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A61500	Three sermons preached by the Reverend and learned Dr. Richard Stuart ... to which is added, a fourth sermon, preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, Samuel Harsnett ...; Sermons. Selections	Steward, Richard, 1593?-1651.; Harsnett, Samuel, 1561-1631.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5527; ESTC R20152	74,369	194

to teach her Son in his ripe years that he should not walke after the Lusts of the Gentiles but according to the Faith of his Father Abraham What made Iudea so rediculous to other Nations but her religious observance of many outwa●d Rites which such strangers understood not Durst Iuvenals wit have been so prophane as Sat. 14. to stile the Sabbath Day Lux ignava a day of ●loath had he either known the majesty of the Author or that it selfe was a representation of that Eternall Rest whereof his fellow-Poets had seen a shadow And againe Nec distare putant humana carne Suillam He smiles to see the I●ws abhor Swine● flesh But know Satyrist that very Nation was a Sacrament all gestures and Emblems and what she practiz'd on the Body was to teach us to do the like on the Soul The Iews abstain'd from so foule a Creature that the Gentiles might learne purity that their me●ts might be the Hieroglyphiques of our conversation for as the Law runs No polluted person may approach the Sanctuary So the Gospel No unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven You see then it 's the morall commends a Cerimony and that in these figurative gestures the act it selfe is not so considerable as the end of it Wh●t thes● Ancients did imply by Washing the Dead Calvin intimateth upon the 9. of the Acts vers. 37. Vt in morte ipsa visibilis aliqu● Resurrectionis imago piorum animos in bonam spem erigeret For they did undoubtedly hope that that very body should hereafter appeare as unblameable before the Tribunall of Iesus Christ as after Washing it seem'd cleane and spotlesse before the ●yes of men Nam quia mors speciem interitus habet saith that judicious Interpreter nè Resurrectionis fidem extingueret species contrarias opponi utile fuit quae Vitam in Morte representarent When Death seemed to threaten a perpetuall Destruction it behoved them by such Cerimonies to meditate upon their Eternity that in the midst of the Trophees of Death they might also appeare Conquerors by Faith in the Resurrection Thus did their Beliefe obscure mortality and in the midst of their Obsequies they kept a solemne Triumph Tell me saith Saint Austin de Civ. Dei 1. why was Toby registred for burying the Dead Why the Woman for anointing Ioseph for imbalming our Saviour Non quod ullus cadaveribus sensus sed quod ad Dei providentiam Corpora quoque mortua pertinere significantur propter fidem Resurrectionis astruendam Learne here the true use of Funeralls learne to make them serve as nourishment to thy Hope Imitate my Apostles act and set thy Faith on worke in these outward solemnities when thou seest men so readily officious to conveigh the Corps into the Earth think that the Angls were no less serviceable to see his Soul inshrined in Heaven for they are all ministring spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be Heirs of salvation Heb. 1. ult. Let these perfumes quicken thy hope and make thee conceive the worth of Christs imputed Righteousnes his Life and Death was accounted a sweet smelling savour in the nostrils of God the Fath●r When thou beholdest them interred in the mould of the Earth think him not lost but sowen and as the Harvest restoreth the Seed again with advantage so shall the Resurrection this deceased Brother with an increase of Glory Such thoughts are of all other most Christian obsequies and doe as much t●nd to the renown of the Dead as to the incouragement of men alive because he doth more honour to a deceased friend who believes he shall rise againe then he who with out all hope imployes all the Physitians in Egypt to defer his putrefaction For I find Beasts partaking of this respect so you may read Bo●tius writes of Ptolemy the Son of Lagus that the Egyptians were as pompously Cerimonious in the Funerals of their Apis in English a Bull as if the Obsequies had been performed upon Ptolemy himselfe and where men bury their Gods such stupidity is no wonder Alexander made himselfe a Mourner when he buryed his Bucephalus and I 'me sure in that regard the Hors● had far more honor then the Rider Nay if Alexander ab Alexandro faile not in his collections Lacides the Philosopher Anserem