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A55810	A sermon preached at St. Maries Spittle, on Wednesday in Easter weeke Aprill 13th, 1642 before the Right Honovrable the Lord Maior, the aldermen and sherifs of this famous city of London / by William Price...	Price, William, 1597-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing P3402; ESTC R18549	33,074	54

their preferring the vulgar edition which they confesse abounds with hundreds of faults afore the originall By advancing the autority of the Church above the Scripture And many other pranks which time will not suffer me to instance in And what their fidelity is to men-ward Fides cum haereticis non servanda we may collect from that maxime of theirs that faith is not to be kept with heretiques And how true they have beene to this tenent their dealing with John Hus at Constance will declare whom they there burnt to death notwithstanding the publicke faith passed by the Emperour for his safe conduct And it is recorded to the lasting infamy of the Romish faith the Christians League confirmed by oath with Amurath the Grand Signiour of the Turkes broken by Vladislaus at the perswasion of Iulian the Cardinall Tur● Histor Upon which breach Amurath in a battle with the Christians seeing all goe against him and beholding the crosse in the displayed Ensignes of the Christians pluckt the writing out of his bosome wherein the late League was comprized and holding it up in his hand with his eyes cast up to heaven sayd Behold thou crucified Christ this is the League thy Christians in thy name made with me which they have without cause violated Now if thou be a God as they say thou art and as we dreame revenge the wrong now done unto thy name and me and shew thy power upon thy perjur'd people who in their deeds deny thee their God After which saying victory inclined to his side But to looke homeward Though Rome be unfaithfull yet all unfaithfulnesse is not at Rome There is a vow a promise we all made by our sureties in Baptisme to our God We have repeated and ratified that vow as oft as we have administred and received the Sacrament of the Lords Supper besides under the scourge the gout the stone the strangury upon our beds of languishment we have renew'd and redoubled our vowes But we have infringed dissolved ' crackt all those ties obligations engagements as Sampson did his cords like so many twined threads Our promises ebbe into emptinesse though we should reckon them in the inventory of our estate not onely what others make to us but what we to others We promise liberally as Saul to his Courtiers 1 Sam. 22.7 Numb 22.17 Xenophon As Balak to Balaam As Croesus to Anacharsis As Cyrus to his Souldiers But performe slenderly As Andrew the Hungarian King promised to goe to the holy warres as they called them and went with his Forces and bathed himselfe at Ierusalem as one discharged of his promise and returned backe againe And our covenants and agreements with men though subscribed and sealed by us are as brittle as the glasses we drinke in No bounds will hold us Graeca fides Wee rob the Grecians of their Proverb and owne it our selves For some persons among us to say they will doe this or that is as much as if they had sworne they would not doe it Unlesse it be when we embarque our selves in unwarrantable actions and then the Sunne may sooner be thrust out of his spheare then we diverted from our adamantine resolutions Attilius Regulus a heathen will judge us who chose rather at Carthage to suffer the most exquisite tortures then to be branded with perfidious unfaithfulnesse Take to heart your former guilt in this kind And now thinke it the most glorious stile that can sticke upon you guild and honour you to be intituled a faithfull City If any of the Honourable Assembly of Parliament be present may hee be pleased to remember that hee utters not his owne words he is the mouth of a Countrie betrusted by thousands with important affaires and that it will be his honour and happinesse to be faithfull And you Right Honourable that preside in this famous City consider that the Sword of Justice is committed to your hands to hew downe irrefragable incurable offenders and to countenance Religion Deut. 1.17 and Justice you are but betrusted The judgment is Gods it will be your honour and security to be faithfull You that are the mouth of the people to God in prayer and the mouth of God to the people in preaching bethinke your selves that you are but Stewards appointed to divide to every of Gods houshould his portion in due season 1 Cor. 4.2 Now