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A18016	Remember Lots wife Two godly and fruitfull sermons verie conuenient for this our time: lately preached on a Sunday in the Cathedral Church of S. Peters, in Excester: the one, in the forenoone: the other, in the afternoone the same day. By Iohn C.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1588 (1588)	STC 4665; ESTC S116841	50,873	124

inough vppon the Mountaines of Israel for Sacrifices when there was none able to treade the Wynepresse nor any able man to bind the strong man when there was none able to breake downe the wall of separation betwéene God and man nor to rent asunder the vaile of the Temple when there was not so much as one sufficient for zeale to stand vp in the gappe that was open Ezech. 33. to turne away the Lords displeasure from man then caused he his owne arme to helpe his Church and euery member of the same he sent his owne Sonne Iesus into the world who to the comfort of his children sayth Lo Psal 16. heere am I to do thy will ô Father as in the beginning of the booke it is written of me And this is the same which euen vnto me may euery Christian man say is become Righteousnes against Sinne wisedome against folly holynes against corruption and fréedome against bondage my righteousnes by his resurrection my wisedome by his word my holynes by his spirit my redemption by his death Oh that men would therefore prayse the Lord for his goodnes and remember the wonderfull works wrought by him for the children of men Oh that they would take vp the cup of Saluation with Dauid and call vpon the name of the Lord for all his benefites towards them Psal 116. Isai 46. Exod. 20. Oh that they would remember to sanctifie his Saboth Remember the lawe of Moses his seruant and their sinnes in breaking that Lawe and thereof be ashamed and remember that Iesus Christ of the séede of Dauid is raised againe from the death 2. Tim. 2. verse 8. Such and so great and maruailous is the Lord in his mercies vnto his children after the purport of his promises made to Abraham and Dauid his seruants Remember Gods iudgemēts on his enemies But as for his enemies which anger him with stubborne rebellion which fight vnder the banner of Satan against him and his children they be subdued to his iudgements which on them he hath declared by rayning downe stormes and tempests plagues and destructions according to the effect of that communication threatning which Moses in Deutr. 28. doth denounce against them full of bitternes and woe which also with the causes thereof the Lord reiterateth in the 31. of the same saying Deut. 31.16.17 This people will rise vp and go a whoring after strange Gods of the land whether they go and will forsake me and breake the appointment which I made with them and then my wrath shall waxe hoate against them in that day and I will forsake them and will hide my face from them and they shall be consumed and much aduersitie tribulation shall come vpon them so that they will say Are not these troubles come vpon me because God is not with me How these Iudgements haue béene executed on the Israelites it is mentioned in the bookes of the Iudges Kings and Chronicles of Israel as in many other bookes of the holie Scripture and how the remainder of these things méeteth with the future Apostates S. Iohn descrieth in the ouerthrowe of Babylon with the great Whoare Reuel 18. Oh therefore that men considering this would stand in awe and sinne not Kisse the Sonne before he be angrie and learne of Dauid truely to protest in this sort Psal 116. Psal 77. vers 8. c. 119.52 55. I haue set the Lord euer before my face I remembred the yeares of the right hand of the Lord I remembred the works of the Lord certainly I remembred O Lord thy wonders of old and I did meditate in all thy works and did deuise of thine Actes I remembred thy iudgements of old euen the examples wherby thou declarest thy selfe to be Iudge of the world and I haue bin comforted And I haue remembred thy Name ô Lord in the night in the night when other sleepe and haue kept thy lawe Dauid did obserue this Dauid teacheth the same to vs and this must we also do Remember God and his works Fiue things which moue vs to remember God There be among other fiue things which may moue vs or perswade vs the rather to this dutie The first whereof is the due cōsideration of the frame of the World which a certaine Philosopher said was his onely Library for in beholding the same he sawe the magnificence of Gods power knew him therein and kept him in memorie Rom. 1. The verie Gentiles were occasioned héereby both to knowe and remember God