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A91943	The fast friend: or A friend at mid-night. Set forth in an exposition on that parable Luke 11. 5.-11. Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at mid-night, &c. By Nehemiah Rogers, minister of the Gospel.	Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1822; Thomason E953_1; ESTC R203374	432,120	516

disswaded from licentious courses by the word of a Licencious Master or that child prove chaste that scarce can reckon up the Whoredomes and Adulteries of his Parent without a dozen of Stops and intermissions as one speaketh Dr. Dunn What thou reprovest in another amend first in thy self and what good dutie thou requirest of an inferiour practise thy self say not Go but come which was the wont saith Tully of Julius Caesar and remember though the Eloquence of Inferiours is in words yet the Eloquence of superiours is in Action In a word Phil. 2.15.16 there is none present but may make good use of the point delivered as is enjoyned Phil. 2.15 16. Nor is it enough to give good advice and counsell unlesse we take it otherwise we shall sometimes or other be choaked with that Proverbiall speech Luke 4.23 Physitian heal thy self nor shall we ever be able to make our peace with that same Text Luke 4.23 Math. 5.20 Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Phar●sees Math. 5.20 you shall in no case enter into the Kingdome of Heaven The Pharisees were verball but not Practicall we must be both if we hope for Heaven In hearing of the word resorting to Gods house we do outwardly celebrate the Sabbath but in practising that we hear and being examples to others we turn all the week into a Sabbath and that is a savour of rest in the Nostrills of the Lord When the glasse is runn we say the Sermon is ended the Minister hath now done but we mistake it is not done till the week be done nor may it be ended then neither If the Minister follow his own Doctrine that he delivered and thou that which thou heardst on the Sabbath enjoyned then that Sermon was a good Sermon and done indeed Otherwise that wherewith the Disciples were unjustly charged Acts 2.13 we may be justly charged withall that we were in a manner drunk upon the Sabbath day for it is one signe of a drunken man to forget both what he said and heard Thus much of the Person teaching now of the Persons taught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Unto them Text. Not unto the Scribes and Pharisees who neither respected his Person for that they derided nor praying for they scorned to be taught by him but to those he spake who were willing to hear and desirous to learn as appereas before by the Request they made vers 1. Lord teach us to pray whence note Doctr. Christ makes choice of tractable spirits to instruct and teach in the wayes of piety Such as are of a tractable disposition and willing to be instructed in the wayer of salvation shall be taught by Christ These and onely these Christ makes choice of to reveal the Mysteries of the Kingdom unto and instruct in holy Duties When the High Priest questioned with our Saviour about the destroying of the Temple and building it up again in three deies he answered him nothing Mark 14.60 And when Herod questioned with him about many things Mark 14.60 neither would our Saviour make him any answer Luke 23.9 So when Pilate asked him what was truth Luke 23.9 our Saviour though he was not wont to smoother or suppresse the truth yet he did not instruct him therein as appears John 18.38 John 18.38 He knew that these were not fit Auditors to hear of such matre●s but when his Disciples came unto him and moved questions about Religion he still instructs them and satisfies them in all their doubts for that he knew them to be men of tractable minds and spirits Math. 13.11 12 36 51. Our Saviour did many things in Capernaum of his own accord which he refused to do in his own Country albeit earnestly requested and the reason we have Luke 4.24 Luke 4. verse 24. his own Country men were wayward and perverse and would not accept of a Prophet in his own Country for father confirmation of the point delivered see Psal 25.9 Isai 2.3 28.9 Math. 11.25 28. Use You that desire to be taught of God see that you bring with you to the hearing of the word hearts docible and tractable desirous to learn and be informed and so you shall want neither direction nor encouragement find you but ears hearts and Christ will find a mouth There wants no ability in him to