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Occasional sermons preached by the Most Reverend Father in God, William Sancroft ... ; with some remarks of his life and conversation, in a letter to a friend.
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Sancroft, William, 1617-1693.
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thy Hand be upon the Man of thy right Hand whom thou hast made so strong for thy self Keep him as the Apple of thine Eye Hide him under the shadow of thy Wings Let his Days be many and his Reign prosperous and under his shadow let both Church and State long flourish And let them be confounded and driven backward as many as have Evil Will at Sion To furnish out an Office for such daily Devotions 't is but to take your Psalter along with you in your Hand which is full of them But especially let me commend to you that Decad of Psalms which begins with the 54 th and so on which may seem to have been put together on purpose for such an Occasion This would be indeed effectually to transcribe holy David's Copy in this his Exemplary and ardent Devotion which is the second Duty requir'd in the Text to prepare us for the protection of God's Wing There is but one more behind and that is 3. Constant Perseverance in both the former In the two former you have seen Holy David putting himself under the shadow of God's Wings and making good his Refuge there by Acts of Faith and Devotion And being once there no Storm shall beat him off no Discouragement shall drive him away no Delay shall weary him out If God kills him 't is all one hee 'l trust in him still and die in his Arms For here he hath set up his Rest and Donec transierinâ—t he is steddily resolv'd his Refuge is and shall be here till these Calamities are over-past But here we must take heed of a great Mistake There are that hold the Donec in the Text too hard and stiff are too punctual and precise with God in it who will trust in him it may be and ply their Devotions just so long as till the Calamity be past But then on the sudden their Trust grows feeble and their Devotion cold and heartless No sooner deliver'd but like old Israel they forget God at the Sea even at the Red-Sea Use him like Themistocle's Planetrees under which Men run for shelter in Storm but the Shower once over they pluck off the Branches turn their Backs and away Nay but there is in Scripture Language an infinite and an interminable Donec which never expires He knew 〈◊〉 not till she brought forth Nay he never knew her In spight of Helvidius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Greek Church stile her A Virgin before and in and after the Birth of our Lord and for ever Ay that 's the Virgin 's Soul indeed that keeps ever close to her heavenly Spouse Not only runs under his Wings for Shelter when Calamities affright her saying Spread thy Skirt over me and then strays away again as soon as ever the flattering Calm and Sun-shine of Prosperity tempts her abroad As our Lord hath given us an everlasting Donec Lo I am with you saith he till the end of the World Not that he will leave us then but take us yet nigher unto himself and so we shall ever be with the Lord as the Apostle speaks So must we also have One for him of the same Latitude and Extension For ever under the Shadow of his Wings till this single Tyranny as in the old Translation till these Calamities as in the New or as the Hebrew implies till all and every of our Calamities be overpast Both before and in and after Calamities still under the Shadow of God's Wings While they last 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I trust and when they are past 't is In the Shadow of thy Wings will I rejoyce that 's all the Difference As the Scenes shift our Devotion must improve and Advance too till our Prayer be heighten'd into Praise as I trust e're long it will be our Hope swallowed in Enjoyment and our Trust sublimated and made to flowre up into Joy and Triumph When the same God that rais'd David from the Cave to the Throne shall translate us also from the Shadow of his Wings into the Light of his Countenance To the Beatifical Vision whereof he of his Mercy bring us who hath so dearly bought it for us Jesus Christ the Righteous To whom with thee O Father and God the Holy Ghost be ascribed of us and all the Creatures in Heaven and Earth Blessing Honour Glory and Power both now and for evermore Amen FINIS A CATALOGUE OF SOME BOOKS Printed for and are to be Sold by Thomas Bassett at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street A Practical Discourse concerning Christian Conversation purposely Written to Vindicate and Improve the Religious Societies of late Years erected in the Cities of London Glocester c. By Philopatris and Philadelphus Members of the Church of England Now in the Press An Essay concerning Human Understanding with large Additions By Mr. Iohn Lock Newly Reprinted in Folio A Collection of Cases and other Discourses lately Written to the Communion of the Church of England by some Divines of the City of London to which is prefixed a Catalogue of all the Cases and Discourses with the Authors Names together with three Tables containing 1. The Contents of each Discourse 2. The Scriptures Illustrated and Occasionally explained 3. The several Authors cited and examined The English Examiner Or A Spelling Book Containing 1. Rules for Spelling Reading and Pronouncing of our English Tongue by way of Question and Answer 2. Words from One to Six or Seven Syllables both common Names and also proper divided according to the Rules 3. Words alike in Sound but of different Sense and Signification 4. Numeral Letters and Figures the Names of the Books in Scripture the Months and Quarters in the Year English words contracted and the Use of great Letters Lastly is added the Practice of Reading or the way of Teaching to Read by Verses that have Words therein only of one Syllable By Richard Brown late English Writing-Master of Rugby in the County of Warwick but now of the City of Coventry An Enquiry into the Causes of Diseases in general and the Disturbances of the Humours in Man's Body wherein the Nature of the Blood of the Air and of a Pestilential Constitution are briefly considered together with some Observations shewing wherein the Venom of Vipers particularly that of the English Adder doth consist By Sanford Walferstan M. A. Remarks made in Travels through France and Italy with many Public Inscriptions Lately taken by a Person of Quality An Essay of Transmigration in Defence of Pythagorus Or a Discourse of Natural Philosophy By Mr. Bulstrode The Young Clerks Tutor Enlarged Being a most useful Collection of the best Presidents of Recognizances Obligations Conditions Acquittances Bills of Sale Warrants of Attorneys c. As also all the Names of Men and Women in Latin with the day of the Date the several Sums of Money and the addition of several Trades and Employments in their proper Cases as they stand in the Obligations together
