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Two sermons preached at the assises holden at Carlile touching sundry corruptions of these times / by L.D. ...
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Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.
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circumference yet concurre in one middle point so must it be with them Though they be different about the circumferēce of worldly affaires yet must they concur in one cōmon center of religion A good Christian commōwealth is likevnto t Act. 10. Peters sheet wherein were al maner of foure footed beasts and creeping things fowles of the heaven There are in it all sortes of men There are nobles flying aloft like the fowles of the heaven there are of the baser sort creeping as it were below and there are of a middle sort men of all conditions and callings But this sheet is knit togither as that was at the 4 corners the most distant and remote parts thereof with the vnitie of religion 22 This is so plain that u Arist Pol. lib. 5 cap. 11 Aristotle giues it as an especiall rule for a Tyrant if hee meane to continue his government to make an outward shew of religion For such kings saith he as seeme to bee religious are in least danger of treacherous practises by such as are vnder them Now where this vnitie of religion is wanting as wanting it is seeing we differ frō the Papists not in a few circumstances but in sundry fundamental points of Divinitie how can this knot be made fast Nay seeing they are so farre from counting any Protestant Prince religious that they count him an hereticke and the more diligent he is in clensing and refining his kingdome from the dregges of Romish superstition as our Saviour Christ was in purging the law from the absurd glosses of the Scribes and Pharisees the greater persecuter he is holden with them to bee of the Catholike faith Verily I see no probabilitie I had almost said no possibilitie that they wil hereafter proue true and dutifull subiects to the King of great Britaine They may well make protestations and outward shewes of loue and duty and obedience towards the Prince but Lupus pilum non ingenium mutat a wolfe is a wolfe though hee bee cloathed in a sheepe-skinne well may hee cast his old haire but still he keepes his own nature Shal their faire speeches make vs beleeue them sic notus Vlysses Is the craft of the Romish foxes no better knowne vnto vs timeo Danaos dona ferentes I feare their fawning farre more thē their frowning it was but a frivolous tale which the people of Alexandria told Timothy etsi non communicamus tecum tamē amamus te although we do not communicate with thee yet wee loue thee For how can a man loue him in his hart with whom he cānot finde in his hart to communicate I am in a field in which I might course at large but I am mindfull of the time will not presume too long vpon your patience Some of our worthies do stoutly with their pens oppose thēselues against these men I pray God every magistrate in his place would be as careful in vnsheathing the sword of iustice against them a Catilin 1ª Habemus in eos Senatusconsultum satis vehemens grave we haue an act statute strong enough against thē But their boldnesse not waining but daily encreasing makes me almost say as it followeth in the oratour habemus inclusum in tabulis tanquam gladium in vaginâ reconditū It is closed in the book as a sword in the scabbart or as b 1. Sam. 21 Goliahs sword was wrapt in a cloath behinde the Ephod The best that I cā say in this case is to vse the prophesie of the Crow in c Suet. in Domitiano Suetonius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all will be well Est benè non potuit dicere dixit erit d Plin. nat hist l. 8. c. 16 Pliny writeth that the tricks of an ape wil so vex moue a Lyō that he wil disgorge and cast vp whatsoever lies on his stomach I doubt not but their apish tricks will in time moue the heart stomach of our gracious merciful Coeur de Lion other magistrates in their places to cast vp and shew such tokens of their inward griefe as they shall haue iust occasion to conceiue against them and to purge the body politique frō these noxious humours wherewith it is endangered And without this there is no assurāce of peace For as e 2. King 9.22 Iehu said vnto Iehoram whē he went against the house of Ahab is it peace Iehu said Iehorā What peace said the other while the whoredomes of thy mother Iezabel and her witchcraftes are great in number So say I what peace can bee expected as long as the whoredomes of the Romish Iezabel and her witchcrafts and inchanting cups wherewith shee withdraweth the people from their obedience to their Soveraigne and stealeth their harts from him as did f 2. Sam. 1◠6 Absolon the hearts of the Israelites from David his father are in great nūber As long as the Pope can set any foot-hold in Britaine he will still bestirre himselfe to molest the peace of our Sion Et si non aliquâ nocuisset mortuus esset But enough if not too much of this subiect It is a point which I vowed to handle not out of any spleene to any particular person whosoever hee that seeth the thoughts of my heart knowes that I lie not but for the loue of the truth the zeale of Gods glory the integritie of my conscience the discharge of my duty And herein liberavi animam meam look yee vnto it The third proposition followeth 23 Yee shall die What mettall other creatures were made of whether immediatly of nothing or of some preexistent matter I finde no expresse mention in Gods booke This I finde that man was made of a matter and that not gold nor silver pearle or pretious stones but of earth the basest and vilest of all the elements yea of the dust of the earth even of drie dust which is good for nothing that if hee shall with proud Phaeton in the Poet boast that Apollo God is his father hee might presently call to minde that poore Clymene the earth is his mother that hee was g Gen. 2.7 made of dust that hee is h Ps 103.14 but dust that i Gen. 3.19 hee shall returne to dust And yet I knowe not how it comes to passe but I am sure it is true that many in autoritie resemble the dust in no property better then one that as the dry dust in the streets is with every blast of wind blowne aloft into the aire so are their hearts blowne aloft and swelled vp with a windie tympanie of their owne greatnesse But let them climbe as high as they can God will one day send a shower and lay this dust They are but naturall men the threed of nature as a Poet fayneth is tyed vnto the foot of Iupiters chaire he can loose it when it shall please him Though Adams wit was such that hee could giue names vnto every creature according to their