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A02804	Ten sermons, preached vpon seuerall Sundayes and saints dayes 1 Vpon the Passion of our Blessed Savior. 2 Vpon his resurrection. 3 Vpon S. Peters Day. 4 Vpon S. Iohn the Baptists Day. 5 Vpon the Day of the blessed Innocents. 6 Vpon Palme Sunday. 7 and 8 Vpon the two first Sundays in Advent. 9 and 10 Vpon the parable of the Pharisee and publicane, Luke 18. Together with a sermon preached at the assises at Huntington. By P. Hausted Mr. in Arts, and curate at Vppingham in Rutland.	Hausted, Peter, d. 1645.	1636 (1636)	STC 12937; ESTC S103930	146,576	277

of meate boyl'd in Wormewood I cannot helpe it if it does heare it you must the fault is in your palate and not in the meat I hope there is no Antipathy betwixt this dish and any of yee present if yee can endure the fight of it although yee t●e not of it let mee entreate yee to be so mannerly as to fit the Meale out I give Tithes of all that ever I possesse I trust to God there be not many now who will deny Tithes to be due ex jure divine by the Law of God so that I hope I may spare the proving of it although some I confesse whose names are up for great Rabbines in Israell have endeavoured to expresse theyr great learning and deepe insight in Antiquity by bearing armes against the Church in this quarrell And the truth is hee who undertakes such a popular warre such a plausible subiect his a great advantage on his side Facile credimus quod volumus The greater number would have it to an● sl●der arguments and weapon will serve thy m●n when th● adversar● is willing to 〈◊〉 overcome We see here the Pharisee does it and it is 〈…〉 those things wherein he puts his ●st 〈…〉 concerning his justification They were 〈…〉 paying their Tithes that they did it unto Minte and Commin And of this our Saviour himselfe beates witnesse in the 23. of St. Mat vers 23. Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for yee tithe Mine and Commin and Annis and leave the weightier matters of the Law as judgement and mercy and truth And he does not onely beare witnesse that they doe it but he commends them for doing it too For although he pronounces a woe against them for neglecting of judgement and mercy yet he approves of theyr Tything even unto such sm●ll matters in the latter part of the verse These things yee ought to have done and not to have left the other undone But here our new Pharisees come short of our old ones For I appeale to the consciences of most men whether they can truly say with this Pharisee I give Tithes of all and and if yee come short of them yee are in a lamentable estate for heare what truth it selfe sayes in the 5. of St. Math. 20. For I say unto you except your righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees yee shall not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven What will become of yee then O thinke of it for your owne sakes when your righteousnesse shall come short of theyrs If yee enter not into the Kingdome of Heaven consider then what place it is into which yee shall enter But did I commend the Pharisee for this If I did I must retract it all for marke the propriety of the phrase well he uses I give Tithes of all that I possesse He does not say I pay Tithes as confessing them due but I give as if they were onely benevolences and so it is in the Latine Do decimas Vpon which Stella has this note Cum ait do rectius diceret reddo cum Dei sunt When the Pharisee sayes I give Tithes sayes he he ought to have sayd I pay Tithes because they belong to God they were none of his to give Tithes and Parsonages are Offices not Benefices however we have lately fastened that Title upon them I give Tithes O this is a word which we cannot chuse but be all in love with We would faine bring the Clergy to be under our girdles to live upon Benevolences and Gifts onely and then we thinke wee should be safe Yee might then sin yee thinke and goe to Hell quietly without controlment if yee had the Preachers tongue in your Pocket once whereas now these Parsonages where the Tithes are exacted as due and not as gift doe make the Churchman not so carefull to cut out his Doctrines in that fashion which shall please you as to indeavor to please God and discharge a good conscience These Tithes too yee say doe make the Priests proud and stately whereas your Lecturers are meeke and humble striving to give content to all who otherwise should come short of their wages I answer it the Priest be proud it is a great fault in him and he shall one day answer for it But take thou heed that Pride in thee does not make thee call that pride in him which is not pride but onely a Iustice and true proportion in his carriage for then thou shalt answer for that Peradventure thou wouldst construe that to be humility in him which indeed would be basenesse if he should doe it Alas every little thing of us who has but scrap●d a p●ch'd estate together a company of poore Cottages broken and cra●e as theyr Titles by what meanes ●o matter though the Widow and the Fatherlesse curse us and all our posteritie for it must affect a kinde of greatnesse now and as it was with wicked Haman all our greatnesse is nothing wee cannot sleepe with it unlesse MORDECAI the ●ew will bow to us unlesse we can make the Parson stoope to our greatnesse O it is an infinite eye-sore to us to see him thrive and prosper in the World But yee deceive your selves the Office of the Priest-hood is not so contemptible a thing as yee would have it If any will bee great amongst you sayes our Saviour let him bee your Minister I doe not goe about to exact an absolute soveraignty over the La●tie No give us in the name of God but that respect which belongs unto that holy Character and we require no more As we desire not to be Lords over you so neyther must you be Lords over us and oppresse us as if wee were of the dregs of the people As we must not be so proud but that we must visite the Widdow and the distressed I even administer unto the necessities of the poorest wretch in the Parish so on the other side wee must not be so base to flatter the greatest And this CHRIST himselfe has taught us by his owne example who did not refuse to touch the poore Leapers in the Gospell with his owne blessed hands and so cur'd them and yet yee see he us'd an other kinde of behaviour to the great ones of the Iewes the Scribes and Pharisees To their faces often h● calles them Hypocrites painted Sepultures Murderers of the Prophets c●ren of the Divell and pronounces woe upon woe against them For he knew that the disea●s of the Leaper and Pharisee were different and therefore requir'd a different Playster And yet for all this yee will not dare I hope to call him proud or stately because hee did not croutch to them O yee would ●e keepe the Parson low amongst yee that hee might not bee able to recover his own 't is one of the greatest cares of some men and therefore they apply themselves against him as against the comino● Enemies But take heed for in detaining thy Tithe thou doest not onely rob the Priest

