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A19153	A sermon preached at Paules-Crosse, vpon the 1. of Nouember, being All-Saints Day, anno 1607. By Sa: Collins, Batchelour in Diuinitie, and fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge	Collins, Samuel, 1576-1651.	1607 (1607)	STC 5564; ESTC S108507	41,043	100

you can do nothing so we say by him that in Christ which enableth vs we can do all things And in one word my deare brethren whatsoeuer progresse we make whatsoeuer step wee set forward vpon this Jacobs ladder the way of grace and vertue which conducteth our soules to blisse stil Dominus super scalam as S. Serm. de Temp. Augustine hath obserued out of Gen. 28.13 still the Lord is aboue the Ladder still Christ the Angell is conspicuous at the toppe And yet we read saies the Pelagian Esa 1.19 Jf you consent obey you shall eat the good things of the earth but do we not reade againe Jt is not of the willer nor yet of the runner but of God that sheweth mercy And yet we read saies the Pelagian I haue inclined my hart to keep thy righteous iudgements but doe we not read againe in the same Psalme O Lord doe thou incline my heart vnto thy testimonies not to couetousnes And yet we read saies the Pelagian My son keepe thy heart with all diligence as if hee were his hearts keeper but doe we not read again The peace of God which passeth al vnderstanding keep your hearts mindes in Christ Jesus Lastly and yet we read saies the Pelag. Make you strait steps vnto your feet least that which is halting be turned out of the waie Heb. 12.13 but do we not read again say I Order O Lord my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slide not and Take thou from me the way of lying but leade mee in the way euerlasting How then is it my dear brethren for I may seem to haue led you into a maze of wādrings or how may these contradictions so great in shew be knit vp in any substantial accordance yes doubtless very wel neither delighteth in the others ouerthrow but both espouse frendship in the kiss of peace Free-wil eats not vp grace as Pharaohs leane kine eat vp the fat nor grace deuours not Free-will Adolet non abolet naturā gratia saith S. Prosper as Moses serpents deuoured the Inchanters but the sword of the Lord and the sword of Gedeon Gods finger and humane indeuor may both stand togither very wel And in one word to finish this because the time spendeth so fast As in the case of the person of our glorious Sauiour we search the Scriptures to see what he was and to redeeme him frō the slanderous deprauation of toongs some denying him to be God some denying him to be man we I say search the Scriptures about this point go into the sanctuarie finding him wearie sitting at a Well finding him hungrie finding him thirsty sleeping bleeding mourning dying and such like we conclude a man but considering him on the other side trampling the waters quieting the winds calming the tempests rebuking fevers taming the diuels whipping out the Simoniacall bargainers of the Temple we infer a God So in this doubtfull diuersitie where some denie grace som abolish Nature and Free-vvill we turn the book the book of decision for the weightie causes and controuersies of God and if propension on the one side make for liberty grace on the other side appears in victorie neither defacing nor demolishing the other like Dagon and the Arke but each countenancing and establishing like the 2. Cherubins that behelde one thing and yet looked both sundrie waies For if anie man consent not as you haue it in the Text If hee consent not implyes not a consenting power in vs. No though he had sayd see that you consent looke that you consent yet that proues no ability of doing so neither supposition nor imposition neither si nor sic can euicte anie such conclusion at our hands but Lex imperat fides impetrat the Law indeed was giuen by Moses to the end that it should driue vs to the grace that comes by Christ and commandement may extend farther than strength As when we read Psal 119. Ver. 4. Tupraecepisti thou hast charged that we should diligently keepe thy commaundements he adds not nor collects not Therefore I can or therfore I will as the Pelagian would do in all the haste but O that my waies were made so direct that I might keep thy statutes The Imperatiue begets an Optatiue not a Potential with him for Da Domine quod iubes iube quod vis Lord help me but to performe and then I care not what thou require And so much might suffice to haue spoken of Consent but that the age which we are fallē into craues a word more by way of this discourse at my hands I will obey the times and yet not neglect the time Consent is of three sorts euen as it may be performed by three distinct Organs the heart the mouth the hand The Consent of the heart is called Faith of the mouth is tearmed Confession of the hand is Subscription For so saith S. Paul not content with one without the other Rom. 10.10 With the heart we belieue to righteousnesse that is but one step and with the mouth we confesse to saluation that is another step and he might adde a third yea hee addes it heer in effect or at least for so many as shall be required and called vpon with the hand we subscribe to maintain good order and keep all from running into endlesse confusion Or if you will haue one speake plainer for this third kinde of Consent than S. Paul heere doth take but the Prophet Esay to you who in his 44. 5 foretelling of our times the times of the new testament makes subscription of the hand in direct tearms one a principal mark of our honorable Christendome They shall subscribe saith hee with their hand But alas what should I say more in this behalf if neither the Parallel of Scripture nor the precedent of storie nor the manifest necessitie of the thing it self nor your owne practice of common life can perswade you J wil briefly touch them all First the Parallel of Scripture The Magistrates generally brought their people to make a couenant with Allmightie GOD that they woulde continue in his seruice and in obedience to his lavves as concerning Religion First Josua 24.25 I vvill make short The place was Shechem the Act was writing the peoples words of Consent and vvriting them in the book of the lavv of God the ceremonie vvas a stone rolled vnder an Oke that vvas in the Sanctuarie vvhich stone vvas to be a vvitness of their promised conformitie Secondly Josiah 2. King 23.3 He renevved the like couenant again between God and the people and established vniformitie of vvorship by a vovv And though there be no mention in that place of vvriting and taking names as in the former yet either vve must vnderstand it so by conference of places though for breuitie sake it be omitted in the one or at least it hath the same force I doubt not but as Job saies of his words O that my words were written in a book so

