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A12091	The first sermon of R. Sheldon priest, after his conuersion from the Romish Church preached before an honourable assembly at S. Martins in the Field, vpon Passion Sunday, &c. Published by authoritie.	Sheldon, Richard, d. 1642?	1612 (1612)	STC 22395; ESTC S117205	45,961	78

chaires of dignitie eternallie But to our sountaine to our fountaine Oh that wee would consider Christ with such a length of his armes so prodigallie and charitably effusing and powring forth his blood to wash all to sanctifie all would it not perswade vs to lengthen forth our armes and to open our palmes to the poore and needy but out alas wee contemplate not this longitude and therefore insteed of stretching forth our armes to the poore we stretch and whet our tongues we sharpen our speeches against them we ad affliction to their affliction we reuile exprobrate discomfort them O damnable custome ouerflowing Italy O wretched practise ouerabounding Spaine and France O practise of Reprobates too too frequent in England O fashion euery where in fashion and yet the fashion only of Reprobates and children of perdition I boldly here speake it that it is a speciall signe marke badge and character of reprobates and children of perdition so to en●ertaine so to abuse the poore Lazars why said I poore Lazars I should haue said poore Christs and poore Iesus in these Lazars Hee hath said it and I dare proclaime it whatsoeuer you shall doe to one of these you shall doe to me Honourable worshipfull and Mat 25. most worthy Christians especially you of the deuout and religious sex who are more accustomed to be like to the worthy Matron of your owne sex described in the Prouerbs to open her palmes to the needy and to stretch forth her armes to the poore I beseech you often to consider Prouerb ●● of this blood of Christ shed so prodigally for your soules and if you will not be prodigall to him in his poore at least be liberall be Charitable Expend often that saying of Christ to the couteous Scribes which I now inclucate to your religious eares and hearts Date elemosynam ecce omnia munda sunt vobis Giue almes and behold all things are cleane vnto you Be charitable Luc. 11. be liberall be prodigall vnto the poore Lazars vnto the needie Christs and behold all things shall bee cleane vnto you if you doe not beware of the thunder-clap depart accursed Mat 25. the which as assuredly as the word of God shall not passe vnfulfilled so certainely shall all such as decline their eares from hearing and their hearts from comforting and releeuing the poore shall heare it shall vndergoe it and shal be eternally confounded with it But from the length of this fountaine to the breadth to the latitude thereof the which if wee would deuoutly consider yeelding streames of blood on euery side and vpon all sorts of persons vpon enemies and onely enemies and all enemies to what a breadth of loue would it perswade vs to loue all that Christ loueth and because Christ loueth to loue our friendes in Christ and our enemies for Christ What a latitude of resolution would it ingender in our Soules to walke the commandements of God cheerefully what a breadth of charitable loue and compassion would it cause in vs to giue to the poore cheerefully for hilarem datorem diligit Deus God loueth a merry and cheerefull giner 2. Cor 2. saith the Apostle Would we consider the profunditie of this fountaine founded in loue and the mestimable charitie of God founded in the vnspeakable humilitie of the sonne of God what a depth of humilitie what a profoundnesse of meekenesse what an abysse of charitie what a purpose of stedfast perseuerance in Gods seruice would it innouate and confirme in our mindes Let experience Christian Hearers be your mistresle in this make triall and as you find so be perswaded so giue credit to what I speake But alas who can bewaile sufficiently the miseries of these times Euen as in the earthly Paradise after the deluge of the slood had ouerwhelmed the whole world neither the fountaine nor the riuers issuing from the same can certamely be distinguished or knowne which or where they are so out alas since partly deepe ignorance of Poperie manifold inundation of heresie abundance of iniquitie extreame defect of charitie haue ouerwhelmed the visible face of the Church it is hard to finde where this fountaine of Christ crucified where these riuers issuing from the same fountaine doe make their courses where their channels be Deuout Christians I speake not this as though I knew no place where Christ crucified is truely preached for in so speaking I should calumniate that Church to which I haue happily associated my selfe where the infinite energie vertue of Christs death and passion is daily and incessantly preached commended extolled and applied to all beleeuing soules But I speake this of Christian conferences of deuoute soules who should daily meditate and