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A13272 Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset. Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650? 1637 (1637) STC 23573; ESTC S118116 163,580 323

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SERMONS VPON Solemne Occasions PREACHED IN Severall Auditories BY HVMPHREY SYDENHAM Rector of Pokington in SOMERSET D. Aug. Serm. 46. de Tempore Multa sunt ora ministeriorum Sermonis gerentium sed unum est os ministros implentis LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for Humphrey Robinson and are to be sold at the Signe of the Three Pigeons in PAULS Church-yard M.DC.XXXVII TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD MY VERY GOOD LORD VVILLIAM Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY his Grace Primate of all ENGLAND and Metropolitane and Chancelour of the Vniversity of OXFORD MOST REVEREND IN matters of Bounty or Benefit received He that speaks thanks Sigratum dixeris omnia dixcris Sen. lib. de Ben. 2. commonly Speakes all The Divine not so His profession requires aswell Devotion as Gratitude and what is onely Acknowledgement in others should be Prayer in him These have made way for this Ambition of mine for so it will be censur'd in seeking your Grace's Patronage to which by your former great Favours and Incouragements I have met with a double staire The one in my first admission to spirituall preferment The other in setling it when it was disturb'd Both these here bound up by a thankfull and zealous obligation in this Tender of my poore Endeavours which though I feare will scarce hold waight in the Scale of your stricter Iudgement yet in that of your Charity They may passe perhaps with a Graine or two as oftentimes light peeces doe and so vindicate me from the imputation of that loose and lazie Ignorance which the very Spirit of Ignorance would put upon me where Vociferation is cried-up for Industrie and Faction for Holinesse and a bitter and unbridled Zeale for sound knowledge But notwithstanding the foaming of those muddie waters Springs may runne cleare and I doubt not but Mine shall if they finde a Current in your Graces Protection with whom though in the most Criticall and envious Eye All things are cleare and pure without the least taint or tincture of corruption like waters in their own Source and Fountaine yet the Waters of Marah have been round about you and no doubt but your Grace hath had a taste no lesse than others of that Hierarchy of their Gall of Bitternesse Witnes their divine Tragedies and impudent Appeales their late Curranto's Acts 8.23 and Legends of Ipswich and since I know not by what poore Haberdasher of smal wares Their Looking glasse for Lordly Prelates In which they have not so much wounded the particular Honours of eminent and learned men as strucke through the sides of Religion it selfe in blemishing the outward face of the Church not onely by obtruding to her her former Spots and Moles as what Church was ever yet without them but over-spreading it with a kinde of Leprosie And so insteed of being blacke Cant. 1.5 like the Tents of Kedar They would make her uglie like the Tent of Korah thereby exposing her to the scornefull eyes of her enemies abroad and if possibly of her owne Sonnes at home Now if bold men dare thus play with the very Beard of Aaron Psal 133.2 what will they doe to the Skirts of his Rayment If the goodly Oake and the Cedar be thus beaten on with their Tempests what shall become of the slender Firre Tree and the poore Shrub of the valley If Schismaticall hands be catching at the Mytre and the Rotchet how will they rend the contemptible Hood and Surplesse Certainely if the maine Pillars and Buttresses of the Church be once shaken the weather-beaten Tiles and Rafters will be tumbling about their eares However in despight of the envious Basiliske Psalm 57.4 this poyson of the Aspe and Gall of the viper the speares and arrowes and sharpe Swords of these holy Libellers O blessed for ever be the God of Heaven and under him here His God of earth Ezra 7.6 a most Gratious Soveraigne Ezra is in high Favour and The King hath granted him all his requests according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him So that your Grace is still above danger and shot-free of their Power though not of their Envie which no doubt is curst enough but that her hornes are short and if they were not I might appositely enough bring home That to your fatherly