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A04284	The true guide to glory A sermon preached at Plympton-Mary in Deuon, at the funerals of the right vvorshipfull, and ...	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1619 (1619)	STC 1440; ESTC S114791	30,821	66

full of milke and their bones runne full of marrow Ier. 5.28 they are waxen fat and shining But where grace entreth like a pinching frost it maketh the flesh wither and fall freezeth the very marrow and congealeth the fatnesse so that the body often is weake and pineth away Psal 39.11 3. That much goods and Grace are not inseparable companions These two meete not as the Sunne and Moone runne their course night and day in one and the same subiect Therefore saith our Lord Matth. 19.23 How hardly shall a rich man enter into the kingdome of heauen and be saued Sometimes we grant they may but seldome It is said that Naaman the Syrian 2 Kings 5.1 was a mighty man and valiant but a Leper great for riches peraduenture valiant for body so that it may proue this at the least the former Doctrine But what rich or strong man amongst vs beleeues this report 4. That wicked persons often prosper Their Bullocke gendreth and faileth not Iob 21.8 9. c. Their Cow calueth and casteth not her Calfe They send foorth their children like sheepe and their Sonnes daunce Their Seede is established and they grow vp in wealth 5. That not to be afflicted is a marke of the wicked They haue no changes therefore they feare not God Psal 55.19 whereas the godly are chastened euery morning else bastards not sonnes Heb. 12.8 6. That peace in death is no sure signe of a better life They that liue like Lyons and dye like Lambs may not haue their names writ in the Lambes Booke of life But if a good life be the Antecedent this no bad but a desireable consequent this crosseth the iudgement of the common people Oh say some how quietly he dyed But I say how well hath hee liued Let vs then iudge men by their liues not by their deaths lest we acquit the guilty and condemne the innocent For all outward things come alike to all men iust or vniust This is one of those euils Eccles 9.1.2.3 that the wise man saw vnder the Sunne Againe from their Effects or Actions might many things be obserued as 1. That when wicked men haue most then they sinne most Hence it is that some hauing much money turne biting Vsurers and deuoure by oppression The bountifulnesse of God towards them doth not though indeede it ought leade them to repentance Rom. 2.4 And from the foure following accidents we note a foure-fold instruction First that notwithstanding the wicked be rich and strong yet they stand vpon a sandy foundation They are set on slippery places either vpon the Ice on the which if they slippe or it breake they be drowned spoyled or vpon a Quag-mire that is growne ouer with a thin skinne through which if they shrinke they sticke fast and are all be-mudded Secondly that wicked men shall dye certainly and suddenly Iob 12.2 in a moment the Text saith They spend their dayes in pleasure and suddenly goe downe to the graue Thirdly that prophane persons shall rise and come to iudgement And lastly that at the day of iudgement they shall haue their full torment Dan. 12.1 For they shall rise to shame and contempt eternall And thus we leaue them where God shall leaue them wishing their harmes may make vs to beware And so proceede we to the godly person of whom wee haue many things to say but because time will not permit vs we will omit them onely reducing them to these heads 1. A Conflict and 2. The Issue of it In this Combat note 1. Who they be that quarrell 2. The causes of it It is the Flesh and Spirit Faith and Infidelity that striue these twins are in euery regenerate person man or woman Sinne must not be counted as a meere priuation or nothing but we must conceiue of it as a strong man or corroborated habit Rom. 7.24 c. The ground of the quarrell groweth either from the fell opposition that is betwixt them for these are contrary one to the other Gal. 5.17 or the diuers condition of the wicked and the godly When the prophane man prospereth and the righteous are in aduersity it worketh strangely euen in the most sincere hearted Therefore the wicked are counted blessed For they that worke wickednesse Mal. 3.15 they are set vp and such as tempt God they are deliuered From this consideration this good mans steps had almost slipt and he embraced the world yet he hauing recourse to the word of God saw his owne folly and their miserable end so that though the combat for a time was fierce and the issue thereof doubtfull notwithstanding Faith preuaileth at the length and winnes the field triumphing with this confession Lord thou wilt guide me c. But before wee come to the words let vs obserue some things by the way And here we may see that 1. The prosperity of the wicked fretteth the godly There is a secret enmity betweene the seede of the Woman and the Serpents Also that 2. In the time of temptation the flesh will play its part Furthermore that 3. He that would see the present and future condition of good and bad must haue recourse to Gods word not flocke to the Stage or prophane History for they may deceiue this Booke cannot And so we come to the words in hand the which haue a double reading at the least Some reade them prayer-wise Lord guide me c. But I rather choose to reade them as a Confession being a speech of great reioycing and a declaration of the fruit of his faith that followed this great and terrible combat In the which we may obserue a double proposition and in either of them two principall things comprehended In the antecedent part this good man saith First that the Lord will guide him Secondly he acknowledgeth wherewith viz. by his counsell In the cons●quent proposition hee conf●sseth that he will also glorifie him and telleth the time when or order how after he had guided him by his counsell Thus you see the parts of it Now we come to shew you the meaning or sense of the words Thou that is GOD Father Sonne and holy Spir●t for all three consent in euery action done towards the creature what one doth all doe mediately or immediately yet in a diuers manner God the Father is said to guide by the word Christ by his example and the Spirit by immediate motions and irradiations iniected vpon mans vnderstanding yet with one ioynt consent all tend to one and the same thing There be Relatiue properties in the Deity that are peculiar to the distinct persons As the Father to beget the Sonne to be begotten and the Spirit to proceede but these wee speake of are internall not externall actions vpon the creature Shalt or wilt This word containeth in it the faith and confidence of the person how that hee did depend vpon God and assure himselfe that he would be his guide for future

