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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17330	Ten sermons vpon the first, second, third and fourth verses of the sixt of Matthew containing diuerse necessary and profitable treatises , viz. a preseruative against the poyson of vaine-glory in the 1 & 2, the reward of sincerity in the 3, the vncasing of the hypocrite in the 4, 5 and 6, the reward of hypocrisie in the 7 and 8, an admonition to left-handed Christians in the 9 and 10 : whereunto is annexed another treatise called The anatomie of Belial, set foorth in ten sermons vpon the 12, 13, 14, 15 verses of the 6 chapter of the Prouerbs of Salomon.	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1602 (1602)	STC 4178.5; ESTC S261	267,037	263

the body domineering ouer the whole man 3 The nature of hypocrisie and how it is descried in the outward parts and gestures of the body 4 The cunning of the wicked who can teach sinne and set forward mischiefe and leudnesse euen by signes and gestures 5 Lastly the aptnesse and pronnesse of our nature to learne euill euen by signes gestures and dumbe shewes Of euery one of these a little and first of the strictnesse and seuere precisenesse of the word of God in marking and noting the very motions of the body and euery part thereof The Lord we see plainly noteth the very gestures of the body as well as the words of the mouth and actions of our life yea he teacheth vs not onely how to liue and how to speake but also how to go and to moue our bodies euery part and member is set to schoole and bound to his good behauiour Euen as in the building of the tabernacle and materiall Temple there was nothing left to the discretion of them that built it but a patterne was giuen them by God for euerything euen to the very pinnes and ash-pannes and flesh-hookes c. So in the spirituall building of our bodily tabernacles and temples of the holy Ghost nothing is left to our wils and discretions but euen from the very thoughts of the heart to the outward gestures of the body yea to the very mouing of the eyes the fingers and the feet the Lord hath set downe an order in his holy word and whosoeuer breaketh that order is noted for it by the Lord but who soeuer wilfully neglecteth it and setteth the same at naught is also branded for a man of Belial and vaine person whose heart is full of lewd things and whofe destruction commeth both speedily and suddenly vpon him Caines countenance cannot be cast downe but the Lord will note it and search out the cause thereof Gen. 4.6 to be an enuious eye and a bloudy heart against his brother for his goodnesse to shew that we must looke vnto our very countenance least wrath and enuy be espied therein The harlot is noted well inough for her impudent face and thereby is she also noted for a harlot to teach women and maidens to watch ouer their countenances and outward behauiour that there appeare not too much boldnesse and lightnesse therein because thereby they are discerned either what they are or what they would be The proud women of Israel could not walke as they did with their neckes stretched out nor counterfeit a minsing gate but the Lord doth note them for it and doth he not note the daughters of England for the same things aswell as the daughters of Ierusalem The Pharisees could not disfigure their faces when they fasted but our Sauiour Christ would surely marke it and haue it recorded in his word to their shame and the admonition of all others We are become a laughing stocke saith the Church of God being in captiuity and a nodding of the head vnto the Heathen to shew that the very fleering of the countenance and the nodding of the head in contempt and despite of Gods people must be answered for before the Lord aswell as reprochfull speeches and bloudy actions And amongst other signes of contempt and reproch shewed by the Iewes against our Sauiour Christ at his death this is noted by the Euangelist for one that they wagged their heads at him So the man of Belial cannot worke his feates by signes and gestures but the word of God will take notice of it and tell all the world that He maketh a signe with his eyes he signifieth with feete instructeth with his fingers And according to this rule must we liue by this card must we saile making as the Scripture teacheth vs straite steppes vnto godlinesse So farre are we from teaching men liberty to sinne as the wicked Belials of popery slanderously charge the Preachers of the Gospell that we allow not men so much liberty as to make signes to any euill purpose but to carry euen the outward parts of the body and the motions thereof in such sort as they be neither offensiue nor infectiue but according to sobriety and simplicity For this is one chiefe end why the grace of God hath appeared sayth the Apostle to Titus to teach vs not onely to denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts but also to liue soberly godly and righteously in this present world Which sobriety mentioned by the Apostle in that place is opposite vnto all lightnesse and scandalous behauiour which appeareth as well in the gestures of the body as in other things Some in their wanton and light behauiour are both offensiue to the godly and infectiue to the weaker Christians these walke not according to sobriety Some againe are as counterfeit both in matters of religion and also in common ciuility embracing affable courting ducking promising and protesting c. when there is no good meaning at all in them these walke not according to simplicity All which counterfeit behauiour the Lord noteth and condemneth aswell as Cain for for the heauinesse of his countenance when it bewraied the enuy and malice of his hart And no maruell for both charity and chastity are the worse for such gestures as are not in sobriety and simplicity Charity is broken as well by a proud or disdainfull looke as by a railing slanderous or reprochfull speech As well by the nodding of the head and fleering of the countenance and winking of the eye or putting out the tongue is charity broken and wrath prouoked as by the violence of the hand As charity is broken so also is chastity assaulted that way euen by leud signes and wanton gestures of the body as wel as by plaine motions and enticements of speech both modesty and impudency loue and lust will all appeare and shew themselues in the gestures and motions of the body though the tongue sit still in silence say nothing according to the saying of Salomō in another place of this booke Wisedome shineth in the face of the prudent Many are ashamed to speake what they thinke but yet by signes and gestures they will shew what they desire If these should hold their peace saith Christ pointing to his disciples which praised him the very stones would cry So if the toung be silent the eyes the fingers and the feete will speake Therfore euery member must be sanctified made a weapon of righteousnesse This seuerity of the word of God is it that troubleth all the world It is counted too great precisenesse to liue so strictly We cannot looke awry now adayes say some but we shall be told of it in the Pulpit Ah sayth another the world is come to a good passe indeed we must now go to the schoole of good manners againe we must learne of the Preacher how to go and how to looke and when to laugh and when to

