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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10232	The communicants duty set forth in eight sermons / preached at Kings-Lynne in Norfolke by Thomas Purchas ...	Purchas, Thomas.	1639 (1639)	STC 20509.3; ESTC S1282	68,428	342

and having begunne in the spirit should end in the flesh Fourthly That his desire The godly d●sire the continuance of meanes is that hee may continue under the meanes of grace One thing saith David have I desired of the Lord that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life b Psal 27. 9. This is the godly mans care that he may keepe judgment and doe righteousnesse at all times c Psal 106 3. That he may feare alwayes Now let us examine our Knowledge concerning the motives to obedience and here it concernes all men to know that God is constant in love unto us The first Motive That God is constant in his love to us he hath loved God constant in his Love us and he doth love us and he will love us he will never give over Motive the second The wicked man continueth The wicked constant in sinne in sinne nothing will make them forsake it the mercie of God will not allure them nor the judgements of God terrifie them but for all that is done this they will doe even breake the lawes of God and his just commandements behinde their backes Motive the third All Creatures serve and obey him there is no Creature All Creatures obey God that God made but in his Kinde yeilds some delight and content unto God that made them he rejoyceth saith the Psalmist in all the Workes of his hands d Psa 104. 31. And is it not a shame that man whom hee made above all to take pleasure and delight in that man should not obey him Motive the fourth God is a royall pay-master God a royall pay-master in keeping the commandements of God there is great reward in our fathers house there is bread enough the wicked they shall have nothing but husks his children shall have bread I bread enough God is alwayes paying his children wages and never thinks they have wages enough he it is that gladeth us dayly with his benefits e Psa 68. 19. God to us hath given his Sonne and with him all things his Face was buffeted his Cheeks nipped his Eyes blinded his Hands nailed his Side lanched with a Speare he was as water powred out all his Bones were out of joynt his Heart like wax molten within the middest of his Bowells his strength was dryed up like a potsheard his tongue did cleave to his Jawes and he was brought unto the dust of death f Psal 22. 14 15. Non ergo caput faciem oculos manus cor illi trademus ut illi serviamus must wee not therefore give him Head Hands Eyes Face and Heart to serve him wee must not give our Members Weapons of unrighteousnesse to sinne what then wee must give our selves to God and our Members of righteousnesse to serve God Thus much for the fourth thing every receaver must examine namely Obedience Now come wee to the fift and that is Love Our love towards God and reconciliation of our selves towards our neighbours for in vaine shall wee pretend Knowledge boast of Faith glory of Love to God must be examined Repentance if we faile in our love First wee must examine this Our love to God for if any man love him not let him bee Anathema Maranatha g 1 Cor. 16. 22. Every receiver must know First that God hath commanded God commands love this that we may know whether wee doe love him and might keepe our selves in his love i Deut. 6 5 Deut. 11 12. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God saith hee and againe what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to feare him and love him this by our Lord and Saviour is called the great Commandement the commander is great the object is great the use of the duty is great and their reward is great that care to doe it Secondly God doth love us and it is a matter of equity that wee Matter of equity to love should requite love with love againe for though we cannot love him as we ought and as hee loveth us yet must wee love for ours is an ascending his a descending love and love descending is more is more naturall more fervent and vehement then love ascending as wee see in Parents who love their children better then their children love them besides God loved us when wee were his enemies i Eph. 2. durus est animus qui si dilectionem nolebat impendere nolet rependere S. Augu. S. Augu. his heart is Oake not flesh but Flint that though hee will not beginne to love yet finding Love will shew no love Thirdly examine wee Loves commodity must because of the commodity for if this bee in us then First our Faith produceth those good duties which we owe unto God for Faith is as one hand receiving Love as the other giving for Faith worketh by Love k Gal. 6. 6. Nec faciunt bonos vel malos mores nisi boni vel mali amores such as our love is such is our life an holy love an holy life an earthly love an earthly life if a mans love be set on God his life must needs be good and though this bee certaine that a man is justified by Faith l Rom. 3. yet this is as certaine that the life of a man is justified by love Secondly having this love wee may know in what estate wee are in Saint Augustine saith Duas S. Augu. civitates duo faciunt amores Hierusalem facit amor dei Babyloniam amor seculi interroget ergo se quisque quid amat inveniet unde sit civis Two loves make two Cities the love of God maketh Hierusalem the love of the World Babylon therefore let but every man examine what hee loves and hee shall see in what estate hee is and to what City hee belongs As a man by looking upon a Diall may know the motion of the Sunne in Heaven so by looking upon the thing hee loveth he may know in what hee standeth whether hee belong to Babylon or Jerusalem to Heaven or Hell to God or the Divell Thirdly The love of Love ingenders love the godly will bee ingendred in us Fourthly This love is Love as strong as death as strong as death for as death doth kill the body so our love to God doth mortify our love to the World and dispels rancor wrath malice and as the rising of the Sunne doth chase away the darknesse of the night so the love of God drives away the inordinate love of Worldly vanities Now it is not sufficient to know that God must be loved but wee must also know how God is to be loved This our Saviour sheweth m Matt. 22 37. How God is to be loved Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy minde First wee must love him God must be loved with all the heart with all

