be here Math. 17.4 But then wee shal be in light vnchangeable and sée Christ euer in felicity whom his enemies had in obloquie Those Ioyes infinite passe all Ioyes finite The voyce of Ioy and gladnes shal be euer with the righteous Oh happy heires of heauēly inheritance without our deserts Aug. Deus coronat dona sua non merita nostra God crowneth his owne gifts not our merites O blesse the Lord who redeemeth thy life frō destruction Psal 103.4 who crowneth thee with louing kindnes tender mercies Feare not little flock Lu 12.32 Reu 4.8 for it is your Fathers good pleasure to giue you the kingdome O let vs say holy holy holy Lord God Almightie which was is is to come We shal be Citizens with the saints and of the houshold of God dignified and glorified In Ioy we shal reioyce that our names are written in heauen franchessed fréemen irreuocably inrolled as sure rather surer then the estate of Angells We shall haue the fruition of Christs Resurrection and be manumissed from the bondage of death and destruction Frée denizens freed from miseries and proude peoples malice Those Ioyes passe all Iubilees Good Iesus bring vs to that blisse As there is no equalitie betwixt the Creator and vs here sinfull creatures So is there none betwéene the ioyes of Heauen and worldly pleasures These are ioyes transitory the other Ioyes eternall Rom. 8.17 Wee shall be ioynt heires with Christ and partakers of true happinesse There is no sighing singing No heauinesse Ioyfulnes No ignominie glory Holy holy holy shall be euer ascribed to Iehouah The Virgins could learne the new song which follow the Lambe Reuel 14. Oh the Ioyfull harmony that wee shall heare and be glorified euer in glorie Wee shall haue a palace vnspeakable being deliuered into the glorious libertie of the Children of God Luke 20.36 Neither can they doe any more for they are equall to the Angels and are the Children of GOD being the children of the Resurrection If a man here sicke heard those ioyes he would not féele his paine Oh ioyfull shall we be when we be there hearing seeing and hauing vnspeakable ioyes Aug Erit in Coelo domus tua aeterna si modò bene in hoc tabernaculo vixeris Thine house shall bee eternall in heauen if now thou liuest well in this tabernacle Lose not that permanent Paradise for this pleasure which in respect thereof is paine for the Barley corne lose not the pretious Pearle for carnall copulation eternall benediction for a minute of selfe-will Reu 3.20 millions of yéeres ioyfull Ah God forbid he bids vs returne and reteyne him Behold I stand at the doore and knocke Receiue him and hee will receiue thée to sit in glory with his Maiestie which is a dignitie of all dignities Iob. 19.25 This did mitigate Iobs misery For I know my Redeemer liueth that he shall stand at the latter day vpon the earth and though after my skin wormes destroy this body yet in my flesh shall I see God S. Paul saith Phil. 3. For our conuersation is in heauen from whence also wee looke for the Sauiour the Lord Iesus Christ who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like vnto his glorious body c. A Comfort Our bodies shall be conformable to the body of Christ our Head We shall be like him ill thoughts bad motions and perturbations shall be excluded Wee heare this but hée that beléeues it and hopes to haue it his affection is fixed in heauen Therfore pray and repent so shalt thou haue what A worldly commodity for which thou dost venture soule and body Ah thou shalt haue a Throne of tryumph excéeding all earthly treasures to reigne in ioyes for euer If thou hadst all earthly riches plentiousnes pleasures and pleasantest place on earth with all elegant obiects Princely prospects dainty delicates musicall Instruments swéete singers persumes and fine sauours with all thy vnfained friends and choyce of chiefe louers yet all this were paine in respect of heauen where we shall ouer be with our good God to whom be all prayse honour power and glory now and euer Amen with heart and tongue againe Amen Gloria in excelsis Deo PSAL. 66.18 If I regard iniquity in my heart the Lord will not heare me PROV 23.26 My sonne giue me thine heart ¶ Pray heartily OH heauenly Trinitie one God in vnitie to thee bee all honour Glorious God at thy brightnes the Sunne Moone and Starres are abashed and impure in thy sight much more I a sinfull creature which by mine iniquities haue stained those bright creatures Omniscient God thou knowost my thoughts before I thinke them and knowest me before I was I was conceiued in sin borne in sinne in sinne I liue I am by nature the childe of wrath O giue me grace to be borne from aboue that I may enter into thy kingdome I am not worthy to looke vp to thee I deserue to bee cast downe to hell but I