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A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

Pithagericall Transanimation to bee come into some of those scandalous and slanderous Detractors of that most Noble Voyage Surely if the prayers of all good Christians preuayle the expectation of the wisest and noblest the knowledge of the most experimented and learnedst the relation of the best traueld and obseruantst be true it is like to be the most worthy Voyage that euer was effected by any Christian in descring any Country of the world both for the peace of the Entry for the plenty of the Countrey and for the Clymate Seeing that the Countrey is not vnlike to equalize though not Inata for gold which is not impossible yet Tyrus for colours Basan for woods Persia for oyles Arabia for Spices Spaine for silks Tharsis for shipping Netherlands for Fish Bononia for fruite and by tillage Babylon for Corne besides the aboundance of Mulberies Minerals mettals Pearles Gummes Grapes Deere Fowle drugges for Physicke hearbes for food rootes for colours ashes for Sope timber for building pasture for feeding riuers for fishing and whatsoeuer commodity England wanteth The Philosopher commendeth the Temperature the Marchant the commodity the Polititian the oportunity the Diuine the Pietie in conuerting so many thousand soules The Virginian desireth it and the Spaniard enuyeth vs and yet our own lasie drousie yet barking Countrimen traduce it who should honour it if it were but for the remembrance of that Virgine Queen of eternal memory who was first godmother to that land and Nation As also that VIRGINE Country may in time proue to vs the Barne of Britaine as Sicily was to Rome or the Garden of the world as was Thessaly or the Argosie of the world as is Germany And besides the future expectation the present encouragement is exceeding much in that it is a Voyage countenanced by our gracious King consulted on by the Oracles of the Councel aduentured in by our wisest and greatest Nobles and vndertaken by so worthy so honourable and religious a LORD and furthered not onely by many other parties of this Land both Cleargy and Laity but also by the willing liberall contribution of this Honourable City and as that thrice worthy Deane of Glocester D. Morton not long since remembred his Maiesty and his Nobles that it is a Voyage wherin euery Christian ought to set to his helping hand seeing the Angell of Virginia cryeth out to this land as the Angell of Macedonia did to Paul O come and helpe vs. There is a fearefull woe denounced against those that came not to assist Deborah Curse yee Meroz sayeth the Angell of the Lord Curse yee the inhabitants thereof Iudg 5. because they came not to helpe the Lord to helpe the Lord against the mighty Whosoeuer they be that purposely withstand or confront this most Christian most Honourable Voyage let him read that place and feare Hath God called this land ad summum munus Apostolicū to that great worke of Apostleship that whereas this was one of the first parte of Christendome that receiued the Gospell so now it is the first part that euer Planted and Watered the Gospell in so great faire fruitfull a Countrie and shall Scepticall Humorists bee a meanes to keepe such an honour from vs such a blessing from them No my Beloued to the present assurance of great profite adde this future profite that whosoeuer hath a hand in this businesse shall receiue an vnspeakeable blessing for they that turne manie to righteousnesse Dan. 12. shall shine as the starres for euer and euer you will make Plutarches 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Athenocus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Sauadge country to become a sanctifyed Country you will obtaine their best commodities they will obtaine the sauing of their Soules you will enlarge the boundes of this Kingdome nay the bounds of heauen all the Angels that behold this if they reioyce so much at the conuersion of one Sinner O what will their ioy be at the conuersion of so many Goe on as yee haue begunne and the Lord shall bee with you goe and possesse the land it is a good land a land flowing with milke and honey God shall blesse you and those ends of the world shall honour him I will ende with one word of exhortation to this City many excellent thinges are spoken of thee as sometimes of the City of God Hither the Tribes come euen the Tribes of the Lord herein is the Seate of iudgement euen the seate of the house of Dauid Peace bee within thy walles plenteousnesse within thy Pallaces Yet remember how manyfold infections hence as from a fountaine haue issued out all the trickes of deceyuing the diuers lusts of filthy liuing the Pride of attire the cause of oppression gluttony in eating surfet in drinking and the generall disease of the fashions Lactant. 