sucke of this fountaine who by their pure liues and sincere conuersations should shew that it is the blood of the most immaculate Lambe whereof they drinke it is the blood of the vnspotted sacrifice where with they are fedde and nourished Such kind of channels such kind of streames are hardly sound are hardly scene But let vs yet at last awake our soules and recall them from drinking of the puddles of Egypt there is no houre too late for repentance the energie of this blood is euerlasting it speaketh still better and lowdly to all then that of Abel therefore euen now and at this moment it will not be too late to beginne to drinke of this fountaine no impuritie so great the which it washeth not away it is the Alpha and Omega of vocation iustification sanctification perseuerance glorification because the blood of the Eternall Alpha and Omega of all things O Well of all consolation O fountaine of all Graces O wounds not killing but the onely Asyle and Sanctuatie of sinnefull and afflicted soules wounds in which and in which only we may be secured from the sting of sinne and power of Satan Giue me leaue here for this purpose to apply to your eares the words of a certaine deuout Father Vbi tuta Bernard ●1 in Cant. sirmaque requies infirmis c. Where is there safe and secure rest to the infirme and weake but in the wounds of our Sauiour there I dwell more securely by how much he is more potent to saue the world fretteth my flesh presseth Satan lieth in waite I fall not because I am founded vpon a firme rocke I haue sinned a great sinne my conscience will be troubled but it shall not be ouer-troubled because I will remember the wounds of the Lord for hee is wounded for our iniquities What so neere to death which is not saucd by his death If therefore so potent and so efficient a medicine shall come into my minde I cannot be terrified with the greatnesse of any disease And againe a little after But I doe confidently vsurpe to mee what is wanting to me from the bowels of my Lord which abound with mercie Neither doe there want holes by which it may flowe out they haue digged his hands and feete and haue pierced his

awake from so prophane a perswasion or else I must needes tell him that as much as in him lieth hee doth conculcate the bloud of the New Testament and doth esteeme the bloud of Christ as polluted for were it not a pollution euen in the bloud of Christ it selfe so to partake so to consent to communicate with sinne to iustifie a conscience actually deliberately polluting and contaminating it selfe with sinne be it spoken with reuerence it is a thing which the infinite goodnes of God cannot doe cannot effectuate How lamentable therefore is the state of certaine sinners who alwaies liue in the state of sinne and infallible occasion of sinne who therefore cannot vnlesse they bee most presumptuously made euer esteeme themselues to be iustified through faith in Christ and so consequently neuer feele the true comfort of the soule which ariseth from a Christian perswasion of iustification in Christ I meane not such persons who through infirmitie and ignorance may fall seuen yea seuentie seuen times in a day and rise againe Prou 24 but I meane such as still are falling and neuer arise because they are fast bound and chained in the occasion and state of sinne I meane such auaricious persons be they Church men or Laikes which doe detest Papisticall idolatrie and yet themselues daily and incessantly doe commit their spirituall idolatrie and whordome with their gold and siluer with their continuall beholding solicitous and couetous turning winding telling locking and vnlocking meditating caring contemplating adoring worshipping of their Idolls and yet presumptuous fooles most ignorant Doctors of the law they will thinke themselues to be iustified in Christ because they can talke of iustification in Christ without workes alas alas they should rather tremble with the Deuills and with remorse of conscience bewaile their damnable state in which they liue and bee most assured that whilst they serue such Mammons in their chests they cannot serue Christ in their soules nor be iustified in Christ in their hearts I meane such wanton ones who abuse and separate themselues from their nuptiall bed and doe glew their soules to their Concubines whome they keepe at home or adore abroade and yet good holy ones they thinke that Christ resteth daily in their soules for their iustification as their filthes lie by their sides to satisfie their abhominable pleasures I meane such as euer and at all moments carrie vpon their backes and about them obligations for the Deuill adding vanitie vpon vanitie iniustice vpon iniustice and neuer doe so much as once imagine of any recompence of any satisfaction or restitution to be made and yet as vaine as butter-flies they will thinke that at and in the same seasons and momen● Christ doth by iustification vouchsafe to adorne and trimm their