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A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

with dumbnesse Ananias and Saphira with deadnesse Iob. 31. and of this voice Iohs Epiphonema and acclamation serueth Quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri who can vnderstand the fearefulnesse o● his power or heare the voyce of his thunder The walles in Ierito could not stand the C●da● in L●banus could not but shake he wildernes in Cadesh could not but tremble the Army at Mount Oliuet could not but fall the Auditory of S. Peter at Ierusalem neere stabde to the heart with this voyce and then how shall Paul a weake single simple abortiue birth but feare and tremble and becom terrified amased astonished at the Eccho of this voyce O It was a powerfull voyce the voyce that Iosephus speaketh of crying vox ab Oriente Joseph de bel Judai vox ab Occidente a voyce from the East a voyce from the West a voyce from the foure winds it was no more powerfull then this voyce and yet the voyce not so powerfull as mercifull it is vox suauiter fortis fortiter suauis S. Chrysostom obserueth Chrysost in Act. that they that came to betray Christ in the conuoy of Iudas and were stroken to the earth with Christ his words were now in the company of Paul when Paul was stroken to the earth by the words of Christ If it were so the miracle was the greater and their sin the greater but as my Sauior so my Text singleth out none but Saul and striketh Saul to the earth it was the heauiest fall and yet the happiest fall that euer any had it was his fall and his rising his funerall and his resurrection his buriall and his birth his killing and quickning I diuide the little body of this my Text into the forme and matter thereof Diuision The forme an Interrogation the matter Saules violence in persecution In the forme obserue first a question Secondy an Ingemination In the matter obserue first Soul persecuting Secondly Christ persecuted Thus be these wordes diuided that diuided the soule and the spirit and the ioynts and the marrow of Saul and of these in their order first of the question The Lord that in Deuteronomy is a Phisitian in Iob a Bonesetter Deu 32.39 Iob. 16.11 Esay 5.1 Ioh. 15.1 Luk 2.46 Mat 8.25 Mat. 2.30 Exod. 15.3 In Esay a Vine-dresser in Iohn a husbandman in Luke a moderator among the Doctors in Mathew a Pilot amidst the Flouds in Marke a Law-giuer among the Lawyers in Exodus a man of warre among the Armies Hee is here a Iustice to apprehend an Examiner to questionize with Saul Saul Saul why persecutest thou me He was in Esay a Prince of Peace and here is a Iustice of Peace though he was somtimes put out of the Commission of Peace to worke our Peace The Lord might without any expostulating haue powred downe vengeance vpon him and so he had neuer come to his answere hee might haue turned him into hell with all the people that forget God he might haue summoned out some punishment or other to haue serued the execution of wrath against Saul Psal 11. his arme is not shortened hee had his greatter armies and his lesser armies Ioel. 1. hee might haue sent out the least of his great ones or a great army of his least hee might haue sent the fire he vsed against the Sodomites or the Sunne with which he fought against the Ammonites or the starres wherewith he plagued the Cananites or the sea wherewith hee drowned the Aegyptians or the earth wherewith he swallowed the Murmurers or the Beares wherwith he deuoured the mockers but he taketh another Course he sendeth out no Out-lawrie before Saul come to his answere no castigation nay no expostulation but a milde and mercifull speach I should haue expected burning coales from his lippes coales of fire from his nostrils vials of wrath the furious seruants and serieants of indignation against such a rampant rauening wolfe a mercilesse Tyger an insatiat Tyrant spirans minarum caedis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Tim. 1. Chrysost breathing out threatnings shughter nay a murtherer oppressor blasphemer as hee confesseth himselfe Yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Correction Moderation in Reproofe Compassion The Doctrine that the Lord is slow to anger and in his indignation ready to show compassion Doctrine when the Lord in Micah had called a congregation of the Mountaines to heare his quarrell as in Esay a conuocation of heauen and earth men and Angels to be witnesse against his people Mich. 6. yet heare what his speech was O my people what haue I done vnto