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A18014	The plaine ma[ns] spirituall plough Containing the godly and spirituall husbandrie. Wherein euery Christian ought to be exercised, for the happie encrease of fruite, to eternall life. By I.C. preacher of the word.	Carpenter, John, d. 1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 4663; ESTC S118755	136,138	254

tou Kuriou Iesou alla kai muriakis ean iaie I am ready said Gordius not onely to labour but to die for the name of the Lord Iesus not onely once but a thousand times if it might so bee Ignat. in apost ad Trattia acts Epest 10. ad Ephes And I said Ignatius haue setled my hope in him who died for mee that is Christ For there is no guile founde in him Againe I am for Gods cause deliuered into the hands of murtherers as from the bloud of Abell the iust vnto the bloud of Ignatius the least Againe writing to the Romanes Suffer mee saith he to be made meate for the beastes appointed to deuour me Epist 11 that I may be made worthy of God For I am the wheate or corne of God and I shall be grinded with the teeth of beasts that I may become cleane bread for the Lord and therto ye may perswade those beasts that their wombes become my Sepulchre and that they leaue no part of my body whereby after my death the same may not remaine loathsome vnto any of them which liue Loe this is that which faithfull hope perswades and such are the Oxen such is their labour in this field and such is their remuneration with the Lorde and his Saints CHAP. XXIX 1 The Holder 2 The Leader 3 The Driuer of Pieties Plough WE knowe right well The working of God in the regeneration of man Dionys Areo in Caiest hierarchiae ca. 1. that no man commeth to the Father but by the Sonne that no man commeth to the Son but he whom the Father draweth and that no man commeth either to the one or to the other but by the power and motion of the holy Ghost So that in this worke the whole Trinitie of the diuine Deitie hath his action and perfect working therefore it is Cant. 1. that the most holy Spowsesse ●s Salomon testifieth prayeth to her most peerlesse head saying Draw me forth after thee and then will we runne Ier. 31. Ephraim implores as the Prophet Ieremie saith O Lorde conuert vs and wee shall bee conuerted The Apostles desire O Lorde encrease our faith And the Lorde Iesus himselfe sending forth his Apostles commaundes them to preach the Gospell and to Baptise the beleeuers in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost Therefore as the Plough is by the Holder thereof directed by the Leader allured and by the Driuer prouoked so is this spirituall Plough directed by God the Father allured by God the Sonne and prouoked by God the holy Ghost for God himselfe holdeth Christ Iesus leadeth and the holy Spirite prouoketh the Plough in this husbandrie and field of the Lord. Gen. 1.1 Thus in the great work of the Creation these three persons had not onely their seuerall but their ioynt operations as Moses testifieth Thus in the conception and birth of Christ God the Father begets Mat. 1. Luk 2. God the holy Ghost workes in the conception and God the Sonne is begotten and borne which three also worke in the begetting regeneration and new birth of the elected Saints albeit they are not three but one eternall God The Holder My Father saith Christ is an Husbandman and so called in regard of his wisedome prouidence and good endeuours had God is as a Husbandman Secund. Philoso and daily employed by him on the soyle of mans heart wherein semblant to the Husbandman whom the Philosopher Secundus in the presence of Adrian defined he is a Minister of labours an improuer of the desart a Phisitian of the earth a Planter of trees and a Measurer or Proportioner of monethes In this person we may here remember beyond many others two principall attributes or diuine vertues namely Gods iustice and mercie his Iustice and his Mercie both the which in the holding of this Plough hee aptly applieth as his two handes to those two Hales or handles of the Soole In the former we finde him euer vpright and seuere against presumptious sinners in the latter louing and cheerful to penitents The first is strengthened by the vigour of the Lawe the latter beautified by the comforts of the Gospel and therein both these are so tempted by the meditation of Messias his merite Gregor mor. in Iob. 35 lib. 26. cap. 10. that neither presumption hurteth nor desperation killeth him that truly repents For as God is a good Father so in his goodnesse he respects not only his naturall Sonne God and man but all such as haue their adoptiō by grace in him with a right fatherly loue and affection The Leader as it is said before is Christ Iesus 2 Christ is the Leader of the Plough who indeede goeth forth before all those his Oxen as their Head and Captaine and willing to bring man from errours to the truth and especially his Ministers to the right method and order of their vocation Aug. in Ioan. tract 22. he saith I am the Way the Truth and the Life As if he would say Falli non vis Ego sum veritas Mori non vis Ego sum vita Errare non vis Ego sum via Non est qua eas nisi ad me non est quà cas nisi per me Wilt thou not be deceiued I am the Truth Wilt thou not die I am the Life Wilt thou not erre I am the Way Thou hast not whither to goe but vnto me neither maist thou walke safely sauing by me This is the same to whom the Lawe directs the Prophets point the Figures ayme and whom the Father would that all men should heare and hee hath not onely shewed the way vnto the kingdome but louingly allures men to walke in the same Therefore he faith Mat. 11.29 Learne of me Come vnto me Neither hath he at any time required that of his followers in this worke which himselfe had not first vndertaken in his owne person In regard whereof Apo. 14.1 those hundred fortie and foure thousand redeemed soules which stand with the Lambe on Mount Sion followe him wheresoeuer he goeth and therefore as for him they are crossed they shall be with him also crowned finding that all the afflictions of this life for him Ro. 8. are not worthy that glory which shall be reuealed in him 3 The Driuer The holy Ghost prouokes the good Oxe The Driuer of this Plough is the diuine Spirite through whose instigation the goade is agitated the Oxen prouoked and the Plough furthered too and for the which it pleaseth him semblant to the Goad inch or driuer of Oxen to vse and apply sometimes Words sometimes Voices sometimes Songs or whistlings sometimes prickes and stripes The Words Words are the examples testimonies sentences and Parables of the holy Scriptures Eccle. 12. the which as saith Salomon as are goades and nailes fastened by the maisters of the Assemblies which are giuen by one Pastor goades to prouoke and nailes to confirme the working