appeale to the Throne of thy mercy in the Name of Iesus my Sauiour which calleth all penitent sinners to him to giue them rest Oh Sauiour refresh my silly soule which cryes to thee out of my sinfull carkasse that I may apply thy sufferings merits and promises to my soule and conscience and be accepted through thy righteousnes My Lord and my God out of 〈◊〉 side issued the bloud of my redemption and water of absolution to purge me from pollution thou standest at the dore and knockest giue me grace to open the dore of my heart touch it with the finger of thy Spirit that it maybe a fit receptacle to entertaine thee Create in me a cleane heart ô God and renue a right spirit within me that I may resist all exill and walke in righteousnes and holinesse all the dayes of my life Let the assurance of thy loue wipe all teares from mine eyes so come Lord Iesus Good God forgiue me all my sinnes for Iesus sake in whom thou art well pleased cloath me with his righteousnes and behold me in him I doe deserue damnation but hee hath payde my ransome Lord let me finde and feele thy mercy Giue mee grace to redeeme the time and spend it to thy prayse Blesse this Realme our King Queene and Royall Progeny blesse and comfort all thy children Make vs loue those things that thou dost loue and hate that thou hatest that we may keepe faith and a good conscience And if it be thy will forgiue and conuert our enemies Good God prepare me and thy children fit for thy kingdome O Christ giue vs grace to examine our selues whether thou be in vs that we may expresse the power of godlinesse in our liues Lord receiue our soules when we depart this life that we may prayse thee in heauen eternally The which peace God bring vs for Iesus sake that bought vs to whome with thee ô Father and the holy Ghost three persons and one God be all might maiestie prayse honour glory power and dominion now and euer Amen Watch and pray prayse God FINIS
for the poore which not to regard is a defect of charitie no effect of faith but of infidelitie The sinne of Sodome was Pride fulnesse of bread Eze. 16. abundance of idlenesse neglect of the needy which sinnes abounde Christ saith Luke 6.25 Woe vnto you that are full for yee shall hunger Woe vnto you that laugh now for yee shall mourne and weepe One saith Foelicitas moderatio diuiduum contubernium habent Prosperitie and moderation dwell in two houses It is dainty to finde them dwelling together Saint Iames 5. threatneth the wicked rich men Goe to now ye rich men weepe and howle for your miseries that shall come vpon you vers 5. Yee haue liued in pleasure on the earth and beene wanton yee haue nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter If such could consider of this and that thousands mourne for meate and drinke which they haue too much of their pleasure would bee pitty their wantonnesse weeping their feasting fasting which surfeting preuents for it is rare for such as pamper their paunches to ouercome euill affections Therefore I pray you vse this preparatiue And the peace of God be with vs Amen Halelu-iah ¶ A Letter to the Licentious GRace and peace be with vs. I pray you consider why impietie is reprooued The finall cause is that God may bee glorified for the sonne that loues his father grieues to see him dishonoured The materiall cause is the commaundement from God the efficient in this manner formall Leuiticus 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sinne vpon him Heb. 3.13 Exhort one another dayly 1. Pet. 4. As euery man hath receiued the gift euen so minister the same one to another A good conscience procures it and amitie bindes it Iam. 5.20 Let him know that he which conuerteth the sinner from the error of his way shall saue a soule from death and shall hide a multitude of sinnes Wee ought to succour each other Commiseration is a pulsiue cause which mooueth Gods children They grieue to sée a Beare teare a childe much more to sée Sathan deuoure soules If we sée a house ready to fall on a man and not aduertise him we are guilty of his death so if we sée one séeke the detriment of his soule and not admonish him we are culpable Thinke on this Masters of families Victualers Keepers of Tauerns and all others godly zeale exciteth vs Mat. 7.12 and God commandeth vs to doe as we would be done vnto And good people doe desire to bee taught the bad like the Diuell drawes others to euill and boast they shall to heauen but will not tread the strict path Oh it is vnpleasant but being profitable let vs with lenitie admonish each other and desire to be admonished A blessing is promised They that turne many to righteousnes shall shine as the starres for euer and euer Dan. 12.3 He meaneth faithfull Ministers and others of the faithfull the which