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A03790	A diuine enthymeme of true obedience: or, A taske for a Christian. Preached at Pauls Crosse the tenth of September, 1615. by Anthonie Hugget Maister of Arts, and parson of the Cliffe neare Lewis in Sussex	Hugget, Anthony.	1615 (1615)	STC 13909; ESTC S116568	54,159	76

luxuria cuius materia gula c. Hier. Where he compareth whoredome to the infernall fire whose matter or nourishment are gluttony and drunkennesse the flame is feruor cōcupiscentiae Hos 7.4 as an ouen heated by the baker so is an adulterer the sparkes are corrupt speeches and filthy communication the smoke infamy and disgrace the acts adulterie fornication vncleannesse and the end hell torments Drunkennesse and whoredome with other the odious sinnes of these latter and dangerous times these are they which haue kissed each other which go hand in hand and haue made a couenanc with destruction and sworne a league with hell for the subuersion both of Church and Commonwealth O that I had the voice of men and angels to crie against them if my tongue were dipped in gal yet could I not sufficiently not bitterly enough inuey against them If there be any thing in death or hell more miserable their tongues shall taste thereof and their bowels shall be filled with the dregs thereof woe vpon woe shall light vpon them and though the Sunne and Moone haue an end yet their plagues and torments shall neuer haue end hearken and stand in awe and tremble before the Lord your God yemen of Israel how long and how loud haue we cried against these foule offences and yet who hath beleeued our report or to whom is the arme of the Lord reuealed Surely if our words take no deeper impression it resteth that you second our words with the sword of iustice And to the Honorable and Worshipfull of this assembly be it spoken to whom God hath imparted his own Name for ye are called Gods that you ioyne your helping hands to pull downe these shops of iniquitie and to stop and dam vp these stinking wels of filthinesse for if you spare and beare the sword in vaine the people shall die in their sinnes but God shall require their bloud at your hands Neither may I forget to giue some of the worthiest and most honorable in this assembly their due for the good and godly zeale they haue shewed for the lord our God on this behalfe the fame whereof hath spread it selfe into all corners of the land and it doth make glad the Citie of God I meane in punishing and purging these two forenamed vices to wit drunkennesse and whoredome together with the profanation of the Sab both may you go on like good Nehemiahs to do worthily in Ephrata and be famous in Bethlem and the Lord strengthen your hearts and as you labour the peace of Ierusalem so let your dayes be multiplied in peace and bind vp their soules O Lord in the bundle of life All that I haue further to say to you the Magistracie of this honorable Assembly touching this point is the charge of God himselfe to his seruant Ioshua Onely be strong and of a valiant courage to fight the Lords battels to cut downe sinne to roote it out and as you haue begun in the Lord so let your zeale abound and be not faint hearted in so good a cause and behold God shall neither leaue you nor forsake you till you haue in some measure purged and cleansed this Citie from filthinesse And for you my brethren let my conclusion of this point turne to you all here present and you to turne to the Lord your God o turne you turne you for why will you die ye men of Israeli consider your sinnes are great and grieuous they are the prouocation of heauen and strike at the maiestie of God say therefore with S. Peter It is enough for me that I haue spent the times past in surfetting and drunkennesse in couetousnes and idlenesse other things nay better things are now required of me namely that I liue not after the Iusts of the flesh but after the will of God Thus cleanse yea and your selues yea and cleanse your selues from filthinesse yea and that from all filthinesse and that is the fourth part and passage of my text viz. the generalitie and difficultie of the taske The generalitie or difficultie of the taske All filthinesse The Apostle dehorring from sinne dehorteth from all sinne not onely from filthinesse indefinite lest sinne should haue a starting hole but all filthinesse vniuersaliter that no sinne should escape whence note None must content themselues with the beginnings of mortification For as Moses once spake in the case of their departure out of Aegypt With our yong and with our olde will we go we will not leaue one hoofe behind Exod. 10 9. so is it euer most true in our departure out of the captiuitie of sin we must not leaue one sinne vnsearched not an euill thought must be spared for whosoeuer shall faile in one point of the law is guiltie of all Iam. 2. 