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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30594	Moses his self-denyall delivered in a treatise upon Hebrewes 11, the 24. verse, by Ieremy Burroughs.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1641 (1641)	Wing B6097; ESTC R4358	105,177	285

and cloathed beautifully I indeede desired that I might bee baptized and to give my selfe to the service of your God but now I am farre of another mind when I see the servants of your God so ill entertained and provided for This offence daily keepes off many but the conversion of great ones would bring on not onely multitudes of other people but other great ones also It is reported of Lucius King of England who was the first King that ever by his authority established Christian religion in his Kingdome which is the honour of our countrey it was the first Kingdome that ever had Christian Religion established by the supreme magistrate In the first entrance into the Kingdome he favovored Christian Religion as an ancient historian Gildas Albanius reports but yet the Religion hee was brought up in stucke so fast in him that hee could not bee brought off wholly to embrace Christian Religion And a great thing that hindered him was the offence he tooke at the outward meannesse and povertie of Christians and especially hee looked at the Romanes who were a glorious and victorious people and the Emperour there who lived in so great glorie and prosperitie and hee considered with himselfe that they did not embrace Christian Religion and wherefore then should hee But after hee learned from the Embassadours of Caesar that some of the noble and chiefe of Rome as by name Trebellius and Pertinax and others embraced the Religion of Christians that the Emperour himselfe was moved with that miraculous Raine that was caused by the prayers of the Christians then Lucius attended more fully to understand what Christian Religion was and was taken off from that which formerly hindered him Whereupon he sent to Eleutherius then Bishop of Rome Elvanus and Medinus his Embassadours to send him some to instruct the Brittaines in the Doctrine of Christ that hee might establish Christian Religion in his Kingdome and abolish Heathenisme this was in the yeere of Christ 179. Thus you see what a power Religion hath when it is in great ones And on the contrarie the more eminent you are in Honours and in Greatnesse if your examples be evill they doe the more mischiefe Sinne dressed up with a diamond or covered with a scarlet robe carries a brave shew with it Desinunt esse probri loco purpurata flagitia If your waies bee never so base and unworthy the generall course of people will follow after you as Christ said if the sonne of man bee lifted up all men will follow him so if the most base wickednesse in the world bee lifted up in the examples of great ones all men will follow after it that way that they see to be a way of preferment and to get the countenance of those that are great men generally they will chuse yea how doe wee see many that they may bee like great ones in their way and get a little petty preferment by them they will subject themselves to most sordid things that otherwise common humanity would loath and abhorre There is a notable example for this in a relation that Contzen hath in his booke that he intitles Aulae speculum in the 156. page of one Eutropius an Eunuch hee was the governour of the Court and had in exceeding honour but favoured and preferred onely such which either were already or were willing to make themselves Eunuches like himselfe whereupon sayes my Authour multitudes of men made themselves and their children Eunuches that they might obtaine the favour of Eutropius and be raised to preferment by him and many of them dyed of the wounds that were made in their body Thus you see what the power of the countenance and favour of great ones is which men seeke by being like them in any base wayes And have we not many still that would bee content to prostitute themselves their soules and their bodies in the most shamefull wayes that can be to obtaine the favour of those who are great to get preferment by them willing to let humanity Religion God conscience soules and all goe so they may be countenanced in the World Lastly remember the great and solemne account that you are to give before the Lord another day of all the mercies you have received from God above others which have beene abundant which cannot be reckoned and if your receipts be so great as you know not how to reckon them how shall you be able then to reckon for them Surely when you come to give an account of all you enjoy you will have other manner of thoughts of all your outward glory then you had when you conceived there was so much happinesse in it Consider now what will be peace to your soules when you must bid an everlasting farewell to all those things which are so glorious in your eyes Doe you thinke that now you doe improve all those mercies that God hath given you so as when you come upon your death beds and before the Lord you shall be able to look backe to your former time and rejoyce in it The Lord will not regard how you have beene magnified by men but how you have magnified his great and glorious Name Riches will not availe in the day of wrath the remembrance of all sinfull delights will be bitterer then gall to you when the accounts of all your honours riches and pleasures shall be called for how they have been improved for God If you cannot then make your accounts even either by shewing how you have imployed these talents or by bringing in an acquittance and pardon bought with Christs precious bloud and sealed to you by his holy Spirit you are undone for ever so that now those things will prove your burdens that here were your delights and honours what will it then profit you to have beene honorable and rich in the World have nothing left but guilt in your consciences and Gods vile esteeme of you what good shall your passed pleasures bring to you when they have abandoned you and nothing remaines but pollution and filth upon your soules and the just wrath of God whom you have displeased by pleasing your selves in those pleasures or what will it profit you to have gained the whole world and to have lost your owne soules I have read of one Francisus Xaverius who writing to John the third King of Portugal gave this wholsome counsell to him that every day for a quarter of an houre he would meditate of that divine sentence What shall it profit a man to win the whole world and to lose his owne soule and that he would seeke of God the right understanding of this that hee might be sensible of it and that he would make it the close of all his prayers the repetition of those words What shall it profit a man c. How happy counsell would this be for all our Courtiers and great men if it might be followed when you have spent all your estates and