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A53308	The stone rolled away, and life more abundant an apologie urging self-denyal, new-obedience, faith, and thankfulnesse / by Giles Oldworth ...	Oldisworth, Giles, 1619-1678.	1663 (1663)	Wing O255; ESTC R8404	298,711	491

14.32 sullen silence and edifying [79] Eph. 4.16 of Christs Church in love If otherwise It will be no [80] Luke 16.2 Heb. 13.17 sufficient answer at the great and last Day when [81] Mat. 10.36 the thoughts of all hearts shall be revealed that we might [82] 1 Cor. 7.24 have abode in our holy Galling might have [83] 1 Cor. 9.16.22 won many of those Souls for whom [84] Act. 20.28 Christ dyed could have preached the Gospel could have traded [85] Mat. 25.28 with our ten Talents but we were so high-minded that we therefore would not because [86] James 3.16 we might not have forsooth our own wills and wayes Would we confesse a truth the [87] See Mr. Calamy upon this subject Percz Uzzi upon that Sermon of Mr. Calamies glory is not departed from Israel but we our selves are departed from the glory The garment [88] Isa 61.10 of Salvation is the same now which formerly it was but unthankfull we pick quarrels about the fringe if we would but touch the hem [89] Mat. 9.21 of our Saviours garment we might all of us be healed We have I say the [90] Ephes 4.4 5 6 same Lord still but the strife is [91] Luke 22.24 who among us shall be uppermost I had rather be [92] Psalm 84.10 a Door-keeper in the Tabernacles of my God then [93] Rom. 14.15 shut any of the Mansions in my Fathers House from any of the Disciples of Jesus Christ The Lord roll away from us his Ministers every stone of Offence the Lord preserve the Lord continue by us his Ministers abundance of life in the peace of his Gospel 2. Others there are of a long Robe too Unto some Lawyers who will not altogether escape reproof Wo unto you Lawyers if ye trouble your Clients hearts by rendring their defensive causes (1) Esay 1.17 58.6 burdensome and destructive Wo unto you Lawyers if ye plead so long for your Glients Mansions that ye your selves (2) Many a Lawyers house is built upon a fo●ls bead get into their Fathers house I might add Wo unto you Lawyers if while ye gain Wealth by the Law ye lose the (3) Mat. 6.33 16.26.13.22 benefit of the Gospel I mean if ye covet so much the honours and profits of this world that ye allow (4) Luke 8.14 1 Tim. 6.17 nor leisure unto your neglected souls to effectually believe in God the righteous (5) Heb 12.23 judge of all men and in Jesus Christ your only (6) 1 Joh. 2.1 Mediator and Advocate The Trumpet soundeth (7) 1 Cor. 15.25 2 Cor. 5.10 in your eares Thirdly These words of my Text speak Reproof unto some Practitioners of Physick Unto some Physitians not for studying Galen or Hippocrates but for not studying the Word of Life viz. First The house of (1) Eccl. 7.2 mourning readeth frequent Divinity-Lectures especially against the flesh and the world Let Religio medici flatter her self how she pleaseth He is not far from an Atheist who while (2) Eccl. 7.4 he administreth Cordials unto dying bodies receiveth no experience for living Souls Secondly Although Theology be indeed no [1] Col. 3.16 part of the Physitians profession yet it is a very requisite accomplishment Be the other Ingredients what Physick shall see cause to direct godlinesse [2] 1 Tim. 4.8 should be ever be one of the prescriptions True it is not the Physitians errand to ease the heart from trouble but it [3] Heb 10.24 lyeth in his way though He hath a constant opportunity to shew some spiritual kindnesse unto persons sick at the very heart and having [4] Gal 9.10 opportunity he should do as [5] 1 Sam. 10. occasion shall serve he should lead his Patient from the chastisement [6] Heb. 12.11 of the body unto the comforts of the soul Thirdly It is not the Practitioner of Physick but the great God who disposeth of (1) 1 Chron. 16.12 King Asa the sick bed is a (2) Rev. 2.22 summons to Repentance We are chastened of the (3) 1 Cor 11.32 Lord that we may not dye in our sins the Herb can bring no healing Vertue which she doth not first (4) Mat. 4.4 borrow from her Creatour in short God is professedly the God both of our (5) Psalm 103 3 health and of (6) 1 Sam. 2.6 our life every of which particulars sufficiently convince us that the speediest mean to cure the body is to (7) 1 Sam. 41.4 Matth. 