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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59213	A Lent-sermon preached in the cathedral church at Norwich upon a Shrove Svnday by Robert Seppens ...	Seppens, Robert.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2559_VARIANT; ESTC R33864	16,210	35

in this quia severiores in nos sumus eò debemus sperare magis propitium Deum The more severe we are to our selves the more propitious we ought to hope God will be to us And therefore though we favour not those indiscreet and immoderate afflictions of the body that have heretofore been used by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zelots and that are now in the Roman Church practised yet we are sorry there is in the world such general dislike of the discipline of Mortification that was used by the Apostles themselves and holy Christians in the purest times To see that men are grown such lovers of themselves that they will endure nothing against their ease and pleasure to see the extremity of such foolish zeal that to avoid that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not sparing of the body which St. Paul toucheth upon they directly run into that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wantonness of the body that all Christianity condemns That to avoid that superstition they understand not they run counter upon his practice they do understand and ought to follow To avoid the suspicion of being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 abstemious they turn plain Borborites wallowing in all Carnal Lusts and Pleasures To avoid the danger of symbolising with the Papists they run with the Heathen into all excess of riot And as we are sorry to see these things so we are bold to open our mouths wide in this solemn assembly and complain of it as one cause of the grand impiety lewdness and debauchery of these times That men on Fasting days Ember weeks and the time of Lent when they should go to Joels doctrine of turning to the Lord with fasting and weeping and mourning they go to Jaels Butter and Milk in a Lordly dish wrap them warm and lay them down and take their rest that they turn their fasting days into feasting days instead of watching in night to Prayer sleep away all Prayers in the day instead of taking of revenge on themselves for their sins let no pleasure of the Spring pass by them Men have found out an easier way of going to heaven then St. Paul knew or the Saints in after ages they can go now à deliciis ad delicias from the pleasures of this world to the pleasures of another when the Church calls to lamentation and mourning behold joy and gladness slaying Oxen and killing Sheep eating flesh and drinking Wine Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Isai xxii 12. That what Tertullian in his Book Contra Psychicos invidiously spake of the Orthodox Quorum charitas in cacabis quorum spes in ferculis quorum fides in culinis c. whose Charity is in their Boilers whose Hope is in their Dishes whose Faith is in their Kitchin whose Dressers are their Altars whose Cooks are their Priests whose God is their Belly What St. Jerom was wont to say of his Country where he was born In patria mea Deus venter est In my Country every man makes his Belly his God And what Sir Edwin Sands saith of the Roman Church in his Europae Speculum That for a man who were desirous to save his Soul when he dyes and yet deny himself no pleasure while he lives there is no such Church as the Roman is I fear me may be spoken of ours in regard of our practice Nay 't is spoken by them in effect They call us the locusts in the Revelation our song is esca ventri and venter escae we live by the Flesh Pots of Egypt and by the Flesh Pots of Egypt we will die we live by the graves of lust and by the graves of lust we will be buried Suffer therefore a word of Exhortation and 't is but the word of St. Paul to Tymothy Suffer hardness as good Soldiers and that of St. James Be afflicted and mourn let your laughter be turned into mourning c. These Austerities I have commended to you are neither Popish nor Superstitious they were practised by St. Paul himself the great Apostle And if we will be Cristians indeed we must be Paulianists in this point be followers of him even as he is of Christ Let not the popular clamours affright you from these undertakings alas they speak evil of those things they understand not Let not the fears of weakness deter you Ideò sancti viri infirmiores se esse faciunt quia si fortes sancti vix esse possunt Therefore Holy men make themselves weak because if lusty they cannot be Holy Let not the fear of pain and suffering retard you Noluit Deus hominem ad immortalem beatitudinem delicato itinere pervenire God would not have men come to everlasting blessedness in a way strown with Roses And yet there is no such bitterness in the matter but will be recompensed abundantly by the using of it What St. Paul saith of Gods chastisements I may say of these and with that conclude this part of my Text. No chastning for the present seems joyous nevertheless afterwards it brings forth the peaceable fruits of Righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby In now com to the fourth and last part of my Text the victory of St. Paul got by this manner of fighting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I bring my body into subjection In the word before St. Paul alludes to the cuffers here he alludes to the wrastlers in the Graecian Combats The wrastler that could by art or force oppress his adversary and get him down had the title of a Pancratiast such a Pancratiast was St. Paul who by blows and hard usage oppressed his body and brought it into subjection 'T is not enough to Combat with the Flesh and the Lusts of it there is a victory to be obtained The Flesh is ambitious of Rule and Dominion and for that purpose as Semiramis did mentiri sexum belie her Sex that she might get into the Throne of her Son Ninus so the Flesh and the Lusts of it do mentiri sexum pretend to Liberty Zeal and Conscience and if by any means it gets into the Throne there is no Tyrant more Tyrannical no brute more brutish nor fury more furious than the Lusts reigning witness the fearful Tragedies acted in every Age in every part of the World As therefore God ordained that man should rule over the woman Gen. iii. 16. so Gen. iv 7. he hath ordained that man should rule over his Concupiscence His desire shall be to thee and thou shalt rule over him The Pronoun him and his may refer to sin as the antecedent and be rendered thus Under thee shall the desire of sin be and thou shalt rule over it and Mr. Calvin himself grants this to be as commodious and agreeable to the Grammatical sense as the other Under thee shall his desire be and thou shalt rule over him In Philosophy they tell us that the inferiour part is naturally apt to obey the superiour and the superiour to govern the inferiour though