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A01554	Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and in judgements imminent : the former on Psalm 13.1, the latter on Hebr. 11.7 / by Thomas Gataker, B. in D. and pastor of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1623 (1623)	STC 11681.3; ESTC S118743	126,618	154

some measure to doe that which he requireth of vs to turne vs vnto him that he may returne vnto vs. And lastly when wee haue thus done then may we with the more comfort and confidence deale with the Lord for the remouall of the euill it selfe bee it outward or inward Then may we seeke to him with good assurance of successe because we seeke him as we should we may then praying hope indeed to bee heard those clouds of our iniquities being dispersed dispelled that before hindred the passage of our prayers In a word thus we repenting of and turning from our sinnes that haue turned God away from vs and returning to him that hath hid his face from vs hee will turne againe in mercie and goodnesse vnto vs and make the light of his countenance againe to shine forth vpon vs we remembring our selues he will cease longer to forget vs Yea hee will beginne in mercie againe to remember vs who in wrath seemed to haue forgotten vs and shew that hee so doth to our comfort and the confusion of our foes by raising of vs and lifting vp our heads againe and not suffering them to triumph ouer vs as formerly they haue done NOAH His OBEDIENCE WITH THE GROVND OF IT Or His Faith Feare and Care A MEDITATION On HEBREWES 11. 7. Deliuered in a Sermon at Lincolnes Inne By THOMAS GATAKER Batcheler of Diuinitie sometime Preacher there And now Pastor of ROTHERHITH LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND 1623. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVLL Sir IOHN HOBART Knight Eldest Sonne and Heire to the Right Honourable Sir HENRY HOBART Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleaes RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL HAVING vpon some enducements how weightie I leaue to the censure of others but such as to methen seemed not altogether vnsufficient cōceiued a purpose of publishing the former Discourse I thought it not amisse to annex this ensuing vnto it as meetly well suting with the Argument therein handled and not vnfit therfore to second it And remembring withall that among other of those whom I owe dutie and respect vnto I had not hitherto remembred your selfe in this kinde I checked my selfe for it and resolued with my selfe not to rest longer guiltie of such neglect I know I shall not need in many words to intreat your Worships kinde acceptance of it either for mine owne sake or for it selfe The one I am bold to presume of vpon experience of your wonted courteous vsage and professed respect of mee farre aboue my desert The other the subiect Matter of it maketh mee confident of Which what it is either the bare Title or Text it selfe will soone acquaint you withall And both ioyntly together will I hope helpe sufficiently either to couer or to counteruaile the rawnesse and rudenesse or what euer other defects in my weake and vnworthy Manner of handling so singular a Subiect may seeme any way to blemish the Worke. I was neuer furnished with any store of Rhetoricall lights And am willing therefore the rather to embelish my writings with such borrowed helpes as my poore reading affordeth either out of holy or humane Writers whose Speeches and Obseruations also either as Aegyptian Spoiles or as Canaanitish Captiues either hauing past the fire and beene purged of their Heathenish drosse or being trimmed and pared from their Paganish super fluities may well and warrantably vpon good ground euen from the practise of Gods Spirit be not onely admitted into the Common-wealth of Israel but applied also to the vse of the Sanctuarie and of Gods seruice therein He that furnished Cyrus with treasure for the building of his Temple did no doubt furnish them also with much light of knowledge and literature euen for the benefit of his Church and Children In this Discourse especially I haue studied to be plaine and to apply the things therein deliuered to the present times which our Sauiour himselfe seemeth to parallel with those that NOA liued in The badnesse and loosenesse of them all generally complaine of euen those that helpe to make them so bad as they are And it were greatly to be wished that men were on all hands as forward to put their helping hand to the furthering and effecting of a generall reformation as they are prone to complaine of the badnesse of them and to murmure rather against others those especially aboue by whose meanes they deeme that they become so bad when themselues are the whilst it may be therein as faultie as any than to mourne for and repent of their owne excesses The whole Citie wee say would soone be faire if euery one would but sweepe before his owne doore And the whole estate would be soone reformed if each one would but doe his part looke home to himselfe and set seriously vpon the amendment of that one whom it concerneth him most to looke after This it nearely concerneth vs all to doe that if the Citie remaine foule still while others doe not the like yet the filth that is the cause of it be not found before our doores But those more specially whose good example may helpe to draw many others on as being more eminent than ordinary either for place or parentage In this ranke it hath pleased God to range your Worship whose religious cariage therefore shall not onely benefit your selfe but may pricke on and encourage others both at home and abroad And for the furtherance of you therein hath he vouch safed to furnish you with sundrie singular helpes aboue many others To omit all other your Honourable Fathers Example may goe for all whose Life and Actions generally approued and admired may be a liuely Precedent for your direction and imitation herein especially liuing constantly and continually a matter of no small consequence with him and so hauing it daily in your eye Goe on therefore Worthy Sir I beseech you hauing so rare a Paterne before you to imitate him that goeth in and out before you as you doe before others the Archer giueth not ouer shooting and leuelling at the marke though he neuer come it may be to hit the white and it shall be your Honour there to imitate where it is no disgrace to come short in fashioning your life and courses to the Rules of Gods will and word and in helping to support the practise and profession of pietie which through the iniquitie of times surrounded with a maine floud of prophanenesse like enough to bring in if it hold on some second Deluge seemeth in a manner to be cleane ouer set and in danger to be borne downe I am not ignorant what priuie nips yea and open pointings at as the times are and it is no new thing neither it was euen so also long since men of your ranke especially must make account to expose themselues vnto if they will shew themselues religious and fauourers of that