St. Ierome who durst not abide the eyes of the Romane Ladies but being a man of a noble Parentage and Family hid himselfe in the Wildernes frō the allurements of the world Nor yet was his Solitude nor Hermitage able quite to protect him for as he confesses himself many times when he was in his Cell having no other company with him save his owne betraying thoughts his fancy would present unto him the beauties of Rome dancing before him And if this to him and to him in the Wildernesse how would his minde have beene carried away had he beene actually present to behold their ravishing and bewitching motions Mistake me not I know it is not for all men to live sequestred from the world for as God hath made some for a contemplative life who indeed of all men are the most happy being voyde of cares of strifes of envyings of backbitings things which such men as are any whit versed in the businesse of the world doe finde too frequent and troublesome and hath no imployment but onely to pray and send up praises unto his gracious Creator and Redeemer so hee hath framed some men also for Action and it would be a very cruell and unjust sentence if wee should exclude all such from any Commerce with the holy Spirit and so shut off the unlimited goodnesse of God onely in a Cloyster Christ who hath taught us indeed that it is easier for a Camel or rather a Cable rope for the Greek word signifies both to enter into the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdome of God hath withall told us that there is nothing impossible with God Cornelius although a man of service and imployment for hee was Captaine of the Band called the Italian band a devout man a rare thing in a Souldier hee had his vision of Angels we know So Nicodemus amongst the multitude of his secular affaires hee had his lucida intervalla too But how Why Cornelius was not altogether taken up with his warlike imployments but had his times of retiring and retreating to privacy and devotion For wee reade in the 10. of the Acts that hee prayed continually that is often and Nicodemus he had his sallies out too from his cares and worldly troubles He did per posticum fallere clientem he made his journeys privately to Christ by night And herein is the greatnesse of a mans spirit the goodnesse of his heart and devotion towards God shewen in that he is able in the midst of a crowde of Clients and secular imployments to set some houres apart for the service of his GOD. To live a retired life and to turne ones backe upon the world is I confesse of the two the safer way but yet savours the more of the Coward and to runne the course of the active and imployed man though it be more dangerous yet withall it is more honourable if he bee able to overcome all those provocations and in spite of businesse to bee religious And they who can doe thus may very well be reckoned amongst the number of the quiet and solitary Mountaines on which the holy Spirit comes leaping For although sometimes they may bee called Plateae potius quam montes Streets or high wayes rather then untroden mountaines by reason of their imployments yet so long as their secular cares do not make too deepe impressions in them when they betake themselves againe to the meditation of heavenly things all the other vanish away as if there had never beene any such footsteps to bee seene but rather on the contrary the footsteps of the blessed Spirit appeare in all their actions For what place soever the holy Ghost is pleased to leape upon be sure that thou shalt finde the footsteps of God left behinde there so that hee who runnes may reade them and bee bold to affirme and say The Lord hath travelled over this ground And the footsteps which the Spirit of God leaves behind are these Truth mercy love peace meekenesse obedience humility and the other links of that sacred Chaine of vertues If thou wouldest not therefore cozen thy self as many do now adaies who are continually boasting that they have the spirit that they know they are illuminated by the spirit and I pray God it be not another kind of spirit then they suppose it is but certainely know whether thou beest one of these Mountaines upon which the holy Spirit leapes or no enter into thine owne heart and there observe what kinde of footsteps are imprinted in it If thou findest truth there a sincere heart voyd of all hypocrisie all dissembling thy thoughts thy words and thy actions all agreeing together all of one and the same tincture if thou findest there bowels of compassion towards thy poore brethren thy fellow-members of Christs mysticall body if thou discoverest there a gentle dove-like meekenesse and humility an obedience to the higher Powers for conscience sake take comfort to thy selfe and praise thy gracious God for bee confident there the holy Spirit hath leapt and bee not afraid to say with waking Iacob Gen. 28. after he had seene the vision of the Ladder and was redeemed from sleepe Certainly the Lord is in this place and I knew not of it But if in the roome of these vertues thou findest their contrary vices if instead of Truth thou findest hypocrisie for mercy cruelty and a hardned heart if for obedience thou findest a proud sullen and surly refractorinesse to all authority if in the roome of humility thou findest nothing but pride and a magnifying of thy selfe above thy brethren as commonly such people as doe boast so much of the spirit are the proudest and disdainfullest generation under the Sun if thou findest these impressions upon thy heart thou hast just cause then to feare that the holy Spirit never travelled over that place for these doe not looke like the footsteps of God these are the impressions and footsteps of the Devill rather these are those Hills rather which the holy Spirit is said here in my Text to skip over Transiliens colles and so we are come to the last thing I observed The motion and way of his repudiation or anger Transiliens colles hoc est superbos Transiliens colles hoc est steriles qui neque tam alti sunt ut divina meditentur neque tam humiles ut poenitentiam agant Tubera sunt quaedam terrae Hee skips over the hills that is barren men solifidians who are enemies to good workes Hee skips over the hils that is proud men who are not so high that their thoughts and meditations doe reach heaven nor yet so low that they can be reckoned among the valleys of the humble and penitent they are onely certaine swellings of the earth But why doth God skip over these Is there any respect of persons with him that hee leapes upon some takes some to his mercy passing by and skipping over others I will give you an Answer which