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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17917	Three sermons The former discouering a double and false heart, vpon the I. King. 21. 9. and 10. The second called, the blessednes of the righteous, vpon Psalm. 37. verse 37. The third, the court of guard, or watch of angels: I, Sam. 17. 37. By Nathaniel Cannon, Preacher of Gods Word at Hurley in Berkeshire.	Cannon, Nathanael, 1581 or 2-1664.	1616 (1616)	STC 4578; ESTC S117074	22,426	70

body but onely feare him that can kill body and soule and cast them both into ouerlasting hell fire d Mat. 10. And herewithall let vs conclude this point Now in the last place we shall be brought to behold the wofull tragedie of poore Naboath Stone him to death saith she that is the Terminus ad ad quem of all this businesse hee must die and thereby he shall know what it is to crosse such a woman as Iezabel was of her will Here sinne begins to troope and march forward one after another very fairely and as if they had learned a hellish discipline they keepe ranke in such an orderly manner that you may tell them and easily discerne how one hath begotten another let vs therefore calculate how this begun and to what passe it is now come First Couetousnesse as a mother sin conceiued and in this conception or breeding fell to long and that so eagerly that the very delay of obtaining brought foorth hatred in so deadly a manner that nothing but the death of the obstacle Naboath can serue the turne this cursed daughter I meane hatred the daughter of couetousnesse hath sat in counsell and hath concluded that if Naboath were done to death then all were hers but this will require help the helpe of such bloodsuccours as must draw from Naboath both life and breath and blood and vineyard and all Thus one sinne waites vpon another and one begets another Vno dato absurdo mille sequuntur and you may tel them how they proceed in a hellish order First here is hypocrisie Proclaime a fast Secondly Slander let two accuse him Thirdly Murder Stone him to death This progresse of sinne will produce this doctrine very naturally from this latter part Doct. 3 That the vngodly proceede by degrees from one sinne to another As Romulus made slaughter of his brother Rhemus to that end that hee might settle the Kingdome in his owne person August de cinttat Dei lib. 15. cap. 5. as Saint Austin reporteth so verily this woman butcher or butcherly woman wil not giue ouer vntil she bath her selfe in blood euen in the blood of her adioyning neighbor that she may settle his vineyard into her owne possession how shee hath begun we haue heard like a mother in shew Proclaime a Fast as if a father would haue at the death of a child a solemne funerall together with a sermon of the same nature to preach mortality vnto the liuing thus with a shew of natural affection shee appeareth in the 1. scane in the 2. she hath her deponents who with graue aspect before the iudges of the land call God to witnes by vertue of an oath that Naboath was a blasphemer and in the 3. she strikes him downe euen with a deadly blow Stone him to death this is the perambulation of the wicked they proceed from worse to worse from one sinne to another This e Esay 5.18 Esay noteth in the fifth Chapter of his Prophesie when hee saith that the vngodly doe draw sinnes together as it were with cart-ropes let vs note the phrase the Prophet vseth they draw sinnes it is a phrase to expresse the greatest strength of any creature the horse in his greatest strength and force is said to draw and it intimateth in mankind the putting on of forces as if we should say they vse their wits words workes and all their endeuours to this purpose and they pull them as it were with cart-ropes where the Prophet giueth to vnderstand that besides their owne strength they vse all other meanes and adiunctes heereunto that so the full measure of sin may bee made vp Saint Iames shewes the same gradation euery man is tempted f Iames 1.14 saith he when hee is drawne away by his owne concupiscence Then 2. when this lust hath conceiued it bringeth foorth sinne And then 3. this sinne must haue a time to worke and at length to finish And then fourthly when that is finished it bringeth foorth death This wee see both in the falles of them who were giuen ouer to wickednesse and also in the failings of those whom God did raise and restore againe Caine first of all did secretly murmure at his brother Abel Examples of both sorts but afterwards hee bore deadly hatred vnto him Thirdly he murdered him with the jaw bone of an Asse Fourthly being conuicted as it were before God in a question that might haue led him to repentance he answeth as wickedly as before he had done g Genes ● Am I my brothers keeper The like we find in Indas his first sinne noted vnto vs was couetousnesse hee grumbles at the poore womans liberalitie when she powred that pretious vnguent vpon Christ Iohn 12.5.6 this would haue bin sold and giuen to the poore his meaning was for his own priuat purse for the text saith He carried the bagge After this not hauing repented he falls into a higher degree of couetousnesse for now for thirty peeces he will sell and betray his owne Master h Mat. 26. After that he proceeds vnto the worst of all and that was to despaire of the mercies of God Augustine O nomen sub quo nemini desperandum est notwithstanding this strong anchor of saluation to all beleeuers i Heb. 6.19 yet hee proceedeth to his owne execution he went and hanged himselfe thus wickednes doth multiplie and huddle vpon the heads of them who haue not called vpon God for true repentance This wee may further see in those whom God hath forgiuen and restored First our first parents how did they multiply euen at the first Euah lookes vpon the fruite Secondly she holds a conference with Satan Thirdly she tasts of it though it were forbidden Fourthly shee giues her husband to make him as guilty as her felfe Fiftly shee excuseth her fact and extenuateth it when God questions her k Genes 3. The like wee finde in Dauid that man of God who l 2. Sam. 1. first hauing seene the nakednesse of Bethsheba sends for her then hee committeth folly with her then vpon her proouing with child sends for Vriah her husband and at his comming vseth all meanes to make him lie with his wife that so he might haue shadowed his wickednesse and to that ende laboureth to make him drunke but when this would not take place then he proceedes to blood and for this purpose writes vnto Ioah the Captaine of the Hoast that he might be placed in the forefront of the battell that so he might be smitten and die the which was effected and so innocent Vriah murdered The like gradation we find in Peter who at the first out of a fainting feare is afraid to confesse his Master but very peremptorily denieth that euer he knew him afterwards being thereunto pressed he growes deepely offended and at last hee sweares and curseth he neuer knew the man all which will shew vs how farre wee shall goe in a course of wickednesse