and the close answerable to either But Mr. G. saith he formerly a stiff Prelate I might demand of him if Mr. G. were ever a Prelate stiff or slack how or when was he deposed or by what means came he to be berefâ— of his Prelacy for now sure it is wel known he is none But to let that pass When he was such an one what then did he Why When he was such a Prelate he then impudentlie preached for the libertie of Sabbath sports Verie tru indeed if you take it in sensu composito it is a most certain and undeniable truth when he was the one he did the other But take it in sensu diviso as he intends here and doth that I was once a Prelate and that I did sometime so preach and the one is as tru as the other either of them a most shameful or shameless lie rather both as fals as God is tru But as he sometime said Qi semel verecundia fines transierit eum benâ— gnaviter impudentem esse oportet When a man hath once gone beyond the bounds of truth and modestie it stands him upon then to break further out to grow impudent to the purpose and to lie beyond measure For what proof can he produce of Mr. G. so preaching or who ever heard him preach for Libertie of Sports on the Lords day or for Libertie to profane the Lords day in one kind or other Nor let anie take exception as some have done that I style it the Lords day rather then the Sabbath I remember a Speech of Dr. Oldisworth my worthie Friend living then in mine Honorable Patron the Lord Hobarts house as eager an urger of the strict observance of that day as the most upon occasion of discours of some debate then about it The day said he hath three Names in common use given it the Sunday the Sabbath day the Lords day The first an Heathenish name the second a Jewish the third a Christian and why should not said â—e this last be preferred before either of the former And the first indeed is a name that came at first from the Heathen yet is it found used by Justine Martyr in his Apologie to the Roman Emperor in behalf of the Christians mentioning it as the day of their meeting noâ— dare I utterlie condemn the use of it The Sunday for the name of a day the first day of the week as it is termed Acts 20. 7. anie more then Bethshemesh tho from an idolatrous or superstitious at least original the Suns house or place for the name of a Citie 1 Sam. 6. 12 13. The second may be termed Jewish because a term peculiar to them in times past but common to us now with them tho differing in the day and supposed by some to be by the Evangelist Matth 24. 20. used of our day which tho it seem not so probable yet may qestionless not unfitlie be used of it seeing it is and ought to be a day of holie rest unto us as was their Sabbath then to them Isa 58. 13. The third and last is the name peculiar to Christians not common either to Heathen or Jews with them that which the Lords beloved Disciple gives it the Lords Day Revel 1. 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords day fanctified and set apart for the Lords service as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Table 1 Cor. 10. 21. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lords Supper consecrated and set apart for the memorial of Christ and by his Institution which to me therefore seems the fittest term for it But cal the day by which or whether term of them you please I have wheresoever I exercised my Ministerie as occasion was offered been a constant pleader for and insâ—ant presser of the du observation of the day as that which I ever esteemed to be a main pillar and support of the practise yea a principal means both of the maintenance and advancement of the power of Pietie among Gods people It is a Rule prescribed by some of the great Masters of Physick Medicus mâ—rbos observet epidemios That a Physitian shoul observ what diseases ar rifest in the tâ—mes or places he lives in and applie his studies and courses princ pallie to the cure of them And according to that direction appliable to our Function considering the freqencie of abuses among people in mispending a great part of that day in most places where I came I did the rather usuallie bend my self in my teaching to disswade and deter those that I spake to from those abusive courses whereby I perceived the day or any part of it to be commonlie profaned by them To this purpose before I came to Lincolns Inn while I lodged in the House of that Religious Knight my worthy Friend and Kinsman Sir William Cook neer to Charing-Cross being reqested to Preach now and then at Martins in the Fields and having taken notice how the Gentrie manie of them thereabout spent much of the Lords day in Complemental Visitations I took occasion one day out of Isa 58. 