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A10931	Certaine sermons preached and penned by Richard Rogers preacher of Weathersfield in Essex, directly tending to these three ends. First, to bring any bad person (that hath not committed the sinne that is vnpardonable) to true conuersion. Secondly, to stablish and settle all such as are conuerted, in faith and repentance. Thirdly, to leade them forward (that are so setled) in the Christian life, to bring foorth the fruite of both. Whereunto are annexed diuers godlie and learned sermons of another reuerend and faithfull seruant of God, Mr. Samuel Wright, Bachelor of Diuinitie, late president of Sidney Colledge in Camebridge, deceased, tending also to the same ends, with diuers particular points in both, profitable and fit for these times.	Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.; Wright, Samuel, d. ca. 1612. aut	1612 (1612)	STC 21203; ESTC S116121	188,868	230

they vsed all diligence and armed themselues now while God gaue them this little breathing from persecution that so by their confidence pure heart good conscience loue and patience and other grace they might be fit to leade a godly life in the world with ease and strengthen themselues against falles and the baits of sin on euery side And it is manifest to all of vs who can iudge that by such meanes and a sound ministerie watching praying and the like the Church of God can grow in grace and no otherwise And that they did thus it is apparent by that which we reade in the second of the Acts where it is said that they were daily in the temple and continued in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and prayer And this vse should all true particular Churches and people of God make of their libertie of peace and of liuing free from persecution From the which God hath a long time freed many of his good seruants in this age howsoeuer some are much and oft vnder the crosse yea and that right heauie and sharpe such therefore should glorifie God by bringing forth fruit not in a common sort yea al possible good should be done of them and not omitted For as for priuate lets and those which are vsuall may more easily be ouercome either inward corruptions or outward ill examples or other discouragements as long as the word of God may haue free passage to be sincerely preached But if outward peace alone be counted so great a benefit and such holy and fruitfull vse made of it Note then how much more should we thinke so when that one is accompanied with abundance of other good things when health wealth friends and fauour of the godly shall go herewith and meet altogether in one person what manner of people ought such to be in all godlinesse And how God looketh for it that it should be so that place of Deuteronomie doth liuely shew Where Moses saith that we must serue the Lord with all ioyfulnesse and a good heart for the abundance of all good things The meditations of such mens harts should be acceptable to God and to follow the metaphor of building vsed heere a little the people that is so blessed of God should do as builders are wont that is to pull downe the ruinous corners set vp new frames in their roomes so should Gods seruants plucke downe the old ruines and breaches of their corrupt hearts as anger wrath impatience bitternesse and such like vncleane lusts and set vp mercie tenderheartednesse loue zeale faith and such like Yea and more particularly according to the diuers ages of Gods children they should exercise themselues that is to say the tender consciences and yong beginners should haue their thoughts and meditations about the fauour of God desiring aboue all things to be assured of it the middle aged Christians and such as are somewhat stayed in faith and the feare of God should chiefely be occupied in striuing against their lusts and fighting with them the ancient and experienced who haue done both these should much be taken vp in calling to mind what they haue heard of Gods manner of dealing in guiding his Church and the fruit thereof and in declaring to other and what they haue seene and found themselues worth the reporting to be in the seruing of God that thereby they may be encouraged to walke fruitfully and circumspectly still as they did long before and not to be led away from their stedfastnes in their Christian course by the error of the wicked as hauing found that course by long proofe to haue been the most gainfull of all other vnto them These vses and the like all sorts and ages of Gods people ought to make of Gods blessings towards them and of freedome from trouble But do the people of this age thus for that were a kind vse of peace and his other benefits and would well become them No for in this land these fiftie yeeres now fully passed what knowledge might haue been so that one might haue been able to teach another and there might haue been that grace of the spirit which might haue seasoned Christians hearts no lesse sensiblie then the dew doth moisten the mountaines So that our Church might haue been a paterne to others as the Thessalonians were examples to all that beleeued in Macedonia and Achaia and it might now haue been verified if euer in any age since the Apostles time that out of the bellies of beleeuers might haue flowed riuers of waters of life whereas except some persons heere and there there is great ignorance vnfaithfulnesse hollownesse securitie vncharitablenesse