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A01562	Practique theories: or, Votiue speculations vpon Abrahams entertainment of the three angels Sarah, and Hagars contention. Isaacs Marriage with Rebekah. Iohn Baptists natiuity or birth decollation or beheading. S. Peters calling. confession. denyall. repentance. vpon Sauls cruely. Pauls conuersion. By Iohn Gaule.	Gaule, John, 1604?-1687.	1630 (1630)	STC 11690; ESTC S118745	112,147	433

acknowledges Peter We cannot doe any thing for Christ which Christ will not more readily and largely doe againe for vs in euery thing so answerable is our Sauiour to vs● yea he so exceedes vs. If we know him he will take notice of us if we worship him he will honour vs if wee loue him he will imbrace vs if wee pray vnto him he will intreat for vs if we prayse him he will commend vs if we witnesse of him he likewise will testifie of vs. Mat. 10.32 Whosoeuer shall confesse me before men him will I confesse also before my Farher which is in heauen I beleeue what my Sauiour hath said for his part God grant me for my power to obserue the saying When Peter but came to Christ Ioh 1.42 Christ then said Thou art Simon the Sonne of Ionas but now that he confesses him Mat. 16.18.19 hee sayes besides Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke will I build my Church c. and I will giue vnto thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen c. Before he but told him of his name and pedegree but now withall of his office and authority The sounder confession of our faith hath alwaies the ampler approouement and reward Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke c. We obserue amongst vs from these words in their originall a twofold point of Rhetorique a Metaphor a Paronomasie the one in that there is an allusion in the words the other in that there is an assimilation in the matter There be that would haue the word intend the same party whereto it alludes we say the word but assimilates another thing which it also intends In holy Writ we hold it safer to be led by the apt sense then bare found of words Vpon this Rocke How many haue wilfully dasht themselues to pieces against his Rocke● making the Rocke of sa●nation 〈◊〉 rocke of offence and a common stone to stumble at of the 〈◊〉 corner stone Vpon this Rocke What vpon the man vpon the mans faith rather and confession Vpon his Confession ●ay not vpon his personall faith but the vniuerfall truth Vpon this Rocke will I build my Church what vpon the other nay rather vpon himselfe To say that Christ should build his Church vpon Peter is to liken him to the Foole that built his house vpon the sands so vaine a thing is man Will they lay another foundation besides that which is laid already Confession ●e vpon their Babell It is verified both of Him and Them The Stone which the builders nay the Dawbers refused Mat. 21.42 the 〈◊〉 maugre their ignorance auarice pride and malice 〈…〉 and confessed by all true Christians the head stone in the corner I abhorre that Church and Chayre as groundlesse which will mistake the Rocke to build vpon the sands Let neither Faith nor Hope of mine bee so built till I can belieue three Fables at once That the Earth is vnderprept by a Gyant the Heauens are supported by Atla● or that the Church of Christ is founded vpon Peter Oh thou that art the onely Rocke and sole foundation of my Faith build thou not Thee vpon 〈◊〉 but mee vpon Thee so shall I stand firmely and for euer Immediately vpon Peters Confession the Keyes are granted him By Faith wee are saued without Faith and Confession there 's no opening no entring into the Kingdome of heauen I will giue vnto thee the Keyes What keyes Keyes which some boast of some abuse Keyes which are mostly neither well vsed nor vnderstood Keyes whose power and authority is lost in the ignorance or abuse for they haue them that vse them they that abuse them haue them not Keyes● not of power onely but dis●●●●tion as well to search and discerne as either to binde or loose Keyes whose efficacy it not in the Instrument not in the Agent but from the Author Keyes which neither binde nor loose because of the Administration but according to the desert Retentiue and Remissiue Keyes they call them Keyes of Science to resolue the scrupulous and perplexed spirit● of conscience to absolue the broken and contrite heart What sayes my soule to the power of those Keyes I confesse it fit and iust that the L●per and vncleane should be cast out of the Hoste or Campe that