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A18073	A commentary vpon the epistle of Saint Paule written to the Colossians. Preached by Thomas Cartwright, and now published for the further vse of the Church of God	Cartwright, Thomas, 1535-1603.	1612 (1612)	STC 4708; ESTC S117383	138,468	342

the same with Dauids and as excellent as his was and yet it is more notably set forth 1. Peter 2. 1. Peter 2. That whereas the Iewes were scattered from their inheritance into Pontus c. This is now troden downe vnder foot by wicked men this cannot be so Againe that is faded and decayed this can neuer decay 1. Peter 5. and perish and therfore seeing our inheritance is so excellent and so precious whatc are ought we to haue to keepe it and maintaine it for as we vse in prouerbe It is my free-hold and therefore I must looke to it so seeing this our free-hold wee are to haue speciall care and regard aboue all things to keepe it sure He hath fitted vs for this wherein he doth plainely teach vs that there is no readinesse aptnesse and fitnesse in our owne nature and therfore we must haue our fitnesse from God A man is fit for his fathers inheritance but for Gods inheritance we are not so for wee are euen all the world in regard of Gods matters naturally but blind borne Againe though Esay 42. 7. wee had our sight yet we are lame and cannot reach so much as a hand to it nor go one foote to it and haue both these naturally and therefore cannot by vs bee cured as the blind man said Againe which Iohn 9. Eph. 2. 1. is more we are dead in sinne and therefore must bee new creatures which wee cannot make our selues And therefore the Apostle saith that we are not able 2. Cor. 3. to doe good because wee are not apt nor fit to doe good and therefore what fitnesse soeuer we haue it commeth from God And this ought to cause and stirre vs to thankfulnesse vnto God as the Apostle heere doth For seeing we are both made fit by God for his inheritance and seeing hee hath bestowed it freely vpon vs therefore wee are the more carefully to bee thankefull which wee should not bee bound to doe if it were of our selues What this inheritance is hee sheweth in making it consist of two parts 1. Pulling vs out of darkenesse 2. Carrying vs into the Kingdome of his beloued Son Pulled vs Thereby sheweth that hee vseth great strength to deliuer vs which confirmeth to vs the doctrine before of being vnable our selues to do And therefore he deliuers vs and puls vs out as of a prison which are vsually darke And more notably he saith that he puls vs out of the pit without water setting down Esay 42. Zach. 9. 11. and comparing this prison to a pit or dungeon wherein is onely dirt wherein wee sticke where is no water where hee describeth our damnable estate for seeing we are cast into such a prison but especially being cast by God himselfe in his iust iudgement how is it possible that wee should deliuer our selues and therefore our Sauiour faith No man can come to me but he must bee drawne by my Father A man may Ioh. 6. bee in prison and haue no will nor affection to come out and therefore it maketh to the glory and praise of God in doing the whole worke of our Redemption And if after the Church is called to CHRIST she findeth such dulnesse and heauinesse in her selfe that shee must bee drawne though they Cant. 2. haue receiued grace and are drawne out of the pit How shall they haue any strength to get out which are not yet drawne out of the pit and dirt So that the first part is to be deliuered from blindnesse from ignorance hardnesse of heart the wrath and iudgements of God and condemnation The second part is the making vs pertakers of his Kingdome And as the darkenesse wee are deliuered from is partly in this life and was after to bee accomplished in hell if we had not bene deliuered so the Kingdome of God is begunne in this life and is within vs and shall be perfected in heauen after this life So that wee see those that are the children of God indeed will in this life endeauor to giue obedience to the commandements of God And therefore though men professe themselues the seruants of God yet their liues being not according to God they are no subiects of God For as hee that will professe himselfe to bee subiect to the King and yet in his deed will yeeld obedience to the King of Spaine and serue him hee is doubtlesse a Traytor So it is with those that professe themselues to bee Christians yet if in their liues and behauiour they do not shew forth the fruites of it they are nothing but Rebels to God and seruants to the diuell come they neuer so diligently to the Word and Sacraments c. Hitherto we haue heard what these two persons God the Father and God the Sonne haue wrought in our saluation Now followeth the matter of our Redemption viz. in him viz. in his beloued Sonne we haue Redemption because we haue forgiuenesse of sinnes Here is set forth in whom by whom and in what price wee haue our redemption For many men will confesse that they are saued by CHRIST but when it comes to the meanes there they faile For the enemies of the truth will say that they are saued by CHRIST but yet that they are also saued by their merite and free-will and they will say that the good workes they haue they haue of God and yet they haue no good workes at all because they haue it not by the meanes which God heere hath laid downe Our Sauiour CHRIST is hee that hath redeemed vs and paid the price for vs and that wholly Obiection How shall our Sauiour CHRIST be the saluation of all men seeing hee was not man at all times for how can his bloud deliuer a man when it was not shedde Answere His bloud shed in due time hath such power and strength because it is not the bloud of man but of God therfore it reacheth to all the times before it is not onely belonging to them that come after but to Adam and the Fathers and therefore it is said that the death of our Sauiour CHRIST reacheth to the Rom. 3. former sinnes Question Secondly how can our Sauiour CHRIST being but one man redeeme by his death so many euen all that are to be saued For as in wars whē prisoners are taken one man can redeeme but one man and therefore how can our Sauiour being one redeeme all the Saints from the beginning to the end of the world Answere The Apostle answeres That Adam being but one man seeing his owne sin was able to condemne all men he being but a man and not a God and Rom. 5. therefore shall not CHRIST being the Son of God by his so many suffrings be able to saue those that are to be saued Question Thirdly our sinnes deserue punishment eternall without end being cōmitted against the eternal God now the troubles of our Sauiour CHRIST were but for a time he being but about 33 years on

