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doctrine_n	church_n	heresy_n	schism_n	2,940	5	9.8144	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20562	A sermon preached at S. Maries Church in Oxford, the 12. of Iuly. 1612 Being the Act Sunday. By Thomas Anyan, Fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge.	Anyan, Thomas, 1580 or 81-1632.	1612 (1612)	STC 697; ESTC S115375	16,576	32

and bring forth no buds nor blossomes thereof no not so much as in the Autumne of their age doe these or can they euer be hoped to bring forth their fruit in due season I feare of this number there are too many here present who as if they had receiued all their learning sub sigillo confessionis in secret confession dare not impart any of it nor bring forth any fruits thereof themselues but get some of their neighbour trees to bring forth fruit for them euen at that time when this place should expect theirs And as the Beast Tarando in Pliny turnes himselfe into the Lib. 8. c. 34. fashion of other beasts because his owne shape is so like the shape of an Asse so these performe all duties and exercises of their vocation in their place and elsewhere in the persons of others because I thinke their owne are so rude and deformed Your parts it is Reuerend and Learned Fathers whom iust desert hath worthily aduanced to eminencie of place in this our Athens to prune and lop off these vnfruitfull branches which bring forth no fruit in their owne boughes but draw iuyce and sap from other fruitfull branches and not to conferre your choysest fauors vpon such as are by profession non-proficients whose end and scope is the carrying of a bagge and a bunch of keyes least in short time those places which by the beneficency of worthy founders were erected to be Nurseries of hopefull wits turne to be Golgothaes places of dead mens bones and liuing emptie sculs or at the best but old shrines and smokie Images for nothing venerable but senioritie Howbeit I stand not here to patronize those Lapwings which flye away from hence with part of the shell vpon their heads and thrust themselues before their due time into the Lords haruest expecting I thinke some Apostolike Enthusiasme to be inspired in illâ horâ their haste is greater then their speed Nimis properè minus prosperè as saith Bernard Ser. de S. Bene. Such are Conduits that conuey water to others before they can containe any for themselues qui loqui nesciant saith Hierome tacere non possunt such turne rauening Wolues as soone as they get the Lambesskinne Dr. Boys ouer their shoulders These men like the Gibeonites take their bread hot the day they departed to come and therefore it is so soone dryed vp and mouldy and their bottles because they are new are rent Iosh 9. 13. Iosh 9. 13. Such men should haue made a longer residence in this garden of pleasure this seate of happinesse from whence flowes that of Pindarus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Riuers of Helicon and waters of Parnassus I know how fitly I might resemble this whole Vniuersitie to a tree Theologie to the roote of the tree Law to the iuyce and radicall moysture which maintaines the life and vnion of the body together Physicke to those leafes which heale the nations of the earth the Liberall Sciences to the branches of this tree the Garlands of degrees to the blossomes and fruits of the tree For as Theophrastus reports of a tree in Persia which at the same time doth bud blossome and beare fruit so may we truely auerre of this tree that now at this one season it bringeth forth some Doctors some Masters some fruit that is fully ripe some drawing to ripenesse some in the flowre and some in the bud I now meruaile not that the Poets fained the Muses to dwell in woods and amongst trees here groweth the Iuniper tree which might teach euery man to haue a sweet conuersation with all men here groweth the Palme tree which teacheth vs a conquest of our selues here the Laurell which crowneth vs with the peace of a good Conscience Amidst these Arbors and in the barkes of these trees let vs as the ancient Shepheards were wont to doe engraue our names with the Sonets of loue and imprint the characters of our dearest affections and with earnest deuotion desire the heauenly Apollo to water this tree with the dewe of his grace distilled into the rootes thereof that it may spread it selfe forth into branches and the branches may bud and the buds may blossome and the blossomes may bring forth fruit such fruit as shall neuer be corrupted such flowers as shall neuer be withered such buds as shall neuer be blasted such branches as shall neuer be dismembred but flourish and spread abroad their armes to defend the Church from all Haeresie Schisme and peruerse doctrines to the aduancement of true Religion and the glory of thy great Name through Christ our Lord To whom with the Father and the holy Ghost be ascribed all glory honour and praise both now and for euermore Amen FINIS