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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68126	The vvorks of Ioseph Hall Doctor in Diuinitie, and Deane of Worcester With a table newly added to the whole worke.; Works. Vol. 1	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Lo., Ro.	1625 (1625)	STC 12635B; ESTC S120194	1,732,349	1,450

with you also from him Doe not talke and purpose and proiect but execute Doe not so doe good that wee may thanke your death-bed for it and not you Late beneficence is better then none but so much as early beneficence is better then late Hee that giues not till hee dyes shewes that hee would not giue if hee could keepe it And God loues a cheerfull giuer That which you giue thus you giue it by your Testament I can scarce say you giue it by your will The good mans praise is Dispersit dedit he disperses his goods not he left them behind him and his distribution is seconded with the retribution of God His righteousnesse endureth for euer Psalme 112.9 Our Sauiour tells vs that our good works are our light Let your light so shine that men may see your good workes which of you lets his light go behinde him and hath it not rather caried before him that he may see which way it goes and which way himselfe goes by it Doe good therefore in your life that you may haue comfort in your death and a Crowne of life after death Now all this haue I spoken not for that I haue ought as S. Paul sayes whereof to accuse my Nation Blessed be God as good workes haue abounded in this age so this place hath superabounded in good workes Bee it spoken to the glory of that God whose all our good works are to the honour of the Gospell to the conuiction of that lewd slander of Solifidianisme London shall vye good workes with any City vpon earth This day and your eares are abundant witnesses As those therefore that by an handfull ghesse at the whole sacke it may please you by this yeeres Briefe to iudge of the rest Wherein I doe not feare lest Enuie it selfe shall accuse vs of a vaine-glorious ostentation Those obstreperous benefactors that like to Hens which cannot lay an egge but they must cackle straight giue no almes but with trumpets lose their thankes with God Almes should be like oyle which though it swimme aloft when it is falne yet makes no noise in the falling not like water that still sounds where it lights But howsoeuer priuate beneficence should not be acquainted with both the hands of the giuer but silently expect the reward of him that seeth in secret yet God should bee a great loser if the publike fruits of charity should bee smothered in a modest secrecy To the praise therefore of that good God which giues vs to giue and rewards vs for giuing to the example of posterity to the honor of our Profession to the incouragement of the wel-deseruing and to the shame of our malicious aduersaries heare what this yeare hath brought forth Here followeth a briefe memoriall of the charitable acts of the City this yeere last past c. And if the season had not hindered your eyes should haue seconded your eares in the comfortable testimonie of this beneficence Euge c. Well done good and faithfull seruants Thus should your Profession bee graced thus should the incense of your almes ascend in pillers of holy smoke into the nostrils of God thus should your talents bee turned into Cities This colour is no other then celestiall and so shall your reward be Thus should the foundation be laid of that building whose wals reach vp vnto heauen whose roofe is finished and laid on in the heauen of heauens in that immortalitie of glory which the God of all glory peace and comfort hath prouided for all that loue him Vnto the participation whereof the same God of ours mercifully bring vs through the Sonne of his loue Iesus Christ the righteous to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost one infinite and incomprehensible God be giuen all praise honour and glory now and for euer Amen FINIS THE HONOVR OF THE MARIED CLERGIE MAINTAINED AGAINST THE MALICIOVS CHALLENGES of C.E. Masse-Priest OR THE APOLOGIE WRITTEN SOME yeares since for the Mariage of persons Ecclesiasticall made good against the Cauils of C. E. Pseudo-Catholike Priest Jn three Bookes BY IOS HALL LONDON Printed for THOMAS PAVIER MILES FLESHER and John Haviland 1624. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD AND MY MOST HONORED Lord GEORGE Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitane one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuy Councell MOST REVEREND FATHER and no lesse honored Lord IT was my desire and hope to spend the residue of my Time and thoughts in sweet and sacred Contemplation Satan enuying me this happinesse interrupts me by the malice of an importunate Aduersarie Twelue yeares agoe I wrote a little Apologeticall Letter for the Mariage of persons Ecclesiasticall and now thus late when I had almost forgot that I had written it a moody Masse-priest drops out a tedious and virulent Refutation thorow my sides striking at the most Honorable and flourishing Clergie of the whole Christian world labouring not so much for my disgrace what would that auaile him as the dishonour and scorne of our holy Profession in the eyes of our people I could contemne it in silence if the Quarrell were onely mine Now my wrong cannot be distinguished from thousands God and his Church are ingaged in this cause which in my foile could not but sustaine losse neither may I be now silent with safetie without misconstruction Let this hand and Tongue bee no longer mine then they may serue my Master in Heauen and his Spouse on Earth That which I wrote in some three houres he hath answered in three quaternions of yeares and what I vvrote in three leaues hee hath answered in no fewer Pages then 380. Should I follow him in this proportion hee might after some Centuries of yeares expect an answer in Tostatus-hydes whose first word should be Quis legit haec Or if my patience would delay my Reply to the iust paces of his Answer this Volume of his vvould perhaps bee vanished into Grocers shops for waste Paper in thuris piperisue cucullos and vvould no more need answer then now it deserueth one But hearing of the insultation of some Popishly affected who gloried and triumphed in this ACHILLES pro Catholicis I addressed my selfe to the Worke vvith no little indignation and no lesse speed That my selfe-conceited Aduersarie and his seduced abettors may see how little a well-ordered Mariage is guilty of deadding our spirits or slacking our hands At the beginning of this Summers Progresse when it pleased his sacred Maiestie to take notice of this sorie Libell and to question vvith me concerning it I had not so much as read it ouer so newly vvas it come to my hands ere his happy returne be it spoken to the onely glory of him that inabled me I had not only finished this Answer but twice written it ouer with my owne hand and yet made this but the recreation of the weightier businesse of my Calling which now did more then ordinarily vrgeme It was my purpose to haue answered as beseemeth the person

of Alexandria should be ouer Egypt Libya Pen●●polis as the Bishop of Rome was ouer his Suburbitarie Churches Doe but beare Polycrates Bishop of Ephesus an old man of aboue threescore solemnly protesting that hee succeeded his Grandfathers and great-grandfathers for seuen successiue generations in the same Episcopall chaire Heare but Irenaus Tertullian Clement Dorotheus Eusebius describing and recording the Bishops of Antioch Alexandria Hierusalem Rome in the vndoubted order of their successions not onely by their numbers but by their names also Certainly neuer day lookt forth since the age of the Apostles wherein the Spouse of Christ wanted the attendance of these Bride-men But what doe I vrge this The Sun is in the heauen and shines there Euen Ierome himselfe though but a Presbyter and a stout Champion of his owne order yet deduceth this difference of degrees from the cradle of the first Schisme from the common decree of the first Church from tradition Apostolicall yea when Saint Paul wrote this to his Corinthians that iarring word had sounded in the Church I am Pauls I am Apolloes I am Cephaes and therefore euen then had these differences beene Differences perhaps in Order you will say not in Degree Yes both in Order and in Power too There were those whom Saint Paul calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Presidents and Rulers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I whom Ignatius calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gouernors Dionysius Hierarchs Cypri●● Ouerseers to whom Saint Paul attributes Power of reformation and correctio● to whom the Canons of the Apostles giue the power of sentence or constitution Ignatius chiefely and authority Eusebius out of Egesippus the throne of Episcopality Cyprian the vigor and authority of the Chaire Origen the highest pitch of the Church Ierome a peerelesse and eminent power The Councell of Sardis the height of gouernment and lastly Epiphanius an Order generatiue of Fathers But what doe I gleaning after the haruest of so great Authors as haue discussed this point Oh how oft and with what deepe sighes hath this most flourishing and happy Church of England wisht that shee might with some of her owne bloud haue pu●●●ased vnto her dearest Sisters abroad the retention of