had no rest in my Spirit because I found not Titus my Brother but taking my leave went thence into Macedonia Upon which place with some others St. Ierome hath sounded his Conjecture That Titus was St. Paul's Interpreter to the Grecians For though the Apostle understood the Greek Language and wrote it too elegantly enough yet there might be something of Uncouth and Barbarous in his Pronunciation which rendred it not so smooth and passable to a common Greek Ear which Iosephus also though a spruce Greek Writer complains of as both his own and the general infelicity of his Nation But though Titus was so needful to St. Paul in this or some such respect and so Dear and Precious in many others yet the Apostle most resolvedly leaves him behind in Creet as He who knew most chearfully to Sacrifice all his own Advantages and the tenderest and inmost of his Affections to the Benefit of Christ's Church and the Interest of Religion Let us go and do likewise 3 But Thirdly and principally Thee a single Person not a Consistory of Presbyters or a Bench of Elders But this Observation together with the next Particular III The Extent of this Power as it reacheth the whole Island of Creet I shall have occasion to resume by and by and so pass on at present There is nothing behind of the first Part of the Text but IV the Conveyance of the Power couched or supposed in Ego Reliqui I lâ—ft Thee A close Conveyance by a word in which there may be much more understood than exprest viz. A Derivation or Transmission of Power from St. Paul to Titus inabling him for the Discharge of that Work he was entrusted with Reliquit vice suâ as Haymo well As if St. Paul had said I left thee in Creet my Deputy and Vice-gerent there to water what I had planted to build up what I had founded to perfect what I had begun I left Thee to reside in Creet as I besought Timothy to abide at Ephesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be Resident there as fix'd and ordinary Governour of that Church while I went on still to preach the Gospel in other Regions where the Name of Christ had not been heard In fine For this Cause was he left that he should perform such special Acts ordain Elders and reform what was amiss and therefore certainly left Commissioned and Authorized after the Apostolical Guise to do those Acts viz. by Imposition of Hands and Episcopal Ordination which is a true Gloss though of a Pseudo Ambrose Titum Apostolus consecravit Episcopum and back'd by Theophylact and others amongst the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But it will best appear what the Power was in the Conveyance and consequently what the Conveyance it self by taking notice what it was to be in the Exercise of it and so I go on to the Second Part of my Text in which we find it designed to a double Act to Order and to Ordain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. In the first there will be some Variety For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being properly to Correct or make Strait that which is Crooked not that which is wanting to which it seems not to have so just a Rapport and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being in the next Notion those things which are wanting and therefore not so aptly said to be corrected as supplyed or added For the according of the Terms I cannot see why the Participle may not have as powerful Influence upon the Verb to qualifie That as That upon the Participle and shall therefore make this advantage of the Doubt to take in the Consideration of both Senses and suppose that Titus is here commissioned both to supply what was Wanting and to correct what was Amiss First To supply what was Wanting And then the Nerve and Emphasis of the Verb will lye in the Preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to do something Additionally and by way of Supplement to what was done before but was not sufficient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as S. Chrysostom to fill up the Vacuities and Defects that were left which probably were not a few in Creet especially a Church so lately Founded but the year before and in which S. Paul stayed so short a time in which long Works could not be brought about Neither let any Church though of longer Continuance flatter and sooth up it self with Laodicea as if it needed nothing The Ship of the Church is never so perfectly rigg'd but something may be added 'T is seldom or never but some pin or other is lacking even in God's Tabernacle while it sojourns here below Just as in the Material Church 't is scarce known but either the Roof is open or the Pavement uneven the Windows broken or some part or other of the Wall mouldring and dropping away So in the Spiritual either the Light is not good or the Walking is not answerable 't is well if the Foundation stands firm and sinks not but the Superstructions most commonly want something that must be supplied And therefore methinks the Inference is strong There 's need of a Bishop in every Church that must learn his Office in his Name and look about him be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Isidore Peleusiote appositely and like a wise Master builder have a careful Eye ever awake upon all parts to see what is wanting and to supply it That 's the first But Secondly To correct what is amiss Things that are faulty and defective and want something sc. of their due Rectitude and Conformity to the Rule for so perhaps the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may signifie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Hesychius shall warrant me that Gloss. Or else 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 things that leave their Rank and start out of their place and so to be reduc'd and set in Order again And of this sort also there was but too much in Creet For to say nothing of the evil Beasts with the nimble Tongues and slow Bellies we find also in this Chapter Iewish Leaven to be purg'd out and as some have thought Gnostick Impurity to be resisted unruly and vain talkers and deceivers Subverters of whole Houses teachers of things they ought not for filthy lucre's sake Men that profess to know God but in works deny him being abominable disobedient and to every good work reprobate So that for ought we see they might well enough deserve the black Character the Proverb brands them with amongst the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the three very infamous Nations that began with C. for such a superfluity of Naughtiness St. Paul here designs a proportionate Corrective and sends Titus and his Elders amongst them to bring them into better Order by a threefold Instrument Vita Doctrina Censura all in this Epistle and in this Chapter 1 Vita first by the Example of his holy Life In all things