maliciousnesse and what not of that kind I speake not of the disorders of life for they are more fitly to be reprooued in the next vse which the Churches made of their peace but of the grosse distemperatures of the heart for although these times of prosperitie and peace haue been the fittest seasons for men to encrease in goodnes and grace euen as the haruest is to gather in the corne yet whether we enquire into particular Churches or persons we shall find nothing more true then this that peace and plentie haue poisoned for the most part the enioyers of them But if the people of God whom I teach now to make this vse of his blessings were not wound in by the diuels cunning sleights among the rest of the world it were the lesse maruel but euen they cannot be sholed out from them but haue their teeth set on edge with their courses by liuing among them and beholding how they runne headlong into all excesse by meanes of their prosperitie so that euen they forget their couenant made with God that is that they should endeuour to vse soberly in this present world all their lawfull liberties till with shame and sorrow afterward they are faine to returne againe to repentance And thus many euen of them not holding gouernment ouer their hearts breake out into offensiue life and become eye-sores to their brethren who will not be pent in to keepe the bounds of vnoffensiue walking till experience constraine them to wish they had been wiser and before their straying out so far to haue kept themselues well while they were well And this teacheth vs that Moses saw good cause to giue this warning to Gods people when they were to go to the land flowing in abundance of Gods blessings out of the barren wildernesse saying When the Lord hath brought you into that land with great and goodly cities which ye builded not and houses full of all manner of goods which ye filled not and welles digged which ye digged not and vineyards and oliue trees which ye planted not and when ye haue eaten and are full beware lest you forget the Lord which brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage Now to make vse of this in

mind and considered duely what a great sinne it is then truely lamented pardon craued with the prayer of faith and full purpose and endeauour against the same after and then to set afresh vpon the practise of christianity againe and neuer to thinke it well vntill this remedy be vsed This is to be done when this loue is decayed which to doe is a certaine violence vsing against our selues by more then an ordinary turning to God againe and a wary walking afterward to preuent the like And he●re I thinke it very meete to admonish you the more earnestly to beware of and to preuent this sin for two reasons which I vrge out of the text The one this the other followeth afterward seeing it shall bee the case of many to fall thus for so our Sauiour foretelleth saying because iniquitie shall abound the loue of many shall waxe cold And if many be like to fall thus what are we in this age to whom this watchword shall come that we should looke to auoide the danger of it vnlesse we be daily and much occupied in laboring and endeauoring to shun and preuent it And for mine owne part I am not ashamed to confesse if any lesse experienced herein regard the word of him that hath troden in this way before them that for more then thirtie yeares I haue feared the loosing of this first loue by reason of the strong prouocations thereto that I haue obserued from time to time to arise one after another by meanes whereof I haue seene good cause to auoide the same with all possible care that so doing I or any other in like state may much the better finish our course with ioy And yet this caueat I would might be well marked that all zeale in our first receiuing of the Gospel and beleeuing in Christ hath not been to be commended as that which may of necessitie vrge a Christian to the retaining and continuing of it afterwards as if it were a part of our first loue when as it is not to be denied that there was in our first beginning as there is daily in those who are effectually called to beleeue vnto saluation especially of the ignoranter sort much good meaning without knowledge and much froth in a great deale of zeale so that it should vnwisely be done of Preachers and farre from good discretion to vrge vpon them their former practise simplie without respect had of zeale voide of good ground and warrant of Gods word As for example many well minded when they were first brought to the true imbracing of the Gospell thought that all other who were not as themselues and iumpe of their fise and measure in zeale were to be iudged and censured as they thought good namely to haue had nothing in them neither were to be kept companie with whereas both themselues bewray their owne weakenes sufficiently all may see and beside who doubteth but that such as are teachable should be well hoped of and incouraged to be stedfast in the good things wherein they had well begun and so to be brought on to the receiuing of faith and the bearing of Christs yoke as true Christians doe Another great weakenesse hath possessed others and as full of error that in their zeale at their first beginning they haue thought that they must oft breake off their necessarie worke to pray and reade yea and that in the time of doing of their worke they must be praying rather then minding of and duely