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A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

of God ioy of Angels hauen of sinners Awake thou that sleepest in thy sinnes 2. Ti. 2.7 I say vnto thee as Saint Paul to his Tymothy Consider what I say and the Lord giue thee vnderstanding in all things Come now and reason with God though thy sinnes be as scarlet they may be as white as snow Is 1.18 though they be red like crimson they may be as wooll God is able to bring light out of darknes life out of death our sinnes shall turne to our good if we rise from them more humble more fearfull more carefull and warie then wee were before Happy is that fall that is taken vp by humility Bar. To our repentance wee must adde our former good workes from whence we are fallen For by our good workes wee glorifie our father which is in heauen Mat. 5.16 Mat. 5. By them wee shew our faith Ia. 2. By them our consciences are quieted Ia. 2.18 being sure neuer to fall making our calling and election sure 2. Pet. 1.10 Yet merit by these wee cannot 2. Pet 1.10 Iustified by them wee are not Euery one must confesse as Gregory Nudum me in fide prima gratia genuit nudum eadem gratia in assumptione saluabit Gr. Meral l 2 c. 40. p. 11. col 1. Edit Par. 1551. the first grace begot in vs faith when wee were but naked in good workes and the same grace shall saue vs hereafter when we shal be but naked in them neither Non proecedunt iustificandum sed sequuntur iustificatum they are the signes of our sanctificatiō not the causes of our iustification That learned speech of reuerend Caluin shall euer be true Fides sola est quae iustificat fides tamen quae iustificat nonest sola Vt solis calor solus est qui terram calefaciat Col. in Act. Synod Trid. Sext Sess Antid Tract Theol. p. 336. col 2. non tamen idem insole solus est quia coniunctus cum splendore It is faith alone that iustifieth and yet that faith that iustifieth is not alone As it is the heate alone of the Sunne that heateth the earth yet is not that heat in the Sunne alone because it hath brightnes ioyned with it Repentance and good workes cannot be seuered Behold a Christian must labour else he shall neuer tast the sweet Manna of comfort from aboue The Angels of heauen need not to repent because they sinne not the Diuels in hell care not for repentance their iudgement is sealed but it appertaineth to vs all who are the sonnes of men and must be practised if euer wee will goe to heauen Our marble and flinty hearts must bee sofrened with the sweet showers of Gods heauenly word Our stiffe and iron-sinued neckes must bee bowed with the yoake either of the Gospell or of the law Our foreheads must not be like hers that refused to bee ashamed Math. 11.30 Act. 15.10 Ie. 3. Our eares must not be so deafe our eyes so drye our senses so dull our wills so obstinate our affections so barren our desires so cold but wee must awake The golden bels of Aaron the thundring trompets of Esay the well-tuned Cimbals of Dauid the shrill sound of preaching aime onely at our conuersion to God O consider this you that forget God I speake only to them whose consctences accuse them If you make religion but fashion seeking onely to seeme Christians hauing Gods liuery on your backes and name in your mouthes yet outfacing all reproofes by your insatiable couetousnes biting vsury false measures forsworne valuations adulterat wares catching at the possessions of the Church grinding and griping the faces of the poore by which meanes howsoeuer you fill your Coffer you fester your soules though your faces were like Angels without repentance and good workes there must follow a portion with the Diuels from which Good Lord deliuer vs. O then while it is called to day let vs ransacke our hearts and get a sound affection to God a firme resolution to goodnes hatred to sinne in all men especially in our selues and an obedient keeping of the commandements O then you whom God hath endowed with holy and vpright hearts that haue done and intend still to doe honour to your maker honesty to the Gospell credit to this famous Citie Be stedfast and vnmoueable alwaies abcūding in these works of the Lora knowing that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. You are not Treasurers but Stewards whose praise is more to lay out well then to haue receiued much Neither the times nor your selues are in your owne disposing the more speedily you doe good the more comfort you shall receiue O then let vs all follow Austins aduise Aug. 