suddainely gone downe into hell and all his glory is defaced with him in his death for why the Lord hath spoken to him in his wrath and vexed him in his sore displeasure when he exalted the horne of his Annointed and placed his King on Sion his holy hill CHAP. XXXVI The second generall part containing the Reasons and motiues perswading all men to follow the godly husbandry wherein is seene the reward of Pietie with the conclusion THe Lord God Almighty as hee is the supreame King the highest Lord the Father eternall and the God of both heauen earth might iustly by such his powerfull authority haue commanded the Israelies An Argument of Gods great mercie as in their dutifull obedience to sow for righteousnes and to reape according to the measure of mercy without any other reason or respect And whereas hee might haue menaced and threatned the disobedient with the fiercenesse of his iudgements as he did the Iewes by the ministery of St. Iohn the Baptist as now the axe is laid to the roote of the tree and as Christ saith Except ye repent ye shall perish Howbeit * See what I haue said hereof in the Song of the beloued touching his vineyard in Isai 5. part 1. such is the Lords vnspeakeable mercie that applying himselfe to mans capacitie and weakenesse rather like a father then a King hee proposeth such reasons vseth such meanes as may rather gently allure and perswade them then in any sort terrifie force or compell them the which manner of inducement our Sauiour Christ imitating his good Father hath also vsed saying Come vnto me all yee that trauile and be heauie laden and I will refresh you learne of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and yee shall finde rest to your soules And of this kinde the Prophet Hoseah hath produced in number eight whereof as we wel obserue The first is taken frō the conuenience of the time The second from the fit opportunity thereof The third from the consideration of his fatherly loue affection The fourth frō the excellency of the things promised The fift from a comparison therof with the raine The sixt from the goodly maner of disposing therof The seuenth from the benefit of the same in such as receiue it The eight frō the consideration of his most gratious inclination and regard of his faithful children in that he commeth vnto them in his owne person either to performe or to see all things performed according to the purpose of his promise and their hearty desire The first reason as I said is taken from the conuenience of the Time The first Reason Time Iob. Ian. There was a time of deuiation a time of reuocation or reuouation a time of reconciliation and a time of peregrination of deuiation from Adam vnto Moses of reuoca●ion from Moses vntill the natiuity of Christ of reconciliation vnder the Gospell and of peregrination for all men in this worlde In and by euery which time there was also and is appointed vnto euery thing his season to be performed and effected vnder the Sun The which neuerthelesse is often and much neglected by worldly mem whereof Father Bernard could worthily complaine In sermon ●d colar Nil preciosius tempore heu nil bodie vilius inuentur nothing is more precious then time alas nothing in these daies is lesse regarded The Iewes in the daies of Heggaeus the Prophet being willing by him to set on and further the building of the Lords house answered him that the time thereof was not then come To whom the Prophet replied Is it time for your selues to dwell in your setled houses and the Lords house to lie waste Moreouer that they might consider that their present dearth of corne victualls and other necessary things fell on them as a iust plague for such their neglect of that house in the time appointed hee added Consider your owne waies in your hearts ye haue sowen much brought in little ye eate but ye haue not enough yt drinke but ye are not filled ye cloath your selues but ye be not warme and he that earneth wages puts the same into a broken bagge But now the Lord being gratious wills them to obserue the time as reason equity require the time for this businesse appointed by himselfe not after their wills saying It is time or the time is now come wherein ye should seeke the Lord. Such a thing entendeth Salomon in his Canticle Cant. 3. The winter is past saith he the summer it come the voice of the tirtle doue is heard in our Land the like hath S. Paul to the Romanes Rom. 13. It is now time that ye awake out of sleepe for the night is past the day is come neere and our redemption is neerer then when we first beleeued And the Prophet Hoseah seemes to say in effect thus O yee of the house of Israel and Iuda ye haue long enough and too long sought after vanitie in the errour of your minde ye haue ploughed iniquity too many daies and yeares ye haue beene as sheepe going a great whiles astray and as prodigall sonnes haue wandred farre from your good fathers house and the Lorde hath hither vnto in long suffering permitted you as the good father permits his young children to play the wantons for the which also he hath sometimes seuerely corrected you Again ye haue bin often called long scooled many times instructed in godlines now by this time ye should be no longer as children but such as are growen to the yeares of wisedome discretion It is therfore meete conuenient yee should know the time of your calling to walke in a new life as honestly worthily warily in a word putting away the former conuersatiō of your lusts ye should now serue the Lord in holines and righteousnes before him and so redeeme the time for the daies are euill and the enemie is malitious and subtile euer seeking to preuent hinder you with his mischiefes 2. The fit opportunitie But to this yee are the more excited when yee shall consider duly of the second argument which is taken from the fit opportunity of this time intimated by that perticle whiles or vntill that is whiles the Lord commeth or vntill hee commeth Wherein wee finde a fit allusion to the natures either of those birdes which obserue their fit times in the yeare as the Swallow the Nightingale the Storke or to the manner of those husbandmen which apprehend their seasons for sowing reaping and other workes of husbandry as the opportunitie is offered them or to those prisoners in bands who being guilty and trusting to the mercie and lenitie of their king for pardon and deliuerance wait the opportune time and then gladly accept the same Such a thing hath the Prophet where hee saith Isai 55. Seeke ye the Lord whiles hee may be found cal vpon him whiles he is neere the Psalmist Psal admonisheth To