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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04238	The good mans priuiledge A sermon lately preached at Plimmouth in Deuon, by I.B. And now published at the request of some that then were auditors.	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1618 (1618)	STC 1436; ESTC S100848	19,948	34

Omniscience wee will proceed to his Omnipotencie and there wee shall perceiue that it is also good for his children for knowledge without power were to little purpose but when these concurre in one person what euill may not be preuented what good procured This power is of great force to confirme our faith for by it we beleeue Heb. 11.3 that he was able to create the world of nothing that he doth and can preserue all things that they be not destroied Psal 114.5 c. or the whole order thereof disturbed ouerturned that God can procure foode and raiment rather then we should want extraordinarily that he can curbe and bridle the rage and violence of men and diuels raise vp the dead and make a new heauen Deut. 32.39.40 c. Phil. 3.21 2. Pet. 3.13 and a new earth wherein shall dwell righteousnesse And what is it that he wanteth power to doe if it may make for his glory and our good for The Lord is in heauen Psal 115.3 and doth whatsoeuer he will Furthermore Rom. 4.21 it will confirme our confidence in the accomplishment of all his promises though they be neuer so many or great or seeme sometimes to exceede or crosse nature Dauid would not feare Psal 27.1 when the strong hand of the Lord was with him Abraham would willingly offer his sonne for God had power to raise him to life againe Heb. 11.17.19 In a word if he be with vs what mattereth it Who Rom. 8.31 or what is against vs For by his Power he is able to preserue our essence from perishing and to keepe and support vs as a hand of strength for euer Thus you may perceiue that his power is good for his children Now from his Omnipotency let vs descend to his Mercy Psalm 73.1 Lam. 3.22 and is not that the spring that comforteth the thirstie soule the fountaine of all ioy in miserie and that that must support vs from horrour and despaire This will make vs willing to come before him in life bold in death and full of ioy in the great day of his comming and our appearing Yea it will worke in vs compassion to our brethren Psal 103.1 thankefulnesse for his benefits and will not his bountifulnesse allure a good heart to true repentance Rom. 2.4.5 But no man maketh doubt of this therefore the more briefly we will touch it and goe to the Attribute of his Iustice Iustice is a terrour to all wicked and vngodly men they cannot endure to heare it but what will these persons doe when they must vndergoe it they checke him that will preach it vrge it crying as the people in times past Ye take too much vpon you Numb 16.3 1. Iohn 1.9 for all the Congregation is holy yet is it exceeding comfortable and profitable to them that are effectually called howeuer it worke with the wicked for it wil moue them to cease from sinne encourage them to doe good 2. Thes 1.4.5.6 strengthen them in faith and worke in them patience being by the prophane persecuted for they know Rom. 2.6.11 that sinne must not goe vnpunished godlinesse vnrewarded and that there is no respect of persons with the Lord. In conclusion it will make them carefull how to iudge the Lords proceedings Rom. 9.14 not to accuse him as wicked Psalm 36.7 to deny their owne merits tremble at his word reuerence his extraordinary acts of prouidence Acts 16.30 and to seeke for a righteousnesse to satisfie the iustice of his Law And thus could I touch the rest of Gods Attributes and declare that as they are good in God so to his children But I omit them and because this of all other things doth most deceiue many I will a little further follow it We are to know that the mercy and iustice of God are equall as they be in him and so be all his attributes for whatsoeuer is in God is God and there is no difference betweene the essence and attributes of God but in our apprehension yet though they be equall amongst themselues it may be demanded Quest Whither is the greater in respect of the externall obiect about which they are exercised Ans If we respect the latitude the Iustice seemes to exceede his Mercy and enlarge it selfe beyond it for how many haue not the meanes of mercy the Gospell of Christ More want it then they that enioy it Againe Mat. 13. of the foure kinds of grounds one but receiued the good seed which is meant of them that are in the Church visible And Christ saith that the way to heauen is narrow and few find it Mat. 7.13.14 but to hell broad and many goe in thereat Yet to speake as I conceiue the truth is if we regard the profunditie or depth of his mercy then in that it hath the preheminence and in foure things it will appeare first the Lord found out a way to saue man Genes 3.15 1. Pet. 1.12 when Satan or the good Angels could not peepe into that secret It went beyond the Serpents skill for all his subtilty how a finite creature could make an infinite satisfaction Secondly Iohn 3.16 in that God gaue his owne onely Sonne freely to take vpon him mans nature that there might be a reconciliation Thirdly that he was contented to receiue the debt from a suertie and not at the debtors hands for it was in his owne election and libertie Rom. 5.8.9 c. Fourthly and herein is his mercy manifested wonderfully that he hath sent his Word and Spirit to beare witnesse of this great worke to open mens blind eies Rom. 8.15.16 that they might see into it infuse faith into their vnbeleeuing hearts to credit it and in particular to apply it so that in these respects they that vnderstand it and are assured that they be partakers of this rich mercy may say that it is a depth past finding out But first get vnder the act of his mercie Rom. 11.33 taste of it and then maist thou iustly and with comfort commend it otherwise be it as it is infinite it will profit thee nothing And now we will come to speake briefly of some acts or effects that proceed from God and declare how they also doe worke for his childrens good First his Decree is profitable for them for though it exclude the reprobate from all true blessednesse Matth. 24.24 yet it includes the Elect within the booke of life and saluation The Apostle compares it to a foundation 2. Tim. 2.19 And so it is in three respects First because it comes from God who is the originall and beginner of all things Secondly in regard that it is the basis and ground on which all the worke of mans saluation stands And thirdly in respect of the firmenesse and surenesse of it for it abideth constant and stedfast for euer so that he who is builded vpon this rocke as all the faithfull be cannot

