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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18976	Iacobs wel, and Abbots conduit paralleled, preached, and applied (in the cathedrall and metropoliticall Church of Christ in Canterbury) to the vse of that citie; now to make glad the citie of God. By Iames Cleland, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Cleland, James, d. 1627.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1626 (1626)	STC 5395; ESTC S121241	34,126	64

transig nies Sidon Apol. sed elegantiuc Orig. s●per i●lud Exo 8. Percutiam omnes Terminos tuos ranis tantum extimesco I am so much afraid of Wrangling Lawyers Who sell vs vnder sinne and are not ashamed of whatsoeuer iniustice they haue committed against the Law of God and of man But I wish they would wash this filthy staine from their faces or foreheads in time Vnder the Brow we should all wash our Eyes the seate of teares giuing so much cause of them and of many Eye-sores d Oculi nos in omnia vitia praecipitant mirantur adamāt concupiscunt Qumt decla 2. Oculi sunt in amore d●●es We should euen wash them with our Teares as the onely Collyrium or Eye-salue to cure all the sore Eyes in this World and able to wipe all the teares from our Eyes in the World to * Reuel 7.17 come Next to our Eyes wee must wash our Eares for the Eye and Eare are like Simeon and Leui brethren in euill Vasa iniquitatis bellantia Instruments of crueltie in their habitation c Gen. 49.5 of corrupted Eares I may empannell a whole Iurie yet not one of them good or true As Midas f Auriculas Midae quis non habet Pers Sat. 1. Sic de Petron. 9. Eares Malchu's Eares who will heare but with the left Fare Peter hauing cut off the right g Qui statuit ●liquid parte inauditâ alterâ Aequum licet statuerit haud aequus tamen Sen. in Medea Eare Athenian Eares curious cryticall and hypocriticall Eares c. which all should well be washed And so should our Mouth bee well washed as full of Vlcers Cankers Swellings and Sores Therein is poyson of Aspes vnder the h Psal 58.41 Lips Teeth are as swords jawes as i Pro. 30.14 Kniues the Tongue can no man tame it is an vnruly member which defileth the whole bodie and setteth on fire the course of k Iames 3.6 nature the Throat is an open l Isay 59.7 Sepulchre and so require all to be throughly washed If the Mouth be thus foule and needeth to bee washed throughly what requireth the Heat out of the abundance whereof the Mouth m Mat. 12.34 Marke 7.21 speaketh Out of this euill treasure nothing but euill can bee produced The Heart is wicked and deceitfull aboue all n Ier. 17.9 things who know it but God the Searcher of all o Heb. 11. hearts which prohibits me further inuestigation of her wickednesse I will wash my hands in innocencie then O Lord and so will I goe to thine p Psal 26.6 Date manibus famuli limpha● Et manibus puris sumite Fontis aquam Altar Thus the Diuine should wash his hands-with King Dauid Psal 26.6 and euery Lawyer should say with the Prophet Esay 33.15 I will shake mine hands from holding of bribes Foras Saint Bernard sayes magnum est homini seculari mundas habere manus It is much for a Layman to keepe his hands cleane so mee thinkes a Clergiemans hands should not be foule any wayes Likewise wee must all wash our feet as well as our hands otherwise they cannot be kept cleane For euen the feet of the best and godliest men in this life are often dabled or defiled trampling in the World A Minister in his most Angelicall calling may gather soyle in his q Philosophi antiquiores quique doctrinam eorum sequuti sunt pedes pro contemperssima parte posuerunt esseque in anima pedes●affectus voluptarios Veneree mollitrdini mancipatos feet if not by his ignorance or negigence yet through the dirt of the World therefore he must shake the dust of his feet before hee goe into the Pulpit Magistrates Iustices and others in Authoritie are to bee feared and suspected they are foule in their feet for though no corruption perhaps cleaue to their owne hands or feet yet may it bee brought into the house by some dirtie complayner or other by some clay Clyant and foule causes or else priuately fetched in by some rigorous Seriant by some craftie Clarke or cunning seruant walking in foule wayes Tradesmen in their Trades cannot sweepe their shoppes so cleane but they leaue some dust of deceit some slurtish corner of double-dealing r Qui cauet ne decipiatur vix cauet etiam cum cauet cum cauisse ratus seapius autor captus est Plaut in Cast Nam-Pleniùs aequo laudat vaenales qui vult extrudere merces Horat. lib. 2. Epist which are to to be wiped and rubbed from their feet that is to say properly from their affections ſ Quis metus aut pudor est vnquam proporantis auari Iuuen. 14. For the feet are taken for the base and earthly affections of the minde which moued Saint Augustine to say Pes meus affectus meus eò feror quocunque feror t S. Aug. Homil. 50. Tom. 10. And in this sense Iesus said to Simon Peter hee that is washed needeth not saue to wash his feet but is cleane euery whit Iohn 13.10 Let vs then wash our feet I meane the affections passions and perturbations of the minde yea the whole man within and without vp and downe to and fro For yee know Vas non potest bene lauari nisi concutiatur nisi fex expellatur nisi postea mundum seruetur God when he threatned to wash well the Vessell of the Earth to make it cleane from imperfections hee said by his Prophet Isaiah 24.19 Confractione confringetur terra contritione conteretur commotione commouebitur agitatione agitabitur The earth is vtterly broken downe the earth is cleane dissolued the carth is moued exceedingly the earth shall reele to and fro thereby to make it cleane and neate Naaman the Syrian was willed to wash himselfe seuen times in Iordan and that rather for our instruction and example then for his owne benefit For his sicknesse was onely a Leprosie in the bodie where our soules and bodies are both leprous with sinne and if he but for one Leprosie washed himselfe seuen times how much more ought we euery time we sinne to bee sorie for it and if wee doe not wash our selues seuen times for seuen sinnes seeing the most iust of vs all as Salomon witnesseth may seuen times fall in one day Prou. 24.16 Oh how ought wee then to wash and bath our selues and that euen seuentie times seuen u Matth. 18.22 Hoc est 490. Origen●sed melius Maldonat in locum vicibus innumerabiliter innumerabilibu● Toties quoties Aug. serm 15. de verbis Dom. whether we looke vpward towards God whom we haue offended or downward vpon Hell which wee haue deserued or backward vpon our sinnes committed or forward vpon iudgement to bee feared or without vs vpon the deceitfull world which wee haue loued or within vs vpon our polluted conscience in assurance of heart our sinnes thus throughly washed are purged and made cleane with the pure and liuing Water of Iacobs Well