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A18050	The wise King, and the learned iudge in a sermon, out of the 10. verse of the 2. psalme: lamenting the death, and proposing the example, of Sir Edvvard Levvenor, a religious gentleman. Preached vpon a lecture-day at Canham in Suffolke. By Bezalell Carter.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 4693; ESTC S118631	28,180	76

❧ To the Right Worshipfull and godly Ladie the Lady LEVVKENOR of Denham Grace and Peace ELect Ladie it was the saying of Dauid The righteous shall bee had in euerlasting remembrance Psal 112. 6. and of Salomon That the memoriall of the iust shall bee blessed Prou. 10. 7. These two Scriptures haue much encouraged me to penne and print this Sermon following and your entire loue to your louing husband departed hath emboldened me with hope of acceptation to present it to your Ladie-ship as a picture at all times to put you in mind of his godly life and conuersation that in these perilous and luke-warm times when zeale growes cold and fewe or none labour to draw on others and encourage others to runne the wayes of Gods commandements when you shall at any time behold this picture you may be prouoked and stirred vp as you haue begunne well so to perseuere and proceede on and grow more and more in grace The eternall God of heauen comfort you euen as he hath afflicted you and that God crowne both you and yours with his best blessings So prayes still Your Ladiships in all dutie bounden B. C. Canham Octob. 24. 1618. ❧ And to the Right Worshipfull religious Gentleman Sir ROBERT LEVVKENOR of Acris in Kent to Mistris GOVRNY of great Ellingham to Mistris STEVVARD and Mistris CATLIN of Denham Grace and Peace RIght Worshipfull after I had preached this Sermon I conferred with some of my brethren about the publishing of it and some aduised me to print it others to conceale it for two causes First because the world is full of bookes Secondly because it would make me lyable to many censures and imputations For the first I answer that the world is full of bookes but that it is too full of godly bookes I could neuer heare it prooued Secondly I know that I shall bewray mine own weakenes exceedingly and expose my selfe to many hard censures by publishing this Pamphlet and yet for all that I choose rather to be hated to make my selfe a by-word and a reproach then to neglect any course that may turn to the good though but of one soule yea and if it should turne to the good of none yet shall I sing but to the same tune that others of Gods seruants haue done before me I haue laboured in vaine and spent my strength to no purpose Isa 49. 4. Whatsoeuer I haue done I haue made bold also to present it to your Worships as a testimonie of my thankefulnes vnto you all and a meanes to reuiue and continue as much as in me lies the deserued memorie of your godly brother whome from my soule I loued in his life and from my soule desire to honour in his death If this poore mite may be accepted of you and profitable to Gods Church I haue my desire which that it may be I haue praied and so praies still A poore but a zealous welwiller to your whole stocke and familie BEZAL CARTER PSALM 2. 10. Be wise now therefore O yee Kings bee learned O yee Iudges of the earth THis Psalme was penned by Dauid witnes Act. 4. 25. Which by the mouth of thy seruant Dauid hast said Why did the Gentiles rage c. The principall matter contained in it is Christ and his Kingdome as you may perceiue if you read Act. 4. 25. and Act. 13. 33. and Hebr. 1. 5. for here Dauid as in many other things is a type of Christ and though all this Psalme may be applyed to Dauid and his kingdom yet notwithstanding it may be applyed also to Christ and his Kingdome and the spirit of God would teach vs that as Dauid raigned and ruled in Zion and subdued his enemies euen so should Iesus Christ raigne and beare rule in his Church euen in despight of the Churches enemies And whosoeuer reads the whole Psalme must needs see First what opposition was made against the Kingdome of Christ Secondly the sequel and consequent vpon the opposition made Their opposition was vniuersall Kings and Commons Princes Peeres and People Iewes and Gentiles The Kings and Princes raged the Iewes the heathens and all people murmured and all to no purpose for he that sate in heauen laughed at them and by their rebellion they exposed themselues to exceeding perill and danger For first in opposing Christ they opposed God the Father also that gaue this authority vnto his Son and made him the ruler and gouernour of his people I saith God haue placed my King vpon Zion mine holy mountaine c. I will declare the decree c. Hee that dwells in heauen shall laugh them to scorne c. Secondly their danger is further amplified in regard of God the Sonne that is also euerie way furnished with sufficiencie of power both for the defence of his Church and the finall ouerthrowe and confusion of his enemies and is therefore compared to some mightie gyant with a mace or yron scepter in his hand and Kings Princes and all nations are resembled vnto potters pots and it should bee no more with Christ to ouerthrowe and crush them in peices then it would haue been for Goliah with his massie speare whose shaft was like a weauers beame to haue broken an earthen vessell in peices But of these things I haue spoken before now mark and obserue how one thing depends vpon another Kings and Princes make opposition against Christ and his Kingdome God the Father hee sits in heauen and laughes at them and vexes them with grieuous iudgements God the Sonne he stands like a mighty gyant with a mace of yron in his hand ready to strike and quash them in peices and then it followes Bee wise nowe therefore O yee Kings be learned O yee Iudges c. Now for the words themselues note in them these two things First a double exhortation 1. To wisedome 2. To learning Secondly the circumstances expressed Diuision 1. Of the time and that is presently now 2. Of the persons 1. Kings 2. Iudges Be wise now therefore c. For our better proceeding it would be enquired what he meanes by wisedome and learning And Be wise By wisedome he meanes not here a carnall or worldly wisedome such an one as Iames speaks of and calls it earthly sensuall deuillish chap. 3. 