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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12590	A godly sermon preached in Latin at great S. Maries in Cambridge, in Marche 1580. by Robert Some: and translated by himselfe into English	Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1580 (1580)	STC 22907; ESTC S100971	11,523	33

seeke and ye shall finde knock saith Christ and it shal be opened vnto you If any plain dealing mā shold giue out to his debters that he would forgiue thē their debt would they so much as thinke of paying that creditor if god hath set it downe in his worde that he will pardon repentant sinners do we thinke that he wil not kéepe touch with them Nomb. 23.19 God is not as man that he should lie neither as the sonne of man that he should repent hath he saide and shall he not do it hath he spoken and shal not he accomplish it as it is in Balaams parable to Balak the Kinge of Moab Though your sinnes were as crymsin Esay 1.18 they shal be made white as snow though they were red like scarlet they shal be as wooll saith the lord Much more might be fetched out of the rich storehouse of Gods booke but I haue done with this argument when I haue added these swéet and cōfortable spéeches Mich. 7.19 Psal 32.1 that God doeth not remember our sinnes that he castes thē into the botom of the sea that he layeth them not to our charge but doth couer thē August in Psal 52. If therfore God hath couered sinnes he would not cast his eye vpon them if he would not cast his eie vpon them he would not throughly consider of them if he would not throughly consider of them he woulde not punishe them he would not know them but had rather pardon them And receiue vs graciously The valew of good things is better knowne by the want then by the continuall hauing of them Helth is swéeter to them which are recouered after gréeuous sicknesse then to them which were neuer sicke Riches are more pleasant to poore men which were somtimes wealthy then to th●… which neuer knewe what wante meaned The Israelites when they were plagued with want beggery for their manifolde transgressions after pardon craued for their sinnes do humbly earnestly desire at the lords hands that he would deale gratiously with thē that is to say that he would reach his hand to them and water the withered Israelites with the streams of his liberalitie Iob. 8.11 Can a rush grow without myne or can the grasse grow without water as Bildad said to Iob. Vnlesse almightie God do make the riuers of his goodnesse passe vnto vs we are like to a parched bladder If God blesse not our labours our early risings will not serue the turne for the heauen shal be as iron and the earth as an armed souldiour to execute Gods iudgements and he that earneth wages shall put it in a broken purse But when God doth fauour vs it goeth well with vs we haue welth at will in a ground as it were barren faire corne a beautifull Vine cōmeth vp Moses lest the Israelites whom he cōmended for their godlines should either reuolte or wax faint in the midst of their race doth singularly harten them God will loue thee Deut. 7.13 and blesse thee and multiply thee he wil also blesse the fruit of thy wombe and the fruit of thy land thy corne and thy wine and thy oyle The Prophet Ioel that the tribe of Iuda béeing now turned to the Lorde might put off the mourning wéede promiseth them frō the Lords mouth great store of temporall blessings Ioel. 2.24 The barnes shal be full of wheate the presses shal abound with wine oyle Hoseas that the Israelites might assure themselues of Gods fauour deliuereth the Lordes minde verie comfortably to them I wil breake the bowe and the sworde Hoseas 2.18.21.22 the battel out of the earth and will make them to sleepe safely and in that day I wil heare saith the Lord I wil heare the heauens and they shall heare the earth the earth shal heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they shall heare Izreel And that these swéet promises might take déep roote in the harts of the Israelites the Prophet Hoseas or rather the Lord by the prophete handleth the same argument in the last Chapter of that prophecie I will loue them freely I wil be as the deawe vnto Israel Hoseas 14.5.6.7.8 he shal growe as the lillie fasten his rootes as the trees of Lebanon his branches shall spread and his beawtie shall be as the oliue tree and his smel as Lebanon They that dwel vnder his shadowe shal returne they shall reuiue as the corne and florish as the vine the sente thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon When Almightie God hath put away our sins as a cloud and hath made the beautifull sonne of his grace to shine vnto vs he féedeth the hungrie clotheth the naked healeth our diseases blesseth our studies doth lade vs with heaps of benefits God is neuer wearie with doing vs good His store-house cannot be emptied and his fountaine can neuer be dried vp And we wil render the calues of our lips A good turne must be remembred and we must be thankful to him that hath deserued wel of vs. If any haue done vs good either by preferring vs or deliuering vs from daunger we may not forget the pleasure done vnto vs and it is in euerie mans mouth that we must imitate the fruitful fieldes which bring forth more corn then they receiued The eternal God did powre infinit blessings vpon the Israelites as it were with a full horne he planted thē a noble vine when they brought forth wilde grapes the Lorde did prune and cut the vine When they caste them selues headlong to all vngodlines he pulled them often back with the bridle of his feare he forgaue them infinite sins and laded them with externall benefits The Israelites hauing receiued large measure of Gods blessinges giue out that they wil be humbly thankfull to his Maiestie We will render saide they the calues of our lips as if they should say in the time of the lawe they offered calues when they accomplished their vowes but in stéede of offering calues we will render the calues of our lips that is to say we wil praise commend the goodnes of God The prophete Dauid when the Lord had turned his mourning into ioy his sackecloth into gladnes Psal 30.11.12 giueth out that he was therfore gratiously dealt with that he might be alwayes a trompet of the praises of God And in another place after that he had tasted or rather dronk déeply of gods singular goodnes he brust out into these wordes Psal 69.30.31 I wil prayse the name of God with a song and magnifie him with thankesgiuing this also shall please the Lord better then a yong bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes Whē Ioel prophecied the grassehoppers the canker wormes the caterpillers were the Lords armie to destroy all the Israelites increase The Israelites were for a time shrewdly pinched hungerbitten but the Lord at the length had mercie on them And when he had made