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A18016	Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1588 (1588)	STC 4665; ESTC S116841	50,873	124

for the truth they haue broken strings they proceed from euill to that which is worse and care not for the knowledge of God neither brother nor friend nor neighbour may be trusted This is a cause of confusion and plague the Lord of his mercie deliuer vs. 4 His enterteynment in Sodom See now I pray you what good Lot gayned by his being in Sodom his desire of pleasures procured him payne his hope of friendship nothing but afflictions First being among the Sodomites Lot had many afflictions and daungers amōg the Sodomites he was taken prisoner with his wife and all his substance together with the Kings of Sodom and Gomorrha by Amraphel King of Shinar Arioch King of Eleasar Chedarlaomer King of Elam and Tidal King of the Nations in great daunger of his life Well the vngodly may bée sometimes fauoured by the meanes of the godly men among them but this is sure that the godly can haue no good by ioyning hands with the vngodly or being among them The tares may be suffered for a time because of the corne but in the meane while the corne is annoyed by the growing vp of the tares with it Therfore Pharaos Court is no place for Moses to wayt in nor Putiphars house for Ioseph to serue in nor Baltazars feast for Daniel to banquet in nor Nabucadnezars glorie for Sidrach to worship in nor the open land for Dina to gad in nor the high Priestes pallace for Peter to come in nor Sodom a Citie for iust Lot to inhabite in It is commaunded Come out from Babilon my people least ye be polluted with their sinnes and so take parte of their plagues And although we learne as afterward it shall be declared that the banishing hence of the righteous hasteneth destruction on the rest The vngodly can not abide the righteous among them yet cannot the vngodly haue quiet mindes vntill they haue extirpated and rooted out al the godly from among them The same wee see in this example of Lot who could not enioy the benefite of any Supersedeas among the Citizens of Sodom He did not only vexe his righteous soule there with beholding their sinnes but also he was violētly oppressed with their crueltie They rushed in vpon him saying Thou art come hether Gen. 19. but as a straunger among vs and wilt thou bee our Iudge Thou art no towne borne child nor citizen of ours nor of this countrie thou art not of our societie and companie nor of our conditions we did neuer beare thee such good will to make thee a Iudge ouer vs or to bee tryed by thy determination no but wee will deale worse with thee then with these men whom thou harborest Oh good Lot couldest thou so long time abide there where thou couldest neuer bee welcome What gaynest thou among such vngodly persons Thou mayst say Only this a triall of my patience and pietie An experience of the great might and mercie of the Lord. Such is Lots enterteynment in Sodom God graunt that his children may be betimes warned to take heed of such enterteyners and that wee our selues be not contented to yeeld hatred vnto them that deserue to be welcome among vs. Another affliction had this good man Lots own wife was an affliction to him which peraduenture did touch him neerer namely by this that his owne wife which lay in his bosome and should of all other be a comfort vnto him became a griefe and corasiue to his heart It was no small griefe to Dauid that his owne sonne sought after his life And our Sauiour protesteth with no little sorow of soule that the same which eate bread with him lifted vp his heele agaynst him And it may bee this godly man would not haue stayed so long in Sodom had not his wife been a vehement cause thereof Vnequall yokes Here then let vs learne to take heede vnder what yokes ye submit your selues and with what wiues ye ioyne Ios 24. It was sayd of the women of the Nations they will be vnto you snares prickes in your eyes and whippes on your sides they will allure you seduce you drawe you to Idolatrie Did not Salomon the King of Israel sinne in these things Nehe. 13.24 Did not the daughters of men defile the childrē of God Gen. 6. Was not Iezabell a pricker forward of Ahab to euery mischiefe Did not Saule prouide Michol to be a snare vnto Dauid and did she not mocke at him openly Did not Iobs wife greeue him in the bitternesse of his heart Was not Esau blamed for taking wiues of the Hittites a griefe of minde to old Isaak and Rebeccha Therefore Iacob was straitly charged by his parents to eschew such women Abraham sware his seruant that he should not take a wife for Isaak of these nations and a lawe was ratified by Moses to that ende 1. Cor. 7. This is Paules charge Beare not the yoke with Infidels Let vs take heede then of vnequall matches The man which is vnwilling to be drowned doth not cast himselfe desperatly into the Sea and it is agaynst nature for a person to seeke comfort of that which by nature yeeldeth corrasiues and griefes Lots wife being by nature euill could not do any good to her husband in all her life A great affliction This thing also is general that the godly wheresoeuer they come shall be as welcome vnto the worldlings as water to the fire as Lot was to Sodom Christ telleth this playnlie Ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake And Iohn his holy Apostle sayth Marueile not my brethren though the world hate you Doth not Cain enuie Abel Is not the olde world agaynst Noah Ismael agaynst Isaak Esau agaynst Iacob Doth not Saule enuie Dauid for his victorie Do not the Lords of Babilon hate Daniel for his pietie Do not all the Nations conspire together agaynst Israel Yea more yet though Ephraim deuoureth Manasses and Manasses deuour Ephraim yet do not they both ioyne hand in hand to deuoure Iuda the Lords inheritance As Pilate agaynst Herod and Herod agaynst Pilate but both of them against Christ what concord betweene fire and water what peace betweene Christ and Belial may be found But yet why doth the world thus hate the children of God whom they haue rather cause to loue The children of God be brethren at amitie in themselues whose societie Satan séeketh to diuide that his owne arme may be the stronger and that one house may fall vpon another They be the redeemed from the earth from the power of darknes whome he seeketh againe to drawe vnto him they follow the Lamb wheresoeuer he goeth to the great griefe of Satan they be not of the world but chosen out of the world therefore they be hated but haue the worldlings any iust cause of hatred giuen them no truely for as Christ was hated without a cause of them that should haue rather loued him so are his childrē Yet they

