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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12974	An exposition vpon the CXII. Psalme The high way to euerlasting blessednesse. Written for the benefit of Gods church, by T.S.	Stint, Thomas.	1621 (1621)	STC 23269; ESTC S107442	67,502	220

he himselfe expresseth the manner Behold I come quickly my reward is in my hand to giue euery man according to his workes Blessed is euery one that doth my Commandements that he may ●ate of the Tree of life and enter tho●ow the gates into the Citty In all which happines in this life that to come is confirmed vpon the liuing acts and exercises not vpon the dead habits of any grace whatsoeuer In all labour there is abundance but in the conceits of the braine and talke of the lips nothing but emptinesse and misery Next to Gods glory and a mans owne good a Christian placeth much happinesse in winning and edifying others 1. Cor. 12.10 to which purpose a speechles life hath more life in it then aliue speech So Chrysostome commends a good life aboue afarre profession For it is able saith hee to confute and conuert Pagans withall he tels vs they haue a louder language then the sunne and Moone whose sound yet goes ouer all the world publishing Gods glory therefore saith Christ to his Disciples goe and tell not what you haue heard me preach but saw me doe How the blind receiue sight c. If I doe not such workes as none other hath done before me The best course for vs to take to winne others is to be doers of that wee professe I desire not men to belieue in me By these courses Peter would haue Christians win their neighbours and wiues their husbands rather thē by tutering of them then would neighbours follow one another to the right Religion and true Church as Tradsmē do to those markets where they see them gather wealth fastest yea imitate their liues and bring forth fruits as Iacobs sheepe if they saw their rods speckled with works as well as with words thus saint Augustines famous mother taught one of her neighbour Gentlewomen complaining of her churlish Nabal wondring how she won her peruerse husband why sayes she I obserued his mind and pleased him in all indifferent things forbore him in his passions gaue him all content in dyet and attendance and so haue made him first Gods and then mine by degrees These are the Arts and charmes that if they were now vsed by one Christian to another would couer multitudes of sins and conuert multitudes of sinners These things mind and exercise these things if you know and doe you shall saue your selues and those you liue withall and so be euery way blessed men The doers of the Commandements are only blessed Thus wee see that doing the Commandements only brings in the blessednes without which all our knowing makes and leaues vs but dishonorable to God vncomfortable to our selues scandalous to others in no neerer keeping the Commandements then Balaam Iudas and the diuell himselfe who the more they know the worse for them the more sinne and the more punishment If knowing made vp blessednes England were an happy Nation out times as happy as euer any but if doing be required great is the felicity of both questionlesse the more any man knowes or professes to know and the lesse they doe the more they doe dishonor God And what are such themselues the better for their knowledge They which know them do them not they do increase their sorrow but as the Preacher speaketh in another sence Hee that encreaseth such knowledge addeth sorrow What a misery is it for a man to haue no inward faithfull knowledge or affection to the Gospell nor better proofe of his loue thereto then that hee carried it alwayes about him at his Girdle My meaning is not to taxe Bible carrying Christian conference which I hold a better grace then Bootes Spurres and Rapiers on Sundayes or Fannes of Fethers top-gallant Ensignes of vanity euery day but only to shew the foppery of them that carry Gods word and law not in their hearts but only in their heads or in their memories or vnderstandings Let these bee as wise as they may in their own conceits to me they are no better then Asses which carry dainty burdens but taste not of them Verily a man knowes no more rightly then he Practises it is said of Christ hee knew no sinne because he did no sinne and in that sence hee knowes no good that doth no good Hee that will obey shall know my Fathers will and such as will not doe what they know to bee good The abuse of that wee know will be the chiefe cause to depriue vs of it shall soone vnknow that which they know it being iust with God to punish shipwrack of a good conscience with the fraught of knowledge according to that imprecation in the Epistle to the Hebrewes that if they should abuse their skill in musicke their right hand might forget his cunning and their tongue cleaue to the roofe of their mouth from which iust Iudgement it comes to passe that many become colder in matters of Religion and keeping the Commandents For a good vnderstanding haue all they that doe thereafter and cursed are all such as know these things and doe the cleane contrary Cursed I say are they because they not onely cast away themselues but also lay a stumbling block before others both weake ones within and bad ones without such as these know God and yet deny him in their liues and are reprobates to euery good worke such as buy by one Ballance and sell by another haue a forme of knowledge which they pretend in themselues prescribe to others with all seuere seuerity and liue themselues in secret by contrary rules Friends in shew but indeed Enemies to the Crosse of Christ Phil. 3.18 vncleane beasts for all the chewing of the Cud which makes men mislike not only their persons but the very religion which they professe in the highest streine of stricktnesse I wonder with what face such can call themselues Christians or vvith vvhat eares can heare themselues so called doth any man looke to bee accounted a Carpenter that calleth himselfe so but neuer squares timber nor erected frames therefore to all hearers and goers to Sermons I say play not the fools as most doe heare not to heare goe not to Church as many now adayes do for fashiō sake or to get an opinion of zeale or as boyes go into the water to play and paddle there onely not to wash and be cleane Therefore let vs all that lay clayme to that honourable name Let vs therfore doe the workes of Christians and so approue our selues doe the workes of Christians and thereby approue your selues to God and man as the Angell to Manoch who being asked of his name made answer It was wonderfull and did wonderfully ascend in the flame and made good his name by his action The art of doing is that which requires study strength and diuine assistance do the sinnes that swarm in our times proceed from ignorance or incontinence rather and wilfulnes It were happy if men had that plea if the