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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20529	Foure godlie and fruitful sermons two preached at Draiton in Oxford-shire, at a fast, enioyned by authoritie, by occasion of the pestilence then dangerously dispearsed. Likewise two other sermons on the twelfth Psalme. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe tract of zeale. / By I. Dod. R. Cleauer.	Dod, John, 1549?-1645.; Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.; Winston, John, fl. 1614-1634.; Greenham, Richard.	1611 (1611)	STC 6938; ESTC S114261	70,793	120

and hurt like a cockatrice for to whom is woe to whom is sorrow c. Euen to them that tarrie long at the wine to them that goe and seeke mixt wine for they ruinate and ouerthrow their estate they blemish and staine their names make their wiues to fall out with them their children to contemne them their companions to quarrell with them their best friends to loath them and after all this they are a burden vnto themselues hauing their wittes crackt and their bodies diseased and beeing fit for no place but onely for hell The same may be said of proud men doth not their sinne throwe them into great miserie Let vs consider a little of Hamans fall which was procured by his insolencie God knewe what crosse would most vexe his proud heart and that he sent him for whereas all Hamans honour could doe him no good vnlesse Mordecai would rise vp before him and doe him reuerence that was a thorne vnto him when hee could not make him doe it but when hee must honour Mordecai and be as a seruant vnto him that was a snare vnto his soule and therein was hee helde fast with horrible vexation and monstrous shame till death and damnation seazed vpon him The like may bee seene in riotous and voluptuous persons who are whollie addicted to followe sporting and gaming and surfetting and chambering and wantonnesse with such like sinfull delights of the flesh the world thinks that such liue a merrie life but iudge not too well of them they haue not paid all their shot as yet they haue miserie enough behinde that still pursues them and at length will ouertake them for hee that loues pastime shall be a poore man and hee that loues wine and oyle shall not bee rich and a Whore will bring a man to a morsell of bread pouertie shall followe at the heeles of such as a swift Post and shall set vpon them as a strong armed man they shall be ouercome and vanquished and downe shall their estate goe euen to the ground Another instance may be in couetous persons who haue wealth in wonderfull admiration so that it is made the common god and most vsuall Idoll of the world and when they haue gotten it they and manie others thinke they shall haue great credit with it and manie times it so falls out that they are men of great place because they are of great substance they haue manie to attend vpon them manie to flatter them and to crouch vnto them and by their riches they may procure almost what they list doth not this now seeme to be an easie a pleasant and happy life Yet the Apostle telleth vs that they that will be rich fall into tentation and snares and into manie foolish and noysome lusts which drowne men in perdition and destruction so that when wealth together with the loue of it flowes in on euery side men are as it were cast headlong into a sea of miserie and therefore it is added that the desire of mony is the roote of all euill for it doth not onely poyson mens hearts make them erre from the faith and bring them into the snares of the diuell to be lead by him according to his will but it pearseth them thorow with many sorrowes for greedy wordlings are euer disconted and froward falling out with one and chafing with another so that those things which seeme to glad their hearts doe not indeed bring them any sound contentment because their desires can neuer be satisfied but especially because they are often times much crossed as when their sheepe or cattle miscarry their grounds prooue vnfruitfull their seruants vntrusty theeues set vpon them by violence to spoile them of their goods or subtill aduersaries by craft seeke to defraud them of the same with many such like occurrences which will neither let them rest quietly in the night nor liue comfortably in the day and the hearts of such couetous persons can tell them that manie times all other things doe them no good sithence they cannot haue some one thing which they would as the case stood with wicked Ahab in the matter of Naboths vineyard But suppose that these and the like sinnes should not bring men into snares in their lifetime yet at the time of their death when they must goe out of the world they will for what hope hath the hypocrite when God shall take away his life though he haue heaped vp riches as the dust yet when God shall vnsheath his soule and put it violently from his body as a rustie sword out of the scabberd what good will all his substance doe him then It was his hope while he liued that he should still get more wealth but when death sets vpon him he is past that hope and for better hopes he hath none and therefore must needs be full of woe and full of perplexitie Then though he call vpon God he will not answer and though he seeke him early he shall not finde him but God will laugh at his destruction and mocke when his feare commeth Because God called and he refused he stretched out his hand and he would not regard therefore when he crieth the Lord will shut out his prayer But set the case they be not in such perplexitie at the time of their death but that they die securely and goe suddenly downe to the graue as senslesse blocks or stones yet must they come before the iudgement seat of Christ and then they shall be paid home for all Ordinarily they meet with extremitie of anguish while they liue or when they die but if they doe not they shall not misse of it when they appeare before the Iudge of heauen and earth but tribulation and anguish shal be vpon euery soule that hath offended of what estate and degree soeuer he hath beene Then their distresse and honour shall be such that when they arise out of their graues they shall wish to returne thither againe yea they shall desire that the mountaines and rockes might fall vpon them couer them from him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe Then they would thinke no paines nor torment too much so they might perish euerlastingly they could rather desire that an huge rocke or great mountaine might crush them in peeces and that they might perish as beasts than to appeare before Christ Iesus to receiue that fearefull sentence Goe ye cursed c This is the proper wages of sinne and of disobedience against the Lord it castes the committers of it into a wofull Labyrinth of distresses and miseries and good reason is there that it should be so because otherwise the hatefulnes of it and the hatred of God against it would not cleerely appeare so men would like better of the broad way than of the narrow and chuse to be rebells against the Lord rather than obedient subiects vnto him euen the best would doe this as well as the

