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A07951	The Christians comfort In a sermon appointed for the crosse, but preached in S. Pauls Church on Candlemas day, 1623. By Thomas Myriell, rector of S. Steuens in Walbrooke London.	Myriell, Thomas, d. 1629.	1623 (1623)	STC 18321; ESTC S103112	27,424	72

double our diligence in the preaching and practising of Religion and then wee neede not feare forsaking of God by falling from Religion Et reuera cùm quaeque nouitas ebullit statim cernitur frumentorū grauitas et leuitas palearum Vincent contra Haeriss It may be now is a time wherein God would discerne between frumentorum grauitas leuitas palearum as Cyprian and Vincentius speake the weight and flowrinesse of good corne which he reserues for his Garner and the lightnesse and vnprofitablenesse of chaffe which he determines for hell fire Hee that is faithfull vnto the death shall bee sure to inioy the Crowne of Life Reu. 2.10 The second way whereby men forsake God is by forsaking his Ministry in withdrawing their maintenance and Liuelode from them The Ministry is Seminarium Ecclesiae The Churches seed-plot destroy that and farewell Religion And destroyed it will be if not cherished and maintayned by sufficient meanes O the damned sinne of Sacriledge how it strikes as the roote of Religion aimes at the Maiestie of God himselfe Lact. Inst lib. 2. cap. 4. And therefore Lactantius notes That God punished it among the Heathens because though hee cared not for any iniurie done to an Idoll yet he would make men afraid of withdrawing any thing from him whom they in their blind iudgement tooke for the true God And this was vsuall Lucan Quis enim laesos impunè putaret esse deos Who euer saw the gods spoyled robbed without condigne punishment And the maintenance of the Ministry is Gods maintenance because it serues for the vpholding his immediate seruice and worship It is true Hugo Card. in Isa 49.23 I grant that Hugo Cardinalis notes that the reuenews of the Clergy is the Churches food and when the Church was young like a childe it ouer-ate it selfe and surfeited But as surfeiting diseases of oppletion must be cured with purging so hath this course been taken and our Church ouer-purged this way that she is now on the other side in danger of a Consumption through too much euacuation I know not how that same auri sacra fames Virgil. or auri sacri fames hath growne into euery mans stomacke that hee thinkes all is well gotten which is pilfered from the Church I know where I am and to whom I speake I suppose it is farre from the minde of this City to forsake God or Religion by withdrawing the Ministeriall maintenance I know you giue much and freely to painefull and laborious men You loue I confesse our preaching and will countenance it with your presence purses but giue mee leaue I beseech you to tell that there be in this City who like not of vs because though wee preach yet wee can worke no Miracles How is that Because in plaine English wee cannot liue now as our Predecessors did an hundred yeeres agoe of twenty or thirty pounds a yeere which to doe in my iudgement were no lesse then a Miracle And these men can thinke it fit to raise the fee of euery the meanest officer and to tye the Minister to his old stint as if his calling were not worth the vpholding Others there he who are so far from giuing any thing that is their owne that they withhold what is the Ministers owne Lastly some who had rather giue it to any then their owne Pastor I would there were more discretion on euery side I would not haue it spoken of this City as it was spoken of Sylla b Plut. in Sylla Multa eripiebat donabat plura He iniuriously wrested many things from the right owners and gaue away prodigally much vnto others insomuch as it was a great question Naturá ne contemptor hominum an adulator fuerit Whether naturally he were more a scorner or flatterer of mē It would much impeach the wisedome of this City to bee in this various humour to offer iniury to one and shew courtesie to another I speake not in mine owne behalfe I thanke God it is a part of my happinesse that my lot hath falne in such a place as hitherto hath afforded mee loue and courtesie not neglect and vnkindnesse and I wish it had beene so with others also But one thing I beseech you giue mee leaue to informe you in I am bound to wish well to the Church in generall but specially in this City where I am like to liue for ought I know and to spend my dayes I would not conceale any thing which might doe good Miser est Imperator apud quem vera reticentur as he said That Prince that State is in an euill case from whom the truth is concealed c Iul. Capit. Gard. 3. You haue here in this City many that feede vpon your bounty who haue Liuings yea charge of soules of their owne abroade in the Countrey Do you thinke you doe well to giue entertainment to these men When you take the next course to pull downe Religion and to make their people forsake God as they haue forsaken their people Will you maintaine a man in the neglect of his owne charge Can it be honesty for any mans wife to loue another womans husband Shall that bee accounted lawfull among vs which Scriptures Councels Fathers Canons Papists Brownists and all the world condemnes O bee aduised in your charity Spoyle not so excellent a worke in the manner of doing There are ynow will attend you as sufficient as these Thinke hereon I beseech you and the Lord giue you vnderstanding in all things The third way whereby men forsake God is By vnthankfulnesse For that vice denies God and withdrawes mans heart from the Lord Peremptoriares est ingratitudo hostis gratiae inimica salutis saith Bern. Bern. ser 3. de sept pan d Ingratitude is a killing sinne an enemy to grace a foe to saluation Yea it is a parching a nipping wind drying vp the fountaine of mercy compassion It vtterly separates God and man asunder for by it wee runne from him as the Prodigall from his father and he departs from vs as the life from the dying limbes It were a shame that wee should be charged with this sinne who of all people should bee farthest from it And yet we must confesse we haue ill requited the Lord for his mercies It is not long since it pleased him to open the windowes of Heauen and to send vs abundance of Corne which when it should haue moued thankefulnes it procured murmuring and complayning on all sides Since wee see how the Lord hath withdrawne his hand chastened vs with penurie as appeares among many other sensible arguments by the infinite number of Poore swarming in the streets for whom had not some good order beene taken by the Lord Maior and the graue Senators of the Citie men should not haue quietly passed one by another So wee haue long enioyed a happy Peace which is indeede the greatest mercy that Heauen can communicate to earth And yet may we

