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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10916	The glory and happines of a true Christian A sermon preached by Master Rogers at Needham in Norfolke the 28 of Iune. 1617	Rogers, John, of Chacombe.	1618 (1618)	STC 21186; ESTC S100039	21,430	65

decaying in vs. Many a one that commeth to a sermon being weake becommeth stronger when he goeth from it As Elias being fed from God walked in the strength thereof forty dayes Let vs so profit and increase in knowledge and in other graces of the spirit that others also may be able to drinke of our cup. But alacke alacke after many yeares preaching the gospell there are many that haue fat bodies but leane soules They are rich in estate but very poore in grace That are ready to dye Christians must labour to recouer themselues being fallen and to cherish the graces languishing in them for although they haue beene truely called euen these feeble ones and although wee grant they may also get into heauen yet surely it will be with them as it was with those that got with a broken and crased vessell to the hauen but before they come there they shall vndergoe much shame disgrace sorrow and griefe whereas the Barke that is strong sayleth with full sayle merrily into the hauen and the strong couragious Christian attaineth to more happinesse with more ease They can on their death beds speake very cōfortably to their friends about them the other sort cannot doe so The strong and zealous Christian shall pertake of greater glory then the other Now then good languishing soule that hast professed the gospell twenty yeares yea forty and yet the most thou canst doe or say is thou hopest to goe to heauen Fie for shame of this hope what hast thou yet no more strength of faith and other graces Oh this vilde world that hath eate vp all and maketh so many to neglect these best things It followeth For I haue not found thy workes perfect before mee Considering the words they be as a reason to strengthen the former exhortation God looketh vpon thy workes As for our workes if wee haue no faith in vs all that wee doe is abhominable and if the workes wee doe proceede from weake faith they are but lame Now the workes of this Church heere spoken vnto were not perfect for they were but faint in truth God said this is the Law doe this and liue But now seeing we are eased of this yoake of the Law shall we doe as wee list Indeede if the Children of God do their best endeauour to please him the Lord will accept of their works seruice and will pardon their imperfections infirmities But yet he cannot abide that men should do such imperfect works as to serue him by halfes as some do which will perhaps pray at Church and whē they are abroade but not at home They will pray at night but not in the morning Not perfect before God If our works be not perfect what doe we heere If God doth not accept of our works there is then no comfort If he doth then there is cōfort if wee striue in our hearts to obey him hee will accept both of vs of our works But hee doth not accept of the seruice of such men as hearing of the word of God as soone as they are gone out of the Church fall to prating of the world Such mens workes howsoeuer they seeme to be before men yet are not perfect before God Remember therefore how thou hast receiued and heard Heere in this verse the Lord Iesus doth still goe on to shew them that are cold and drowsie Christians how to recouer themselues First he biddeth them remember how and what they had heard and receiued inferring thereby they had meerely forgotten the same From whence wee may obserue that the forgetting of that which Gods word hath taught vs is oft times a chiefe cause of our staggering and going backward in religion and godlinesse Examples whereof wee haue in Peter who hauing forgotten what Christ had told him did fall to that fearefull denying of him Also Dauid who said He had washed or clensed his heart in vaine c. The Prophet had forgotten himselfe till he had entred againe into the Sanctuarie of the Lord. Ver. 17. Many hearers are like riuen dishes which though th●y heare much and often they doe hold or receiue but little And why doe so many fall back to the world is it because they neuer heard the word against it No but it is because they had forgotten that which they had heard Be not saith Iames forgetfull hearers of the wo●d Also the Apostle to the Hebrues saith Take heede least at any time the world that you haue heard bee l●t slippe or runne out Euen as Aqua-uitae put into a crackt bottle and is to be kept till one be sicke the party may dye for all this if the Aquauitae be run out at such time as he hath most neede of it The Apostle Paule wisheth vs to try all things and keepe that which is good keepe it euer as one would doe a peece of siluer or gold or pretious Iewell Now that wee may the better keepe and retaine that wee haue heard out of Gods word wee ought first to delight therein For that which a man delighteth in hee will alwaies be talking and thinking of it as the Huntsman will be talking of his sporte and game and hee knoweth all the turnes of the Hare The second meanes to keepe that wee heare is oftentimes to meditate thereon Why doe yee remember tales that yee haue heard when yee were children Because you haue told them ouer a great many times And why doe many forget the Sermon they heard but yesterday It is because they did not meditate nor consider vppon it Oh saith one it is because I haue an euill memorie Nay friend that will not goe for payment this is but to blame God himselfe that he gaue thee no better memorie Thou hast memory good enough for thy worldly busines etc. Besides many a one doe rather destroy and hurt their memories by talking presently on the world after they haue heard the word and so on peg doth driue out another There is nothing which wee heare at a sermon but it may stand vs in stead at on time or other either in adversitie or in prosperitie and one sermon well kept doth you more good then ten that haue beene ill and negligently heard Hold fast or recover thy selfe Heere is another duetie for the drowsie and back-sliding Christians to performe even by repentance to labour and recouer themselues from their decaying estate whereby we may consider what a great deale of worke many a man maketh for himselfe by reason of his sinne For hauing taken liberty to fall into any grosse sinne as into worldlinesse impatiencie frowardnesse and such like he must repent of it But by the practising of godlinesse there commeth no such worke of it Particularly what a great deale of worke did Dauid make for his two sinnes Adultery and Murther And so likewise Peter by denying his maister and a man would not haue the like sorrow griefe and shame for a kingdome But of well doing and