A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLES-CROSSE VPON THE 1. OF NOVEMBER BEING ALL-SAINTS DAY ANNO 1607. By Sa Collins Batchelour in Diuinitie and fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge LVC. 7.35 Wisedome is iustified of all her children GREG. MAG in Ezechiel Nihil ad defendendum honestate tutius nihil ad dicendum veritate facilius AT LONDON Printed by Humfrey Lownes for Richard Bonian dwelling at the signe of the spread Eagle right ouer against the great North dore of S. Pauls Church 1607. To the most Reuerend Father in God Richard the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all England one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuie Councell THe excellēcie of the calling most Reuerend Father that God hath promoted your Grace vnto by the vn-erring hand of his sacred Deputie to be their Agent in causis maioribus to the Churches of this Kingdome may iustly challenge the labours of as many as handle the pen with discretion in our daies but mine if J be ought after a more especiall manner whom the continuance of your fauour for no fewe yeares shining vpon my poore studies hath made wholly pledged to your seruice and some employments also vouchsafed from your Grace haue kept from being altogether idle So that if my meannesse should euer bee exalted to bring forth any thing worthy publication which your Grace rather construeth ouer-fauourably of this Pamphlet than it any way deserueth J haue long since consecrated it to the honor of your Grace as one that hath both countenanced alwaies mine endeauours and also directed after a sort my courses Howbeit this small worke such as it is J now present vnto your Grace not so much in lieu of receiued kindnesse which you haue multiplied vpon me and mine euen when your name hath beene concealed as inuoking patronage against the oppugners For lata porta but aduersarij multi as S. Paul said to his 1. Cor. 16.9 and As concerning this way wee knowe nothing but that it is euery where spoken against as they said to S. Paul Act. 28.22 J speake the truth in Christ most Reuerend Father I lie not the holy Ghost also bearing witnesse with my conscience that J grieue vnspeakeably night and day whithersoeuer J chaunce to looke at the malice of Satan how transformed soeuer and the disaster of our times And as our Sauiour sometimes in the dayes of his flesh wept in compassion ouer the great Citie diuining the ruines of it so mine eyes gush out with water to see there is no religion amongst menne for the most part but that which is tainted with a spice of faction But to let-go complaints and to leaue that to him which will purge his floore in a due time as one that hath his fan already in his hand and lets the yellow weedes to shoote vp but in a policie to exercise our patience and to magnifie his wisedome in the latter end as for the Booke my comfort is that whom the reuerence of your Graces mildnesse and temper most befitting Moses and the aduancement of his chaire shall not represse for shame him the edge of your iudgement long since tried and renowmed for the most accurate perusall of these causes and controuersies aboue all the Church-men of our Nation shall daunt perforce And with that very hope J end for this time humbly recommending the prosperities of your Grace and the good estate of the Church Christian to the Lord Christ that vnder your auspicious and happie gouernement which God of his mercy graunt may be most most long our Nazarites may bee whiter than the snow our Priests purer than the Sapphires Your Graces most humble Chaplaine and Seruant SAMVEL COLLINS A SERMON PREAched at Paules-Crosse 1. TIMOTH 6.3.4.5 If any man teach otherwise and consenteth not to the wholesom words of our Lord Iesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according vnto godlinesse hee is puft vp and knoweth nothing but languisheth about questions and strife of words whereof commeth enuy strife raylings euill surmises froward disputations of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of the truth which thinke that gaine is godlinesse from such separate thy selfe IN 1. Sam. 13.17 thus wee reade that vpon a day there came out of the hoast of the Philistines three garrisons of Champions all minded to destroie but each turning seuerall waies one to Ophrah another to Bethoron and a third to Zeboim This was a picture of the Churches condition not only bodily then wasted and afflicted for the time but spiritually assaulted to the ends of the world whome a trebble squadron of conspiring enimies all bent to murther and destroy yet all attempting sundrie means to mischief do molest continually the heretique by his poisonous and corrupt doctrines the euill liuer by his scandalous and wicked examples the schismatique by his turbulent and vnchristian separations And against these the Ionathans of God with their Captain Saul higher by the head than all the children of Israel that is the king and his Clergie must alwaies haue their weapons in readinesse to suppress their furies We the weakest of ten thousand doe it as wee may to the vtmost of our power and haue done it often heretofore in diuers places encountring them and coping with them as the occasion guided vs either iointly all at once or diuidedly by themselues This day wee will single out the Schismatick from his fellowes as in a stage of renown the greatest disturber if my mind do not misgiue mee that our Church hath complained vnder these many yeares And yet we wil pursue him nor chase him no further than