it is required of a Steward that he be found faithfull saith Saint Paul Put not your spirituall patients bones halfe in joynt Ier. 6.14 heale not the daughters of Gods people slightly It is Gods expression Study not rather to be Placentini then Veronenses Schollers reach my meaning You are betrusted with precious soules the meanest whereof out-weighs the minerals of the West-Indies and the perfumes of the East Be faithfull None is of so inferiour an alloy in this congregation whom his God hath not burthened and honoured with some trust or other some of you are feoffees in trust some executors administrators be faithfull let the sums of money in your hands run cleare in their native proper current which by them that betrusted you they were design'd for let not the least rivolet be drayned another way Some of you have servants and children they are not yours alone God hath betrusted you with them consecrate them to him by strict education and government Elies over-indulgence to his sons proved the losse of the Priest-hood to his house 1 Sam 3.13 1 Sam. 13.5 Sustin And Samuels fondnesse occasioned the change of the civill government and Artaxerxes was so unhappy as not to have one good child among fifty therefore you have need to be faithfull All of you though in a different degree are blest with some talents qualified with some endowments or other whether they be supernaturall graces or natural dispositions as a golden wit a quick fancy a marble memory an acute understanding a profound iudgment a flowing melifluous expression of your minds or whether they be intellectuall habits that by vertue of education industry art observation experience make you linguists disputants Orators Lawyers Physitians Statesmen Artizans Or whether they be the goods of the body Bo●a corporis bona fort●nae ●t crescuntdona crescuntrationes donerum Grog as sym netry proportion eucracy health beauty strength or adventitious Goods as extraction from a noble Stock honour riches reputation as your talents encrease so doe your accounts be faithfull Your faithfulnesse justifies your faith afore men as your Faith justifies your persons afore GOD Fidelity sets a grace and glosse upon Christianity it is the souls Harmony and peace like the contemperation of the elements in a naturall body like the aeviternall unclashing sway of the Orbs in the heavens Fidelity is the silken string that runs through the Pearle-chaine of all vertues and duties It is the Ecliptique line under which reason and Religion moves without deviation Be faithfull unto the Death I will give thee a Crown of Life

Rev. 2.10 saith Christ to Smyrna What is sweeter then life what more glorious then a Growne what freer then guift Who is a faithfull Steward whom his Lord shall make ruler over his Household to give them their meat in due season Lu. 12.42 43. blest is that Servant whom his Lord when he comes shall find so doing His Lord shall say to him at that great audit-day Well done thou good and faithfull Servant Mat 25.21.22.23 thou hast beene faithfull over a few things I will make thee ruler ever many things enter into thy Masters joy Enter thou into it it cannot enter into thee as if a man should cast himself into a fulsea of Felicity be faithfull then but be faithful to the death as it was before quoted even to the death that you may not incur the guilt and censure of the City in my Text How is the faithfull City become an Harlot Zonah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is the darke side of the cloud and next awaits its handling Not to insist on their fancy that conceive that Jerusalem as too many Townes in this Kingdom was now turned into Innes Tavernes and Alehouses because the name Harlot is sometimes in Scripture given to Victuallers such as Rahab was Iosh 2.1 There are two kinds of Harlots 1. Lyra. Those that prostitute their bodies to carnall uncleannesse of whom Lyra and some others would understand the Text. It cannot be denyed but this was one of Jerusalems vices Ier. 5.7 They assembled by troopes in Harlots houses And it were an houre well spent to whet my stile against these brutish Monsters they are linked in comparison with Dogs Thou shalt not bring the hire of a Whore Deut. 23.18 nor the price of a Dog into the House of God 1. Harlots and Whore mongers sin against their fame their substance estate Pro 6.33 Pro. 29.3 Pro. 6.28 Iob. 31.12 1 Cor 6.18 Pro. 6.32 Gen. 39.9 Rom. 12.1 A Whore will bring a man to a mors●ll of bread against their children family It roots out all their encrease against their bodies enervating and emasculating them against their owne soules stabbing and polluting them against God to whom we ought to offer our bodies an holy Sacrifice against Christ whose Members we are I dare scarce redeliver those words of S. Paul 1 Cor. 6 15. 