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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00819	Five godlie sermons, preached by R.T. Bachiler of diuinitie. 1. The charge of the cleargie. 2. The crowne of Christians. 3. The annointment of Christ, or Christian ointment. 4. A festiuall sermon vpon the Natiuitie of Christ. 5. The fruits of hypocrisie..; Five godlie and learned sermons	Tyrer, Ralph, d. 1627.	1602 (1602)	STC 24475.5; ESTC S106205	127,399	317

out of the Lords vineyard and as enuious dogs shut out of the doores euen as reiected reprobates and runnagate castawaies scattered ouer the face of the whole earth without land without Lord without a Church without common wealth without gouernment without grace or without any good thing at all The abomination of desolation Their diuine law changed into a corrupt Cabala their heauenly Temple turned into a denne of Idolatrie their mount Syon the hill of exaltation and holy Ierusalem the Citie of Sanctification the one the seate the other the sanctuarie of God become according to the prophesie of our Sauiour in the gospell not onely a desolate habitation Mat. 23.38 but also the abomination of desolation Mat. 24.15 as it was also foretold by Daniell 9.29 The like of the seuen sometimes excellent Churches of Asia mentioned in the first of the Reuelation of golden candlesticks then now made leaden shrines Synagogues of Satan sinkes of sinne and puddles of perdition First planted by Paul as it appeareth in the Acts and watred by Iohn as it is manifest in the Apocal and flourishing in Christ but afterwards supplanted by the false Apostles choaked with Mahometisme and finally fallen away by Apostasie As also may be said of the church of Rome which was sometimes a congregation of Saints Rom. The church of Rome 1.7.8 but now a confusion of sinne and sinners in Pauls time famous for faith and obedience throughout the whole world 8. and 16. chap. 19. but in our daies infamous for Infidelitie and Apostasie throughout all christendome Then treading downe Satan vnder their feet 16.20 but now trampling the Saints of God vnder their feete then the seate of Christ now the chaire of Antichrist and therefore now not olde Rome but new Babylon as Peter tearmeth it by the confession of the Catholikes themselues The vse of all which vnto vs is this That hauing the good benefits and blessings of God especially the gifts and graces of the spirit we keepe sure and holde fast the same with might and maine with tooth and naile with hand and foote especially the inestimable iewell and invaluable margarite of the word of God and Gospell of Christ whereof Mat. 13.46 least by vnthankfull neglecting and lothing it we finally leaue and leese the same for as the Poet Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri It is no lesse masterie to keepe and saue that which a man hath gotten then to haue and get at the first Hauing therefore present possession and full fruition of this so great a treasure let vs take heede betimes least by vnthankfully abusing the same we afterwardes lament the lacke thereof Carendo enim magis quam fruendo when as rather by wanting then by enioying we shal perceiue how gracious a blessing this is Nor doth our Apostle here say to the elect and faithfull Christians to whom he writeth Ye shall haue as that they should haue hereafter but had not yet which although it might seeme to carrie some shew of an houering hope of future consolation yet had it not been halfe so comfortable for many things may happen betweene hope and hauing According to the Prouerb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra many things may happen betweene the cuppe and the lippe And while the grasse groweth the steede may starue and it is ill hoping for dead mens shooes as we say and one birde in the hand is worth two in the wood a little in re esse is better then much in spe posse and a small thing in present possession is more then a great deale in reuersion and remainder If hee had allured them by promise it had been verie forcible and effectuall because God is faithfull in all his promises nor is not as man that he should lie nor as the sonne of man that he should repent and when as all the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Iesus but he confirmeth them in putting them in remembrance of a diuine benefite already performed and bestowed vpon them which at that instant they enioyed which must needs be more auailable and aduantageable they then feeling and finding in themselues the fruit and effect therof and the rather because the promises of God are but conditionall that if we accomplish what he doth require then shall we bee sure that he will performe what we do desire otherwise he may seeme to be changed in his word Non Deus mutatur sed nos ipsi mutamur Aug. by not obseruing couenants with vs when as indeed we are changed in our works by not keeping his commandements So that our Apostle could not haue spoken more fully and Emphatically to shew foorth their perfect happy state wherein they now stand wherein also note the great bountie and beneficence of the Lord God towards these his faithfull as being a Lord of great largenesse and liberalitie as Iames describeth him 1.5 and that of his best gifts If any of you want wisedome let him aske it of God who giueth to alimen liberally and reprocheth no man and it shall be giuen him Not giuen sparingly as man doth by pence farthings mites but plentifully by talents by pressed down measure and running ouer and not with one hand but with both hands yea with a full hand full horne and full haruest Nor obraidingly as we vsually doe by hitting men in the teeth with that we haue bestowed vpon them As the Comicall Poet Haec commemoratio est quasi exprobratio but gratiously and cheerefully aboue our desert or desire and still multiplying his gifts and graces vpon vs more more beyond our hope and expectation and not content once but often to preuent and present vs with the blessings of his goodnesse but alwaies to crowne vs with mercie and louing kindnesse as it may appeare more in particular As our Apostle putteth them in minde that first they haue fellowship with the Father and with his sonne Iesus Christ 1. ch 5. v. Secondly that they haue an aduocate with the father euen Iesus Christ the righteous 1. Ioh. 2.1 And that now thirdly they haue an ointment from him that is holy therefore insinuating that God hath so aboundantly blessed them that they haue no want of any heauenly gifts or graces yea so bountifull and beneficiall is the Lord God towards all in generall Simile that euen as Kings and Emperours at their coronation vse to cast out among the people handfuls of money and to cause the common conduits to runne with wine for all commers to drinke thereof and to feast al whosoeuer will taste of their princely liberalitie and royall munificence And as Aristotle describeth his Magnificus in his Ethicks lib. 4. cap. 2. not onely to be sumptuous and surpassing bountiful in his gifts according to the name and nature of the vertue which he vseth but also to be large in his expences as that he will not vouchsafe