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duty_n	contrary_a	good_a	great_a	464	4	2.0864	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66817	Hermes theologus, or, A divine Mercurie dispatcht with a grave message of new descants upon old records no lesse delightfull in the best sense, then truly usefull for these times / by Theoph. Wodenote ...	Wodenote, Theophilus, d. 1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3242; ESTC R38728	47,955	188

humbled his soule by true repentance for the great murther committed by his meanes in Thessalonica for I cannot think that he was excommunicate whatsoever the Canonists say contrary neither standeth Excommunication of Princes upon any good ground seeing they have no superiour Judges upon earth but How wilt thou saith Saint Ambrose according to his duty unto him seeking to save the Princes soule with the hazard of his own life receive the Lords Body with a bloody hand (x) Theod. hist l. 5. c. 18. was never quiet in heart till he was freed from that impediment ceased not in brackish teares to bewaile his wretched estate and day by day with great earnestnesse to crave restitution till he was at last againe received into the Church to praise the Lord in the great congregation and amongst much people How farre from Theodosius his humble spirit and hearty love to the Church are they now a-dayes who have wilfully divided and rent themselves from our Church contemned our Sacraments and condemned our Religion as Antichristian in the meane while betaking themselves to private meetings and secret Conventicles XXXIII PYthagoras boundall those whom he received into his Schoole to five yeares silence that they might not fly before they were fledge that as soone as ever they crept from the shell they might not aspire to the house top that their tongues might not run before their wits that they might hear sufficiently before they spake boldly and so strong was his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so much did his word prevaile with them that faithfully and constantly they observed his commandment Many Tutors now a-dayes though wiser better then Pythagoras yet seeing their young ones too forward to make wing cannot possibly beat them back into the nest yet cannot keep their Pupils within the limits of learners five yeares no nor foure yeares till they have taken some Degree in Schoole but they must needs in all haste take upon them the sacred profession of preaching Gods Word and not onely some thin obscure ignorant Country Parishes but Jerusalem and the chiefe Cities but the greatest congregations and the most knowing people must take notice of their ripe and rare intelligence in their owne though raw in other mens opinions Being drunken with pride they delight to be seen in the most publick assemblies as there are some that must needs shew themselves in the market or Faire being drunken with Wine or some meaner liquor XXXIV THere were three Ambassadours sent from Rome to Bythinia to appease the discords and salve up the differences betweene Nicomedes and Prusias whereof one was troubled with an aking in his head another with the gout in his toes and the third with a fainting in his heart Of this Ambassage what said Cato The people of Rome send an Ambassage that hath neither head nor foot nor heart Were Cato Major now alive againe to see our new counterfeit Legats without any sacred authority without any competent ability taking upon them sacred functions how worthily might he say of them that they have neither heads of true learning nor feet of right obedience nor hearts of godly sincerity Fitter for Innovation then Administration fitter to make differences then to reconcile them and to scatter the sheep of Christ then to gather them together fitter to raise false reports and to put their hands with the wicked to be unrighteous witnesses then to be righteous reformers XXXV ALexander seeing one of his Souldiers going to sharpen his dart when all other were going to fight casheer'd him and cast him out of the Army saying He was unworthy of a place in an Army who was then to provide Armes when he was to use them How much more is he unworthy to be a Leader in the Spirituall Army to ascend into Moses chaire who is then to provide when he is to put on who is then to prepare when he is to preach how can such a one chuse but disguise the holy word of God and prophane it one way or other He that speaketh sodainly shall never speake profitably but presumeth too far upon his owne gifts and too much undervalueth the good of Gods people and the businesse he hath in hand Our 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ●●●ation should be as it were seasoned with salt that it may minister grace unto the hearers How much more when the Law of God is publickly sought for at our mouths and to be uttered by us against noted and cunning Schismaticks and Hereticks when we are openly to wrestle not against flesh and blood onely but against principalities against powers against the Rulers of the darkenesse of this world against spirituall wickednesse in high places y Eph. 6.12 XXXVI AVenzoar that greatly learned and experienced Physitian affirmed that he never gave purgation but his heart did shake many daies before though no doubt so 〈…〉 conscionable as long to commune with his owne heart and with the chiefest Masters he could meet withall in his profession that the cure might the better prosper under his hands that successe might answer expectation How audacious then and insensible and dissolute in their undertakings are they who being Physitians of soules never deliberate with themselves what hurt bad physick may doe or take any serious thoughts how their counsell may be most effectuall who never weigh their prescripts by the proportion of faith z Rom. 12 6. never suite their words to the wholsome words of the Lord Jesus a 1 Tim. 6.3 but irreverently and unworthily rudely and rashly administer all their doctrines instructions corrections consolations without either dread of bad haps to fall out or desire of good successe to follow without either art or paines in the reading and composing or awfulnesse and heedfulnesse in recollecting and delivering XXXVII A Lacedemonian having plucked off the feathers of a nightingale that not long before had given a delicate and ravishing sound and seen but a little leane carion left b thou art a voice a Plutarch in Apoph Lacon saith he nought else Your new fashioned Sermons so full of edification as some conceive seeme in the eares of such admirers rare and excellent musick so far over-reaching others notes as the nightingale in melody passeth al the rest of the birds of the wood but pluck off the feathers from the discourses the newes and more newes of the times the seditious contumelies and treacherous invectives the idle digressions and multitude of words as though they knew their hearers could understand nothing except they told it them twenty times over Disrobe them of such their circumquaques and circulations to no purpose wherein they run their rounds and yet perswade their hearers that they goe right forward with great sobriety and gravity Dismantle them of such vaine and frivolous ornaments wherewith they are audaciously clothed and lay them naked to the view of true reason and the body of all their long stories what shew soever it made before the simple is but a poor