reveale his fathers will unto thee Joh. 1.18 Colos 2.3 Joh. 17.8 John 1.18 Colos 2.3 Nor is there in him any want of will to instruct and teach he teacheth freely John 17.8 Wouldst thou be made clean saith Christ to the Leper why Be thou clean So wouldst thou be instructed in the way to Heaven and mysteries of salvation desirest thou to know what the good will and pleasure of the Lord is that thou mayest obey it and serve him fear not then God will not be wanting to such as are not wanting to themselves It is no matter what the Capacity or incapacity of the Schollar be when there is such a teacher for Christ doth not onely bring Doctrine but he brings wit grace and ability to the inward man Let none distrust if they be tractable and will attend the meanes But if thou bringest a wayard and perverse spirit an ill-affected heart to Gods Ordinances God will then answer thee according to the stumbling block of the iniquity that is in thee Ezek. 14.3 and hide those things from thee that may make to the eternall good and wellfare of thy soul To conclude think often on that parable Prov. 10.8 The wise in heart will receive Commandements he that is desirous to hear that he may learn such a one shall not want instruction But a prating fool such as will quarrell with the Preacher Object against his Doctrine out of a distempered affection he shall fall into misery and trouble Rom. 2.8 9. Unto them Whom if we consider yet again as they stood in Relation unto Christ being of his own family and houshold then this may be further collected thence Doct. Our principal care ought to be of our own Cure This we gather from Christs practise whose greatest care was over those whom he had special charge of Every action of Christ is for our Instruction but not ever for our Imitation we may not imitate him in works miraculous and proper to him as Mediator otherwise then by Similitude translating that to our spiritual life which he as Mediator did So as he dyed we must dye and as he rose again we must arise likewise Nor may we imitate him in his Infirmities as to be hungry thirsty sleepy weary c. For albeit they were not sinful but only natural and so unblameable and are in every one of us yet we need not strive the attainment of them But we must imitate him in his imitable graces and actions as we are willed 1 Pet. 2.9 shew forth the vertues of him that hath called us 1 Pet. 2.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

evil that the Husband will not spare to feed on the flesh of the Wise nor the wise of the Hu●ban●'s c. verse 56.57 The eye of the Mother who hath bin tender and delicate shall be evil towards her new-born infant so that she shall re-womb and rein●omb the train of her body to ●ari●ie her hunger yea she shall de●our her after-b●rith or Secundine which at ot●er times she would have buried of burned she shall ea● it secretly saith the Text either for fear saith Osiander least some might p●uck the meat out of her mouth An instance of thi● we have in the siege of Samaria 2 Kings 2.29 and ●●menred by the Prophet Ieremiah Lament 4.10 Or else out of womanly modesty 2 King 6.19 Lament 4.10 being ashamed to be seen to eat i● And then Read again Lament 2.20 In all the whole body of story you shall not finde such an expression of the misery of Famine as the Holy Ghost there useth Lament 2.20 women eat their fruit and Children of a span long that is say some Expositors Children new born and as ●oon as the joynts were et by the hand wenz or span of the Midwife Others thus understand the place Dr. Down They shall by some meanes or other procure abortions and untimely births of those Children that were in their bodies that they might have so much flesh to eat All these threatenings were litterally and punctually fullfilled upon the Jewes at the last destruction of Jerusalem 2. Thes 2. Joseph de bello Jud. l. 7. cap. 7.8 Euseb Eccles. Hist l. 3. c. 6. Nic. Eph. Hist l. 3. c. 7. at which time wrath came upon them to the utmost of which Famine Iosephus and others make so sad a relation that I know not who can read it with dry eyes Our own Chronicles present unto our view the gastly Picture of Famine we of this Nation have bin often smitten with this scourge In the Reign of Edward the Second we read of a terrible Famine in the Land which happened through aboundance of raine that fell in Harvest insomuch that horse-flesh Dogs and Cats were held great dainties Children were stolen for food Speed Hist Parents did eat the flesh