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A72913	Three godly and fruitfull sermons declaring first how we may be saved in the day of iudgement, and so come to life everlasting: secondly, how we ought to liue according to Gods will during our life: which are the two things that every one ought to be most carefull of as long as they liue. Preached and written by the reverend & godly learned M. Iohn More, late preacher in the citie of Norwitch. And now first published by M. Nicholas Bovvnd: whereunto he hath adioyned of his owne, A sermon of comfort for the afflicted: and, A short treatise of a contented mind.	More, John, d. 1592.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. aut	1594 (1594)	STC 18074.5; ESTC S125128	118,386	153

burning fire then what hast thou gained by such presuming vpon Gods mercie and hardning of thy selfe in thy sinne against God when thy pleasure is turned into paine and thy securitie and ease into continuall torment Alas good brethrē that we should be so blinded with the subtilties of Satā for the gaine of a small earthly trifle to cast away soule and bodie eternally VVhat can it profit vs to winne the whole world and loose our owne soule and this we doe so long as giuing care to the vaine allurement of Satan we continue in our sinne deferring the time of our repentance till afterwards thinking that the Lord will not come so soone you see then the lacke of practising this doctrine that is here taught vnto vs is the cause that at this day men are so hardned in their sinne and boldly goe on forward to eternall destruction Men doe imagine with them selues that although they must one day appeare before the throne of God yet it will not be so soone and thereupon they neuer thinke of that matter but deuise all wickednes in their braines to fill their purses feede the paunches deceiue their neighbours and generally all other spite and villanie against God and man and all because they thinke themselues in sure case that the day of repentance is not so neere but that they may amend all this geare in time but it is not so they are deceiued The Scripture telleth vs it will come sooner then we thinke therefore amend betimes least we perish all And it is a maruelous matter to see howe wonderfully the aduersarie hath preuailed in this for whereas God would haue vs alwaies in readines because the time 〈◊〉 vncertaine the cleane contrarie is settled in our hearts namely to take our libertie in sinning because the time is a farre off as we dreame and this perswasion is so deepely settled in our breast that if men be admonished to take heede of their dealings for a day will come when all things shalbe righted then they thinke straightway they haue a great long scope giuen them to range in for they take it as a principle most surely rooted in their hearts that that day is a far off If they be threatned with the comming of Christ to iudgement you shall see them make of the matter no more but a scoffe and a mocke oh syr if ye giue me so long a day nay then I shall doe well ynough and here they can fall to gybing and make themselues merrie with the talke of the welchman who hauing robbed a man of his budget and beeing threatned that he should answer for it at the day of iudgement made answer that if he might haue so long a day he would haue the cloake too and thus miserable caytiffs they thinke they haue notably preuailed when thus they haue scoffed out the matter but alas pore soules it is no more then a laughter from the teeth forward for when they haue put from them the day of the Lord as farre as can be and that God for a time let thē play vpon the hooke yet alas there is a thing within their brest that sometimes will sting them to the heart in spite of their teeth but yet here-withall you see how common this is amongst men that the day of the Lord is a farre off for when we can so readily giue such answers as this If ye giue me so long a day c. surely we bewray our owne heartes vnawares that wee are perswaded in our breasts that it is long to that day And the same opinion haue we in like maner of the day of our death there is scarcely found amongst vs any so old but he wil thinke he might liue one yere longer or at least one moneth or one day so farre he is off from thinking on his death if we be young oh then we thinke our selues as sure from dying as God had sealed vs his letters patents for our life till old age and hereupon it commeth that in our lustie youth as they tearme it we neuer thinke to make our selues readie to God-ward nay so farre are we from all 〈◊〉 of God that vnlesse we play the wilde coltes in all licentiousnesse and sinne we thinke we haue not well spent our youth according to the course of nature and into such beastlines we are gone that we haue framed an heathenish nay worse then heathenish rather a deuilish prouerbe A young saint an old deuill as if so be we should beginne to be holy in our yong age it were the next way to make vs diuels when we are old and as though it were the best way to be a diuell in thy yong age that thou mightest be made a good holy man in thy old age But I pray thee what if thy God call thee while thou art a young deuill what shall become of thee in thine old age if the Lord cut thy yeares short and make an ende of thy life while thou art playing the yong lustie