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The eunuche's conuersion A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the second of February. 1617. By Charles Sonnibank, Doctor of Diuinitie, & Canon of Windsor.
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Sonibancke, Charles, 1564-1638.
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THE EVNVCHE'S CONVERSION A Sermon preached at Paules Crosse the second of February 1617 By Charles Sonnibank Doctor of Diuinitie Canon of Windsor COR VNVM VIA VNA LONDON Printed by H. L. for Richard Fleming and are to be sould at his Shop at the great South doore of Paules on the right hand going vp the steps 1617. To the Right Worshipfull my worthie Friend William Allen Esquire Sonne and Heire to the Right Worshipfull Sir William Allen Knight sometimes Lord Maior of the Honourable Citie of London C. S. wisheth all the blessings of this and of the better life THis meane labour and work of mine Right Worshipfull and my worthie Friend framed onely for the Pulpit not for the Presse and intended onely to the eares not to the eyes of men had not at this time in this shape and forme presented it self to your view If either I could haue satisfied the importunitie of many of my Friends which did earnestly solicite me to print the same or could haue preuented the purpose of others whom without breach of charitie I may in some sense tearme my Foes who as I had a watch-word giuen me were minded in case I could not bee thereunto entreated to set forth in print those broken and vnperfect notes which they tooke from my mouth at the time when I deliuered this Sermon And here I confesse I was brought into a strait by my Friends on the one side my Foes on the other So that although I had long since put on a settled purpose to publish no Pamphlets in this Scribbling Age wherein so much paper is blotted and wherein so many as soone as they haue but laid an egge do presently cackle and bewray an itching humour of beeing in print yet as one that had forgot himselfe I haue relapsed and by a kinde of constraint haue fallen as you see from my first and best resolution and so by pleasing others haue displeased my selfe But howsoeuer I rest assured your loue to mee will excuse mee and will take in good parte this Paper-Present which reacheth out the hand vnto you for acceptance the rather for that in one part and passage thereof it putteth you others of your ranke in mind of that which You seldome forget namely that as God hath been very gratious to you in blessing you not only with great abundance of temporall blessings nor onely with a wise vnderstanding but with a pious and religious heart and in these respects hath made you great so you should striue by all means to blesse honor him from whom you haue your greatnesse as also for that it commeth from such a one whose desire is that all they who vouchsafe to reade these lines should knowe that the Author of them is one of those many which honour your Vertues and loue your Person Yours in all Christian offices of loue CHARLES SONNIBANK The Authors Post-script In page 114. line 14. these words 1. Effect He beleeued would haue been placed in page 112. immediately before the last line Faults of the Presse in some few Copies Page Line 26. 10. 11. For comforth read comfort 32. 1. For their read in their 33. 17. For way read may 94. 1. For came read ranne 108. 5. For on read onely THE EVNVCH'S Conuersion Acts 8.26.27.28 c. 26. Then the Angel of the Lord spake vnto Philip saying Arise and goe toward the South vnto the way that goeth downe from Ierusalem vnto Gaza which is waste 27. And he arose and went on and beholde a certaine Eunuch of Aethiopia Candaces the Queene of the Aethiopians chiefe gouernour who had the rule of all her treasure and came to Ierusalem to worship 28. And as he returned sitting in his chariot he read Esaias the Prophet c. AS we may cleerly see and behold with the eyes of our bodies the power and goodness of God in the creation of the worlde by his Sonne by whom hee made the world Hebr. 1.2 So may wee with the eyes of our soules much more cleerely see behold his more powerfull omnipotencie and goodnes in the recreating and new making thereof by the same his Sonne by whom he remade that is to say he redeemed the world Iohn 3.16 In the former Dixit formata sunt omnia Hee spake the word and all things were formed in the later passus est Christus reformata sunt omnia Christ suffered all things were made anew and reformed In the former hee shewed digitum potentiae the finger of his power in the later hee shewed manum misericordiae his whole hand of mercy In the former he breathed into the world the breath of life in the later it pleased him that his Sonne should expirare should breathe out his owne breath and lay downe his owne life for the world that so it might haue eternall life Thereby verefying vnto vs the comfortable trueth of that assertion which reuerend and Christian antiquity hath from age to age commended vnto vs to wit that God hath shewed himselfe more glorious in redeeming than in making the world and mankinde Now that this great work of mercy wrought by God in the person of Christ for the saluation of man might bee made knowne to all men it pleased God to make that great persecution mentioned in the beginning of this chapter to be a very effectuall meanes For whereas the godly and faithfull beleeuers in Christ were all gathered together in Hierusalem as it were so many Bees in one Hiue God beeing pleased that the hony sweetness of his sauing truth and the knowledge of his Sonne should be no longer shut vppe in that one Hiue but should bee imparted to others both men and nations suffered them to be scattered and dispersed in similitudinem granorum seminis vt ex ipsis magna seges fidei multiplicaretur that so of their sowing the seedes of faith of the knowledge of Christ there might follow a great haruest of beleeuers vnto God Which thing did accordingly fal out Nam vt ex grano spica as of one graine commeth a whole eare and sometimes many eares of corne so was it in them for many times one of their Sermons did beget and bring forth a multitude of faithfull beleeuers Among those faithfull beleeuers which by reason of this great persecution were driuen from Ierusalem beeing scattered abroad went to and fro preaching the word as appeareth in the fourth fift verses of this chapter Philip was one not that Philippe which was one of the twelue Apostles for they all as appeareth in the first verse of this chapter stayed still at Ierusalem but it was that Philip which is the second in the Catalogue of the seauen Deacons Act. 6.5 And this Philip after that hee had preached and conuerted the City of Samaria as it is set downe in the former part of this chapter was imploied and vsed as you see in the wordes of my Text for the conuersion of this