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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13711	Seauen sermons, or, The exercises of seuen sabbaoths 1 The prophet Dauids arithmeticke. 2 Peters repentance. 3 Christs last supper. 4 Christ combating with Satan. 5 The sea-mans carde. 6 The sinners bath. 7 The forming of Eue the first woman. Together with a short treatise vpon the commaundements.	Thomas, Lewis, b. 1567 or 8.	1599 (1599)	STC 24003; ESTC S111425	91,351	236

the performance of my duty to God-wards consist in louing God why it is a matter of no great difficulty I can do so much euer from my youth haue I loued God Indeede it may seeme to be a lesson soon learned but if thou discusse it aright if thou examine what this loue is and where in it consists and how many circumstances depend on it being exposed I say to the vttermost herein as Christ exposed the rich yong man in the Gospel thou wilt go away forrowfull finding thine insufficiency as he did and cry out vppon thy selfe clapping thy Luk. 18. 13 brest like the publicane God be merciful to me a sinner wilt thou know then what this loue is that God requireth that thou maist see how farre thou wadest into the same or how farre short thou comest of it hearken a while and I will make a scrutiflie in to thy conscience by sounding the very bottome thereof if possibly I may find that loue there which thou wouldst seeme to bragge of First then and principally to proceede The first commandement from the first to the last I wil appose thee in the first table and first commaundement thereof If thou loue God as thou shouldst thou wilt haue no other gods but him Thou wilt worship none but him Thou wilt call on none but him Thou wilt pray to none but him The worshippe of God stands in foure points In fearing God aboue all In honouring him aboue all In praying to him alone In acknowledging him to be the giuer of all things and therefore to put our trust only in him A son honoreth his father and a seruant his master if then I be a father where is my Malac. 1. ● honour if I be a master where is my feare saith the Lord of hostes there goeth honor and feare When ye pray saith our Sauiour Christ to his Disciples say on this manner Our Mat. 6. 9 Father with art in heauen hallowed be thy name Thy kingdome come Thy wil be done in earth as it is in heauen Giue vs this day our daily bread And forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. And leade vs not into temptation But deliuer vs from euill Amen Acts 17. 25 26. Paul and Silas being in prison trusted in God that he would deliuer them and therefore at midnight they made their praiers vnto him there goeth confidence and prayer God is a iealous God and will not haue his glory communicated to any other thou must inuocate no other neither saint Angel nor any other creature Thou neuer louest God as thou oughtest thou hast learned to say with Dauid whom haue I in heauen but thee Dauid knew that Abraham Noah and the Patriarches were in heauen yet he knew that they in heauen did not know him being on earth according to that in Esay 63. 16 Abraham hath forgotten vs and Israel knowes vs not It is a point Ilc not say of ridiculous folly but of extreme madnesse to pray to them that cannot heare vs. The Saints themselues haue no accesse to God but by Christ the virgin Mary her selfe calles Christ her Sauior what warrant haue they then that pray to the virgin Mary since she her selfe sends them vnto Christ looke the first of Iohn 2. Christ is our onely Ephe. 4. ● aduocate there is one only mediator Why should we flie vnto a Saint rather than vnto Christ vnlesse we thinke that either Christ is not sufficient or else that he is too seuere and in thus thinking we robbe him of his most glorious title of Mediator that most singular prerogatiue giuen him of the father we obseure the glory of his birth we make his crosse frustrate in a word what soeuer he hath either done or wrought for vs all is made vaine and voyd by this derogatory kind of false worship And lastly we robbe God of his bountifulnesse who exhibites himself a Father vnto vs how can God be our Father when we will not haue Christ for our brother To be short and to vse the words of S. Austin Christ is our only mouth through whom we speake vnto the father he is our eie by whom we see the father he is our right hand by whome we offer vnto the father who if he should leaue to pleade for vs neither should we nor the saints haue ought to do with God Notwithstanding this sunneshine of Gods truth yet al are not lightned al open not their hearts like Lydia to receiue this doctrine especially the elder sort who haue suckt this superstition as it were from the dugge and they cannot leaue it because they haue bin nuzled in it Thus many that haue eies will not see but do wander out of the truth like the blind Aramites groping at noone day If when we should flie to Christ we run to a Saint we are not like the man in the gospel who threw away his cloake to runne to Christ but we are like Samuel that ranne to Eli when God called him ● kin 2. 17 When Eliah was taken vp into heauen yet some sought for his body vpon the earth but they found him not No more shal they find Christ that seeke him in the Saints where he is not to be found as the father mother of Christ could not find him thogh they sought him three whole dayes till they came to the temple Iohn 1. 29. and 36 Looke vnto Iohn Baptist and we shall see him pointing not to a Saint or an Angel but vnto Christ the Lamb of God Let this be the conclusion of this one subiect or principal mater of substance cōteined in this first and greatest commaundement which concerneth the true worshippe of God None may be prayed vnto but such as can both heare and grant the thing we aske none can do so but God only most notable is that saying in Psal 65. because thou hearest the praier therfore vnto thee shal al flesh come Neither Saints nor Angells ought to be worshipped Ergo not to be prayed vnto Reue. 19 Since the Scripture therefore in the true worship of God doth especially commend vnto vs that we inuocate God onely we may not without manifest sacrilege direct our prayers to any other If we lift vp our hands to any other will not God require it concerning the office of intercession we see it peculiar to Christ only and that no praier is acceptable vnto God but that which our mediator doth sanctifie for him hath God the father sealed I will shut vp all with that in the seuenth to the Hebrewes 25. God is able perfectly to saue them that come vnto him by his Son Christ because he euer liueth to intreat for You haue heard this error conuinced by the word therfore as our Sauiour said to the woman taken in adultery Go thy way and sinne no more so I say vnto you that haue bene supersutiously affected Now you know it to be a sinne do