S. Peter 1. Pet. 2.18 bids seruants obey their Masters though they be froward much more if they be milde How then should we be pliant to this great Lord considering he is euer mercifull and kinde or as it is in my text Nobiscum euer with vs to helpe and succour vs And this is the second thing in this Promise the manner how he defends vs viz. by being with vs. Is with you It is true that God is with all men and that in all places and at all times but he is especially with his Children and seruants and euer for some good for some singular comfort For as in beauen our happinesse is to be with him so on earth our welfare is that he is with vs. And God is with vs in two respects 1. For our spirituall 2. for our temporall estates For our spiritual estates St. August ſ Aug. de verb. Apost serm 16. obserues God is with 〈◊〉 4. waies 1 he is with vs vt praedestineret nos for our predestination to life 2 He is with vs vt vocaret nos at and in our vocation on to grace 3. He is with vs vt iustificaret nos at and for our iustification from sinne 4. He is with vs vt glorificaret nos for our glorification in heauen He predestinated vs before we were our selues he called vs when we were departed from our selues he iustified vs when wee were sinfull he glorified vs when we were mortall More he could not adde to raise vs to royall happines lesse he could not doe to preserue vs from reall misery Vpon this Paul shouts in a triumph Rom. 8.31 If God be with vs who can ●e against vs or if against vs how can he ouercome vs Man he is an inferiour enemy cannot bring vs to death for God hath predestinated vs to life The world that is an exteriour enemy cannot allure vs from God for God hath called vs to himselfe The flesh that is an interiour enemy cannot driue vs to sinne for God hath iustified vs by Christ The Diuell he is a superior enemy cannot damne vs in hell for God hath glorified vs in heauen Nemo nos laedit nisi qui Deum vincit saith Ansel t Ans in Rom. 8.31 we are in good case our soules are safe no man can hurt vs but he which can ouercome euen God himselfe Secondly for our temporall estates God is with vs there too and that either to defend vs in time of aduersity as God was with Ioseph in the prison Gen. 39.21 or to aduance vs in time of prosperity as God was with Dauid in Sauls Court 1. Sam. 16.18 or generally to prosper with happy successe all our actions and to incline vnto vs all mens affections as God was with Iohn Baptist Luk. 1.66 Take it how you will euery one of these waies God was with King Asa as Azariah heretels him First ●●d was with him to prosper his handy worke for hee built fenced Cities in Iuda and the land had rest and peace 2 Chron. 14.6 Secondly he not onely defended him against an inuincible army such as I thinke was neuer heard of in the world before an hoast of a thousand thousand men but aduanced him inriched him with their spoyles whilest he sacked and ransacked their glorious tents and carried away innumerable spoiles into his owne Country Thus the Lord was with him and be prospered accordingly Would any man be happy in his labour Let him goe to worke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 As Peter laboured all night and caught nothing because Christ was not with him Luk. 5.5 so many sweat and toyle and striue in the sea of this world and catch nothing because God is not with them If God be with thee euery thing shall goe well with thee yea if God be with thee it matters not what nor where thou be wert thou with Samson enuironed with an army of Philistines if the Lord be with thee thou shalt destroy thē all Wert thou with the three children in an hot fierie furnace if the Lord bee with thee thou shalt come out vnsinged Wert thou with Ionas in the Whales belly if the Lord bee with thee thou shalt be cast safe on the land againe Wert thou with Daniel in the Lyons den if the Lord be with thee thou shalt not be touched Wert thou with Paul and Barnabas in chaines in the darke dungeon if the Lord be with thee thou shalt be set at liberty Wert thou with Iohn in the Caldron of scalding oyle if God be with thee thou shalt come out vnhurt What will not Gods presence doe for vs To what will it not aduance vs Esther was raysed from a captiue to a Queene for God was with her Est 5.2 Dauid promoted a pedo ad sceptrum from the sheephooke to the Scepter for God was with him Psal 78.71 Ioseph set vp from a prisoner at the bar to a Magistrate on the bench for God was with him Gen. 41.43 Elizeus changed ab ar atore in orator om from a Plowman to a Preacher for God was with him 1. King 19.20 The Apostles were made ex piscatoribus Episcopi of fishermen fishers of men for God was with them Mat. 4.19 Finally as Philosophy told Seneca u Senec. Epist 41. Bonus vir fine Deo nemo est No man can be good without God So Christianity tels vs Beatus vir sine Deo nemo est No man can be prosperous without God And therefore let this Dominus nobiscum be our Panchrestum a medicine for all maladies when wee come to preach let Dominus nobiscum take vp the text when you come to heare let Dominus vobiscum prepare your attention whē you go forth let Dominus vobiscū be your vadè meoum and inseparable associate when you part with your friends and seruants to sea say Dominus vobiscum for a Pilot to waft them To conclude as St. Augustine x Aug. ad Valer. Epist 77. said of his Deo gratius Thankes be to God so I of my Dominus vobiscum The Lord be with you Hoc nec dici breuius nec audiri laetius nec intelligi grandius nec agi fructuosius potest This thing is such that nothing can bee said more briefly nothing heard more gladly nothing vnderstood more largely nothing done more fruitfully O but say some how shall I gaine him how shall I bee made partaker of this rich treasure My text tells you in the next words Dominus vobiscum si fueritis cum eo The Lord is with you if you be with him and that is the second member of this first part If you be with him If we be with him Why how can that bee God is in heauen we on the earth Eceles 5.2 How can earth flie vp into heauen to be with God True therefore God comes down from heauen to dwel with earth Psal 113.6 though his dwelling be in heauen yet hee humbleth himselfe to behold the things in heauen and in