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A18708	Two fruitfull and godly sermons preached at Dorchester in Dorsetshyre, the one touching the building of Gods temple, the other what the temple is.	Chub, William.	1585 (1585)	STC 5212; ESTC S109852	23,458	64

make sporte before the Connies when he goeth about to catch one Sometimes by a rare fayre salutation as the Iewes that came to take Christe sayde Hayle master but alwayes ye shal know them by the parting blowe for though the Cat play and dally with the Mouse yet in the ende she grypeth him to death and aboue all the markes that I haue spoken of to know this sort of selfe-louers I hold this the chéefest that is they vtterly hate and contemne those men that they be perswaded they can get nothing of An other sorte of selfe-louers are such as cary a proude and a lofty mind accounting themselues the singuler menne of the world dishabling others and discrediting others to be best accounted of themselues these haue a kinde of secrete enuy in theyr harts for if you commend this mā or that man eyther for wisedom honesty welth pollicy manhoode comelines vertue learning or any other good quality straightway he will finde one occasion or other to dishable some of these qualities or vertues you shall quickly espye these kind of selfe-louers either by their séelines or by theyr silence their séelines I account a slender wysedome or a sickly conueiance in theyr talke and communication howbeit they are full of iolity and floe with such strang phrases as they themselues haue but borrowed and are not acquainted withal the other triall is silence which you shall approoue by consenting wyth his dislikyng and discommending of al men in those former qualities and vertues but then you must commend it in hym so if you finde him either to stammer or to bee silent vpon your commendation then thinke no other but you haue found the foole for Tully doth so call them saying Qui innititur suae prudentiae stultus est he that stādeth vpon his owne wisedome is a foole Both of these sorts of selfe-louers are filthy and abhominable Idols vnséemly for the decent temple of god howbeit the whole world almost is combred with thē in these present daies 2 Tim. 3 S. Paule himselfe speaketh of them that such shall come in the latter daies as shal be louers of thēselues vnnaturall An other most horrible Idol that doth much defile prophane the temple of the holy ghost is carnal plesure Carnall pleasure which is such detestable desire of the flesh as corrupteth knowledge defileth the conscience deformeth the soule imprisoneth the mynde and polluteth the members It is that deuilish motion which doth wholy carry vs from God and swalloweth vs vppe in shame I say vnto you it is that thing as if it were shaped nothing would seeme more ougly or monsterous for it translateth men into the forme of beasts and into the nature of deuils and therefore an vnfit ornament for the Temple of God whose reward is most horrible eyther wyth shame or with most odious and intollerable diseases or with extreame pouerty or with the blotting out of a posterity or with eternall damnation the Apostle sayth The adulterer and fornicator shal not inherite the kingdome of heauen I beséech thée O Lorde God of heauen to gyue little Englande repentant harts and féeling consciences to purge their Temples of this filthy sin Amen Worldly loue There is an other Idoll in this Temple of ours to whom all honour in these dayes is attributed and which doth onely take away the honor due vnto God and doth most abhominably pollute our harts which is the loue of the world Thys Idoll doth so mightily allure and so strongly prouoke that it doth wholly rauish mēs harts and altogether withdrawe theyr mindes from the true loue of God from the estimation and dignity of hys worde from the Law of nature from mutuall loue from the Kingdome of heauen and from all other good and godly estimations In so much that we may say with the Poet Quid non mortalia pectora cogit auri sacra fames What doth not the cursed desire of mony prouoke It made Iudas sell his master Christ and in these dayes it maketh not onely a great many to sell their master Christ but vtterly to forsake him it is the prouoker of displeasure betwixt man an man it is the ingenderer of theues it hatcheth cosoners extorcioners vsurers pillers pollers periurers murtherers flatterers sycophants it maketh offycers and magistrats blinde that they cannot sée notorious offenders it causeth many to make the ministry theyr refuge to the perishing of many a soule by their ignoraunce it hath disordered the noble estate of matrimony prouoking many to marry for muck and to like for lyuing wheras afterward in hart they hate all dayes of their life A great many harts it defileth with dissimulation contempte enuy vncharitablenes hardnes and so forth It maketh the sonne to wyshe and expect the fathers death in respect thereof It maketh men to buy offices and seeke for dignityes onely to haue the world not regarding Iustice or reformation but cōmodity and aduantage which greatly decayeth a common welth It causeth many a conscience to shutte vppe his compassion from the poore and it is the onely Porter in rich mens gates to barre fast the doore Many a man setteth his sonne to schoole not for vertues sake but for the worldes sake many a one preferreth hys Sonne to the ministry not for to preache but to haue lyuing many a one preferreth hys Sonne to be a Lawyer not so much to doo equity as to get the world and so of euery faculty all is for the world Howe many bee there that purchase Heauen for theyr children and brynge them vppe in such order as they may godlye behaue themselues as meete members for the kyngdome of heauen nay rather they séeke by all meanes to purchase the earth for them howe many séeketh to enrich themselues with the treasure of the kingdome of heauen Euery man séeketh by al meanes to possesse the earth and yet they sée not this difference the one bringeth ioy the other sorrowe the one giueth life the other death the one ioy and felicity the other penury misery sicknes and calamity What reward had the rich man in the Gospell for all his abundance of treasure lands lyuinges goods and delicate fare Luke 16 yet in the ende he was rewarded wyth a miserable death at which instant hee had thrée attendantly that gréedily gaped for hys death that is The rich man his executors the executor for hys goods the wormes for hys carkas and deuil for his soule this was the end and fruit of hys worldly gréedines and insatiable desire such men must néedes runne to a bad ende whose beginning and continuance is naught howe can that mann haue hys part among the godly that hath alwaies fauoured infidelity It is impossible to serue God Mammon they haue serued Mammon therfore his seruants they are to whom they obey whether it bée of sinne vnto death or of obedience vnto righteousnes Thus I haue briefly shewed you howe that wee are the

