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A03717 Sermons preached at Pauls Crosse and else-where, by Iohn Hoskins, sometimes fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, minister and Doctor of Law Hoskins, John, 1579-1631. 1615 (1615) STC 13841; ESTC S104239 117,511 248

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myracles shall straight surrender their reputatiō of strangenes do you but glad our hearts and blesse our sight with some possibilities of this myracle Euery man will turne to his friend with amazed lookes neighbour communing with neighbour in tearmes of astonishment and admiration Is Saul also among the Prophets Doe the children of Nimrod hunters and oppressors the children of Lamech sighters and swaggerers the children of Iubal singers and players come in What all Wisdomes children See see It is the Lords doing and needs must it be wonderfull in our eyes God hath perswaded Iapheth to dwell in the tents of Shem. O the deepenesse of the riches of wisdome which raiseth out of stones children vnto Abraham And O thou Sauior of men which only workest wonders arise shew forth thy strength in our weaknesse that such stones may be children before they moulder into dust such Iapheths before they die may dwell at length in the tents of Shem. For let religion be a fable and ministers false prophets if vpon this happie change you be not as men that dreamed musing and maruciling at your selues to see such a dawning of light such a day-spring in your iudgements seconded with a trance and rauishment of euery religious affection Old things then are done away with a deepe loathing and detestation of their remembrance as though your golden houres of precious time spent vpon your youthfull vanities had beene a greater waste then if a country-man pardon my familiar comparison then if a country-man I say should anoint his Axle-tree with Amber-greese or liquor his bootes with Balsamum And you that of late posted by wisedoms schoole as by a Pest-house or middle pillar of a race shall now watch dayly at the postes of her doore You that of late would haue spit in wisedomes face likelier to haue cut off a preachers head then heare his words whilst you courted He●o●ias daughter shall now suppose your selues preferred if you may loose the latchet of her shoe striuing to wash the feet of her handmaids seruants accounted in your eyes from which the scales are fallen most beautifull you that of late abhorred the fruit of wisedomes lippes no better in your vnfa●ory tai●● then the poyson of Aspes shall now like new borne babes cry for her milke hanging at her brests the brests of the two Testaments Iudge then this day whether I haue not iust cause in the name of this famous nurserie to begge of all parents and all parents great reason in the name of Christ to begge in their prayers vnto God for this blissefull alteration For as much as it is the sole and compendiarie way to bee a wise father or mother of earthly children First to bee a wise child of our heauenly Father Such a father will not send his sonne hither onely with his purse and a seruing man looking no higher then a chamber a table a bed a stoole and a candlesticke but come himselfe to choose with good aduice shall I say a Gamaliel for his Paul rather a Paul for his young Timothie that in his tender yeeres being like a looking glasse which may be defiled with a breath or a stringed instrument which is put out of tune with the very change of weather he may bee well sorted and well seasoned lest as many words that lose their sence in construction he lose innocencie by company verely a temptation as many good soules taken like brands out of the fire can best testifie more violent outragious then a tempestuous whirlewind more virulent contagious then the breath of a Basiliske Such a mother as is wisedomes childe will not onely seeke wooll and flaxe to labour cheerefully with her hands amongst her daughters at home singing and saying Mittenda est fratri nunc nunc properate puellae Quamprimum nostrâ fact a lacerna manu Haste haste my girles your brother must haue of our owne making a liuerie but like Anna bring it vp her selfe from yeere to yeere that she may conferre with Eli as concerning young Samuels dedication So concerning young Samuels education both father and mother that are wisedomes children at meeting and at parting will with exchange of teares insert this parenthesis neuer too long into their blessing My soone my sonne the booke and language of wisedome the studie and exercise of wisdome the house and company of wisdome aboue all bookes languages studies exercises houses and companies So should they be sure to receiue none but Timothies and Samuels hence back againe men not onely secured of this their relation that they be themselues wisedomes children but armed with a disposition for the good of others to be wisedomes witnesses which is my second Generall When I compare this present Antithesis with our Sauiours argument Ioh. 10.26 27. Iohn 10. Ye beleeue not for ye are not of my sheep my sheepe heare my voyce So far am I from suspecting children as onely remayning like witnesses at an exigent in defect and vpon de fault of more sufficient record that I conceiue them in wisedomes cause the fittest deponents from their iudgement who may deeme this a paradox I streight appeale to Gods own choice for notwithstanding some transient reuelations might glide through Balaam and Caiphas as wise in themselues meanewhile as trunks It is on both sides confessed sauing that some Papists sticke at Salomon that Gods publike Notaries the Canonicall writers of the Scriptures were all regenerate and children of wisedome 2. Pet. 1.21 Holy men of God saith Peter spake as they were inspired by the holy Ghost Holy men spake as if wisdom the richest Domains of the Crown of heauen The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way Prou. 8. were something resembled in the ancient Demaines of England which may not bee tried as the Lawyers say by strangers but onely by the Tenants of the same Demaines And why not soonest by strangers The truth can haue no greater aduantage a man would thinke then when it may be said Our God is not as their God our enemies being iudges Nulla est victoria maior Claudian Quàm quae confessos animo quoque subiug at hosles A faire colour when things are by strangers and enemies discernable For fuller answer giue me leaue to lead your meditations not much aside through the reasonable proceedings in mens Courts by witnesses against whom domesticall inward acquaintance is a most materiall exception because they that dwell vnder the same roofe may without any iealousie be mistrusted for partiall affection in one anothers behalfe Neuerthelesse euen these are admitted whensoeuer others either actually were not or habitually that is in likelihood could not be present at the fact Suppose it if you will some clandestine contract the maine scope of all depositiōs being the manifestation of the truth by them that are best able to enforme whence it followeth that a challenge against the Iudge himselfe should in reason be sooner heard then against a a witnesse for if