hope of felicitie doe quicken to vinification They indeauour to doe good and are grieued that the greedy Diuell gets many into his net It is furnished with leawd delights alluring baytes and sugred sinnes If a Calumnor take his part to confront my labour I wish him first to consider Satan doth cousen him to hale him to hell I doe counsell him and haste him to heauen Eschew the Diuels net full of false bayts PArtialitie for the carelesse Officer superfluous speach for Buyers and Sellers euill excuse for Swearers and Lyers false hope to escape for the Théefe and Filcher false hope of gaine for the Dicer and Gamster néedlesse breake for the base Bankrout calliditie for the Cousener which for fauour will lye and say he is a kinne to good men Infidelitie for the Atheist bragge boldnesse for the Blasphemer wilfulnes for the Wayward enuy for the Ambitions reuenge for Quarrellers Murther for the Wrathfull Lone of loathsome lust for Drunkards Gluttons and filthy Fornicators Inordinate loue of the carcasse for the proud and painted Gryping gaine for Vsurers and greedy Extortioners Worldly affection for the couetous Cruelty for the vnmercifull Desperation and destruction for the faithlesse Disdaine of Gods word for negligent hearers No regard of God for riotous Roysters Dissimulation for Iudas-like hypocrites Vaine-glory for pickthankly world-pleasers Deceipt for seducers Carnall pleasures for prophane liuers Hate of truth for Sectaries Desire to get for the Empericke which by vnskilfulnes causeth death or long sicknesse Enticings to all euil hastinge from heauen halings to hell Many looke like Lucifer to quarrell with the quiot but cowards to resist Sathan he conquers them snarls them in his snares to torment them euer To preuent it repent pray for a cleare heart and a right spirit rest not till you haue it abandon the déedes of the flesh imbrace the fruits of the spirit Gal. 5. They that are Christs haue crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts With faith and amendment apprehend Christs merits then God will behold thee in him thou shalt haue fauour with our heauenly Father Consider my Letter and the Lord assist vs. Abhorre Sathans snares Iam. 4. Resist the Diuell and hee will flye from you draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you With a Memento Imbrace amendment haue it in sempiternam rei memoriam Sic fiat Rocede à malo fac bonum ¶ Reproofe of Whoredome a collaterall consort to excesse attendant to the same Sublata causa tollitur effectus Take away the cause and the effect falleth QVaffing is so accustomable that Whoredome commonly is the sequel so monsterous as to auoyd long period I will not expresse Much youth betimes frequent Fornication the which coition is execrable 1. Cor. 6.9 A reproofe of Fornication No Fornicator shall inherit the kingdome of heauen vers 18. Flee fornication euery sinne that a man doth is without the body but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his owne body He defileth his owne soule and body and also the party with whom he is so filthy Thinkest thou to make amends with mariege repent remember the dreadfull sentence Reuel 22. Such shall be shut out from heauen Eph. 5.3 Fornication and vncleanenesse must not bee once named 1. Thess 4. For this is the will of God euen your sanctification that ye should abstaine from fornication It is so heynous and God doth so abhorre it 1. Cor. 10.8 that there fell in one day three and twenty thousand Consider this ye shameles fornicators with dogs and bitches qualities your sins cry for vengeance Gen. 19.13 as the sinnes of Sodome Re. 14. It is written that no man could learn that new song but they which were not defiled with women for they are virgins And would you sing in heauen repent lest ye sigh in hell Young men maydens if sinners intice you consent not take example of chaste Ioseph An example for
youth Gen. 39.8 when he was offerrd he refused for he feard God The body is not for fornication but for the Lord yet such forsake Christ and make themselues the members of an harlot They are repugnant to those that kéepe themselues chaste for the kingdome of heauen sake which Christ hath set in a place of price and saith Mat. 19. Hee that can take it let him take it but a varlet takes an harlot Hee that hath not the gift to liue single and chast may séeke for mariage lawful for all men 1. Cor. 7.9 Heb. 13.4 and is an Antidotarie against fornication to bee vsed in the feare of God for the procreation of children and for the mutuall societie of each other Yet many of the sauadge sort maryed know not the right vse of mariage but linger after lusts like bruit beasts and like a Nicholaitan not content is cōmon with an other proud Paramour The vnmaried maried