a rotten member ought to be dissected from the body and a scab'd sheepe excluded the Fold That he that refuses to heare the Church should be counted as an Heathen man and a Publicane and the obstinate sinner to be worthily deliuered vp to Satan that hee may learne not to blaspheme I at once admire their vse reuerende their Minister adore their Authour I faithfully beleeue and loue to imbrace the Liberty I feare to incurre and doubt not to obey the censure the denunciation is the sore trembling of my ioynts the Pronunciation is thevery reioycing of my heart For I looke to a surther efficacy then their outward ministery Onely I cannot but lament that their light vse and familiar hath brought them into contempt and wish that the contempt were not so familiar The words are here according to the occasion pronounced but to one of Christs Disciples To they will I giue the Keyes But the power is 〈◊〉 here according to the intention exhibited to them all Mat. 18 18 Whatsoever 〈◊〉 binde on earth shall be bound in he●●●n and whatsoeue● 〈…〉 earth shall be loosed in heauen What is commended to one is meant to all And not to them alone or then onely was this priuiledge and iurisdiction g●●●ted but for euer to their like the true and faithfull Ministers of the Word Say ye then Peter carried the Keyes alone and so shall his Successour Nay but his Fellowes in profession were also partakers of this power and so are all their followers The faith was theirs also and therefore the Promise theirs Say as ye● would haue Peters hand had borne them onely yet 〈◊〉 we not so senselesse to take the Porter for Lord of the house A Doore-keeper was euer accounted the meanest officer in Gods House So he intimates it that notwithstanding in comparison preferres it Psal 84.10 I had rather be a Doore-keeper in the house of my God c. Will ye make Peter after your manner the Prince Head Chiefe First Apostle If Peter would so himselfe hee should so prooue himselfe to be but the last and least Mat. 20.27 Whosoeuer will be chiefe among you let him be your seruant Would Peter vsurpe himselfe what he so disswaded others when he forbad them to be as Lords ouer Gods heritage 1 Pet. 5.3 but rather ensamples to the flocke Wee take Peter for a Prelate indeed not a Prince it is a Key wee see he beares not a Scepter The Keyes wee know are not 〈◊〉 sway but employ and to binde and loose are parts of Office more then Author 〈◊〉 We count Peter the first so as the Scripture records him The first is Simon Mat. 10.2 called Peter

pride and lust Ah that vanity is so prized and approued We fooles passe away our Gold for Straw and our Pearles for a Barley corne How doe we dis-esteeme of the birth-right of the Sonnes of God for the Pottage of earthly pleasure and giue sell lose our whole in the Kingdome of heauen for but the dancing delights of a world With the wise Merchant hauing purchased that precious pearle I will not promise it for money or friends no not to gaine a world will I part withall It was ill in Herod to take pleasure in Folly worse that he promised to reward it but that he bound himselfe hereunto by Oath was worst of all This is of euils the greatest to engage himselfe to euill An oath is not vsuall but in case of weight and need To sweare lightly is as ill as to forsweare One would haue thought a Princes Word had beene as good as his Oath and that a King had said it was as if hee had sworne it To sweare bewrayes but falshood and infirmity Truth and Authority stand not vpon an oath It is not the Oath that is credited but the Truth and were not men false they had no need to sweare Hence are all those execrating attestations because men are either iealous or suspected I will not beleeue the man for his Oath but his Oath rather for the man If he be a good man he will speake the truth though without an Oath a bad man will both sweare and lye An honest man I take it is bound as well buy his promise as by his Oath what necessity then of an Oath to a Promise He that sayes he will doe me a Fauour be he honest I will take his word he shall not need to giue me his Oath Herodias had required Iohn Baptists death ere now and ●as denyed Now that her Daughter may haue any thing that ●he will aske what shall she aske by her consent but it She made her dance for that purpose and bade her aske that recompence Wherein her fuite preuailed not she thus brought it about by a wile The weaker Sexe seeke by all meanes to wreake their malice and despight It is the manner of