10. And againe Whosoeuer breaketh the least of these commandements the same shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen Act. 26.28 King Agrippa therefore in religion was like a meteor in the aire betwixt heauen and earth and so are all that haue a deuided heart like the picture of Ianus which looked forward and backward euen so are they halfe and almost and halting Christians But as no defectiue person was to serue at Gods altar no more shall any halting professor come in his presence The point is All filthinesse must be cleansed Which was mystically signified in the law where Moses was commanded to cut the haire of the Leaper supercilia cilia not an haire of sinne must be left The Holocausts whether they were boues oues or aues were wholy consumed to teach vs that whatsoeuer we do in Gods seruice must be done wholy So Saint Paul bids vs Put on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the whole armour of God for we must leaue no part vnarmed Ephes 6. And Christ faith Take my yoke vpon you Mat. 12.29 one would thinke that the yoke was onely for the necke but his yoke must we take on euery part God would haue vs powre out our hearts like water now water leaueth no sauour nor colour nor drosse behind as other licours do so must we cleanse our selues euen from all appearance of finne If we cleanse the Temple let vs not leaue the Altar behind kill both Amalek and all his cattell spare not one corrupt affection not the least sinne no not in the egge The Prophet speakes of a cake baked on the harth Hos 7. panis subcineritius baked on the one side but dough on the other luke-warme Christians which halt twixt God and Belial a little warme that they may serue God and a little warme to serue the world But the Wise man sets downe the wish of God Fili mi c. My sonne giue me thy heart non per commutationem nec per venditionem sed per donationem Prou. 23. Some lend their heart to God vntil they see a greater aduantage some sell their heart to God for a reward and God must serue them

obserue Doctr. All our holinesse must be perfected in feare For as I haue formerly noted the greatest perfection of our holinesse hath in it many imperfections According to the measure and proportion of this life so is our holinesse and no otherwise yea and the least part doth not consist in this to know and confesse our wants Saint Paul wil therefore haue vs to workeout our owne saluation in feare and trembling Phil. 2. and Saint Peter to Passe the time of our mortall pilgrimage in feare Our estate is neuer secure of danger for the Angels though in heauen yet thence did they fall Iude. Gen. 3. Math. 4. Adam and Eue though in Paradise yet there tempted and ouercome Our Sauiour in the vaste and wilde desert yet there the diuell finds him And the Saints of God though in the bosome of the Church Psal 105. yet they haue had many foule slips and falls and therefore our holinesse must be perfected in feare Secondly seeing that the feare of loue and not of punishment is the truest measure of our perfection obserue Note We must grow to full holinesse euen of zeale to Gods glorie and goodnesse must be loued for it selfe oderunt peccare mali for midine poenae To do well for feare of punishment is but an asses vertue And herein is the triall of a perfect heart if a man can ioy in holinesse conscionably though it come alone yea though accompanied with many miseries Singular is the example of Dauid to this purpose Psal 119 126. Psalm 119. It is time for thee O Lord to lay to thine hand for men haue destroyed thy law therefore saith he euen for the loue and zeale that I haue to holinesse and Gods glorie therefore I say loue I thy command ments aboue gold and all false wayes do I vtterly abhorre This is the point our perfection consists in this if we can be content to embrace holinesse euen for it selfe and for reuerence to our heauenly Father By which it may appeare that feare and the feare of loue is the measure and perfection of our holinesse Reason 1 1. Because of the danger that may befall vs for want of this feare viz. lest hereby we fall from our constancie and so for want of perseuerance do hazard our saluation The diuell is a cunning and diligent aduersarie Luk. 11.24 ready to take adnantage vpon euery occasion and if he find the house swept and garnished and no resistance be made he entreth in and dwelleth there and the end of that man is worse then the beginning and therefore we ought at all times and in all things to walke circumspectly and in feare Eph. 5.15 2. For feare of giuing offence to others and by our halting or standing still we wound the weake hands and feeeble knees of the brethren and so become partakers of their sinnes Praeceptamonent exempla mouent yea know that examples in sinne do draw