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A10903	A sermon of loue Instructing all men to vnite and ioyne themselues in hearty loue, and Christian charitie with one another. Preached at Folkestone, a maior towne in Kent. By Francis Rogers, Batchelor in Diuinity; and sometimes fellow of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge.	Rogers, Francis, d. 1638.	1613 (1613)	STC 21174; ESTC S112048	24,461	54

WHat S. Hierome saith of the whole Booke of Iob may most truely be verified of this saying of our Sauiour namely Singula in eo verba plena sunt sensibus Hiero. Paul that is Euery word is a full sentence affording large scope and ample matter for to entreate of but that I may the better confine my selfe vnto the time allotted for this businesse obserue three things first a commandement Thou shalt loue secondly the obiect vvhom wee must loue thy neighbour thirdly the meane how farre this loue must be extended as thy selfe Of the precept Thou shalt loue The Morall Law of God contained in the ten Commandements is diuided into two Tables the first setteth forth our duty vnto God wherein nothing else is required at our hands but Loue so saith our Sauiour Mat. 22.38 The first and greatest Commandement is this Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde where we learne our loue to God must be like vnto death for there is no earthly liuing creature so strong so weake so rich so poore so olde so young so noble so ignoble of what condition soeuer but Death doth ouer-come all euen so though wee may loue Wife Children Father Mother Brother Sister Kinsfolke Friends Honors goods and our owne liues yet the loue of GOD must surpasse them all or else wee are not worthy of God saith our Sauiour The second Table containeth our dutie towards our Neighbour and therein likewise is nothing else required at our hands but Loue Mat. 10.37 so saith my Text The second is like vnto this thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe So that as Saint Augustine Epist 56. speaking of Humilitie saith the first vertue in a Christian is Humilitie the second Humilitie the third Humilitie and so often as you vvill aske mee I will answere nothing but Humilitie not because there are no other precepts in the Bible but because vnlesse Humilitie goe before all other vertues accompany all other vertues and follow after euery vertue Pride will deflowre our holiest actions In like manner S. Paul 1 Cor. 13. seemeth to speake of Loue saying that the first vertue in a Christian is Loue the second is Loue the third yea all required in a Christian is nothing else but Loue therefore he saith 1 Cor. 13.1 Though I speake with the tongue of men and Angels and haue not Loue I am as sounding brasse and a tinckling Cymball And againe Though I had the gift of Prophecie Verse 2. and knew all secrets and all knowledge yea if I had all Faith so that I could remoue mountaines and had not Loue I were nothing And againe Though I feede the poore with all my goods Verse 3. and though I giue my body to be burned and haue not Loue it profiteth mee nothing Hence ariseth so many commendations of Loue in the Scripture as Loue enuyeth not Colos 3.14 it suffereth all things it beleeueth all things it hopeth all things it endureth all things Iames 2.8 It is the bond of perfection the Royall Law the great commandement It is Christs owne precept yea Iohn 15.12 God himselfe is tearmed by the name of Loue 1 Iohn 4.8 Hence the ancient Writers made so many exhortations to loue and wrote so many commendations of Loue. Loue saith Philo Iudaeus is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a short word but yet it containeth much matter to be spoken of Mat. 13.31 like the graine of Mustard-seede the least of all other yet groweth so bigge as the Fowles of the ayre build their nests in the branches of it Rom. 13.9 so is Loue the abridgement of the whole Law 1 Tim. 1.4 the end of the Commandements the fulfilling of the whole Law Rom. 13.10 Insomuch as Clement Alexandrinus calleth a louing man a God Gregory Nazianzene being asked what was the best thing in the world answered Vnitie Peace and Concord and being asked the worst thing answered Hatred Discord and Contention this is illustrated by a Similitude As maine Ocean Seas and deepe Riuers in themselues are fit for ships to saile in and to hinder the passage of enemies into the Country which they enuiron but let them be cut into narrow channels and small gutters then they are vnfit for eyther Euen so where there is loue and amitie there all things prosper by concord small