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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02223	The great day, or, A sermon, setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of iudgement Preached at Saint Andrews in Holborne at London By Nathaniel Grenfield, Master of Artes, and preacher of the Word of God at Whit-field in Oxfordshire.	Grenfield, Nathaniel, b. 1588 or 9.	1615 (1615)	STC 12358; ESTC S118555	51,838	174

and heart is heauie Isai 1.5 where by head as Interpreters obserue is meant the King for the Prophet speaketh vnto the Iewes as if they were one body and when the Prophet complained of this sicknesse of the head he meant Ahaz who then was head of the Kingdome and his disease was not in the foote as Asa his gout but in the corruption of his life hee did nothing that was right in the sight of the Lord his God 2. K. 16.2 the hart is the Priests that if they be such as they should be may very well resemble the heart that as the heart communicateth vitall spirits vnto the whole body so the Ministers of God should endeuour to create the life of grace in euery mans soule But if like the heart they do not employ themselues in their peculiar office and dutie preaching the Word of God in season and out of season quickning the members that are dead in sin and endeuouring daily the conuersion of soules by wholsome doctrine and holy conuersation then are they not hearts any longer but harmes and in Gods due time they shall bee trodden vnder foote like clay in the streete or cast out with vnsauory salt to the dounghill The foot may not find fault with head or heart only I will ingeminate the Prophets words Both head is sick and hart is heauy The matter which I haue in hand forceth mee to shew the generalitie of sinne and so consequently the propinquity of the general Iudgement If God should look downe from heauen vpon the children of men and marke what is done amisse in this our sinful Sublunarie he may see that al are gone aside euen from the highest to the lowest from the youngest to the eldest from the richest to the poorest from the Eagle to the Wren They are altogether become abominable there is none that doth good no not one Psalme 14.3 The foundations of the Earth are out of course sinne hath gotten the vpper hand iniquity aboundeth vertue is disgraced vice aduanced Sin now adaies is growne vnto such a presumption and that notwithstanding the sword of Authoritie which vnlesse it lay vnsheathed in the hand of the Magistrate bearìng it in vaine were able to destroy this Hydra of sinne though new heads budded out continually It it recorded of a French Ambassador in the time of King Richard the third how he told the King that there were three great Whores in England Pride Couetousnesse Luxurie If this Ambassador were to come againe he may tell the King that there are more then tenne times three not a sinne but hath his mate Pride and Ambition Couetousnesse and Extortion Adultery and Fornication Flattery and Dissimulation Strife and Contention Swearing and Forswearing Lying and Cursed speaking Chambering and Wantonnesse Strife and Enuying nay more sinnes then I can name Si superbientibus angelis Deus nō pepercit quantò minùs tibi putredo vermis Bernard and such sinnes as are not to be named To insist a while vpon some particulars to begin first with the first that first sinne of Pride so hatefull in the highest Eye that it threw the Angels out of Heauen whereby they became reprobate Deuils and yet no sinne so common none growne more generall then this sinne of Pride Were the daughters of Zion euer more proud and haughtie then our Dames of England who are so farre from being like women that professe the feare of God 1. Tim. 2.10 that they scarce looke like the creatures of God being so miscreate ofttimes and so deformed with their French their Spanish and their foolish fashions with their Plumes Fannes Feathers and Fardingales Veluet Vizards that they looke rather like some Antickes Maskers May games Esaias Text of fashions is multiplied by the fancies of our time Their bonnets and their bracelets their slippers and their mufflers their vailes their wimples and their crisping pinnes their round tyers like the Moone Isaiah 3.19 Yet he makes no mention of the yellow Ruffes of their perfumed shagged haire which neuer grew vpon their ownehead nor of their painted faces a pretty artificiall meanes to mend the workmanship of their Maker But I thinke that the Mystery of this art may rather be reduced to the common place of whorishnesse or in a nearer tearme the attire of an harlot Prou. 7. that as Erasmus said of a Lyar Oftende mihi mendacem ostendam tibifurem shew me a Lyar and I wil shew thee a thiefe so shew mee a painted face may I say and I will shew thee a whore for shee dwels at the Signe of a painted face Neither is this sinne of pride peculiar vnto women onely but also to men for they are almost become like vnto women as though they were willing to change sexes with them In the time of Popery as one saies wittily England was made an Asse to beare the burthen of the Popes taxations but now England is metamorphosed into an Ape an imitator of all fashions of all Countries and Nations France Spaine and Italy c. To leaue pride as an vgly monster and to speake of the generalitie of the sinne of whoredom which deserues the second place in Satans Kingdome The base-begotten-bastard-broode that this sin brings foorth into the world manifests the generality of it for almost what Parish within this Kingdom nay almost in the whole world but hath an adulterous issue within it and wheras one hath none another hath two Beside how is the bed of honourable marriage abused by vnlawfull mixtures God that is vnus one as Bernard Vnissimus most one hath made vnam one woman vni for one man and one man for one woman so speakes the Prophet And did hee not make one where God sends vs backe to the coppie and first institution of marriage he made one man for one woman Adam for Eue and ioyned them both together in one inuiolable band of honorable wedlock Ge. 2.24 Yet had he abundance of spirit that is by that selfe same secret inspiration whereby Adam became a liuing soule by that same powerfull influence if I may so speake God could haue created more men for one woman yet he did not And why would he not Because he sought a godly seede that is as marriage is honourable so the fruite of this diuine ordinance should bee holy not illigitimate not bastards not a promiscuous seede Malach 2.15 But alas how is the ende of marriage peruerted how doth euery man neigh after his neighbours wife Ieremie 5.8 That is men are as shamelesse and as resolutely impudent in this filthy fact like welfed horses that haue no vnderstanding Psalm 32.9 which the Prophet calles the sinne of abomination Ezek. 22.11 How doth euery man lay waite at his neighbours doore Iob 31.4 that is by priuate stealth to warme anothers bed leauing their own cisternes the wife of their youth to embrace the bosome of the stranger Prou. 5. But I will leaue this sinne in secret where it is committed for