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A18052	A plaine and compendious exposition of Christs Sermon in the Mount contayned in the 5.6.7. chapters of Saint Matthew. Being the substance of sundry sermons. By Iohn Carter minister at Belstead neare Ipswych	Carter, John, 1554-1635.	1627 (1627)	STC 4695; ESTC S116220	101,087	134

with courage and resolution for the purpose and to vertue knowledge meaning daily increase of knowledge and carefull vse of all good meanes to that end and to knowledge temperance or Christian moderation and sobrietie in the vse of all outward things as meate drinke apparell riches honour and such like not suffering our hearts to bee surcharged with surfeiting drunkennesse worldly cares pride of life or any thing of that nature and to temperance patience in bearing meekely whatsoeuer iniuries or insolencies of our aduersaries or infirmities of our brethren and fellow-Christians and to patience godlinesse endeauouring vnfainedly to grow euery day more conscionable in all our dealings with men and especially more deuout worshippers of God then other yea striuing what in vs is to double our deuotions in prayer exercise of the word and Sacraments due sanctification of the name of God and of his holy Sabbaths meditation conference and all such like duties and to godlinesse brotherly-kindnesse being as the Apostle a Rom. 12. 10. teacheth kindly or naturally affect●oned to loue one another with brotherly loue In honour preferring one another not slothfull to doe seruice mutually distributing to the necessities of the Saints giuen to hospitalitie ready according to the will of God b 1. Iohn 3. 16. to lay downe our very liues for the brethren after the example of Christ Iesus And to brotherly kindnesse charitie extending it selfe to do good vnto all friends foes Christians aliens being the Lady and Princesse of all those graces whereby we doe seruice one to another and as it were the mother of the maides directing and moderating all the gifts of God internall or externall to the best good of all especially of the houshold of faith all selfe-loue set apart Thus to be exercised alwaies vpon all occasions is rightly to build vpon the foundation to make our owne calling and election the highest fauours bestowed vpon mankinde sure and to be indeed wise Christians In the third place the good hearer is described by his outward condition he is lyable to most grieuous afflictions and persecutions which by diuine ordination vsually follow the hearer and doer of these sayings for his c Hebr. 12. 5 6. correction probation and purgation from the most dangerous humour of pride and haughtinesse especially As also that the Lord CHRIST his d 2. Co. 12. 7 8 9 strength may be made perfect in the weaknesse of his Saints This troublesome condition of the people of God is signified heere by the descending of the raine swelling of the flouds and blustering of the windes whereof he afterwards gaue his disciples warning in plaine termes In e Ioh. 16. 33. the world saith he you shall haue affliction but bee of good cheere I haue ouercome the world The experience of all ages maketh good that generall proposition of the Apostle f 2. Tim. 3. 12. yea and all that will liue godly in CHRIST IESVS shall suffer persecution The reason is apparant and giuen by CHRIST himselfe g Ioh. 15. 19. If yee were of the world the world would loue his owne but because yee are not of the world but I haue chosen you out of this world therefore the world hateth you Whosoeuer putteth not this into his accounts when hee giueth his name vnto CHRIST let him know that he taketh a wrong plough by the end as wee are plainly and peremptorily taught by our Lord and blessed Sauiour himselfe Luke 14. 27 28. Fourthly and lastly the good hearer is described by the fruit euent or successe which is his stabilitie and perseuerance in the greatest stormes when the Deuill and World haue done their worst It fell not saith the Text for it was founded vpon the rocke The good hearer is as wee heard founded vpon CHRIST IESVS and the promises of God which all h 2. Cor. 1 20. in him are yea and in him Amen apprehended by Faith and confessed with the mouth so that the gates of Hell cannot preuaile against him as we see Matth. 16. 16 17 18. Rom. 10. 9 10 11. This is therefore iustly placed among Salomon's prouerbiall speeches i Prou. 10. 28. As the whirlewind passeth so is the wicked no more but the righteous is an euerlasting foundation Questionlesse nothing is more sickle and vanishing then the irreligious rout seeme they neuer so well rooted and flourishing I haue saith k Psal 37 35. 