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Sermons by Humph. Sydenham late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford; Sermons. Selected sermons
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Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650?
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he will not so much as enioyne his Philemon but labours with an Obsecro when he might haue vs'd a Mando Though I might be much bold in Christ to enioyne thee yet for loue 's sake I rather beseech thee Phil. 7.8 So that where Loue is there is still an Obsecro where it is not there is commonly a Damno Hence 't is that the Pulpit is so often the Mount of Terror and of Vengeance the Throne of personall eiaculations the Altar where some belch nothing but fire and brimstone vomit the Ite maledicti too vncharitably and which is worst too particularly who scare and terrifie when they should entreat and in stead of Beseeching fall to Reuiling Rom. 12.11 who vnder a pretence of feruency of the Spirit and seruing the Lord sincerely ransacke God's dreadfull Artillery and call out all his Instruments of Iustice to assist them his furbisht sword and glittering speare his bowe of steele and sharpe-set arrowes his horse with warre-like trappings neighing for the battell his smoaking iealousie and deuouring pestilence his flaming meteors and horrid earth-quakes his storme his whirle-wind and his tempest flouds and billones and boylings of the deepe his cuppe of displeasure and vials of indignation his dregs of fury and besome of destruction his haile stones and his lightnings his coales of Iuniper and hot thunder-boles Thus in fearefull harnesse hauing muster'd vp all God's Iudgements in a sull volly they at once discharge them against the pretended corruptions of particular men whom their virulence labours rather to traduce then their Deuotions to reforme And this is but a spirituall-distraction a deuout phrenzy a holy madnesse through which like the Lunaticke in the Gospell they fall sometimes into the water Marke 9.22 sometimes into the fire Nothing will satisfie them but flouds and flames flouds to o'er-whelme the sinner or flames to martyr him But Quis furor ô ciues quae tanta dementia Publicke reproofes when they are cloath'd with Terror not onely disparage but dis-hearten They breake the bruizedreede Esay 42.3 and quench the smoaking flaxe run many on the shelues of despaire where they make an vnhappy shipwracke of their faith and not of their faith onely but of their body also exposing it to poyson or the knife to strangling or to the floud to the wilfull precipitation of some Towre or Cliffe or the vnnaturall butchery of their owne hands and so tormenting the body for the soule by a temporall death at length they feele the torments both of soule and body by an eternall death Thus if Incisions bee made too deepe in the vlcers of the Soule and the spirituall wound search'd too roughly it more relishes of cruelty then of Loue and he that doth it rather preaches his owne sinne then endeuours to cure anothers Qui delinquente superbo vel odioso animo corrigit Jsid lib. 3. de summo Bono cap. 91. non emendat sed percutit Rebukes which taste of enuie or superciliousnesse do not reforme but wound and in stead of lenifying and making more tractable indifferent dispositions they stubborne them knowing that reproofes too tartly season'd are the seruices of Spleene and not of Zeale 't is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zeale from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the seething and boyling of a pot Now a pot you know not temperatly fir'd boyles ouer and certainely if Moderation sometimes blow not the Cole but wee make virulence the bellowes of our zeale it not onely seeths and rises to passion and distemper but boyles ouer to Enuy and Vncharitablenesse And therefore our Apostle deuiding the properties of true Charity from a false zeale makes this one Symptome of that great vertue Charitas non aemulatur Estius in 1. Cor. cap. 13.3 Cyp. lib. de zelo Linore 1 Cor. 13.