S. Paul himself shall giue vs leaue to do nay ayme and scope how to doe in the Text now propounded The parts whereof are in effect these sixe please you to peruse them with mee The first is The indifferency of the parties offending in these words If any man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jf any bee hee who he wil be high or lowe rich or poor great or small learned or lay famous or of no reputation If any The second is the Quality of the fact consenteth not agreeth not accordeth not I had almost saide subscribeth not The third is the degree of the fault teach otherwise not only think but teach publish his fancies proclaime his conceits drawe Disciples after him make a Sect and blowe a trumpet to sedition with Siba the sonne of Bichri Euerie man to his Tents O Jsrael the 2. of Sam. 20.1 The fourth is the rule of tryall for this matter the square of truth to discerne and iudge by It selfe two-folde eyther the wholesome wordes of CHRIST and of godlinesse or euerie doctrine according thereto So I say not only the written word of God but euery doctrine that is not dissenting or swaruing there-from not onely that which is expressed but that which is inferred and by interposition of lawfull authoritie deducted not onely that which is originally good but euen that which is consequentially sound

others that might in time imitate his good example and how wel doth this charitable ointment of expēce trickling frō the beard of old Aaron the high Priest till it wet the very neathermost skirts of his cloathing First therfore as I said that reuerend Bishop as much esteemed by me as sometimes perhaps distasted by the world of the malepert and malignant Next the right honourable Lady Eliza. Countesse of Shrewsburie that forgetting her ornaments costly tyres which the Scripture saies a woman cannot forget they are so wedded and addicted to them bequeathed her blew-s●ke her purple to the decking of the Tabernacle Last of all one Thomas Russell Citizen of this Citie But I might haue spared that note for the name it selfe was much yet you may knowe him to bee your fellowe-Citizen by his liberall intention The deede shewes the minde the minde shewes the man the man shewes the Cities temper and disposition that hee liued in They vvere vvont sayes the olde prouerbe of the Hebrevves to aske counsell in Abel for there dwelt the wits But we may say they were wont to do deeds of charitie in London which praise God be thanked is not worne away but remaineth and lasteth to this day All these that J haue mentioned had this care and this respect that the feet of the Saints should not be vnwashed vvith Abraham specially those Saints that bring vvith them the glad tidings of peace and flie vnto the vvindowes vvith their doue-like murmurings as Esai speaketh that the fighters of the Lords battels should bee refreshed vvith a competencie of bread and vvine meeting them in the halfe vvay as Melchisedech did that the Prophets and men of God should not vvant a chamber and more than so a table and more yet a candlestick not emptie of a light in it saith Saint Chrysostome but all vvell and conuenientlie furnished vvith Heliseus his hostesse that vvhō the Innes shut out as too cutting for them the manger might not receiue vvithout a glistering oblation vvhich is Myrrhe and Frankincense in the nostrils of GOD vvith the vvise men not so much vvorldly wise that came from the East to vvorship Christ Lastly that the keeper of the holy Passe-ouer should not lacke for a roome to celebrate his mysteries in nor a beast to ride vpon into Ierusalem hauing none of his own with them that did our Lord the like fauour and curtesie I mean they haue all prouided that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Apostle saith that your gain should not be our loss your profit our hinderance thanklesse vexation both of body purse but they haue aduanced improoued the spiritualls of other men with the loss flinging away of their own carnalls as a gage Let their owne vvorkes praise them in the gates let their own actions rise vp to them call them blessed Let the garments of purple bee brought forth and shewed vnto the people that these Dorcasses haue wrought with their own hands for the vse of the poore and let them say to them in this wise Manie haue wisht and many haue talked and many haue meant charitably to this purpose but you in doing it you in effecting it you in preuenting their slow and lingring determinations haue surmounted them all Chiefly before all let the God only wise immortal and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ which is to be blessed both now and for euer haue his due honour out of their proceedings Who first gaue such giftes vnto men that they might bee liberall and then gaue such mindes to men that out of their guiftes they were content to bee beneficiall O how well doth his name sounding among their praises O how well doo his titles amiddest their stile and O how dead dismall and discomfortable is all where vertue being commended the Welspring of vertue which is Christ the Lord is forgot to be honoured Let him be magnified let them be mentioned and be you excited to the emulation of the like religious practice Redeeme your sins cancell your bonds break off your vnrighteousness trauerse your inditements defeat Gods iudgemēts prouoke his mercies purchase his rewards enlarge your bowells of compassion towards all And when you haue done all this and all that you can doe or all that you should do put no confidence in your own works trust not in your own merits but let them be to you as dross dongue to gain Christ and the shining Robes of his alone incomparable righteousness So shal your work of Charitie be accepted so shall your labour in the Lord be recompensed so shal your mite be prized aboue all that is cast in by the hand of the swelling Iusticiaries so shall the seede of your almes deeds shoot into the ripeness of a perfect blade so shall your cup of cold water spring into a fountain of euerlasting bliss For let no man deceiue himself my dear Brethren the fruit of righteousness is sowen in peace of them that seeke peace Heere wee end for this time Desiring Almightie God c. FINIS