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A68126 The vvorks of Ioseph Hall Doctor in Diuinitie, and Deane of Worcester With a table newly added to the whole worke.; Works. Vol. 1 Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Lo., Ro. 1625 (1625) STC 12635B; ESTC S120194 1,732,349 1,450

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or care then to be willingly guilty of our owne shame oh that the hands of supreme authoritie vvould bee pleased to locke vs vvithin our owne doores and to keepe the keyes at their owne girdle And to speake truth to vvhat purpose are those strait and capitall inhibitions of the returne of our factious fugitiues into this Kingdom if whiles the vvicket is shut vpon them that they should not come to vs the Posterne be open to vs that we may goe to them As all intercourse is perilous so that is most vvhich is by our owne prouocation Here yet they dare but lurke in secret and take only some sudden snatches at a vveake prey like vnto euening-wolues that neuer walke forth but vnder the cloake of the night but in their owne territories they can shew the Sunne their spoiles and thinke this act worthy of garlands and trophees Here wee haue mastiues to secure our flockes there the prey goes stragling alone to the mouth of their dennes vvithout protection without assistance and offers to be deuoured Yee whom the choice of God hath made the great Shepheards of his people whose charge it is to feed them by gouernment suffer not their simplicitie to betray their liues vnto the fangs of these cruell beasts but chase them home rather from the wilfull search of their owne perdition and shut them vp together in your strong and spacious folds that they may be at once safe and yee glorious SECT XXIV LAstly for those whom necessary occasions draw forth of their own coasts that we may haue done with those which like foolish Papists goe on pilgrimage to see another blocke better dressed then at home let me say to them as Simeon that propheticall Monke said to the pillars which he whipped before the earth-quake Stand fast for ye shall be shaken And therefore as the Crane when shee is to fly against an high wind doth ballace her selfe with stones in her bill that she may cut the ayre with more steddinesse so let them carefully fore-instruct and poize themselues with the sound knowledge of the Principles of Religion that they may not be caried about with euery winde of doctrine Whereto if they adde but those lessons which they are taught by the State in their letters of passage there may bee hope they shall bring backe the same soules they caried It was at least an inclination to a fall that Eue tooke boldnesse to hold chat with the Serpent And as subtill Lawyers desire no more aduantage in the quarrell which they would picke at conueyances then many words so neither do our Aduersaries Whiles our eares are open and our tongues free they wil hope well of our very denials Error is crafty and out of the power of his Rhetorical insinuations oft-times caries away probabilitie from truth I remember in that famous Embassie of of three Philosophers which Athens sent to Rome Critolaus Diogenes and Carneades there falling out many occasions of discourse wise Cato perswaded the Senate to a speedie dismission of those otherwise welcome ghests Because said he whiles Carneades disputes scarce any man can discerne which is the truth There is more danger of these spirituall Sophisters by how much the businesse is more important and their subtilty greater Let our passenger therefore as that wise Grecian serued his fellowes stop vp his eares with waxe against these Syrens Our Sauiour would not giue Satan audience euen whiles he spake true because he knew that truth was but to countenance error There is euer true corne strowed vnder a pitfall those eares are full and weightie vvhich we dresse with Lime to deceiue the poore birds in a snow No fisher lets downe an empty hooke but cloathed vvith a proper and pleasing bait These Impostors haue no other errand but deceit If he loue himselfe let him be afraid of their fauours and thinke their frownes safer then their smiles And if at any time as no fly is more importunate they thrust themselues into his conuersation let him as those which must necessarily passe by a carrion in the way hold his breath and hasten to be out of their aire And if they yet follow him in his flight let him turne backe to them vvith the Angels farewell Increpet te Dominus FINIS THE RIGHTEOVS MAMMON AN HOSPITALL SERMON PREACHED IN THE SOLEMNE ASSEMBLY OF THE CITY ON Munday in Easter weeke 1618. BY IOS HALL LONDON Printed for THOMAS PAVIER MILES FLESHER and John Haviland 1624. TO MY MVCH HONOR'D FRIEND Sr HENRY BAKER Knight and Baronet SIR AMongst many to whom my poore labours owe much for their acceptation J know none that can challenge so deepe a debt as your selfe If others haue tasted of my well-meant papers you haue fed heartily on them and so made them your owne that your memory may compare with others eyes and your practice with the speculation of others Neither haue your hand or tongue beene niggardly dissemblers of your spirituall gaine Vnto you therefore to whose name I had long since in my desires deuoted my next doe J send this meane present A Sermon importunately desired of many That which the present Auditors found vsefull the Presse shall communicate to posteritie The gaine of either or both is no lesse mine I doubt not but you haue already so acted that part of this discourse which concerneth you that the direction I giue to others is but an historie of what you haue done And goe on happily worthy Sir in those your holy courses which shal leade you to immortalitie and so vse your riches that they may be made vp into a Crowne for your head in a better world My hearty well-wishes shall not be wanting to you and your vertuous Ladie as whom you haue obliged to be iustly Worcester April 14. Yours IOS HALL THE RIGHTEOVS MAMMON 1. TIM 6.17 Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God who giueth vs richly all things to enioy c. THose things which are excellent beneficiall in their vse are dangerous in their miscariage It were lost labour for me to perswade you how good riches are your pains and your cares are sufficient proofes of your estimation and how deadly the abuse of them is many a soule feeles that cannot returne to complaine There is nothing more necessarie therefore for a Christian heart then to be rectified in the menaging of a prosperous estate and to learne so to be happy here that it may bee more happie hereafter a taske which this Text of ours vndertakes and if ye be not wanting to it and your selues will be sure to performe What should I need to entreat your attention Right Honorable right Worshipfull and beloued to a businesse so neerely concerning you The errand is Gods the vse of it yours I neuer held it safe to pull Scripture in pieces these vvords fall alone into their parts Timothy is set vpon the spirituall Bench