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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48948	A sermon preached at Lambeth, April 21, 1645, at the funerall of that learned and polemicall divine, Daniel Featley, Doctor in Divinity, late preacher there with a short relation of his life and death / by William Leo [sic] ...	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing L2817; ESTC R7483	22,538	42

be not some plot of villany to insnare thee Can any wise man love the place where Satan domineeres If this our Gospel truth be hid from any here it is hid to them that are lost Are not they lost that can neither be found in heaven nor in the earth nor yet in the sea The god of this world which is the Devil hath blinded the minds of them that beleeve not this truth lest the light of the glorious Gospel truth of Jesus Christ who is the image of God should shine unto them The whole world saith the holy Divine Saint John lyeth in wickednesse and our little world this Island wherein we dwell is on fire about our eares and yet neither the worlds malignity nor yet our owne misery can quicken us to a lothing of this restlesse and brittle sea of glasse But would you learne how to avoid this Traitor that wil Judaize with you this dominion of Satan and this house on fire I shall doe my endeavour to satisfie your desire in this point You all know that whatsoever the shavelings of Rome say we have a Church and it is a principall piece of the holy Catholique Church which we professe to beleeve that is scattered farre and wide upon the surface of the whole Universe and to this Church we have given our names Christian is my name and Catholike is my sirname We are shipped by Baptisme If a tempest arise cry upon Christ as the Apostles did in a storme If the Ship of our state be ready to be swallowed up of the waves flye unto Christ if he be asleep awaken him with our cryes Concutitur fides non excutitur our faith may bee shaken but never shaken off therefore never cease but cry and cry aloud that we may be heard and being heard we may be delivered and being delivered we may glorifie God If the wind roare Christ will rebuke it and there shall follow a great calme The fift Use of the Doctrine is to take a review of the Text If this world be in experience to us a Sea of glasse like unto Crystall This Crystalline resemblance deceives none but children and fooles who are deceived with shewes shadowes and resemblances But wee are men endowed with reason and experience How are we fitted and furnished for our voyage Where 's our Tackles Have we our Maine mast ready that is to say our faith without which it is impossible to please God there 's no walking or talking with God without it Where 's our Anchor and Sailes the Anchor of hope and the Sayles of good workes What wind doe we sayle by no wind under the cope of heaven but the gale of Christian Charity can arrive us at the Port of Heaven But sayling with that gentle gale we need not feare any danger between this and Heaven For if a Whale by the way should swallow us as it did Jonah or a wind called Euroclydon which caused Pauls ship-wracke at the Island then called Melita now Malta In both dangers we should be safe the Whale must cast us upon the Land and though the Ship were wracked yet either by swimming or by some broken fragments of the Ship we should surely come safe to Land The sixt use of this Doctrine is of Discovery The holy Apostle gives every one in particular a Christian Caveat Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall If my Text be a vision unto you it hath discovered how slippery our station is I beseech you therefore when you have forgotten me yet remember my Text and forget it not lest you slippe and slide and fall like the house built upon the sands the fall whereof was great The Royall Preacher tells us that God hath set the world in the heart of man to the end that he should consider the deceitfulnesse and uncertainty of it Shall a man love that which Christ never prayed for I pray for mine Elect I pray not for the world That is I pray not for the Muck-worms and Mammonists of this world And if the grace of God be in us we shall daily blesse and thank God for the Lord Jesus who hath given himselfe for our sinnes that hee might deliver us from this present evill world according to the will of God and our Father They that remember not this discovery of the world have not knowne God as John testifieth The Mammonists of this world cannot endure to heare or thinke of death and yet when they lose the things of this glassie world they murther themselves with worldly sorry St. Paul is a witnesse of this truth saying The sorrow of this world causeth death The Mammonists and Muck-wormes of this world brag boast and pride themselves with the things of the world Saint Paul was otherwise minded God forbid saith he that I should pride my selfe in ought or any thing in the world save in the Crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world It is no marvell that so few love Preachers and gaine so little or nothing by the frequent and powerfull preaching of Gospell-truth Paul sheweth us the reason why Demas forsooke him Hee was in love with this present world Saint Peter gives the Muck wormes Mammonists and lovers of this world their fearfull fatall and finall doom shewing first how we may escape the pollutions of this world and then how dangerous a relapse and backsliding is For saith he and puts the case thus If the Muck-wormes and Mammonists of this world have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are againe intangled therein and overcome the latter end is worse with them then the beginning for then they become Wells without water Clouds that are carried with a tempest to whom the mist of darknesse is reserved for ever For the Lord Christ Jesus sake blessed Auditory you holy people of the Lord remember my Text when you see not me That our standing is very slippery upon this Sea of glasse Remember that all the actions transactions and all the imaginations of all the thoughts purposes and intentions of all hearts are before the Throne of God open and manifest to his sight and censure The Lords Throne is in heaven His eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men The Lord tryeth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soule hateth Oh remember that the Lords Throne is for ever and that his Throne is in heaven and the earth is his pedestoole Oh remember that thou sweare not by heaven for it is the Throne of God For hee that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the Throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon Oh remember that we must all appeare before the Throne of Jesus Christ and render our accompts Oh remember what favour the Lord Jesus hath purchased for us that we may come boldly to a