7. diuin Justit so that as Lactantius out of Sibilla prophesieth of Rome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So may it be sayde of the Transformation of London It should be Ierusalem the City of God and it is become Murthers slaughter-house Thefts refuge Oppressions safety Whoredoms Stewes Vsuries Banke Vanities Stage abounding in all kind of filthinesse and prophanenesse O remember that sinnes haue beene the Pioners of the greatest Cities His Maiesties speech the 21. of May to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen at Greenewitch and haue not left one stone vpon another My Honourable L. Mayor I need not to remember you in this behalfe The last Sabaoth you receyued a Lesson though not from the Crosse yet frō the Crown by our royal Ecclesiastes practise that lesson both concerning the infection of the body and infection of the soule of this city remēber the charge your yeare must end and your life must end you must giue account of your Stewardship My Honorable Lords yee Reuerend Fathers of the Law your iudgement is the Harbenger to the greater iudgement Yee are Gods but yee shalt die like men as God hath honoured you Psal 82. so honour him in setting foorth of his glory in punishing of his enemies in countenancing of his seruants O my Lords if there were not negligence either in Spirituall or Temporall Iudges could there bee so many hundred Priests and Iesuites Locusts of the bottomlesse pit among vs and so many thousand Papisticall Apostates since the death of the late Queene of blessed Memory Remember to punish these and to proceed in iudgement against them lest God proceede in iudgement against you And not onely punish his Enemies but countenance yea and reuerence his seruants O looke vpon the deiected state of the royall Priesthood the Cleargy They seeke not their auncient honours their honour lyeth in the dust but it shall reuiue They seeke now but ordinary fauours It was a faithfull witnesse of a religious and good heart in one of the chiefest honourablest among you in the L. Bishop of Winchesters case that the contempt of the Cleargy My L. Cooke in his reports will bee the downefall of Religion had the Leuites in the Law their Priuiledges and haue the meanest Clarks in your law their priuiledges and shall the Cleargie be PROHIBITED theirs it is Gods cause not theirs and if God take it in hand all your Prohibitions wil not serue Remember then to countenance and reuerence his seruants All of you my Beloued heare the Summe of al feare God and keep his cōmandements let there be vnity and verity in you of the Cleargy iudgement and mercy in you of the Magistracy obedience and religion in you of the Comminalty You all know God is angry wrath is come out the Plague is begunne yea continued from yeare to yeare rideth progresse from Country to Country executeth iudgement vpon high and low and keepeth Court at this time within this City O serue the Lord in feare Kisse the sonne lest he be angry and so yee perish from the right way with true repentant sinners appease him with poore distressed wretches entreat him with Patriarkes and Prophets and Apostles belieue him with all his Saintes and seruants loue him with the holy Angels prayse him with Heauen Earth and all the Creatures duely and dutifully serue him which Grace the God of all Grace graunt vs all Amen FINIS

and Eutichus who haue almost all fought as fiercely with their pennes as euer Caesar and Pompey did with their swordes But behold the Creator of all things whose throne is heauen whose footestoole is the earth who hath his garisons of Angels in the heauen of starres in the firmament of stormes in the winde of mil-dew in the ayre of Dragons in the deepe of all creatures in the world he receiueth him friendly and fauourably euen as a Master that had caught his runnagate seruant and hauing him fast thus sayth S. Chrys●stome bespeaketh him Chrysost in Act. Quid tibi v●s faciam nunc ecce venisti sub manus meas quo reeidit furor tuus insania zelus intempestinus vbi vincula c. Now I haue apprehended thee whatsoeuer thou wilt I will doe to thee whether hath thy madnesse tended thy fury thy vnseasonable vnreasonable zeale where be thy bonds or stripes or imprisonment Crimen obijcit non tam arguendo Locinus in Act. quam defendendo hee obiecteth his fault not so much reprouing Saul as defending himselfe as hee did in Iohn to the Iewes Many good workes haue I shewed you from my father Iohn for which of them doe yee stone mee So that Christ here his Mollis interrogat●o tollit iram his sweet soft heauenlie interrogation sheweth how farre hee was from indignation Blessed and thrice blessed bee his name for euer and euer The vse of this Doctrine Vse that we bee like vnto our Lord and Master euen in our reproofes and exprobrations to mitigate our anger and furie and feruour The Philosopher in his Ethickes confineth and limiteth the Sea of anger to his bounds Ethic. lib. 4. Why against whome how when and how farre it may proceed and surely Christians may learne that lesson to obserue the cause wherefore the persons with whome the season when the manner how and the end of the Tearme how farre it may passe and how long endure The greatest thing in that incomprehensible goodnes that we vespertilionum oculis Aristotle with our Wants eyes can behold is his mercy his iustice exceedeth his works his mercy exceedeth both hee is slow to anger and he keepeth not his anger for euer O then if the naturall edge of anger be whetted and sharpened on thy stony heart to wound those thou art angry with Remember to be slow vnto anger to be short in thy anger to be milde in thy anger remember how farre this sword may be vnsheathed I know there is a time to hate and a time to loue a time of peace and a time of warre a time wherein