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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09949	A sermon preached at Eggington in the county of Darby concerning the right vse of things indifferent, the 3. day of August, 1596. By Symon Presse minister there.	Presse, Symon, b. 1558 or 9.	1597 (1597)	STC 20207; ESTC S102087	9,747	29

A SERMON PREAched at Eggington in the County of Darby concerning the right vse of things indifferent the 8. Day of August 1596. By SYMON PRESSE Minister there Feare God honour the Kinge 1. Peter 2.17 Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee solde in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1597. TO HIS LOVING PARIshioners Mr. F. COOKE R. IOHNSON W. WALTON R. KNIGHT I. GYLLYVER R. SLYGH increase of true zeale endles felicitie VVHen I vnderstoode your attention in the heating of this sermon diligēce in noting certaine principall points paines in conferring to give penning acquainting sending your collections vnto many your worshipfull friendes at the length vnto the right honorable Sir Edmund Anderson knight Lord chiefe Iustice of the common Pleas with intent as I gesse to make my simple skill liked and allowed of them I thought it my duty to accept your endevour very kindly and to requite you with procuring the same sermon to be imprinted that all men might giue you deserved commendations and note your names amongst the number of vigilant hearers to your immoratall praise Thus not doubting of your good acceptance of the same I end Eggington the 28. of Ianuarie Yours Symon Presse For if any man see thee that hast knowledge c. 1. Cor. 8.10.11.12.13 THe occasion of these woordes was this Whē Paul as a father had begotten the Corinthiās vnto Christ by the preachinge of the gospel vppon the suddē there crept in certain who perverted the straite waie of the Lorde seeking to draw disciples vnto thēselues and prevailed so much that they had wonne them to the bent of their bow for some woulde follow this teacher and some that wherwith many godlye men amōg thē were sore grieved signified the sāe vnto the Apostle by their letters And with al moved diuers doubts wherof one was concerning meats sacrificed to idoles whervnto he answereth in this chapter and in this order First hee reproveth them that vppon an overweening conceit of their owne knowledge vsed the same without charitie Secondly he declareth that the meate sacrificed vnto Idoles was of the number of those thinges which are by nature meere indifferent and of themselues do neither hinder nor further the salvation of him that vseth them And thirdly he reporteth the rashnesse of them that vse such things to the offence of others as in this text at large is declared The sume wherof is thus much that wee ought so discreetely to behaue our selues in our christian liberty that wee doe not thereby offend our weake brother The partes whereof are these 1. The manner how they vsed their liberty to the offence of others verse 10. 2. The Apostles reasons to disswade them from that practize vers 11.12.13 which reasons are threefold The first is drawne from the hurt that is done to our brother ver 11. The second from the personnes against whome hee sinneth vers 12. And the third hee draweth from his owne resolution 13. Now to the first part 1. The manner how they vsed their liberty to the offence of others For if any man see thee that hast knowledge c. vers the 10. As if hee had saide thus in plaine termes There are amongst you Corinthians some that so much presūe of their owne knowledge that without regard of their weak brethren runne into the Idoles temples and there eate the meates that haue bene sacrificed vnto Idols and therby incourage them by eating to giue the same reverence to the Idole which they did before they were converted vnto Christ Out of these woordes If any man see thee Wee obserue first that a christian ought to be well advised in the practize of things indifferent who seeth him least hee should offend his weake brother by the want of due cōsideration the reason whereof is this that if hee omitte this dutie hee bringeth a curse vpon himselfe which is to heavy for all the world to beare as our saviour Christ forewarneth It cannot bee avoided but that offences will come but woe bee to him by whome they come It were better for him that a greate milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were cast into the sea then that hee should offend one of these little ones Luk. 17.1.2 Therefore it is very necessarie that wee should regarde them that looke vppon our actions There are 2. sorts of lookers vpon vs 1. God 2. his creatures God in every action looketh vpon the intent of the heart in whose sight nothing is good except it bee doone in sinceritye and obedience to his will Deut. 12.32 1. Sam. 16.7 Proverb 23.26 Therefore in regard of God our actions are not well donne when they are well donne outwardly but when the fountaine I meane the heart is pure and vncorrupt For no streame is sweete which cōmeth from a sower spring The second sorte of beholders are Gods creatures And they are either celestiall or terrestriall The celestiall are the angels who beholde not onlye vs in earth but also the face of God in heaven Math. 18.10 And are ready to protect or to punish as execudors of his will Psal 34.7 103.20 Heb. 1.14 Which is manifested by Senacheribs host by the deliverance of Elisha besieged in Dothan 2. Reg. 19.35 6.17 Therefore as thou oughtest by reason of the angell to tēper thy tongue frō evill words so oughtest thou to bee carefull of thy actions in his sight Eccles 5.5 The terrestriall creatures that behold vs are either vnresonable or indued with reason The vnreasonable creaturs that behold vs ought to affray vs lest as Balaams Asse had a mans voice givē him to reprooue the foolishnes of his maister so these should bee produced against vs as witnesses of our actions which wee haue donne in their presence For if it bee so that a man ought not to curse the king no not in his thought least the foules of the aire bewray him how much more should wee bee affraide to do any thing against the will of our God in the sight of his creatures whether sensles or sensible Eccles 10.20 The reasonable creatures that behold vs on this earth are devided by S. Paul into 2. sortes 1. Cor. 4.9 Wherof the former is called the world The latter men By the worlde hee vnderstandeth the wicked of the world that as they liue in the world so they delight in and loue the same nether can like any thing that sutes not to their worldly affections These men though they can for their advantage pretend much holinesse yet they intend the overthrow of religion with the preaching and practize therof Now for them no man that hath God and a good conscience to be witnesses of his well dooing needs to care but ought to go one in the same whatsoever they say to the contrarie as our saviour by his workes words hath taugh vs. Math. 15.12.13.14 The men beholders are either weake in the faith or strong in