37. 39. the Psalmist seene the wicked in great power and spreading himselfe like a greene Bay-tree yet he passed away and loe he was not But marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for howsoeuer he seeme to bee exposed to all dangers and miseries the end of that man is peace or happinesse And no maruell since their saluation is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of trouble They l Prou. 14. 32. haue also hope and a sure refuge euen in their death To conclude this point concerning the good hearer As a house well built vpon a rocke may bee and is commonly shaken but falleth not so the hearer and doer of these sayings well built vpon the rocke CHRIST IESVS through m Gal. 5. 6. faith that worketh by loue may bee and is diuers times fearefully shaken by reason of hard persecution and temptations but fall he cannot fully and finally The euill hearer is described Verse 26. 27. by the contraries to all the former First he ioyneth not practise to his hearing but is like vnto him n James 1. 24. that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse and going away straight-way forgetteth what manner of man he was As if it were all Religion and not rather the greatest irreligion to heare and not to doe To simple ignorance this barren hearing addeth grosse contempt of the diuine Maiestie whose sacred sayings a●e by this meanes set at nought and cast behind men as altogether vnworthy to be followed Secondly the euill hearer is described by his propertie for he ranketh all such among starke Fooles who heare and doe not what they heare how sharpe-sighted and politicke soeuer they be in worldly things For whereunto may they be better compared then to patients dangerously and with out the Physicians helpe desperately sicke that make none other vse of their learned and well experienced Physicians counsell but onely to heare it letting the practise goe at their vttermost perill Or according to this present similit●de what can be deuised more foolish then for a man to lay out his whole estate and time vpon a building without a foundation which cannot but proue a castle of come-downe before it be long Not without cause doth the Prophet Ieremy breake forth into this vehement exclamation o Ier. 8 8. 9. How say yee that we are wise and the Law of the Lord is with vs Loe they hauereiected the Law of the Lord in respect of hearing and doing and what wisedome is in them meaning no wisdome at all in Gods account

6. 17. Obeying from the heart as the Apostle testifieth of the Romanes that forme of doctrine whereunto he is deliuered or whereby he is as it were new minted or moulded So farre forth that as the same Apostle teacheth in the same g Rom. 12. 2. Epistle he is now no more conformed to this world but transformed by the renewing not of his manners alone but of his very minde that hee may proue by his owne daily practise and experience which is the best Commentary of all other What is that good that acceptable and perfect will of GOD reueiled in his Word and more particularly in this most wise and holy Sermon This effectuall hearing and doing will cleerely demonstrate a man to bee that good ground commended in the Parable of the Sower because h Luke 8. 15 hauing heard the Word with an houest and good heart hee keepeth it and bringeth forth fruit with patience not suffering himselfe to bee beaten from it by any troubles or vexations which accompany either mortification of sinne or persecution for righteousnesse And which is a most notable branch of practise without which all commeth to nothing hee is not ashamed but counteth it his glorie vpon iust rebukes to suffer himselfe to bee reclaymed from whatsoeuer errour in his iudgement or aberration in his life i Prou. 9. 8. Rebuke a wiseman and he will loue thee giue admonition as our Lord Christ doth many in this Sermon to the wise and he will be wiser saith the most wise Teacher And againe k Prou. 28 12. As an eare-ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold so is a wise reprouer vpon an obedient eare He reioyceth no lesse in such reproofes then people especially children doe in their earings and rich ornaments Yea how weake soeuer the reproouer bee and how great soeuer the partie reproued yet hee will bee readie with right noble Dauid to breake forth and say l 1. Sam. 25. 32 Blessed be the Lord God which sent thee this day to me and blessed bee thine aduice and blessed bee thou Giue me such an one and I will say that hee is a good hearer indeed of whom that of the Psalmist may truly bee taken vp m Psal 87. 