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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17318	A caueat for suerties two sermons of suertiship, made in Bristoll, by VV. Burton.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1593 (1593)	STC 4166; ESTC S109542	35,827	94

noble actes of God the wonderfull deliuerances of Gods people and the horrible confusion of wicked men let him hearken to the word of God If thou wouldest know thy maker thy redeemer thy sāctifier if thou wouldest know the vanitie the miserie and the wickednesse of the world with the subtilties sleightes of Sathan if thou wouldest know the happinesse the ioyes and felicities of heauen and finde the way thither if thou wouldst know the paines tormēts of hell and how to escape them enquire of Moses and the Prophets and they will tell thee What shall I say for one thing ouer-taketh another in such sort that confusion wil ouerwhelme vs before we can tell what riches are contained in the storehouse of Gods booke for who can sound the depth of a bottomlesse sea but in a word if a man desire to know himselfe throughly within and without in all his affaires betweene God and man let him behold himselfe in the glasse of Gods booke and when we haue so done we will say as the woman of Samaria said whē she had reasoned with the Lord Iesus Be hold one that hath told me all that euer I did and more euē al that euer I should do Therfore let no man maruell what we meane being the Ministers of God to speake of such and such matters or to medle in the businesse and dealings of mē for the word of God doth take order for all our affaires neither wonder who told tales of thee as the king of Aram did for the word doth rifle the hiddē corners of the heart But how are our aduersaries the Papistes deceiued which hold that the word of God doth not containe all things necessarie to the saluation of the elect but ô Lord what spirite of Atheisme and blasphemie doth possesse those men which durst compare Plimes Philosophie with the bookes of Moses Aristotles Ethickes and Politiques with the Prouerbes of Salomō Marcus Aurelius with Marke the Euangelist Marlins Prophesies with the Prophesies of Esay and the rest the eloquence of Cicero or Demostenes with the eloquēce of the holy ghost in the mouths of the Prophets and Apostles and in all the Scriptures or any doctours or fathers before the Doctours and Fathers of the Bible For what is lead to gold what is water to wine what is ignorance to learning what is darknesse to light what is the chaffe to the wheate what is falsehood to truth what is earth to heauen what comparison can there be betweene God and man and so much for that point Secōdly we may learne here that except God doth teach vs direct vs as it were by line by leuell by precept vpō precept by litle and by litle as the Prophet speaketh we know not how to order rightly our common businesse and dayly affaires of this life but we shalbe snared and entangled with our owne words or ouertakē one way or other to our own hinderance so foolish ignorant is man by nature And againe whē we are snared and brought into danger we know not how to helpe our selues except the Lord do teach vs but if he should let vs alone to shift for our selues we would neuer leaue vntill we had wrapped our selues in ten times more danger thē we were in before Adam hauing transgressed will thinke to hide himselfe frō God in the trees of the garden to couer his nakednesse with fig leaues His faulte he will excuse by the fault of another and rather then fayle he will not sticke to lay it vpō God him selfe so foolish was Adam and so are all his posteritie Cain will incurre the vengeance of God by killing of his brother when he hath done he thinkes to saue himselfe by outfacing of the matter but it will not be and so do all Cains brood Saul will disobey Gods cōmaundement like an hypocrite and then like a foole he will say he ment no harme he did it of a good intent and such fooles are we all by nature We are become like foolish marriners which will runne vpon the rockes to auoide the sandes We are become like Sisera who flying for his life will runne into Iaells tent for succour where the nayle and the hammer is prepared for his head and whē he thinketh to take vp his rest and sleepe most soūdly then is he nearest his destruction We are like children and sicke folkes which do desire nothing so much as those things which may hurt them We are become like the Philistines which were most merry when the house was ready to fall vpon their heades We are secure like the men of Laish which mistrusted nothing vntill the children of Dan did smite them with the edge of the sword and burnt their Citie with fire Now if we be so foolish for this life how foolish are we for the life to come we see that except our heauenly father doth direct vs by his counsell as he led Israell by the cloud and warne vs by his messengers as he warned the wisemē by his Angell we know not how to order our commō businesse the affaires of this life much lesse do we know by nature how to serue the Lord our God and how to worship him aright If by all our cunning which we haue by nature we cānot auoide the snares of men how shall we thinke by our naturall wit and cunning to auoide the snares of the deuill if we know not how to get out of bodily dāger without Gods direction how shall we thinke to get out of spiritual dāger without Gods direction for there is no craftinesse like spiritual craftinesse as there was no beast so subtill as the serpent Againe if we cā not of our selues get out of trouble whē we are in trouble how do we thinke of our selues to winde out of the temptations of Sathan except God do teach vs. For all the wayes of sinne are like the wayes of a harlot vvhich are moueable saith Salomō thou canst not know thē that is there is such varietie and store of them to bewitch men that we can neuer know which is which so in the crooked wayes of the deuill there be so many windings and turnings that whē a man is once in he cānot finde the way out againe vntil the Lord do bring him out againe And yet euery one thinketh that he may aduenture vpon any temptation and he shall easily get out againe when he list by his mother wit c. and no maruell for it is the easiest thing in the word for a man to deceiue his owne soule and so much for the 2. point Thirdly we may learne here that almightie God doth not leaue his childrē to thēselues but cōsidering how simple they are by nature he doth take paines to teach them how and which way to helpe themselues in euery action and for this cause hath he set down rules and instructions for all their affaires in