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Six sermons by Edw. Willan ...
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Willan, Edward.
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celeberrimus Volateran Anthropol Homeri duo fuerunt Volateran Anthropol l. 17. approved Historiographers to Homer the Prince of Poets and other famous Wits that were his followers That Poeticall Paradise the Elysian Field could make a Pagan give his longum vale to this present world with notable resolution And shall not the reall pleasures of the Celestiall Paradise the fulnesse of joy in the glorious presence of God encourage a Christian at his death to depart as comfortably as a faithless Grecian Why should Fantasie in a Heathen be more powerful than Faith in a Christian Is not that company as good which we beleeve to be in the glorious presence of God as that which he imagined to be in Elysio Campo And are not the joyes as many and as great Why then should not every true Beleever cheare up himselfe at his departure by thinking of his going to S. Peter S. Paul S. James S. John and to all that glorious Company of Apostles in that presence of God And of his going to Elias and Elisha and Isaiah and Ezechiel and to Daniel and all that goodly fellowship of the Prophets And of his going to S. Steven the Proto-Martyr and to Ignatius and to Justinus and to our Cranmer and our Ridly and our Hooper and our Taylor and all that Noble Army of Martyrs And of his going to that Reverend Patriarch Abraham the Father of the faithfull and to Isaac and to Jacob and to all the holy Patriarchs in the Kingdome of God And of his going to the holy Angels and Arch-Angels and Thrones and Powers and Principalities and to the Spirits of all just Men made perfect Who can thinke of Hebr. 12. 23. being thus transported and not be transported with the very thought of it Surely it must needs be a very Consolatory Viaticum to the soule of a dying Christian to thinke of exchanging Earth for Heaven and the sordid Company of Sinners for the sweet society of Saints Who can thinke of Reigning with holy David and good Quae dementia est amare pressuras poenas lacrymas mundi S. Cypr. de Mortal Egredere anima mâ—a S. Hieron in vit Hilar. Luke 2. 29. 30. Octogenarius ille ceciâ—it â—lor Draxel Zodiac Christian Josias and with Christ Jesus himselfe in his Kingdome of Glory and still desire to bee subject to his owne corruptions and the corruptions of others Hee that thinkes upon the fullnesse of joy in the presence of God and the pleasures at his right Hand for evermore can never wonder that old Hilarion should entreate his owne soule to be packing thither When Swan like Simeon had but seene his Saviour in his state of Humiliation hee could not chuse but sing his nunc Dimittis Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word When his Saviour and ours was come into this World and hee had taken him into his Armes hee desired leave then of the Lord to take his leave of the World that so he might leave his soul in the Armes of his Saviour And they that have seen their Saviour by the eye of Faith as now hee is to be seen in his state of Exaltation and have embraced him in Augu. de Civit. Dei l. 19. Psal 39. 12. Et ideo â—anquam peregrinus ad illam Sanctorum omnium patriam â—estinabat S. Ambros de â—on Mort. the Armes of their afffections can never be unwilling to depart in peace that with the God of Peace and Prince of Peace they may have peace in life eternall and eternall life in peace as S. Augustine turnes it very wittily Are we not all Pilgrimes here and are wee not allmost lost in dangerous wayes and desperate Times Who then can chuse but wish himselfe at home Caelum Patria Christus via vita nostra deambulacrum Heaven is our Home Christ is our Way thither and this life is our Walke Our Home is pleasant our Way perfect but our Walke painefull Yet there is a necessity of our Walke and there is Adversity in our Way But there is Felicity at our Home Wee are all here upon our Walke And wee all have heard of our onely Way and who does not John 14. 6. Heb. 10. 20. wish with all his heart that he were at home I 'le speak even all your Errands in a word and send you homeward Remember whither yee are going and stay not by the way for feare it be too late ere yee get home Remember your Way and stray not from it for feare yee lose your selves and never come neere home But be sure to keepe your Way and be content to travell hard and yee may be sure ere long yee shall reach home and receive a wellcome home by all the Saints in Glory and a Crowne of Glory by Christ our Saviour and the fullnesse of joy in the Presence of God and pleasures at his right Hand for evermore Amen Amen * ⎠* FINIS A SERMON OF THE WORLDS VANITY AND THE SOVLS EXCELLENCY Preached in the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in the fore-noone Octob. 9. 1642. By Edw. Willan M. A. C. C. C. in Ca. Homer Iliad 10. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for RICHARD ROYSTON at the Angel in Ivie-lane 1651. TO The Worshipfull Robert Style Esquire his ever honored Patron AND To the Right Worshipfull Robert Aylet Dr. of Law and one of the Masters of the CHANCERY Gentlemen THis Sermon was appointed for the Crosse But I hope there is no crosse appointed for this Sermon It came not at the Crosse when it was preached And I hope no crosse shall come at that when it is printed It took sanctuary in the Quire and so was delivered to an extraodinary multitude of Hearers But iâ— now requires another kinde of sanctuary to be delivered from the multitude of ordinary Censurers Your kinder countenances may prove such a sanctuary to it It is a Sermon of Merchant-Adventurers and it hath made me a Venturer though no Merchant And in this Paper-bottome I have made a twofold Adventure The first is of this Tendry of Respect and Service to your Worships for the gaining of your favours for the Protection of the other And that other is not an adventure of a Soule for the gaining of the World but of a Sermon about the World and the Soule into the World for the gaining of Soules And your joynt favours as I conjecture may prove a very safe Convoy to it thorow the World Caeptis aspirate It was the one of your good Worships which called it then unto the Pulpit or caused it to be called thither And it is the other that hath now called it unto the Presse or occasioned the Printing of it And now whose shall I call it It might sometimes have been called mine But it hath been miscalled I know not whose I remember well I heard the Character of a
