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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02843	A sermon of the stewards danger preached at Paules Crosse the 15. of August by Iohn Hayward ; and now published at the earnest request of diuers well disposed.	Hayward, John, Sir, 1564?-1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 12984.5; ESTC S122933	21,688	62

where Iohn saith I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were iudged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their workes The booke of life is the register of heauen containing the ●ames of Gods elect The other bookes that were opened wherein their workes were seene were the registers of their consciences then laid open before Gods iudgement seate So that now we haue found two witnesses and two accusers to come foorth against vs the diuel that prouoked and thine owne conscience priuie to thy sinne And against this second accuser no exception to bee taken when thine owne heart speaketh in thine owne cause There are yet more accusers The very sinnes which thou hast committed shall accuse thee yea alreadie long since haue accused thee For so soone as thou committest them their crie ascendeth vp into heauen they appeare against thee before God and the remembrance of them remaineth vnto iudgement except by repentance and faith in the bloud of Christ they be done away God saith to Cain Gen. 4.10 The voyce of thy brothers bloud crieth vnto me from the ground Hee saith vnto Abraham Gen. 18.20 The crie of Sodome and Gomorrah is great and their sinne 〈◊〉 exceeding grieuous That is their grieuous sinnes crie alowd in my eares against them Esay 59. vers 12. in his complaint the Prophet hath these words Our transgressions are many before thee and our sins testifie against vs. And Iames 5.3 the Apostle saith Your gold and siluer is cankred and the rust of them shall be a witnes against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire You haue heaped vp treasures for the last daies Behold the hire of the labourers which haue reaped your fields which is of you kept backe by fraud crieth and the cries of them which haue reaped are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes Al these places of scripture testifie that our sinnes by vs committed doe accuse vs and they remaine euidence vpon record against vs to conuince vs to haue bin wastfull stewards And their mouth accusing vs cannot be stopped but by speedie conuersion vnto God And of these witnesses and accusers a clowde a tempest an armie yea a world is ascended vp against vs vnto God and hath cried out and still doth against vs. Infinite prophanations of holie things the prophanation of Gods holy name of his holy Sabboths of his holy word of his holy Sacraments of his holie religion Infinite wrongs and iniuries while euery one defraudeth another oppresseth another and spoyleth another Infinite excesses in wantonnes vncleannes and pride in furfetting drunkennes and idlenes and other our infinite sinnes Whereof the Prophet saith for his part that his sinnes were more in number then the haires of his head And we may well say for our parts that our sinnes are more in number then the starres of heauen then the sand on the sea shore These sinnes long since haue begun and cease not still with open crie to accuse vs to be wasters of our masters goods and yet we are secure as if none durst once open his mouth against vs. And what canst thou except against these accusers when it shall appeare that they are thy iniquities There is yet another accuser most faithfull and most incorrupt whom no mans greatnes can make to feare nor any mans gift blind that shall both accuse and condemne doing al things both with truth and with authoritie and that is the word of God both written and spoken The word and testimonie which we haue heard shall testifie against vs that we haue been better taught and would not amend And the Prophets Apostles and messengers of the Lord of hostes that haue spokē vnto vs in his name shall come foorth and say We haue shewed them the way wherein they should walke and they chose rather to walke after the stubbornnes of their owne heart Iesus saith vnto the Iewes Ioh. 5.45 Doe not thinke that I will accuse you vnto my Father there is one that accuseth you euen Moses in whom ye trust And Ioh. 12.47 If a man heare my words and beleeue not I iudge him not for I came not to iudge the world but to saue the world He that refuseth me and heareth not my words hath one that iudgeth him the word that I haue spoken it shall iudge him at the last day Thus the word of God and his ministers accuse and condemne Which is not to be vnderstood as if Moses and the other seruants of God should come foorth in person to accuse or as if the word of God written or pronounced should found out against vs but the remembrance thereof in our consciences shall crie out against vs and accuse vs before God to whom the secrets of al hearts shall be manifest When we shall say in our selues and against our selues in such a booke leafe and chapter of the holy Scripture I read it and at such a Sermon in such a place and time and from the mouth of such a minister of God I heard it deliuered with authoritie my conscience euen trembling and quaking at the hearing of it That I should not lie nor blaspheme nor curse nor raile nor speake filthilie but that I should speake the trueth and glorifie God and giue holesome and good counsell to my neighbour And that I should not steale nor cousin nor deceiue nor oppresse nor vse false waights nor packe wares deceitfully but giue my selfe to honest labour and deale truly in bargaining and vse others as I would haue them vse me And that I should not delight in chambering and wantonnes in fornication and vncleannes but should keepe my vessell in holines and in honour and my body chast as a cleane temple for the holy Ghost and should vse the lawfull remedie of honourable mariage if the gift of continencie were wanting vnto me And that I should not be wrathfull furious cruell smiting wounding and killing but should be meeke louing and mercifull helping by all means to cherish and maintaine life And that I should not delight in surfetting and drunkennes consuming wastfully y ● creatures of God which others want and perish for want of them but that I should feed soberly that my very eating and drinking might be to the glorie of God that I should breake my bread to the hungry and refresh the thirsty soule And that I should feare God and flie the lusts of the flesh That I shuld call vpon God not trust in my wealth And should sanctifie his Sabboths and loue the assemblies of his Saints and serue God in spirit truth And when I read and heard these things which I now remember Gods spirit working together with his word told me that these were the holie rules of God that in keeping of them there was great reward and the contempt breaking of them was death

