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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69188	The ile of gulls As it hath been often acted in the Black Fryers, by the Children of the Revels.	Day, John, 1574-1640?; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1633 (1633)	STC 6414; ESTC S109425	90,057	188

be so say I in this case if this our Prophet were so inamored with so very a Glasse as that was I speake it by way of comparison how should we be with our Pearles and that so orient as ours are Nor let me now seem contrary to my selfe for that I cal that Tabernacle a Temple of glasse in respect of our Churches seeing it is in that respect that I only call it so as a candle in respect of a lampe saith S t Ierom is nothing to be decoūted of a lampe in respect of a starre why it giues no light at all compare the starre with the Moone and the starre is obscure set the Moone againe by the Sun and the Moone shines never a whit lastly compare the Sun and Christ together saith he and what is the Sunne but meere darknesse and so was the candle of this Tabernacle in respect of our Lampe the lampe of this Tabernacle in respect of our Star the starre of this Tabernacle in respect of our Moon the Moone of this Tabernacle in respect of our Sun in a word the Sun of this Tabernacle in respect of our Christ or which is all one in effect our Christian Congregations And doe we yet doubt to make them our chiefe desire In making them our chiefe desire we may happily get more by it then indeed we doe desire You know what was said to Salomon when he asked wisdome of the Lord Because saith the Lord thou hast asked this thing and hast not asked for thy selfe long life nor riches nor the life of thy enemies behold I haue done according to thy words and I haue also given thee that which thou hast not asked both Riches and Honours and so forth Thus fell it out with S t Austens mother too shee desired that shee might but see her Sonne a Christian Catholicke before her death marke I pray you the phrase of those times a Christian Catholike wherevpon Pacianus Christian is my name saith he Catholick my surname and S t Austen elsewhere by the goodnesse of Christ saith he we for our pares are Christian Catholickes not the only stile now adaies a Catholicke Roman or no Catholike but shee but desired to see him a Christian Catholike before her death and my God saith she to her Sonne S. Austen hath given me more abundantly then I desired even to see thee his servant and to contemne all the felicitie of this world besids God indeed is no nigard he giues sometimes before we aske sometime more then we aske alwaies as much and that or in the same kind that we aske it or else in some other much more behoofull and necessary for vs. But we must be Constant in this desire But alas when he that wrote of Constancie became himselfe so inconstant and so many hundred● after him as little constant as he and some even of our owne seluc● as constantly in constant as they what shal I say of Constancy when so many flock-meale fall away Beloved I will say as once our Saviour said What will ye also goe away Why but whether Or to whom Here are the words of life eternall Quod quar it is hîc est Est Vlubris animas si vos non defi●●t aquus not the meanest Church in this our Land but will afford you much more comfort in the service of our God then the goodliest Synagogue this daie or at S. Omets or at Rome Nor would I haue you thinke I speake altogither vnexperienced in this comparison Vidimus o Giues Dio●●dem Arguaque castra I haue seene Beloved seene I haue though not the Popish Mufftie him selfe yet his Pavillions and his Tents I meane a many Assemblies and Congregations of his where I am sure but as few words as Porpheries Pradicables with vnderstanding if the Apostle S. P●ule were not mistaken would to those Assemblies hauedone more good then those many thousandes ●●at then were vttered by so many Blacke Birds there so many Parrets so many Crowes and Pyes not vnderstanding what they saide or sung the similitudes are S. Austens And now I haue said thus much let me go a little further and speake vnto you a little more concerning those our Adversaries vpon whom had I looke with a carnall eye I should say I confesse as did those Spies we be not able to hold out against them for they are stronger then we all the people that we saw there are men of great stature Gyants they are the sonnes of Anak and we to them but Grashoppers But the Lord that gaue me at that time an others gates eye to behold them with puts another message into my mouth as a learned Divine speakes of Caleb that he had not asheepes cye as the other Spies but the eye of a Lyon and how he passed by that people with an honourable scorne right so say I with Caleb Rebel not you against the Lord neither feare ye the people of that Land for they are but bread for vs their shield is departed from them and the Lord is with vs feare them not The greater cause haue we to proclaime this desire of ours vnto the world mauger all the banded Forces of all the Romanists whatsoever who what haue they Pamphlet●ed against our Publique Service or our Religion therein contained which hath not beene fully answered or at least wise may be and that in the turning of a hand Their Proofes are reproved their Disproofes confuted their Rockes vndermined their Fortresses overthrowne their Parlaments repealed their Chalenges answered their Replies reioined vnto their Reioinders disiointed True it is they rest not satisfied nor is it likely they ever will Rana saith S t Austen est l●quaciss●ma vanites nothing so full of tattle as Folly and that saith he was signified by the Frogs of Egypt But happy it were with vs had we in this point of Church Service the Romanists only our only Adversaries Cassius and his Complices we could deale withall well enough but what shall we doe when our own Mothers Children lift vp the heele against vs and so vilifie our Church Service especially in their practise that vnlesse there be a Sermon with it we shall seldome or never haue their companie Shall I smite them Fathers Bretheren shall I smite them They are flesh I confesse of our flesh and bone of our bones Why but shall I let them goe then and die in their error that were a cruell kind of compassion let their error die in them rather Moriatur error vivat homo saith S t Austen slay the error saue the man And will you thē behold their error O say they vnlesse there be Sermons what beautie is there in our Churches why should we take so much paines to goe so often vnto them The Scriptures that there are read we can read our selues at home we can pray those Prayers