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Cor humiliatum & contritum a sermon preached at S. Pauls Church London, Nov. 29, 1663 / by Richard Lee ... ; wherein was delivered the profession of his judgement against the Solemn league and covenant, the late King's death, &c.
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Lee, Richard, 1611-1684.
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offences saith our Saviour Matth. 18.7 not passive offences saith the late Reverend Hoard i. e. Actions which men stumble at when they have no just cause through their own ignorance ill-affectedness rashness pride or any like cause for then wo would be to the very best men the earth bears none being able to walk so accurately blamelesly and wisely as to avoid and prevent all captious exceptions cavils and prejudices no not our Saviour himself for his Disciples told him Mat. 15. that the Pharisees were offended at him Our Lord then means Active scandals truly and properly given such as carry that in their foreheads which the Christian World nay the Pagan world cannot choose but be offended at Such are 1. The late National Oath and Covenant which is either leterally to be kept which I hope none dare say or to be repented of which I hope all will say One of the Horns of this Dilemma will Gore 2. The killing of our late Soveraign Lord the King not to be mentioned without abhorrency nor forgotten without stupidity nihil funestius luctuosius nihil 3. The very scandalous offences in Life and Doctrine accompanying our late Rebellions and Schismatical courses and our continued compliance with the late Usurpations and Traytorous forces These are those evil deeds by which we have given occasion to the enemies of God to Blaspheam Vide Christianos quid agunt evidenter fieri potest de ipso Christo sciri quid doceat thus the Pagans in Salvian See what the Christians do and by that you may easily know what their Christ teacheth These are those horrid scandals which live in the memories of men and do daily mischief for 1. Do they not serve mens turns for the justification of their sins 2. Do they not fill their heads with hopes that they shall do well enough notwithstanding their seditions conspiracies and Rebellions though they should put the Kingdom again into blood seeing such men who were reputed good and are now believed to be in Heaven were guilty of the same and worse But that I may come to that which is Verbum Diei It was Prophesied by our Soveraign of glorious memory Christus Jehovae to his Son our now most Gracious King Miraculum Clementiae Just up to the highest example but Merciful beyond example in the 27. Meditation of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That the most of all sides who have done amiss have done so not out of malice but mis-information and misunderstanding of things And which is the Prophesie that none will be more loyal and faithful to You or to Me than those subjects who sensible of their own errors and our injuries will feel in their souls most vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Behold this day this Prophesie fulfilled for feeling in my soul most vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for my former defects I have voluntarily taken hold of this solemn opportunity having here neither Text nor terms put upon me as one of the greatest mercies of my life the advantage of grace the fruit of the Spirit Nutus Dei Gods beckning me into this place wherein to offer to him the Sacrifice of a broken heart and contrite spirit What was St. Paul's comfort after the confession of his sin 1 Cor. 15. is mine though not worthy to be called an Apostle a subject of the Kings a son of the Church founded in Praelacy from which Government this Nation received the everlasting Gospel planted and watered with their blood The blood of our learnedst and most religious Martyrs Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Ridley Bishop of London Latimer Bishop of Worster Hooper Bishop of Glocester Ferrer Bishop of St. Davids these all dyed Protestant Bishops in opposition to popery That is 1. To all those Doctrines held by the modern Church of Rome which are either contrary to the written word of God or be superadded as necessary points of Faith to be of all Christians believed upon pain of damnation 2. To all those superstitions used in the worship of God which are either unlawful as being contrary to Gods word or being not contrary and therefore arbitrary and indifferent are made essentials and imposed as necessary parts of worship So Dr. Sanderson the late learned loving and vigilant Bishop of Lincoln of reverend memory And Oh that my head were a fountain of tears to bewail our ingratitude injustice perjury and Antichristianism in covenanting against them I say that though unworthy to be called a subject of the Kings a Son of the Church Yet by the grace of God I am that I am a Penitent a Convert And as a token of it with St. Paul to make some compensation where I have done the wrong I have herein laboured more abundantly than they all who have alike offended And not as pleasing men but God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the searcher of hearts I do here with that seriousness as if I were immediately to appear before the Tribunal of Christ make this threefold profession of my judgment 1. That the Solemn League and Covenant which I have taken was and could not be other than sinfully taken by me or any other and