multitudes to offend and therefore we ought to feare our selues euen for the good of others 3. Lest that by our securitie and standing still the enemie be comforted and haue cause to blaspheme and the Angels of God and the Spirit of God be grieued within vs who as they do reioyce for the conuersion of a sinner so do they grieue at the falls of the righteous Vse The vse of the point is to teach vs to beware of securitie and to let the feare of God euermore keepe the doores of our hearts the wants whereof doth breed in vs a numnesse of soule and doth much withstand the ordinance of God for our saluation For when men come to this that they are cold to holinesse if they heare so it is if not they feele no great want if they receiue the Sacrament they haue no great delight or ioy or if they for beare they feele no grieuance and for other exercises of religion they can be content to do them for ceremonious custome but not for conscience and feeling Such a secure and carelesse estate as this doth shew them to lie in some grosse sin presently or else are in danger to fall into some great transgression or some grieuous punishment But all the paths of the Lord are hedged about with feare that we should not forget nor for sake the Lord at any time Beleeue in God we cannot alwayes and to reioyce is not alwayes present faith is sometime faint loue is little ioy is sicke hope is dead and seeling fallen asleepe but the feare of God in a godly iealousie ouer our owne wayes is the meanes to recouer all againe Our sanctification is but in part He that thinkes that he stands let him take heed lest he fall and Blessed is the man that feareth alwayes Surely brethren it is a good thing through godly feare euer to get victorie of out infirmities before they come to be ioyned with the sinnes of the world to the griefe of the godly the reproch of the wicked the trouble of our owne consciences or the hazard of Gods glorie Thus the feare of God is the beginning of wisedome Prou. 1 yea and the perfection of holinesse is the feare of the Lord. heare the end of all Feare God and keepe his commandements It is the Alpha and Omega of our holinesse the measure and foundation of the same and Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord Psal 112. Of God My text hath at last brought me to the end of our iourney euen to God the Lord who alone is to be feared And seeing it is now high time to leaue you here I will leaue you for I cannot leaue you better then with God Consider therefore a little the height of his Maiestie the brightnesse of his glorie the perfection of his goodnesse the strength of his power the excellency of his wisedome the eternitie of his being the holinesse of his truth the sweetnesse of his mercie the blessednesse of his presence in whose sight there is length of dayes and in his presence is fulnesse of ioy for euermore Let his name be had in honour from the rising of the Sunne to the going downe thereof Againe Oh Lord of hoasts how excellent is thy name in all the world Againe God is the feare of his Saints For the strength of Israel is a dreadfull God clothed with vnspeakable maiestie as with a garment and the splendor of his glorie is ten thousand times more bright then the Sunne in his greatest beautie yea the beholding of his face is present death to a mortall man The Angels tremble the heauens melt away the mountaines smoke the sea is dried vp and Iordan driuen backe and the earth doth totter vpon the foundations at the sight thereof The voice of the Lord is a glorious voice and hath the preheminence The voice of the Lord bringeth mightie things to passe Heare and feare and tremble before the Lord your God ye men of Israel In conclusion therefore seeing we know that one and onely God euer to be worshipped and feared whose authoritie doth command and power execute and prouidence gouerne vs and all things let vs as Henoch walked with God so passe the time of our mortall pilgrimage in feare and holinesse as if we walked in his presence whose eye seeth all and whose eare heareth all alwayes remembring that his all-seeing eye and all-hearing eare shall bring you and me and vs all to iudgement In the feare of God therefore let vs begin and so end all endeuours to cleanse our selues from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit and grow vp to full holinesse that at the appearance of the Sonne of God to iudge the ends of the earth we may be found faithfull seruants and as we haue dealt truly in a little so he may then make vs rulers ouer much through the riches of his grace who hath freely and formerly beloued vs not for our owne sake but because himselfe is loue and takes delight in his owne goodnesse To which God be ascribed all goodnesse and glory and mercy and power both now and for euermore Amen Amen FINIS