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A48948	A sermon preached at Lambeth, April 21, 1645, at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley, Doctor in Divinity, late preacher there with a short relation of his life and death / by William Leo [sic] ...	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2817; ESTC R7483	22,538	42

be not some plot of villany to insnare thee Can any wise man love the place where Satan domineeres If this our Gospel truth be hid from any here it is hid to them that are lost Are not they lost that can neither be found in heaven nor in the earth nor yet in the sea The god of this world which is the Devil hath blinded the minds of them that beleeve not this truth lest the light of the glorious Gospel truth of Jesus Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them The whole world saith the holy Divine Saint John lyeth in wickednesse and our little world this Island wherein we dwell is on fire about our eares and yet neither the worlds malignity nor yet our owne misery can quicken us to a lothing of this restlesse and brittle sea of glasse But would you learne how to avoid this Traitor that wil Judaize with you this dominion of Satan and this house on fire I shall doe my endeavour to satisfie your desire in this point You all know that whatsoever the shavelings of Rome say we have a Church and it is a principall piece of the holy Catholique Church which we professe to beleeve that is scattered farre and wide upon the surface of the whole Universe and to this Church we have given our names Christian is my name and Catholike is my sirname We are shipped by Baptisme If a tempest arise cry upon Christ as the Apostles did in a storme If the Ship of our state be ready to be swallowed up of the waves flye unto Christ if he be asleep awaken him with our cryes Concutitur fides non excutitur our faith may bee shaken but never shaken off therefore never cease but cry and cry aloud that we may be heard and being heard we may be delivered and being delivered we may glorifie God If the wind roare Christ will rebuke it and there shall follow a great calme The fift Use of the Doctrine is to take a review of the Text If this world be in experience to us a Sea of glasse like unto Crystall This Crystalline resemblance deceives none but children and fooles who are deceived with shewes shadowes and resemblances But wee are men endowed with reason and experience How are we fitted and furnished for our voyage Where 's our Tackles Have we our Maine mast ready that is to say our faith without which it is impossible to please God there 's no walking or talking with God without it Where 's our Anchor and Sailes the Anchor of hope and the Sayles of good workes What wind doe we sayle by no wind under the cope of heaven but the gale of Christian Charity can arrive us at the Port of Heaven But sayling with that gentle gale we need not feare any danger between this and Heaven For if a Whale by the way should swallow us as it did Jonah or a wind called Euroclydon which caused Pauls ship-wracke at the Island then called Melita now Malta In both dangers we should be safe the Whale must cast us upon the Land and though the Ship were wracked yet either by swimming or by some broken fragments of the Ship we should surely come safe to Land The sixt use of this Doctrine is of Discovery The holy Apostle gives every one in particular a Christian Caveat Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall If my Text be a vision unto you it hath discovered how slippery our station is I beseech you therefore when you have forgotten me yet remember my Text and forget it not lest you slippe and slide and fall like the house built upon the sands the fall whereof was great The Royall Preacher tells us that God hath set the world in the heart of man to the end that he should consider the deceitfulnesse and uncertainty of it Shall a man love that which Christ never prayed for I pray for mine Elect I pray not for the world That is I pray not for the Muck-worms and Mammonists of this world And if the grace of God be in us we shall daily blesse and thank God for the Lord Jesus who hath given himselfe for our sinnes that hee might deliver us from this present evill world according to the will of God and our Father They that remember not this discovery of the world have not knowne God as John testifieth The Mammonists of this world cannot endure to heare or thinke of death and yet when they lose the things of this glassie world they murther themselves with worldly sorry St. Paul is a witnesse of this truth saying The sorrow of this world causeth death The Mammonists and Muck-wormes of this world brag boast and pride themselves with the things of the world Saint Paul was otherwise minded God forbid saith he that I should pride my selfe in ought or any thing in the world save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world It is no marvell that so few love Preachers and gaine so little or nothing by the frequent and powerfull preaching of Gospell-truth Paul sheweth us the reason why Demas forsooke him Hee was in love with this present world Saint Peter gives the Muck wormes Mammonists and lovers of this world their fearfull fatall and finall doom shewing first how we may escape the pollutions of this world and then how dangerous a relapse and backsliding is For saith he and puts the case thus If the Muck-wormes and Mammonists of this world have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are againe intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them then the beginning for then they become Wells without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever For the Lord Christ Jesus sake blessed Auditory you holy people of the Lord remember my Text when you see not me That our standing is very slippery upon this Sea of glasse Remember that all the actions transactions and all the imaginations of all the thoughts purposes and intentions of all hearts are before the Throne of God open and manifest to his sight and censure The Lords Throne is in heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soule hateth Oh remember that the Lords Throne is for ever and that his Throne is in heaven and the earth is his pedestoole Oh remember that thou sweare not by heaven for it is the Throne of God For hee that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the Throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon Oh remember that we must all appeare before the Throne of Jesus Christ and render our accompts Oh remember what favour the Lord Jesus hath purchased for us that we may come boldly to a

