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A03443	Loues complaint, for vvant of entertainement A sermon preached at Paules Crosse, the third of December, 1609. By William Holbrooke.	Holbrooke, William.	1610 (1610)	STC 13564; ESTC S104136	34,700	66

fewe if any reioycing to see Religion flourish As there bee few that mourne for the absence of it so who will defend the same which is the fifth marke of a man reioycing in the trueth and that both by speaking for it as giuing a reason of it to the aduersaries suffering for it as the Apostles Christians formerly and in Queene Mary her daies and lastly practising the same Many will doe the former and happily the latter but fewe endure to do the second Ergo few reioyce in the truth And as few will defend it in this manner who is there that prefer it to their chiefe ioy which is the sixt and last marke whereby wee may knowe whether wee reioyce in the trueth yea or no who count all things dung in comparison of that who is there that prefer it to their life with Paul Acts 20. My life is not deare vnto me so I may finish my course with ioy or with Nehe. 6.11 Should such a man as I flee who is he being as I am that would goe into the temple to liue I will not goe in Or with Hester if I perish I perish Alas few such life is sweet will all say but I say to a Christian man and woman Religion the life of the soule is farre sweeter Thus haue we examined from top to toe both by Quid charitas abstinet and quid efficit and few doe we finde to haue loue dwelling in them because few loue righteousnesse or honest dealing with men or Religion towards God I will onely lay downe two motiues to moue the latter to be in loue with Religion and to reioyce in the same and so I will cease Which are these 1. The necessitie of it without it there is no comming to the Kingdome of heauen for we must reioyce to see Christ raigne here by grace in the hearts of men else we shall neuer come to reioyce with him in glory To be louers and makers much of Religion and the true feare of God is the way to true honour here and euerlasting honour in the life to come For the first that part of the commination to olde Ely plainely sheweth he that honoureth me shall be honoured but he that despiseth me shall be despised Which experience sheweth for who is so truely feared and reuerenced both at home and abroad of his owne and others as he that truely feareth the Lord Much is the complaining of men in these dayes that they neuer had such sturdy seruants and no man such disobedient children alas they enter not into the true consideration of these things if they did they should finde it as a iust iudgement of God vpon them for their want of feare and loue to his therefore hee maketh them that should most reuerence thee to be thy greatest griefe heart-breaking for what was the cause that strangers shrunke away and did feare in their priuy chambers at the presence of Dauid because he kept the waies of the Lord did not wickedly against his God And what was the cause that the yong men hid themselues when they saw Iob the aged arose and stood vp because he was a righteous man feete to the lame and eies to the blind so that it is euer true and euer shall be that the way truly to be reuerenced is to bee truly religious which wee shall finde further to be true both in their life and death for proofe whereof that example of Iehoiada is worth alwaies remembrance who setting himself wholy to restore religion the true seruice of God and to abandon Idolatry was therfore honoured both in life death in life God honoured him in his mariage for he was son in law to one King brother in law to another 2. Chro. 22. penult and more then that King Ioash would do nothing without his counsell and aduise and in his death was he no lesse honored then in his life companion he was to Kings in his life so in his death 2. Chro. 24. they buried him in the City of Dauid with the Kings because he had done good in Israel and towards God his house Which truth will the better appeare if we consider how God hath dishonored the enemies of his Church by bringing vpon them shamefull deaths as witnes Haman Achitophell and Iudas who for ease went and hanged themselues Herod with his lowsie death Zenacherib slaine with the fruite of his owne bowels whilst he was worshipping Nisroch his God 2. Chron. 32.21 and Ioash 2. Chron. 24 25. who was ouercome with a fewe left in great diseases killed by his own seruants and not graced with buriall in the Sepulchres of the Kings and all for his falling from the truth and misusing of Zechariah the sonne of Iehoiada No better but farre worse was the end of Zedekiah for murdering Vriah and shewing his dislike to the truth of God as it plainely appeareth by comparing Ier. 22.18.19 vvith Ier. 26.22.23 Hee vvas buried without mourners as a man whose death all wished and were glad of they lamented him not saying Ah my brother or Ah my sister neither did they mourne for him saying Ah Lord and Ah his glory he was buried as an Asse is buried euen drawne and cast forth without the gates of Ierusalem thus hath God shewed dishonour vppon them that haue dishonored him Let this goe to your hearts and preuaile with you to encrease your loue by reioycing in the truth of God and to see Religion flourish To this I know some of you will obiect that you haue knowne men who haue beene farre from this I speake of and yet haue died as quietly beene buried as honourably and respected reuerenced and honoured as much in their liues as any that haue beene or are so too too much religious Vnto which I answer how knowest thou they haue died so quietly thou knowest not what hearts they haue a faire outside thou seest but the horror and disquietnes of his soule is hid from thee he is loath and ashamed to let it be seene and the Diuell not willing thou shouldest beholde the same least it should fright thee and thou auoid his manner of liuing least thou shouldest come to the same end his buriall is no other but that which is common to the wicked yea the wicked haue most of that pompe not one heart mourning for him but many blacke mockers rather then mourners His honour reuerence and respect he hath is not true worthy from the heart but seruile because they dare doe no otherwise those whom thou speakest of being like the great Mastiues whom the litle Curs dare not but crouch to least the Mastiues should all to rend them Thus thou seest all they haue is but so in shew not in deede labor thou then to follow Christ to loue religion from thy heart that honour and true dignity may bee heaped vpon thee heere and euerlasting honour in the life to come Which God for his Christs sake graunt vnto vs all Amen FINIS

