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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12814	Three sermons tvvo of them appointed for the Spittle, preached in St. Pauls Church, by John Squier, vicar of St. Leonards Shoredich in Middlesex: and John Lynch, parson of Herietsham in Kent.	Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653.; Lynch, John, 1590 or 91-1680. aut	1637 (1637)	STC 23120; ESTC S117834	61,921	114

the ambitious higher to hurle him downe lower But if thou hadst been sure to have had such fast footing and hand-grasping that thou shouldst never have slipped from the Ladder of preferment yet so much as thou hadst added to thy honours thou hadst added to thy Stewardship also Et quicquid tihi impensum est exigetur à te qualiter expensum est every mite every minute every title every tittle of dignitie must bee accounted for Thy ambition would have added to thy accounts a thousand for one when thou shouldst not have been able to answer one for a thousand Good men do save themselves and those that heare them Great men doe account for themselves and for those that serve them Honours being atchieved if Maximus and Optimus could meet in one man yet even Hee shall bee glad while he liveth to use this prayer of this Publican God be mercifull to me a sinner and when hee dyeth to pray as a great and good man of this kingdome did pray dying Lord forgive me Mine-Other-mens sins Now all these groundlesse boundlesse endlesse fruitlesse unlawfull unlimited sinnefull desires of pleasure profits and preferment whither did they doe they would they lead thee O my miserable soule to be a Cain Homicida a killer of a man to bee an Absalom parricida a supplanter of thy father to be a Baanah regicida a rebell against thy King yea yet more execrable to be one of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fight against thy God For what is all this but an aversion from the Creator and a conversion to the creature a trampling on the instruction of his precepts a spurning at the direction of his providence To resist Jehova my Maker Jesus Christ my Redeemer and the Holy Ghost my Paraclete my Sanctifier and blessed Comforter Oh ure seca in hoc saeculo ut parcas in futuro nay Ure seca in hoc saeculo ne peccem de futuro Lord wound burne my body so that my soule may not sinne lay upon me obscurity infamy ignominy poverty weakenesse sicknesse death any thing but sinne and hell but sinne the cause of hell and hell the effect of sinne If now that eternall Judge should injoine me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an eternall silence for my eternall demerit I would begge but one word to be left to the liberty of mine utterance which should never be out of my mouth nor out of his Eares PECCAVI I have sinned Peccavi I have sinned against heaven and against thee and am no more worthy to be called thy sonne Peccavi I have sinned Lord I have sinned and these sheepe what have they done Peccavi I have sinned but Propitius peccatori God be mercifull to me The sinner By this second point I have shewed sinne to bee a burden indeed Such a burden as neither wee nor our Forefathers were ever able to beare Howbeit hitherto I have onely touched that Burden with my little finger In the third point following I will set my shoulder to it and then my heart shall tell you how I feele the weight of it Wee see thus that sinne is a burden yet ordinary sinners feele it not For where sinne is growne into a custome Mulus mulum scabit the sinner reacheth a cushion to the divell and by a reciprocall courtesie the divell reacheth a cushion to the sinner The sinner biddeth the divell take his ease and spare his temptation the divell biddeth the sinner take his ease and feare no damnation for sinne must bee freely and secarely committed Your Urinatores expert Swimmers being under water feele not the weight of a full fraighted ship of a thousand runnes riding perpendicularly over the very head of them But so soon as they put their heads above water the least touch of the least part of the ship will stemme them and tumble them headlong into the bottome of the Ocean So whilest miserable men swimme in the custome of any pleasing or profitable sinne they are insensible of the burden of any crime though it be as bigge as a Carrick or as one of those vaste Sea-carts at Lepanto But so soone as they shall begin but to lift up their heads out of the Ocean of their habituall offences but to looke towards heaven they will be ready to sinke with feare to be drowned in despaire at the very apprehension thereof This applicative phrase Mihi peccatori to Me a sinner will instruct us to ponder this point Here I propose My selfe Your looking-glasse The sight of my frailties may reflect to you your infirmities either the very same or some very like shadowed by this example Irrideant me arrogantes ego tamen confitebor tibi dedecora mea in laudem tuam although confession to God produce derision from man yet will I say Mihi peccatori to Mee the sinner and let mee have the shame God the glory and you an Item for your conversation To looke backe to the very Aest of my Nativity and lower also I was a sinner before I was I was borne in sinne and my mother conceived mee in iniquity In my swadling clouts those cradle-cryings and inarticulate complainings were the actuall froth pumped from the dregges of my originall pollution Afterwards being but Infans Mendaciis Paedagogum fallebam pomorum furta faciebam being not able to speake plainely nor to goe strongly yet then I had a tongue to tell a lye for feare of the rod and an hand to plucke other mens fruit for the love of my palate These little sinnes shewed that being but a little childe I had too little regard or knowledge at the least of our great God and his holy commandements My carefull parents putting me to Schoole how did I play away that price lesse Treasure my Time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how often did my sports add feathers to those nimble houres and afterwards how faine would I have clipped the wings of those birds which God knoweth were then flowne away too farre from being caught againe At the University I had no lips to kisse those hands which clothed and fed mee there I did not onely want a purse but which is worse an heart also to be sufficiently thankfull to those instruments now with God which gave me that blessed education Being chosen Fellow in our Colledge and taking Pupils I gave them too much libertie and tooke my selfe too little paines I was an Heli when I should have been a Gamaliel I considered not that University Tutors should bee like the Latine Tutores Tuitores Defenders of younglings against barbarismes in their language and barbarousnesse in their lives I considered not that the inde fatigable industry of vigilant diligent Tutors should make every Colledge both like Athe●● which taught men to know well and like Lacedaemon which taught men to doe well When the University had fitted mee for the Ministry I entred that Calling with joy and hope fastning my expectation on