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A73706	Three profitable sermons. 1. A pastorall charge. 2. Christs Larum-bell. 3. The soules sentinell Preached at seuerall times vpon sundry occasions, by Richard Carpenter pastor of Sherwill in Devon.	Carpenter, Richard, 1575-1627.	1617 (1617)	STC 4683.5; ESTC S125294	87,026	278

sum iudicatus condemnatus I am accused iudged condemned and so expired O heare and feare this all yee that desire rather to be feared then deserue to bee loued in the midst of your ruling remember your reckoning and by your more diligent charitable and conscionable demeanor hereafter preuent that iudgement which hangs ouer your heads for your negligence and want of conscience in your callings heeretofore And let vs all euen now begin if not before whether wee be Ministers or Magistrates or persons of inferiour place to looke to our charges diligently to attend on our offices faithfully to discharge our stewardship carefully to examine our receipts and expences daily and accordingly to make vp our perfect reckonings and accounts that when that great day of reckoning shall come our Lord and Master may say to euery one of vs p It is well done good seruant Mat. 25. 23. and trustie Thou hast beene faithfull in a little I will make thee ruler ouer much enter into thy Masters ioy And thus much bee spoken of the first part and of the vses thereof namely Mors est in olla death is our lot none can auoid it Now of the second and that more briefly Spes est in vrna there ●ecunda pars ●iz Spes est in ●rna ●hrys in 22. Math. is hope in the graue beeing dead we shall liue againe none may denie it Tolle spem resurrectionis saith golden mouth'd Chrysostome resoluta est omnis obseruantia pietatis take away the hope of resurrection and the building of piety wanteth her foundation For then Christ is not risen and so our preaching is in vaine and your faith is 1. Cor. 15. vaine and of all others the best christians were most miserable and of al stories the Gospell were most fruitlesse and vnprofitable But the Lords Herauld Isaiah of all the Prophets most Euangelicall of all the Euangelists most Propheticall besides the streame of all holy antiquitie consenting thereunto hath plainly proclaimed it q Isa 26. 19. Thy dead men shall liue with my body shall they rise and againe Peace shall come to the righteous Isa 57. 2. they shall rest in their beds that is their graues vntill the morning of the resurrection Post tenebras spero lucem saith Iob. Sybilla Iob 17. prophesied heereof in this manner Tunc castus Cbristus ponet certamina iusta Sybil. Ornabitque probos aeternaque praemia reddet The great Poet could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●hocilid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wee hope and know that we shall not for euer sit in darknesse or sleepe in the graue but we shall come to the heauenly light liue with Christ r through the power of God in whose 2. Cor. 13. 4. booke all our members are written God hath a threefold book The first is his priuate booke Enchiridion or vade mecum in which onely the names of the elect are written whom hee knoweth and calleth by their ſ Exod. 32. 32. names whose ●sa 43. 1. names hee will not put out of the booke t Reu. 3. 5. of life è libro praesentis iustitiae aut praedestinationis aeternae as the Schoolmen distinguish The second is his booke of accounts and black booke blurde and blotted with the register of sin wherein onely the wicked are written according to that Dan. 7. The Dan. 7. 10. iudgement was set and the bookes opened The third is his vniuersall common-place booke wherein both good and bad are recorded according to that of the Prophet In thy book are all my members written Psalm 139. so that albeit in death there be a dissolution of body and soule yet in the resurrection there shall bee a restitution and revniting of the same body in substāce though altered in quality to the same soule that the ioy of both may be consummated to which purpose God is said to write all our members in his booke Yea he keepeth the very bones of his Saints Psal 34. and not a haire of their heads Psalm 34. 2 Luk. 21. 18. shall perish Luk. 21. Hence it is that the Prophet Daniel speaketh so expressely Many Dan. 12. 2. that sleepe in the dust shall awake and rise againe some to euerlasting life some to shame and perpetuall contempt Hence it is that our Sauiour Christ speaketh so plainelie Maruell not at this for the Ioh. 5. 28. 