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A14849	The lot or portion of the righteous A comfortable sermon, preached at the Cathedrall Church of Glocester, vpon the fift day of August: Anno Domini. 1615. By Richard Web, preacher of Gods word at Rodborough in Glocestershyre.	Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word.	1616 (1616)	STC 25151; ESTC S102699	41,510	50

THE LOT OR PORTION OF THE RIGHTEOVS A COMFORTABLE SERMON PREACHED AT THE Cathedrall Church of Glocester vpon the fift day of August Anno Domini 1615. By Richard Web Preacher of Gods word at Rodborough in Glocestershyre Iob. 13. vers 15.16 Loe though hee slay mee yet will I trust in him and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight He shall be my saluation also For the Hypocrite shall not come before him LONDON Printed by Tho Creede for Roger Iackson and are to be solde at his shoppe in Fleetstreet ouer against the Conduit 1616. TO THE MOST HIGH and mightie King King Iames King of great Brittane France and Ireland defender of the true Christian faith grace and peace from God the father and from our Lord Iesus Christ MOst deare and gratious Soueraigne before whom I bow in all subiectiue manner I doubt not but that worthy saying of Dauid a worthy king is worthily written in the heart of your maiestie our king Rabboth Ranghoth Tsaddic Vmirrullam Iattsilennu Iehouah 1. Many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all Of all the states in the world your highnes the onely great state of the world hath had best experience of the truth of this point your troubles we know to the griefe of our hearts haue bene many and your deliuerances also we know to the comfort of our soules haue bene as many This sentence of the prophet most worthy to be written not only in sheetes of gold but also in the hearts of all men by the point of a Diamond was my text vpon the fift of August last past which day was kept solemnely by vs in our solemne city of Glocester to the Honour of your Highnes and for the triumph of your blessed victory out of Gowries wicked conspiracy Since that day I haue bene sollicited and importuned by friends that my Sermon might be printed in papers which then I desired onely to be imprinted in the hearts of my hearers which being done I make bold if not too bold to dedicate to your maiestie as being your owne for that it was preached on your day for your sake to your Honour and by your subiect who is your deuoted seruant to death it selfe My hope and hearts desire is that as Christ rewarded the poore widowes Mite which was cast into the treasury of the Temple though it were nothing in quantity comparable to the great summes of mony which the rich cast into the same so your highnes will respect this litle booke of mine your poore seruant though it be nothing to those great volumes which are consecrated to your maiestie by the learned Rabbins of the land The almighty blesse your highnes and grant in fauour vnto vs all that your maiestie may be euermore in wisedome most admirable like Daniel in courage most valiant like Dauid in zeale most feruent like Phinehas in godlines most singular like Iosiah in care most prouident like Ioseph in riches most abundant like Saloman in counsell most sound like Achitophell in loue most kind like Ionathan in body most healthfull like Moses in minde most ioyfull like Simeon in raigne amongst vs in our English coasts most long like Manasses And lastly that your highnes at the last may be carried by the Angels into the bosome of Abraham like Lazarus And hereunto let all your subiects and friends both domesticall and forraigne say Amen And so vpon the bended knees of my heart I aske pardon for this my boldnes and rest Your Maiesties most humble and truely deuoted Subiect Richard Web. The Contents of the Sermon following THe Exordium or Praeface The Analysis or Paraphrase The summe and parts Foure Questions about the righteous There are Righteous persons in the world Who they be that are righteous By what meanes men are made righteous The markes whereby Righteous men may be knowne from others Christians must haue a respect to all the commandements of God In all good workes men must haue an eye to Gods glorie Godly persons must continue in their godlinesse to the ende Men must loue goodnesse in others as well as in themselues and labour to make others good like vnto themselues The righteous shall haue troubles here in this world God in loue will correct the Righteous The diuell in malice will assault the righteous The world in hatred will pursue the righteous There are seuen things wherein righteous persons passe others The end which God doth aime at in correcting the righteous is alwayes for their good Afflictions are no signe of reiection but a marke rather of Election to euerlasting life Comfort succour must be ministred vnto the righteous in their troubles Holy persons must prepare their hearts for troubles The preparation that must be made against troubles standeth chiefly in the meditation of 3. things viz. of the necessitie of trouble of the vtilitie of troubles and of the multiplicitie of those promises which God hath made vnto vs about our troubles The commodities which troubles do bring vnto the righteous are foure two belonging to this life two others respecting the next life Godlinesse and credit for this life An assurance of glory and a larger measure of glorie for the next life The troubles of the righteous are many Many for the persons from whome they come many for the meanes through which they come many for the times wherein they come many for the parts to which they come many for the sorts by which they come many lustly for the effects which they bring at their comming Sixe causes why the troubles of the righteous are many viz because their sinnes are many their graces many their enemies many their blessings many their exercises of religion many and their contentions against the world the flesh and the diuell many A comfort to the godly who haue many troubles The difference between the troubles of the wicked and the godly which standeth in 3. things viz. the cause of their troubles the māner of bearing their troubles the end or fruite which doth follow vpon their troubles Righteous persons must labour to haue patience as a most needfull thing for them in all their troubles Holy persons must euermore looke for crosses in this life God will deliuer the righteous out of all their troubles Foure reasons why God doth ridde the righteous out of their troubles viz his loue towards them his promise vnto them his feeling with them and his glory from them ioyned with their louing trust in him and trusting loue towards him GOD must haue the onely praise of those deliuerances which the righteous haue In all miseries holy persons must resort vnto the Lord and relye onely vpon him for their deliuerance therefrom A comfort to the Saints against all their tribulations GOD doth saue his sometimes by meanes and sometimes without meanes and sometimes contrary to all meanes A cooling-card to the world who oppose themselues against the righteous The troubles wherein the Kings Maiestie

