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A11144	Gods blessing in blasting, and his mercy in mildew Tvvo sermons sutable to these times of dearth: by Iames Rowlandson B. in D. and pastor at East-Tysted in Hampshire.	Rowlandson, James, 1576 or 7-1639.	1623 (1623)	STC 21415; ESTC S116262	34,190	80

of the earth whether we respect the vniuersalitie of their vse in that all euen from the King to the kitchin boy are fed by them or the excellencie thereof in that they nourish life which gold and siluer cannot doe The earth as an Oliue berrie hath our food without not within her mines and metals are too hard for our digestion nor need we to digge into her wombe for meat if we doe but search her out-sides or draw furrowes in her surface we shall finde store of most precious and vsefull riches This Aesope or whosoeuer else he was sweetly conueyed to our vnderstanding in that parable of the Husbandman who when he died told his sonnes that he had left vnto them gold buried but a little vnder ground in his vineyard which they digged all ouer after his death but gold they found none yet by stirring the mould about the roots of their Vines the next yeeres vintage proued so plentifull as made good the old mans promise in effect according to the sense not the sound of his words So that whether wee consider the honesty or the vse of it this calling for worldly things hath no fellow Yet as honest as vsefull as it is when God is not pleased to blesse the endeuours of it they cannot prosper To build an house or to watch a citie are both lawfull enough and to be sedulous and vigilant in these workes is euen laudable yet if Gods fauour be not present to worke in the one and to watch for the other the Psalmist saith Psal 127.2 that both these are in vaine It is not earely rising or going late to bed Prou. 10.22 but the blessing of God that maketh rich And this hath quandam vniuersalem influentiam in omnia opera bona an vniuersall influence into all good endeuours which when God will restraine in vaine man wearieth himselfe Be this then euer in our memorie in all our workes begunne continued and ended in him still to depend on his goodnesse and so to glorifie his name For as without the influence of his blessing no labour of ours can make vs thriue so with it and by it all our lawfull works shall prosper though the world and malice it selfe should be set to crosse vs. When an Alderman of London was giuen to vnderstand by a Courtier that Queene Mary in her displeasure against the city threatned thence to diuert both Terme and Parliament to Oxford hee asked of him the question whether she would turne thither the Channell of the Thames or no if not said he by the grace of God we shall doe well enough When either enuy of meaner men repineth or the anger of greater persons rageth against our thriuing wee shall doe well to remember that there is a riuer whose streames shall make glad the city of God Psal 46.4 a current I meane of Gods blessings which while he vouchsafeth to our honest labours and lawfull callings no malice of man or deuill shall euer be able to stop or auert So whiles this riuer of God keepes its course we shall doe well enough but if his hand for our sinnes turne it aside as it were into another channell no wonder then if wee prosper not in all the labours of our hands Lastly hence obserue that it is a iust thing with God not to blesse them in their workes that neglect his worke The point riseth thus The building of the Temple was Gods worke for this he had enioyned them but the tilling of their grounds and dressing of their Vineyards were their workes They were negligent to doe the former therefore God curst them in the latter I smote you saith he in all the labours of your hands To omit other proofe of a doctrine so plaine euen that of the Prophet shall now serue the turne Ier. 48.10 Cursed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Hence inferre this conclusion If the not builders of the Temple bee accursed how shall the pullers of it downe looke for a blessing But what is this to vs we pull it not downe True yet if we be not builders of it we are as culpable as these Iewes Yea but wee haue no Churches to build be it so yet the Lord hath a worke for euery one of vs yea a Temple which yet must be built by vs or wee are accursed What is that S. Ierome vpon this place informes vs 1 Cor. 3.11 It is to build vp our selues a Temple vnto God 1 Pet. 2. vpon Christ Iesus the foundation and the Corner Stone according to that of the Apostle Iude 20 v. Edifie your selues in your most holy faith Yea the Prophet Ieremy tels vs what this Temple is Ierem. 7.4 5. Trust not in lying words saying the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord saith he are these as it is in the last translation what are those It followeth in the fift verse To redresse our waies and our workes to execute iudgement betweene man and man not to oppresse the stranger or the fatherlesse or the widow to shed no innocent bloud nor to walke after other Gods c. For this is the will yea and the worke of God too 1 Thess 4.3 Euen our sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 1 Cor. 3.17 Againe Saint Paul tells vs what it is The Temple of God is holy which ye are 1 Cor. 3.17 So then we our selues are this Temple which must bee built in faith Iude verse 20. and renewed in knowledge Col. 3.10 and reedified by loue 1 Cor. 8.1 and repaired by repentance for thus saith the Lord The heauen is my Throne and the earth is my footstoole where is that house that ye will build vnto me and where is that place of my rest Esay 66.1 He answers in the next verse To him will I looke euen to him that is poore and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my words This then is the spirituall Temple of the Lord the new man is the new Temple Psal 132.14 This is his rest for euer heere will he dwell for hee hath a delight therein The Babylonians defaced the first materiall Temple and the Iewes were charged to build it againe which while they neglected to doe God smote them in all their labours The ghostly enemie of our soules through enuie and malice hath razed and demolisht in vs that goodly frame of innocency in which we were created at first after Gods owne image in righteousnesse and true holinesse Now this the mercifull God would should be built againe and thus calls vpon vs to doe it Be renewed in the spirit of your minde Ephes 4.23 and Put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him Col. 3.10 This is his worke and if we make it not ours also that is Phil. 2.12 By working out our owne saluation with feare and trembling how iustly may the Lord curse vs in all