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Earth raining vpon heauen A sermon preached at the assises holden at Nottingham, August 5. 1614. By VVilliam VVorship, Doctor in Diuinitie.
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Worship, William.
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Earth raining vpon Heauen A SERMON PREACHED at the Assises holden at Nottingham August 5. 1614. BY VVILLIAM VVORSHIP Doctor in DIVINITIE LONDON Printed for Thomas Panier and are to be sould at his shop in Iuy-Lane 1614. TO MY GOOD Friend Mr. Doctor Hall SYR the combination of Zeale and Learning wherewith GOD hath honoured you together with your Loue imparted kindly to mee by Letter haue beene the Allectiues to this small Remembrance Wherein I couet to shew my Thankefulnesse and the great Respect I deseruedly beare you I know mine insufficiencie to performe much on the best tearmes much lesse at this time being worne with tedious Sickenesse by the meanes of a grosse and cruell Ayre Yet it pleas'd the Lord to prosper this poore Indeauour at the Deliuerie and who can tell if hereafter Hee will blesse it to the winning of some Soule O if Hee doe what a sweet Addition shall it be to his former mercies This gracious GOD assist vs by his Spirit incourage vs daily in the course of our Ministerie that spending our selues for the good of his Elect wee may one day shine like Starres for euer and euer Amen Your vnfayned Friend WILLIAM WORSHIP THE TEXT LVKE 7. 37. 38. 37 And behold a Woman in the Citie which was a sinner when shee knew that Jesus sate at Table in the Pharises house shee brought an Alabaster-Boxe of Oyntment 38 And shee stood at his feete behinde him weeping and began to wash his feete with teares and did wipe them with the hayres of her head and kissed his feete and annoynted them with the Oyntment OVr Sauiour Christ was invited by a Pharisee to eate Hee went For meate and drinke No Yes It was his meate and drinke to doe Iohn 4. 34. his Fathers will to conuert and comfort Sinners as he doth in this Story VVhere is a Watch-word Behold and a Deuout Party largely describ'd by her Sexe a woman by her Place in the Citie by her Reputation a Sinner by her Faith when shee knew that Iesus sate at Table in the Pharises house Shee went to him by her liberall Intent shee brought an Alabaster-Boxe of Oyntment by her Humilitie she stood at his feete by her Modeslie behinde him by her godly Sorrow weeping by her Increase of that sorrow she beganne to wash his feete with her teares by the Neglect of her selfe and did wipe them with the hayres of her head by her Loue and kissed his feete by her Bountie and annoynted them with the Oyntment Thus am I imbarqued for a long Voyage and am to passe the Magellan Straits but my comfort is I saile in the DESIRE where the Word is my Compasse and the Lord my Pilot. Behold This particle Behold is sometime in Scripture Repletiue but in this place Demonstratiue importing Attention and Admiration The People must at one time attend two Preachers the Man in the black gowne that deliuers the Meditations of his heart and the mighty GOD whose Chaire and Pulpit is in Heauen About the Heart saith De Re Anat. lib. 7. c. 1. Columbus are two Eares a Right one and a Left both thin-skin'd and anfractuous whose vse in Reason is to preserue the Hollow and Arteriall veynes from bursting in Diuinitie to teach vs to draw vp our Hearts to our Eares that the word may pearce both at once The end of all our Senses is to bring vs to Christ but of Hearing chiefly as being the sence of Discipline The Gospell for the eare the eare for the Gospell and both for the Conscience So that to attend is to heare meditate practise For as Art without Nature is lame Nature without Art Plut. Mor. 1. blinde and both without Experience fruitlesse so Hearing without Meditation is windie Meditation without Hearing erroneous and both without practise vneffectuall Beloued not I but th' Evangelist not He but GOD inioynes you to attend if I thought you would not I would call vpon the dead Element to hearken and crie out with the Prophet Ieremie O Earth Earth Earth heare Ierem. 22. 19. the word of the Lord. Further this Behold implyeth Admiration Things are wondered at eyther for their greatnes or rarenes both these are conspicuous in this Example Beholde an huge Whale a liuing Mountayne of sinne a mightie Sea-monster caught in the silly Draw-net of the Gospell and the Cords vnbroke and the Mashes whole because the Fishers name is VVONDERFVLL Behold a Blacke-Moore Isaiah 9. 6. washt white a Leopard made spotles a merry Larke turn'd to a groning Culuer Behold a modest boldnes a ioyfull sadnes an acting passion a speaking silence Behold one weeping Is' t such a matter to see one weepe A great matter to see one weepe for sinne This of the Watch-word The Devout Partie followeth who is first described by her Sexe a woman If you aske What woman Austen Gregory Beda tell you Mary Magdalen others doubt heere godly Ignorance is safest The Lord for iust causes Matth. 15. hath concealed her Name as he did the Syro-Phaenicians her Parallel Suffice it vs that a woman must reade vs a Lecture of Repentance Doe wee scorne it But Apollos disdain'd not to be Catechiz'd by a woman and Super Cant. Ser. 75. Ierem. 8. 7. Prouer. 6. 6. women saith Bernard were at Christs Resurrection The Apostles of the Apostles As proud as we are we are sent to the Crane and Swallow for Instruction and by your leaues to that little leane creeping Thing the Pismire VVhat beauteous floure what medicinall hearb but may be found in the Womans garden May we not learne Meeknesse of Sarah Fortitude of Deborah Patience of Naomi Humblenesse of Hanna Wisedome of Abigail Zeale of Elizabeth and all these Graces of the Virgin Mary O that our women would tread in these steppes No they will not they care not they degenerate they goe like men and some feare they will shortly ride after that ill-fauour'd fashion vs'd in this Realme before Richard the seconds Queene The Annals of England came from Bohemia Harke yee Grammarians Hic mulier ere long will be good Latin VVell since they will not few by those Samples I will send them Latimers Handkerchers Ezech. 16. 23. and worke woes in Chayne-stitch as the Prophet Ezechiell hath taught me The second branch is this good womans Place of abode She was a Citizen Of what Citie Some say Nain some Ierusalem we cannot point downe on any one It is like her worst staynes were Citie-sinnes for the Country vsually sinnes more bungerly than Corporations Mightinesse of state frequencie of strangers multitude of people curiousnesse of Arts heapes of riches sumptuousnesse of buildings store of prouision strength of munition make Cities settle vpon their Lees and yet not they but their abuse O harlot Ierusalem O bloudy Niniueh Ezech. 16. 33. Nahum 3. 1. they be the words of the Prophet Ezechiel and Nahum Diana at Ephesus Lais at Corinth Mahumet at Constantinople Antichrist at Rome at Venice