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A42149	The Catholique doctor and his spiritual catholicon to cure our sinfull soules a communion-sermon preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. Robert Foster Lord Chief Justice of the King's bench, and the rest of the reverend judges, and serjeants at law, in Serjeants-Inn in Fleetstreet, on Sunday May the 26th, 1661 / by Matthevv Griffith ...	Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665.; Foster, Robert, Sir, 1589-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing G2010; ESTC R2789	24,194	37

have they both a Prophet an Evangelist and an Apostle in the Text in expresse tearms refuting them for he saith that the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin and if so then there is no mans case whatsoever so desperate but if he take this spiritual Catholicon it will cure him Secondly This Collective All is comfortable against the Enormity of Sin for if Christs blood cleanses us from all sin then there is no sin whatsoever in its own nature unpardonable and if any shall object that our Saviour speaking of the sin against the Holy-Ghost in the 12. of St. Matthew saith it shall never be forgiven neither in this World nor in the World to come I answer with the Ancients that this impossibility of pardon is not exparte gratiae Divinae but pervicaciae humanae proculcantis sanguinem Jesu sanari renuentis When Cain had murthered his Brother Ibel who was both a Virgin and a Martyr and a Type of Christ in the consciousnesse of so horrid a fact he cryed out My sin is greater then can be forgiven but St. Augustine in an holy impatience was so transported with the consideration of Cains desperate conclusion that he gave him the Lye Mentiris Cain saith he Cain thou lyest thy sin is not greater then can be forgiven for God wants not mercy enough to forgive thee hadst thou but grace enough to beg forgivenesse If thou perish it is thy own fault who by wilfully rejecting the Medicine that should heal thee dost obstruct thy own mercies The Apostle speaking of all obstinate obdurate and impenitent sinners calls them Vessels of dishonour and it is with them as with an empty vessel cast into the Sea where though there be water enough to fill it yet it still remains empty because it hath not a capacity for want of a vent or hole to take the water in at Thirdly this Collective All plainly discovers that there is no need at all of humane purgations and satisfactions for if Christs blood cleanseth us from all sinne then there is nothing left for Masses Diriges Trentals purgatory and the like goulden-tail'd doctrines to do and by consequence down falls the Dagon of Popish puppets and the trinkets of their indulgence-mongers which like so many Laplanders do in truth sell nothing but winde The Pope sends them forth for filthy lucres Sake to make merchandise of mens souls Lastly this Collective All refells and refutes the dangerous errour of the Donatists and Novatians qui negarunt lapsis paenitenti●m salutem for if Christs blood cleanseth from all Sin then without question those sinnes are necessarily included which men commit after regeneration and conversion The good Samaritan I mean this Physician in the Text doth not deal with our sins as the unjust Steward in the Gospel did with his summs when the bill is an hundred to set down fifty for we are not solvant even fifty would as utterly undo us as if they were ten thousand talents St. John here speaks fully saithfully and satisfactorily to all troubled and trembling consciences The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin yet take heed that out of these sweet and saving premisses you draw not a fond and false conclusion They that presume to sinne because h●re they have such a salve as will cure all sores ●a spe fr●●● saith St. Bernard sperando percunt They are not Bees but of a Spider like nature who suck that poyson out of these saving flowers That one dead Flie is enough to infect this whole box of so precious ointment Shall we Sin and Sin heaping Peleon upon Ossa that grace may abound God forbid saith St. Paul Rom. 6. 2. There 's no reason saith Tertullian that Man should be the worse because God is better Martials Flie play'd so long under a tree till at last it was wrapt in Amber and so congeal'd in the drops that fell from the boughs Sic modo quae f … vita contempta manente funeribus facta est nunc pretiosa suis I close with the moral The best men on earth are but wormes saith the Princely Prophet in the 22 Psalm at the sixt and we see by experience that some kind of worms do turn Flies then let us who are but worms by nature learn by grace to imitate his Flie let us Oh let us be ever hovering about the tree of Christ's Crosse till we be wrapt and embalm'd and entomb'd in the precious amber of his fresh-bleeding wounds who as our Physician bled himself to death that we his Sin sick patients might live the life of grace here and the life of glory in the Heavens and this he grant us who hath so dearly bought us even Jesus Christ the righteous To whom with God the Father and the thrice blessed Spirit be ascrib'd as most due is all glory power and praise now and for ever FINIS Sermons and other Peices of Divinity Printed and Sold by JOHN PLAYFORD at his Shop in the Temple THE Great Work of Redemption Delivered in four Excellent Sermons Preached at St. Pauls and at the Spittle in the year 1641. First by Dr. Soames on Good Friday Second by Bishop Morton on Easter Day the Third by Dr. Potter Bishop of Carlile on Easter Munday Fourth by Dr. Westfield Bishop of Bristol on Easter Tuesday St. Pauls Thanksgiving A Sermon Preached in the Abby Church of Westminster before the House of Peers By James Buck D. D. A Sermon Preached on the 30. Day of January being the Day on which his Sacred Majesty King Charles the First was murdered the Text Lam. 4. 20. By John King Dean of Tuam in Ireland The Martyrdome of King Charles the First or his Conformity with Christ in his Sufferings In a Sermon Preached at Bredah before his Sacred Majesty King Charles the Second By the Right Reverend John Lord Bishop of Down Considerations touching the Liturgy of the Church of England In Reference to his Majesties late Gracious Declaration concerning the same By the Right Reverend John Gauden D. D. and now Lord Bishop of Exeter Souls Life or Pious Meditations for Devout Christians Written by the Religious and Harmonious Richard Portman Cheif Organist of His Late Majesties Royal Chappel to which is added his Pious Meditation on the Divine use of Musick

