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A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

conuersion bee speedy True Repentance can neuer be too late yet late repentance is seldome true We read but of one that repented at the last Aug that no man should presume and yet of one that none should despaire O then before the pearle be taken out of our field before the sound of the Gospel bee remooued out of our land before the Arke of God bee taken from vs 1 Sam. 4 11. as it was from the Israelites let vs be moued to awake vp our first loue quickly Gods mercy and iudgements and word the infinitenesse of our sinnes shortnesse of our life small number of those that shall bee saued ioyes of heauen and torments of hell are motiues and if these preuaile not our Church must fall as it is threatened to Ephesus in Gods visitation And wil remoue thy Candlestick out of his place except thou repent The Church of God is compared to many things in holy Scripture secunda secundae to a house 1. Ti. 3. to a Body Ep. 1. to a field Mat. 13. to a net 1. Ti. 3.15 Ep. 1.23 Mat 13.24 v. 47. Mat. 25.1 v. 47. to ten Virgins Mat. 25. and heere to a Candlestick So it is expounded in 20. v. c. 1. The seauen Candlestickes which thou sawest are the seauen Churches God threatning to remoue the Church A fearefull iudgement whether we take it concerning the Minister that hee should bee depriued of his calling as the Lord threateneth vnto Ieremy If thou returne I will bring thee againe and thou shalt stand before me giuing him to vnderstand when hee had been wanting in deliuering the Lords will vnto his people partly through feare and partly through impatience that if hee returned not he should cease to be a Prophet vnto him Or if wee take it for the whole body of a Church that they should procure the remouing of the Gospell from them and the abolishing of the Gospell or if wee take it as it concerneth euery priuate man Commi●a●iones et promissines diuae sunt hypotheticae 33 mor. c. 15. that he shall lose the knowledge of God and other graces It is condionall Except thou repent Thus as Gregory noteth Vt pius it a iustus est Conditor As our Maker is mercifull so is hee iust Gracious and righteous Good and vpright is the Lord to teach sinners in the way Ps 25.8 Ps 25. Good and gracious in the multitude of his mercies to them that turne vnto him Righteous and vpright in the seuerity of his iudgements to them that cast him from them Heere are loue and wrath pitty and reuenge two Daughters of a great King goe hand in hand If the one cannot draw the other must the Church shall be remoued the light of the Gospell shall bee put out For as the Candlestick holdeth the light so doth the Church the word without this wee walke in darkenes and obscurity so that here I must land and fasten vpon this note Doct. That the taking away of the Ministry and preaching of the word is the greatest plague that can befall any The reasons are well knowne Where there is no vision the people perish Pro. 29.18 2. Ch. 15.3 Ro. 10.17 Pro. 29. Where there is not a teaching Priest and law there is no God 2. Ch. 15. Faith commeth by hearing Rom. 10. so that take away the word and take away faith take away faith take away Christ take away Christ and take away eternall life Therefore vpon Aarons robe there were golden Bells signifying the preaching of the Gospell and Pomegranates signifying the sweete sauour of Christs death Exo 28.34 Ex. 28. The miseries which follow this are vnspeakeable To be blind and haue no guide and yet to walke there where treading awry is the tumbling into hell to be hungry and to famish to suck but on dry brests to be pined and not perceiue it which is an euill of euills Therefore was Ierusalem threatned that their prophets tongue should cleaue to the roofe of his mouth he should be dumbe and not be vnto them a reprouer Ez. 3. Ez. 3.26 and this fearful sentence was vrged from the mouth of Christ himselfe I say vnto you the Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and giuen to a Nation bringing forth the fruits thereof Mat. 21. Mat. 21.43 And if this kingdome be once gone their ioy goeth with it All the Empires and dominions in the world subdued all Scepters and Crownes heaped together cannot blesse them A greater iudgment then any inuasion of enemies then firing of townes ruinating of houses rauishing of wiues and daughters dashing of Infants against the stones in the streetes pulling out the eyes from the heads and bowels from the bodyes of a people Therefore the best haue euer dearly respected Gods Ambassadours the Pastours of the Church and the Ministers of the word Thus did they in the old law Iehoiada a Priest marrying Iehoshabeath the daughter of King Iehoram the sister of King Ahaziah 2. Ch. 22. 2 Ch. 22 11. Thus Ioash the King of Israell came downe in person to visit sick Elisha and wept ouer his face saying O my father my father the Chariot of Israell 2 Ki. 13.14 and the horsmer thereof 2 Ki. 13. In the new Testament wee find many Possessors of lands and houses selling them and laying downe the prices of them at the Apostles feete Act. 4. Act. 4.34.35 The honorable Treasurer of Ethiopia Act. 8.31 Act. 10.25 Act. 17.4 Gal. 4.14 taking Philip vp into his Chariot Ac. 8. Cornetius a deuout liberall Martialist falling downe at the feet of Peter Aect. 10. The chiefe women in Thessalonica consorting with Paul and Barnabas Ac. 17. The Galathians receiuing S. Paul as an Angell of God euen as Christ Iesus Gal. 4.14 Ecclesiasticall stories abound in examples of Valentinian Ambr in obitu Valentin so reuerencing Ambrose that seeing him in his sicknes come vnto him salutem sibi quandam venturam arbitrabatur he thought he saw health it self comming vnto him of Alexander lighting from his horse and bowing to Iaddus of good Theodosius sending for Meletius to kisse his lippes and embrace him Theod. l. 5. c. 7. of Constantine kissing that eye of Paphnutius R●ff 1.4 a Bishop of Thebes which had loft light by the violence of the Arrians of that noble Earle Terentius who hauing obtained a great victory and being bidden of the Emperour Constantius to aske what he would Templum petiit pro orthodoxis Theod. l. 4. c 3● he asked to haue the Church restored to the orthodoxall teachers I omit how much others haue beene honoured Hilarius at Arles Paulinus at Nola Cyrill at Alexandria Chrysostom at Constantinople Plut. in Demo. Augustine at Happo Ambrose at Millan Cyprian at Carthage For if the Oratours are once yeelded Athens must soone to wracke Zac. 13.7 if the Shepheard be smitten the Sheepe will be scattered if preaching and the Candlesticke of