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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96530	Six sermons by Edw. Willan ...	Willan, Edward.	1651 (1651)	Wing W2261A; ESTC R43823	143,091	187

SIX SERMONS 1. Of CHRISTIAN CHARITY Preached before the Judges of Assize at Bury S. Edmonds 2. Of TRUE FELICITY at S. Peters in the City of Norwich 3. Of the VVorlds vanity and Soules excellency at S. Pauls LONDON 4. Of an humble Conversion and an holy Conversation at Great Bealings Suff. 5. 6. Of S. PAULS Concrucifixion at Hoxne Suff. By Edw Willan M. A. C. C. C. in Camb. and Vicar of Hoxne Basil Mag. Enar. in Cap. 1. Isaiae Sunt Sermones isti quos Propheta vidit spectabiles LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivie-lane M DC LI. May 8. 1651. Imprimatur John Downame TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY Earle of MONMOVTH Lord CARY Baron of Lepington and Knight of the Honorable Order of the BATH My very good Lord IT is commonly charged upon these Times that they are Times of many Evills And it is a maine Evill wherewith the Times are charged that the many Charges of the Times doe hinder Men from paying of Debts I dare not call that Evill that hath hindred mee from paying mine But sure I am that Occupationes quibus indies distincor maximae aliquid Excusationis ab aequis ut spero rerum aestimatoribus impetrabunt Armacha in Praef. ad Britan. Eccl. Antiquitat the constant Charges and frequent Discharges of many Dues unto the People from the Pulpit have hindred mee from paying any Dues unto your Honour from the Presse And forced mee as you may see to borrow backe those driblet Debts here tendred unto other Friends for the making up of one small Sum for my chiefest Creditor There were many Marii in one Sueton. in vita Jul. Caes Caesar And many VVorshipfulls and Right VVorshipfulls may be in one Right Honorable Yet many and many Respects are due from me unto those worthy Names perfixed to these Sermons But your Lordships due is all yea more then all that I am and more then all that I am able to doe All this that I have done is but the least part of that all which I should have done I cannot doe all that I would but I will doe all that I can to attest my desires to doe all The very seemes of Negligence in other Pens are even shamed by seeing the Diligence of your Lorships I know not whether there be such a thing as Scandalum Magnatum in these Times But this I know that ignobile vulgus hath commonly accused Nobility of Idlenesse And sure I am that the many Reames of Paper which your happiest Pen hath filled and fitted for the Presse are enough to stuffe their Throates and to stop their Mouthes that have been opened to speake evill of such Dignities I Jude 8. confesse I should have wondred at the Excellent and Abundant fruit of your Labours more then now I neede though still I cannot but admire them had I not known your constant course of watering them by your kneeling down and praying in your Bene precasse est bene studuisse M. Luther Closset before your putting of Pen to Paper The Power of Godlinesse in that your Honours Example did even inforce As there is Treason and Petty-Treason So there is Sacrilege and Petty-Sacrilege and Petty Sacrilege is to rob Princes and great Persons of their due Praises Dr. Donne Serm. 27. me to imitation in my adjacent Lodging at More-Park and ever since hath engaged mee to pray dayly for your Honor for my very good Lady for all the younger Ladyes and for all belonging to your Noble Family as the bounden Duty of My Lord The humblest of Your Chaplaines VVILLAN TO THE CHRISTIAN READER READER THere are many in these Times that will needs be spreading of their Napkins before the People and yet have never a Talent in them And others there are that have many Talents in their Napkins yet will not spread them before the People of these Times And for my part I would have hid that peece of a Talent entrusted to my selfe still from the Presse as willingly as any if I might And from the Pulpit too if I durst But necessity is laid upon mee 1 Cor. 9. 16. and wo be to me if I Preach not the Gospell I was even inforced to send three of these Sermons to the Presse And for their sakes I forced the other three to goe along for company And had sent as many more made ready with them could I have met with Tutelar Names like Tobies Guardian Angel Tobit 5. 6. to goe before them I must confesse that six are enough and more then enough for such a Meane Beginner to adventure in one Bottome Yet so many I have adventured And if this first Adventure prove successefull I shall soon double the Number in another fleete and advance it after them I have put these Sermons together as Plinius Secundus Plin. Secun Epist 1. ad Septit did his Epistles non servato temporis ordine sed ut in manus venerant As he told his friend Septitius And I was the rather perswaded to print them for that I knew it would be but little profit to me to keepe them by mee as a Private stock for the Pulpit But I made conjecture that it might be more benefit to others to have them put into their hands as a Publick stock from the Presse They were never likely againe to have any Plus homines oculis quam auribus credunt Seneca Epist 70. Hearers But it may be thus they may gaine some Readers And if any Readers gaine by them it shall be reckoned as the greatest gaines that may be to Thine EDVV. WILLAN Errata PAge 22. l. 32. r. Aegeria p. 39. l. 19. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 52. l. 6. r. called p. 59 l. 1. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 63. l. 24. r. if we may preach it p. 79. l. 1. r. be universall p. 111. in marg r. Vedelius p. 133. l. 3. r. be lesse p. 138. l. ult r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 156. l. 5. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 162. l. 1. r. of Sympathy p. 164. l. 9. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 165. l. 29. r. he ye●lds Reader there are some misplaced Annotations whose reducements I must leave to thy discretio● as thou readest Vale. Ipse Bernardus non videt omnia A SERMON OF CHRISTIAN CHARITY PREACHED AT BURY St. EDMONDS Before the JUDGES MARCH 18. 1649. It is the Worke of Charity to build up Christians And it should not be the Worke of Christians to beate down Charity LONDON Printed for R. Royston at the Angell in Ivie-Lane 1651. TO THE VVORSHIPFULL Wiseman Bokenham Esq SIR THese N●tes belong unto your Worship by a manifold right Indeed they can of right belong so properly to none as to your Worship For First it was by your command that this Sermon was composed of them for the Pulpit And then by your command it was that this Sermon of them was thus disposed into a Pamphlet It