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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

we may take vp our lodgings with Baucis or Philemon or content our selues with ten shekels of siluer and a suit of apparell Then sure blessed must that house be where God is so wel regarded saies that idolatrous miscreant Micah Iud 17. ver vlt. As for Tithes and Offerings they be but Leuiticall customes ceremonies and shadowes vanished away at the Sunshine of the Gospell thus are wee content to haue our mouthes musled and our tongues tied The Romane Orator plaid his prizes neuer worse then in his owne cause and I know not how it comes to passe either we are ouer-modest to pleade for our selues least wee might seeme partiall or too timerous wee are content at Balacks becke neyther to blesse nor curse or which is worst of all if euer wee meane to enter Gods house our selues must come like Gods like Iupiter himselfe in a goulden shower or stand without ô aur eum orationis flumen these be the golden streams of eloquence that make the Preachers voice the voice of a God But as I begun to say we are vnfit Orators for this theam will it please you to heare almighty God speake in his own person Malac. 3.8 Will a man spoyle his gods but you haue spoyled me saith the Lord A strange speech for the God of heauen to speake to mortall men You haue spoyled me and that made the people of Israell to wonder Lord wherein haue we spoyled thee God answers in Tithes and Offerings parturiunt montes a ceremony a shadow a toy no beloued almighty God fights not with shadowes nor is so zealous for a ceremony there is more in it then all they account for these are not Mint and Annise we talke of but matters of greater moment All the wonders the Apostles wrought vpon the earth were sauing wonders restoring men to their health and perfection but when they mette with sinne of alienating Church goods in Ananias and Saphira their wonder was an extraordinary iudgement no lesse then present death When the Lambe of God walked vpon the earth hee is obserued neuer to haue wrought any thing by force or violence but all with gentle perswasions and fatherly admonitions so obserueth S. Augustine in one booke Vera relig c. 16. Cap. 13. yet the Father was deceiued for himselfe doth retract that point in his booke of Retractions and does confesse that indeed when hee met with this sin of Marchandize in the Church of God then his patience was mooued to vse some Discipline then and onely then in all his life did the Lambe of God play the Lion of the tribe of Iuda for himselfe alone with a three-stringed whip draue the Marchants out of the Church Now if these Marchants shall quit him with his owne and through their marchandize driue Christ out of the Church they are no more to look for a whip of cords but a rod of iron to break them in peeces like a Potters vessel If they will needs meddle with forbidden fruit as Adam did they must looke to turne Gods as Adam did in whom I beseech you a little to looke your selues as in a glasse Man hauing his choyce of all the pleasant fruits in Paradise only except the forbidden fruit whereof if hee eat the same day he must die the death was visited by the Serpent yea hath God indeede sayd ye shall not eat indeede sayes the woman we eat of the trees of the Garden but of the fruit of the tree in the middest of the garden there is a tree in the middest of the garden worth all the rest of the fruit of that tree God hath sayd Yee shall not eat neither shall ye touch it lest yee die Die sayes the Serpent yee shall not die die the same day yee shall not die at all die the death yee shall liue most happy liues yee shall bee Gods but what became of them we all know by wofull experience So you beloued are by Gods goodnesse heere placed in a land like Eden for pleasure and plenty blessed like Ifrael with the deaw of heauen and fat of the earth enriched like Tyrus whose Marchants were Princes and Chap-men the Nobles of the land sucking the abundance of the sea and treasure hid in the sand onely the forbidden fruits of the Church touch not least ye die the Death Then comes the Serpent hath God indeed said ye shall not eate of these fruits Indeed answers flesh and bloud we eat of the fruits of the Land and aboundance of the Sea but there be certaine Holy fruites of the Land worth all the rest Tithes and Offrings the flower and fat of the land pleasant springs Orchards Gardens for recreation goodly stones that wold build vs stately houses and towers whose top might reach vnto heauen were we but possessed of these we should be gods vpon earth Thus stollen waters are sweete and the bread of deceit is pleasant to a man but afterwards saies Salomon it turnes to grauell in the mouth and then you know what followes a gnashing of teeth when almighty God shall come to giue sentence Adam where art thou Hast thou eaten of the forbidden fruit whereof I saide thou shouldst not eat Thou shalt be cast out of the Paradise of this world not in Letherne skins among the beasts of the field but starke naked among the fiends of Hell where shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Then he that sits in Heauen shall laugh them to scorne and the Lord shall deride them with a bitter Irony Behold the man is become like one of vs Sonne remember thou in thy life time hadst a paradise of pleasure no dwelling would please thee but the sanctuary and habitation of God no lands and liuings content thee but those hallowed and dedicated to God no bread sweet and pleasant vnto thee but Tithes Offrings and holy things of God This shall be the Lords derision this is that fearefull sentence whereto my text is but a warning peece and the fall of Adam but a figure and so wee haue done with the second generall point wherein the Sonne of Adam affecteth to become a God like one of vs. Out of the last words Vnus è nobis it is agreed that almighty God directed his speech to the persons in Trinity whence it may bee demanded to which of the three persons man affected to bee like like one of vs though indefinitely it may be vnderstood of any yet the Schoole determines Hee affected not so much to bee like the Father in power or the spirit in loue as in knowledge to resemble the second person who is the wisedome of his Father for it followes like one of vs knowing good and euill The sum of which is that man created in perfect reason endued with great measure of knowledge according to his kind yet in time was to attain to greater perfection but vnwilling to stay his time and expect the meanes appointed by God thought to take a shorter out but tast an

