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

Let us go again. Let us go, that is, go personally. Let us go again, that is, go frequently.

Let vs goe againe. Let vs goe, that is, goe personally. Let vs goe againe, that is, goe frequently.

1. Let us go; not send our Deputy, but go our selves. He that sends, sees by another's eyes, and takes the state of things upon trust. If we go, we see by our own, and our own eyes ⟨p. 40⟩be our best informers. How is he Episcopus, that never overlooks. So Saint Jerome in his Epistle to Nepotian, nitatur esse quod dicitur. Hee is an ill Shepherd, that does not know Vultum pecoris. Know the state of thy flocks, ¹and the face of thy herds. Desire to see them, quomodo Moses voluit videre Deum, [Greek or Hebrew], face to face. In the Proverb, Domini oculus pascit equū, & vestigia eius pinguefaciunt agrum. The Masters eye feeds the horse; the presence of the Bishop, like the Northwind, dispels infection. It was Pauls continual fear; some prevarication in his absence.² I fear I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found to you such as you would not. Saint Peters Shadow wrought miracles, but now the Bishops shadow will work no miracles. This is one special thing to be visited and examined, the residence of Pastors in their Charges. It is an unhappy thing for a man to be a stranger at home.³ Damasus compares such to wanton women; which no sooner bear children, but presently put them forth to nurse, that with less trouble they may return to their old pleasure• Peraldus, ⁴a Popish writer, is so bitter against those that feed their flocks by Deputies, that he says, It is as if a man should marry a wife, and suffer another to get children by her. ludque Clictovaei, magis salsum quam falsum; Vicariam quidem salutem, personalem verò perniciem, talisbusmanere.