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The merchant reall. Preached by VVilliam Loe Doctour of Diuinitie chaplaine to the kings sacred maiestie, and pastour of the Englishe church of merchants adventurers residing at Hamboroughe in Saxonie
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Loe, William, d. 1645.
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Coll. 3.6 children of disobedience children of iniquity vvho vvill sell the righteous for siluer Am. 2.6 Hosh. 10.9 Ioh. 12.36 Rom. 9.8 Matth. 8 1â— the poore for shoues yea they vvill transgresse for a crust of bread But there are children of light children of promise children of the kingdome these hauing god to their father CHRIST to their brother the angells to their guard the creaturs to their seruants the holy ghost to their assurer enioy all things 1. Cor. 3.22 for all things are theirs they are CHRISTS CHRIST is gods Practice 3 The third vse is of caution Here see vvhat S. James saith vnto you Goe to novve ye that say to day â—am 4.13.14.15.16.17 or to morrovv vve vvill goe into such a city continue there a yeare buy sell get gaine vvhereas ye knovve not vvhat shal be on the morrovv For vvhat is your life It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a little time then vanisheth avvay For that ye ought to say â—if the lord vvill vve shall liue or doe this or that But novve ye reioyce in your boastings all such reioycing is euill Therefore to him that knovveth to doe good doth it not to him it is sinne And further that blessed apostle saith to the secure vvordlings Goe to novve ye rich men vveepe hovvle for your miseries that shall come vpon you Iam. 5.1.2.3 Your riches are corrupted your garments motheaten your siluer gold is cankered the rust of them shal be a vvitnesse against you shall eate your flesh as it vvere fire yee haue heaped treasures together for the last dayes Practice 4 The last practice is of motion The Egiptians sold houses lands possessions to buy them earthly bread vvhat should not vve sell to buy our heauenly Manna Make frends therefore of the vnrighteous Mammon that you may be receaued in to euerlasting habitations But if you vvill vvith Iudas sell Christ neither for god nor goodnes sell Deut. 32.30 or giue any thing then knovve that god vvill sell you Hovve els should one chase a thousand tvvo put ten thousand to flight except their Rocke had sold them the lord had shut them vp Esai 50.1 Therefore saith the lord vvhere is the bill of your mothers diuorcement vvhom I haue put avvay or vvhich of my creditors is it to vvhom I haue sold you Behold for your iniquity haue you sold your selues for your transgressions is your mother put avvay Psal 44 1â— And Dauid complaines that vvhen god is angry vvith a people he sells them for nought Ioel. 3.1 takes noe mony for them And Ioel saith that they haue cast lots for my people haue giuen a boy for a harlot solde a girle for vvine that they might drinke Thus you see this noble marchant reall chooseth rather to sell then to be sold that so he might purchase the price of his redemption The fourtenth lesson Yea this marchant is so resolute that he is not only ready to goe vvith Christ contemne the vvorld but also is fully persvvaded to sell ALL. He is noe Agrippa to be persvvaded almost to become a Christian He is noe Athan to â—oord vp a vvedge of gold a Babylonish garment Nor a Saul to spare Agag the best things But he being come to the full persvvasion of his faith selleth all Whence the doctrine is That they vvhich once come to the full persvvasion of their faith doe willingly consecrate themselues all they haue as holy heauenly reasonable seasonable vvhole burnt offerings to god in Christ Iesus This is cleare first by the degrees of sauing faith For the first degree of faith is a ground vvorke vpon vvhich vve build a trust and confident affiance Hebr. 11.1 Then vve proceed to a reuerend boldnes hauing an aduocate vvith the father Iesus Christ our lord 2. Cor. 3.12 Phil. 3.3 vvho is our master of requests in heauen And vpon these premises vve come to a full persvvasion at the last 1. Ioh. 2.1 conclude vvith Abraham in a full absolute persvvasion of faith that god is able of stones to raise vp children Hence is our harts filled vvith solace our minds vvith rest our mouths vvith praise hovve soeuer the lord deales vvith vs. Exo. â—9 18 Secondly this appeares from the mystery or figure of the vvhole burnt sacrifice For vvhether it vvere a ramme or a lambe it must be tendered ALL. When Abraham vvas to offer vp Isaac it vvas not a legg or a limme an eie or a hand could serue the turne but ALL. Thirdly from euangellicall righteousnes vvhich must exceed Mat. 5.20 surpasse pharisaicall or ells vve shall neuer enter into the kingdome of heauen Which righteousnes is seene First in contrition of humility by forsaking our selues Matth. 26.24 â— Cor. 7.31 Mar. 10.25 euen all our selues by vsing the vvorld as if vve vsed it not euen all the vvorld by vntvvyning the cable euen ALL the cable that so it may goe through the eie of a needle Matth. 3. Fides fiduciae Secondly this euangellicall rightiousnes issueth froÌ„ faith of assurance that god is able to raise vp children of stones they that haue him for their assuerer are assured by their trust in the lord to stand fast as mount Sion for euer Psal 125.1 Thirdly this righteousnes produceth invocation in holy deuotion Reu. 3.17 Not as the church of Laodicea doth in the Reuelation saying I am rich vvant nothing but as Christ hath taught vs to pray hovv rich soeuer vve are Giue vs our bread for the day Mat. 6. For vvhat is our ALL if god giue not a blessing to euery peece parcell thereof vpon vvhich premisses vve conclude First by questioning vvhat shall seperate vs from the loue of god resolue at at last that nothing shal be able to doe it hovvsoeuer vve are assalted either vvith things aboue vs Rom. 8.35 39. or vvith vs or beneath vs to vvithdravve vs from it The reason of this appeares first from an apostollical question 1. Cor. 4.7 What hast thou that thou hast not receaued Hast thou gold siluer Haggai tells thee It is none of thine Hast thou heards of cattle in thousands Hag. 2. â— the Psalmist vvill tell thee they are the lords Psal 50.10 Hast thou had riches novve hast not The preacher vvill tell thee that god is the ocean from vvhence they ebe Ecc. 1.7 flovve Secondly from a diabollicall suggestion For the deuill could say ALL this vvill I giue then vvhen he had nothing to giue But gods children acknovvledge no such donor Neither doe they conceal the author of their vvealth vvith Esau nor the phisition of their health vvith the nine vnthankfull leapers nor gase gape vpon vvhat they haue as the Israelits did vpon their Manna