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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03308	Three sermons 1. The good fight. Preached at the funerall of Henry Sommaster of Pens-ford in the country of Deuon, Esquire. Ian. 1606. 2. The worth of the water of life. 3. Dauids longing, and Dauids loue. By Sam. Hieron.	Hieron, Samuel, 1576?-1617.	1607 (1607)	STC 13426; ESTC S116031	56,277	76

imagine he desireth to be rich who though he be in want yet perceiueth it not Reason it selfe is cleane against it I pray thee therefore learne this lesson which though perhaps it may now be learned yet it will find thee worke for thy life though thou shouldest liue yet many yeares All Gods children long vnfainedly for saluation if thou haue not the same affection with them thou canst not haue the same saluation with them thou wilt say I know if thou be asked O God forbid I were a wretch if I did not long to be saued I pray thee be not deceiued A slight wish to l Num. 2● 10 dye the death of the righteous as Balaam had thou maist haue and yet no longing It is a matter longer in comming then thou which feelest it not art yet aware of Thy heart must first be softened before saluation can be longed for and I tell thee it is a hard thing to circumcise the heart and to make it bleed it hath a skinne growne ouer it which is not easily remoued Therefore pray the Lord m Num. 20. which made waters flow out of the rocke to smite thy flintie heart to n Eze. 11.19 take the stony heart out of thy bodie to open thy heart as he did o Act. 16.14 Lydiaes to put a new spirit within thy bowels to p Reu. 3.18 annoynt thine eyes with eye-salue that so thou mayest see and feele thy owne wretchednesse and mayest feelingly acknowledge with Paul that in thy q Rom. 7.18 Flesh there dwelleth no goodnesse with Dauid r Ps 38.4 that thine iniquities are as a waightie burden too heauie for thee with Iacob ſ Gen. 32.10 that thou art lesse then the least of all Gods mercies with Daniel t Dan 9.7 that open shame belongeth to thee with u Iob. ● 3 Iob that thou canst not answer him one thing of a thousand that so thou mayest haue if it be possible but euen a glimpse of that wofull score which the Lord hath against thee against the day of reckoning and a tast of the horror of hell then and neuer till then wilt thou long to be saued then and neuer till then will the mercie of God be sweet vnto thee when thou feelest the intolerable burthen of a * Pro. 18 14. wounded spirit thy soule will x Math. 5.6 thirst after righteousnesse and all things will be but y Phil. 3.8 dung vnto thee that thou mayest winne Christ the ti●…ngs of him will make thy very h●art z Luc. 1.41 to leap with in thee as the greeting of Mary did the babe in the wombe of Elizabeth they will come downe vpon thy perplexed soule a Ps 72.6 like the raine vpon the mowne grasse and as the showers that water the earth So much for the first part Dauids longing The second parte Now followeth the second part Dauids loue Thy law is my delight Many words of like effect Dauid vseth in this Psalme yet we may not account them any idle repetitions but rather repute them as testimonies of abundance of zeale the heart of a religious man being like the fire which in the strength thereof breaketh forth into many sparcles so that also out of the inward abundance bursteth out into many speaches Touching the thing it selfe the matter you see of Dauids loue it is the lawe By which word he doth not here vnderstand that part of Gods reuealed will which with a respect and reference had vnto the Gospell is called the lawe the vse whereof is as Paul teacheth to b Rom. 4.15 cause wrath to c Rom. 3.19 stop euery mouth that all may be culpable before God but here it is taken in a larger sense for the whole word of God and for the entire body of the holy doctrine which is d 2. Tim. 3.16.17 giuen by inspiration of God to make vs perfect vnto all good workes This was that which was Dauids delight the ioy of his heart and gladding of his soule the very quickning and enliuing of his spirits And it is by the way worthy to be obserued in Dauid that still looke what affection he professeth to carie to God himselfe the same he also professeth to cary to his word as he saith he e Ps 116.1 loueth God so he saith also f Ps 116.97 he loueth his lawe g ver 120. as he feareth God h ver 161. so his heart stood in awe of the word as he said i ver 57. O Lord that art my portion so he said k ver 111. thy testimonies haue I taken as an heritage for euer which is meet to be noted both for the better illustration and manefestation of Dauids heart and for the discouery of the idle protestations which many make who if they be dealt with concerning the true knowledge of God and the way of saluation will answer what tell you me of these things say what you can I am sure you can tell no more but this that I must loue God aboue all things c. And I trust I shall alwaies loue God as well as you or the best learned But now here is their hipocrisie descried in that they haue so small loue vnto the word This by the way though not vnprofitably Doctrine To come neerer to the point the thing which we learne hence out of Dauids ioyning these two together I long for saluation and thy lawe is my delight is this that it is not inough for a man to say he longes and desires to be saued vnlesse he make conscience to vse the appointed meanes to bring him thereunto It had bene but hipocrisie in Dauid to say he longed for saluation if his conscience had not bene able to witnes with him that the lawe was his delight It is meere mockery for a man to say he longeth for bread and prayeth to God euery day to giue him his dayly bread if he yet either walke in no calling or els seeke to get by fraud and rapine not staying himselfe at all vpon Gods prouidence Who will imagine that a man wisheth for health who either despiseth or neglecteth the meanes of his recouery God hath in his wisedome appointed a lawfull meanes for euery lawfull thing this meanes being obediently vsed the comfortable obtaining of the end may be boldly looked for the means being not obserued to thinke to attaine to the end is meere presumption God would deliuer Noah from the floud but Noah l Heb. 11.7 must be moued with reuerence and prepare the Arke or els he could not haue escaped He would saue Lot from Sodom but yet Lot m Gen. 19. must hye him out quickly and not looke behinde him till he haue recouered Zoan n Is 38.21 He was pleased to cure Hezekiah of the plague but yet Hezekiah must take a lumpe of drye figs and lay it vpō his boile He vouchsafed to preserue Paul and his company at