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A60175	Sarah and Hagar, or, Genesis the sixteenth chapter opened in XIX sermons / being the first legitimate essay of ... Josias Shute ; published according to his own original manuscripts, circumspectly examined, and faithfully transcribed by Edward Sparke.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Sparke, Edward, d. 1692.	1649 (1649)	Wing S3716; ESTC R24539	246,885	234

EFFIGIES REVERENDISS JOSIAE SHUTE S THEOL BACCHA COLCESTRIAE ARCHIDIAC PRECONIS LONGE MELLITISSIMI OBIIT 22º JUNII 1643. Surgito Lector ades Tibimet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anglus Scilicet egregius SHUTIVS ille preco Flexanimus vates Animas Qui traxit in Aures Voce docens Sacrum quod pede pandit iter Malleus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 constans et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qui nequit a Recto Spe-ve Metu-ve Trahi Hunc tulit in Portum Dominus Minitante Processâ Nec fucrant Tanto Saecula digna viro Vmbra dat Effigiem resonat tibi Pagina Mentem Assolet ut Reliquis gratus adesto Tibi Ed Sparke Heer 's that wise Charmer whose Sweet Ayres to Hear Each Soule delighted so to dwell i' th' Eare Whose Life and Doctrine's Combin'd Harmony Familiîarized St Paul's Extasy But now from growing Evills mounted high Change but the Soule her Seat from Ear to th' Ey This bright Starr still doth Lead wisemen to Christ Through this dark Bochim and aegyptian Myst Nay heer what himself doth in Heav'n behoulde Ev'n Blessed visions doth his Booke unfoulde T. B Ed Sparke SARAH and HAGAR OR GENESIS the sixteenth Chapter opened In XIX SERMONS BEING The first legitimate Essay OF The Pious Labours of that Learned Orthodox and Indefatigable Preacher of the GOSPEL Mr JOSIAS SHVTE B. D. And above three and thirty yeers Rector of S. Mary Woolnoth in Lombard-street London Qui credens in Dominum Jesum non Circi Furoribus non Arenae sanguine non Theatri Luxuriâ delectabatur sed tota illi voluntas in Ecclesiae erat Congregatione charus omnibus loquendi Arte gnarus Hieronim lib. 3. Epist in Vita Hilarionis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greg. Nazianzen Oratione in laudem Basilii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dan. 12.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was a burning and a shining lamp Joh. 5.35 Published according to his own Original Manuscripts circumspectly examined and faithfully transcribed by EDWARD SPARKE B. D. of Clare-Hall in Cambridge and Rector of S. Martins Iron-monger-lane London 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato in Phaedone LONDON Printed for J. L. and Humphrey Moseley at the signe of the Princes Arms in Paul's Church-yard 1649. To the Right Honourable JOHN Lord Viscount BRACKLEY c. And to the Right Worshipful THOMAS VINAR Alderman and Sheriff of the honorable City of London And the rest of the well-wishing Parishioners and Auditors of the late worthy Author Both the upper and the nether springs of comfort Honoured Sirs EVen Justice it self without any other relation challengeth this Dedication to you unto whom God had given the Author and the Author himself devoted his Endeavours so that whosoever alienates things of this nature to a private Mecoenas is justly to be redargued Parasitical and as a moral Impropriator You know the children of the bondman are the goods of the parents master Lev. 25.45 46. Levit. 25. and however hereby made more common yet are nevertheless your own in particular That the Eye therefore may no longer now envie the Ear but both help the Soul these Sermons are presented to your view and that without the least suspition of one Sense proving less candid then the other appearing here as not without some disadvantages in regard of that same Magisterial presence and Charming Elocution of the Author so not without some oddes at other side for permanencie and more leasurable instillation of the matter And 't is an happiness obliging unto thankfulness that God vouchsafeth thus to feast his people at both Senses The lively sound indeed is the more piercing as Saint (a) Viva vox habet nescio quid latentis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In Prologo Galeato Ierome saith but the Letter written the more during Litera scripta manet The one as it were like Lightning the other like the fire upon the Altar According to my Talent I have endeavoured some good both ways not so much fearing censure as desiring the good of others and that these Papers might speak that permanently to the eyes of all our Country-men which found such favour in the ears of your Citizens and entertainment in so many hearts