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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03713	A sermon vpon the parable of the King that taketh an accompt of his seruants Math. 18. 23. Wherein is declared, the iustice, mercy, and seueritie of God: the crueltie of man, and his reward for the same. Rising vpon St. Peters question to Christ, viz. How oft shall I forgiue my brother? seauen times? 21. vers. [...] By Iohn Hoskin, minister of Gods holy word, student in Diuinitie.	Hoskin, John, minister of Gods holy word.	1609 (1609)	STC 13838; ESTC S121139	21,695	60

A SERMON vpon the Parable of the King that taketh an accompt of his seruants Math. 18.23 Wherein is declared the iustice mercy and seueritie of God the crueltie of man and his reward for the same Rising vpon St. Peters question to Christ Viz. How oft shall I forgiue my brother seauen times 21 vers Fiat voluntari●m quod futurum est necessarium offeramus Deo pro munere quod pro debito reddere tenemur Chrysost hom 10. in Mat. BY IOHN HOSKIN Minister of Gods holy word student in Diuinitie AT LONDON Printed by G. E. for Iohn Wright 1609. To the right honorable his very good Lord and patrone Henry Fynes Knight Lord Clinton and Say Earle of Lincolne Io Hoskin wisheth health honor and happinesse in this life and in the life to come eternall felicitie ENtring of late right Honorable into some extraordinary consideration of the common cruelty and horrible oppression dayly committed by many couetous cormorants and cankred Catter-pillets of this most miserable age wherein we liue who delight as the Prophet saith in nothing but in ioyning house to house Isa 5 8. and field to field till the poore can get no habitation except it be in some prison or other where some of these wicked wretches will not stick to say they liue better then they do abroad Indeed as some of them vse them and then waying with my selfe how vile a monster nay how heinous and hellish an Hydra Psal 36.5 108.4 Gen. 1.26 Barbarous Cruelty is both in the sight of God whose mercy is greater then the heauens and in the eyes of good men made after his owne Image which is many wayes more practised and put in execution now in the light or the Gospell amongst the professors of the same which beare the name of Christians then euer it was either in the time of darkenesse and ignorance or amongst the Heathen that neuer heard of God Wherfore beeing fully perswaded that your Lordship is both a professed foe and an open enemie to all bloud●e Cains and couetous Ahabs that any way seeke the subuersion of their poore brothers or neighbors spirituall or temporall either by might or pollicie I therefore being minimus apostolorum whose arrowes are feathered with foule Misfortune and whose sunne-shine of prosperitie and warme dayes of well-fare haue beene Eclipsed with the black clouds of cruelty and nipping frosts of nine yeares most pittilesse imprisonment haue not onely enterprised to pen this simple tract of the euill seruant toward his poore fellow Mat. 18.23 but also presumed to present the same vnto your honorable view and Christian consideration supposing no man more worthy then your Lordship of a farre fairer peece of worke then it is not doubting but your honor will vouchsafe not onely to acce●t thereof as the poore widdowes mite with as much kindnesse as I offer it with good-will but also defend it vnder the shadow of your shelter whereby it shall bee safe from the in●ection of infamous tongues And although I haue not streined vp my strings to any high pitche whereby to make any great sound fine melody or musicall harmonie with Orpheus Harpe to moue dumbe yea senslesse creatures as it were to listen therevnto so foming out the frothe of mans wisdome in making a great shew of learning for that is not the marke I shoote at but onely the saluation of mens soules for whom Christ dyed Therefore according to the capacitie of the common sort I haue tuned mine instrument with Hyparchyons Pipe to play by the plainest mood at the lowest Key and sweetest sound thereby to mooue reasonable men if it might be to learne some-thing towards the saluation of their poore soules because wee are not sent to Preach with wisdome of words 1. Cor. 1.17.27 14.19 for fiue words to edifying is better then ten thousand not vnderstood Wherein if I haue any wayes passed the bound of modestie whereby to offend your Lordships patience or committed any thing distastfull to your honorable conceit I most humbly craue pardon for the same attending to receiue the punishment due to mine imperfections But if I haue pleased the least part of your Lordships good liking I shall most happily rest contented at the dore of your deuotion and lowest step of your footestoole And so leauing the crew of all cursed Caines and all couetous Ahabs with all such canker-wormes of crueltie and mercilesse misers in the midst and maine sea of their monstrous mallicious mindes and your Lordship as a most worthy pillar and protector of all poore oppressed persons to weede out the wicked and defend the innocent with the sworde of Iustice whereby Mercy and Charitie may bee well planted the Kings Maiestie the better preserued the common wealth best gouerned and God most of all glorified I most humbly take my leaue From the Fleete 1608. Your Honours poore distressed in all Christian dutie euer to be commanded IO HOSKIN Minister of Gods word ● yeares prisoner To the Christian Reader I Beseech you by the mercies of God in his sonne Iesus Christ and by all the Christian kindnesse which I hope to finde at your hands to perswade your selues that what so euer I haue set downe in this simple Treatise is rather to describe the nature of cursed Cruelty then to taxe any man with the infection of that pestilent disease and hellish humor The labour is but short the Sence plaine whose substance I referre eyther to the censure of your courteous discretion or kindnesse of your gentle correction and so with my vnfeined loue to your good desert I rest as cause shall require Yours euer in the Lord IO HOSKIN The Parable of the king and his euill seruant Math. 18.23 The kingdome of heauen is likened vnto a certaine King which would take an accoumpt of his seruants ACcording to the obseruation and writings of the learned and antient Fathers there are seauē soeciall Parables of great consolation and comfort declared and set downe by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ at seuerall times in the holy Gospell Amongst the which this touching the forgiuenesse of ten thousand Talents is one of the chiefe wherein the holy spirit of GOD doth not onely breath this but with-all doth teach vs a most necessarie dutie of Christian charitie which the Heathen knew not and many that beare the name of Christians say they know but will neither vse nor practise towards their poore bretheren which the Apostle calleth forbearing and forgiuing one another Which is so necessarie a disposition Coll. 13.3 as that our Sauiour Christ the author thereof doth annexe and ioyne it vnto his prayer in the holy Gospell saying Except yee forgiue men their trespasses Mat. 6.15 your heauenly father will not forgiue you The occasion hereof was the question which Saint Peter mooued vnto our Sauiour Christ verse 21. How oft shall I forgiue my brother vnto seauen times wherein he presumeth two things 1. First that men must