the State of the Venetians and the French Monarchy abundantly confute Yea the boyes in Schoole conclude That Numeri quà numerus nulla vis nulla efficacia But mine endeered and most Christian Auditory I will make bold with you and surely I cannot give you a more glorious title if I did study to give you ten thousand to signifie what gives me satisfaction in this point even the Prophet Daniels interpretation of Nebuchadnezzars vision in a Dreame The Vision was this An Image appeared to the King whose head was of fine gold his breasts and armes of silver his belly and thighes of brasse his legges of iron and his feet part of iron and part of clay This head of fine gold breasts and armes of silver belly and thighes of brasse legges of iron and the feet part of iron and part of clay were the four Monarchies of this world this glassie Sea like Crystall The head of fine gold was the Monarchy of the Assyrians and Babylonians The breasts and armes of silver were the Medes and Persians The belly and thighes of brasse signified the Monarchy of the Greekes and Macedonians And the legges of iron and the feet partly of iron and partly of clay pourtray unto us the last Monarchy of the Romanes and Germanes The three first Monarchies to wit of the Assyrians and Babylonians Medes and Persians Graecians and Macedonians are long agoe slipt away in this slippery and brittle world And the last of the Romanes and Germanes is now at a very low ebbe for it is come to a titular Emperour and that is all that remaines of the House of Austria and at this very day ready to return to their prime and pristine commencement to be Comites de Kyburgh onely the proud Spaniard ventures at all to uphold their tottering state and low condition Assuredly no expectation at all remaineth but when the stone hewed out of the rocke of our sinnes shall fall upon the remaining stumps and then downe falls all the Gold Silver Brasse and Iron upon the feet of clay and so then this Sea of Glasse in Chaos antiquum confundetur And verily my Prayer is and shall be this Come Lord Jesus come quickly and stretch out thine hand close up the two eyes of this dying world the Sun and the Moon that we may attain that heavenly Jerusalem where there 's no need of either but the glory of the Lamb of God the Lord Jesus shal be our exceeding glorious recompence of reward for ever The second Use of the Doctrine is mournfull sad and sable even of lamentation for the witlesse wights of this glassie brittle seas inhabitants Oh how many sots are there in this restlesse sea of the world who albeit they see and may discern this truth in a vision and revelation of Jesus yet think of nothing but seek here for their content and care for nothing but here to finde their Requiem for their soules Behold blessed in the Lord their extreame folly Some seek and conceive hope that they shall find it in the lust and brutish lustfulnesse of the flesh and what is that but the foame of this sea and what tends it to and ends in but fordid luxurie which brings us to rottennesse pox and penurie This foame dwels in drunkennesse vomit and spewing in riot and excesse which ends in filthy annihilation fit for the draft-house and nothing else Others seek their Requiem in this restlesse sea in the lust of the eyes which is riches and the pomp of the world which the Scripture cals Phantasie When King Agrippa and Bernice his wife came in to hear Paul the Greek speaks thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} What are these but Conchyliamaris the shels of this glassie sea which doe weary us in seeking them befoole us in the possession of them and vex us to the heart when we must part with them Others seek their Requiem in the pride of life and what are all the pleasures of this life but the billowes of this sea of glasse wherewith some are lifted up to vain glory that feather which children and fooles labour to catch in the streets and abundantly sweat for it and know not what to doe with it when they have it but set it flying again Others it lifteth up to Honours and yet his Lordship must say to rottennesse Thou art my father and mother and to the wormes not of the earth for they scorne to come nigh thee but to thine owne skinworms as Job speaks You are my brothers and sisters Some are lifted up on the billowes of their policie and learning whereas we know that the prudent and politique dye as well as the ignorant and foolish Others are lifted up upon the billowes of their beauty which with a gleame of the Sun will be burnt with three fits of a Spanish Calenture will be discoloured with old age furrowed with wrinkles and with three dayes of death made hideous Others pride themselves in their gay garments which every week grow out of fashion as the world it self doth Is it not a strange thing that a Malefactor should be proud of his halter that must hang him Surely our clothes may put us in mind of our evil doing for had we not faln from God by our evil doing we had had no use of raiment In a word what are all our pleasures but Lilia terrae like the Lilies of the field what gold and silver but Ilia terrae the garbage of the earth and what are honours and promotions but Ludibria venti feathers for the wind to play withall The third Use of this Doctrine is of Expostulation Have and doe we not too too often forget where we are verily we have and doe so still Ay me we little consider that we are poore passengers in this sea of glasse we are in this world and this world is a sea of glasse restlesse as a sea and brittle as glasse our Port and Haven is Heaven every one of us is his owne Pilot to guide his own vessel The Pilots place is to sit in the sterne of his ship Why there To see how she steeres That true Christian Passenger that sailes towards heaven will ever be minding his end sitting in the sterne and considers how his Ship steeres toward the Haven of Heaven Never do any saile in safety in this restlesse world but they that in their voyage have the Rudder in their hand and the Compasse and Sea-Card in their eye that is to say think and meditate of their end and steere toward heaven The fourth Use of this Doctrine is of holy Resolution What is that Surely to resolve as the holy Divine adviseth Not to love the world for if we doe the love of God is not in us Can any man love a traiterous and treacherous Judas which if you confide in him will betray you with a kisse And if the world smile upon you take heed lest the next thing you heare of