things become great but where is discord and strife there nothing flourisheth for by dissention great things become small Luke 11.2 yea nothing at all For Kingdomes saith our Sauiour diuided among themselues cannot endure Though God had often foretolde of the miserable destruction of Hierusalem Iosephus de bell Iudae which was performed by the Romanes yet nothing did worke their so speedy and lamentable ruine as their owne dissentions and ciuill warres within themselues see this likewise verified in the aeconomicall gouernment Therefore it is vvorthy noting that Silurus hauing fourescore sonnes seeing them at discord among themselues tyed vp a great Faggot of stickes together and gaue to each sonne a piece of the cord which tyed them and bad them all assaye to breake the Faggot vvhich vvhen they had long endeuoured they could not effect vvhereupon the old man loosed the Faggot and gaue to euery sonne one single sticke vvhich euery one could easily breake in sunder euen so while Christians and brethren vnite themselues in Loue and Charitie so long it is hard for them to be ouerthrowne but vvhen once they are at hatred within themselues then the deuill easily ouercommeth them for he goeth vp and downe like a roaring Lyon seeking vvhom he may deuoure vvhere the Greeke is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quem vvho in the singular number catching them one by one not quos in the plurall number vvhen they goe in couples Obserue likewise how discord in the members ouerthrow the priuate body of euery particular man therefore it is a pretty fable in Aesope that at a certaine time the members in the body fell at dissention vvith the belly the hand vvould reach it no meate the foote vvould goe for no meat in the end all the whole body vvaxed so feeble as it was ready to perish then the hand would reach meat the foot fetch meat the mouth chawe meat but alas it was too late to shut the doore after the Steed vvas stolne for the belly was so faint and weake as it was able to receiue no meate and so the vvhole body was consumed and as dissention ouerthroweth kingdomes priuate families the soules and bodies of men euen so it doth wholy consume the wealth and estates of men as is seene in the lame man and the blinde man of which one for want of lims vvas not able to goe the other for want of eyes could not see to goe vntill at last they agreed together that the blinde man should carry the lame man the lame man should

A SERMON OF LOVE Instructing all men to vnite and ioyne themselues in hearty Loue and Christian Charitie one with another Preached at Folkestone a Maior Towne in Kent BY FRANCIS ROGERS Batchelor in Diuinity and sometimes fellow of Trinitie Colledge in CAMBRIDGE IOHN 13.35 By this shall all men know if yee be my Disciples if yee Loue one another ROMANES 16.17 Now I beseech you brethren marke them diligently which cause diuision and offences and auoid them LONDON Printed by T.S. for George Norton dwelling neare Temple-barre 1613. TO THE RIGHT VVorshipfull his very louing Mother ANNE ROGERS Widow within the precinct of Christes Church CANTERBVRY THE Husbandman doth not plant his Tree Water it Dongue it Lop it Prune it to the end that when the time of bearing Fruit is come it should be like the Fig-Tree to bring foorth Leaues and no Fruit but rather that it should be like vnto the Vine-tree which doth bring forth fruit in clusters and in great abundance euen so man which is planta inuersa a Tree with his roote vpward is not nourished in the wombe of his Mother for the space of fortie weekes together and after he is borne into the world hee is not suckled fed swadled and tended by Mothers naturall care and tender affection to that end that when hee is ripe in yeeres hee should proue like Absalon a stubborne and disobedient childe but rather to be like our Sauiour CHRIST who was obedient to his Father and Mother in all things that so he may be a ioy vnto his Father and make glad the heart of his Mother And howsoeuer Alexander the great propoundeth it as a great question whether a man be more beholding to his Father which begetteth him or to his Master which teacheth him because the one is occasion of his being the other of his well-being yet the Lawes of God and Nature tell vs that all reuerent respect dutifull obedience is to be caried to our Father which begat vs to our Mother which bare vs almighty God hauing promised in the fift Commandement a special blessing of long life vpon earth to the obedient childe Wherefore as when the Grecians in a great solemnitie did present to