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The saints societie Delivered in XIV. sermons, by I.B. Master in arts, and preacher of Gods word at Broughton in Northampton Shire.; Societie of the saints
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Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.
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such Apostacie and inconstancy be not you like Nebuchadnezzars image whose head was gold breast and armes silver belly and thighes brasse legs of iron feet iron and clay Dan. 2. 32 33. Do not you turne backe againe into Egypt Have the noble resolution of M Knols Turk Hist an Earle of Sarisbury who being environed by Turks and Saracens and advised to flee said God forbid that my Fathers sonne should flee from the face of a Saracen Neither do you prove cowards you sonnes of God an armour you have and that of proofe yea invincible yet not one piece for the backe parts Be you like those kine 1 Sam. 6. Going forward untill you come to your Coelestiall Bethshemesh the house of the Sonne of God Be you like those trees Psal 92. 13 14. Which are most fruitfull in old age Be you like the naturall motions which move fastest as they come nearer their center as stones throwne upward move faster as they come nearer the earth Be we like those righteous persons who shine more and more towards the perfect day Prov. 4. 18. Doe the will of God and continue doing of it unto the end for what will it availe you to begin if you hold not out to the end of the race Behold the constancy of the Lords Worthies in greatest calamities Psalme 44. Heare what sententious Tertullum saith None is truly a Christian but he who persevereth Nemo autem Chri 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 per 〈◊〉 Verde haeress pag. 96. unto the end And consider that the crowne of immortall glory is promised to those who continue 2 Tim. 4. 7 8. Rev. 7. 10. Be we therefore perswaded to do Gods will according to his will Will pleasure prevaile with us Mot. 1 To do Gods will is very delightsome Psal 119. 97. 1 Ioh. 5. 3. Will profit We endeavouring to do Gods will labour for our owne glory 1 Pet 2. 15. Sanctification 1 Thes 4. 3. And salvation Will examples Behold one which is unparalled Christ Iesus esteem'd iâ— his meate and drinke to do his Fathers will Iohn 6. 38. Would the Centurions servant go and come and do at his bidding Would Balaams asse at Gods commandement open his mouth and reprove the madnesse of his master Rauens feed Eliah at Gods appointment Frogs and lice execute judgements upon Pharaoh at Gods bidding Did the earth open rocks rend stars fight seas recule backward wildernesses tremble c. Do things by nature light ascend heavy descend yea and often crosse the course and current of nature and shall not we not senselesse creatures not bruit beasts not Gentiles but Christians who stile our selves the sonnes of God not do the will of our Father God forbid As we excell these in dignity let us excell them in duty and do the will of our Father Which that we may do 1. Pray earnestly Our Father thy will be done In which S. Cyp. de Orat. Dom. place we do not pray that God would do what he will but that we might do according unto his will 2. Take heed of selfe-will our will is commonly contrary to Gods will Ioh. 1. 13. Paul would not be buffeted and the Disciples would have fire in revenge from heaven Submit we therefore our wills which are so corrupt to that most holy will of God 3. Shunne ignorance of Gods will for how can he doe the will of God who knowes it not Luke 12. 48 Let some in the Church of Rome teach that ignorance is the mother of devotion Let the simple soule promise to it selfe an excuse by its ignorance and perswade it selfe that good meaning shall save Let the enemies of all goodnesse raile against knowledge saying it puffeth up and is fruitlesse Yet O thou Christian soule which desirest to approve thy wayes to God thy Father 1. Believe not thost Popish instructours for they are deceivers Can that be the mother of devotion of which Sathan is the Father 2 Cor. 4. 4 Is a Psal 95. 10. errour is b Acts 17. superstition is c Isa 44 19. idolatry is d Exod. 5. 1. contempt of God good devotion These these I say are the daughters brats spawnes and ofsping of this mother 2. Follow not that blind mans guiding who cannot perceive heavenly things For as a penny in the water seemes bigger then a Starre in the Firmament so heavenly graces although they infinitely surpasse these dunghill vanities are not at all or so little knowne to him that they are little or no whit regarded by him Will that excuse which occasioneth all kind of iniquitie Eph. 4. 18 19 20. Will that save which makes men accursed Iohn 7. 40 Is vengeance inflicted in flaming fire safety 2 Thess 1. 8 That reverend Bishop Dr. Vsher saith some invincible ignorance is damnable Pag. 51. If a patient and Physitian were both ignorant of an onely remedie to recover a sicke man fro his disease the sicke must perish aswell not knowing as if knowing he refused it 3. Regard not those witlesse and worthlesse arguments What though braine-knowledge pusseth up saving knowledge humbleth What though knowledge is fruitlesse in many ignorance must needs be fruitlesse in all How can man do that he knoweth not How can man do Gods will being ignorant thereof Be wise therefore and understand the will of God Eph. 5. 17. That ye may do the same CHAP. VII Duty 6. Saints must be content with Gods allowance LAstly if God be our Father learne we to put in practice Duty 6. St. Pauls Lesson one of our fellow brethren Phil. 4. 11. To be content with our Heavenly Fathers allowance The want of which Christian vertue is the cause of many monstrous evils and domineering transgressions What mooveth the insatiable inhumane depopulatours lesle mercifull then the raging Ocean as a reverend Bishop saith in these words Remember Bishop Babingâ—m Gen. 1. Ver. 9. p. 5. with your selves the rich cormorants of this world who like flouds and streams of strength too much overflow and drowne their brethren their poore and weake brethren in this world not leaving any place for them to dwellin or to inhabit neare them c. Like the hideous Gorgon suffering none or very few to live in her sight To dash themselves against those keene and fearefull judgements of God Isa 5. 8. Woe be to him c. For so saith my forenamed learned Author of whom saith he is that woe denounced Isa 5. 8 9. A fearefull thing that men for denying others place by them shall lose their owne To plunge themselves so deepe into Gods displeasure that Gods judgements pursue them so fast That if a man make diligent enquiry and search in a little after succeding ages oftentimes in their owne for these monsters of men dispeoplers of townes ruiners of common-wealths so farre as in them lyeth occasions of beggars and beggery and prey of usurers Instead of spacious and splendent houses he shall finde rumous heapes instead of good house-keepers poore shepheards