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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

A SERMON PREACHED AT PAVLS CROSSE THE 25. OF NOVEMBER 1621. Upon occasion of that false and scandalous Report lately Printed touching the supposed Apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God IOHN KING late Lord Bishop of London By HENRY KING his eldest Sonne Whereunto is annexed the Examination and Answere of Thomas Preston P. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury touching this Scandall Published by Authority AT LONDON Imprinted by FELIX KYNGSTON for William Barret 1621. TO THE MOST EXCELLENT AND ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE CHARLES PRINCE of Wales YOur Highnesse may please to remember how great an interest your Princely Mother our late Gracious Queene vouchsafed to challenge in my deceased Father accounting Him as one of Hers as most truly next the professed band of dutie to his dread Soueraigne whose first-sworne Chaplaine he was after his Maiesties happie arriuall in these parts by all the tyes a Royall Mistris might engage a Seruant he was Since that Starre was taken from our sight I know not whether else ought Shee could call Hers might so immediately refer as to your selfe I am sure it was His study while he liued to consecrate his best endeauours to the Branches of that Royall stocke and by that line of duty drawn from Her merits to measure out His bounden seruices to Her Line chiefly to your Highnesse Who I haue cause to thinke doe yet beleeue you had a faithfull Orator and Seruant of Him Since then by double right he was deuoted to your Highnesse by his owne acknowledgement and by the purchase of your especiall fauours towards Him I durst not entitle any other Patrone to the remainder of what he was his Memory without leaue from your Highnesse But as it was my filiall duety to vindicate a wronged Father so I held it the tribute of my ciuill duty to tender it first to your Hands that it might take sanctuary vnder your Princely wing Thus borne vp the Truth I write shall boldly flie into the bosome of those climes where it was first discoloured and if their foreheads be not meretriciously steeled with impudence or growne flint fetcht backe it 's owne proper hiew or their shame It is not a forward presumption in me but the cause which makes your Highnesse patronage my chiefe scope vpon which tearmes it will not be inglorious for you to vndertake it For whilest you shall protect abused Innocence your Goodnesse will stand pitched at the iust height your Greatnesse now doth one degree from a Defender of the Faith Long may you flourish to make all Good men happy in your protection and may that heart want the prayers of good men to relieue it which doth not as faithfully sue to Almighty God for all addition to your Happinesse as he who is Your Highnesse most humbly deuoted Seruant HENRY KING IOHN 15. vers 20. Remember the word that I said vnto you The seruant is not greater then the Lord If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you I Will not striue to attire my Text in any other fashion the plaine naturall dresse it now weares will best sute it and my intendment The parts shall be as the Propositions Three I. Is monitory and as it were an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Introduction or Preface to the rest Remember the word I said vnto you II. Is a Principle a ground of infallible truth both in Ethick and Oeconomick rules in Humanitie and Diuinitie The seruant is not greater then the Lord. III. Is an Inference vpon an Hypothesis If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you I begin in order Remember I know not what better exordium a Preacher can make or from what foundation the frame of his speech can more happily arise then from this which is the first stone in this pile Remember It is the best charge the Priest can giue and the first lesson the People should learne else like children that read only by rote they shall spend much time and vnderstand nothing It is a taske can neuer be vrged too often Manda remanda nor can it euer be learned too perfectly Nunquam satis dici quia nunquam satis disci potest An age is not enough for this precept but when seuen yeeres are run out they may begin againe and finish an apprentiship long as life yet misse that freedome and perfection they seeke Ars longa vitabreuis Since therefore much is to be learned and either we want time or capacity or memory to comprehend it the right way to profit an Auditory not cloy is to let them digest what they haue bin taught and not heare new lessons before the old are remembred For as eating much meate and not keeping it argues a better appetite then concoction so hearing much and retaining none shewes a quicke eare but a dull deuotion There are many now adaies who neuer thinke they haue preaching enough but as exquisite gluttons lay all markets for fare so doe they lay all Churches where there is any suspicion of a Sermon and all is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to glut their eares nay the same Father speaks them more fully 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they goe not so much to feed as delight their eares and to satisfie that wanton itch of hearing which like a Tetter the more it is rubbed the more it spreads I wish there were more practising on conditiō there were lesse preaching A man may heare so much that hee may ston the sense and bee like the Catadupes whom the continuall fall of Nile makes deafe Cisternes that haue more powred into them then they can hold must needs run to wast and men that affect to learne more then they haue braine to comprehend waste their Pastors labour and their owne patience It is good counsell for one to eate no more then his stomacke can beare for too full feeding engenders nothing but surfets and I thinke as good counsell will it be to heare no more then hee can carry away For were the retention good the nourishment would be more solid and Christianitie acquire that full growth for want of which wee are but Impes and Zanies in respect of those that liued in the Primitiue Church No wonder then if Preaching may breed surfets that so many Crudities lie in the stomacke of this Citty that so many Fumes and giddy vapours flie vp into the head to the no small disturbance of the Churches quiet that so many hot spirits like Canons ouercharged recoyle against all Discipline breake into diuers factions and with the splints of those crackt opinions doe more mischiefe then deliberation or Iustice can suddenly salue I speake no new vnheard language This communitie of Preaching hath brought it into such cheape contempt with many that as if the gift of tongues were prostitute to Idiots and Trades you shall haue a sort of Lay Mechanicke Presbiters of both sexes Praedicatores and Praedicantissae presume so far vpon their acquaintance with the Pulpit