〈◊〉 33. in Job take time while time is offered least the gate of mercy which to day is open to morrow bee shut and neuer opened againe vnto vs. Let vs beware that wee abuse not the patience and long suffering of so good a God least after so-many calmes of comfort he powre downe vpon vs the bitter stormes of indignation and come quickly against vs as hee threateneth to come against Ephesus which is the first particular of my second generall Of else I willcome vnto thee quickly Prima secundae Such are the neuer-stinting streames of Gods mercy that hee neuer ouerthroweth any King dome or nation Citty or people before he send a warning peece to admonish them He endured the people of the Iewes sufficiently in the wildernesse protesting in the Psalmes Ps 95 10. Forty years long was I grieued with this generation not onely prouoked offended discontented but grieued at his very soule who could haue grieued all the veines of their hearts and taught them the price of angring so dreadfull a Maiesty as his is A generation for whose sake hee had wrought many wonders preparing a table for them in the desart their diet Qu●iles and Manna in such aboundance in such delicacie that neuer any Prince was so serued in his greatest pompe hee deliuered them from a bondage worse then death vanquisht many Kings for them and led them by miracle through the red Sea yet they murmure repine grudge rebell and when no fauour could moue them God sweareth in his wrath that they should not enter into his rest His patience being moued turneth into fury Here are mercy and iudgement that hee threateneth before hee punisheth and it is conditionall Vpon the opening of the ayre and shutting of the windowes of heauen after the waters had ouer-run the world in 150. dayes God set his bow in the cloud a token of Couenant betwixt him and the earth Not but that there was Raine and a Raine bow before the flood for how else could the plants and fruites of the earth haue beene so many yeares preserued without Raine but Now it began to be a signe twixt God and man Gen. 9.11 Doct. Will●t in Gen. that there should be no more a flood to destroy the

Ierom. amidst their greatest pompe and triumphs had euer one at the backe of the Chariot to pull the Conqueror by the sleeue and so oft as the people shouted to crye to him againe Memento te hominem esse Remember thou art a man A lesson which Simonides the first humane inuentour of the art of memorie Tully taught Pausanias King of the Lacedemonians at a banquet being desired to speake something of greatest importance which for the present was taken scornfully but afterwards in a famine the King confessed the wisdome of the heathen man It was the morning voice of Philips boy Pharaohs Butler forgat Ioseph Gen. 40.23 Gen. 41.51 Da. 2.8 Mat. 16.5 Sab. l. 10. c. 9. Pli li. 7. c. 24. Vola ter l. 21. Ioseph forgat all his toyle and all his Fathers house Nebuchadnezzar dreamed but the thing went from him hee forgat his owne dreame The Disciples forgot to take bread with them Messala Coruinus after a sicknes forgot his owne name Another mencioned by Plinv hauing a great fall Zuing. Theat forgot his owne Mother Gregorius Trapezuntius in his old age the Greeke tongue wherein he had excelled Theseus the white sayle which his father charged him to set vp if he returned a victor into Crete and vsing a blacke one it was dismall to Agetus Orbilius forgot his Alphabet Caluisius the names of those with whom hee conuersed daily Curio the Iudge forgot the cause he should haue giuen iudgement vppon Atticus the Sonne of Sophista the names of the 4. Elements The Thracians their Arithmeticke so that they could not count aboue the number of 4. Ephesus here forgat her first workes her first loue and therefore is roused vp Memorie is the Diarie Eph●●merides and looking glasse of a Christian It belongeth to thinges past as Sense doth to things present and Hope to thinges future Tully called it the print or trace of things Quintilian the ground of all learning Plato the mother of the Muses Aristotle the Scribe of the Soule The Physitian the Lawyer the Mathematician the Merchant holds his booke of accounts or remembrancer to be his canticum canticorum the most comfortable booke that he hath Many haue bene recorded for strange memories Portius Latro who neuer needed to read any thing which he had once written