13. to handle the Doctrine of the Sabbath or Lords day and among other things endeavored to shew That it was not to be spent in such Civil Complements but in Religious Imployments And this I remember the rather by a good token which it wil not be amiss to relate It fel out the Lords day next ensuing that an ancient Gentlewoman one of that Congregation being returned home from the Afternoon Exercise while she sat in an upper Room ripping off some Lace from an old Garment which she intended to make use of otherwise heard a Coach to make stay on the other side of the street and looking out at the Window to see whose it was when she espied a Ladie her Neece whom it staid for entring it to go abroad in it for such purpose Oh qoth she to her waiting Maid then attending upon her did not my Neece N. hear Mr. G. the last Lords day and is she now going out to visit again Whereupon one of that Familie afterward occasionallie meeting me thus merrilie saluted me Sir when you Preach next of the Sabbath be pleased to tel our Gentlewomen that they must not â—it ripping Gold-lace off their old Peticoats upon the Lords day and withal told me the storie But for which I should not in likelihood have called to mind again that Sermon being preached so long since At my coming to Lincolns Inn there was on the Lords day one Lecture onelie at seven in the morning nor had there been anie other before There being setled some space of time when I observed that divers of the great practisers spent a great if not the greatest part of the day the Afternoon especiallie in entertaining of their Clients I took occasion in my teaching to step a little aside out of the road I was then in to speak somewhat of that subject endeavoring to shew them That it was as lawful for
why may not a Smith as wel work at the Forge or an Husband man at the Plough as a Judge sit to hear Civil Causes on the Sabbath The one hindereth the Sanctification of it as wel as the other And if it be alledged That the one is as before was proved indeed more speciallie Gods work So were the repairing of a Church which yet the Mason or Plummer may not work about on the Sabbath no more then Besaleel or Aholiab might about the work of the Tabernacle for the furtherance whereof God would not admit or give way to the least violating of his Sabbath Thus also there Yea but Mr. G. tho he pleaded so hard for restraint of work on the Lords day yet he preached as earnestlie for play and in particular if Lilie may be believed for Carding and Dicing upon the Lords day For so run the words of his charge here Preaching impudentlie for the Liberties or Sports of the Sabbath Cards and Dice c. Which parcel of his Charge being of the same stamp with the rest is not unlike some short skirt of a beggers coat made up of a few sory snips and shreds unhandsomlie stitcht up and il-favoredlie patcht together having reference in part to King James his Book of Libertie for Disports on Sundays and Holidays and in part to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots but so blended together and entermingled the one with the other that they make a meer medley For as for the former King James indeed in the year 1618. the Sixteenth of His Reign publ shed a Declaration wherein he gave Libertie for some Disports that might be used on the Sabbath or the Lords day But what ones were they that therein he gave way to Cards and dice c. No There is not one word or title at all concerning them in the whole Book but they are expresly therein named these Dancings men or women May-games Whit sun-Ales Morrice-dances Rush-bearings setting up of May-poles and other sports therewith used These ar the Disports by name there designed wherewith leav is given and autoritie to solemnize and celebrate the Lords day An Act il-beseeming so prudent and understanding a Prince And such it may seem as afterward himself was ashamed of and unwilling to own For I have heard it reported that when a Copy of his Works gathered together newlie printed and richlie made up was presented unto him before anie of them should go abroad having upon the opening of it lighted upon this peice not without expression of much indignation he tore it out with his own hands and gave strict charge to have it done out of the whole impression where now none of it appears Which if it were tru for I dare not confidentlie avow it having it onelie by hear-say the greater and more grievous was the sin and shame of those great Prelates who whither to please the King and Court or to cross vex curb and ensnare the Conscientious Ministers not then onelie approved the practise but long after renewed afresh the memorie of it and pressed his Son King Charls to revive it again and to enjoyn the publishing of it by the Ministers of the Word in their several places upon pain of suspension which not a few of them sustained for the refusal thereof Now in defence of this Declaration and in justification of such Sports used on the Sabbath whereas this Lier affirms that I preached it is a most notorious untruth for neither did I ever speak write or preach word in defence or allowance thereof or of anie such Sports used on that day neither was that