Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage, Title page 1 – Dedication 1
Two Sermons:
TENDING TO DIRECTION FOR CHRISTIAN CARIAGE, Both in AFFLICTIONS INCVMBENT, And in IVDGEMENTS IMMINENT.
THE FORMER on PSALM. 13. 1.
THE LATTER on HEBR. 11. 7.
By THOMAS GATAKER B. in D. and Pastor of ROTHERHITH.
LONDON, Printed by IOHN HAVILAND. 1623.
DAVIDS Remembrancer.
A MEDITATION ON PSALME 13. 1.
Deliuered in a Sermon at Serjeants Inne in Fleet-street.
By THOMAS GATAKER, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Pastor of Rotherhith.
ESAI. 62. 6, 7.
You that are mindfull of the Lord, be not silent: GiueGive him no rest, till he repaire Ierusalem, and till he make her the praise of the Earth.
LONDON, Printed by IOHN HAVILAND. 1623.
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir IAMES LEY Knight and Baronet, Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Bench.
RIGHT HONOVRABLE:
ALBEIT Speech hauehave no small aduantage of Writing; in that aHabet nescio quid latentis foreign viva vox; & in aures disc…puli de autoris ore transfusa fortius sonat. Hiero. ad Paulin. Viva illa, ut dicitur, vox lectione pleniꝰ alit. Quintil. institut. l. 2. c. 2. Quod memoria lapsus ciccroni quasi ex Tuscul. l. 2. tribuit Erasm. in Hieron. & in Adag. Atqui Cic. epist. ad Atlic. lib. 2. epist. 8. Ubi sunt qui aiunt, foreign; Quanto magis vidi ex tuis literis, quàm ex illius ser…one quid ageretur?it hath a greater viuacitie accompanying it, than the other hath by much: the latter seeming to be but as bforeign. Greg Naz. epist. 52. Et foreign. idem epist. 38.a dead shadow of the former; Elocution cActio quasi vita quaedam est orationis. Quintil. institut. lib. 11. cap. 3.the very vitall spirit and chiefe grace of an Oration, and that, which dO' foreign. DionysHalicar. de Demosthene. Oratorem planè perfectum, & cui nihil admodum desit, Demosthenem facilè dixeris. Cic. de clar. Orat. Quo ne Athenas quidem ipsas magis credo fuisse Atticas. Idē de perfect. Orat. Grae. corum Oratorū praestantissimi sunt foreign qui fuerunt Athenis; corum autem princeps facilè Demosthenes, admirabile est quantum inter omnes unus excellat. Idem de opt. gen. Orat. Cujus commemorato nomine maxima eloquentiae consummati… audientis animo oboritur. Val. Max. memorab. l. 8. c. 7.that most eminent Orator and *Quomodo Facundiae Parentem Ciceronem. Plin. hist. nat. l. 7. c. 30. Atqui, cùm Demos…enes Graecae, Cicero Latinae eloquen… ▪ Principes extiterint; Demosthenes & prior fuit, & exmagna parte Ciceronem, quantus est, fecit. Quintil. institut. l. 6. c. 3. & l. 10. c. 1.Father of Elo…, … not the Prime pa… only of Oratorie, but in effect eActi… in dicendo una dominatur. Huic prima… dedisse Demosthenes dicitur, cùm rogaretur, quid in dicendo esset primum, huic secundas, hui: tertias. Cic. de Orat. l. 3. & declar. Orat. Val. Max. memor. l. 8. c. 10. Quintil. instit. l. 11. c. 3. & Aug. epist. 56.all in all, and the summe of al, being fHinc Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 10. In Demosthene magna pars Demosthenis abest, quia legitur potius quàm auditur.wanting in it: In regard wherof, it is not wont to make so deepe an impression, or to worke vponupon the affections so powerfully as gNulla res magis penetrat in animos, eosqu… fingit, format, flectit. Cic. declar. Orat. Tantum dictis adjicit gratiae, ut infinitè magis eadem audita quam lecta delectent. Quinti…l. instit. l. 11. c. 3. Multo magis, …t vulg… dicitur, viva vox affic…t. Nam, licet acriora s…nt, qu… legas, altius tamen in animo sedent, … pr…nunciatio, vultus, habitus, gestus etiam dicentis adfigit. Plin. epist. 