Aeltus Adrianus remembred the names and acts of all his Soldiers Carmides of Greece any thing which he had heard Mythrydates was able to speake 22. languages Caesar a Roman Dictator was able to write speake and heare others discourse at one and the same time Erasmus of Roterodame had a memory like a Net Blessed Iewell vsually began not to commit his Sermons to heart till the ringing of the Bell. In vita eius It is a singular gift of God an extraordinarie perfection of art which made Pythagoras beg memory of Mercury being commanded to aske what hee would except immortality and hee should haue it But according to the obiect it is more commendable There is Memoria vitanda The remembrance of iniuries seeking reuenge as Iuno neuer left her Troian enemy but by Sea and land persecuted him which made him expostular Tantaene animis coelestibus irae Better it were for such to haue Virg. as Themistocles wished the art of forgetfulnesse rather then the art of this memory You know how it was rewarded in Caine Esau Absolon Haman There is memoria timenda Gods remembrance of our sinnes in regard whereof Dauid prayed Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions Psal 25. So in our Lyturgy Remember not Lord our offences Psal 25.7 nor the offences of our fore-Fathers that is to punish them in vs. There is Memoria petenda the remembrance of vs in mercy Dauids appeale Lord remember Dauid and all his afflictions Psal 132. and the good Theefe Psal 132 1. Lord remember mee when thou commest into thy kingdome Luk. 23. Luk 23.42 There is memoria tenend● A remembrance of God I remembred the Lord. Ion. 2. Of his name I haue remembred thy name O Lord in the night ion 2.7 and haue kept thy law Psal 119. We must remember his maruellous workes that hee hath done Psal 119.55 his wor●ers and the iudgements of his mouth Psal 105. Psal 105.5 Wee must remember his Sabaoth Remember the Sabaoth day to keepe it holy Exo. 20. Not that wee should remember God but one day in seauen Exo. 20.8 but that if we would be forgetfull yet we should remember him one day in seauen at the least We must remember Christs passion to this end we receiue the Eucharist This doe in remembrance of mee Luk. 22. We must remember death iudgdement Luk. 22.19 and hell We must remember our Parents Remember that thou wast begot of them and how canst thou recompence them the things that they haue done for thee Eccle. 7. Our pastors Remember them which haue the rule ouer you Ecc. 7.28 who haue spoken vnto you the word of God Heb. 13. And here our falls appeare to be remembred Heb. 13.7 by Ephesus Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen whence issueth this doctrinall obseruation That it is the duty of those who haue fallen from any grace Doct. to looke back vpon their former estate The Lord himselfe is a witnesse to the truth of this point Thus saith the Lord of Hostes consider your wayes Hagg. 1.7 Hag. 1. A Method which the Prophet Zephanie vsed vnto the Iewes for hauing rebuked them for their notable crimes Zeph. 1.6 Idolatry fraud and cruelty turning back from the Lord beeing cloathed with strange apparrell and setled on their lees then threatning the cutting downe of their Marchāts that their goods should become a booty and their houses a desolation that the mighty man should cry bitterly that their blood should be poured out as dust and their flesh as the dung that neither their siluer nor gold should be able to deliuer them he exhorteth them to consider their estates Zeph. 2.1 Gather our selues together yea gather together O Nation not desired Repentance will make a man gather himselfe and all his wits together which afore were dispersed and wandred vp and downe in vanity Excutite vos Iunius translateth it search trye fanne your selues This course the Prophet Dauid took I thought on my wayes and turned my feet vnto thy testimonies Psal 119. This was the practise of Peters repentance Psal 119.59 howsoeuer hee followed his Maister a farre off yet hee came into the high Priests house and sate downe when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the Hall Better it had been for him to haue been without freezing then to stand by the fire with so many infectious lepers It was a cold night that took away his heat of loue No doubt hee heard many hard passages vpon his Maister one boasting that he had cast downe the Nazarite another that hee had tumbled him in Cedron another that