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cause_n	disease_n	nature_n	symptom_n	2,067	5	11.8165	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12481	Sermons of the Right Reuerend Father in God Miles Smith, late Lord Bishop of Glocester. Transcribed out of his originall manuscripts, and now published for the common good; Sermons	Smith, Miles, d. 1624.; Prior, Thomas, b. 1585 or 6.	1632 (1632)	STC 22808; ESTC S117422	314,791	326

of Sentence against the faulty but this is their comfort and exceeding great content if they can say with Pericles that they neuer caused any to weare a mourning gowne or rather if they can say with Saint Paul This is our reioycing euen the testimony of our consciences that in godly purenesse wee haue had our conuersation in the world And with Saint Paul againe That they are pure from the blood of all men I meane that they shed no innocent blood And lastly with Samuel whose Oxe haue I taken c Whom haue I hurt or of whose hand haue I receiued any bribe to blind mine eyes withall c This is a Robe that will better grace and adorne them then any Scarlet and be more cordiall to their inwards then any B●zar-stone and more comfortable and warme to their stomackes then any stomacher of Swans skinne or whatsoeuer is most warme and comfortable But I haue beene too tedious The Lord make that which hath beene spoken profitable vnto vs for his Sonne Christs sake To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honor and glory for euer and euer Amen A SERMON VPON THE SIXTH OF IEREMY THE EIGHTH SERMON IEREMY 6. verse 16. Thus saith the Lord Stand yee in the wayes and see and aske for the old pathes where is the good way and walke therein and yee shall find rest for your soules WERE they confounded saith Ieremy in the Verse immediatly going before when they committed abomination No they were not abashed at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither knew they shame or to be ashamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Hiphil taken passiuely as many times it is therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time that I visit them they shall be made to fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cast downe saith the Lord. In which words the Prophet sheweth both the hidiousnesse and transcendent greatnesse of the sinnes of the Iewes as also the fountaine and well-spring thereof It is a bitter thing and wicked to depart from the Lord by any kind of transgression either against the first Table or against the second But now when a man hath done euill to blesse himselfe as it were and to say in his heart that no euill shall happen vnto him for the same to harden his face like the Adamant and to be touched with no remorse or shame no remorse inwardly no shame outwardly not to blush for the matter nor to seeke as much as Figge-leaues to couer his nakednesse This argueth both the height of presumption and the depth of iniquity and villany and this is that which maketh sinne to be aboue measure sinfull and hatefull Well this was their desperate malady and the fearefull 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Paroxysm thereof What was the cause for me thinks the Prophet proceedeth after the manner of Physicians from the disease to the Symptomes from the Syptomes to the causes from the causes to the remedies They knew not shame The light of Nature that was in them they had for the greatest part extinguished by their custome of sinning And as for others that should reforme and reclaime them by setting before them the things that they had done and by thundring forth Gods Iudgements and plagues against them for holding the truth in vnrighteousnesse such I say as should doe this great worke of the Lord seriously and sincerely they wanted Thus the people perished for want of knowledge for want of knowledge of their sinne and shame and in this forlorne estate the Iewes are described to be in the verse before my Text. In my Text is set downe the last thing that Physicians doe and is most acceptable to the Patients namely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the manner and medicine for cure that should remoue the disease and bring health to the Patient in the words which I haue read vnto you Stand vpon or neere the wayes and aske for the old pathes or euerlasting pathes where is the goodway and goe therein and find rest for your soules As if he said One of the greatest causes of your shamefull and shamelesse carriage both towards God and towards man at the leastwise one of the greatest matters that you can pretend for your excuse is ignorance or want of knowledge of the will of God that you doe not know the Royall Lawe that your Leuites teach you not Gods Iudgements and Lawes that the Priests rebuke not in the gate that the Prophets sooth you in your sinnes healing the wound of the daughter of Gods people with soft words c. But how The Lord hath spoken nothing in secret neither is his Word darkenesse neither are you so blind that you need alwayes to be led by the hand Why then doe you not take Gods Booke into your hand and there search for the right way for the good will of God and acceptable and perfect Why doe you not learne at the length to be your owne caruers or if that place be so difficult that you cannot vnderstand it why doe you not consult the more learned them that haue their wits exercised and acquainted with the Word of God that so you may finde satisfaction and rest for your soules This know for a surety that the old way that which was at the first chalked out by God himselfe in Mount Sinai and after laid open by Moses the man of God and the Prophets sithence which spake and wrote as they were moued by the holy Ghost that is the Good way and the straight way neither is there straightnesse or goodnesse in any other This I take to be the true coherence of the words of my Text with the former verse and also the naturall meaning of them wherein note with me three things 1. A perswasion consisting of diuers branches Stand vpon the wayes this is one See this is another Aske for the old way this is the third 2. A correction or limitation Aske not simply for the old way for that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that may be called old in comparison which in comparison of old truth is but new but for the good old way and be bold to walke therein 3. And lastly a motiue or reason drawne ab vtili You shall find rest for your soules that is you shall be sure to find it Touching the first When the Prophet saith Stand neere the wayes or vpon the wayes he meeteth with and striketh at two vices too frequent and vsuall in all ages Epicurisme and Superstition Many there be that make no reckoning of Religion which end goeth forward nay whether they know any thing of it or no. Who is the Lord say they that we should serue him and what profit in learning his wayes doe wee not see that all things fall out alike to the ignorant and to the learned to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth n t c wherefore then should we weary our selues in vaine to search and sift what is