of the Lord God And héereby is he noted to be of the faithfull as also more effectually by that when being among the wicked he neuertheles feared the Lord in all things The Wiseman Sapi. 10.6 Sap. 10.6 2. Pet. 2. calleth Lot The Righteous man And S. Peter in his 2. Chapter of his second Epistle calleth him Iust Lot Righteous in déede and iust both before God and man Before God by the forgiuenes of sinne through mercie and apprehension of righteousnes by faith Before men as well by his godly conuersation and vertues as also in respect of the wicked Sodomits before whome he was farre preferred Thus was he a righteous man And heereof it was that he liued so vnspotted among the wicked vexing his righteous soule that he saw the two Angels comming into Sodom and rose vp to méete them Gen. 18. that he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground and inuited them gladly to his house that he entertained them reuerently and defended them against the rage of the Sodomits that he beleeued the words of the Angels and most obediently followed them departing frō Sodom without desire to retire that he contemned the sinnes and societie of the Sodomits and forsaking all the trust of the world depended onely on the mercie of God whom he knew to be able and willing to prouide a better habitation for him But it is a thing worth the noting how Lot came into Sodom 2. How he came to Sodom which was vpon two occasions the one by his vnhappie departure from his Vncle Abraham the other by the foolish lust of his eye in his vnhappie choice For as we reade in Gen 13.6 Gen. 13.6 when these two godly persons Abraham and Lot were greatly increased and their flocks could not pasture together in one countrey without contētion betwéene their seruants it was the counsell of Abraham that to eschue that inconuenience betweene them being as brethren they should sunder themselues and their flocks one from another and therein he did not sticke to giue the choice vnto Lot saying vnto him Is not the whole land before thee Depart I pray thee from me If thou wilt take the left hand then will I go to the right Or if thou go to the right hand then I will take the left So when Lot beheld the Countrey he perceiued that all the playne of Iordane was watered euery where for it was before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrhe as the Garden of Eden And so Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iordan yea he pitched his Tent euen to Sodom But hinc ille lachrymae wo vnto thée seely Lot Lots vnhappie choice for whiles thou goest about to please thine eye thou woundest thine heart thou lustest for the plaine but the bushes inclose thée thou delightest in the waters of Iordan but thou art in danger of the fire of Sodom thou thoughtest thou haddest gotten thee into heauen Aug. de ci Dei 21. but thou art come to the gate of hell Sodom is faire and fruitfull but thou must not taste of their fruites Egesippus for their Apples fall to dust and scinders if thou touch them their hearbs be hurtfull and death is in their pot To be plaine there is bona terra mala gens a good Countrey but a wicked people for it is truely sayd Gen. 13.13 that the men of Sodom were wicked Cause of separatiō and exceeding sinners against the Lord. This separation betweene Abraham and Lot came of contention and strife a cause of diuision euen among breethren this contention and strife grew of the aboundance of worldly wealth a cause of much discord euen betweene the children of one parentage whereof there be too many examples besides commō experience This choise of Sodom came of the lust of the eye which ensnareth many men by the hooke of voluptuousnes and draweth them to horrible inconueniences as innumerable testimonies with semblable examples and our daily experience do also witnes at the full Beware of contention about these vayne earthly things beware of a desire to be made rich beware of lust of the eye and pleasure of the flesh which is in the world as Iohn saith and is an enemy to the Lord. And if this good man could not rule himselfe therein neither eschew some paine thereof ensewing Let vs not presume to promise our selues safetie and ease in these pricking thornes Now may we see in what sort Lot 3 How Lot liued there liued in Sodome among the vngodly It is a verie difficult thing for a man to escape the infection of the plague whereas the very ayre is corrupted It is not easie to touch pitch and not be therewith defiled and to stand in the furnace of fire with the three children and not haue asmuch as a heare burned is altogither of Gods power and not of mans wit Lot is in Sodome as in a place of infection as in the pit of pitch and furnace of vncleannesse and yet is he there righteous among them Yet as a Lillie among the thornes as a childe among the Scorpions and as a woman groning in trauaile he endureth it As a preacher of righteousnes he ceasseth not as a Pellican in the wildernesse he reioyceth not but preacheth prayeth A cause of Lots sorowe lamenteth and vexeth his righteous soule as mooued therevnto by their great sinnes to beholde how wickednesse was extolled and vertues trodden downe how right was exiled and wrong dealing in price how sinnes did abound and righteousnesse faith and truth was scarce found and he sawe the Angell whereof Iohn speaketh Reuel 10. to put his right foote on the Sea Aret. in Apo. 10. vers 1.2 but his left on the earth when the wicked seemed more to flourish in worldly sway and estimation than the godly which had none honor at all The Prophet Ieremie Ieremy 9. Lam. 1. liuing among the like kinde of people was forced to vexe his minde with their vngodlinesse and the consideration of their payne ensuing as it can not be but a greefe vnto a godly man to see the people so obstinate indurate and wicked to their own destruction and thus he breaketh out Oh that my head were full of water mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people Agayne Oh that I had in the wildernesse a wayfaring mans cottage that I might leaue my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and an assembly of rebels Hereof was our Sauiour Christ mooued to weepe ouer Ierusalem I would to God the godly men now had not the like occasion giuen them to vexe their godlie mindes but it is truely sayd and too truely verified Loue waxeth colde and the Sonne of man readie to come vpon vs faith starteth aside and is scarcely found but as a pilgrime on the earth Tongues are bent as bowes to shoote foorth lyes but