continues so to all that have taken it to be sin to them until they have renounced it And therefore cannot but condemn my own or any other of my brethrens repentance whilest we would seem to repent of other our offences against God our Sovereign and this Church but hold fast defend stil that Covenant which was and as it is to be feared is still secretly meant as a common band of confederacy and iniquity And therefore do by these admonish all that are involved in this guilt with my self no longer to add impenitency unto their sin upon pretence of conscience for that which ought to be renounced as we tender our own and others souls safety for conscience sake 2. That I believe the killing our late Sovereign Lord the King was a most horrid murder and parricide and the great shame of all them and their religion that acted in it or towards it or after approved it by assisting thereto by any force or Councel or preaching or praying or giving thanks And therefore also cannot but condemn from my heart all such who though not consenting to killing yet teach it lawful for some subjects to resist by force fight against imprison and forbid addresses unto their Liege-Lord and Sovereign And particularly I cannot but condemn that robbing of the King of the universal subjection and defence due to his sacred Majesty by such equivocal swearing that they will defend his Person in the defence of the true Religion as it is mentioned in the late Covenant And all these practices and Doctrines I do freely acknowledge to be more evidently and truly Popish than any thing which hath in the late Quarrels been objected to the Fathers and Sons of the Church of England 3. That whereas I do acknowledge that very often other scandalous offences in Life and Doctrine are wont to accompany such Rebellious and Schismatical courses and continued compliance with all present Usurpations through all the time of Rebellions force so as that it needs God's infinite mercy to pardon and great charity from men to believe any following profession of repentance yet for as much as a sinner hath no other way or hope left of his Salvation but such sincere and late repentance I humbly crave pardon of God and man for any offences which I have given and beseech all men to believe this my unfeigned Profession of Repentance For as much as Charity 1. Suffers long and is Kind 1 Cor. 13.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word signifies a gentleness sweetness of manners hence Christians in the purest times of the Church were cal'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the loveliness of their conversation one towards another 2. It doth not behave it self unseemly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth not bitterly disgrace another is not transported by cruel passions 3. Is not easily provoked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fals not quickly into a sharp fit 4. Rejoiceth not in iniquity is not glad another hath done ill that thereby he may be disgraced but rejoiceth in and with the Truth 5. Bears all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Beam bears the Building or as the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies covers faults with her large Mantle Non facile de quoquam desperat quin ad meliorem fungem venire possit as the learned Grotius on the place doth not easily despair of any but that he may repent and be saved Lastly Believes all things not all things simply but credenda credibilia as Paraeus speaks in other mens sayings and doings believes the best As an Evidence of this Charity In all humility I beseech you Men Brethren and Right Reverend Father to join with me in Prayer That the God of Peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ the great Shepheard of the Sheep through the bloud of the everlasting Covenant would make us all perfect in every good work to do his will working in us all that which is well pleasing in his sight And that in the multitude of his mercy he would forgive us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please him in newness of life to the honour and glory of his Name through Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all glory Majesty Dominion Power and Adoration both now and for evermore Hallelujah FINIS
BATEMAN MAIOR Martis octavo die Decemb. 1663. Annóque Regis Caroli Secundi Angliae c. 15. IT is ordered that Dr Lee be desired from this Court to print his Sermon Preached at S. Paul's Church on Sunday last was seven-night before the Lord Maior and Aldermen and a great assembly of the Citizens of London Weld PErlegi hanc Concionem cui Titulus Cor Humiliatum Contritum in quâ nihil occurrit sanae Fidei Disciplinae Ecclesiae Anglicanae aut bonis moribus contrarium Quinimo dignissimam censeo quae publicae utilitatis exempli causâ Typis mandetur Joh. Hall R. in Christo Pat. Humfredo Episc Lond. à Sac. Domest Decemb. 9. 1663. Cor Humiliatum Contritum A SERMON PREACHED At S. PAULS Church LONDON Nov. 29. 1663. By RICHARD LEE D.D. Chaplain to the most Renowned GEORGE Duke of Albemarle his Grace and Rector of Kings-Hatfield in Hartfordshire WHEREIN Was delivered the profession of his judgement against the Solemn League and Covenant the late KING'S Death c. DEVS NON DESPICIET CORPS 50 CONTRITVM ET HVMILITATVM Printed for R. Royston J. Williams T. Garthwait 1663. