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A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

and Eutichus who haue almost all fought as fiercely with their pennes as euer Caesar and Pompey did with their swordes But behold the Creator of all things whose throne is heauen whose footestoole is the earth who hath his garisons of Angels in the heauen of starres in the firmament of stormes in the winde of mil-dew in the ayre of Dragons in the deepe of all creatures in the world he receiueth him friendly and fauourably euen as a Master that had caught his runnagate seruant and hauing him fast thus sayth S. Chrys●stome bespeaketh him Chrysost in Act. Quid tibi v●s faciam nunc ecce venisti sub manus meas quo reeidit furor tuus insania zelus intempestinus vbi vincula c. Now I haue apprehended thee whatsoeuer thou wilt I will doe to thee whether hath thy madnesse tended thy fury thy vnseasonable vnreasonable zeale where be thy bonds or stripes or imprisonment Crimen obijcit non tam arguendo Locinus in Act. quam defendendo hee obiecteth his fault not so much reprouing Saul as defending himselfe as hee did in Iohn to the Iewes Many good workes haue I shewed you from my father Iohn for which of them doe yee stone mee So that Christ here his Mollis interrogat●o tollit iram his sweet soft heauenlie interrogation sheweth how farre hee was from indignation Blessed and thrice blessed bee his name for euer and euer The vse of this Doctrine Vse that we bee like vnto our Lord and Master euen in our reproofes and exprobrations to mitigate our anger and furie and feruour The Philosopher in his Ethickes confineth and limiteth the Sea of anger to his bounds Ethic. lib. 4. Why against whome how when and how farre it may proceed and surely Christians may learne that lesson to obserue the cause wherefore the persons with whome the season when the manner how and the end of the Tearme how farre it may passe and how long endure The greatest thing in that incomprehensible goodnes that we vespertilionum oculis Aristotle with our Wants eyes can behold is his mercy his iustice exceedeth his works his mercy exceedeth both hee is slow to anger and he keepeth not his anger for euer O then if the naturall edge of anger be whetted and sharpened on thy stony heart to wound those thou art angry with Remember to be slow vnto anger to be short in thy anger to be milde in thy anger remember how farre this sword may be vnsheathed I know there is a time to hate and a time to loue a time of peace and a time of warre a time wherein Clergie and Laitie that bee in office may whet their tongues like rasors their salt must bee quicke their voyce pearcing their sound powerful yet in all these kindes Subesse debet iracundia non praess● as Gregory counselleth let anger rather attend your reprehension Greg. in Iob. Angustaa Psal then commaund it Non vt dominando praeueniat sed vt simulando subsequatur so that it beare not a fury by going before but a shew in comming after and continue not in an odious tedious passion and perturbation of anger as thy anger must not be vnaduisedly not vniustly so neither rashly nor perpetually Anger is defined to be furor breuis if it be furor let it be breuis also of Pompey it is obserued dies natalis fatalis the day of his death was on the day of his birth Polychr and of Ionahs Guord that it came vp in a night and withered in a night and of Plinies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borne in the rising dyes in the setting of the sunne and the Toad-stoole oritur moritur Plin. growes in a night and dyes in a night so let anger perish consume and consummate it selfe in a day sufficit dei malitta the day hath enough for his owne malice sayeth the Prophet nay a day is too much let it continue but a night let it bee like the vntimely fruite of a woman let it perish ere euer it see the Sunne sayeth Dauid nay a night is too much sufficit ad trom vna vel altera hora an howre or two is enough for anger sayeth Chrysostome nay an howre is too much Chrysost in Mat. be no longer angry then thou mayest say ouer the Greeke Alphabet sayeth the Heathen Philosopher nay that is too much sayeth the Diuine if thy violent vsurper Anger will holde the crowne of reason and manage the kingdome of vnderstanding let it bee but for a moment for the anger of God endureth but the twinckling of an eye sayeth Scripture Let not the Sunne that glorions eye of