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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17927	A sermon preached in Oxford-shire; by Nicholas Cantrel, Master in Arts. Published at the request of Sir Richard Blunt	Cantrell, Nicholas.	1624 (1624)	STC 4588; ESTC S118531	21,341	42

1. Cor. 5.6 To conclude this point they can never truly and sincerely serve God who doe not cause them that live in their houses to serve him in like manner The use of this serves in the first place for information to shew us what manner of proficients we are in the schoole of grace how stedfastly we cleave unto the covenant of God how perfectly we walke in his waies how neere wee have attained to that heavenly communion of Saints For if our conversation be in heaven all our delight will bee upon the Saints on earth Wee know saith S. 1. Ioh. 3.14 Iohn that we have passed from death unto life because wee love the bretheren Wee know by this that wee love God and that wee are beloved of God if we love his servants and make much of them that feare the Lord. Psal 101.3 And then with David wee walk in our houses with a perfect heart when with one spirit with one soule both our selves and those that be under us do serve the Lord then wee shall be sure of a blessing When the Lord did so familiarly converse with Abraham and create him the father of the faithfull it was with this proviso for saith hee I know him that hee will command his sonnes and his household after him that they keepe the way of the Lord to doe righteousnesse and iudgement Genes 18. When David was chosen of God and pronounced a man after Gods owne heart it was with respect unto the faithfulnesse and truth of his in ruling them that were committed to his charge prudently with all his power Psal 78.72 Wouldst thou find that favour in the eyes of the Lord that Abraham did then thou must follow the steppes of Abrahams faith Wouldst thou be as deare unto God as David was then with David thou must seeke to enlarge the glorie of God Thy eyes must look unto such as be faithfull in the land that they may dwell with thee hee and none but hee must be thy servant that leadeth a godly life In a word wouldst thou with Ioshuah enter into the promised Canaan then with Ioshuah thou must bee zealous for Gods cause Though all the world should stagger and revolt from God forsake his Covenant yet must thou maintain his worship thou must obey his Commandemēts thou must reverence his word bear this resolution I and my house will serve the Lord. The second use of this point serves to discover unto us the backward disposition of the Christians of this age in whom wee find no such zeale for Gods glory no such forwardnes in this service Alas alas where have wee one endewed with Abrahams faith to teach the commandements and ordinances of God unto his posteritie where is one inspired with this zeale of Ioshuah to protest sincerely I and my house will serve the Lord We may runne to and fro with Ieremie Ierem. 5.1 and search long enough before wee finde the man either amongst small or great Tell mee Is not the vigour and force of Christianitie strangely abated and decayed when most places in the world like Caiaphas hall are filled with a rabblement of Vice Hereticks Atheists Epicures pell-mell all of all sorts saving of good men We are falne upon those last and desperate times of the world which S. Paul foretold should come and hath lively set forth 2. Tim. 3.1 This know saith he that in the last dayes shall come perillous times for men shall be lovers of their owne selves covetous boasters proud blasphemers despisers of those that are good lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power thereof The Divell hath gotten the start of the world and hath set up in the mindes of men his idols of worldly pompe and vanitie What is more neglected than the Commandements of God what is slighted so much as his service and who are so backward in it as they that should be most forward All the counsell that I can give in this case is that of David O consider this yee that forget God Psalm 50.22 lest he pluck you away and there be none to deliver you The third and last use of this point is for exhortation to stirre up those who have the charge and command of others unto the carefull and conscionable performance of this duety by all meanes to enlarge and advance the kingdome of Christ and where God hath established them that there they should establish godlinesse As this is the greatest and weightiest duetie that lyes upon men in this world so hath it the greatest arguments and the weightiest motives to enforce it First the benefit which the performance of our duety herein brings with it Secondly the danger that we runne into by the neglect hereof Godlinesse is the greatest gaine to a Christian that is it hath not onely the promises of this life but of the life to come for in serving the Lord saith David there is great reward Whereas on the contrarie an everlasting curse of miserie and contempt is laid upon those wretches that are negligent in his worke When the Lord sent his Prophet to reprove Eli and to threaten the taking away of the Priesthood from him and his posteritie because his sonnes ran into a slander and their father stayed them not this is the sentence that the Lord addes withall For them that honour mee saith God I will honour and they that despise me shal be despised 1. Sam. 2.30 Would you hear what gratious singular priviledges the true servants of God have listen then to that which David tells you The eyes of the Lord saith David are over the righteous and his eares are open unto their prayers Againe The righteous cry and the Lord heareth them and delivereth them out of all their troubles And once more hee addes this in the same Psalme The Lord delivereth the soules of his servants and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute Psal 34. Nay moreover whosoever hee is that is zealous for the Lord shall not only have the Lord for his protector and defender in all his afflictious but for his Counsellor and Director in all his affaires as the same Prophet doth notablly expresse it in another place What man is hee saith David that feareth the Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose These benefits and testimonies of Gods fatherly affection and care towards them are ordinarie and dayly extended to them but what solace or delight is there that this world can afford to bee compared with the joy and comfort which the dying servant of God feeles when hee can truely say his conscience bearing him witnesse Lord I have brought up them in thy knowledge and feare whom thou gavest into my hands I have not hid thy commandements from my posteritie The talents which I received of thee loe here they are encreased I made it the scope of my life to set

