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Earth raining vpon heauen A sermon preached at the assises holden at Nottingham, August 5. 1614. By VVilliam VVorship, Doctor in Diuinitie.
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Worship, William.
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STC 25994; ESTC S120299
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nothing but Pride because Venice is nothing but Riches but at London Omnia benè Farre be it from mee to be blowne vp with such a Gunne-pouderzeale as to forget the honour of that Place yet this I must tell them that as the great sickenesse so the great sinnes ordinarily are from them deriued to the Countrey The Reputation of this woman comes next to be scanned She was counted mercenary a notorious sinner a whipster Yet loe shee is now become an honest woman Vpbraid her not then with her former lewdnesse but giue God thankes for her present goodnesse The Lord hath forgot shall we remember The Angells reioyce and shall wee be fullen A gracelesse woman saith a Father Ambros that had long in snared a young man now conuerted speakes to him familiarly as he goes by He regardes her not She replies Ego sum Its I. He answers At ego non sum ego But I am not my selfe I am not as I was I was not as I am There were some of the Corinthians Idolaters Adulterers and which I tremble to vtter Buggerers and yet they 1 Cor. 6. 11. were washed yet they were sanctified yet In fest Mar. Magdal they were iustified VVho would despaire saith Bernard when such great sinners obtayne not mercy onely but glory Did not Rahab the Harlot recouer her selfe I dare say more and S. Matthew will beare me out Christ himselfe descended from her and from Thamar too to succour ignoble birth saith Chrisostome to comfort distressed soules saith Ierome Here let vs pause and sigh In Math. and ioy sigh at our sinnes ioy at the wondrous loue of our Sauiour who for our sakes became a worme and no man the very Psal 22. 6. scorne of men and contempt of the People But let vs now weigh this womans Faith so highly commended afterward by our Sauiour Thus shee reasons Christ Iesus disdaines not to eate with the Pharises to whom of his goodnesse hee preferres vs Harlots therefore will I to him and importune him for mercy I know these haughtie Sectaries will mocke mee and all the Towne and Country will ring of mee but I am so sicke of Sinne and feele such Convulsions that I dye alas vnlesse I repayre to him And in truth shee had perished had she not imbrac'd him for no other Name was Acts 4. 12. there vnder Heauen by which shee could possibly be saued If a King be displeas'd though his Wrath be like the Roaring of a Prou. 19. 12. Lyon yet Force may encounter him or Friends intreate him or Musicke still him or Eloquence perswade him or Promises winne him or Riches tempt him or something preuayle with him but when fire is kindled in the wrath of The Lord of Hosts that consumes the Earth and burnes vnto the bottome of Hell what Creature dare step forth to looke him in the face much lesse to parle with him and least of all to grapple with him Dare Man Like enough for hee is a proud Worme and will lift vp his Neb but the Lord can soone tread him into slime But perhaps he will offer him heapes of Coyne and thinke to buy out his Sinne with Siluer No Gold and Siluer are corruptible things and the Samuel of Heauen will take no Bribes Now how rare this Faith is howsoeuer the World thinkes nothing more common the Christian in his Combat findes by experience Before hee commit sinne the Serpent tels him hee shall not dye at all and come what will come it is but Beleeuing in Christ but when he hath yeelded to the temptation then he shewes him Halters and Kniues and Poysons And thus no doubt the Deuill insulted ouer Dauid when he was in penning the one and fifteeth Psalme VVhy how now Dauid are you fallen to a Psalme of Mercy Are you at last come to whyning and puling for your sinnes O Sir you should haue lookt better about you it is now too late to call againe yesterday Thou arrant Hypocrite how dar'st thou lift vp those eyes those adulterous eyes to Heauen How dar'st thou spread those hands those murtherous hands before the Lord VVhat the King the King of Israel a Prophet and play the Beast Is your Zeale and Dancing before the Arke come to this And would no lesse sinne serue thy turne than Adulterie Could not thine owne wife nay wiues suffice thee Is the breach of holy Matrimony nothing No no it was nothing and therefore to make it something thou lashest into murther and chainest thy sinnes together But if thou wilt needes kill I hope it shall be some Philistine Calst thou Vriah a Philistine Thou Tyrant thine owne Conscience tels thee it was thy Subiect thy faithfull honest and valiant Subiect whom craftily thou caldst home and all to hatch thy Cuckowes-egg by 2 Sam. 11. 13. same token thou mad'st him drunke and thou neuer the better and hee much the worse Ah Sir who would haue thought that Dauid could play such pranckes Thy other sinnes I haue vpon Record and they be forth-comming but these will I write in a paper by themselues in Text-letters and pinne them on the Curtaine at thy Beds-feet when thou liest a dying And so farewell for a season I proceede to this Womans liberall Intent She goes not empty-handed but takes with her a Boxe of Oyntment with full purpose to bestow it on Christ The Boxe is Alabaster so called of A the priuatiue particle and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as hard to be held for the slippirinesse A fit Vessell for such piercing aeriall matter The Oyntment was not grosse and sophisticate but pure and costly being to speake in the Schoole-mens phrase Refrigerativum Delinitivum Confortativum Cooling Suppling Refreshing chiefly with the odour which was like the sweet sent of Muske Ciuet Amber-Greece This was her Present resolu'd vpon for Christ not in opinion of Merit for that were to proffer him the Nard and to throw the Alabaster at his head but in token of the soundnesse of her Faith the truth of her conuersion and the dearnesse of her affection to him who had already giuen her hansell of his abundant mercies A notable Patterne and Platforme of Christianitie declaring that good thoughts must be nourished by continuance fortified by Prayer and not iustled out by rouing cogitations For a diuine motion kild soone after the conception is like an Embrio vnkindly perishing in the wombe But that we may build on a sure foundation we must looke that our purposes haue substantiall Originals Directions Ends since Aduerbs in Scripture are more forcible than Nownes and Benè better than Bonum This churlish age admits no thought of Spiknard for Christ VVhat nothing to carry him Nothing VVhat 's the cause VVant. True want of Deuotion For otherwise the poorest man hath two Mites to giue him his Soule and his Body But passe wee on to this Christian womans Humilitie Shee stood that is she remayned at his feet for so standing is taken