deuil I warrant thee thou shalt neuer come to be neither old saint nor young saint This I speake good brethren with griefe of heart to see into what miserable blindnes we are tumbled that the thing which God hath hid from vs so secret to himselfe the day of his comming and the day of our death as though we were of Gods counsell we will be so cunning in it as if he had not onely reuealed it vnto vs but also had sealed vnto vs the assurance of it And all this we doe that we may more boldly sinne without controlment thinking when we are old we will then beginne to frame our selues to godlines but alas good brethren we deceiue our selues it is not so we haue no assurance of our life we can not tell when it shall please our God to call vs at midnight noonetide or cockerovve wee are not certen one minute of an houre to liue and therefore let vs not driue off from day to day and thinke he will amende least he come vpon vs vnwares and finde vs vnprepared Take heede good brethren that we doe not flatter our selues to thinke I am but yong I trust I shall not die so soone I will take the pleasures of my youth a while and when I beginne to be old I will then wholly applie my selfe to Gods will or thus although I be some what aged yet I trust I shall not goe so soone I thanke God I feele my selfe strong and lustie I can eate my meate well and I will not yet settle my selfe to be readie when God calleth me I may continue yet a little while in my craft and subtiltie til I haue got but such a piece of ground or so much money to lie by me and then I will amend when I shall begin to be sicke then I will settle my selfe wholly to God-warde Let vs take heede good brethren of these blasts and temptations of Satan that we be not deceiued doe we

THREE GODLY AND FRVITFVLL SERMONS DECLARING FIRST HOW WE MAY BE SAVED in the day of iudgement and so come to life everlasting secondly how we ought to liue according to Gods will during our life which are the two things that every one ought to he most carefull of as long as they liue * ⁎ * Preached and written by the reverend godly learned M. IOHN MORE late Preacher in the Citie of Norwitch And now first published by M. NICHOLAS BOVVNDE whereunto he hath adioyned of his owne A Sermon of comfort for the afflicted and A short treatise of a contented mind 1. Thessal 5. 21. Try all things and keepe that which is good Seene and allowed Printed by Iohn Legatt Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1594. And are to be solde at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard in London TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND SVCH AS FEARE GOD THE Knights and Esquires Iustices for the preseruation of her Maiesties peace in the Countie of Norffolke and to euery one of them Grace mercie and peace from God the Father and from Iesus Christ our Lorde WHereas among the many hundred Sermons or rather certaine thousandes preached by this graue and learned father by the space of more then twentie yeares in which hee was licensed thereunto by the Vniversitie of Cambridge he left no such notes at large whereby the principall heades or chiefe matter of any of them almost might be well collected for the better vnderstanding of others sauing onely of these which he wrote out worde for worde as you haue them It seemed vnto me that his meaning and purpose was thereby to commende the most necessarie doctrine in them cōtained to as many as he mought and that it should not be proper to them onely to whome it was first vttered but stretch out it selfe further neither that the fruit of it should perish with the sound thereof but remaine afterwards yea liue when himselfe should be dead Which moued me thus to publish them that so they might more speedily be caried farre and nere and more easily be in the hands and eyes of all them to whome they were meant And as they intreat of that matter principally which was most common in all his preachings as being most necessary namely how we may be saued in death and how we ought to lead our life which can neuer be too much preached of or too often heard of any and therefore if he had still liued he would still haue preached of this so nowe because he is fallen asleepe in the Lord and can speake no more vnto vs and these points are but shortly set downe of him in the beginning of his Catechisme which yet with great fruite these many yeares hath beene often printed this larger discourse of his might be in steade of a continuall preaching vnto all those that are desirous still to be confirmed in them In which besides the matter whole and intire without any alteration you haue his owne very wordes also as they were penned by himselfe that so by the graue simplicitie or simple grauitie appearing in them all that were acquainted with his preaching might thereby as it were by the colour lineaments of it easily discerne that it is altogether his owne doing in deede especially so many as then hearde him might therby as it were by his footing trase out the author himselfe Seeing then vpon this occasion these sermons come abroad I thought it expedient or rather necessarie to commend them to your Worships godly consideration Christian protection because that being first preached in a Right worshipfull assembly and meeting of yours helde at Ocle for the quarter Sessions then