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A09780	The fauourite: or, A plaine demonstration from Holy Scripture of Gods especiall loue to the righteous, in a sermon preached at S. Andrewes in Norwich, the 18. of Nouemb. 1611. since enlarged and newly published for the comfort of Gods people. By Timo: Plummer preacher of Gods word	Plummer, Timothy.	1622 (1622)	STC 20050; ESTC S105176	25,009	62

onely the outward shew and conceit of righteousnesse without the inward sound solide and substantiall change in heart and life Math. 23.27 28. Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises Hypocrites for you are like vnto painted Sepulchres which indeed appeare beautifull outward but are within full of dead mens bones and of all vncleannesse euen so ye also appeare righteous vnto men but within are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie Therefore let me say vnto you as our Sauiour said vnto his hearers Except your righteousnesse exceede the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisies Math. 5.20 ye cannot enter into the kingdome of heauen Ye see in what damnable estate you are in ye are in no better case then notorious sinners nay I feare in worse There are most woes denounced against such Math. 23. The hypocrite is hatefull to God and man Fained sanctity is accounted double iniquitie and when God threatneth to punish extreamely hee will giue them their portion with hypocrites Mat. 24.51 Vse 4 Fourthly wee hence enforce a double exhortation 1. That euery one of vs would goe out of our selues First exhortation Rom. 13.14 Matth. 22.11 and get into the true fountaine of righteousnesse Put on the Lord Iesus Christ Put him on as a rich robe of righteousnesse the onely wedding garment of our soule Let vs not content our selues with a dreame figment and vaine shadow of righteousnesse but labour with S. Paul to be found in him not hauing our owne righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is through the faith of Christ Phil. 3.9 the righteousnes which is of God by faith If we be not found in him cloathed with his righteousnesse we shal be cloathed with perpetuall shame Let not the enemies of Gods grace the Papists perswade vs to weaue the spiders webbe of our owne workes Act. 13.10 Esay 39.5 They shall not become garments neither shall they couer themselues with their workes saith the Prophet Indeede if we presume to bring before God our workes they will bee in his sight but workes of iniquitie Verse 6. as in the same place Yea Beloued in the Lord Knowing that a man is not iustified by the workes of the Lawe Gal. 2.16 but by the faith of Iesus Christ let vs freely confesse In the Lord we haue our righteousnes and strength Esa 45.24 If God should enter into iudgement with vs no man liuing could be iustified Psal 143.2 Doth not Saint Iames labour to make men see 1. Obiect Iam. 2.24 that by workes a man is iustified and not by faith onely And yet S. Paul from good premises concludes That a man is iustified by faith without the deeds of the Law Rom. 3.28 Doe these Master builders and maine pillars of the Church differ and disagree in this fundamentall point of our saluation Answ The seeming iarres and oppositions found in Scripture may be easily reconciled if we plow with Gods Heifer S. Iames speaketh of iustification before men and so he maketh workes to iustifie Declaratiuè declaring who are to be accounted righteous in the Court of Sanctification and by this meanes the Apostle layeth the idle emptie verball professour vpon his backe who onely braggeth of faith not hauing the fruits thereof but remaine a dead and fruitlesse tree ready to bee cut downe and cast into the fire But Saint Paul speaketh of iustifying before God and so he maketh the poore hand of faith to iustifie Apprehensiuè apprehending Math. 3.10 applying and appropriating the righteousnesse of Christ vnto the sinner Rom. 4.5 by which the sinner may with boldnes appeare before Gods tribunall in the Court of iustification and by this meanes the Apostle beateth downe the proud conceited Pharisaicall Iusticiary that dares obtrude and thrust vpon God his owne good workes good intents and good meanings Yea this shall bee found an infallible truth that Christ came not to call such righteous but sinners to repentance Math. 9.13 The poore Publican that humbly confesseth his sinnes and desireth Gods mercy in the merits of Christ Luk. 18.14 is the man that goeth away iustified