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A05193	Two sermons The first preached at St Maries in Oxford Iuly 13. 1634. being Act-Sunday. The second, in the cathedrall church of Sarum, at the visitation of the most Reverend Father in God William Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, May 23. 1634. By Thomas Laurence Dr of Divinity, and late Fellow of Allsoules Colledge, and chaplaine to his Maiesty in ordinary.	Laurence, Thomas, 1598-1657.	1635 (1635)	STC 15328; ESTC S108386	42,208	80

her eares Act. 16.14 nor wonder I the conversions of this Apostle were so many seeing his honours were so great Veni vidi vici like that Romane commander he conquered as many Nations as hee saw wheresoever he came his Saviour followed him and therefore his stay was not so long any where his travailes more frequent and farther then those of others in labours more abundant he was and in iourneying often 2. Cor. 11.23.26 For God blest him with such as would pull out their owne eyes in his behalfe their owne eyes not his such as had humility enough to learne had not pride enough to teach the Apostle such as believed his eyes so much that they thought they had no vse of their owne Galat. 4.15 heare therefore the word of the Lord yee that tremble at his word Esa 66.3 as if none were fit to heare but such the rest not worth the looking after as indeede they are not for to him will I looke that trembleth at my word such I will looke after and I will not looke after those that are not such in the second verse of that chapter 2 Paral. 6.3 2 Standing is a posture of attention the posture of hearers when Ezra opened the Law all the people stood vp Nehem. 8.5 there is no duty oftner enioyned then this Foure times in two chapters the second and the third of the Apocalypse nay foure times in one chapter the fiue and fiftieth of Esaiah more three times in one line giue eare and come vnto mee hearken and your soule shall liue Heauen is the reward of your attention hell of your scorne in the third verse of that chapter behold I stand at the doore and knocke if any man heare my voice and open the doore I will come in behold because hee knocks not often for hee that stands is going away especially if he stand at the doore without a shelter if he stand only to knocke and not to knocke neither after he is sleighted this were to awake the deafe or speake to the dumbe Apocal. 3.20 But Lord who hath believed our report or to whom hath the arme of the Lord beene revealed Where are those throngs now and presses vpon Christ Where is that early comming in the Gospell how soone are wee vp to sport and how late to pray Luke 21.38 Io. 8.2 how small in many places is the gleaning of their Churches to the vintage of their Citties how low is the ebbe in those courts of the Lord when t is full sea in their Streets Psal 50.17 how doe we looke the Priest in the face and cast his words behind our backs as David complaines his ordinary entertainement resembling that of Musique Ezek. 33.32 which serues only to fill our eares when discourse is done Good women there were which consecrated their looking glasses to the tabernacle Exod. 38.8 and will yee know how ye may doe so now By vsing ●●ther ● Bible on the Sunday and comming hither with halfe a dresse then losing halfe a prayer Wherefore libera ab homine malo saith David that is à meipso saith S. Aug. deliver me from my selfe ô God that I may come hither and from my selfe while I am here from my covetous selfe least the thought of my purchase shut out my Lord from my proud selfe when he honours or worships me from my malitious selfe when an injury heates my bloud and from my wanton selfe when the assembly discloses a beauty a well attired piece of hansome clay from my intemperate selfe when the thought of Aegypt brings on mee a lothing of Canaan and from my prophane selfe when some incarnate Satan assailes my attention by whispering in his vanities at my eares and clothing his Atheisme with the Scripture 3 Standing is a posture of action the posture of servants GehaZi went in and stood before his Master the readier therefore to come or goe at his command 2. Reg. 5.25 Practice is the life of attention and he that heares but does not is a monster in religion that hath two eares and no hands The Iews were taught this by their meates and the Ceremoniall law was but a shadow of the Morall What poysonous temper in the hare What dangerous nourishment in the swine Why might they not as freely feede on the rabbet as the sheepe Or what Philosophy makes the goate more wholsome then the crab or the swan he shewed by this O man what is good and what the Lord requires of thee thy effeminatenesse is forbidden in the hare which changeth his sexe as Gesner writes and is at severall times both hee and shee and thy lazinesse in the downe of the k Levit. 