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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08768	A sermon preached at Gouldsbrough in Yorke-shire, before the right worshipfull Sir Richard Hutton knight, one of His Maiesties iustices of the Court of Common Pleas	Oxley, Robert.	1622 (1622)	STC 19052.8; ESTC S2836	13,684	28

A SERMON PREACHED AT GOVLDSBROVGH in Yorke-shire BEFORE THE RIGHT Worshipfull Sir Richard Hutton Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Court of Common Pleas. LAMENT 4.9 They that be slaine with the sword are better then they that be slaine with hunger for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for Richard Moore and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard 1622. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Sir RICHARD HVTTON Knight one of his Maiesties Iustices of the Court of Common Pleas. Right Worshipfull IT was the custome of the Persian Kings when they saw their children misdemeane themselues at the first to spare them and to punish their seruants in their sight to trie if that would terrifie them from their sinister courses Thus hath the King of Kings of late dealt with vs who as we hope are his children for noting our misbehauiour he hath spared vs and with immoderate showers and ouer-swelling waters he hath punished the earth that was created to be seruiceable to vs. Many can familiarly discourse of this but few make any good vse thereof which I haue seene and obserued with sorrow And knowing it a dutie incident to my calling to put men in minde of Gods secret admonishments I applied my meditations to that purpose which I also deliuered in your Worships presence and haue now according to your request sent you a true copie of the same The manifold vndeserued kindnesses which I haue receiued from you doe binde me to make an vnfained acknowledgement of my loue and dutie to you which I shall be ready vpon euery occasion to manifest and my praiers shall alwaies attend you and your Familie From Spoforth the 21. of October Your Worships alwayes at command ROBERT OXLEY A SERMON PREACHED AT GOVLDSBROVGH in Yorke-shire PSAL. 107.34 A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein AMongst the manifold grieuances which befell man-kinde for the fall and disobedience of man it is not to be forgotten that the Lord cursed the very earth for his sake adiudging it to bring forth thornes and thistles and to become barren according to this saying of the Psalmist A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein Barren I say either bringing forth no fruits at all or such as where Infelix lolium steriles dominantur avenae such as in the growth is ouer-growne with darnell smothered with choaking thornes and the purest graine spoiled with wasting cockle The wily Serpent in his hellish conference with our Grandame Eue Gen. 3.4 promised length of daies a gift that Wisdome is said to bring in her right hand Pro. 3.16 length of daies is in her right hand and in her left riches and glory Gen. 3.5 he promised dominion Eritis sicut dij ye shall be like Gods but instantly the earth whose Lord whilome they was denied to pay her tribute but vpon condition scil that they should take paines to till her whence it comes to passe to bee so with vs now that if we expect profit from the earth then iuncto bove aratra trahuntur we must rip vp the bowels of the earth and yet this is not all for whosoeuer it be that plants or waters it is God onely that giues the increase Except the Lord build the house the worke-mans labour is but in vaine Wherefore if wee would haue good successe to follow our enterprizes if we would haue our paines and labours in our callings to yeeld fruits answerable to our expectation then must we so compose our affections and dispose our affaires that we may walke worthy in the sight of God which if we doe he will blesse vs and that which we goe about he will prosper all our proceedings but if wee mis-spend our time and liue impiously wickedly we may purpose but God will dispose he will so disprosper our proceedings and frustrate vs of our hope that whatsoeuer we take in hand shall be vaine and fruitlesse yea our natiue soyle the ground that we tread vpon for our sinnes shall be cursed and despoyled of her glory i. her fruitfulnesse as heere testifieth the Psalmist A fruitfull land maketh hee barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein The Prophet Dauid that sweet singer of Israel is the vnquestioned author of this Psalme he composed it partly to stirre men vp to gratefulnesse in regard of Gods gratiousnesse towards them but more specially to discouer the error of those which deny the vniuersall and particular prouidence of God in ordering and disposing the things of this world for as in respect of God his creation was the mother that brought forth the world with all things therein so his prouidence is the nurse that bringeth it vp as his creation gaue it a being so his prouidence keepeth it in that esse as his creation erected the whole fabricke of the world and composed and set in order all the parts thereof so his prouidence keepeth it in repaire it gouerneth and disposeth all the particulars therein this he doth conuince by many examples of things done both by sea and by land which haue so come to passe that of necessitie we must grant their causes and effects to haue beene wholly gouerned by God but his speciall argument tending to that purpose and standing in nearest reference to my text is drawne from the consideration of those changes and alterations which ignorance commonly doth ascribe to fate or fortune as the fruitfulnesse and vnfruitfulnesse of the earth which proceeds from the seasonablenes the vnseasonablenesse of the weather These things come not to passe as Epicures fondly dreame by chance nor as the Peripateticks hold by a generall prouidence nor as the Stoicks auerre only by the operation of second causes but by Gods speciall prouidence ordinance and appointment whose actions are free not bound to the obseruance of times nor meanes who when it pleaseth him can send the former and latter raine in due season who as it is in the verse following my text can make of a parched wildernesse a standing water and extract water springs out of a drie ground so that the hills shall flourish and the valleys stand thicke with graine and grasse and againe when fulnesse brings forth forgetfulnesse and men attribute that which they haue to the goodnesse of their land or greatnesse of their labour and doe not acknowledge God to be the Author thereof then as it is in the verse before my text he turneth the floud into a wildernesse and drieth vp their water springs Then A fruitfull land maketh he barren for the wickednesse of them that dwell therein In these words are two things obseruable 1. A iudgement 2. The cause thereof In the iudgement there is a metamorphosis or change of wealth into want plenty into pouerty fruitfulnesse into barrennesse A fruitfull land maketh he barren The impulsiue cause is the wickednesse