Temple of God and what Idols we haue set vppe in the same to the great confusion of our selues if we repent not in time Second parte Nowe as in the first part I haue shewed you what we are so in this second part I purpose to shewe whose we are The text sayth Ye are not your owne bryngeth in the reason for ye are bought for a price In these wordes are many excellent comfortable consolations In that our vnworthines and state of damnation considered wee are translated from darknes to light from death to lyfe from mortality to immortality from a miserable world to an euerlasting worlde replenished with all ioy and consolation Againe so much the more is our comfort in that we are no more our owne or resting in our owne power for if wee were such were our weakenes that wée should fall againe to damnation and such were our insufficiency that we could not ryse agayne of our selues but shoulde bée vtterly lost wherefore wee are nowe hys that can sustaine and vphold vs that wyll preserue and kéepe vs and who in this life hath sealed vs with grace and in the world to come with life euerlasting and none els can doo it or could doo it but the only blessed God which already hath doon it And againe in that we féele the force of shine alwaies working in our bodies and continually suffer the tyranny of sathan howbeit it shall not bee imputed vnto death for the blood of Christ Iesus hath taken away the force of the Law and the sentence of guiltines into whom wee are now graffed and vnited So that nowe to sée our translation out adoption estate to be changed into the sonnes of God and we our selues as children in his seruice are in a most comfortable estate in that wee are his who will not lose but preserue vs. Now in that the Apostle sayth Ye are not your owne but that wee are bought for a price it doth appeare whose we are and who hath bought vs for we are as I sayd the sonnes of God and members of Christ Iesus purchased by his precious bloodshedding as appeared to the Ephesians But now in Christ Iesus yee which once were farre of Eph 2.13.14.15 16. are made néere by the blood of Christ for hee is our peace which hath made of both one and hath broken the steppe of the partition wall in abrogating through his flesh the hatred that is the Law of commandements which standeth in ordinances for to make of 〈◊〉 one nowe ●an in himselfe so makyng peace and that he might reconcile bothe vnto God in one body by his crosse and ●●t hatred thereby And as touching that we are not our owne neyther haue ●●wer 〈◊〉 our selues but translated into a better estate and into a surer safegarde it dooth most comfortably appeare in Saint Paule to the Romaines Rom 14 9 where he sayth Christ therefore 〈◊〉 and ●ose ●●●●●e and reuiued that he might be Lord both of the dead and the ●ui●ke so that our seruice and all that euer we haue bee in●●●●erely bought by his precious bloode is subiecte to his dominio● and rule wherin we may to our great comfort behold our safety in that we are im●●●ked in so strong ●a●tell and defence as he is against whome the power of hell cannot preuaile And in that we are alienated changed from our accusable and damnable estate to become by the righteousnes of Christ the acceptable children of God in thys co●●isteth our honour nobility aboue all the creatures that God hath made which chaunge we find in the Apostls words to the Galathians saying Wherfore the art no more a seruant but a Sonne yf thou be a sonne Gal 4 7 thou art also the heyre of GOD through Christ It is a most excellent comfort where this alienation or chaunge is founde among men especially where God himselfe doth it for he doth it alwayes for the better Wee finde that the name of Abram was changed into the name of Abraham the name of Iacob into the name of Israell and the name of Saule into the name of Paule the significations of whych named are bettered in their exchaunge And so dooth it happen in vs in that our exchange is for the best for nowe we are beautified wyth grace that were deformed by the accusation of the Lawe and for that wee are the sons of God the riches of grace is bestowed vpon vs as S. Paule saith By whome that is by Christe wée haue accesse through faith vnto thys grace wherein we stande Rom 5. ● for thys occasions sake we are called the temple of god because we are incorporated by grace into Christ Iesus who is the very pure and vndefiled Temple in whom his father is truely glorified we had béene a filthy and polluted temple if we had stoode of our selues and depended on our owne power without this gift of grace but because we haue accesse through faith into this grace hauing apprehended grace the spirit of God doth worke mightily in the faithfull beleeuer Therefore it is a necessary doctrine procéeding out of this text of ours Ye are not your owne For vs to learne and sée first what the power of man is and what frée wil he hath and thē what merite he deserueth before God In the which considerations wee shall finde so great knowledge of our imperfection that by the view thereof we shal attribute the more honor glory and thanks vnto God who worketh all in all As touching our power it is so small so slender that wee are not able of our selues to thinke one good thought wee are not able to doo any good thing wee can not strengthen our weakenes we cannot make our selues to grow we cannot lengthen our dayes nor yet can we resist death neither purchase vnto our selues life As the Prophet Ieremy sayth Iere 10 23 O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe neyther is it in man to walke and direct his steps and as S. Paule sayth 1 Cor. 11 what hast thou that thou hast not receiued If man hath any good thing in him it procéedeth from aboue as the Apostle Iames sayth Iam 1. Euery good and perfit gift commeth from aboue whether it be knowledge life strength fayth honesty c it is all from God and by God Iob. 7 1 Iob speaking of mans time sayth Is ther not an appointed time to mā vpon earth and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling Our Sauiour Christ sayth we cannot adde one ynche vnto our stature And therfore as we haue no power of our selues to doo what wee list as appeared by Balam Numb 22. who was hyred by Balake to curse the people of God and he and hys Asse were interrupted by the way and were not able to go forth And as s Paule in his blindnes of minde was strokē with blindnes and inhibited to persecute Gods