thee or wherin haue I grieued thee Esay 1. testifie against me no threatning no cursing no fire or brimstone storme or tempest O popule mi quid fecitibi When his Prophet Ionas had fled from his presence and rebelled against him not onely in flying but in murmuring and fuming fretting in a querulous contumacious contumelious contesting with God God relpyeth onely this Doest thou well to bee angry Hee raged that God would not destroy Niniuie a great and glorious spatious populous City the Lady of the East Queene of the Nations Metrop●lis of Ass●ria beauty of the world that had so many 10000. noble rich honourable inhabitants besides Infants and Innocents and Ionas to bee angry to the death that Niniuie was not destroyed and afterwards that a Guord Ion. 4.9 a weake creeping sprowting fading guorde of no conti●●●nce springing in one night dying in the other and yet that Ionas againe is angry with God very angry euen to the death for the death of this Guord and Gods reply vnto him is onely this Ionas doest thou well to bee angry Saul heere that had his hand in so many murthers in so many bloody tragicall barbarous executions against whome the bloud of the Martyrs cryed for vengeance yet God mercifully and fauourably in as kind and as familiar sort with as much indulgence as if the Spirit of Eli or the soft voyce in Elias had spoken Saul Saul why persecutest thou me If Iohn Baptist speake to the Pharisies he cryeth out O generation of vipers If Peter to Ananias and Saphira why hath Sathan filled thy heart to lie Mat. 3.3 Acts. 5.10 Acts. 13.10 why haue yee agreed to tempt the spirite of God he striketh them dead If Paul to Elimas the Sorcerer O thou full of all subtlety and mischiefe the child of the Deuill Acts. 7.5 and enemy of righteousnesse If Stephen to the Iewes O yee of stiffe necked hearts and eares Nay seruants with their fellow seruantes Brethren with their Brethren that had the same Commission and profession tyed by all the bonds of nature and grace yet in their writings and speeches there haue been bitter inuectiues contestings and withstandings to the face Paul and Barnabas Cyprian and Cornelius Origen and African Chrysostome and Theophilus Ruffinns and Ierome Ierome and Austine Austine and Symplician Frosper and Hilary Gregory

pittied blood while I suffered sub iniustis pro iniustis cum iniustis sub niustis iudicibus iniustis causis Graeca Liturg iniustis poenis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the miseries needes anguishes scornes thorns whips nailes droppes teares clots streames of bloud that issued from me would not these serue It is obserued that Paul knew neither the voice nor the speaker for what had beene the sting that Paul had been toucht with if hee had knowne hee had persecuted Christ but he did persecute Christ for his seruants be his Church and the temples of the holy Ghost and they bee his members his Temples therefore his Church his members therefore his body The Doctrine Doctrine that he that doth violētly persecute any of the seruāts of the Lord doth persecute Christ himselfe I neede not to expatiate in the proofe of this those titles of seruants sonnes brethren children spouse branches of his vine sheepe of his fold members of his body sheweth sufficiently how dearely hee loueth them their profession Qui vos tangit me tangit hee that toucheth you toucheth the apple of my eye And my SOVERAIGNE interpreting this my Sauiours Text in his Megasine of Learning The Kings Maiesty his Booke to all Christian Princes that diuine and royall booke against Antichrist proueth hence that none that euer knew Scripture can deny but by Christ often is meant his saintes and seruants The vse of this Doctrine is to stand in feare of entring into the nūber of the persecutors of Christ Vse the feare of sinne in Caine wandring the beastlines of sinne in Nebuchodonosor grasing the terror of sin in Balthazar trembling the shame of sinne in Haman hanging the punishment of sinne in Diues burning these are examples to astonish and deiect the greatest sinners but to an honest and religious soule that euer hath tasted of any part of the goodnes of the Lord this is the most potent reason to feare him that by sinne he doth persecute Christ hee doth crucifie againe the sonne of God When God in a Christians conscience cryeth within him why persecutest thou mee and yet hee continue in sinne so often and so long that his mind is neuer troubled his spirit neuer daunted his thoughtes neuer checked his soule neuer grieued O