their Doctrine would not haue beene so well credited neither they haue vnderstood hauing no reuealed rule of direction to what Townes or Cities Acts 16.9 especially they should haue preached Reason 2 Againe may not God and his word as the end and goodnesse of a thing be conuerted In many thing Rom 7.12 I am sure they may God is holy and iust and good and is not his word the same hee is true and faithfull and no accepter of persons may we not conclude the like of his word What God commands it commands what he wils it wils what he intends it intends and if the word haue a Quarrell with thee note this Rom. 7.7.8 the Lord hath a Quarrell with thee for they are not contrary Masters but agree in all things And so I passe briefly to the Vse Vse 1 Where first wee are to checke the Papists and confute a third point of their Doctrine who take away the word from the common people Is not this to depriue them of God to make them like the auncient Gentiles Ephes 2.12 strangers from the common weale of Israel and meere Atheists Truely it is no better who is so blinde that seeth it not or so incredulous that beleeues it not Instead of the Law they must haue Traditions a Picture for the Gospell of Christ Did not the children of Israel when they left the law work wickednes forsake God and serued him not 2 Chron. 15 3. c. And for this thing are they not said to haue followed Baalim and Ashtaroth Iudges 10.6 and the gods of the children of Ammon Be not therfore deceiued for these Papisticall Priests world compassing Iesuites are but wandring planets blinde pilots after whom whosoeuer shall saile the ship of his soule shall split her at the day of his dissolution vpon the rocke of that dangerous position and then what can follow but perpetuall condemnation I haue wondered at these mens madnes for the knowledge of the rule is of absolute necessity in all arts or functions to the wel-doing of an action For example Can a Marriner rightly guide his ship thorow the sea without the knowledge of Card and Compasse The Carpenter build a house in comely order being ignorant of that patterne by which it is to be framed Or a schoole-boy speake exact phrase and true Latine and haue no vnderstanding in the precepts of Grammar And yet in the most curious worke these deceiuing guides would haue vs want the Rule Exod. 31 3. 1 Kings 7. This is not to iudge righteous iudgement Vse 2 Againe this meeteth with those spirits that stand all vpon Reuelations immediate motions who say that No Christian should take his ground first from the word but the Spirit for the Diuell alleadgeth Scripture and doth wrest it to his purpose But poore soules these know not of what spirit they themselues are would aske such a man this Question How can he discerne the motion of the spirit to be from the Spirit He will answere Because it 's good and tends to holinesse Well how can he tell what is good or euill must he not goe to the Rule to try it These would see the image of God without a glasse vnderstand truth before they heare it vttered Alas professing themselues to be wise Rom. 1 22 they are become fooles For what a strange Position is this if it be true that came lately to my hands how that Grace being once wrought in the heart the spirit abolisheth all former knowledge and they bid Away withall Scripture knowledge These will try the spirits I feare till a lying spirit possesse them 1 Tim ● 5. Let vs therefore beware of if we know any such Vse 3 And in the next place if they that be guided by God are guided by his word we are informed what to thinke of all those that liue in palpable more then Egyptian darkenesse who neither know God or vnderstand any one sentence in the sacred Scripture Is not their estate fearefull who is these mens guide surely Sathan sinne and the fashions of the world And that if God giue the blessing I might a little moue these people to come out of Babilon and fire them as it were like Ioab to Absalom to returne vnto their God Let them heare what iudgements haue befallen the ignorant what be threatned against them that tread these darke steps Did not the people of God goe into Captiuity Isai 5.13 for want of knowledge Say this was but a temporall punishment yet it had a curse with it And how doth the Lord complaine Hos 4.6 My people are cut off for want of knowledge We count it a miserable thing and it causes wringing of the hands folding of the armes and many a teare shed when we see at the Assises a proper man cast away hauing had his Booke could not one word by art or tell a letter Oh say we he might haue beene saued if he could haue read But what a day will that be when all ignorant men and women must hold vp their hand at the Tribunall Throne of Christ and be cut off and cast into vtter darkenesse because they knew not him or his Gospell Therefore thou that art ignorant and hearest me this day Get knowledge get vnderstanding for if thou dye in this condition thou shalt dye the second and eternall death Why hath not Christ threatned to come in flaming fire 2 Thes 1.7.8 c. to render vengeance vpon all that know him not and obey not his Gospell Did not the Prophet imprecate that the Lord would poure out his fury vpon such as knew him Ier. 10. vlt. not and the families that called not on his Name I cannot by the way but commend you in that you haue gotten guides but Learne the Law at their mouthes practise what is deliuered square your actions by this word so shall it goe well with you at your latter end But if for all this you will walke in darknesse be not deceiued one day to darknesse ye shall goe Io. 12.35 Iude 13. for if it be eternall life to know God and whom he hath sent then by the rule of contraries How shall the ignorant escape the damnation of hell Io. 17 3. Vse 4 Last of all Is this Doctrine a truth then here is comfort and tidings of great encouragement to all such as are guided by the word Cast not off this yoake breake not these bonds asunder what scoffes soeuer thou receiue of the world Let them play but doe thou pray let them shuffle the cards search thou the Scriptures let them sit at home and goe to Dice and Tables goe thou to heare the word in the publique Congregation For I am sure the one is lawfull the other at the best is doubtfull And for my owne part I wish neither to approue or practise matters of that nature I say therefore to all such be not weary in so doing