of leawd disposition must be aduertised by Solomon Pro. 23.27 A reproofe of Adultery A whore is a deepe ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit Pro. 6. He that committeth adultery destroyeth his owne soule Her house inclyneth vnto death her paths vnto the dead None that go to her returne againe Pro. 2. neyther take they hold of the waies of life Oh drudges of drudgery ye refuse the heauenly felicity Adultery fornication vncleannes laciuiousnes Gal. 5. All kinde of vnleannesse must be abandoned Pro. 15. Psal 113. Ier. 23. Amos 9. A meanes of chastitie are fruits of the flesh the cōmitters thereof shal not inherit the kingdome of heauen It is to be feared that fornicators adulterers are Atheists for durst any doe such a thing before a king they doe it before the All-seeing King of kings The eyes of the Lord are in euery place beholding the euill the good Yet Asotus serues Asmodeus in Cities towns and countries Psa 97. Ye that loue the Lord hate euill A meanes of chastity is mediocrity in dyet labor watching prayer reading hearing meditating refrayning frō wāton cōpany vnchast speaches gawish apparrel gazing on the disguised frō wanton looks therfore rule thy rowling eies Iust Iob saith 31. I made a couenant with mine eies why should I think vpō a maid If thy heart be cleane thy eye is ruled if thy heart be wicked thy eye is wādring which fils thy hart ful of pollution Christ faith Mat. 5.28 Whosoeuer looketh on a woman Mat. 5.28 to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart Kéepe in thy eye the heart will be the better vse it to thy booke 2. Sam. 11. Dauid looked on the wife of Vriah hee liked lusted and for it was perplexed and hauing a new heart hee prayeth to the Lord Psa 119.37 Turne away mine eyes from beholding vanitie Gen. 12. Pharaoh was plagued and all his house with great plagues for delighting in Sara vnknowne to them to be a wife Yee Lust-louers leaue it Yée Fornicators and Adulterers in pretence and action how shall ye escape the vengeance to come your idlenesse and drunkennesse bringeth Bastards I grudge not your collections but grieue at your small corrections Oh Salax bee sanctified resist Sathan Susanna consented not but withstood the stout Adulterers Be warned youth was neuer more wayward Consider this you that are marryed and are inordinate in abusing your bed O feare the Lord lest your propagation be vntoward extraordinary and stange abortiue or vntimely Imitate Tobias 8. He being newly maried to Sara rose out of the bed and said Sister arise and let vs pray that God would haue pitty on vs and the latter end of his prayer was this vers 7 And now ô Lord I take not this my Sister for lust but vprightly therefore mercyfully ordaine that we may become aged together And she said with him Amen And I pray God more may be so minded Amen Timete Iehouam ¶ Starch is here reprooued Poking-irons are ill vsed AS by Gods word Drunkennesse and Whoredome is conuinced so is Starch made of that which is the chiefest foode for the sustentation of vs here reprooued For whereas poore people that want bread should be nourished and fed therewith many to fulfill their fond affections feede their great Ruffs which shewes we haue more desire to carnall delights then loue to relieue the needy Many men women children want bread which earth doth vse for pride But Loue-lusts say they buy it and the efore not culpable of the making a ridiculous excuse for if there were no buyer there should be no seller There be wealthy Houswiues and good house-kéepers that vse no starch but faire water their Linnen is white and they looke more Christian-like in small Ruffes then Light of loue lookes in her great starched ruffs looke she neuer so hie with eye-lids awrye The princely Prophet saith Him that hath an hie looke and a proude heart will not I suffer Psal 101. Presuppose prettie pleasure did say Where finde you in Gods word starch forbidden It is like it was not vsed in the time of the Apostles therefore not named But the Diuell hath inuented it and many such deuises in these last lustfull dayes I finde that CHRIST saith Whatsoeuer yee would that men should doe to you euen so doe you to them Therefore consider would you the poore shuld vse vnprofitable meanes to make you suffer hunger and colde No Math 7.12 no pricked pride your fruits are faultie Whatsoeuer will serue necessarily for the sustētation of man ought not vnprofitably to be spent but the Meale Starch is made of will serue necessarily for the sustentation of man Ergò it ought not vnprofitably to be spent This Syllogisme consisteth of no false principles And if you think it not spent vnprofitably vpon great ruffs consider the effects First it hindreth our food Discōmodities of starch