the malicious to require others hurt before their owne good who rather then benefited sue to be reuenged While it is generally expected she now should aske Honour behold and abhorre she demands Bloud Giue me here Iohn Baptists head in a Platter Mat. 14.8 Monster of her Degree Age Sexe All her demerit was but some Iew● mirth and a most horrid murther is her demand To aske slaughter for dancing oh vaine office oh foule reward Iohn Baptists Head and his Head in a Platter Out shamelesse Girle to craue a Prophets death and shame But no maruell that a Strumpet indures not a Prophet What other should bee Lusts petition but Chastities destruction How cruell are pleasures and what brutish impieties arise from rioting and lust 'T is the condition of an Harlot to be cruell what cares she to destroy anothers body that prostitutes her owne The foole that followes her she keeps in the stockes Pro. 7.23 till a dart strike through his Liuer the wise man that rebukes her she puts in prison till an hatchet chops off his Head Dalilah will cut off 〈◊〉 Hayre of Sampson robbe him of his strength Herodias will cut off the Head of the Baptist deptiue him of his Life Better an Harlot cut off Head or Members for Christs cause then to take the members of Christ and make them the members of a Harlot For them of this ●●rl Lord let me not fall into the deepe Ditch And for them of this Sexe Prou. 23.27 Ecclus 25.15 Giue mee any malice saue the malice of a Woman It is not safe to sweare vpo● vncertainties neuer was good end and euent of rash Oathes Of the euill hap of this vnadnisednesse complaine Iephthe● Daughter Ionathan and Ioh● Baptist It was an Oath was Ioh● Baptists death this is cruell that the death of a Prophet should be for the obseruation o● a Sacrament Herods swearing lost him his life and not the Baptists rebuking The cruelty of a Tyrant could spare him whom the necessity of an Oath destroyed To what straits are men brought into by Oathes Did he as he sware it was cruell if not he was forsworne Hee should of euils haue chosen the lesse But he to commit murder pleads periury chuses to offend rather in slaughtering then forswearing and will be the more impious vnder a pious pretence Monstrous vnwilling is he yet takes he all occasions to be perswaded Mark 6.26 The King was exceeding sorry yet for his Oaths sake and for their sakes that sate with him c. This was all was said for him but all this made against him He was sorry iust as the Crocodile sheds teares Hee dissembled a sadnesse in the face when hee was glad with all his heart vnder a colour of religion to haue occasion of reuenge And would seeme to be constrained to suffer what himselfe would willingly haue dispatched Or were he so sorry as they say that sorrow confesses but the Guilt which preuents not the Fault To be sorry aforehand and sinne neuerthelesse this is a bewraying rather then bewailing of our sinne Such was Herods sorrow before hand as was Iudas repentance afterward Neuerthelesse for his Oath sake c. Perhaps he sware to giue her any thing thereby to occasion her to aske this one thing and then it was for his Oaths sake indeed Otherwise an oath bindes not to euill There 's no religion at all to impiety nor is a Sacrament of force to sinne Of the twaine better be false then cruell better a bad Oath broken then a good life lost better a Promise wisely frustrated then wickedly performed I maruell had she askt his owne Head would he haue giuen it her An Oath had beene all one to the Head of a Prophet and Head of a King And for their sakes that sate with him c. Had none of them the wit or goodnesse to speake one word in the Baptists behalfe How well might some of them haue pleaded the innocence of his cause and iniustnesse of her request They should haue told him that a birth-day was a day wherein to pardon and reward rather then to punish or execute That cruelty was vnbeseeming iollity that nothing was more vncouth and execrable then was bloud at a Banquet Especially how opportunely might they haue disswaded him from it now that they saw him sorry so to doe it Howeuer he seemed they all perceiued whereat he aymed nor durst they disswade that wickednesse sith but for such a thing they knew that wickednesse was done Their silence argues they allowed it may be also they requested it since it is said for their sakes Herod had killed Iohn ere this but for feare of men and now it is for fauour of men that hee kils him For their sakes what a madnesse is it for a man