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A18357	Six sermons now first published, preached by that learned and worthy divine Edward Chaloner lately deceas'd, Dr in Divinity, sometimes Chaplaine in Ordinary to our soveraigne K. Iames, and to his Maiesty that now is: and late Principall of Alban Hall in Oxford. Printed according to the author's coppies, written with his owne hand	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.; Sherman, Abraham, 1601 or 2-1654.	1629 (1629)	STC 4937; ESTC S107649	98,854	158

answere mee how was Nature manur'd and prun'd in these Cretians how were her talents here turn'd and winded in the banke for the best advantage that thus beyond all plea of desert the Gospell should arriue in Crete and Titus as Ambassadour bee sent from GOD to winne them vnto Christ Certainely if Cretians tongues be shaped for the vtterance of any truth they might resolue our new Cretians the controversie from their own case where the light of the truth so immediatly followed in their Iland vpon a midnight of ignorance and blindnesse and that without any twilight interceeding or arising from the extinguished tapers of mans natural vnderstāding that my Text makes their disease and their cure to bee close successours the one of the other where we discouer first an accusation against them begun indeede by Epimenides but seconded by himselfe This witnesse is true Secondly a reformation in which as if the grace of GOD building vpon no other foundation either of good nature or morall honesty Titus must not exclude with Aristotle either youth or vnbridled affections from being hearers of his Philosophy but must seriously intend their recovery Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith Concerning the first namely the accusation the Cretians found no Advocate that I know to maintaine their honesty till the Iesuites entertain'd Eudemon as being a natiue Cretian and therefore best squaring with their discipline and admitted him into their society whom when a writer of ours fitly reputed for a notorious lyar with Cretenses mendaces The Cretians are alwayes lyars he blusheth not to excuse the matter as if Epimenides call'd them lyars for this onely because they affirm'd that they could shew the sepulchre of Iupiter whom both he and the rest of the Gentiles did conceiue to be immortall This shift smells of the same dye with a Sophisme vsed in Logicians The Cretians are alwayes lyars but Epimenides was a Cretian which said this therefore Epimenides lyed and so by a cōsequence it is false that the Cretians are alwayes lyars for as in this Syllogisme a fallacy is committed in arguing from meere particulars the major that the Cretians are alwayes lyars being but equipollent to this that many or a greater part are lyars out of which route Epimenides might well be exempted so in the other caption of Eudemon's what lets that Epimenides saying might bee true in part though not in this that Iupiter was immortall yet in this that the Cretians are alwayes lyars euill beasts slow bellyes which is all that our Apostle doth quote Cretes erunt testes nec fingunt omnes Cretes A pretty world it is with the Iesuites that as heretofore they haue put vs to maintaine the authority of the Scriptures aboue the Church so now we must defend the truth of them against a Cretian But Eudemon reasoning against so manifest a testimony of the Holy Ghost argues that either his Countrymen haue not yet left off their old quality or else that amidst the refin'd decisions of their order touching lyes equivocations an officious lye for ones Country is helde currant ware though the credite of an Apostle suffer by it But let 's leaue Eudemon his Countrymen as condemn'd by the Sentence of S. Paul himself besides an whole jury of Proverbs pack'd against them Cretizare Cretizare cum Cretensi Cretensis cum Aegineta Cretensis nescit mare all which giue no better language then the lye to the Cretians The points which I shall desire you to consider in this accusation of S. Pauls are chiefly two First his Christian ingenuity in receiuing and approuing the truth though breath'd from the lippes of a prophane Cretian where he rejects not the pearle because it was enclos'd in a wooden casket nor disdaines the fruit because it was seru'd vp in an earthen dish but rather the more admires it and commends it to Titus and these Cretians to be tasted by them also This was farre from the daintinesse of many in our age which thinke no instructions availeable or of force but such as proceede from men of whose inward calling they are perswaded as if the efficacy of the Word depended on the sanctity of the deliuerer Hence growes that loathing amongst some of their Pastors their doctrine that they follow those teachers not whom God by an ordinary calling appointed them but whō they choose thēselues They pretend as strict an observation of the Sabaoth almost as the Iewes onely to heare whom they fancy they can convert the Sabaoth dayes journey to spite the Pope from two Italian miles to two high Germane True it is that as the bels which hung in the Vestments of Aaron were intermingled with Pomgranates so God loueth not a sound without fruit exēplary piety is a second Sermō nay to say the truth there is not a figure in Rhetoricke more potent then the good opinion conceiu'd of the speaker in which respect both Arist Cicero requir'd it euen in a ciuill Oratour But this argues not the truth vttered by a prophane person of imperfection but the stomacks of most hearers to be of weak disgestion The gift of the Holy Ghost mentioned in the Gospel where the Apostles were confirm'd in the Ministery of the word is not graetia justificationis a grace of justification but gratia aedificationis a grace of edification not gratia gratū faciens as the Schoolmen say that is a peculiar grace giuen thē for the salvation of thēselues but gratia gratis data a grace giuen thē for the salvation of others The Carpenters you know builded the Arke yet were not sav'd thēselues the Tyrians Sydonians furnished Salomon with materials for the Tēple and were neuerthelesse themselues without the covenant So this witnesse of Epimenides S. Paul converts to an instrument of winning the Cretians to true speaking which yet could not saue Epimenides from venting a notorious lye and that in the very place it selfe touching Iupiter's eternity But what imports it whether the Physitian doe heale himselfe so long as he prescribes vs wholesome Physicke or whether the prison key be in the hands of a prisoner so long as it open's the wicket and sets vs free from thraldome and bondage The second thing to bee considered in this accusation is the Christian liberty which S. Paul assumeth in inserting the witnesse of a prophane Writer and that with no small commendations into the bowels of Canonicall Scripture In the verse preceeding he cited indeed one of their Poets but the manner of his citing of him is there somewhat more doubtfull here in my Text saying this witnesse is true the case is more clear'd and he declares himselfe that he vseth it as a confirmation or proofe not to bee refuted by him but to refute the gainsaying of the Cretians by it But what will some say Is S. Paul come to quote Poets why he hath taught vs that the Scriptures are sufficient to teach to instruct to confirme to