starching it wasteth our wood it spends the precious Time that might be spent better And people liue gréedily and néedily to maintaine it It frets out much Linnen and the poking-Irons seare it and wasting that people want it is to be feared it hath often moued GOD to seare the Corne and Grasse vpon the ground Wanton wenches are tempters and Inticers that ruffs must be great and starched Good men must resist them for Eue by inticing brought Adam to ruine There is as much spent in that haynous order as might sustaine manie poore people which aske Bread The answer is I haue it not when Newe-guise hath it about the necke Manie spend Daies and Nights vnprofitably to set great Ruffs yea oft when they should heare and learne Gods word Oh shamelesse Mares more liker then bashfull Maids that spend most parte of theyr life time about Starch and starching patting pulling thrusting rubbing wearing tearing and starching of cloth with hote Irons Lucifer inuenter of Pride hath inuented an exercise wherein Minion Meretrix takes alacritie Much wood
knéele not standing is fitting so did the poore Publican Luke 18.13 GOD ordained body and soule and will be acknowledged by both 1. Cor 6. For yee are bought with a price Therefore glorifie God in your bodie and in your Spirite which are Gods And if we will not willingly hée will be glorified in our destruction Therefore stand in awe with inward and outward obedience Esay 66.5 Heare the word of the Lorde yee that tremble at his word Psalme 134. Lift vp your hands in the Sanctuarie and blesse the Lorde Blessed Preachers performe it so ought the people Deuout Dauid saith Psal 63. I will lift vp my hands in thy Name Nehemiah 8.3 The people did with willing mindes heare the Word of God from the morning vntill Midday and the eares of the people were attentiue Vers 5. All the people stood vp Vers 6. And Ezra blessed the Lord the great GOD And all the people answered Amen Amen with lifting vp their hands and they bowed their heads and worshipped the Lorde with theyr faces to the ground Such Agilitie moueth vigilancie as a meanes of amendment but be frée from hypocrisie God abhorres it Be euer more zealous then thou séemest Lift vp thy hands with hart annexed for hands without heart is abhominable vers 8. So they read in the booke of the law of God distinctly gaue the sence caused them to vnderstand the reading Theyr Teachers did comfort them Vers 9. For all the people wept Alas little is our wéeping much sléeping Pride omits submission Re. 1.7 But all the kinreds of the earth shall waile because of him And some so soone as Sermon is done wrangle of worldlinesse and are more stout then studious Loue of Riches chokes the Word A good Cow chewes her cud increasing good bloud and we must meditate in the word whē we haue heard If we were pricked in our harts we would say to the Preacher and each to other as the people to Peter and the rest of the Apostles Acts 2.37 Men Brethren what shall we do Then Peter said vnto them Repent We know it God graunt we may doe it Mark 11. Iesus went into the Temple and cast out them that did abuse the same Ver 16. And would not suffer that any should carry any vessell thorow the Temple Ver 17. And he taught saying vnto them It is written My house shal be called of all Nations the house of Prayer Slacke we are to pray or repaire that House but where bodyes are fed and lasts fulfilled building is not spared For the neglect of building the Lordes House Haggai by them that dwell in their steled houses the Lord staied Heauen from deaw and the Earth from her fruite Nabuchadnezzer gloried in his building Dan. 4.30 but heard a woefull voyce Many braue buildings are burned God make vs more mindefull of his House and to vse our selues well therein Amen Of euill behauiour out of the Church THe more a man neglects the means of true knowledge the liker he is a Beast the more endued with that light of life the liker hée is his Creatour Yet Church-sléepers and slack-goers can on the Sabboth hast to an Alehouse and say the Preacher was too tedious which shewes they felt not the swéete taste for such sits longer in leaude demeanour and loues it Men can watch a day to compasse a match for backe and belly or to kéepe ill companie but to heare glad tidings is thought tedious Hee that is wearie of Gods word is weary of God Looke into it It is his Image by whome the Sonne hath reuealed him As some are carelesse so their Children growe gracelesse Boyes are in back-lanes swearing and swaggering in open Stréetes wrangling in houses playing in yardes worrying Dogges and Cattes committing mercilesse actions Had not Man sinned Beasts had not striued Some reioyce in the sight and in sinne Good Parents doe kéepe children and Seruants