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The fauourite: or, A plaine demonstration from Holy Scripture of Gods especiall loue to the righteous, in a sermon preached at S. Andrewes in Norwich, the 18. of Nouemb. 1611. since enlarged and newly published for the comfort of Gods people. By Timo: Plummer preacher of Gods word
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he was rich 2. Cor. 8.9 yet for our sakes became poore Hee was poore in his birth life and death Luk. 2.7 His birth was not allowed a fit roome in a common Inne In his life the foxes and foules Luk. 9.58 had a more certaine dwelling At his death he had not a graue of his owne to be buried in Ioh. 29.42 Ergo they must in some proportion drinke of Christs cup of pouertie The Disciple is not aboue his Master Luk. 6.40 2. That he may put a difference between the time of our nonage and the time of possessing our inheritance Gal. 4.1 that wee may sensibly discerne the time of our soiourning here 1. Pet. 1.17 Act. 3.21 from the times of the restitution of all things God will not let vs finde a heauen vpon earth Math. 17.4 and so dreame It is good for vs to be here 3. Being Pilgrimes and Trauellers in their present condition Heb. 11.13 it is not meete they should bee cumbred and loden with too much thicke clay God will allow vs a light staffe to ease vs in our way but not a heauie burden to hinder our progresse 4. That the wicked may haue occasion to doe good that their mouthes may be stopped and they not able to say but that there was some little ones in estate to doe good vnto Mat. â—5 45 Mark 14.7 Deu. 15.11 according to that Ye haue the poore with you alwaies and whensoeuer ye will ye may doe them good 5. That he may exercise his speciall graces in their hearts In infortu nus vnâ—â—s â—â—â—cet as Faith Patience Hope Humilitie c. Faith for if they should haue riches in abundance they would goe neere to trust in them 〈…〉 in dead vncertaine riches and not in the liuing God and therefore God often keepeth backe greatnesse that himselfe might be our chiefest trust and stay Patience God brought Iob to a little Iob 1. that hee might inure his patience in very truth God by this dealing will trie how willingly we submit and subscribe to his prouident allowance Hope He will haue vs hope for a plenty else-where 1. Cor. 15.19 If in this life onely we haue hope we are of all men most miserable Humilitie because riches doe eleuate and lift vp the heart God by the Prophet telleth the Prince of Tyrus Thou hast encreased thy riches Ezech. 28.5 and thy heart is lifted vp because of thy riches Obiect He was a heathen and a wicked man but Gods children are of a better mould frame and disposition Answ Nay in this point God is iealous of his owne people that are in speciall couenant with him He bids them Take heede that when they haue eaten and are ful and haue built goodly houses c. Deut. 8.14 that their heart be not lifted vp and they forget God which brought them forth of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage Omnibus nobis vt res dant sese ita humiles aut elati sumus Terent. in Hecyra For the most part as the purse filleth the heart swelleth The heathen Poet could say as much According to our outward estate wee are either proud or humble It is pitie faire weather should doe hurt but it commeth often to passe that in abundance Gods children are subiect to surfeit when penury want and their competent little keepeth them in good temper Viuitur exiguo melius Prou. 30.8 9. This made Agur pray as heartily against riches as against pouerty Giue me neither pouertie nor riches least I bee full and denie thee and say who is the Lord First this doth disprooue that false glasse and crooked rule 1. Vse by which many rich men iudge of their spirituall estate before God they thinke themselues highly in Gods fauour because rich Ier. 9.23 but let not the rich man glory in his riches For alas this is a meere deceit Eccl. 9.1.2 These outward things fall out alike vnto all or commonly Gods chiefe Fauourites haue the least portion when prophane Esau Gen. 27.39 whom God hateth is allowed the fatnesse of the earth Prou. 3.16 I tell thee riches are but a gift of the left hand and if any haue the vantage it is the poore man Haue ye not read that God is called the God of the poore and needie the Father of the fatherlesse Psal passim Hath not God chosen the poore in this world rich in faith and heires of the kingdome which he hath promised to them that loue him Iam. 2.5 Luk. 7.22 Yea to the poore is the Gospel preached ordinarily the poorer sort of people do giue best well-come and entertainment to the same 1. Cor. 1 26 when not many mightie and rich in the world are effectually called Ioh. 7.48 Haue any of the rulers beleeued on him How hardly shall they that haue riches enter into the kingdome of God such as trust in riches Mark 10.23 24. as is there expounded Therefore I may say to rich and poore Ioh. 7 24. Iudge not after the appearance but iudge righteous iudgement and alwaies remember that in heauen is poore Lazarus aswell as rich Abraham pouertie Luk. 16. ragges nakednesse cannot separate vs from Gods loue in Christ Rom. 8.35 He that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him though he be neuer so poore Act. 10.35 this is ancient doctrine that God accepteth not the persons of Princes Iob 34.19 nor regardeth the rich more then the poore Vse 2 Secondly this exhorts vs to contentation hauing Iacobs request foode and rayment Gen. 28.20 1. Tim. 6.8 Heb. 13.5 things for the present our portion our lot our little let vs therewith be content let vs learne with the Apostle a deepe point of Christian learning I haue learned saith he Phil. 4.11 12. in whatsoeuer estate I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound euery where and in all things I am instructed Simus contenti ista mediocri fortuna c. modico substantiola Westmer both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer neede Learne then since God hath cut thee out but a little to bee heartily well content with his good will and pleasure Obiect 1 But our little may prooue too little and so we perish in want begge starue in the streete c. Answ I will not goe out of this Psalme for an answer Verse 25. Obserue the Prophets long experience I haue beene yong and now am old yet haue I not seene the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread Obiect 2 We daily see that which he did not the righteous ouer-whelmed with pouertie and beggery Answ If we obserue who be the common beggers in the world we shall finde the to be the vilest gracelesse and godlesse persons of all the earth There are but a