Clergie and Laitie that bee in office may whet their tongues like rasors their salt must bee quicke their voyce pearcing their sound powerful yet in all these kindes Subesse debet iracundia non praess● as Gregory counselleth let anger rather attend your reprehension Greg. in Iob. Angustaa Psal then commaund it Non vt dominando praeueniat sed vt simulando subsequatur so that it beare not a fury by going before but a shew in comming after and continue not in an odious tedious passion and perturbation of anger as thy anger must not be vnaduisedly not vniustly so neither rashly nor perpetually Anger is defined to be furor breuis if it be furor let it be breuis also of Pompey it is obserued dies natalis fatalis the day of his death was on the day of his birth Polychr and of Ionahs Guord that it came vp in a night and withered in a night and of Plinies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 borne in the rising dyes in the setting of the sunne and the Toad-stoole oritur moritur Plin. growes in a night and dyes in a night so let anger perish consume and consummate it selfe in a day sufficit dei malitta the day hath enough for his owne malice sayeth the Prophet nay a day is too much let it continue but a night let it bee like the vntimely fruite of a woman let it perish ere euer it see the Sunne sayeth Dauid nay a night is too much sufficit ad trom vna vel altera hora an howre or two is enough for anger sayeth Chrysostome nay an howre is too much Chrysost in Mat. be no longer angry then thou mayest say ouer the Greeke Alphabet sayeth the Heathen Philosopher nay that is too much sayeth the Diuine if thy violent vsurper Anger will holde the crowne of reason and manage the kingdome of vnderstanding let it bee but for a moment for the anger of God endureth but the twinckling of an eye sayeth Scripture Let not the Sunne that glorions eye of the world be as of thy wrath a faithfull witnes in heauen so not of thy vengeance the swift witnes in hell and when thou art angry be angry but sinne not Leo Ep●st let it be cum animo medentis non santentis as Leo speaketh not with the mind of a persecutor but of a helper speake thou vnto thine enemy mildly without choler moderately without feruour as thy Maister heere did Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Saul Saul the ingemination Nomen bis tinctum sanguine Austine a name againe and againe dyed deepe inough in bloud once in the olde and once in the new Testament repeated both of the Tribe of Beniamin both Tyrants It was a gracious fauor of the Lord to vouchsafe to question with him but to call him by his name Be● Lorinan Act. 9. and to ingeminate that name Hoc indicat affectum commiserationis it was a signe of his great affection and commiseration When he was saluted by Iudas with a kisse he vseth no other word then this Iudas betrayest thou the sonne of man with a kisse Why Iudas thou one of my friendes and followers but twelue and one a Deuill one of my owne trees to bee so blasted of my owne foundations to be so vndermined of my owne that had professed to forsake all to follow me and now none of all the world else to betray mee who vowed to follow to their losing of life now to follow and pursue and entrappe and betray my life Iudas thou to betray me what and to betray mee with a kisse the signe of perfect amity and the seale of loue and dost thou seale thy treason with a kisse Iudas my Apostle my friend Iudas as Luke calleth him Doest thou betray the sonne of man with a kisse It was a signe of his great affection in speaking to Martha who was more busie to prouide for his body then for her owne soule Martha Martha thou art troubled about many things but a greater signe of his affection Luke 22.31 when hee behelde Peter weake wrackt weather-beaten leaking sinking Peter hee doubleth his speech Simon Simon behold Sathan hath sought to winnow thee How mercifully dealt he with Peter who when hee was miraculously called from among Fishermen to bee a Fisher of men yet fell most fearefully and notwithstanding

all his fainting and falling yet hee was restored and receyued his story is an Ocean of mercy you shall find him somtimes doubting sometimes sinking sometimes distrusting sometimes denying so peremptorily and so blasphemously as if hee had beene reprobate Nay in the greatest misteries of our saluation Peter was possessed with a dead dull heauy drowsie sleepe Looke vpon him in the transfiguration Luke 9.32 Peter was a sleepe Looke vpon him in Christes Prayer Peter was a sleepe Mat. 26.39 Looke vpon him in the very howre of the power of darkenes when Christ was to be betrayed Peter was a sleepe Mar. ●3 34 In the Persecution of the Church when earnest prayer was made by all the Church for Peter Acts. 12.6 euen then also Peter was a sleepe And yet after all these slips and sleepes and falls and faults Peter is receyued to be Angelus terrestris Coelestis homo Magister Gentium Forma Martyrum Formido Daemonum Aug. de Temp. Indultor criminum Fons virtutum c. as Austen speaketh and to be though not Primas yet Primus Apostolorum but of all other that ingeminated Lamentation of his euen Ierusalem O Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest Prophets and stonest them that are sent vnto thee how often would I haue gathered thy children together