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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01012	A vvord of comfort. Or A discourse concerning the late lamentable accident of the fall of a roome, at a Catholike sermon, in the Black-friars at London, wherwith about fourscore persons were oppressed. Written for the comfort of Catholiks, and information of Protestants, by I.R. p	Floyd, John, 1572-1649.	1623 (1623)	STC 11118; ESTC S120899	43,744	60

nequam omne debitum dimisi tibi c. Superbia crudelitate impulsus Osiand Epitom hist fol. 30 Qui manet in charitate in Deo manet 1. Io. 4.16 Qui non diligit manet in morre 1. Io. 3.15 Valerius Max. l. 4. c. 4. Daniel 12. â— for that was the subiect his sermon preching the Precept of charity perswading his deuout Auditours to loue their enemyes to forgiue iniuryes to roote reuenge and rancour cleane out of their hart From the eyes of one sparkled fire of anger and Martiall fury not to be quenched but with the bloud of his enemyes From the eyes of the other sprunge teares of Deuotion and Piety which by Sympathy caused waters of Contrition in the harts of his hearers which flowing out at their eyes might serue as a second Baptisme to wash their soules pure in that moment of dissolution and death Is there any man so voyd of Christianity that will not preferre this death in charity and therfore in God before that death of hatred and reuenge and therfore a death not of body only but euen of soule Oh that the Spirit of God with the gale of his aspiring Grace would driue away the cloudes of human sorrow that ouer-whelme the harts of flesh and bloud that pure Christian Fayth shining in her proper brightnes might giue sentence of the quality of this accident Then we would not soe much pitty as enuy such happy passages out of this life nor tearme them disastrous but rather if I may so speake Astruous deaths For that I may apply the wordes of a prophane Authour vnto a true subiect Non ita homines ex spirant sed Astra sedes suas repetunt These be deaths by which men fall not to the ground but STARRES returne vnto their heauenly home those starres I meane wherof Daniel sayth They that informe men vnto righteousnes shall shine as STARRES in the firmament for all eternity Certainly his body fell not so fast to the ground but his soule flew vp as fast vnto heauen like the Doue into Noe his Arke with the branch of Oliue the Word of Peace and Charity in mouth King Euander in the vntimely death of his only sonne tooke comfort to consider he dyed in a glorious enterprize of human friendship in the conducting of his exiled friends into theit promised Country of rest professing that he would euer ioy in the memory of that heroicall death Ducentem in Latium Teucros cecidisse iuuabit What greater or more glorious endeauour of Diuine Charity then to guide soules made to Gods image into the felicity of their cecestiall Country that is the blissefull vision of the face of their Creatour Seing it was Gods holy pleasure to take them out of the world whose longer liues in our iudgment would haue byn beneficiall vnto his Church though we cannot but feele their immature death yet we cannot also but ioy in this happy circumstance therof that they dyed in the exercise of the highest act of Christian Mercy that their last breath was in calling men vnto God most blessedly spent that the sweat of death they felt was no other but the sweat of burning charity towardes God and man Ducentem ad caelos animas cecidisse iuuabit Here we may with reason take into our mouth King Dauid his funerall songe in prayse of Abner As the slouthfull vse to dy thou didst not dye O Abner 2. Reg. 2.3 not groning breathing forth thy soule and spirit in bed but thundering and breathing forth Gods holy Word and spirit in pulpit Thyne handes were not bound but still mouing in charitable deedes so long as they had motion of life Thy feete were not put into fetters but free and that of them particularly the Prophet may seeme to haue spoken Isa 52.7 How beautifull are the feete of him that doth preach Peace that doth denounce the best things For what thing better then charity loue as men fall before the sonnes of iniquity so thou fallest a Martyr in the sight of God his Angels though the persecutor appeared not in the sight of men What shall I say more I will conclude with the words of our Sauiour Matth. 