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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

pray bids vs pray thus giue vs this day our daily bread Mat. 6. 11. As if we should reckon the continuance of our life no longer than a daie And againe God calling vpō sinners sayth To day if you 〈…〉 his voice a day consisteth but o● 〈…〉 an euening and a noone som● 〈…〉 way in the morning of their life 〈…〉 ●ot the heate of the day and h● 〈…〉 ●t the line of his life vntil th● 〈…〉 but al the day 〈…〉 ●es the life of man to th● 〈…〉 ●asse whose glory enduret● 〈…〉 ●t is greene in the morning an● 〈…〉 night 〈…〉 ●t is within and without vs are s● 〈…〉 remembrances of death all things cry 〈…〉 to vs that we must hence as Christ cried 〈…〉 ●am not of this world The Sunne rising in the East and falling in the west and al in one day shewes our rising and falling our comming in and going forth of this world The apparell wearing vpon our backes the meate disgested and egested and returning to putrefaction the graues shrowding so many corpses vnder our feete to be short Time the mother of al things and the changeable state of times euen winter and summer colde and heate seede time and haruest all doe crie vnto vs that we shall weare and di● and corrupt as they who were liuing are now dead and lie in the dust First we waxe drie then olde then colde then sicke then dead so is earth turned into earth We are not skilful numberers of our daies like Dauid til we haue learned to recount the dangers and casualties and vncertainties of our corruptible condition A spider being able to choake vs and a As it did Pirrus haire to stifle vs and a tile falling vpon our heads to extinguish vs and that in a moment of time when we least expect so sodaine calamities we reade of Anacreon that he died in eating of an egge Fabian a senator was choaked with an haire Pope Hadrian with a flie if Iacob counted his time but short hauing alreadie liued an hundred and thirtie yeares what reckoning may wee make of our time which is farre shorter In the time afore the floud the age of man was great Adam liued 930. yeares Noah Gen. 5. Gen. 5. 26. 950. Methusaleh 969 almost a 1000 yeares But after the floud in Terah his daies who was father to Abraham the age of man was a great deale shortned from 900. it was brought down to two hundred and vnder Terah liued 209. Abraham his sonne not Gen. 11. 32 so long 175. Moses 120. Iosua an hundred and ten In the Prophet Dauid his time it was scanted yet shorter by much halfe in halfe Psal 90. he counted the yeres of men to be threescore and ten All hath this vse it teacheth vs to looke backe into our liues and to learne to redeeme the time by a timely repentance To draw to a conclusion life it selfe is but an harbenger of death and we liue to die God that numbered the haires of our head hath numbred our yeares also and we can not passe them whether in middle age or in olde age or in infancie when and where and how we know not for the issues of death are in the hands of God When our end and finall dissolution shall come is therfore concealed from vs because we should be alwaies prepared and thinke euery moment vpon death the end of all flesh As a bird guideth her flight with her traine so the life of man is best directed by a continuall recourse vnto his end Now the Lord of life and death in whose hands is the breath of euery liuing thing so direct vs by his holy spirit of grace that we may learne to number our daies that we may run out this shorte race of our sinful pilgrimage in godlinesse and much pacience looking to Iesus the author and finisher of our faith that when we shal haue finished these daies of sinne we may be translated to a better life in the kingdome of glorie which God hath purchased to vs in the bloudshedding of his beloued sonne to whome with the father and the holyghost bee rendred al glorie maiestie power and dominion now and euer Peters repentance So hee went out and wept bitterly Mat. 26. 75. IN regard of the dissolutenesse of the present age wherein we liue and general iniquitie of these the worst and last times wherein the sins of men are multiplied being growne to the full and vnrighteousnesse is increased vpon the earth as was fore-tolde by our Sauior Christ in the 24. of Mathew his Gospel for that we are all better acquainted with sinne than with the remedie for auoidanc● of sinne which is repentance without which we neither can haue peace of conscience no● yet the fauor of God who is a father to none but the penitent such as are truly humbled vnder the burthen of their sinnes and do● carrie a purpose of amendment I haue indeuoured at this time to lay before your eies the true portraiture and the liuely Anotomie of a repentant sinner in this example of S. Peter you shall behold him chaulking out the waie that leadeth to repentance whose foote-steps you must follow foote by foote and steppe by steppe if you will come where he is where is perfect peace and ioy such ioy as shall not be taken from vs greater ioy and glorie than Peter Luke 9. had on mount Tabor where Christ was transfigured Peter wept here for a time and that but a short time in respect of eternitie but there he reioyceth continually without ceasing his ioy hath no terme nor limitation of time So is it verified which was spoken by our Sauior Christ in the 5. of Mathew happie Mat. 54. are ye that mourne for ye shall reioyce Peters mourning is turned to mirth his sadnesse to solace his pain to pleasure his repenting to reioycing for Christ hath wiped away al teares from his eies because with him the first things are past alreadie and now he is crowned with glorie like the Angells And this he hath now in heauen because God loued him walking a good disciple here on earth shewing himselfe to be indeede what he was in name videlicet Simon an obedient hearer He is also called Peter videlicet confident and strong in faith like a rocke inuincible And in this place we find him penitent his obedience is testified in the historie of his life for at Christ his commandement he for sooke his calling and became his disciple his strength of faith our Sauior himselfe proueth where he saith vpon his confession of him Thou art Peter and vpon this rock will Mat. 16. 18. I build my congregation He was penitent the words nowe read vnto you doproue the same for after he had sinned he went out and wept bitterly O that euery Christian man were thus qualified like Peter these three graces repentaunce faith and obedience are better welcome vnto God than the three presents Mat.

