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A15524	Christs farevvell to Jerusalem, and last prophesie A sermon preached in the quier of the cathedrall church of Canterburie, at the funerall of that reuerend and worthy man, Mr. Doctor Colfe, Vice-Deane of the said church. Octob. 12. 1613. By Thomas Wilson, minister of Gods word.	Wilson, Thomas, 1563-1622.	1614 (1614)	STC 25790; ESTC S101806	26,045	78

lesse spare the wicked From this consideration of the will of God and the ends of counsell in smiting the godly here more grieously sometime then he doth his enimies we haue certaine duties to be learned and practised The first is not to promise to our selues a constant ease and quietnesse in this world as if we could liue here alwayes in pleasures and prosperity Whereas beside that which is written experience telleth vs all things earthly to be mutable and nothing so subiect to change as men and their affaires for as soule weather and storme followeth a calme and faire seasons and night day and Winter Summer so sicknesse succeeds health pouerty riches aduersity prosperity sorrow ioy therefore as Mariners in a calme prouide against a storme and prouident men in plenty looke out lay vp for the dayes of famine as Ioseph did so Gods children are bound in prosperity to prepare for aduersity for these take turnes and nothing else is seene vnder the Sunne Sathan and the wicked will not suffer the godly to lacke trouble and affliction Crosse is a necessary and perpetuall companion of the Gospell Wherefore as a man that meanes to build will first cast and consider whether hee haue meanes sufficient and as a Captaine will waigh his forces ere he goe to warre so good Christians must arme themselues and get a resolution with strength and power from heauen to goe thorow stitch with their profession for he is not worthy to be Christs Disciple that hath not this setled affection to forsake all for his Sauiours sake and for his Gospell What Paul said of himselfe euery one in some measure must be ready to doe not onely to be bound but to dye for the Lord Iesus A second vse of the former doctrine is to admonish the Children of God to be patient and well-contented with afflictions when they shall happen howsoeuer long and sharp they proue seeing it is the pleasure of their Father and the portion of all their brethren those afflictions which they suffer being accomplished in the rest of the Saints which be or haue beene or shall be in the world 1 Pet. 5. for all that will liue godly must a necessitie in it not expediency alone suffer persecution 2 Tim. 1. and that they haue Christ their guide and Captaine vvho hath led them the way and doth both minister strength enough to beare and abide the crosse and hath promised the victory Rom. 16.20 Yea and turneth the crosses of his people to such and so manifold commodities The meditation of these things must preuaile to stay them from grutching or fainting and keepe them in their vprightnesse constancy without being vveary in their minde or weary of wel-doing Finally this rebukes the prophane persons two wayes both because they rashly iudge of the righteous when they be vnder the scourge censuring them for hypocrites and men hated and cast out of GOD forlorne and desperate as Elihu and the other did of Iob and the Courtiers of Saul of Dauid and the Iewes of CHRIST Whom they thought to be quite forsaken because they saw him sore plagued and not deliuered and also for that they falsly sooth and flatter themselues in their sinnes as if they vvere deere to God and beloued of him because of his indulgence and lenity toward them presuming of God that he will not destroy them but with blessings and kindnesses still fill and follow them boasting as if they were at a couenant with hell and death that no euill shall come neere them that they shall sit and raigne as Queenes and feele no misery nor euer be remoued wherein they are deceiued for if these things be done to the greene tree what will be done to the dry That wee may now draw to an end as out of the former part of this verse we haue seene the condition of the godly both for their doing and suffering their holinesse and affliction so let vs in few words obserue the estate of the wicked impenitent sinners what they are to God or in his sight and what God will doe to them Howeuer vngodly sinners and close hypocrites may be had in admiration of others and for their outward riches and greatnes in the world or some internall gifts of the minde as Learning Wisedome Eloquence knowledge of Arts and Tongues may be accounted highly of as if they were some great personages and be something in their owne eyes men of worth and renowne such as all ought to reuerence yet in the iudgement of GOD whose iudgement is according to truth for hee iudgeth not after appearance but seeth what is in their hearts they are most vile and base being in very deede voide of goodnesse and good for nothing There is no more sauing and true grace in them then there is sappe or iuyce in a rotten log no more fruit comes from them then from dry wood Euen the Scribes Pharisies the Priests and Elders of the Iewes which would be saluted Rabby that is Maister a name of reuerence giuen to such as excelled many and esteemed themselues the guides and lights of the blinde and ignorant the builders of the Church rare for holinesse as well as learning yet Christ who knew them perfectly and much better then they knew themselues pronounceeth of them here to be no better then dry trees barraine and rotten worthy to be burned What is more contemptible or vnprofitable then stubble chaffe which men neglect and tread vnder foot or cast out of dores yet by Esay 5.4 also by Mal. 4.1.2 the wicked are compared vnto such things as are of none or little vse and moment In the first Psalme as the wicked be described what they are for qualitie such as doe not meditate in the law doctrine of the word to know belieue it and doe thereafter so in the same place for their vilenesse and vnfruitfulnesse they are likened vnto the dust which lyeth in the street and is trod vpon by all men cleane contrary to the tree planted by the riuer being full of the moisture of Iustification and of the fruits of sanctification Our Sauiour vniuersally affirmeth of all which are not his members Iohn 15.6 that they are without fruit like the withered branches of a vine which men gather and cast into the fire But Inde vers 12. doth yet further nullifie and vilefie such vnrighteous persons calling them cloudes vvithout water carried about vvith the winde corrupt trees without fruit twice dead pluckt vp by the rootes at a word that which the vvorld iudgeth in their malicious corrupt opinion the true seruants and Saints of God to be 2. Cor. 4. the same vnregenerate and vnrepentant sinners be indeed euen the filth and garbage which is throwne out of the citie vpon the common dunghil Did Hypocrites which take the law of God in their mouth and yet hate to be reformed casting the word behind them and