elatum in funere c. I will non English it effusis lachrymis sepelivit yet 't was none of thos● holy Fowles neither that preserved the Capitol But I leave Lacides to Athens where he may be mocked by Philosophers Stupid madness sure these men first buried their Reason before they became Actors in such hoplesse Funerals and then t was no great marvel to see them do honour to the Beasts their fellowes And yet these very Obsequies may serve to shame some of our dry Dissemblers for out of doubt it must make some true Mourners to see so vast a pomp of empty Lamentation When there is cost without F●ith how contemptible is the Cerimony Dost thou imbalme thy friend only 't is no greater honour Dost thou believe he shall rise againe This is to selebrate a Funerall and this is that wins regard to the Dead Do we no● know that expectation getteth respect and maketh us become Obsequious even to them that are but the Heirs of Honour Beliefe then of the Resurrection must needs inforce u● to regard these very Bodyes as to whom belongs an Inheritance and eternall glory as a possession VVe thence know that he ●hat is the God of Abraham is the God of these Corps too And shall a man there deny respect where God himselfe vouchsafeth providence If this deceased person hath still the same God with us the case then stands as before his Death we are still his Brethren Thus may a Funerall increase our Faith and our Faith adorn a Funerall Art thou poor and yet desirest to do honour to thy d●ceased Friend say only that he shall rise again and thou hast more then imbalmed him Art thou Rich and thereby able to expresse thy regards yet bring Faith too otherwise such Rites are prodigies shadows without a substance nay the Cerimoni●s are abused ●nd mak● thy friend no wayes differ from the Beasts that perish The men of Corinth wash their Dead and hence my Apostle preacheth a Resurrection Funerals you see give oc●asions to Sermons nay Death and misery are the best preparatives to Instruction For lowliness is the fore-runner of wisdome he is more then halfe taught who by such meanes is made a fit Auditor VVhen we see by others that we our selves must die how willing are we to talke that we must Rise againe That of the Tragaedian Quod nimis miseri volunt hoc facil● credunt shews that these Spectacles facilitate our beliefe for when we thence perceive a neces●ity of Death we gladly give entertainment to Faith in the Resurrection These occurrences are yet more Doctrinall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. as Suidas hath

God of Heaven but yet it was in his Idols Judge now I pray you which are more tolerable the worst at Corinth or the best at Rome There some few took meat in an Idol-Temple but here all deal with Idols themselves They say they fix their hearts on God so did those worst Corinthians and yet their mouths made them Idolaters and then how these mens knees can scape I know not For me thinks in case of false Religion lesse hurt should come by eating then adoring It were good if for the Iews●ake at least they would leave their C●ucifixes and their whole Heaven of Poppets an Heathenish they are their own Cassanders words and gross kinde of worship For to what purpose unlesse perhaps His Holinesse imagines that he can neither truly succeed Peter without denying his Master nor represent Aaron without Idolatry Nor are their Laws lesse offensive then their Divinity For would it not make a Iew smile to see a Priest more severely punish'd for Marriage then for Fornication as if the Christian Religion held Wedlock criminal or at least did more zealously endeavour the execution of her own fancies then of Gods own Will and Commandements Nota unum mirabile plus puniter Castitas quam Luxuria the gloss upon Lancell in his Instit. de his qui promoveri non possunt 'T is strange saith the Canon●st with us Nuptial chastity i● more strictly punished then the most wanton lust Yet I wish that Rome only were to be found guilty of these scandalous transgres●ions or ●hat our Land were as free from those sins which offend the Iews as 't is from the Iews themselves Adulteries then would be less frequent and ●his day be accounted a Day of Rest and not of Riot That biting Trade would then be left wherein I know not by what incestuous gain Coine begets Coine upon it self and we ●●ould take care either to strangle the gnawing Serpent or else to make it tooth-less shall I call it the Circumcision of the Land It is a burthen they say that neither we nor our fore-fathers were well able to bear must not this crime