Yet all this but too narrow a confinement for his ample merit which did so far transcend the Pattern of his Predecessors that he hath laid a Task invincible upon his Successors (b) As was said of Chrysostoms successor Quis Cui and after Athanasius that a storm followed a stream Nazianzen Vix dedit vix dabit aetas parem But I know Love and Sorrow need no Remembrancer 'T would therefore be superfluous for me to say no worse on 't if not infandum renovare dolorem to eccho to you his incomparable Parts and Arts whose departure your love still lamenteth whose pious excellencies so many painful yeers imprinted on your Memories and not there onely but I hope shed with all their Celestial influences on your conversations that as in these writings he being dead as the Apostle saith yet speaketh so in your Christian practice the world may see and say that albeit deceased he still liveth 2 Kings 23. 2 Chron. 35. Nor hath he so altogether forsaken us though This like that other good Iosiah subductus aevo pessimo taken from the evil to come but that as Nazianzen (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Oratione in laudem Basilii said of Basil he still doth us good besteads us still yet that not as they stretch his Rhetorick by praying for us but thus by his instructions and profitable labours teaching us For here your meditations though but in one short Chapter opened are carried as it were thorowout the Vniverse sometimes as in Elijahs chariot up to heaven to contemplate the Angels there and their good offices the blessed spirits of just men made perfect I and most frequently the God of both of them and him whom he hath sent Iesus Christ our dear Saviour sometimes alighting unto 〈◊〉 lower objects pointing us to all the several mansions of the Vertues and powerfully ejecting that same Legion of Epidemick vices sometimes aloft from the top of the tree of grace shaking down the fruits of the Spirit (d) Gal. 5. at other times again stooping to inferiour capacities and regulating of domestical relations sometimes as a Remembrancer from heaven advertizing the publike Magistrate strongly and sweetly moving all to spiritual prudence and conscientiousness in their several Functions chalking out to us in these last and worst times the Christian Menagry of all these various events of Divine Providence with the profitable husbanding of both-hand-Temptations Prosperity and Affliction That so like Musick out of discordant sounds or wholesom Medicine from distastful severals Rom. 8.28 all things may terminate unto Gods glory Mans amendment and felicity All which together with a grateful affection to the Authors memory Acts 22.3 at the feet of which Gamaliel I had the happiness to sit some yeers conquered

me into this Vndertaking for which as some of his neer Correlates acknowledge these divers yeers could not finde out an Gedipus What care and travel is bestowed here in extricating the Character rendering the Languages digesting of the Index and transcribing the whole business I mention not nor need I unto such as have but seen his Copies Yet modesty need not blush to say It was not each ones work his Manuscripts fulfilling that same Greek Proverb (e) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As difficult as excellent his Notes right Golden Oar though precious in themselves yet worth but little till digged out with art and labour as some of your own eyes are pairs of witnesses so that although the matter of them be a divine Collyrium or eye-salve to the soul yet penned in so diminutive a Letter writ in so strict an Hand the wonder of Youth to read much more of Age to write it that they appear like Basilisks unto the bodies eyes And that 's the Remora I suppose that hath so long detained them and hitherto deterred his dearest Affectionates from such perusal of them But it shall ne'er be said but that for such an heavenly Paul some of his Auditors will dare even pluck out their own eyes also Gal. 4.15 in this sense and give them to him at least hazard such a Private Darkness to hold forth such a Publike Light 'T is honour enough in the Sanctuary of God where all cannot be Lamps to be but of those golden Candlesticks 1 Kings 7.49 Revel 1.12 1 Kings 7. Indeed such metal was ordained for such service and pity 't is any coarser should support our Authors holy Flame Yet alas some part of it we see hath been obtruded to the world in brazen as it were if not wooden sockets burning but dim and gastly by reason of their dull reflections (f) Quem recitas meus est ô Fidentine Libellus sed male c. Mart. Ep. Sed malè dum recitas But the truth is while thus mutilously they render him 't is even their own