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spirit_n	call_v	church_n	holy_a	7,200	5	5.2401	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19953	Gods mercies and Ierusalems miseries A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Iune. 1609. By Lancelot Dawes, Master of Arts and fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford.	Dawes, Lancelot, 1580-1653.	1609 (1609)	STC 6388; ESTC S109409	43,755	146

vnder a bushell is become like to Dauids Sunne which commeth foorth as a Bridegroome out of his chamber and reioyceth as a Giant to runne his course the professors of the Gospell haue wonderfully increased so that now their sound is gone through the earth and their words vnto the ends of the world Psal 90.4 There is no place in the Globe of the earth where Christ is professed which hath not some Protestants Italy the very Center and sinke of Popery and the seat of the great Whore when Iezabel hath done what shee can in murthering the Lords Prophets will affoord seuen thousand men which haue neuer bowed the knees of their hearts vnto Baal Vid Bell. de Paul Rom. lib 3. cap. 21. Nostris temporibus Romana sedes magnā Germaniae partem amisit Suetiam Gothiam Noruegiam Damam c. In France wee haue a farre greater number in Germanie the maior part almost all Polonie all Denmarke Swethen Norway Britaine and all the Islands in the Northerne seas which haue taken the militarie Oath to fight vnder Christs standard If these be not equall to them yet consider on eyther side such as know the Principles of Christian Religion and can giue an account of their faith and we haue a farre greater number for the common people amongst them are stupide blind and doe no more vnderstand the mysteries of their saluation then Pagans and Infidels or those in the Acts who being demaunded of Paul whether they had receiued the holy Ghost made answere that they neuer heard whether there was an holy Ghost or no. Act. 19.2 And little maruell for many of their Priestes doe no more vnderstand their Masses which they mumble dayly in their Churches then Balaams Asse vnderstood his owne voice It is enough for them to belieue as the Church belieueth though they know no more what that is then did Bellarmines Collier who being demaunded what he belieued quoth hee that which the Church beleeueth being againe demaunded what that was answered the same which I belieue Herein we will not thinke much that the Papists exceede vs Bellarmine may giue good measure if he draw the dregs and all August in Psal 39. but Austen will teach him another lesson Noli numerare turbas hominum incedentes latas vias implentes crastinum circum ciuitatis natalem clamando celebrantes ciuitatem ipsam male viuendo turbantes noli illas attendere multi sunt quis numerat sed pauci per viam angustam incedunt Christ hom 40. ad populum Antiochium Chrysostome will teach him that not in numeri magnitudine sed in virtutis probitate consistit multitudo It was a prety stratageme of the Romaine Captaine when his Souldiers were few in number to make euery man draw a bough in the drie dust that so the ●amnites with which hee was to encounter beholding them a farre off might beleeue that his Armie was greater then indeed it was we are no such dastards as to be afraid of euery withered branch that can rayse vp dust into the ayre Liuius decad 1. lib. 9. if the Papists purpose to match vs with multitude let them bring such as haue some skill to handle their spirituall weapons I end seeing the Church is like vnto the Moone sometimes in a glorious splendour sometimes clouded with Schisme and sometime so darkened with the shadow of heresie and superstition and persecution that the eyes of Linceus can scarse behold her Seeing that the Papists at this day cannot compare neyther with the number of Christians taking the name generally for all such as professe the name of Iesus nor with the Protestant Churches if we take an account onely of such as vnderstand the Principles of their Religion Hic non tenetur nota marginalis quae nunquā occurrit in li. Sent. P. Lamberti I see no reason why Bellarmine should make multitude a Note of the true Church or if it were why the Papists should challenge it themselues and therfore hee may bee well censured with a hic magister non tenetur ſ Viues de causis Co rupt Art or nota quod haec nota nihil notat it was onely to make vp the number of notes that hee may number one Art nam cum non prosunt singula multa iuuant though they be of little force being seuerally considered yet if they bee all ioyntly taken they will proue like t Plut Apoth Seleucus his roddes or like a threefold corde which is not easily broken Indeede hee had need to bee stronger then Hercules that could cut off all the heads of Hydra at one blow but a simple warriour taking one by one may make an end of them before hee bee wearied for they are like to the tayle of Sertorius his horse Plutar. in vita sertorij which a valiant Souldier taking it all together could not pull off but a poore Skull pulling one hayre after an other had quickly made it bare Vse 2 Secondly dooth Gods flocke sometimes consist of a very small number then it behoueth thee beloued Christian with greater diligence to trie and examine thy selfe whether thou bee comprehended in this number for as in that vniuersall deluge of waters all were drowned that were not in Noahs Arke so in the great floud of fire which shall bee at the end of the world all shall be swept away with a riuer of brimstone which are not of this flocke it is a common saying he shall neuer haue God for his father which hath not the Church for his mother and hee shall neuer bee a member of the Church triumphant which is not first of the Church Militant first then thou art to enquire whether thou bee of the true visible Church and this thou shalt know by two markes by the true preaching of the word by the right vse of the Sacraments for where these two are performed according to the prescript of Gods word there must needs be a true church this is somewhat but it is not all for what did it auaile Iudas to bee numbred amongst the twelue hee was in hell before any of the rest came at heauen all that are in the church bee not of the church there are both good and bad fish in this net there is wheat and tares in this field Sheepe and Goates in this fold thou must therefore goe further and examine whether thou bee one of that Company which God from eternity elected vnto life and in time effectually calleth by his holy Spirit and makes true members of his Sonne Iesus Christ which is the head of this body whether thou bee of that flock which Christ calleth his gardē Cant his sister his spouse his loue his doue his vndefiled which is the pillar and ground of truth 1. Tim. 3.13 the body of Christ Eph. 1.23 the temple of the Lord Eph. 2.21 which the gates of hell shall neuer preuaile against Matth. 16 18. Here thou must exercise thy