bringing them to their tryals before the Bars of Self-examination and Self-Conviction and Self-condemnation That every man would turn out his own sinnes and turn them off and return to the God of peace and mercy that God might turn away his fierce anger from us all and turn his displeasure into love and his controversie with this Nation into a National peace And this he might be perswaded to do for us cou'd we be perswaded by him to turn from all our sinnes and return unto him Wherefore turn your selves This brings the Act unto the Object I would it might also bring the Object to the Act. It hath brought Turning unto you I wish it might as well bring you to Turning Many are busie in turning but it is not of themselves They are turning out and turning off but it is not of their own sinnes There are many and many ill turns done to others in these Times but these are not the turnings in the Text. Our turning must be of our selves Wherefore turn your selves Let us search and try our own wayes and turn again unto the Lord saith the Prophet Jeremy Lam. 3. 40. Let us turn our selves and let us all do so A particular Person by turning of BP Davenant Sermon before the House of Lords Jer. 3. 22. himself unto the Lord may turn away a particular Judgment from himself But when the sinne hath been generall and the suffering be as generall almost as the sinne then the sorrowing for it must be generall There must be a generall Turning at such a time to turn away the Judgment Clergie and Laitie Noble and Ignoble all must turn at such a time When that great Defection was in the Kingdome of Israel and both parties had been sorely punished the lamenting Prophet Jeremy by inspiration bespake both parties to return together Let the Children of Israel and the Children of Judah come together and weeping seek the Lord their God Jerem. 50. 4. And the Prophet Hosea's Exhortation return is general Come let us returne unto the Lord for he hath spoyled us and he will heale us he hath wounded us and he will binde us up againe Hos 6. 1. Then our Turning may be to purpose indeed when it is universal when we all joyne hands hearts and turne as one Man unto the Lord. When every Man turneth one every one turns himself When every wicked man forsakes his owne wayes and every unrighteous man his own imaginations and returne unto the Lord. As the the Prophet Isaiah exhorteth Isa 55. 7. Great complaining there hath been by the Many against all sorts of Magistrates both Supreme and Subordinate Yea the greatest Councel of the Kingdome hath been complained of by many As if all evils were originally from miscarriages in Governours But may not the Many erre in this Matth. 22. 29. not knowing the Scriptures It was the Sinne of David that caused the people to be numbred And it was from Davids numbring of the People that seventy thousands of them were swept away in three dayes space by the plague of Pestilence Yet was it not Davids 1 Chron. 21. 2. 7. 14. sinne but the sinnes of the People that gave the first occasion of that punishment As you may see 2 Sam. 24. 1. And againe the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel and he moved Causa causae est causa causati David against them to say go number Israel and Judah When God is angry with a people for their sinnes he suffers their Ruler or Rulers to doe something amisse that so upon the fault of the Magistrate he may take an occasion to punish the multitude And it becomes the people to begin their Complaints where the fault to be complained of began See this point very excellently handled by Mr Rous in his Oil of Scorpions Sect. 14. If the sufferings of Israel were occasioned by Davids sinning And Davids sinning were occasioned by the sinnes of Israel then surely the way for Israel to have turned away their sufferings had been by turning from their finnes Let not us inferiours look above our selves or from our selves for the finding out of faults to be amended but let us look into our selves and amend what there we finde amisse The Hearts of the Governours are in the hands of God and he Prov. 21. 1. They are still in the hand of Gods powerful providence though he permits the Devil to have a hand and power over them Dr Jermin Paraphrastick Meditations upon the Proverbs turnes them as he pleaseth which way he will himselfe When he turnes away their hearts from the People it is a signe that Hearts of the People are turned away from him He is the God of Gods and Lord of Lords He is the Over-ruler of all Rulers and by his disposing it is that they rule for the benefit or for the detriment of the People Now if there by any miscarriages in our Governours the way to win the Lord to set them right unto us is to set our selves right to the Lord. Let us but turne with all our hearts unto the Lord and he will surely turne the Hearts of all our Governours to us and our welfare He will make their Counsels prosperous He will make their designes successful He will turne our storme into a calme our dangers into safety our troubles into tranquility All things Rom. 8. 28. shall work together for good to those that love him Many Men have many enemies in these times And every Mans desires are to get the Victory over his enemies Our greatest Enemies are in our selves our owne sinnes are bosome Enemies And home-bred Enemies are ever most mischievous Above any other Enemies let us therefore labour to get the Victory over our selves Let us never give over combating till we have conquered our own corruptions These are the first and worst of Enemies the Makers and Jam. 4. 1. Pugna ut sit in animo hominis paena peccati est ex primo homine in omnes filios propagata ut qui noluit cum Deo esse unitus esset in semetipso divisus qui imperanti Dom ino noluit esse subjectus sibi ipsirebellis atque contrarius esset Isidorus de Summo bono l. â— cap. 26. Movers of all Enmities From whence come Wars and fightings amongst you Come they not hence even of your Lusts which warre in your Members saith St. James Our unruly affections make us all unruly Our mutinous affections make us so amongst our selves There are Warres within us and they are the incentives of the Warres without us Let us labour to make a peace within us and that 's the way to have a peace without us The way to get the Noblest Victory over all our Enemies is for every Man to get the Victory over himselse Caesar was more commended by Cicero for overcomming his own passions to the yeelding of Pardon to Marcellus then for his greatest Conquests over his other Enemies It