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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03717	Sermons preached at Pauls Crosse and else-where, by Iohn Hoskins, sometimes fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, minister and Doctor of Law	Hoskins, John, 1579-1631.	1615 (1615)	STC 13841; ESTC S104239	117,511	248

destroyeth them Prouerbs 1. To draw neere to a conclusion and to conclude with application Your Citie is built in the sweetest aire vpō the gētle rising of an hil amidst the richest soile aboue the valley of fatnesse Large vbifoecunda rerum vndat copiacornu where there is Gods plentie whence without plowing or sowing reaping or keeping you are fed like the fowles of heauen and grow vp as the Lillies of the field a thousand times more happily then if corne grew at your doores or cattell grazed in your streets neere enough the benefits and far enough frō the dangers of the seas in the best place of the best Riuer of three maine Riuers in the Land when I haue named the Riuer you know I haue named all For an Alderman of your owne Body I beleeue the Author of your Cities Apologie when a Courtier gaue him some signification that Q. Marie in her displeasure purposed to diuert both Terme and Parliament to Oxford asked whether she would turne the Chanell of the Thames thither or no if not said he by the grace of God we shall doe well enough the Riuer it seemes is a sufficient purueyer Thus the consent of Elements conspiring for your good doth almost proclaime that the lot is fallen vnto you in pleasant places you haue a goodly heritage Notwithstanding all that hath been spoken and all that hath been left vnspoken Deut. 32. If hee that should haue been vpright when he waxed grosse spurned with his heele And againe no sooner fat in my Text but straight ouercom'd with wine to come neerer If what Trauellers and Historians haue obserued be worth our obseruation that because Ilands are the richest soiles Ilanders are the most riotous people Good God in what a slippery place are such children as rest in the bosome and lie at the full dugges of a most fruitfull Mother-Iland haue they not need of Gods especiall grace at euery turne haue they not vrgent cause to wrastle with God in prayer that they bee with Paul instructed not to want and hunger but to be full and abound in all things Yes yes without this prayer all rich mens deuotions are vnperfect without this clause there were in our Churches prayers an imperfection In al time of our wealth good Lord deliuer vs. England is this fruitfull Mother-Iland the Londoners are her children who draw her brests reposing themselues in her bosome vpon the head of the fattest vallies pardon the closenesse of mine application though I may not name mens persons as long as my Prophet in reproofe singleth out Ephraim I trust I may pray for London in al time of her wealth good Lord deliuer London For as Nilus may rise too high and water Egypt ouermuch so the world may come too fast vpon vs with too too violent an inundation Prou. 30. Otherwise Agurs prayer had been indeed a paradox Giue me not riches feed me with food conuenient for me lest I bee full and deny thee and say Who is the Lord Safer it were for vs by thousands of degrees to liue at Gods immediat finding and as the Israelites in the euening hoped for their morning break-fast from the clouds daily to aske and daily to receiue our daily bread then that by storing and treasuring vp goods for many yeres we should forsake the Lord that made vs and cease to regard the strong God of our saluation Infinite experiences without controuersie may teach you the same truth which this Scripture doth afford in one experience of Ephraim hee now full of branches in this Land that floweth with milke and hony forgetteth his owne roote in Egypt and that heauenly Husbandman by whose right hand hee was both planted there and transplanted hither Most that heare it I make no question are either younger brothers themselues as was Ephraim or their fathers were younger brothers as was Ephraims Father ioseph or their grand-fathers were younger brothers as was Ephraims grand-father Iacob whether therefore the Grand-father came ouer this Riuer with a staffe like Iacob and were afterwards Master of two bands or the Father being sold like Ioseph to the Ishmaelites became Ruler ouer Egypt or the son himselfe like Ephraim borne in a land of affliction but now blessed God purposely crossing his bands that he might be blessed aboue his elder brother Let not O let not Ephraim forget Iacob his Grandfather and his Father Ioseph farre bee it euermore from him to forget himselfe and suffer the large Catalogue of all his Makers blessings either to bee trod vnder foote by pride or to bee drowned in drunkennesse Yet I cannot but free mine owne soule from your blood with some sorrow and I shall think my sorrow some part of my happinesse might it worke in any man sorrow to repentance The wickednesse of Ephraim and the sinnes of Samaria the wickednesse of England and the sinnes of London are plainly discouered excesse of apparell and excesse of feasting I appeale to the knowledges and consciences of all men from the highest to the lowest Sen. epist 114. These a wise man calles aegrae Ciuitatis indicia the tokens of a sicke and surfetting Citie readie either to fall her selfe or spue out her inhabitants Now if our happinesse so tempered by such visitations haue made vs thus sicke what monstrous distemper would entire happinesse haue wrought vpon vs wee should by this haue studied our owne vndoing wee should haue made artificiall conueyances of vicious customes by nice education to posteritie we should haue laboured to purchase sin a perpetuitie our very trade would haue bin a trade of sinning A trade of sinning I would to God there were no such trade stirring as is the trade of sinning When the Pope was as God Decretals as Scriptures Canonists were the best Diuines thē strong wine was called Vinum Theologicum because as one wittily speaketh the Diuines in request fed on the sinnes of the people and such harsh meat did ask strong wine to digest it your immoderate feasting my brethren make your customers feare an immoderate gaining that you liue if not by the sinnes of the people yet by your owne sinnes and the peoples ignorance drinking wine in bowles to helpe your digestion where that none may suspect you nor you your selues for men that enioy their portion in this life be sober and watch and that I may ioyne exhortation with exhortation both in one If riches increase set not your harts vpon them that when the swelling of your Riuer by the surfet of a tide brings in your encrease your increase breed not in your soules another swelling in your bodies another surfetting The swelling of the proud and the surfetting of drunkards are both as Augustine calles one Vermes diuitiarum wormes of wealth Let rich mē kil these wormes betimes lest they naturally beget another worme the worme that neuer dieth I repeate it againe Be sober and watch and if riches increase set not your hearts vpon them that while you dwell