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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12996	A treatise on the First Psalme. By Mathew Stonham. Minister and preacher in the cittie of Norwich	Stoneham, Mathew.	1610 (1610)	STC 23289; ESTC S117850	168,319	238

to this perseuerance may bee drawne from our present good beginnings and by likely-hood forward proceedings in the fruites of godlynesse and shall wee now shrinke shall wee now giue ouer shall wee hold on all the heate of the day and shall wee faint and languish and yeeld in the coole as it were of the Euening Haue wee prosperously guided our vessell through the maine and deepest Seas and shall wee suffer it to bee wracked at the very entrance of the Port of our happinesse oh zealous speech of holy Polycarpus worthy to be a perpetuall president of our serious and religious imitation who made it Euseb e●cl●s Hist lib 4. cap 15. an argument that hee was still to serue Christ because hee had so long a time formerly serued him therefore in the middest of persecutions more hott in zeale then his tormenters in blood-shed brake hee forth into this protestation Sexaginta et sex annos seruio Christo et nihil me l●sit vnquam quomodo possum maledicere ei et blasphemare regem meum qui salutem m●hi dedit Sixty and sixe yeares do I serue Christ and he hath neuer hurt me at any time how can I now speake euill of him and blaspheme my King which hath giuen sauing-health vnto me Of this so holy a speech may wee make an holy vse vnto our selues That for as much as wee haue so and so many yeares beene as fruitfull Trees in the Lords seruice wee should not now in any case become barr●n Is it reported of Socrates that hee neuer changed his countenance and shall wee change our Religion Ought wee to forget that which is Philip. 3. 13. behinde and endeuour our selues to that which is before and shall wee goe backe from Christ to follow the world with Demas 2. Tim. 4. 10. Oh no ●let that bee farre from vs but rather as God hath continued a chaine of his graces towards vs whereof the first ●incke is by predestinating vs the second by Calling vs the third by lustifying vs the fourth shall bee accomplished by glorifying vs in the world to come Rom. 8. 30. Let vs also recontinue toward him a Chaine of those graces which wee haue receiued from him that so there may bee grace for grace for which purpose are wee to giue all diligence that wee may ioyne vertue with our faith and with our vertue knowledge and with our knowledge temperance and with our temperance patience and with our patience goodnesse and with our goodnesse brotherly kindnesse and with our brotherly kindnesse loue that so wee may not bee standing still idle and vnfruitfull 2. Pet. 1. verse 5. to 9. but going on working and fruitfull in the knowledge of our LORD IESVS CHRIST like Trees that still will and will still bring forth fruite The fourth motiue or reason which may perswade vs to this perseuerance may bee drawne from the nature of God himselfe with whome is no variablenesse nor shadowing by turning vnto the which wee ought to bee conformed Iam. 1. 17. and become like it First because it is necessary we should so bee in regarde hereof that wee are sayd to bee partakers of the diuine Nature The Diuine nature is without 2. Pet. 1 4. Variablenesse so must wee which are pertakers therof not change but immutably goe on to bee fruitefull Secondly because it will bee most acceptable vnto God if wee so bee who beeing our heauenly Father will reioyce no doubt as earthly fathers vse to doe in those Sonnes which are most like him Thirdly because in so being wee shall bee most honorable vnto our selues for the greatest honor as writeth Greg Nazianzene is to come nearest the Image of God wherein we were cr●ated whose Image wee then without ●reg Nazian ●rat● 26. question doe represent when we become vnchangeable as hee is vnchargeable whose name is like his nature I am that I am Exod. 3. 14. The fifth and last reason or motiue which may perswade vs to this perseuerance is the hazard which otherwise may and will bee that we shall neuer be saued He that indureth to the end shal be saued Mat. 24. 13. Wee are in the Church of God as in a vineyearde where we must labour and continue our labour vnto the end before wee canne receaue our penny as in a race wherein wee must run and continue to the end before wee can bee recompensed as in a warrefare wherein we must fight vnto the end before wee can be crowned For wee ought to bee faithfull vnto the death if we looke to receaue a crowne of life Apoc. 2. 