Care of the Church here a word onely or two exchang'd which in the like case S. Ierom did to the learned Bishop of Hippo the great Repairer of the primitive Faith In orbe celebraris Canonici Te Epist 57. D. Aug. circa sinem Conditorem antiquae rursum Fidei venerantur quod signum majoris eft gloriae omnes Schismatici detestantur Tuos pari persequuntur odio ut quos Gladio nequeunt voto intersiciant Pardon this Digression most Reverend Father Obscure men may without offence deplore the miseries they cannot redresse Those that are more eminent may doe both A Generall Harmony aswell in Doctrine as in Discipline is yet wanting in the publike practice of our Church though not in the Principles thereof which is the maine Anvile most of my Sermons hammer on where though you shall meete belike with much dust and rubbish yet there is a way begunne to a richer Myne which more elaborate and higher wits may dig after if they please And as in publike Vineyards there are tàm Vvae quàm Labruscae here a wilde Grape there a Greene one yonder a Third in its full bloud more ripened for your Palate So it is in this mixture of my labours according to the disposition of their severall Dedications where though every peece may finde an Incourager None a Vindicator justly but in a religious and learned Metropolitan to whose Gracious hands are in all obedience offered These and all the Powers of Your Graces most obliged Honourer and Servant HVM SYDENHAM THE WEL-TVNED CYMBALL OR A Vindication of the moderne Harmony and Ornaments in our Churches AGAINST The Murmurings of their discontented OPPOSERS A SERMON Occasionally preached at the Dedication of an ORGAN lately set up at Bruton in Sommerset By Humphrey Sydenham PSAL. 150. v. 4 5. Laudate Dominum in Chordis Organo laudate eum in Cymbalis Iubilationis LONDON Printed by IOHN BEALE for Humphrey Robinson at the Signe of the Three Pigeons in PAULS Church-yard 1637. TO MY HONOURABLE Friend JOHN COVENTRY Esquire Sonne to the Right Honorable THOMAS Lord COVENTRY Baron of Alesborough and Lord Keeper of the Great SEALE of England SIR I Presume a musicall Discourse can neither bee improper nor unseasonable for him that hath so much harmony in himselfe that holds such a consonancy with the practice of the Church he lives in And this is both your happinesse and your ayme Too many there are which imploy their wit and greatnesse a contrary way and delight altogether in the jarring of the string as if there were no Melody but in Discords but such are not within your fingering nor indeed your fancie knowing that a Song
to the Right Honourable IOHN Lord POVLETT Baron of Henton St. George SIR IF there be a Succession of Vertues with the Fortunes of Great men doubtlesse there should be of the Services of those that honour them This makes me speak boldly through the sides of your Noble Father whose continued respects towards me and incouragements I cannot better acknowledge than by my thankefull expressions to such a Son who in the hopes and expectations of his Countrey shall no lesse inherit Him than his Revenewes Ana then Honour Riches Wisedome you cannot but prescribe for what else may either intitle you to Greatnesse here or to Glory hereafter Such a Patronage as This I could not but listen after where is as well Vertue to countenance me as Power and so perhaps Censure and Prejudice may be a little hush't or at least not so loud but that the labours of poore men may travell the world if not without their snarlings for who can so muzzle a blacke mouth'd Curre yet without their publique Barkings and traducements Beleeve it Sir what I present you here is mine owne though but a mite and a mite thus offered cannot prove lesse acceptable to a noble Treasury than an Oblation of a richer value since your Free-will offerings were ever of best esteeme both with God and Good men which doth hopefully incourage me of your faire entertainment of This from the hands of Your most devoted HVM SYDENHAM THE CHRISTIAN DUELL The first Sermon ROM 7.25 So then with the minde I my selfe serve the Law of God but with the flesh the Law of sinne THis life is a warfare and this Text a lively description of it where the parts lye as the two Armies of Israel and the Philistines did in Elah Ephes Dammim there is a Mountaine on the one side and a Mountaine on the other and a Valley betweene them 1 Sam. 17. Here is first Lex Dei V. 3. the Law of God on that Mountain the Israelite pitcheth then Lex peccati the Law of sinne on