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A10617	Foure sermons viz. I. Sinnes contagion, or the sicknesse of the soule. II. The description of a Christian. III. The blindnesse of a wilfull sinner. IV. A race to heaven. Published by William Ressold, Master of Arts and minister of Gods Word at Debach in Suffolke.	Ressold, William, b. 1593.	1627 (1627)	STC 20894; ESTC S100603	96,549	145

mercenarily for temporall respects so the carnall may sometime follow Christ Our Saviour himselfe doth witnesse it of those that followed him from Galile to Capernaum Ioh. 6.26 Yee seeke mee said Christ not because ye saw the miracles but because ye ate of the loaves and were filled This is that for which God doth tax those rebellious ones in the prophesie of Hosea Mos 7.14 who assembled themselves for corne and wine that they might have plenty in those things but otherwaies were rebellious against God and had no affection to his Majestie Againe others there are that follow Christ not willingly because they have hearts bent unto Christ to practise that which he injoynes but dissemblingly for shew sake because they would be accounted religious Mat. 7.16 But as our Saviour Christ speakes Yee shall know them by their fruites for observe them and yee shall cleerely see that all their religion consists in the eare and in the tongue These heare as oft as any they will speak as freely of the word as any but for holy practice the workes of pietie and remorsefull charitie the evidence of a true and lively faith oh none so barren as these but under this maske of coloured religion you shall have them to drinke deep in the sinke of wickednesse to make no question to lie for gaine to deceive for profit to oppresse and gripe with a devouring hand whatsoever comes neere them yea though they bee holy things such as God hath sequestred to himselfe for the promoting of his worship Prov. 20.25 and doth conclude it to bee an abomination to devoure them yet these these make no question to swallow up and Viper-like to wound destroy their own Mother Which plainely shewes they are abortive Impes and never truely begotten But what should I speake of this cause oh how miserable is the state of the Church in this behalfe Rent by Schismatiques wounded by Atheists pierst by Hypocrites devoured by Customes confronted by every wrangling Spirit who like the Edomites to exasperate the Babilonians crueltie seem to cry out Downe with it down with it even to the foundation therof Alas Psal 127.7 to torture blessed Christ Pilate Herod wil be friends to wound the holy church Luke 23.12 and to supplant Gods sacred worship those meager Coridons Gen. 34.25 Gen. 49.5 that love not each other will yet lincke together like Simeon and Levi brethren in mischiefe Wherefore to passe by this particular which finds so few to take compassion upon it though it mournfully cry out Lam. 7.12 Have ye no regard all yee that passe by this way behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow to passe by this grievous miserie to regard which all eares seeme to be deafe all eyes to bee blinde all tongues to be silent all hands to be claspt all hearts to be hardned and to returne againe unto those dissembling followers of Christ no small enemies in this kinde to whom it is common to presse great labours from the Preacher but if hee touch them in their temporals and expect his due from them oh then they cry out Tolle away with him hee is no man for us for these follow Christ meerely for private respects to be talkers and no doers for if Christ required practice Mat. 19.21 and would rather have them to sell that they have than charitie should bee wanting or the distressed unrelieved or Gods worship suppressed then like that yongue man in Matthewes Gospell Mat. 19.22 they bid a farewell to Christ For these be like that figg-tree that Christ did curse they have goodly leaves Mat. 21.19 but alas nothing but leaves If Christ be ahungred and seeke for fruit from these he shall be sure to finde none at all Thus wee see there be some that follow Christ but not willingly but mercenarily not willingly but dissemblingly for shew not for substance Lastly others there bee that follow Christ not willingly but constrainedly as provokt thereunto by the revenging hand of God This made Pharaoh to cry out The Lord is righteous but I and my people are wicked Exod. 9.27 and to be so farre obsequious as for the present to consent to let the people goe This made corrupt Balaam in stead of cursing to blesse the people of the Lord. Numb 23.8 9. This made wicked Ahab to humble himselfe in sack-cloth before this mightie God 1. King 21.27 And we may see by experience that this makes ungodly persons so to follow Christ as to intreat mercie and favour at his hands when God doth execute his justice upon them Phil. 2.10 11. yea this at length shall make the most stubborne and rebellious spirits to bow at the name of Iesus and to confesse him to bee the Lord unto the glorie of God the Father But as our Saviour himselfe doth witnesse not everie one that saith unto him * That is superficially or constrainedly Mat. 7.21 Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdome of heaven but he that doth the will of his father which is in heaven Therefore the true sheepe of Christ doe follow him willingly with readie hearts and inclinde affections to doe whatsoever he injoynes And thus wee see the scope of the first point how the sheepe of Christ doe follow him namely willingly Secondly they doe follow him patiently not murmuring not repining at the afflictions which befall them in the profession of the Gospell for they remember that Christ himselfe doth witnesse Mat. 16.24 that if any will follow him they must forsake themselves and take up their crosse and follow him yea they know that he hath left it as a legacie unto his children that in him they shall have peace Ioh. 16.33 but in the world affliction In him a blessed peace the peace of conscience in this life and the peace of glorie in the life to come The incomparable solace whereof is so ingraven upon their hearts by the spirit of God that they with cheerfull patience undergoe all the stormes that Satan and his confederates can afford Heb. 11.25 26 Choosing rather with blessed Moses to suffer adversitie than to enjoy the pleasures of sinne for a season esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of the Epypt of this world for they have respect unto the recompence of the reward Rom. 8.18 which makes them to conclude that the afflictions of this life are not worthy of the joyes that shall bee revealed but that as the same Apostle speakes 2. Cor. 4.17 their light affliction which is but for a moment shall cause unto them a farre more excellent and an eternall weight of Glorie Therefore our Saviour Christ doth strictly lay this charge upon his servants Luke 21.19 by patience to possesse their soules for as the Apostle speakes Iames 1.20 The wrath of man doth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