be giuen to God and after the homeliest fashion too without any holy reuerence or due preparation the other halfe to the world or the flesh or the diuell or al and that with all deuotion and earnestnesse of affection These may well be likened to the idoll of Achab to whom Baals Priests cryed O Baal heare vs. But what said Elias Crie lowder for it may be that your God sleepeth or pursueth his enemies or else he talketh with some bodie or is in his iourney So if the Minister of Christ would haue Belial to heare him he must crye lowder O Belial heare vs for it may be that the men of Belial are a sleepe and must be awaked or pursuing their enemies or setting their rackes or casting ouer their vsurie bookes or selling their wares or viewing their grounds as Nebuchadnezzar did his pallace or running after their bowles or playing at cardes or pursuing of their vanities And that see others of the inferiour sort and they become as deafe too as their betters If a man cry neuer so lowd to these Belials it will not boote for they are as deafe as Baal and if there be no lawe to compell them to sanctifie the sabbath in better sort we do but loose our labour Herod would heare Iohn Baptist so Iohn would let him alone with his brothers wife so would many also now be hearers of the word and reuerence as much the Preacher as euer Herod did Iohn so they may haue a dispensation for some speciall sinne of theirs which doth yeeld them some filthy gaine or beastly pleasure But Herod was a man of Belial for all his deuout hearing of Iohn and so are these kind of hearers too for he cast off the yoke of mortification and so do they Well if we will be Christians indeede as well as in name we must put on the yoke of obedience to Christs lawes What he saith we must beleeue what he commaundeth we must obey what he promiseth we must desire what he threatneth we must feare what he suffereth we must partake what we vnderstand not we must reuerence what we like not we must at the least affect it what we brooke not we must yet hunger after and what cup he hath drunke to vs in we must desire to pledge him in the same with all our heart and count ourselues not worthie of such an honour when we haue obtained of God so great a fauour We must then deny our selues willingly and for his sake take vp the crosse chearefully for this is Christs lawe we must heare his voice and follow him for this is Christs lawe we must often remember him by worthie receiuing his holy supper for this is Christs lawe we must do to the poore what we would do to him for this is Christs lawe we must loue one another as he hath loued vs for this is Christs law we must suffer reproches and rebukes for his sake for this is Christs lawe we must learne to forgiue our enemies as he hath forgiuen vs for this is Christs law In a word we must mortifie all our euill lusts and affections and make our members weapons of righteousnesse for this also is the law of Christ. For this cause the word is called a candle to light vs in darkenesse a sharpe sword to cut and deuide vs a hard hammer to driue and breake vs and a burning fire to purge consume vs by ruling our liues wherby both yong in yeres and yong in knowledge are to redresse their wayes Psal. 119.9 And the obedience of a Christian is nothing else but a following of that light a suffering of that sword to hew and cut him of that hammer to breake and batter him of that fire to purge and consume him of that fanne to winnow and cleanse him and of that plough to breake and till him and all this with patience gladnesse and thankfulnesse A dutie this is very painefull for flesh and bloud to performe and therefore is called in the scriptures a cutting off the hand a pulling out of the eie Mat. 5.29.30 A cutting of the throat Pro. 23.2 a weaning of the soule Psal. 131.2 and a crucifying of the flesh with the affections and lusts therof Gal. 5.24 To shew that is is as hard a matter by nature to forgo our sinnes as our eyes or our hands or our liues Yet because grace doth go beyond nature and goodnesse is stronger then euill and the spirit doth ouercome the flesh and faith beginneth where reason endeth therefore Christs yoke is called easie and his burden light Mat. 11.26 For he hath borne it for vs and doth beare it in vs and beareth vs too and therfore it is light to him that would beare it as Salomon saith All the words of God are plaine to him that will vnderstand and straight to them that would find knowledge Prou. 8.9 Nay more as the birds fethers are a benefit vnto her and not a burden because they carrie her vp from the snare of the fowler so the seruice of Christ it no burthen vnto vs but a benefite because it freeth vs from the bondage of the Diuell Therefore let vs go on my good brethren without fainting Let xs resolue to put on the yoke of Christ to be obedient vnto the Gospell to cast off our lazinesse in the seruice of God and to cast away our sins of profite and pleasure though we go through honour and dishonour as we must like the yoked oxe that haleth his burthen after him through thicke and thinne Many defie the Pope and thinke then that they are good Christians and yet are lawlesse in their affections The Turke the Iew the Saracene and the infidell can say so much but except your righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen saith Christ so except our righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Turkes and Saracens we cannot be saued Therefore as we defie Poperie so we must be carefull to imitate Christ and to glorifie him by the subduing of our carnall lustes and desires The commendation that Saint Paul gaue vnto the Thessalonians was for that they turned from their idols vnto the liuing God 1. Thes. 1.9 But what commendation shall we deserue if we forsake Poperie and serue other sinnes if we leaue the Papistes and ioyne with Atheists Machiauels and Libertines The yoking of a Christian Dauid calleth a waining of the soule to shew that we long after libertie as the child doth after the breast that is to cry for it when we cannot get it Now in waining of the soule we must do as nurses do in waining of children they first annoint their breastes with some sower things to bring the child out of loue withall then they prouide some other wholesome foode for the child so we must haue before our eyes the discommodities of the world and the miseries of vanitie