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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61503	Lex ignea, or, The school of righteousness a sermon preached before the King, Octob. 10, 1666, at the solemn fast appointed for the late fire in London / by William Sandcroft ...	Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing S553; ESTC R14856	26,604	37

make better use of our calamities than we our selves Have we any so hard-hearted amongst us that can look upon so sad a Spectacle as if they sate all the while in the Theater or walkt in a Gallery of Pictures little more concern'd than at the Siege of Rhodes or the Ruines of Troy Shall any Neighbour-City say wisely Mea res agitur jam proximus ardet Vcalegon Shall our enemies themselves the sober and the Wise amongst them at the least tremble at the Relation and we continue stupid and senseless Shall Constantinople and Alexandria resent it and we not regard it as we ought Nay shall China and Peru it may be Surat and Mexico both the Indies hear and be affected with it and we our selves insensible Shall the Inhabitants of the World abroad warm themselves at our Fires with kindly and holy Heats while in the mean time our Repentings are not kindled nor our Charity inflam'd and our Devotion as cold and frozen as ever Shall our Mountain which we said in our jolly pride should never be removed be fulminated and thunder-strook but the Blessed shower that follows the Instruction that descends after like the Rain slide off to the Vallies to Others that are round about us Our Lord wept over Jerusalem because she knew not then at forty years distance the time of her Visitation for the Days will come saith He when there shall not be lest one stone upon another But Wo is me Our Day is come already and our Visitation now actually upon us and yet I fear we will not know it as we ought For 2. Reflect a little upon the Tense of the Verb how that varies too in the parts of the Proposition The Judgments Are in the Earth and the Inhabitants Will learn So the Vulgar Latin the English 'T is still per verba de suturo For we list not to hand-fast our selves to God Almighty to make our selves over to him by present Deed of Gift but would fain forsooth bequeath our selves to him a Legacy in our last Will and Testament Ay but In necessitatibus nemo Liberalis 'T is not a free or a noble Donation which we bestow when we can keep it no longer our selves For such a Bequest we may thank Death rather than the Testator saith S. Chrysostome But we are all Clinicks in this point would fain have a Baptism in Reserve a Wash for all our Sins when we cannot possibly commit them any more Like Felix the unjust Governour when S. Paul reasons of Righteousness our Heads begin to ake and presently we adjourn with Go thy way for this time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as he pretended when we have time and Opportunity and convenient Leisure which we read not that he ever found in plain English when we have nothing else to do or can do nothing else then wee 'l take forth this Lesson Learn Righteousness as Cato did Greek Jam Septuagenarius just when we are a dying Begin then to con our part when we are ready to be hist off the Stage and Death is now pulling off our properties But take we heed in time He may prove a false Prophet that promiseth himself to die the Death of the Righteous when he hath lov'd and pursu'd the Ways and Wages of Unrighteousness all his life long Who thinks if he can but shape the last faint Breath he draws into a formal pretence of forgiving all the World and a sly desire of being forgiven Upon these two hangs the whole stress of his Righteousness he goes out of God's School upon fair terms and thinks to render a plausible Account of himself No no the great Lesson of the Text is harder and deeper than so 'T is that we must sweat for 't is that we may bleed for 'T is all that Adam lost and All that Christ came to recover 'T is the Business of our whole life and 't is desperate Folly and Madness to defer to learn it till Death when God now calls us to account for it Though the Verb in some Versions be future as I said yet still 't is Discent Habitatores we must learn it while we dwell here in the World and who can secure us that beyond the next moment When once we remove hence there 's no School beyond The Platonick Eruditorum in ORIGEN a place under Ground I know not where in which separated Souls are suppos'd to learn what they mist of or neglected here as very a Fable as the Platonick Purgatory As there is no Work nor Labour so no Device nor Knowledge nor Wisdom in the Grave The Schools are all in this World All beyond is Prison and Dungeon and place of Torment for such as learn not their Duty here Fire without Light and utter Darkness 3. Again They did learn so the Syriac and the Interlineary Latin when thy Judgments were in the Earth For there is an Ellipsis in the Original of the former clause and the Verb Substantive may be supplied either way when thy Judgments Are or Were in the Earth And the Conjunction may seem to stand fair for the later 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in quantum or juxta quod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as R. David glosseth it qua mensura aut modo and so the Syriac Qualia Judicia talem Justitiam dedicerunt So much Judgment so much Justice Righteousness they did learn just while God's Rod was over them and no longer Thus while God's Plagues lay heavy upon Pharaoh even that stiff neck bow'd and that hard heart was softned As Iron in a quick Fire relents and melts but take it out of the Furnace and it grows hard again nay worse Churlish and Unmalleable And so he When he saw that there was Respite saith the Text or a breathing time He hardned his Heart Ex. viii 15. And do not we all the same Like teeming Women while the pangs are upon us we have sorrow when some great Affliction gives us a smart Visit strikes home and deep we seem to be a little sensible Ay but the Throws once over 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith our Lord the Woman remembers them no more and so we If but for a little space Grace be shewed us if God gives us but a little Respite in our Bondage like Israel newly returned from Babel we streight forget his Commandments which made the good Ezra asham'd and blush to lift up his Face to Heaven Ezra Cap. ix Vers. 8 10. Happy We if as Pliny adviseth his friend Maximus Tales esse sani perseveremus quales futuros profitemur infirmi if we continue such in Health as we promise to be upon our sick-beds But alas Convaluit Mansit ut ante How few with David pay the Vows which they spake with their Mouths when they were in trouble Do not the engagements on the sick-bed vanish like the Dreams of the sick forgotten as if they had never been I appeal to your own Bosoms though affected at