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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19639	Three sermons viz. The walking sleeper, the ministeriall husbandrie, the discouerie of the heart. Preached and published by Sam. Crooke.	Crook, Samuel, 1575-1649.	1615 (1615)	STC 6069; ESTC S117125	72,467	211

foolish or rather thus They say as wisemen say and do as fooles doe vaine men that did pretend the contempt of the world but that very contempt was of the world and therefore our Sauiour auoucheth it to bee Impossible with man Mat. 19.23 c. that a rich man should enter into heauen but with God saith hee euery thing euen this is possible He cā teach vs to reioyce as if we reioyced not to buy as if we possessed not to vse this world as if we vsed it not He can teach vs to seeke these things as our daily bread with a secondarie care after his kingdome and righteousnes Hee can teach vs not to resolue and say I will bee rich the high way into temptations and snares 1. Tim. 6.9 into foolish and noysome lusts which drowne men in perdition but to pray with AGVR Giue me neither pouertie nor riches feede mee with foode conuenient for me Pro. 30.8 Hee can teach vs to subordinate all our labors and endeauours vnto prouidence saying If the Lord will Iam. 4.15 I will doe this and that He can teach vs to keepe vnder these Treasures as dangerous subiects in seruitute not to set them vp in imperio èo magis Domini quo minus cupidi saith S. Barnard hee can teach vs to reckon these blessings as our Lords Talents the onely meditation to inure vs both to Vse them with care for his aduantage and resigne them with comfort as glad of our discharge Hee can teach vs to lay vp euen these earthly possessions in heauen by Almes and Well-doing whereof this Treasure is the fewell 1. Tim. 6.19 so laying a good foundation not of merite but of assurance against the time to come and making vs friends with the riches of iniquitie Luk. 16.9 to bid vs welcome into euerlasting habitations And indeed so onely are riches laide vp in safetie Lay them vp on earth and make them as sure as thou canst either the moth and canker that breede in them will corrupt them or the theefe will breake thorough and steale them from thee But hee that conuerts his riches into Almes and good workes Luk. 12.33 puts Treasure that cannot faile into bagges that cannot waxe old And relies henceforward not vpon Lockes and Barres but vpon the credit and trust of God his debtour both for the principall and for the interest for the aduenture and for the returne Oh it is good being Lenders when God is the borrower and Merchants where Christ is the Assurer Let others then distrust their Lord and put their confidence in their seruant Psal 10.3 Let them blesse themselues in their couetousnesse with contempt of God Let them trust in incerto diuitiarum 1. Tim. 6.17 the doubtfull and inconstant lot of Earthly Treasure But let vs take heede of this Cardiacapassio this poysonous and pestilent humour of worldlinesse that by a naturall proprietie strikes instantly to the Heart so setting it on fire that as the fire Pro 30.16 it neuer saith it is enough So poysoning it with worldly loue that where it lights it kils the loue of God and will make euen the Magistrate transgresse for a morsell of bread as Solomon speakes Pro. 28.21 Ezek 13.19 and the Minister to pollute God among his people for handfulls of Barly as the Prophet Ezekiel saith and which is yet worse if worse may be so possessing it with self loue which as Aug saith is vermis diuitiarum the canker-worme of riches that there is litle or no hope of amendment Pro. 28.11 for the rich man saith Salomon is wise in his owne eyes Pro. 26.12 therefore more hope of a foole then of him Wherefore let vs leaue these worldly wretches these Antipodes to God and his Kingdome who as men reenversed more like trees then men haue rooted both head and heart into the earth and set heauen at their heeles who haue their portion in this life if indeed it may be called a portion which they shal answer for as for pillage and robberie being without any right in Christ vnto the least morsell of bread without any assurance by couenant of the continuance of their wealth honour pleasure c. who like the horse are mastred and commanded by their burden and yet this is all their consolation while they can keepe it and the beginning and praeludium of hell when they are depriued of it who happily may feele no bands Psal 73.4 but assuredly shall haue no comfort no peace in their ends Ier. 17.19 whose names being written in the earth Psal 49.18 howsoeuer while they liued they blessed their soules and were praised of men while they were able to make much of themselues yet being entred into the generation of their fathers Vers 19. proue that to be true that man being in honor without vnderstanding becomes like the beasts that perish Vers 20. who yet herein are worse then the beasts that they must be dragged out of the prison of their graues to behold him whom they haue pearced Reuel 1.7 at what time there shall bee no Moses to stand in the gap for them no Aaron to step betweene the liuing and the dead no Noah Daniel or Iob to pity or pray for them yea when there shall be no more mercie no more patience no more repentings in God towards them but iudgment without mercie or mitigation God laughing at their destruction Pro. 1.26 Psal 58.10 and the Saints reioycing to see the vengeance that they may at length wash their feete in the bloud of the wicked when there shall bee no rocks Reuel 6.16 nor mountaines to fall vpon them 2. Pet. 3.10 when the earth and workes therin which they made their treasure shall melt with heat and bee consumed Oh hopelesse wretches what treasure then will they haue to trust to shall not the prouerb then be verified with them Mal. 4.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their treasure turned into coales not only because that day of the Lord that burneth as an Ouen shall consume the earth where they laid vp their treasure but also because euen these treasures wherein they trusted shall then rise vp in iudgement against them Iam. 5.3 and eate their flesh as it were fire so farre are these earthly treasures from auailing in the day of wrath Pro. 11.4 as Salomon speaketh To leaue these men Beloued and to conclude let vs embrace those heauenly treasures of righteousnesse which are only able to deliuer from death let vs cast in our lot with the children and friends of God who like God himself in some sort haue heauen for the throne of their heart and the earth for a footstoole vnder their feet who euen in this life haue right to all things by couenant and promise and therefore whatsoeuer they enioy is their owne neither Man nor God can impleade them for it who whatsoeuer their fare be eate of the labour of their hands Psal 128.2 and are blessed and it is well with them to whom whatsoeuer their lodging be the Lord giueth rest as vnto his beloued Psal 127.2 with whom all the creatures are in league Iob. 5.23 affoording them a commodious thorow fare and many a comfortable baite in the way of this life who haue the Saints for their companions Psal 91.11 the Angels for their guard Ianisaries for whose sake euen Kings are reproued Psal 105.14 and curbed that they can doe them no harm of whom there is no prayer but being perfumed with odours by that Angell Reuel 8.3.4 our Lord Iesus Christ it ascendeth vp into remembrance before God no word spoken in Gods behalf but it is written in that booke of remembrance Mal. 3.16 which the Lord keepeth for them that feare him and thinke vpon his name no teare shed for their owne or the common sinnes Psal 56.8 but it is put into that bottle and register of God who in the time of this pilgrimage haue many a mount Nebo many a Sabbath many an holy exercise many a greeting from the holy Spirit the comforter that giues them a token and inkling of the land of their inheritāce who in death are full of hope and blessed comfort being now to passe in soule vnto the celestiall Ierusalem Heb. 12.22.23 to the company of innumerable Angels to the congregation of the first borne to God the Iudge of all to the Spirits of iust and perfect men and to Iesus the Mediator who shall receiue this depositum this gage of their bodie at the last day but changed Phil. 3.21 and fashioned according to the glorious body of our Lord Iesus Christ Oh how spirituall shall the spirit bee when euen the body shall be spirituall how glorious when euen the bodie shall be glorified oh how blessed shall both soule and body be when we shall be one with God our Sauiour when God shall be all in all vnto vs 1. Cor. 15.28 Reuel 21.3 and our God for euer with vs our Sunne to shine vpon vs our Temple to hallow vs our foode to nourish vs our treasure our heauenly and euerlasting treasure to enrich vs That we may therefore so choose this better part the treasure of grace in this life as we may not faile of the treasure of glorie in the life to come The Lord for the riches of his mercie vouchsafe vs in and thorow our Lord Iesus Christ To whom c. Pro. 10.2 The Treasures of wickednesse profit nothing but Righteousnesse deliuereth from death