soules Infinite is the number of such like peruerse beleeuers and fooles of whose presumption when I seriously consider I cannot but iudge of them that in their consciences they are to bee esteemed the most blasphemous Heretikes that euer were in hauing such crooked and doltish perswasions of Christ who as hee is a most comfortable and potent Aduocate for all humble and penitent sinners neuer refusing any who with contrite heart shall returne to him so likewise against impenitent sinners he hath in his mouth a double edged sword to chastise them with eternall malediction and as it were with the double edge of a double most sharp punishment of losse of the glorie of heauen and of the vndergoing of eternall punishment in the bottomlesse Lake of hell the damned pit of euerlasting affliction But to Christ iustifying to Christ sanctifying with a most humble confidence and with prostrate soules let vs all here assembled returne and in a full faith inuocate him that hee will vouchsafe by the energie of his Almightie bloud to cleanse our consciences from dead workes to serue him the liuing God that none of vs here present be found of that presumptuous ranke to thinke that although wee liue deliberately and continually in dead workes yet wee shall bee liuing to God through a dead faith for Christs sake And here to conclude Most Religious and Christian Auditours yee who haue learned according to the profession of all reformed Churches that the bloud of Christ doth sanctifie and cleanse from dead workes all such consciences as are iustified by faith in the same with what passage of sacred Scripture may I more fitly end and salute you then with that of this our Apostle in his Epistle to the Hebrewes Habentes igitur c. Seeing therefore Brethren Heb. 10. v. 19. we may with a firme trust enter into the holies in the bloud of Christ by the new way and a liuing way which hee hath prepared for vs by the veile of his flesh And hauing a high Priest ouer Gods house let vs draw neare in a true heart in the fulnesse of faith sprinkled in our hearts from an euill conscience and washed in our bodies with pure water let vs keepe the profession of our faith without wauering for hee is faithfull that promised and let vs consider one another to prouoke to loue and good workes not forsaking the fellowship or the assembly as the custome of some is but let vs exhort and comfort one another and that so much the more because yee see the day approcheth O heauenly perswasion O most diuine lesson with a firme and an assured faith wee may walke into the holies in a new and a liuing way which Christ dying in his bloud hath dedicated for vs vpon the Crosse yet with this condition most dearely beloued with this prouiso that our hearts be sincere our consciences sprinkled with this bloud and our bodies washed with this water and wee bee cleansed from dead workes to serue the liuing God From dead workes I say wherein we pleased Satan were obsequious to our lusts and followed our owne concupiscences to liuing workes of pietie loue compassion godlinesse feare of God to serue the liuing God The liuing God once dying but now liuing liuing from aboue to consider all our actions liuing within vs to giue vs life mouing and to search our very reines liuing in the heauens ready with reuengefull hand to punish the wicked and with a most plentifull arme to reward the vertuous liuing amongst vs vpon earth with his grace to quicken to sanctifie vs. What most deuout Christians shall our God be liuing and we his seruants dead and dead in sinnefull workes Whose stipend and hire is death and damnation What shall the euer-liuing God die an ignominious death rise to a most glorious life to quicken vs to reuiue vs and will we not bee quickned be reuiued The Pellican with bloud stroken out of her breast quickneth such of her yong ones as the Serpent may haue poisoned or killed and shall not the bloud of our Pellicane Christ Iesus powred Psal 102. vpon vs being stroken dead with mortiferous sinne quic ken vs reuiue vs the Pellicane giueth drops of bloud Our Pellicane prouideth a bath the Pellicane striketh her breast only Our Pellicane hath his whole body smitten on euery part on euery side streaming vpon vs bloud and water shall he not sanctifie vs shall he not wash vs reuiue vs in iustice pietie charitie and other liuing workes of sanctification If any here will still take sinnefull delight in dead workes it is more then to be doubted that the second death and euerlasting damnation will more then attend vpon him But my very soule is comforted for in your very countenances and aspects I see your resolutions I see your Christian determinations that you will be reuiued and reuiued in liuing workes of faith charitie iustice longanimitie patience obedience pietie to serue the liuing God the Father Sonne and holy Ghost to whom be all praise honour and dominion from hence-forth for euermore AMEN Laus Deo FINIS