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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85870	XI choice sermons preached upon severall occasions. With a catechisme expounding the grounds and principles of Christian religion. By William Gay B.D. rector of Buckland.	Gay, William, Rector of Buckland.	1655 (1655)	Wing G397; Thomason E1458_1; ESTC R209594	189,068	322

we flea the backs of beasts we pluck the plumes of birds And when we have searched both sea and land for dainties to feed it at last it self must be meat for worms And when wee have built stately Castles wherein to lodge it at last it must lie in a narrow grave or stinking toomb And when wee have rob'd all creatures for rich ornaments wherewith to cloth it at last it self must put on corruption If then with the Peacock we would turn our eyes from our plumes and behold our black legges that is consider our foundation or if with that proud King Dan. 2. we would take notice as well of the clay feet as of the golden head and silver body of our image we should easily perceive that it is subject to falling and that all our glory and pride must come down to the dust And so much of the first consideration expressing mans vilenesse namely the consideration of his corporall estate or condition both in respect of his beginning and of his ending Again mans vilenesse also appears in consideration of his temporall estate and condition and that both in respect of the miseries of his life and also of the shortnesse of his life First for the miseries of his life they be so many that I cannot propose to speak of them all I will but touch upon his defects wants and failings in the chiefe supplies of life that is food and rayment which will the more appear if we compare our selves with the bruit and unreasonable creatures For in both those kinds of things how easily and readily are other creatures sped and furnished and how hardly doth man get them First for food Consider the Ravens saith our Saviour they neither sow nor reap they have neither storehouse nor barn Lu. 12.24 But this is mans portion Gen. 3.19 In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread He must sweat for his bread before he hath it he must plow before he can sow and sow before he can reap and reap and thrash and winnow and grind and Bake and all before he can eat Such a world of work hath hee with a little grain of Wheat before he can make it fit sustenance to his body And for his raiment the case is much alike For whereas all other creatures are naturally clothed every one with his own coat some with wooll some with hair some with fur some with feathers onely man poor naked creature hath nothing of his owne to put on but must be ber holding to other creatures for every thing that he doth wear to the earth for his linnen to the sheep for his woollen to the wormes for his silkes to the birds tailes for his choisest and daintiest feathers that come so near the incest noses And indeed if every bird should take his own feather if every creature should exact and take from us what we have taken from them the sheep his woollen the Earth its linnen and so the rest then should man be left like Aesops Crown Moveat cornicula risum furtivis nudata coloribus All creatures may laugh at our nakednesse when we are stript of our borrowed feathers Neither do wee onely borrow our clothing of other creatures but we must take a great deal of paines with that which we do borrow before it will be fit for our use as may appear in the wooll our most ordinary wearing which requires as great plenty and as much variety of labour before it comes to our backs as the wheat doth before it comes to our mouths Thus is man born to labour as the sparks fly upward Job 5.7 To which difficulties of getting if yee will add the consideration of the hazard of keeping and the disquietnesse of losing which all are subject to in all temporall things then I doubt not but yee will be ready to subscribe to that of the preacher Eccles 1.14 I have seen all the works that are done under the Sun and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit Vse 1. And that we passe not this without some use and benefit let us in the first place consider what should be the cause thereof and what hath brought man so much below other creatures for in his Creation he was the King of creatures and therefore no lesse happy then they what then should be the cause of this alteration It was sinne beloved it was sinne that cursed offspring of hell that was the bane of all our blessedness It was sin that made a separation between God us It was sin that tumed our glory into shame our joy into sorrow our quiet into trouble our happinesse into misery our immortality into mortality For as soon as Adam had sinned the curses came over his head like waves in a stormy Sea Cursed is the earth for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the daies of thy life thornes also and thistles shall it bring forth unto thee and dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return Thus ye see that sin was the mother of all our mischief sin was the bane that poisoned us sin was the serpent that stung us even unto death for the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 And yet such is our foul folly and monstrous madnesse we are not yet out of love with this ugly monster of Hell that hath wrought us all this woe and misery We are more foolish then the silly sheep for though they feed upon their own bane yet they do it ignorantly not knowing that it will poison them but wee draw on sin with cart ropes Is 5.18 and drink iniquity like water Job 15.16 and yet we know it is most deadly bane and poyson to our soules We are more mad then Aesops Husbandman who finding a snake in the cold weather frozen in the field brought it home and warm'd it it at the fire For he did it before he was stung or had received any harm But we do not warm and revive but hatch and cherish not a snake but sin that is a serpent worse then Hydra not at our fires but in our brests and bosoms not that onely will sting us but that hath already stung us as aforesaid unto death They say that burnt children fear the fire and yet we ripe enough in age yet too childish in understanding cannot beware of the fire of sin which hath already burnt down the house of our happinesse and consumed our glory and laid all our honor in the dust but like the frantick Satyr we be in love with this fire and fall to imbracing it like the foolish fly we play with this flame till both our wings of faith and love be scorched and our soules fall headlong into Hell Flee therefore and avoid all manner of sin for it is the bane that poysoneth us it is the serpent that stingeth us it is the fire that will utterly consume us unlesse it be quenched by the tears of repentance and the blood of Christ 2. Vse Again

