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lord_n	baronet_n	knight_n	sir_n	27,306	5	7.3237	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96652	A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame.	Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901	27,614	71

A good and seasonable CAVEAT FOR CHRISTIANS Delivered in a Sermon at the Funerall of the Right Worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley Knight and Baronet in the Parish Church of Breedon in Leicester-Shire By John Wilson Master of Arts and Preacher of Gods word in the sayd Parish O Lord keepe my soule Psa. 25. 20. For what shall it profit a man if he win the whole world and lose his owne soule or what recompence or exchange shall a man give for his soule Mat. 16. 26. Imprimatur Jo. Downame 7. Octob. 1646. LONDON Printed for Richard Harper and are to be sold at his shop in Smithfield 1646. TO The Right VVorshipfull Sir ROBERT SHIRLEY Knight Baronet And to his vertuous consort the Lady CATHARINE SHIRLEY the Authour wisheth all happines externall internall and eternall Rt. Wor. HAd not the importunity of friends prevailed with me I had never published this Sermon preached at the solemnization of the funerall obsequies of your Noble brother Sir Charles for I was never so well conceited of the product of my weak brain as to deem it worthy publique view If Moses the authour of my Text professed that he was not eloquent that he was slow of speech and unapt for so great employment as he was called to I am sure I have ten thousand thousand times more cause to disclaime eloquence and to acknowledge my owne weakenesse and unworthinesse yet this is my comfort Innocentia melior eloquentiâ b innocence is better then eloquence a good cause better then a good oratour This little Manuall or Enchiridion I am sure will be censured and I feare more then practiced c one perhaps will quarrell with the stile another with the method and others with the matter but let such know that I seeke not the suffrages of their praise or approbation d who like summer ●lyes breath corruption on the best provision the malignity of whose wit can find fault with the best actions not onely of men but of God also as Lucians Momus who being called to judge of the excellency of those master peeces the gods had made scil. a man a house and a horse found fault withal three with the horse that it had not hornes for defence with the house that it had not motion and with the man that he had not a window to look into his breast even so these malevolent censurers criticise with a froward curiosity upon the best and purest volumnes and often times fill and blot them with their own Astericks and errata's And where a candid censure might of every thing make a good construction and take all in a faire sense there will they through misconstruction or some idle conjecture though to the fullest period adde a nonnulla desiderantur that something is wanting or that it might have beene better done otherwise Insomuch that it is even a taske for divinity to please man g not that this argues any weaknesse in God who is able to do all things but a perversnesse in mans nature that will be content with nothing If therefore such find fault it shall not trouble me if any be contentious we have no such custome nor the Church of God 1 Corin. 11. 16. The more ingenious are more courteous i together with whom so your Wor. continues your approbation of it I shall thinke my selfe happy in my labours k and acknowledge your favour herein to be farre transcending my merit the best of whose endeavors cannot deserve the influence of so noble a protectour It is a good rule that in dedicating books we should be sure that the thing be worthy the person to whom it is dedicated l I will not say this is such m because I am conscious to my selfe of much weaknesse and unworthinesse yet you will the more magnifie your owne worth by receiving so small a mite into your so noble patrociny I shall forbeare much Apologizing for your protection of this ensuing Sermon having had assurance thereof already from you at your house in Staunton my humble suite is that you will pardon my demerits and at your best leasure peruse it and I trust that as God hath endowed you with a great temporall estate on earth so you may by these my weake endeavours be excited to labour for and diligently seek after an eternall inheritance in the kingdome of heaven The motto anexed to your coate of armes is A Eterna prapon● caducis a●d indeed it is the s●mme of my exhortations in the ensuing Sermon Be pleased therefore to ●emember what you in that motto professe Prefer heavenly above earthly things set your affections on things above and not on things beneath take heed to your selves and keep your soules diligently But the volumne is so small that I must make the preface suitable lest the City run out of the gates as the Philosophers jeered the men of Myndum I shall therefore conclude with that of Saint Paul to the Thessalonians 1 Ep. 3 ch. 12. 13. ver. the Lord make you encrease and abound in love one towards another and towards all men to the end he may establish your hearts unbl●mable in holinesse before God our father even at the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his Saints which is and shall be the hearty and constant prayer of Your most humble servant IOHN WILSON A good caveat for Christians Deut. chap. 4. part of the ninth verse Onely take heed to thy selfe and keepe thy soule diligently THis is grave counsell given by Moses the lawgiver a man both religious and learned who though his humility was such that he pleaded want of eloquence slownesse of tongue and imperfection of speech Exod. 4. 10. yet his knowledge was so great and that not only in the learning of the Egyptians but also in spirituall matters that wee may most justly affirme of him that he was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} weighty in his sentences for proofe whereof you neede travaile no farther then my text which is both short and sweet and therefore I hope will be the more welcom to you for it fares with sentences as it doth with coynes In coynes they that in smallest compasse conteyn greatest values are most esteemd and in sentences they that in fewest words comprize most matter are most praysed and indeed such is this of my text it is both short and sweet It is short and therefore you will bee without excuse if you forget it it is sweet and therefore he must needes bee a distempered man that disrellishes it it is short and indeede so short that I may justly affirme with Basil that it is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} even a volumn in a sentence consilium optimum in mole minima one of the excellentest exhortations in one of the least sentences {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as it were Homers Iliads in a nut shell It is also sweete and so