Two Sermons TENDING TO DIRECTION FOR CHRISTIAN CARIAGE Both in AFFLICTIONS INCVMBENT And in IVDGEMENTS IMMINENT THE FORMER on PSALM 13. 1. THE LATTER on HEBR. 11. 7. By THOMAS GATAKER B. in D. and Pastor of ROTHERHITH LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND 1623. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 DAVIDS Remembrancer A MEDITATION ON PSALME 13. 1. Deliuered in a Sermon at Serjeants Inne in Fleet-street By THOMAS GATAKER Bachelor in Diuinitie and Pastor of Rotherhith ESAI 62. 6 7. You that are mindfull of the Lord be not silent Giue him no rest till he repaire Ierusalem and till he make her the praise of the Earth LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND 1623. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir IAMES LEY Knight and Baronet Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Bench. RIGHT HONOVRABLE ALBEIT Speech haue no small aduantage of Writing in that it hath a greater viuacitie accompanying it than the other hath by much the latter seeming to be but as a dead shadow of the former Elocution the very vitall spirit and chiefe grace of an Oration and that which that most eminent Orator and Father of Elo●… 〈◊〉 not the Prime pa●… only of Oratorie but in effect all in all and the summe of al being wanting in it In regard wherof it is not wont to make so deepe an impression or to worke vpon the affections so powerfully as that doth it is accounted therfore but a second shift and as sailing with a side-winde where a direct fore-winde faileth Yet herein hath Writing the ods of Speech in that by it we may speake as well to the absent as to the present by it men restrained by sicknesse weaknesse or otherwise from publike ●…mployment yet may notwithstanding much profit the publike sitting themselues still at home benefit others abroad yea by it not the liuing only may conuerse with the liuing though neuer so farre both by sea and land seuered either from other but the liuing also may haue profitable commerce and dealing with the dead as we haue by meanes of their writings still extant with those that died and departed this world euen thousands of yeeres since to our exceeding great comfort and inestimable gaine Being therefore moued by some that heard of it and the matter deliuered in it but could not be present at the deliuery of it to make this weake discourse by helpe of Pen and Presse more publike as dealing in an Argument not vnfitting the present times and such as they desired to be more fully either instructed or directed in which by meanes thereof they supposed that both themselues and many other might be I was the rather induced to condescend to this their desire that by presenting of it to your Lordship the prime Member of that graue and reuerend Societie where it was by word of mouth deliuered I might giue some poore pledge and testimonie of my due and deserued respect to your Honour and of my thankfull acknowledgement of such fauours as haue from time to time by your Lordship beene shewed me as well during the time of mine employment at Lincolnes-Inne where your Lordship was one of the first whom I receiued kinde acceptance from being Reader at the time of my first accesse thither as since also Hauing therefore during my late restraint by some infirmitie and weaknesse that constrained me to keepe home and to intermit my publike imployment taken some time to reuiew supply and enlarge my former Meditations of the Subiect then handled which I could not so well finde time for before I make bold to tender them here such as they are vnto your Lordship and intreating onely your courteous acceptance of them without further troubling your Honour amids so many weightier affaires commit both your selfe and them to the gratious protection and holy direction of the Highest Your Lordships to command in the Lord THOMAS GATAKER DAVIDS Remembrancer PSAL. 13. 1. How long O Lord Wilt thou forget mee for euer How long wilt thou hide thy face away from me THIS Psalme as appeareth by the whole tenour of it was composed by the Prophet DAVID during the time of some grieuous and tedious temporall affliction and that accompanied also as may seeme with some spirituall desertion And it may well for the subiect matter of it be tearmed DAVIDS Remembrancer as being penned by him for this end to put God in minde of him and of his present forlorne and distressed estate The Psalme consisteth of three principall Parts There is first a grieuous complaint of his present condition propounded by way of expostulation 1. In regard of God who seemed not to regard him 2. In regard of himselfe by meanes thereof driuen to his shifts and in a manner at his wits end 3. In regard of his aduersaries who tooke occasion thereby to triumph and insult ouer him There is secondly an humble suit and request commenced by him to God and conceiued in three distinct parts answering the three branches of his former complaint For 1. Hee requesteth God that he would Behold and heare that hee would vouchsafe to regard him and turne his face againe towards him and not send him away inaudita querelà vnheard and vnanswered 2. He addeth some Reasons why he desireth and requireth God thus to heare and regard him ●… In regard of himselfe that hee sleepe not in death not meant as some thinke of sleeping in Sinne though Sinne in Scripture be oft compared to Sleepe no●… as others of the ●…eath of griefe and despaire though that be said too to be a kinde of Death and maketh a mans life oft no better yea more bitter than Death nor yet as others of dying eternally of being euerlastingly damned but of temporall death that is vsually tearmed a Sleepe and is nothing indeed but a Sleepe longer than vsuall yea in some sort a perpetuall Sleepe because to continue as long as the world lasteth that hee might not die in this distressed and discomfortable estate 2. In regard of his malicious and euill affected Aduersaries that they might not haue longer or further cause of joy and triumph in his ouerthrow as hauing now without all helpe or hope of recouery gotten the vpper hand of him And there is thirdly a cheerefull and a comfortable Conclusion wherein as recollecting himselfe and controlling the voice of sense with the voice of Faith 1. He professeth his trust and confidence in God 2. Hee promiseth himselfe assured helpe and deliuerance from God And 3. He praiseth God for it as if alreadie he had receiued it See the picture of an hopefull heart saith Chrysostome he craueth aid of God and before he haue it he renders thankes for it as if alreadie he had it And thus haue you the Summe and Substance