forth thy glory and to enlarge thy kingdome Let not my Lord bee angrie at the weaknesse of his unprofitable servant I have finished my course I have kept the faith Mee thinkes indeed I heare the Iudge of the world pronouncing that sweet Elogie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Wel done good faithful servant thou hast bin faithfull in little I will make thee Ruler over much Enter in into thy masters joy Mat 25.21 And will hee not on the contrarie pronounce that dreadfull sentence upon those that have abused his goods Servi mali cunctatores Yee evill and slothfull servants where are my Talents why doe I not receive mine own with advantage how is it that yee have buried them in the earth in the earthly vanities and pleasures of this world get ye therefore out of my presence into utter darknes This is that severe sentence which our Savior hath forewarn'd us of being as yet conversant amongst us in humilitie Wherefore it will be our wisdome to thinke of it seriously that wee may bee out of the danger of it when he shall appeare in his glorie For alas otherwise what unspeakable shame what horrour and confusion will betide us in that day when as so manie zealous Saints and servants of the Lord who have waded thorow the storms of tyrannie and persecution and have adorned their constant profession of the Gospell of Iesus with the innocencie of their godly lives and have sealed it with their bloods when these so manie shall be our judges O blessed Saints whose soules are in heaven where you doe follow the lamb wheresoever he goes clothed in white robes as the livery of your innocencie palms in your hands as the ensignes of victorie how will your zeal and your forwardnesse to set forth the glory of God condemne the coldnes and backwardnes of your posteritie Now therefore consider how fearefull the estate of Reprobates is they must never look to see the face of God They that will not serve the Lord the Lord will cast them forth from his presence God will spue them forth whosoever they they be that are not zealous of his glorie In the third of the Revelation the fifteenth thus writes the Spirit of God to the luke-warm Angell of the Church of the Laodiceans I knowe thy workes saith God that thou art neither cold nor hot I would thou werest cold or hot therefore because thou art luke-warm and neither cold nor hot it will come to passe that I shall spue thee out of my mouth O terrible voice of the just judgement of God! Wouldst thou escape this judgement wouldst thou not be spewed out of the mouth of God there is but one onely way set downe in the 19th verse of this chap. Be zealous therefore and amend It may be vaine men such is their wretchednes may cast off the feare of these judgements for a while by a continuall exchange in vanities whil'st evill companie doth spare them no time to thinke of their end But what will they doe when that sad day of their departure comes when their soules perforce must bee taken from them when they must leave all and bid this world farewell for ever what flatterer then can send them away with a quiet conscience and with solid comfort what is he that can doe them anie good or stand them in anie stead when in all their life-time they have not purchased Christ for their friend Remember therefore O man Remember whilst thou hast time for what end thou art placed in this world namely that thou art here placed to be a probationer in the house of God in a lower straine to resound his praises where if thou shalt be found a proficient in grace and godlinesse then will the Lord advance thee unto that immortall Quire unto the fellowship of Saints and Angels there to sing unto him more glorious HALELV-IAHS for ever and for ever Well then this being thus since the well fare and happinesse of man depends upon the conscionable discharge of that duetie which he owes to God both in himselfe and in those that belong unto him since it is of such consequence that either it procures mans eternall felicitie being carefully and rightly performed or being neglected his everlasting miserie what wise man will not make it his chiefest studie to approove his waies unto the Lord what wise man will not make it the verie joy of his heart to doe the commandements of such a God what wise man will not binde himselfe unto his duetie and resolve with Ioshuah I and my house will serve the Lord I am perswaded I need use no further inducements to kindle your zeale the verie mentioning of eternall life being enough to prevaile with the soule which is created immortall But perhapps you may put-in that question here which was made to Peter and the rest of the Apostles by those new Converts in the second of the Acts What shall we doe what rules canst thou prescribe us what way canst thou set us in this dutie Give mee leave therefore as farre as this scantling of time permits to propose a few speciall directions fit to be put in practice if you have a desire to performe this dutie as it ought to be performed First whosoever thou art that wouldest serve God soundly and sincerely thou and thy family that ye may be the blessed of the Lord thou and thy family then with Davids blessed man thy delight must be in the Law of the Lord and in his Law thou must exercise thy selfe day and night Here is true wisedome to be learned not such as this world teacheth men whereby to compasse their finister ends but such as will make thee wise in thy Calling wise to save thy selfe and them that heare thee such as will make thee perfect unto everie good worke Let others serve their lusts and follow the vaine imaginations of their owne hearts let them that lust to perish adore the god of this world and sacrifice unto their owne nets as for thee whosoever thou art that aspirest unto eternitie let not this booke of the Law depart out of thy mouth but meditate therein day and night that thou mayest observe and doe according to all that is written therein for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous and then shalt thou have good successe Iosh 1.8 A Christians Library may soonest be furnished of all other Studies it requires no moe bookes than two the one the booke of Gods Law conteining the Theorie the other the booke of his owne Conscience which containes the Practice of his duety Oh what a happie student is he in the Schoole of grace that keeps for himselfe a true concordance out of these two Why doe men busie themselves in needlesse matters and with a greedie curiositie feed their fancies with impertinent trifles What good doe our soules reape by the monsters of Affrica or by the discoveries of America Lo here is that unum necessarium vvhich includes the whole