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A05417	Two sermons one preached at Paules Crosse December 20. By Roger Lea Master of Arts, of Iesus-Colledge in Cambridge: and preacher at S. Leonards Shorditch, in Middlesex, by London. Another preached in Paules-Church, Decemb. 26, being S. Steuens day, by Iohn Squire, Master of Arts, of the same Colledge: and preacher of the same parish	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.; Squire, John, ca. 1588-1653. Sermon preached in Pauls church upon Saint Stevens fay. 1618. aut	1619 (1619)	STC 15569; ESTC S103084	38,824	74

shall shortly follow mine as it is in the 〈◊〉 Psalme Thou bringest our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told Let our endeauors then concurre that we may profit by the worke and enioy that end in the beginning of the text Then commeth the end c. So may the word of God appeare perfect for the law of God is a perfect law conuerting the soule in the seauenth verse of the forenamed Psalme that which is perfect may make perfect shewing in it selfe a sound perfection because it workes in vs a sincere conuersion These words may be taken as an argument of the resurrection among sundry other reasons that I omit because of abundance of matter herein conteined For Christ must be an absolute king to honour and aduance his subiects into glory by raising them vp into life eternall and confounding his aduersaries the last whereof is death And as it augmenteth the glory of a king to reigne a long time to make a manifest and a large declaration of his power in sundry ages and much variety so Christ doth not on the suddaine end the world but deferres his accomplishment thereof til he hath raigned a certaine time To put all his enemies vnder his feete Secondly these words are for comfort If any should be ouer hasty to leaue this life to come to that better kingdome here S. Paul seemeth to giue a reason of Christs long tarrying we must not expect our end before our Lord appoints it but continue in the field and keepe our rankes against the enemies vnder our captaine till he end the warre and bring vs to a place of rest Because as Caluin saith Non est consentaneum medio stadio nos coronari We must not enioy our crowne before we runne our race but as constant runners hold out till we come at the iournies end We may deuide these two verses in the words of Aquinus here is first adaptio boni the performing of good remotio mali the remoouing of euill Both here by Christ are wrought as a patterne to all rulers that for the time they are in office their conscience may tell them this good haue I done and this euill haue I represt For he that will hurt none and doe good to none but thinkes it good sleeping in a whole skin and the safest course not to meddle carrieth a resolution not worthy the minde of a superiour but by our Sauiours example hee must hazard and put forth himselfe So in the 24. verse hee sets by the good Then shall be the end when he shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to the Father And in the 15. verse expels the bad He must reigne till he hath put all his enemies vnder his seete And as Anchises gaue counsell to his sonne in the which the Romans seemed to bragge for executing the precept Parcere subiectis debellare superbos Aenec 6. To spare the subiects and to pull downe the proude The first is practised here in the 24. verse parcere subiectis To spare or rather to honour the subiects Then shall be the end when he shall haue deliuered the kingdome to the Father and the second is expressed in the 25. verse there he pulls downe the proude He must reigne till hee hath put all his enemies vnder his feete Concerning the verses in themselues seuerally considered In the 24. verse consider first an end of the old world Then shall be the end the estate of the new world he shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to the Father and the manner of gouernment without degrees of secular power by God immediately He shall put downe all rul and all authority and power In the 25. consider The kingdome and the conquest the kingdome he must reigne the Conquest till he hath put all enemies vnder his feete In the last consider the parties vanquished his enemies and their miserable ouerthrow discomfiture vnder his feete They are put vnder feete In the first place we haue the last estate of all the world to consider Then commeth the end In euery businesse the last issue must bee first concluded as in running a race we first agree of the end to which the swift motion of the course must aime and approach In shooting the marke and scope it first set vp Therefore it is obserued that practicall sciences must be handled per methodum analiticam ● fine admedia We first set downe the end and then the meanes that leadeth to the end Of ends there are two sorts first an end of destruction and secondly an end of accomplishment when a thing is finished The one is a bad end the other a good by the one a thing is ended that is to say consumed by the other a businesse or worke is ended that is it is perfected In this place Beza vnderstands the latter the world shall be ended that is it shall be perfected But to speake properly we may vnderstand both For an accomplishment cannot bee without the destruction of some thing Generatio vnius est corruptio alterius when a new thing is formed the old thing must be altered according to the 36. verse of this chapter That which thou sowest is not quickned except it die Briefely then of these two ends in order First the world and the inhabitants and all things that we enioy must haue an end they must be destroyed and consumed Euery thing that seemeth most strong and beautifull must in the end vanish and fall away The cause of this is sinne for when things are in their height they abuse their time they beare not themselues aright in the middest of their glory the gifts of God are abused and therefore he plagues the earth and destroyes the world men are the abusers and therefore that time which giueth them leaue to sin bringeth them likewise to an end and burieth them in a common destruction This is the nature of sinne it is still a destroyer God did threaten