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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93277	Two books of Mr Sydrach Simpson, late master of Pembroke-Hall in Cambridg; and preacher of the Gospel in London. Viz. I. Of unbelief; or the want of readiness to lay hold on the comfort given by Christ. II. Not going to Christ for life and salvation is an exceeding great sin, yet it is pardonable. In the first book is shewed (besides many other things) 1 What unbelief it is that is here spoken of ... 7 Helps to attain readiness in beleeving. In the second book is shewed, 1 That unbelief is a great sin, and exceeding provoking unto God ... 7 God hath pardoned unbelief, and wil pardon it.	Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Loder, John, 1625 or 6-1673.	1658 (1658)	Wing S3827; Thomason E962_1-2; ESTC R203574	187,195	298

Let me speak to you that are rich Be unto all you have as a man is unto his meat who is sick having no desire at all to it Have such a stomach to riches as a man of a ful stomack hath to his meat Let it be al one to you whether you have or have not Though you have Estates let not your Estates have your affections You that are in the waies of gaining and getting that are in the spring of the world that have ful trades and great advantages Take what God gives you but take it as that which is to be laid by you not as your own but as that which you must lay up and lay out for God for the use he cals for and not as that which is given to make you great Use Riches as God appoints You that are poor be content and murmur not for riches are rather things to be feared than desired Beware of Covetousness Feed upon God and Christ and the hopes of another world If you have not enough to satisfie the outward man And that is no hard Counsel for if a covetous man can satisfie himself with a little by feeding upon the hopes of what he shal heap together either for an after day or for his posterity there is then a nourishment and a succor and a food much more in the feeding upon and thinking of Honor and Glory and Immortality and eternal life If you be content to want God will let you have If you be contented God will provide for you In Heb. 13.5 Let your Conversation be without Covetousness and be content with that you have for he hath said he will never leave nor forsake Feed upon God and Christ and the hopes of another world and the more you do so the less wil your condition be discontentful to you Yea my Beloved Let me speak to you that are Godly How uncomely a thing is it for you to mind earthly things Is your God your Belly Are your hopes and your treasures here The more Gospel Christians you are the more contented you will be with a little of the world For when God in the old Testament gave but little Grace then he gave much riches The Land of Canaan and their great and large inheritances were all of them but so many Ceremonies and shadows and Types of the large portion which the Saints are to have in spiritual things by Jesus Christ As the Apostle therfore said unto the Galatians when they were returning unto the Circumcision Have you begun in the Spirit and will you make an end in the Flesh So I say unto you you go back again unto Types and shadows You do so when God hath brought you to the land of true good if you return unto the desire after riches Cloaths that are too big for a man have neither warmth nor comliness in them If you desire more than God gives you have lost the comliness and the profit and health that may be by the blessing of God in Riches to you A word let me speak to you all Covetousness is the sin that now doth begin to sprout and bud And there is nothing that is a sadder presage of the wrath of God against us than the straightness of mens hearts It is reported there was a great deal of wealth in Constantinople when the Turk took it but he took all and brought them into slavery because they would not lay it forth to maintain a just war against him Of another place it is reported that it was lost not so much by the force of the adversary as by the Covetousness of those that should have provided opposition against the enemy If you do but lend you eares a little to men you shal find them murmuring at their Taxes you shal find them complaining at their not getting as they have done That they are willing to be any thing rather then further to be at charges To loose what they have taken in hunting rather then to be at the charge to dress and rost it As I may use that expression of the scripture In the beginning of these late troubles I wish it be not laid to our charge the charge of those who were so forward and free to lend in an animosity when that which they fought for is now brought to their doores is scarce worth acceptance A folly Like unto those who travel to the East-Indies to fetch home things that are not of a price and esteem Some indeed have been overcharged and burdened But it is better a great deal that a man should lay out much for God then a little God wil make good al that faith that you have had in him for the publique good If you should loose what men have promised you yet so far as it was for his name sake God wil become a debtor to you and pay you wel And I look upon the times when I heare men complain Truly I cannot tel how better to compare it Then as if an heire should grievously complaine that he is put to charges to take up the possession of his great inheritance Or as if a man should complain that hath laid out al the mony in his purse when he hath good commodities in the roome of it God hath begun to give you what you have fought and prayed for And let me say thus much that though some men cry out Persecution Persecution Yet is it any persecution for the servants to take their wages Is it any persecution to cal upon you for that which may prevent them that would bring about a warr and to keep those beasts that would devoure from being able to break in upon you Is it persecution for men to sit under their own vines and eate the fruit of their own fig trees In their houses and be quiet and none to make afraid Is this persecution for men to be free from oppression and to be called upon for nothing but that which is for publique use and charge Is this persecution When men have no enemies but because themselves would be great and over al and are not satisfied Is this persecution Conferre with the primitive times and tel them you are under persecution Such as they never felt for you dwel at peace and none molest you you are at a better allowance and maintenance then many have heretofore had for more work What rate would men have given some yeares agone for that which they now do injoy It is not therefore any just reason that men have to complain thus but only through the wretchedness of mens hearts who are also unsatisfyed because they know not wel what they would have therefore it is that there are such complaining in the streets It is not from persecution but from Covetousness because men have not al they would have The great sin of al is Covetousness because men are drawn nearer to the world and to themselves Men think al disswasions from the world to be but an art to