Declaration ever published first or last either by my self or anie assistant of mine Yea that I did in writing directlie oppose and expresly condemn it may appear plainlie by what was before related tho preached indeed before that Declaration came out yet printed at first two yeer after it Anno 1620. and reprinted without alteration of ought in the yeer 1637. But pass we on to the other Book here related to my Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots which is girded at in the terms of Cards and Dice shuffled in under the disguise of Sabbath Sports there by to wind and screw in my Treatise within the verg and compass of the subject matter with allowance admitted in that other deservedlie abhorred Book Tru it is I acknowledge it and am not at all ashamed to own it that I published sometime a large Treatise of the Nature and Use of Lots having in the Pulpit before more briefly delivered somewhat of that subject and I published it the rather being by divers of my Reverend Brethren unto whom I had imparted the sum of what I had delivered encited so to do To refel the misreports that some other from whom in some particulars I dissented had raised concerning the Doctrine therein taught by me In this Discours I make it evidentlie to appear that a Lot in the genuine nature and ordinarie use of it and with extraordinarie without special commission and injunction we have nothing to do is no sacred matter nor divine Oracle and may therefore be used indifferentlie as wel in light and ludicrous as in more serious and weightie affairs And that in regard hereof Divisorie and Lusorie Lots ar lawful and warrantable Consultorie and Divinatorie unlawful and damnable And that it is therefore as wel a superstitious conceit on the one hand to condemn anie game in regard of a Lot used in it as it is on the other hand a superstitious and irreligious practise to make use of a Lot for the discoverie of Gods wil and purpose either what he would have done by us or determineth himself to do And in this judgment I stil rest having as occasion hath been sufficientlie and fullie as I conceiv refelled and answered the Arguments and Objections of all who have either published ought herein against me that ever came to my hands or by writing delt in private with me So as that I have not received anie further Replie from anie one of them yea I have so far forth convinced some of the greatest and most eminent among them that they have been enforced to relinqish and have refused to own that ground which together with the most of the other partie they had formerlie with much confidence built on to wit That in everie casualtie there is a special and immediate providence Seeing the palpable absurditie thereof plainlie discovered but in room thereof have endeavored to introduce another new conceit no less absurd then the former as may be seen in the Second Edition of that concerning Lots in English Chap. 4. pag. 52-59 and in mine Antithesis to Dr. Ames his Theses in Latine Nor do I anie further justifie anie Game Sport or Pastime depending either in part or in whole upon casualtie of which kind Cards and Dice indeed ar if they be anie way abused or found otherwise faultie save onelie that they ar not
therefore evil or to be condemned because there is a Lot in them Yea but tho I did not preach for Morrice dances and May-games yet I did impudentlie Preach for Carding and Dicing on the Lords day For so much do this calumniaters words import That I preached impudentlie for Sabbath sports as Cards and Dice c. So by his Et Caetera indeed shewing himself not unwilling to have those other also understood I need say no more here but sit liber judex Let my Book decide it that my Treatise of Lots I mean wherein that may be found which I shal here thence transcribe directlie opposite to either Chap. 9. where I give Cautions for Game in general Sect. 4. p. 293. 295. Pag. 293. Recreations are to be used as soberlie so seasonablie Recreation is good when it is seasonable when it comes in his du time els as it is with fish and fowl when they come out of season that is evil that is good otherwise Now then do men use Game and Recreation unseasonablie when they should and ought to be otherwise employed either in the works of their special Callings or about the holy things of God to wit as it foloweth more particularlie and fullie Pag. 295. when they should be tending the holie things of God either in publick or in private And thus it is a sin to follow game on the Sabbath as the Jews used to do and do yet to this day and as the Popish sort ar noted ordinarilie to solemnize their Festivals For this is not to sanctifie or consecrate the Sabbath as holie to the Lord. The Sabbath indeed is a day of rest but of holie rest of rest not to worldlie recreations but to heavenlie meditations of rest to religious and spiritual employments It is sacriledge therefore to folow game on the Sabbath at