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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19261	A white sheete, or A warning for whoremongers A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there.	Cooke, Richard, 1574 or 5-1639.	1629 (1629)	STC 5676; ESTC S108659	25,390	52

worthlesse worke of mine you haue somewhat suffered through the sinne of him that suffered that day that condigne shame and punishment I would it had never beene told in our Gath nor published in the streets of our Askalon or that so bad a Bird had not defiled so sweete a nest I did my best to free you all from either concealing or conntenancing of the sinne and gaue them their due that did their best to haue it punished whose paines to that purpose may iustly callenge a thank full remembrance from us all Refuse not to countenance his paines that did what he could to maintaine your honour I haue hitherto blessed God and reioyced in your liberality your many favours from many of you in private from most of you in publicke shall ever oblige mee unto you all in all thankefull loue and observancie Adde I pray unto the great heape of your former beneficencie a favourable acceptance of these few leaues of my weake labours It is a Childe that was both begotten and borne in your Parish I hope it shall not find the lesse favour for the Fathers sake You haue beene I am sure and still are as I thinke at this time also at the care and cost of keeping some poore mens children what this may cost you I cannot tell howsoever I perswade my selfe you will not see it starve in the streetes Silver and Gold haue I none but such as it is it is onely yours and so is hee that living and dying resolveth to be an humble petitioner unto the throne of Grace for the happines and prosperitie of you all here and hereafter Now the very God of peace sanctifie you wholy and I pray God your whole Spirit and Soule and Body be preserved blamelesse unto the comming of the Lord Iesus Christ so it becommeth him to pray who is your servant in the worke of his Ministerie and heartily desireth the continuance of your loue and favour and to remaine Yours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 RICHARD COOKE A White Sheete OR A Warning for Whoremongers HEB. 13. 4. Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge YOu will not much wonder I perswade my selfe that I haue this day changed mine ordinary and vsuall Text while you cast your eye vpon this penitentiary spectacle of a blacke soule in a white sheete The first of this kinde and nature I thanke God that since my time we euer had and I hope both wee and he also will pray God that as he hath beene the first so also he may be the last A Spectacle causing I know not whether greater sorrow or rejoycing in me I can assure you it causeth both If naturall parents hauing children that proue vnnaturall and disobedient cannot but lament and grieue for them as for a murthering Caine a mocking Ismael a prophane Esau c. but to haue in the family a Reuben climing vp to his fathers bed an Amnon to defile his sister Tamar or an Absolom to lie with his fathers concubines in the sight of all Israel and of the Sunne how can this but cut them to the very heart and soule How then can those whom God hath made to be spirituall Fathers but mourne as much to haue such monsters God is my witnesse this is no pleasing sight to me further then I consider in it digitum Dei the finger of God in this iustly inflicted and imposed punishment vpon him which I hope through the mercy of God may be for the destruction of the flesh that his soule may be saued in the day of the Lord Iesus which God grant It hath beene often said that it is a fayre flocke that hath neuer a scabd sheepe in it The fruitfullest fieldes of corne when they haue beene freest haue had some weeds growing as well as grayne Crescunt cum tritico Zizania tares amongst the wheat and what Congregation euer was yet so fortunate to haue all stand sound and strieght amongst them In the primest times and purest dayes of the Gospell the Apostles had an Ananias and Saphira an Elimas a Simon Magus and the like In the Church of Corinth for all Pauls zealous praying for them and preaching to them there was such a sinne brake out amongst them that was not named amongst the Heathens That a man should haue his fathers wife Yea Christ himselfe amongst those few he had euen of twelue one proued to be a deuill Sorrow and compassion is neuer more sweete and seasonable then when God is dishonoured the soules of men endangered and religion blemished by the fowle and filthie sinnes of vngodly and graceles men When Zimri and Coshi had committed fornication in the campe of Israel you shall finde all the congregation of the people of Israel weeping before the doores of the Tabernacle of the congregation What made Dauid to take on so pittifully for the death of Absalom but for his sinnes the maine cause of his vntimely death he died a rebell to God and a traytour to his Father hinc illa lacryma this caused that sorrow S. Cyprian in his sermon de lapsis a little from the beginning testifieth of himselfe that when he saw or heard of any that fell away from the Orthodoxe faith for feare of persecutiō that he could not but shed many teares for them and that he felt himselfe as deepely wounded with their apostacie Tanquam persecutorū gladijs vulneratus fuisset as if he had beene wounded vnto death by the swords or other weapons of cruel persecutors When that incestuous person in the Churh of Corinth had brought that scandall on the Church and had nothing said or done to him for it S. Paul went not behinde their backes to blame them for it and to tell them they were rather puffed vp then sorrowed that he which had done that fault might be put away from amongst them It is a master-peece of religious wisedome in sorrowing for the sinnes of others to put a difference betwixt their sinnes and their soules hauing compassion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 diligendo homines odio habendo peccata hating them as sinners but louing them as men And thus and no otherwise stand I this day affected to the sinne the shame of him that stands here before vs. And as I am sorrie for the foulenesse of his sin so I professe I reioyce and am glad with all mine heart for the execution of iustice by those Honorable Reuerend and Worshipfull persons in the High Commission-Court that haue so iustly and worthily inflicted this punishment vpon him No more I am confident then law permitted though not so much I dare say as his sinne deserued If such a flie had fallen on weake spiders webbs God knowes where he would haue light and fly-blowē next There is nothing that causeth such boldnes and impudencie in sinne as impunitie Because sentence against an euill worke is not speedily executed the hearts of men are fully set in them to doe euill Saul can no