11.18 Deut. 14.16 Cygnum secundum Vulg. Sept Vatabl. Ariam Mont. Anglican novissimam alij aliter reddunt vt Tremel Leo Iudas Munster Castal Swan Thy oppression is interdicted in the Eagle and thy drunkennesse in the Swine Thy gluttons prey on Cormorants and thy night-walkers on owles for God instructed them what they should doe by what they might eate and every prohibited meate was a menace against sinne Or least this light should seeme too dimme he describes the same with the raies of the Sunne hee that lifteth not his eyes to idolls defileth not his neighbours wife spoileth none by violence giues not vpon vsury restoreth the pledge bestowes his bread on the hungry walketh in my statutes hee shall surely liue he is not just that hath faith vnlesse he haue workes too nor doth the Gospell saue without the law Ezek. 18.6.7.8 't is S. Aug Cont. Faust l. 22. c. 24. speech of the ancient Prophets illorum non tantum linguam sed vitam fuisse Propheticam that they prophecied as well by their liues as their writings and their sixe daies contain'd a commentary on the seaventh For if I cry the Temple of the Lord but obey not the Lord of the Temple and am like that Idoll in Daniel that had his head of gold and his feete of clay If I runne vpon a precipice while my eyes are open and the light of my profession se● me not to keepe mee vp but to shew how dangerous I fell if I am only Sermon-sicke while I am rockt in a Church-tempest abroad and presently recouer againe as soone as Hye at hull at home If my voice be Iacobs but my hands Esau's and I weare Elias mantle without his spirit if I acknowledge God with my tongue but deny him in my life professe a Christian and liue a Pagan goe from Church to a brothelhouse joyne the spirit of Chastity and the spirit of whoredomes together the holy and vnholy Ghost Christ and Belial the Temple of God and the Temple of Divells if I runne to Heauen one day to hell sixe and contradict the truth of my Sermons by the errour of my life what the Prophet said to Amaziah the Priest may say to mee I know that the Lord hath determined to destroy thee because thou hast

earth be so high and Heauen so low Let me rather be like my God that commanded out of darknesse on mount Sina here and my Saviour that concealed his glory vnder darknesse on mount Olivet there Mat. 16.6 the higher I am the lesse may my shadow be Let me never confute my humble penitentiall Sermon by my prowd vaineglorious Cassocke nor attend my Lord by being dislike my God let my oraisons be without noise in the darke and my dominion without imperiousnesse in the darke and my goodnesse without proclamation in the darke and my charity without vaineglory in the darke and my honour without bravery in the darke and my retinue without prodigality in the darke let this darknesse disguise my light here as it did his that this darknesse may raise me to light hereafter as it did him for a cloud saith the Evangelist Act. 1.9 received him out of their sight let me creepe on earth that I may clime to Heaven Whether the Father of Mercies bring vs all for the merits of his Sonne to whom with the blessed spirit be ascribed all honour and prayse dominion and power for ever and ever Amen FINIS 1. COR. 1.12 Now that I say that every one of you saith I am of Paul and I of Apollo and I of Cephas and I of Christ. HOW little haue the best to glory in which are bad enough to abuse the chiefest blessings or what confidence is it to purchase heauen by our selues which are hardly drawne thither by the labours of others which make the readiest meanes of our salvation the greatest hinderance from it pretend such as exhort vs to peace for the authors of a schisme 'T is the disease of our times and it was Corinths too an inveterate malady and therefore the more incurable Shee fell asunder into as many divisions as her Church had teachers happy lights in coniunction but in opposition most dangerous wherein euery faction sailes by a severall card and is carried by a peculiar bias Praefat. de gubern This side admires Pauls plaines and mistrusts Apollos structures for the gaudy varnish non lenocinia volumus sed remedia as Salvian speakes they desire the cure nothing to sweeten their physicke and could wish Apollo were confined to the deske Paul to the temple Another magnifies the powerfull eloquence