case hath no priuilege and both men and women must giue account Neither is there greater immunitie in the condition then in the sex For the King together with his subiects the Noble together with the base the honourable Iudge together with the people the Captaine together with his souldiers the Lord together with his tenants the master together with his seruants the rich together with the poore and the free together with the bond must all come to account with God If any sort and condition should be freed the inferiour sort of subiects of common people of souldiers of tenants of seruants of poore men and bond men should be freed rather then Kings Nobles Iudges Captaines Lords Masters rich men and free men For Luk. 12.48 our Sauiour saith To whomsoeuer much is giuen of him shall much be required and to whom men commit much of him the more will they aske As we doe rather vrge them to come to account with vs that haue in their hands of ours many pounds then those that haue but a few pence But it is certaine that al both great and small must giue account For the duties euen of Kings Iudges great men is set down in the word of God as well as the duties of subiects meane and poore men and great mē haue bin examined iudged and punished in the day of Gods visitation as well as meane men The Kings of Sodome and Gomorrah perished with the people and Pharaoh was drowned with his seruants And howsoeuer in this world the difference is great betweene the great and the small yet to God they are all one his seruants and his stewards and all people of whatsoeuer age sex or condition they be must giue account Heare this I pray you and beguile not your selues you must all giue account and woe to the faulty You must giue account how you haue ruled and woe vnto tyrants You must giue account how you haue obeyed and woe vnto rebels You must giue account how you haue vsed superiour dignitie and woe vnto the proud And how you haue borne your low estate and woe to the enuious You must giue account how you haue vsed riches and woe to them that haue set their hearts vpon them And how you haue borne your pouertie and woe vnto murmurers You must giue account of your soules and the faculties therof that haue corrupted your vnderstanding with errours and haue refused to be inlightened with the truth that haue inclined your will vnto euill and haue refused when you were called to turne backe vnto goodnes Here all your delights pleasures studies and thoughts shall be brought to remembrance You must giue account of your bodies that haue decayed your health with surfets your strength with fornication that haue your mēbers maimed through braules and fraies that haue made more reckoning of the beautie of the face then of the glorious comelines of the well attired inward man that haue wantonnes and enuie in your eyes lying slander and blasphemie in your tongues bloud and spoyles in your hands You must giue account also of your time which some of you haue lost in sleeping some in playing some in pursuing pleasures riches and honours in the meane while neglecting the work of the Lord standing idle all day long in the market place taking great paines to serue the diuell the world and the lusts of your flesh and wholy idle vnto God neuer entring into his vineyard no not at the eleuenth houre to do any seruice there How many spend a summers day and doe not the good of an houre How many spend a whole yeere and doe not the good of a day How many spend their whole age and doe not the good of a yeere and grow old in yeeres remaining yong in knowledge and are come hoareheaded to the graue and vnderstand not the mysterie of their Baptisme For all these things all must giue account and woe to wastfull stewards Heare this I pray you that haue the precious riches of God in occupying and take heede of wasting and be carefull both of the stocke and of the gaine for the time will come when it shall be said vnto you as it was here said vnto the steward Giue an account of thy stewardship We fooles thinke our selues Lords and are but seruants and thinke our selues freeholders and are but stewards and bailifes VVhatsoeuer is in our hands wee thinke it to bee our owne and haue learned without booke and without vnderstanding also that text of Scripture Matth. 20.15 Is it not lawfull for me to doe as I will with mine owne when as wee haue not a peny of our owne no not a minute of time to cast away and waste at our pleasure But we are the Lords and all wee haue is the Lords and wee must one day giue account Thus much of this second degree of the stewards danger For thou maist be no longer steward In these words is y e last degree of his dāger to lose his seruice and to be turned out of office Infinit are the things that God doth betrust vs withall while we are in this world wherin he proueth our fidelity Some are outward things as kingdomes offices riches houses lands friends children seruants and such like Some in a sort are proper to the bodie as health strength beautie agilitie long life with foode and cloathes which wee vse to sustaine those other things in the body withall Some things pertaine to the soule as dominion ouer the bodie in the vse of all the members thereof sense vnderstanding memorie will affections wisedom and other vertues with manifold knowledge of Artes tongues histories and other things together with the graces of Gods holy spirit as knowledge of God in Christ faith loue humilitie with all the branches of true regeneration Of these things many are transitorie and serue onely to transitorie vses as the outward things and the things of the bodie sauing that after the resurrection vnto the bodie raised vp out of the dust of the earth many things shall be restored better then now they are In the meane while kingdomes riches and all outward things decay and come to nothing And in the body also sicknes taketh away health much labour spendeth strength age chaungeth beautie into wrinckles and the graue taketh away life and all The things of the soule are either naturall therby I meane al those things that a natural man not regenerate may attaine vnto or spirituall whereby I meane those things that are giuen to the spirituall man and which the naturall man sauoureth not things naturall either faile or are chaunged Also some spiritual things in the regenerate cease for faith and hope excellent graces of Gods sanctifying spirit doe cease when the promises are performed vnto vs and we possesse the things that we hoped for These things that cease are sometime taken away with Gods fauour and without their losse that lose them because God otherwise recompenceth them As sight was taken from