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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15391	Conspiracie against kings, heauens scorne A sermon preached at Westminster-Abbey before the iudges, vpon the fifth of Nouemb. 1622. By Ro: Willan, Doctor in Diuinity.	Willan, Robert, d. 1630.	1622 (1622)	STC 25669; ESTC S120042	18,128	54

Luther Vnus homo nobis scribendo perdiderat rem As for the obiection that the edge of the Law seemes to be blunted towards such as imbrace not this yoke 't is light for many times a contrary winde driues a ship into a safer port then it sail'd vnto Relaxation may doe that good which rigour could not truce begets Tempus inane peto requiem spatiumque furori Dum mea me victam doceat fortuna dolere peace respite asswageth rage and calmes the stormes of vnquiet mindes Whensoeuer time discouers fauour to incourage the sons of Belial whether he bee Guelph or Gibiline Papist or Puritan he wil find the wheele turned vpon those that seeke to turne the wheele of our Church-prosperity By his last heauenly directions which followed well may place Religion where it is not and settle it where it is already entertain'd He who is not moued by his example nor instructed by his works nor wonne by his clemency nor obseruant and pliable to his direction I doe not say resists but argues and makes doubts fearing where no feare is is a plaine rebell to CHRIST in heauen to Dauid on earth Intonante Dei praecepto obediendum non disputandum Austin For when Gods precept thunders and that is when the voyce of his Deputie speakes we must submit and not dispute or els the yoke is cast off In the last gaspe of allotted time I proceed to the last part of the text Dauids comfort twofold Within he stands vpon his innocency that hee was no intruder nor sought the kingdome by any euill artes the right owner placed him in it he was Gods anointed I passe the word handled already by him cui doctior orbis submissis defert fascibus imperium Onely this word held vp Dauids head in trouble and may be a sure comfort not only to Dauid the supreme but to euery subordinate whom God rayseth vp they must meete with much difficulty and more enuie But as he neuer manageth a place happily who comes to it indirectly so when God giues authority hee giues ability to vndergoe the first and a cleere conscience will beare out the latter His outward comfort is from heauen Hee that dwelleth in the heauens That is a cheering word from thence all blessing descend from thence deliuery out of all danger There is the court of Audience for the Embassadours which are our Mittimus preces Lachrymas ad Deum Legatos Cypr. teares and prayers Saint Iohn sees twelue gates in heauen al open and all day open to entertaine suitors repayring thither Hee that dwelleth in heauen is a word of terrour also As out of a watch tower he beholds all secret and close practises no doores shut no curtaine drawne no parapet or wall to shelter no vaile betweene no vault to couer All thinges saith the Apostle are naked and bare before him the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word taken from Anatomie As when the skin is flead and the flesh pared away all the inner parts are laid to sight such are our actions to God Man sinnes as if he had a Dan. 2. 12. Qui ita nos aspicit vt à nobis aspici nequit eo magis timendus quo cuncta videns a nemine videtur Greg. sup Iob ca. 23. Giges ring to make him inuisible but when we are in darkenesse God is in light and by extramission of his owne raies makes opacitie visible As if some lay hidden to intrap vs but wee see him not our caution is raised and our feare doubled so should our care and circumspection increase who liue in the presence of All-seeing God Hee that dwelleth in the Heauens Is a word of instruction Earth is but a turfe for man to trample on heauen is our home heere we haue but boothes there are the mansions In my Fathers House are mansions No mortall Vitruuius can make an immortall habitation The silly Spider may teach vs who vpon the least touch of her copweb flits and remooues The world is a copweb-world to bee swept downe with the broome of fire therefore let vs so liue as that we may liue and dwell with him who dwelleth in the heauens What does hee there at this time Hee laughes That is a hard word at the first view Are the iniuries of his Saints the cruelties of their enemies the wicked enterprises against his anointed matter of laughter Laughter is a diminution of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sopater apud Stobaeum state as hee told Princes Seuere Cato thought it became not the grauitie of a Roman Consull and is it attributed to the Maiestie of heauen There is a threefold Theologie or way to discourse of God 1. Negatiue honouring him in silence not daring because not able to expresse him as when hee is saide to be inuisible incorporeall These Negatiues do secretly grant a more excellent knowledge then can be attained silence being the best eloquence 2. Affirmatiue speakes of Diserti multi Austin 1. confess cap. 4. God in few words and those of perfection as when he is stiled good wise iust The first like a Statuarie hewes hacks out matter the second as a painter illustrates and sets it foorth in colours The 3. way is Symbolicall attributing al things to him which may make way to our vnderstanding as here laughter Not to insist in the point how affections are said to be in God Nazianzen dispatches it in one word they are in him by Antistrophe or a conuersion Looke how man is affected 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazian in Iamb when hee beholdes some Dwarfe buckling to grapple with a Giant so our shallow capacitie not able to expresse him otherwise describes him as our selues would be in a merry disposition deriding vaine attempts Gods laughter importes these 4. particulars It expresses how easie and facile it is to the Almighty euen at pleasure with a smile to ouerthrow wicked designes Ludit in humanis diuina potentia rebus It shewes the patience of God in his quiet forbearance who could in a momēt destroy thē The Poets fiction hath a graue morall They faine lame Vulcan to be the Cutler of heauen and Armour-maker to their gods The true God is slow to wrath and vnwilling to punish proroguing his iudgements expecting repentance yet so as by delaying he brings his owne purpose to passe Some times hee suffers them to deuise plots as Pharaoh imagined that hee had found away by drowning the Israelites males to root out their name from the earth but did not God smile when at the same time his owne daughter in his owne court gaue princely education to Moses their deliuerer Iulian supposed by rearing vp the Iewish ceremonies to supplant the new Isoe Eccleshist religion by the old and therefore would be at the cost to build the Temple againe but did not God smile when from vnder the foundations as from Vesuuius hill flaming fire brake foorth and dissolued all his workes