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The copie of the sermon preached before the Vniversitie at S. Maries in Oxford, on Tuesday the XXIV. of Decemb. 1633. By Tho. Browne, one of the students of Christ-church
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Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.
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STC 3912; ESTC S114322
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our Lord. In the holy Patriarches Prophets Apostles Martyrs whose example and stedfastnesse in the Faith graunt He vs Grace to follow FOR all his Benefits both Temporall and Spirituall in great Mercy and Abundance conferred vpon vs. Not only for our Election Creation Redemption Vocation Iustification Sanctification in some weake measure in this life and Hope of Glory in the life to come But FOR our mediocrity of Health competency of Wealth Preseruation from many imminent and apparent Dangers though not of that miraculous Mercy as our deliuerance from the Spanish Invasion the Gunpowder-Treason and the late Plague among vs. FOR all his benefits Nationall or Locall As well for the Plenty and Peace which he hath bestowed vpon vs when he hath not dealt so with many other Nations As for that liberall Education which He hath conferred vpon vs of this Place by King Henry the Seaventh and Elizabeth his Wife Humphrey Duke of Gloucester Lady Margaret Countesse of Richmond Iohn Kempe Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Kempe Bishop of London Richard Lichfield Archdeacon of Middlesex Thomas Woolsey Archbishop of Yorke King Henry the Eight Founder of Christ-Church King Edward the Sixt Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth King Iames of blessed memory And our present Gratious Soveraigne the King Sr Thomas Bodley Sr Henry Sauill and Sr William Sidley Knights Mr William Camden and Dr Thomas White Men and Women in Their generations Famous and in Ours neuer to be Forgotten And in PRAYER not for our selues alone but for the whole estate of his Catholicke Church militant here on Earth FOR those particular Churches in which we liue vnder the gouernment of a religious King CHARLES the first of that Name King of England Scotland France and Ireland defender of the Faith In all Causes and ouer all Persons Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill within these his Dominions Supreame Head and Governour That it may please him so to Blesse vnto him his virtuous Lady the Queene the Prince the Lady Mary the young Duke his royall Progenie with the Princesse Palatine his only Sister and her Issue that after this life ended they may all attaine everlasting Ioy and Felicitie through Iesus Christ our Lord. FOR the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the rest of his Majesties most Honourable Priuie Councell FOR the Nobilitie Magistracie Gentrie and Commonaltie of the Land That it may please him to giue them Grace to Feare Him Honour their King hate Coveteousnesse and to let Brotherly Loue continue FOR the Right Reverend Fathers of the Church both the Archbishops all the Bishops with the whole Bodie of the Clergie For the Eies of that Bodie the two Vniversities of the Land Oxford and Cambridge In that FOR the right Honourable and right reuerend Father in God William by the Prouidence of God his Grace of Canterburie Primate and Metropolitan of all England One of his Maiesties Councelours of State Our Honourable Lord and Chancellour FOR the right worshipfull his Vicechancelour FOR all the Doctors both the Proctors all Heads of Colledges and Halls particularlie for the worthy Deane of Christ-Church the Prebendaries Students and euerie member of that or any other Societie That it may please him so to make Religion and Discipline to flourish among vs that all they which speake evill of vs may be ashamed when they heare of our Conversations and receaue a greater foyle from them then from our Controversies FOR all Iewish and seduced Romish Proselytes whether as yet without the pales of his Church or Members of an vnsound One. That it may please him so to let them see and vnderstand the mysteries of their Saluation that we being all reduced to one Faith vnder one Shepheard of our Soules may with joyfullnesse expect the comming of the Sonne of Man in the clouds to Iudgment FOR all those his Seruants which are departed hence from vs with the Signe of Faith and doe now rest in the Sleepe of Peace That it may please him to grant vnto them his Mercy and that at the day of the generall Resurrection we and all they which be of the mysticall body of his Sonne may be set on his right hand all together and heare that his most joyfull voyce Come vnto me O yee that be blessed of my Father and possesse the Kingdome which is prepared for you from the beginning of the World And FOR our Selues lastly that are assembled here together to be made pertakers of his holy Word That it may please him to blesse Me in Speaking You in Hearing and both in Practising of both in our Liues and Conversations That it may please him to giue vs these and all other his blessings which he in his infinite Wisedome knowes to be most necessary for vs and which we know neither how to deserue nor desire but in that Forme which hee himselfe hath taught vs saying Our Father which art c. Vt timearis VVE begin with feared And Feare is a good Beginning Principium Of Feare Sapientiae the wiseman calls it so that to begin wisely no such Beginning as with Shalt bee Feared It. There is an Epistle in Bernard the 108. is that I meane that in steed of Salutem in Domino the Ordinatie tearme of greeting begins with Timorem Domini for the complement of Salutation It is as full of spirituall wisedome that Epistle as most in the whole volume Principium sapientiae did I call it So indeed wee Prov. 1. 7. reade But that is not All. It is not alwaies as in the verse Optima Prima the Best goes not alwaies First We know where it was kept euen till Now in the 2. John The word for Principium in the Iohn 2. 10. Originall is the same that is vsed in the Law for Primitiae So that Feare is both the Beginning of wisdome that is First and it is the First-Fruites of wisedome that is Best First and Best both They haue a Prouerbiall saying in the Pirke Auoth this Metus antecedit Sapientiam that it is better to Feare to Doe Euill then to Know how to Doe Good And therefore some of their Doctors in Galatinus vpon the place Homines Jumenta tu saluabis Deus Psalme 36. The Lord shal saue both man and beast doe obserue that God will not saue those that are Homines onely those onely that haue the vnderstanding of Men in the knowledge of what is Good except they be Jumenta too except in the Doing of Euill they be Fearfull Foolish and Ignorant euen as it were a Beast before him as the Psalmist speakes in the Psal 73. at the 21 verse As Church-Discipline is Retinaculum Fidej t is Cyprian so calleth it the Bridle of our Faith So Feare is Retinaculum Naturae as the Philosopher calls it the Bridle of Nature which being once cast vpon her does either guide and gouerne her in the right way or else does quickly checke and turne her about when shee is in the wrong It keeps her right therefore the Prophet in the