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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

and was commended for his wish yet heare how he censured it in the first of Ecclesiastes and the last verse Much reading is a wearinesse to the flesh and he that encreaseth knowledge encreaseth sorrow A mans ioy and mirth which is of worldly blessings most principall for men scrape all the rest together to obtaine it because it is but a shadow and a flying vanity as we haue it heare how the same Author doth iudge of it who did enioy all things his heart could desire I said of laughter thou art mad and of mirth what is this that thou dost Ecclesiastes the second verse the second To leaue the minde and come to the body eating and drinking the meanes to preserue our naturall life it is no priuiledge aboue the beast therefore the basest of all delights When a certaine Poet that loued his ease and that content of pleasing his belly gaue Hadrian the Emperour a verse to this effect the Emperour being a man giuen to versifying Ego nolo Caesaresse Ambulare per Britannos c. I would not be an Emperour to march among the Britans and to be nipt with the frosts of Scythia the Emperour answered him in the like fashion Ego nolo Florus esse Ambulare per tabernas c. I would not be Florus to walke from tauerne to tauerne and to bury all my daies in the graue of swinish sensuality So meane a thing is this corporall pleasure to them that truly conceiue thereof Let me leaue the minde and the body and view the outward contents that the earth affordes The glory the pride and honor of this life is much eclipsed with imperfection That which is lift vp in one day may fall downe the next There is prepared a moth for appatell and wormes and putrifaction doe waite for him that is aduanced when this end shall come it plucketh the highest vnder foote and layeth his honour in the dust Behold then wisedome and content of minde the pleasure of the body the outward pompe of worldly honour being in themselues lawfull if vsed with moderation and directed to a right intent Yet as we haue them in this life they suffer their diseases We must thinke of a time when they shall be perfected and refined for the God of nature doth order all things aright and whereas they seeme heere to be kept in prison or to miscarry in diuers points they shall be rectified by an estate aboue which doth fixe them vpon their true obiect Then shall wisedome and knowledge receiue accomplishment we shall see the Lord as he is not obscurely as in a glasse but face to face as the Apostle speaketh Then shall a mans ioy be complete and substantiall seeing he shall enioy that is better then himselfe For earthly ioy is therefore imperfect because nothing in the world is so excellent as a mans soule and therefore it cannot rest in these inferiour things till it come to the Lord who is a spirit euen the Father of spirits in whom alone the spirituall soule doth receiue satisfaction Then shall bodily sustentation also cease the belly is here for meate and meate for the belly and God destroyeth both it and them there shall be a feeding onely of the soule and a drinking of that water whereof hee that drinketh shall neuer thirst as our Sauiour speaketh The spirituall contents are set downe by bodily descriptions Howbeit the happinesse is spirituall for spirituall things are most excellent Seeing all things must be most absolute Aquin and Lyra haue vrged this text against the Turkes that dreame of carnall delights in a bodily paradise after death Lastly that desire of honour which God hath giuen men by nature because the earth is not able to satisfie doth point out the right way to wandring thoughts A man ought to eschew basenesse that is to detest sinne which doth worke a downefall and to aspire to that kingdome of glory that here by honouring God hereafter the Lord may honour vs according to that speech giuen out for our encouragement To him that ouercommeth I will grant to sit with me in my throne In the third of the Reuelation I haue here propounded two ends for you an end of destruction and an end of persection The first end is for all the second for a few For vs let it be our care seeing we must end let vs end the best waie let vs not loose that faire possibility wherewith God hath endowed vs by taking vs from the multitude of aliants and made vs members of his Church in as much as he sheweth vs by his word what is to come but let our life be so squared that our consciences may tell vs we seeke perfection For woe be to him that endeth not the best way and happie yea thrice happie is hee whose end is the doore to happinesse Let that be our resolution which was the wish of an euill man of Balaam who hauing a little touch giuen him and a certaine light of the end of Gods elect because he was a Prophet brake out into a good desire let vs vse it with a more sound affection that we may prooue more then wishers and woulders in the case O that I may die the death of therighteous and that my last end may be like his So much of the end of the old world I come now to the establishing of a new When hee shall haue deliuered vp the kingdome to God the Father AS the king doth send forth his generall with regall authoritie to the warre who hauing subdued the enemy returneth in triumph and all beeing finished maketh a surrender of his place So our Sauiour came into the world from the Father with equall authority here he discharged his office imposed on him and hauing confounded all his aduersaries at the day of iudgement endeth the warre And like a Dictatour that gouerneth only in times of danger so the vsing his authority vpon rebellious men When the worke is finished leaueth his function by deliuering the kingdome vp to the Father Wee may ferch an exposition to these words from the 28. verse of this chapter And when all things shall be subdued vnto him then shall the Sonne also himselfe be subiect vnto him that put all things vnder him that God may be all in all Whereas the Lord did not visibly gouerne among men by shewing the fulnesse of his owne power but gouerned it by men keeping as yet his Maiesty more secret he shall then put downe all authority of men and guide all things immediately by his owne hand That is To be all in all to deliuer the kingdome to the Father and to put downe all rule all authoritie and power Because of some obscurity in these words I must resolue two doubts that arise from hence First of all some may obiect Wherefore is our Sauiour said to resigne his kingdome to the Father seeing the Scripture saith Christs kingdome must haue no end For the prophecy of him goeth to this purpose

