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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08541	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the seauenth of May, M.DC.IX. By George Benson ...	Benson, George, 1568 or 9-1648.	1609 (1609)	STC 1886; ESTC S101670	81,544	106

of all grace powred his blessings by many conduit pipes and meanes But shee left her first loue Shee cryed loude for Christs bloud to fall vpon her and vpon her children and so it fell vpon her and now How is the gold become so dim The Prophets complaine in diuers places that the house of God was turned into the house of vanity and that the valley of vision was turned into the valley of the shadow of death Therfore trust no vndermining Iesuite though he crie loud The church of Rome as euer the Iewes did Templum Domini the Temple of the Lord. I confesse that which no man can denie that in Pauls time the faith of Rome was famous ouer all the world but now I feare that mother is not much more then a Church she is so gawdily trapped with the inuentions of man Though like one clayming a monopoly from God she ingrosse holinesse and arrogate more vnto her self then her sister Churches yet I feare she is one of those starres which the Dragon with his tayle hath swept downe from heauen she deserued to lose her praise when she lost her piety How is the gold become so dimme Such was the case of Ephraim which first and which secondly I noted Ephraim that was a Ruler among the people was become out of measure sinfull An inconuenience indeed seeing that great mens actions are made presidents among their inferiours who suite themselues after the fashion of their gouernors that knew the diuell well enough when he sayd vnto God I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of Achabs Prophets hee knewe the Prophets could lead Achab and Achab the people if he could guide the leaders then he knew hee should win the field Ieroboam is neuer met withall in the book of God but like a captiue with a chaine at his heels and as one doing publicke penance with a plate of impiety vpon his forehead he is called Ieroboam the sonne of Nebat that caused all Israel to sinne If a little shrub or twigge fall to the ground it falls itselfe onely but if a Cedar fall it falls not only itselfe but with the fall it breakes downe the little trees that grow about it So the sinnes of priuate men are onely banes to themselues but if great men fall into impietie they are accessary to the ruine of many others whereas Iosias seruing God himselfe was a meane to put down the hill altars destroy the Chemarims and vtterly to abolish Idolatry his goodnesse was like Aarons oyntment flowing from the head to the beard and so by degrees vnto the skirts of his garment There was a dispute among the Philosophers as Plutarch reporteth whether an army of Lions a Hart being their captaine or an army of Harts a Lion being their captaine were more powerfull It was determined for the army of Harts following the Lion to shew what vertue is infused into the followers by the leader If then the inferiour be the image of the superiour and like an image in a glasse looke vpward or downeward to heauen or hell as the body I mean the superiour doth then giue me leaue to aduise you that sit at the sterne whether of little barks or greater ships whether of houses cities or of countries that your euill conuersations be not thornes in your childrens eyes and others whom you cōmaund If they perceiue your eyes to be sweld with lust your hearts to be as hard as the neather milstone your tongues to be enuenomed with slander your whole life to bee a compassing of the earth by deceit as Sathans was they will deeme straight their warrant sealed for committing the like offences and then O ye Mountaines of Gilboa vpon you be neither deaw nor raine because vpon you the shielde of the mighty is fallen O ye great ones of the world there is a curse vpon you because if not vpon you yet by your meanes vertue the blessing which should cloath the children of God and as a shielde defende them from the strokes of Gods vengeance for they are safe that appeare in their Sauiours righteousnesse vertue I say is cast downe troden vnder foote and made of none account among the lesser sort because of the example of the greater So euill doth come and woe bee to them by whome it doth come How much better is it for a man of worth to say with Nehemiah Should such a man as I flee His meaning was Not I by any meanes least others should bee discouraged by my flight how much better is it to haue the saying of Ioshuah for a motto euer to be remembred I and my house will serue the Lord I and because I therfore my house O you Superiours then who with a respected grace sit 〈◊〉 the sterne of example how can you escape a double death hauing their bloud vppon you as vvell as your owne for beeing accessarie to their guilt Such was the case of Ephraim who being great in Israell caused Israell to sinne as may appeare by the first verse of this chapters for when God would haue healed Israel he was led by the hand from the stream to the spring from Israel to Ephraim whose example was the bane of Israel which Ephraim hath mixt himselfe among the people so by that meanes hee had not onely sinnes bredde at home but also borrowed abroade Ephraim hath mixt himselfe among the people Ephraim is as a cake vpon the hearth not turned If you aske who mixt Ephraim mixt himselfe if you aske where among the people if you aske what were the effects he was as a cake on the hearth not turned Ephraim and so all man-kinde is poyzed downe the wrong way by his owne plummets and the by as beeing set vpon the left side of vs all wee are of our selues naturally more prone vnto euill then goodnesse Our fathers haue eaten sower grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge Eue our great grand-mother being beguiled by the Serpent sawe and liked and eate the fruite of the forbidden tree well may that in the Poet be fitted vnto her Vt vidi vt perij intrauit mors per fenestras her eye was accessarie vnto the sinne of her soule Adam committed treason and we that are Adams heyres forfeited our estates wee haue our wills fettered and our vnderstanding the candle of our soules put out there is a dash in our coate for euer The world was like a well tuned instrument all the creatures in their kinde gaue prayse to God there being no iarre till man who was the chiefe of the consort strayned a note beyond his reach euer since the sonnes of Adam haue had their meditations brackish impure Saint Paul becomes our Herauld and tels vs in many places that of our selues wee cannot thinke a good thought and the best of vs when wee haue done all that wee can wee are but