10. to which purpose saith Saint Cyril Nolite vobis blandiri fratres c. S. Cy●il Doe not flatter your selues br●theren that yee haue heard and receiued my speech This is but the beginning onely of saluation vnlesse ye shal abide in the same it shal not auaile you Non qu●ritur initium sed finis sayth S. Ierome The beginning S. Ierome is not sought after but the end Saul and Iudas began well but ended euilly The one killed him-selfe and lost his kingdome the other hanged him-selfe tha● hee mought go to his owne place Act. 1. 25. Paul on the other side begun euilly but ended well so farre forth as he was resolute in it that for as much as he had fought a good fight ended his course there was laid vppe for him a crown 2 Tim. 4 7. 8. of righteousnesse 2. Tim. 4. 7. 8. We must in the compasse of our profession be like a circle in Geometry wee must continue a puncto ad punctum from point to point from Alpha to Omega from the first to the last as Trees euer fruitfull Will bring forth This perseuerance here required sheweth that the life of a good man ought to be the life of such a man as shal testifie him-selfe to bee First Laborious in alwayes bearing and bringing forth the fruite enioyned him No ease no idlenesse which the Fathers call D●monis puluinar the diuels cushion But sweate but labour must bee his taske his portion Saint Chrysostome witnesseth writing vppon S. Cryso●● in Math. 24. 13. 〈◊〉 the wordes Hee that continueth to the end shall bee saued Nomen tollerantiae est nomen sudoris The name of Tollerancie is a name of sweate and that which is translated to abide or continue is in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is One that remayneth vnder as it fa●eth with the porter in the bearing of his burthen as a Tree laden with his fruite Secondly this perseuerance sheweth that the good man ought to testifie him-selfe to bee Couragious to withstand the lettes which may hinder him in this his will of ●uture fructifying Religion is a thing though inwardly sweete and comfortable yet outwardly sharpe and bitter Like Iohn the Baptist whose inward milde vertues were cloathed with an outward rough vesture not better then camels hayre Math. 3. 4. Many difficulties will affright him dangers represse him crosses

Great onely and not Small High onely and not Base Immortall onely and not Mortall Heauenly onely and not Earthly because Christ shall then change our vile body that it may bee Fashioned like vnto his glorious body Phili. 3. 2. 1. A matchlesse perfection of the body one branch of this Blessednesse The second matchlesse perfection of this Blessednesse is to bee found in our minde whose Witte shall then bee so sharpened as it shall neuer become dull againe whose Memory shall then be so confirmed as it shall neuer fo●gette againe Whose Wisedome shall then bee so enlarged as it shall neuer bee diminished againe whose Vnderstanding shall then so bee enlightned as it shall neuer waxe darke againe Whose will shall so then be directed as it shall neuermiscarry againe To conclude whose knowledge shall then bee so accomplished as it shall neuer bee ignorant againe As the Wit Memory Wisedom Vnderstanding Knowledg of an Infant in the wombe of his mother is nothing at all especially in comparison of a Man in the full pitch of his age and the ripenesse of his best education so and much lesse then so ●s the Wit Memory Wisdome Vnderstanding Knowledge of a Man of the most absolute complements in this world in comparison of that which in the world to come wee may certainely expecte and shall vndoubtedly receaue if we be Gods Children In the one we are as a child in the other we shall be as a man and putt away childishnesse in the one wee see as in a glasse darkly in the other wee shall see face to face in the o●e we shall Know in part in the other VVe shall knowe euen as wee our selues are knowne 1. Corm 13. 11. 