24.45 so proper to set forth the happines of this death as I shall not need to adde so much as a word by way of application Who is the faythfull and prudent seruant whom his Lord hath put ouer his family to giue them MEATE in tyme Non in pane sed in VERBO Blessed that seruant whom his Master coming shall finde SO DOING Verily I say vnto you he will place him ouer all his goodes Protestants that were present at this Sermon defended SOme vrge this accident as a iudgment of Gods vengeance not so much agaynst Catholikes as agaynst Protestants that hauing preachers of their owne would resort vnto this Catholike Sermon whom I will refell briefly not by way of Rhetoricall discourse but by way of Syllogisme prouing by their owne principles these fower ensuing propositions vnanswerably The first Proposition Protestants by the Law of God may heare Catholike Sermons THis is proued Because Protestants may heare the Ministers of Gods holy Worde that haue Diuine Order Diuine calling Diuine Commission to preach it For whom may they heare if they may not heare them whom God appoynts But the Priests of the Roman Church haue Diuine Order Diuine Calling Diuine CoÌ„mission to preach Gods holy Word as now Protestants eueÌ„ Luther did who sayth The Papists haue the TRVE office of Preaching In Papatu est VERVM prudicandi officiuÌ„ Luth. coÌ„t Anabapt Mason his booke of this argument acknowledge with full consent yea they pretend and contend to haue a Diuine Order Calling and Commission to preach and administer SacrameÌ„ts by the Tradition of our Church from handes of Catholike Bishops originally from the Pope Therfore Protestants by the law of God may heare the Sermons of Catholike Priests at the least with the same prouiso wherwith they heare their own to approue what they find to agree with Scripture and reproue what they find preached agaynst it The second Proposition Protestants should rather heare Catholike Sermons then Puritan THis is proued Because wisedome teacheth that in doubtfull Questions we choose the surest side specially in affayres that concerne the euerlasting saluation of our soules Wherfore in this question whether Catholik or PuritaÌ„ Preachers are to be heard we must rather choose the certainest part But that Catholike Priests are the Ministers of God endued with Diuine Order and authority to preach his Word and consequently the Men who by Diuine Ordination are to be heard is most sure and certayne because all agree therin in so much as ProtestaÌ„ts as I sayd chaleng their Orders from the Roman that if the Roman ordination be not currant M. Bridges defence of the Gouern pag. 1276. much lesse can theirs be currant as sayth the Protestant Bishop of Oxford If the Roman Priests be not Ministers then

by the instinct of Nature accounted the punishment of God as it were taking the execution of Iustice immediatly into his owne hand Hence it is that they who from the hand of Diuine execution escape afflicted frighted wounded and hurt are to be held as set free by Gods speciall warrant as punished inough according to the equity of his iudgment Wherefore presently to set vpon them as deseruing more punishment is not only iniustice and cruelty but also a kind of impiety and condemnation of God as if he wanted eyther wisedome to know or iustice to hate or power to punish sufficiently the grieuousnes of mans sinnes We will not stand vpon the Deniall but this chance might be sent vpon these persons as a punishment of God in regard of their lesser or veniall sinnes seing euen Martyrdome it selfe the death most glorious of all other may be inflicted as a punishment in this kind â— Mach. 6.14 as the Machabees Martirs sayd Nos propeccatis nostris ista patimur At least they that suffer may ought to make that accouÌ„t as S. Cyprian counselleth Decet Martyres verecundos esse Cyprian in exort Martyr supplicia sua peccatis ascribere non se de passione iactare Wherfore these wouÌ„ded Catholike men and women supposing in Christian humility this to haue byn the stroake of Gods hande for their sinnes how properly might one of them haue turned vnto the Puritan with the wordes of holy Iob Iob. 19 22. Haue pitty haue pitty on me for the hand of God hath strucken me for my sinnes as you suppose and I do not deny yet the nuÌ„ber of them how great or small they are God knowes much better then you do Deserued I punishmeÌ„t Behold these bleeding woundes witnesse I haue already had my punishment at the handes of the liuing God Creatures may well spare me at least you my friendes allyed vnto me both in nature and country whome the like mortality may not I say the like iniquity makes liable vnto the same mischance Call to mind the saying of our Sauiour vnto the eager enemyes of the guilty Woman He that amongst you