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A07198	Two sermons, preached at the Kings court, this Ianuary, 1620 Concerning Davids adultery, and his politick practices. By Francis Mason, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and Chaplain to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Mason, Francis, 1566?-1621.	1621 (1621)	STC 17600; ESTC S112434	36,020	128

of adultery When a couple are married or betrothed they make a solemn promise or vow one to another in the name of the al-seeing God Now the adulterer besides all his other offēces he transgresseth the covenant of his God Besides this he wrongs his owne wife with whom hee is linked in wedlocks golden band his wife I say whom hee should love as his owne soule O how he wrongs her in that hee prefers a strumpet before her Againe the adulterer wrongeth the husband of the woman which he defileth who if it come to his knowledge is thereby inraged his iealousie burnes like fire and he wil not spare in the day of vengeance And this undoubtedly is a marvailous wrōg For first he is robd of the love of his wife an inestimable iewell 2. His estate by this meanes may be translated to another mans childe and is it then any marvaile if States and Common-wealths have been severe in punishing of adultery I wil only touch this point briefly because the time passeth away In the Leviticall Law the adulterer and the adulteresse were both put to death I confesse that the Iudicials of Moses were moulded upon the Iewish Common-wealth and doe not simply binde Christians yet there is a perpetuall equity to be observed to wit that sinne be so punished that men may feare to offend This was practised of the Gentiles even by the light of nature for the Arabians did punish adulterie with loss of life as witnesseth Strabo Among the heathen Romans Lex Iulia was renowned and terrified many Others though they made it not Capitall yet they layd heavie punishment upon it and filled the faces of adulterers with shame and infamie Some write that the Egyptians did vse to cut off the womans nose and beate the man with battes almost to death Zaleuchus king of the Locrenses made a lawe that adulterers should lose both their eyes In later ages the Church of Rome hath beene too much indulgent unto this sinne and thereby gotten mynes of silver and gold Yea the Pope hath been so shamelesse as to take a tribute of Courtizans this was Daemon meridianus the Divell raigning at noone day This was not onely a sinne in the State but the sinne of the State because it had approbation by publike authoritie With vs though this sin too much abound yet it is punishable by our lawes and hath no coūtenance from authority And therefore though it be a sinne in our State it is not the sinne of our State Yet it were to bee wished that those grave and iudicious Sages and Senators of the kingdom which heare mee this day would in their godly wisedome consider whether it were not fit that the corporall punishment of adulterers should be augmented among us that men may stand in awe and sinne not And when good lawes are enacted let them not be like spiders webs where great flies breake through and little flies are entangled Let it not be said among us as it was sometime amongst the Romans Vbi nunc lex Iulia Dormis How great regard is to be had of the execution of wholesome lawes we may see in Zaleuchus who having made the lawe before mentioned That adulteterers should lose both their eyes it came to passe that his owne son committed adultery What was heere to be done should hee execute the law and put out his eyes Alas it was his owne on-only sonne and by this meanes the people should have had a blinde King Should hee not execute it Who then would regard his lawes when he himselfe did first breake them Therfore he tooke a middle course Because the lawe required the putting out of two eyes therefore he put out one of his sonnes eyes for hee had offended and another of his owne that his people might see how much he abhorred the sinne of adultery and withall how much he respected the execution of lawes But howsoever man doe neglect the execution of iustice against adulterers the God of heaven will find them out The children of Israel committed fornication and there fell in one day foure and twenty thousand Reuben the sonne of Iacob ascended into his fathers bed and thereby hee lost three prerogatives belonging to the first borne The first was the office of the Priesthood which was given to the sons of Aaron which were of the tribe of Levi. The second was the soveraignty which was translated to Iuda The third was the double portion which befell unto Ioseph Concerning all these it was said to Reuben thou wast unstable as water thou shalt not excell I knowe there is great difference between incest and adultery neither dare I enter into Gods secret iudgements yet thus much is certain that as incest so likewise adultery is a fire that consumeth to destruction and will root out all a mans increase And therefore if a man would have a blessed seed let him keepe his body vndefiled Ioseph refused to staine his vessell and the Lord so blessed him in his mariage that his two sons Ephraim and Manasses were reckoned among the tribes of Israel yea Israel did blesse in them and say God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasses On the contrary if men shall defile another mans bed it shall be the iust iudgement of God if they finde a crosse in their owne mariage bed and if their owne wives and daughters be defiled Yea if they shall bee hardned in this filthiness let them take heed lest this fire so burne to destruction that it roote out all their increase and cause their houses to decay and their lands to be translated to another name And yet I would exhort all men that they would refrain this sinne not so much for feare of punishment as for conscience sake Not your soules onely but your bodies also were created according to Gods image and therfore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are bought with a price even with the precious blood of Iesus Christ and therefore defile them not Not your soules onely but your bodies also are temples of the holy Ghost and therefore defile them not but so preserve these vessels of grace in this world that they may bee vessels of glory in the world to come Which the Lord grant c. The end of the first Sermon THE SECOND SERMON upon the former Text preached at Theobalds before the Kings Maiesty upon Sunday the 21. of Ianuary 1620. WHen of late I entred upon the explication of this Text in a Princely presence I proposed 3 things in David to be considered his sinne his repentance and his absolution The sinne of David reproved by Nathan and here confessed and lamented by himselfe was first of all that great and grievous sinne of adultery and secondly those other enormous sinnes wherwith hee entangled himselfe while he went about to hide and conceale his adultery To shew the haynousnesse of his adultery I unfoulded