Mic. 6.14 Prod. 13.25 Pauxillum pium satiat-affluentia impium non satiat Scultet Dcut. 8.3 God makes bread to be a staffe and stay to satiate and strengthen the righteous man when the wicked haue the staffe of bread broken and the stay taken away they eate eate eate and are not satisfied The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soule but the belly of the wicked shall want In a word man liueth not by bread onely but by euery word of God Now one word of God is a word of blessing which the wicked haue not So that as Salomon saith of the labourers sleepe The sleepe of the labouring man is sweete Eccles 5.12 whither he eate little or much so may I say of the righteous mans meate it is sweet whether it be little or much for the blessing of God doth so sweeten and season it that his very appetite and hunger is a sauourie sauce vnto it Thirdly in that he hath an heart comfortably to enioy his little Esay 3.10 Say ye to the righteous it shall be well with him for they shall eate the fruite of their doing As it is Gods mercy to reward the righteous for well-doing so it is Gods gracious blessing that they taste eate and enioy euen in this life a part of their reward That men may say Psal 58.11 Verily there is a reward for the righteous verily there is a God that iudgeth in the earth And that this is a speciall fauour hearken what Salomon saith Behold that which I haue seene to eate and to drinke Eccles 5.18 19. it is good and comely for one Iustus dirigi tur a deo vt sciat vti divitijs non est avarus non est prodigus c. Bellarm. and to enioy the good of all his labours that he taketh vnder the Sunne all the daies of his life which God giueth him for it is his portion Euery man also to whom God hath giuen riches and wealth and hath giuen him power to eate thereof and to take his portion and to reioyce in his labour This is the gift of God When on the other side there is an euill seene of him vnder the Sunne and it is common amongst men Eccle. 6.1.2 A man to whom God hath giuen riches wealth and honour so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof but a stranger eateth it This is a vanitie and an euill disease Horat. Quo mihi fortunas si non conceditur vti Prou. 15.16 17. 17.1 Eccles 4.6 Is not then a little eaten and enioyed better then abundance laide vp and lookt on I thinke I cannot conclude better then with that of Salomon Better is a little with the feare of of the Lord Better is a dinner of hearbes Better is a drie morsell Better is a handfull with quietnes c. then the abundant superfluitie of many wicked Vse 1 First hence floweth comfort and encouragement to all them that haue traced in the way of righteousnes Let not the righteous man forsake his righteousnesse Ezek. 18. â—4 or slacke his pace but rather goe on since the righteous mans estate is so good He may say as Iob in another sense Iob 27.6 My righteousnesse I hold fast Reu. 22.11 and I will not let it goe If God be so good to the righteous Let him that is righteous be righteous still Hos 6.4 Let not thy goodnesse O Christian professour be as the morning cloud or the earely dewe soone dryed vp and gone away but as I would haue the sowe the seede of righteousnesse in the morning of thy age Eccle. 11.6 begin betimes so I would not haue thee withhold thy hand in the euening giue in in thy old age but be faithfull vnto the death Reu. 2.10 Yea since God dorh not in his mercies graces and blessings forsake vs when wee are old and gray-headed Psal 71.18 let vs not forsake him in our old age but let our gray-head be a crowne of glory vnto vs Prou. 16.31 being found in the way ef righteousnesse Let vs encrease in all well-doing Prou. 4.18 that our pathes as the shining light may shine more and more vnto the perfect day Secondly this may moue all men to bee much affected yea 2. Vse euen rauished with this estate and happy condition and to be induced with all speed to seeke the Kingdom of God and his righteousnes Math. 6.33 since all things shall be so comfortably added vnto them Let vs labour to be partakers of that kingdome which consist not in meat and drinke Rom. 14.17 but in righteousnesse Let this be first sought after of vs and it will bee the most readie way to thriue in the world for all things shall be so added blessed and bettered as nothing needfull shall be wanting to vs. Psal 4.6 It is the onely question in the world Who will shew vs any good We that are preachers do shew thee Mic. 6.8 O man what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee nay we shew thee the good and right way to encrease and better thy outward estate It is the Diuels Prouerbe He that vseth plaine dealing shall die a begger The plaine and iust way is the sure safe and gainfull way It is a slander to say It is vaine to serue God and what profit is it that wee keepe his ordinances c. Dauid hath long since confuted that saying Mâ—l 3.14 Iob 21.15 Psal 19.11 In keeping Gods righteous iudgements there is great reward If we would trie God in the practice of his will see if God would not open the windowes of heauen Mal 3.10 and poure vs out a blessing that there shall not be roume enough to receiue it Hos 2.22 yea when God hath betrothed vs vnto himselfe in righteousnesse then he will heare the heauens and the heauens shall heare the earth and the earth shall heare the corne and the wine and the oyle and they all shall heare vs. So long as thou goest on O vaine man in the way of wickednesse thou art an outlaw out of Gods protection God neede take no care of thee But when thou turnest thy feet to Gods commandements thou mayst claime the priuiledge of a good subiect take the benefite of Gods Couenant and promise wherein God is tyed in little or much to bestow vpon thee a great blessing I thinke we may say as Bildad to Iob If thou beest pure and vpright Iob 8.6.7 surely now he will awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end shal greatly encrease so it came to passe with him the Text is euident for it Iob. 42.12 The Lord blessed the latter end of Iob more then his beginning yea Verse 10. Deut. 28.1 God gaue him twise as much as he had