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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73426	A ievvell for the eare. By Ro. Wilkinson; Sermon of hearing, or, jewell for the eare	Wilkinson, Robert, Dr. in Divinity.	1602 (1602)	STC 25652.7; ESTC S125576	15,447	42

thinges which liue by the sweete that they sweate not for but they come vnsent for for God neuer spake to them neither do I commend their dilligence in comming for a blessed thinge it were if God should send a weste winde to blow them into the sea but I speake of those poore creatures whom God neuer calleth but they come and are obediēt and their obedience ascendeth vp to heauen and from heauen is descended back againe to condemne our disobedience for from heauen God spake it that the Oxe should come to his owner and the Asse to his Esay 1 3. maisters cribb but Israell Gods owne people would not vnderstand nor come O therfore all ye that are Gods people come and hearken and take this lesson withall that ye yeeld not to come as Peter yeelded to forgiue his brother seuē times and then ha done for I say vnto you not seuen times but seuentie times seuen times yea so often as the seuenth day shall come vpon you come and hollow it The At●enians came to heare Paule but it was for nouilty of his doctrin as there be I am in doubt and I feare it in this place who are come to heare the Sermon onely because it is new and straunge to haue a preacher but when preachinge shall waxe stale they will not heare the voice of the charmer charme hee neuer so wisely these men for a brunt are verye deuout as he who receiued the worde in stony grownd reioycing at the first and hearing it with ioy but that ioy indured Mat. 13 20 but a while for his zeale possessed him like an ague very hotte for the time but when the fit was ouer he fell to his olde bias as the dog to his vomit remember Dauid saith Blessed are they that dwell in Psal 84 4 Gods house The Church of God is not like a Inne for once or twice to soiourne in but it is to dwell in and dwellinge is a continuall abiding wee must haue our harts there our treasure there and bring our Children there as the Swallowes laies her young by the alter in a worde we must altogether dwell there that at what time soeuer Christ shall come he may finde vs in the temple and not in a Tauerne in the house of prayer and not in a den of théeues We neede not say beloued as Peter said Let vs make vs three tabernacles for God hath built vs a temple and tabernacle to our hands onely let vs bringe readdy affections and say Bonum ect esse hic it is good for vs to be heere which if with assiduitie and dilligence ye shall performe then will I say of you as Dauid of himselfe The zeale of gods house hath eaten you vp but if ye Psal 69 9 faint and waxe colde I must say that you haue eaten vp your zeale therefore in the name of god let vs come with dilligence Gods liberality calleth for dilligence at your hands who of all the trées in Paradice did aske for himselfe but one of all the daies in seauen asketh ye but one if ye will giue him another hee will accept it as a fréewill offringe but but fayle not to giue him one and pay it faithfully who of his owne doth aske yet one so sparingly I knowe what will be your excuses ye haue married a wife or bought a yoake of oxen therefore ye cannot come but deceiue not your selues for these are no excuses shall a wife kéepe you backe from following Christe yet better it were for a man to liue alone then to haue such an helper what though Adam said Man Gen. 2 24 shall forsake father and mother to cleaue Luk. 14 26 to his wife yet Christ saide a man must hate father and mother and wife to come to him But ye will pleade that ye haue bought a yoke of oxen Postponetur Deus bonibus qui nos aequauit Angelis saith an old writer Will you set God behinde your Oxen who hath made you equall with Angels These thinges are good but in their order and due place but séeke ye first the kingdome of God and the righteousnesse therof and then let wiues and Oxen follow after for euen our necessary businesses and lawfull affaires if they hinder vs from Gods seruice are turned into sinne euen as the pure waters in Egipt were turned into bloud If lawfull businesses may not hinder our comming to the Church of God then much lesse may idle sportes and vnlawfull games detaine vs if bargaininge and wiuing may not excuse vs much lesse will piping and dauncing The Saboth is a day of holy rest not of vnholy ryot the Iraelites might not gather their Manna vpon it and may we Exo. 16 26 runne a rioting vpon it What would they doe to them whom they finde prophaninge Godes Saboth with drunken delightes who stoned him to Nú. 15 26 death whome they founde gatheringe stickes for needefull vse But this is our corruption of nature euerye idle sporte prouokes vs to sacriledge to rob God of his glory in his saboth and sacrifice it to the Diuell Diabolus te vocat et venis Mundus te vocat et venis Caro te vocat et venis Cultus Dei te vocat et non venis saith an antient father The deuel calleth by temtation and ye yeelde vnto it the worlde calleth and ye listen to it the flesh calleth and ye come to it but the worship of God calleth and ye care not for it Diogenes to try the nature of the Athenians disguised himselfe vnhandsomely daunced rudely and set his voice to singe ilfauordly and the people came flocking about him behold saith he the nature of this people so oft as I tooke vpon me to speake of an honest life or vertuous conuersatiō they passed by me as a visited person and left me alone but now I frame my selfe to make sports like a foole they like a flocke of fooles come preasing about mee there is nothing that chokes mens zeale so much as that they hunte so gréedily after vanity of the worlde neither was there any reason why Esau was prophane but because hee was a man of the fielde for while he was hunting for venison abrod Iacob catcht vp the blessing and birth-right at home euen as often times it falleth out that while Gods blessinge is a dealing in the Church the people are rebelling and rioting in the stréete therfore come to the Church and God will blesse you When you haue obtained of your selus to come the next thing it is to performe attention for Dauid saith not come children and heare but come and hearken and if hearing were inough to satisfie a Saboth day then might ye driue in your oxen too for they can apprehend an outward sounde as well as ye but though they haue eares yet they haue not eares to heare In the Scripture hearing and harkning is all one and our harkning it is Opus animi non Auris as one saithe