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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60175	Sarah and Hagar, or, Genesis the sixteenth chapter opened in XIX sermons / being the first legitimate essay of ... Josias Shute ; published according to his own original manuscripts, circumspectly examined, and faithfully transcribed by Edward Sparke.	Shute, Josias, 1588-1643.; Sparke, Edward, d. 1692.	1649 (1649)	Wing S3716; ESTC R24539	246,885	234

strong meat for abler digestions and sweet-meats too for the more quaint attentions Omnia factus omnibus a true Saint Paul to all as he was oft wont to say in that Apostles phrase that he was a debtor unto both the wise and the unwise Rom. 1. and therefore was not rash with his mouth when he entred into the house of God as the manner of some is to serve Him of that which cost them nothing I speak this to their shame But he in all his holy Disquisitions miscuit utile dulci so tempered the wine and oil together that none but through his own default might go away unbettered His speech distilled like the dew and his words like the drops of rain his Sermons showers of Manna pleasing each good palate For his * His usual Method being Observation and Application Method let no nice Philologist distaste it as too Calvinistical it being as profitable as perspicuous as faithful as familiar and as he ordered it like rarest Needle-works grounded upon Canvas while many others set but their slight Frost-works upon Sattin He was that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that well-instructed Scribe Matth. 13.52 who brought forth of his treasure things new and old that is Vetera Legis nova Evangelii as the * Jerom in locum Tom. 9. Hilar. Can. 14. Fathers on the place the old terrours of the Law to humble sinners and the new comforts of the Gospel to raise drooping spirits the sound instructions both of the Old and the New Testament not any of the old Heresies new drest or any new Phangles of these wilder times A true Evangelist and Messenger of Peace not preaching Evangelium sanguinis as was objected by * Vide Erasmi Epist 107. Ep. ad Lit. D. them that more deserved it unto some passionate Lutherans But therein rather of Erasmus temper who lived in Times like ours and that was neither cold nor luke-warm neither but piously prudent A somno prorsus expergefaciēdus erat orbis Indeed the world was to be rouzed out of the sleep of Sin and Errour scintilla vigoris Evangelici resuscitanda and the spark of Truth Evangelical to be re-kindled and blown from forth the choaking ashes Sed utinam eâ mansuetudine curâque quâ decuerat agi negotium omnium sanctissimum but Oh would to God saith he it had been done with that same Christian care meekness and moderation wherewith so holy a business ought to have been transacted and that there needed not be added Habent semper in ore Evangelium Verbum Dei Fidem Christum Spiritum sanctum atsi mores spectes illi longè aliud loquuntur their words softer then Butter saith he but War in their hearts open hostility 'twixt their words and actions even to desperate contradictions Erasmus Epist lib. 19. Ep. 113. ad lit D. p. 950. as he prosecutes it home and is worth thy consulting in his 113 Epistle So was our candid Author here more for the Bucket then the Bellou●s in such times of Conflagration oft pouring out the water of his tears upon our common Flames which others ventilated He was the Apostles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 3.8 a man of yerning bowels like Jeremiah that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Propheta as Jerome calls him a Prophet of most soft affections one after Davids melting heart as he was after Gods still spake he of Peace but c. praestat componere fluctus I had rather spend my time in Admiration of him then Apologie for surely there is nothing in his Works but savours extasie and spiritual ravishment And no thoughts I confess did ever steal away my time more sweetly then those herein employed the Comfort making me forget the Travel and with Gods blessing on them none I think may more benefit others and especially if read judicio non praejudicio but with that spirit of judgement and candour that he writ them that is Animas magis alloquens quàm Aures with more reference unto Souls then Senses 'T is true these are no strawberry-Sermons pick'd and cull'd out with long vagaries like some whose brain as the Elephant goes two yeers with young but they are wholsome Food and healthy Medicine prepared and administred in due season Not Almanack-discourses calculated for any singular Meridian of Persons Ends or Humours but for the general elevation of the Pole of Vertue for the common good of Christian Conversation Read them then but with such a grain of salt as intimated and thou shalt light off from them like a laden Bee the hive both of thine head and heart enriched from this flowery garden so shalt thoure turn home unto thy self like a stor'd Merchant from the Isles of Spices or the Golden Indies But if thou wilt be snarling at the Author bit by the mad dog of the Times thou wilt but hurt thine own teeth if thou wilt needs be justling against his firm sides thou wilt endanger thine own empty pitcher For all Apollo's Quire the whole Lettered Common-wealth have deservedly already crowned him * That is swallowed up as it were of Learning and all kinds of Vertue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To which if thou subscribest thou dost thy self an honour But not to tell you of a Banquet and make you Tantalize I draw toward a Close For the Publisher no great matter whether known to thee or not so this be That he hath been faithful to his Vndertaking wherein hadst thou but seen the dark Originals thou wouldst perhaps have readily enough acknowledged That 't is no less honour to Redeem then to Create and as In Praefatione in Editionem Jeronimi Erasmus sometime said touching his Edition of Saint Jerome Tantum operis in Emendatione quantum ille in Compositione that there 's almost as much travel in the Restitution as the Author spent upon his Composition The Book indeed is somewhat slender like the encouragements of Learning yet a childe capable of growth if any thing well used abroad if it be estimable Iewels of value may be vented singly if otherwise the Greek * Yea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now adays oft a small Book is a grand Evil. Proverb is prevented 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That a great Book is a great Mischief Pro captu Lectorum habent sua fata Libelli Such Books like the best liquors may be wronged by foul vessels Yet if not too much tainted this I dare say will cleanse and sweeten the vessel of that heart receives it These holy waters I will not parallel with those of the well of Bethlehem 2 Sam. 23. though not a little long'd for nor fetch'd without some danger and therefore thus poured out unto the Lord but methinks somewhat they resemble Samsons Riddle Judg. 14. save onely as many yeers well neer as he set days Judg. 14. being unresolved which none could hitherto perfectly unfold till at length plowing with his heifer An Account of the Editor meeting with