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Tapeinobasia: or, A sermon of walking humbly with God. Preached at Serjeants Inne in Chancery-lane, by Mr John Ridley, Chaplain there. April 29. 1649. Imprimatur. John Downame. May 8. 1649.
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wounded by the watch-men robbed of her vail by the keepers of the walls Cant. 5.7 tells every one she met that she was sick of love When their Judges i.e. their Deliverers or the Dispensers of their Laws were overthrown in stony places and their bones lay scattered before the graves mouth as chips on the earth where one heweth wood then they will hear my words for they are sweet Psal 141.6 When a poor soul hath been in Satans sieve well winnowed like Jonah in the midst of the sea the weeds of sin wrapped about his head the Law with its curse as in his case the earth with her bars was about him for ever when he hath felt the stings of the fiery serpent hath been at pits brink even within the hearing of fearful yellings and mist of the bottomless pit and by infinite mercy is brought to land delivered from going down to the pit for he hath found a ransome Job 33.24 snatcht as a brand out of the fire translated from Law to Gospel from Curse to a Crown from a Slave to a Son Then I dare not say Never till then Deus utitur jure suo goes his own way is he fitted to walk humbly with God Then Jonah will go and preach repentance Saul enquire Lord what wilt thou have me to do When sin is forgiven and infirmities healed our life saved from destruction then for a Psalm that shall begin Bless the Lord O my soul and end so too Bless the Lord O my soul Psal 103.1 ult When the Red-sea before and the Egyptians behinde and Israel delivered then sing ye to the Lord for he hath triumphed gloriously Exod. 15.2 3. Without this Humiliation no walking with God can be constant Our vows of New Obedience are kept no better not onely because we keep not in minde the occasion of making them or because we enter the field in our own strength but especially because they are the resolutions of an unhumbled heart we think to stop the mouth of our conscience for impieties past with purposes and resolutions for the future This People here were guilty of Oppression and Cruelty the Prophet moves them to mend all and as a sure foundation bids them humble We have done with the first sense as preparatory in Humiliation to true Humility Humble thy self to walk with God 2. We come to the second sense the Executive part so the words are a motion to Humility 1. Walk that is live act behave thy self There is via morum as well as via pedum of our manners as of our feet quâ non passibus itur sed affectibus in which we walk not with paces of our body but affections of our minde 1. There is a way Natural We set out at our birth every action a step in this way every hour we make some progress Man walketh in a vain shadow and disquieteth himself in vain Psal 39. He brought down my strength in the way and shortened my days Psal 102.23 At death they rest in their beds Isai 57.1 And the Metaphor holds they are said to sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob Matth. 8.11 In this life we walk at death we rest at the resurrection we sit a posture of fixedness of quietness of gracefulness and authority 2. A Moral way Jer. 10. Learn not the way of the heathen So our Calling is especially our Way Prov. 3.6 In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths 3. A Spiritual way either the knowing part of it Acts 19.9 spake evil of that way verse 23. no small stir about that way that is the profession of Religion Or the Practick Psal 25.4 Shew me thy ways O Lord and I will walk in thy paths In which sometime we are said to walk with God so Enoch Gen. 6. walked with God and was not for God tool him Sometime before God So Abraham Gen. 17.1 Walk before me know that I am behinde thee to observe thy gate We are careful when we know one that comes after us observes us Sometime to walk after God Deut. 13.4 Ye shall walk after the Lord your God that is imitate God be holy merciful just as your God is Caput Religionis est assimilari illi quem colis Lact. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clem. Alex. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 55. To imitate God is impossible without serving him or to serve him without imitation 2. Humbly The word in all Languages hath its notation from the Ground 1. Walk with God as one mindful of your original whence you came and whither you must go get and keep thoughts of Mortality in your heart that dust I am and to dust I must return that I am Abraham's dust and ashes Isaiahs grass and flower of the grass the grass lasts not many moneths but the fresh green verdure of it not half that time Job 16.22 When a few yeers are come then shall I go the way whence I shall not return St. Paul's potsheard But above all Job's worm Job 25.6 How much less man that is a worm and the son of man that is but a worm Vermis in vita lumbricus in morte greater in life less in death then Lumbricus properly those small worms that are bred out of the dust that is hardened on the loins of beasts Lumbricus à Lumbis Sometimes for Mites in cheese good remembrancers at our table Or worm and but a worm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The greatest men are but greater worms the least lesser ones Lord what is man Man is like a thing of nought his time passeth away as a shadow The truest Inscription we can encircle the Medal of Man withal is that of the Psalm Universa vanitas est omnis homo Psal 39.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Walk with God as one mindful of this distance of Nature widened by sin so look upon God as a terrible Judge that will by no means clear the guilty a consuming fire Heb. 12. ult The Emperours as we learn in Herodian used to have flaming coals of fire carried before them to testifie their devouring power But Gods wrath hath consumed them their fire 's gone out Purpuratos Purpuratas Purpurea abripuit Mors 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Hees and Shee s in Purple Purple Death hath taken them all away even Tyre and Sidon the Region of Purple Clem. Alex. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. And look upon thy self as dry stubble fit fucl for eternal consumings Think thus that for sin thou art a prisoner committed when thou wast born all thy life long thou goest up and down with thy keeper thy Conscience thy life is given thee for no other end but to sue out thy Pardon Thou knowest not how soon the grim Serejant will arrest thee and bring thee to Judgement and then Eternity begins where millions of yeers multiplied by millions will not make a minute Think of these two Heads what thou art by nature a Worm by sin