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A00753	Comfortable notes vpon the bookes of Exodus and Leuiticus, as before vpon Genesis Gathered and laid downe still in this plaine manner, for the good of them that cannot vse better helpes, and yet are carefull to read the Scriptures, and verie desirous to finde the comfort in them. By the Reuerend Father in God Geruase Babington ... With a table of the principall matters contained in this booke.	Babington, Gervase, 1550-1610.	1604 (1604)	STC 1088; ESTC S100580	531,878	712

they can They will rake they will scrape they will hoord and muckervp their wicked Mammon is their GOD and their Chest their hope in time of néede But what became of Manna it selfe when it was kept contrarie to Gods liking Wormes bred in it as you sée it stanke and no wayes serued to their vse that so disobediently had laide it vp Euen so so shall it euer bee with this Crue let them make their reckoning of it and rest assured Ill gotten goods shall not prosper nor the thirde heire bee the better for them Our eyes daylie sée what may teache our hearts if GOD bee within vs and this notable place of rotting Manna would neuer bee forgotten 7. Yet the sixt day they reserued and it corrupted not Uerie true and let it neuer goe out of your minde whilest you liue For vpon the sixt day they were commaunded to gather both for that day and the day following ver 5. which was the seauenth day and the Sabbath to the end they might rest vpon the Sabbath and not goe out to gather and it corrupted not No more shal any goods you get and gather with the will and good liking and by the commaundement of Almightie God that is truly lawfully and with a good conscience but the Lord shal blesse that basket and that store to you whilest you liue and to yours when you are gone and though it bee but little yet hee shall make it sufficient to sustaine your selfe to bring vp your Children and to doo what they which haue thrice as much as you comming in cannot doo Your Children againe after you maintayned with that which you haue well gotten shall prosper either in learning or trade so that they shall come to great Places often and to bee Great menne to carie such Offices of credite as are in the Countrie or Tewne where they dwell and leaue Gods mercies againe to their Children after them to a thousand generations louing and fearing Gods holy Name and kéeping his Commaundements when the quite contrarie shall come to passe with the goods ill gotten as you haue séene 8. Forget not to marke héere also the great care that GOD hath of his Sabbath that it bee kept holy according to his appointment when hee will not suffer these Israelites to gather so much as his Manna for their foode vppon the Sabbath day but appointeth them to doo it the day before May not a good soule thus reason then with himselfe or her selfe Good Lorde what doo I vppon the Sabbath day This people of his might not gather Manna and may I safelie gad to Faiers and Markettes to dauncinges and drinkinges to wakes and wantonnesse to Beare-baytinges and Bull-baytinges with such like wicked prophanations of the Lords day May I bee absent from the Church where Gods people are gathered together in his Name he in the midst of them walking about my Closes and grounds sending my Seruaunts and Cattle to Townes with corne which I haue solde before because I will not spare them on the wéeke daies and so forth Are these works for the Sabbath Is this to keepe holy the Sabbath day Can I answere this to my God that giueth me sixe daies for my selfe and taketh but one day to himselfe of which I rob him also No no assuredly I shall not be able to endure his wrath for these thinges one day and therefore I will leaue them and regard héereafter his holie Sabbath better than I haue done Yes assuredly this is a sound and a blessed Reason and therefore I pray God to set it in our hearts since now a-daies there is so much offending this way 9. When came this Manna from Heauen in the day or in the night In the night when the dewe fell downe this Heauenly bread fell with it and in the morning as hath béene noted verse 14 When the dewe ascended this lay all scattered vpon the earth to be gathered till the heate of the Sunne melted it away ver 21. What a swéete Note doo I sée heere namely that when his Children sléepe and are at rest Gods prouidence for them sléepeth not but worketh and giueth thinges for their vse and for their comfort for their health for their life for their aduancement vnto honour Groweth not the grasse when wee sléepe and the best hearbs for our health and vse Come not the swéet showers when we sléepe that make the Husbandman reioyce and sing Peter was a sléepe in the prison the next day to suffer death by cruell tyrannie watched and warded and bound with chaines neither was there any helpe in mans eyes for him only the little flocke of Gods Children gathered together in the house of a religious woman prayed for him but the prouidence of God was not sléepe which watched ouer him and his life and sent his Angell to deliuer him in such miraculous manner as you reade of euer and euer leauing vs a Testimonie of his care loue mercie and power as shall be good for vs the swéetnesse whereof I am not able to reach vnto but crie with the Prophet from my heart O blessed blessed is the man that hath the Lord for his God! it is better to trust in him than in all the Princes of the world And if he be on our side wee neede not care what man can doo against vs. Such another Example is that of king Ahasuerosh not able to sléepe but calling for the Chronicles and hitting vpon that place where Mordecai his loyaltie and faithfull seruice was mentioned thereby enquiring what had béene done for him and so exalting him to great honour Poore Mardocheus was a sléepe when this was done and little thought of such a matter But his swéete and gracious God was not on sléepe you sée sending from Heauen his Manna that is his comfortable Mercie to his Childes honour and his whole Churches good by his aduancement Shall wee euer then fall from this God by distrustfull feare that thus careth for his when they be on sléepe Lord Lord giue vs the vse of these thinges and strengthen our Meditation to an immoueable Faith and strong comfort in Thee euermore Consider the olde generations of men saith the wise Sirach and marke them well was there euer any confounded that put his trust in the Lord Did euer any continue in his feare and was forsaken or euer any call vpon him and was despised No no no no. And therefore lay it vp in your heart marke the Scriptures If wee beléeue that he hath made our bodies shall wee not also beléeue that hee will prouide for them séeing the creation is greater than the preseruation Hath hee care ouer the wicked to doo them good and will hee not much more reioyce to doo his Children good Did the Lord loue vs when wee were his enemies and will he leaue vs succourlesse when we are reconciled to him in so déere a price as his owne Sonnes precious blood O if he did vs