to their bookes repeating to them that the Preacher taught when lewd ones are in stréetes desturbing them They that instruct not their Familie are like to féele of theyr follie Iacob reformed his Houshold Cornelius feared God Genes 35. Acts 10. with all his house When children disfigure their faces Parents are grieued but they sée them disfigure their Soules and suffer it Let not your Boyes be rude in streetes to people that passe gracelesse youth grieue them daily casting scornefull words or worse There is difference of Youth the well trained vp are vertuous the idle are vicious and haue cause to crie Nocet indulgentia nobis Sufferance doth hurt vs. Some such at ten yeares are past recouery hanged by twenty Securitants consider it Then they crye out of their parents Had they feared God their children had not miscaried For this is his Edict Leuitic 19.30 Yee shall keepe my Sabbaths and reuerence my Sanctuarie I am the Lord. But such regarde not they scorne the Aged that giue them good counsell yet Age is a Type of Eternitie And God saith Vers 32. Thou shalt rise vp before the hoary head and honour the face of the Olde man and seare thy God I am the Lord. They that feare God dare not prophane his Sabbath But some trauell all that day Others heare a Sermon in the Forenoone and an other in the after but spend the other part of the Day in bargaining and other vnprofitable pastimes GODS WORD is compared to a Hammer to breake a stone Oh Sabbath-prophaner art thou harder Clay doth the Sunne make thée harde Pharaos heart art obdurate Be submisse and mollified Amend pray and praise God Laudate nomen Iehouae ¶ A proofe that the Sabbath must be obserued SAbbat signifies holy rest not ryot God hath commanded and reserued that one whole day of seauen to be celebrated to his Maiestie He gaue the example And he rested on the seuenth day Genes 2.2 from all his worke which he had made The kéeping of the Sabbath is a Morall precept God spake it Exod 20. God wrote it Exod 31.18 and the Tables of stone being broken God wrote the second time on tables of stone Exod. 34. as hee did on the first The Sabboth was commanded for a perpetuall couenant Ex 31.16 God allowed vs sixe dayes to worke reserued to himselfe one which men would rob him of The wicked would haue all dayes and the diuell would haue all soules To worke therein was death Ex 35. On which day Exod 16. the Iewes might kindle no fire Sixe dayes they might gather Manna on the seuenth there was none to be found they were forbidden to séeke it that day and euery man commanded to abide in his place the seueth day God tooke away the occasion from their labour signifying how holy he would haue the Sabbath kept It is a Sabbath of rest Leuit. 23. an holy conuocation and was commaunded to be celebrated from Euen to Euen S. Paule kept the whole day and continued his preaching till midnight
Acts 20.7 On the preparation to the Sabbath the bodie of IESVS was begged by Ioseph to be buried Mark 15. Luk. 23. for obseruing the sabbath God hath commanded the kéeping thereof with a Memento Sunday was the first day of the Worldes Creation and the day of Christs Resurrection S. Iohn calles it Dies Dominicus I was in the spirit on the Lords day for it was by the Apostles established Reu. 1.10 and Saturday the Iews Sabbath abolished Therfore it behooues vs carefully to kéepe Sunday the Lords day The Law is perpetuall so is the Sabbath and is to be sanctified to Gods seruice For though being vnder the Gospell we are deliuered frō the shadows of the ceremoniall law yet it foloweth of congruity that we indeuor to kéepe the morall precepts and be obedient to Gods commandements else we are not grafied in Christ which saith Math 5. Thinke not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill If wee belong to him we will doe our industrie God is iealous of his glory which men diminish dishonouring him more on that day then in all the wéeke His Memento is not minded Man and beast must rest Yet rude ones ride on the Sabbath vpon small occasions All within thy gate must rest that is within thy power Childrē seruants and stranger Sée it performed preuent eternall punishment By Christ we haue Christian liberty to doo things of necessity for preseruation of life and of things in vtter decay on the sabbath Christ then healed a man and the Iews did lift shéepe from the pit and we must be carefull that the thing wee doe be such as cannot well be deferred to further time Néedlesse worldly workes wordes and worldly thoughts must be abandoned Nūb 15. God cōmanded all the people to stone a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath Math 1.80 Oh yee that follow lusts be obedient least yee be perpetually punished God lookes for our Obedience