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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55773	Moderation not sedition held forth in a sermon partly preached at St. Matthews Friday-Street the 5 of July 1663 ... / by John Price ...	Price, John, 1625?-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing P3334; ESTC R12943	17,443	28

rod doth chastise them yet all the self-same time his Staff doth support them When God casts his Children into the fiery furnace it is that they may come forth like gold seven times purified When God brays his Spices in the mortar of Affliction it is that they may smell the more fragrantly when God strikes his Viols it is that they may make the more heavenly Musick Gods Stars never twinckle more brightly then in the frosty night of Affliction Astra nocte pruinosa splendidiora micant When God throws his Balls to the ground it is that they may rebound the more heavenward Many times the sickness of the Body proves the health of the Soul the weakness of the outward the strength of the Inward man True it is that a Child of God may sometimes be cast into the fiery furnace of Affliction and it may by the malice of the Divel and his Púpils be heated as it were seven times hotter but not so much as a hair of his head is singed He may like Ionah be in the Whales belly three days and three nights but he shall be sure at length to come to shore though he be tossed to and fro long in the tempestuous sea of this World yet at length he lands safe at the haven of happiness which should be a sufficient compensation for all his sufferings as the Apostle speaks our light afflictions which are but for a moment works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory He may say of his Afflictions as great Athanasius said of his banishment Nubecula est cito transibit it is but a little cloud and it will soon vanish What though the way be rough yet it leads to heaven and who would not run through a Wildernesse for obtaining of a Crown of glory 5. Moderation in pleasures and recreations it was Alexanders glory that he conquered the World but his shame that he was conquered by his Lust. The soft and silken effeminacy of Capua did but emasculate the victorious Armies of the daring Ironsided Hanniball How many are there that Cleopatra-like spends whole Kingdomes on their pleasures and recreations Oh how many are there that are so given to play that they play away not only their friends estates and credits but even their souls But it is a bad game when the soul lyes at stake but it should be our great care to see that we be not so plunged over head and ears in sensual pleasures as to lose those Rivers of pure soul-sat●sfying suitable and eternal pleasures which are at Gods right hand for ever more To see that we be not so given to jucundum as to forg●t utile honestum Though Religion be not so severe as to forbid all manner of pleasures yet it should be our prudence to make choice of those that are most innocent and least wasting of time of all pleasures they are best that are that are most abstracted from sense intellectual pleasures are better then sensual and spiritual are better then intellectual sensual pleasures are like the crackling of a few Thorns under a Pot they blaze for a while and then they vanish but Spiritual pleasures are like a Lute which though it sounds lowest yet makes the sweetest Musick they have heavenly thoughts for their Objects and fill the soul with that ravishing Peace of Conscience which passes all understanding 6. Moderation in discourses many are immoderately given to verbosity their tongues are like the perpetual Motion always a wagging though they speak much yet they speak little but it is better to speak much in a little then little in much Some speak words without things some speak things without words some neither things nor words but there is the excellency of it when we can speak good things and good words When the babes of our Intellects are not only handsome but well cloathed many they do as the incomparable Bishop Andrews speaks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pratle but they do not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speak apothegms wise Sentences they are like Anaximines of whom it was said that he had an Ocean of words but scarce a drop of reason but it was good Councel of the Antients that men should either not speak at all or speak somevvhat that is admirable excellent The Wise-man tells us that the Preacher sought to find out acceptable words even words of truth that is he did not vent out rude indigested unpremeditated notions but vvhat he studied for it did olere lucernam it did savour of Industry It is observable vve have tvvo eats and but one Tongue vvhich should teach us to hear tvvice as much as vve speak Our vvords should be seasonable profitable and agreeable to the Word of God Whence it is that Holy David prays Set a watch before my Mouth and keep thou the Dore of my Lips Many and signal are the benefits of Taciturnity vvhen a Word is unspoken it is in a mans own power at his own dispose but when it is out it is at the mercy of the Audience who may choose whether they may give it a candid construction or no. Nescit vox missa Reverti 7. Moderation in expences many are immoderate in their expences both as to Diet and Apparrell how many are there that carry whole Parks on their backs Their bellies are as it were the living Sepulchers of their Fortunes but it is our wisdom to cut our Coat according to our Cloth to frame our minds to our condition if we cannot frame our conditions to our minds it is our prudence to frame our minds to condition Having food and raiment let us therewith be content for we brought nothing with us into this world neither shall we carry any thing away the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the Name of the Lord. Contentment doth not consist in having of more but in framing and suiting our selves to what we have already it lodgeth as oftentimes in a poor mans Cottage as in the Kings Pallace The body is nothing else but as it were the Prison of the Soul as Plato saith While we pamper our bodies we do as it were make the Prison stronger and how great imprudence is this and as we are not to be over-costly in our Diet so neither in our Apparrel Most men are for the Cloathing of the body but care not how naked their Souls are but by how much the Soul is better then the body by so much the more we should be careful for the Clothing of it So much may suffice for the objects about which our Moderation is versant I proceed in the last place to make Application 1. This may be for the just reproof of all immoderations and transports on all hands and parties Oh with what vehemency and intention of Spirit do some men hug their opinions to the loss of their Charity and disturbance of the publick peace Many a one had rather be the head of a Faction then the head of a