4. lib. 2. Hinc … D… mosthenis orationem, quàm eis recitasset, ad…antibus Rhodijs, foreign; Quidsi ipsum, vel, Quid si bestiam ipsam audivissetis? Cic. de Orat. lib. 3. …. nat. lib. 7. cap. 30. Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 10. Plin. jun. ep. 4. lib. 2. Quintil. instit. l. 11. c. 3. & Hieron. ad Paulin.that doth; & it is accounted therfore but hforeign Ignat. epist. 1. foreign. E…stath. ad Odyss. foreign ex Pausania.a second shift, and as sailing with a side-winde, where a direct fore-winde faileth. Yet herein hath Writing the ods of Speech; in that by it we may speake as well to the absent as to the present; by it men restrained by sicknesse, weaknesse, or otherwise from publike …mployment, yet may notwithstanding much profit the publike, & sitting themselues still at home, benefit others abroad; yea by it, not the iSola …es est que homines absentes praesentes facit. Turpilius de vicissitudine literarum. Quid enim tam pr… sens est inter absentes, quàm per epistolas & alloqui & audire quos diligas? Hieron. ad Nit…. Sunt literae doctrina quaedam, qua quisque valeat quamvis longè absenti verba mitter… man… facta in silentio, quae rursus ille cui mittuntur, non auribus, sed oculis colligat. Aug. de Trinit. lib. 10. cap. 1. Voces signa sunt, per qu… praesentibus loquimur: inventae sunt literae, per qu…s possemus & cum absentibus colloqui. Ibid. l. 15. c. 10.liuing only may conuerse with the liuing, kforeign. Homer. Iliad. foreign.though neuer so farre both by sea and land seuered either from other, but the liuing also may hauehave profitable commerce and dealing with the dead, as lHinc illud Luc. 16. 29. Habent Mosem & Prophetas: audiant illos. Mortui siquidē loquuntur adhuc: quod de Abele Spiritus Sanctus Heb. 11. 4. & de Samuele Siracides Eccles. 46. 20.we hauehave by meanes of their writings still extant with those that died and departed this world, euen thousands of yeeres since, to our exceeding great comfort and inestimable gaine. Being therefore moued by some that heard of it, and the matter deliuered in it, but could not be present at the deliuery of it, to make this weake discourse, by helpe of Pen and Presse, more publike, as dealing in an Argument not vnfitting the present times, and such as they desired to be more fully either instructed or directed in, which by meanes thereof they supposed that both themselues and many other might be; I was the rather induced to condescend to this their desire, that by presenting of it to your Lordship, the prime Member of that graue and reuerend Societie, where it was by word of mouth deliuered: I might giuegive some poore pledge and testimonie of my due and deserued respect to your Honour, and of my thankfull acknowledgement of such fauours, as hauehave from time to time, by your Lordship beene shewed me, as well during the time of mine employment at Lincolnes-Inne, (where your Lordship was one of the first whom I receiued kinde acceptance from, being Reader at the time of my first accesse thither,) as since also. Hauing therefore during my late restraint by some infirmitie and weaknesse that constrained me to keepe home, and to intermit my publike imployment, taken some time to reuiew, supply, and enlarge my former Meditations of the Subiect then handled, (which I could not so well finde time for before) I make bold to tender them here (such as they are) vntounto your Lordship, and intreating onelyonly your courteous acceptance of them, without further troubling your Honour amids so many weightier affaires, commit both your selfe and them to the gratious protection and holy direction of the Highest.
Your Lordships to command in the Lord, THOMAS GATAKER.