth any good Religion the Daughter of God the Church and the first borne in Paradice yea in Heauen is clapped vp into some stinking Dungeon thorough which passeth the sincke of all our beastly pleasures and that which shoulde haue the highest and the most honourable room in our house of clay too base for such a Ghest is thrust behinde the Stables of great Horses the Mewes of Hawkes the Porters lodge yea the Scullery of the most seruile Offices and where she most loueth to be like the Haebrew seruant shee is boared thorough the eare and hath many wronges and brands of disgrace still a Seruant that should bee a Commaunder Their rule to belieue is their sence except they see with Thomas they will neuer beleeue and yet all the sences being filled they are not ouercome so easie is it to shew the reasons of Diuinity and so harde to perswade In error many like our late Apostataes are first perswaded and then instructed but in Religion and Faith after so much as sence it selfe cryeth hoe yet instruction can worke no perswasion as though some Ephialtes ouerlay their breasts 6 From hence also it commeth that Adams sinne is layed vppon God because he suffered and permitted it therefore he decreed and acted it and whatsoeuer other euill is committed in the worlde he must be made the Authour thereof so strangely rangeth ignorance and want of Knowledge being not able to discerne betwixt permission and action betwixt the action and the euill that like a Birde in a net the more it striueth the faster it is hampered and the higher goeth the sin Then Fortune or good lucke is made their Goddesse attributing whatsoeuer they haue eyther to chaunce or to themselues with the wicked in the Prophet they Sacrifice to their net or else to their Armes to their Horses to their experience to their wit but if successe faile and the yssue aunswere not the expectation then they curse themselues or open their mouth against Heauen or accuse Fortune or peraduenture lay load vpon the Deuil and wel they may for they ride him to Hell as a Thiefe in a Cart to the gallowes The Prophet saith He which is afflicted shall run hether and thether and when he is angry hee shall curse his Gods and the Kings They giue ouer praying in such cases Propter hoc malum saith Tully or arem deos at hij renuntiarunt or ationibus meis For this euill I would pray to the Gods but they haue renounced al my Prayers That admired Tacitus hath this blasphemy Numquam maiores caedes Pop. Rom. c. The people of Rome neuer indured more slaughter whereby it was prooued that the Gods are not so watchfull for our health and safegard as they bee for our punnishment and reuenge That wise Liuy also speaking of a doleful ye are saith that for Plagues Famines and sedition neuer the like befell them and if saide hee forraigne enemies had not beene wanting Vix ope deorum omnium sustentata foret Resp scarce all the Gods could haue supported our estate or common wealth It is hard yea almost impossible for men without the knowledge of God to stand in affliction if it be not sudden but lingering Wicked men are worst in long sorrowes and best in sudden good men bee worst in sudden as Manaoh Daniel and Saint Iohn and best in long miseries and continued calamities Titus another Demy-God among the Heathen when hee saw that hee must dye in his youth after he had bin Emperor but two yeares he cried out against the heauens for their small regard of his life Wicked ignorant men if they haue any spirits are like Tygers who hearing a Drumme bite and teare off their own flesh so these in great terrors and euils are at their wittes ende When their

cannot hope in him if wee know not our selues we cannot be humble and then we cannot bee blessed By the knowledge of our selues saith Saint Bernard wee Sowe in teares because we feele and see to our sorrow the defects of our Nature By the knowledge of God we reape in ioy because we feele and see and heare the plenty and copiousnesse of his Redemption therefore let vs go forth and carrie our seed weeping that we may return with our sheaues ioying and both for our knowledge and for our Humility neither with the Pharisies let vs boast our selues aboue others nor with the base multitude be contented to bee like others For in giuing Honor saith Saint Paule go one before another that is the rule of our Humility to wish with Martinus Turonensis that all our Vertues could bee concealed And again Couet the best gifts there is the rule of knowledge the best giftes are the greatest knowledge and the greatest knowledge if it be sanctified maketh the best men Difference of knowledge maketh difference of men and as Dauids grace and knowledge preferred him in the sight of God and Samuel before his Brethren thogh he were lower in stature and they taller and more personable men euen so God delighteth not in mens legs or strength but in their heart and soules The Angels are pictured not great but full of wings and wee that are in the last part and end of the world therefore lesse in our marriage bed then our Fathers in their Cradle let vs flye about the worlde about our calling vppe to Heauen with the wings of heauenly