regarding the busines they had in hand Then the which what might be thought more sauoring of ignorance and blindnesse whereas they ought to haue knowne and been perswaded that God hath appointed a time to pray and all other things to giue place thereto when opportunitie serueth but yet in time of necessarie businesse that the same should be faithfully and diligently attended and followed and the mind not to be carried after other matters seeing God is serued therein euen as he is in reading praying and the like Also many haue fondly and falsely been perswaded that whiles they are occupied in holy exercises as prayer reading conference then they haue been more holy then others of their brethren but if they haue by frailtie failed therein yea or by other waightie occasions or if they haue waxen afterward more dull through want of knowledge or forgetfulnes vnfitter to Gods seruice then they were before then they haue iudged themselues the worst of all Gods people if they haue not denied that they were any of them at all Many such weaknesses which yet they count points of holines accompany the most of Gods faithful ones of the ignoranter sort at their first entrance into Christ who seeing better things are found in them are not imputed to them by the Lord but yet must they not for all that be iustified in them and borne with neither thinke that all things wherein they haue a good meaning must be holden for a vertue Euen as Naaman the Syrian being brought from his idolatrie by the Prophet Elisha and perswaded to worship the true God Iehoua only did in zeale and of a good meaning desire of him that two mules load of the earth that was in the land of Israel might be giuen him wherupon he might stand to offer sacrifice when he should come home as though that earth had been holier then that which was in his owne countrie Likewise Mary Magdalene and the other good women whom Christ before his death had most sweetly seasoned and perfumed with the odours of his heauenly doctrine so that they beleeued in him and followed him came of a zealous mind the third day after his buriall to the sepulchre to see him supposing that he had been still dead and not risen againe and brought sweete ointments with them to annoint his bodie By the which ceremonie and custome vsed to their dead in those dayes although they did confirme their faith in the hope of the resurrection after the manner of their Fathers who did so yet who doubteth but that they were led with blind zeale therein toward Christ both in seeking him that liued among the dead and also in going about to annoint Christs bodie as if it should haue putrified in the sepulchre like other mens By this that hath been said it is manifest that all things that the faithfull do in a good meaning are not to be paternes for themselues or others to follow vnlesse they haue had good warrant for the doing of them and especially at their first conuersion Thus much for the caueat or watchword before giuen namely that all zeale in good people at the first ought not to be taken for sound and substantiall I will now proceed Remember therfore that I set downe two reasons why Gods seruants should take heed in a speciall manner that they be not made cold in their loue as Christ hath foretold it shall be the case of many by meanes of the wickednesse which

of such a purchase in true and vnfained peace and comfort and seeing he shall liue vnder so kind and good a Lord as he that is Lord of all lords let it moue him to set his heart on him and delight and endeuour to please and obey him in all things and let him do it also with ioy For why if we thinke they that be in a noble mans house faring well may be merrie is there any such merry-making as in Gods house so that the man may be merry at his work and the woman at hers They that powre water on the hands of a Prince or a King are thought happie but then to haue the honor that is greater then Kings is somewhat And by this little that hath been said of and about the pearle guesse what the rest is euen as yee would guesse of the whole proportion of a man by seeing his foot TWO SERMONS VPON ISAIAH 55.1.2 Vers 1 Ho euery one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and ye that haue no siluer come buy and eate come I say buy wine and milke without siluer and without money Wherefore do ye lay out siluer and not for bread and your labour without being satisfied hearken diligently vnto me and eate that which is good and let your soule delight in fatnesse SEeing it helpeth much in preaching to shew the teachable hearer what is aymed at principally to be taught him that hee may the better bee kept from wandring and bend his eares and mind to the matter when he seeth what is intended to bee deliuered I will therefore shew you what the things are which I purpose chiefely to handle and speake of out of this text And these they are namely that such poore soules as the most yea and themselues do thinke to be odious to God and contemptible in his sight are for all that in high account with him and deare vnto him And these are all such as hunger and thirst after the kingdome of heauen and all grace to guide them safely thither And contrarily that such as blesse themselues and crie peace peace and all things are safe with them and they whom the greatest part of men do thinke to be happie and beloued of God are accursed and abhorred of him And such are the whole and full