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Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habitFiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit
Five sermons preached upon sundry especial occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King James into blessedness. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the triennial visitation of the right reverend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chapel by Guildhall, at the solemn election of the right honourable the lord major of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Cross, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Cross. August 5. By Tho: Adams.Fiue sermons preached vpon sundry especiall occasions Viz. 1 The sinners mourning habit: in Whitehall, March 29. being the first Tuesday after the departure of King Iames into blessednesse. 2 A visitation sermon: in Christs Church, at the trienniall visitation of the right reuerend father in God the lord bishop of London. 3 The holy choice: in the chappell by Guildhall, at the solemne election of the right honorable the lord maior of London. 4 The barren tree: at Pauls-Crosse, Octob. 26. 5 The temple: at Pauls-Crosse. August 5. By Tho: Adams.
London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for John Grismand, 1626London: printed by Aug. Matthewes and John Norton for Iohn Grismand, 1626
THE SINNERS MOURNING HABIT. › In dust and ashes.THE SINNERS MOVRNING HABITE. › In dust and ashes.
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An adorned body is not the vehicle of an humbled soul. Job, before his affliction was not poor. Doubtless, he had his Wardrobe, his change and choice of garments. Yet now, how doth his humbled soul contemn them! as if he threw away his vesture, saying; I have worn thee for pomp, given countenance to a silken case; I quite mistook thy nature, get thee from me, I am weary of thy service, thou hast made me honourable with men, thou canst get me no estimation before the Lord. Repentance gives a farewell, not only to wonted delights, but even to natural refreshings. Job lies not on a bed of Roses and Violets, as did the Sybarites; nor ⟨p. 21⟩on a couch beautified with the Tapestry of Egypt; but on a bed of Ashes. Sackcloth is his apparel; dust and ashes the lace and embroidery of it.1 Thus Niniu•hs King, upon that fearful sentence, rose from his throne, laid his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth, and sate in ashes. O what an alteration can repentance make? From a King of the earth, to a worm of the earth: from a foot-cloth, to sackcloth: from a Throne, to a dunghill: from sitting in State, to lying in ashes! Whom all the reverence of the world attended on, to whom the head was uncovered, the knee bowed, the body prostrated; who had as many salutations, as the firmament stars, God save the King: He throws away Crown, sceptre, Majesty, and all, and sits in ashes. How many doth the golden Cup of Honour make drunk, and driven from all sense of mortality! Riches and hearts ease, are such usual intoxications to the souls of men; that it is rare to find any of them so low as Dust and Ashes.
An adorned body is not the vehicle of an humbled soule. Iob, before his affliction was not poore. Doubtlesse, hee had his Wardrobe, his change and choise of garments. Yet now, how doth his humbled soule contemne them! as if hee threw away his vesture, saying; I haue worne thee for pompe, giuen countenance to a silken case; I quite mistooke thy nature, get thee from mee, I am weary of thy seruice, thou hast made mee honourable with men, thou canst get mee no estimation before the Lord. Repentance giues a farewell, not onely to wonted delights, but euen to naturall refreshings. Iob lies not on a bed of Roses and Violets, as did the Sybarites; nor ⟨p. 21⟩