lest thou be taken by that which is precious in her If beeing removed from the obiect thou canst not put her out of thy cogitation then strive to raise up thy thoghts from the creature to the Creator and consider that all the beautie of the creature is from the Creator and nothing els but a sparke of that fire a beame of that Sunne a drop of that vnemptiable Ocean and say with thy selfe If there be such beautie in a creature ô how incomprehensible is the beautie of the Creator ô my God when shall I behold thy glorious face in whose presence is all fulnesse of ioy and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore If still thou feele the fire to kindle upon thee then consider the subtiltie of the Serpent that lieth lurking even in the fairest creatures to kill and destroy thee and take unto thee the whole Armor of God the Shield of Faith the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Draw this sword shake and brandish it against thy carnall corruptions in this or the like manner Thou shalt not commit adultery no fornicatour shall enter into the kingdome of heaven whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge and if thus thou use this fiery and flaming sword then by the grace of God thou mayest behead the temptation Fiftly if for all this the flame increase then fall upon thy knees pray unto thy God imitate Saint Peter who when the windes began to blowe and hee began to sinke cryed Lord save mee and Christ reached out his hand and saved him even so when thou feelest thy selfe begin to sinke in a temptation cry Help Master I perish And hee that reached out his hand to helpe Peter wil reach out his hand to help thee The third steppe was concupiscence for his eyes collecting the beames of her shining beauty became a burning glasse to set both bodie and soule and all the powers and faculties of nature in combustion So the image of the obiect was transported from the outward to the inward senses and namely to the fancie the fancie commended it to the heart so now the eye lookes the heart lusts and the more it lookes the more it lusts Thus concupiscence crept in at the window of a wandring eye and set the heart on fire This is that which was expressed by Nathan in the parable of the rich man who had many sheepe and yet when a travailing stranger came vnto him hee would not give him intertainement with his owne sheepe but he tooke the poore mans one and onely lambe This poore man was Vrias the Hittite his one and onely lambe was his young and beautifull wife The rich man was David his many sheepe his many wiues and the travailer was Concupiscence indeed a great travailer which hath travailed far and neare thorough the wide world Goe to the East or West Indies to the Pole Artick or Antartick to what Coast or Climate you will you shall be sure every-where to finde the foot-steps of Concupiscence This travailer doth visite both the Kings Court and the Countrey Cottage yea and I can tell you hee is well acquainted in the Popes Palace Let a Monke betake him to his Cloyster concupiscence will go with him Let the Hermite flie to the forsaken Wilderness concupiscence will follow after him Let the Recluse bee mued or mured up in a wall yet concupiscence will finde him out Wherefore concupiscence may iustly be tearmed a travailer an exceeding great travailer And because this travailer came now to David as a stranger thereby it appeares that hitherto hee had kept his vessell in sanctification and honour I feare mee there are many with whom concupiscence is not so great a stranger I pray God keep us all from entertaining acquaintance with such a stranger For concupiscence is like a Serpent if once he get in his head he will wriggle-in his whole bodie First he comes in with flattering blandiments but if once hee get an entrance then looke to thy selfe he will seek to be thy Master The fouth step was a curious inquisition For concupiscence being now entertained did presently perswade him to send and enquire what woman that was in whom there appeared such a blazing beauty And one said Is it not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam the wife of Vrias the Hittite To what end was this curious enquiry Paradventure some will say hee did it with an intention to marry her also if shee had bin without an husband It may bee so But when hee vnderstood that she was anothers mans wife hee should have surceased and have laboured to put such idle cogitations out of his minde hee should then have taken no further notice of her but have let the memorie of her beautie have passed away like a blaze of fire which is suddenly extinguished like a flash of lightning which is presently vanquished or like when one beholdeth his face in a glasse and remembreth the fashion of it no more But David proceeded from evill to worse For after an idle inquisition there followed the fift step that is a vaine and an idle message unto the woman that she should come unto him Oh what a folly was this Can a man carry coales in his bosome and not be scoarched Can the fly play with the candle and her wings not be singed Thus he poures oyl into the fire and increaseth the flame My brother if the like temptation befall thee do not thou as David did but pray unto thy God read the Scriptures resorte to grave and godly company and use all good meanes to quench such fiery darts of the Divell and say with holy Iob I have made a covenant with mine eyes why then should I thinke upon a maide If not upon a maide then surely much lesse upon another mans wife And now in the meane time while the woman was sent for it must needs bee that David felt a great battell in him selfe between the flesh and the spirit Oh she is faire and beautifull saith the flesh yea but she is another mans wife saith the spirit Mariage is honourable among all men and the bed vndefiled but whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge O thou art a King and mayest command her saith the flesh yea but there is a King of Kings saith the spirite to whom all earthly Kings must giue an account of all their actions We all both Kings and Subiects must appeare before the iudgement seat of Christ to give an account of every thing that wee have done in the flesh whether it be good or evill Oh there are many examples of it saith the flesh yea saith the spirit but we must not live by examples but by precepts Let every man therfore examine his owne worke for every man shall beare his owne burthen O but it is pleasant to enioy her saith the flesh O but the comfort of conscience is more pleasant saith the spirit But oh