THE Catholique Doctor AND HIS SPIRITUAL CATHOLICON To CURE Our SINFULL SOULES A COMMUNION-SERMON Preach'd to the Right Honourable Sr. ROBERT FOSTER Lord Chief Justice of the KINGS BENCH and the rest of the Reverend Judges and Serjeants at LAW in SERJEANTS-Inne in Fleetstreet On Sunday May the 26th 1661. BY MATTHEVV GRIFFITH D. D. London Printed by W. Godbid for John Playford in the Inner Temple 1661. To the Right Honourable EDVVARD EARL of CLARENDON Lord Chancellour of ENGLAND c. MY LORD IT may seem a Paradox though it be true that this Communion Sermon was preach'd in a small Congregation viz. the Chappel in Serjeants-Inne in Fleet-street yet to a great and grave Auditory for the reverend Judges and Serjeants at Law were pleas'd there to honour me with their attention and approbation And as it is the onely staffe of my age and cheif comfort of my life that I am a servant to the truely Honorable Societies of the Temple of which the said Judges and Serjeants not long since were a considerable part so that I might not die altogether a stranger to your Lordship whom all knowing men look upon as the Quintessence and highest Extraction of those noble Societies I have assumed the confidence being over-entreated to print this Sermon to recommend herein to your Lordship a Physician in whose care and custody you may safely venture both body and soul in which respect as he is every way worthy of your Lordships cordial entertainment so my hope is that Your accustomed goodness will not onely pardon this presumption in one whose yet suffering condition can give no better evidence and assurance of his reall reverence and sincere desire to serve Your Lordship but also freely permit him to publish this peice of devotion under your Lordships name unto the people for your native Candour and supernatural Clemency have made you as the Historian stiles Titus their darling and delight Among whom not onely your Lordships countenance but connivance is enough to candy any person or action and to gain them both authority and acceptation Your Lordships infallible prudence in counselling and irresistible power in perswading out-shine all humane presidents and whosoever would now advance himself like an Oratour he must first sit a while in silence at Your Lordships feet and learn of you who are onely able to speak with as much grace and gravity as both Nestor and Gamaliel His Sacred Majesty who is under God the fountain of honour could not possibly do himself more right then by advancing you who are observ'd to discharge the high and weighty place of Lord Chancellour with so much ability and satisfaction that the Dignity it self is preferr'd in being conferr'd upon Your Lordship all whose Injunctions and Decrees are temper'd not onely Ad Justitiam but Ad pondus aequale so that though but one side can prevaile yet the other hath not the least colour to complain of any thing but the demerits of his Cause And howe're the incredible extent and irreparable expence of some Suites in Chancery have formerly turn'd both parts into Plaintiffs at last when though one seem'd to get the better yet in truth both were worsted yet now Your Lordships integrity and dexterity in determining causes render all Commencers in that Honorable Court as happy as any that go to Law which is a kind of waging war can in reason hope to be Cita mors aut Victoria laeta We need no other arguments to prove or inducements to believe that His Sacred Majesty hath at this day that extraordinary gift which the Apostle call'd The Spirit of discerning but onely this that he singled out Your Lordship as One fit and worthy to be nearest Himself If Moses in his time had been bless'd with such a Counsellor sure Jethro would never have diminish'd his Greatness by Advising him to call in so many Assistants Your Lordships wisdome is sole-sufficient to govern the vastest Empire which irrefragable truth no man can deny without the guilt and censure of gross ignorance Envy and heresie And were we not generally ingratefull if not stupid we would professedly congratulate our own happiness in the accumulation of your Honours and wish them in all respects as transcendent as your Merits But though some others like the nine Leapers that were heal'd return not thanks yet for my part the Psalmist hath taught me to say Good luck have you with your Honour Ride on till your christian progress centre in perfection in order whereunto you carry your self with so much sobriety and sweetness that those few who maligne your fortune yet cannot but love your person and all the rest think it their happiness to be commanded by your Lordship In whom as it is said of Daniel 5. 14. the Spirit of the Holy Gods light and understanding and excellent wisdome is found and consequently your Lordship deserves that Eulogie in the North which the Queen of the South gave to Solomon himself Happy are thy servants that stand alwayes in thy presence to hear thy wisdome This is all the ambition of him who here in all humility craves your Lordships patronage and vow's himself The humblest of Your Lordships Servants and truest Honourers Matthew Griffith The CATHOLIQUE DOCTOR AND His SPIRITVAL CATHOLICON TO Cure Our SINFULL SOULES 1 JOHN 1. 7. The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all Sin THE sum of all knowledge is Divinity the sum of all Divinity is the Scripture the sum of all the Scripture is the Gospel the sum of all the Gospel is my Text and the sum of my Text is in the Verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cleanseth which Verbe is a Metaphor taken from the learned and necessary profession of Physick in which there be so many sorts of purging and cleansing medicines And if you will give me leave to follow this Metaphor in dividing my Text it will fairely and without the least straining lead your Christian devotion into the serious consideration First of a Physician who is here describ'd not onely by his proper name Iesus and his Appellative name Christ but also by somewhat that is Relative His Son viz. The Son of God spoken of in the Context Secondly Of the Physick here administr'd viz. Blood The Blood of Jesus c. Thirdly Of the Operation of this Blood which is the Physick in the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It cleanseth Fourthly Of the Patients on whom this Physick works viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Us. Fifthly Of the sickness which so much endangers us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sin Sixthly Of the Extent of this mortal disease insinuated in the Collective All all Sin In the first you may note the transcendent diginity of this Physician for it is neither Galen nor Hipocrates nor any other meer man nor Aesculapius Apollo or any fictitious Diety nor Menecrates who affected to be stiled Menecrates Jupiter but it is Jesus Christ the Son of God In the second note the excellency of this