such time as we 〈…〉 ould be plying the service and worship of God it is time stoln from God that we spend so on our sports Which it were less sin therefore for us to spend on some serious affairs according to that which one of the Ancients wel saith Melius est Die Sabbati arare qam saltare Melius totâ die foderent qam totâ die luderent It were better for a man in such manner on the Sabbath to plough then to play and to dig and delv then to dance all day For the lighter the occasion of sinning is where all other things are eqâ—l the greater the sin is Where I cite also among others in the Margin the words of Robert Grosthed ancientlie Bishop of Lincoln on the Decalog Dies t 〈…〉 à Christiano expendi debet in operibus sanctis The whole Lords day Christian people ought to spend in holie employments And this as it was at first both preached Anno 1618. and printed Anno 1619. which was not long after that Book of Libertie or Licentiousness rather came abroad so it was in the yeer 1627. reprinted in a second Edition with Addition and Emendation of some things but without anie Retractation Subtraction Qalification or Alteration of ought in this point And let this therefore remain as an impudent calumnie of a shameless Sycophant upon record That Mr. G. Preached impudentlie for Libertie of Sabbath Sports But this saith he Mr. G. did formerlie when he was a Prelate Of some Province it may be in Sir Thomas Mores Vtopia where Mr. L. in a trance be-like being there one of his Auditors heard him preach thus But afterwards to wit since he either left or lost his Prelates place in hope of Bishops Deans or Chapters Lands he became a pretended Presbyterian He would at least have men believ that I was sometime Prelatical but have of late turned my coat or my copie and gaping after some fat gobbets of the Bishops or Deans Lands pretended to be a Presbyterian A calumnie as fals as its Father is or as his former Brat hath been convinced to be And such as he shall never be able to make good tho his Master that sets him on work joyn with him in it For my judgment concerning Church-Government it is the same stil that ever it was since I first began to enqire into matters of that nature A dulie bounded and wel regulated Prelacie joined with a Presbyterie wherein one as President Superintendent or Moderator term him what you please whether annual or occasional or more constant and continual either in regard of yeers or parts or both joyntlie hath some preeminence above the rest yet so as that he doth nothing without joint consent of the rest a module or patern whereof I am enformed to have been sometime represented unto the late King by two worthy persons men of eminent parts and moderate mindes the one a Prelate the other in some kind Prelatical which had it been accepted and established how advantagious it might have proved it is not for me to define but as is reported was then disallowed and rejected by some great Prelates and others by whom the King was most swayed Such a manner of Prelacie I say I never durst nor yet dare condemn But such a Prelatical power as was here constituted and exercised among us wherein Bishops and Arch-deacons were enabled and ordinarilie used by their Chancellors Officials and Surrogates mostlie meer Civilians assuming to them anie sorie felow in Orders to fit by as a cipher or a shadow to pass the highest and heaviest of all Church-Censures besides Civil Penalties in their Purses on the Persons both of Pastors and People and for trifles and trivial things meer matters of Ceremonie oft-times silence suspend and deprive while scandalous idle or insufficient ones were little regarded or looked after Visitations being by either usuallie held once onelie in a yeer and then rather of Cours and Custom or to receiv Procurations then to anie effectual Reformation of ought Such a Prelatical power so constituted and so executed I never could effect or approv and trulie much less when I came to see the manner of it which I had heard too much of before when living so long in a Pastoral Charge I never in all my time saw the face of a Bishop personallie present in Court or Arch-deacon but once tho both constantlie exacting Fees of us And observed how things were shuffled up when Presentments were made and in that manner managed without anie cours taken to bring anie Delinqent to a serious sight of or sincere sorow for his sin that their Visitations might wel be deemed to be held as one ancientlie complained Non tam morum qam nummorum gratiâ Rather to emptie mens Purses then to mend their manners And my judgment thus formed I accordinglie passed my vote and gave my consent with others for the removal of that Bodie of Government that was then established with us Yet which I then also did not forbear to profess as wel in deliverie of mine own sense as in endeavor to give satisfaction to others seeking to me for
