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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68637	Quadriga salutis Foure quadragesimal, or Lent-sermons, preached at White-hall: by Io. Rawlinson Doctor of Diuinity, principal of Edmund-Hall in Oxford, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinary.	Rawlinson, John, 1576-1630.	1625 (1625)	STC 20774; ESTC S115698	15,865	55

and hastening forward in the way to God content's not herselfe with leggs hardly with wings For it 's not euery wing that will serue her turne but shee must haue either Pennas aurorae the wings of the morning Psal 139.8 whose winged light flyeth from East to West in an instant and filleth the whole Hemispheare with her brightnes or else Fennas Columbae the wings of a Doue which are Pernicissimae vt eam accipiter assequi non possit so admirably swift Pellicaa Emman Sa that she infinitely out-flye's the hawke So shee summe's not vp her wish with wings but in the third place shee must haue wings like vnto a Doue 3 SICVT COLVMBAE As God of all the fowles of Heauen hath chosen to himselfe but one Doue so the faithfull soule 2 Esdr 5 26. of all the fowles wings hath chosen onely the Doues wings For not birds of euery feather can reach so high as Heauen The soule that will fly thither must haue not onely Pennas wings but Pennas Sicut Columbae Doue-like wings And Sicut not onely Similitudinis but Aequiparantiae like them not for shew onely but for vse too There 's a great family of Sicut's in the world Many that are onely Sicut collum Columbae like the Doue in nothing but in her neck As that hath in it Colores Iridis all the colours of the raine-bow so haue they colores veritatis all the colours of truth honesty that may bee But veritas sine fuco est true honesty as it feareth so it loueth no colours because the more colours the less honesty Sayde I in nothing like her but in her neek Yes in her voice too For so is the Church of Rome hauing vocem columbinam but vitam corvinam Numfred confut Campian rat 3. the voice of a Doue praetending nothing but simplicity but the life of a crow vivens cadaveribus liuing by the death and downefall of Princes Againe There are many that haue Pennas and Pennas Sicut wings and wings like hut like to what Not Sicut columbae like vnto a Doue but 1 Sicut Cicadae like vnto a Grasshopper Pennas quibus à terrâ elevari non possunt Gerson medit 70 circa Ascens Dam Wings that cannot lift them vp from the earth Or if they do it is but Per saltum not Per volatum they onely serue them to hop not to fly with No sooner vp from the earth but by and by downe againe Such are they whose devotion is soone hott soone colde againe They could like it well to go to heauen Per saltum as it were at one iump without more adoo but Per volatum by flying by a cōstant course of well-doing that 's too-laborious for them they cannot they will not endure it 2 Or Sicut Milui like vnto a Kyte Quisursum volat ut praedam in terrâ commodiùs despiciat Which mount's high that he may the better espy a prey below vpon which he praesently dismount's againe and liue's vpon spoile and rapine either of liue pullen or of dead carrion Such are they that make a goodly shew of mortification of holines of retirednes from the world euen as if they were rapt vp into St Paul's third heauen Yet none whose Ey and whose heart is more firmely fixed vpon the world than theirs 3 Or Sicut Falconis like vnto a Falcon which can finde no rest for his wings because he is euer buisy in pursuite of a prey Such are they that greedily rise by others ruine of whom the Lord complaineth Ier 2 34 by a metaphor taken from birds that steine their wings with prey Ier 2 34 In alis tuis inventus est sanguis In thy wings is found the bloude of the soules of the poore innocents Or Sicut Struthionis like vnto an Ostrich which is a bird-beast halfe a bird of the aër Calvin in Iob 39 16 Aquin 12a q. 102 art 6. and halfe a beast of the earth and he hath such a weighty body that he cannot mount vp to fly aloft but flickereth in such-wise as he cannot be out gone Such are those holy-vnholy worldlings that will needes mingle heauen and earth together that will seeme to haue their conversation in heauen when yet their affections weigh them downe to the earth that contrary to the Apostle's rule 2 Tim 2 4 2 Tim 2 will Deo militare saeculo se implicare be God's souldiours and the world's solicitours Nay Matt 6 24. contrary to our Sauiour's rule Mat. 6 will Deo Mammonae servire diuide their seruice betwint God and Mammon 5 Or Sicut Pavonis like vnto a Peacock whose pleasant wings Iob 39 16. as the holy man Iob call's them more pleasant to others than profitable to himselfe are more for ostentation than for vse Et dumpluma● ostentat Fulgent Mythol posteriora turpitèr nudaet saith Fulgentius and whiles he spreade's out his gaudy plumes he displaye's the ouglines of his hinder-parts Such are our Angelicall Gospellers at this day who yet differ from the Peacock in this that whereas the Peacock is saide to houe Argus his Eyes in his tayle they it should seeme haue them in their heads Else how could they espy so many superstitious obliquities in our Church where our Eagle-eyed Praelates can see none These men while they spreade out their gay plumes Iactantiam in verbis arrogantiam in factis while they simper it devoutly and yet raile Iesuitically against Church and State while they heare Sermons pray giue almes make a sowre Lenten-face all to be seene of men Matt 6 5. Matt 6 onely they loue not to be seene to fast but with full bellies what do they but shew the ouglines of their hinder-parts bewray the fearefulnes of their later end 6 Or Sicut Sturni like vnto a Stare which first suck's vp the pigeon's eggs and then flyeth away Such were the thieuish Monkes in St Austin's time whome he thus derideth O si illis Dominus pennas daret Austin de opere Monach c 23. vt tanquā sturni fugarentur O that they had wings that they might be chased away like stares And such are the thieuish Iesuites and Seminaries at this day who creepe into widow's housen and leade captiue simple women laden with sin as the Apostle speake's 2 Tim 3 6. 2 Tim 3 and when they haue so done they are gone like that olde Seminary euen the Father of Seminaries the Diuel Qui super seminavit abijt who Matt 13 25. when he had sowed tares among the good corne went his way Of them I will not say as St Austin of the Monkes O si illis Dominus pennas daret but * Praised be the Lord for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions Psa 28 7. Iunij 14 1624. O si illi Domino Regi paenas darent ut tanquam sturni fugarentur O that my Lord the King would giue