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The true guide to glory A sermon preached at Plympton-Mary in Deuon, at the funerals of the right vvorshipfull, and ...
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Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.
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Cast not the statutes of God behinde your backes neither be abashed to liue by the booke for to liue by Gods booke is to liue by his command and he that doth so shall neuer be ashamed The braue men of our dayes may laugh you to scorne thinke it too much precisenesse rend the booke of God like the vaile of the Temple from the top to the bottome But when death draweth neere the doores and Christ shall call vs to an account I doubt not but such will wish they had had a greater care to haue walked in thy steps and with all their hearts would change their owne for thy condition But till then thou canst not apprehend the rich fruit of thy walkings neither they the fearefull effects that shall follow their wandrings And now the fourth and last doctrine to be handled we gather from the Connexion or knitting together of the parts which is that Doct. 4 They who here on Earth are guided by Gods Counsell shall when their changing comes be receiued into Glory They and none but they Psal 1.1.2 Blessed is the man saith the Psalmist that doth not walke in the counsell of the wicked nor stand in the way of sinners nor sit in the seate of the scornefull But hath his delight in the Law of Iehouah and in his Law doth meditate day and night And is this Blessednesse perfect here on earth No 1 Cor. 13.9.10 c. Psal 16. vlt. why then they shall haue it in the fulnesse thereof in the world to come Are we not bid to inquire of the old way which is the good way and to walke therein Ier 6.16 and wee shall find rest to our soules Rest not corporall or temporall but spirituall and eternall may well be vnderstood for they that die in the Lord are said to rest from their labours But this point is more easily proued then credited and better beleeued then practised yet take a Reason or two further to confirme the one and perswade the other Reason 1 Why is not Gods word and counsell the plaine path and rode way to the kingdome of glory Prou. 2.10.11 3.15.16 17.18 He that would trauell to London if he find out the true way and walke therein shall he not come to it at the last for the City will not be remoued So hee that doth know the right path to this Countrey which is aboue 1 Cor 9.26 2 Tim. 4.7.8 let him trauell on therein and he shal assuredly come to it at his iourneyes end God will not giue his children a crooked rule There be but two things for to conduct vs to this Kingdome and are not both expresly conteined in his Counsell Ioh 3.16 The one is To beleeue in Christ for so we be iustified Rom. 8.1 and placed in the right path The other is The precept after which if wee walke wee shall certainly finish our iourney with Glory Reason 2 Againe the Lord is true of his promise he cannot deny himselfe Iosh 21. vlt. 2 Tim. 2.13 therefore if we keepe the condition the Lord will accomplish what he hath promised If any man should say vnto me Sir inquire the way that leades to my house and come to my home and you shall haue all kinde entertainment Now if I should accomplish his command in seeking out the path and passe on vntill I come to his habitation what if then I be not entertained were not the fault in him that promised me this kindnes But God is not like man for let vs walke towards heauen till death the Gates of heauen shall not be shut 1 Thes 5.24 but open for faithfull is he that hath promised who will also doe it Vse 1 And may not this doctrine first informe vs what to thinke of the best Heathen who euer liued and many too in our dayes Act. 17.30 Gal 6.16 Heb 4 2. 1 Pâ—t 4.17 that were neuer guided by this Rule For the one sort we deny not but God can worke extraordinarily but for the other who haue had the kingdome of Christ come to their doores yet would not giue it the least entertainment or be ruled by it shall we not feare if not certainly conclude that they are vtterly depriued of the glory of God And I pray that there might be none such in this place and congregation But if there be let that person know that one day his ignorance and carelesse neglect of the glorious Gospel shall deeply be laid to his charge Vse 2 Besides here we are instructed in the right way how to be blessed for euer Cast off therefore the wayes and workes of darkenesse take the narrow path that leadeth to this eternall weight of glory Turne seeing the Lord in mercy doth affoord you time and meanes and be no more seduced or led out of the way We would all of vs when our pilgrimage is at an end be receiued into glory why then let vs not follow the fashions of this euill world step after a multitude to doe wickedly obey sinne in the lusts of it or be guided by the Prince that ruleth in the children of disobedience But learne the reuealed counsell of the Lord take straight steps to our feete so shall we at the time of this our change be receiued from earth into that place which is full of glory and that shall haue no end For Gal. 6.16 as many as walke according to this Rule Peace shall be vpon them with mercy and vpon the whole Israel of God Vse 3 And may not this encourage all that haue begun well not to grow weary or faint in the way but to go on vndaunted and with a Christian resolution You therefore that are or may be Maiors or Gouernours of Townes and Cities haue you begun with Nehemiah to build and guide the Lords people why faint not let not such men as you flee goe not into the idols Temple to liue let no burdens be borne on the Sabboath set peace and remoue oppression amongst them committed to your charge Let not sinne goe vnpunished godlinesse be vnrewarded or your high callings by your slacknesse be abused It was Dauids prize and praise not that the Lord chose him Psal 78.70 tooke him from the flockes of sheepe 71. following the ewes with yong to feede Iacob his people and Israel his possession but in this that he fed them according to the perfection of his heart 72. and led them by the discretion of his hands He that did this is now in glory and they that tread in his steps shall assuredly 2 Tim. 4.8 when they haue ended and serued thus their time be receiued and glorified with him And you Right Worshipfull whom God hath made great in the Countrey and Common-weale take heed what ye doe Let Ioshua his resolution be yours whatsoeuer others haue done or may doe Doe you Iosh 24.15 and your people serue the Lord. It 's your goodnesse that one
