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Earth raining vpon heauen A sermon preached at the assises holden at Nottingham, August 5. 1614. By VVilliam VVorship, Doctor in Diuinitie.
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Worship, William.
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STC 25994; ESTC S120299
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make a sad lumpe though in truth no sinne be little in it selfe but damnable The Romanists make but seauen Deadly sinnes all which are couched in this word SALIGIA Vt mortem vites semper SALIGIA vites By S is meant Superbia by A Avaritia by L Luxuria by I Ira by G Gula by I Invidia by A Accidia or rather 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Crafty Cubs for they haue left out Idolatry that Master-sinne Foure things declare the grieuousnesse of sinne The Law Punishment in our selues and others Terror of conscience The death of Christ. There are foure Crying sinnes for which wee must weepe like Rahel that would not be comforted Murder Sodomitrie Oppression of Genes 4. 10. Genes 19. 13. Exo. 22. 23. Iames 3. 4. widows and Orphanes and Detayning of wages Some of these sinnes are rife among vs therfore God calls vs to baldnes and sack-cloth but behold Ioy and Gladnesse slaying Oxen and killing Sheepe eating Flesh and drinking Isaiah 22. 12. Wine Nay we haue learn'd the Epicures Enthymeme The Prophet Esay saies We must die tomorrow Therefore let vs eate and drinke In the next place let vs view this womans Neglect of her selfe She wipes Christs feet with the haires of her head Certainely she wanted not fine linnen to haue dride them but now shee will consecrate her deerest Ornament which so oft which so gently shee had kemb'd and broyded so cunningly against the Glasse The haire is but a poore Excretion yet strange it is how some admire it The Callant must haue his fleece of Vanitie at least one Locke effeminately twisted For which pride hee is sometime so iustly punisht that hee 's forc't to fall to his Gregorian Our Daughters of Sion spend the Morning-time the prime and freshest of the day and fittest for Prayer in crisping curling building Towers on their heads changing the colour with liquors powders borrowing and buying of the liuing of the dead Nay they counterfait the great Seale of Nature and walke with artificiall Complexions which GOD will one day wash off with fire and brimstone fall they not in time to Deprecation Thus wethreaten but what care they They will shrieke and squeale at the leaping of a frogge but not shrinke an inch for all the curses in the Bible VVe are now to consider this womans loue She kissed his feete Fiue kindes of Kisses are found in Scripture The first a whorish one so shee caught him and kissed him Prou. 7. 13. The second a chaste one thus Iacob kissed his cozen Rahel Ge. 29. 11. The third the Kisse of Curtesie Thou gauest me no Kisse Luke 7. 45. The fourth the Kisse of Treason Thus Ioab kist Amasa 2. Sam. 20 and Iscariot our Sauiour Matth. 26. 49. The fift the Symbole of Peace and Brother-hood Greete one another with an holy Kisse 2 Corin. 13. 12. This Kisse was reuerent and argu'd the truth of Loue which Loue to vse Scaligers definition is an affection vniting the soule with Christ. It imports three things an Inclination wherewith shee was affected a Desire wherewith shee was rauished a Ioy wherewith shee was quieted The measure of this Loue is without measure saith Bernard The Schoole-men giue two acute Reasons First because Loue is the vtmost end of our affections Now the End of Desire is without End Therefore the Phisitian puts an end to his medicine neuer to Ariss Pol. 1. the health of his Patient Secondly a measure is found in Loue not as in the thing measured but as in the measure in which there can be no excesse Our Aduersaries that call themselues Catholiques as did the Arrians and Donatists avouch with confidence that they onely loue Christ. How proue they it By an Argument drawne from Kissing they Kisse his Picture the Pax the Altar But stay the Israelites vnder Ieroboam might stand as much on such kissing as they yet the Prophet Hosea Hosea 13. 2. tells them they kist the Calues Do our resolute 1 Pet. 2. 