the new testament wherin we are washed with water in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost to signifie that we are receiued to grace by the vertue of Christs death that by bloud wee are clensed from our sinnes and are regenerate by his spirit and therin are bound to testifie a newnesse of life after our new birth This baptisine conteineth three things The signe water the ceremonie the sprinkling of the water and the things themselues viz. the sprinkling of Christs blood and the imputation of his righteousnes This other of the Supper of the Lord representeth likewise Christ crucified and assureth vs that by his death we are freelie saued from the malediction of the lawe assuring our selues that as our mouthes receiue the bread and wine so our soules receyue Christ and his righteousnes These Sacraments are as conduits to conueigh Gods graces vnto vs the one is to purge our soules from sinne the other is to feede vs after we be purged The first is a bath made of Christ his owne blood to wash and bathe our wounds therein thesecond is amost comfortable and rich garment to couer our soules after they bee washed In the first Christ hath substituted in his place his spouse the Church to pronounce in his name remission of sinnes In the second he hath left himselfe and his owne flesh and blood sacramentally to be a precious food to cherish her withall I purpose onely at this time to shewe you the comfort and edification that we receiue by the Sacrament of the Lords Supper For my text doth leade me thereunto In the night that he was betrayed Heere is set downe the verie Institution of this Sacrament with circumstances thereunto belonging The Lord Iesus There is the author of it In the night There is the time He tooke bread There is the signe He gaue thanks That is the first action in the sacrament Hee brake it There is the ceremonie Hee gaue it There is the vse of it Saying Take eate this is my body There is the fruit of it Do it in remembrance of mee There is the charge of it When Christ died the law ended and the Gospel reuiued after his death circumcision was abolished and the Pascal lamb no more vsed for that the law and ceremonies thereof were now to haue an end In steed wherof he instituted these two sacraments Baptisme for circumcision and for the Pascall lambe his last Supper so called for that it was instituted in the night that hee was betrayed Much neede not bee spoken concerning the Author of this institution onely wee are here called vppon for a most dutifull reuerence in the celebration thereof since it is heere noted by the Apostle to proceed immediatly from Christ If it had pleased God to haue vsed the ministery of an angel or of mā●in the deliuering forth of this sacrament we had notwithstanding beene pressed to a carefull obseruation thereof But to the end he might stamp in this holy mysterie a greater impression of excellencie in regard of the singular comfort lapt vp in the same therefore hee hath conueyed it vnto vs imediatly from himselfe It ought therefore to be more highly reckoned euen for his sake that was the authour of it For if the woord spoken by Angells was Heb. 2. 2. stedfast and euery transgression receiued a iust recompence of reward how shall we escape if we neglect so great saluation which first was preached by the Lord himselfe and was afterwardes confirmed by them that heard him The people of Israel did not omit to obserue the Passeouer throughout their generations because Moses the seruaunt of God had so commanded them Much more carefull ought we to be in the retaining of this Sacrament since not Moses but Christ himselfe hath cōmanded vs to obserue the same for euer throughout our generations For this man is counted more worthy of glorie than Moses inasmuch as he is more excellent then the Angells being the brightnes of the glorie and the ingraued forme of Heb. 1. 3. his person as we reade in the author to the Hebrewes In the night that he was betrayd at his betraying he ordained this sacrament comfort was reuealed vnto vs when christ was discōforted When he was in greatest heauines he prepared for vs a solemne feast euen a more sumptuous banquet then that of Aha●uerus for whoso eateth of this bread shall liue for euer A better and more nourishing meate is here presented vnto vs than Sampson found in the dead lion Iudas and the scribes were this night deuising how to betray Christ how to destroy him that should haue saued them But Christ was deuising how to finish the worke of our redemption and to fulfill his fathers will Iudas was deuising how to take away his masters life but Christ was deuising how to giue them life who were dead in the life of grace Iudas as he was wont to carry the bagge so Ioh. 12. 6. he thought to mend the bagge as Gehezi thought to inrich himselfe with Naamans 2. Kin. 5. 22. gold He sold Christ in that night for mony but Christ bought vs with a deerer price than s●luer or gold for it cost him his heart bloud all this amplifieth the greatnesse of the loue wherewith he loued vs. In the night when he was betrayed It was a bitter night an heauy night vnto Christ as the history of his Passion declareth a night of sorrow and anguish a night of perplexity and feare a night wherein all the sorowes of death gate hold vpon him What a night was it to see his owne disciples forsake him how grieuously was he troubled in Gethsemaneh himselfe testified ●is exceeding sorow when he said my soule ●s heauy vnto the death Looke the twenty sixt of Mathew twise he repeateth his passionate prayer O lette this cuppe passe from me What a terror was it vnto him to see his owne Disciple Iudas come and betray him with a kisse a great multitude following him with swords and staues to take him And when they had takē him what iniury did they not vnto him how was he mocked spitted at and beaten with fists Such a bitter night was it vnto Christ but it was to vs a night more comfortable than the day of our birth a night brighter than the brightest day ●a night more comfortable vnto vs then that night of deliuerance was to Exod. 12. the Israelites when they went out of Aegypt from Pharaoh and from the Aegyptians for in this night was the mystery of our redemption begun He tooke breade Now we are come to the institution As there is no substance with out his shadow so there is no Sacrament without his signe And the signe in this Sacrament is the bread and wine God in these familiar matters shrowdet● instruction of greater mysterie We are best acquainted with the vse o● bread and we well know what strength our bodies receiue by it the same and more is