who feele little or nothing amisse that doth greatly trouble them or wound their consciences it can in no wise go well with these These things I purpose chiefely to teach and with all such as shall be appertaining hereunto as the text shall giue occasion But yet you must vnderstand that they are the matters which the Prophet also propoundeth to teach out of these words which I haue read For otherwise my teaching of this without ground and warrant from him should be to small purpose And that I may shew this to be his full meaning I will first open and vnfold the words which are there set downe which being borrowed speeches and not signifying that which the letter and words do import do make the matter seeme more difficult and harder to be vnderstood vnlesse they should be opened and made plaine We are therfore to know that by thirsting when he saith if any thirst hee meaneth feruent and earnest desiring By bread milke wine and water he meaneth the varietie and diuers kinds of all good things fit to quench the thirst of the soule and needfull to preserue the spirituall life By comming and buying without money he meaneth a receiuing freely and for nothing by faith such a liberall offer Thus the sense of the words in which any difficultie lieth being cleare it may easily be gathered what the meaning of the whole verse is and that is this That whosoeuer feeleth such need of the food of eternall life and of the graces of faith hope pardon of sinne loue patience or the like if he feele such need of them I say that he cannot be satisfied without them he may how vnworthie soeuer he thinke himselfe thereof freely confidently and with Gods good liking enioy and take his part in them euen as he that buyeth house or land with his money may possesse the same safely as his owne And this be said of the meaning of the first verse In the second he reproueth those among the people who refusing the best things offered them by God and that freely and willingly yet spared neither cost nor labour for those which were nothing profitable and exhorteth them to turne from that error and delusion and to take that counsell from him which would be soundly for their benefit and comfort Thus much for the meaning The parts may fitly be these two First the large offer which God maketh by the prophet in the first verse Secondly a reproofe and an exortation in the second The way and preparation being thus made let vs come more particularly to the matter it selfe and consider first the things which are set downe in the first verse namely in the free offer which God maketh by the Prophet which things are three First to whom he maketh it that is to them that thirst and to no other for so are the words Ho euery one that thirsteth come Secondly what he offereth to them euen whatsoeuer good things will quench their spirituall thirst as wine milke and water doe the bodily thirst saying come buy wine milke and water without money Thirdly vpon what cōdition he offereth this namely this that they beleeue him vpon his word and in token thereof come take and inioy it as their owne and this is the hardest that the Lord requireth of them by the Prophet To speake of these three points as they lie in order and to begin with the first we see that it is an high degree of profiting in the schoole of Christ and a token of Gods loue to thirst and earnestly to long after heauenly things as grace and eternall life For they who doe so must needs haue knowledge to discerne the price and excellency of them and also feele their owne need and necessity of them that they doe but pine and are as it were starued for want of them And for all this who are more contemptible either in theit owne eyes or the eyes of others then such be And yet these are called forth by the prophet as we see from amongst all other while they with the Publican thinke themselues to be a farre off and looke for no such thing to inioy and be partakers of that which is the best of all other And after the same maner speaketh the holy Ghost in other Scripture as in the Gospell by S. Iohn If any man thirst let him come to me and drinke meaning the same that the prophet here doth And our Sauiour in another place vttereth the same more plainely and fully though not in the same words saying The whole haue no need of the Physitian but the sicke And againe I came not

stayed the longer in this matter Now I will returne to the words of our Sauiour againe which I last mentioned that if his great workes and namely preaching y e greatest of thē al had bin in some place the people there would haue repented by this speech of his we may obserue that such as are lewd farre gone may be brought home to be members of the militant Church and Christ looketh for it that it should be so and layeth for it by sending forth and appointing his Ministers for that purpose As for example who was farther off from hope them Mary Magdelen out of whom Christ cast seuen diuels Or who among many might haue bin like to be reiected rather then Paul himselfe who was a persecutor an oppressor and a blasphemer likewise the great sinners in the time of our Sauiour who for the odious account they were in euen with the Pharisies themselues were abhorred of them and commonly reckoned with the heathens and Publicans And yet how did the Lord Iesus loue Mary how did he regard Paul as he confesseth himselfe that for al his sinnes he obteined mercy and was counted