Luk. 22.31 as the henne gathereth her chickens vnder her wings thou woulast not The passionate compassion that our Sauiour had ouer these Mat. 23.27 and so ouer all his is so infinite that no dimension in Arte no affection in nature no proportion in the Creature can expresse it O height of heauen depth of hell bredth of the world distance of the Poles loue of friends fathers mothers nurses they are but shadowes and semblances kennings not skannings of his fauour his mercies cannot be sufficiently descried or described they be the heads of Nilus riuers of Paradise springs of Lebanon fountaines of Hermon streams of Sion Iordan that maketh glad the City of God They be the Charter of heauen couenant of grace assurance of glory musicke to the eares splendor to the eye odour to the smell dainties for the taste pleasures for the sense and solace for the soule Misericordia Christi germinat ingeminat he giueth grace liberally multiplieth his grace giuen conseruing his grace multiplyed rewarding his grace conserued Out of this doubling and reiterating of the name Doctrine I obserue this doctrine that the Lord doth so much desire the repenting of a sinner that hee will vouch safe his seruants that fauour as to double his call and not at the first to proceed in iudgement against loitering and lingering conuerts Expectat torpentes inui●at repugnantes he expecteth them that linger Austen inuiteth them that repugne stirreth them that loiter He calleth Saul 2. Samuel 3. his Spouse 4. Sodome shall haue some dayes 2. Sam. 3.4 Niniuie shall haue fortie dayes Ierusalem forty yeares There was a time when he did not call once nay for sinning once he punished for euer he thrust the Angels out of heauen for one sinne expelled Adam Paradise for one Apple stoned Achan for one wedge plagued Gehezi for one bribe Ananias for one dissembling Corah for one rebelling yet since to moue vs to repentance hath borne with sinners yeares and yeares after a thousand falls of weakenesse and wilfulnesse in thought in word in deed Euery thing in God is worthily to bee admired and wondered at but his mercy is to be embraced with amasednesse that he is merciful in so rich so deepe so long so broade so vnmeasurable a measure in so great so mighty manifold miraculous maner Hilary on the 144. Psalme hath a sweet saying to this purpose Hoc magnum est hoc mirum Hilary in 144. Psal this is an especiall thing in God this is mightily to bee wondred at in that mighty one not that hee made heauen because hee is powerfull nor that hee setled the earth because he is strength nor that he distinguished the yeare by starres because hee is wise not that he gaue man a soule because he is life not that he moueth the sea by ebbing and flowing because he is a Spirite but that he should be so mercifull who is so iust that he should so familiarly deale with vs who is a God Hoc mirum Hilary 144. Ps hoc magnum and all this onely to draw vs to repentance The vse of this to moue you to conuersion by the mercifull compassion of the Lord In the manifold care hee hath of carelesse man Vse hee hath drawne him out a way to walke This is the way walke in it and least the way should seeme darke and hard to be found hee hath giuen him a lanthorne and least he should faint in the way he hath placed a brooke in the way to refresh him that he may drinke of the brooke in the way This way is Conuersion Bernard which though it be via anfractuosa is not via infructuosa though a hard rough craggie way yet is it not an incommodious or a fruitlesse way but the vertues thereof are eternall life the world misconceiuing this way they vtterly refuse it they like not the pace because they must runne they like not the race because it is long they like not the passage because it is strait they like not the entrance because it is narrow they like not to clime they feare the hill they like not to sayle they feare the sea the way hard the race long the race running the passage straight the dore narrow the sea perilous the hill promontorious alas they cannot endure it and so they tire or retire with the thought of feare Hereby they loose the life of Saints and foreslow that holy conuersion and conuersation of the seruants of the Lord. O my beloued seeing the Lord is slow to anger and of great mercy draw neere to him by a true hearty speedy conuersion It is a speciall gift of God salue of sinnes hauen of sinners ioy of Angels terror of Diuels the new creation of the Soule the new life of the Saints a consumption yet not sickenesse a mortification and yet no death a compunction A Enigma Diumum yet scarsly sorrow a killing and yet a quickning a Crucifying and yet a Reuiuing It is an A Enigma wherin when we are borne wee are buried and when wee are quickned Hugo de Victor wee are killed and when we are mortified wee are raysed and when our old man is consumed our new life is consummated O that yee were all sicke of this Consumption that Prayer might bee your Physicke your Dyet might be fasting Compunction your blood letting your potion the teares of sorrowing faith your handmaid watching and good workes the signes of your recouering If yee were sicke of this Consumption it would be the means to bring health to your bodies happinesse to your Soules length to your liues life to your dayes for euermore it would be