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A12706	A sermon preached at Whaddon in Buckinghamshyre the 22. of Nouember 1593. at the buriall of the Right Honorable, Arthur Lorde Grey of Wilton, Knight of the most Honorable order of the Garter, by Thomas Sparke pastor of Blechley	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1593 (1593)	STC 23024; ESTC S102431	51,655	100

touching his wiues bearing of Iohn Baptist he is strooken dome and so continued vntill the childe was borne And if we go on and consider Peter Paul most famous amongst the Apostles though it cannot be denyes but that they studied to be righteous and very godly men and that then they had the spirite of regeneration to enable them both to will well and to doe well yet euen in respect of the time when they were such they are not found without fault or sin For Math. 26. we read how shamefully for feare Peter denied his maister and that at Antioch a good while after Christs ascention and therefore after the desc●●●●on of the holy ghost vpō him and his fellows he behaued himselfe so that Paul therfore openly rebuked him there and charged him that he was to be blamed for his so dealing for that by his example he constrained the Gentils to doe like the Iewes insomuch that other Iewes as Paul reporteth it dissembled likewise with him euen Barnabas was brought into their dissimulation also Gal. 2. ve 1. c. Now Paul in the 7 to the Romanes ve 10.20 c. most plainly confesseth of himselfe whē hee had striuen and laboured for the contrary to the vtmost be could that he found a lawe in his members rebelling against the law of his minde which before he cald the sin that dwelt in him whereby it came to passe that sometimes hee did that hee would not and was led captiue vnto the Lawe of sin insomuch that most lamentably he crieth out saith O wretched man that I am who shal deliuer me from this body of sin and death and to the Co. ep 2. Cap. 12. ve 7. c. he complaines of a pricke in his flesh which he cals the messenger of Sathan that did buffet him whereof he could not bee rid though he besought the lord thrise that he might Very well therefore in my opinion was it said of Hierom in his epistle to Ctesiphon against Pelagius who vsed to obiect many of these examples to proue that mē might be without sin because many of these are said as you hard in the scriptures to haue beene iust and righteous men iusti appellantur non quod omni vitio careant sed quod maiori parte vntutū commendentur that is they are called iust men not that they were without all fault but that they were commended with the greater part of vertues Notable truely and wel worth the reading is this epistle of Hieroms both to the confutation of the old new Pelagians that notwithstanding the plain euidence of al that I haue said wil yet hold that mē cā in this life haue in themselues a perfect and absolute righteousnes for not only doth he most plainly therein condemne that as an opinion that in it containes the poison of al heretiques taketh man out of man holdeth him that is in the body to be out of the body but also to be contrary to al experience either past or to come and directly to rob Christ of his speciall prerogatiue which is to be without sin And most sharpely and briefly hee confutes all their chiefe arguments and leaues them neuer a starting hole and in the end concludes that haec hominibus sola perfectio si imperfectos se esse nouerint this is mans only perfectiō to know himself to be imperfect But if it were a thing that I might longer stād vpon it were an easie matter to keepe you an whole houre with golden sentences and argumentes o●● of this father and the rest most pregnant to this purpose For I can assure you neuer a one of the ancient learned fathers but they are full and forcible against al Pelagians and other heretiques whatsoeuer to humble men alwaies in the sight of their own w●is and imperfection before God And doubtles though they that hold the contrary wil not see it in the great wisedome and prouidence of God it is that whiles we are here we shoulde still doe what we canne finde our selues compassed with infirmities and encombred with sin For hereby we see the power and strength of sin the better to make vs thankefull vnto our God continually the more for our sweet sauiour Iesus Christ that clenseth vs from all sinne Hereby we are from daie to day made the more weary of this world where wee see this troublesome battel with sin wil not end and so the more desirous of an other when we are sure it shal Hereby also in the mean time we haue occasion the better to shewe our faith our patience and constant feruentnesse in flying to God for helpe and succour therby the Lord breeds in vs many a good vertue as humility mercifulnes and compassion towards others preserues vs from the cōtrary foule vices of pride hard hartednes and contēpt of others Paule himselfe confesseth that the pricke in his flesh that wee hearde him eare while complaine of was giuen him lest he shoulde be exalted out of measure through the aboundance of reuelations 2. Cor. 12. ve 7. Wherefore as of the flesh of vipers there is made as they saie a notable counterpoyson so of the viperous remnantes and reliques of sinne God in his wisedome and by his power makes vs a preseruatiue against most daungerous sinnes And as the skilfull Chirurgian that woulde heale his patients wounde throughly to the bottome keepes it the longer open so dealeth the Lorde with vs in this case that wee by this meanes seeing the depth and daungerousnesse of our wounde the longer may seeke and finde in Christ Iesus our onely soveraigne Chirurgian and Phisition in this case a full and perfect remedy For it is he alone who his owne selfe bare our sinnes in his bodie on the tree that wee being deliuered from sinne should liue in righteousnes and yet by whose stripes wee are healed 2. Pet. 2.24 And surely the Pharisee puft vp with a conceit of his owne righteousnesse shall goe home in his iudgement as he came and the very Publican shal be rather iustified then hee Luke 18. vers 10. c. And therefore hee calleth onely for the heauy loaden and weary of that heauy loade Mat 11.28 offers himselfe to those that thirst after him Ioh. 7.37.38 For to whom should the Lord haue an ei● but to him that is of a brokē cōtrite spirit Isaiah 66. ver 2. And who wil bee at this point but he that hath learned to humble himselfe before his God as Michah hath taught vs when he hath walkt before him in iustice and mercy the best he can Thus therfore I hope sufficiently we haue heard opened whom the Prophet here minded fo comforte wherfore these things thus premised vnderstoode I dare do confidently assure my self that this noble person whose body lieth here before vs anone to bee buried was such a one both generallie and particulerly as here the Prophet hath described and I hope there are few or