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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

a meanes you would liue more religiously loue the Lord more sincerely serue him more obediently tender his glory more deerely heare his word more carefully practise it more conscionably pray more deuoutely beleeue more faithfully professe more fruitfully which the Lord in mercy increase for euer in vs and so I come to my second generall part and therein first of the Person persecuting Saul And here first of all 2. Part. if ye Catechise Saul with what is thy name or discharge such a peale of Gunne-shot vpon him as the Mariners did vpon Ionas Ionas ● what art thou whence camest thou what is thy name thy people thy trade You shall receiue answere out of his own words hee is an Hebrew of the Hebrewes an Israelite of the Israelites of the seed of Abraham of the Tribe of Bentamin by birth a Iew. by Priuiledge a Romane by sect a Pharisie by zeale a Persecutor his personall aduantages prerogatiues dignities excellencies of profession aemulation conuersation wonderfull none euer had greater endowments and blessings of Nature then Saul It is a worthy obseruation vpon that comitiall exercise had betweene Stephen and his Aduersaries Sigonius Lorin in 7. Act. that there were some of all the world Opponents and Opposites in that Disputation and Persecution of Stephen out of Europe Romanes out of Affricke Alexandrians out of Asia Cilicians and of all these out of all the parts of the world that were then knowne and out of all those Nations reckoned there was none Acts. 2.3 more violent for strength more virulent for sting more zealous in profession more powerfull in prosecution more Tragicall and tyranicall in execution then Saul he wasted the Church dispersed the Disciples destroyed the christians magna insania imo vesania saieth Chrysostome quod in domos ingrediebatur Chrysost quod nec mulieribus parcebat Hee followed Christians not onely from the Synagogue into the streetes but from the streetes into the houses their owne houses violently inhumanely drew out euen the women vnto their death Hee was a Saul indeed nay a Sheol a very Hell Lombard as Peter Lombard out of the Nature of the Originall obserueth or Shaul as others obserue Lorin in 9. Act. Excitatus a Demone ad persequendum Ecclesiam stirred vp by the Deuill to persecute the Church He was a Wolfe among the Lambes a Beare among the Saintes a Lion ramping and roaring for his pray nay put together the wilines of a Fox strength of a Lyon sting of a Serpent Saenity of a Wolfe the Sauadge madnesse of Beares Boares Leopards Tygers Crocodiles for by all these in Scripture the wicked are described they were all in Saul his ZEALE had fiered him and therefore he sayth of himselfe by zeale I persecuted the church of God so that Christ speaking to him now crying Saul Saul meaneth zeale Zeale why persecutest thou me Is it possible that a sweete grape should bee so sowre that poyson should infe such a fountaine of life that such an endowment should deserue such a punishment such a blessing proue such a curse the heate of the spirit should be as hel fire The glorious lustrous splendor of the Sun should be Cymerian Egyptian darkenesse and make a man a dogge a Christian a Deuill It is it is behold one for example for all Saul his spurre of zeale proued a sting a piercing poysoning enuenoming assacinating sting by zeale hee persecuted the Church of God I am sure true zeale is the true seale of the holy Ghost it is the Leaxen that leaueneth the whole lumpe it is the graine of Mustardseed the sparke of fire the fire of the Temple the measure of the Tabernacle the Cubit of the Sanctuarie the beacon of Mount Sion and yet zeale hath markt Saul a persecutor oppressor maligner blasphemer of God his Gospell I know the Kingdome of Heauen must suffer violence Iacob obtained by wresling Dauid by running Paul by endeauoring the Wise Virgins by watching Austen the good seruants by working vis intrare in regnū coelorum wilt thou enter into Heauen violentus esto be violent sayeth Austen nay sayth Christ the King of Heauen suffereth violence But yet not a more hasty then warie violence for as S. Bernard speaketh Et feruor discretionem erigat discretio feruorem dirigat zeale must stir vp discretion Berna d. discretion must direct zeale As the hope of a Christian so the zeale of a Christian is as Susanna betweene two Adulterers as Vertue between two extreames as In ocency betweene two Tirants Hercules betweene two Serpents the graine betweene two Milstones blind Ignorance on the one side proud Insolence on the other side a blind zeale a proud zeale the one superstitious the other supercilious The zeale of a Christian must be as Christ was before hee came from heauen hee was in the midst of Angels in the Cratch hee was in the midst of creatures In the temple in the midst of the Doctors In the transfiguration in the midst of the Prophetes and Apostles In the Crosse in the midst of the theeues In the resurrection in the midst of his Disciples In the comming to iudgement in the midst of the elect and reprobate Lambes on the one hand Goates on the other semper in medio quia medium semper medium qui a mediator Non in omnibus quadrat similitudo Bernard as Austen spake in the like August con Don. but let zeale euer goe in the middest saile in the middest passe in the middest let diligence raise vp negligence be not cold let moderation rule the passion be not to hote not bewitcht with fiery fury as Saul was as that Sauls zeale should persecute Christ The Doctrine hence is Doctrine that euery Christian let moderation gouerne the sterne of his violent opinion or else his zeale is abhominable before God the Prayer of the reprobate is abhominable the Faith of the Hipocrite is abhominable the zeale of the fiery obstinate is abhominable In the Law they must bring no sacrifice without salt zeale is that salt they must bring no sacrifice without an eye discretion is that eye no vnseasoned sacrifice no seruice without zeale no blind sacrifice no zeale without discretion Rom. 12. The Apostle Paul directeth to Wisedome Be wise there is the Spurre zeale but according to Sobriety there is the bridle discretion The Disciples were commended for their duety in following Christ There is zeale but they were condemned for their zeale when they prayed for vengeance there wanted discretion The Iewes were commaunded to gather Manna there is a portion of zeale but neither too much nor too little there is the proportion of discretion The holy Ghost descended with fire there is zeale but with a wind also that cooleth fire there is discretion Let zeale bee like to Moyses and Phineas Ambrose Moses for mildnesse Phineas for feruencie there is a Seraphicall zeale like to that in E.