29. houre shall come in which all that are in the gra●es shall heare his voice and they shall come foorth that haue done good vnto the resurrection of life but they that haue done euill vnto the resurrection of condemnation To which infallible truth Saint Paul beareth witnesse 2. Cor. 5. We must all appeare Cor. 5. 10. before the iudgement seate of Christ that euery man may receiue according to the things which are done in his body whether good or euill Whereunto that of the beloued Disciple Saint Iohn is very agreeable Reuel 20. where the maiesty ●eu 20. 11. 12 of Gods throne is described the singularity of the Iudge is declared the vniuersality of all both great and small which must stand before him is manifested and the equity of proceeding in iudgement excellently shewed by the bookes opened and the sentencing of euery mans cause according to his workes Whence by the way wee may Note note the difference betweene the act of iustification and the act of iudgement for the act of iustification wherein God maketh vs righteous which were vniust is onely by u Rom. 3. 24. faith i. by the apprehension application and appropriation of Christs merits righteousnesse by a liuely faith But the act of iudgement wherein God declareth those to bee iust which Mat. 25. 2. Cor. 5. were iustified in this life is according to our workes God iudgeth not according to the root of faith which is hidden but according to the fruits of faith namely good workes which are open and manifest and the fittest meanes to try euery mans cause and to discerne who were by faith working in loue Gal. 5. 6. iustified in this life Not to affect more testimonies of proofe in a point of christianitie so plaine This holy perswasion of the resurrection after death impression of immortality hath euer possessed the hearts of Gods Saints and seruants and hath bene as a naile of the Sanctuary to keep them from desperate distractions in the errours of this life and to set them forward to perfection vndanted constancie in the terrors of death Iob patient and iust Iob in the plea Iob 19. 25. of all his miseries with the single eie of faith held fast by this hope and made it the issue of all his maladies I know that my Redeemer liueth and I shall liue againe c. this sentence of vndoubted assurance is matter worth the remembrance and therefore Iob setteth a Preface vnto it O saith he that Iob 19. 23. 24. 25. my

hardly be said to haue the spirit of grace in his heart which beeing a Minister and learned too hath no worde of Prophecy at all in his mouth From which fearefull censure that we Fathers Brethren may be freed let vs hereunto bend all our studies and extend the vttermost of our endeuours both by our diligence and faithfulnesse in dispensing the word by our discretion and wel aduisednesse in handling the worde by our obedience and carefulnesse in framing our liues according to the worde to shew our selues gratious Ministers And that wee may be compleat as farre as is competent to humane frailtie to our skilfulnesse and dexterity to our faithfulnesse and sincerity In the third and last place zeale 3. Zeale and feruent constancy must also bee adioyned which by the rod of correction that was reserued in the Arke of the Testament with the Manna of refection and Tables Exod. 37. of direction is liuely prefigured and by Gregory in his pastoralls Lib. 2. past c. 6. plainely intended h. v. sit districtio virgae quae feriat consolatio baculi qui sustentet sit p●etas sed non plus quam expedit parcens sit zelus sed non immoderatè saeuiens where he requireth in euery Minister as well a zealous disposition as a pious affection And what else was signified by the donation of the Holy Ghost in fiery clouen tongues but a zealous hot and piercing ministry such as will enter into and quicken the hearts of Gods children and like a purseuant dispatchd from heauen will attach a wicked man by the shoulder yea and catch him by the bosome too vnlesse hee amend I confesse there is no working in mettals without very hot fires nor in distillations without soft slow fires yet there is fire in both for else how should the one bee melted and the other distilled So in truth there ought to be the fire of zeale more or lesse in all Gods ministers and the more the better if discreet As for that vn●●screet zeale of those which can endure nothing read or said or sung but what agreeth with the consonants of their precise Alphabet which wrangle about formes and shadowes cauill about ceremonies and slight the Sermons and censure the persons of those which will not do the like making the Pulpit often-times a Pasquill to ease their spleenes and to traduce superiors I account it to be schismaticall But the zeale of godly Pastors which with a good conscience in Gods cause for the good of his people are as earnest in the pursuit of sinne as Eleazar was of the Philistims 2. Sam 23. cleaning 2. Sam 23. 