negligence they be cast away and in one word nothing that may hurt or offend iustly a religious mind The contrary spéeches are slaunders shamelesse lies as your self may sée if you wil make trial Priuate houses holes woods thickets hay-mowes barnes night darknesse may please them that loue darknesse walke in darknesse but a good mā a good woman will loue light open assemblies will open both eare and heart to the truth when God knocketh and stand no more wilfull against God that so made them bought them must iudge them The next point is reuerēce fit behauiour in the Church when we come there because it is Gods house where he dwelleth and is present In the first of Luke it is said that the whole multitude were without in prayer while the incense was burning so reuerently religiously did they then vse the place But alas in our daies S. Chrysostome his complaint may be taken vp Alios videostare et nugari dum preces fiunt neque solum dumpreces fiunt sed et dum Sacerdos benedicit Nescis quod cum Angelis stas cum illis cantas cum illis Hymnos dicis et stas ridens Non mirum esset si fulmen emitteretur non solum in eos sed etiam in nos dignaenim fulmine sunt haec I see others stand and trifle while prayer is said yea not onelie when prayer is saide but when the Priest blesseth Doest thou not know that thou stādest with the Angels singest with the Angels thou saist Hymns with thē standest thou laughing It were no maruell if God should sēd out a thunder-bolt not only vpon thē but vpō vs also for surely these things deserue a thūder-bolt In an other place againe Non est ecclesia tonstrina aut vnguentaria taberna aut officina forensis sedlocus Angelorum Regia Coeli Coelum ipsum The Church is not a Barbars Shoppe or an Apothecaries house or a common Court but a place of Angelles the Court of Heauen and Heauen it selfe Surely the deuout behauiour of the Iewes in the Temple wil be a witnesse to condemne Christians in the great day For they to types and figures shewed more reuerence than wee now a dayes to the truth and body Such in those dayes as did not regarde this reuerence of the place he whipped out shewing by that base punishment that such people are base not sonnes but seruile slaues of the Diuell If Moses were commaunded to put off his shooes told that it was holy ground where God appeared we may fitly learne by it reuerently to demean our selues in the Church The washing in the law when they entred iuto the Tabernacle The forbidding of burdens to be carried through the Temple all shewed then teach vs now reuerence of Churches and holy places where Gods people are assembled to heare and serue him And if he saith Augustine were worthy great punishment that should abuse a common well where all the Cittie fetch their water may we not say much more is he seuerely to be checked who abuseth the common well where Gods people fetch the water of life for their soules yes assuredlie for the sinne is greater I will wash my hands in innocencie saith Dauid and so go to thine Altar meaning he would euer remember what that holy place requireth Wicked men will forget it and do otherwise till Gods wrath breake out against them Sée Nicanor Antiochus Heliodorus in the Machabees and Belshazzar in Daniel When the king conceiued that Haman would haue forced Quéene Hester he tooke it the worse because it was in his house and before him and we meaner men also cannot abide our poore houses to be abused polluted by any How much more should not Gods house where he is séeth all Stat Sacerdos Dei orationem offerens cunctorum tu autē rides nihil timens Non contremiscis non colligis teipsū In aulā Regiā intraturus et habitu et oculis et incessu cōponis te et exornas huc autē ingressurus vbi est aula Regis Coelestis rides garris ambulas negotiaris The Priest standeth saith Chrysostom againe offering vp the prayers of all doest thou flire laugh fearing nothing doest thou not trēble recal thy selfe If thou wert about to enter into a Princes Court thou wouldest order thy habit thy look thy gate but ētring into the church which is the Court of the heauenly King thou doest laugh iangle walke make bargaines As a wise man knoweth the difference of times places and when to speake and when to holde his peace so a foole obserueth none but doeth in the Church what was to bée done in his priuate house And as the swine putteth his filthy foote in the very same trough where hée putteth his mouth to take his meate so the prophane Man and Woman there speake to their dog where they pray to their GOD and shew no reuerence to so holy a place In olde time mens houses were their Churches but now the Churches are our houses yea more prophaned than our houses with noise with babling with gazing and staring at euery one that commeth in or goeth out with fliring and laughing with sléeping and what not that is vnfit If we will buy and bargaine méete at the Church if you will brawle and brable méete at the Church thus thus are we odious to God men for abusing the house of Almightie God The Priests of Dagō all that came into Dagons house forbare to treade on the threshold where Dagō their Idol brake his necke for very reuerence and we shew no reuerence in the Court of the High God his Church and Temple To goe in to please God and further to displease him and so to encrease the sinne thou prayedst pardon for what a madnes is it if it be well considered Great care then let vs euer haue in the Church of God where Father Sonne Holy Ghost behold vs to doo nothing any way vnfitting the place The Lord shall neuer suffer such Christian reuerence of his house want a rich and comfortable blessing Let vs also consider the dulnesse of many men to adorne this house to repaire it to maintaine it and doo these remember it is Gods house what cost wée bestow on our owne dwellings who séeth not and yet neuer shall they bee ours longer than this GOD shall kéepe them to vs whose house wée thus neglect Truly it is fearefull to sée Mens backwardnesse in this behalfe Were GOD without a house til they built one that will not vphold one alreadie built it would be long How then can they say they desire his dwelling among them and his presence to their comfort No no they are far from féeling the true vse of Church méetings that thus hardly or not at all are drawn to any contributions for them They tast not what Tertullian