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A36518	Totum hominis, or, The decalogue in three words, viz. justice, mercy and humility being a sermon upon Micah 6th vers. 8th, preached in the Cathedral of St. Peters, York, upon Monday the 15th day of March, 1668/9 before the Right Honourable Baron Turner and Baron Rainsford, the Right Worshipful Sr. Jo. Armitage, Bart. ... / by Sam. Drake, D.D. ...	Drake, Samuel, 1622-1679.	1670 (1670)	Wing D2134; ESTC R20477	16,528	32

TOTVM HOMINIS OR THE DECALOGUE IN Three Words Viz Justice Mercy and Humility BEING A SERMON Upon Micah 6th Vers 8th Preached in the Cathedral of St. Peters York upon Monday the 15th day of March 1668 9 before the Right Honourable Baron Turner and Baron Rainsford The Right Worshipful St Jo. Armitage Bart. being then High Sheriff of Yorkshire By SAM DRAKE D. D. Vicar of Pontefract and sometime Fellow of St. John's Col. Camb. London Printed for William Grantham at the Black Bear in St. Pauls Church-yard near the little North Door 1670. TO THE TRULY VERTUOUS And RELIGIOUS LADY THE LADY MARGARET ARMITAGE Wife to Sir JOHN ARMITAGE of Kirklees Baronet MADAM THe best Guard being Innocency and this Sermon wanting Protection Where shall it find more of Safety because where more of Purity then in Your Breast Whil'st I am Pleading my Gracious Soveraigns Just Power I fear not but your loyal Husband will Espouse my Quarrel and Patronize my Sermon And I hope your pitty will not see this Perish Treating of those Vertues and Graces that have such an Assimilation to Your Self I here present You Madam with a small Glass but broken from the Chrystalline Heaven wherein you may see the Body of Divinity the Glory of the Lord and what Glory he would put upon you Therein God presents to you as rich a Triple-Offering as the Wise Men of the East did to his only Son Gold Frankincense and Myrthe A Bevy of Rich Jewels which the Indies are ignorant of nor is Arabia so happy as to Parallel The Ruby of Justice the Pearl of Mercy and the Emerald of Humility Thus the true Christian is blazon'd May these Vertues then by the Sanctification of the Spirit be as a Collar of SS to Adorn your Neck May these unpolisht Lines intended as an enlargement thereon be subservient to your Devotions and Closetted in your Pious and Discerning Breast so shall you be all Glorious within and the King of Heaven shall take pleasure in your Spiritual Beauty In my Prayers I may not forget your Two vertuous Daughters may Madam Margaret and Madam Catharine deserve the stile of Jemima and Kesia two of Holy Jobs Daughters for the Light of Divine Truth in them and the Perfume of Godliness Residing at London you have the Glory of Art and Nature in your Eye but the Ornament of a Meek and quiet spirit in Gods sight is of greater Price Some New City-Modes may differ much from this and one from another but I assure you after this Manner in the Old Time Holy Women who trusted in God adorned themselves And if you will be but so just to your own self as to Peruse and still Practise Gods Holy Precepts so Merciful to Me as to Pardon this Presumption you Crown the Hopes and Desires of MADAM Your Most Humbly Devoted Servant S. D. Micah 6th Vers 8th He hath shewed thee O Man what is good And What doth the Lord require of thee But to do Justly to love Mercy and to walk Humbly with thy God WHen the Prophet Micah observ'd how the Formal Jew doted upon his Shadowy Ceremony he presseth the Substantial Duty of Justice upon him In Aram Dei Justitia imponatur Let Justice be put upon thy Heart the Altar Offer Mercy rather then Sacrifice And if by Humility thou make thy self a whole Burnt-Offering consuming thy former Glorious Self in that Holy Conflagration How much more Acceptable will this be then the Fat of Rams In like manner when I take notice that some Novelists of this Age of ours have been so wholly given to Platonick Speculations Ayery Notions and Fond-affected Expressions who would be accounted Religious though they have lost their Decalogue in their Pretended Creed and Morall-Honesty in the Refinedness of their Faith I hope it will not be unsuitable if I according to this Prophets Method press these Primitive Practical Duties of Justice Mercy and Humility in the Language of my Text. Thus then God having cleared himself from those unworthy Aspersions of a hard Master which some undutiful Servants would have fixed upon him in the soft Language in the third Verse of this Chapter O my People What have I done unto thee and Wherein have I wearied thee testifie against me