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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10057	Sauls prohibition staide. Or The apprehension, and examination of Saule And the inditement of all that persecute Christ, with a reproofe of those that traduce the honourable plantation of Virginia. Preached in a sermon commaunded at Pauls Crosse, vpon Rogation Sunday, being the 28. of May. 1609. By Daniel Price, Chapleine in ordinarie to the Prince, and Master of Artes of Exeter Colledge in Oxford.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.	1609 (1609)	STC 20302; ESTC S101915	22,573	47

SAVLS PROHIBITION STAIDE OR THE APPREHENSION AND EXAMINATION OF SAVLE And the Inditement of all that persecute CHRIST with a reproofe of those that traduce the Honourable Plantation of VIRGINIA Preached in a Sermon Commaunded at Pauls Crosse vpon Rogation Sunday being the 28. of May. 1609. By DANIEL PRICE Chapleine in ordinarie to the PRINCE and Master of Artes of EXETER Colledge in OXFORD LONDON Printed for Matthew Law and are to be Sold in Pauls Church-yard neere vnto Saint Austines Gate at the Signe of the Foxe 1609. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS Lord Ellesmere Lord Chauncellour of England and one of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuie Counsell MY Honourable and rightly eminent L. it is a Question whither God hath more blessed you or the Land by you the heauens haue bene so gracious to your Honour and you so ready to returne Grace and Honour to the Heauens The Courts of Iudgment and Chauncerie of Mercie witnesse your exquisite VVisedome in the temper of both by your Lordships sitting in the one sidus beneficum a happie Starre in the Starre Chamber in the other numen pacificum a good Angel in the Chauncerie and not only so but in the Church where your Honour hath vouchsafed fauour to helpe many a Clergie-man into Bethesdas poole without the superstitious mediation of Angels In regard of which pious and glorious Patronage all that are able to speake or write in the Church bee they Scribes or Pharisees I meane Rabbins or Neophyts owe much respect to your Lordship Among the rest of the least I offer vp this my poor Morning sacrifice which first tooke fire at the Altar of Paules Crosse it was a Sacrifice without the Temple yet my Prayers shall be that this be like the fire in the temple which was neuer extinguished And so with my harty deuotions to the Lord for the long helth and happinesse of your Lordship the Noble Countesse your Lady and your worthy and Honourable Sonne I rest Your Lordshippes in all obseruance Daniel Price SAVLS PROHIBITION STAYD OR THE APPREHENSION AND EXAMINATION OF SAVLE ACTS 9.4 Saul Saul why persecutest thou me I Feare to speake of Iudgement it made Foelix tremble or of Mercie for then the Wicked will not tremble I cannot speake of Pietie for Pietie is sicke nor of Faith for Faith is dead nor of Works for Works are buried Not of Deuotion it is become Ostentation nor of Religion it is made a vaine Speculation nor of Prayer for Prayer is contemned nor of Almes for Almes are neglected nor of Fasting for Fasts are banished nor of Charitie for Charitie is Out lawed Hope is become a vaine presuming Holinesse Hypocrisie zeale furie The Common-wea●th oppressions safetie vertues depriuation hospitalitie depopulation The Church Symonies possession Schismes diuision Atheists expectation This World a wildernes a drie heathy thornie bare barren wildernesse wherein Sathan the Serpent Sinne the Satyre Wrath the Lyon Lust the Leopard Zi●m and I●m the Ostrich and the Scritch-owle and the Vulture doe inhabite wherin Vertue is an exile Conscience a Hermit Honestie a Stranger Trueth a Prisoner a wild wildernesse wherein all things are most miserable The Wayes rough and crooked the Wealth base the Pleasures false the Hope 's vaine the Promises lies the Delight light the Glorie short the Sta●e a banishment and a Dungeon of condemned Persons scrawling about the Globe of the Earth the Theater of their miserie and mortalitie In a word ALL THINGS are in such confusion by reason of the Catechlisme and inundation of sinne that if euer euen now we may take vp the speech of Esay vnto God O that thou wouldest breake the heauens and come downe either in Merci to pardon or in Iudgement to punish the sinnes of the people In the Lyon there was sweetnesse and strength In the Cherubims the face of a Lyon and the face of a man Iud. 13. with God there is aureum and aereum scepirum Eze. 1. And hee hath sent downe a Commission from the Kings-bench of his iudgement Austen and another from the Chancerie of his Mercie his fountaine hath sent forth sweete and bitter water his mouth cursing and blessing It is the speech of Dauid in his 32. Psalme that ioyneth both these together Many plagues are prouided for the vngodly but he that putteth his trust in the Lord Mercie shall compasse him on euery side Behold in that one verse Oliues and Prickles vpon one tree punishment and pardon in one breath life and death in one word Gerezim and Eball in one place winter and somer in one day the fall and spring in one season Mercerus the red Ensig●e of the wrath of God and the red Ensigne of the blood of Christ an armie of miseries sorrowes punishments anguishes and an army of comforts promises hopes mercies deliuerances not so many dartes on the one side but so many sheeldes on the other Iustice not such indignation but mercy hath as much compassion if plagues compasse yet mercy shal neerer compasse if there be bitter waters of Marah there is sweet wood cast in to season it if a red sea yet Moses rod to diuide it if the Cananites pursue Israel yet a Ioshua to defend it There was mercy and iudgement together and yet not together in one verse but not in one place there was a distance betweene them as betweene Diues and Lazarus but in the Text I haue read vnto you there is both in one place person action Transient in God Immanent in Paul iudgement so sweetened mercy so edged that sweet and sowre life and death loue and feare alluring and terrifying neuer came neerer together then in this Text Saul Saul why persecutest thou me For if euer mercy and iudgement met together here may yee behold iudicium misericordiae misericordiam iudicij August in Psal the iudgement of mercy and the mercy of iudgement a voyce and a stroke the one striking downe to the earth and the other lifting vp to the heauen a light shining from heauen and a light shining to direct him to heauen a light shining to him that was in darkenesse and in the shadow of death to bring him from the snare of darkenesse to the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God hee that was the way met him in the way he that was the light met him with a light he that was the word mette him with the voyce of the word Saul Psal 29 3. Saul why persecutest thou me It was a voyce indeed it was the voyce of the Lord mighty in operation the voyce of the Lord is a glorious voyce the voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedars yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Libanus The voice of the Lord shaketh the wildernesse yea the wildernesse of Cadesh It was that voyce that made Ionas Mariners to shake Foelix to feare Herod to tremble and the Diuels to roare It was the voyce that strake the Souldiers with amasednesse Elimas the Sorcerer with blindnesse Zacharias