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A19091	A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 55; ESTC S100549	22,610	74

to him by whom he is continually thwarted and prouoked Doth not euerie of you make choice of such cōpany as wherewith he may liue at quietnes and peace How can you then expect to haue me to walke with you when as there is no cōcord or agreement betwixt you and me I call one way you turne wilfully another way I command one thing and you do the contrary You prouoke me with your iniquities from day to day Therfore be ye wel assured that your cōpany is not for me neither wil I haue any society or felowship with you 2 The terme of walking as it is referred to God betokeneth his gratious healthfull presence as it is applied to men it signifieth the conuersation and life of mā To make vse thē of the words wee may here obserue first the life of man compared to a walke Secondly wee are to note wherein standeth the commoditie conueniencie of this walke and that is to walke together in societie and company Thirdly what is the means to hold vs together which is concord and agreement Of the first we haue example in those exhortatiōs of the apostle e Rom. 13 13. Walke honestly as in the day time f Eph 5. 8. Ibid. ver 15. walke as children of light g 1. Th. 2. 12. walke circumspectly not as vnwise but as wise h walke worthy of him who hath called you into his kingdome and glory But what should I need to bring many exāples of that which in the scriptures is so commonly and euerie where to be found let vs rather consider what is to bee gathered thereof for our instruction A walke therefore importeth first a way wherein wee are to walke secondly an end whereto we walke thirdly motion in the way and fourthly proceeding or going forward therein lastly perseuerance and continuāce vnto the waies end what our way for our walke is the Prophet Dauid signifieth whē he saith i blessed are they that are vndefiled Ps 119. 1. in the way and addeth by way of exposition which walk in the law of the lord The law of the Lord is the way wherin we are to walke Therfore Moses whē he had giuen the law of God to the people of Israel biddeth thē k Deut. 5. 33. to walke in al that way which the lord their God had cōmanded thē And hence are those phrases of l Ex. ●2 8. Deut. 9. 12. turning out of the way when we forsake the cōmandements of God and m Psal 3● 34. keeping his way when we obserue the same It is a great question in our dayes what way it is wherin we may safely securely walke many are much distracted perplexed hereabout because they see so great contention and cōtrouersie which is the right way But all this doubt God him selfe resolueth to them that are willing to take resolution of him the law of the Lord the word of God which hee hath deliuered to vs by his Prophets and Apostles that onely is the sure and certaine way Hee that teacheth according to this law hee teacheth the right way hee that teacheth beside this law seeme he to be of neuer so great authoritie and credit hee teacheth a wrong way In this way God hath reuealed vnto vs all the waies which he will haue vs to goe what to beleeue and how to liue what to doe and what to eschew and not onely of such duties as are common to all but also what concerneth euery man in his special state and calling what is the dutie both of Prince and subiect of the Pastour and of the fiocke of the Husband and the wife the Parents and the children the Master and the seruants the rich the poore the high and the low the word of God according to the phrase of our Sauiour Christ n Mar. 13. 24. appointeth to euery man his worke to euery man that seruice that his master requireth of him o Gregor Moral li. 16. cap. 16. By the Scripture saith Gregory Bishop of Rome God telleth vs all his will p Ibid. li. 18. ca. 14. so that if men will speake truly they must from thence receiue that which they will speake q August de vtil cre dendi ca. 6. the doctrine whereof is so framed saith Saint Austine as that there is no man but may draw from thence that that is sufficient for him if hee come with deuotion and piety to draw as true religion requireth hee should doe r Hieron in Psal 86. because the Princes of the Church saith Saint Hierome meaning the Apostles and Prophets did so write as that not a few onely but all should vnderstand so as that the scripture as Gregory saith is ſ Gregor ad Leand. epi●● in lib. Mor. cap. 4. a streame wherein both the Elephant may swimme and also the Lambe may wade yee so as that t Origen cont Cels lib. 4. in one and the same text as Orig●n obserueth many times are found tempered together both the things which serue for the exercising of the stronger and which minister edification to to the more weake and simple In the Scripture wee shall find that way whereof the Prophet Ieremy speaketh when hee saith u Ier. 6. 16. Stand vpon the waies and behold and aske for the old way which is the good way and walke therin and ye shall find rest for your soules Wherby he instructed the people to take view of the waies of their forefathers and thence to make choice not of that way which their latter fathers taught them of which elsewhere they are warned x Ezec. 20. 18. VValke ye not in the ordinances of your fathers neither obserue their manners but of that wherein the Patriarches and first fathers walked who receiued the same from God and by the ordinance of God left the same recorded for a memoriall to their children A foolish terme there is vsed by many ignorāt persons amongst vs of the old law the old Religion by which they vnderstand the religion of Poperie as if popery were the old religiō because some ages past haue followed it and bin abused therby Indeed the Scribes and Pharisies for the very same cause called their traditions y Mat. 5. 21 27. c. the old religion but the true old religion is of ancienter continuance euen that way which the Patriarches Prophets the Euangelists Apostles haue traced out and directed vnto vs hauing themselues learned it from God by the reuelation of Iesus Christ by his appointmēt left the same recorded in scripture to our vse Of this it is that the pastours teachers of the church are instructed to say to Gods people z Esai 30. 21. This is the way walke in the same when thou turnest to the right hand or when thou turnest to the left Christ is the directour of this way of him the father hath said a Mat. 17. 5 Heare him and therefore