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God GILBERT By Divine Providence Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate of all England and Metropolitane and one of His MAJESTIES most Honourable Privy Council May it please your Grace IT was the Prophecie of His late Majesty that Incomparable and Divine Prince of glorious and eternal memory to His Son our now most gracious Soveraign whom God hath nourished preserved restored and blest by Miracles blest in Himself and the great miracle of Clemency to His people in the 27th Meditation of His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That none will be more loyal and faithful to You and Me then those Subjects who being sensible of their own Errors and Our Injuries will feel in their souls vehement motives to Repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects Now feeling in my soul vehement motives to Repentance and earnest desires to make some Reparations for my former defects I resolved on some publick compensation and accordingly composed this Sermon which I preach'd first to the University of Cambridge where it was received Ambabus ulnis with an open bosome Next to this famous City at S. Paul's whither I had been summoned without Text or terms by the Angel of that Church the now Lord Bishop of London who heard me with an exemplary Attention and Paternal affection and afterwards received embraced and blessed me Encouraged and Commanded my Sermon to the Press for publick benefit The Auditory though greater then had been known in the memory of man yet was composed into a spirit and posture sutable to the Majesty Holiness and Presence of that God in whose House we were I did with much fear address my self to this service finding so much Reason to distrust my own Abilities but now with a Joy answerable to that Presence and Influence I had from God in speaking and that Incouragement I had from all Degrees of men especially from that excellent Person the Lord Bishop to Printing I now publickly make this offering to your Grace to whom I not onely owe Canonical Obedience but an account of all the service I doe in the Church in which service Loyalty and duty to His Majesty and my Superiors and to teach men so is eminently involved I well know I have incurr'd some mens Censures by speaking my Conscience in Points they relish not and am like to displease others who are wont to condemn before-hand But as I rejoyce to offend any for their good so I am affraid to please any for their hurt However I have spoken what I believe and thereby have delivered my own Soul But lest the Medicine I have prescribed should turn to a Wound I have tempered the truth with meekness and moderation as well knowing that hard Arguments and soft words will prevail where the Sword cannot Speaking and Printing have their several Graces as God is pleased to set them on by his presence and influence This Sermon was blest with right Reverend right Honourable and Ingenuous Auditors the Ear was kind though the Eie may be severe It hath this in it that it was Seasonable Pills well Acuted purge the better What was once wrote to Egidius Abbot of Noremberg concerning David's words in 〈◊〉 18. Ps may be said of the words of my Text They are Verba legenda vivenda Living words I cannot think the Sermon worthy a publick view yet having obtained through God's blessing the Approbation of the University and City and chiefly of that Religious and grave Prelate the Lord B p of London by doing some good I hope I do therefore in all humility present it to your Grace through whose wise Conduct Sedulity and Paternal Condescentions such changes are wrought upon the Once Seduced that they are not now afraid of the Bishop but ashamed of themselves and of their own injustice ingratitude and perjury in Covenanting against them The Present I now make to your Grace is slender yet to speak in S. Jerome's words Nobiscum bene agitur si obtulerimus pelles Caprarum pilos It is well where we have no better we offer according to our Ability and that is Cor Humiliatum Contritum which your Grace cum Deo will not despise but own accept and honour However it be I humbly offer it in those submissive words and manner S. Aug. hath taught me Domine Deus quaecunque dixi de tuo agnoscant tui siqua de meo tu agnosce tui Whatever Lord I have spoken that is from thee own it in the hearts of thine and what I have spoken that is from my self forgive it and let it be by thine forgiven I cannot say at the Preaching this Sermon any contradicted but rather rejoyced and glorified the Word of the Lord Act. 13.48 Herein I content my self that I have with clearness and sincerity quitted and discharged 1. my Duty to God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the searcher of Hearts 2. to his most gracious Majesty the best of Kings blest in himself and beloved for his Wisdome Righteousness and wonderful Mercy who delights not in the noise of Chains and Fetters but rather wishes with Theodosius Se potuisse vel mortuos à morte revocare That he could recover the worst of his Subjects to their duty and happiness 3. To the Church of England my Indulgent Mother the best Reformed Protestant Church in the World in whose Bosome I desire to live and die a Penitent and Regular Son 4. To your Grace the Glorious Ruling Light and most Spiritual Father of this Church of England under whose great Name which alone will give it Protection and Value I send forth this Sermon into the World May that God who hath raised your Grace to the highest service in this Church give you the greatest success and fullest Satisfaction in himself that your