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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17028	A sermon preached at the assises holden at Winchester the 24. day of Februarie last, before Sir Laurence Tanfeild knight, Lord Chiefe Barron of the Exchequer, and Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of the iustices of the Court of Common-pleas. By Abraham Browne prebend: of the Cathedrall Church of Winton.	Browne, Abraham, d. ca. 1625.	1623 (1623)	STC 3906; ESTC S119312	28,509	46

his day and to set out another would require good warrant Put breake this and to put in no other will be irreligion The Sabaoth day to be kept holy should be accounted though not so expressed in statute yet necessary in his vnderstanding but he vsurpeth another Phrase as Arrests to be good any commandement from God notwithstanding and so a priuate man will make iudgement for the whole Kingdome Is it not breaking of an holy Sabaoth day to doe occupations of the world on the Sabaoth day as to Cart and Plow and is it nothing to vse violence and to draw to prison the Iaylor to attend Scriuener to be called for Obligations to be made money to be payed Iudge righteous iudgement shew not Art of Law in the lawes of men against the law of God There is a Prophesie in the Scripture concerning the Church of Christ as that the Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall be with the Kid and the Calfe and the Lyon and the fat beasts together and a little Childe shall leade them What are these beasts but men of diuers natures which haue subscribed to the faith and Religion of Christ some proud and haughty in minde strong and by nature rauenous fat some in the pleasures of this life and in the abundance of wealth others meeke gentle poore and miserable and who is this Childe that doth leade them vp and downe to their pastures and feeding in the word but that Minister and Preacher of the Word in respect of such a great worke as a Childe weake and simple yet ordereth their wayes And when the common Barretor and his neighbour the Vsurer and his Captiue shall sit before the Childe in one Church if not in one Pew the common Barretor shall learne a lesson of peace charity and the Vsurer taught mercie and his Debtor learne to borrow and pay againe Shall the borrower be as an excommunicate person for a miserie that may be could not be auoided and shall God leese his right because man will haue his destruction and ruine is prophesied to that place where man is preferred before God If it be said that if we loue not our brother whom wee see how will we loue God whom we see not Let these cruell men haue their brethren brought into a place that they may see them to make experience if loue of brother be in them if not how then the loue of God The conclusion of these shall be take heede of this generall Assise Psalme saying What hast thou to doe to declare mine ordinances that thou shouldest take my couenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest to be reformed and hast cast my words behinde thee Our Sauiour saith Light is come into the world but men loue darknesse more then light For euery one that doth euill hateth the light neither commeth to the light least his deedes Ioh. 3. 19 should be reproued But he that doth the truth commeth to the light that his deedes may be manifest that they are wrought in God It is no small inducement for men to runne to the Popish Religion because there is to be had this ordering of wayes very particularly like as it was done by Iohn Baptist when they came to be baptized of him confessing their sinnes euen at an auricular confession to doe it a grace if it be a grace not to be had with vs will be a defect I cannot denie but that it is an ordering but not an ordering aright of the wayes of Christians For that ordering is cursorie after this manner A deputed Priest for that purpose a most particular enumeration and telling of sinnes pennance proportionably enioyned and absolution administred To examine these in order as they are set downe The first a Priest Deputed for Confessions And where in the new Testament is this Deputed Priest Is it euery Priest St. Iames albeit he had said If any man be sicke let him call the Presbiters Elders or Priests as they will haue it to Chap. 5. 14. pray ouer the sicke person and to annoint him yet in the very next verse speaking of Confessions of sinnes or faults saith Confesse one to another sinnes or faults neither doth he will the Priest to enioyne it but biddeth the Christians one to another to confesse sinnes And if it be but to pray one for another that Act is not onely for Priests but common with euery Christian and it is not absolue one another but pray one for another that they may be healed And the prayer is of a iust man but onely Priests are not iust And for the second point which is so particular an enumeration and telling of sinnes this I will say that the deuising of questions about the breaking of the ten Commandements by the Confessor is worthy the reading that we may see the multitudes of trespasses and offences for our instruction And farther to helpe euen for the amendment of things in our soule much amisse but the confession of a crime and haynous fault how can it be repeated I haue read it in a printed confession booke after this manner That since I was at Confession or as the words are first I acknowledge my selfe guilty vnto Almighty God vnto our Lady St. Marie and to all the Company of heauen and to you my ghostly father that sith the time of my last Confession I haue offended my Lord God greeuously and specially in the seauen deadly sinnes and comming to the ten Commaundements he saith I haue sinned fleshly with person that beene wedded and other moe and more would if I might haue had time and place Such a Confession had neede to be auricular tolde in the Priests eares and kept close But what pennance shall be set out for such a man The saying is Hee that will not pay it in his body must pay it in his purse And will that be an ordering of wayes And shall hee be thus absolued from time to time then will it not be washing a Sow that walloweth in the mire You Papists say that our Religion is an easie Religion you meane because you fast often in abstaining from eating of flesh for that is all you taske your selues with Prayers and vndergoe penancies but if this ordering of wayes bee your Religion your Religion will bee the easier Religion for it is easier to mortifie the flesh then to mortifie the deedes of the flesh you call it the Sacrament of penance if penance be the Sacrament you will deceiue the more persons laden with sinne and to thinke themselues lighted of the burthen of sinne when sinne still from time to time ladeth them Speake plainly ●nd say it is repentance and forgiuenesse is the Sacrament as our Sauiour saith to vs Preachers setting downe our Commission Thus it is written and thus it behooued Luke 24. 46. Christ to suffer and to rise againe the third day and that repentance and forgiuenesse of sinnes should be preached in his name among all Nations