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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03443	Loues complaint, for vvant of entertainement A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the third of December, 1609. By William Holbrooke.	Holbrooke, William.	1610 (1610)	STC 13564; ESTC S104136	34,700	66

LOVES COMPLAINT FOR WANT of Entertainement A Sermon preached a● PAVLES CROSSE the third of December 1609. By WILLIAM HOLBROOKE IW LONDON Printed for Nathaniel Butter ❧ TO THE RIGHT HOnourable Sir Thomas Cambell Knight and the now Lord Maior of the famous Citie of LONDON all true honour grace and happinesse be multiplied ALthough it bee true Right Honourable which is commonly spoken that great men haue many eares and that the eyes of many are vpon the rich yet I know it to be as true that they haue as fewe true friends as any for who more licentious and out of order and who more incorrigibly and vnreprooued walke in wickednesse then many of them Let experience speake and yet either the timerousnes of their professed friends or their owne greatnes keepe such as should farre from entring into reproofe of them and such as would withhold themselues from it because most commonly both they and their true friendship finde hard entertainment I haue therefore Right Honourable presuming vpon your kind acceptation of what I haue done made bolde to dedicate this little worke vnto you that you may haue that dayly in your hands and before your eyes which once sounded in your eares The reasons ensuing I hope will excuse my boldnesse and pleade yea preuaile for kind entertainement For first to whome doth it of right more belong to then to your selfe both in respect of the place where it was preached your attention and readinesse in hearing especially when you in particular were spoken to and the matter therein contained which doth as much if not more concerne you then any that were hearers there that day both for the instigating of you to discountenance sinne by stopping the streame and course of many grosse corruptions in your Citie which GOD calleth for at your hands in respect of your place as also to the countenancing of good in all weldoers Secondly we are all through our owne in bred corruption and the readinesse of the deuill to choke good things begun more ready not to heare and forget hauing heard then to heare remember and practise what is taught which moueth me by writing to bee a Monitor to your Honour of that I was by my mouth Lastly your kind acceptation of it being heard as appeared by your speech to me your professed resolution to doe what you might though you could not doe what you would with your honourable respect as to all Ministers comming to that place so to me challengeth this labour onely to your selfe These reasons considered I hope right Honourable this Glasse which I dedicate vnto you without all sinister respect onely ayming at Gods glory therein your good and the good of your renowmed Citie will not onely bee entertained of you but carefully looked on by you from day to day it will proue one of the faithfullest Monitors and soundest friends about you it will lye for no cause it will not call white blacke nor blacke white it will not be meale mouthed it will not be bribed by kindnesse to conceale your errours if you goe awry nor moued by vnkinde dealing to exclaime of you and say more then is true or require more then is your due to pay to God and the place ouer which God hath called you to rule therefore what more worthy entertainement then such a true and trusty Friend which not doubting of I will cease from further troubling your Lordship with vnnecessary lines though not cease to pray for you that you may so walke and proue your selfe a man in this your present Office as the issue thereof may be to the glory of God the good of this Citie and the true peace of your owne Conscience Your Lordships to bee commanded WILLIAM HOLBROOKE TO THE READER GEntle Reader what I was contrary to my expectation commanded to preach I haue at the very earnest and importunate request of many consented to be published therein keeping my selfe as neere as I can to the very words I vsed in the preaching of it without addition or detraction neither affecting curiositie of words in the one nor the other but trueth and plainenesse which hath euer proued best and will I hope appeare to euery conscionable Reader to be herein The captious I regard not the Pulpit is a place not for a man to shewe his wit and reading in to worke vpon the eare by but the iudgement plainesse and euidence of the spirit to wound and worke vpon the conscience by which I especially aimed at what good it hath wrought I cease to speake more then to God in thankesgiuing what good it may worke let thee and me heartily desire Shew thy loue to the trueth by passing by in the reading of it without rigid censure what shall seeme harsh vnto thee I intended not the pleasing but the instructing of all therein Giue thanks to GOD for what good is therein reuealed and helpe me and the Church with the benefite of thy prayers Farewell Thine in the best band William Holbrooke LOVES COMPLAINT for want of Entertainment 1. CORINTH 13.6 Loue reioyceth not in iniquitie but in the trueth AS the eyes of the people were fastened vpon our Sauiour right Honorable right Worshipfull men fathers and brethren beloued in our Lord and Sauiour Christ that they might with the more attention heare what he would say so are yours vpon me expecting the Subiect I intend to stand vpon to answere your expectation wherein vnderstand that to meddle directly with controuersies abroad or amongst our selues so often inculcated vpon and trauailed in I intend not lest I should not say more then formerly hath beene said or trouble your eares with the same though happily by a cunning Cooke it might be serued in in other dishes counting it more then folly for a Physition to forsake his patients mortally sicke at home and to runne abroad for others much more folly yea and madnesse it selfe for mee a Physition of the Soule to leaue you my auditors snorting and sleeping yea ouerspread with sinne and to busie my selfe in matters afarre off that nought or little concerne you My intent then is at this present to discouer vnto you your iniquities whereof you are mortally sicke and that which is worst of all you will not bee cured especially I intend to shewe vnto you your want of Loue by your manifest iniustice and want of Reioycing in true and honest dealing and religion towards God Which my promise that I may make good I will both for your helpe of memorie and my better facilitie in speaking obserue this Methode 1. Shewe the connexion of this with that which praecedeth 2. Declare the sense of the words in retaile and by grosse 3. Lay open the parts thereof into which it doeth diuide it selfe and lastly handle the seuerall instructions thence arising For the connexion of it The Apostle in the Chapter next before going hauing laid downe the seuerall functions of men in the Church in the last verse of the same