make the Iewes to abhor our Christian cruelty for with this tearing Engine they oppresse strangers only but we grind our own Brethren Nor is it improper to speake here of Iewes and of Gentiles too the whole World is a fit subject for this great Auditory I doubt not there are here present who converse with both Nations some for Profit and some for Delight no people but some here may either by command perhaps or else by Curiosity be brought to deal with them You then that go down to the Sea in Ships and whose way lyeth in the midst of great VVaters give ye none offence neither to the Iews nor Turks nor Infidels least your ill lives beget their blasphemy and whilst you make your selves a scorne you make your mighty God contemptible Use no fraud in bargaining nor deceit in your slack performance lest Christ himselfe suffer while your tongues offend For will strangers think him a God whose servants are all Atheists Will they be brought to worship Christ when your owne workes deny him Thinke not to thrive if for your sake your Saviour prove a loser May they please to heare too If any here hath to do with our late plan●ed Colonies whether in Virginia or in other places they are seated you know in the midst of the Gentiles and therefore my Text affords this Caution Let them give none offence let care be taken that those men you send be taught first to know God at home lest our Plantations be held to be but Goal-deliveries and our Land be thought rather to transport her Crimes then her Religion Let them be forced to forbeare a Savage cruelty lest what others have already done they make our Saviours name grow odious to the Pagans and cause them to speake through bitternesse of soul There is no Hell but Ch●istendome But that all may partake I must turn this Application into a Song of praise Glory be to God th●t we a●e not constrained to dwell in Meshek nor to h●ve our habitation among the Tents of Kedar For our Brittish Church is herein blest beyond this of Corinth that she neither hears the Gentiles to question nor the Iewes to blaspheme her Saviour VVe all here accord in that one Halelluj●h Praise and Honour and Glory and Renown and Power be unto him that sits on the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore But yet in too true a sense we want not them without men which owe their birth to the Womb of this Church and yet now they scorn to call her Mother Recusants in the hearts of our chiefest Cities Nemo tam propè procúlque nobis The Grecians at Constantinople live not so farre from us as these men do in England There are too who separate upon more slight pretences because I thinke our Church consists of Men for sure their strict profession must have us all turned Angel● You see our state as the Lilly among the Thorns so should our Church bear her selfe amidst these oppositions Corinth had I●wes and Gentiles whose conversation did no doubt pierce her soul and yet she must be inoffensive her flower must still remain smooth and harmless so we have those too who will needs be without and to these we sh●ll perform what S. Paul injoins us if with the L●lly the scent of our Doctrine remain stil sweet and our lives be kept white and innocent But are we not condemned already It seems by our Opposites that we give sca●dall and that we give Offence We teach say they that God is the Author of sin and their fat cares are prick● with this sharp blasphemy Do we t●ach it but where I wonder in what place in what Author you see if the Lilly will bear no Thorns these men can sow them on If our Church can give no scandal yet they 'l make her to do it Yea this is Ro●es choicest Art fir●t to ●eign us Her●ticks and then to rail at us But yet they learnt this cunning from the Gentiles for just thus saith Minutius did they deal with the primitive Christians Obstruunt pectora ut ante nos incipiant homines odisse quàm nôsse They possess mens minds with forgeries that they may make their Hate to prevent their knowle●ge that men may learn to detest and abhor us before they know what we are Nor yet do they here cease to quarrel our scandals it seems are yet more numerous It offends them that we hold Faith to be a strict personal confidence that we say A man may sometimes be sure of his salvation It troubles them that we allow not Free-Will to be a main Agent when we are first converted and they indure not to heare when we deny Works to be meritorious In the 8 of Saint Matthew where our Saviour taught the abrogation of Iewish Ceremonies and that the worst Meats could not de●ile us the Text