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A caueat for cold Christians. In a sermon preached by Mr. Paul Bayne ... Wherein the common disease of Christians, with the remedie, is plainly and excellently set downe for all that will vse it
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Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.
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A CAVEAT FOR COLD CHRISTIANS IN A SERMON PREACHED BY Mr. PAVL BAYNE SOMTIMES Minister of Gods Word at St. Andrewes in Cambridge WHEREIN THE COMMON DISease of Christians with the remedie is plainly and excellently set downe for all that will vse it Iohn 15.9.10 Continue ye in my loue If ye keepe my Commandements ye shall abide in my loue AT LONDON Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery and are to be sold at his shop vnder St. Peters Church in Cornhill and in Popes-head Alley right against the signe of the white horse 1618. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL HIS SINGVLAR GOOD FRIEND Mr. ROBERT CLAVERING Towne-Clarke of Newcastle all happinesse of a better life and this present SIr considering the good acceptance that some former few Sermons of that religiously-learned and learnedly-religious Diuine Master Paul Bayne haue had with the Church of God the ensuing Sermon lying hitherto by me I was without difficulty induced to make it publike For if I should longer conceale it what know I whether some body else who had not the like interest to it that my selfe haue might not preuent me in printing this as well as they haue done in publishing some other things of the like nature Moreouer looking into the carriage and frame of this draught I did not see how it could disparage any of the rest which are flowne abroad before it Lastly if we will ponder the subiect matter discoursed of in the following leaues I will permit it to any indifferent wise-hearted Christian Reader who vieweth the estate of the times and waigheth aduisedly what singular vice raigneth what especiall graces are ordinarily defectiue among Professors whether this Sermon vttereth not * Commoda accommoda profitable things and profitable things in their season For when respected Sir did the like wofull declining from the ancient feruor of our first loue so generally spread it selfe through all the quarters of our Iland He hath but halfe an eye who looking vp and downe beholdeth not that euery little nothing in zealous forwardnesse of profession seemeth for the most part very sufficient We will neither diligently prouoke our selues to liuely proceedings in the way of powerfull walking with God neither will we patiently endure others to outstrip vs and to aspire vnweariedly after the highest pitch of well doing This leauing our first loue this abatement of former light and heate in our Christian course is proued in the ensuing Sermon and reproued When was there so little minding and remembring whence we are generally not slidden but as it were fallen headlong When were there so few sincere and setled resolutions to repent of the euill of relinquishing our first loue a sinne wherein our land hath sinned besides all its other sinnes Alas the sanctified employment of our memories to consider whence we are fallen shame and confusion of face working true repentance that we are so fowlie fallen are strange things vnto vs although onely the exercise of these graces can raise vs vp to true happinesse in this life and in the next That we may set vpon these sauing practises wee are effectually called vpon in the fore-named Sermon So that as I formerly said it will I perswade my selfe proue both profitable and seasonable to the Christian Reader who hath a discerning spirit both what his owne wants are and how by this little booke some pretty supply may be affoorded him for his recouering Thus much why the Sermon is published a word or two Worthy Sir why by a more especiall inscription I haue dedicated it to your name First therefore I was moued hereto with an earnest desire to manifest further then euer yet I haue done the entirenesse of my dearest affections toward you who after our many yeeres comfortable louing and liuing together of late haue been remoued from me into those Northerne parts Not being therefore now able face to face to enioy the wonted sweet intercourse of speech and other friendlike offices I longed notwithstanding to tell you you were not so much out of mind as out of sight Secondly I desired that the dedication might befit the person remembring Senecaes counsell * Vtique cauebimus ne munera superuacua mittamus vt foeminae aut seni arma venatoria aut rustico libros aut studijs ac literis dedito retia Sen. de ben l. 1. cap. 11. we must take heede wee send not superfluous gifts as to a woman or old man hunting weapons or to a clowne bookes or nets to one following his studies and learning On the contrary to send a booke to a scholer or a Sermon to an experienced professor I cannot see but it will hold good proportion Thus not doubting but you will louingly receiue what was louingly intended I take my leaue desiring that hee who hath begun the good worke some yeeres agoe in you and hath made you graciously proceed hitherto euen hee the mercifull and true God would perfectly accomplish it vnto the day of Iesus Christ Yours in the surest bond EZ Ch. London 1618. A CAVEAT FOR COLD CHRISTIANS REVEL 2.4.5 Neuerthelesse I haue somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first loue remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe thy first workes AS a husband absent aduertiseth his wife by letter of that which is behoouefull so it pleaseth our Sauiour Christ absent in body though present in spirit to admonish his Spouse and this Church in particular by an Epistle sent to her In it we may obserue these three parts Three parts in the Epistle 1. The preface first the preface containing the persons written vnto and writing the one wee endorse on the backside of our letters the other we vse to subscribe after them Secondly the matter 2. The matter in which are three things in which three things are contained first because loue edifieth he beares her witnesse of the things commendable in her that his rebuke comming from loue might be better digested Secondly in this 4. verse he mentioneth that for which he had a saying to her that is to say that she was fallen from her first loue it was decayed in her Thirdly in the fifth and sixth verses hee prescribes a remedy in setting downe which he obserues this order first he sets downe a double practice which would restore her viZ. remembring her fall and repenting Secondly because the medicine is bitter and not easily taken hee shewes her the great perill the mortall hurt which will ensue if this be neglected Thirdly hee encourageth his patient shewing that yet there was a good signe that loue was not quite gone though it was in some sort lessened and enfeebled because she hated the workes of the Nicolaitans Thus with a bitter potion sending her a manus Christi Christ folding vp as it were a pill in gold that it might bee let downe the more pleasantly Hauing finished the matter Conclusion 3 he comes to conclude in which first by a solemne O yes hee makes