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A55880	A sermon preached at Exon, in the Cathedral of St. Peter, at the visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Anthony, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Exon by John Prince ...	Prince, John, 1643-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing P3478; ESTC R23297	20,654	52

A SERMON PREACHED AT EXON In the Cathedral of St. PETER AT THE VISITATION OF THE Right Reverend Father in GOD ANTHONY by Divine permission Lord Bishop of EXON By John Prince Minister of the Gospel at St. Martins EXON LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell for R. Royston Bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty and are to be sold by Abisha Brocas Bookseller in Exon. MDCLXXIV To the Right Worshipful Sir John Drake of Ash in the County of Devon Baronet SIR FOR the confidence of the present Address if an humble Gratitude become not Apology sufficient I must ingenuously profess I am provided of none That 's a Virtue however Drolled upon by no small Witts for a formal foppish thing of no common veneration among the Wise and Good of all Ages of which whoso is destitute has been deservedly reputed in the rank of neither Sen. The Philosopher having number'd several of the worst of Crimes concludes all with an Infra ista omnia Ingratus To avoid which worst of Characters Sir I am not a little happy of the present opportunity of acknowledging to the World how much I stand obliged to your Worthy Family A Family Great not only in its Antiquity and most Noble Alliance if so near Relation to the Villiers Boteler Marleburgh Newport can speak it so But if there be any truth in Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus like to be much more so in your great Virtue and Sobriety which truly in a Gentleman of your Years and Quality looks in this Age like the Poets Rara avis and attracts not only Applause but Wonder You are not ignorant Sir of the strange Innovations the present Generation seems imposing upon all things how Sacred or Venerable soever The Notion of the present Virtue we find with some differs as much from the Ancient as the Mode-Cravett does from the Yellow Ruffs of our Ancestors And those Vices which heretofore would be owned by none but the most Profligate Ruffian are now made the Ingredient of an Accomplished and Brave Man Grace sometime was without Morality and now Morality is made to swallow up all Grace The most Reformed Religion as 't would be accounted we find had well-nigh banished Philosophy and all other Learning out of the Land but Philosophy now begins to stomach the affront and thinks to revenge the indignity by threatning an Ostracism to Religion which seems to bode thus much That among so many contrasts of Opinion about both we shall not enjoy if some can do 't either long But Sir I crave leave to remember you of an excellent Passage of your Great Vncle Lloyd Fair Warn the late Earl of Marl. in his Letter to Sir H. P. That a certain thing going up and down the World call'd Religion though pretended and dressed Fantastically and to purposes bad enough does not yet by such evil dealing lose its Being And though it requires no small Resolution to pass through the Raillery of a Frolick Age in the Embrace of a despised Virtue yet the Honour 't will create you in all good mens breasts while you live whose Censure only is truly Valuable and the sweet Perfume 't will leave on your Name when you dye and that continual Feast 't will prove to your Conscience living and dying will I doubt not carry you on in all virtuous Practices stedfast unto the end Whereby you will not only highly Accomode your truest Interest as every Wise-Man should but prove likewise an Example of real Greatness and Generosity to others of your own Age and Quality who do not a little need it as every charitable Man would And what is more infinitely endear your self and all your concerns to the Great and Good God whose loving kindness is not only better than all the Honour and Grandeur of this World but as the royal Prophet tells us Better than Life it self Vnto which I take leave to commend you with the humble Ambition of being own'd for Your most faithfully devoted Servant JOHN PRINCE St. Martins Exon. Decem. 18. 1674. 1 TIM 4.16 Take heed unto thy self and to thy Doctrine continue in them For in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee AELIAN in the 41st chap. of the 9th Pag. 260. Book of his Histories tells us That when Pausanias the Lacedaemonian at a certain Treat desired Simonides the Poet to bestow upon him some wise Saying he gave him this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Remember you are a Man But the great Captain swoln with Pride and Ambition at that time made little account of it till a while after Misery and Famine bringing him down nigher to himself He thrice breaks out into this Acknowledgment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Cean There was great weight in that Golden Sentence of thine Truly let who will among our selves seriously consider it he will not deny it the same just Encomium The ignorance and misapprehension of which is one great occasion of the many disorders observable in human life There are but few who remember themselves Men either Pride and Arrogance elates them above the species of Humanity and they bestow a strange Apotheosis upon themselves as Alexander Commodus and others have done or else on the other hand by Luxury and sottish Practices they debase their Noble Natures to the condition of Brutes on whom the observation of Tacitus concerning Aulus Vitellius may be inverted Through the stupidity of their drenched Natures if others did not remember they were Men they themselves would utterly have forgotten it What renders the Delphick Oracle very famous was that wise Sentence 't was heard to deliver Know thy self They are but few words but as much sense as Jupiter himself knew Pag. 88. B. As Plutarch in his Consolatory Oration to Apollonius quotes it from Ion. The great Miscarriages on both hands most certainly arise from the unjust Measures Men take of themselves either from Pride or Contempt The famous Moralist among his Apothegms relates this memorable one of Cato Senior Pag. 53. B. That he thought it every ones duty Seipsum maxime vereri To pay the greatest reverence to himself For he who shall once come to despise and contemn himself soon sinks infinitely beneath the Dignity of his own Nature and becomes a Swine a Wolf a Goat erect and clad in the Mode and Garb of a Man This certainly is the Duty this the Obligation of all But how much more so may we conclude it theirs who are or should be the more wise and refin'd part of Man-kind the Guides and Curates of Souls These should especially attend themselves and their Doctrines too on a conscientious regard to which so weighty a Concern as their own and others Salvation is said to depend in the words of the Text Take heed unto thy self and thy Doctrine for in so doing c. And here to give you a tedious Analysis of the Chapter to shew the Connexion of the Text and Context or to crumble