this the Philistine betweene both there is a spacious Valley where David encountreth the mightie Goliah the spirituall Combatant his fleshly adversary and this in the Ego ipse I my selfe where the conflict is both hot and doubtfull sometimes the flesh hath the defeate and then the Law of God hath the glory sometimes the minde is overlaid by the strokes of the Flesh and then the Law of sinne In this Duell our Apostle is a maine Champion or to use his own word a Servant Ego ipse servio I my selfe serve and I serve two wayes mentally with the minde that is for the Law of God carnally with the flesh this for the Law of sinne Serm. 44. de temp Audi saith the Father vitam justi in isto adhuc corpore bellum esse nondum triumphum the righteous man hath but a skirmish here no triumph no triumph yet but a daily tempest and strugling betweene the minde and the flesh the Law of God and the Law of sinne and this Law is the occasion of that warre and that warre of captivitie and yet this captivitie at last of triumph I finde a Law in my members fighting against the Law of my minde Quando audis repugnantem quandò captivantem bellum non agnoscis D. Aug. ibid. and bringing me into captivitie to the Law of sinne V. 23. Here is fighting and bringing into Captivity that 's the Warre on the other side Wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord v. 24. Here is deliverance from death and Grace by Iesus Christ our Lord this the Triumph Now the ground both of that warre and this Triumph the Apostle locks up here in a Nempe igitur a so then So then with the minde I my selfe serve the Law of God but with the flesh the Law of sinne Thus you see how the Field is pitch'd and every word in its severall squadron but before wee enter lists or can well shew you the heate of the encounter it will not be amisse to open first what the word Minde imports what her office and properties then what the Law of God and the service requir'd there and so the Analogie between both In the next ranke what the word Flesh specifies what the Law of sinne the service due there also and the relation between them This done I shall in the reare bring up the ego ipse the Apostle himselfe harness'd and ready arm'd for the spirituall conflict and setting him betweene the Minde and the Flesh the Law of God and the Law of sinne typifie and represent unto you the state of a true Christian Souldier here on earth how his loynes should be girt his feet shod his Armour buckled on what his breast-plate and Shield and Sword and Helmet and how farre able or not to withstand all the firy Darts of the wicked one This whilst I endevour to performe I shall desire this honorable and learned Throng to make use of Saint Augustines Apologie on the same subject Potentiam mihi praebeat charitas vestra D. Aug. Serm. 5. de verb. Ap. ut si habeam propter obscuritatem rerum difficilem disputationem saltem habeam facilem vocem ut autem prosit labor noster sit patiens auditus vester Discourses which savour of depth and industry are most proper for noble and ingenuous Auditories and looke for patient attention and candid interpretation I begin where I should with the minde of man tell you what it meaneth here and how it holds conformitie with the Law of GOD. PARS I. With the minde I serve the Law of God AND for the better opening of this Cloud both Fathers and Interpreters make a criticisme between Soule and Minde and Spirit which some endevouring to expresse have not unfitly compar'd to a house of three roomes or stories in the lower roome is Anima in the middle Mens above both Spiritus as the Cock-loft or upper Region of the Soule In these three is the substance of the soule lodged Quasi quadam sua Trinitate this being it seemes an Embleme of the Deity a Trinitie in Unitie and a Unitie in Trinitie the Essence the same in all but the proprietie diverse like severall strings in an Instrument set in tune to make up one Harmony and therefore it is call'd Anima De spirit Anima c. 12. dum animat Spiritus dum spirat mens dum metit meminit Or else Anima dum vegetat mens dum intelligit Spiritus dum contemplatur So that here is no Essentiall but onely a Vertuall difference the substance of the soule lying in the powers and properties thereof and yet not divided into parts but simple and individuall these powers neither impairing nor adding to the unitie of the soule no more than the diversities of streames to the unitie of one source or fountaine And yet there are divers steps