Calfe shall become a God That great Oxe Nabuchadnezzar lifted vpon a Monarchy had his saluters at hand O King liue for euer as if it were not impossible but a Monarke might bee immortall like God Hi homines prorsus exstultis insanos faciunt Our Parents Adam and Eue went a fooling after a Godhead and heere comes the Deuill with an Eritis sicut Dij ye shall be Gods and carries them headlong like an heard of Swine into vtter perdition Atque sic homo factus est Deus thus did the man become like one of vs. The Serpent hauing his prizes is fled away and Man heares no more of him his Oracle prooues true but in a wrong sence their eyes were open but to their own shame They had the knowledge of good and euill but by wofull experience And for the third he said they should be Gods and children to the most high God but they died like men and fell like one of the Princes like the Prince of Babell from the worlds dominion to the beasts of the field like the Prince of Angels from glory and ioyfull blisse to extreame misery and torment of conscience like Prince Herod from a conceipt of a god to a pray for wormes Here ends the tragedy of wofull man wallowing in the pitte of endlesse perdition vexed by God from heauen with a tanting Ironie Behold the man is become like one of vs. It were great pittty to leaue man in this miserable case will our text leade vs no further but iumpe to the pit of perdition No sweetnesse to bee sucked out of Gods Ironia but all bitternesse and wormewood Yes beloued The Father of all creatures delights not in tanting vexing or tormenting of any The God of all consolation who in the middest of Iudgement thinkes vpon Mercy was neuer more ready and quicke to show mercy then at this present For before euer hee did pronounce iudgement vpon man at the 16. verse of this Chapter he promised the seed of the woman should breake the serpents head in the 15. verse giues promise of redemption before the sentence of condemnation the reason of which redemption may bee gathered out of the last words of my text vnus è nobis according to the premised doctrine In Matthew the 12 Mat. 12 32 He that sinneth against the Sonne shall be forgiuen but he that sinneth against the holy Ghost shall neuer be forgiuen in this world nor in the world to come Sathan in this act sinned directly against the holy Ghost of meere enuy maligning the state of man and therefore his fall was without redemption but man offending more directly against the second person affecting in knowledge to be like the Sonne of God the wisedome of his Father wherefore almighty God saies S. Barnard in the fury of his wrath seeing his sonne so dishonoured and as it were thrust out of his throne by the aspiring minde of man cries vengeance is mine and I will repay it I le reuenge my sonnes iniuries vpon Adam and his posteritie for euer nay father replies the Sonne in tender zeale to his Fathers glory Let it neuer be said thou madest man for nought and the sons of men for endlesse perdition thou that madest the Heauen for thy perpetuall seate and established the earth neuer to bee remoued Thou that in wisedome hast created all things for some happy end willt thou bring man the image of heauen and glory of the earth the collection of creatures and mappe of nature the impression of diuine essence to shame and confusion Let that malitious Serpent neuer boast himselfe that he hath disgraced the workemanship of thy hands and defaced thy diuine Image that he made the Prince of Paradise a vassall of hell and the Lord of Creatures a bondslaue to Sathan And for mine owne iniury Si propter me haec tempestas orta sit If I bee the occasion of all these troubles and tumults take mee father and cast mee out of thy presence into the Sea of that troublesom world that thereupon may ensue a calme let the deepe swallow me vp and the water of affliction goe ouer my soule that many soules may peaceably arriue at the Hauen of eternall happinesse If for tasting the forbidden fruite of Paradise the whole earth must be barren and cursed with vnfruitfulnesse let the plowers plow vpon my backe and make long furrowes whereout man may reape most ioyfull fruites of my bitter passion If in the sweate of his browes he shall eat his bread let mee by mine agony and bloudy sweat become that bread of life whereof if he feede he shall liue for euer Let mee be crown'd with those thornes which the cursed earth for his sake brought forth since it hath pleased thee for my sake to take his figge leaues from him put him into Leatherne skins to salute him with this Irony behold the man is become like one of vs let mine enemies for his sake take mine owne garments from mee and put vpon mee Scarlet Robes to mock deride me with Haile King of the Iewes If man for affecting mine image in knowledge bee for my sake cast amongst the fiends of Hell let me for his sake take vpon me the image of man that man by me may be exalted among the Angels in heauen If for eating of the tree in the garden hee shall die the death let mee be made that fruit hanging vpon that cursed tree in Golgotha wherof if he eat he shall liue the life that euerlasting life wherby in glory and true happinesse hee shall indeed become like one of vs If for affecting that faire seeming fruit of Paradise man shall become an exile from the place of plasure let me be made a pleasant fruit of a new promised land Grapes of Canaan growing out of a withered and deformed stocke without forme or fashion that goodly cluster of grapes carried vpon the barre of the crosse pressed out into most precious liquor a pleasant wine that makes glad the heart of man and does him good at the soule Father since it is thy good pleasure in tender zeale to mine honour thus to bring forth miserable man for a wonderment and gazing stocke to the whole hoast of Heauen with an Ecce Since nothing else will pacifie thy wrath and heauy displeasure for thy sonnes sake I my selfe will bow the heauens and goe downe inuest my selfe with a vaile of flesh and couer of skin the shape of a seruant that mortall men may in trueth salute me not without a wonder Behold the God of heauen is become a mortall man like one of vs Aeternity it selfe is born and immortality put into the graue like one of vs. Behold the eternall Sonne of God begotten of his Father before all worlds without a Mother brought forth of his Mother into the world without a Father He that built heauen and earth a Carpenters Sonne and the Prince of Heauen spoyld of his royalty become a sucking babe like one of vs