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The Christians liue-loode Laid forth in a sermon vpon Math. 6. 33. By Samuel Hieron.
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Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.
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not to haue compassion on the Sonne of her wombe but hee cannot forget g Is 49.15 his compassions faile not h Lam. 3.22 The like promise was after renued vnto Ioshua i chap. 1. 5. and the Apostle teacheth euery beleeuer to account himselfe to haue an interest in it k Heb. 13.5 6. I will not faile thee nor forsake thee How often doe we read such things as these The eye of the Lord is vpon them that feare him and vpon them that trust in his mercy to deliuer their soules from death and to preserue them in famine l Ps 33.18 19. The Lyons do lack suffer hunger but they which seeke the Lord shall wāt nothing that is good m Psal 34.10 No good thing shall he withhold from them that walke vprightly n Ps 84.11 The Lord will not famish the soule of the righteous o Prou. 10.3 The good man shall giue inheritance vnto his childrens children p Pro. 13.22 That speach of the prophet Habakkuk three times repeated in the New Testament The iust shall liue by his faith Cap. 2. 4. hath reference as well to the life of the body in this world as well as to the spirituall life of the soule Faith is as it were the liuely-hood of a Christian It is the stocke whereon he liues inasmuch as it giueth him an assurance not to be cast off Christ had a meaning to teach this euen in the course and order of the Lords prayer in setting that of Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come c before that concerning daily bread that wee might build our expectation of being heard in the latter vpon the truth of our desire for the former And indeed if we enter into a due consideration of the point we must needs acknowledge it to be a truth He that seekes the kingdome of God and his righteousnesse shall not misse of the end of his desire in that heauenly benefit For God will fulfill the desires of them that feare him q Ps 145.19 If God will giue the more excellent will he deny the things of lesser value Fe are not saith Christ your Fathers will is to giue you a kingdome r Luc. 12.32 will he who will bestow a kingdome not bestow necessary comforts for the outward man Will he who giues Christ not giue with him all things also ſ Ro. 8.32 Whom thinke wee to be respected by God he that seeks his kingdome or the foules of the ayre the beasts of the forrest the lillies of the field to day fresh to morrow in the fornace Surely the seekers of his kingdome are his chiefe treasure t Ps 135.4 He delights in them u Psal 147.11 He dwells with them x Ioh. 14.23 He keeps their bones y Ps 34 20 their haires z Math 10.30 their feete a 1. Sam. 2.9 Consider then He giues beasts foode and the young Rauens that cry b Ps 147.9 he lookes after the sparrowes c Matt 10 29 he takes care for oxen d 1. Cor. 9 9. he clotheth the grasse e Mat. 6.30 How is it possible that hee should neglect those whom his soule loueth yea for whose sakes euen Kings are reproued f Psal 106.14 and which are to him as the apple of his eye g Zac 2 8. Strange but yet comfortable are the euidences and examples which the Scripture affords of Gods prouiding for his in outward things The Rauens first and last at morning and euening brought bread and flesh to Elias h 1 King 17. by him and for him God made that small portion of oyle and meale which the widdow had to last out to the end of the famine He prouided strangely for the widdow of the prophet when the cruell Creditor was come to take her sonnes to be his bondmen i 2 King 17. He found◠meanes for Iacob and his family in the dearth he had sent a man before k Psal 105.17 It is memorable which befell our Sauiour and is doubtlesse written for our learning He was borne in a poore estate his mother could finde no roome in the Inne it seemes shee was in want otherwise money would haue commanded more respect The home-borne people as it is likely tooke no notice of her want Now see how God who is a God at a pinch brought the Wise-men from farre with their presents Gold incense myrhe l Mat 2.11 A notable example of Gods prouiding when it is least expected and where there is the smallest likely hood When Dauid fled from Absolom and went for his life and had small leasure to take prouision with him see how God prouided Shobi the sonne of Nahash and Machir the sonne of Ammiel and Barzelai brought wheat and barley flower and beanes and parched corne m 2. Sam. 17 27. I remember what Christ said to his disciples When as I sent you without bag and scrip lacked ye any thing and they said nothing n Luc. 22.35 What ment our Sauiour in feeding those miraculously that followed him from place to place to heare his preaching but to giue assurance thereby that they which seeke heauen as they ought shall neuer be forsaken here on earth they shall neuer be oppressed with wants for their bodies who are carefull to make prouision for their soules But now this doctrine may seeme not to be generally and vniuersally true without exception For many deare children of God and many forward men in religion haue beene and are in great want and may so be as is gatherable out of the parable of Lazarus o Luc. 16. who would haue beene glad of a few crums or to haue licked a trencher and I do not see saith the worldling any of them all a penny the richer for all their earnestnes It is answered The matter and point vndertaken here to be proued is not that they which seeke the kingdome of God and his righteousnes shall neuer be poore shall neuer be scanted for outward things shall neuer be brought euen to a morsell of bread I know how the prophets of God were glad of bread and water in a hole vnder ground when the prophets of Baal were fed at Iezabels table p 1. King 18.4 19. Many deare seruants of God doe with Michaiah feed vpon the bread and water of affliction when as they who walke on in their sinnes drinke wine in boules eat the lambes of the flocke and the calues out of the stall and haue as much as heart can wish So the poore Iewes in Shusan were in perplexity when the King and Haman sate drinking in the Palace q Hest 3.15 and diuers of the Lords worthies were destitute and afflicted r Heb. 11.37 But here is that which is hence proued that he whose heart is set to seeke the kingdome of God first and his righteousnes though he may be afflicted yet he cannot be straitned