Morall Law begin A. Exod. 20.1 And God spake all these words saying I am the Lord thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage 2. Q. What doe you find in this beginning A. A double Preface one of Moses And God spake all these words saying another of God I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Aegypt out of the house of bondage 3 Q. What do you observe in the former Preface A. Four circumstances 1. The time and or then 2. The Author God 3. The manner of delivery spake 4. The sum all these words 4. Q What observe you in the first circumstance A. That the Law is holy Rom. 7.12 for God was carefull to hallow the people for the receiving of the Law by a great deale of preparation as appeareth chap. 19. 5. Q. What observe you in the second circumstance A. That the Morall Law hath no lesse then Gods own Authority 6. Q. What observe you in the third circumstance A. That God teacheth men especially by the ear 7. Q. VVhat observe you in the fourth circumstance A. That each Commandement hath alike strength and bond upon us 8. Q. Is the second place aforesaid pertaining to the whole Law A. Yes Lev. 19.36 37. 9. Q. Is it not rather the affirmative part of the first Commandement A. No for it commandeth nothing and it is needlesse to expresse both parts by the first of the aforesaid five rules 10. Q. VVhat observe you further in it A. That God presseth the people to obedience by his power I am the Lord and by his love thy God and by their experience of both which have brought thee out of the land of Aegypt 11. Q VVhat is this to us A. The same or as much as it was to them because hee is still the same Lord and our God and hath brought us out of the spirituall Aegypt of sin death hell paganism papism 12. Q. But doth not St. Paul say Rom. 6.14 Yee are not under the Law A. But he expoundeth himself Gal. 3.13 that we are freed from the curse of the Law not from the rule and bond of it Mat. 5.17 13. Q. VVhat learn you for practise out of all aforesaid of the Preface of the Law A. First to prepare my self alwaies to the receiving of God word Secondly to rejoyce in the use of the ear and to abhor imagery in Gods service Deut. 4.12 15. Thirdly to fear the breaking of that which had a glorious ordination Psal 4.4 Sect. 33. Of the first Commandement 1. Q. HOw many Commandements be there A. Ten Ex. 34.28 Deut. 10.4 2. Q. How are they divided A. Into two Tables the former containing our duty to God in the four first precepts the latter containing our duty to our neighbour in the six last precepts 3. Q. How then doth the Romish Church make three precepts in the former Table and seven in the latter A. They do wrongfully confound the two first into one and divide the last into two 4. Q. How may this wrong appear A. 1. Because in that which they make one precept there is distinct different matter viz. First who must be worshipped and secondly how 2. Because the tenth Commandement which they divide runneth in one and the same word and is so summed Rom. 7.7 13.9 3. Because Exod. 20.17 house is put foremost and wife is between house and goods but Deut. 5.21 wife is put first therefore the lust of neither of them alone forbidden can be the ninth Commandement 5. Q. What then is the first Commandement A. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me 6. Q. How many parts be there in this Commandement A. Three 1. A Negative 2. An Affirmative 3. A Reason 7. Q. What is the Negative part A. It forbiddeth our having any false God 8. Q. How may a false God be had A. Outwardly by corporall Idolatry or inwardly by setting up an Idoll in our heart Ezek. 14.3 9. Q Is nothing here forbidden but having of a false God A. Yes all degrees of infidelity and other issues of original corruption in our thoughts of God 10. Q. What is the Affirmative part of this Commandement A. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soul c. Deut. 6.5 Mat. 22.37 11. Q. What is the reason hereto belonging A. It is in the words before me because nothing can be behind him nor out of his sight Heb. 4.13 12. Q. What doe you learn for practise out of allaforesaid of the first Commandement A 1. To take heed of joyning any partner with God I must have him solely Is 42.8 2. To take heed of barring God in any thing I am or have he must have me wholly Luk. 14.26 3. To acknowledge his presence alwayes Ps 139.3 Sect. 34. Of the second Commandement 1. Q. WHat is the second Commandement A. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likenesse of any thing c. 2. Q. How many parts be there in this Commandement A. Three a Negative an Affirmative and a Reason 3. Q. What is the Negative part A. It forbiddeth false worshipping of God 4. Q. How is it here exprest A. By the use of Images 5. Q. Is all use of Images then unlawful A. No for skill in such workmanship is of the spirit of God Ex. 31.1 2 3. 6. Q. How far then is the use of Images unlawfull A. The use of any Image as an help in Gods service Hab. 2.18 Is 44.10 and the making or having of any Image or likenesse of God Is 40.18 is unlawful 7. Q. What is the affirmative part of this Commandement A. That we worship God according to his will 8. Q. How is that A. In spirit and truth Joh. 4.24 9. Q. What is the reason here added A. For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God 10. Q. How is Gods jealousie expressed A. By punishing the breakers and blessing the keepers of this Law 11. Q. How punishing A. The sinnes of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation 12. Q. How can this be just A. It is here exprest in them that hate me 13. Q. How blessing A. In an unlimitted measure unto thousands in them that love him 14. Q. What learn you for practise out of all aforesaid of the second Commandement A. 1. To abhor Romish bowing to and before Images 2. To worship God after his will and not after mine own will 3. To serve him in fear because of his Justice and in love because of his mercy Sect. 35. Of the third Commandement 1. Q. WHat is the third Commandement A. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vain 2. Q. What are the parts of this Commandement A. A Negative an Affirmative and a Reason 3. Q. What is the Negative part A. Gods name