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A27259	Psychomachia, or, The soules conflict with the sins of vain glory, coldnesse in professing Christ, envie, photinianism (of the last resurrection), ingratitude, unpreparednes to meet the Lord, revenge, forgetfulness of God : pourtrayed in eight severall sermons, six whereof were delivered at St. Maries, and Christ-Church in Oxford, and two at Sherburn in Glocestershire / Henry Beesley ...	Beesley, Henry, 1605-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing B1691; ESTC R13325	163,090	260

to be as children tossed to and fro and carried about with every whifling wind of doctrine H ● 1● 23. by the slight of men but to hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithfull that hath promised M ●● 5.1●.1● a blessed reward to all that suffer for him and his righteousnesse even a crown of glorious immortalitie Heb. 12.3 And lest we be wearied and faint in our minds consider we him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himselfe and yet this notwithstanding gave not over to do the the worke he had in hand but as for this cause he came into the world that he might bear witness unto the truth J ● 1● ●7 so when he was to leave the world 1 T●● 6.13 he witnessed as saith the Apostle before Pontius Pilate a good confession and confirmed the truth of his doctrine by a dolorous 〈…〉 9 and bloudy death Quantaflibet nobis anxietatem pateras vitae praesentis propinet afflictio c. as Sydonius exp●esseth let the world present us with never so great a Cup of afflictions it is but litle if we remember how much our Saviour dranke at the Cross Nor should we need any other cordial to refresh us in our suffrings but that wherewith Peter is said by Clemens Clem. strom 7. to comfort his wife when he saw her led to martyrdom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 remember the Lord whose Disciples if we be we must not think to speed better then our master No he tells us it is enough for the Disciple that he be as his Master Math. 10.25 and we to hold our selves highly honoured to drink of that cup wherein he hath drank before us nay to rejoyce in as much as we are partakers of the sufferings of Christ 1 Pe● 4. ●3 that when his glory shall be revealed we may be glad also with exceeding joy for if we suffer with him we shall reign with him If we follow him by the way 2. Tim. 2.12 Phil. 3.10 of his Cross being made conformable unto his death it will bring us where he is to be partakers of his glory But that is a vobis datum est too we cannot have it of our selves it must be given us in the behalfe of Christ not onely to beleeve on him but also to suffer for his sake Phil. 1.29 Unto him then to make our humble request O Blessed Jesus Author and finisher of our faith who hast given us the grace to beleeve on thee Hebr. 12.2 give us also the courage to confesse thee and as thou hast enlightned our mindes with the knowledge of thy truth so enflame our affections with the zeal of it that whether by life or by death we may glorifie thy name and nothing be able to separate us from the love of thee for thou onely art Holy Rom. 8.35 thou onely art the Lord thou onely O Christ with the Holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father AMEN SERM. III. Matth. 20.15 Is thine eye evill because I am good IT is pitty that goodnesse should give an offence or be troubled to justify her worthy proceedings and yet such is her fate with evill men that make * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Perynd py●h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vertue the ground of their hatred and disparage it all rhey can with foule Menand detraction you have here the truth of this complaint represented in a parable the parable of an housholder that hired labourers into his Vineyard who for giving alike wages unto some that came last is blamed by the first of dealing unjustly but innocence is never unprovided of reasons either for the defence of her selfe or the conviction of gain-sayers It was his bargain he saith with them he had agreed for so much and so they could demand no more then besides what he gave was his own and therefore why not as much to these as to themselves and none to controll him for it and thus having cleared himselfe from their false imputation he now charged them with a fault indeed their envious repining and this occasioned by his good deeds there eye was evil because he was good In which words he so reprehends their envie as he seekes to amend it and this by displaying unto them the state and condition of that wicked passion Division 1. In the Organ and instrument by which it worketh Oculus the Eye 2. In the nature and qualitie of which it consisteth Malus Evil. 3. In the motive and occasion from which it proceedeth Quia ego bonas sum because I am good These parts ad oculum the text presents from thence we have the draught or portracture as it were of a picture laid before us and that so accurate as none can presume to mend it our labour is onely to fill up each part as the grace of God shall enable us desiring there be in none here present an Evill Eye Mat. 6.23 to sensure the limners imperfections but in all a single eye to make the best use of them for the amending of their own I begin with the Organ or instrument of envie that is the Eye Part 1. The Instrument MAn at his creation was an uniform and entire his creatur soul and body like a wel tun'd instrument sounded nothing but the praise of his maker and his own felicitie but being once subdued by sin he fel at discord with himselfe laboured his own destruction And as in the besieging of a City those Forts and Bulwarks that lately defended her but now surprized by the Enemy help to better and demolish her 〈◊〉 122.3 so in ruining of man built once as a City that is at unity in it selfe those members and faculties that were the chief agents of his happinesse became now the Engins of his misery I will instance onely in the eye a member abounding with so much excellency and withall so much iniquity that I know not whether it may more invite your admiration or your sorrow An Organ so divine that the misticall Egyptians could not find a fitter hieroglyphick to expresse the divine all-seeing providence C●rl Rhod. lib. ● cap. 28. But the Stoicks unable to satisfy their wondring without the help of idolatrie entitled it a very God as if to be sure of a present deitie they would have their Heaven of Gods about them But without such wild Hyperbole's it is praise enough that which may consist with pietie and for this we find an instance in St. Chrisostom Chrysost ad Antioch h●● 11. who chose this part above the rest to assert the power and wisdome of God that from so vile a matter as earth which affordeth brick and tiles could extract so goodly a piece as is the eye that for its majestie strikes an awfulnesse in the beholders and besides endued it with such vertue as within so narrow a compasse to comprehend so many objects

