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Dauids desire to go to church as it was published in two sermons in St. Maries in Oxford. The one the fift day of Nouember in the afternoone to the Vniversity 1609 the other on Christmas day following to the parishioners of that place. By Iohn Day Bachelour of Divinity, and one of the fellowes of Oriell Colledge.
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Day, John, 1566-1628.
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of faith within him no strength nor vertue of trueth whatsoever temptation comes vpon him it not only bruseth but breakes him to The Baptist by our Saviours testimony was no vegitable of this nature he was a huge high oke rather as g Et quantuÌ„ vâ—rtice ad auras Aethereas tantum radice in tartara tendens Virg. Aen. l 4. deep in the root as he was high too able to withstand any tempest whatsoever And as it was with Iohn the Baptist so was it before with this our Prophet whom no adversitie could driue from the loue he bare to this house He was affected it seemes to this desire as was h Cic. de Clar Orat. de Orat. Orat ad Brut. Demosthenes to Action or S. Austen to Humilitie he giues it the first and second and third place too he hath and will desire it i Aug. ep 56 For as the learned k Barth Traheron vpon Iohn Ioh. 1.15 v. 30. Interpreters gather of those words of Iohn the Baptist This is he of whome I spake that he had before made many Sermons concerning Iesus so in that the Prophet here saith One thing haue I desired it may probably be gathered that he had desired it often times before so that he is nothing like the inconstant man The inconstant man D. Hals Châ—ract l. 2. saith a worthy writer of our age treads vpon a moving earth and keepes no â—ace It is a wonder if his loue or hatred last so many daies as a wonder His heart is the Inne of all good motions wherein if they lodge for a night it is well by morning they are gone and take no leaue and if they come that way againe they are entertained as Guests not as Friends It was not thus with this our Prophet He was like the round world rather even so sure that he could not not be m Ps 93.2 moued He was like those heavenly Orbs aboue that keepe an n Arist de Col. l. 2. c. 6. vniforme course and station in a word He was like vnto his Patterne whose image he was the eternal God of whome it is said in Malachy I am the Lord. I change not Malachy the third at the sixt vers And this was the Prophets Constancy a vertue so vertuous that as it was said of the Stoicks that they were Mares Philosophorum the Male Philosophers of all the rest but it was said but by a o Sen. Quod in Sapient noÌ„ cadit iniurâ—â— Stoicke so no vertue without this vertue but is as it were a Widdow p M. D. Eeds his Iter Boreâ—â—â— Viduata Philemone Baucis one that hath lost her true Philemon indeed Witnesse the three Theologicall Vertues Faith Hope and Charitie and what are they without this Constancie Witnesse the foure Vertues q Quae quasi origines cardines sunt amnium Virâ—urum Aug. de Spir. anim l 1. c. 4 Cardinal Iustice Prudence Temperance and Fortitude without Constancie what are they The Intellectuall and Morall Vertues are as Thomas r Th. Aquin. 〈◊〉 2â— in Pâ—â—l Aquinas tels vs reduced to these seaven therefore if these without Constancy are no more no more are they Nay are they not harmefull rather Å¿ 2. Pet. 2.21 sure I am St Peter saith thaâ— better it were not to haue knowne the waie of righteousnesse then after we haue knowne it to turne from the Commandement giuen vnto vs. Howbeit hâ—â—e we must haue speciall care that we take not Quid pro Quo one for another as many doe It is easily done and often never more ofteÌ„ then now a daies The Pastor of souls Greg. Past Cur. Part. 2. c. 9. saith St Gregory is to knowe so is the Flock to that vices a many times doe heare themselues as vertues Thus Covetousnesse cloaks it selfe vnder the name of Thrift and Parsimony and contrariwise riotous spending vnder the name of Liberality To much pitty a many times is thought to be Pietie and vnbridled Anger the vertue of Zeale A headlong Action is accounted quick dispatch and to be to too tardy in performing ought a high point of singular wisdome The vice that beares it selfe as the vertue of Constancie no vice any vertue more is the vice of Selfe will and Obstinacie a sowre and a sullen vice that which hath blasted so many hundreds of our age both on the right hand of vs and on the left Schismaticks and Papists But vtterly to avoid this mocke vertue this u Virg. Aen. l. 7. Alecto in deed in anothers likenesse the safest and surest way is to haue good ground for what we doe not a particular spirit with the one or the Religion of our Fathers and Mothers and Forefathers with the other It is a good thing c Gal. 4.18 saith the Apostle to loue earnestly alwaies in a good thing And this good ground the Prophet had the Law of the Lord was his direction and for he was so stable and stedfast in the same the vertue which he had was not vice in vertues robes it was vertues owne selfe the vertue of Constancie And thus much of his Constancie in this his desire come we now to the Manifestation of this his desire to the world which I told you was in these words I desired of the Lord. There is a peece of a verse in â—â—id more canonicall with a many â—â—e I am more powerfull then all the verses or chapters either concerning the contrary throughout the whole Bible x Ovid. Trist l. 3. Eleg. 4. Benè qui latuit benè vixit He that lurks well liues well as if the Lord had sent vs into the worlde to play all hid I grant the times may be such as may cause vs to betake our selues to such a kind of retired life or to play least in the worlds sight even as those Christians of olde time of whom the Apostle to the y Heb. 11.38 Hebrews They wandred in wildernesses mountaines and dens and caues of the earth but to do it now in these daies or to keepe our Consciences to our selues or not at al to imploy the TaleÌ„ts that God hath committed to our charge is vngratefully to liken these times to the ticklish times of Nero wherein sloth z Tacit. vit Agric. saith Tacitus was a vertue and to doe nothing the greatest wisdome of all Such wyzards in the end wil play but wyly beguily with themselues who while they proceed in silence as a Qui dum iuuenes ad se â—â—ctutem seâ—es propè ad ipsos exactae â—tatis terminos per silentium veniuÌ„t Tac. Ib. speaks the same author from young men to aged from aged to the graue are like to make the next step from thence to hell if so be they be not there before b Mat. 25.30 Cast that vnprofitable servant into vtter darkenesse there shal be weeping gnashing of teeth True it is it is the Hart