freely and not of necessity First Our knowledge The World had a beginning to be examined is concerning the beginning of the World Sure it is That the World had a beginning There was a time when the World was not it was not etereall n Gen. 1. 1. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth If it had a beginning then it could not be from eternity it is the saying of the Apostle that hee chose us in him before the foundation of the World o Eph. 1. 4. Thus knowledge will bring us to another and that is that the World shall have an end The Heavens shall passe away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth and the Workes that are therein shall be burnt up all these things shall be dissolved p Pet. 2 3. 10 11. And this confirmes the former for quicquid finem habet id etiam aliquo tempore initium habuisse constat whatsoever hath an end that also sometime had a beginning The second thing to bee examined is whether wee know that the VVorld and all things therein was made by God made the World God God made the World q 1 Gen. 1. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth God made the World and all things that are therein r Act. 17. 24 By him were all things created which are in Heaven and which are in Earth ſ Col. 1. 16 Now this brings us to to the knowledge of many things First That all things All things had one principle had one principle one cause the Lord. To have two eternall positive beings two principles a good and a bad the good to make light the bad darknesse the good health the bad sicknesse this is absured The Scripture tels us it is GOD that made the World and all things therein and this must bee known that although GOD made the World yet God made not the evill that are in the World he that planteth a Tree planteth not a Worme in the Tree but there it breedeth God created the World there was no death no sicknesse these came by the sinnes of men and Angels He that made man Ab Angelo usque ad vermiculum S. Aug. made him after his owne Image but man hath sought out many inventions t Eccl. 7 31. Further God made all things that hath positive beings sinne hath not beeing the absence of that good that should be in the soule Secondly That God God onely can Create onely can create It is beyond the power of any Creature it is a worke of an infinite power to bring light out of darkenesse man out of the dust and who can do this but the Lord Thirdly This will Creation must bee considered cause us to spend some time in consideration of the Creatures who have such a Maker for the eternall power and invisible things of God are seene by the Creation of the World u Rom. 1. 20. Fourthly This will stirre us up to praise the Lord as David I will praise the Lord for I am wonderfully and fearefully made w Psal 139 14. The next thing to be known is that all were made of nothing They were not made of things which did appeare x Heb. 11. 3. All things were made of nothing know wee must that God made them of nothing no matter praeexistent creation hath nothing for its matter in this it differs from naturall generation which cannot bring a thing out of nothing Now this will teach us First To admire the power and goodnesse of God who is able to draw such an excellent frame out of nothing Secondly To trust unto him hee can worke without meanes hee can doe whatsoever he will The next thing is that All were made by his Word all these were made by his Word onely Hee spake and it was created hee said let it be and it was y Psal 33. 6. By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made and all the hoste of them by the breath of his mouth In the fift place we must All things were made good know that all things in their Creation were made good God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good a Gen. 31. By this we are brought First To consider of the misery that sinne hath brought upon the Worke of God especially upon man all things were made valde bona but what hath sinne donne Secondly To know that the Creatures that are now hurtfull unto man were not so by Creation but by the fall of man Thirdly That whatsoever befalls us wee must call to rememberance our sinnes The sixt principle to be examined God made all things freely is Gods making of all things freely not out of necessity b Psa 115. 3. I all things were made successively and not in a moment In sixe dayes the Lord made Heaven and earth c Ex. 20. 11. All things were not made at once but one after another This knowledge will bring us to the consideration of First The glorious attribute of God his Wisdome in the Creation God began with things that were least perfect as Elements light beasts Secondly This will teach us to proceed from that that is good unto better till we come to be perfect men in Christ Thirdly That God did not create any thing that was needfull for others before he had made things to sustaine them before man all things for man Forthly If God did thus for us before wee were before wee had a beeing that hee will not now forsake us being made he will now have a speciall care of us Thus much for the knowledge of Gods first Worke the Worke of Creation The second is concerning the providence of God and here our knowledge to bee examined is concerning First Gods knowing and noting of all things Secondly God upholding and governing them Thirdly Gods providence reaching to all of them Fourthly Gods speciall care and respect of man Fiftly That the good or evill that befalls man is not without the providence of the God of man First our knowledge to bee God knows and takes notice of all things examined is concerning Gods knowing and noting of all things That God that made all things still knowes and takes notice of all things that hee made the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evill and the good d Prov. 15 3. Neyther is there any Creature which is not manifest in his sight all things are naked and open unto his eyes with whom we have to do e Heb. 4 13. The second thing to be examined God upholds govern● and disposes of the world is Gods upholding and governing of all things This must be knowne that God upholds governes and disposes of the World so as all things in the World continue through him They continue even unto this day by thine