am the voyce of one crying in the wildernesse make straight the way of the Lord. Serm. 7. V●ctory over evill ROM 12.21 Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Serm. 8. Timely remembrance of God ECCLES 12.1 Remember now thy Creaatour in the dayes of thy youth SERM. I. 2 COR. 11.30 If I must needs glory I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities NOthing is more unwelcome to an ingenuous nature then to meet with a foolish adversary where silence may cause a suspition of weaknesse and contesting a discredit from so unworthy a conflict Answer a fool and answer not a fool Prov. 26.4 5. were both the counsel of Solomon and would require the advice of as wise as he to distinguish which one should follow Of this unhappy condition were the enemies that infested our Apostle Men no lesse empty then malitious and as they were conscious to no vertue in themselves so condemning it in another When his integrity keepeth him from offending the offence is his integrity and when nothing lies in the way to be carpt at of his envious opposers he shall be accused of too much goodnesse The chief Article of his enditement is his humility he was not stately enough to be an Apostle and with a basenesse of presence Chap. 10. v. 1. 10. and neglect of language maintained not the garb of a Doctor Eloquar Virgil. Aeneid lib. 3. an sileam should he confute their calumny or labour to aggravate it had he not been thus guilty he had been lesse innocent It had well stood with Pauls credit to have despised such poor accusations and his best answer had been with Alexander in Lucian unto Annibal Luciani dialog 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to answer nothing at all but it stood not with his profession the Church was to be satisfied that had a chief interest in his reputation lest his person might prejudice his doctrine Eccles 10.1 A little folly saith Ecclesiastes dis-seasons his fame that is in reputation for wisdom and learning and a suspition of defect in an exemplary person denies his other vertues their desired acceptance The Corinthians easily beleeved it was a fault in their Apostle Idola Hebr. appellantur dolores quia cruciant animum vel quia superstitioso corporis cruciatu colebantur Idololatrae enim solebant se jejuniis conficere corpus lanceolis confedere humi calore c. P. Mart. in 1 Sam. 31. falshood is more winning then sincerity though accompanied with tyranny and oppression and with her courtly dresses finds ready entertainment when naked truth can get no admission The Israelites that grumbled at the severity of their true religion could voluntarily endure that hell of Moloch and when they refused the voice of the melodious charmer could exact the groanes of their dying children in that direful sacrifice The Turks in their salvage ceremonies The Papists in their costly fooleries the precisions in their painful niceness how do they prove their zeal of misguiding and superstition that to countenance their errors afflict themselves with devotion and make Religion a torment This was the Corinthians disease and S. Paul tells them so ver 20. For ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man devoure you if a man take of you c. when he that spent himself for their sakes Chap. 12.15 could not obtain the least favour from them but by a fatal requital of the dearest affection the more he loved them the less he was loved he now saw the danger of his humility and that to improve the benefit of his preaching he must raise himself into a loftier behaviour where besides the strange tyranny of being compelled to be more stately he must imitate their method that despised him The false Apostles by their plausiblenesse and extolling the graces of their endowments had entwisted themselves into the good opinion of the Corinthians by such gawdy inducements too much promoted their ambitious design And he must display his own worthinesse too if he will gain their approbation and by a merciful flattery humour them to their edifying That the Preacher may be accepted the man must be vindicated and prove the truth of his doctrine by the worth of himself Had he failed in the varnish and outward flourishes of account the signes of an Apostle were enough to evince the dignity of his calling those which he had wrought among them in all patience and wonders and mighty deeds Chap. 12.12 but neither is he so defective in the trivial accomplishments of greatnesse but he can equal them in their utmost boasting Are they Hebrews Ver. 22. so am I are they Israelites so am I are they the seed of Abraham so am I In this casual glory of nobility and highnesse of birth he can suffer an equality to be even as they but in that nobler birth of the soul regeneration in Christ Jesus his couragious zeal cannot endure an equipage but in a holy ambition strives for precedencie Verse 23. Are they the Ministers of Christ I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent Now the prerogative of his sufferings shall be the preferment of his Apostleship and the large story of his afflictions the subject of his boasting if I must needs glory I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities You have heard the History of these words and now the parts would be considered which are only two an Hypothesis and a Thesis or an inconvenience and a resolution Although he is constrained to glory yet he will not offend in that glory it shall be of his infirmities of which whilst I with my infirmities endeavour to make a brief discovery God lend me his assistance and your charitable attention and first of the inconvenience if I must needs glory First part NOne are more unwilling to blazon their praises then they that most deserve to be commended worthinesse is silent in her own advancement and had rather have her excellencies suffer in concealment then revive them with the breath of her own applause The secret assurance of goodnesse is sufficient recompence for her ambition and she accounts it reward enough of her greatest deserts to have done them Mark 1.44 When by the soveraign touch of our Saviour the leaper was changed into cleannesse his only prescription was that he should say nothing and in this he was a Patient after the recovery First he bids him be whole next see thou tell no man as if his miracle would have been disgraced by publishing And it seems Nature would be like her God in this in whose worthiest endeavours we may behold this emblem of modesty whilest we find the amplest bodies buisied in a speechlesse employment Histor Animal lib. 4. and usually the bigger note in the smaller creature 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith the great Philosopher and our eares bear witnesse to