A Discours Apologetical WHEREIN Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Pasqil for the Yeer 1654. are cleerly laid open His shameful Desertion of his own cause is further discovered His shameless Slanders fullie refuted and his Malicious and Murtherous Mind inciting to a general Massacre of Gods Ministers from his own Pen evidentlie evinced Together with an ADVERTISEMENT Concerning two ALLEGATIONS Produced in the close of his POSTSCRIPT And a POSTSCRIPT concerning An Epistle Dedicatorie of one J. Gadburie By The-Gataker B. D. Autor of the Annotations on Jer. 10. 2. and of the Vindication of them LONDON Printed by R. Ibbitson for Thomas Newberry at the three Lions in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1654. The Contents of the ensuing DISCOURS LIlies Merlins meer Pasqils Page 1 His whole Answer as usuallie a peece of meer scurrilitie 1 6 His former grounds of his Art given by him deserted 2 6 Not a word of the good Angels that first taught it ibid. How uneqal a match for anie ingenuous person to deal with a Railer 3 By freqent railing and being railed at men grow shameless ib. In such bickerings no honor to overcome to be overcome no dishonor 3 4 Star-gazers for money can tell that of trifles which of weightier occurrents they cannot 4 Jacob Behmens writings of what stamp 4 A Northern Lilie prophesied of by him 5 Lilies immodest and scurrilous language unworthy regard 5 6 To what purpose Mr. G. qotes Autors Heathen and others 6 Some necessity imposed on him of answering some scandalous aspersions 7 A good name fo what worth and how much to be regarded 7 8 Yet a good Conscience to be preferred before it 8 9 No good duty to be omitted for fear of disgrace 9 A great grace to be disgraced for Christ ibid. Mark the Emperor tho a Stoick how careful to cleer himself from calumnies 9 12 From the imputation of Avarice especially 10 What care and caution Ministers ought to have in this kind â—0 The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how taken 1 Tim. 3. 6 7. Eph. 4. 27. 10 A common liars word no slander 11 Infamous persons defamation no infamie 11 Reproaches of such rather matter of praise their praises of dispraise Page 11 The falsest reports tho never so well cleared leav some sear oft behind 11 Most folk suspicious and prone to suspect the worst ibid. Mr. Gâ— resolution to undertake this Apologie 12 Lilies former slanderous Charge 12 An ill presage to begin ill with a gross untruth especially 12 13 So begins Liâ—ie that Mr. G. was sometime a stiff Prelate 13 14 23 And that then he preached impudentâ—ie for Sabbath-sports 13 15 19 23 Of the three Names given the Day which most proper 14 15 Mr. Gs. constant cours of preaching for and pressing the due observation of the Lords day 15 19 22 23 The Lords Day no Day for complemental Visitations 15 Nor for entertainment of Clients 16 Nor for riding Circuits or hearing Causes 19 The change of the Lecture-times at Lincoln-Inne with the ground thereof 16 The Lords Day Gods Mart or Market Day 18 The Christian Sabbath 14 15 King James his book for Sabbath-sports 20 22 That Mr. G. preached in defence of it a notorious untruth 20 21 Mr. Gs. Treatise of Lots and the subject matter thereof 21 How far forth Cards or Dice are therein justified 21 22 No liberty therein for Sabbath-sports allowed but expreslie opposed 22 23 Another stander that Mr. G. turned Presbyterian in hope of Bishops and Deans lands 12 23 24 Mr. Gs. constant judgement both of Prelacie and Presbyterie 24 25 26 Men moderatelie minded suffer usuallie from extreams on either side 26 27 The frivolous pretended ground of Mr. Gâ— reâ—olâ— 27 28 Mr. Carpenters scurrilous Relation of the Presbyters birth and base condition 28 29 His Historical untruth of its first birth 30 Liâ—â—us latter slanderous Charge against Mr. G. of covetousness Page 30 Seed of all sin in all but some more eminent then other 31 32 This of covetousness Mr. G. most disclaims 32 Freqent shifting of charges deemed a note of Avarice or Ambition 32 33 Mr. Gs. setled Ministerie in two Places onely for two and fifty yeer 33 His entrance into his place at Lincolns-Inne 33 34 His entertainment and ten yeers continuance there 34 35 His Salarie what it was there 35 Places elswhere refused during his abode there 36 38 Ingenuous dispositions what they deem of the good they do 38 39 Their joy when their kindness takes grief when it misseth 39 40 Mr. Gs. waving the Degree of Doctor 41 42. The general disposition of Mr. Gs. Auditorie at Lincolns-Inne not affecting noveltie or varietie 43 The occasion of his removal to Rederith 44 46 His chargeable entrance there 47 His continuance there upward of two and forty yeer 47 His means what for the first ten yeer 47 48 49 Tythe upon houses formerlie paid how came tâ— thee intermitted 48 49 How it or somewhat in lieu of it recovered 49 50 The whole sum with the Addition then agreed on far short of what Lilie saith he receivs 50 As much expended one yeer