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death_n	adam_n	sin_n	transgression_n	6,929	5	10.8054	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00581	Comfort to the afflicted. Deliuered in a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse the xxi. day of May, M. DC. XXVI. Being the last Sunday in Easter terme. By Antony Fawkener, Mast. of Arts, of Iesus Colledge in Oxford	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2.	1626 (1626)	STC 10718; ESTC S118330	17,791	36

COMFORT TO THE AFFLICTED DELIVERED IN A SERMON preached at PAVLS-Crosse the xxi day of May M.DC.XXVI Being the last Sunday in Easter Terme By ANTONY FAWKENER Mast of Arts of Iesus Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed for ROBERT MILBOVRNE 1626. ET VSQUE AD NVBES VERITAS TVA P. S. To the right Worshipfull Master EVERARD FAWKENER my beneficent good Vncle Grace mercy and peace in Christ IESUS SIR IT is the providence of Nature to necessitate a retribution of her gifts unto her self Her matter shee lends neuer fayles her it may indeed be in some sort corrupted but no way annihilated Though man be corrupted nature looseth no substance but what was lately hers in a humane body will still be hers though but in dust and ashes If nature can be so frugall to saue her owne t is pity that piety should be a looser The riuers restore unto the Ocean what they have received from her themselves And by an imitating gratitude wee are bound to devote our selves to the sources of our fortunes As of the passed you are next God the patron of my succeeding happinesse Wherefore in stead of my selfe I am bold to present unto you this off-spring and indeed in respect of so generall an audience my first borne which according to the Law I have already dedicated unto the Lord. A worke of purpose proportioned to the hearers benefite not a Criticks censure So plaine that the simple may understand and yet I hope not altogether so unpolished that the friendly and iudiciously curious may scorne it Briefly what I have consecrated to God I may boldly present to man Therefore in confidence of your imitation of him in accepting a good will I rest Your Nephew in all Christian dutie to be commanded ANTONY FAWKENER A SERMON PREACHED AT Pauls-Crosse IOB 19.21 Haue pitie vpon me haue pitie vpon me O yee my friends for the hand of God hath touched mee AS the great Vniuerse so the small World Man is composed of and diuided into two parts Spirit and Body The soule expresseth creatures immateriall Angells The body is the character of things materiall and corporall The world was pure till man fell the sinne of the little world cursed the greate one No sooner was Adam found guilty but the earth was cursed and that receiued punishment before the delinquent yet not for its owne but his sake Man sinned not the earth the earth was cursed not for its owne but mans punishment The ground must be cursed ere man can be punished the earth must be barren ere Adam can sweat As of sinne so is man the chiefe subiect of calamitie each creature else for his sake he for his owne Their punishment is not theirs but his and their vnhappinesse onely in order to his misery The earth indeed was curst man more barrennesse seised on it death on him Rarò antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claude Punishment is light-footed and will as soone reuenge God as man can iniure him Transgression is sometimes punished with the obiect it desires Adam indeede by eating the forbidden fruit knew good and euill but 't was a lamentable knowledge He knew euill but first in himselfe the first science he had was of his owne infirmity for He saw that he was naked Gen. 3.7 Sometimes 't is punish't by the contrary Adam would no sooner haue beene as God but he was as man ambitious to be equall with the Almightie he became inferiour to himselfe By his owne power he would haue liued for euer and therefore died presently for By sinne death entred into the world Loe then he was no sooner sinfull than miserable no sooner the subiect of transgression than of affliction As then we deriue sinne from our parents so it 's punishment and misery is as much ex traduce as guilt What man then liues and oft-times sinnes not what man oft-times sinnes and is not sometimes scourged As then our affliction may be common so our compunction should be mutuall Our brother is corrected to day to morrow may be our course Iob was afflicted in this Chapter he knew his friends might be ere long as indeed they were in the last Chapter where he was faine to sacrifice for them and therefore exhorts them to bestow that vpon him in his calamitie which they would be glad to beg of him in theirs at least that weake mercy of commiseration and that small solace Pitie Haue pitie vpon me haue pitie vpon me c. Man and wife are one by a matrimoniall vnion Body and Soule make one by a naturall constitution Each man hath in himselfe a state Oeconomicall Eue was married to Adam the Body to the Soule Adam then is both Adam and Eue Soule and Body The Serpent first beguiled Eue then shee Adam Vanity first cheats sense then shee deceiues the soule As both haue sinned so both are punished in the same order First Eue was chidden then Adam First the body is punished in this world then the soule in the life to come The whole world of man transgressed in its parts Adam and Eue who were it and by a law of paritie each of them is punished in their parts soule and body which make vp them The whole man then is afflicted in his parts looke but vpon this verse and behold this afflicted man My Text is the Embleme of a wretched wight where by a method Syntheticall the sacred limmer proceeds from the parts to the whole First there are two petitions correspondent to two parts Haue pitie vpon me and againe Haue pitie vpon me Pitie my body pitie my soule Both grounded vpon foure implicite reasons two taken à Posse for you may doe it because 't is Easie and Lawfull and two à Debito for you most doe it because 't is commanded by Nature and by God Secondly the parties petitioned O yee my friends Thirdly the reasons expressed on the petitioners part moouing and perswading to the grant of his request which in generall are three 1. taken from the causes of his affliction which here are two Instrumentall s The hand prime Efficient s Of God 2. taken from the action concrete with its manner s Hath touched 3. from the patient the whole man and but a fraile man s Mee First then of the double petition Haue pitie vpon me haue pitie vpon me Such was the loue of God to vs that he would not make vs according to any image but his owne he would haue had vs no sooner men than sonnes and the Creator vouchsafed to be the prototype of his creature Yet the madnesse of our ambition fluttered to soare aboue the wisdome of his mercie Coelum ipsum petimus stultitiâ To be dust and ashes was as much as by our owne nature we could be yet to be but a little inferiour to God was to be lesse than wee would be How faine we would haue beene as God himselfe and nothing could satisfie the stupide pride of our finite nature saue to be absolutely