this most ancient and euery way best forme of gouernment Which might happily 〈◊〉 so haue taken place if they had met with such a Monarchicall reformation as through the blessing of God wa● designed vnto vs Now they are faine to vndergoe ●hat administration Prouisionally onely if we may beleeue wise and learned Frege●ill which the necessity of their condition doth for the time cast vpon them The God of heauen raise them vp Queenes for their nurses and Kings for their nursing fathers that they may once enioy with vs this happy blessing of the sequence and subordination of degrees In the meane time I dare with Ignatius professe to put my soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. in pawne for the safe obseruation of this excellent order Which if it haue euer not happily succeeded to any region or Church it is the fault of the person not of the institution it selfe which cannot iustly be deemed other than wholsome holy diuine But remember I beseech you in the meane while Reuerend Fathers that these are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ministeries a word raked out of the very dust lest it should not imply humility enough Yee are graced with Honors by the pious munificence of Princes But our Lord Iesus Christ ye know vses to measure your honours by your seruices Ye are Fathers of the Church but Sons of the Bride-chamber Peeres of the State but seruants of the Church Generalls of this warfare but with S. Paul fellow-souldiers Rulers in Gods house but withall fellow-seruants Intreat your Clergie kindly vse them familiarly as knowing your selues to be Fathers in dignity brethren in seruice Ye know the counsell of Saint Ambrose Let those of the Clergy within your charge be as limmes of your owne body God hath called you Starres and Angels Imitate ye the Starres which the higher they are the lesser they are wont to appeare Imitate ye the Angels who though Peeres of heauen yet are wont to approue themselues ministring spirits for the poorest of Gods Saints No spectacle can be more odious than a proud Prelate But heare mee also O yee Laicks take heed of contemning this sacred function These are ministeries indeed but glorious and honourable To serue God is to rule and command And what is it euen to serue you Surely those heauenly Spirits those principalities and powers doe the very same to vs continually whom yet their loue and seruice hath neuer drawne into contempt We beseech you Brethren that you know them which labour amongst you and are ouer you in the Lord and admonish you and hold them deare for their works sake We haue dispatched the Diuersities of Ministeries now followes that of Operations God hath not ordained to himselfe idle seruices but busie and painfull One gouernes another teaches a third doth both teach and gouerne worthy therefore of double honour for his rule for his labour And hee that gouernes sometimes must strike with the rod sometimes with the sword One while hee must kindly allure another while he must sharply punish he must vphold the falling retaine the wauering reduce the wandring And for him that teaches it is not onely the charge of doctrine that lies vpon him but of reproofe of correction of instruction in righteousnesse One while he directs with counsels then he erects with promises then againe he deiects with threatnings he wounds the whole salues the wounded workes alwaies The office of a Bishop is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a worthy worke Whosoeuer playes in this holy Chaire shall once waile in hell Saint Bernard said well in that famous Epistle of his to Henricus Senonensis Many would not so eagerly run to honours if they could thinke them burdens Certainly they would feare to bee crushed with this weight neither would with so much paine and perill gape for euery promotion Thus he But will it please you withall to heare what that pious Censor casts in the teeth of his owne times Sola attenditur gloria non poena Curritur in clero passim c. The dignity only is cared for not the duty Men of all Ages and ranks in the Clergy learned and vnlearned run to spirituall Cures as if they might liue for euer Sine curis when once they haue gotten Cures of soules Doe you marke well this Prophesie for such it might seeme of the Oracle of Clarenall Would to God this were not the very disease of our times There be some delicate peeces that thrust themselues into fat benefices onely that they may make much of one and giue themselues ouer to their pleasure and ease Euen of those mouthes which are sacred to God there want not some which out of a wanton custome sauour of nothing but Indian soot and take more pleasure to put forth a cloud of smoke than