and then by a short Epitome of his long continued signal Favours Tacitly tax'd here as plainly elsewhere the Ingrateful Hypocritical and Formal Pretences of that Jewish Nation Vers 5. O my People Remember now what Balack King of Moab consulted c. At the sixth Verse they make their Reply Wherewith shall I come before the Lord saith Israel and how my self before the high God If the Lord would be appeased with thousands of Rams or ten thousands of Rivers of Oyl these Impossible things I would attempt yea even unlawful ones The First-born for my Transgression and the Fruit of my Body for the Sin of my Soul this would I give for an Attonement And indeed any thing of that People God might sooner have had then a broken heart The Prophet now comes to make Gods Rejoynder in my Text Away with such flourishing Pretences you do but shuffle and trifle with God you need not now begin to ask the way to Zion with your faces thitherwards you need not make so much Question what will please him He hath spoke his mind freely and his Commands are fair writ he hath shewed thee O man what is good Thee O man If man should be taken for the Magistrate as Gen. 43. 11. Carry down the man the Ruler Joseph a Present and in other places then the Errand is in the Prophets language to thee O Captain Truth is if a man in power will walk in darkness some puny advantages he hath to deal perversely but if he will but eye the light of the word he shall find all these obviated in my Text What is it the Lord requires lest he should be injurious to do justice lest he should be cruel to love mercy lest he should be frivolously imperious to walk humbly And because the name of Adam being so low man rather affects that of Geber a Gilded Hillock nay to be accounted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Prophet seems to check him thus Pride gets nothing but a slight from Reason and a worse sure from Religion shall the Gloe-worm vye with the Sun shall the Subject strut it in the face of his Soveraign Walk humbly 't is with thy God If there be many by-wayes the night dark or our Guide blind we may easily fall into a ditch but here 's a light set up in the Text and that from the Father of lights He hath shewed And thee O man It seems a particular Ray is order'd to reach every single person He hath chalked out the way the good old way this do and live Thee O man Though spoken by the word in general as much concerns us as if directed to every individual God as I may so say talks with every person immediately ayming to

have done against the commands nor what mercy they have neglected to do according to the Commandment Therefore the Error of their ways they understand not they will not repent and so are without hope 'T is for a Lamentation that too many sit still in darkness and in the shadow of death but then where 's the fault hath God barricado'd up the way of knowledge or left himself without a wi●ness who cries behold me behold me to a Nation that seeks not after him True an evil eye cannot behold that which is good a coveting eye cannot love Justice a cruel eye will not love mercy nor a proud eye humility but the reason of all that is their own false glass These evil beasts or beastly Lusts have devoured the man I would speak to If our Doctrine be hid 't is hid to them that are lost eternally if not temporally for besides that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that sacred Manuscript which is writ by the finger of God himself in the heart of man the Quakers Scripture of God within us the Bible of Gods own Printing there as they style it Remember St. Austins Tolle Lege he points us to a more legible Book the Gleanings of this Book is better than the Vintage of all other so that you need not now cry to us as the Disciples of John the Baptist Master what shall we do God hath gone before you in a fiery Pillar what 's writ in the Law how readest thou To the Law and to the Testimony all their words that speak not according to this they have no light in them but are benighted souls The Word is nigh you in your eye he that runs may read in our mouthes the Word hath gone through the world nay into your hearts convincingly Nor is it an Oriental Tradition or a Rabinical Dream only handed to us by unfaithful Ecchoes and imperfect rebounds no ridling Oracles are our rule but a revealed Word there he hath shewed the O man Omnis Scriptura est mensa Sapientiae there you may feast your selves saith Origen and Ireneus in his third Book says Ostentationes quae sunt in Scripturis non possunt ostendi