though they worshiped him not as they should Psal 19. as Paul reasoneth Rom. 1. And as the Heauens declare the glorie of God and the Firmament his handie worke so the excellent harmonie of all the creatures consenting therevnto moueth the mind of man to kéepe the register thereof The second thing is the person of man called by the Gréekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little World wherein is the view as it were of all these things The auntient Philosopher Trismegistus draweth men to the knowledge and mindfulnes of God In lib. de poten Sap. dei Dialog 5. by the consideration of mans bodie Age fili saith he circumspice humani corporis opificium cuius admonitione perdisce quis tam pulchrae imaginis conditor c. Go to my Sonne looke about the workemanship of mans bodie by the admonition wherof learne perfitly who is he which hath made so beawtifull an image And perusing euery part and member of the body he concludeth thus Behold how many works of diuine Arte are in this one matter demonstrated euery of which is most sightly and handsomly proportioned and so that euery of them yet differeth from other in his proper office But who hath framed these things what father what mother Is it not that onely inuisible God which of his owne will hath done them all And another Philosopher saith that a man hauing in his bodie so many ioynts members as there be dayes in the whole yeare is thereby put in mind of Gods goodnes and moued to remember him continually Héerewith if we consider the hidden treasures of the Soule and so include the whole man we shall be euen deuoured with zeale and forced to sing ioyfully with Dauid O Lord Psal 134.14 I will feare thee for I am fearefully and wonderfully made marueilous are thy workes and that my soule knoweth right well Thirdly the word of God written and preached vnto vs The word of God teacheth vs plainely not onely what God is what his will is what he hath done but also in what sort he is to be serued and how to be remembred Without this Remembrancer he saw all our memorie to be forgetfulnes all our knowledge ignorance all our wisedome foolishnes all our policies péeuishnes all our sight blindnes had not the Lord giuen vs his word written not onely in the heart but euen in Tables of stone brasse iron c. to remaine a Schoolemaister vnto vs for euer how had the creation of the world the making of man the building of the woman the placing of them in pleasure and cause of their paine bin remembred How could the promise of the Lords mercie in Christ the drowning of the world the burning of Sodom the preseruing of Lot and the punishment of Lots wife bin brought to our knowledge Yea Moses himselfe would soone haue forgotten what was written in

of the Lord God And héereby is he noted to be of the faithfull as also more effectually by that when being among the wicked he neuertheles feared the Lord in all things The Wiseman Sapi. 10.6 Sap. 10.6 2. Pet. 2. calleth Lot The Righteous man And S. Peter in his 2. Chapter of his second Epistle calleth him Iust Lot Righteous in déede and iust both before God and man Before God by the forgiuenes of sinne through mercie and apprehension of righteousnes by faith Before men as well by his godly conuersation and vertues as also in respect of the wicked Sodomits before whome he was farre preferred Thus was he a righteous man And heereof it was that he liued so vnspotted among the wicked vexing his righteous soule that he saw the two Angels comming into Sodom and rose vp to méete them Gen. 18. that he bowed himselfe with his face to the ground and inuited them gladly to his house that he entertained them reuerently and defended them against the rage of the Sodomits that he beleeued the words of the Angels and most obediently followed them departing frō Sodom without desire to retire that he contemned the sinnes and societie of the Sodomits and forsaking all the trust of the world depended onely on the mercie of God whom he knew to be able and willing to prouide a better habitation for him But it is a thing worth the noting how Lot came into Sodom 2. How he came to Sodom which was vpon two occasions the one by his vnhappie departure from his Vncle Abraham the other by the foolish lust of his eye in his vnhappie choice For as we reade in Gen 13.6 Gen. 13.6 when these two godly persons Abraham and Lot were greatly increased and their flocks could not pasture together in one countrey without contētion betwéene their seruants it was the counsell of Abraham that to eschue that inconuenience betweene them being as brethren they should sunder themselues and their flocks one from