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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44606	A discourse concerning Ananias and Saphira wherein is laid open thier sin & punishment. By William Houghton, minister of Ordsoll in Nottinghamshire.	Houghton, William, preacher at Bicknor in Kent.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2937A; ESTC R215974	18,223	23

Covetous men have ever something to say for themselves so these you see they want no words desire of gain makes them very witty But turn we our ears from them to God and hear what he saith They that wrong Levi in his substance God shall smite through the Loyns of such Deut. 33.11 saith Moses Mal. 3 8. Will a man rob God Ye have robbed me in tythes and offerings therefore are ye cursed with a curse cries the Prophet Malachi Those that say Come let us take to our selves the houses of God in possession O my God make them like a wheel still running about as if they were mad As the fire burneth the wood and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire Psa 83.13 14. So persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy storm So David Thus the Penmen of Holy Writ sharpen their Stile denouncing heavier judgments against sacrilegious persons This is therefore the third and last Question If Ananias might not keep back part of that which was his own but it cost him his life How then dare men take away from the Church that which never was their own and not think themselves subject to the wrath of Almighty God Having thus laid open the several parts of this Text and shewed the nature of this sin of Ananias and Saphira let me desire thee Christian Reader to fix thy serious thoughts and meditations upon this general Conclusion very clearly arising from the premises That there are many who call Christ Master yet are the Worlds servants Or That it is possible for a man to go far in the way to heaven yet be at length overtaken with a whorish love of this World for thus was it with Ananias and Saphira Who would ever have thought that Saint Luke writing so many things in their praise in the former Chapter should here come in with such a tragical relation There they received the Word here give ear to Satan There they prayed here hold parley with the devil There with joyful hearts they praise God here they tempt him There you read of their charity now you have seen their hypocrisie There they joyned themselves with the Apostles 1 Tim. 6.10 here for detaining the price of their Land were cast out of the blessed society and fellowship of the Apostles Summos saepe viros transverses egit av●ritia Salust Hominum mentibus est inspersa cupiditas corum qui in pie●ate cons●●uti vid●●●u● Chrysto●… 5. p. 204. Well doth Saint Paul say that the love of money is the root of all evil It is the root of Apostacy and falling from God This sin creeps into the heart w●en other sins go out and this is the sin of many Professors men of eminent parts who for Piety and Religion seem to be set in a higher rank and form than other men Curtius writing the Life of Alexander praiseth him for many things as Wisdom Valour Industry reports him very hardy a man that when frost and snow lay upon the ground would climb up the Alps on his bare hands and feet then he gives a sudden dish with his Pen Caeteruming entia animi bona c. hand tolerabili vini cupidita of aedavi● Q Curt. p. 158. But he was intolerably given to the love of Wine and would be drunk and that was a blemish to all his other Virtues The like may be said of many Professors that make a glorious shew hear much read much do many excellent things But their hearts are overcharged with the love of earthly things and that deprives them of salvation for that * Plaagere cos praecipit non propter homicidia non propter fornicationes aut alia postremo vitia lethali gladio animos parenns occisione jugulantia sed propter solas tantummodo opes propter insanam cupiditatem propter auri atque argenti famem ut ostenderet scilicet sufficere hae● homini ad aeternam d●mnatio●●●… ●ri●ms●●●atus olii 〈◊〉 s●…●ssent Sal p 357. alone may do it as well as murther or adultery The hearers resembled to thorny ground went they not further than the rest Did they not hear the Word Did they not beleeve it Did they not receive it with joy Yet after all this were choaked with cares and riches The young man in the Gospel did he not leave Christ because he would not leave his possessions and Ananias here because he would not let go the price of his Land Judas also and Demas they both suffered shipwrack upon the same rock When Naomi went out of Moab with her two daughters Ruth and Orpah towards the Land of Judah Ruth stuck to her and would by no means forsake her Orpah she also went a good way with her wept and took on but at length she kist her mother and departed She returned to idolatrous Moab to her People and to her Gods saith the Text So a hypocrite may make a fair progress in the way to heaven read pray converse with the Saints weep it may be at a Sermon yet for all this be deeply in love with the World and have his heart there amongst his Gods of Silver and Gold And these O ye men of might have been the Gods many of you have been fighting for so long Luk. 8 14. Mat. 19.22 2 Tim 4.10 Ruth ● 15 Psal 7● 5 Mat. 21 38. that which you have chiefly sought hath been to seize upon the inheritance and to get into your hands the price of the Land Who see●h not at this day a great measure of Ananias's hypocritical covetousness and covetous hypocrisie to have been reigning in your hearts Seeming Saints you have been and servants of God but the World hath been your Master You have used Religion but as a ladder to climb up to wealth and worldly preferment which being had the ladder hath been thrown aside no matter what became of it Saint John saith 1 Joh. 5.4 This is the victory that overcometh the World even our faith to you it may be said This is the victory that hath overcome your faith even the World and your worldly hearts look into them and you will find this to have been the root of your late so foul miscarriages but manum de tabula oculos ad coelum The Lord showr down his blessings upon the head of our Soveraign Lord King Charles and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit that he may alwaies incline to thy will and walk in thy way Bless the Great Council of the Realm assembled together in the High Court of Parliament grant that with a single eye they may look at thy glory ever preferring the publick good before their private interests Job 29.17 strengthen their hands that they may pluck out of the throats of those Cormorants the spoyl which they have so greedily devoured Rebuke the madness of those false Prophets 2 Pet. 2.3 who through Covetousness with fained words make marchandize of thy people Lord bless Levi's substance and accept the work of his hands and suffer not the means of thy Worship to come into the hands of those who count all gain godliness This heavy judgment on Ananias struck fear into all that heard it The Lord grant it may have the same effect in all that shall read these lines Act. 5.5.11 that all Israel may hear and fear and do no more presumptuously Deut. 17.13 Seeing few have conceived this sin of Sacriledge in their hearts who have not felt the judgement of God upon their backs Deut. 21.21 may therefore the example of his heavy judgments deter and keep back all men from this sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