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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00668	A sermon of simonie and sacriledge preached at Pauls Crosse March 18: by Roger Fenton preacher of Graise Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.	1604 (1604)	STC 10801; ESTC S105579	12,992	74

A SERMON of Simonie and Sacriledge Preached at Pauls Crosse March 18 By ROGER FENTON Preacher of Graise Inne LONDON Printed by Arnold Hatfield 1604. To the right honorable Sir THOMAS EGERTON knight Lord Chauncelour of England my verie singular good Lord. RIght honorable I am inioyned by that reuerend authority which in al duty I stand bound to obey to publish these small endeuors which albeit they may passe inuisibly vnregarded of the meanest because they are so small yet the subiect requireth the Patronage of the most honourable Not that it is a controuersie for amongst writers I finde not mine aduersarie but because if actions interpret mens minds the most part of the world be against me Such is our conflict while we vse the sword of the spirit Manie respects haue mooued and incouraged me to craue your Lordships Patronage Your integritie who I persuade my soule may safelie wash your handes of these spoiles Your honorable place and authoritie in whose power it is to cherish the tribe of Leui and protect a great part of our bodie Your loue and affection extending it selfe to manie woorthie members of the same My duty your vnworthie Chaplaine who if I should signifie to the world what incouragements I haue receaued from your Honour it might seeme in mee ostentation as if I deserued somwhat Then let that fauorable countenance which hath euer shined vpon Scholars vouchsafe the acceptance of a simple Scholars mite for want of larger offrings Accept this little testimonie of my greater desires who shall neuer cease to offer vp praiers vnto God for all such blessings happinesse vpon you and your honourable family on earth as may bee vndoubted fore-runners of your heauenly blisse Your Lordships most bounden and dutifull Chaplaine ROGER FENTON PROV 20. 25. It is a snare for a man to deuoure that which is sanctified and after the vowes to enquire MY Authour telleth mee in the fiue and twentieth chapter of this booke the eleuenth verse That A word spoken in his place is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer That is as the outside is beautifull so the inside is far more precious as gold excelleth siluer So are the words of Wisdome euerie where glorious yet being fitted with time and place they haue an inward and secret operation farre more forcible and effectuall than otherwise they would they be apples of golde with pictures of siluer Now as these siluer pictures I mean the ornaments of speech are not to be neglected especially in these honourable assemblies so the golden substance which by a secret operation is directed to the heart conscience is euery where to be preferred Wherefore when I gaue all diligence to speake vnto you right honorable c. not onely things profitable for Christians but seasonable for time and place I was directed to this choise concerning the profanation of things Hallowed and the dangers therupon ensuing Towards the vnfolding whereof I am depriued of that vsuall helpe which other Scriptures doe aforde namely that current of speech and sequel of argument whereby one sentence followeth vpon an other in so good consequent that the occasion and premisses of the place doe serue for a key to open our text But these Prouerbs be certaine drops of diuine wisdome or golden apples you may call them each making an entire globe or ball within it selfe whereof this is one We may diuide it in the midst 1 The one halfe compasseth him in the snare of destruction who spoileth God of his right in things hallowed 2 The second catcheth him who seeketh euasions to vnwinde himselfe out of those vowes which are solemly made before vnto God wherin the more he strugleth the faster he tieth himselfe for the first word is indifferently applied vnto both parts and so make a double snare Laqueus est deuorare sacrum laqueus post vota inquirere This kinde of sanctified things intended by Solomon is by consent of all expositors taken to be of an inferior degree whereunto we may descend by these few steps 1 That sacred Maiestie which is holinesse it selfe in the abstract is then profaned by man as much as in him lieth and iniured in the highest degree when it is blasphemed This is destruction in it selfe with God who raineth snares vpon such for their portion and their arrowes shot against heauen fall backe vpon their owne pates And it were to be wished that this were also a snare of destruction amongst men for nature hath so prescribed and grauen it in the harts of men from the beginning that blasphemy is punishable by death That cursed speech of Iobs wife Curse God and die 29. Iob was grounded vpon a cōmon receiued Maxime in that time of nature that a blasphemer must not liue And that Hethnish king Nabuchadnezar had no sooner acknowledged the true God but made a decree that whosoeuer blasphemed should die a violent death But admit there be no such law established and that vpon this charitable supposition that a Christian common-weale will breed no such monsters shall this be imputed for a want Not vntill those mōsters appeare For in the Common-weale of Israel there was no positiue lawe against blasphemie vntill such time as a blasphemer was discouered 24. Leuit. and than vpon that occasion the law was made So if this wicked age wherein we liue shall bring foorth such miscreants and execrable wretches as shall dare to breath direct blasphemie against the God of heauen to the vtter deriding and denying of him then I take it to be a thing not vnworthie the highest consultation whether that iudiciall law of God be a patterne for vs in this kind for if we adde to the law of God concerning Theft for the better preseruation of the publicke peace let vs not diminish the law of the same God for the preseruation of that sacred name whereupon the publicke good both of Church and common-wealth doth depend immediately If there be a power established de Haeretico comburendo why not de Blasphemo much more since the one sinne is a partiall the other a totall eclyps of Gods glory If the ciuill Magistrate doe carie a sword and not in vaine not a rod for correction onely but a sword to punish with death then let not that sinne which by the generall consent of all Diuines is of all sinnes absolutely the greatest let not that escape the edge of this sword Thus much is inferred vpon necessarie implication that it is destruction in the highest degree to profane Holinesse it selfe Yet this is not intended by the direct meaning of this text 2 As God is holinesse in himselfe so hath it pleased him to communicate the same vnto his Church to make hir not onely a Catholike but a holy Church To this end hath he sanctified special meanes that is separated them or set them a part from common vse to effect holinesse in the hearts of the people Whereof there be three degrees 1 The Word and Prayer