and afterwards the Lord so effectually blessing him and mouing some of you with his holy spirit beeing written at the earnest request as it seemeth of your Worships him selfe in his life time dedicated them after a sort vnto you so that I could not now after his death haue alienated them from you vnlesse I would of purpose haue violated the will and made frustrate the good intent of the deade which yet if I had inconsiderately done your Worships might haue chalenged them and recouered them into your handes Hoping therefore that your Worships will fauourably interpret my boldnes who beeing vnknowne euen in the face vnto the greatest part yea almost all of you haue presumed thus farre seeing that therein I haue not so much disorderly intruded any thing vpō you against your wils as dutifully tēdered deliuered vp vnto you your own as herafter you may for my credit herein heare in this treatise the author him selfe speaking vnto you by name I humbly beseech you to receiue it as your own I count it altogether needlesse to write in the commendations of it neither are my praises any thing if they were needfull the name of the preacher and writer of them commends them sufficiently especially vnto so many of you as knew his great learning both in all the liberall arts and almost all languages and also in other studies meete for so great a Divine with his great godlines and continuall graue cariage of himselfe in the whole course of his life which worthily did purchase him great reuerence amongst all besides his feruent zeale for the house of God which at the last did eat him vp his endlesse paines in preaching the Gospell in season and out of season sometimes almost euery day in the weeke for the space of certain yeres and euery Lords day three or fowre times and when he did least so often as ordinarily the strength of man will permit as many of your Worships are credible and eie-witnesses of it besides many hundreds more By all which it may seeme he vntimely shortned his daies yet seeing the ende of our life is to doe good and he by making hast did in so short a time as much good as if by sparing him selfe he had drawne out the same in length if he could possibly so haue liued an hundred or two hundred yeares what cause had he in his death thereof to repent or we now in that behalfe to be sorie for him But I will keepe your Worships no longer from him you shall heare him selfe speaking vnto you or rather the Lord by him vnto whose gratious blessing for the fruit of this and all other his good ordinances towards vs for our direction in this life and saluation in the life to come commending all your Worships I humbly take my leaue praying you to thinke on these things which ye haue both learned and receiued and heard and seene in him those things doe and the God of peace shalbe with you Norton in Suffolke 26 August 1594. Your Worships in all Christian duties for the Lords sake Nicholas Bownde THE FIRST Sermon 2. Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ that euery one may receiue the things which are done in his bodie according to that he hath done

not see both daily and hourely how that the Lord calleth as wel the young as the old and what patent haue we of our life that we are not in the number Doe we not see that God calleth men euen suddainly when they are in as good health as can be yea euen when they are eating their meate at dinner euen supping an egge is the last breath that euer they draw wherefore doth the Lord this but onely to let vs vnderstand and see before our eyes how soone our life is gone that so we might alwaies be in readines we see these things continually and yet alas howe smally we profit by them wherefore we see it needefull and a thousand times more then needefull to haue this soundly imprinted in our heart and the remembrance of it continually before our eyes that we must hence we can not tell when that our heathenish eares and Epicures pleasures may be cut off by the continuall meditation of the same otherwise vndoubtedly good brethren when we thinke our selues most at ease we shal vnderstand the sentence here that Christ Iesus spake That we shalbe taken in an houre when we least thinke That rich Epicure that wallowed and tumbled in his wealth little thinking vpon his death but soked in his sinnefull pleasures sitteth at his ease debating with himselfe howe he may make his life most easie and at length concludeth with himselfe such a way as he thinketh to liue most pleasantly and easily for many yeares he will pull downe forsooth his old barnes and build him greater that shalbe able to receiue all his grayne and then like a iolly carnall swine he will say to his soule Oh soule eate and drinke and make lustie good cheare for thou hast ynough laid vp for many yeare here is nothing with him but cherishing the belly and pampering the bodie as though God had put life into him and set him in this world for none other end but like a bruit beast to crāme vp his bellie to the corge and feede him selfe fat against the 〈◊〉 of slaughter this miserable caytiffe hath forgot himselfe that he must die there is no remembrance of death but as though he must liue euer but when the carnall belly-god in his chiefest ruffe and as he thinketh in his greatest felicitie his cheare was cleane changed in a moment he heard a voice