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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03640	A sermon preached before the queenes maiestie at Hampton Court, on Sunday the 16. day of October: By I. Hopkins, one of his maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie	Hopkins, John, fl. 1604-1609.	1609 (1609)	STC 13768; ESTC S114087	13,139	44

grounds of religion and therefore may easilie be led into error are to be admonished to lay a better and more sure foundation against the time of triall For assuredly so many could not be seduced as daily are in these times if euer they had learned and beleeued the true grounds and foundations of the faith Act. 17.11 Also we ought like the men of Berea to make triall of the truth of those things wee hold and haue learned by the rules of faith willinglie suffer our selues to bee informed in the essentiall grounds of true religion For although that errors in some circumstances are not so dangerous so as they bee not wilful for who in some things may not bee deceiued yet to erre in the foundation is the certaine ruine of the whole worke and so to die is the vndoubted destruction both of bodie and soule Secondly wee must bee sure that in this walking with God our heart be sound Prou. 4.23 Of all watch and ward saith Salomon looke to thy heart For if that bee sincere it is so highlie acceptable with God that in mercie hee passeth by many imperfections And it was a speciall part of the last admonition that Dauid gaue vnto Salomon 1. Chron. 28.9 to serue the Lord with a perfect heart Dissembled holines is double impietie and though such paintings may deceiue men they can neuer deceiue the al seeing eies of the eternall God Lastlie that this our walking may be pleasing to the Lord on al parts we must do that which is good in Gods sight that is we must not only auoid such things as the eies of the Lord cannot abide to behold but we must likewise practise performe those good workes that he hath commanded vs and are belonging to our seuerall callings Wee are created to good workes to liue in them Ephes 2.10 Psal 34.14 Isa 1.16 not onely must wee cease from euill but doe good remembring the punishment of that seruant who hid his masters talent in a napkin Luk. 19.20 For according to our seuerall places gifts and meanes the Lord requires of vs to seeke his glorie and as wee desire that the Lord will bestow vpon vs glorie in heauen so must we alwaies endeuour to aduance his glorie here vpon earth But it will be said Durus est hic sermo this is a hard saying who can thus walke And if none shall enioy the kingdome of heauen but such as walke thus vpon earth then who shal be saued It is true indeed there are none that make such straight steps to their feete but sometimes they slide or step out of the way neither is any man so vpright vpon earth that doth good and sinneth not In some things we offend all Iam. 3.2 saith the Apostle But it followeth not because wee cannot line in the perfect obedience of the law of God therefore wee should not labour to doe our vttermost endeuour and as I take it the word vsed in the originall text will giue some light hereunto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which properly signifieth made himselfe to walke implying not a perfection of the worke but a diligence in the endeuour to resist the temptations of sinne and fight against the lusts of the flesh And this is the fulfilling of that which the Scripture teacheth that the life of a Christian is a continuall warfare the profession whereof wee vndertake in our Baptisme 1. Tim. 1.18 2. Tim. 4.7 1. Cor. 9.24 Luk. 13.24 and the execution whereof must be the daylie practise of our liues The life of a Christian is compared to running in a race set out by the words of labouring striuing indeuouring here by walking for the passage to heauen is painefull on foote in the worke of mortification not riding at ease in following the pleasures and lusts of the flesh In my bed by night I sought him that my soule loued Cant. 3.1 I sought him but I found him not saith the spouse of Christ teaching that such as will find Christ must arise from their bed by which is meant pleasures and delights of the flesh and seeke him in the exercises of fasting and prayer and such like duties of holines The way to heauen would neuer haue been called a narrow way nor the gate a straite gate if it were sufficient in words to professe true religion and in our workes to denie our hearts no pleasure Hitherto we haue heard the religious and godly life of this holy man and how hee walked with God But as all vertues and vices are aggrauated or extenuated by their circumstances so in the obseruation of the matter precedent in this historie some necessarie points may be noted by which the excellencie of this his walking may much more bee admired they are specially three 1. The condition and state of life wherein he lined 2. The men with whom he liued 3. The time how long he continued First for his estate it is apparent that hee was a great Prince of his time the eldest of his house of the first line in the descent from Adam that hee enioyed abundantly the plentie of the earth that then was exceeding fertile in yeelding all kinde of fruites as being not yet sowred with the vnsauorie corrupt matter the vniuersall deluge left vpon it for howsoeuer we reade of sinne in that age of the world we reade of no famine and being the heire of his house and first borne of the familie his authoritie and power was great Now that wealth greatnes and plentie are strong temptations to our nature to take libertie to sinne may appeare by that warning which Moses gaue the people And when the Lord thy God hath brought thee into the land which hee sware vnto thy fathers Deur 6.10.11.12 c. with great and goodly cities which thou buildedst not and houses full of all manner of goods which thou filledst not c. And when thou hast eaten and art full Then beware lest thou forget the Lord. And the danger of this temptation made Agur Prou. 30. as it is in the Prouerbs to mislike aswel abundance of riches as extremitie of want being a great occasion of pride and forgetfulnesse of God For what made Nabal so proude that a man might not speak to him 1. Sam. 25.17 but his wealth what made Haman the sonne of Amedatha so proud but his greatnes by reaso of the Kings fauor Wealth and libertie are the parents of many sinnes and are indeed those thornes that choake the good seede of the word Luke 8.14 not in their owne nature for so they are the good blessings of God but by the corruption of our nature that is so apt to abuse them There is an euill sicknes that I haue seene vnder the Sunne Eccle. 5.12 riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill saith Salomon This indeede hath not been true in all Abraham Iob Dauid Iehosaphat Ioseph of Arimathea and manie