15. when men are wise to take vengeance vpon their enemies to hoard vp wealth to manage their affaires to their best profit for this wisedome is not wanting amongst the men of the world that are wise enough to discerne the face of the skie and the signes of the times Matth. 16. 2. and wise enough to make a small Ephah and a great Shekle and a false ballance Amos 8. 5. and generally the men of the world are wise in their generation Luk. 16. 8. But the spirit of God in this place speaks of a spiritual heauenly wisdome of which Dauid speakes Psal 119. 8. The wisedome of the prudent is to vnderstand the way of the Lord but the

besides these there are some amongst vs idoll-shepheards slowbellies dumb dogs loyterers nay murtherers that open not a pulpet dore once in an whole yeare except vpon some high and festiual day and what are these but murtherers and conscious of murther in the highest degree for what cruelty is like to soulecruelty and if Abells blood nay euery drop of Abells blood as the originall will beare it thy brothers bloods cryeth Gen. 5. 10. vnto me from the ground yea euery droppe of thy brothers blood if I say euery droppe of Abells blood cryed for vengeance against Cain what a fearefull crie shal the blood of many soules make before the throane of God asking vengeance against their pastors which haue starued their soules to death by detayning and holding from them the bread of life 3. Lastly to conclude with Parents Masters of families and masters of priuate families whose negligence in teaching and instructing their children and seruants is an other cause of our ouer-spreading ignorance for the Preachers of the word may labour and be instant in season and out of season 1. Tim. 4. 1. and all to little purpose if masters of families neglect their duties neither doe I wonder to see so many men and women so intollerably and incredibly ignorant since to speake truth a man had as good be some mans beast as either their sonne or seruant For what doe their masters or parents regard them more then their bruite beasts they feed their seruants and so they doe their cattell they worke their seruants and so they doe their beasts if any of their seruants be sicke and diseased they will seeke out for remedie and so they will for their beasts Againe their care to instruct and teach their families and bruit beasts is much one they teach their children and seruants nothing but how to plow sowe ditch c. and as much as this they teach their cattell their oxen to drawe their horses to pace c. and therefore no wonder though their children and seruants be as ignorant as the horse and mule that haue none vnderstanding O that masters of families would learne to spend some of that precious time which they mis-spend in twatling and idle talking in backbiting slandering c. in teaching and instructing their families whose blood shall otherwise bee required at their hands if they perish The next conclusion gathered out of this second exhortation was this viz. Doctr. 3 That wee must adde practise to our knowledge Not the hearers of the lawe are righteous before God but the doers of the law shal be iustified Rom. 2. 13. For the further proofe of this point you may at your leasure reade these places Ioh. 15. 14. Ioh. 10. 27. Matth. 7. 24. Luk. 8. 20. Matt. 12. 50. and if these may not suffice thee then I say First that all knowledge without practise is vneffectuall and of no force to free from condemnation Though I knewe all knowledge saith Paul yet were I nothing if I wanted loue 1. Cor. 13. yea if a bare naked knowledge would saue then the deuills themselues should be saued for they know enough Iesus I know and Paul I knowe said the euill spirit Act. 19. 15. And if you reade Matth. 4. 6. there you shall see that the diuel is a cunning Scripturian It is written saith he that he will giue his angels charge ouer thee c. v. 6. Suppose then that thou hast neuer so much knowledge suppose thou hast read as much as Iosephus of whom it is said that he turned ouer all the whole librarie of the Greeks yet if thou know much and practise iust nothing why should not the deuils which know more be saued as well as thou Secondly all knowledge without practise is not onely vaine but perilous He that knowes his Masters will and doth Luk. 12. 27. it not shall be beaten with many stripes and Iam. 4. 17. He that knoweth how to do well and doth it not to him it is sinne and as one saith well vpon these words not sinne simply but sinne with a witnes or sinne with aduantage If I had not come and spoken to them they had had no sinne but nowe they haue no cloake for their sinnes Ioh. 15. 22. And how doth our Sauiour Christ vpbraid those cities where they had so much meanes and doubtlesse a great deale of knowledge Woe to thee Corazin wee to thee Bethsaida for if the great works that were done in you had beene done in Tyrus and Sidon they had repented long agoe in sackecloath and ashes Matth. 11. 20. By Gods word saith Augustine August man sinneth so much the more how much the more by the word he knoweth that to be sinne which he committeth Vse All which being granted let vs learn to take S. Peters counsell to adde to our knowledge temperance to our temperance patience and to our patience godlinesse 2. Pet. 1. 