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A00586	The widowes petition delivered in a sermon before the iudges at the assises held at Northampton, Iuly 25. 1633. by Antony Fawkner, parson of Saltry All-Saints, alias Moygne in Huntingtonshire.	Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2.	1635 (1635)	STC 10724; ESTC S101885	19,826	36

THE WIDOWES PETITION Delivered in a Sermon before the Iudges at the Assises held at Northampton Iuly 25. 1633. by ANTONY FAWKNER Parson of Saltry All-Saints alias Moygne in Huntingtonshire Ieremiah 22. 3. 4. 5. Thus saith the Lord Execute ye Iudgement and Righteousnesse and deliver the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor and vex not the stranger the fatherlesse nor the widow doe no violence nor shed innocent bloud in this place For if you doe this thing then shall the King sitting vpon the Throne of David enter in by the gates of this house and ride vpon charets and vpon horses both he and his servants and his people But if ye will not heare these words I sweare by my selfe saith the Lord that this house shall be wast OXFORD Printed by Iohn Lichfield and are to be sold by Elias Peerse at his shoppe in St Maries Church-yard Anno Dom. 1635. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL MY MVCH HONOVRED PATRON Sr LEVVIS VVATSON KNIGHT AND BARONET His Maiesties High SHERIFE in the County of Northampton for the time being Grace Mercy and Peace c. Right Worshipfull TO three Benefactors are wee of the English Priesthood principally engaged To God for his providence over vs to our most Gratious King for his protection of vs and to our bounteous Patrons for their munificence vnto vs. God giues vs what is his owne and from no other the King what is his owne but yet deriued from God but the Patron calles to that portion which is neither his nor any others saue only Gods So that God is our Grand Patron which giues vs our maintenance our good Prince his vicegerent to defend it and our Patrones to whom by their and the Lawes permission belongs the right of advocation or calling are his stewards to dispence it To every one of which by the Law of gratitude belongs both the Dication of our selues and the Dedication of our Christian labours In this my poore piece though I cannot finde enough to satisfie all yet something out of it I may share to each so of what it is not defrauding any To God then I dedicate that sufficiency it hath for from his spirit and assistance it came to my Soveraigne the benefits of Peace Iustice and Obedience there-from accruing for to him in the first place they belong and to you the Booke for to you it appertaines as occasioned by your Commaund Truth only therein I can promise eloquence I dare not it agrees not with our Site where the daily obiect of our eares are the Comedians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the frequentest Prototypes of our imitations the obstreperous cadencies of gnats and froggs Plaine it is and so like my selfe and indeed ceremonious I would not bee because I would be what I should bee Reall For ceremonies are but supplements in the place of realities a tissue coate to cover a blacke skinne and therefore I haue alwaies esteemed their immoderate vse superstition as well in the expression of loue and duty as in religion I thinke I need no Apology to the reader For though my endeavours be weake yet are they honest Wherefore if he be good hee will pardon mee and if he be bad I will neglect him Accept them I beseech you Noble Sir what they are The best I can say of them is to say they are the embleme of your servants duty and with them you shall receiue the zeale of Your observant Chaplaine ANTONY FAWKNER Saltry All-Saints alias Moygne Iuly 30. 1633. To day is a day appointed for the administration of Iustice and a fit time therefore to preferre petitions I haue one Right honourable to present vnto your Lordships acceptation It is the Widowes in the Parable LVKE 18. 3. Doe mee Iustice against mine Adversary 1 And he spake a Parable vnto them that they ought alwaies to pray and not to wax faint 2 Saying There was in a City a Iudge which feared not God neither reverenced man 3 And there was a widow in that City and shee came vnto him saying doe mee Iustice against mine adversary 4 And he would not for a time But afterward he said with himselfe Though I feare not God nor reverence man 5 Yet because this widow troubles me I will doe her right lest at last she come and make me weary 6 And the Lord said heare what the vniust Iudge saith 7 And shall not God avenge his Elect which cry day and night vnto him yeathough hee suffer long for them 8 I tell you that hee will avenge them quickly But when the sonne of man comes shall hee finde faith on Earth And there was a Widow in that Citty which came to him saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Doe me Iustice against mine Adversary THough God hath made man in his image yet hath hee not framed him his statue Some lines indeed of his figure he hath given him but the pitch of his stature in the whole extent of infinity hee hath iustly denied him Like a skilfull painter who shewes the curiosity of his cunning in purtraying the Lanskip of himselfe which like a dwarfe standes a loofe off shadowed in a mist or cloude bearing indeede some resemblance of his feature but no proportion at all nor paralell to the size or bignesse of his body naturall So that as the eye of man which is the Sunne of the lesser world though it represent the eye of heaven the Sun of the firmament yet is so disproportioned in regard of excellency that it is not only eclipsed but also dazelled by the greaters glory our vnderstanding likewise the clearest eye of the soule and the best pourtraitures solis justitiae of that Sunne of righteousnesse Almighty God in man is but oculus noctuae the dimme sight of a purblinde owle which waters at the Maiesty at the brightnesse at the sunne of his countenance and sees him best after sun-set when he declines the luster of his face 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his back-parts Moses saw no more Exod. 33. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the darke in twilight St Paul saw him no clearer 1. Cor. 13. 12. If then Gods essence be of so inscrutable a secrecie it is but fitting its revelation should be hallowed with mystery Wherefore Satan who was alwaies ambitious to vsurpe and counterfet the magnificence of his glory ever hooded his Oracles with the reverend vaile of sacred obscurity The Priests must interpret what they alone could heare in their secret Adyts and Sphinx in porticu the Sphinx painted in the porch was the infallible Embleme of divine riddles and holy mysteries in the temple And in all this Satan is but Gods Ape arrogating vnto himselfe by a presumptuous imitation what is only due to the Almighties perfection 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 1. 1. God spake of old in diuers manners c. by Dreames by Prophets and by Vrim but all obscure Vrim requires an accurate observation Dreames their interpretation and Prophets their exposition They were