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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05416	The bruising of the serpents head A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 9. 1621. By Roger Ley Maister of Arts, and minister of Gods word in Shoreditch.	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.	1622 (1622)	STC 15568; ESTC S103082	34,316	56

with the successe To expect a fit time to feare worse inconueniences in them that are reprehended or to make them hate weake ones non videtur cupiditatis occasio sed consilium Charitatis such forbearance is not an occasion of case and lust but the counsaile of Charity saith S. Austen Solomons counsaile puts in this caution Aug. 1. de Ciu. Dei c. 9. Reproue not a scorner least he hate thee but rebuke a wise man and he will loue thee Pro. 9.8 Our Sauiour also did charge his Disciples not to giue a holy thing to dogges nor to cast pearles before swine One is set to barke against the truth and the other to wallow in the mire of pollution But when occasion serueth euery one is bound to stand with Christ though it cost him strokes better to indure them then the blowes of Gods indignation A white liuerd professor is here disclaimed Hee that is not with me is against me He that gathereth not with mescattereth The former point was directed against a sinners negligence this ouerturnes his confidence The hypocrite hath a hope though it proue like a spiders web he gathereth but to small purpose If offenders had not in them this vaine humour they would not heape so many sinnes nor treasure vp so much wrath against the day of wrath As the writers of morall Phylosophie say all vertues doe meete in prudence that knoweth how to carry things wisely so all vices seeme vnited in couetousnes For couetousnes is called the roote of all euill and too much gathering is the common disease of the times View then all sinnes comprehended in this or this for all the rest their end is gathering therfore can bring no happines He that is gathering is labouring and still toiling He is onely happy that leaues gathering and maketh some vse of his labours which is the true fruition of them Some there are as men giuen ouer to the captiuity of their base affections which take no pleasure but in raking together nothing can be wrung away with cheerefulnes but comes like so many drops of blood whose mindes none if they were wise would haue for their wealth For heaping vp wealth is like building onely to delight in finishing the worke and making good vse of the possession by imployment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith Aristotle Arist 10. Ethic. 7. Happines is in quiet presse the word we shall then find quiet when we leaue gathering From that ground the Phylosopher could proue felicity had no absolute place in any worldly practise for all things are passed ouer with care and trauell Eccles 1.18 The argument indeede is Solomons when he considered the best gathering which he did wish for as the choifest euen there in much wisdome he found griefe and he that increaseth knowledg increaseth sorrow for care and trouble of the minde is not wanting in those labours and in the next Chapter he comes to the sweetest gathering in compassing of pleasures because a man must bestow some trauell they at last doe tire and weary a man out he proueth them vanitie and vexation of spirit Nothing that sauours of this life can be better therefore no good gathering without Christ But among all the couetous toyling for estates hath bundles to gather vp fild with thornes and netles abounding with difficulties and vexation to remoue if it were possible a griping fist hunting after commodity with too much eagernes As if God would teach men by the rough and craggy passages this was not his best way and that he hath framed men according to his owne Image giuen them a diuine soule for some other end then like a mole to dig in the earth blinded with basenes Wherefore doe mens affections runne after Mammon in steed of God or why doe they adore it in his roome we call that euery ones God vpon which his desires dote and runne and so here if wealth drowne all other cares and possesse the minde as principall So bad is couetousnes where it seemeth most harmelesse what then where it worketh vpon aduantage and grateth vpon the necessities of others In this age euery one stretcheth out all gaine to the vttermost and the labours of the meaner sort neuer lesse regarded one profession striueth to eate vp another Yet haue we a general complaint of want as if the curse of scattering went along with this scraping As fast as the Tennant brings in or the debter payes pride and other moths perhaps an vnthrifty sonne wast and weare out all againe Sometimes the labours of one in neede when they as fertile fields should returne to another gaine with some aduantage while too much vse is made of them ones estate and the others hope doe breake together Suppose a miserable gatherer may escape these miseries a scattering time will come at last death will scatter the houshold and diuide the goods it seuereth the two neere friends soule and body and for a time sendeth them into remote and distant Countries Then as Iob saith Iob 27.8 The hypocrite though hee gaineth where is his hope Like the chaffe which the winde driueth from the face of the earth or scattered as our Sauiour pronounceth here If then we will gather and gaine too we must gather with Christ and we shall not scatter Time imploied in his worship though it be gone as all time hath wings stayeth in the booke of God and bringeth reward Whatsoeuer labour in his seruice or cost is bestowed to maintaine and further it is layd out safely The choisest graine lyeth longest in the earth indures the stormes of Winter but springeth vp with a gainefull crop so the best workes haue their goodnes couered and longest tarry for recompence but faithfull is he that promiseth an assured time shall bring them vp Cast thy bread vpon the waters Eccles 11.1 for after many daies thou shalt find it To teach a worldly minde that seemeth to cast all vpon waters no benefite redounding backe and therefore they cast so little that treasure layd vp in heauen shall neuer be lost Let vs then gather time by taking opportunity to doe good Let vs gather the word which Christ disperseth among vs as seede or the soules Manna which onely can feede it in the staruing wildernesse of this life Vse it or else it will putrifie as Manna did From the iudgments and plagues of God gather occasions of admonition and repentance And by this kind of gathering we shall get all Open thy mouth wide and I shall fill it Psalme 81.10 saith God to his people His rewards are not like fruits of a cold beneuolence or a meane collection but himselfe his Sonne the first fruits of blessednes heere and eternall glory hereafter in due time In the naming whereof I may iustly make mine owne period and yours Instructions are gathered that we may disperse and publish them for others to shew by precept and patterne all gatherings one day must haue a like conclusion The end of Preaching is practise and the end of practise is the end of all Therefore let me winde vp these with our Sauiours counsell here and S. Pauls in another place So gather that you may not scatter so runne that yee may obtaine FINIS