that daunted his courage it was said vnto him in the selfe same houre Thou foole this night shall thy soule shall be taken from thee this night thou must needs die and what shalt thou then be better for all this false conceiued ioy in thy pleasures and riches when thou must not inioy them one minute of an houre I am afraid good brethren it is too liuely and too true a description of vs Englishmen which haue neuer done with feeding the belly and cloathing the backe as though we should liue here euer I am afraid too many of vs haue vtterly vanished out of our remembrance the day of our death or els haue put it a farre off as though it would not come of a long time I am afraide too many of vs say in our hearts with this worldly wretch Oh if such a thing and such a thing were brought to passe I would say to my soule take euen thy full pleasure eate and drinke thy belly full make merry take euen thy hearts desire Alas good brethren let vs take heede vnto our selues what shall it auaile vs when God shall suddenly take vs from all our pleasures in a moment and throw our soules into euerlasting torment The cause of this loosenes amongst vs is because we doe not practise that doctrine that is taught vs out of this sentence namely that the day of our departure is vncertaine euen oftentimes when we least thinke wherefore I desire you in the feare of God for the loue we beare vnto our owne soules that we make our profit of this sentence better then we haue done heretofore let vs apply it vnto our selues and call our selues to an account euery one of vs enter into his own heart and thus say VVhat wickednes doe I know by my selfe Am I a thief a murtherer a couetous person is all this hid from man yea But alas God doth see it and hath appointed a iudgement to punish it therfore I will no more continue in it I will now repent while I haue time I will not dāme mine own soule for once I must appeare before the iudgemēt seat of God And if the deuill would goe about to suggest into thine heart that it wilbe long before the day come and that that thou hast yet a long time to liue and therefore thou maist a while continue in thy sinne answer him with Iesus Christs words that then I shall haue my part with the wicked seruant in the continuall burning lake that the time is not knowne to any creature it is vncerten it will be sudden when we least think therfore defer not to be alwaies in a readines if he will reply and say it is not like to be so soone for that all things are well and there appeares no tokens of sicknes much lesse of death answer him againe that euen therefore I ought more to suspect the day to be neare because it shall be at such a time as men shall thinke all thinges well and quiet euen then shall it come and take men vnprepared Let vs good brethren in this manner applie this doctrine to our selues that we may profit by it in newnesse of life let vs not deferre the time till to morrow the Lord God knoweth where we shall be to morrow we are al of vs here now God be thāked but the Lord knoweth whether we shall euer come togither againe or not the Lord may take vs before we goe out of the Church-doore so vncerten are we of our life wherefore let vs for Gods sake deferre the time no longer but euery one of vs now beginne to amend and lie no longer in our sinne but turne to the Lord by true repentance knowing that our time is vncerten thus doing we shall finde the Lord our God mercifull vnto vs he will increase in vs his graces and gifts of his holy spirite that we may grow on forward from faith to faith in sanctification and newnesse of life till it shall please his goodnes to call vs in his good time to euerlasting rest Thus we haue heard good brethren what we haue to learne out of this sentence it remaineth that we knowing it put it in practise and that we doe not thinke it sufficient to come hither to sit here and to lend our eares to the preaching to giue it the hearing and haue yet notwithstāding no purpose of amēding but rather some hard heart still to continue in our sinne as we we came for assuredly if we doe so the eternall God wil neuer suffer vnreuenged such horrible contempt of his blessed word it

before he told them he was going from them These words were vttered then by our Sauiour Christ when he was going to his death as a thing specially to be marked of vs which he knew to be most needefull for vs and therefore of vs more to be considered and marked yea and neuer to be forgotten but alwaies deepely imprinted in our minde You know those things that are spoken of men lying vpon their death bedde vse to pearse much that commonly the words be neuer forgotten but still almost as fresh in memorie as when they were newe spoken those words which be spoken by a louing father vpon his death bed vnto his childe take great effect in a good childe if a tender father at the point of death doth call his sonne vnto him and vttereth these or such like words Oh sonne thou seeest in what case I am I am euen now readie to goe from thee these be the last words that I shall speake vnto thee remember them well thou shalt neuer heare me more speake I must goe from thee yet for a remembrance that thou maist thinke vpon me when I am gone I will giue thee one lesson from my mouth while I liue that thou maist remember me when I am dead as long as thou