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A04074	A sermon against selfe policy preached at White-Hall in Lent. By Isaac Bargrave ...	Bargrave, Isaac, 1586-1643.	1624 (1624)	STC 1413; ESTC S124187	12,801	44

cummin but omitted Iudgement mercy and faith the weightier matters of the Law vers 23. In a word this Vine bare leaues and flowers enough but no fruite no grapes it was an empty Vine And I would this Prophecy had ended onely in Israel but this is seconded with another of Saint Paul that falls neere our times In the last perillous dayes men shall bee louers of themselues hauing a ●●rme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof 2. Tim. 3. VVhy here 's a true empty Vine the shaddow of a Christian the pure Hypocrite of our Church Moses Chayre long prayers the tything of mint and cummin all forme but no power of godlinesse all leaues no fruite all faith no workes all profession no demonstration Saint Basil in his time found out the progenitors of these Bastard plants Vidi ego orantes iejunantes praeteritorum paenitentia suspirantes omne denique fine sumptu pietatem ostendentes egentibus vero ne obolum quidem praebentes Our times will well Translate him Wee may see many among vs men demure in their lookes thinne in their apparell long in their prayers deepe in their sighes most deuout in all cheape duties of a Christian but in the VVorkes of Charity to bee deuout in them it is meere Popery CHRIST himselfe may hunger but the Fig Tree will yeelde no Figges Those little ones of Christ the poore may thirst but this Vine giues no Grapes it is an emptie Vine The Church is a Theater vppon which some act their owne parts being alwayes the same that they seeme and these are all good men but bad Actors Others on the contrary do meerely personate seeming perpetually what they are not and these are all bad m●n but good Actors notorious Hypocrites like Monkies who imitate humane actions but remayne Monkies still Like complementall Courtiers all curtesie in promise no honesty in performance They haue the voyce of Jacob and the hands of Esau Like the Apples of Sodom they are fayre to the sight but if you touch them they turne to fume and ashes They are such eminent Histrionicall Mimickes that in Greeke all Stage-Players are called by their names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hypocrites They forme a Plato●call kinde of Diuinity an abstracted sanctity that diuides Faith from Charity In a word they are nothing else but a meere paradoxe in our Church and Common-wealth Vir non vir arbor no● arbor A Vine and no Vine a Christian and no Christian a meere emptie Vine And as their way so is their end their whole Course as when a Hungrie man Dreames and behold hee eates but when he awakes hee is faint and his soule is Empty Esay 29. 8. It is the Fruite that denominates the Tree thy Fayth makes thee a true Christian thy workes make thee knowne to bee a true Christian As in a Logician so in a Christian giue mee Demonstration thou must Demonstrate thy Fayth by thy VVorkes There was no Honey vsed in GODS Sacrifice Leuiticu● the 2. Chap. and the ●1 verse Sayth Theodoret because it was made of Leaues and Flowers onely and not of Fruite Herodotus tells vs that the gods went to chose their Trees Iupiter chose the Oke because it was strong Neptune the Cedar because it was long but Pallas the Vine because it was fruitfull When our GOD the GOD of all power and Wisedome calles Israel a Vine hee calls for fruite and if wee looke vpon the letter of the Text hee can but call and haue for see the next words this empty vine brings forth fruite VVhat an empty and yet a fruitfull Vine This will bee worth the examining sayth the Hebrew paraphrase Euery Riddle or Paradoxe consists of Contradictions and it is the rule of Contraries that Circa idem praedicantur they both belong to the same subiect empty or fruitfull here is the same Israel the same Hypocrite still There is two kinds of hypocrisie saith Nauarrus in words and in works Faith without workes and workes without faith hypocrisie is the ground of all Our Sauiour in the 23. of Matthew as hee found some all-sayers and no doers so others that would out-doe all faith This emptie Vine will bring forth fructum aceruatum as the Chalde beares it whole heapes of fruit This was and is the Iewes Tenet that they were able to fulfill the whole Law and so to worke out their owne saluation And to this end they spare no labour they compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselyte v. 15. they pinch at no cost they build the Tombes of the Prophets v. 29. with the Israelites in this Verse they build many Altars goodly Images They doe as much to seeme as others to be good Yet all this in the end proues nothing but a morning cloud and as the earely dew it goes away Ose 6. for all this fruit the Verse 4. Vine is but an emptie vine But doe these bastard-plants grow onely in Iury are there no such Iewes to be found among Christians Yes certainely there be those that can out-doe the Iewes do more than Gods law requires they can supererrogate as much as will saue other men as well as themselues As for their cost it is they that sumptuously garnish the sepulchres of the righteous Old Rome it selfe was neuer so glorious with rich shrines and Altars And for their labour t is they that compasse Sea and Land to make a Proselyte that sayle with the foure windes vltra Garamantas Indos Southward to call home Heretiques Westward to conuert Pagans and when they haue conuerted them they make them two-fold more the children of Hell than they themselues Matthew 23. 15. compassing the whole world they disgrace and scandall the Gospell of Christ throughout the whole world dum exigunt sumptus lucrosae egestatis aut simulatae pretium sanctitatis while vnder the veyle of religion they bring forth fruit to themselues The all-searching Spirit of GOD makes all good Christians see and know that all 's not gold that glisters that all this faire shew of workes is but to be seene of men Matt. 23. all but so many mists to delude the spirituall eyes of the people and to catch them as cobwebs catch flyes These painted sepulchres so faire without within are full of dead mens bones a generation of Serpents and vipers who make vse of the workes of Christ onely to betray the cause of Christ As the former are so nice in the poynt of Faith that they are afraid S. Iames comes too neere Popery so these so iealous in the poynt of workes that S. Paul himselfe hath runne the censure of being too much a Lutheran Workes without faith are dead workes saith Paul And faith without workes is a dead faith saith Iames. And the Heathen could teach vs that dead wine was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vnfit to be offered to the God of life Medium tenuêre beati Most happy is the temper of our Church who as in the rest so in this is medium Contradictionis

seruice of God and the promises of whom are the Fathers and of whom after the flesh Christ came who is GOD over all blessed for euer Amen Romans 9. vers 3. Israel according to the flesh thus protected thus priuiledged This Israel so fild with Fruite becomes an Empty Vine So sounds the letter of the Text but is there no spirit in this letter Are the sonnes of Abraham onely the seede of Abraham No certainly they are not all Israel which are of Israel Rom 9. 6. It is mirabile magnum sayth Austi● yet as true as wonderfull Many which are not the sons of Israel are Israel many which are the sons of Israel are not Israel In the flesh the Ismalites pertayne to Agar the Israelites to Sara in the spirit the Iewes pertaine to Agar w● Christians to Sara had they retayned the faith and the works of Abraham they had stil continued the ions of Abraha but now they haue lost their progeny and we haue found it For of Israel came the Iewes of them came Mary of Mary Christ in Christ we all liue and moue and haue our being and therefore all wee are the sonnes of Israel Not by nature but by faith not in the letter but the Spirit not by the Law but by grace not carnall but spirituall Israel Would you see this yet clearer looke in the glasse of this similitude Israel is a Vine There wee shall finde Tropum in Tropo Israel vnder the Vine and our selues vnder Israel There we shall see that almost none of GODS peculiar mercies to Israel but are become proper to vs. I pray GOD we may not likewise partake of their sins and punishments It is the Law of an Allegory sayth Aristotle that it haue a true proportion of similitude and if the words be not consonant to the matter Error fit non metaphora it is rather an Imposture then an Allegory sayth the Schoole To serueigh this Parable by this Rule A man sayth Aristotle is a Tree turned vpward hauing his head for the roote the rest of his Lymmes for the branches But among all Trees the Holy Spirit doth most often present the selected Israel of GOD His Church in the likenesse of a Vine as the fittest embleme both of his bounty to them and their duty to him First sayth Calvin the Vine best In lo● speakes his bounty to his Church because he giues vs not onely bread ad vitam but wine ad Hilaritatem whereby we liue cheerefully for wine glads the heart of man Gal. 10. 