much thou hast taken so goe once ouer it and that with due deliberation and mature perpending of things how rightly thou hast inned that thou hast neuer forget this Vse these directions and often meditate vpon these things and I doubt not but through Gods blessing they will bee excellent and forcible meanes to bring thee to loue embrace iustice more then thou doest Which plainly sheweth want of loue in thee for true loue as thou hast heard seeketh not by iniustice to enrich her selfe And thus haue I finished the first part of my text which is Quid charitas abstinet now to the latter Quid efficit in the last words of the verse which affordeth this point Doctrine That true loue reioyceth to see men deale iustly one towards another religiously towards God Which Doctrine hauing two parts wee will accordingly follow the same and briefly dispatch the first which is It is the propertie of true Loue to reioyce in Iustice and honest dealing betwixt man and man Which trueth the Lamentation of Ieremiah in his ninth doth plainely shew weeping for the deceite and false dealing of his age brother deceitfully dealing with brother As that also of Nehem. 5.4.13 where hee sheweth his dislike to see the people so oppressed as that they were constrained to crie out and to lay their Lands Houses and Vineyards to gage for the Kings tribute and to sell them because of the famine this grieued these Holy men not a litle the contrarie wherof would haue ioyed them much Reason Because Loue maketh vs to reioyce as well in the well-doing and wel-hauing of others as of our selues Vse To teach vs to examine our selues whether our Loue cause vs to doe this to reioyce in doing and receiuing Iustice one frō another this concerneth euery man in his own practise and those that are vnder him as your Children and Seruants You that haue Shops and are Lords doe you delight in it And willingly permit those that are vnder you to doe the same It is an Argument Loue dwelleth at thy house You that haue Offices doe you the like I feare it much but especially doe you Right Honourable shew your reioycing herein by your inquiring and searching out by your many eares and eyes the deceitfull courses vsed by Weights and Measures and setting to sale corrupted Wares in your Citie to the hurt of the Subiects Looke to it if you doe it you shewe you haue true Loue to God your selfe in keeping your Officers and your Citie to preserue the mutuall good of the same but I feare this sore Right Honourable the many exclamations and complaints here argue the contrarie O looke to this if you will haue any comfort in thinking your self to be free from periurie which will not onely staine thee but brand thy posteritie after thee that both thou and they shall bee trusted the worse againe whilst you liue And from this we will proceede to the second part of this Doctrine which I onely will insist vpon being thus much That Loue reioyceth To see men walke in the trueth that is to be Religious towards God Which the example of Dauid in the 122. Psal ver 1. plainely proueth who faith hee reioyced when they said Come let vs goe to the house of the Lord. Together with that 2. Chro. 15.14.15 Where it is said the people reioyced to see all so ready to take the Oath for the seruice of the true God as Hezekiah and the people did to see the Priests so ready to purge the Temple Ibid. 29.36 and the reioycing in fetching vp the Arke sheweth the same Reason 1 Because such are seruants to the most mightie Lord and it doth them good to see their Master well attended Reason 2 True Loue maketh vs to wish euery one to be as we are and therefore a Christian neuer desireth to goe alone but would haue companie Vse To examine our selues what Loue there is in vs by our reioycing to see men walke in the trueth and to be truely Religious towards God which will proue vs all too farre from that wee should bee as both our proceedings against such persons and our speeches of them before their faces and behind their backes plainly shew which all tend to the disgracing of them and their Holy profession If a man will but pray with his family Euening and Morning Catechise them and cal them to an account what they haue heard refraine himselfe from Tauernes Playes and other companie of good fellowes falsely so called hee is made like an Owle in the wildernesse amongst you hee is hated of his neighbours euill spoken of vndeseruedly and his causes and Suites shall fare the worse for them Is this to reioyce to see men forward in Religion Nay is it not to grieue because they bee so which is to enuie at Gods good estate to be so well attended This sinne the sinne peculiar to England aboue all Nations is euery where to be found Is there any people that will hate them that are forward in their owne Religion And yet wee doe that a man will serue God but in good earnest and make care of keeping his word and vowe with GOD in forsaking the deuill and all his workes is hee not presently named a Prescitian and grosse hypocrite and yet doth nothing but that which thou must doe except thou wilt prooue a promise breaker and periured person before God The Papists and Turkes in renowming those that haue beene forwardest in their Religion shall rise vp at the day of Iudgement to condemne the English people who are most hatefull to them that serue God most intirely which sheweth litle reioycing in the truth amongst vs and so consequently little or no true Loue at all Now that I may leaue you without doubt in this point I will lay downe some seuerall markes whereby you may know whether you reioyce in Religion and in the happie successe thereof yea or no. The first whereof A reioycing in the trueth because it is the trueth and for no other respects saying and performing as Iob Though thou kill me I will not forsake thee And with our Sauiours Disciples Whither shall wee goe Lord thou hast the word of eternall life which is the vndoubted marke of a true Louer of Religion Hereby let you Church-men examine your selues Doe you professe Religion and hold your places in pretence of maintaining the same because it is trueth or rather because of the sweetenesse of the liuing you enioy thereby You Professors doe you professe out of meere loue to the trueth or for sinister respects You Children and such as are vnder Gouernement doe you it not rather because you may thereby purchase more libertie to your selues You Tradesmen Professors doe not you professe and onely seeme to reioyce in the trueth because you may gaine customers thereby and make it a couer for your couzning You poorer sort doe not you likewise professe for your bellies sakes I feare this much beloued looke to