10. as fast in their hearts to the word as his hand claue to his sword I both loue and approue as spirituall Such was the zeale of the Prophet Dauid Psal 69. where he saith the Psal 69. 10. zeale of Gods house had euen consumed him Such the zeale of S. Peter when hee so pricked the hearts of his hearers with the razor of the word that they came to him and the rest of the Apostles with weeping eyes and mournefull voyces saying Men and brethren what shall we doe that we may bee saued Acts 2. Such the zeale of Acts 2. 37. Iohn the Baptist when he so pierced the hearts of his hearers by his powerfull preaching of repentance Luk. 3. that they came to him by Luk 3. 4. seuerall companies according to their seuerall callings as so many wounded souldiers to a Chirurgian saying What shall we doe then what shall wee doe Such likewise was the zeale of S. Paul Acts 24. Acts 24. 26. when preaching of righteousnesse temperance and the iudgement to come hee made the bribe-taking Gouernour Foelix if not to blush for shame yet to tremble and shudder for feare O let vs Fathers and Brethren whether wee be young as Samuel and Timothy or old as Paul and Eli whether we haue ten or fiue or two Talents striue to attaine the like zealous vehemency and to expresse the like godly earnestnes in our effectuall preaching not onely in obscure Bethania our priuate Parishes but also in eminent Ierusalem in more publique places if wee be called therevnto What if the mountaines being touched doe smoake what if greatnes being taxed for want of goodnesse doe fume fret swell sweat what if for rebuking of sinne iustly yee be depraued and maligned vniustly yet dicatur veritas rumpatur invidia Rebuke saith S. Paul them that ● Tim 5. 20. sinne openly euen to their face that the rest which are witnesses hereof may stand in awe and feare It becommeth not those free and ingenuous spirits to whom Christ hath committed the dispensation of his glorious gospell to feare the face of man to be dulled daunted dispirited Be wee then what wee ought to be not onely luciferi as Bern. Bernard speaketh scientia fulgētes hauing some lights of knowledg in our heads but also igniferi zelo flagrantes hauing the fire of true zeale in our hearts And that our discourses be not weakned by vngraciousnesse or by any dullnes and flatnesse of spirit and so proue like morall philosophie Lectures and the collations of the Scribes and Pharises cold and comfortles let vs ioyne with our doctrine generall exhortation and to our exhortation adde particular application and in our application speake home to the conscience and vse a feruent feeling affection To conclude as skilfull faithfull and zealous pastors our ioynt care and study must be that our Sermons and publike meditations may so well be sorted that the loue of truth conceiuing them the truth of iudgement forming and framing them variety of learning amplifying and exemplifying them modesty of stile and distinct vtterance deliuering them the plaine and powerfull euidence of the spirit may be seene in them the congregation may vnderstand them feele the benefit of them receiue instruction and comfort by them This this is to be worthy preaching pastors of whom it may bee truely said that the Holy Ghost hath made them Ouer-seers Which title of ouer-seeing Ouer-seers and superintendency importing the dignitie of Ministers should now bee considered But on your patience I haue already too much presumed and therefore will reserue this taske for some other time and place In the meane time let vs all make our retreit to the throne of Grace beseeching Almighty God to multiply his graces vpon vs all that at all times in all places amongst all persons we may behaue our selues as faithfull and zealous Ministers of the gospell of grace and in the midst of our ouer-seeing and ruling here may remember our account and reckoning hereafter and so passe the time of our dwelling here in his feare that when wee shall passe from this earthly habitation to an heauenly in his louing fauour wee may be brought in peace with a good report especially a good conscience to the bed of the graue that after the sleepe of death in