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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

saith he I want onely one thing Peace of Conscience that I would have It is not Beer nor Friends nor any easie Pillow I want but Peace of Conscience my thoughts are troubled my mind perplexed Conscience is unquiet and my Heart fails Oh consider now whether there be not like to be perplexity in your Spirits when you come to dye Let due forethoughts of your latter end now take up your Hearts Secondly Then you are to give an account for all though as I told you before not to account for the right to use but for not right using of what you have Then you are to come up upon account Here you go on to buy and sell and get gain and are jovial and pleasant you spend your daies in wealth and mirth Jam. 4.13 Job 21.13 and in a moment go down to the Grave but then an account is to be made for all A sad reckoning is at hand and such as alas they little think of As a many of Prodigall spenthrifts met together do in the Tavern carouse all care away and amidst their spuming healths never think of the shot or reckoning that is to pay Or as some wretchless Malefactors desperately careless and prodigall of their Lives though Hue and Cry be at their heels and the avenger of blood pursue them and no less lye at stake than their very lives yet in an Ale-shop met together there they bench away all their cares and drown their fears and never think of the reckoning they have to make nor dread the Officer at hand to take them The Barr Impii praesumendo sperant sperando pereunt where they must hold up the Hand and be arraigned is not at all forethought of by them Even thus it is with the men of the World amidst their sickly healths they dread no evil nor ever call their account to mind but come ye say they and I will fetch Wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Isaiah 56.12 Oh sad will be the reckoning which such men have to make and dreadfuull the account when they are called to it Do but now think with your selves if you have now so much as you cannot reckon how then will you be able to reckon for it If now you have so much as you cannot count how then will you be able to give an account of what you have especially when you shall be hurried thereto at unawares and have had no thoughts thereof before-hand Thirdly Dreadfull is the Portion of these men at the Day of Judgment Oh the shame and confusion that will then be upon the Faces of the men of the World How will they then be confounded in themselves and desire the Mountains to fall on them and the Rocks to cover them Rev. 6.16 Jam. 2.3 especially when they shall see their poor neighbours or such whom when in the World they would have disdained to have set at their Footstool or with the Dogs of their Flock taken up with Christ into Glory and themselves cast out when these shall stand on the right hand and they as Goats shall be set on the left Mat. 25.33 Perhaps a poor Boy or Servant in the House shall be advanced to Glory and you that are their great Masters shall be cast out Eternally Oh what an Infinite shame and confusion would this be to you what will you say how will you change your minds Oh now I see what it is to trust in God and not to trust in him Now I see that there is a vast difference between a true believer and an impenitent wretch Now we may discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God Mal. 3.18 and him that serves him not These are happy that would trust for the future that durst take God's Word and Promise for their Portion and Inheritance but I miserable to all Eternity that drust not trust him And then the conclusion what will it be the Royal Prophet tells you Psal 11.6 upon the wicked the Lord shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the Portion of their cup. Here 's the Portion of the ungodly at the last fire and brimstone is upon them and it 's rained down so as it falls more violently and the Lord does it and therefore it is an horrible tempest and their condition is denoted more wretched in that they cannot escape for in snares rained down they are entangled and moreover to add to this their woe and misery and make it out of measure miserable They are not only to have this fire and brimstone on them but in them too for all this is put into their cup and they are to drink it and so to drink it as not to leave the dreggs behind but to wring them out and drink them Psal 75.8 And this shall be the Portion of their cup. They have had a Goodly Portion in the World which they have abused their cup did overflow and now they shall have as dreadfull a Portion at the Day of Judgment for this shall be the Portion of their cup. The servant that eates and drinks with the drunken and so does abuse the mercies put into his hand shall have his Portion appointed him with the Hypocrites Mat. 24.51.46 there shall be weeping and gnashing Teeth Think but of one Text and I have done with this particular Job 27.8 What is tht hope of the Hypocrite though he hath gained when God taketh away his Soul Note hence there are many Hypocrites that aim to get in the World and cannot God crosseth them and disappoints them in their devices and will not let their covered intentions prosper Well but suppose they aim at gain and get it and so attain what they doe desire yet what hope hath the Hypocrite though he hath gain'd though he hath grown never so rich and gained what he did desire when God takes away his soul * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Si evellat Deus animam ejus Job 27. ● Luk 12.20 plucking it as it were in anger from him Thou fool this night thy Soul shall be required of thee Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided Where 's thy gain and what 's thy hope when thy Soul is pluck'd away The Portion thou hast gained is gone and another wofull Portion there is behind which now thou art to enter upon to all Eternity Now know that this time is coming it will be ere long and then perhaps this Text of mine may ring in your ears when you lie upon your sick beds and daies of weakness come upon you and your thoughs rationally work about and are fixed upon your latter end then this argument may come into your mind and conscience preach this over again unto you telling you I heard such a time there were a Generation of Men who had all their Good things in

it is to be fea●ed that there are not a few who fill their Bellies with the good things of this l●fe and never so much as call their state in question within themselves nor mind the answer of their hearts how it shall go with them to all Eternity whether the things they now enjoy be not the All that ever they are like to have Job hints such a Generation to us whose outward condition in this world was prosperously happy Job 21.13 they had what heart could wish but perhaps this might not long continue with them they might perchance out-live their felicity No says he They became old and were mighty in power still Job 21.7 But surely then in their old age they would begin to consider their latter end Job 32.7 Days would speak and multitude of Years would teach wisdom Hos 7.9 When gray hairs were here and there upon them they would then surely bethink themselves and since their condition has been all along so good and happy they would fear lest here should be their Portion No they would not Their houses are safe or peace from fear all 's calm and quiet with them Ay but before they come to die they 'l surely put the Question to themselves about their Eternal state they 'l never go on so ●ottishly to their very latter end but they 'l examine and enquire before they drop into the Grave No they will not They spend their days in wealth * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mirth and in a moment go down to the grave Job 21.13 A sad going down eternal de●truction entred upon in a moment Consument in bono dies suos Job 21.13 How miserably are these men deceived they thought their condition happy and blessed themselves in their Enjoyments they never feared nor questioned lest their portion should be in this World This never came ●p upon their thoughts and so they spent their days in wealth and in a moment went down to the grave The like sensless frame of heart we find set forth by David in the 49th Psalm Psal 49.6 speaking there of such a Generation of men who did trust in their wealth and boast themselves in ●e multitude of their riches yea 〈◊〉 surely they would not always trust but somtimes fear lest their wealth and the multitude of their riches should be all their Portion No their inward thought is that their Houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling Places to all Generations they call their Lands after their own Names verse 11. But surely before they die they will bethink themselves No they go on still in a secure condition void of fear and like Sheep they are laid in the Grave Death shall feed on them and the Vpright shall have dominion over them in the Morning verse 14. They liv'd like Brutes seeking satisfaction to their sensual appetites and like Brutes they come to die like Sheep they are laid in the Grave and Death feeds upon them The Apostle tells us of some men who feed themselves without fear Jude 12. These are spots when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear They never question what their latter end shall be or whether here ●hall not be the All of good that ever they are like to enjoy You can go now to a Merry-meeting and you can feast and feed upon ●he Cheer and you eat without fear you never have such a thought in your heart What ●f God should put me off with these things I hear indeed there are some men put off so what if it should prove to be my Portion Oh what a miserable Creature were I then I fear there are some men never had such a thought in all their lives The wicked are described to be men that eat without fear never thinking of a change nor having the least suspicion or jealousie of their present states And so as the Fishes that are taken in an evil Net and as the Birds that are in the Snares so are they snared in an evil time when it falleth suddenly upon them Eccles 9.12 §. XIV Furthermore That man 〈◊〉 like to have all his good things 〈◊〉 this life whose thoughts are 〈◊〉 relieve his Conscience in 〈◊〉 guilt of the least sin with th● consideration of the outwar● Comforts he does enjoy Th● is the temper of wicked worldly-minded men who have the●● Portion in this life they see● to relieve their consciences thei● guilty consciences with the rejoycing in their Riches and i● their Estates and in what the have gotten We have a notable Scripture for this Isa 57.10 Thou hast found the life ● thine hand therefore thou wast n● grieved It may be if a man goe● on in an evil way and doth no● prosper in it if God crosseth him in it then he begins to bethink himself Is not this a sinful way Doth not God oppose me in it And then not finding the life of his hand populus me sibilat at mihi plaudo ipse domi simulac nummos contemplor in arca he be●ins to be grieved But if he ●an find the life of his hand go on ●nd prosper and have what he ●esires than he will not be grie●ed but his heart grows hard●ed Thus wicked men set their Riches and Estates against all ●heir sin and guiltiness and think ●hey will countervail it Oh this ●s a sure sign of a worldly heart none more sure than when a man can set the good things of this world against the guilt of sin can put any worldly thing into the Balance to weigh down the guilt of sin here 's a worldly heart indeed a wretched heart one like to have his Portion here This was the wicked frame of Ephraim in charge against him by the Prophet Hosea Chap. 12.7 8. There he reproves their fraud and oppression in matters of Trade and dealing and tells Ephraim that he is a Merchant the Balances of Deceit are in his hand he loveth to oppress Here Ephraim's sin is plainly detected and charged home upon him But how does this Reproof tak● with Ephraim Why see how he awards the blow he ha● found the l●fe of his hand he grown rich and fat and full and his corrupt heart is taugh● this Devillish guile to set hi● Gain against his Guilt and to countervail his Sin by his Substance For thus he pleads i● not openly yet in the reserve of his own heart and it serve his turn for the present Well as if he he should say Choose it here 's a Charge brought against me and laid upon my Conscience but I matter it not though there be some guilt in it Yet I am become rich I have found me out Substance .. You tax me with fraud and oppression in my dealing I know more of the mystery of Trade than you can tell me But however say what you will I prosper and thrive by th' bargain I am become rich I have found me out substance I have this to