Adam in paradise at the first with moriendo morieris in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death And euer since where sinne hath bin committed with a stubborne hand God hath punished with destruction and desolation Euen from hence must euery one confesse that he is a sinner because he carrieth a body subiect to corruption and in time death shal sease vpon him When as the Lord did see that the wickednesse of man was great vpon the earth before the flood hee brought that deluge to ouer-flow the world that the waters might breake the heart and strength of the earth that mens liues might be shortned by the putrefaction of the Elements and so weakenesse bee brought vpon the world We may see it by examples Noe liued 950. yeares Terah the father of Abraham liued but 205. yeares and Ioseph that was in a neere generation in the descending line from Terah died at the age of an hundred and ten in the 50. of Genesis and the last verse So the

see them strongly subdued by a fearefull fall these enemies shall be put vnder feete Their ouerthrow vnder feete This heauie lot did the Heathen imagine due to the Giants for opposing their Gods Famaest Enceladi semiustum fulmine corpus Vrgeri mole hac In Virgil. Aetna was thought a burden weighing downe one of this companie In Scripture this is taken as a note of conquest as Iosua 10.24 The captaines of the people did tread vpon the neckes of the fiue Kings Which thing no doubt was a type of this as Iosua that temporall Sauiour was of the eternall Sauiour Iesus In this kinde also Ioas derideth Amazia King of Iuda 2. Chron. 25.18 shewing his weakenesse and arrogancie vnder this similitude The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the Caedar that was in Lebanon saying Giue thy daughter to my sonne to wife and a wilde beast came and trode downe the thistle For all the enemies of God doe fall miserably finally and in the most contemned manner and the extremities of all ruine shall confound him that is not an embracer of religion Obserue two things in this punishment torment and shame 1. Torment As a man that is pressed to death doth groane and languish vnder the weight without the comfort of a little ease or a breathing time to gather strength to vndergoe the torture with any patience so are the eternall woes of another life Gods anger and heauy iudgement shall weigh downe the sinner the burden of his displeasure vpon the conscience shall be intollerable and insupportable griefe shall make the sinner to sinke vnder the heauinesse This did he a little see that cried mine iniquities are gone ouer my head and are a burden to heauy for me to beare yet this is the voice of repentance and not of desperation So heauy a loade is a mans offence when it presseth vpon the conscience 2 Basenesse and shame maketh vp the misery As he that lieth vnder foote is in the state of ignominie and reproch So at the day of iudgement when a mans villanies are laid open when his Maiestie appeareth who was offended then a man shall haue his nakednesse truely seene like Adam in Gods presence That which before he did glory in shall then make him to hide himselfe if it weare in his power where the filthinesse of sinne shall be laide open in true colours And are these the men that must not now be spoken to and strout it in their gallantry Their wit in this deserueth commendation that they honour themselues and in a case of necessitie doe magnifie their practises very neede requireth it they must a little braue it now they fall so low hereafter The pretious pearle of the word is ouer topped by the haughtie and now set light by and the labours of preaching are as a thing trampled vnder by these men Therefore these two must change places God must haue the glory and they the shame For wherefore is it that these flourishing offenders are hearers of it for the learning or the eloquence or some worldly respect Whereas saluation is built vpon simple admonition and common principles things that make no shew because the Lord would bring downe all humane mane inuention and pride to this plainnesse All brauery policy learning elocution must at that time stoope to this simplicitie of diuine truth whereas now we can scarce get this inward substance this marrow of diuinitie to take place but these outward orornaments doe obscure it Strange and lamentable is the folly of the world As men that are vnfurnished come to a tree to gather fruite and when they are come they onely looke vpon the faire body of the tree and the goodly bowes and if they can snatch a branch they runne away and leaue the fruite behind So fareth it with our common auditours They are sicke and want yet come to get some new thing to please their fancy that may tickle the care or delight the minde returning with empty soules as if God had ordained his word to please and not to profit Let this then haue the preheminence now lest the contempt of so high a thing lay the auditour in dishonour Conceiue now what it is to lie vnder the feete of God They shall call for mountaines to couer them the weight of iudgement shall be so heauy Worldly sorrow is grieuous to flesh and blood burning in fire is a torment that cannot be endured this is a Tophet prepared with much wood and the breath of the Lord as a riuer of brimstone to kindle it Trauell of women is a plague in earth for sinne this suddaine destruction that commeth vnawares is like it 1. Thess 5. Discontents of this life doe sometimes preuaile against humane infirmitie that a man ouerwhelmed will delect his minde goe against nature and lay violent hands vpon himselfe If this be so in the sorrowes on earth how shall it fare with the sorrowes of hell If a man doe thus shrinke when he is smitten by the hand of the creature how shall he sinke when he lieth vnder the foote of the Creator See here in this life how a wounded conscience doth dismay a perplexed soule It maketh a man forget all worldly pleasure that cannot helpe him It ouercommeth all earthly sorrow for that yeildeth vnto this neuerthelesse a troubled minde hath some hope God may release out of that agonie It seeth not God and his iudgements but feareth and suspecteth a miserie to come