to obey is better then sacrifice Nehemiah 13. reprooued them that brake the sabbath in bearing sheaues and loading their Asses and that solde ware he told them that euill came on the Cittie because their Fathers did so The Lord by Ieremie 17.21 dehorteth from breaking the Sabbath and exhorteth people to hallow the same God promiseth a blessing if they obey if not a destruction Ioyfull promise is for performance For thus saith the Lord vnto the Eunuches that keep my Sabbaths choose the things that please me and take holde of my Couenant vers 5. Euen vnto them will I giue in mine house within my walles a place and a name better then of sonnes of daughters I wil giue them an euerlasting name that shall not be cut off In this Maior is a Benisson to him that knoweth not a woman if hee applie the Minor To euery man that kéepeth the sabbath not doing his owne wayes nor speaking his owne wordes God hath promised a blessing But God is forgotten and present pleasures thought on Some substantiall whome the world estéem of talke on their trash subtilty and sensualitie on that day and for a messe of potage with Esau lose their birthright Young-men some of them are like a generation of Vipers starting aside like a broken Bowe Neuters that delight not Gods Lawe say they belieue as the Church belieueth and how that is they knowe not as though they had a taste of the Whore of Babylon Lurking Masse-mongers doe seduce and make them luke-warme The body of Iezabel was deuoured but her Feete skull and handes remained And though the light doth disprooue Idolatrie some with deceiued tast thereof would burne incense to the Queene of heauen which God reprooued and seuerely punished Consider it yée that are thereto addicted They that loue darknes ha e the light least it should reprooue them Ierem. 44. Such are wilfull Absenters and some that heare are Sabbath-prophaners The true vse of the Sabbath is with the Assembly to heare Gods word read and preached to receiue the Sacrament with thanks and repentance to pray for our gratious King Iames Quéene and Royall progenie and for all Gods children being the Church vniuersall O Lord we thanke thee for our dread Soueraigne his great preseruation from Iannes Iambres and traitorly Iudas and we beséech thée to deliuer vs from such mercilesse papists Amen As at all times so chiefly on the Sabbath we must feede on the word and thanke our good God meditate comfort and counsell each other from euill to good and prouide for the poore at such time of the day as shall not hinder the seede sowne in vs. S. August makes mention of 3. kind of works that must be done on the Sabbath viz The works of godlines instructing the ignorant the works of Charitie giuing to the poore The works of necessitie to saue things in vtter decay As at all times so on this day let vs comfort the distressed praise him which rose then for our consolation and and Iustification The Iewes sabbath did put them in minde of their deliuerāce from the cruelty of Pharao vnto the desert where they were fed with Manna and so to the promised Canaan Our Sabbath puts vs in remembrance of our deliuerance from the fiery Pharao the diuell and that we shall possesse eternall rest if we obey God and keepe the true Rest An absenter sayes God heard Iob on the dunghil Daniel in the denne so may he me in my house Saint Dauid saith Psal 122. I was glad when they sayd vnto mee Let vs goe into the house of the Lord. Psa 84. My soule longeth yea euen faynteth for the Courts of the Lord. Hée accompanied the holy conuocation Psal 42. I went with them to the house of God with the voyce of ioy and prayse It must be the finall cause The swéete Singer saith Psal 81 Sing aloud vnto God our strength make a ioyfull noyse vnto the God of Iacob The ruder sort make not a ioyfull noyse they can sing few tunes for Psalmes nor in tune but disturbe the Congregation Dauids heart and swéete loud voyce makes harmony illustrating the glory of God which ordeyned heart and voyce He a type of Christ saith Psal 35.18 I will giue thee thanks in the great congregation I will prayse thee among much people Louers of God are ioyfull to prayse him among many and to sée God praysed by many Let vs not let it but loue it imbrace the truth and prayse God for it To the which blessed Trinitie be eternall honour prayse and glory Amen Tota ipsa anima laudet Iah ¶ Against the euill effects of Dicing and Carding DIcing and Carding are accustomed with company that vseth excesse they goe to an Alehouse and call for an Out-house and sit wrangling dishonouring God seruing of Sathan and cause vexation The winner spends it prodigally procuring Gods displeasure The sadde lozer gripes for money gréedily to be reuenged rashly hee ventureth more