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A19954	Two sermons preached at the assises holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times / by L.D. ...	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1614 (1614)	STC 6389; ESTC S320	64,296	158

natures yet he forgot his own name He did not remember that he was called Adam homo ab humo by reason of that affinitie that was between him and the earth These sonnes of Adam are very like their old grandfather they are wittie in seeking out the names and properties of other creatures but they forget their owne names and their natures too And this is the cause why they be so holden with pride and overwhelmed with cruelties They wil with k Is 14.13 Nabuchadnezzar striue to advance themselues aboue the starres of God and to match their olde grandfather the first Adam who though hee was made of earth yet with the wings of pride and arrogancie would needs soare vp into heaven and care little for resembling their elder brother the second Adam who tooke vpō him our weaknesse that wee might bee strengthned our povertie that we might be enriched our nakednesse that wee might bee cloathed our basenesse that we might be exalted our mortalitie that we might bee invested in the robe of immortalitie and was contented to descēd from heauē to earth that he might make a way for vs to ascend from earth to heaven But let them secure themselues as much as they will their houre-glasse is continually running the tide of death will tarry no man Our l E●ec 18. father hath eaten a sower grape and his childrens teeth are set on edge Our grādfather for eating of the forbidden tree had this sentence denounced against him that he should returne to dust And his children are liable vnto it till heauen and earth be renewed and there be no more death Those gr●at and mightie Gods of the earth wh●ch cloath themselues m Luk. 16 19 in purple and fine linnen and dwell in houses of Cedar and n Is 5.8 adde house to house and land to land as if the way to heaven laid all by land haue a time appointed them when their insatiable desires shall bee contented with a Golgotha a place of dead mens skulls a little portion of the great potters field as much as will serue to hide cover a dead carkasse in it You which sit on the seat of iudgemēt whom the Lord hath so highly extolled as to bee called Gods you haue your daies numbred your months determined your bounds appointed which yee cannot passe It is not the ripenesse of your wits nor the dignitie of your places nor the excellency of your learning nor the largenesse of your commission that can adde one inch vnto the threed of your daies o Hor. car lib. 1. Od. 4. Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres Deaths arrowe will as qui●kly pierce through the strong castle of a king as the muddie wall of a countrie swaine Were yee wiser then Solomon stronger then Sampson richer the● Iob mightier then the greatest mo●arch of the earth faithfuller in your places then Samuel that faithfull Iudge of Israel Ire tamen restat Numa quò devenit Ancus This must be the conclusion Yee must die as men and yeeld your bodies to deathes sergeant to be kept prisoners in the dungeon of the earth till the great and generall Assises that shal be holden by our Saviour Christ in the cloudes of the skie at the last day The conclusion is most certaine howsoever the premises be fallible and doubtfull p Seneca Alexander when by his followers hee was called a God forgot that he was to die as a man till by a poysoned arrow hee was put in minde of his mortalitie then he confessed the truth Vos me Deum esse dixistis sed iam me hominem esse sentio You said that I was a God but now I perceiue I am but a man And shortly after hee perceiued it with a witnesse when he was poisoned by Antipater and then inclosed in a small parcell of ground whose aspiring minde the whole world could not fill q Epitaph Hen. ● Regi● Angl. Cui satis ad votum non essent omnia terrae Climata terra modò sufficit octo pedum He whom the whole earth could not cōtent was at length contented with a parcell of ground of eight yea of six foote long r Act. 12. Herod when vpon a day hee was arayed in royall apparell and sate on the bench gaue such an excellent charge that the people cryed non vox hominem sonat It is the voice of God and not of man immediatly after proued neither God nor man For he was eaten vp of wormes and gaue vp the Ghost Rare examples for the Gods of the earth to looke downe into their owne bosomes and to remember that they must die as men It is a good custome of the Emperour of the Abyssenes Prester Iohn to haue every meal for the first dish that comes on his table a dead mans skul to put him in mind of his mortalitie So was that which was vsed by Philip namely to haue a boy every daie to put him in minde that he was to die as a man Not much vnlike was the old practise of the ſ Munst Cosmogr Egyptians who when their Princes went to banquet vsed to beare before them the picture of a dead man to put them in mind of their mortalitie 24 Seeing then that yee must die study to haue your accounts in readinesse that whensoever t●e Lord shal cal you hence he may finde you provided Be faithful in those high ●oon●es wherein God hath placed you t 2. Chr. 19 ● Ye execute not the iudgemēts of man but of the Lord. Aske coūsel therefore of God weigh your proceedings in the ballance of the sanctuary Doe nothing but what God commands you and the testimony of a good conscience will warrant to be lawfull remembring that yee m●st one day God knowes howe soone that day will come be summoned to appeare before the common Iudge of all flesh who is a burning u H●b 12. ●9 consuming fire who is not blinded with sec●et closnesse nor corrupted with bribes nor moved with friends nor allured by flatterers nor perswaded by the importunity of intreaters to depart an haires breadth frō the course of iustice no though these a Ezech. 14 14. three men Noah Daniel Iob shoulde stand before him and make intercession in your behalfe These things remember and do and ye shall haue comfort in your liues comfort at your deaths And when your so●l●s shall be removed from those earthly co●●●ges wherin they now dwel they shal be tr●●●●ted 〈◊〉 ●verlasting habitations and received with this ioyfull and comfortable welcome b Mat 25.21 it is wel done good servants and faithfull● yee haue beene fa●thfull in a little I will make you rulers over much enter into your masters ioy 25 Like men It is implyed in the conclusion of my text that it is the lot condition of all men to die And therefore as it concernes magistrates so it concernes al others

