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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72913	Three godly and fruitfull sermons declaring first how we may be saved in the day of iudgement, and so come to life everlasting: secondly, how we ought to liue according to Gods will during our life: which are the two things that every one ought to be most carefull of as long as they liue. Preached and written by the reverend & godly learned M. Iohn More, late preacher in the citie of Norwitch. And now first published by M. Nicholas Bovvnd: whereunto he hath adioyned of his owne, A sermon of comfort for the afflicted: and, A short treatise of a contented mind.	More, John, d. 1592.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. aut	1594 (1594)	STC 18074.5; ESTC S125128	118,386	153

be freed from it unlesse vvee will pervert this order established by Gods decree neither neede vvee to feare it vvhen as the Lorde that hath determined to saue us hath appointed also this vvay and meanes to saue us and vvhen his decree of sauing cannot be seuered from his decree of exercising vs under the crosse Which that vvee might not looke to be freed from or feare least it should hinder us in our saluation the Apostle telleth us wherefore the Lorde hath thus decreed of the whole Church euen that seeing his owne Sonne Christ Iesus came no other way but this unto glorie hee beeing the eldest brother in the house of God All other by their practise might yeelde unto his soveraigntie when they will not refuse to goe that way to their inheritance which hee went before though never so grieuous euen through many afflictions So that euen as a noble man will haue all his servants to weare one liverie that they might be knovven so the Lorde would haue all his children knowen by one badge the badge that he put upon his eldest sonne Christ was the crosse therefore none of us the younger breethren must refuse it For as in a familie great is the priuiledge of the eldest brother and none must looke to goe beyonde him nay euery one can not be like unto him and if any might come to as great an inheritance as hee by doing those things which he did before them they might not refuse the condition unlesse they woulde preferre them-selues before him So seeing it hath pleased the Lorde to consecrate the prince of our peace through affliction Hebr. cap. 2. vers 10. and hee came vnto glorie no other way then this vve must thinke it good for us to goe the same way that we might be like unto him and so by our practise shewe that wee acknowledge him to be the prince of our peace and our eldest brother Then euen as hee is the chiefe and principall in the common wealth in the Church in a private familie and in any place that all desire to be like unto so vvhen vvee are contented to be like unto Christ in any thing euen in the crosse then shall wee declare that vvee holde him to be the chiefe and principall and as it is saide here the first begotten among many breethren For indeede howsoeuer there is great difference betvveene the heade and the rest of the members yet there is a certaine conformitie betweene the members of the same bodie and the heade and all of them are inferiour vnto it so howsoeuer there is no comparison betvvixt Christ and us yet vvee must be like him in this that we must not be aboue him and therefore not to refuse any condition that he hath undergone before unlesse vvee would preposterously preferre our selues the members before him our heade vvhich were to darken the glorie of him that is the first borne and to staine the honour of him that is the prince of our peace For what a disorder were it if the subiects would refuse to doe that which the Prince had done before and if the younger breethren shoulde thinke much to bee brought up that way that the heire hath beene before euen so when vvee shall refuse to beare the crosse vvhich our Saviour Christ by the appointment of his Father hath borne in greater measure then wee shall or can it is nothing else but to lifte up our selues aboue him and to say that wee will not be conformable unto him as to our prince or eldest brother And what a thing were this that vvee beeing vvorse then dust and ashes shoulde desire to be spared aboue the onely Sonne of God and should so loue our selues that the estate of Christ Iesus should seeme to be vnmeete for vs and when he was in all sufferings and afflictions brought vnto glorie wee shoulde dreame of a more readie way and thinke to come to it some other way wee knowe not what Therefore let this comfort us in all trouble and aduersitie that wee can neuer be pressed so lowe with it but that Christ Iesus hath beene deeper plunged in it before so that the more trouble and aduersitie wee suffer the more are wee like unto him yea if it were possible for us to goe dovvne into hell and to suffer all torments of a desperate man in soule and bodie euen in them wee shoulde be most like unto Christ in his great agonies and bloudy sweates yea in his crosse when hee cryed out vvith a lovvde voice My God my God vvhy hast thou forsaken mee But if al this doe not satisfie us and wee further demaund vvhy the Lorde shoulde appoint so harde a vvay for us vnto heauen and ordaine that by the straight way and narrow gate wee shoulde enter into life and shoulde vvish that hee had appointed some easier way then this First of all wee must not prescribe the Lorde any thing in the matter of our saluation but thinke our selues happy that wee are saued any way yea if wee went to heauen by hell and secondarily when wee are come thither wee shall finde the ioyes so farre surpasse all troubles and aduersities vvhatsoeuer that wee haue suffered both in greatnesse and continuance that wee shall neuer repent vs of the hardnesse of the way no more then it did Ioseph that hee first induring the prison was afterwardes made ruler in Egypt or Iacob that he came to inherite his fathers blessing at the last by a long exile tedious bondage or the Israelites that by passing through a forlorne wildernes fourtie yeeres they came to the lande of promise in the ende Or Dauid that he came to the kingdome of Israel by suffering so many things under Saule as he did Nicholas Bownde A Treatise of a contented minde Num. 11. From the 4. vers Moses setteth downe the most hainous sinne of the people which grieued him so that he complaineth of it vnto the Lord vers 11. Who gaue him this answer concerning this matter vers 18. the execution of which is described vers 31. THeir sinne was this that they were not contented with that most blessed estate that the Lord had placed them in which howsoeuer it may seeme to be but a small thing yet if we measure it by the punishment that came vpon them for it we must needes confesse it to be great For if the iustice of men doth punish men but according to the qualitie of the fault the Lord doing it a great deale more it can not be but a great sinne that pulled so great a punishment vpon them And in deede seeing that we beleeue that the Lord doth gouerne the whole world in wisdome and mercie deuiding vnto euery one that portion which he knoweth to be most conuenient for them looke how much we are discontented with our estate so much doe we detract from the wise and mercifull prouidence of God Now this sinne of theirs was so much the more grieuous by howe much more