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Originall non zelat That is as Cyprian reades non inuidet enuies not for zeale in her perfection and as it leanes to vertue is but emulation but screw'd vp to vice 't is enuy Enuy Nay 't is fury Isid lib. 3. de summo Bono cap. 91. Quicquid proteruus vel indignans animus protulerit obiurgantis furor est non dilectio corrigentis saith the Father what in way of Admonishment passion produces is Reuiling and not admonishment and doth not touch so properly on sincerity as malice And therefore Enuies and Euill-speakings are link'd with Guile and Hypocrisie By Saint Peter Lay aside all guile Hypocrisies and Enuies and euill-speakings 1 Pet. 2.1 A temperate reproofe will mould and worke vs to reformation when an Inuectiue fires vs In cap. 5. Luae Illa pudorem incutit Haec indignationem mouet saith Ambrose That touches vs with remorce and slumbers and becalmes all passion This kindles our Indignation and with that our stubbournesse For certainely harsh speeches doe not so properly moue as startle vs and are like sharpe sawces to the stomacke which though they sometimes stirre the appetite yet they gnaw And for this Error some haue censur'd Saint Chrysostome himselfe That if He could haue moderated his zeale and temper'd his reproofes with a little mildnesse especially to the Empresse Eudoxia He might haue done more seruice to his Church and rescued his honour from the staine both of Imprisonment and Exile I presse not this so farre Beloued to fat and pamper vice or rocke and lull men in a carelesse sensuality Though I doe Beseech yet I would not fawne This were to kill our young with colling them and with the Iuie barren and dead that tree which we embrace I know a Boanerges is sometimes as well requir'd as a Barnabas a sonne of Thunder as of Consolation But these haue their vicissitudes and seasons There is an vncircumcised heart and there is a Broken Spirit There is a deafe Adder that will not be charm'd and there are good Sheepe that will heare Christ's voyce For these there is the spirit of Meekenesse for the other loud and sharpe Reproofes If Nabal's heart be stony the Word is call'd a Hammer let that batter it If Israel haue a heart that is contrite and wounded Gilead hath Balme in it and there is oyle of comfort for hïm that mournes in Sion Thus as our Infirmities are diuers so are the cures of the Spirit sometimes it terrifies sometimes it Commands sometimes it Beseeches But let not vs terrifie when we should but Command nor Command when wee should Beseech lest wee make this Liberty a Cloake for our Maliciousnesse 1. Pet. 2.16 In all exhortations first make vse of the still voyce and if that preuaile not Cry alowd vnto the Trumpet and if that be not shrill enough raise the Thunder-clap Aug. lib. 2. de sermone Domini in monte seâ—m 1. But this latter Rarò magnâ necessitate saith Augustine seldome and vpon great necessity Ità tamèn vt in ipsis etiam obiuâ— gatienibus non nobis sed Deo seruiatur intestinus If we must needs
twentieth Verse and in both He is a Beast that perisheth Marke how the Spirit of God paint's out this very Earth-worme this great Monopolist of pelfe and Rubbish He is ignorant Transitorie Sensuall He abideth not hee vnderstandeth not and anon he dieth Dieth no perisheth perisheth as a Beast doth as if the Soule rotted with the Body or his Memory with the Soule no Remainder either of Name or Fortune and which is worst of Honour so saith the Text What though rich and the Glory of his house increased yet He shall carry away nothing with him his Honour shall not descend after him verse 17. what carry nothing away with him not that Glorious Earth that Gaudy Luggage his Soule Doted on that shining Saint that Burnish'd Deity which he could at once both touch and worship what not the Cabonet he hug'd and clasp'd not the Gold hee Idol'd nothing of Treasure or Repute or Name Of neither All these false beames which were wont to dazle him shall bee now clouded in perpetuall darknesse where they shall neuer see light againe thus the Text doome's him at the nineteenth Verse of the same Psalme Seeing then All earthly Dependences are vaine and fragile and there can be no true peace but that which looke's vpward Take for Conclusion the aduice of Siracides Lay vp Treasures according to the Commandement of the most High Ecclus 39. and they shall bring thee more profit then gold Treasures of the most high What are These How laid vp and where The Commandement of the most High tell 's thee Lay vp for your selues Treasures in heauen Bags which waxe not old the good foundation against the time to come the hold of eternall life the Euerlasting Memoriall before God that Treasure which the Angell shewed Cornelius in the Vision euen thine Almes and thy Prayers not thy large-lung'd Prayers without Almes such as the old Pharisee bleated in his Synagogue or the New one in his Conuenticle but thine Almes and thy Prayers hand in hand with one cheerefulnesse and Truth thy hearty Zeale towards God and thy willing Charity towards Man and both these in secret and without noise Such and