with another as the revenue of the place amounted unto 50 51 Means of enlargment elswhere offered and refused 51 52 His natural disposition of what frame and temper 52 53 Ambition and Avarice how far they prevail where they rule 53 54. Everie one his own first and chiefest Flatterer 53 The result of the premises concerning Mr. G. charged with either of these two Corruptions 54 55 Avarice deemed the peculiar vice of old age 55 56 Why compared to a root 55 Why it and pride to the spleen ibid. Why against reason for men to grow in old age more covetous 56 Of M. Gs. wilful silencing himself charged upon him by Lilie ib. His artendance at the Assemblie and receipts there p. 56 57 His sicknes that took him off from that attendance and for some time from his pastoral employment p. 57 The occasion of his necessarie surceasing to preach p. 58 His receipt of 200 l. a year a notorious untruth and what his receipts are p. 58-60 The reason of his retaining a Title with his desire to be rid of it p. 60 61 The sum of Lilies slanderous assertions andaspersions with a resolve of future silence p. 61 Lilies malicious and murtherous mind and motion to have the whole Presbyterie and Ministerie removed by a general massacre p. 62 63 In the Advertisement TWo Allegations in Lilies Postscript p. 64 The former of one Cleavland wherein the late Assembly at Westminster is traduced ibid. The latter parcel of a Latine Epistle which Mr. G. must English ibid. The Aâ—tor of it sometime a Popish Priest ibid. By his own kindâ—ed suspected to be Popish still p. 65 By some other censured another Spalatensis ib. Retaining still divers Popish conceits and opinions p. 65. 66 His wishes concerning School-Divinity and Mystical Divinity p. 66 67 His renunciation of Popery with a transcendent commendation
the Husbandman to hedg and ditch or to folow his Tillage on that day as for the Lawyer to employ it in consulting with and attending his Clients And I pressed the point so far that through the good hand of God going along with it and carrying home his own Ordinance to the hearts of the hearers it made so deep an impression upon them that upon a motion made by some of the cheif ones at the next meeting after it a consultation was had what cours might be taken for the future prevention of so common and irregular a practise And after advice therein taken with me it was by common consent agreed on That the Morning Lecture on the Lords day should be drawn down to the usual hour in other places and the Wednesday Lecture transferred to the Afternoon of the Lords day Which howsoever it were a matter of much more labor to my self to speak twice in one day which as I am informed in the French and Dutch Congregations is seldom or never done and some of my Successors have complained of and blamed me for giving way thereunto and by means thereof I was abbridged of that libertie of hearing others abroad which I had formerlie enjoyed yet for the atcheiving of my main ayâ— herein of gaining a more du and diligent observance of the day I right willinglie dispensed with mine own ease and advantages and condescended thereunto And this was the ground of the alteration of the Lectures in that House which I suppose in that manner in which upon this occasion they were then setled continu stil to this day During mine abode at Lincolns Inn the time approaching for my taking the degree of Batchelor in Divinitie I procured a cours at St. Maries in Cambridge for mine English Sermon the first and last that I ever preached there having never had the boldness before to appear in that place This fel out to be the verie next day after Qeen Elizabeths decease which being not known yet at Cambridge the Qeen as stil surviving was at the Forenoon Sermon solemnlie prayed for by him that preached that day at Kings Colledge But about Noon the report came down of the Qeen departed this life and King James proclaimed which caused an exceeding great concours of people at the Afternoon Sermon though it were no Lords day When by advice of the Vice-Chancelor in regard that no publick notice of it was as yet sent down I conceived my Petition for the King in a kind of circumlocution For the present Supream Governor without expression of his name At that branch of my Prayer the tears trickling down my Cheeks and scarce any one drie eie in the whole Assemblie as I was afterward informed This Sermon then had on 1 Tim. 6. 