miles distant from one another 12. We served together in three Convocations to wit the last two of King James of precious memory to whom we had the honour to be Chaplaines in Ordinary and the first of King Charles kept at Oxford All which time he strongly set himselfe against all that had any smack of Rome or Romish superstition 13. In which Convocations five and forty of us whereof he was chiefe made a solemn Covenant among our selves to oppose every thing that did but savour or scent never so little of Pelagianisme or Semi-Pelagianisme And being elected by the Clergie of Surrey for to be a Clerk of the Convocation for this present Parliament and hearing me make Protestation in the face of that Clergie an occasion being offered in these terms Atque odi ego Arminianismum ac Bellarminianismum came and embraced me in his armes and said Well said good brother I protest and will sweare the like Ay me much more might be said of his Christian living and carriage amongst us but I hasten to his Christian leaving of us 1. He was not idle no not to his very end After he came to Chelsey by the favour and grace of the Parliament to take the ayre for the cure of his infirmities I resorting unto him with a visit found him very ill affected with the Asthma in saburra stomachi and with the Dropsie which was on the left side of his face and was falne into his left legge insomuch as I perceiving that he spake with great shortnesse of breath and much difficulty to utter his words in our conference I requesting him to spare his speech I related severall passages unto him which hee much rejoyced in and so it tooke up the rest of the time I then stayed with him 2. Within lesse then a weeke after this my visit of him there was a rumour spread that he was distracted of his wits which when I heard I hasted to him as soone as he heard in his chamber that I was there he speedily came downe to me into the Hall where after embracings as our manner was we sat down and talked Truly I durst not tell him what I heard concerning the rumour but after a little pause he told me himselfe of it in this manner Wot you what Brother why they say I am mad Now absit quoth I. He replyed My case is like Sophocles the Tragedian whose sonnes accused him for a mad man and therefore by their law he by the sentences of the Judges had his Quietus est no more to trouble himselfe with the affaires of his state Hereupon Sophocles that wrote Tragedies even to extreame age recited to the Judges a Tragedy of his own making which he had then in his hand called Oedipus Coloneus and asked the Judges after he had read it unto them Whether that Tragedy did scent or savour any whit of madnesse or distraction Upon this question the Judges changed their mindes and judgements and quit him from the accusation of his unworthy sonnes So sayes he I shall leave such notes behind me quoted in this time of my weakenesse for Nulla dies sine linea no sober man will think or conceive to be the meditations of a mad man 3. But when I perceived that this rumour did somewhat affect him I said I hope Brother this false report need not trouble you awhit it is usuall in this sorry world for worthy men to heare of evill when they are most busied in goodnesse How was that most judicious and sound Divine Mr. Calvin used by foolish Surius and malitious Bellarmine who reported that he dyed of the Pthiriasis the lowsie evill such as Herod dyed of Act. 11. ult. when it was but an ordinary disease called the Phthisis or Tissick How was Theodorus de Beza used when it was reported at Rome that Beza was dead and a little before his death that he had revolted and falne back to Rome yea and a lying Libell printed at Rome flew into all parts of Christendom intituled Tota Geneva Catholizat But Beza lived to answer that Pamphlet with a Treatise called Tota Roma Critizat Cretizatque For Paul in his Epistle to Titus cap. 1. sayes The Cretians were alwayes lyars evill beasts slow bellies c. and cited unto them the Greek verse out of one of their owne Poets to manifest it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Yea further Saint Paul makes this verse Scripture by his attestation in the words following after it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that is to say this witnesse is true 4. Further he told me that he was writing still and I encouraged him with {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Indeed the lively voyce in preaching moveth more yet a mans writing teacheth more For it gives a man leave to pause on it and doth not strike the eares onely and then away Words have wings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Writing reacheth those that are far off words those that are neere Words reach onely to them that are alive writing to them that are unborne He that speaketh profiteth his owne congregation but he that writeth profiteth all hee that speaketh for an houre but he that writeth for ever After this I departed from him and saw him no more for within six dayes after I heard he was dead and by credentiall witnesses am assured that he departed this life a sound and faithfull Protestant living and professing at end That hee dyed in the Faith and Religion of the Church of England established by many Parliaments 5. Thus he ran this course and was faithfull and painfull unto death and God I make no doubt hath washed his soule in the blood of the Lambe and hath given him a Crowne of life which shall never be taken from him I leave him in the hands of his God in whom hee ever beleeved and ever carefully served I now returne to the gentle Reader and certifie thee That he was ever the same man never dismayed with paines taking not unlike the Palme Timber which never bendeth under never so great a lading but riseth upward against it and as the children of Israel shrunk not down under their labour howsoever it were increased Wherefore all that knew him gave glory to God saying Surely the Lord hath done great things for him and by him I doe not give him halfe his due as they know that knew him yet haply more then every one that knew us both doe or may think fit to be spoken of him but truth is truth whosoever is the speaker and of the abundance of the heart the mouth will utter and the Pen will write howsoever it be taken I hope I shall not seem absurd to any sober Reader for in all I have spoken I yeeld nothing so to flesh and blood neither have I stretched my selfe beyond his measure as the Apostle speaketh Dr. Bucer called himselfe Pila fortunae and surely this Doctor and I being together