the second booke of Chronicles we find Salomon the son asking of God wisedome and here we find Dauid the father asking of God wisedome also A good father chawlkes the waie first and as gracious a sonne that well might seeme to descend from so good a father followes the same path after both walking towards God a father to them both both of one affection do aske one the same thing viz. wisedom but respecting a diuers end the one to th end he might the better gouerne his people the other to be able thereby to number his days And this much shal briefly suffice for the cleering of the first note which teacheth you if you will learne of Dauid to pray vnto God for knowledge desire him to direct you and teach you as to teach you al things so principally this pray him to learne you to number your daies This lesson wel learned wil bring you to the knowledge of all your other duties It followeth Dan. 5. To number It is ascribed vnto God by Daniel that God alone numbreth weigheth and diuideth he measureth times seasons daies yeares and he that is the numberer will teach vs to number if we wil offer our selues to be taught by him No lesson is more necessary for these times considering how sinne hath spread it selfe like a leprozie ouer all flesh and iniquitie hath gotten the vpperhand And more then this the vialls of Gods wrath are powred our alreadie vpon vs to consume vs as we are all eie-witnesses this day Al had bin preuented if we had bin carefull to get vnto our selues this one comfortatiue more worth than all the balme in Gilead to haue knowledge to number our daies From the first words of this psalme to this present text now handled the prophet recapitulateth and recounteth the shortnes and miserie of this life and in the tenth verse he makes vp a calender as it were of mans age in that he saith the life of man is threescore Psal 90. yeares and ten and though men be so strong that they come to fourescore yeares yet is their time then but labor and sorrow so soon passeth it away and we are gone The note raised hence must be this the shortnes of time ought to make vs more circumspect and certainly if men did in a careful conscience surueigh the short scantling of our yeares and crosses incident to the same they would not run so wilfully to the vomit of sinne as they do and so seale vp their own condemnation The want of this consideration blindfolds the sinful soules of men and casteth them headlong into a thousand inconueniences Gen. 19. If Lot had numbred his owne daies as he liued to see the Sodomites days both numbred and determined when fire from heauen consumed them he had not proceeded to commit incest so soon after with his own daughters Gen. 9. Righteous Noah forgat his righteousnesse and being drunke lay vncouered in his tent his owne sonnes being ashamed that their owne father had cast off shame He could preach to the olde world that their daies should be an hundred and twenty yeares and then should the floud come but he forgat to number his own dayes and therfore a seconde inundation preuailed against him he became ouerflowed with wine as the old world with water Dan. 4. If N●bucad nezzar had numbred his time when hee numbred his towers and riches and honor he had not so soon lost his honor nor haue bin sent out to dwel with beasts in the field where he was compelled to eate grasse like an oxe because he liued like an asse til his haires were growne like Egles fethers and his nailes like birds clawes Belshazzar carowsing wine among his Dan. 5. nobles thought of nothing lesse than the numbring of his daies although euen then the moment of time was come when he should resigne vp bo●h life and kingdome Not to stand vpon particulars if the great rich man in the Gospel had bin as careful to Lu. 12. 19. 20. number his daies as he was cumbered with deuising how to take downe hi●●lde barnes and to build vp new thinking to store vp for many yeares that voice of terror had not sounded from the Numberer of times Thou foole this night wil they take the soule from thee he dreamed of many yeares behind but because he reckoned without his host for he neuer schooled himself where Dauid learned his Arithmetike therefore he deceiued himselfe and that daie proued to be the last of his life Such is and hath euer bin the course of carnal men that do fixe their eies vpon the present time only and do think that the same shall neuer be altered This securitie was far from Iob when he Iob. 14. 14. saith al the time of my pilgrimage wil I wait til my changing come as if he made it his occupation euery daie from time to time he waited for his changing Iob hath lefte few his like behind him few such Numberers of time recorded Iob and Dauid both do teach vs to number our daies as they did their daies Satan casteth so many golden baites in our Coruinus waye that we cleane forget our time as Coruinus forgate his name We are so busied like Naball about white 1. Sam. 25. 10. earth and red earth in raping and scraping transitorie trash and so deuoted to fleshly pleasures and deceitfull vanities of this life that we haue no leisure at al to think on death and so we chop into the earth afore we be aware like a man walking vpon a greene field couered with snow and not seeing the waie runneth on and sodainely falles into a pit Herodotus writeth of Sesostris a King of the Aegyptians that he was caried in a chariot drawne with foure Kings whom he before had conquered one of the foure casting his eies behinde him looked often vpon the wheeles of the chariot and was at length demanded by Sesostris what he meant to looke backe so often saith he I see that 〈…〉 which were highest in the wheel 〈…〉 sently lowest the lowest eftsoo 〈…〉 highest cogito de mutatione fortu● 〈…〉 vpon the inconstancie of thi 〈…〉 hereupon aduising himselfe 〈…〉 milde and deliuered the sai 〈…〉 As it did Pirrus history noteth mans mortalit 〈…〉 Teach vs to number our d● 〈…〉 speakes not of yeares or monet 〈…〉 but of daies noting the shortnesse 〈…〉 in the word Daies And the same phrase is vsed of all the 〈…〉 men vpō the like occasion Iacob told Phar●oh that few and euill were the daies of his pilgrimage speaking of the time to note the shortnesse of life he names not yeares but daies and speaking of the toyles and troubles of life he calles it a pilgrimage Iob in like manner in numbring his daies my daies saith he are more swift than a post Iob. 9. 25. and in the 26. verse they are swifter than shippes Our Sauiour in teaching vs to