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death_n	body_n	receive_v	soul_n	6,167	5	5.1563	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00819	A sermon preached at the Court at Greenewich the XXIIII. of May, 1591. By Geruase Babington Doctor of Diuinitie	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1591 (1591)	STC 1094; ESTC S100575	18,010	44

by both indeuour to effect y e same in others A word is enough to men wise and learned God will not indure disdaine and scorne for euer His owne mouth hath said he indureth it when his messengers indure it His own hand will plague it therefore if he be God vnlesse we leaue it Cyprian said well and to this end most truely Qui non credit Christo Sacerdotem agenti credet tandem vindicanti He that beleeueth not Christ whē he doth the office of a minister shall beleeue him to his wo whē he doth the office of a iudge How doth Christ the office of a minister but in and by those that be our ministers beléeue not them then beléeue not Christ and so receiue indgement for contempt of Christ Secondly was the good of bodie the release from a fleshly leaprosie such a matter in these seruants eyes that for it euē great things were to be obeyed and done What thinke we then of good for bodie and soule of deliuerance from spirituall leaprosie of soule that infecteth to death eternal both of bodie and soule should not great things be indured for that should not hard things be obeyed and followed for that Such is the fruite of our ministerie and such is the effect of our perswasions if they be receiued Hoc fac viue This do and thou shalt liue In Christ and by Christ we do it when we beléeue and practise as we are taught and God inableth And thus of the matter of the seruants spéech The second generall head was the obedience of Naman to the counsell wherein we may obserue first whom he yéeldeth vnto and followeth Surely his owne seruants men for place so farre inferiour to him as seruants to such noble and honorable masters be yet their counsell he imbraceth and their aduise though contrarie to his liking he will not reiect How true then do we sée it to be that graue and wise men do not regard so much who speaketh as what is spoken knowing that Saepe etiam est holitor valde opportuna locutus The poore gardner many times speaketh greatly to purpose Saepe sub sordido paliolo latet sapientia Often vnder a poore cloke lyeth wisedome shrowded and hidden Daungerous therefore it is and preiudiciall to good discretion to tye our selues to titles and places of men that shall counsell vs as willing to regard nothing except it procéed from some man of note graced with some worldly place and title of dignitie in the world for Naman we sée was healed receiued a great good by yéelding to his poore seruants when they spake well and to good effect And we know God himselfe tieth not his wisedome euer to men of greatest note for worldly place but hath often chosen the foolish things of the world to confirme the wise and the weake things of the world to confound the mightie things And vile things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen and things which are not to bring to nought things that are That no flesh should reioyce in his presence Optimus ille quidem qui paret recta monenti The best man therefore is he that imbraceth good counsell be he neuer so meane an instrument from whom it commeth Next we obserue how readily and willingly Naman doth it making no replie to the contrarie giuing them no checke no snub no rebuke for intermedling with his matters Certainly a great vertue and a verie honorable minde in him to the checke of all those that rate and reuile beat downe and disgrace at the first such as perhaps after they follow though not seeming so to doe Surely he spake it moderately that spake it and it is most worthy marking Si merito reprehenderit quis scito quia profuit si immerito scito quia prodesse voluit If a man rebuke a man and crosse his mind with some perswasion if there be cause of that perswasion then hath he profited thee if there be no cause yet was his heart mind to profite thee and that is to be regarded and accepted without any vnkind checke euer 3 And his flesh came againe like the flesh of a young child and he was cleane This is the frute that followed his obedience he was healed But you will say Did the water of Iordan heale him No no more thē the clay and spittle that our Sauiour vsed gaue sight But there then that and now here this was the meanes that it pleased God to vse he him selfe both there and here healing by his diuine power and might If we aske againe why seuen times he washed was not healed with once or twise washing The answer may be this that as well at once as after seuen times washing God could haue healed him if it had pleased him and without any washing at all if he would for neither the washing nor the nūber auayled anie thing to his health but the one vsed because so it pleased God who vseth outward things as he pleaseth and leaueth them also when he will and the number of times vsed onely for exercise of his faith and obedience As he brought the children of Israel to the land of Canaan after many years triall which he could haue giuen farre sooner if he would He could by and by haue released Ioseph frō his wrongfull imprisonment if he would yet he let him alone a long time and all to schoole him Dauid he could haue brought to the kingdome with halfe the difficultie that he did if he would haue deliuered also Daniel and the thrée children before euer they had come into such daunger but thus he thought good to exercise their faith patience and hope that much more they might shine hauing thus bene tryed And this is a note for all wearie suters in this place to take with them If it pleased God he could effect your desires and dispatch you away in a day but then should not you know what perhaps thus you learne neither inward faith receiue such frutefull exercise as thus it doth looking to God hoping in God and resting vpon God to receiue frō him what shall be best and in such time and space as shall be best Yet may I not say that your profiting any way by your delayes may be a iust excuse to them that without any néed are causes of the same For surely the Lord would haue all honest sutes with conuenient spéede euer dispatched and that made Moses first sit him selfe from morning to night and after to chuse others his coadiutors in that businesse that men might more quickly and easily be reléeued And thus much briefly of Namans healing The fourth and last thing is his thankfulnes when he was healed set downe in words in déeds to God and to the Prophet and that not formally but vehemently performed His thankfulnes to God in words that he knew now there was no God in