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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10060	The spring A sermon preached before the Prince at S. Iames, on Mid-lent Sunday last. By Daniel Price, chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20305; ESTC S115203	15,405	32

THE SPRING A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE PRINCE AT S. IAMES On Mid-lent Sunday LAST By DANIEL PRICE Chapleine in ordinarie to the PRINCE and Master of Artes of EXETER Colledge in OXFORD MATTH 3.8 Bring foorth fruit worthy amendement of life LONDON Printed for Roger Iackson and are to bee sold at his Shop in Fleetestreete fast by the Conduit 1609. To the Right Honourable Lord worthy the confluence of all Honours ROBERT Earle of Salisburie Lord High Treasurer of ENGLAND one of the Oracles of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsell Knight of the most illustrious order of the GARTER c. MOst Noble Lord this Sermon the Spring preached in the Spring garden of this land the Princes Court is offered to your Honourable Acceptance and Patronage It is a free-will offering Obseruance did appoint it Zeale did kindle it Study did enflame it Pietie did sacrifice it and now duetie doth offer it The aboundant fruitfulnesse of your Lordshippe doth challenge this from all other both for your ablenesse and willingnesse to good workes wherein you beatifie your selfe and beautifie this Land the Lord reward you according to your harts desire He that hath them hath blessed your Honour with the Treasures of wisedome and vnderstanding and hath giuen you the heart of prudence the eye of prouidence the eare of iustice the heart of Religion and the spirite of deuotion and hath made your Honour a most speciall nursing father of his two deare Daughters this Church and common wealth Ride on with your Honour because of the worde of truth of meekenesse and righteousnesse and the Lord shall bee with you and shall blesse you with the Grace of Glory here and the glory of Grace hence And so in all obseruance I rest To be commaunded by your Lordshippe DANIEL PRICE THE SPRING MATH 3.8 Bring forth fruit worthy amendment of life THe Yeare the Circle of time is so intorteled as that Annus is become Annulus for one day telleth another and one night certifieth another that all things are in a Consumption and time that consumeth all things is it selfe consumed In the Generall distinction of Seasons Salomon the Prince of Preachers accommodated a time not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an oportune time to euery thing and among the rest a time to plant and a time to plucke vp that which is planted Nyssenus followeth the Allegorie God our father is the husbandman Wee are his husbandry the Soule is the ground the Seede is the word The Preachers do plant Baptisme doth water the Spirit is the Winde Repentance is the Dewe and Christ the Sunne of righteousnesse is the Sunne and as in Nature so in Grace there is a Winter and Summer a fall and Spring a time of planting and a time of supplanting At that season of the yeare I haue already handled the Fall of the Leafe At Richmond October 1 1608. as I doubt not but this high and Honourable presence doe remember and therefore now I haue chosen out a Text fit for this season the opening of the yeare the flouring of the figge tree the blooming of the Lilly the budding of fruit the flourishing of Flowers and the resurrection of all those buried hearbes whose honour lay in the dust vntill the Spring had againe apparrelled the earth with various and glorious ornaments It was the springing voyce of the spring who was Oriens eximo Cant. 3. Oriens ex alto in the Canticles Arise my loue my faire one and come away for behold Winter is past the raine is gone away the flowers appeare in the earth the time of the singing of birdes is come the voyce of the Turtle is heard in our land the Figge tree hath brought foorth her young sigges and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour Arise my Doue my Loue my faire one and come away Pliny S●linus The voyce of the Turtle as the Naturalist obserueth is a mourning voyce Turtur non canit sed gemit The Turtle singeth not but mourneth Quid per turturem nisi Ecclesia quid per terram sponsi nisi vitailla beata designatur Greg. mag in Cantica What is meant by the Doue but the voice of the Church what by the land of the Spouse but the life of the blessed sayth Gregory we haue already heard the loud voyce of Iohn the voyce of the beloued Iesus the moning voyce of the Church the mourning voice of the Turtle I hope the crying voyce of Iohn hath begot the weeping voyce of the Church in you that so hauing beene planted and watered now Gods graces in you may bee increased and you may bring forth fruit worthy amendment of life Man was once placed in Paradise now Paradise is placed in man Praedestination Vocation Iustification Glorification bee the foure Riuers of Paradise the vnderstanding is the tree of knowledge Beliefe the tree of life In the fall after the Creation there was an Angell with a flaming sword set to keepe out man now there is an Angell set in man to keepe out Sathan the Angell is Christ the sword the worde and the administration of the word hee vseth this sword sometimes as a pruning knife as in the Canticles sometimes an axe as in Mathew Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall bee hewen downe and cast into the fire Math. 3.10 It was the Proclamation of Ieremie O Earth Earth Earth heare the voyce of the Lord I may ioyne my Text with that Proclamation and as Ezechiel was sent to Preach to drie bones Ier. 31. and Iohn Baptist to the drie desart and Ieremy to the drie earth so may I say to the drie empty bare barren desart desolate hearts of vnfruitfull hearers O earth earth earth bring foorth fruites worthy amendment of life Iohn Baptist here seeth the Pharisies heape together to heare him and knowing that they came hypocritically onely to heare hee requireth that they also belieue and beleeuing professe and professing practise and so bring foorth fruit worthy amendment of life Be not dead or withered or barren or hardened for that is feareful and acursed but bring forth not buddes nor blossomes nor flowres nor flourishes for these may be fained but bring forth fruits not the fruits of the world they be but fancyes or the fruits of the flesh they bee but folly not the fruit of honour it is but pompous folly not the fruit of strength it is glorious vanity not the fruites of pleasures they bee voluptuous sensuality not the fruit of riches they are immanent inconstancy not the fruits of long life it is but transient mutability Worthy fruites worthy not of earthly prayse or of worldly prize but that high hopefull holy liuely happy heauenly calling of amendment of life Bring forth fruites worthy amendment of life First a Production bring forth second a Fructification fruit Diuision third the fruites perfection fruit worthy amendment The first against