only such are Golden Vialls full of Odours sweet Incense in the Nostrils of the Almighty They shall yeeld a pleasant smell as the Best Myrrhe as Galbanum and Onyx and sweet Storax and as the fume of Frankincense in the Tabernacle Heere are Treasures which neuer faile where no Moth corrupteth nor Thiefe approcheth these shall fight for thee against thine Enemies better then a mighty shield or a strong speare If thou breake the Staffe of thy Bread vnto the hungry and afflicted God shall make fat thy Bones and satisfie thy Soule in Drought Thou shalt be like awatred Garden and like a spring whose streames faïle not Treasures thou shalt lay vp as Dust and Gold of Ophir as the stones of the Brooke Thy Pastures shall be cloth'd with flockes the Valleys also shall stand so thicke with Corne that they shall laugh and sing In fine Thou shalt take root in an honourable place euen in the portion of the Lord's Inheritance when thou shalt be exalted as a Cypresse-tree vpon the Mountaines of Hermon like a Palme tree in Engedy and as a Rose plant in Iericho And at length when the Glory of those Earthly Mansions must bee left when thou canst bee no longer Steward but art to passe thy strict Account before the Great House-holder at the Generall and Dreadfull Audit when the Booke of all our Actions shall be vnclaps'd thine shall be found square and euen and thou shalt receiue that happie Applause and Remuneration Well done thou good and faithfull Seruant Enter into thy Masters Ioy. Which the Lord grant for Christ Iesus sake Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo Rode caper vites tamen hic cùm stabis ad Aras In tua quod fundi cornua possit crit FINIS VVATERS OF MARAH AND MERIBAH OR THE SOVRCE OF BITTERNES AND STRIFE SWEETNED AND ALLAYED By way of Aduice Refutation Censure Against The Pseudo-zelots of our Age By HVMPHREY SYDENHAM Master of Arts late Fellow of Wadham-Colledge in OXFORD Disposui nasum secare faetentem timeat qui criminosus est quid ad te qui te intelligis innocentem De te dictum putae in quodcunque vitium stili mei mucro contorquetur HIERON ad MARCELLINVM LONDON Printed by Elizabeth Allde for Nathaniel Butter An. Dom. 1630. TO THE FRIENDS INDEEDE both of my Name and Fortunes Sir Ralph Sydenham and Edward Sydenham Esquire Seruants to his Sacred Maiestie My dearely honour'd WHilst I labour to ioyne you so closely in my respects let me not sunder you in your owne like two great men who the neerer they are in place the farther off in Correspondence I presume 't is no Solecisme to linke you together in one Dedication whom Nature hath twisted so fast in one Blood and Education in one vertue and Familiarity a knot I hope indissoluble in one heart It is not my lowest glory that I can boldly and in a breath speake Kinsman and Friend and Patron and these three in two and these two but one A rare harmony where Affections are so strung that touch them how and where and when you please they are still vnisons I haue hitherto found them so in all my wayes both of Aduancement and Repute and these set me vp in a double gratulation and applause in my Hosanna's for you to my God and then in my Reports to men This is my All of requitall yet and yours I beleeue of expectation which lookes no farther then an ingenuous acknowledgement of your Fauours such as the procliuity of your owne worth hath suggested not any industrious proseqution of mine which could haue beene contented to haue worne an obscurer Title but that it must now vaunt in a Rich one That of Your Seruant-Kinsman HVM SYDENHAM VVATERS OF MARAH AND MERIBAH TEXT Rom. 12.1 I Beseech you Brethren by the mercies of God to offer vp your Bodies a liuing Sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable seruice THe Text hath a double fore-head one lookes towards the Letter the other the Allegory that of the Letter glances on the Legall Sacrifice by the Iewe that of the Allegory on the Spirituall by the Christian the one was a carnall oblation of the Body onely the other a Misticall of the Affections That spake in the rough Dialect of the Law Horror Blood and Death This in the sweet language of the Gospell Brethren and Beseeching and Mercies of God Here then is no Hecatombe or slaughter of the Beast no Bullocke or Ram or Goate slaine for immolation as of old but the Sacrifice required here must be Liuing 't is a Body must be offer'd and not a Carcasse here 's no death but of in bred corruptions no slaughter but of carnall lusts and concupiscences Affections must be mortified and not the Body that subdued onely and chastis'd not slaine and yet still a Sacrifice