4. Neuer was there Vine so planted so bound so spread so pruned so fenced by the prouidence of GOD. Iudge yee Oh inhabitants of Ierusalem betwixt me and my Vineyard what could I haue done more then I haue done to it Esay 5. 4. Israel is a Vine Ergo fratres forte vinea fuit domus Israel nos non sumus vinea Hath Israel onely tasted of the bounty of Psal 80. 8 10. God and are not we also the Vine of the Lord of Hosts hath hee not likewise brought our vine out of Idolatrous Egypt hath h●● not cast out the He ●hen an● planted i● hath hee not caused it to take deepe 〈◊〉 so that it filleth the Land Nay w●ile Rebellious I●ra●l are rooted ●ut of the Vineyard hauing no King nor Priest nor Law being become Rebels to Heauen and Vagabonds on earth are not we in their roome grafted into the stocke Christ Iesus hath hee not giuen vs a most indulgent nursing Father to this prosperous Vine Hath he not planted vs in the Gospell pruned vs by the Law rooted vs in faith bound vs vp in loue solaced vs with peace cherisht vs with plenty fenced vs with his prouidence by rare and vnheard of protections But let your hearts reioyce in the memory of it Neuer any 〈◊〉 any Nation no not Israel it 〈◊〉 hath beene blest with more arguments of Gods bounty I pray GOD they may not one day prooue so many accusers of the neglect of our Dut● As the Vine cannot flourish without Gods bounty so secondly hee will not suffer it to flourish without our duty He expects f●uite from his Vine As the Vine excells not other Trees in shew or stature but in Fruite so it is not the glorious shew of Temporall things but the sauing fruites of the Spirit with which God would haue his Vine flourish But of this anon more properly In the meane time while yee behold this Vine of Israel thus drest and blest by the hand of God me thinkes like the Figge Tree which Iesus saw it should moue your appetite to come and seeke for the Fruite But alas when Christ came to it hee found nothing but leaues iust so prooues this Vine here Vitis frondosa as Ierome vitis vacua as Tremelius and our Translation a leaffy vnprofitable empty Vine The comparison of Israel to a Vine had beene rather honorable then odious for a good Vine of all other Trees brings forth the best and the most fruite but see now this Allegory growes into a Paradoxe this Vine into a Monster An empty yet a fruitefull a fruitfull yet an emptie vine Now because a Paradoxe is neither true nor false till it be expounded Wee must know that all sinne is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a direct Paradoxe crossing the Common sentence both of the Law of GOD and Reason and among all the Paradoxes of sinne Hypocrisie is the most exact an Hypocrite and a Paradoxe haue both the same definition Qui aliud verbis aliud sensu ostendunt They are both one thing in shew and another in deede And of all Hypocrites two of the most notable are descryed in this paradoxe The first Israel is an Emptie Vine Here a pure Platonicall Hypocrite Faith without workes God in his mouth the Diuell in his actions They say and do not Matth. 23. The second I●rael brings forth c. Here 's a Popish ●hrasonicall Hypocrite workes without Faith false charity in their Workes selfe vayneglory in their thoughts They doe all their workes to bee seene of M●n Matthew 23. First of the first When God the Husband man went downe to see how the Vine Flourisht Canticl 6. 11. Ecce vitis vacua Behold hee found Israel an Emptie Vine Emptie sayth Ierome mispending that fat moisture which it should haue conuerted into Grapes vppon the vaine ambition of Flowers and Leaues mis-employing those eminent graces which GOD had giuen them aboue other Nations vppon their owne lust and vayneglory The Adoption the Law the promises their peace their plenty with all these they were full and fat Full of blessing but empty of thanksgiuing I●s●r●● waxed fat and kicked he forsooke GOD which made him and lightly esteemed the Rocke of his saluation Deuter. 23. 15. They gloried to sit in Moses Chayre and interpret the Law but they sayd and did not Matth. 32. 3. They made long prayers but it was to deuoure widdowes houses vers 14. They payde tyth of mint anise and