12. Heere are wee clogged with the weight and intangled wi●h the shacles of an heauy and combersome body from whence the soule of man beeing then and there deliuered it shall become more ready in cont●yning and lesse doubtfull in resoluing and euery way more perfect occulorum acies saith S. Chrysostom dum lucida est Chrylo st ●n Euang Iohan. vel Ho●li 1. vell minutissima cernit c. The sight of the eye while it is cleare seeth euen the smallest thinges but beeing dimmed with humours that fall out of the head is blinde in perceiuing euen the greatest obiects so is it with the soule which beeing wrapped and incombred with the thicke mantle of a massy body is ignorant almost of euery thing but beeing once inlarged and sett at liberty soas she is an abstracted substance seperated there-from especially in the brightsome light of Gods kingdo●e it is v●conceiuable what shee conceiueth and what kingdome it is vnconceiuable what shee conceiueth and what she vnderstandeth passeth vnderstanding The Christail the clearer it is the more capable it is to rec●iue and the more brightly doth it represent the rayes of the Sunne which shine vpon it So the spirit of man being then purged and cleared from the drosse of any corruption receiueth more easily and representeth more fully the light of Gods wisedome which resteth on it A matchlesse perfection of the soule a branch also of this Blessednesse Secondly this Blessednesse heare spoken off consisteth in an endlesse consolation arising vnto vs out of vs to bee obserued in sundry particulars leauing the ●es●due which might bee collected my purpose is to stand vppon these fiue Wherof the first is the Company which we shal then inioy off God Angels Saints First this endlesse consolation out of vs doth arise vnto vs by the fruition of the Company of God in whose Presence there is first ioy secondly fulnesse of toy Psal 16. 12. Whome to behold is Blessednesse Math. 5. 8. Where wee shall bee able to comprehend with all Saintes what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the loue of Christ which passeth all knowledge that we may be filled with all fulnesse of God Where wee shall attayne to Ephes 3. 18 19. the mistery of the indiuisible Trinity in Vnity The Power of the Father the Wisedome of the Sonne and the Loue of that Holy Ghost If it were a praeeminent dignity for those Magistrates to see the face of King Ahashuerosh then vndou●tedly must it of necessity bee true Blessednesse it selfe to Beh●ll the face of God the reward of the godly mans vertue here spoken off A Reward indeed is it sayth Ber 〈◊〉 Bern. m●ditat● cap. 4. 〈◊〉 deum vinere cum deo viuere de deo c. To see God to liue with God to liue of God to be with God to be in God who shall be All in All vnto vs habere id quod ●st simmum bonum to haue that which is the chiefest good the Blessednesse heere intended Secondly this endlesse consolation out of vs doth arise vnto vs by the company of Angels who for their Dignitie are Principalities for their Might Powe●s for their Authority Dominations Ephes 1. 21. For their Number Thousand thousands and tenne thousand thousands which are infinite Dan. 7. 10. for their Glory so surpassing as some of them be called Zeraphim Esay 6. 2. tha t is bright fiery or burning and therefore bright and glorious Thirdly this endlesse consolation out of vs doth arise vnto vs by the company of Saints which are called our fellow Cittizens Ephes 2. 19. A glorious order of Patriarkes an holy assembly of Prophets a blessed conuocation of Apostles and Euangelists an inumerable and most noble army of Martirs Virgins Confessors which All being of the houshold of God with vs. Ephes 2. 19. must needs afford vs a mutuall and perpetuall consolation a branch likewise of this Blessednesse The second of the fiue particulars wherein this endlesse consolation doth consist which out of vs shall arise vnto vs in Gods Kingdome it is the State which wee shall there susteine Beeing a State of no lesse then Kinges A Kingdome which wee shall attaine vnto not by force and pollicy but by GODS free fauour and mercy Feare not little Flocke it is your fathers pleasure to giue Apoc. 1. 6. you a Kingdome For which cause also Christ shall say at his iudgement vnto the elect Come yee blessed of my father Luke 12. 31. inherit yee the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world It is indeed prepared for vs but Math. 25. 34. so as wee should not thinke that though wee sit idle the whole day of this life wee cannot fayle of it but if wee will finde it wee must seeke it Seeke yee first the Kingdome of God Math. 6. 33. And then shall wee bee made partakers of the Good thinges that belong there-vnto which be both Internall the Righteousnesse thereof External and al these things shal be ministred vnto you A Kingdome concerning which S. Agust witnesseth Quale erit gaudium cum te videris esse socium Angelorum c. What manner of ioy will it bee when thou shalt August contra Jud. ● cap. 21. see thy selfe to bee