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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

Gods childe in thee s Psalme 15. not to receiue an euill report against his neighbour This reacheth farre and fasteneth vpon many in these our daies and with the Athenians t Act. 17.21 we still aske newes and if any thing come out against any man especially against him or them that we doe not loue then we first beleeue it and secondly set vpon it as furiously as if wee were very Fensers and would play such a prize that euery body should thinke wee were not our selues Thus we play at Tennis with the good names of other men but vpon great disaduantage for in this tennis court we haue extraordinary hazards We hazard our iudgements in receiuing rash reports Secondly wee hazard our discretion in beleeuing them and thirdly wee hazard our religion in publishing them and railing vpon them whom we thus set vpon for u Iam. 1.26 as Saint Iames saith if a man seeme to bee religious and refraines not his tongue that mans religion is all in vaine notwithstanding all this yet this vnruly member will flie about and dart at Gods deerest children very few of them shall be free from the venome of it In this course the wicked will bee agents The righteous may be reuenged on them that accuse them falsely and the most righteous must be true patients and yet the righteous know how to be reuenged when they will and that is by following the counsell of God namely when they curse the godly must blesse and when their enemies and accusers are hungrie let the godly feede them if thirsty let them giue them drinke and in so doing they shall heape coales of fire on their heads w Ro. 12.20 let them commit and commend their causes vnto the Lord for vengeance is his and he will repay it x Deu. 21.19 and let this suffice for the doctrine which was deriued from the second part of this deuision which was the meanes vsed to bring Naboath to his death namely false witnes now let vs see what applications will issue from hence vnto vs. Vses Our first ingredience will afford vs a Caution take heede of this little mēber it may hurt many waies but it stabs to the very hart when it is vsed in this kind to slander or accuse the innocent take heede thou that deuisest take heed thou that reportest and take heede thou that beleeuest any thing against the innocent there are many reasons why thou shouldest hearken to this caution First because God followes that man with a sword to destroy him and to cut him off which he threatens in the Psa y Psal 101. He that priuily slandereth his neighbour him will I destroy Secondly euery one that committeth sinne is of the diuell z 1. Iohn 3. but this is the diuels owne sinne Now if thou wouldest not be accounted a diuell be not guilty of this sinne Thirdly if thou be spirituall thou wilt restore a man with the spirit of meekenes that is falne as the Apostle a Gal. 6.1 exhorteth knowing that we our selues also may fall But one the contrary we rather delight in these passages then labor to couer them but if it were a cursed thing in Cham b Genes 9.14 to discouer his fathers nakednes it must needes bee a wretched thing to enlarge amplifie and make an addition to our brethrens infirmities but a cursed thing to deuise matter that shall hurt their innocent soules therfore from the rule of charitie this sin would be forborne because charitie neuer thinketh much lesse doth euill to the brethren Fourthly a reason for this caueat might be drawne from the rule of equitie which bids vs doe vnto others euen as we our selues would be delt withall but wee would grieue and vexe to heare that men should accuse and raile vpon vs wee would be loath to haue our life or credit lie vpon the accusation of a false tong then proportion things vnto others Doe as thou wouldest be done by as thou wouldest receiue fac alijs fieri quod cupis ipse tibi if thou wouldest that men shouldst not make the worst construction of thee bee not thou like vnto a cupping glasse A Slaunderer like a cupping glasse which onely drawes ill matter which only drawes that humor that is euil and corrupt so doth the slanderer onely apply his tongue to false accusation and euill speaking The second vse is to shew the excellent and sound condition of an vpright life if any man will doe them hurt he must doe it by lies and falshood for the righteous are circumspect and the blessing of God is so vpon them that they do not lie open to dangers and imputations as other men doe and yet no men so often in question and so subiect to false aspersions as they but for the most part it is deuised and enlarged against them it shewes that the blessing of God is as a shield to couer them and yet for all this Satan hath fiery darts and maleuolent courses against them 3. This will teach vs to charge a watch ouer all our members but especially our tongues O Lord saith Dauid set a watch before the doore of my lippes that I offend not with my tongue c Psa 141.1 May a man bee a murderer with his tongue O then watch that member forbeare to heare euill forbeare to speake euill si deest auditor deest de tractor Hierom. if the hearer would forbeare the slaunderer would cease for the sinne of slaunder gets a kind of nutriment from a willing hearer and yet both are so dangerous that as Bernard obserueth Bernard dum aurem inficit animam interficit so bad a season must needs haue a cursed haruest let vs therfore bridle our affections and let grace ouercome nature in this euill and this shall suffice to shew the cursed disposition of the wicked who doe so hate the godly and are so bent in their owne purposes that though they haue no iust cause to accuse the righteous of yet they will inuent and with Iezabel set wicked men before them to accuse and condemne the innocent 4. This serues to pacifie and to appease the working that these prouocations and accusations would worke in vs if God did not stay vs surely these slanders and false reports and dangerous attempts against vs may with other afflictions bee fitly compared vnto phisick Affliction like phisick the which we take from the phisition to make vs well and so with the blessing of God it doth yet at the first it makes vs very sicke vntill such time as it hath purged the stomack and clensed it so verily our afflictions make vs sick to the death and bring vs very low at the first vntill it hath clensed our hearts of all vindictiue humors of all earthly humours of all superfluous matter then we shall finde health euen sauing health and bee so restored that wee will not feare those that can but kill the