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A42149	The Catholique doctor and his spiritual catholicon to cure our sinfull soules a communion-sermon preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Foster Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench, and the rest of the reverend judges, and serjeants at law, in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet, on Sunday May the 26th, 1661 / by Matthevv Griffith ...	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.; Foster, Robert, Sir, 1589-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2010; ESTC R2789	24,194	37

THE Catholique Doctor AND HIS SPIRITUAL CATHOLICON To CURE Our SINFULL SOULES A COMMUNION-SERMON Preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. ROBERT FOSTER Lord Chief Justice of the KINGS BENCH and the rest of the Reverend Judges and Serjeants at LAW in SERJEANTS-Inne in Fleetstreet On Sunday May the 26th 1661. BY MATTHEVV GRIFFITH D. D. London Printed by W. Godbid for John Playford in the Inner Temple 1661. To the Right Honourable EDVVARD EARL of CLARENDON Lord Chancellour of ENGLAND c. MY LORD IT may seem a Paradox though it be true that this Communion Sermon was preach'd in a small Congregation viz. the Chappel in Serjeants-Inne in Fleet-street yet to a great and grave Auditory for the reverend Judges and Serjeants at Law were pleas'd there to honour me with their attention and approbation And as it is the onely staffe of my age and cheif comfort of my life that I am a servant to the truely Honorable Societies of the Temple of which the said Judges and Serjeants not long since were a considerable part so that I might not die altogether a stranger to your Lordship whom all knowing men look upon as the Quintessence and highest Extraction of those noble Societies I have assumed the confidence being over-entreated to print this Sermon to recommend herein to your Lordship a Physician in whose care and custody you may safely venture both body and soul in which respect as he is every way worthy of your Lordships cordial entertainment so my hope is that Your accustomed goodness will not onely pardon this presumption in one whose yet suffering condition can give no better evidence and assurance of his reall reverence and sincere desire to serve Your Lordship but also freely permit him to publish this peice of devotion under your Lordships name unto the people for your native Candour and supernatural Clemency have made you as the Historian stiles Titus their darling and delight Among whom not onely your Lordships countenance but connivance is enough to candy any person or action and to gain them both authority and acceptation Your Lordships infallible prudence in counselling and irresistible power in perswading out-shine all humane presidents and whosoever would now advance himself like an Oratour he must first sit a while in silence at Your Lordships feet and learn of you who are onely able to speak with as much grace and gravity as both Nestor and Gamaliel His Sacred Majesty who is under God the fountain of honour could not possibly do himself more right then by advancing you who are observ'd to discharge the high and weighty place of Lord Chancellour with so much ability and satisfaction that the Dignity it self is preferr'd in being conferr'd upon Your Lordship all whose Injunctions and Decrees are temper'd not onely Ad Justitiam but Ad pondus aequale so that though but one side can prevaile yet the other hath not the least colour to complain of any thing but the demerits of his Cause And howe're the incredible extent and irreparable expence of some Suites in Chancery have formerly turn'd both parts into Plaintiffs at last when though one seem'd to get the better yet in truth both were worsted yet now Your Lordships integrity and dexterity in determining causes render all Commencers in that Honorable Court as happy as any that go to Law which is a kind of waging war can in reason hope to be Cita mors aut Victoria laeta We need no other arguments to prove or inducements to believe that His Sacred Majesty hath at this day that extraordinary gift which the Apostle call'd The Spirit of discerning but onely this that he singled out Your Lordship as One fit and worthy to be nearest Himself If Moses in his time had been bless'd with such a Counsellor sure Jethro would never have diminish'd his Greatness by Advising him to call in so many Assistants Your Lordships wisdome is sole-sufficient to govern the vastest Empire which irrefragable truth no man can deny without the guilt and censure of gross ignorance Envy and heresie And were we not generally ingratefull if not stupid we would professedly congratulate our own happiness in the accumulation of your Honours and wish them in all respects as transcendent as your Merits But though some others like the nine Leapers that were heal'd return not thanks yet for my part the Psalmist hath taught me to say Good luck have you with your Honour Ride on till your christian progress centre in perfection in order whereunto you carry your self with so much sobriety and sweetness that those few who maligne your fortune yet cannot but love your person and all the rest think it their happiness to be commanded by your Lordship In whom as it is said of Daniel 5. 14. the Spirit of the Holy Gods light and understanding and excellent wisdome is found and consequently your Lordship deserves that Eulogie in the North which the Queen of the South gave to Solomon himself Happy are thy servants that stand alwayes in thy presence to hear thy wisdome This is all the ambition of him who here in all humility craves your Lordships patronage and vow's himself The humblest of Your Lordships Servants and truest Honourers Matthew Griffith The CATHOLIQUE DOCTOR AND His SPIRITVAL CATHOLICON TO Cure Our SINFULL SOULES 1 JOHN 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin THE sum of all knowledge is Divinity the sum of all Divinity is the Scripture the sum of all the Scripture is the Gospel the sum of all the Gospel is my Text and the sum of my Text is in the Verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cleanseth which Verbe is a Metaphor taken from the learned and necessary profession of Physick in which there be so many sorts of purging and cleansing medicines And if you will give me leave to follow this Metaphor in dividing my Text it will fairely and without the least straining lead your Christian devotion into the serious consideration First of a Physician who is here describ'd not onely by his proper name Iesus and his Appellative name Christ but also by somewhat that is Relative His Son viz. The Son of God spoken of in the Context Secondly Of the Physick here administr'd viz. Blood The Blood of Jesus c. Thirdly Of the Operation of this Blood which is the Physick in the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It cleanseth Fourthly Of the Patients on whom this Physick works viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Us. Fifthly Of the sickness which so much endangers us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sin Sixthly Of the Extent of this mortal disease insinuated in the Collective All all Sin In the first you may note the transcendent diginity of this Physician for it is neither Galen nor Hipocrates nor any other meer man nor Aesculapius Apollo or any fictitious Diety nor Menecrates who affected to be stiled Menecrates Jupiter but it is Jesus Christ the Son of God In the second note the excellency of this