who is both able and will recompence your well doing Remembring on the other side that whatsoeuer hee bee that doth wrong whether Maister or seruant thereof hee shall receiue the punishment from the Lord who accepteth neither the person of the seruant to pitty him because of his poore base estate nor of the Maister to spare him because of his dignity and high degree The summe is the setting forth of the duty of the last pare and couple in the houshold id est of the Maisters and seruants But first wee are to speake of that which remaineth of the other Text of Children and Parents First childrē are cōmanded to giue obedience to parents Verse 20. by obedience is meant all duties which children owe to their parents which are diuers And first of a duty which belongeth to all them in the household husband wife parents children maisters seruants viz. to pray perticulerly one for another and more perticulerly then for others for parents that they are bound to it we see it in Iob that he prayed Iob. 1. for his children being at feasting least they should let any sinne ouerpasse them in their feasting wherein they might offend And by the same reason children are bound to pray for their parents And also by the commandement the subiects are commanded 1. Tim. 2 1. 2 to pray for their Princes And so Princes to pray for their people as Dauid doth in sundry psalmes wherein he maketh prayer for himselfe and his people 1. Kings 18. Salomon also doth the like in second Chronicles 6. 21. But to come to more perticuler Particular duties of children duties of children to their parents 1. Reuerence viz. a speciall reuerence which they are to cary to their parents aboue others secondly loue a perticuler loue of their parents in regard also that they are set ouer them of God These are inward things Outward duties are first a reuerent behauiour in their countenance and cariage towards them in their wordes and in their workes to be ready to obey and do those things they are commanded not contrary to God And therefore it is said in all things viz. not to Note obey their parents in that which they themselues like but in all things though hard and contrary to their owne liking if it be not against the word of God And one speciall duty of obedience is to beare with all and couer the infirmities of their parents as Sem and Iaphet did to their father Noah Gen 9 23 Further if the parents haue need they are to relieue and maintaine their parents 1. Tim. 5. 4. for if the children be able to maintaine them the Church is not to be burdened Amongst other a most notable duty is that whereby Note children are to yeeld obedience to their parents in being bestowed by their parents in their occupations and manner of life And therefore we see that Adam bestowed his sonnes one in tilling the land the other in keeping cattle But more especially in marriage they are not to suffer themselues to be bestowed without their parents consent Where we see the wretched disobedience of children that will giue themselues at their owne pleasure contrary to their parents consent And a wretched and foolish peeuishnesse-crept into Note the harts of children that they will take it in great dislike if their parents be spoken vnto before themselues cleane contrary to the example of the Scripture and euen contrary to the practise of heathen and naturall men As we see Ismael would not marry but by his mothers consent and contrariwise what a hart-breaking was it to Isaac and Rebecca that Esaw married Gen. 18. contrary to their consent So that this is a speciall duty of children both sonnes and daughters not to marry or choose their husbands or wiues without their parents consent So that their parents do match them so as may be equall and fit for them in regard Note of age estate c. Whereas if parents force their children contrarie to reason for gaine c. they deale wretchedly in that And as parents are not to force their children so children are not to disobey their parents when in age and condition they find out fit matches for them in any sort And a reason that parents are to be obeyed of Note their children in those things that are good is because they are obedient also in the same vnto the Lord. And we know it is an easy matter if with one whiting a man may paint two wals it is more easy for him to paint one But our obedience therefore must be in the Lord viz. onely in those things onely wherein they command according to God And therefore Ioh. 2. our Sauiour CRHIST when his mother bid him change water into wine refused he denied her because the time was not come But we may not speake as he spake for we must if they command vs contrary to the word of God with all reuerence deny to do it and not in any controlling or snappish fashion In that he saith parents he meaneth both father and mother for children because the father hath more authority and because peraduenture the inheritance lyeth vpon his disposition will obey their father but they care not for their mother Howbeit obedience is commanded to both And Ex. 10 12. howsoeuer it commeth oftentimes that the children are disobedient by the too much tendernesse of the parents yet the children are not to trust to that for if they leese their parents loue through their wicked behauiour they can not assure themselues of Gods Note A foolish sonne saith Salomon doth ouerthrow his fathers estate and driues away his mother viz. both ouerthroweth and driueth away both and maketh parents that they cannot abide the sight of them As the hatred of brethren is strong because their A simile loue which was great is broken So if parents loue which is farre greater be broken the hatred will be the more The duties of parents are diuers 1. To see the Parents duties disposition of the children and according to their fitnesse to dispose them in this or that calling specially Eph. 6. 4. to bring them vp in the feare and information of the Lord. Secondly to lay vp for their children 2. Cor. 12. 14. And further not to prouoke them by vndiscreet Verse 21. correction in not correcting them according to their sexes and ages as when they correct their sonnes and daughters and all alike which may prouoke them or giue occasion at the least for children ought to beare it patiently though they be iniuried yet they may discourage their children by indiscret and too hard correction And on the other side parents are to take heed that they kill not their children by too much pampering them which is oft times the cause of the death of their soule body as Dauid did his sonnes who when he was loath to displease them Absolon