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A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

in lying to them But wilt thou receiue O thou sorcerer be thou wise man or wise woman alas we call them wise but they are fooles for they destroy their owne soules Wilt thou receiue I say thy full fraught at once and the totall summe of all thine infelicities thou hast no interest in God no society with the Saints no fellowship with the beleeuers no parte or portion in any the good creatures of God ful of terror and astonishment is that saying of Saint Iohn Reu. 21. 8 the fearefull and vnbeleeuing and abhominable and murtherers and sorcerers and all lyers shall haue their portion in the lake that burnes with fire and brimstone Cursing and swearing I will but point at and yet are these sinnes little inferiour to that which we haue already spoken of but what dare not prophane wretches commit when they may scape with immunity of punishment our common wealth looks not to the weight of these sins nor doth the magistrate care to shew his authority in suppressing them which makes these sinnes to walke in the high streetes vncontrowled What heart is so stony like the Adamant that would not bleede to thinke vpon or what eare would not tingle to heare the wicked bannings and blasphemous oathes of many a desperat wretch heart bloud nailes wounds flesh euen by all the parts of his glorious body as if they would crucifie Christ anew like the Iewes Who is it among vs that is not ginen in some measure to this sinne olde and young and all Children that haue not learned to go haue learned to sweare and is this to loue God nay is not this to hate God Let vs leaue this sinne betimes or God wil haue his day with thee too O thou swearer The wise man hath spoken it that the Ecclus. 23. 11. plague shall neuer depart from the house of the swearer The son of a certaine Israelitish woman for blaspheming the name of the Lord and Leui. 24. 14 for cursing was stoned to death without the host Againe if this loue of God be planted The fourth commandement in thy heart thou wilt keepe his Sabbaoth thou wilt remember that as a principall duty among the rest thou wilt both rest thy selfe and cause thy family al that belongs vnto thee to cease from labor and to sanctifie the same Thou must vppon that daye doe holy things for it is the Lords holy day thou must not doe thine owne waies nor seeke thine owne will nor speake a vaine worde that day must be bestowed vppon exercises of holinesse as in hearing the word read and preached in praying receiuing the Sacraments singing of Psalmes godly conference and meditation Thou must come to the church the house of prayer keep my Sabbaoth and reuerence my sanctuary There you are tied to come and when you come come with reuerence as you cary with you your holy day cloathes so must you carry with you your holiday affections This Sabbaoth is called in Esay the Lord Esa 58. 13. his day but if you follow vanities vpon that day or do your owne vnnecessary businesse on that day you make it your owne day and not the Lords day and so you honour not God but you honour your selues as Ely honoured his children The Lord hath giuen vs six whole daies and hath reserued onely one for himselfe and yet we would haue that from him too at the least we take the greatest part of that from him and doe bestow it vppon our lustes If we offer vnto the Lorde the morning sacrifice yet we are not ready to giue him the euening incense where God requireth both and will not be serued by peecemeales If we giue God but a peece of the day wee are like the vnnaturall mother who sayde of the child let it be neither hirs nor min 1. ●in 3. ●● but ●et it be diuided so we seeme to part stakes as it were with the Lord by diuiding the Sabbaoth day making it neither Gods wholy nor our owne This is the last Commaundement of the first table but it must be chiefe in request no commaundement carrieth with it such a charge as this for it runnes with a speciall Memento Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbaoth day as who should say in any case see thou obserue this commaundement for if thon keepest this thou keepest all For in comming to church to heare and learne the word of God to praise and glorifie him thou art taught thy whole duetie both howe to obserue this and all the rest The second table expresseth the dutie The fifth commandement of one man towardes another it sheweth what loue thou oughtest to beare thy neighbour The principall duetie braunching out of this loue is the duetie to parents If thou loue God thou wilt also loue thy parents thou hast one father in heauen who must especially be honoured in manner as thou hast heard thou hast an other father in earth and God thy father in heauen commaunds thee to honour him that is thy father on earth And this honour hath God imprinted in his name by giuing them his owne name the name of father He is thy father therfore honour him as God gaue our fathers their beginning so hast thou from thy father thy beginning it hath pleased God to vse them as instruments to beget vs. This loue contaynes in it honour feare obedience and reliefe We read of the young stork that he carrieth the olde one vpon his backe when for age he is not able to flie This is recorded of the storke to condemne vs men that will not be careful to releeue our parents as they were carefull to releeue vs. God and nature and reason common sence do call vpon vs for this duty to parents therfore I wil not discourse further vpon it And in this commandement thou art not onely called vppon to be dutiful to thy naturall parents but also to the fathers of thy countrey or of our houses the aged and our fathers in Christ and vnto them that performe this honour a speciall blessing is promised which is long life Further if thou loue thy neighbour thou wilt euer bee doing him good and not euil all the dayes of thy life Thou wilt procure all the meanes thou canst to worke his safety thou wilt defend him from iniury offered him by others and if thou defend him thou wilt much lesse seeke to hurt him and if thou wilt not hurt him much lesse wilt thou maliciously proceede to kill him for all this is charged in that commandement Thou shalt not kill As the loue of God appeared in creating vs so it appeareth in preseruing vs God that gaue life will haue vs preserue life The Lorde will not haue thee so much Leui. 19. 17 Mat. 5. 22. as to be angry with thy brother vnaduisedly nor yet to haue him nor will he haue thee to mocke or quarrel with thy neighbour Whosoeuer sayeth vnto his brother Rachah