THE TRVE GVIDE To GLORY A SERMON PREACHED at Plympton Mary in Deuon at the Funerals of the Right VVorshipfull and truely 〈…〉 the LADY 〈…〉 10. When 〈…〉 knowledg◠〈…〉 11. Then shall 〈…〉 thee and vnderstanding shall keepeâ—â— LONDON Printed by THOMAS SNODHAM for Nathaniel Newberrie and are to be sold at his shop vnder Saint Peters Church in Cornehill 1619. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL and his approued good friends Sir WILLIAM STRODE of Nowingham in Deuon Knight with his SONNES and DAVGHTERS WHen the watchman Right Worshipfull said to Dauid The running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz then the King said He is a good man and commeth with good tidings Now I would it could at this time be truely testified of me in both particulars but it may not it cannot For I am like to him that addeth fewel to the flame rubbeth a greene wound or that presents before the eye some fearefull and to-be forgotten obiect The tidings I bring are like the Amalekites to Dauid Iosephs brethren to Iacob or Ionah his Sermon to the Niniuites Notwithstanding beare with me for I cannot helpe it It 's God that did it and good vse may be made of it Wee must all fall in the wildernesse of this To the Reader CHristian Reader Iohn the Baptist was not amisse compared to a mourner for his attire was hairie his foode locusts and wilde hony and his Doctrine to flesh and blood sounded harshly So may all my Sonnes and that not vnfitly be stiled the subiects of sorrow for the weedes wherein they be wrapped are blacke their faces eyes cheekes represent death iudgement the graue and their tongues tell of heauy and terrible tidings Notwithstanding doe not thou too rashly condemne their father for their mother Time was womanfull of great infirmities in whose wombe they were conceiued so that he gaue them not all but part of their being Are not these the dayes of danger times of perill so long agone fore-told prophesied Shall wee then expect issue of Peace or sonnes of Laughter Nay rather looke for a sorrowfull seede and cruell Posterity Yet this I would haue thee to vnderstand that though their heads be hanging their lookes lowring and this Motto imprinted in their Brow Woe to the wicked inhabitants of the Earth thou hast no iust cause to shut thy doores veile thine eyes or to deny them a friendly entertainement for they in many things doe resemble thy selfe beare the ingrauen image of thy person and truely declare what before long shall certainely befall thee They speake rudely bluntly yet truely and therein censure them not ouer-suddenly for it 's their fathers language of him they haue learned it so that it 's become their naturall Dialect And he taught them all and first of all this impartiall lesson That in their progresse and speech they should value all men alike of what cloath soeuer their coates be cut on vntill a New birth had put a difference I easily conceiue the murmurings of many mumbling What is not the world full of such children I haue often seene that such as haue no seede of their owne seldome affect the posterity of another Or peraduenture some who are past begetting any may obiect or cauell Why this is not the same I was present at his birth My good friend know if it were so that a better coate changeth not the subiect neither doth a new patch alter the forme of an old garment for then Ioseph in his Princely Robes had beene another man and Zebedeus his old nets had become new by mending Shall we conclude that when an Hebraisme by our Lord an◠〈◊〉 Disciples is turned into a Graecisme that the Scripture is wrested or altered But these persons are like the barren wombe in a double respect they are vnfruitfull and yet with foaming out their owne shame and spetting innocent infants in the face they be neuer satisfied Credit his Father suspect thy owne censure for when thou sawest him first he was running and thine eye might easily deceiue thee now he is sitting thou maist take a more certaine view of him and see him as he is He that will iudge wine for colour in the powring or mens suites on their backes running may easily deeme amisse in his forward censuring But handle the one and see the other in a glasse setled so shalt thou not be at all deluded In like manner words vttered are in motion the Eare cannot so well receiue them as being imprinted in papers the Eye will apprehend them Therefore be swift to heare slow to speake and then iudge righteous iudgement From my study in Plyâ—mouth Thy Christian friend I. B. THE TRVE GVIDE VNTO GLORY PSAL. 73.24 Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell and afterward receiue me to glory COncerning this Psalme two things may be considered First the Author of it Secondly the Subiect of it Asaph 2 Chro. 29.30 some thinke Penned it for it is stiled A Psalme of Asaph Againe he writ Psalmes as well as Dauid also 1 Chro. 25.2 hee and his Sonnes were singers in Israel But whether he Dauid or Moses made it the matter is not much seeing it is most certaine hee was carried and directed by the Spirit of God 2 Pet. 1. vlt. that penn'd it As touching the subiect matter of it if we looke into it we shall finde a plaine description of a wicked and godly man the very mappe of both in liuely colours declared and that for the present and future time The vngodly is set forth First by his Adiuncts which are sixe 1. In his title foole 2. his Strength 3. his Riches 4. his Successe 5. he is not corrected as others 6. lastly Hee dieth in peace for there is no bands in his death Secondly he is descri ed by his Acts or Effects which are likewise sixe 1. he declareth his Pride 2. he is violent 3. hee Oppresseth 4 hee Corrupteth either himselfe or others 5. he vseth bad Language for his tongue walketh 6. and last of all he accuseth God of ignorance Is there knowledge in the most High Yet you haue not heard the worst of him for foure accidents remaine behinde One his present estate is tickle for hee standeth vpon a slippery foundation another he dieth Suddenly a third he must come to Iudgement and in conclusion then his image shall be despised And thus haue you an end of him From all which by the way we may obserue diuers instructions 1. That wicked men are fooles yet the more wicked the more foolish 2. That the strongest bodies possesse not the soundest mindes These two doe not alwayes lodge together 3 Iohn 2. Iohn writing to his friend Gaius wisheth that he might prosper and fare as his soule fared But hee that would send an Epistle to many of our Gallants if he did well should in his salutations desire that They might fare in soule as their bodies fare for they are lusty and strong Iob 22.23 their breasts