9 5. begin with the Soul so speedy so effectual a course is this that every one who is a good practitioner in Physick either is or should be like Saint Luke (8) Col. 4.14 not only a Physitian but an Evangelist To conclude By many Patients the Physitian (1) 2 Chron. 16.12 is sooner thought off then the Parson yea full often the Doctor of physick is admitted while the Doctor of Divinity (2) Jam. 5.14 is shut out Consider now a word spoken in season (3) Prov. 15.23 how good is it Pity pity it is that the heart of him who gaspeth for life should (4) Psalm 73.26 be almost spent through want of Balm from Gilead If the Minister cannot be may not be or is not in presence care (5) Jam. 5.15 must neverthelesse be timely had that for him who is just now giving up the ghost prayer and intercession be tendered unto the Father of Spirits Alas no Medicines (6) Psalm 94.19 116.8.119.81.42.1 2 84.1.62.5 are healing unto a Soul thus troubled There is no trusting unto Physick at any time a God a Jesus Christ may yea must be trusted in The merit of the person (7) 1 Joh. 2.1 here speaking in my Text drank off blood-warm transcendeth all other Receipts that can possibly be thought upon Where the Physitian feareth God there (8) Gen. 21.22 39.5 Psalm 1.3 God giveth a blessing for the Physitians sake Be it that the death of the Patient (9) Job 7.1 Psalm 31.15 seem to upbraid if not a want of skill yet a want of successe in the Artist yet O Death (10) 1 Cor. 15.55 where is thy sting the good Physitian findeth no reason at all why he should absent himself from his deceasing Patient he rather abideth and conducteth the departing soul toward the many Mansions in my Fathers House Fourthly The Mansions in my Fathers House a faith in God Unto Tradesmen and such as buy and sell yea and these troubles of heart do reprove innumerable followers not of Christ but of the world who most contentedly exchange godlinesse for gain In Queen Maries dayes so strong had nature made Sark-Island that [1] Sir Walter Raleighs History of the World lib. 4. cap. 2. sect 18. thirty Frenchmen could maintain it against all the Flemings in the world This stratagem was used Near unto the Isle with one ship

Laurels as for you beloved ye may be fed with (7) Revel 2.7 the Tree of Life Make Religion your (8) As Mr. Herbert Palmer in structeth businesse exercise your busie Soules in a lively faith and that knowing the season Brethren It is now your seed-time lose not such fair-weather in due season ye shall reap if ye sow unto the Spirit Ye are now in the flower of your age your month is the month of May if ye have not overcome many a (9) 1 John 2.14 spiritual wickednesse it is your sloth and no pity ye deserve if in you the Word of God (10) ibid. abideth not it is your indiscretion and ye may thank your selves He among you that is fullest of complaint were he well aware of it hath the (11) 2 Pet. 1.9 10 remedy from within himself If with (12) 2 Tim. 3.15 Timothy with (13) 1 Sam. 2.18 Samuel with (14) 2 Kings 22.19 Josiah c. ye have not been tender-hearted from your Child-hood yet at least with (15) 1 Kings 18.3 12 Obadiah fear the Lord with (16) Psal 71.5 David trust in the Lord from thy youth up Yea let God remember thy (17) Jer. 2.2 early Kindnesses Whom the Gentiles fancied to be (18) Apollo their God of wisdom Him they resembled unto a young man a truth it is wisdom in a young man seemeth somewhat divine Unto this reputed God of wisdom these Gentiles consecrated as the Emblemes of their manhood and prudence their first shaved beards the moral is good Sacrifice unto the Lord thy God Sacrifice the (19) Nihil videbant suum quoniam Dei totum Salvian de Dei guber lib. 8. first and the best of thine abilities While thou art now in the beginnings of thy strength follow him (20) Semper in amore cautela est Nemo enim melius diligit quam qui maxime veretur offendere Salvian Epist fully Serve him with all thy might Prepare thy Soul and thy Spirit as an (21) Rom. 12.1 offering in a clean Vessel and so (22) Esay 66.20 bring them into the house of the Lord In all thy wayes (23) Psalm 