knowledge 2 Salomon therefore commandeth to bee diligent to knowe our Heards take heed to our flocks for they signifie but one thing Whereby hee meaneth that wee should informe our selues of al our possessions and not onely referre their care to our Balyffes and Stewards who many times take more paines to get our Liueries Badges then to doe vs seruice and deserts It is well obserued that Almighty God hath giuen euery mā a minde and a state equall one fit or at least fitted for another and no man is so poore but his estate is big enough to occupie his mind and set that on worke for a little with righteousnesse will keepe an honest man in action But if righteousnesse be absent what is then the condition of such a person Namely to busie himselfe in other mens affaires to talke of their liuings of their stocke of their pedigrees of their sonnes and daughters and seruants and of the prizes of Corne and Merchandize as if he had ten Characks at sea when he hath neither Money to buy nor ware to sell away This man is neuer a stranger but at home knoweth euery man but himselfe summes vp all mens reckoninges but his owne is eeuen with all accounts till he leaue himselfe euen nothing From the roote of this vanity ariseth the ydle humour of seeking after newes in Italy Spaine Fraunce Turkey Morocco or the Low-countries and wanting good matter hee coyneth some of his own then he posteth to one Lord or Ladye or other great person but of meane intelligence and there hee venteth the winde in his braine Such is the nature of mans minde my beloued as is the Nature of good ground if you Till Sowe it will it not bring foorth good fruits But if you Till it not and let it alone vnoccupied will it not bring forth weedes or Grasse Euen so our mindes sowed with knowledge of good discipline yeeldeth a happy haruest of honest faculties but let alone and not filled with some better matter becommeth stuffed with the wind of vain humours lying Tales credulous lies and vnprofitable discourse From hence also it commeth that men haue leisure to sowe debate by immagining faults where none are and discouering imperfections and follies of other men which lying hid in secret were better buriand forgotten then remembred For what cōmeth of it but shame to our Countreymen contentions in the Law troubling of the seates of Iudgement hatred and diuision among honest families exhausting of Treasure and setting the soule either wide open by malice to the deuill or closed vp by shaking off grace and shame This is the fruite of them that are ignorant of their owne estates and yet be turbulent discerners of other men the best is the world payeth them well againe For if they haue as many Maisters as they haue hearers euery one payeth him with hatred reuilings and reproaches so as hee laboureth without fruite Sowing the winde and reaping the Whirle-wind discouereth without thankes speaketh without credit eateth without welcome liueth without reputation or loue dieth without teares or pitty sauing it is pitty such wretches treade vpon Gods deare earth 2 But you beloued which either heare this or heare of this binde and buckle your selues to knowledge if it were possible of euery thing Art Trade and Occupation but especially of your estates without which a Christian is vnlike to God and shameth his profession which crediteth other men where onely he shoulde beleeue himselfe You haue but two things in your estate to looke into your soules and your Temporalties do in the one as you do in the other I read of one Pomponianus a Mantuan that he was in secret accused for denying the soule and at last as all secret faults shall bee renealed it came into the light and hee was called into Iudgement for it His Iudges demanded of him whether hee did belieue hee had a soule or no hee answered Negatiuely hee did not whereat his enemies and accusers reioyced his graue Iudges reproued him sharply and gaue sentence vppon him The Prisoner meruailed and told them they were too hasty for said he do you belieue you haue souls Yea said they al and accurse them that do not But said he do you no more then beleeue it saide they that is sufficient then saith he Non credosed scio I do not only belieue it as a thing absent but I knowe I haue a soule and faith giues place to knowledge So my beloued do not onely beleeue you haue Leases and Lands and Friendes and Cattle and goods and Soules but know it it is better to know then to beleeue it Heauenly thinges I must belieue till I may know but earthly things I must know or else I cannot belieue I will loue my Seruaunt for his obedience but I will not belieue or trust him for all my state Know your selues to be rich and doe not onely beleeue it know your selues to be Christians and do not onely beleeue it know your selues to be in the way to heauen for if you doe but belieue it you are deceiued Knowe your selues to haue Hope Faith and Charity report and opinion are many times false Faith is the beginning of life eternal knowledge is the perfection and complement Faith goeth before as Grammar before other Arts or as the scholler belieueth his Master but knowledge commeth after and eyther