in the meane time to be pestered with that venemous humour of pride and selfe-conceit Therefore was it that Paul doeth professe that hee would reioyce in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions c because he knewe they were excellent preseruatiues against his sinne Now because men are readie to thinke that there is not in them such store of pride as that they greatly neede Gods medicines to cure them of it or if they doe see their pride they are readie to sit downe discouraged as if it were vnpossible to get the better of it therefore will it not be amisse to set downe some fruits and effects of pride whereby it may be discerned and some remedies and helpes against it by vertue whereof it may be cured Concerning the first point it were an infinite worke to reckon vp all the effects of pride and therefore I will onely touch some few of the principall whereby we may be led to a sight of the rest And the first of them shall be that where of Salomon speaketh saying Onely by pride doeth man make contention many there are that doe ignorantly imagine they were neuer proud in all their life but let them consider better of the matter did they neuer brawle nor contend with any in all their life if they did certaine it is that they were proud for looke how much contention there is so much pride there is in euery man Which may be an euident argument to proue that this sinne doeth greatly sway euery where for if we looke into most families and euen into those of the purest sort who thinke themselues most free from pride shall we not finde many iarres betwixt husband and wife betwixt maister and seruants betwixt brethren and sisters betwixt neighbour and neighbour this is so palpable that none can denie it and therefore let not men deceiue themselues but see and acknowledge and bewaile the wretched hautines of their hearts Another fruit of pride is impatiencie vnder crosses or losses or indignities that doe befall vs for when we are discontented at that estate and condition wherein we are we euidently expresse our dislike of Gods gouernement as if he did not dispose of things aright and as if we could order matters in a better sort if they were in our hands and is not that monstrous pride to thinke ourselues wiser than God and to censure him for his proceedings Againe this is an euident token that men are proud when they are readie to scorne at an admonition or a reproofe that is giuen vnto them for that argueth that they haue a verie good opinion of themselues and of their actions when they cannot abide that anie should finde faulte with them or goe about to reforme them Dauid was otherwise affected when the Prophet Nathan came vnto him with a sharpe reprehension and when Abigall met him with a wise admonition And Iob bringeth this as an argument of his vprightnesse that hee durst not contemne the iudgemēt of his seruāt No not of his Maide seruant if they had any matter to obiect against him and therefore let such as are enraged or imbittetered against their reproouers or admonishers knowe that they are farre from that modestie and meekenesse of spirit that was in these holie men of God Lastlie this is a sure note of pride when men doe much regard earthly things and promise vnto themselues a kinde of happinesse in the enioyment thereof in which regard the Apostle willeth Timothie to charge rich men that they be not high minded and that they doe not trust in vncertaine riches Implying thereby that so much confidence as there is in wordlie substance so much high-mindednes there is in the parties so addicted The more men trust in God the more humble they will be but the more they trust in their wealth the more high-minded they will bee If men would trie themselues by this touch-stone they should easily discerne abundance of pride in themselues for who almost is there but doeth thinke himselfe the better and safer for the very hauing of earthlie things and who doth not iudge his case more miserable meerly for the want of these deceitfull vanities Let vs therefore sifte our owne hearts and by these and the like fruites of pride learne to iudge what abundance of this poysoned sappe there is within vs. And then perceiuing how liable wee are vnto many fearefull stroakes of God by reason thereof let vs carefully vse these remedies following against the same First let vs often search and trie our owne hearts and workes by the right rule that is by the holy law of God for none are lifted vp but such as doe not knowe themselues for if wee rightly considered what we are and what our actions are it would take downe all that foolish conceitednes that is naturallie ingrafted in vs and cause vs to say with the Publican Lord bee mercifull to mee a sinner and with Paul Miserable man that I am who shall deliuer mee from the bodie of this death hee was aliue that is thought himselfe aliue and in verie good case before the law came cōuinced him of his wretched corruptions hee was euen as a blinde man that feares nothing though a man came running vpon him with a sharpe sword or he were ready to fal down violētly frō an high and dangerous rocke he would neuer be daunted at the matter nor one whit moued because hee sees not that hee is in any danger such was Pauls case and such is the state of euery vnregenerate man but when Gods law is once pressed vpon the conscience by the liuely working of the holie Ghost it inlightens the minde and makes men see their owne sinfulnes as Paul did which is an excellent meanes to kill all proud and loftie conceits If therefore we desire to be ridde of this hatefull and hurtfull companion I meane pride let vs often and earnestly examine our selues by this straight rule of Gods law we are giuen to try our selues often by examining whether we be not better than such a man or such a woman but this is a false and a deceitfull rule for a man may be better than such and such and yet be starke naught But the proud flesh will be readie to obiect and say I doe not onely goe beyond these and these wicked ones but I am better than diuers that are esteemed godly and religious Are you so you may easily be deceiued and the better conceit you haue of your selfe the worse you are likely to be but grant for the time that you excell others in some things doe not they goe before you in some other you haue a better gouernement of your tongue than many of your neighbours but are you not more grosly tainted with couetousnes than they are You haue a better gift of chastitie than another but doeth not he lesse offend in violent distempered passions than you doe and