faithfull and put in his seruice And the great sinners acknowledging and forsaking their sinnes were preferred and iustified before the Pharisies And yet this giueth no incouragement to the badde and wilfull as though they may thinke heauen to be atteined with ease idlenes and securitie For we know that no such shall enter into the kingdome of God And yet it is not to be denied that the teachable hearers that begin to lende their eares to the preaching of the Gospell though they haue bin farre gone in time past may conceiue great hope hereby of the pardon of their sinnes and should not despaire Which I thinke needfull to say seeing many who haue long lien in a lewd course of life when they are aduised to turne againe vnto the Lord and they could also be content to doe so yet take deadly discouragement saying of themselues through ignorance and feare It is too late for them to repent and that their sins are so great that they cannot be forgiuen But of this first point in the second part this be said The second point followeth of the second part of the text according to the deuision THE THIRD SERMON VPON THE SAME TEXT HEre our Sauiour sayeth if they of Tyre and Sidon had inioyed the like meanes as the Cities of Corazin and Bethsaida did they had long agoe repented wherein he giueth vs to vnderstand that the gift of conuerting to God is so great and precious in respect of the want of it in any estate of life besides that all wise folke would lay for it betimes euen at the first hearing of the Gospell when it is new come amongst them and not driue of as too many doe till it be too late or at least wise till they hazard their saluation This is that which he would haue vs learne out of these words And to say the truth if it were a meaner matter then the message and glad tidings of eternall life is if it were but the offer of lease or fee simple of land in a good ayer and soile who would not lay for the first offer and labour by friends and cost that none might haue the liberty of choosing or refusing before him especially if it were a good peny-worth But alas what is the greatest Manour or Lordship if it were a whole Country which is yet but a corner of it if it be compared with that spacious kingdome of heauen already furnished withall manner of pleasures and delights Or what is the sumptuous building or princeliest dwelling which can be but of stone and clay in comparison of an habitation not made with hands but euerlasting which the Gospell offreth not as a purchase to be bought for mony but a free gift and yet the greatest of all gifts giuen for nothing And yet as if wisdome were taken away from the wise and all vnderstanding from the prudent how are the learned noble and mighty men of this world to speake of the greatest part without iudgement and light to discerne the worth and value of these things but their eyes are dazled with the deceitful beauty of things present and temporall Whereby it commeth to passe that they imbrace not the other at al if many of them scorne them not so farre is it off that they be the first that receiue the glad tidings of the kingdome If newes of any great importance or weight be brought into a lande who are the first partakers of it but they And good reason for they are the chiefe and greatest If any dainties be who aske for them sooner then they and why should they not be for them before others who are best able to buy them But oh then the greatest dainties of all which also neuer waxe common nor stale but are still fragrant and sauoury that they should not be asked after nor regarded And the newes and tidings that make the soule leape for ioy as oft as they be brought and receiued and are so farre from cloying and being wearisome that they be matter of song euen to Kings yea and without them their liues are but troublesome and full of feares Oh that these should not most affect them euen when they are thus in their prime it is doublely to be lamented But let vs weigh the words euen all sorts of vs. Long agoe he saith they would haue repented If we desire to profit aright by them then we should resolue with our selues that we should not stay and linger behinde when the Gospell commeth first to be soundly preached amongst vs suffering who so listeth to goe before vs in the harty imbracing of it but as the people did in Iohn Baptist time to receiue it with violence and as it were with greedines labouring to goe before others therein and as soone as wee perceiue the benefit that is offred thereby which is that we may finde the pearle then to lay to buy it forthwith and get it as our owne that we and ours may be euer after inriched thereby We should not like ill husbands forslow the time or as carelesse chapmen let goe a good peniworth least letting passe the opportunity we come not to the like offer againe The Apostle wishing Timothy to preach in season and out of season because in time the people wil not suffer wholesom doctrine but hauing their eares itching shall after their owne lusts get them an heape of teachers doth by the same reasons aduise the hearers that they take the opportunity to heare and imbrace the truth and sound doctrine while they may and therefore especially at the first And so they shal be able afterwards when others begin to loath it and so fall into the dangers that the Apostle would haue wise men to preuent and auoide they shall be able againe I affirme to say with ioy