nisi ex Scripturis never so lovely or beneficial sights The Devil hath his Showes the whole world and the glory thereof but our best way is to wink when he offers the object Here 's a sight man is made spectator of so good that 't is worthy of Gods own eye being an Emanation from himself The vail is taken off from the face of Divine Truth and you may love it for the beauty your selves behold in it And as he gives his Word to shine without so he gives his Spirit to shine within that the light of the Spirit might apprehend the light of the Word here are shewings indeed Barren fruitless Cutiosities he hath not shewn but necessaries to salvation are clearly reveal'd the Form of sound words and the truth which is after godliness these rich Mines are bared The way of Duty is plain who so is wise may understand these things then shall you know if you follow after to know the Lord. Light is come into the world and we live in the Goshen of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should be our salutation welcoming these Irradiations Ignorance is now wilful work if men will either read or hear they need not be filthy he hath shewed them a cleansing Fountain Walk in the light then and when with Solomen you have considered these empty and shadowy Lights below where we can scarce find any thing worth a glance then lift up your gates and your hearts that the King of Glory may come in with the goodly Train of his revealed Truths Open your souls to these Heavenly Visions and warm them in these eve●lasting Sun-beams Times of former Ignorance so call'd because of glimmering discoverings comparatively God is said to wink at but after the Sun of Righteousness himself hath arisen with healing in his wings now he looks broad upon sinners chastising them with his beams for sins though small as Atomes You may have darkness in the day if you shut your windows O why do you not open your eyes and discern why do you act in the choicest points of Religion out of blind and implicit Principles Sons of light will not do so but in his light they will eye eternal light O how hath the Truth suffered betwixt the over-prying Socinian and the blind obedient I would neither have you burn your wings by over near approaches to this light nor yet wink at Noon Above all O take heed of withholding truth in unrighteousness after these shewings Thou requirest obedience Da quod jubes said St. Austin jube quod vis Surely if our Piety be not prevail'd upon by the reverence of this He in my Text the Author yet the excellency of the Imposition doth so recommend it to our reason that we must put off the best part of our Nature to evacuate the force of our Religion We have a Law and by that Law we ought to walk true Lex non valet nisi promulgata but this great King hath sent out his Proclamations He hath so shewed thee And least man should appeal from him as a severe Lawgiver he appeals to himself What is it the Lord requireth but that which is good so good that Justice and Mercy are Gods own attributes By his Prophet Ezekiel God takes it hainously and well he may that man should question his wayes by whom all things are ponder'd and who doth all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Counsel of his Will with mature deliberation being Equity himself by way of challenge therefore are not my wayes equal And shall not the Judge of Heaven and Earth do right And though he give not account of his matters he is not bound to it Job 33. 13. Yet what is it Come now let us reason together saith the Lord Are they not the cords of man and the bands of love Hosea 11. 4. That I would draw you in by By downy perswasions not iron compulsions What are you afraid of these golden chains they are not Fetters for your feet but Bracelets for your necks Vices are chargeable but Vertue is free and you are wooed to it in a winning way Origen in his fourth book Contra Celsum breaks out thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Though it be mutual to Men and Beasts to catch and be catch'd yet there is a great deal of difference Ratione an violentia Now we are fetcht over with no rushing wind or imperious sowerness but with gales of grace They are ignoble disingenious spirits that are not won over by such wayes The Sacrifices under the Law were seasoned with salt which mystically denotes discretion and the Gospel is the best Rationale in the world Let me therefore court you to the duties of the Text by St. Pauls Suada Rom 12. 1. 'T is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Reasonable Service the