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A18436	Charity enlarged: or The abridgement of the morall law Delivered by way of sermon, and preached for the maine substance thereof in a publicke assembly, on a lecture day, Dec. 4. Ao. Dom. 1634. and now published according to the authors review, with some new additions, for the farther instruction of the ignorant, satisfaction of the ingenuous, conviction of the uncharitable, and benefit of all sorts of people. By a serious welwisher to the peace of Ierusalem.	Serious welwisher to the peace of Jerusalem.	1636 (1636)	STC 5004; ESTC S119118	61,426	212

divers objects But some may reply to all this that the forwardnesse of our affection to our people had prevented this exhortation were they competent objects of our pastorall love but too many of them are more like unto those q 1 Cor. 15.32 beasts with whom S. Paul fought at Ephesus than unto the flocke of Christ whose properties are innocency gentlenesse concord But we with the Disciples r Matt 10 16. are sent amongst devouring Woolves Our heritage is not fallen in a goodly place Sed ubi licet culti sint agri inculti prorsus animi mores Men with us manure their lands they ſ Ier. 4.3 breake not up the fallow ground of their heavy and stony hearts so that wee are enforced to sow the seede of the word amongst thornes with us as with t Ezek. 2.6 Ezechiel are briers thorns which vex and fleece us yea with him wee dwell amongst Scorpions which carry stings in their tailes like those Revel 9. ●0 sc to wound us with virulent detraction and killing censures although like those Scorpions v. 7. they beare the faces of men id est saith the Geneva glosse they pretend great gentlenesse and love but they are wise politique subtile The truth is wee pastours are to wicked worldlings as shepheards to the u Gen. 46.34 Egyptians even an abomination Now wee have learned from Saint Hierome w Hieronymus in Epist quadam hanc sententiam ex innominato authore citat that Frustra laborare nec aliud fatigando se nisi odium quaerere extremae est dementiae To labour in vaine and to get onely hatred for our love is a point of extreame folly Et plura saepe peccamus dum demeremur quam dum offendimus there may bee more offence taken of such unwelcome officious love than at a just neglect or contempt Well all this with griefe supposed at least to bee done and suffered may not yet provoke us to cast away our Christian patience and charity First for their hard-heartednesse stupidity let it not be the occasion of scorne but pitty which may the rather moove our Charity to shew x 2 Tim. 2.25 meekenes towards them to prove if God will at any time give them repentāce for their words feare them not as God encourageth Ezechiel in the forecited place For their malice or power to doe us wrong Christ hath told us how farre they can goe and forbids us to feare them also Matth. 10.28 y Hicro in Ep. Apud Christianos enim non qui patitur sed qui facit contumeliam vel injuriam miser est Amongst Christians not hee that suffers but hee that doth any wrong is a wretched man From our Saviour wee learne not onely patience to overcome injuries but Charity to forgive those that doe them Ille enim post alapas crucem flagella blaspemias novissime pro crucifigentibus oravit Pater ignosce ijs nesciunt enim quid faciunt Christ after hee had suffered buffets stripes repoaches yea and part of the cruell paines of that woodden racke the Crosse at last he z Luk. 23.34 prayed for them that crucified him Father forgive them c. Thus S. Peter a 1 Pet. 2.21.23 c. 3.16 17. 18 c. For our imitation proposeth Christ his master It is also in Christs person and for our instruction what Esaias speaketh Chap. 49.4 5. I have laboured in vaine c. and Chap. 65.2 3. All the day long have I stretched forth my hands to a rebellious gainesaying people b Rom. 10.21 hee who was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Prophet yea the Lord of life who came himselfe like c 2 King 4. El sha to the dead child to raise Israel from a spirituall death when the d Gal. 3.21 Law like the staffe of Gehazi could not give life hee I say came unto his owne to teach them and did that seeme a small matter Also to shed his blood for them and his owne received him not Ioh. 1.11 No marvaile then that he forwarnes his Disciples to looke for no better entertainement in their owne country with men of this world Matth. 13.57 Ioh. 4.44 If you will cull out of the Apostles of Christ a man edecumatae charitatis of the choysest perfection of Charity Behold S. Paul prosecuting his Corinthians with unwearied affection though he well perceived that the more he loved the lesse he was beloved of them e 2 Cor. 12.15 love being like an inheritance in Law which either solely or most usually descends not ascends so love flowes more freely plenteously frō God to mankind than it can ascend from man to God againe For the waters of Divine bounty doe but in part and from few places and that slowly too returne to the fountaine from whence they came In like manner Love descends very easily from parents to children without any legall constraint but it comes up so hardly from children to parents that there is neede both of a precept and f 2 Cor. 12.24 promise to draw it forth Now Pastors are spirituall Fathers and Saint Paul professeth himselfe the onely g 1 Cor. 4.15 Father of the Corinthians and therefore hee beares with them as parents with their unruly children And he puts all faults off with an elegant and pleasant Ironie h 1 Cor. 4.10 Wee are fooles for Christ his sake and you are wise in Christ we are weak and yee are strong yee are honourable and wee are despised It seemes that some Schismatickes in the Church of Corinth had slighted S. Paul as a i Secundum pateum traditionem ptulus erat tricubitalis doctor vir sci pusillus exig●●e stature Non mirum ideo est si maior ille fuit e ●onginquo reverentiae Mos enim esi vulgi ut imperatores iudicio Taciti lib pri histo Ita quoscunque praepositos decore Corporis aestimare Sed quam parva ingentes arcula condit opes man of despicable presence though of powerfull eloquence in those letters that he wrote unto them 2 Cor. 10.10 A tricke there is which Sectaries have learned in these daies every way to magnifie their owne factionists and to vilifie their supposed Antagonists to cry up in the one vocall impudence for zeale and meere memory for learning to cry downe in the other holy feare and modesty for lukewarmenesse and ignorance in the one to extoll the art of seeming in the other to oversee reall worth affection either deluding or overswaying judgement But since yee k 2 Cor. 11.19 suffer fooles Animalia gloriae aurae popularis mancipia as S. Hierome stiles philosophers i. e. vaineglorious Animals that enslave themselves to popular applause suffer me also to speake or receive me as a foole saith S. Paul l 2 Cor. 11. v. 16 17 18 21. and would to God you would beare with mee a little in in my folly v. 7. that is I pray you suffer mee