6. at the reqest of some Friends who had seen some Copies of it was manie yeers after published under this Title The Gain of Godliness wherein is extant the ensuing passage concerning the Lords day p. 36-38 For worldlie wealth men can toil and moil all the week long and yet ar they not wearie they think not the whole week long neither but for the heavenlie gain for the spiritual thrift we have but one day of seven and we think that to much too we think the day all to long the labor all lost and the whole time cast away that we imploy and spend to this purpose We say as the profane Jews sometime said When wilâ—he New Moon be past and the Sabbath once over that we may return again to our worldlie affairs Yea manie among us have not the patience to tarry so long but spend a great part of the Sabbath that is Gods Market or Market-day for the getting of this spiritual Gain either about their worldlie affairs or their bodilie delights The Sabbath day I say is Gods Market-day and those that seek to take away the Sabbath attempt to put down Gods Markets and so do the Devil good service whatsoever their intent be As freqenting of Markets makes a rich man so keeping of Sabbaths makes a rich Christian and as we count him a bad Husband that foloweth game on the Market-day so may we as wel count him a spiritual unthrift that spends the Sabbath in that sort But may some say When we have been at Church and heard the Sermon and Service is not Gods Market-day then done I answer If the Sabbath be a day then it is not so soon done Gods Market lasteth all day long Yea grant the principal because the publick of it be past yet as Market-falks returning from Market wil be talking of their Markets as they go by the way and be casting up of their penny-worths when they come home reckon what they have taken and what they have laid out and how much they have gotten So should we after we have heard the Word publickly confer privatelie of it with others at least meditate on it by our selvs and be sure to take an account of our selvs how we have profited that day by the Word that hath been spoken unto us and by other Religious Exercises that have been used of us And us the Market-man counteth that but an evil Market-day that he hath not gained somewhat on more or less so may we wel account it an evil Sabbath to us whereon we have not profited somewhat whereon we have not either increased our knowledge or been bettered in affection whereon we have not been further either informed in judgement or reformed in practise whereon we have added no whit at all to our Talent Thus then and there After my leaving of Lineolâ—s Inn being reqested by my Right Honorable Lord the Lord Hobart to bestow a Sermon on them one Lords day at Serjeants Inn in Fleetstreet before the Judges and Serjeants at Law of that House I preached unto them on Psal 82. 6 7. That which came forth in Print shortlie after about the same time with the former under the Title of Gods Parley with Princes In it pag. 12-14 these words may be seen and read Here let me more particularlie as from God and in Gods Name entreat you to have a special regard of observing Gods Sabbaths You that are to see them observed by others ought you not much more to observ them your selvs Your cariage is a kind of censure that all men fix their eyes upon that most men shape their courses by If others then shal see you riding in your Circuits on the Sabbath wil they not think within themselvs And why may not I ride as wel on the Sabbath to a Fair as the Judg may to the place of Assize If they shal be warned to appear before you for some hearing by themselvs or by their Counsel upon the Sabbath wil they not be readie to argu from the works of your calling to the works of their own And why may not I as wel be about my work as they about theirs And in truth to speak plainlie as the thing is
abiding now with Sir William Cook my Kinsman at London the Preachers place at Lincolns Inn became vacant Whereupon a Gentleman of that House to me a meer stranger but of my reverend and inward Friend Mr. Stocks acqaintance at whose Church he had sometime heard me Preach together with him repairing to me acqainted me with the business encited me to put in for it assuring me that by the Lord Chief Justice Pophams mediation whom he knew to favor me it might easilie be obtained I was verie avers to the motion albeit that Mr. Stock also instigated and encouraged me thereunto But my counter-plea to them both was That I durst not adventure so young and raw to look so high While we were to and fro debating the business in that verie conjuncture of time Dr. Mountague Master of the Colledge being come up to the Citie about some Colledge affairs was pleased to vouchsafe me a visit desirous to draw me back to the Colledge and telling me That he had prevailed with the Lord Harrington to allow a Salarie for an Hebrew Lecture which he would have me to read But being enformed by Mr. Stock upon what account they were with me he earnestlie pressed it that I should in no wise refuse it it would be a grace to the Colledge to have the first that went out of it to settle in a place of that note nor should I need to seek or su for it or to be seen at all in it He being the next day to attend the Lord Popham about a Colledge business would break the matter to him which being accordinglie performed by him his Lordship immediatelie sent his Secretarie to the cheif of the House by whom being