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A18050	The wise King, and the learned iudge in a sermon, out of the 10. verse of the 2. psalme: lamenting the death, and proposing the example, of Sir Edvvard Levvenor, a religious gentleman. Preached vpon a lecture-day at Canham in Suffolke. By Bezalell Carter.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 4693; ESTC S118631	28,180	76

besides these there are some amongst vs idoll-shepheards slowbellies dumb dogs loyterers nay murtherers that open not a pulpet dore once in an whole yeare except vpon some high and festiual day and what are these but murtherers and conscious of murther in the highest degree for what cruelty is like to soulecruelty and if Abells blood nay euery drop of Abells blood as the originall will beare it thy brothers bloods cryeth Gen. 5. 10. vnto me from the ground yea euery droppe of thy brothers blood if I say euery droppe of Abells blood cryed for vengeance against Cain what a fearefull crie shal the blood of many soules make before the throane of God asking vengeance against their pastors which haue starued their soules to death by detayning and holding from them the bread of life 3. Lastly to conclude with Parents Masters of families and masters of priuate families whose negligence in teaching and instructing their children and seruants is an other cause of our ouer-spreading ignorance for the Preachers of the word may labour and be instant in season and out of season 1. Tim. 4. 1. and all to little purpose if masters of families neglect their duties neither doe I wonder to see so many men and women so intollerably and incredibly ignorant since to speake truth a man had as good be some mans beast as either their sonne or seruant For what doe their masters or parents regard them more then their bruite beasts they feed their seruants and so they doe their cattell they worke their seruants and so they doe their beasts if any of their seruants be sicke and diseased they will seeke out for remedie and so they will for their beasts Againe their care to instruct and teach their families and bruit beasts is much one they teach their children and seruants nothing but how to plow sowe ditch c. and as much as this they teach their cattell their oxen to drawe their horses to pace c. and therefore no wonder though their children and seruants be as ignorant as the horse and mule that haue none vnderstanding O that masters of families would learne to spend some of that precious time which they mis-spend in twatling and idle talking in backbiting slandering c. in teaching and instructing their families whose blood shall otherwise bee required at their hands if they perish The next conclusion gathered out of this second exhortation was this viz. Doctr. 3 That wee must adde practise to our knowledge Not the hearers of the lawe are righteous before God but the doers of the law shal be iustified Rom. 2. 13. For the further proofe of this point you may at your leasure reade these places Ioh. 15. 14. Ioh. 10. 27. Matth. 7. 24. Luk. 8. 20. Matt. 12. 50. and if these may not suffice thee then I say First that all knowledge without practise is vneffectuall and of no force to free from condemnation Though I knewe all knowledge saith Paul yet were I nothing if I wanted loue 1. Cor. 13. yea if a bare naked knowledge would saue then the deuills themselues should be saued for they know enough Iesus I know and Paul I knowe said the euill spirit Act. 19. 15. And if you reade Matth. 4. 6. there you shall see that the diuel is a cunning Scripturian It is written saith he that he will giue his angels charge ouer thee c. v. 6. Suppose then that thou hast neuer so much knowledge suppose thou hast read as much as Iosephus of whom it is said that he turned ouer all the whole librarie of the Greeks yet if thou know much and practise iust nothing why should not the deuils which know more be saued as well as thou Secondly all knowledge without practise is not onely vaine but perilous He that knowes his Masters will and doth Luk. 12. 27. it not shall be beaten with many stripes and Iam. 4. 17. He that knoweth how to do well and doth it not to him it is sinne and as one saith well vpon these words not sinne simply but sinne with a witnes or sinne with aduantage If I had not come and spoken to them they had had no sinne but nowe they haue no cloake for their sinnes Ioh. 15. 22. And how doth our Sauiour Christ vpbraid those cities where they had so much meanes and doubtlesse a great deale of knowledge Woe to thee Corazin wee to thee Bethsaida for if the great works that were done in you had beene done in Tyrus and Sidon they had repented long agoe in sackecloath and ashes Matth. 11. 20. By Gods word saith Augustine August man sinneth so much the more how much the more by the word he knoweth that to be sinne which he committeth Vse All which being granted let vs learn to take S. Peters counsell to adde to our knowledge temperance to our temperance patience and to our patience godlinesse 2. Pet. 1. 5. for otherwise as Chrysostome wrote to the people of Antioch that were desirous to gaine knowledge and yet were ready to sweare and vpon euery occasion to rappe out oaths The more saith he that you know and the oftuer you heare c. the more you sinne against God and the more you encrease your punishment because you liue in the practise of those courses which you know to be sinnefull And would to God that our hollow-hearted professors which know Gods will yea and carie before them the lampe of profession and yet lead their liues after such a manner that if the deuil himselfe were in a bodily shape he could liue no worser vsurers extortioners cheaters raylers c. would to God I say they would consider it that their knowledge and gifts shall but helpe them on the more roundly to hell fire without obedience I speake not against profession neither against knowledge I knowe there can be no saluation without professiō nor no obedience without knowledge but this I say moreouer that obedience is the end of our knowledge And if we know the Law and yet sinne against it then shall that be verefied against vs Rom. 2. 12. As many as sinne in the Lawe shall be iudged by the Lawe And thus I come to the circumstanstances First circumstance of the time expressed in this text And first of the time Bee wise now O yee Kings Vaugnattah euen presently while the Lords scepter is in his hand readie to smite and before he smites you euen out of hand furnish your selues with true wisedome and learning least you bee broken and bruised in peices And here note two things First that repentance must not bee deferred Secondly that the consideration of Gods iudgements ought to mooue vs repentance Doctr. 4 First that repentance must not be delaid I will referre you to those Scriptures Isa 55. 6. Heb. 3. 7. Luk. 1. 57. Act. 17. 30. 2. Cor. 6. 2. and onely insist vpon two or three reasons of this point least time preuent me First then it stands