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A18831 The old vvaye A sermon preached at Oxford, the eight day of Iuly, being the Act Sunday. 1610. By Robert Abbott ... Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618. 1610 (1610) STC 53; ESTC S100540 35,346 72

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THE OLD WAYE A SERMON PREACHED AT OXFORD The eight day of Iuly being the Act Sunday 1610. By ROBERT ABBOTT Doctor of Diuinitie and Maister of Balioll COLLEDGE LONDON Printed for Eleazar Edgar and Ambrose Carbrand and are to bee solde at their Shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Wind-mill 1610. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN God the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBVRIE his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all ENGLAND Chauncelour of the Vniuersitie of OXFORD one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsell my verie good LORD MOst Reuerend Father albeit it be somewhat beside custom to make Dedications of printed Sermons yet it is not beside dutie in me to offer to your Grace the first fruits of my returne to this famous Vniuersitie wherof the chiefest protection vnder his most Excellent Maiestre belongeth to your Grace wherin through your Grace his cōmendation though to a forward and wel-willing companie I am now become a Head where I liued somtimes an inferior member Which place as by your Grace his fauour it hath befallen mee without my expectation or seeking so I desire to vse it being befallen mee in such sort as to satisfie your Grace his expectation and good conceipt of me In the entrance whereof if I haue done a seruice so acceptable and so likly to profit many as the desire of many for the publishing of this Sermon would import it shal I hope ominate further good in the processe of my abode here which I wish to be no longer thē shal be for the glorie of God the seruice of his Maiesty the benefit both in speciall and in generall of the Church of God To which I shall bee the more encouraged if it shall please your Grace to accept in good part this small worke as a token of my thankefull minde which in all duetie I recommend to your Grace his fauour and your selfe in all your affaires to the mercie and blessing of Almightie GOD who euermore so assist guide you in your Pastoral care and Gouernement of his CHVRCH as that when the chiefe Pastour shall appeare you may in lieu of present toyle and trauell receiue an incorruptible Crowne of glorie in that life that is for euer So resting Your Graces in all most humble affection and duetie R. ABBOTT ❧ To the Reader CHristian Reader little thought I when I Preached this Sermon to take a second paines about it to write it to the Presse but the earnest request of diuers persons hath preuailed with me to remember them that heard me of that they heard and to impart the same to many others that heard me not If there may be to thee that good thereof which they haue hoped for that haue so earnestly desired it I shall bee glad that God disposed me to the seruice of that day Of the matter here intreated I know much might haue bene said but I was to keepe my selfe within the compasse of a Sermon and very little haue I now set downe either more or otherwise then I then spake Let mee now good Reader vse this opportunity to request pardon of thee if by such occasions which haue sundrie wayes befallen me since the Printing of my last Booke I be somewhat the longer before I giue thee the answere to Doctor Bishops late reproofe I haue in the end of that last Booke giuen thee an aduertisement which the Printer on the toppe of euery Page giuing to that Addition the Title of the whole worke going before hath mis named The third part of the defence of the Reformed Catholicke by which thou maiest take knowledge of the qualitie and condition of that reproofe I pray thee let that satisfie thee for the time till leisure may serue to goe forward with that which I haue already in good part begunne Albeit by the reading of that Aduertisement thou maiest happily conceiue that it is but labour ill bestowed to deale with a man so resolutely impudent as thou maiest perceiue Doct. Bishop hath in that Reproofe framed himselfe to bee But whatsoeuer his booke be in it selfe thou shalt see it will giue mee occasion of a worke which I hope shall giue satisfaction and be helpfull vnto many God therein assisting me by thy prayer for me and giuing me health and strength for the performance of it Further I cannot omit to wish thee in my second part against the said Doct. Bishop to take notice of one speciall fault since espied by me and not noted in the corrections which are there set downe in the end Pag. 978. in the last line thou readest He receiued of them no warrant of authority but only by consent where it should be but only testimony of consent Some other faults there were ouerslipped in my hastie reading as pag. 362. line 2. This spirit and prayer a true witnesse for this spirit of payer is a true witnesse and pag. 967. lin 9. it is vnknowne for it is not vnknowne which and such like thou canst by thine owne vnderstanding easily discerne For conclusion vnderstand I pray thee that some man lighting vpon my copie of that booke after it was past my hands plaied the Cuckow with me and laied some egges of his in my nest As pag. 549. lin 27. where I had saied M. Bishop according to his ignorance he made it M. Bishop according to his opinion muffled in the mists of ignorance Likewise pag. 762. l. 38. where I had said these are the mysteries of the fornications of the whoore of Babylon things reasonlesse witlesse senselesse meere witcheries and inchauntments of mens mindes he hath added and the vntimely fruits of a barren strumpet These two I noted obscurely before though I did not signifie by what means they came in which now I thought good to doe Another edition if neede be and God so will shall expunge these and the rest of these slouens blots in the meane time I pray thee passe them ouer if thou finde any more of the same kinde A SERMON PREACHED AT OXFORD The eight of Iuly 1610. IEREM 6. 16. Thus saith the Lord stand vpon the wayes and behold and aske for the old way which is the good way and walke therein and yee shall find rest for your Soules IT is a memorable sentence and worthy alwayes to bee regarded which our Sauiour Christ the chiefe Master of sentences hath dictated for a perpetuall caueat vnto vs a Matth. 16. 26. VVhat shall it profit a man though hee winne the whole world if hee loose his owne soule The losse of the soule what is it but the losse of the rest of the soule whereby it perisheth b Grego Moral lib. 4. cap. 7. Al●ter pertre dicimus vt non sit a●●ter perire dicimus et male sit c. Humana anima beate viuere siue per vi●●m siue per supplicium perdit essentialiter viuere non amittit Not so as not to be as Gregorie speaketh but so as to be in euill and looseth