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A20788 The royall guest: or, A sermon preached at Lent Assises, anno Dom. M.DC.XXXVI. at the cathedrall of Sarum being the first Sunday of Lent, before Sr. Iohn Finch and Sr. John Denham His Majesties justices of assise. By Thomas Drant of Shafton in com. Dorset. Drant, Thomas, b. 1601 or 2. 1637 (1637) STC 7165; ESTC S109882 20,792 38

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utilitatem calamitatis miseri facti estis pessimi permansist is wickednesse makes you wretched wretchednesse makes you worse so the fruits of your calamities die in their touch and like those by the Lake Asphalites crumble into Ashes these Oakes will not bow they shall breake may I swimme through a river of brimstone wade through a torrent of Sulphure to be eternally happy and with my GOD but what Heraldry can blazon their woes what pencill paint them who are under the scourge here and under the curse for ever as they must be at whose dores judgements doe knocke without grace which is GODS fist and last way of knocking GOD fiftly knocks by the sweet inspirements of His holy Spirit from whom are suggestions to holinesse excitements to penitence and powerfull workings on the heart of faith these motions are that voice in Isai we heare behind us saying This is the way walke in it a voice audible to all within the pale of the Church even those false fires of Religion which but glow in it these have their pangs of zeale their quames of devotion their flashes of holinesse and from this Spirit are all these how-ever nick-nam'd this Spirit enkindled those sparks when Herod did many things and heard the Baptist gladly when rapt with Pauls sanctified straines Agrippa was at the point to turne Christian but it blew them up into a flame vvhen Gamaliels Scholler is non plust spight of his subtle disputes and made a Proselyte vvith those vvhom but now he martyr'd if vve thinke a good thought it is grace infused so Saint Augustine the devout patron of it if vve speake a good vvord it is grace effused if we doe a good worke it is grace diffused now what is done by grace the Spirit doth it whose royall Epitheton and character it is The Spirit of grace there is a Spirit of giddinesse it rules much in some braine-sick hot-spurs whom it doth possesse at once with a zealous phrensie and cast them as that dumbe One did the childe in the Gospell now into the water sullen and rheumatick drivelings spitting against the Church vvhose Hierarchy they beate downe that their owne braines may sway anon into the fire so hot a contention about Ceremonies though enjoyn'd vvith equall modestie and right as if Heaven and Earth vvere to little to bee mingled in the quarrell this Spirit vvhether in a Church-parlour at Amsterdam abroad there or an uncharitable conventicle of our Zelots at home here is as farre from grace as unity it at once rents into Schismes divides that coate is seamelesse opens a sluce for Anarchy disorder irreligion they are other fruits which blossome on that tree the good Spirit plants these are Humility Meekenesse Brotherly love and that rich Diamond of all humane happinesse Vnion and Identitie of heart in those who keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace if this Spirit inspire not with holy motions to unity we are all jars if by His gratious instincts He worke us not to holinesse we are all prophane no other meanes are effectuall First GOD knocks by His Word this is to us Precept upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little if this Spirit enflame not our hearts to the love of the truth how do we looke the Prophets in the face and cast their words behind our backs or heare them as we doe musick to stuffe our eares when our bellies are full Secondly GOD knocks by His Mercies exhausts all the treasures of them and crownes us with His blessings if this Spirit mould not our hearts to thankfullnesse how as wild heafers doe we kicke being full or how like a peevish beautie the more GOD woes us by His bounty the more coy and shie are we Thirdly GOD knocks by Afflictions these rise not out of the dust none can take of or add the least scruple to their weight and they are for our health those drams that are mingled to us of them this heavenly physicke workes not on our soules if the Spirit make it not operative without Him the whole head is still sick nor hath any drugsters shop that medecine can cure us Fourthly GOD knocks by His judgements they breake in like waves of the sea this on the neck of that ere the former have wrought all his spight they beate with blowes able to shake the center mans heart like the Anvill the more 't is hammer'd on the harder it growes onely this Spirit makes us flexible mettall judgements may leave an impression behind them but no stampe to that of Grace Powre out O LORD of this thy Spirit upon us Knock by thy Word and may it leade us in the paths of life Knock by thy Mercies and may those load-stones attract our longing to thee Knock by thy Afflictions and in that Schoole may we con new lessons of Amendment Knock by thy judgements may they put us in feare and make us know our selves to be but dust and ashes Knock above all by thy Sacred Spirit O thou who hast the keyes of hell and death say effectually to our soules Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doores that the King of glory may come in So Veni Domine Iesu Come LORD JESV come quickly To whom with the Father and the Spirit be All praise and honour for ever Amen FINIS Perlegi hanc Concionem dignamque judico quae typis mandetur THO WYKES R. P. Episc. Lond. Cap. Domest Tacitus de Galba Othone vitel Hist. Lib. 1. Tacitus in vita Iulij Agricolae Exod. 19. 16. Psal. 68. 23. Prov. 9. 14. Gen. 19. 14. Psal 68. 8. Psal 18 8. Psal. 29 9. Psal. 18. 10. Psal. 28. 2. Job 38. 10. Deut. 10. 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 B. Isa. 64. 6. AEnaead lib. 2. Ephes. 3. 19. 1 King 7. 19. Iudg. 6. 13. Acts. 7. 55. Deut. 5. 29. Cant. 6 12. Mat. 23 37. 2 King 5. 25. Isa. 65. 2. Psal. 95. 10. Jer. 32. 30 31. Diog. Laert. vit Philos lib. 2. Aug. de civit Dei lib 3 cop 17. Cant 5. 3. Psal. 50. 1 Sam. 2. 8. Seneca de Beneficijs lib. 1. Acts 23. 3. Psal. 51. 10. Prov. 13. 9. Psal. 145. 18. Basil in Epist. ad Gregor Diog. Laert. de vit Phil. lib. 1. Isa. 1. 15. Aug. in Psal. 42 Cypr. de jeju Christi Isa. 58. 5. Ambr. Ser. 33. 2 King 10. 15. Iosh 1. 16. 1 King 22 11. Word Rom. 1. 16. Mat 7. 29. 2 Cor. 10. 5. Jer. 23. 29. Exod. 17. 6. Deut. 32. 2. Aenaead lib. 1. Serm. 59. de verbis Domini A. Hirtij de bello Alexand comment Mercy Orat pro Luc. Murena Isa. 28. 21. Suet. Tranq de Vesp. Aug cap 15. Valer. lib. 11. Psal. 145. 8. Psal. 119. 64. Psal. 36. 5. Psal. 108. 4. Deut. 32. 14. Hos. 11. 14. Psal. 65. 3● Ode Afflictions Cur bonis viris mala eveniant Sen. Diog Laert de vita Phil lib 3. Plut. Apot●e● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pro. 1. 23. Isocr Areop Psal 78. 34. Psal 119. 71. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 13. 5. Gen 4 24. Pro. 19. 25. Virg. Aenead Lips de Constant lib. 1. cap 1. Iuven. Sat. 4. 2 Sam. 14. 31. Aul. Gellius 12. 7. Psal. 9. 16. 1 King 19. 3. Psal. 8. 7. Deut. 4. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Horat. Odar lib. 3. Od. 1. Psal. 105. 27 28 29. Jer. 5. 3. De civit Dei lib. 2. cap. 33. Ioseph de bello Iudaico lib. 5. cap. 5. Spirit Isa. 30. 11. Mark 6. 20. Acts 26. 28. Zach 11. 10. Mark 9. 22. James 3. 17. Ephes 4. 3. Esay 28. 10. Psal. 50. 17.