1 Cor. 6.19 against the holy Ghost whose temples our bodies are against our neighbour for this dart of uncleannesse smites through two hearts at once Levit. 18.28 Against the Church filling that to their power with an unholy seed Against the Land desiling that Hos 4.10 Ephes 4.19 Hos 4.11 Against all man-kind by robbing it of the blessing of a due increase Briefly this sin damps the light of reason It makes the soule as a City without wals surprizable by the most horrid sins It takes away the heart and makes it listlesse to any good and in some respects it exceedes Idolatry 1 Cor. 7.14 Deut 23.2 because an Idolaters child might enter the congregation but a bastard might not enter to the tenth generation And because God hath punisht Idolatry with a permission of adultery giving such over to unnaturall lusts Rom. 1.24 as now adayes when women turne Roman Catholikes they turne often Catholike that is to say universall women in body too Now every punishment must surpasse that whereof it is a punishment otherwise it will as an allective rather invite then deterre In this sense the Romanists may justly in imitation of my Text say Applica how is this City of Rome become an Harlot One of their owne writers speakes of the reformation that a Pope wrought in their City when hee entred the Popedome there were diverse Stews in Rome Tota Roma ●upanar when he dyed he left but one all Rome was converted to one Stews Cornelius Mus Bishop of Bitonto in a Sermon of his at S. Laurences in Rome cryed seest thou not wretched City how thou art become a Stews of Lechery It was one of their 100. grievances that Priests Centum gravamina that had no mind to keepe Concubines were yet forced to pay for a licence for them because they might keepe them if they would It was not the Churches fault they did not And a Priest among them had lost his living because it was bruited that he had a wife and by that wife a child but that he pleaded that she was another mans wife and so saved his Benefice Nay their Popes the heads of their Church are infamous for their Concubines Alexander the sixth had his Lucretia Gregory the seventh his Matilda Leo the tenth his Magdalena Paul the third his Constantia Sergius his Marozia Nay many of their Popes have beene Sodomites and had their Ganymedes Sixtus the fourth his Rierius Iulius the second his Germanus Iulius the third his Innocentius de monte Leo the tenth his Hippolitus According to that of Mantuan Sanctus ager scurris venerabilis ara Cynaedis Servit honorandae Diuûm Ganymedibus aedes I will not English it So that well might the Duke of Urbins paynter returne that answer to the Cardinall that asked him why he painted S. Peter and S. Paul so high coloured when they were meagre and pale with preaching and fasting he answer'd that they blusht to see how those that stiled themselves the Apostles successours degenerated from their pious examples Neither can we say that our gardens are without these ranke weeds This City grones under the frequency and impudence of Harlots The Sun oft rises in a cloud and blushes setting in a kind of remeditation of what obscenities he hath beene a spectator in the day It is a mercy even to extasy that the earth sinkes not under her uncleane load I grieve to tell you how many hogs among you rake in any dunghill how many kites stoop at any carrion Any Strumpet is their heaven As it was said of one of the Caesars Om●●●m muli●●umvir 〈◊〉 he was a man for all women He corrupted Sulpitius his Posthumia Gabinius his Lollia Crassus his Tertullia Pompess Mutia and many other To the guilty of both Sexes of what ranke or quality soever you are let me say that though secrecy potency or place may exempt you from humane tribunals Heb. 13.4 yet if S. Paul have any truth in him Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge 2. But under favour there are another kind of Harlots more properly here intended They are those that prostitute their soules And that 1. either to sinne the worke of the Divell For instance we may call lying an adultery of the tongue because God married the tongue and the heart together and therefore such words as the tongue utters without the consent of the heart are borne in adultery Or to the world the things thereof the creatures even the works of God Amas quae secit non cunequi fecit adulteres Aug. Suff● it