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A18016	Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1588 (1588)	STC 4665; ESTC S116841	50,873	124

Schoolemaister vnto vs for euer how had the creation of the world the making of man the building of the woman the placing of them in pleasure and cause of their paine bin remembred How could the promise of the Lords mercie in Christ the drowning of the world the burning of Sodom the preseruing of Lot and the punishment of Lots wife bin brought to our knowledge Yea Moses himselfe would soone haue forgotten what was written in the tables of stone which he brake had not the Lord written it againe with his owne finger Neither had the precepts and lawes of the Lord bin remembred in the posteritie Deut. 11. had not the Lord commaunded the children of Israel to write them in the posts of their dores Deut. 17. c. and the Kings to coppy them out for their instruction And this charge was giuen to Isaias the Prophet Isai 30. Now go and write it before them in a Table and note it in a Booke that it may be for the last day for euer and euer And of this benefite Dauid speaking sayth This shall be written for the posteritie And had not the Lord giuen vnto them his Word to be a light to their féete and pathes a staffe to stay them a rule to direct them they could not but runne a whoring in ignorance with the heathens worshipping not onely birds fourefooted beasts and corporall images the Gods of Ekron Baalpeor Dagon Asteroth Moloch and such but euen the Deuill himselfe contrarie to that commaundement of God to them Deut. 6. Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue Againe had not the Lord commanded in his Word the Paschall Lamb to be eaten euery yeare had not the Serpent bin lifted vp in the wildernes had not Manna bin reserued had not circumcision bin giuen to Abraham Psal 78. the lawe and statutes to Israel they would soone haue forgotten altogether and turned the seruice of God into Idolatrie Finally we at this time would soone forget that excellent benefit offered vs in Christ Iesus had he not willed his Gospell to be preached and instituted his Sacraments with this commandement Do this in remembrance of me I knowe your memories be weake as the water and ye by nature forgetfull therefore yet do this one thing for my sake thereby to remember me and declare my death till I come Let vs therefore consider this and thereby remember God and his works Fourthly when God sawe how oftentimes he was shut out of mens minds especially when they were full and in prosperitie he vsed often to correct and punish thē with manie and sundrie aduersities to stirre them vp to consider of his goodnes and power Affliction bringeth men to God to remember him in their beds and to runne vnto him in their afflictions to call vpon him in trouble and glorifie him in his mercies He well knew that as the frozen with cold best thinketh of fire the hungrie of meate the naked of clothes the prisoner of libertie the condemned of pardon so men be earnest to séeke after God Hos 5. and to remember him estéeming more of his mercie in time of wrath then of his iudgements in time of grace As for examples King Manasses in the prison remēbreth God whome in his prosperitie he had forgotten Ionas in the Whales belly remembreth that obedience to the Lord which before was shut out of memorie Psal 51. Exod. 2. Ier. 31. Dauid in his miserie crieth peccani Israel in Aegypt crie vnto the Lord and Ephraim in captiuitie complayneth hartely Thus the Lord purgeth the golde from the drosse in the fire thus winnoweth he the corne from the chaffe in the winde thus scoureth he the rust from the yron on the fretting stone thus driueth he the rebellious through fire and water vntill they acknowledge with Nabuchadnezar Dan. 4.25 37. that the most high hath power ouer the kingdomes of mē The polluted vessell is with water washed the raw flesh is seasoned with salt the dropping vine must bee pruned with a knife the weake stomackes must haue bitter wormewood the slow Asse a whip the heauie Oxe the goade the idle scholler correction and the fleshly Christian sower affliction This driueth home the lost sonne to his father and the wanton daughter to her mother And herein will the Lord begin at his owne house and execute this iudgement on the trees that be greene whatsoeuer become of the drie trees And therefore when we feele the touch of Gods iudgements either in minde bodie or wealth let vs know the cause and consider to what ende the same is inflicted and seeke remedie thereof at the hand of God with Ephraim Dauid Peter Magdalen And so remember God c. Fiftly and lastly when the Children of God after their repentance Wonderfull deliuerance tryall and sufficient experience of the Lords Iustice and mercie hee wonderfully deliuered to their great comfort they haue a great occasion giuen them to remember God and to glorifie him Iudg. As in the time of Gedeon when all hope was past they had a marueilous deliuerance from Madian As in the time of Sampson Iudg. when all hope was quailed they had a great victorie and deliuerance from the Philistines As in the dayes of Saule when Israel was oppressed by the Philistins againe 1. Sam. 17. Goliah was ouerthrowne and Israel deliuered As also in the time of the Kings of Israel and Iuda God gaue great victories to small hoasts agaynst mightie Nations A great instigation of them to thinke on the Lord his wonderful works And because we haue receiued great things and obtayned wonderfull deliuerances of of the mercie of our God let vs not forget the same but sing vnto him heartelie with songs of deliuerance The second thing that we are willed to remember is our bréethren Remember our brethren First those among them that haue the ouersight of vs and which speake vnto vs the word of God as the Apostle chargeth Heb. 13.7 whose end of conuersation considering we must follow their faith And these be they which ruling well are ●●compted worthie of double honour Neither must we neglect to bestowe on thē our temporall things which deliuer vnto vs the Spirituall treasure And this is a part of that honor which we be commanded to yéeld to our parēts Exod. 20. But how hardly the iudgement of man censureth these labouring persons with what grudgings they yéeld to them of their wealth and with what gainesaying the Ministery is furthered and relieued all men may sée This is not to remember I● 5. but forget thē Wo vnto him that defraudeth the labourer of his iust hire whereof he is most worthie The remembrance of these is often mentioned in the Lawe Le●●● and so is that mindfulnes of our poore brother Deut. 16. to whose néede we must not be gréeued to conferre Pro. 31. Tob. This Bersabe also remembred in

