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A72993	A Romane centurion becomming a good souldier of Iesus Christ In foure sermons, preached in the cathedrall church, and in Saint Thomas Church at Sarum. By Bartholomevv Parsons, B.D. and rector of Ludgershall, in the county of Wiltes.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1635 (1635)	STC 19350.5; ESTC S124821	64,942	95

1 Pet. 1.4 undefiled like the stone Amiantus and unfading like the flower Amarantus Againe for Religion He was a devout man and one that feared God you are therein a true Israelite without guile a constant Professour of the Orthodoxe faith and Religion professed in this Church because it is in your conscience Gods truth and the right way of serving him and not for any temporising respects of swimming with the streame nor for any feare or favour of men He feared God with all his family It hath ever bin your Fathers and your own resolution and course with that brave leader of Israel Ioshua to serve God with your whole houshould (b) Ios 24.15 as thinking with the Emperour Constantius of his servants that they could not keepe their faith inviolate towards him that were perfidious to Almighty God (c) Euseb de vita Constan li. 1. ca. 11. and to see that they be present at the set times of prayer yea to compell them to come on the solemne dayes and times into Gods house that it may be full He if he had any wife in that houshold to oversee their wayes could not be happier in her then you are in your loving and religious Consort who so sympathizeth with you that whither you goe she will go where you lodge she will lodge your people are her people and which is best of all your God is her God and that nothing but death can part you her as Ruth saith to Naomi (a) Ruth 1.16 He gave much almes to the people round about him you not only like Abraham and Lot entertaine yea invite and entreat into your house your neighbours friends and strangers but also daily at your gates breake your bread and open your almes basket to the poore of the Parishes round adjoyning and refresh their hungry bowelles The Lord grant unto you that you may finde mercy of the Lord in that day He with his pitty and charity towards men joyned piety towards God praying to God continually and you do not onely serve God in righteousnesse and mercifulnesse towards men but also in holinesse towards him invocation of his name you have a Church in your house and an Oratory to serve God in and you have your stata tempòra set times which upon none occasion you omitte or intermitte And I have this confidence in you that you have also your secret times of entring into your Closet and praying to your Father in secret (a) Mat. 6. of communing with your owne heart upon your bedde and in private retirednesse (b) Psal 4. Now then macte virtute good lucke have thou with thine honour ride on still like a good plant in the house of the Lord flourish still in the Courts of our God bring forth still these fruits amongst your other fruits of Christianity both in your mature and old age (d) Psal 92.14 be stedfast unmooveable alwayes abounding in these workes of the Lord (e) 1 Cor. 15. as you beleeve against all the enemies of grace that the seed of grace sowne in the good ground bringeth forth fruit with patience and perseverance (f) Luk. 8.15 the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 importeth both and that the Lord who is faithfull will stablish his children in every good word and worke (g) 2 Thes 3.3 and 2 17. and confirme them unto the end (h) 1 Cor. 1.8 And that God who hath begun his good worke in you wil finish it until the day of Christ as he doth make you perfect stablish strengthen and settle you in every good worke so your reward shall be great in Heaven with him he will abundantly recompence his owne gifts and good works in you and crowne them with that crowne of righteousnesse which is laid up for all them that love the appearing of Iesus Christ in which blessed company that you may ever be found shall be the servent prayers of Your devoted Servant in Christ Iesuse BARTHOL PARSONS From my Rectory at Ludgershall in the County of Wilts the 30. March 1634. A Romane Centurion becomming a good Souldier of IESVS CHRIST SECTION I. Acts cap. 10. vers 1 2. 1 There was a certaine man in Cesares called Cornelius a Centurion of the Band called the Italian Band 2 A devout man and one that feared God with all his house which gaue much almes to the people and prayed to God alway IN the eight Chapter of this Booke there appeares unto us certaine glimmering sparkles or flashes as it were of Gods purpose to call the Gentiles out of darkenesse to his marveilous light both in the turning of the Samaritanes with whom before this time the Iewes might not meddle for they had no dealings with the Samaritanes Iohn 4.9 and into whose wayes the Apostles at their first sending out might not goe into any City of the Samaritanes enter yee not Math. 10.5 from the power of Satan to God and also in giving the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Iesus Christ unto the Eunuch that came to Ierusalem to worshippe But in this the resplendent beames of Gods good pleasure in giving unto the Gentiles repentance unto life shine cleerely unto us in an heavenly vision both instructing and authorising Peter that he being a Iew might enter in to Cornelius and the other Gentiles with him and preach Christ Iesus unto them This whole Chapter then containing a narration of the full illuminating of Cornelius with the knowledge of the Messias alreadie come In these two verses proposed is premised a description of the person of Cornelius either in his civill state Vers 1. There was a certaine man in Cesarea called Cornelius a Centurion of the Band called the Italian Band or his religious both affections and actions Vers 2. A devout man and one that feared God with all his house which gave much almes to the people and prayed to God alway In the former he is set out 1. By the place of his dwelling at Cesarea 2. By his profession and calling Hee was a Centurion of a Band which Band is also particularly described by the Countrey whence it came the Italian Band. In the latter his religious both affections and actions are declared generally or particularly generally He was a devout man which is also amplified by an equivalent phrase for fuller expression and one that feared God and also secondly by an adjoyned association with all his house-hold Particularly by the fruits of his Religion either in his charitie towards his brethren or his pietie towards God his charitie in giving almes amplified 1. by the measure much almes 2. by the persons to the people His pietie towards God in his prayers and supplications Hee prayed which are also set out by the circumstance of the person to whom He prayed to God 2. of the time He did it alway To prosecute these particulars in their order I begin first with the first