37.4 5. acknowledge him A young mans glory is his (24) Pro. 20.29 strength I have therefore written unto you young men because ye are strong strong I hope in [25] 1 John 2.14 Eph. 6.10 2 Tim. 2.1 Jer. 9.24 the Lord. To middle-aged men A Child is (1) Pro 22.6 ready to learn all things a young person is (2) 2 Sam. 18.22 ready to prove all things but neither of them is so apt to hold fast his profession as are ye ye who measure the midst of your age for ye have (3) He who is about the middle of his age may Janus-like at once look both behind him and before him climbed unto the height of the Hill of the Hill of Zion I hope Ye do or may perceive whither your travails bend He that is not setled in his estate not setled in his judgement not setled in his resolution at forty when will he be setled A wise man will provide rather for Children then for Orphanes and late Marriages are seldom proserous Therefore I presume thou art by this time constant unto thy self If a single life be thy choice and that choice thou canst (4) Matth 19.12 well bear I trust thou art (5) 1 Cor. 7.32 wedded unto thy Devotion I trust thou joynest thy self (6) 1 Cor. 6.17 unto that Lord who will give thee a Name (7) Esay 56.4 5 better then of Sons and of Daughters Neverthelesse in as much as God is the God of the married as well as of the unmarried If in a single life you find no joy If in a single life you find no joy Marriage (1) Sir Thomas Overbury his Wife your lust as 't were with fewel fire Will with a Medicine of (2) 1 Cor. 7 9 At contra hunc ignem Veneris si non Venus ipsa nu'la est quae possit vis alia opprin ere Val. Aedituus the same allay And not forbid but rectifie desire Where brash flames threaten Chimneys lay on wood That spends the flame and keeps the fabrique good Nor doth my marriage order lust alone A second self may (3) Gen 2.18 Eccles 4 9 Sir Thomas Overbury ubi supra help me ev'ry way And ' gainst my failings make me two for one My self 4 I cannot chuse my Wife I may And in the choice of her it much doth lie To 'mend my self in my Posterity Venus was Saturn is The heat of thy blood cooleth but thy love of this world waxeth feverish youthfull (1) 2 Tim. 2.22 lusts are pretty well spent but (2) 1 John 2.16 pride of life cometh on apace alas the lusts of thy flesh are (3) ibid. crept into thine eyes Thy disease removeth from thy (4) Psal 16.7 reines into thy (5) James 4.4 head from thy (6) Pro. 7.23 liver into thy (7) 1 Tim. 6.9 heart The Enemy who hitherto battered thy soul with (8) 1 Pet. 2.11 thine own fl●sh doth now cast up Bulwarks against thee upon (9) Psalm 62.10 thine own ground That unclean Spirit which (10) 2 Tim. 2.22 haunted thee in thy youth doth now transform himself into a (11) 2 Cor. 4.4 God of this world The trouble of thy heart was (12) Rom 8.6 a carnall mind once the trouble of thy heart is (13) Phil. 3.19 an earthly mind now Wherefore the Holy Ghost proceedeth from adulteries and fornications (14) Mat. 15.19 unto theft and false witnesse from fornication and uncleannesse (15) Gal. 5.19.20 unto hatred variance emulations yea (16) Eph. 5.3 unto down-right covetousnesse For which cause having warned us that Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge He (17) Heb. 13.4 5 presently addeth Let your conversation be without covetousnesse and be content with what ye have Thus having endeared our Souls and bodies (1) Rom. 12.1 as a reasonable sacrifice unto our God the Apostle immediately forewarneth us against another of Satans stratagems Be not saith he (2) Rom. 12.2 be not conformed unto this world Beloved whether our life past hath been or hath not been consumed in a state of unbelief this Exhortation of St. Pauls remaineth very pertinent and seasonable First If from the womb (1) Esay 48.8 unto our infancy if from the dayes of our (2) Esay 65.20 infancy unto the yeares of our youth if from our youth up unto present maturity we have drank in iniquity as if it [3] Job 15.16 were wholsome water now that we are of a ripe understanding it doth so much the more (4) Jer. 13.27 concern us to provide for the health of our Souls after so long so many provocations we are I say the more neerly concerned now at length (5) 1 Pet. 4 2 3 to believe in God and