the world be as of thy wrath a faithfull witnes in heauen so not of thy vengeance the swift witnes in hell and when thou art angry be angry but sinne not Leo Ep●st let it be cum animo medentis non santentis as Leo speaketh not with the mind of a persecutor but of a helper speake thou vnto thine enemy mildly without choler moderately without feruour as thy Maister heere did Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Saul Saul the ingemination Nomen bis tinctum sanguine Austine a name againe and againe dyed deepe inough in bloud once in the olde and once in the new Testament repeated both of the Tribe of Beniamin both Tyrants It was a gracious fauor of the Lord to vouchsafe to question with him but to call him by his name Be● Lorinan Act. 9. and to ingeminate that name Hoc indicat affectum commiserationis it was a signe of his great affection and commiseration When he was saluted by Iudas with a kisse he vseth no other word then this Iudas betrayest thou the sonne of man with a kisse Why Iudas thou one of my friendes and followers but twelue and one a Deuill one of my owne trees to bee so blasted of my owne foundations to be so vndermined of my owne that had professed to forsake all to follow me and now none of all the world else to betray mee who vowed to follow to their losing of life now to follow and pursue and entrappe and betray my life Iudas thou to betray me what and to betray mee with a kisse the signe of perfect amity and the seale of loue and dost thou seale thy treason with a kisse Iudas my Apostle my friend Iudas as Luke calleth him Doest thou betray the sonne of man with a kisse It was a signe of his great affection in speaking to Martha who was more busie to prouide for his body then for her owne soule Martha Martha thou art troubled about many things but a greater signe of his affection Luke 22.31 when hee behelde Peter weake wrackt weather-beaten leaking sinking Peter hee doubleth his speech Simon Simon behold Sathan hath sought to winnow thee How mercifully dealt he with Peter who when hee was miraculously called from among Fishermen to bee a Fisher of men yet fell most fearefully and notwithstanding

with dumbnesse Ananias and Saphira with deadnesse Iob. 31. and of this voice Iohs Epiphonema and acclamation serueth Quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri who can vnderstand the fearefulnesse o● his power or heare the voyce of his thunder The walles in Ierito could not stand the C●da● in L●banus could not but shake he wildernes in Cadesh could not but tremble the Army at Mount Oliuet could not but fall the Auditory of S. Peter at Ierusalem neere stabde to the heart with this voyce and then how shall Paul a weake single simple abortiue birth but feare and tremble and becom terrified amased astonished at the Eccho of this voyce O It was a powerfull voyce the voyce that Iosephus speaketh of crying vox ab Oriente Joseph de bel Judai vox ab Occidente a voyce from the East a voyce from the West a voyce from the foure winds it was no more powerfull then this voyce and yet the voyce not so powerfull as mercifull it is vox suauiter fortis fortiter suauis S. Chrysostom obserueth Chrysost in Act. that they that came to betray Christ in the conuoy of Iudas and were stroken to the earth with Christ his words were now in the company of Paul when Paul was stroken to the earth by the words of Christ If it were so the miracle was the greater and their sin the greater but as my Sauior so my Text singleth out none but Saul and striketh Saul to the earth it was the heauiest fall and yet the happiest fall that euer any had it was his fall and his rising his funerall and his resurrection his buriall and his birth his killing and quickning I diuide the little body of this my Text into the forme and matter thereof Diuision The forme an Interrogation the matter Saules violence in persecution In the forme obserue first a question Secondy an Ingemination In the matter obserue first Soul persecuting Secondly Christ persecuted Thus be these wordes diuided that diuided the soule and the spirit and the ioynts and the marrow of Saul and of these in their order first of the question The Lord that in Deuteronomy is a Phisitian in Iob a Bonesetter Deu 32.39 Iob. 16.11 Esay 5.1 Ioh. 15.1 Luk 2.46 Mat 8.25 Mat. 2.30 Exod. 15.3 In Esay a Vine-dresser in Iohn a husbandman in Luke a moderator among the Doctors in Mathew a Pilot amidst