another and therein he did not sticke to giue the choice vnto Lot saying vnto him Is not the whole land before thee Depart I pray thee from me If thou wilt take the left hand then will I go to the right Or if thou go to the right hand then I will take the left So when Lot beheld the Countrey he perceiued that all the playne of Iordane was watered euery where for it was before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrhe as the Garden of Eden And so Lot chose vnto him all the plaine of Iordan yea he pitched his Tent euen to Sodom But hinc ille lachrymae wo vnto thée seely Lot Lots vnhappie choice for whiles thou goest about to please thine eye thou woundest thine heart thou lustest for the plaine but the bushes inclose thée thou delightest in the waters of Iordan but thou art in danger of the fire of Sodom thou thoughtest thou haddest gotten thee into heauen Aug. de ci Dei 21. but thou art come to the gate of hell Sodom is faire and fruitfull but thou must not taste of their fruites Egesippus for their Apples fall to dust and scinders if thou touch them their hearbs be hurtfull and death is in their pot To be plaine there is bona terra mala gens a good Countrey but a wicked people for it is truely sayd Gen. 13.13 that the men of Sodom were wicked Cause of separatiō and exceeding sinners against the Lord. This separation betweene Abraham and Lot came of contention and strife a cause of diuision euen among breethren this contention and strife grew of the aboundance of worldly wealth a cause of much discord euen betweene the children of one parentage whereof there be too many examples besides commō experience This choise of Sodom came of the lust of the eye which ensnareth many men by the hooke of voluptuousnes and draweth them to horrible inconueniences as innumerable testimonies with semblable examples and our daily experience do also witnes at the full Beware of contention about these vayne earthly things beware of a desire to be made rich beware of lust of the eye and pleasure of the flesh which is in the world as Iohn saith and is an enemy to the Lord. And if this good man could not rule himselfe therein neither eschew some paine thereof ensewing Let vs not presume to promise our selues safetie and ease in these pricking thornes Now may we see in what sort Lot 3 How Lot liued there liued in Sodome among the vngodly It is a verie difficult thing for a man to escape the infection of the plague whereas the very ayre is corrupted It is not easie to touch pitch and not be therewith defiled and to stand in the furnace of fire with the three children and not haue asmuch as a heare burned is altogither of Gods power and not of mans wit Lot is in Sodome as in a place of infection as in the pit of pitch and furnace of vncleannesse and yet is he there righteous among them Yet as a Lillie among the thornes as a childe among the Scorpions and as a woman groning in trauaile he endureth it As a preacher of righteousnes he ceasseth not as a Pellican in the wildernesse he reioyceth not but preacheth prayeth A cause of Lots sorowe lamenteth and vexeth his righteous soule as mooued therevnto by their great sinnes to beholde how wickednesse was extolled and vertues trodden downe how right was exiled and wrong dealing in price how sinnes did abound and righteousnesse faith and truth was scarce found and he sawe the Angell whereof Iohn speaketh Reuel 10. to put his right foote on the Sea Aret. in Apo. 10. vers 1.2 but his left on the earth when the wicked seemed more to flourish in worldly sway and estimation than the godly which had none honor at all The Prophet Ieremie Ieremy 9. Lam. 1. liuing among the like kinde of people was forced to vexe his minde with their vngodlinesse and the consideration of their payne ensuing as it can not be but a greefe vnto a godly man to see the people so obstinate indurate and wicked to their own destruction and thus he breaketh out Oh that my head were full of water mine eyes a fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slayne of the daughter of my people Agayne Oh that I had in the wildernesse a wayfaring mans cottage that I might leaue my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and an assembly of rebels Hereof was our Sauiour Christ mooued to weepe ouer Ierusalem I would to God the godly men now had not the like occasion giuen them to vexe their godlie mindes but it is truely sayd and too truely verified Loue waxeth colde and the Sonne of man readie to come vpon vs faith starteth aside and is scarcely found but as a pilgrime on the earth Tongues are bent as bowes to shoote foorth lyes but