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church_n	heathen_a	let_v	publican_n	2,742	5	10.9981	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31380	Entertainments for Lent first written in French and translated into English by Sir B.B.; Sagesse évangélique pour les sacrez entretiens du Caresme. English	Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; Brook, Basil, Sir, 1576-1646?	1661 (1661)	Wing C1545_VARIANT; ESTC R35478	109,402	241

those devils which seek for rest but shall never find it Make me preserve inviolable the house of my conscience which thou hast cleansed by repentance and clothed with thy graces that I may have perseverance to the end without relapses and so obtain happinesse without more need of repentance The Gospel upon Munday the third week in Lent S. Luke 4. Jesus is required to do Miracles in his own Countrey ANd he said to them Certes you will say to me this similitude Physitian cure thy self as great things as we have heard done in Capharnaum do also here in thy Countrey And he said Amen I say to you that no Prophet is accepted in his own Conntrey In truth I say to you there were many widows in the dayes of Elias in Israel when the heaven was shut three years and six moneths when there was a great famine made in the whole earth and to none of them was Elias sent but into Sarepta of Sidon to a widow woman And there were many Leopers in Israel under Elizeus the Prophet and none of them made clean but Naaman the Syrian And all in the Synagogue were filled with anger hearing these things And they rose and cast him out of the City and they brought him to the edge of the hill whereupon their City was built that they might throw him down headlong But he passing through the midst of them went his way Moralities 1. THe malignity of mans nature undervalueth all that which it hath in hand and little esteems many necessary things because they are common The Sun is not counted●rare because it shines every day and the elements are held contemptible since they are common to the poor as well as the rich Jesus was despised in his own Countrey because he was there known to all the world and the disdain of that ungratefull Nation closed the hands of his great bounty Is it not a great unhappinesse to be weary and tyred with often communicating to be wicked because God is good to shut up our selves close when he would impart himself to us Men make little account of great benefits spiritual helps for that they have them present They must lose those favours to know them well and seek outrageously without effect what they have kickt away with contempt because it was easily possest 2. The choices and elections of God are not to be comprehendedwithin our thoughts but they should be adored by our hearts He is Master of his own favours and doth what he will in the Kingdomes of Nature Grace and Glory He makes Vessells of Potters earth of gold and silver He makes Holy-daies and working daies saith the Wise man his liberalities are as free to him as his thoughts We must not examine the reason why he doth elevate some and abase others Our eye must not be wicked because his heart is good Let us content our selves that he loves the humble and to know that the lowest place of all is most secure No man is made reprobate without justice no man is saved without mercy God creates men to repair in many that which he hath made and also to punish in the persons of many that which he hath not made 3. Iesus doth not cure his brethren and yet cures strangers to shew that his powers are not tied to any Nation but to his own will So likewise the graces of God are not to be measured according to the nature of him who recieves them but by the pure bounty of him who gives them The humility of some doth call him when the presumption of others doth estrange him The weak grounds of a dying law did no good to the Iews who disdained the grace of Iesus Christ And that disdain deprived them of their adoption of the glory of the New Testament of all the promises and of all Magistracy They lost all because they would keep their own wills Let us learn by the grace of God to desire earnestly that good which we would obtain effectually Persons distasted and surfeited cannot advance much in a spiritual life And he that seeks after perfection coldly shall never find it Aspirations THy beauties most sweet Iesus are without stain thy goodness without reproach and thy conversation without importunity God forbid I should be of the number of those souls which are distasted with Manna and languish after the Onions of Egypt The more I taste thee the more I incline to do thee honour Familiarity with an infinite thing begets no contempt but only from those whom thou dost dispise for their own faults O what high secrets are thy favours O what Abysses are thy graces We may wish and run But except thou cooperate nothing is done If thou cease to work all is undone I put all my happiness into thy hands It is thou alone which knowest how to chuse what we most need by thy soveraign wisdome and thou givest it by thy extream bounty The Gospell upon Thursday the third week in Lent S. Mat. 18. If thy Brother offend thee tell him of it alone BVt if thy brother shall offend against thee goe and rebuke him between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou shalt gain thy brother and if he will not hear thee join with thee besides one or two that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand And if he will not hear them tell the Church and if he will not hear the Church let him be to thee as the Heathen and the Publican Amen I say to you whatsoever ye shall bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven Again I say to you that if two of you shall consent upon earth concerning every thing whatsoever they ask it shall be done to them of my Father which is in Heaven for where there be two or three gathered in my name there am I in the midst of them Then came Peter unto him and said Lord how often shall my brother offend against me and I forgive him untill seven times Iesus said to him I say not to thee untill seven times but untill seventy times seven times Moralities 1. THe Heavens are happy that they go alwaies in one measure in so great a revolution of ages do not make one false step but man is naturally subiect to fail He is full of imperfections and if he have any virtues he carries them like dust against the wind or snow against the sun This is the reason which teaches him that he needs good advice 2. It is somewhat hard to give right correction but much harder to receive it profitably Some are so very fair spoken that they praise all which they see and because they will find nothing amisse they are ordinarily good to no body They shew to those whom they slatter their virtues in great their faults in little they will say to those who are plunged in great disorders