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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02566	One of the sermons preach't to the Lords of the High Court of Parliament, in their solemne fast held on Ashwednesday, Feb. 18 And by their appointment published: by Ios: Exon.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1629 (1629)	STC 12693; ESTC S103758	16,266	70

ONE OF THE SERMONS Preach't to the Lords of the High Court of Parliament in their solemne Fast held on Ashwednesday Feb. 18. And by their appointment published By Ios Exon. LONDON Printed by M. Flesher for Nath. Butter 1629. Acts 2. 37 38 40. 37 Now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles Men and brethren what shall we doe 38 Then said Peter vnto them Repent and be baptized c. c. 40. And with many other words did he testifie and exhort them saying Saue your selues from this vntoward generation WHo knowes not that Simon Peter was a Fisher that was his trade both by Sea and Land if we may not rather say that as Simon he was a Fisherman but as Peter he was a fisher of men He that call'd him so made him so And surely his first draught of fishes which as Simon he made at our Sauiours comand might well be a true type of the first draught of men which as Peter hee made in this place for as then the nets were ready to cracke and the ship to sinke with store so here when he threw forth his first drag net of heauenly doctrine reproofe three thousand soules were drawne vp at once This text was as the sacred cord that drew the net together and pull'd vp this wondrous shole of conuerts to God It is the summe of Saint Peters Sermon if not at a Fast yet at a generall humiliation which is more and better for wherefore fast we but to be humbled and if wee could bee duely humbled without fasting it would please God a thousand times better then to fast formally without true humiliation Indeed for the time this was a feast the feast of Pentecost but for the estate of these Iewes it was dies cinerum a day of contrition a day of deepe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse Men and brethren what shall we doe Neither doubt I to say that the festiuity of the season added not a little to their humiliation like as wee are neuer so apt to take cold as vpon a sweat and that winde is euer the keenest which blowes cold out of a warm coast No day could be more afflictiue then an Ashwednesday that should light vpon a solemne Pentecost so it was here Euery thing answered well The Spirit came downe vpon thē in a mighty winde and behold it hath ratled their harts together the house shooke in the descent and behold here the foundations of the soule were moued Fiery tongues appeared here their brests were inflamed Clouen tongues and here their hearts were cut in sunder The words were miraculous because in a supernaturall and sudden variety of language the matter diuine laying before them both the truth of the Messiah and their bloody measure offered to that Lord of life and now Compuncti cordibus they were pricked in their hearts Wise Salomon sayes The words of the wise are like goads and nayles here they were so Goades for they were compuncti pricked yea but the goad could not goe so deepe that passeth but the skin they were nayles driuen into the very heart of the auditors vp to the head the great Master of the Assembly the diuine Apostle had set them home they were pricked in their hearts Neuer were words better bestowed It is an happy blood-letting that saues the life this did so here wee looke to the signe commonly in phlebotomy it is a signe of our idle and ignorant superstition Saint Peter here saw the signe to be in the heart and he strikes happily Compuncti cordibus they were pricked in their hearts and said Men and brethren what shall we doe Oh what sweet Musick was this to the Apostles eare I dare say none but heauen could afford better what a pleasing spectacle was this anguish of their wounded soules To see men come in their zealous deuotions and lay downe their moneyes the price of their alienated possessions at those Apostolike feet was nothing to this that they came in a bleeding contrition prostrated their penitent and humbled soules at the beautifull feet of the messengers of peace with Men and brethren what shall we doe Oh when when shall our eyes be blessed with so happy a prospect How long shall wee thunder out Gods fearfull iudgements against wilfull sinners how long shall wee threaten the flames of hell to those impious wretches who crucifie againe to thēselues the Lord of life ere we can wring a sigh or a teare from the rocks of their hearts or eyes Woe is me that wee may say too truely as this Peter did of his other fishing Master we haue trauailed all the night and caught nothing Surely it may well goe for night with vs whiles wee labour and preuaile not Nothing not a soule caught Lord what is becomne of the successe of thy Gospel Who hath beleeued our report or to whom is the arm● of the Lord reuealed Oh God thou art euer thy selfe thy truth is eternall hell is where it was if we be lesse worthy then thy first messengers yet what excuse is this to the besotted world that through obdurednesse and infidelity it will needs perish no man will so much as say with the Iewes What haue I done or with Saint Peters auditors what shall I doe Oh foolish sinners shall yee liue here alwayes care ye not for your soules is there not an hell that gapes for your stubborne impenitence Goe on if there bee no remedy goe on and dye for euer we are guiltlesse God is righteous your damnation is iust But if your life bee fickle death vnaauoydable if an euerlasting vengrance be the necessary reward of your momentany wickednes Oh turne turne frō your euill waies and in an holy distraction of your remorsed soules say with these Iewes Men and brethren what shall we doe This from the generall view of the occasion wee descend to a little more particularitie Luke the beloued Physitian describes Saint Peters proceeding here much after his owne trade as of a true spirituall physitian who finding his Countrymen the Iewes in a desperate and deadly condition gasping for life struggling with death enters into a speedy and zealous course of their cure And first hee begins with the Chyrurgicall part and finding them rancke of blood and that foule and putrified hee lets it out compuncti cordibus where wee might show you the incision the veine the lancet the orifice the anguish of the stroke The incision compuncti they were pricked The veine in their hearts Smile not now ye Physitians if any heare me this day as if I had passed a solaecisme in telling you these men were pricked in the veine of the heart talke you of your Cephalica and the rest and tel vs of another cistern from whēce these tubuli sanguinis are deriued I tell you againe with an addition of more incongruities still that God and his diuine Physitians doe still let blood