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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18025	Chorazin and Bethsaida's vvoe, or warning peece A judicious and learned sermon on Math. II. vers. 21. Preached at St. Maries in Oxford, by tha[t] renowned and famous divine, Mr. Nathanael Carpenter, Batchellor in Divinity, sometime Fellow of Exceter Colledge; late chaplaine to my Lords Grace of Armah in Ireland.	Carpenter, Nathanael, 1589-1628?; N. H., fl. 1633.	1633 (1633)	STC 4673; ESTC S107660	26,403	96

Speakes he not to the conscience of the carelesse Pastour and shewes him his halfe starved flocke straying on the barren Mountaines The pursuite of a vacant Bishopricke gives him scarse leasure to looke about or at least the love of his carnall ease lulls his soule asleepe in sensuall security Speakes hee to the soule of the formall hypocrite and presents as in a painted Sepulcher the inward rottennesse of the heart cloathed over with a shining veile of sanctimonious piety Policy straight plucks him by the sleeve and tells him Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere Finally all of them as those base and hoggish Gerge sites who had rather suffer the divell in themselves than in their swine no sooner enjoy Christs presence but entreate his absence imitating herein the childish affections of young Schollers who seldome solace themselves in the sight and society of their carefull Master A true patterne of which men wee shall finde represented in Grillus recorded by Plutarke who by one of Circes charmes transformed into a swine could not by all Vlysses eloquence bee induced to depose his hoggish nature and resume the person of a man More desperate is the state of the second sort of men who are not contented for a time to put off their repentance and shaddow their sinfull actions with some excuse but oppose as it were in hostile manner the Majesty of their Creator and shoot out their Arrowes even bitter words Such was the spirit of malicious Pharaoh in the fifth of Exodus who currishly answered Moses Aaron the Lords Ambassadours Who is the Lord that I shoud let Israel goe And to let passe sundry other the like examples as fearefull to remember as tedious to relate such was the spirit of that Apostate Iulian who shut up all the tyranny of his wicked and irreligious reigne with a Vicisti Galilae But such men I rather leave to Gods mercy than common censure And so I passe along to the Inhabitants of Bethsaida and Chorazin to whom this commination was directed as that which comes next in order to be handled 7. Greatnesse and authority in a generous temper are the spurres of a noble resolution these are the best touchstones to try what Mettall our thoughts are made of whether they carry the touch of a golden courage or leaden basenesse On this last men set the magnificent Cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida the strength of Syria the pride and glory of the Iewish Nation Two Citties as well admired for strength and riches as reverenced for antiquity and authority Two Cities readier to lend to others than borrow of them the dainties of this Earthly Paradise Two Cities wanting nothing lesse than worldly pleasures nothing more than Divine graces Finally two Cities which our blessed Saviour had blessed beyond many other as well with hearing of Sermons as with the sight of his wondrous miracles These places notwithstanding neither improving those meanes to their owne profit nor seconding their opportunities with religious industy but stretching all to their worst advantage are here found worthily taxed by our Saviour of contempt infidelity of impenitence and disobedience whence we may withgood warrant collect this profitable and usefull observation That States and persons high and eminent ought to conforme themselves to most eminent and worthy actions Heroicke and eminent vertues take their lustre as well from the subject wherein they grow as the object whereon they worke for as the persons excellence in the one gives the habit a more gracious acceptance so the fit occasion of the other sets a more plausible stampe on the intended action whereas oftentimes on the contrary part the prejudice of basenesse in the man or the scanting of fit occasions in the matter unseasons many a noble resolution A greate Spirit shrowded under meane fortunes sooner becomes the subject of contempt than admiration Nec facilè emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi saith the Poet. And howsoever the Characters of vertue in the meanest subject are alwayes legible yet never more perspicuous to popular estimation than where they finde themselves written in the forehead of greatnesse and authority Whence Aristotle our great Philosopher accounts those men best accoutred to play their prize in vertues schoole to whom fortune gives the right hand of riches and reputation Then must it needs follow on the other side that triviall affaires and base endeavours seeme too light a ballast for the saile of greatnes Princes and great States in such actions seeme like Hercules mannaging a Pigmies reede or a kingly Eagle hunting after Gnats or flies but where majesty of state and magnificence of minde where great riches and great resolution like the twins in Rebeccahs wombe strive for precedency what other actions can the world expect but such as are stampt for eternity and crowned with admiration How farre may that Sickle bee thrust into to the harvest of vertue and religion which is managed by magnanimitie and countenanced by authority Is not the voyce of a King like the roaring of a Lyon greatnes a Torrent which carries all before it and disdaines opposition Can any man arrive sooner or safer at his desired port than he that sits at the sterne Can any travailor better make way for his riches than he that holds the Reynes in his owne hands and prescribes a measure to his owne motion How readily than ought such men to second their opportunities and improve their places to their best advantage whom God hath advanced either in Church or Common wealth to high magnificent Estates Whom God hath endowed with riches adorned with honours backt with strength and friends fortified with authority and graced with opinions What fitter weapons to poize the hand of greatnesse than that which findes the best object and tries it selfe in the greatest opposition Here stood it with the time and your patience might I enlarge and specifie the limits of Heroicall vertues Aristotle limming out this Tree expressed thereof onely two maine Branches the one of Magnanimitie the other of Magnificence that from the print of Hercules foot men might give a probable guesse unto his stature And howsoever many seeds of piety and religions are purposely scattered by that great sower some by the way side as a prey to the fowles some on stony ground wanting both roote and growth some among the tares of vicious affections to bee choaked up in the wombe whence it springs Yet who will finde it in his true prime must seeke it in the garden where all vertues flourish the Holy Scriptures in the soyle where it receives true nourishment the heart of a Christian. Such actions best deserve to be esteemed great and sway the affections of great men which begin with Gods love and end with his glory such as further the advancement of learning religion of wisedome and devotiō concerning all which we may observe in holy Scripture as well the precepts promises of God to give warrant