this is a wound and a grieuous wound from which the Lord for euer and euer deliuer vs. Lorizus obserueth out of the Legend that it is a receiued opinion among the Papists that whosoeuer is borne vpon the day of Saint Paules Conuersion shall euer bee free from any harme by venome and poyson I doubt not but it is a fable but I could wish that you that haue heard this calling of S. Paul at the time of his Conuersion would now bee conuerted that the poyson of wickednesse may neuer doe you hurt againe It is the labour of all that come hither and the Lord giue a blessing to their labours You haue receiued all kindes of exhortation and of instruction Aarons belles Moses rodde Esayes trumpet Ierem●es hammer Dauids harpe Salomons songes Ebals curses Geresims blessings Peter keyes Paules sword the milke of exhortation wine of compunction the oyle of consolation and the Water of regeneration What could yee haue desired more then yee haue receiued O let not all these arise in witnes against you let not the Lord continue his crie why persecute ye the Lord Semel loquutus est Dominus Paulus semper conuersus est Austen He spake but once to Paul Paul was a Conuert and by this one call conuerts many Churches O come yee not so oft to the Crosse to returne enemies to the Crosse of Christ And now to come to some Application for this place and presence and to omit the particular sinnes of our Nation the Pride of the Court vsury of the City Dissention in the Clergy oppression in Gentry disobedience in the Comminalty the lyes lusts oathes vncleannesse drunkennesse prophanenesse and wickednesse of all and of all sorts I will onely ayme at the two Monsters of this time Atheisme and Apostacy which doe bring and continue the ouer streaming sloud of Gods wrath vpon vs they are both Generall both fearefull the extent of my speech cannot say enough eyther of them or against them for Atheisme howsoeuer some Schoolemen distinguish that there is none that denyeth a God quoad omnipo entiam sed quoad prouidentiam yet I say our age and this your CITIE Lombard Zincbius affoordes such Diuels that neither confesse or care for the prouidence or omnipotencie of God who abound in the fulnesse of iniquity to whome nothing is accounted euill because nothing accounted good nothing can bee a sinne because nothing is a law the first Article of whose Creed is in profession that there is no God the second that the story of the Creation is a fable the mystery of the Incarnation fallible the doctrine of Redemption improbable of Election vnprofitable of Predestination vnavaileable of the Resurrection impossible The next that there is no Heauen no Hell adding the Corolary that if there bee a Hell and they must to it they hope that they shall not lacke Company O who can expresse the misery of such a hardened heart or who without a heart harder can choose but tremble at such a lamentable state O what can bee called Iudgement when nothing doth seare what can bee called Loue when nothing doth allure O what doth hee eyther hope or feare who acknowledgeth no Religion no Resurrection no Reprobation no Iudgement no Heauen nor Hell no God at all To these belong for euer all the curses vengeance woes fire brimstone storme tempest cuppes of Gods wrath dregges of his cuppes vials of the dreggs of desolation and damnation Mors sine morte sinis sine fine Greg. in Iob. numerus plagarum sine numero These bee Murtherers assacinats persecutors of Christ they stretch out his armes bow his necke pierce his side nayle his hands and imbrue his body with these blasphemous stripes and scourges Heauy O heauy is the sleepe of that Soule that is not awakened by these warnings Stony O stony is that heart that is not feared with these terrors The other grande persecutors of Christ PAPISTS bee the Papists and Apostates to Popery that bane and poison of Reason and Witchcraft of Religion that cuppe of Fornication that venome of Babylon wherein they maintaine that they may eate their God kill their king subuert the Scriptures adore Bones pray to Stones Deifie the Dead deserue Heauen contest with God and equalize their Popes with God Onuphrius Platina Benno c. Some whereof haue been Heretikes som Negromancers many blasphemers all Traytors O that euer any Soule purchased with the bloud of Christ should be so traduced their reason so blinded their vnderstanding so darkned and their saluation so endangered as to bee guilty of crucifying the sonne of God day by day and violently incurring his owne damnation The generall