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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10076	Ephesus vvarning before her woe A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday, the 17. of March last. By Sampson Price, Bachelour of Diuinity, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford: and lecturer at S. Olaus.	Price, Sampson, 1585 or 6-1630.	1618 (1618)	STC 20330; ESTC S115214	43,526	80

EPHESVS VVARNING BEFORE HER WOE A SERMON Preached at Pauls Crosse on Passion Sunday the 17. of March last By SAMPSON PRICE Bachelour of Diuinity of Exeter Colledge in Oxford Imprinted at London by G. ELD for Iohn Barnes dwelling in Hosier lane neere Holborne Condut 1616. To the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Lisle Lord Chamberlaine to the Queenes Maiesty and Lord Gouernour of his Maiesties Cautionary Towne of Vlushing Mercy and peace RIGHT HONORABLE THat Speech of Salomon is Eccl. 12 12. ●lc Alex. l. 1. str p. 1. Hic scripto ille vece praedicat Animae sunt soetus Orationes Id. ib. Mar. 12.41 43. Cyp. Tr. de op elcemos 〈…〉 and must continue true of making many books there is no end while the world continueth occasion will not bee wanting of speaking and writing Our Church hath many deseruing Labourers who by voyce and pen seeke to build vp the walles of Ierusalem My desire is to cast my Mite into the Treasury as that poore widdow did whom our Sauiour commended not considering quantum sed ex quanto de disset how much but of how much she offered respecting rather the affection of the giuer then the quantity of the guist This Sermon by the earnest sollicitation of some religious hearers and my deare fauorers was brought from the Crosse to the Presse and is now licenced to be a generall Remembrancer of all those who shall read or heare it Spartian in vita Adrian Imp. to whom I wish as happy a memory as that of Adrian who perfectly euer afterward knew them that had but once spoken vnto him 〈…〉 In Morall actions and ciuill affaires feare oftentimes hath hindred the memory of the wisest as it is recorded of Demosthenes that hee was at a Nonplus beeing to speake before Philip King of Macedon and as it fell out to Theophrastus before the Areopagites of Athens But a holy feare of Gods name must bee the ground of our Remembrance and Repentance Your Honour hath obtained a blessed report for your Noble Vertues and imitation of your Heroicall Brother Sir Phil. Sidney I haue therefore aduentured to dedicate this poore labour vnto your protection to lodge safely from the snarling of biting censurers as vnder the couert of Minerua's shield Your honorable countenance so lately and cheerefully ready to call me from this stipend which I enioy amongst many louing and worthy friends to a more ample maintenance though God disposed otherwise of it hath obliged mee to acknowledge by that little cunning which my right hand hath S. Olau● in Southwarke so great a Kindnes I can seale my thankfulnes by no better a testimony then this Ps 137.5 crauing still the continuance of your honorable fauour God the great rewarder continue his blessings vnto you and your Honorable Lady and hopefull children and at the resurrection of the Iust crowne hee you all with euerlasting glory Your Honors in all duty SAMPSON PRICE EPHESVS WARNING before her Woe Lord Iesus begin and end REVE 2.5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe the first workes or else I will come vnto thee quickly and will remoue thy Candle sticke out of his place except thou repent WHen the sinne of the old World did multiply and grew a burthen to the Earth the Sonnes of God taking them wiues of all which they chose whether Virgins or married vnto others the most of them being Gyants Mercerus ●unius in Gen. not onely in stature but in cruell conditions according to Philo and Damascen infamous for their tyrannie ouer others bringing them in subiection and eating their flesh Theod. q. 84 ●n Gen. euery imagination of the thoughts of their hearts onely euill continually It repented the Lord that he had made man on the Earth Gen. 6.6 It is Verbum nostra paruitati accommodatum a word applied to our weaknes Chrys ho. 22. in Gen. to expresse the greatnes of their sinnes Quae misericordem Deum indignari fecerunt which compelled the mercifull God to be angry Non perturbatio sed iudicium quo irrogatur poena Aug. li. 15. de ciu c. 25. saith Austin It is no perturbation in God but an imposition of punishment Rup l 4. in Gen. Rupertus calleth it an argument of his pittie shewing that he is loth to punish Sixe ages he did forbeare them a thousand yeares and more and gaue them Noah to preach repentance 120. yeares before hee purged that Augaeum stabulum with a deluge of waters The Sinnes of Sodom and Gomorrha were exceeding great Gen. 19.24 before fire and brimstone were rayned downe by the hand of Christ from Iehouah his father as Marcus Arethusius in the Syrinian Councell doth interpret that place Syriniens conc c. 16. against the heresie of Photinus that held Christ not to haue bene before his Mother His Cup of wrath is neuer full mixt with red Wine Psal 74.8 to poure out the same with the dreggs thereof till the measure of our Crimson and Scarlet sinnes be filled in He sendeth Watchmen to blowe the Trumpet and warne the people but if they take not warning their blood shall be vpon their owne heads Ez. 33.4 If the Rod of his mouth and Breath of his lips so the word is called Is 11.4 cannot preuaile hee taketh away this Candlesticke And when once a Church shal loose Prophets which are ready to teach Seers to foretell Ge. 20 7. 1 Sa. 9 9. 2 Pet. 1.13 1 Cor 3.9 Lu. 12.42 Ez. 47.10 Remembrancers to put in mind Husbandmen to plow vp Stewards to distribute Fishers to catch men Starres to giue light and Shepheards to feed all blessings depart and curses follow Yet now it is threatned to Ephesus Remember It was truely acknowledged by Clemens Alexandrinus that Bona est ars terrere ne peccemus It is a good art which terrifieth from sinning yet as Aust fatherlike Aug. Ep. ● 8 Si terrerentur et non docerentur improba quafi dominatio videretur If those that erre should be terrified onely and not be taught it might seeme a kind of tyrannie Sed rursus si docerentur et non terrerentur vetustate consuetudinis obdurarentur But againe if they should be taught and not terrified custome would harden them and make them pace but slowly to the way of eternall life Therefore S. Iohn Legatus a latere The Ambassadour who leaned on his Lords breast partly by instruction and partly by correction seeketh to win these collapsed Churches whose reprehension may stirre vs vp to hearken whose threats may make vs feare whose fallings may make vs stand Our sinnes are as theirs wee haue the luke-warmenes of Laodicea which in this place I once proposed as a warning c. 3.16 Adde to this the little strength of Philadelphia v. 8. Imperfection of works with Sardis v. 2. searching the depths of Sathan with Thyatira Nicholaitans c. 2. v. 24. as in Pergamos