invited to Preach the next Lords day with them I was within few days after chosen their Lecturer And indeed had it been of mine own seeking I could hardlie have satisfied or justified my self in a spontaneous undertaking of such a charge For the truth is I was but young and seemed younger then indeed I was In regard whereof it might not altogether undeservedlie have been deemed of me that I had flown out of the nest before I was wel fledged and that it had been better for me as David willed his Embassadors returning from the Ammonites to have stayed at Jericho among the sons of the Prophets until my Beard had been better grown Nor may it be amiss here to recreat my Reader with a plain Corydons censure about that time past on me Mr. Leigh afterward Sir James Leigh and Lord Treasurer was that yeer Reader at Lincolns Inn and having his familie in Town both he and his wife heard me Preach one Lords day at Martins in the Fields Whence after return from the Sermon Mistress Leigh was pleased to ask an old Servant with whom by reason of long continuance in the familie they were wont to talk more familiarlie How he liked the Preacher who returned her this blunt answer That he was a prettie pert Boy but he made a reasonable good Sermon Not manie weeks after Mr. Leigh returning from Lincolns Inn told his wife he would tel her some news That Yong man said he whom you heard at St. Martins is chosen our Lecturer at Lincolns Inn which the old felow standing by when he heard askt Whether the old Benchers would be taught by such a Boy as he Howbeit it pleased God so to dispose of it that I was courteouslie entertained by them nor was my youth in contempt with them but I received as much respect from them as I could desire yea much more then I could expect Which kind and courteous usage tied me so fast to them as to such bands may that of him in the Comick be wel-applied Qam magis extendas tanto adstringunt arctiùs The more they are let out the straiter they bind the stronger and faster they hold That they kept me a longer time with them then anie one yea then divers put together that had been before me had made stay among them For as I have been enformed Mr. Chaâ—k who is said to have been the first setled constant Preacher at Lincoln Inn as Dr. Crook at Greys Inn and Father Lever for so by my Father and others I always heard him styled at the Temple continued not above eight year with them being removed as was suspected through the secret undermining of one of prime note then in the House who upon a private grudge wrought underhand with the Archbishop for his removal After him successively folowed Mr. Field Mr. Eglionbie Mr. Crakenthorp Mr. Pulley whose times all put together ar said scarce to have made up so manie yeers as amounted to my Ten. But it may be surm sed that either the largeness of the allowance or the want of means to mend my self kept me so long with them Surelie neither of both For my Salarie for the first five yeers or thereabout was but Fourtie pounds per annum yet as much as anie of my Predecessors had formerlie received Howbeit after when I married and had a Familie in the Citie they raised it to Threescore of their own accord without anie motion of mine but withal they reqested me to Preach once a day in the Vacation time when anie store of companie was in the House as in the two shorter ones constantlie and in the two longer until the solemn Readings were over usuallie there was That which I also was right-willing to do making mine abode in the Citie whereas formerlie I was wont to spend the Vacations with a Knight my Kinsman in the Countrey Nor wanted I opportunitie more then once or twice while I staid there to have mended my means had I been eagerlie bent or had but a minde thereunto For I had places more then two or three offered me both from Gentlemen in the House and from others abroad First The Lectureship at the Rolls being vacant offer was made to me of it from Sir Edward Philips then Master of the Rolls by Sir Robert his Son and Mr. Whitakers his Secretarie who both used to hear me supposing that I might wel enough discharge both being no farther asunder and but for once a day with either and that at the Inn at seven in the morning which I waived willing to reserv my self whollie to the place where I was But this was no motion for removal some addition to my means onelie That which foloweth was After that my Morning Lecture was reduced or deduced rather to the ordinarie hour in most places Mr. Masters Master of the Temple for that Title his place there bare his own Lecture continuing at the wonted hour used after that dispatched to repair to mine as I did to Dr. Leyfields at Clements until that cours was in the Inn altred as before hath been related Mean while the Lecturers place falling void at the Temple he by a wile drew me to Preach one Afternoon on the Week Lecture day there And shortlie after I little dreaming ought