stand for him like a friend or else he will account you as his foe worship him here with a constant and faithfull heart fall downe before his feete by praier and true repentance lest you fall vnder his feete in the day of wrath FINIS A SERMON PREACHED IN PAVLES CHVRCH VPON SAINT Steuens day 1618. ACTS 7.57 and 58. Then they gaue a shoute with a loude voice and stopped their eares and ranne vpon him all at once And cast him out of the citty and stoned him SAint Steuens Day The Day directeth me to my Text the Day of S. Steuen and the Text of S. Steuen But how concerneth it Saint Steuen Declareth it his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Birth and comming into the world like the day before this or his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Death and going out of the world like the day after to morrow His Death certainely and necessarily Yesterday was the Birth of Christ this day the Death of a Christian both comprising the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Christianitie That day teaching vs to liue this day teaching vs to die or rather both teaching vs to doe both both to liue and die For our meeting the Day of S. Steuen leadeth vs to the Text of Saint Steuen and the Text of Saint Steuen to the Death of Saint Steuen The end of this story is the story of his end and thus much for the contents The contents of my text being Death Persecution the parts thereof shall be answerable two the Persecuters and the Persecuted the first pointing at a pluralitie of Iewes the second at a singular Christian first of them then of Him so I direct my discourse In them the Persecuters we may note the very body of persecution they did assault him fine waies if ye will with fiue members ore aure corde and as our phrase is manibus pedibusque they did set vpon him with their mouthes eares hearts feete and hands First with their mouthes then they gaue a shoute with a loude voice Secondly with their eare stopped their eares Thirdly with their hearts they did it all at once Fourthly with their feete they ranne vpon him Fifthly with their hands they cast him out and stoned him In him the Persecuted two things onely are propounded the Place and the Person the Place was without the citty and the Person S. Stenen Arguing his thrice noble excellence he is thrice repeated they ranne vpon him they cast out Him and they stoned Him Yee conceiue the ground of my discourse concerning his last houre which Christ grant that we may remember to our last houre In generall obserue this from the generals Many Persecuters knit themselues together against one or a few Persecuted a kennell of Dogges single out one Deere and we heare them hunting after Him in my text Saul Doeg the Ziphims and the Amalekites against Dauid Pontius Pilate Herod and his men of warre against the sonne of Dauid the Scribes and Pharisies against the Apostles and the world against Athanasius In our time the Turkes Iewes Mahometanes and Pagans against vs Christians In our parts the Catholikes as they call themselues against the Protestants And in our land against our few poore Ministers It is the Day of Saint Steuen I will speake the words of Saint Steuen and I hope with the heart of S Steuen Lord lay not this sinne to their charge Act. 7.60 The first of the fiue particulars is how they assaulted S. Steuen with their mouthes as we phrase it they ranne vpon him with open mouth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shouted with a lowde voice saith my text A rare propertie of Persecuters doct to make their tongues the instruments of Persecution The text tetestifieth that these were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that their words were swords and that their shoute was the prologue to their tragedie So Act. 19.32 the Ephesians made a confused out-cry to cry out for the disciples confusion Pestilently politicke that the opening of their mouths might shut their eares from conueying compassion to the heart by hearing the passion of the Persecuted As souldiers beate the drumme to bury the groanes of their dying troopes and the Idolatrous Iewes ecchoed out the sound of their shrill instruments to drowne the shreekes of their frying children forced through the fire to Molech Thus they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shouted with a loude voice Surely these Iewes haue some of their off-spring appl yet suruiuing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 crying and yelling against the Persecuted Euen the sanctified the Iesuites did euer the Moone behold the like barking rhetoricke as hath beene yelpd out against our Prince and people by Becanus Tortus Eudaemon Lessius and Scioppius yea and Suarez also Adde our owne anominals our English popish pamphlets and finally 39. barrels of gunpowder should haue made vp the full cry of those foule Hell-hounds They thought to haue made vs all Steuens all Martyrs to haue deuoured vs all when they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when they had so opened their mouthes against vs. But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rumpatur quisquis rumpitur invidia Let them throate out their malice against vs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a loude voice till they rend their mouthes to their nables We hope that the hand of the Lord will alway defend vs from the mouth of the Persecuter Next as they did open their mouthes against the eares of Saint Steuen so here they did stoppe their eares against the mouth of S. Steuen As the Mush-rome is all Head so they were all mouth they would speake all but heare nothing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they did stoppe their eares saith my text But consider the cause of this their obturation and obduration S. Steuen did goade them vp with a sharpe sermon and the vild Beasts could not but Kicke at him vers 51. he tearmed them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a stiffenecked people of deafe eares and dull hearts and verse 52. hee told them plainely that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 murderers and traiters His rough reprehension through their eares wounded their rebellious hearts as a resolute souldier will sometime fetch of one of the garrison through their owne loope-hooles Therefore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make their eares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they did damme vp euery chinke and creuise that the report of the least syllable might not enter into their stubborne hearts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they did stoppe their eares saith the text An vndoubted truth doct Reprooue a Sinner and thou doest raise a Persecuter S. Steuen preached against them instantly they stopped their eares and ranne vpon him Christ taught it Math. 7.6 If thou giue holy things vnto dogges they will turne againe and teare you Christ felt it Luk. 4.28 and 29. Christ made an excellent sermon to his owne countrymen and his owne countrymen would haue plunged him

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