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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30702	Cosmo-meros, the worldly portion, or, The best portion of the wicked, and their misery in the enjoyment of it, opened and applyed together with some directions and helps in order to a heavenly and better portion, enforced with many usef[ul] and divine considerations / by Seth Bushell ...	Bushell, Seth, 1621-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing B6237; ESTC R40782	133,437	408

it and cheat themselves by misconstructions into ruin Let John come to them in the way of righteousness in the most Austere Abstemious and Severest way of living and they say ●at 11.18 19. 21.32 he hath a Devil Let the Son of Man come eating and drinking and they say Behold a man gluttonous and a Wine-bibber a friend of Publicans and Sinners The Children of this World will neither be Piped into a Dancing Frame Mat. 11.17 nor Mourned into a Lamenting Temper Oh how wayward men are and hard to be won What subtil shifts have they found out and thereby only to Gull their Souls into Eternal ruin Let the Law be expounded and the Sins therein forbidden and Duties Commanded urged home upon th● Conscience then you shall have men start aside like broken bows These say they are hard sayings who can hear them Oh say they here 's nothing to be heard but Hell and Damnation and a heavy Yoke and grievous Burdens which to take up and bear there 's neither delight nor pleasure You shall find them to be of the same Temper with those the Prophet mentions for after you have done all you can they will hold fast their deceit refusing to return Jer. 8.5 Let the Gospell in its excellency and beauty be presented to them and the good things of the Kingdom of Heaven never so freely tendred thereby to win them over and gain them to Christ so as the Word seems to stream out Milk and Hony yet they would rather dye in their Sins Joh. 8.24 than believe and be saved So true is that mournfull complaint of our Saviour over a disobedient and gain-saying people Joh. 5.40 Luk. 13.34 Ye will not come to me that ye might have Life for though I would have gathered you together as a Hen doth gather her brood under her wings yet ye would not Hence it may well be said that there can be but small Hopes of doing much good either by speaking or writing What then Shall any who are entrusted with a talent hide it in a Napkin Luk. 19.20 Shall Mortal Man be more wise than God or shall he confront the Wisdom of the Almighty The Lord Commanded Ezekiel Ezek. 37.4 Mat. 3.9 to Prophesie upon dry bones and the same God is able of stones to raise up Children unto Abraham How easie is it for him that made the Heart to new mould it and to take away the stony Heart and to give an Heart of Flesh Ezek. 36.26 Act. 17.26 And since he hath determined the times before appointed which are so ordered by his over-ruling Providence as may be most Conducent to his own Glorious Ends therefore 't is an excellent Piece of Christian Prudence as well as Duty to employ our selves and la● out the Talents we are betruste● with on a good design and to acquiesce in his Dispensations leaving the Issue to the Lord his blessing This is according to that of the Prophet to sow beside all Waters Isa 32.20 And as the wiseman directs to cast our bread upon the Waters Eccles 11.1 Let 's not dispute neither curiously enquire What this Man shall do Or what the other How this will take Or how the other What will become of this Or what the other But let us labour to acquaint our selves with the Kingdom of God and sincerely exercise our selves in the Duties of that Kingdom and this will be Peace in the end We have a Word for it Mark the perfect Man and Behold the upright for the end of that Man is Peace Psal 37.37 Briefly Reader from the Na●ure of this discourse and plainness ●f its style which I have endea●oured agreeable thereunto thou ●ayest percieve that the design ●hereof is not by a neat Couch of Words either to feed an aiery fan●y or to blandish an itching hu●or but its intent is to do thy ●oul good and really to settle it up●n that better Portion the good ●hings whereof are such as shall never be taken away from thee Thine in all Christian Duty and Service Seth Bushell THE Worldly Portion LUKE 16.25 Son remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things CHAP. I. Containing the Drift and Scope of the Parable with the Observations from the Words Sect. I. THe Scope and Drift of our Saviour Christ in this Parable begun Verse 19 is to be ga●hered not from the precise con●●deration of any particular part ●hereof but from a survey of the Series of the whole in genera● in the which yet we find the be● thereof chiefly and principal● inclining towards and so ma● be resolved into these six part●culars which put together 〈◊〉 summ up the whole First To shew the vanity 〈◊〉 confidence reposed in world● things or the placing our fel● city in the enjoyment of th● things of this present life Wh●● more of the good things he● below could the rich man ha●● desired to have rendred h● condition happy what mo● could he have wished to feli●tate his estate who had his be●ly filled with the best to an ove● flow his body clothed in t● richest array his Coffers stor● with a stock of rich Provisio● for the future and a large R●venue to perpetuate the felici●● of his Posterity and so mig●● say to his Soul in the langua●● of the world Soul take thi● ease And yet we see he w● truly miserable in the midst of all for ere long if not that night the fool's Soul was required of him Luke 12.19 20. Secondly It is sometimes the lot of those that fear God to be miserable and afflicted in this present World Though no good thing is wanting to them the which is not supplied some other way yet many of those which are accounted the good things of this life they may seem to stand in need of and their worldly supplies are but mean and low Yet under such despicable outsides there lies a treasure of more worth than all the world And under such their contemptible appearances there is a jewel and grain which God will own as his in the day when he makes up his Jewels Mat. 13.30 Mal. 3.17 and gathers the wheat into his barn Thirdly That such as are in misery and afflicted in this world are not to be contemned but compassionately dealt withal They to whom God ha● given of the good things of this life to enjoy Phil. 4.14 Isa 58.7 Job 31.17 are to communicate with their afflictions and not t● hide themselves from their own flesh They are not to eat their morsel alone but with Job to impart it to the needy For whos● hath this world's good and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him 1 John 3.17 Fourthly That the Torments of hell are unsufferably grievous extended to the uttermost height and pitch that a creature in Being and without annihilation can undergo They are adequately suited to the uttermost