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A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

5. c. 16. oppugners of all kinds of sorcerie as the Kings and Queenes of our realmes are called Defendors of the faith I leaue our Starre-gazers which seem to find vnder the Moone vnconstant friends vnder Mercury chast men borne vnder Venus lustfull wantons vnder Sol honourable preferments vnder Mars valiant Soldiers vnder Iupiter quick-spirited students vnder Saturne sober and Charitable Censurers A Meditation which made Austin commend his friend Firminus for leauing this study as a spoyle of time and schoole of vanity when two children were born in the same moment vnder one roofe Aug Conf. l. 7. cap. 6. and yet so much difference to bee betwixt them that the one was by a custome of the Country to bee slaue to the other And Clement inueighed bitterly against those Clemens recogni l. 9. which ascribed to Andromeda banishment to Orion an influence of hunting to Canopus a desire to fish to Medusas starre sudden death c. But I remember Tertullians opinion De Astrologis ne loguendum quidem esse Tertul. q. 11. c. Sed illud That wee should not so much as speake of Astrologers because they honour Idols registring their names in heauen Mars Iupiter Venus Saturne because they seeke to tye vs to the course of the Planets and leaue Gods prouidence because their grounds were inuented by the Diuel and therefore saith hee eadem poena exitii discipulis Magistris there is one penalty of destruction prouided both for the schollers and the Masters to be excluded out of heauen I pitty such as Cambises did himselfe Euse in Ora. Const adsancta c 17. of whom Eusebius testifieth Cambisen poenituit malcuolis Magorum vocibus tam facilè fuisse persuasum Hee repented that hee had suffered himselfe so easily to be perswaded by these seducers Vpon Repentance such haue been forgiuen and suffered with much compassion the iudgement of the lawes I looke back vpon Ephesus Ephesus had many contemners of the Apostles men speaking peruerse thinges to draw disciples after them Act 20.30 1. Co. 16.9 Act. 20. We haue many who quench the Spirit by despising our Prophets yet a Remnant is left amongst vs as in Ephesus who are as vnwilling to leaue their zealous Pastors as the Ephesians were to leaue Saint Paul Act. 20.25.37 who when he had told them Ye shall see my face no more they all wept sore and fell on his neck and kissed him Hee had warned euery one of them night and day with teares v. 31. by the space of three yeares therefore they shed teares at his departure Many such Prophets and men of God are amongst vs who with praying preaching weeping and watching labour to doe the workes of Euangelists and to prepare vs quickly for the Lord least hee come vpon vs as he threatned to come vnto Ephesus Else I will come vnto thee quickly A Lesson for our instruction to admonish vs quickly to repent Vse 2. For delay breedeth danger one sinne tolleth on another If wee are not fit to day wee shall be lesse fit to morrow the custome of sinning shall take way the sense of sinne and our offences will goe ouer our heads a burthen too heauy for vs to beare without speedy conuersion Alas can that worke be effected suddenly which requireth carefulnes cleering of our selues indignation feare vehement desire zeale and reuenge 2. Co. 7. renewed and reformed affections It is not enough to repent for grosse sinnes 2. Co. 7.11 adulteries theft drunkennesse c. but wee must repent for the want of grace as of the knowledge and loue and feare of God of brotherly loue and the decay of any grace bee it neuer so little I charge thee therefore blessed Christian before God and the Lord Iesus Christ who shall iudge the quick and the dead at his appearing 2. Ti. 4.1 and Kingdome Bee not deceiued God is not mocked Remember what good motions desires affections and actions were in thee and if thou decay recouer thy losse do the first works quickly I appeale vnto thine owne soule whether thou hast not had sometimes a purpose to repent seeing others liue religiously and dye peaceably hearing so many calles tasting so many mercies of God What letteth at this instant but that this course should bee taken to resolue as Dauid I made hast and prolonged not the time I delayed not to keep thy commandements Ps 119.60 Ps 119. to doe as Peter as soon as the Cock crew hee went out and wept bitterly Mat. 26. Then wee should preuent the euill day Mat. 26.75 which suddainely may else ouertake vs. Then wee should haue our lamps ready whensoeuer the Bridegroome passeth by vs then wee should bee furnished with wedding garments when the maister of the feast commeth to take notice of vs. God commands this Reason directeth to it and therefore wee must doe it for to say wee cannot is childish and we will not is peeuish Sen. consol ad Polyb. 28. Shall Seneca call our whole life a pennance and wee bestow no time in repentance Shall that testimony bee giuen of vs which Lactantius gaue of Greece There was neuer lesse wisedome in Greece then in the time of the 7. wisemen Neuer more Preaching and lesse practising Vide Plin. l. 30. c. 4. Shall wee be ready to receaue so many grosse Medicines bitter pills violent potions cuttings Galen l. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cauterizings launcings of the flesh to be freed from a bodily disease Paul Aegin l. 7. and vse no helps to be eased of our foule sinnes The Heathen could tell vs Epiour apud Laertium that no man was too old to learne those things which concerned the health of the minde Come hither therefore if thou labour and art heauy loaden vnder the burthen of thy sinne Christ Iesus raised Lazarus out of his graue after hee had laine so long that hee stunke Iohn 11.39 and therefore can raise vs out of the graue of sin though wee seeme past recouery Tertull. de pae c. 8. God would not threaten him that doth not repent if he would not pardon him that doth repent The first degree of happinesse is not to sin Cyp. Ep. 55. a thing which no man can chalenge but the second degree is to confesse our sinnes and bee sorry for them Is 55.7.8.9 O then let the wicked forsake his way and the vnrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne vnto the Lord and hee will haue mercy vpon him and to our God for hee will aboundantly pardon His thoughts are not our thoughts for as the heauens are higher then the earth so are his wayes higher then our waies Despaire not Our sinnes may be measured and numbred Bas reg contract quaest 13. but it is impossible that Gods goodnesse should bee measured or his mercies numbred Despaire for sinne Greg. Mor. l. 3. c. 11. is worse then sinne it selfe But let our