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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26847	A posing question, put by the wise man, viz. Solomon, to the wisest men concerning making a judgment of the temporal conditions : wherein you have the ignorance of man (in knowing, what is good, or evil, for man in this life) discovered, together, with the mistakes that flow from it : and the great question resolved, viz. whether the knowledg of, what is good for a man in this life, be so hid from man, that no man can attain it / preached at the weekly lecture at Upton ... by Benjamin Baxter ...	Baxter, Benjamin, Preacher of the Gospel.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1172A; ESTC R39509	142,945	270

A POSING QUESTION PUT By the Wise man viz. SOLOMON to the Wisest men Concerning making a JUDGMENT of TEMPORAL CONDITIONS WHEREIN YOU HAVE The Ignorance of Man in knowing What is Good or Evil for man in this Life DISCOVERED Together with the Mistakes that flow from it And the great Question RESOLVED viz. Whether the Knowledg of What is Good for a man in this Life be so hid from Man that no man can attain it Preached at the Weekly Lecture at Vpton upon Severn in the County of Worcester by BENJAMIN BAXTER late Minister of the Gospel there Eccles 9. 1. No man knoweth either Love or Hatred by what is before him Eccles 5. 13. There is a sore Evil I have seen under the Sun namely Riches Kept for the Owners thereof to their Hurt Psal 119. 71. It is good for me that I have been Afflicted LONDON Printed for George Sawbridge at the Signe of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill 1662. To the much HONOURED AND TRULY VERTUOUS Mrs PENELOPE LECHMERE Wife to Nicholas Lechmere of HANLY-CASTLE Esq Madam AS nothing is more usual then for those who write Books to Dedicate them to some Person or other So it 's as usual with those that do it to make known to the World the Reason of such their Dedication and Why to such a Person Among other reasons none are more frequently alleadged then Eminent Favours received Madam If I would make these the Reasons of my Dedicating this Book to you it were sufficient to satisfy any Why I have pitched upon you rather then upon another I could tell the World What a grear Debtor you have me to you especially in this day wherein the Hand of the Lord hath been and still is very heavy upon me You have been a Nurse and very much of a Physitian to me You have ministred to my Necessities You have often cheared me with your Visits Yea you left not till you had found out an Able and Eminent Physitian and brought him to me under whose hands I at present am waiting upon God for the Issue Certainly these are Favours that are not to be forgotten and might very well be alleadged as the Reason of my Dedicating this inconsiderable Peece to you But Madam under favour I must tell you and the world that this Dedication neither respecteth nor relates to any of these The only Reason is truly this That there is none can claim such an Interest in the Book as your self and if it be worth seeing the Light you must be thanked for it You were the Person who for some years last past did with much importunity solicit me to the Printing and Publishing of these Sermons You rested not till you had obtained a promise from me of doing it When my Copy was finished you were impatient till it were sent to the Press and when it was in the Press in all your inquiries after it you were pleased to Stile it by the Name of Your Book So many wayes have you been pleased to make it your own that I should have wronged you very much if I should have denied you the right you have to it And now Madam having given you this accompt of the Reason of my Dedicating this Book to you I shall next give you a brief accompt of the Book it self It Treats of a Subject which few or none that I know of have written of I mean so as to make it the sole Subject of a full and just Discourse It is a Subject that Universally respecteth all of what Degree or Quality soever High and Low Rich and Poor yea the Highest and the Lowest The King that Sits upon the Throne and the Beggar that fits upon the Dunghill GOD the Great Founder and Framer of Conditions hath not made all men equal and alike in respect of Stature Saul was taller than the people by the head and shoulders no more hath he made all equall in such a crowd of Books But God told not me what Changes He would make And who knoweth what is good for man when Providence concealeth much that is necessary to the Determination Little thought I That God was so suddenly removing so many faithful Guides and bringing thousands into such a case in which Books must be their most learned able powerful Teachers O what a mercy is it that even the Poor may keep such Preachers in their houses at so cheap a rate That at Home they may thus have an excellent Sermon when they please That they may yet without Penalties hear these silent Preachers that are Orthodox Methodical Impartial not bending to the Lusts and Carnal Interests of Men That at home you may hear a Preacher that will not flatter you nor raile at those that are not for the Interest of a Faction nor by a beastly debauched Life unsay his Doctrine That by reading more or less you may avoid the offence of the length or shortness of the Sermon That you may choose the Subject most pertinent to your case and the Discourse that for the manner is most suited to your Edification That when you cannot come to a Powerful Preacher you may at any time read a heart-warming book That when you want understanding and expression prudently to instruct your Families and exhort your near Relations or your Neighbours you may read to them or lend them a Book that is best suited to their State I think Much of the work of God in England for mens Conversion Confirmation and Consolation is now to be carried on by Books And though I know some get them but as Hangings or Pictures to Adorn their Rooms ut Petrach Alii voluptiti alii jactantiae libros quaerunt sunt qui hac parte supellectilis exornant thalamos quae animis ornandis inventa est neque aliter his utuntur quam Corinthii vasis tabulis pictis ac statuis c. yet when they are extant who knoweth whose hands they may fall into And how many by such Books as unexpectedly have fallen into their hands have bin brought to true Repentance and Salvation And it is a great-Mercy that we have such a multitude of Books that all agree in the necessary unquestionable Truths of our Religion when it is a thing so dangerous to read Books against Books Errors against Truth and Libri quosdam ad scientiam quosdam ad insaniam perduxêre some are made Wise and some made Mad by reading Books And when diversity and contrariety so distract men as abundance of Cross-wayes do a Traveller ut Petr. Fallit saepe viarum multiplicitas viatorem et qui uno calle certus ibat haeret in bivio multoque major trivii est error aut quadrivii sic saepe qui librum unum efficaciter elegisset inutiliter multos aperuit evolvitque The Papists remedy against the hurt of ill Books is to deny us the use of good ones Their remedy against the mischeifs of errors is to keep men without knowledg of the Truth and to cure squinting to