liuest I charge thee therefore as thou louest me doe this or that c. thou knowest I haue had many troublesome daies for thee much cost and paines I bestowed vpon thee nowe I must goe from thee thinke vpon this that I charge thee euen as thou louest me if a tender hearted father giue this or such charge vnto his sonne vpon his death bed will it not make the heart of any naturall childe to bleede in his bodie to heare such tender wordes of his louing father alas those louing wordes neuer be forgotten of any naturall childe and good sonne vnlesse he be an vnthrift and past all grace which careth neither for father nor friend liuing nor deade Euen so in like manner will these words of our Sauiour Christ spoken at his death pearce the hearts of any of the children of God vnlesse they be bastards and no sonnes we can not if we loue the Lord Iesus but remember this his last lesson which he giueth vs for his farewell And I am sure vnto the children of God it pearceth a thousand times more their tender hearts to heare them so louingly taught of their louing Lord then any other rough manner of dealing because they be children and not slaues and therefore serue of loue and not of slauish feare although it be sometime needefull for the best of them to feele of the louing correction of their louing father for the taming of their wilde flesh But because in the house of God all be not children which haue the outward coūtenance of children but there be a great companie of dissembling hypocrites which take the libertie of the Gospell to liue after the flesh doe nothing but only make a mock of all louing kind of dealing laugh in their sleeues when they heare any such exhortations because they wil not be taught by faire meanes and as ye would say by maner of intreatie therfore the Lord Iesus for their cause especially dealeth after an other sort here in this sentence and calleth this same his admonition to loue not onely a friendly exhortation as by way of request but also a commandement Not onely a matter of intreatie forsooth to doe or not to doe as best liketh vs but a speciall commaundement to be done whether we will or no whether we like it or not like it vnlesse we will abide the penaltie of disobedience And herein then he dealeth with us not only as a louing friend to exhort but also as a prince of authoritie to command that if we should violently cast off from vs all kinde of friendly admonitions here and thinke we haue escaped wel because we haue broken in sunder all the fast bonds of louing exhortations we should yet vnderstand he is our Prince that hath his iudgement seat to arrayne vs there to answer the breach of his blessed commandement and that we should not thinke or say Oh I will indeede loue my brethren but it shalbe at leisure when I see my time and when I thinke best but rather thinke because it is commanded vs we must doe it whether we will or no not at our pleasure but at the pleasure of the commander vnlesse we wilbe guiltie of his curse in his iudgement seat So then ye see what we haue to marke in this where the Lord Iesus doth not onely exhort but commaund vs to loue one an other that is that we not only haue a cold affectiō thereunto but that we be liuely touched with the authoritie of the commander setting before our eyes his princely iudgemēt seat where he will bring in triall all stubborne breaches of his blessed commandements although they be neuer so smoothly passed ouer in this life Ye see then this hath or at least vvise ought to haue a vvonderfull vvaightie force vvith it vvhere the Lord Iesus falleth a commanding and therefore ought of vs deepely to be considered and not coldly for fashion imbraced because it is the Lord Iesus that not onely vvilleth but commaundeth it But alas it is a vvonderfull thing to see the authoritie of the Lord Iesus so smally regarded among vs if once the vvill of a prince be but knovvne it is a vvonder to see hovv readie vve are to frame our selues thereunto but if he fall a commanding vvho doe not then tremble at his displeasure But the Lord Iesus may intreat pray and beseech nay straightly charge and command and for all that not regarded of a straw It declareth certenly good brethren that there is no feare of God among vs but onely a certaine worldly feare of man and yet the one killeth the bodie alone the other throweth both soule and bodie into hell fire eternall Oh good brethren let vs not deceiue our selues it is the Lord Iesus that commaundeth vs let vs obey he chargeth vs to loue one an other let it be done not onely said but done done done Let vs earnestly repent that we haue beene so slacke in doing this commandement for our Sauiour hetherto that we haue done nothing but onely make a mocke of it oh it is his mercie that hath saued vs hetherto and hath not throwne vs downe to hell as we haue deserued but in mercie hath kept vs till this day let vs nowe from henceforth thinke earnestly vpon this commandement of our Lord Iesus Christ and now begin to practise it that there may be loue among vs and not such brabbling brawling and contention as we see daily and is too lamentable but like to good schollers in the schoole of the Lord Iesus let vs haue loue and peace among vs and surely then he will dwell among vs and protect vs for euer Nowe it is said in the text that this commaundement