is without sinne let him cast the first stone at her Ioan. 8 7. Quare persequimini me sicut Deus carnibus meis saturamini Why do you pursue me as if your were God Iob. 19.22 innocent from sinne pure from misery your selues yea rather why do you pursue me as if you were more then God eyther more wife to apprehend or more zealous to detest or more stronge to reuenge the greatnes of my sinnes that wheras He after punishment hath set me free you to fill vp the supposed defect of his iudgment would come vpoÌ„ me with a new supply of your strokes Haue pitty haue pitty on me for the hand of God hath stroken me But these wordes would not haue moued mercilesse harts and so those distressed soules might better as perchance they did lift vp their eyes vnto God in holy Dauid his complaynt Psa 78.27 Quem tu percussisti persecuti sunt super dolorem vulnerum meorum addiderunt ego sum pauper doleÌ„s salus tua Deus suscepit me Whom thou hadst struken they pursued and added new griefe vnto my woundes I am poore and in payne thy saluation hath taken me vp O cruelty of men they had not pitty of me being poore destitute of ayde nor commiseratioÌ„ of me bleeding in payne not only outwardly through the woundes of body but also inwardly though griefes and frights of soule They bare no respect vnto me as a thing particularly beholding and belonging vnto thee as one whom thy saluation tooke vp into thy handes out of those ruines If a Tygar or Shee-wolfe hauing a man in her pawes should out of compassion let him free how cruell would he be thought that should seeke to make that man away presently vpon his escape O Lord thyne anger as the Prophet sayth is as fierce as the Shee-beare that hath lost her whelpes Osee 13.8 Whence we may gather how wild and sauage they are that would stone them to death that come bleeding from vnder the hand of thy terrible anger Whome thou hadst struken they pursued and added new griefe vnto my woundes But shall such cruelty passe without punishment No. They shall receaue the greatest punishment that God in his implacable anger can lay vpon men in this life which is set downe in the wordes that next follow Appone iniquitatem super iniquitatem eorum non intrent in iustitiam tuaÌ„ deleantur de libro viuentium Psal 68.28.29 cum iustis non scribantur Lay vpon them iniquity vpon iniquity and let them neuer enter into thy righteousnes let them be blotted out of the booke of life and not be written amongst the iust And this may be another reason of this permission in regard of Puritans to wit for the greater obduration of the more hoat vnmercifull and obstinate sort of them For as their malice is such as they would if they could loade the Catholike Church with wound vpon wound so God permitting mischances to happen before the eyes of their body that carry some shew of scandall subtracting from before the eyes of their soule the light of his grace to make due inspection vnto them giues them occasions wherby they heape iniquity vpon iniquity filling their hearts more more with malice conteÌ„pt till being come to the measure of Gods appoyntmeÌ„t they be carried into Hell These iudgmeÌ„ts of God are so much the more terrible because they least of all regard theÌ„ whom they most coÌ„cern being so blinded deluded with the delightful imaginations of selfe-fancy in their interpretation of Scripture as they neuer so much as apprehend the heynousnes of their offence in conteÌ„ning the perpetuall Christian Tradition of the Church I will not insist vpon this poynt but referre it vnto the inward search of their Conscience desiring them in Christ Iesus and as they tender their saluation that they will call to mind how many thousands of Heretikes haue byn in former Ages that thought theÌ„selues no lesse secure of the truth then they now doe did alledge Scriptures for their errours as fast as they now do and more cleere and expresse then they can doe any yet now burne for euer in hell for their contempt of the Tradition and Authority of the Church Reasons in the behalfe of them that were slayne the happines of their death TO come to the principall intendment of God who in the midst of his iudgments is euer mindfull of his mercyes Psal 33.8 He permitted this mischance for the same cause for which he permitted the misfortune of the Christian army in the holy Land whither by his speciall ordinance they were called agaynst the Saracens Godefred in vita Bern. l. 3. c. 4. Otto Frising in Fred. l. 1. c. 38. Baron Tom. 12. An. 1145. S. Bernard was summoner of

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