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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16935	The oyle of gladnesse: or, Musicke at the house of mourning Deliuered in III severall sermons by Rob: Allvvyn, Master of Artes and rector of Stedham cum Heysbot, in the county of Suffex. 1631. And now vpon intreaty published.	Allwyn, Robert.	1631 (1631)	STC 383; ESTC S115911	44,763	178

THE OYLE OF GLADNESSE OR Musicke at the House of Mourning DELIVERED In III. severall Sermons by ROB ALLVVYN Master of Artes and Rector of Stedham cum Heyshot in the County of Sussex 1631. And now vpon Intreaty published O tast and see how gracious the Lord is LONDON Printed by B A. and T. F. for NATH BVTTER dwelling at St. Anstones Gate 1631. TO THE RIGHT WOR pfull RICHARD LEVVKEN OR Esq one of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace and Quorum and Deputy Lieutenant in the County of SVSSEX Robert Allwyn wisheth the continuance and increase of all Spirituall graces heere and the Eternall weight of glory hereafter WORTHY SIR THere are two sorts of Men that are reputed happie to whom it is given Plin. Epist Lib. 6. Epist 16. Aut Scribenda facere aut Legenda scribere Eyther to doe thinges worthy to bee written or to write what is worth the reading Were I as succesfull in the one as you in the other I might presume of a faire approbation and friendly entertainement of these few notes which I conceive fit for the presse for no other cause but that they haue already appeared in the Pulpit whence they were receiued with zealous silence deepe attention and fullnesse of affection such as I may not hope for or expect abroad For readers are not for the most part so beneuolous as hearers and I haue obserued of the eye it is farre more censorious than that sanctified sense of salvation There are many thinges that in Elocution Ambr lib 6. Epist 40. Aurem praetereunt as St Amb ose speaketh That doe passe and escape the Eare which when they come vnto publicke view are more neerely noted and more stricktly obserued not a sentence not a word but it is weighed somtimes with the false weights of misprision sinister construction and Envie weighed in the ballance and therefore it is good counsell of that Reuerend father that before wee deale out our poore endeauours wee should doe the same Trutinare discutere omnes scrupulos maleuolentiae ponderatè discussè Idem ibid. Try and proue every graine as it were and scruple against which the enuious man may except But for my selfe I acknowledge I haue beene delinquent herein this labor I leaue vnto those that haue leisure to bee curious Thus much the paines that I haue taken doe assure mee that I haue not done the worke of God negligently and yet I confesse not exactly according to the itching eares and eyes of this age It shall suffice that I haue followed the example of a more Elder and Auncient of the Primitiue fathers Qui non secundum artem scripserunt sed secundum gratiam Ambr. lib. 8. Epist 63. They deliuered what they receiued not in the intising words of mans wisdome Gal. 1.10 1 Cor. 2.4 whom if wee should seeke to please wee were not the Servants of Christ not in the intising wordes of mans wisdome but in the demonstration of the spirit In whose language I had rather speake fiue wordes and these I speake are his than ten thousand wordes in the tongue of men and Angells 1 Cor. 14.9 And truly this is my confidence that of those that are Religious and by consequence iudicious these my meditations will bee approued in that they speake in the Dialect and phrase so familiar vnto them As for the matter and subiect it is such as I suppose will afford acceptance also it is the desire of our Soule it is the ayme of our hearts Ioy. Next that which may adde audacitie and boldnesse to the Booke and life vnto the Authour it wil be your courteous Censure or of which you see I haue presumed your benigne Patronage and fauorable Tuition of it As for applause it is a thing I neither affect nor expect Pardon is fayre yet approbation better and this the summe of my desires Cyprian ad D. Corneliū Papam de Cardinalibus virtutibus vsque ad eius ascensū Non gloriā mendico sed gratiam as that blessed Martyr speaketh I seeke not for fame but fauour If you may approue if not excuse mee to your selfe and others aboue others by how much your iudgement is more solid than theirs To your selfe and you honour my labours more than enough I know in respect of my immature yeres these preproperous Meditations will be reputed as the hastie fruits before the Summer Vnto this you are prompted of the Prophet how to reply Esay 65.8 Thus saith the Lord As new wine is found in the cluster and one sayth destroy it not for there is a blessing in it These Sermons though not the first of my labours are something forward I confesse yet I dare say there is blood in these grapes there is wine in the cluster Esa 63.3 and what will I but that it make glad the heart of man God grant that there may bee a blessing in it that it may cause him that is ready to perish to forget his sorow that it may comfort all that mourne in Syon that it may giue beauty for ashes and the garment of gladnesse for the Spirit of heauinesse These things haue I written to none other end but this may I bee so bold to borrow the wordes of the Apostle that their 1 Ioh. 1.4 that your Ioy might bee full As there is diffusion in the affection So with the dilatation of mine heart I wish you all the Contents of this Booke And if it may be more a stedfast continuance in the feare of the Lord which is honour and glory and gladnesse Ecclus 1.11 12. and a Crowne of Reioycing the feare of the Lord which giueth ioy and gladnesse and a long life I conclude in the benediction of St. PAVL Now the God of hope fill you with all Ioy Rom. 15.13 and peace in beleeuing that you may abound in hope through the power of the holy-Ghost vnto whom in my prayers that proceed from him I commend both you and you●●●●●est Your Worships observant and respective Friend Robert Allwyn THE OYLE OF GLADNES OR Musicke at the House of Mourning PHIL. 4.4 Reioyce in the Lord Alway And againe I say Reioyce AFter the shutting of the Booke the first place that my Text lights on is that of Ezechiel in the 34. Chapter Ezech. 34.4 The Diseased have yee not strengthened neither have yee healed that which is Sicke neither have yee bound vp that which is broken neither have yee brought againe that which was driven away neither have yee sought out that which was lost but with force and cruelty have yee ruled them Some such Shepheards or indeed Cyprian Non Pastores sed Lanij in the words of St. CYPRIAN they came for to kill and to steale Pseudo-Apostles and false-teachers Zanch. in locum As ZANCHY and others conceive even at the Plantation of the Gospell were crept into the Church so farre from healing the breach of the spirit from administring