of Apollo sleighting St Paul as too flat and heauy Caiet Musculus thinke these intitled Ct. to their faction nor can any thing charme this evill spirit but the spells of Apolloes rhetorique a third is taken with S. Peters keyes and because hee is called a rocke supposeth all the rest laid their foundation on the Sand a fourth likes none their sublimated iudgement thinkes meanely of Paul because he persecuted Christ and of Peter because he denied him their faith shall not shipwracke on that rocke nor their soules bee committed to Cephas keyes The cunning disputes of Gamaliels scholler shall not sway them nor the commanding straines of the Alexandrian oratour Christ only redeemed and therefore no reason any else should dispose them May others miscall themselues as they list these will bee nothing but christians Well resolved were yee as charitable as wise did yee loue your brother with your Saviour did yee not intitle Christ to your faction and hazard your interest in the head by disioynting your selues from the members T is well ye thinke Christ your owne but ill yee thinke he belongs to none besides you for hee that saies I am of Christ divides himselfe as well as he that saith I am of Paul and I of Apollo in the next verse of this chapter This was Corinths distemper and vntill it bee cured the Apostle can proceede no farther greater misteries were to bee imparted had not these divisions disabled them to heare For then the contentious man none saies more or vnderstands lesse and contentious they were their businesse and employment now being little else 'T is no private jealousie of his owne Chloes family saies so nay themselues say so and therefore he saies so too Now this I say that every one of you saith c. My Apostle chargeth Corinth with a schisme wherein he discovers 1 The pretended leaders Paul Apollo Cephas and Christ 2 The parties some Pauls disciples others Apolloes a third multitude appropriated to Cephas and a fourth to Christ. 3 The cause this was the issue of contention v. 11. and contention the spawne of the flesh Gal. 5.20 for while they are so they are nothing but carnall in the third of this epistle at the fourth verse ambition or gaine or pride or envy overruled their wills and misguided them into factions sensuall they are and such are their actions 1 I beginne with the pretended leaders of this Schisme Paul Apollo Cephas and Christ It hath ever bin the policy of Satan to gild schismes and heresies with the names of specious leaders intressing the learnedest and best of the Church in the worst opinions and desperatest factions as men doe great persons in broken titles that being vnable to beare a triall in themselues they might receiue esteeme from the credit of their Patrons this was the cheat which gull'd Corinth a Church enriched with the grace and knowledge of Christ setled and confirmed in the same v. 4.5.6 vnlikely to miscarry vnlesse by that fondnesse and dotage on her Pastors Men they were of extraordinary worth greatest eminency in the Church Paul for his learning his zeale the multitude of his sufferings his miraculous conversion his heavenly rapture where hee saw that hee could not speake Hee out of an humble modesty acknowledgeth himselfe the least of the Apostles and yet beleeue but his owne relation and you must confesse him the greatest Apollo for his sanctified rhetorique eloquent mighty in the Scriptures for his fiery devotion fervent in spirit for his vnwearied industry he taught the way of the Lord diligently for his powerfull disputations he mightily convinced the Iewes Act. 18.24.25.28 Cephat deservedly stiled princeps Apostolorum as c Catalog Script Saint Ierome or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Saint Chrysost calls him the primate and chiefe of the Apostles either for the priviledge of his age or the liberty of his speech or the honours conferred vpon him by our Saviour his individuall companion in raising the dead his transfiguration on the mount his last vigils in the garden his speeches ever directed to him as a person representing the rest his favorite and darling So that if the Divell intitle these to a division hee cannot want proselites the grossest errour will passe if their seale be on it for it is impossible hypocrisy should lodge with so much zeale or deceipt with such knowledge illumination Each man thinkes his owne opinions canonicall because his supposed leader is so nor can he endanger his faith while he steeres by such a starre he is first perswaded of the truth of his leader then of his owne vnderstanding and lastly