Philip king of Macedon many goodly gifts a poore Painter stepped in among the rest and offred vp the counterfeit of himselfe in a Table besides which were purtrayed out many Iewels and Pearles Rings ouer each whereof was inscribed Vellem hoc I would I were able to giue such gifts as these Euen so my selfe hauing at this time occasion by importunitie of friends to expose these my simple labours of that poore Talent wherewith God hath endued mee to the worlds view vtinam foeliciter God giue it good successe haue thought it my duetie to present vnto your selfe most deare Mother these my first though vnworthy endeauours vnfainedly protesting that if there be any thing wherein I may shew my obedience and bring comfort to your olde age Vellem hoc I desire of God that I may performe it In the meane time let me entreate this fauour at your hands that as Lewis the eleuenth King of France presented with a great roote by one of his poore subiects perceiuing that it came from an hearty affection tooke it in good part and locked it vp in his Treasurie among his richest Iewels so let mee beseech you to accept this simple present as an outward testimonie of my true hearty loue and Filiall reuerence to you my most louing and naturall Mother and so I humbly take my leaue earnestly entreating Almighty God to giue you in this life peace of conscience which is a continuall feast and at the houre of your death to bring your gray haires with ioy vnto the graue and after this miserable life is ended to giue you peace of soule and body for euermore in his blessed Kingdome of Heauen which God the Father graunt for his Sonne Iesus Christ his sake Amen Your dutifull and obedient Sonne vnto his power FRANCIS ROGERS TO THE READER SAint Hierom saith very well Habet nescio quid latentis energiae viua vox in aures discipuli de authoris ore transfusa fortius sonat the liuely voyce of man speaking hath some especiall secret operation in the minde and doth send a more strong sound into the eares of the hearer In which respect I perswade my selfe this Sermon will prooue like vnto Tapestry wo●●● which seemeth faire farre off but when yo● 〈◊〉 neere vnto it you may discerne the coursenesse of the threed for as Philosophy telleth vs the eare is a farre more dull iudge then the eye and reason teacheth vs that we cannot so truely discerne of things which suddenly passe away as of obiects which are still permanent Therefore as alwayes so now especially I did desire to imitate Plato the Diuine Philosopher of whom it is said Maluit aliena verecunde discere quam sua impudenter ingerere Hee had rather learne of others with modestie then impudently make shew of his owne knowledge Yet the importunitie of my fellow-brethren and Ministers then present was such as my case did resemble the seruants of King Eglon Iudg. 3.25 they tarried at the doore till they were ashamed so I denied them so long as I was ashamed to deny them any more Wherefore now I present this Sermon vnto thee gentle Reader accept it kindely read it patiently censure it charitably and practise it diligently If thou reapest any good thereby giue the glory to him who is the Author and giuer of euery good gift onely thus much I aduertise thee Aristotle the great Philosopher in his bookes doth often refell the opinions of his Master Plato and he neuer doth excuse his so doing but onely in his Ethickes the reason whereof is giuen that hee being in those bookes to giue precepts of good manners vnto others would not himselfe seeme so much to transgresse the bounds of modestie good manners as once publikely to write against his Master which taught him and his Tutor which instructed him without good reason and lawfull excuse Euen so remember good Reader that when thou doest reade this Sermon thou doest read a Treatise of LOVE then do not while thou art reading of loue so farre degenerate from the nature of loue and bond of Christian Charitie as once to giue it an harsh censure and vncharitable construction humanum est errare to erre and be deceiued is proper to humane frailtie ergo pietatis est ignoscere humanitatis non agnoscere therefore pietie teacheth thee to forgiue the faults humanitie biddeth thee not to acknowledge the faults And thus I commit thee to the protection of the most high God From Alkham in the Countie of Kent this 10. of February 1613. Thine in Christ Iesus FRANCIS ROGERS A SERMON OF LOVE Instructing all men to vnite and ioyne themselues in harty Loue and Christian Charitie one with another MATTHEVV 22.39 Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe