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fire_n	earthquake_n	lord_n	wind_n	4,960	5	10.8107	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16541	Two sermons, for these who are to come to the table of the Lord With diverse prayers fit for the necessities of the Saincts at diverse occasions. Carefully digested by Mr. Zacharie Boyd, preacher of Gods word, at Glasgovv.	Boyd, Zacharie, 1585?-1653.	1629 (1629)	STC 3449; ESTC S119278	44,800	136

to him hee instructeth them first what they should not doe and after what they should doe yea before hee came to them with instructions he reproveth them boldly in the face as Paul withstood Peter declaring plainely vnto them that they walked not vprightly because they sought after GOD more for their belly then for himselfe The vse let vs learne of Christ heerehow we should proceed with carnall men wee whom the Lord hath appointed to bee teachers in his Church * First of all we must proceede against them with reprofes proofes malo nodo malus cuneus for a hard knot wee must prepare a harde wedge * The law with its threatnings must goe before the Gospell like a needle making way to the threede It is great wisedome for teachers first to thunder downe the high corruptions of nature in those that are not cast downe for their sinnes Every mountaine hill shall bee brought low Prophane hearts must not at the first bee dawbed with faire words but rather dashed with reproofes Woe to them that stroake knaues heads for that is to spill them and to bring the guilt of their blood vpon the teachers head when the fester is begunne the Surgeon must cut * The Lord himselfe teached his Prophet Elijah how to teach his stif-necked people and that by the forme of his comming vnto him at Horeb for to giue warning to the Prophet of his comming hee sent before him three grimme and austere messengers The first was a great and strong wind which rent the mountaines and brake in pieces the rockes before the Lord After the wind came an earthquake The third was a fire After those three the spirit of God came into a still small voice It is so that Pastours must procede with a stubburne people the tempests of wrath must blow first with a galewind and after with fearefull threatnings the rebellious hearts must bee shaken as with an Earthquake Jf all that moue not the preacher must open vp Hell and let wicked soules see those vnquenchable brimstone flammes of fire smoking with fearefull vengeance * It is so that we must come to the tryall of our selues this day in our Christian examination let first the wind of Gods word threatning our sinnes rent the rockes of our hearts After that wee must feele an Earthquake viz a heartquake After that our hearts haue beene shaken as with a mighty wind and after that they haue quaked for feare if all that worke not wee must consider the fearefull flammes wherewith the wicked shall be scorcthed the cause of everlasting weeping gnashing of teeth * Such a soule as is shaken with winds and quaketh for feare and trembleth at the fire of God his ' wrath is most meete to meete with God into the calme * Wee must doe with our selues this day as Joseph did with his brethren at their first meeting it is said that that hee spake roughly vnto them Wee must speake roughly this day against our selues if we would haue God to speake meekly to vs to morrow * Wee must deest our ill thoughts words deeds with many a fy fy fy wee must strike with the Publican vpon our breast where all the mischeefe was bredde and must strike with Ephraim vpon our thigh which caried vs to the effectuating of our wicked projects * yea must hold an assise and justice Court within our conscience where wee must first judge and thereafter condemne our selues if wee would haue God to absolue vs. Christ first spake roughly to the Cananitish woman calling her a dogge but after hee had made her content to creepe for a crum like a dogge vnder his table hee comforted her with wonderfull comforts wondring himselfe at her faith * The order of GOD his proceding w●th his owne children is first to sing of mercy and after of judgment if the song of mercy moue not But because of our stubburnesse often the Lord must turne his tune and first of all sing of judgment That done so soone as by reproofes rough speaches hee hath affraighted vs and humbled our hearts he being touched with their dolours is so moved that hee can no more refraine from discovering himselfe vnto vs he cryeth out to our soules I am Ioseph J am Iesus your brother come neere to mee I pray you * Before this bee done all our ill devises lyke the Aegyptians must remoue and pack themselues to the doore * As Ioseph would not reveale himselfe vnto his brethren so long as the Aegyptians were into the chamber of the house neither will Christ reveale himselfe in mercy to the soule so long as the black Aegyptians of reigning sinnes remaine within the house of our hearts * Againe let vs consider heere those men did only follow Christ for loaues They sought nothing but bread and yet behold heere they get better than bread viz. instructions from CHRIST first what they should not labour for Secondly what they should labour for The doctrine is this what ever consideration moveth a man to follow Christ it is good ever to follow Christ. Those men followed him only for their belly and behold how hee feedeth their soules by the preaching of the word instructing them for what they should not labour and for what they should labour * J am assured that Christ never preached but some soule gat good Hee who made poore fisher men fishors of men could best fish men himselfe The Apostles might cast their nets and catch nothing but Christ never toiled without any taking Though at the beginning while CHRIST preached vpon my text his auditors cared for nothing but their belly J am assured that before his Sermon was ended some of them cast their bellyes behind their backs for to seeke the food of their * There is not a preaching preached but some gracious pickle falleth vpon some heart lyke well prepared ground * The preaching of the word is like sowing when the sower hath put his sheete about his necke he casteth the seed from him not thinking that every pickle that commeth ' out of his hand shall take root No not Some fall vpon stones some vpon the way some among thornes scarsly doth the fourth pickle of that which was sowen come to the sheafe for the hope of the fourth pickle the sower will bee content to losse three the fourth by its incresse being able to cause him sing when he shall bring his sheaues with him * As the sower singeth for joy while he reapeth the incresse but of the fourth so must the Teacher be glad if every fourth word of his sermon doe good if the fourth person be touched yea which is more as GOD for the loue of one would haue spared lerusalem so the Teacher for the loue of one though in all his flock he should haue but one good man yet for the loue of