17. dissolute Catholikes loue God Then would they loue our dread Soueraigne his Vicegerent So they doe so they say No Bellarmine their Pythagoras reades them another Lesson De Rom. Pont. lib. 5. c 7. Non licet Christianis tolerare Regem Haereticum It 's not lawfull for Christians to indure a King that 's an Heretique And what King counts hee an Heretique The Protestant VVitnes his owne words Regnante Constantino florebat fides Christiana When Constantine raigned there was nothing but Christianisme When Constantius raigned there was nothing but Arrianisme VVhen Iulian reigned there was nothing but Ethnicisme VVhen Henry of England and Edward reigned there was nothing but Lutherisme VVhen Elizabeth reigned there was nothing but Caluinisme Now when Subiects are thus Iesuited vnlesse GOD restraine them they study professedly the Art of King-killing Shooting as dead as Maureuell poysoning as sure as Brazuto stabbing as right as the Iacobin goring as deepe as Ravilack VVhen first I beheld the Quarters of the Pouder-traitors my heart began to earne and the teares stood in mine eies at last I was sorie that I was sorie and charg'd my soule not to enter into passion O! but they will neuer do so more Not till the next time For at this houre like Catilins they note vs with their eyes and designe vs euery one to Death At last we are almost come a-shoare ready to cast Anchor for now remayneth onely this womans Bountie to be touched Shee annoynteth Christs feet with Oyntment The annoynting the head was an act of kindnesse much vsed then at Bankets in the East-Countries for vs we must show from this Example the life of our Faith by Communicatiue goodnesse And this must be performed sincerely that the Neighbour-hand take not notice of the deed chearfully that the eye be not clouded with disdaine seasonably that the heart be not broken with delay plenteously that all may haue some discreetly that some may not haue all Rich man thou shalt perish soule and body though thou neuer hurt the poore if thou doe not helpe them Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire saith our Sauiour for what for Oppressing the Needy and for sinnes Math. 25. 41. 24 of Commission No for not Succouring the Needy and for sinnes of Omission VVhat then will become of the sacrilegious Patron that Rob-God I 'le not eate the word for I had it from the Prophet Malachy hee thinkes the Tenth a golden Fleece and a goodly Sheafe but hee shall finde that the lockes of the one and the yawnes of the other shall choke him Shortly will the Lord arise lay himselfe fayre in his Bow and send the Arrowes of Death singing into his bosome And what will become of the Lord of the Towne that takes away the Commons incloses whole fields vnpeoples the Country rackes improues vndoes his Tenants kils the Dam with the young-ones the Mother with the Children Let him restore and doe the workes of Mercy quickely or as the Lord liues he shall wring his hands and rue the time that euer hee was borne And what will become of the brauing Knight that builds like Augustus drinkes like Tyberius spends all more than all in Reuils in Licentiousnesse His Chimnies shall cry vengeance against him that breathe out no reliefe to the Orphan hee shall sigh out a Tandem si and griefe shall breake the kall of his heart And what will become of the grim Vsurer O wretch yet will he tell you some Ministers approue him yea and ioyne with him in the Trade O Theife O Theeues And what will become of the vnconscionable Lawyer that leades his Clyent into a Maze of trouble A Motion to day to morrow crost Execution suspended and cald in question by a Writ of Errour I hope sayes the plodding weather-beaten Soule I shall haue an end of my Sute the next Tearme Nay nor the next Tearme nor the next nay nor the next yeere nor the next Behold the Lord will be a Lion to these men as he vvas to Iudah or else a Moth as he was to Israel he will eyther destroy them sodainely or consume them lingringly And what will become of the slye Vndersheriffe who will take double fees that Gryphin-like he may floore his Nest with Gold Doubtlesse this sinne is written with a Pen of Iron and with the Claw of a Diamond And what will become of our Lambbayliues and Cheese-bayliues who to stocke their ground and cram their wallet vvill let honest men alone when the Sediment of the Country must be stird vp for Iurers Surely these things are in the eares of the Lord of Hosts the Author and Patron of Iustice If now some Sycophant shall closely say Hee 's bold with others but dare not come neare the Scarlet-Robes let him take this answere from him who was neuer yet taxt for soothing greatnesse This Circuit neuer saw The L. Chiefe Iustice of England and I. Winch. so Reuerend Iudges For which mercy and all other to GOD the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost be honor and glory for euer and euer Amen FINIS