it beholdeth vengeance a farre of If that may so lay a man vnder foote in his life how shall the feeling eternall punishments ouerthrow him What shall I say more Pugna suum finem cumiacet hostis habet Equity requireth the fight should cease when the enemie is vnder foote I neede to threaten no longer But that my end may giue a direction to the end of others Beware this ditch for sake sinne that maketh an enemy to God let his word smite your conscience by reforming you I cannot speake it without griefe nor I thinke you heare it without pittie that our Church should haue those hearers that are diligent and yet vnsound in practise some that set their saluation light let it goe either way that follow the world and trouble not their braines about heauen These men are to bee put among the enemies among the Iewes and Turkes euen those that haue not knowne God that haue blasphemed Christ that haue borne armes against him They are in the same degree with them all are stickes to be put in the same bundle and cast into the same fire The diuell hath hid this ditch into which they fall their owne lust hath beene a mist that rose into the eies to darken their soule that they will not beleeue it till they feele it nor beware it till they finde it Yet make peace for you fight with the Lord of hosts you shall be ouermatched at the last although you see not his vengeance at the first Be hot then in his cause

hey haue not onely a wooluish antipathy to shedde blood but also a stoicoll apathy to distinquish of no persons in their cruell effusion As Saint Paul speaketh they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 without naturall affection In the text Steuen that was preaching they murdered Him Steuen that was praying they murdered Him and Saint Steuen they murdered Him yea had the quintessence of all sanctitie pietie and caelestiall integritie beene treasured vp in him alone yet would they haue murdered Him Math. 10. verse 21. The Brother shall betray the Brother the Father the Sonne and the children shall rise against the Parents and cause them to die Lurida terribiles miscent aconita noberiae the persecuting mothers will take life from them to whom they gaue life Fratrum quo que gratia rara est like the snakie issue of Cadmus Brethren deuoure one another Iohn Baptist was doubtlesse an incomparable creature Herod honoured him as a Saint reuerenced him as a Prophet and obaied him as a Teacher Yet when his barbarous heart was fired hee persecuted Him hee imprisoned Him and hee beheaded Him Most likely for other sinnes are bridled by shame but Persecution is spurred on by the repute of Sanctitie This maketh Persecuters like Bandogges to seaze vpon the throate like sharpe-kept Haukes they will tyre on the Hart. The Persecuter like Saul 1. Samuel 14. verse 39. If any taste the hony of true religion though it bee Ionathan my sonne saith hee euen hee shall die the death Herein a Persecuter is like Melchisedech hee is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither Father nor Mother shall bee spared by the hand of inraged Persecution As the Adamant cannot bee softned but with the blood of goates so shall not they bee mollified but with the blood of Lambes of innocent professours Heere Saint Steuen was the obiect abiect subiect of such sauage impiety they ranne vpon Him they cast out Him and they stoned Him saith my text Luke 14.31 vse The king sate downe and tooke councell whether hee were able to meete the twenty thousand which came against him Euery member of the Militant Church must assure himselfe of twentie thousand afflictions which will come against him Religion is a iewell and wee must sell all wee haue to purchase it Christ is a Spouse and wee must forsake Father and Mother to cleaue to him Let vs therefore in the name of God sit downe and take counsell how wee may bee able to with-stand those thousands of temptations But infinite wonder it is to see how wee grumble at toyes and trifling trials For euery slaunder of our inferiour for euery supplanting of our Equall and for euery disgrace from our Superiour oh wee startle as if this were the stoning of Steuen and the combate of Christians The childe in the nurces armes the touch of a pinne maketh it crie out as if it were killed and the Free-Booter standeth at the doore breaketh into the childe dasheth his braines against the ground and then killeth him indeede Such children are wee euery torment of our bodie euery impouerishment of our estate euery death of a deare friend euery little little discomfort 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 howe it woundeth our Hearts it maketh vs to crie and raue and repine when wee know not how neere the Free-Booter is vnto vs. It may those very hands which brought kniues for vs by sea and prepared fire for vs by land those very hands it may bee are now a gathering stones for vs watching for the first watch-word of fitte opportunitie Wee must expect it Wee haue had Halcyon daies of an Aegles age after a calme may come a tempest Let this bee our resolution Scipio pointing to his armie said there was not one who would not throw himselfe from the toppe of a Towre for loue of him So should we say that we would arme our selues euen to be throwne from the toppe of a Towre for the loue of Christ And this is no noueltie Wee are no better then Peter wee may bee imprisoned wee are no better then Paul wee may bee scourged wee are no better then Iohn Baptist wee may bee headed and I thinke Saint Steuen was as good as most of vs therefore wee may bee stoned To conclude Prisoning Scourging Heading Stoning Persecuting may come will come All which wee should indure all which in Iesus Christ strengthening vs wee shall indure Let vs say it now with our tongues and the Lord graunt wee may resolue it and performe it with our hearts for euermore Amen FINIS Errata In the epistle Pagina secunda linea 9. prò declarari lege declarare Linea 24. pro ni lege in page 4. line 9. for Aquinus read Aquinas line 18. for by read vp page 5. line 21. for a●aliticum reade analyticam Page 7. line 8. for euer reade euen Page 19. line 9. for kingdome read king Page 28. line 19. for speresset read sperasset