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A17328	The rowsing of the sluggard, in 7. sermons Published at the request of diuers godlie and well affected. By W.B. Minister of the word of God at Reading in Barkeshire.; Rowsing of the sluggard, in 7. sermons	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1595 (1595)	STC 4176; ESTC S118396	79,897	163

for the seruants of God hauing a little mortified themselues through the grace of God they are come to this point that all they can doe is too little for the seruice of God but are desirous still to serue him more better still to bring more and more knowledge more faith and more repentance and more loue and more zeale and more holines and more courage and more good workes to the glorifying of their heauenly father So free hearted are the true children of God whome the sonne of God hath made free indeede that they thinke they can neuer doe enough like the free hearted Iewes which still brought either golde or siluer or silke or haire or one thing or another to the building of the tabernacle and as they left not bringing till they were stayed by proclamation So in building the spirituall tabernacle of the Lorde the children of God leaue not comming and going to the ●●ercises of religion preaching and reading and hearing and meditating and practising till they bee stayed by death for proclamations and lawes and statutes haue been made but all that could not staye them nay it hath made them more diligent and painefull like the Pismire because they perceiued winter to approach yea they doe also encourage their owne soules and their brethren with them saying as Elia● said to Achab Get thee vp eate and drinke for there is a sound of much raine so say they one to another get thee vp reade and studie preach and praye and lose no time for there is a sounde of much trouble and all their feare is that they shall be stopped and stayed by the waie when troubles arise as Eliah feared least he and Achab should bee stayed by the raine They can scarcely haue any rest in their hearts but are still panting with Dauid for breath like the Harte in continuall chase They thinke they haue done nothing they can see nothing but their sinnes and wickednes their rebellious motions and corrupt cogitations of their own false hearts doe still appeare vnto them and afright them they suspect all their dooings like Iob that holy man who feared all his waies And when they haue done the best they can they still condemne themselues for vnprofitable seruants still crying out to their soules as Christ saide to the young man that was so forward in the Gospell yet one thing is wanting so they say yet my soule either for the matter or for the manner something is wanting It is not then with the godly christian as it is with the superstitious Papists which thinke they may serue God enough by their owne deuises and stintes of mattens their euen songes and their Orisons and their Kyrileysons and their Masses and their Ladies psalters and their Iesus psalters and their often belabouring the name of Iesus and their pattering of beades besides their pipings and singing and perfuming and aboundance of draffe more to fil vp the tubbe withall that let the hogges come home neuer so hungry yet there is meate enough for them and some to spare for their friendes that will giue any thing for it which they cal works of supererogation Now when their t●skes are done all must be set vpon the sco●● and the Lorde must bee beholding to them for their deuotions and Heauen they must haue of dutie not of fauour like the meritmongers of Ierusalem who going to Christ in the behalfe of the Centurions seruant that laye sicke tolde him that hee had deserued to be healed at his hands because the Centurion had b●ilded them a sinagogue And not much vnlike is the seruice of Atheists and Protestants at large liuing vnder the Gospell though they defie poperie with open mouth and wide throates yet they are too popish in this poynt for doe they not think that God is well serued of them if they goe to Church when 〈◊〉 comes and heare a few cold prayers read and after dinner spend the time at Cardes or Tables or Bowles or Church alings or in one ●●nitie or other but if they haue been at Church in the forenoone though it were but to sleepe at the sermon the Lord is much beholding to them But to come at the beginning and continue waking attentiue to the ending both forenoone and afternoone that they thinke may serue for a great while but to haue preaching euery Sabboth day and in the weeke too that is counted an vnreasonable seruing of God But the godly thinke they haue neuer enough of the seruice of God and his worship and for this cause haue they desired to liu● stil not for feare of death which indeede is a vantage vnto them but for that they haue not s●●ued God enough and in the graue they ca●not praise his name So Dauid desired to liue still that he might declare the workes of the Lord. And in the 119. Psal. he saith Let my soule li●● it shall praise thee This he craued because he had not praised God enough And vpon this Paul discussed this question in his heart For my selfe sayth hee it is better to dye but for 〈◊〉 meaning the Church it is better that I liue still to shewe that if we haue any desire to liue longer it must be that the Church of God may bee the better for vs for the godly are of that minde that they cannot doe enough for the good of the Church of God They are like Abraham who when 〈◊〉 began to speake with God would haue still one question more And like the Disciples who when they heard Christ commend the bread of life said Lord euermore giue ●s of this bread Now if this be the affection of the godlie all too little then what shal we say to the wicked which coūt all too much that is giuen to God like I●das that grudged at the cost that was bestowed vpon Christ coūting is more then needed But this was because I●das had the bagge and was a theefe to Christ and so the wicked haue the bags and would fill their bags with the spoyles of Christ and his Church They say they haue heard a sermon once in a yere what so many say they heare one and follow that well c. This is the voyce of a wicked heart that knoweth not what he oweth to God If he knewe that he oweth him all his life he would not speake in that sort Concerning the things of the world they play the Horseleach that lye sucking still and neuer cryeth ho. And they are of Achabs humor when he had a kingdome yet he wanted a vineyard and a little was still wanting So wordling professors of the Gospell when they haue much and that which they desired yet they must haue a little more another house or another lease or another Benefice but as for the Lords part he shal haue the offall or refuse of their crooked old age when they can serue the diuell no longer but then the Lord will