rather then the other Obiect 2 Doth not Dauid say Iudge me oh Lord according to my righteousnesse Psal 7.8 Ans I answer by distinguishing of righteousnes there is a double righteousnes one of the person another of the cause Dauid there would haue God to iudge him according to the goodnesse or righteousnes of his cause therefore if thou lookest euer to come to heauen cast away thine owne righteousnes as dung and drosse For as the Israelites did not possesse the land of Canaan for their righteousnes Deut. 9.4.5 6. Tit. 3.5 so thinke not thou to climbe vp to heauen by thine own workes and merits Let me deale plainely bee not so sortish to thinke of deseruing at Gods hands by thy workes of legall righteousnes considering what thou maist reade in Job against this conceit Iob 22.3 35.7 Is it any pleasure to the almighty that thou art righteous or is it gaine to him that thou makest thy wayes perfect If thou be righteous what giuest thou him or what receiueth hee of thine hand When we haue done all things commanded vs of God let vs say in truth and humility wee are vnprofitable seruants Obiect 3 Are not we enemies to good works by this doctrine Doe we not hinder well doing May not men say what vse haue we of good works when you so strictly preach faith onely Ans No we call as feruently and frequently for good workes as any Papist in the world and vpon farre better grounds and will any wise man say We are enemies to Noblemen if wee saye that Noblemen must not bee Kings Is there not other good vse in the state for Noblemen though they be not Kings and sit vpon the Regall throne So are there not other good vses of good workes though they be not admitted to be Causae regnandi and put in the top of Iustification May they not be Viae ad Regnum Eph. 2.10 wayes that God haue appointed vs to walke in Is it nothing that our heauenly Father is glorified by good workes Mat. 5.16 Gal. 6.10 2. Pet. 1.10 And that our brethren are many wayes bettered by them and that wee our selues are by the same assured of our effectuall calling and eternal election And know further that wee doe not so strictly call for faith onely but that we require works Iam. 2.18 the fruites of faith to iustifie and testifie the life and truth of the same faith Gal. 5.6 yea although faith other graces and workes be together in a Christian yet they doe not iustifie together they concurre not in the act of Iustification But as the cares and eyes are together in a man and the eyes onely see and as light and heate are together in the fire and the heat onely warmeth So faith loue and workes are in a true Christian but

he was rich 2. Cor. 8.9 yet for our sakes became poore Hee was poore in his birth life and death Luk. 2.7 His birth was not allowed a fit roome in a common Inne In his life the foxes and foules Luk. 9.58 had a more certaine dwelling At his death he had not a graue of his owne to be buried in Ioh. 29.42 Ergo they must in some proportion drinke of Christs cup of pouertie The Disciple is not aboue his Master Luk. 6.40 2. That he may put a difference between the time of our nonage and the time of possessing our inheritance Gal. 4.1 that wee may sensibly discerne the time of our soiourning here 1. Pet. 1.17 Act. 3.21 from the times of the restitution of all things God will not let vs finde a heauen vpon earth Math. 17.4 and so dreame It is good for vs to be here 3. Being Pilgrimes and Trauellers in their present condition Heb. 11.13 it is not meete they should bee cumbred and loden with too much thicke clay God will allow vs a light staffe to ease vs in our way but not a heauie burden to hinder our progresse 4. That the wicked may haue occasion to doe good that their mouthes may be stopped and they not able to say but that there was some little ones in estate to doe good vnto Mat. ●5 45 Mark 14.7 Deu. 15.11 according to that Ye haue the poore with you alwaies and whensoeuer ye will ye may doe them good 5. That he may exercise his speciall graces in their hearts In infortu nus vn●●s ●●●cet as Faith Patience Hope Humilitie c. Faith for if they should haue riches in abundance they would goe neere to trust in them 〈…〉 in dead vncertaine riches and not in the liuing God and therefore God often keepeth backe greatnesse that himselfe might be our chiefest trust and stay Patience God brought Iob to a little Iob 1. that hee might inure his patience in very truth God by this dealing will trie how willingly we submit and subscribe to his prouident allowance Hope He will haue vs hope for a plenty else-where 1. Cor. 15.19 If in this life onely we haue hope we are of all men most miserable Humilitie because riches doe eleuate and lift vp the heart God by the Prophet telleth the Prince of Tyrus Thou hast encreased thy riches Ezech. 