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A02029	The blinde-mans sermon: or confutation of the blinde Pharises. By Thomas Granger, preacher of the word, at Botterwike nere Boston in Lincolnshire	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12176; ESTC S112830	26,167	74

Christ Iesus shall suffer persecution though not at all times with extremity as very many of the children of God haue done yet in some measure and degrée euen in the most reformed and established Church yea and almost in the best reformed house Noahs family was the most godly and best in all the world yet is there in it an vngratious Cham. In Abrahams house a mocking Ishmael In Isaaks a prophane and reuengefull Esau and amongst the Disciples of Christ a couetous theefe and a traitour Where was our Sauiour crucified but amongst his owne He came amongst his owne but his owne receiued him not Iohn 1. And where are the members of Christ afflicted persecuted but amongst their owne The brethren of Christ euen Church-men as we say betrayed him sold him put him to death so the brethren of the godly shall be their persecutors euen they I meane of the same profession as Dauid complaineth It was not mine open aduersary that did me this dishonour but euen thou my companion and familiar friend wee tooke sweet counsell together and went to the house of God as friends Vse This teacheth Christian men not to thinke the better of themselues for their worldly wisedome wealth honour learning degrées in the Vniuersity c. Séeing a man in the ample possession of all these these may be the least in the kingdome of heauen I speake not this to derogate from learning In Luke 10. 17. The seauenty Disciples that Christ sent to preach in the Cities whether himselfe would come returned againe with ioy saying Lord euen the Deuills are subdued to vs through thy name but in vers 20. Christ curbeth their reioycing which sauoured too much of the world Reioyce not saith hée that spirits are subiect to you but that your names are written in the booke of life Whereby wee plainely learne that a man may be excellently furnished with gifts for the discharge of any calling and for the ministery as well as any other and yet notwithstanding be a reprobate for the letter killeth but the spirit giueth life Therfore let a man glory in a good conscience which is a continuall feast Let him reioyce in that he féeleth the loue of God shedde abroad in his heart and in the testimony of the holy Ghost assuring his spirit that hée is one of the sonnes of God Secondly this teacheth the poorest not to thinke the worse of themselues for their meane estate because they want these outward things 1 Cor. 7. 21. 22. Art thou called being a seruant Care not for it For hee that is called in the Lord being a seruant is the Lords freeman likewise also he that is called being free is the Lords seruant And Iam. 1. 9. 10. Let the brother of low degree reioyce because hee is exalted Euen to be the brother of Christ the sonne of God and heyre to the kingdome of glory Ver. 10. And he that is rich in that hee is made low for as the flower of grasse so shall he vanish away The inward man of the one is euer flourishing the outward man of the other perishing He that hath much worlds wealth and dignity and but a small measure of Grace is inferiour to him that hath a great measure of grace and but little or no worlds wealth For spirituall things among themselues admit comparison but betwéene spirituall things and earthly things there is no comparison at all This knowledge and consideration that worldly men want whose felicity consisteth in these outward things this I say in the children of God worketh lowlinesse of heart humility of minde méekenesse of spirit in such sort as that they had rather make themselues equall with them of the lower sort than to stand vpon comparisons and to striue for preheminence as the fashion of the world is Lazarus the beggar found matter of reioycing and glorying in Christ though depriued of all earthly things Dauid the King found matter of reioycing and glorying in Christ onely Psalme 4 6. 7. 8. As other men euen the men of this world reioyced and gloried in the increase of their substance with the rich man in Luke 12 So he on the contrary reioyced in the loue fauour and countenance of the Lord. And Psalm 119. Thy Law is deerer vnto mee than thousands of gold and siluer And Paul the Apostle found matter of glorying in Christ onely Phil. 3. 8. He counteth all things losse for Christ and iudgeth them to be but doung And as concerning any worldly thing hée will glory onely in his infirmities and reioyce in this that he is counted worthy to suffer for Christs cause These thrée examples teach all men of all estates degrées and callings to reioyce in Christ alone and to estéeme of themselues by their Christianity not by worldly prerogatiues For as for the prophane rich though he had all the world with the glory thereof yet the losse of all shall be his inheritance and the godly poore though hée want all or rather séeme to want all for the time present yet shall hée haue not onely this world but the world to come for his inheritance Thirdly this reformeth the erronious conceit of them who measure men by the measure of their learning they haue indéede the greatest meanes and helpes but the grace of God is the onely cause reuealing the mistery of Christianity to whom hée will Otherwise the most learned men are often the most enemies of Christ and Christians and when they thinke themselues to be most wise they become the greatest fooles To this purpose Dauid acknowledgeth Psal 119. 98. 99. 100. That he had more vnderstanding than his teachers than the ancient than eyther the man of great reading or the man of much obseruation and great experience by reason of yéeres And why because hée kept the commaundements For indéede how much a man practiseth so much hée sauingly knoweth and vnderstandeth He that knoweth a country and can plainely describe it onely by the mappe is not to be compared with him that hath trauailed it through although the one be learned and eloquent and the other vnlearned and plaine of spéech The man that hath no tast may by relation of others talke and discourse of tasts and the differences therof euen so may hée talke much of the Lord that neuer tasted how swéet the Lord is and speake much of the Scriptures in whom they were neuer powerfull to his conuersion Hereof the Lord complaineth by Ieremy They say the Lord liueth and yet they sweare falsly Ier. 5. 2. Likewise by Ezechiell They say let vs goe and heare the word of the Lord and sit before the Preacher as the people vseth to do but their heart goeth after their couetousnesse and after their pride and after their adultery Ezech. 33. Their outward pompe sheweth their inward humility and not their heart-sicke but braine-sicke deuotion Thus much of the ground we know The Doctrine God heareth not sinners The Interpretation of the words First to heare