to provide thēselues for their end because c Eccl. 11.3 as the tree fals so it lies that is as the day of death shall leaue them so the day of iudgement shall finde them Remember this yee that are to be witnesses Application 1. to witnessses c. for giving testimony vnto the truth and iurers for giving a verdict according to the truth And as you loue reverēce the truth it selfe as ye desire the benefit of your Christiā brethren which yee should loue as your selues as ye wish the glory of God which ye should tender more then your selues let it be a forcible motiue vnto you to deale vprightly in every cause with every man without declining to the right hand or to the left then shall yee sanctifie the name of God by whom yee do sweare to speake truely to deale truely ye shall giue occasion to good men to praise God for you and yee shall not neede to bee ashamed to meete God in the face when he shall cal you to a reckoning for your doings But on the other side if rewards shall blind you or feare enforce you or pitty moue you or partiality sway you or any respect whatsoever draw you to smoother the truth and favour an evill cause yee pearce your selues through with many darts For first you are false witnesses against your neighbour secondly ye are theeues yee rob him of his right thirdly yee are murtherers yee kill him in his body or in his name or in his maintenance fourthly which is worst of all ye take the name of your God in vaine yea as much as in you lyeth yee take his godhead from him make him who is the trueth from everlasting to be all one with the devill who is a lyar from the beginning If yee must be countable vnto God when he shall call you hence for every idle worde that goes out of your mouthes and if the least vngodly thought of your harts in the rigour of Gods iustice deserue eternall death how shal ye be able to stand in iudgement vnder this pōderous Chaos of so many crying sinnes I cannot prosecute this point only for conclusion I say with d Deut. 30.19 20. Moses behold this day haue I set before you life death blessing and cursing choose life ye shall liue If not I pronounce vnto you this daie ye shall surely perish The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it 26 You 2. To lawyers Atturnies c. whose profession is to opē the causes in controversie by your knowledge in the laws to distinguish between right and wrong truth and falshood remember that ye must die And therefore I beseech you in the feare of God to study to make the cause of your clients sure as that yee do not in the meane time forget S. e 2. Pet. 1.10 Peters counsell to make your owne election sure I vrge this the rather because absit reverentia vero I will speake the truth in despite of all scoffes I hope such as are ingenuous wil beare with my plainenes if as f Plut. Apot. Philip said of the Macedonians I call a boat a boat and a spade a spade because it seemeth to bee much neglected by many of your profession who with Martha trouble themselues about many businesses but vnum necessarium to meet Christ and talke with him they scarce remember it I remember the saying of Demades touching the Athenians whē they refused to make Alexander one of their Gods Cassander who was his successour threatned that vnlesse they woulde doe it hee woulde presently overthrowe their city the Athenians said Demades haue reason to looke to themselues least while they are too curious about heaven they loose the earth But these men haue need to looke to themselues least while they trouble themselues too much about the earth they loose heaven by whose meanes especially it is effected that our courts do too much resemble the Lyons den which howsoever other beasts in simplicity went flocking on heapes vnto yet the foxe that found by experience how others sped durst not come neere it Quia me vestigia te●r●●t said shee Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum All comes to them little from them they haue as attractiue a force so● silver as the loadstone hath for yron g Hom. Iliad lib. 6. Glaucus made no good market with Diomedes whē he changed his golden armour for armour of brasse but many clients cōplaine that they meet with worser merchants who for a purse ful of angels giue thē nothing but a blacke boxe full of papers Procrastinations vnnecessary delaies for filling of the lawyers coffers and pilling of the poore clients is a fault which I haue glanced at heretofore and might a thousand times hereafter yer ever it be reformed For never was it more spokē against then now never was it so much practised as now Well fare the old Athenian lawes which as Anacharsis once said were like vnto spider-webs that catched the little flies and let the waspe ●●d the Bee and the Beetle burst through them in respect of them that hold w●●p B●● and Beetle and al and scarce any cā●urst through them But what do I now Condemne I the law I do wrong Is the law sinne saith h Rom 7.6 7.12 14. Paul he speaks of the moral law Nay the law is holy and iust and good but I am carnall sold vnder sinne So say I is our law sin Nay our law is iust good Here is the breaknecke of all too many of our solliciters atturnies learned scribes are merely carnal sold vnder sin vsing it not to that end for which it is ordeined the glory of God and the peace of the commonwealth but as the fowler doth his not for catching of plovers to inrich themselues withal making that which shoulde bee for the common good a monopolie for themselues a profession of mockerie and a meere shop of most horrible detestable covetousnes But it is the worst thriving in the world to rise with an other mans fall It was a short but a sharpe quip which a captiue gaue vnto Pompey the great Nostrâ miseriâ es Magnus It is our misery that gaue thee thy surname It is so in this case Nostrâ misera es magnus may the cliēt say to his coūsellor As the swelling of the splene argueth the consumption of other parts so the inriching of the lawyer the impoverishing of the client If thē his cause be good alas why is it never ended If it be nought why is it still defended If the cause be nought the defence is worse thē nought Vnderstād me rightly it may be a Coūsellours hap to be a speaker in an ill cause and yet he not worthie any blame The party may misinforme him in the truth of the cause Iudgements in the like case may be different or some other circumstance may deceiue him But where it