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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16541	Two sermons, for these who are to come to the table of the Lord With diverse prayers fit for the necessities of the Saincts at diverse occasions. Carefully digested by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods word, at Glasgovv.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1629 (1629)	STC 3449; ESTC S119278	44,800	136

that one let him cast his seede of instruction rebuke comfort Christ heere preached vnto Belly-Gods doubtlesse for the winning of some from the loue of their belly vnto the loue of their soule This much cōcerning the men whom Christ teached at Capernaum Now let vs consider well his doctrine in the verse which we haue red Heere first he letteth them see what they should not doe secondly what they should doe Labour not for meat that perisheth but laboour for the meat that will endure feed your souls to lyfe eternal * As if he should haue said if yee doe the one yee can not doe the other if yee haue your heart vpon the world yee can not be carefull for the Heavens if yee labour for belly-cheere yee will neglect the soules food and therefore my counsell is that yee labour not for the meate that perisheth The doctrine is this It is not possible that our hearts can doe a duetie to God if they be too bent vpon any worldly thing Caelum cupere nequimus nisi prius terra sordescat wee can not desire the Heavens till the earth seeme vile vnto vs. The heart of man will die if it bee cloven or halfed Jf one serue two masters one of the two shall bee displeased wee can not with our eyes behold the Heavens and the earth together wee can not looke to the east with the one eye and to the west with the other at one tyme wee are not able to think that wee are into two places together * Two severall thoughts equally intended can not dwell together in one heart at one time Should any tyme bee wherein the thought of any worldly thing should over-master within our hearts the thoughts of our God Shall the spirit of God stand like a Page for to waite vpon thy worldly cogitations which●all should bee servants to the least motions of that spirit God that made the world before thou was will not bee a servant to waite vpon the world which should waite vpon him A freeman will not be a drudge vnto his slaue Many thinke themselues free of this sinne but are not so indeede * A man may try the trueth of this in his sleepe and that by his dreames which as Salomon saith come through the multitude of businesse As a man is exercised in the day so will his thoughts bee in the night If the world runne in our mynd all the day long it will certainely lodge with vs all night In our sleepe it will barre out the motions of grace The vse of this doctrine Let vs striue to giue God his owne The whole heart is Gods the whole man is Gods seeing all is his let him haue all to whom all belongeth and who is most worthy of it * Jf Cesar get that which is Cesars shall God want that which is Gods The heart must not halt betweene God and Baal as though men would giue to God to the deuill the flesh and the world their day about But what is this that is said into my Texte labour not saith Christ for the meat which perisheth Heere be good tydinges for many folkes * It would seeme heere that Christ dischargeth all trades and callinges and that he giueth all the world the vacance and the play * If the Master of the Schoole should every morning nay but every afternoone say to his Schollers close your bookes pine not your selues any more it is eneugh read they would think euery after-noone like a lubile Heere then be good newes for sluggards heere is an excuse for all these that are ydle Behold the LORDS Command Labour not for the meate which perisheth Heere is an inhibition served against all sort of worldly labour What then will yee say doth CHRIST forbid men to labour Shall this be a warrand from CHRIST for all men to sit idle Indeed if this so strictly taken were true the Trevants sluggards and idle Drones would labour yea fight for to maintai●e the trueth of this Text. What then Doeth CHRIST discharge men to labour No not * When CHRIST said to his Disciples sleepe on now they never had so little cause to sleepe nor so great cause to wake Consider what I say CHRIST never teached men to sit idle * What ever thou be were thou a King thou must labour It is the King of Heavens precept to all the Sonnes of Adam Sixe dayes shall thou labour woe to thee that is idle for who is idle he is in the Schoole of wickednesse learning to doe ill nihil agendo malè agere discimus by doing nothing wee learne to doe ill The Soules of men are like waters putrescunt ni moveantur they stink except that they be moved All men must labour * The law is fixed that all the sonnes of Adam must picke their crummes out of the cloddes with the sweat of their browes woe to thee that loyters while thou should labour Arise sluggard Vp vp with the chirping of the birds labour sweate for thy meate otherwise if thou eate the curse of God shall goe downe into thy belly like the waters of jealousie which shall make thy bellie to swell and thy thigh to rotte Thou will say to mee I am a gentle-man and what should I doe Was not Adam a gentle-man who was the King of the whole earth the deare darling of God before his fall And yet even before hee sinned GOD would not haue him to sit ydle naye his Calling was to bee a Gardener Scripture ●aith And the Lord God tooke the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dresse it and to keepe it But after that hee had sinned the Lord laide a harder taske vpon him In the sweate of thy face said the Lord shalt thou eate bread And yet in that time if any sinfull man might bee called a gentle-man hee was one as being the first father of the old World * Was not Noah a gentleman was hee not the first father of the newe World and yet hee laboured in a vine-yeard Scripture calleth him a husband man Was not Iacob a gentle-man and yet hee keept sheepe * Was not CHRIST a gentle-man and yet hee laboured for his meate with Ioseph the Carpenter hee being a Carpenter himselfe Hee then who both laboured himselfe and commanded others to labour sixe dayes in the Weeke forbiddeth not men to labour heere what can thou doe nothing heare what a great and godly man of our Nation said to ydle drones * Call mucke creeles Hast thou not heard mee I say it againe Call mucke creeles What is it then that hee forbiddeth heere will you saye * I answere the labour which Christ dischargeth heere is that which is done with a carkeing care and excessive desire of any thing belowe When the desire of worldly things is more in our mind than spirituall things when wee are more bent