inough vppon the Mountaines of Israel for Sacrifices when there was none able to treade the Wynepresse nor any able man to bind the strong man when there was none able to breake downe the wall of separation betwéene God and man nor to rent asunder the vaile of the Temple when there was not so much as one sufficient for zeale to stand vp in the gappe that was open Ezech. 33. to turne away the Lords displeasure from man then caused he his owne arme to helpe his Church and euery member of the same he sent his owne Sonne Iesus into the world who to the comfort of his children sayth Lo Psal 16. heere am I to do thy will ô Father as in the beginning of the booke it is written of me And this is the same which euen vnto me may euery Christian man say is become Righteousnes against Sinne wisedome against folly holynes against corruption and fréedome against bondage my righteousnes by his resurrection my wisedome by his word my holynes by his spirit my redemption by his death Oh that men would therefore prayse the Lord for his goodnes and remember the wonderfull works wrought by him for the children of men Oh that they would take vp the cup of Saluation with Dauid and call vpon the name of the Lord for all his benefites towards them Psal 116. Isai 46. Exod. 20. Oh that they would remember to sanctifie his Saboth Remember the lawe of Moses his seruant and their sinnes in breaking that Lawe and thereof be ashamed and remember that Iesus Christ of the séede of Dauid is raised againe from the death 2. Tim. 2. verse 8. Such and so great and maruailous is the Lord in his mercies vnto his children after the purport of his promises made to Abraham and Dauid his seruants Remember Gods iudgemēts on his enemies But as for his enemies which anger him with stubborne rebellion which fight vnder the banner of Satan against him and his children they be subdued to his iudgements which on them he hath declared by rayning downe stormes and tempests plagues and destructions according to the effect of that communication threatning which Moses in Deutr. 28. doth denounce against them full of bitternes and woe which also with the causes thereof the Lord reiterateth in the 31. of the same saying Deut. 31.16.17 This people will rise vp and go a whoring after strange Gods of the land whether they go and will forsake me and breake the appointment which I made with them and then my wrath shall waxe hoate against them in that day and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them and they shall be consumed and much aduersitie tribulation shall come vpon them so that they will say Are not these troubles come vpon me because God is not with me How these Iudgements haue béene executed on the Israelites it is mentioned in the bookes of the Iudges Kings and Chronicles of Israel as in many other bookes of the holie Scripture and how the remainder of these things méeteth with the future Apostates S. Iohn descrieth in the ouerthrowe of Babylon with the great Whoare Reuel 18. Oh therefore that men considering this would stand in awe and sinne not Kisse the Sonne before he be angrie and learne of Dauid truely to protest in this sort Psal 116. Psal 77. vers 8. c. 119.52 55. I haue set the Lord euer before my face I remembred the yeares of the right hand of the Lord I remembred the works of the Lord certainly I remembred O Lord thy wonders of old and I did meditate in all thy works and did deuise of thine Actes I remembred thy iudgements of old euen the examples wherby thou declarest thy selfe to be Iudge of the world and I haue bin comforted And I haue remembred thy Name ô Lord in the night in the night when other sleepe and haue kept thy lawe Dauid did obserue this Dauid teacheth the same to vs and this must we also do Remember God and his works Fiue things which moue vs to remember God There be among other fiue things which may moue vs or perswade vs the rather to this dutie The first whereof is the due cōsideration of the frame of the World which a certaine Philosopher said was his onely Library for in beholding the same he sawe the magnificence of Gods power knew him therein and kept him in memorie Rom. 1. The verie Gentiles were occasioned héereby both to knowe and remember God though they worshiped him not as they should Psal 19. as Paul reasoneth Rom. 1. And as the Heauens declare the glorie of God and the Firmament his handie worke so the excellent harmonie of all the creatures consenting therevnto moueth the mind of man to kéepe the register thereof The second thing is the person of man called by the Gréekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little World wherein is the view as it were of all these things The auntient Philosopher Trismegistus draweth men to the knowledge and mindfulnes of God In lib. de poten Sap. dei Dialog 5. by the consideration of mans bodie Age fili saith he circumspice humani corporis opificium cuius admonitione perdisce quis tam pulchrae imaginis conditor c. Go to my Sonne looke about the workemanship of mans bodie by the admonition wherof learne perfitly who is he which hath made so beawtifull an image And perusing euery part and member of the body he concludeth thus Behold how many works of diuine Arte are in this one matter demonstrated euery of which is most sightly and handsomly proportioned and so that euery of them yet differeth from other in his proper office But who hath framed these things what father what mother Is it not that onely inuisible God which of his owne will hath done them all And another Philosopher saith that a man hauing in his bodie so many ioynts members as there be dayes in the whole yeare is thereby put in mind of Gods goodnes and moued to remember him continually Héerewith if we consider the hidden treasures of the Soule and so include the whole man we shall be euen deuoured with zeale and forced to sing ioyfully with Dauid O Lord Psal 134.14 I will feare thee for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marueilous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well Thirdly the word of God written and preached vnto vs The word of God teacheth vs plainely not onely what God is what his will is what he hath done but also in what sort he is to be serued and how to be remembred Without this Remembrancer he saw all our memorie to be forgetfulnes all our knowledge ignorance all our wisedome foolishnes all our policies péeuishnes all our sight blindnes had not the Lord giuen vs his word written not onely in the heart but euen in Tables of stone brasse iron c. to remaine a