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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10497	The foure summons of the Shulamite A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse vpon Rogation Sunday, the 5. of May. 1605. By John Rawlinson, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1606 (1606)	STC 20773; ESTC S112010	31,647	94

Pharises who may rightly be called chariots because they draw the people which way they lust the Chariots of Aminadab which signifieth Populus meus spontaneus my readie or willing people because the people are many of them as willing to be led as they to lead them These Chariots as they are drawne a maine vvith the wilde-horses of their owne head-strong fansies so doe they also draw whole multitudes after them and lead captiue simple women laden with sinne and grosslie abuse the ignorance of manie honest and well-meaning Christians to their own advātage These be they that wil not suffer the Church to sleepe nor the Heades of her Temples her Reverend and learned Prelats to take any rest vnlesse they first put of their seemelie and decent ornaments their surplisse cope cap and all to them J wil not say as perhaps J truelie might that their fond and new-found opinions are Sathans bals of wilde-fire vvherevvith they haue set on fire the Church of God Valer. Ma● as Herostratus fired the temple of Diana only to get him a name though it were but a bad one that the smoake of this their fire hath caused manie vveeping eies in the Church of God Nor wil J liken them to a man such a one as St Bernard speakes of in his declamations set vpon the pinnacle of a temple Bernard declamat and with open mouth greedilie sucking in the aire and lest it should not come fast enough of it selfe provoking and gathering it to him Flabello with a fan Ac si totum speraret aërem deglutire as if hee meant to drinke vp the whole element of aire and yet it is thought that their chiefest aime is either Aura popularis the breath of the people or Aurum populare the wealth of the people Nor would J wish them for breaking the peace of the Church to be thrust into a Iakes there to end their daies as Irenaeus Andr Hondorff in Theatr. hist and Abundius were by Valerian quod Sanctae Concordiae corpus è templo extraxissent because they had haled the Image of Concorde out of the tēple But yet thus much J wil be bold to tel them that they are too-too-like Antonius Alexandrinus in Suidas Suidas hist who as he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he was very il spoken of not because he was greatlie iniurious to other men but because hee was very much giuen to contention that they liue so vnpeaceably in the Church of Christ as if Christ had died intestate left no legacy of peace to his Church Yea more than this in Christs sted for Christs sake and for their own sake and for the Churches sake in the bowels of our blessed Saviour J hartilie beseech them that they would see euen in this their day the things that belong vnto their peace that if by studiousnes of peace they wil not turne their helmets into bee-hiues as it is in the Emblem yet by furiousnes of rage against the discipline of the Church they would not turne the Church the helmet of saluation into a nest of waspes that as Numa Pompilius is said Plutarch Martium loco deturbâsse to haue displaced blustering March which before vvas the first moneth et primas Iano detulisse ut pote Pacifico and to haue placed peaceable Ianus in his roome so they would prefer peace before discord and contentation before contention Lastly that as the Cretēsians Plutarch who before were at ciuil warre among themselues yet when an enemie inuaded them they would cease to haue edge one against another iointly band themselues against the Common enemy which practise of theirs was therevpon prouerbially call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the ioining of the Cretensians so vnlesse they will be worse than evill beasts for so the Cretēsians are call'd out of one of their owne Poëts Tit. 1.12 Tit. 1. They would lay aside their ciuil or rather their vnciuill war and ioine both harts hands with vs against those two mightie enemies of the Church Papists and Atheists who like the Mirmaide the Dolphin take their pastime in the troubled vvaters while the ship of the Church is beaten and tossed and torne asunder with a tempest Thus farre haue our Novelists the chariots of the people drawne me Happy now thrice-happy should J think my selfe if as the Prophet Ezechtel in his vision saw Rotā in rotâ One wheele in another wheele Ezech. 1.16 Ezech. 1. So J might see Currum in curru one chariot in another chariot to wit these chariots of the people in this chariot of repentance wherin our Saviour Christ would draw al men vnto him iterating and reiterating his Admonition Returne returne ô Shulamite returne returne J should now proceede to the Reason of the Admonition including as J told you a three-fold promise 1 That we may behold thee that is That my Father my selfe and the holy Ghost may cast a favourable aspect on thee Secondly that we may behold thee that is That my selfe with the rest of thy friends wel-willers euē the glotious society of Angels may respect thee Thirdly That we may behold thee that is That both J thy redeemer may looke vpon thee with a fatherly and compassionate ey of mercy that thou maist also looke into thy selfe with a syncere and single eie of simplicity But neither wil my out-worn strength giue leaue nor the time which is already past it's limits permit nor J think the repining of your bellies suffer me to enter vpon so copious a discourse as this triple Reason woulde require Here therfore J make my ful period Now the very God of peace sanctifie you throughout I pray God that your whole spirit and soule and body may be kept blamelesse vnto the coming of our Lord Iesus Christ To whom with the father the holy Ghost one immortal inuisible only wise al good God in person three in essence one be ascribed all power dominion and Maiesty both now and for evermore Amen FINIS