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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12348	The first sermon of Noahs drunkennes A glasse wherein all drunkards may behold their beastliness. Noah also began to be an husbandman and planted a vineyard, and he dranke of the wine and was drunken, and was vncouered in the middest of his tent. Gen. 9.20. Henry Smith.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22663; ESTC S113465	10,248	33

hath made nothing idle so God would haue no man idle but that hee which is a Magistrate should do the worke of a Magistrate hee which is a Iudge should doo the worke of a Iudge hee which is a Captaine shold do the worke of a Captain he which is a Minister should doo the worke of a Minister as when Noah was called an husband man he did the worke of an husband man This contempt of the Countrey doth threaten danger to the land as much as any thing else in our dayes vnlesse their burden be eased and their estimation qualified in some part to their paines Thinking that you haue not heard of this Theme before seeing the wordes of my Text did lye for it thus much I haue spoken to put you in minde how easilye you liue in respect of them and to certifie our mindes towardes our poore bretheren which in deede seeme too base in our eyes and are scorned for their laboures as much as we should be for our idlenes Then saith Moses Noah began to be an husband man In that it is here saide that Noah began it doth not disproue that he gaue not himselfe to husbandry before but it importeth that Noah began to set vp husbandry again after the floud before anye other so this good man recomforted with the experience of Gods fauour which had exempted him and his seed out of all the worlde and reioycing to see the face of the earth again after the waters were-gone though an olde man and weake then he was yet he returneth to his labour a fresh and scorned not to till and plant for all his possessions as though he were as an husband man such a lowlines is alwayes ioyned with the feare of God that they that are humbled with religion do not thinke themselues too good to do any good thing Here note by the way that none of Noahs sonnes are said to begin this worke but Noah himselfe the olde man the hoarie head and carefull Father begins to teach the rest and showes his sonnes the waye how they should prouide for their sonnes and how all the worlde after should liue by labour and trauell till they returne to dust so the olde man whome age dispenceth withall to take his ease is more willing to prouide for the wantes of his Children then they are which are bounde to labour for them selues and their Parentes too as the Storke doth feed the dam when she is olde because the dam fed her when she was yong What a shame is this to Shem and Iapheth that is to vs which are young strong that the father should be called a labourer when the sonnes stand by Now the ground was barren because of the floud and could not bring foorth s●ute of it selfe because of the cursse therfore it pitied Noah to see desolation and barrennes and slime vpon the face of the earth which he had seene so glorious and sweete and fertill with all manner of herbes and fruits and flowers before Therfore he setteth him selfe to manure it which wayted for nothing now but a painefull labourer to till and dresse it that it might bring foorth delightes and profites for sinfull man as it did before By this we may learne to vse all meanes for the obtaining of Gods blessings and not to loose any thing which we might haue or saue for want of paines for that is sinne As Salomon noteth in the 24 Prouerbes when he reproueth the stouthfull husbandman because his fielde brought foorth Nettles and Thistles in steede of Grapes not because the grounde would not beare grapes but because the slothfull man would not set them Shall God commaund the earth and all his creatures to increase for vs and shall not we further their increase for our selues as we increase and multiply our selues so wee are bound to ioyne hand and help that all creatures may increase and multiply too or else the Fathers should eate the Childrens portion and in time there should be nothing lefte for them that come after this regard Noah seemeth to haue vnto his posteritie and therfore he gaue himselfe vnto husbandry which is cōmended in him vnto this day and shall bee recorded of him so longe as this booke is read wherby we are warned that he which liueth onely to himselfe is not to be remembred of them which liue after But as Dauid cared how the Realme should be gouerned after his death as well as he did during his life so though we dye depart this world yet we should leaue that example or those bookes or those workes behind vs which may profite the Church and Common wealth when we are dead and buried as much as we did when we liued among them Euen as Noah planted a vineyard not for him self but for the ages to come after Some doo think that Noah planted the first vineyard and drunke the first wine and that there was no vse of grapes before which opinion they are led vnto that they might excuse Noah and mittigate his faulte If he did sup too deep of that cuppe the strength and operation wherof was not known vnto him nor vnto anye man before but it is not like that the excellent liquour wholsome mice of the grape did lye hid from the world so manie hundreth yeers and no dout but there was vines from the beginning created with other trees for how could Noah plant a vineyard vnles he had slippes of other vines or grapes that grew before seeing he did not create frutes but plant frutes as we do for this is principally to be noted that so soone as he had oportunitie to doo good he omitted no time but presentlye after the floud was gone and that earth began to drye hee plyed it with seedes and wrought it till he saw the frutes of his labour By this we learne to omit no occasion to do good but when so euer we may do good to count it sinne if we do it not But if we be so excercised thē all our works shall prosper like the vineyarde of Noah because the frute of the vine doth cheare the countenance and glad the hart of man Therefore some haue gathered vpon the planting of this vineyard a signification of gladnes and thankfulnes in Noah for this late deliuerance as the Iewes by their solēne feastes did celebrate the memoriall of some great benefit but I rather iudge that God would haue vs see in this example what men did in those daies and how we are degenerate from our parents that we maye prepare against the fire as Noah prepared against the water This is worthie to be noted too that God did not so regard his husbandrye but that he had an eye to his drunkennes and speakes of his fault aswell as his vertue whereby we are warned that though god blesse vs now while we remember him yet he will chasten vs so soone as we forget him Though we be in a good name now infamie will rise in