exhortationum The Lawe had his roote in Paradise his branches in the Desart his fruit in Christ the rootes bitter to Adam the braunches heauy to the Israelites the fruites death to Christ because he died to fulfill the lawe This lawe is a Schoolemaister sending vs to Christ This lawe is like a glasse wherein we may beholde two kindes of sights wee may beholde our owne imperfections and also we may see the absolute perfection of Christ Iesus When the yron fell into the water Elizeus 2. Kings 6 tooke a peece of woodde and threw it in and the yron came to the toppe of the wate We were as yron suncke vnto the bottome of the waters of desperation and our heauenly Elizens Christ Iesus with a peece of wood that is suffering for our sinnes vpon a woodden Crosse raised vs vp and caused vs to swimme vppon the toppes of the waters of despaire But before wee proceede to a particular view of the Commaundements I will briefly acquaint you with the substance of them which is this They comprehend the duety of man towards God and the duety of man towards man the duety of one man towards another Our dueties towardes God are deliuered in the foure first Commandements first table our dueties towards man in the six last being the second table Wilt thou knowe howe thou maiest performe all this that God requireth of thee in these his Commandements why loue God and loue thy neighbour and thou hast done all Do this and thou shalt be as free from the ●reach of these commandements or anie of them as Naaman was free from his leprosie when he had washed in Iordan The whole fulfilling of the lawe consists but in one word but in this word Loue it is ●ut a sillable But thou must knowe that this loue is more than a bare loue a naked loue a colde loue for the wickedest and loosest liuer in the world will say he loues God he loues his neighbour too But thou must loue God entirely and purely and as he will be loued thou must loue him with these circumst●●ces viz. with all thy heart with all thy soule and with all thy strength and then thou must loue thy neighbour as thy selfe Thou must loue God aboue al thou must loue him more than thy selfe more than thy father that begate thee or thy mother that bare thee or thy brother the son of thy mother or thy wife that lieth in thy bosome he Mat. 10. 37 that loueth father or mother sister or brother wife or children or kinsfolks morethan me is not worthy to be my disciple Wee come short of this loue when wee loue the world like Demas or our pleasures like Belshazar or our riches like the young man in the Gospell who before he questioned with Christ thought h● had had this loue we now speake of for he iustified him Mat. 19. 22. selfe saying All these haue I kept from my youth vppe But Christ knew ●ee loued his riches and possessions and his landes better and therefore he bade him goe and sell all hee had and giue it to the poore and hee shoulde haue treasure in Heauen but he went away sorrowing not sorrowing for that hee came short of this loue wee speake of but for that he must part with his goods if he would inherite lift for the text saith he was very rich If ye loue the world the loue of GOD dwelleth not in you but when yee begin to loue the Lord in the sinceritie of your harts then and neuer till then will the loue of the world fall from you with the vanities thereof as the white scales fell fro Tobias eyes Loue euen this pure loue whereof wee speake is the first lincke that in an holie vnion dooth ioyne GOD and vs together and this one lincke drawes twoo others with it feare and obedience loue looks vppon Gods mercie feare lookes vpon his iustice the one stayeth vs from presumption the other keepes vs from desperation These two support our faith as the twoo Lions supported Solomons throne and to what soule soeuer these two shall haue recourse euen thither shall obedience comc also These three are better welcome vnto God than the three presents offered by the wise men vnto Christ These three graces loue feare and obedience are like those robes of righteousnes to couer and beautifie the Saintes of God which Saint Iohn extolleth with a threefold commendation they were pure fine and shining This loue holdes me to it like an adamant and yet I may not part with it till I haue planted it in you for if I teache you this one lesson I teach you all which is to loue God aboue all We must loue him for that he is mercifull in making vs when wee were not in protecting vs being made but most of all for sauing vs when we had lost our selues as Adam lost himselfe among the figge trees for giuing vs the ayre to breathe with the Sunne to giue vs light the raine to fructifie the earth the fire to warme vs the beastes and foules and fishes to feede vs all that is within and without our bodies This world and the goodly frame thereof This ought to make vs loue god and in our loue to exclaime like Dauid O Lorde what is man that thou so gratiously visitest him but looking vpon our selues and our ingratitude that doe not loue god for all this we haue cause to crie out vpon our selues to say O man what is god that thou so lightly regardest him O Lord saith Augustin in Soliloquijs if thou for this vile body giue so innumerable benefits from the firmament from the ayre from the earth from the sea by light and by darkenesse by heat and shadow by dewes and showers by wind and raine by birds fishes by beasts and trees by multitude of of hearbs and variety of plants and by the ministery of all thy creatures O sweete Lord what gratitude what loue and thankefulnesse should we owe thee for all this how should we honour thee as thou deseruest All the creatures of God do call vpon vs to loue God and yet are we short of this loue we praise him not we thanke him not for his benefits we honour him not for his goodnesse so beyond al measure vngratefull are we like those nine lepers that being clensed forgat him that clensed them Alas what meane we to forget to be thankfull to so gracious a God what meane we now after so many blessings that God stil powreth vpon vs in a plentifull measure we haue not yet learned to loue him This is the A B C of religion and fi●st Catechising Principle for them to learne that will be trained in the schoole o Christ and we haue not learned so much such trowanting schollers are we In this loue is all the whole duty of man consisting and wilt not thou learne this one thing which teacheth thee all things O but you will say if all