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A10499 The romish Iudas A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Oxford the fifth of Nouember, 1610. By Iohn Ravvlinson Doctour of Diuinitie. Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630. 1611 (1611) STC 20775; ESTC S115696 18,011 50

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THE ROMISH IVDAS A SERMON PREACHED AT SAINT MARIES IN OXFORD THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER 1610. By IOHN RAVVLINSON Doctour of Diuinitie Bern. super Cantic Ser. 52. Non quod mihi est vtile sed quod multis id mihi vtile iudicabo LONDON Printed by WILLIAM HALL for IOHN HODGETS 1611. TO THE HONOVRABLE GOOD KNIGHT Sir Iohn Egerton multiplication of Grace in this life and consummation of Glory in that other HONOVRABLE SIR THough Nihili ad omne nullaest proportio there is no proportion betweene such a Nothing as this and the All of your all-deseruing fauours towards mee yet because the Moralist tells me that where onely the qualitie of the affection and not the quantitie of the present is to bee attended Modicum non differt à magno it skilles not bee the present great or small And Testes inhabiles tunc admittuntur cùm alioquì veritas haberi nequit say the Lawyers Witnesses lesse sufficient are admitted when the truth cannot without them be sufficiently tried J will not once question your kinde and fauourable construction of this either little Modicum of my loue or insufficient witnesse of the truth of my affection towards you to whom vnlesse I would bee impudently bashfull I cannot but ingenuously confesse that whatsoeuer is within the sphere of my actiuitie hath long since been deseruedly due Hauing therfore p●●ssed this Sermon for a Souldiour to fight against the Romish Judas the Priests and Jesuites who are euer like a Ier. 2.24 Jeremies wilde Asse great with foale and so the fitter to bee pursued I know not vnder whose colours it should rather serue than yours both because the many sweet influences of your fauours haue taken such hold and handfast of me that though by the Ciuil Law Ecclesiae res vltra triennium locari non possunt Church-liuings cannot be let forth for more than three yeers yet by the Law of Ciuilitie my selfe a Church-man am bound to let and set my selfe to your seruice for euer as also because you haue vowed your Knights seruice to the defense of our Head-Captaine Christ against his and our Head-enemie the Pope the Muster-master of the Priests and Jesuites a sort of Romanists of whom I would wee might not truly say what b Cor. Tacit. Tacitus sometimes said of the Roman Augurs Hoc genus hominum semper vetabitur semper tamen in Ciuitate retinebitur They will euer be forbidden yet will this Land of ours neuer be rid of them To put by many other their matchlesse more than Machiauellian Practises both at home and abroad hee that shall but looke into their practise of the Powder-plot which I haue made the Subiectum adaequatum of this Sermon it cannot but resolue his heart if truly honest into that poeticall furie Odero si potero si non inuitus amabo J know their cunning to be such that they will disclaime what they cannot excuse and rather than stand burdened with so foule a crime disburden themselues of it what they may by terming it the rash c Ouid. attempt of certaine vnfortunate Gentlemen whom yet they account in nothing so much vnfortunate as that it was not their fortune to speede in that dismall enterprise Howbeit J verily beleeue that had they sped it would haue extorted teares from the Priests and Iesuites their taske-masters teares not of sorrow but of ioy such as Caesar shedde when Pompeys head was brought before him I trust my loyaltie to my most gracious Soueraigne will excuse my presumption that I suffer my pen to trauell in the same path after d The Bishop of Lincolne The Deane of Christ. church two of the most bright and orient Lights of our Church after whose haruest I am farre vnworthie to gleane and my loue to your honourable selfe obtaine my pardon for entitling you to these my poore trauels for whom as for my most honorable Lord and Master your Father the most noble Foster-father of the whole Clergie with each branch and sprig of so noble a Root my praier is and euer shall be to God e Michael Serinius in antiquitat Stet Domus haec donec fluctus Formica marinos Ebibat totum Testudo perambulet orbem Vntill a little-little Ant Shall drinke the brackish Sea-waues dry And a Snaile compasse all the world Stand may that noble ●●milie Yours to the vtmost streine of his best seruice Iohn Rawlinson A SERMON PREACHED AT St. MARIES IN OXFORD the fifth of NOVEMBER 1610. The Preface FOr euery purpose vnder Heauen there is both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so the Septuagint read it a Eccles. 3. Ecclesiastes 3. Tempus and Tempestiuitas a Time and a Season and the Season is as I may call it Salactionum the salt that so seasoneth al our actions that whatsoeuer is vnseasonable is euer vnpleasing Musica in luctu importuna narratio b Ecclus. 22.6 saith the Sonne of Sirac c. 22. A tale out of time is as musicke in mourning or in c Suidas Suidas his Prouerbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the wearing of a hot and heauy winter-cloake at Midsommer-Yea that Panis Angelorum Angelicall Manna that came downe from Heauen though when it was gathered in due time it had in it Omne delectamentum the delight and delicacie of all sweets d Sap. 16.20 Sap. 16. yet being gathered out of season tempore non suo as vpon the Sabbath day it putrified and was full of wormes e Exo. 16.20 Exod. 16. As in other works so especially in this great and notable worke of the Lord the Worke of Workes the dispensation of his holy word there is a tempestiuitie or season to bee obserued Text and Time must haue congruitie each with other As at other times so especially at such a time as this which for the noble and excellent worke of our deliuery wrought therein by the high and mighty hand of God from the damnable designes of that cursed crew those Catuli Catilmarij whelpes of Catilines breed Iudae plusquàm Iudaici more than Iewish Iudasses who as this day fiue yeeres had banded themselues together for the extirpation both of Prince and people may bee called a Time of Times for but for it to vs time had beene no more and doth therfore rightfully challenge at our hands a Song of Songs euen a song of thankesgiuing which is the best and sweetest melodie in the eares of God While I speake of suting this time with a Text I presume your conceits doe already anticipate and runne before mee in my choice which indeede shall bee a choice without choice none other than that of Iudas his treason the hideous crie and dinne whereof so latelie sounded and shall now againe bee reuiued in your eares THE TEXT Luc. 22.48 Judas betraiest thou the Sonne of man with a kisse MY Text then as yee see for the vicinitie and readinesse of it is like Iacobs Venison f Ge. 27.20