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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93889	Catholique divinity: or, The most solid and sententious expressions of the primitive doctors of the Church. With other ecclesiastical, and civil authors: dilated upon, and fitted to the explication of the most doctrinal texts of Scripture, in a choice way both for the matter, and the language; and very useful for the pulpit, and these times. / By Dr. Stuart, dean of St. Pauls, afterwards dean of Westminster, and clerk of the closet to the late K. Charles.	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; H. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5518; Thomason E1637_1; ESTC R203568	97,102	288

the most sinfull part of man for it is onely sin that pitches and defiles the soul and makes it combustible which otherwise would never burn if all the fiery Artists of Hell did blow the bellows Now just such is that fire which conscience kindles upon the breach of integrity to wit a fire that burns inwardly and consumes the marrow of the bones and drinks up the spirits The Arrows which conscience shuts in upon a man upon the breach of sincerity are such as pierce principally the spirit As long as Job was patient under Gods hand hee felt the Arrows of the Almighty onely without him as I may say to wit in his body in his children and substance but when hee brake out and cursed his day hee presently complains that hee felt the Arrows of God within him and that the poyson of them drank up his spirits Job 6. 4. All that which before hee felt without was nothing to that which hee now felt within upon his spirit As the torments which damned wretches shall suffer in their bodies are nothing to those which shall continually flye up and down in their souls So David after hee had made breaches in his integrity God filled his loynes with loathsome diseases but this was nothing to speak of God made things strike into his heart and then hee roared I am feeble and sore broken I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart David felt pains gather about his heart and then hee cryes out The heart is the mark that God principally aims at when a Christian hath turned aside from his upright course other outward parts hee may hit and deeply wound but this is but to make holes into the heart where the seat of unsoundness that principally offends him is The Fire which Conscience kindles it may flash forth into the eyes and tongue and hands and make a man look fearfully speak desperately and do bloodily against the body but the heat of the fire is principally within in the furnace in the spirit it is but some sparkles and flashes onely that you see come forth at the lower holes of the furnace which you behold in the eyes words and deeds of such men Invidia est vitium permanens Aristoteles ENvy is a long lived thing it will live as long as there is any marrow in the bones It will hunt a David long through Ziph En-gedi many Wildernesses though never so long it will finde a Dart to throw at a David till it hath killed him or stabbed it selfe Envy fights desperately and unweariedly it will never give over as long as there is breath it will eat no bread till it hath done its work killed a Paul or sterved it self Envy is all spirit all evill spirits move it is a spirit of the right breed for the Devil it will fight and fight till death it will work to the utmost vires as long as nerves and sinewes binde bones together it is everlasting burning which nothing will quench but its own blood Ab extremis miseriae quies Seneca I Would speak to such from this sentence which are quite undone which have lost all mony and joy too which have many sufferings upon them for Christ but can make no joy out of them Surely I can guess your pain you are blinde you know not who hath stript you not when hee will return it again It is impossible for a man to joy under long suffering unless a man can look to the end of it This makes heavy afflictions light long afflictions short to look where they end Our light afflictions which indure but for a moment work about a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of glory Long-suffering is but a moment when compared with eternity of glory The great Heaven at a distance makes a little heaven at present a heaven in hell to that soul which hath it in its eye As those lower heavens give a great lustre and vigor at a distance to beholders and raise much so doth the Heaven of heavens It is a heaven to behold heaven afar off where ever the body bee It was Canaan to Moses to see Canaan afar off The fight of the end shortens the way suffering is deadly long when a man can see no end when a man is in darkness and can see no light it is hard to bring the soul to joy in such darkness A man must look upon affliction from one end to the other that would fetch in joy to his soul from suffering At one end of long suffering for truth is a father at the other end a reward which if seen well will make the longest suffering very short and very sweet Media gratiae ordinem creationis subeunt Aquinas THe means of Grace have the order of Creation stamped upon them Christ the great Wheel that turns all other wheels of our salvation is made unto us what hee is and made of God Who of God is made unto us Wisdome Righteousness c. 1 Cor. 1. 30. Christ is a full sea indeed but not a drop to us but as made of God So wee are made able Ministers of the New Testament not of the letter but of the spirit Could such a poor man as I by speaking a while to the ear turn the heart from sin to Christ did not a creating blessing sit on my lips Divine institutions have the formality of a creation in them because they have what they have and doe what they doe from supreme power onely above all cause and reason Therefore are Institutions and means of Grace not so much as mentioned Col. 1. 11. Giving thanks to the Father who hath m●●e us meet to bee partakers of that inheritance of the Saints in light Onely the Father is here mentioned Means are so beside likelihood and reason to so noble an end as to make and fit souls for heaven Giving thanks to the Father who hath made c. None else worthy to bee so much as mentioned in this noble work Alterius perditio sit tua cautio Isidor FOr the wickedness of them that dwell therein it is that a fruitful land is turned into a wilderness saith David Psal 107. And the Heathen Historian saith little less when hee tells us that the ruine and rubbish of Troy are set by God before the eyes of men for an example of that rule that great sins have great punishments But now say the Learned not to bee warned by others is a sure presage of ruine Scipio beheld and bewayled the down-fall of Rome 〈◊〉 the destruction of Carthage And when Hannibal was beleagureing Saguntum in Spain the Romans were as sensible of it as if he had then been beating upon the walls of their Capitol A storm oftentimes begins in one place and ends in another When the Sword rides Circuit as a Judge it is in Commission Ezek. 14. 17. And when I begin saith God I will make an end 1 Sam. 3. Wee cannot but fore-see a storm unless