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death_n	conscience_n	sin_n	soul_n	4,210	5	5.0824	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25410	Sacrilege a snare. A sermon preached, ad clerum, in the Vniversity of Cambridg, / by the R. Reverend Father in God Lancelot Andrews: late L. Bishop of Winchester. VVhen he proceeded Doctor in Divinity. Translated for the benefit of the publike.	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1646 (1646)	Wing A3151; ESTC R169	19,082	31

the same chaps which he had before devoured the Holy things with Had you rather have Sacred stories I follow your desires in that too Dathan who had but a mind to devoure Holy things was himselfe devoured of the Earth Achan who was the first that adventured to add the Sacred Wedge of Gold to his owne housholdstuffe was devoured of a heap of stones in the Valley of Achor Baltazar when he held the sacred Vessells betwixt his fingers saw over against him on a Wall fingers which proved fatall to his life and Kingdom Athalia slaine with a sword within the close of the Temple of that very Temple whose Threasure it is not long since she tooke away But because 't is an easie matter to find the just vengeance upon Sacrilege under the Law and the credit of the Old Testament is in this point suspected I had rather shew it from the New There Iudas who first filch'd from his Masters baggs afterwards betrayed his Master himselfe and as a just punishment of his former sins taught us by his miserable example that there is an halter a snare which lyeth hid in these Holy things This befell him who theiv'd from Christ But they who first dared to make an inrode upon the Church stook though it be all one I say not to take it away being given but only to detein it before it was given the Gospel it selfe making no plea nor interceding for the fact were choaked with a sudden and most horrid death upon a word of the Apostle Vpon which place I will stand a little more For it is as the fairest so the most apposite and full in this point First then it is evident that things may be consecrated to Holy use even under the Gospel Secondly That being so consecrated they are no longer ours Thirdly that since they are not ours they cannot be deteined without great sin not taken away without greater Fourthly That whosoever doth one or t'other doth it therefore because Satan hath filled his heart Sacrilegious Persons then are filled with Satan Fifthly That this kind of men is to be punished with death not only with censures Sixthly And that death sudden that there should be no space for the expiating of so great a sin And Seventhly with death immediately from Heaven wherby God declared as it were from Heaven that he himselfe was the avenger of so great a wickednesse These examples Fathers and Brethren are from the Gospel The Gospel is no milder against these men then is the Law And even the Gospel itselfe the Minister of life hath its snare a snare of death for that man for that Conscience which makes no Conscience or Religion of devouring what belongs to Religion Yes but how many Sacrilegious persons hath no such thing befallen For it is not usuall or perpetuall which is inflicted on a growing mischeife Neither doth Solomon say it is that they shall be taken in the very act But what he saith is usual neither do examples fail us for though they may escape the light and day for a while they shal not escape so Solomons snare will take them by the heele For the snare he speakes of is the Snare of a Fowler in which perhaps the bird that is taken is not presently strangled but tangled by the foot or neck oftimes till the evening and oftimes longer till the return of the Fowler Many times the destruction is slow but ever sure I beleive you have observed that the Holy Scriptures speak not of the punishment of wicked men alwayes after the same manner The Wrath of God is sometimes as a storme suddenly rushing down all before it sometimes as a Net taking for the present and after a while slaying In P. Esay Chap. 51. v. 8. it is an Axe suddenly cutting down and it is a Moth consuming by peicemeale In P. Hosea Chap. 5. v. 12. He saith he will be a Lyon to some to others rottennesse and a Moth a Lyon which teareth in a moment a Moth which weareth out insensibly and by degrees The Apoplexie killeth one way the Hectik another but both kill A Ship perisheth one while by neglecting the Pump another while by the Overflowing of the Billowes but both wayes it perisheth That Thunderbolt of St. Peter effected the businesse sooner this Snare of Solomon slower but both this and that bring the same businesse about have the same issue This is the fruit of Sacrilege Men fly upon the bait nay into the net too but being wholly intent and set upon the prey they tast its sweetnes but take no heed to the danger with which they intangle and snare both Soul and Conscience Not so indeed that they come suddenly to ruin but feast upon this Worme while they have devoured all but when they would get loose they shall find that they are held with the cords of sin Pro. 5. 22. with the snares of death Psal. 118. and that the judgment which perchance rusheth not suddenly upon them but waiteth at the doore is not to be made slight of That the Fowler will come at last will certainly come and the Soule so insnared shall be his prey a prey I say to the Devil GOD and what belongs to God having been formerly his prey by that most just sentence P. Ier. 30. 16. They that devoure thee shall be devoured I have shewed you the Snare And that is layd for * Man Both Him that sins and others for his sake For such is the nature of this sin that it reacheth all the Camp over that it makes the whole Common-wealth a valley of Achor Touching the Sacrilegious Person himselfe we have told you that he provides very il for his own private fortune into which he bringeth this cursed gain as a pledg or earnest of misfortune These Holy things will eat out the bottom of his bags in which they are crowded and will make them full of holes and rents This feild will blast and burn up all his other feilds This stuffe will bring a consumption upon all the rest the punishment this denounced by the P. Haggai Worse then so betides their Souls which they fill with Satan who catcheth them in an inexplicable Snare and reserveth them to that Iudgment which is insufferable I will speake breifly both of the Common-wealth and of the Church When this sin is once admitted GOD sendeth a Devourer upon the State for the Devouring of his Holy things Either the Catterpiller P. Malachy 3. 11. or Men worse then the Catterpiller The Kings of Israel when they once plundred Holy things had no peace but much trouble and vexation going out or comming in what they took from the Temple they were forc'd to fling away upon the Souldiers the Camp-Locusts In S. Augustin's time when the President of the Provinces rifled the Sanctuaries that people was not inriched by it What they tooke from the Temple they were forc'd to fling away upon the