5. for otherwise as Chrysostome wrote to the people of Antioch that were desirous to gaine knowledge and yet were ready to sweare and vpon euery occasion to rappe out oaths The more saith he that you know and the oftuer you heare c. the more you sinne against God and the more you encrease your punishment because you liue in the practise of those courses which you know to be sinnefull And would to God that our hollow-hearted professors which know Gods will yea and carie before them the lampe of profession and yet lead their liues after such a manner that if the deuil himselfe were in a bodily shape he could liue no worser vsurers extortioners cheaters raylers c. would to God I say they would consider it that their knowledge and gifts shall but helpe them on the more roundly to hell fire without obedience I speake not against profession neither against knowledge I knowe there can be no saluation without professiō nor no obedience without knowledge but this I say moreouer that obedience is the end of our knowledge And if we know the Law and yet sinne against it then shall that be verefied against vs Rom. 2. 12. As many as sinne in the Lawe shall be iudged by the Lawe And thus I come to the circumstanstances First circumstance of the time expressed in this text And first of the time Bee wise now O yee Kings Vaugnattah euen presently while the Lords scepter is in his hand readie to smite and before he smites you euen out of hand furnish your selues with true wisedome and learning least you bee broken and bruised in peices And here note two things First that repentance must not bee deferred Secondly that the consideration of Gods iudgements ought to mooue vs repentance Doctr. 4 First that repentance must not be delaid I will referre you to those Scriptures Isa 55. 6. Heb. 3. 7. Luk. 1. 57. Act. 17. 30. 2. Cor. 6. 2. and onely insist vpon two or three reasons of this point least time preuent me First then it stands

his godly Lady lament enough for the losse of so kind and louing an husband that loued and tendred her as his owne soule How can his young children lament enough when they shall come to years of discretion and find themselues bereaued of so carefull and louing a father How can his seruants lament enough for the losse of so religious a Master that was wont to goe out and in before them by a godly example and was so diligent to teach and instruct them in the way of godlines How can the learned and louers of learning lament enough since hee is gone that like that famous king of Sicilia beeing asked whether he had rather Robert King of Sicil. forsake the companie of certain learned men about him or his Kingdome answered his kingdome rather then his learning or learned tutors since hee is gone that preferred learning before his great possessions How can the despised Ministers of the word lament enough now that they are counted the skumme of the world and refuse of the people and he is fallen that accounted of them as the Embassadors of God and the dispensers of the mysteries of Christ Iesus How can the professors of the Gospel mourne enough since he is taken away that loued the verie name of a disciple And all the poore and needy in the towne round about that are hungrie harbourlesse and want cloathing how can they lament enough since he is dead that was wont to giue them meat in due season and whilest he liued deliuered the poore that cryed and the fatherlesse and him that had none to helpe him that was an eie to the blinde a foote to the lame and a father to the poore Iob 29. 14 15. And for my part would I could weep showres of teares with Augustin or floods of teares with Ambrose yea day and night with Ieremie since I haue lost what is hardly found a true a faithfull friend Since he is gone whose equall consider his young yeares his great estate his gifts both of grace and nature will hardly be paraleld Something I haue spoken in his iust prayse but alasse I haue but touched the hony like Ionathan with the tip of my rod 1. Sam. 14. 43. and lapt with Gideons souldiers my meaning is that I haue not spoken according to halfe his worth I know indeed that loue is mighty as wine and strong as death and affection may carry mee too farre happily I may commend him too much that it may be I loued too much but God knowes that I euer hated a parasite from my childehood and the Lord the seer and searcher of all hearts knowes it that I haue not spoken one word with an intent to flatter any person liuing by commending him that is dead And yet notwithstanding since the examples both of the liuing and dead doe farre more mooue then precepts I hope it will not be altogether vnprofitable to propose a godly example before you though for his good workes I must needs say what I thinke and say as the Queene of the South said of the glorie and wisedome of Salomon that the one halfe hath not beene told you We that liue so much by patterne would God we would set this patterne before our eies and learne by his example to labour after heauenly wisedome and true learning and stirre vp our selues to serue God in holinesse and righteousnes before him all our dayes yea and to enter vpon this gracious course most speedily It is not long since this gentleman beeing but young about 32. yeares of age it is not long since that he was aliue and in liking as we are not long since that he sat where we sit and heard where we heare and praied where we pray and had we not need then to looke about vs If Abell die must not Cain much more If Isaac die must not Ismael much more If Simon Peter die must not Simon Magus much more if holy religious righteous Sir Edward Lewknor die before he see 33. yeares why should we dreame of any long continuance If