fall from the certaintie of perfect blessednesse Againe the worke of creation and mans generation is good for his people for that is the beginning of their actuall well-being and a step to blessing howbeit it had been good for Iudas Mat. 26.24 and the vnbeleeuers they had neuer been borne And mans effectual Vocation is good too whether it be sooner or latter if the Lord call a man in his youth why is not this a rare priuiledge and shall he not be better enabled to resist all euill in the time of age Suppose the Lord single a man out in his more ancient yeeres yet it shall bee good for him also for hee shall discerne more clearely and that with admiration the patience and long suffering of the Lord perceiue his power the more in turning him from that long and strong habit of wickednes he will make the more haste to heauen as the shaft to the marke that hath been long held in the bowe worke the more willingly in the Lords vineyard so short a time and he thereby will be the more hopefull of old sinners lesse proane finally to censure any And is not this also good for him Besides let one depth of afflictions like the waues of water slow after another yet shall they leade him from sinne and draw him more close to the Law of God make him more pitifull to his sick brother and weane him from the loue of this world exercise all grace in him to the vttermost and seale to his soule the more certaintie of his saluation 2. King 22.20 What if death destroy his daies in youth is he not tooke from the euill to come and shall not a well-led life yeeld comfort at the day of death doth he not the sooner take possession of his fathers inheritance and rest from his labours Reuel 14.13 yea and is not then the day of a good mans death better then the day of his birth And if his life and daies be prolonged why Prou. 16 31. is not gray haires a crowne of glorie being found in the way of righteousnesse Now from God and his acts come wee to Satan and wee shall easily discerne that his plots and malice shall worke for good He caused man to fall from his integritie at the first but what lost he first is he not a member now of a more glorious head Christ the Lord Secondly is not his standing more certaine and he not subiect to change and fall for euer and this is the reason why Adam had a Sacrament in the Garden of good and euill to seale life or death but we in Christ haue none but such as seale vp our saluation Thirdly shall not our estate be more glorious in respect of the place of our habitation For if Adam had stood probably as some thinke we had neuer been translated from earth to heauen for euery creature say they was to be blessed in that state and place where the Lord at the first put them as Angels in heauen Fishes in the sea and consequently Man and Beast on the earth and our ascension comes by Christ for from the Deitie hauing more power to carry the humanitie to heauen then the humanitie any waies to moue the Deitie springs our so great exaltation And Paul seemes to confirme this proposition 1. Cor. 15.47 when he saith that The first man was of the earth earthly the second from heauen heauenly endeauouring not only to proue the resurrection but the ascension of the body also by the merits of Christ Iesus So that Satan did not hurt but helpe vs though not willingly yet through the mercy of God on his part freely but on Satans by necessitie And what though he tempt vs still why we may learne wisdome of him as for to get power against the day of euill and it will assure a man that he is Christs sheepe and in the path to heauen when hee finds Satan so to tempt him and resist him for thus he disputeth If I were not at liberty why should the diuell thus trouble me tempt me Luther saith that he learned much good meaning in these former respects from the aduersary of mankind though the Papists blind guides scandalize him for it and accuse him to haue been familiar with the diuell And no doubt but as a man learnes wit by going to Law with a cunning aduersarie so the sonnes of God in our daies haue good by his tentations in finding out his depths and feeling Gods strong arme to plucke them out of his mouth and he that neuer learned wisdome from Satan though he intend not to teach him any may be iustly suspected not to be in the way to heauen 2. Cor. 2.11 Thus from him let vs step to mankind the which bee our brethren in the flesh or spirit and we will begin with the wicked ones What if the Canaanites be still among the Israelites is it not good for them for first if the sonne runne from his father why let him fall into the hand of an vncircumcised Philistim he will whip him home againe Secondly the prouidence of God ouer his will the more appeare in their preseruation Thirdly it will make the faithfull to looke better to their footing that they haue not cause to blaspheme the name of the Lord or speake euill of his lawes wee see Lot liued better in Sodom amongst sinners then when hee came to Zoar from out of them Fourthly they preuent much sinne that the righteous are subiect vnto for suppose that a man would wrong the King of his impost and custome sell away as wee haue heard some doe their powder shot and the like prouision why an honest man cannot if hee would haue way for the wicked for they lie at euery aduantage and like dogs deuoure that carrion that might choake and poison the godly And doe we not see that a flower growing amongst Onyons and Garlicke is sweeter then if it were among more pleasant herbes for the sower roote suckes the bad iuice and leaues the better for the other And it is out of all question that one good man hath benefit by another For first they are partakers of one anothers prayers and is not this a good thing Secondly they haue a fellow-feeling of one anothers miseries and is not this to be eased of part of their burthē Thirdly they will comfort thē if they be feeble minded and relieue them in necessity and what better for such as bee in that condition Fourthly they all concurre to make vp one compleat and perfect Temple for Gods Spirit to dwell in and by this relation haue they not good one by and from another what if they iarre now and then as Paul and Marke were sometimes stirred amongst themselues yet shall not the falling out of friends bee a meanes to renew more firmely their former affection like a bone being knit that hath been broken is the firmer afterwards yea such shall be reconciled in due season for