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A00593	Clavis mystica a key opening divers difficult and mysterious texts of Holy Scripture; handled in seventy sermons, preached at solemn and most celebrious assemblies, upon speciall occasions, in England and France. By Daniel Featley, D.D.	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 10730; ESTC S121363	1,100,105	949

grace especially the grace of meeknesse which in the heart is tendernesse in the disposition softnesse in the affections temper in the minde calmenesse in the carriage sweetnesse Aristotle briefly defineth it Rhet. l. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bridle of wrath which because it is a passion of all other most head-strong it requireth both a strong curb and a skilfull rider for whose direction the Spirit of God in holy Scripture hath set downe divers rules The first rule is not to be suddenly or easily provoked This is laid downe for us by the Apostle St. James Let every man bee swift to heare James 1.19 slow to speake slow to wrath To follow this rule it will be behoofull according to the advice of a Hyper. citat à Lips Comment in Sen. de clem l. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Hyperides to prevent the occasion of quarrels and stop the passages of wrongs to nip the seeds of discords because if anger take root like an inveterate disease it will hardly bee cured b Senec. l. 1. de clem In primis finibus hostis arcendus est nam cum portis se intulit modum à captivis non capit Seneca strikes the same note though on a different string Above all things saith hee keep the enemy from entring the City for if hee once thrust his head into the gate he will give thee the law and not take it from thee Ovid giveth it as a character of a gracious Prince to be tardus ad iram Slow to wrath Certainly it is no strong piece that will suddenly bee out of frame the bone was never well set that easily slips out of joynt A man full of juice and sap of grace is like green wood which is long before it be kindled they who easily take fire seem rather to be annointed with brimstone than the sweet oyntment of the spirit above mentioned The second rule is to tolerate some infirmities in others as likewise others tolerate us in many things for as St. Austin speaketh Toleramus toleramur we tolerate and are tolerated our selves James 3.2 Galat. 6.2 because all offend in many things and many in all This rule is laid downe by St. Paul Be are yee one anothers burthens and so fulfill the law of Christ in which words hee enjoyneth us not onely to beare light injuries but those that are grievous and burthensome and the more burthens we beare in this kinde the lesse we have upon our owne conscience How can we expect that Christ should put his shoulders to our crosses if wee withdraw our necke from his yoke The third rule is to consider the nature of our brothers temptation and accordingly to deale with him This is laid down by the Apostle Galat. 6.1 If any man be overtaken in a fault restore such an one in the spirit of meeknesse considering thy selfe lest thou also be tempted Abraham lyed to Abimelech Peter denied his Master Job uttereth speeches of impatience Paul answereth very smartly to Ananias The Lord smite thee thou painted wall Acts 23.3 but this they did either transported in passion or upon great provocation or out of feare to save their lives The greater the temptation is and the more forcible the assault of Sathan upon the frailty of our nature the lesse the sinne is or at least more pardonable This sole consideration moved Saint Cyprian to take pity on some of them that in time of persecution denied their Master and were therefore deservedly excommunicated whom hee thus bringeth in pleading for themselves not with teares but with drops of bloud falling from their tortured members * C●pr de lapsis Manabat proffetib●s sanguis pro lachrymis c●●ot sem●●stulatis viscetib●● deflueb●t st●tit mens stabilis fide fortis cum torq●entibus p●●nis ●mmobilis d●● anima lactata est sed cum du●●ssimi Judicis recrudescente saevituâ ●am fatigatum corpus nunc flagella scinderent nunc contunderent fustes c. caro nos in colluctatione destruit For a long time say they our resolution remained firme and our faith strong and we held out the fight against our tormenting paines but when the malice and cruelty of the Judge was exasperated against us and our savage tormentors fell afresh upon our wearied and worne-out bodie sometimes tearing it with whips sometimes bruising it with clubs sometimes stretching it upon the racke sometimes scorching it with fire our flesh forsooke us in the conflict the weaknesse of our bowels gave place and our body not our soule was in the end overcome with the violence of paine Beloved you were never yet brought to the fiery tryall that you might know how farre the extremity of torment might worke and prevaile upon the infirmity of your flesh thanke God for it and judge charitably of them whose faith and constancy shone not so cleerly in the middest of the fire but that they might be compared to the smoaking flaxe in the Verse following my Text. The fourth rule is to admonish before we punish and give warning before wee strike This is laid downe by a Deut. 12.10 Moses When thou commest nigh to a City to besiege it first offer conditions of peace to it This course God hath most strictly kept sending Noah to the old World Moses and Aaron to Egypt Lot to Sodome Obadiah to Edom Jonah to Nineveh the old Prophets and Christ himselfe to Jerusalem that they might prevent Gods judgements by repenting them of their sinne as the Ninevites had the grace to doe who had certainly been destroyed if destruction had not been threatned them by the Prophet Whereat Saint Chrysostome standeth amazed and in the end breakes out into this passionate exclamation O new and admirable thing the denuntiation of death brought forth life the prophecy of the overthrow overthrew the prophecy the sentence of destruction made a nullity in the sentence And if Jerusalem had knowne the things that belonged to her peace even in that day in which our Saviour fore-shewed her fatall doome his prophecy had fell and the City had stood For therefore God and man threaten to inflict severe punishment that they may not inflict what they threaten as b Phil ●ct l. 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philostrates and c Nazian epist 194. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianzen observe The fifth rule is first to use faire and gentle meanes before wee take a more severe course This is laid downe by the Apostle 1 Corinth 4.21 What will you shall I come unto you with a rod or in love and the spirit of meeknesse You see the soft drops of raine pierce the hardest stones and the warme bloud of a Goat dissolveth the Adamant Nature seemeth to prescribe this method which alwayes sendeth a flash of lightening before we heare a clap of thunder Et afflatur omne priusquam percutitur And nothing is struck which is not blasted before And Art