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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90514	Sōma ptōma autōs eniautōs. = The year running into his first principles, or the buriall of the old year, or man. A sermon, intended to be preached at the funeral of M. Edmund Whitwell, deputy of S. Olaves Bread-street, in the citie of London. By Philip Perrey Master of Arts of Clare-hall in Cambridge, rector of S. Michael in the suburbs of Bristol by presentation, and by election pastor of Bedeminster, near adjoyning to the said citie of Bristol.	Perrey, Philip.	1654 (1654)	Wing P1591; Thomason E729_8; ESTC R203160	23,588	41

descend to some particulars and that more clearly yet to demonstrate unto thee most courtious Reader the truth of that general I propounded man a sinner is truly called a servant And that both according to the inward and outward part of man His body is nothing else but the meer embleme of slavery and servitude which seems to be born to little else but labour toil and trouble He hath greater variety of work belonging to the body then he hath members to perform them Those feet which were so swift to commit the sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are now slow enough to undergo the service The hands which were so nimble to reach the forbidden fruit prepared without their labour must now labour and toil and that tediously before they can obtain it No fruits of the ground but they must be the fruits of their own labour Experience tells us the young mans dayes are nothing but a time of labour and for old men they do hoc morbo laborare they labour of this disease that they cannot work Psal 104.23 Psal 90.10 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour untill the evening yet is their strength but labour and sorrow And he who was wise enough to judge of these things The Scripture stiles him the wisedom of the Father he layes this down for an infallible truth Eccl. 1. All things are full of labour And again in the fourth Chapter of the same book of the Preacher he who was the truest and most powerfully pathetical preacher of God preaches this Doctrine or definite proposition unto you That there is no end of the same And as for his Soul Divinioris spiritus afflatus the breath of that Divine spirit P. Cons. of that purest act and being of God himself now behold by reason of its sin how impure it is become peccatorum sterquilinium Burton Nothing else but a meer dunghill of beastly uncleanness in a nastie case of vile and base servitude Behold now those faculties of the same before time the favourites of God the King of Kings thus miserably by reason of their own defaults cast out of favour of Lords and Masters become mean vassals and servants I remember what the story sayes of the Lord Cromwell and Frisgobald of France the one the Master the other the servant But in process of time the case was plainly altered according to the Lawyers The Master was degraded the servant exalted The Master a beggar the servant rich highly promoted I do not mean to touch the Mountains least they smoak dominering over the Master Thus it is with the affections of poor distressed man This little World by reason of the vertigo in the brain is meerly turned upside down Those higher powers of the Soul are made servants to the inferiour and lower affections of the same The understanding and will which were in the Soul tanquam Rex Regina beati in solio as King and Queen highly be-efied in their Throne now captivated and enslaved to the meer outward senses which are onely as so many Porters to the Court-Gate to let in and out guests for every object is a guest entertained by the Soul I say which serve to let them in or out as they are liked or disliked of by the royalty and government of the understanding and the will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristotle heretofore called the minde or understanding the eye of the Soul which could see and foresee to all kinde of danger by way of prevention that might happen unto the same But now this eye is darkened with Ignorance and Superstition And if thine eye be evil Math. 6.23 how great is that darkness i.e. altogether darkness the question doth seem to imply no less For the cause being removed the effect presently ceases according to the Logician And this was the plot of sin or rather the Devils by sin First to bring the King the understanding into bondage that then the inferiour parts of the subjects for very fear if nothing else might not resist him It is with the minde in this case as it was with Sampson amongst his enemies he was not absolutely captivated unto the Philistines untill they had put out his eyes and deprived him of sight So it is with the Soul of man if the understanding the eye of it is not blinded so long it is not Satans slave nor sins servant But if this eye once be blinded it works in this sinfull World like the horse that is hood-wink't in the Mill Arist not so much as seeing at least not seeing so far as to understand what it doth It was the axiome of the Philosophers and a true one secundum apparentiam Voluntas sequitur dictamen intellectus The will follows the dictate of the understanding But sure this seems to be quite contrary in our present cause of Divinity Not the understanding the will but the lower affections draw the will and the will in sinning seems to force the understanding or else why die men in these bright sun-shine times of the Gospel when they see and understand too that they are against the word of God yet they will commit so various and hainous sins And I can give no present reason for it but this That they are tanquam noctuae coram sole unless they are as Owles which become blinde before the Sun that enlightens all other creatures but darkens onely those This Sun of righteousness in Malachi his Evangelical Prophecie enlightens many other poor Souls Mal. 4. when as these miserable it is to see become start blinde It is with our understanding and will as with a Justice of Peace and his Clerk The silly and indiscreet Justice not able to judge sufficiently of matters himself is faign to be guided and ruled by his Clerk And our understanding by reason of sin blinded with ignorance is now content to be overswayed by the will which indeed should be onely his Clerk to follow his dictate precept and Commandment And thus far you see mans understanding appear plainly to be a servant if not a prisoner yea worse then that a very slave Neither is the will free This as a comate with the former in ill husbandry must taste of the same sauce They both have sin for their master like to those beasts they draw in the same yoake It is there said Sam. 1.6.12 when the Kine were yoaked together under the Ark of the Lord they went along the high-way lowed as they went so these two our will and understanding draw as these Kine in the same yoake under the Ark as it were where was the rod of Aaron and that budding too for correction as well as the two Tables of the Law for instruction heretofore under the same burden of sin And I know no reason but they should with these Kine low and grieve for the same and cry out in this Aegyptian darkness as those Israelites in old Aegypt our