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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06192	The merchant reall. Preached by VVilliam Loe Doctour of Diuinitie chaplaine to the kings sacred maiestie, and pastour of the Englishe church of merchants adventurers residing at Hamboroughe in Saxonie	Loe, William, d. 1645.	1620 (1620)	STC 16688; ESTC S119918	69,019	116

〈◊〉 The light of this appeares in the vvord of the text vvhich signifieth beautifull cōmodious amiable superexcellent pearls Beautifull is goodnes in it selfe for if it could be portrayed in orient colours set out to the life vvonderfull vvould be the loue that men vvould be stirred vp to beare vnto it Cōmodious for godline is the goodliest riches Phil. 4.8.9 Amiable in effecte making them amiable that are good superexcellēt so sayth the Apostle whatsoeuer things are true vvhatsoeuer things are honest Whatsouer things are iust vvhatsoeuer things pure vvhatsoeuer things are louely vvhatsoeuer things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise think on these things Those vvhich ye haue both learned and receaued hard seene in me doe the god of peace shall be vvith you The feete of them amiable that bring vs the meanes that makes vs to be good The promise that god vvould be present vvith it 2. Chro. 19 11. For Jehosaphat told his iudges that they should be of good courage doe it god vvould be vvith the good Mich. 6.8 And the declaration of this shevves it to be good For god hath shevved thee o man vvhat is good vvhat the lord requireth of thee surely to doe iustly to loue mercy to humble thy self to vvalke vvith thy god Secondly this appeares by the distinction of goodnes Naturall Morall Deuine Just Mar. For Christian Marchants doe not only desire accidentall good things as a good vvife good children good seruants Titus 2.12 such like vvhich are all gods good gifts And Morall goodnes in themselues but also Deuine goodnes vvhich leads them to this kingdome Heb. 10.24 2. Pet. 1.10 And these things doe soe neare touch vs that vve by goodnes the effecte thereof doe signe to others ● Tim. 1.7 seale to our selues the certainty of our election Wherein also our faith doth not only shevve it selfe but exercise Eph. 4. ●0 inflame vs to a godly seale Thirdly it abandoneth vs from sinne For as by euills vve greeue the holy ghost that sealeth vs vnto god soe by goodnes vve ioy our conscience in the holy ghost Fouerthly as by doing evill vve call to our selues many miseries Deut. 28. so by doing the good vve shall auoyd many euills of punishment see the goodnes of god in the land of the liuing Lastly goodnes is the vvay vvherein gods childrē ordinarily trade Eph. 2.10 for they are his vvorkmāshipe created for that purpose Thirdly there is a necessity of being good in gods children Not a necessity of coaction for gods children doe the good Chearfully Not of cause for goodnes is but the vvay and gods children vvalke therein but it is of necessary duty that vve should be good For that 's the vvill of god euen your santification 1. Thes 4.3 It is the commandement of god Let your lights so shine before men that they may see your good vvorkes Matt. 5.16 and glorifie your father vvhich is in heauen Tit. 2.12 it is the end of all preaching Noe good actiō can be done but by a good man vvho doth it out of a pure hart othervvise it is base sordid out of a true faith vvhich else is a glittering sinne to the glory of god Vae justitiae nostrae siremota justitia Christi judicetur Nam qu●equid in te est sine Christo Sathan est August vvhich othervvise is but hiprocrisie And this is the cause vvhy it is accepted of god for Christ his sake othervvise all our goodnes vvere menstruous monstrous The right of this appeares forasmuch as reall Christians knovve that god regardeth goodnes more then greatnes Nay there is nothing but foolish man regardeth greatnes Nature doth not for the sonnes of royalty are borne naked the god of nature is noe accepter of persons nor the destroyer of nature for death visits the crovvne assoone as the clovvne Againe it is the end scope of the reall Christians lyving vvhich hath three aspects in doing good First to the praise of god O lett my soule liue it shall praise thee sayth Dauid Secondly to comfort our selues in making our election sure by goodnes Lastly to ouercome others euill vvith our good ● Petr. ● 10 Secondly reall Christians are pertakers of the diuine nature For vvhen god tooke a vevve of vvhat he had made he savve it vvas exceeding good but vvhen mā tooke a suruay of vvhat he had done behold it vvas nothing but vanity vexation of spirit Thirdly good examples of good men doe encite gods children to goodnes For albeit none are absolutly good but god only 2. Chro. 32 32 2. Chro. 35 26. Yet the scripture stiles Hezekias Iosias to be good kings The goodnes of gods children hath a threefold povver Of Preseruation Vnion Communication It is a preservatiue to pull some out of the fire Iud. Epist 23. Of vnion to make peace Of communication by extending their goodnes to the saincts on earth Thy Christians faith is a proper a peculiar good betvvixt god thine ovvne soule but a Christians goodnes is extensiue delated to all demensions of goodnes The very profession of a Christian is goodnes See in the rule of addition in Christian arythmetike that S. Peter setteth dovvne for sayth he Adde to your faith vertue 2. Pet. 1● 5.6.7.8 to vertue knovvledge to knovvledge temperance to temperance patience and to patience godlines to godlines brotherly kindnes to brotherly kindnes charitie For if these things be in you abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor vnfruitfull in the knovvledge of our lord Iesus Lastly let vs reason from the povver of Christ bloud vvas it shed that vve should be vile still farre should any such thought be from vs that vve should professe religion deny the povver thereof By this then that hath bine spoken both from the light of Illumination in gods vvord by the right of Demonstration in reasoning from the vvord It is plaine that the high vvay to heauen is to consult and resolue to doe all the good vve can vvhile vve are here trading tovvard heauen The vse of this is manifold Practice 1 First of ansvvere to the cauills of popery vvho accuse vs Protestants for contemners of goodnes because vve teach that man is iustified by faith only And here vpon they accuse vs that we preach negatiue priuatiue doctrines not affirmatiue positiue And here vpō they say that the tymes are novve become Ablatiue vvhich vvere heretofore Datiue branding vs vvith the heresies of the Synomians Eunomians Jovinians such like vvhereas vve in one vvord ansvvere directly that these are meere slanders vntruths For vve teach onlie that good vvorkes haue noe iustifying quality in themselues before god but that faith only is like Iohn the deuine leaning on