of their own Children which they hid in secret places And Theeves newly brought into the Goal were torn in pieces and eaten half alive by those who had bin longer there Many other terrible famines are mentioned as in the dayes of Henry the sixth and in the dayes of Henry the Eighth 1440.1527 and many times since God hath sent famine amongst us to cleanse those teeth that have bin furred and fowled with excesse If you think I present the face of famine to you at too far a distance At the siege of Colchester I will bring it nearer and beseech you to veiw it in our near Neighbours glasse Was not Dogs-flesh and Cat-flesh Rats Mice c. in that streight siege of theirs as dainties esteemed with them Oh the miseries that they suffered and had not God remembred them in mercy to what extreamities they might have bin brought the Lord onely knoweth But God hath both freed them In the Year 1654. and 1655. and us even this whole Nation and in stead of Famine so much feared and which justly might be expected he hath powred down such a plenty as that the Markets in all places are stored to a glut mens Sellars and Granaries richly furnished The Husband man and Tillager have no vent whereby to make their Rent And as it is thought should there be neither seed-time nor harvest with us yet the present plentie is such that there is enough to suffice the Nation for divers years ensuing which makes some presumtuously confident that we shall never any more know what Famine or the want of bread-corn meanes But such bold confidence oftentimes comes bleeding home 2 Kings 7. ●● That Prince of Samaria would not believe that any such plenty could be as the Prophet had foretold Albeit God should make windowes in Heaven and rain down wheat amongst them Nor will some men believe on the other side that ever there shall be scarcity and want of bread-corn amongst us Albeit God should make our Heavens brasse and our Earth Iron But we may do well to remember that next to Pharaohs full eares came Pharoahs blasted eares next Pharoahs fat kine came Pharaohs lean kind next the Red horse comes the black horse many wayes God hath to inflict this Judgement on us sometimes it comes clad in a roab of immoderate raine and showers drowning the worlds plenty and the Earths provision sometimes it is attended with Catterpillars innumerable to eat up the fruits of the Earths and sometimes with blasting and mildew He hath a Band of Midianities Judg. 6.3,11 Jerom. 6.25 to thresh out the corn that we have sowed A Nation he may bring upon us who shall eat up our Harvest and our bread which our Sons and Daughters should eat Besides God sets the Markets sometimes a measure of fine flowre for a Shekle and two measures of Barely for a Shekle And sometimes an Asses head at fourscore pieces of silver 2 Kings 6.25 and a Cab of Doves dung at five pieces of Silver It exceeds belief to tell at what high rates a little mouse hath bin sold and puddings made of Dogs guts If he raise our Markets all the Power under Heaven cannot pull down the prices And what assureance have we that he will not do it Object But there is no likelihood of that This is but to possesse the hearts of people with needlesse fears and jealousies Resp And was there not as great unlikelyhood some few years before these wars began that we should see this Land so plowed and harrowed with the sword sowed with the Carkasses of men and watered with humane blood This was not believed albeit foretold by the Prophets of the Lord but we have seen it verified to our sorrow oh that it were a godly sorrow Again are not tho●e very sins now rife and reigning amongst us which God hath heretofore punished with Famine and want of bread Ezeck 14.13 14. more particularly Abuse of plenty to Drunkennesse Ezek. 14.13 14. Isay 5.11.12 2 S●m 21. 1. Jer. 11.21.22 Jer. 27.8 Amos 6.4.6 Levit. 26.24 25 26. Jer. 13 22.-27 14 1 -7 33 14 15 16. Psal 2.11 and riot Isay 5.11 12 13. Murthering of Innocents 2 Sam. 21.1 Rejecting opposing thre●tning and persecuting Gods Ministers for delivering their message Jer. 11.21 22. Refusing to submit to that yoak of Government which God hath put upon us Ier. 27.8 Insensiblenesse of the wants of those distressed Amos 6.4.6 Obstinacy and incurablenesse in our iniquities Levit. 26.24 25 26. Ier. 13.22 -27. compared with 14 1 -7 33 14 15 16. So that you may see this warning is not needlesse wherefore as we have cause to be excited to thankfulnesse for our present abundance so to be admonished to