3. Glorious things are spoken of thee For Christ Iesus the onely begotten Sonne of God and Lord of glory pronounceth and that with great earnestnesse him to be n Luke 8. 21. his brother sister and mother to bee blessed o Ibid. 11. 28. rather then the wombe that bare him and the pappes which he sucked Secondly the good hearer is described by his propertie which is wisdome hee likeneth him to a wiseman This propertie euery one is most liquorish of taking after their great grand-mother Eue who though she were made wise enough if she could haue seene it yet would needs sing a note aboue Ela and bee made wiser by the counsell of the old Cheater the Deuill speaking in the Serpent whereby it came to passe that instead of attayning to an higher pitch of knowledge to bee like vnto God as hee bare her in hand shee lost that which she had and plunged herselfe withall her miserable posteritie into extreme folly and vanitie ending in vtter perdition Heere our Lord and Master being most wise and euen wisdome it selfe and p Luke 19. 10. comming also to seeke and to saue that which was lost prescribeth vnto vs the onely antidote or souereigne remedie against this deadly poyson to wit the constant hearing and doing of these his fayings So Moses the seruant of the Lord most diuinely taught the people of Israel Heare saith hee q Deut. 4. 6. and doe these statutes and indgements which the Lord my God hath commanded for this is your wisdome and vnderstanding And Dauid found the truth hereof by most sweet and comfortable experience as euery one that taketh his course shall r Psal 119. ver 98 99 100. Thou saith he through thy Commandements hast made me wiser then mine enemies for they meaning those commandements are euer with me I haue more vnderstanding then all my Teachers for thy testimonies are my meditation I haue vnderstood more then the ancients because I kept thy precepts Obserue in this worthy example how they we●e alwayes with him hee set them before the eyes of his minde they were his meditation he kept them in practise and so became passing wise which he heere humbly acknowledgeth to the prayse and glorie of God and for our instruction and incitation to take the like course in hope and certaine expectation of the like successe in a degree suitable to our holy endeuours But we are further to vnderstand that by comparing this Text with Luke 6. 47. where our Sauiour Christ shutteth vp his Sermon with this very conclusion we shall find wherein the life and excellencie of his wisdome consisteth not in resting vpon the righteousnesse of the Law or of workes much lesse vpon the traditions of men or vpon morall and ciuill virtues but in digging deepe and laying the foundation on a rocke which is when we labour with all our might to come to the true knowledge of our selues how sinfull and damnable we are by nature through the right vnderstanding of the Law of God to come also to the sound and sauing knowledge of Iesus Christ crucified for our sinnes through the right vnde●standing of the Gospell So farre forth that being driuen by the Law spiritually vnderstood to IESVS CHRIST wee fall downe at his feet as it were and from the very bottome of our hearts cry with the poore Publican ſ Luke 18. 13. Lord be mercifull to me a sinner and withall so receiue our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST in his holy Gospel by a true and liuely faith that wee can and doe in all truth with Thomas the Apostle breake forth and say t Ioh. 20 28. Thou art my Lord and my God This is indeed to dig deepe and to lay the foundation on a rocke For u 1. Cor. 3. 11. none other foundation can any man lay saue Iesus Christ because x Act. 13 38. 39 through him alone is preached the forgiuenesse of sins and by him all that beleeue are iustified from all things from which they could not bee iustified by the law of Moses much lesse then by any traditions or deuises of mans braine The foundation being thus layed there must follow a contibuilding vpon vntil the house or Temple be perfected Of the materiall Temple it was said Fortie and sixe yeares was this Temple in building but for vs comming to Christ by faith as y 1. Pet 2. 4 5. to a liuing stone to be built vp a spiritual house it requireth vnweariable labour paines all our life long That z See for all this giuing 2. Pet. 1. 5 6 7. all diligence we may ad to our faith whereby the fountion was layed vertue or an honest and good heart and life ioyned