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Two sermons preached at the assises holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times / by L.D. ...
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Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.
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ioy in the latter if thou long enioy the former it is a matter of some difficultie to bee continually handling pitch and birdlime and to haue none cleaue to thy hands a Arist Met. lib. 1. cap. 2. Aristotle noteth it of his master Plato that conversing long with the Pythagorians hee learned from them many erronious opinions which afterward he stifly maintained b Q. Cur. Alexander by conversing with the effeminate Persians and c Liv. dec 3. lib. 3. Annibal by liuing in Capua did abate so much of their former valour that it was doubted whether they were the same meÌ„ they had beene before d Sozom. l. cap. 2. Iulian in profession sometimes a Christian by conversing with Libanius and Maximus became an Apostata To goe no further with the examples of heathen men you knowe that Ioseph living in Pharaohs Court began to sweare e GeÌ„ 42.1 by the life of Pharaoh And the Hebrewes dwelling among the Idolatrous Egyptians which f Herod l. worshipped an oxe did meetly well imitate them for they g Exod. 3â— worshipped a calfe And pitching for a time in the plane of Moab they sacrificed to Baal Peor Numb 25 Ps 106.26 and ate the offerings of the dead An infected sheepe will sooner spoile a whole flocke then a whole flocke will cure an infected sheepe It is no hard matter to change wine into vineger but to turn vineger onto chaÌ„ge water into wine Hoc opus hic labor est This is such a miracle as will never bee wrought vnlesse Iesus be at the feast It is an easie matter to bee infected with the plague of sin if thou remoue out of the fresh aire into the company of coÌ„tagious persons And though thou be regenerate the old maÌ„ hath got his deadly wouÌ„d yet is there a sympathy betweene thee the wicked Thy affectioÌ„s are like tindar ready to kindle with every sparkle that the wicked shal strike in them And sinne once kindled is like wilde fire it will not be quenched with every kinde of water This poison perhaps wil not be perceived at the first yet like the biting of a madde dogge it will never cease infecting thy blood till it come at thy hart Beware theÌ„ of dogs Philip. 3.2 Avoid as much as is possible such contagious places as are dangerous to infect and keepe thy selfe in the fresh aire where the spirit that quickneth doth blow But whereas thou canst not wholly avoid the company of sinners for as before was said the good and bad fish swim togither â—n Gods net avoid their sinnes Prov. 1.10.11 Harken vnto Solomon My sonne if sinners entice thee consent thou not My sonne walke not thou in the way with them refraine thy foot from their path but contrarywise when they entice thee to evill perswade them vnto that which is good Be to theÌ„ as Noah was to the old world a preacher of righteousnesse 2. Pet. 2. â— Vers 8. as Lot was to the Sodomites who dwelling amongst them vexed his soule with their vnlawfull deeds as Christ was to the woman of Samaria Ioh 4. who by desiring of the water of Iacobs well to quench his thirst brought her to desire the water of life wherof who soever drinketh shall never more thirst and as he was with Publicanes and sinners who refused not to goe to their corporall banquets that he might feed them with spirituall foode as Iohn was with the Pharisees Saducees Mat. 3. who preached vnto them faith and repentance and as Paul was amongst the idolatrous Athenians who went with theÌ„ through their idolatrous temples and red the titles and inscriptions written vpoÌ„ their altars but to this end to take a text and argument thence Act. 17.23 to perswade them to the worship of the true God So much of the person delivering The action followeth deliver Deliver 13 Treason is a sinne so odious that even the heathen which were guided but with a glimpse of natures light howsoever sometimes for their own advantage they approved the fact yet they coulde never away with the author of it It was Augustus his saying of Rimotalchus the king of Trace which vanted himselfe for the betraying of Antonie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I may loue the treason but I hate the traitour And it was the saying of Antigonus Proditores tantisper amo dum produnt ast vbi prodiderint odi I loue a traitour wheÌ„ he coÌ„mits the treasoÌ„ but when he hath done it I detest him These speeches though plausible at the first argue corruptioÌ„ in the speakers For if the traitour be evill surely the treason cannot be good The old Romanes could abide neither For when Pyrrhus his physitiaÌ„ seeking to gratifie the RomaÌ„es promised to giue his master poison the Romanes made Pyrrhus acquainted with it willed him to look vnto himselfe And when the schoolemaster of the Phalascides childreÌ„ offered to betray those which were committed to him Liv. dec 1. lib. 5. to Camillus his hand Camillus sent them backe againe and made his own schollers to beat him This fact of it selfe so hainous Him is further aggravated by the person betrayed If Iudas had betrayed one of his fellows the sin had bin horrible but he makes it farre worse he betrayeth his master He goes yet further for behold whither maÌ„ doth fal Vnto you Luk. 1.71 if the spirit of God do not direct his steps he delivereth him into the haÌ„ds of his hatefull enimies who came to deliver vs from our enimies and from the haÌ„ds of all that hate vs. He delivereth him to death who came to restore vs that were dead in our sinnes to life who to satisfie for our hunting after vanities was himselfe hunted like a Pelican in the wildernesse to satisfie for our carnall and sensuall pleasures left the bosome of his father with whom is fulnesse of delights and at whose right haÌ„d is pleasure forevermore to satisfie for our pride humbled himself and tooke vpon him the forme of a servant Phil. 2.7 to answere for our gluttony tasted gall and vineger to answer for our covetousnes paid not gold nor silver but the ransome of his owne blood These things I do but point at having discoursed of theÌ„ elsewhere when I handled our Saviours milde speech vnto Iudas when he went to betray him Therefore I passe them over come to apply this fact vnto these present times 14 Iudas is dead and al men cry fie vpon him and say that it if they had bin in Iudas his daies they would not haue bin partners with him in the blood of our Saviour And so said the old Pharisees if they had bin in the daies of their fathers they would not haue bin partners with them in the blood of the Prophets Mat. 23.30 And yet they fulfilled nay they exceeded the measure of their fathers wickednes And now adaies howsoever many will build the tombes of the Prophets
to provide theÌ„selues 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 revereÌ„ce the truth it selfe as ye desire the benefit of your ChristiaÌ„ 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 poÌ„derous 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 opeÌ„ 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 wheÌ„ 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 teâ—râ—â—t said shee Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum All comes to them little from them they haue as attractiue a force soâ— silver as the loadstone hath for yron g Hom. Iliad lib. 6. Glaucus made no good market with Diomedes wheÌ„ he changed his golden armour for armour of brasse but many clients coÌ„plaine that they meet with worser merchants who for a purse ful of angels giue theÌ„ 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 spokeÌ„ 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 â—â—d the Bee and the Beetle burst through them in respect of them that hold wâ—â—p Bâ—â— and Beetle and al and scarce any caÌ„â—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 clieÌ„t say to his couÌ„sellor As the swelling of the splene argueth the consumption of other parts so the inriching of the lawyer the impoverishing of the client If theÌ„ 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 theÌ„ nought VnderstaÌ„d me rightly it may be a CouÌ„sellours 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