28.5 and thy heart is lifted vp because of thy riches Obiect He was a heathen and a wicked man but Gods children are of a better mould frame and disposition Answ Nay in this point God is iealous of his owne people that are in speciall couenant with him He bids them Take heede that when they haue eaten and are ful and haue built goodly houses c. Deut. 8.14 that their heart be not lifted vp and they forget God which brought them forth of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage Omnibus nobis vt res dant sese ita humiles aut elati sumus Terent. in Hecyra For the most part as the purse filleth the heart swelleth The heathen Poet could say as much According to our outward estate wee are either proud or humble It is pitie faire weather should doe hurt but it commeth often to passe that in abundance Gods children are subiect to surfeit when penury want and their competent little keepeth them in good temper Viuitur exiguo melius Prou. 30.8 9. This made Agur pray as heartily against riches as against pouerty Giue me neither pouertie nor riches least I bee full and denie thee and say who is the Lord First this doth disprooue that false glasse and crooked rule 1. Vse by which many rich men iudge of their spirituall estate before God they thinke themselues highly in Gods fauour because rich Ier. 9.23 but let not the rich man glory in his riches For alas this is a meere deceit Eccl. 9.1.2 These outward things fall out alike vnto all or commonly Gods chiefe Fauourites haue the least portion when prophane Esau Gen. 27.39 whom God hateth is allowed the fatnesse of the earth Prou. 3.16 I tell thee riches are but a gift of the left hand and if any haue the vantage it is the poore man Haue ye not read that God is called the God of the poore and needie the Father of the fatherlesse Psal passim Hath not God chosen the poore in this world rich in faith and heires of the kingdome which he hath promised to them that loue him Iam. 2.5 Luk. 7.22 Yea to the poore is the Gospel preached ordinarily the poorer sort of people do giue best well-come and entertainment to the same 1. Cor. 1 26 when not many mightie and rich in the world are effectually called Ioh. 7.48 Haue any of the rulers beleeued on him How hardly shall they that haue riches enter into the kingdome of God such as trust in riches Mark 10.23 24. as is there expounded Therefore I may say to rich and poore Ioh. 7 24. Iudge not after the appearance but iudge righteous iudgement and alwaies remember that in heauen is poore Lazarus aswell as rich Abraham pouertie Luk. 16. ragges nakednesse cannot separate vs from Gods loue in Christ Rom. 8.35 He that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him though he be neuer so poore Act. 10.35 this is ancient doctrine that God accepteth not the persons of Princes Iob 34.19 nor regardeth the rich more then the poore Vse 2 Secondly this exhorts vs to contentation hauing Iacobs request foode and rayment Gen. 28.20 1. Tim. 6.8 Heb. 13.5 things for the present our portion our lot our little let vs therewith be content let vs learne with the Apostle a deepe point of Christian learning I haue learned saith he Phil. 4.11 12. in whatsoeuer estate I am therewith to be content I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound euery where and in all things I am instructed Simus contenti ista mediocri fortuna c. modico substantiola Westmer both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and to suffer neede Learne then since God hath cut thee out but a little to bee heartily well content with his good will and pleasure Obiect 1 But our little may prooue too little and so we perish in want begge starue in the streete c. Answ I will not goe out of this Psalme for an answer Verse 25. Obserue the Prophets long experience I haue beene yong and now am old yet haue I not seene the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread Obiect 2 We daily see that which he did not the righteous ouer-whelmed with pouertie and beggery Answ If we obserue who be the common beggers in the world we shall finde the to be the vilest gracelesse and godlesse persons of all the earth There are but a