and if you wil have things cleare to you that you are a child of God before you beleeve you wil have the matter put to such an issue as God brings a man never into God never gives his love to a man but by beleeving because beleeving is a receiving OBJECT You wil say unto me This is hard quarter and hard termes that we can have nothing but only upon trust and upon beleeving To this I answer the commandment of faith is nothing so hard as the commandements of sin are They that sow to the flesh shal saith the Apostle in Gal. 6.8 of the flesh reape Corruption They shal never have any thing in hand or to receive after this life but tribulation sorrow and anguish Thy faith assures thee Or thou mayest be assured that faith wil give thee a good title somthing while thou livest and be sure to give thee honor and glory and immortality hereafter Thou art saved by faith saith he It is the gift of God This is true indeed It is a hard matter to beleeve But the hardness doth not arise from it self but from us As it is hard for a sick man to get down either meat or medicine But it is not because there is neither a passage open and free or not because the meat is not good but because he is sick So thou shalt find the reason of all this difficulty to be in thy pride Thou advancest thy reason and sence against the commandment and law of the Gospel And therefore it is hard unto thee It is hard but it is but so in the beginning Like meat when it is first eaten doth bring a kind of duliness heaviness but afterwards breeds spirits and strength It is certain my beloved it is the smallest thing that can be required for the receiving any thing at the hand of God for you are passive in it you are made to receive As a bal that is thrown against the ground is made to rebound upwards There cannot be less required then faith to the receiving of any thing For Take it as it is in the understanding The receiving a testimony doth not so much require the use of reason as a good report and esteem of him that speaks I say the receiving a testimony is an artificial argument and requires not so much the knowledg of the things as of the person speaking And Take it as it is in the Wil and it is a leaning and that rather imports weakness then strength rather debility then ability And lastly Whereas thou complainest it is hard to beleeve yet if faith be a hard thing yet it is a receiving Though it be a toyl and a difficulty It is but in taking of things that are precious and good which wil inrich thee What man ever complained of the hardness of telling Gold and receiving Jewels and things of worth which were given him out of the treasure of him that is rich Men take great toyl and run great hazards into far countrys to receive Thy receiving is better and more certaine Thou shalt receive strength by the receiving of Christ to receive more Faith doth not only give a man the things promised But as walking makes a man able to walk so beleeving makes a man more able to beleeve Having once received somthing from the hand of God thou hast thereby security given to thee that thou hast nothing behind but what shal be accomplished As he that hath received but part of a Sum hath an evidence there by that the rest is due And therefore I beseech thee because that faith is a receiving incourage thy self unto beleeving Incourage your selves unto it And that you may do so 1. Lay open and keep before the eye of your Soul the many and glorious things which are to be received Meditate upon the excellencyes of Christ the portion that he brings His portion Both in regard of relation ye shal be the sons of God And his portion in regard of estate or inheritance for al things are yours The presence you know of an object doth stirr up the faculty and the power in it which lay as it were before dead and stirred not Joshua 7.21 I saw said Achan the Babilonish garment and I lusted after it and took it As Sin prevails by its presence So the way for Jesus Christ to prevaile is to stand continually before thee When thou hast therefore looked unto the promises and looked into the story of what is said concerning Jesus Christ and what he wil do for those that are united to him Then come and aske thy own foul whether it wil have none of these Then come and tel it that al these are to be had and it may take of them freely though it can do nothing for them nor returne suitably to them The Apostle to get men unto faith spreads abroad the Gospel and the things of Jesus Christ Thou must preach unto thy self the self same doctrine if ever thou wilt beleeve Thy sins be before thee and death is before thee and hel is before thee And thou seest by experience that that takes up thy thoughts and thou canst do nothing else but only lament and bemone thy condition If thou set'st Jesus Christ before thee also thou wilt be as much taken with him For certainly there is more Taking in his excellencies then there is cause of terrour in the other 2. And again Since faith is a receiving convince thy soul that it cannot live nor be unless it hath these things which faith helps unto Pardon must be had Justice wil not be satisfyed though thou shouldest fulsil al the commandments of God to the utmost and never breakest them in the least Al that is due for the present and there stil remains an old score for the time past that God wil reckon with thee for Thou art not able to make God amends of thy self Live of thy self thou canst not therefore thou must receive Acts 4.12 There is no other name given under heaven whereby a man can be saved but only the name of Jesus Christ And if a man peradventure wil be loth to take of others as long as he hath wherewith in his own hands or his friends hands But when he sees he must either take of alms or starve and go on begging or die Then he wil go That is thy case Thou must receive from Jesus Christ or Starve And thou canst not receive the things of Jesus Christ but by beleeving As a Parent saith to a Child that is peevish and untoward and that will not eat his meat Fast saith he So there is nothing to be looked for from Jesus Christ if thou beleevest not but fiery Indignation And if thy heart would go to take contentment in the things in the World Say to it Now take Jesus Christ or nothing What good will they do thee unless thou takest Jesus Christ For they will not abide in the latter end but then thou wilt have sorrow