from the harlot not to come neere the doores of her house and giueth this as a reason lest sayth he thou giue thy honour vnto others and thy yeares vnot the cruell and le●t the strangers bee filled with thy strength and thy labours be found in the houses of strangers And last of all it is a piece of a punishment for the contemners of the worde and those that obstinately disobey the lawes of the almightie For saith Moses If thou wilt not obey the voice of the Lord thy God to keepe and to doe all his commandements and his or 〈◊〉 which I command thee this day The hea●●● shall be brasse and the earth iron The Lord shall giue thee for the raine of thy land dust and ashes vntill thou be destroyed So that pouertie and necessitie bee like a common gallowes at the townes end which hang vp both theeues and murtherers and traytors and witches and all that are brought to be executed Then it is not a part of happines nor a degree of perfection as papists holde but a verie sore iudgement of God Here is now the Sluggards pouertie and the niggards pouertie and the vnthrifts pouertie and the hastie mans pouerty the whoremongers pouertie and the cruell mans pouertie aud the vngodly mans pouertie and pouertie is a whippe for them all By which we are taught not to blame others as many doe if they bee fallen behinde hand but let euery man examine himselfe in these poyntes and if thou canst cleere thy selfe of one suspect thy selfe in another and trie thy heart in all till thou hast founde out the cause as thou wilt trie euery keye of the bunch vntill the locke bee opened And saye to thy soule as Dauid saide to the woman of Tekoah who came to the King about Absalom Is not the hand of loab in all this So is not the hand of flouth or negligence or the hand of crueltie or the hand of incontinencie or of niggardlines or of rashnes or of vngodlines in this my pouertie And this may suffice for the pouertie of the bodie And nowe a little of spirituall pouertie Where of the Scriptures speake sometime in the better part and sometime in the euill part in the better part it is attributed to the children of God to their great commendation and as a speciall ve●tue and grace of God and that is when they be humble lowlie in their owne eyes and thinke poorely and basely of them themselues in respect of others And this is that ●pirituall po●ertie which our Sauiour 〈◊〉 speaketh of and calleth it blessed po●●itie in Ma●th 5. ● ●hen hee saith Blessed 〈◊〉 ●oore in spirit for theirs is the Kingdome of 〈◊〉 To shew that it is not onely a blessed but a rich pouertie because the kingdome of H●auen doth follow it And this is a grace founde ●swell in Kings and great rich men of this worlde sometimes as in the pooret 〈◊〉 when God dooth sanctifie their hearts and teach them to knowe themselues such a one was Abraham a rich 〈◊〉 and Iob a rich man and Dauid a King yet were they poore in 〈◊〉 rite and therefore blessed the contrar●e whe●of is found in those that are wise in their own conceite and wedded to their owne wai●r whatsoeuer can bee said to the contrarie whether they bee rich or poore of such Sal 〈◊〉 saith There is more hope of a foole then of 〈◊〉 Againe to bee poore in spirite is sometime taken in the euill parte not as a vertue but 〈◊〉 fowle vice not as a grace but as a disgrace● and that is when men a bounde in their owne spirites and in their owne iudgements and ●●ing altogether carnall and 〈◊〉 are 〈◊〉 of the spirite of God and barren in the gr●t●● of the same spirite abounding in pride and ba●re● in humilitie abounding in ma●●ce and barren in loue abounding in ignorance and barren in knowledge abounding in 〈◊〉 ●ie but barren in 〈◊〉 and so i● the rest and yet thinke not so ● president of which pouerti● wee haue in theminister and 〈◊〉 of Laodicea to whom Christ speaketh in 〈◊〉 sorte Thou saiest thou are rich and 〈◊〉 with goods and bast needs of not ●ing and 〈◊〉 est not that thou art wr●●●●ed and 〈◊〉 and poore and blinde and naked And in 〈◊〉 do the soule that is destitute of the heauenly 〈◊〉 c●s of the holy ghost is a poore soule although he iette it vp and downe in his silkes and veluets yea and in cloth of golde too But the soule that hath them is rich indeede though otherwise for want of worldlie necessaries they bee constrained to lye begging in the streetes Therefore the holy ghost doubteth not to call them riches saying that God sent the Gospell of his sonne amongst the gentiles that hee might shew thereby to the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace through his kindenes towards vs in Christ lesus To shew that the giftes of the holy ghost sanctified to the children of God are riches and more then riches for they are exceeding riches And in the same Epistle the Apostle saith that he preached vnto the gētiles the vnsearchable riches of Christ to shew that whosoeuer hath Christ is rich enough Therefore is the Gospell of Christ compared to a pearle of inesti●nable value which could not bee bought except a rich man solde all his substance to buie it to shew how rich they are that haue that pearle Many rich men want these riches Therefore let no man saye oh I am rich and well increased in worldlie goods therefore I am not guiltie of the sluggards sinne for through thy slouthfulnes thy soule may bee poore enough in the riches of Gods spirite how rich soeuer thou bee in the things of this world And if any man woulde haue these riches he must earnestly desire and long after them for the Lord filleth the 〈◊〉 grie with good things but the rich that is the full stomack he sendeth emptie awaie In the 2. of Prou. Salomon propoundeth two thing● and sheweth what course must bee taken of those that will obtaine them The 〈◊〉 the vnderstanding of the feare of God and the knowledge of God the way to get them is to receiue the worde and to hide it then he must hearken with his eares and encline his heart then to calland crie af●er them as if they were going away for feare they shuld not beint●● rained as they are worthie ●nd if they cannot be had with calling and crying then hee must fall to seeking and searching as if they sought for filuer and searched for treasure This being done then shalt thou vnderstand and fi●●● c. to shew that these things sent from God must be earnestly sued vnto and will not ma●rie but with such as will vse them well and 〈◊〉 count of them as speciall guests Vnto whi●● hunger and longing must also be ioyned 〈◊〉 gence and painefulnes for A slotfull 〈◊〉 saith