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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48948	A sermon preached at Lambeth, April 21, 1645, at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley, Doctor in Divinity, late preacher there with a short relation of his life and death / by William Leo [sic] ...	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2817; ESTC R7483	22,538	42

bitter pill candyed over with sugar a golden cup like the whores in the Revelation full of dismall and deadly poyson No marvell then that the Prophets Princes and Preachers of the world have left behinde them such lamentable notes and votes of their wearisomnesse in the experience of things here below Jeremy that Prophet of Lamentations cryeth Oh that mine head were a well of waters and mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the Daughter of my people O that I had in the wildernesse a lodging place of waifaring men that I might leave my people and goe from them for they be all adulterers an assembly of treacherous men I recommend the whole chapter to the reading and meditation of every sober Christian to fit his soule and tune his heart to the wofull tone of this tumultuous Sea-world David a King tunes his pipes with this dolefull Ditty O that I had wings like a Dove for then would I flee away and be at rest Loe then would I wander farre of and remaine in the wildernesse I would hasten mine escape from this worlds windy storme and tempest Paul the Preacher of the Gentiles exclaimes and sayes O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death And had he not found a deliverer he had sunk under that bitter agony You will further enquire Why the passages of this world are ever so transitory and brittle I answer briefly This fretfull Sea of glasse is like an angry Lady that will turne away her servant for a very Glasse breaking And why are they never satisfactory For that the heart of man is a triangle and the world is a circle and a circle can never fill a triangle Nothing in this world can satisfie mans triangle heart but the holy blessed and glorious Trinity One touch of the Power of God the Father one glimpse of the rayes of the wisdome of God the Sonne in whom are hid all the Treasures of wisdome and knowledge and one drop of the gift and grace of charity from God the Holy Ghost satisfies contents and cheeres the whole nature of the regenerate man But why are all the passages of this world alwayes open and overt to the sight and censure of the eternall God How can it be otherwise It is impossible but that he that made the eye should see Shall not he that made the heart shall not he I say understand When the whole world before his Throne is Crystalline open naked and diaphanous to the Lord our God His all-seeing eyes see and discerne the imaginations of the thoughts of every mans heart that liveth Shall I request this favour at your hands That you would be pleased to turne to the first chapter of Johns Gospel and read from the 45. v. to the end of the Chapter and observe and meditate of that heavenly conference there between Jesus Christ our blessed Saviour Philip of Bethsaida and Nathanael Philip findeth Nathanial and saith unto him Wee have found the Messias Come and see Jesus saw Nathanael comming unto him and said Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile Nathanael saith unto him Whence knowest thou me Jesus answered and said unto him Before that Philip called thee when thou wast under the fig-tree I saw thee Nathanael is ravished and cryes out Rabbi Thou art the Sonne of God thou art the King of Israel Many there knew Nathanael to be an Israelite but none saving the Lord Jesus knew him to be such an Israelite in whom was no guile Thus farre have I spoken unto your heads in the Doctrinall part of my Proposition Give me now leave to speake to your hearts in the practick part thereof and so I shall incline toward an end The first Use of the Doctrine is of heavenly affection tending to earnestnesse of zeale and longing after Heaven Forasmuch as we finde nothing here below but a Sea restlesse a brittle being and a slippery standing What are we or who are we here present this day and understanding what the frame fashion and garbe of this world is by the sacred Oracle of the text and would not now cry out with Esay to our God in Heaven Oh that thou wouldest rend the Heavens that thou wouldest come downe that the Mountaines might melt at thy presence and that the Nations might tremble at thy power What are mountaines here but the mighty in the earth that set themselves against the Lord Bow thy Heavens O Lord and come down touch the Mountaines and they shall smoak Yea bee the mountaines never so vast so lofty so exalted above measure one touch of his finger shall shake them all to pieces Yea though a rebellious Absolon that had swelled against his Father like to an Olympus God commeth down in his power and gives him but a touch and he and his haughty Rebellion passeth away in a smoake that vanisheth hee hangs between heaven and earth as unworthy of either and all his swelling presently abates like a blown bladder with the pricke of a pin 1. To my Brethren of the Ministry here present I speak and beseech you to preach to this decaying world That we all in it wax old as doth a garment and as a vesture God wil change us and we shall be changed but he is the same yesterday to day and for ever and his yeers shall have no end 2. To the Laicks I say this It is an observation of the Physicians that we are now of shorter stature and of lesse livelihood then heretofore 3. Is there an Astronomer here tell him that Stadius Copernicus and Reinoldus affirm peremptorily that the very Heavens are decayed the Sun lesse orient in his splendour the Moone more pale and the Starres more dimme 4. Art thou a Muck-worme Know that Philip Melancthon a choice Divine in his time being contemporary with Martin Luther left this observation behinde him That the earth is growne so old that it is like a wombe barren with age 5. To whomsoever here present that hath any Christian sense and feeling I would have him know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in paine together untill now And not onely they but wee our selves which have the first fruits of the Spirit even we our selves groane within our selves waiting for our full and finall redemption as Paul preacheth 6. Haply there may bee here present some Jesuite or Jesuited spirit whose learning lyes all in the Directories of Machiavels Prince Bodins Commentaries and Lypsius Politiques whose Primer is couched in this one principle Religentem esse oportet religiosum nefas Let me tell that Statizer I am no Platonist whose learning is hid in finall and fatall numbers affirming that no State ever continued above 500. yeeres without some fearefull fate or finall fall But ay me we understand better by experience of times past that that Principle is not true as