wherein troubles doe come are many and diuerse For sometimes they come in the morning sometimes at noone sometimes in the euening and sometimes in the night Sometimes in our infancie somtimes in our childhood sometimes in our youth sometimes in our middle-age sometimes in our olde-age sometimes in our dotage The sorts by which troubles do come are many and diuerse For some are the diseases of the bodie as the goute the stone the collicke the ague the feauer the toothach and the like Some are wants of outward things as of houses Cattell money Apparell Dyet Friends libertie and the like Some are losses of goods as when a man is robbed of his money of his plate of his clothes of his beasts of his seruants of his children and the like Some lastly to passe ouer other sorts are the cōmon plagues of the world as burnings by the fire as drownings by the water as infectings by the aire as deuourings by the Sword as destroyings by the pestilence as slanderings by the tongue and the like The parts to which troubles doe come are many and diuerse For somtimes they come vnto the soule somtimes to the bodie and sometimes both to the soule and body together Likewise in the bodie they come now and then vnto the head now and then to the bellie now and then to the backe now and then to the stomack now then to the arms now and then to the thighs now and then to the legs now then to the feete now then to the hands and now then in a word to all the ioynts and members of the body together The effects which troubles do bring forth at their comming are many and diuerse For somtimes they make men mery and sometimes againe they make them sad sometimes they make them pray sometimes againe they make them curse sometimes they make them quiet and somtimes againe they make them rage somtimes in a word they make them the worse somtimes again they make them the better Thus the troubles of the righteous are many Innumerable troubles saith Dauid haue cōpassed me i Psalm 40.12 The Church doth thus complain They haue oftentimes afflicted mee from my youth may Israel now say they haue oftentimes afflicted mee from my youth but they could not preuaile against mee The plowers plowed vpon my backe and made long surrowes k Psalm 129.1.2.3 And wee must saith Paul and Barnabas through many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God l Acts 14.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 through many compressions or twistings together of the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth import For this cause afflictions are compared to waters because as one waue falleth vpon another so one trouble commeth after another m Psalm 42.7 I might make this more manifest vnto you by manifolde examples out of Gods word as by the example of Iacob of Ioseph of Iob others but at this instant I will giue you instance only in two namely in Dauid and Paul wherof the one is in the old Testament and the other in the new n 1. Sam. 17.34 A lyon you know came to Dauid to deuoure him a beare to teare him o 1. Sam. 17.41 a giant to kill him p 1. Sam. 20. 21. a king to behead him q 2. sam 15.12 a sonne to vnthroan him r 2. sam 20.10 a subiect to reiect him many s 2. sam 8.10 out-lādish princes to captiue or conquer him These were troubles yea many troubles but yet they were not all For besides these you may reade how his wiues were taken by the enemies like prisoners t 1. sam 30.5 how his concubines were defloured openly like whores v 2. sam 16.22 how his children were defiled with incest and murder like pagans w 2. sam 13.14.32 how his subiects were destroyed with pestilence and famine like beasts x 2. sam 21.1.24.15 how his souldiers were vp in a mutinie for to stone him like rebells y 1. sam 30. how his friends were in a confederacie against him like traitors z Psalm 41.9 55.12 lastly how hee himselfe was strangely handled both in body and soule by God himselfe like a cast-away a Psal 38.2 and 32.4 But to leaue him and to come to Paul in the 2. Epistle to the Corinthians and 11. chapter you may plainely see how manie his troubles were by his owne report who knew them best He had many labors many stripes He was often in prison he was neere vnto death many times Of the Iews he receiued 5. times 40. stripes sauing one He suffered shipwrack 3. times Night and day was he in the deepe Sea In iournying he was often in perill of waters in perill of robbers in perill of his owne nation in perill among the Gentiles in perils in the citie in perils in the wildernes in perill in the sea in perils among false brethren In wearines and painfulnes in warchings often in hunger thirst in fastings often in cold and nakednes Besides the things which are outward he was cumbred daily and had the care of all churches So that this is a cleere doctrine that the troubles wherevnto the children of God are subiect are many and diuerse Reas Now the reasons thereof are these First because they haue many sinnes For sinne is the generall and vniuersall cause of all troubles Man suffereth for his sinne saith Ieremy in the Lamentations b Lam. 39.3 And fooles saith Dauid by reason of their transgressions and because of their iniquities are afflicted c Psal 107.17 You may see more of this at your leisure in Psalm 40.12 in Esai 57.17 in Lament 1.22 and Iohn 5.14 God doth knowe that we are like dogges who so long as they are hungry they fasten their eyes vpon their maister but he no sooner casteth downe a crust or a bone but they looke downward run after it little regarding him who feedeth them So is it with vs so long as wee are kept vnder wee looke vnto the Lord our maister and haue a respect to his commandements but when we are full and laden with fatnesse we spurne with the heele and regard not the strong GOD of our saluation d Deut. 32.15 For this cause doth the Lord oftentimes send a deluge vpon the face of our earthly pleasures and throwe vs downe into the floods of teares that so thereby hee might extinguish the heate of vnlawfull desires within vs clense the corruptions of our sinfull liues and all to this ende that wee might not be condemned with the world but might be saued at the day of iudgement as the Apostle doth well obserue in his epistle to the Corinthians according to that which was quoted before the first Epistle the 11. chapter and the latter ende of the same Secondly because they haue many enemies For all the world doth hate them and the diuell and his power is