dark Lanthorn rather then his Taper and therefore I have used here both tongs and snuffers of the Sanctuary to vindicate its proper lustre And although some perhaps might have effected it more dextrously yet none could have more faithfully endeavoured that the Childe might look like the Father and not like those Mephibosheths that halt abroad under his injur'd name which however tolerably done too as to such private men and families the best use of Short-writing yet are right Short-hand-Sermons Sermons far short of that same hand that penn'd them meer Skeletons without all lineaments and beauty Indeed vulgar Stenography I mean illiterate Short-hand is but the coarse fieve of Learning and the very Executioner of all Ingenuity which it not onely rifles and disornaments but commonly dismembers and beheadeth sucking indeed apace like Leeches but the grossest blood These no such births blinde with haste (g) Canis festinans caecos parit catulos but delivered from his own Quill These Sermons are no Hagarens but children of the free-woman of the Authors own Minerva Your Senses can witness to your Vnderstandings they are his his totally without any the least mutilation Sermons like their Author (h) Attested by his own brother M. Tim. Shute to be his Sermons at large and that he seldom altered a word or phrase compleat in all their numbers And who dares draw a line after such an exquisite Apelles And having shewed they are his I know how little need there is either to intreat your acceptation or advise your use it is enough to have presented them into your hands and thorow them to the Church of God which they now finde here much like that wounded traveller Luke 10. Luke 10. and none more like the good Samaritan then he Oh may his wine and oil of comfort and instruction help bathe and search and binde her bleeding wounds our peace being bundled up in hers as Iacobs life bound up in Iosephs Gen. 44.30 That God who above his other favours hath given you fixed hearts in looser times and stayed your feet in so many slippery places adde an increase of all other heavenly graces by this unworthy service of my weak endeavours Mean time 't is both my joy and thankfulness to have done though but thus instrumentally some little good in such things sure Causa sine qua non non est causa stolida 'T is at once a comfort and an honour to his poor servant that the great God of heaven hath vouchsafed any way to use his hand in the Ieast service of his Church These are but some Primitial handfuls a few sheaves of that goodly i The whole stock of the Authors Sermons being in the hands of his Reverend brother Master Tim. Shute of Excoste whence the Church may expect them if he live to act his promises or leave such as may do it Crop which you may hope one day to reap if God please to encourage Labourers I have presented you a fragrant Posie of his Flowers future time may make up the Garland Facile est inventis addere Here I have broke the Ice whereat Gods Flock may drink and finde the springs of comfort I have spied out this Canaan and brought you here the first true cluster of the Grapes you long'd for But there want not Discouragers so that I shall either proceed or stand according as the Cloud or Fire admonisheth These in the interim not onely crave your entertainment but bring along their Recompence their Recompence I say by seasonable Exhortations to piety and wisdom Had they come sooner to my hands they had sooner come to yours or could civil importunity have purchased more I should have given an account of him in a larger Volume Nor yet having but these would I be tempted to play the Egyptian midwife with them seeing the day of small things is not to be despised Zech. 4.10 Zech. 4. glad of each good opportunity to turn a Grievance into an Advantage Psal 39.2 3. having kept silence long with David not without pain and grief by thus improving an enforced Non-term and over-long Vacation in such a promulgating the best of Laws Now therefore as the sedulous Author hath industriously composed and his Amanuensis ingenuously exposed them so do you henceforth conscientiously impose them on your actions copie them out with a fair hand in all your dealings that they may work your riches into a Crown inviolable and lead you unto Immortality that they may conduct you like S. Peters Angel thorow this tumultuous City of the world Acts 12.9 c. nay thorow the Iron gate of death it self into that City of the new Ierusalem To which end shall my prayers daily follow you desiring therein a Retaliation for Sirs The meanest of your servants and least Spark on Gods Altar EDWARD SPARKE From my Study in LONDON Novemb. 10. 1648. TO THE