the Flouds in Marke a Law-giuer among the Lawyers in Exodus a man of warre among the Armies Hee is here a Iustice to apprehend an Examiner to questionize with Saul Saul Saul why persecutest thou me He was in Esay a Prince of Peace and here is a Iustice of Peace though he was somtimes put out of the Commission of Peace to worke our Peace The Lord might without any expostulating haue powred downe vengeance vpon him and so he had neuer come to his answere hee might haue turned him into hell with all the people that forget God he might haue summoned out some punishment or other to haue serued the execution of wrath against Saul Psal 11. his arme is not shortened hee had his greatter armies and his lesser armies Ioel. 1. hee might haue sent out the least of his great ones or a great army of his least hee might haue sent the fire he vsed against the Sodomites or the Sunne with which he fought against the Ammonites or the starres wherewith he plagued the Cananites or the sea wherewith hee drowned the Aegyptians or the earth wherewith he swallowed the Murmurers or the Beares wherwith he deuoured the mockers but he taketh another Course he sendeth out no Out-lawrie before Saul come to his answere no castigation nay no expostulation but a milde and mercifull speach I should haue expected burning coales from his lippes coales of fire from his nostrils vials of wrath the furious seruants and serieants of indignation against such a rampant rauening wolfe a mercilesse Tyger an insatiat Tyrant spirans minarum caedis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 1. Chrysost breathing out threatnings shughter nay a murtherer oppressor blasphemer as hee confesseth himselfe Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Correction Moderation in Reproofe Compassion The Doctrine that the Lord is slow to anger and in his indignation ready to show compassion Doctrine when the Lord in Micah had called a congregation of the Mountaines to heare his quarrell as in Esay a conuocation of heauen and earth men and Angels to be witnesse against his people Mich. 6. yet heare what his speech was O my people what haue I done vnto thee or wherin haue I grieued thee Esay 1. testifie against me no threatning no cursing no fire or brimstone storme or tempest O popule mi quid fecitibi When his Prophet Ionas had fled from his presence and rebelled against him not onely in flying but in murmuring and fuming fretting in a querulous contumacious contumelious contesting with God God relpyeth onely this Doest thou well to bee angry Hee raged that God would not destroy Niniuie a great and glorious spatious populous City the Lady of the East Queene of the Nations Metrop●lis of Ass●ria beauty of the world that had so many 10000. noble rich honourable inhabitants besides Infants and Innocents and Ionas to bee angry to the death that Niniuie was not destroyed and afterwards that a Guord Ion. 4.9 a weake creeping sprowting fading guorde of no conti●●●nce springing in one night dying in the other and yet that Ionas againe is angry with God very angry euen to the death for the death of this Guord and Gods reply vnto him is onely this Ionas doest thou well to bee angry Saul heere that had his hand in so many murthers in so many bloody tragicall barbarous executions against whome the bloud of the Martyrs cryed for vengeance yet God mercifully and fauourably in as kind and as familiar sort with as much indulgence as if the Spirit of Eli or the soft voyce in Elias had spoken Saul Saul why persecutest thou me If Iohn Baptist speake to the Pharisies he cryeth out O generation of vipers If Peter to Ananias and Saphira why hath Sathan filled thy heart to lie Mat. 3.3 Acts. 5.10 Acts. 13.10 why haue yee agreed to tempt the spirite of God he striketh them dead If Paul to Elimas the Sorcerer O thou full of all subtlety and mischiefe the child of the Deuill Acts. 7.5 and enemy of righteousnesse If Stephen to the Iewes O yee of stiffe necked hearts and eares Nay seruants with their fellow seruantes Brethren with their Brethren that had the same Commission and profession tyed by all the bonds of nature and grace yet in their writings and speeches there haue been bitter inuectiues contestings and withstandings to the face Paul and Barnabas Cyprian and Cornelius Origen and African Chrysostome and Theophilus Ruffinns and Ierome Ierome and Austine Austine and Symplician Frosper and Hilary Gregory