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A19474	A hand of fellovvship, to helpe keepe out sinne and Antichrist In certaine sermons preached vpon seuerall occasions: by Robert Abbot ...	Abbot, Robert, 1588?-1662?	1623 (1623)	STC 59; ESTC S100379	198,722	312

A HAND OF FELLOWSHIP TO HELPE KEEPE OVT SINNE AND ANTICHRIST In certaine Sermons preached vpon seuerall occasions By ROBERT ABBOT Preacher of Gods Word at Cranebrooke in KENT LONDON Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter 1623. DAVIDS DESIRES THE ASSIZE AT HOME VPON PSALME 27.4 By ROBERT ABBOT LONDON Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter 1623. ¶ The principall Contents of the Booke following are 1 DAVIDS Desires from PSALME 27.4 wherein we are perswaded to desire the ordinary means of saluation and to be true members of the true Church wherein we may vse them 2 The Assize at Home from IAMES the 2.4 wherein all are perswaded to hearken to the voice of Conscience that all things may go well both in the Church and Common-wealth 3 The hid man of the heart from the 2 COR. 4.17 wherein we are directed in the triall of our spirituall estates that so we finding our death to sinne and life in grace may assure our hearts that we haue right in Christ 4 A preuenter of Securitie from 1 PETER 4.7 wherein we are perswaded to watch both against Popish doctrine and wicked liuing in these last and perillous times 5 The new mans new life from GAL. 2.20 wherein both our cursed death in sinne is discouered that we may be wounded for it and our life in grace is opened that we may reioyce in it and seeke to nourish it 6 The triall of True Religion from IAMES 1.27 wherein we are perswaded to be of a Religion and are taught by easie triall to see the truth of our Religion and the falshood of the Romish Apostasie TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR THOMAS ROBERDS Knight and Baronet and to the Lady FRANCES his faithfull yoke-fellow Grace mercy and peace from God our Father and our Lord Iesus Christ by the Holy Ghost RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL IF I may be bold to looke so high I dare looke no higher than your selues in this my dedication Were I able to bring forth a birth worthy of a higher countenance to whom should I offer it but vnto my Lords Grace of Canterbury from whom I haue receiued all my worldly maintenance vnder whom I doe enioy all my best earthly countenance and at whose lips I haue receiued such most fatherly incouragements both to take heed to reading and to doctrine and also to pray to God morning and euening that God may be my God when I least dreame of him as I hope I shall neuer be backward to acknowledge alwaies ready to make vse of to the improuement of those spirituall graces wherewith through Gods gracious gift I came into this Country But I neuer yet could so ouerweene my owne abilities as to thinke their fruit worthie of such a patronage If I seeme not too presumptuous in what I doe I hope I neuer shall in what I might doe It is my ioy and my reioycing that within mine owne circle God hath raised me vp such friends as will not easily take in ill part my louing rudenesse towards them Some few yeeres experience makes this good of your worthy selues who haue so faithfully shewed your selues friends so cheerefully auditors and so patiently giuen me leaue both publikely and priuately to stirre vp your willing minds that I cannot entertaine the least doubt of your kinde embracings of this poore acknowledgment of my thankfulnesse vnto you I remember what Socrates did reply to Aeschines his scholler when being poore he tooke it to heart that he was not able to gratifie him his Master as others did Annon intelligis quàm magnum munus mihi dedisti nisi fortè teipsum parvi aestimas Doest thou not know saith Socrates how great a gift thou hast giuen me belike thou accountest thy selfe little worth Implying that he accounted his gift though poore more precious than theirs who were rich because they had giuen him of theirs he had giuen him himselfe Right thus doe I iudge the case to be betweene your Worships and my selfe It may trouble me that I haue no better to giue but I know it contents you that I giue my selfe to wit my presence to your persons my prayers for your estates and my vttermost abilities in the execution of my weake ministerie for the eternall good of your with all my deare peoples soules A taste of this I offer vnto you in these two Sermons which were first made publike at two Assizes by the ioynt request of you both next are made publike in Print by mine owne offer desire of the good of Gods Church God giue them acceptance in the eies of his people I doe not looke that they should finde a like entertainment amongst all My aime is to warme the hearts of my deare Countrymen whereto if the force of my poore sparke will not extend my neerer aim● is to doe good vnto my flocke which yet if I cannot reach my neerest aime is to shew my selfe thankfull vnto you both and aboue all to set forth the honour of God in awaking conscience and wooing and winning desires to this his true Church Busie are the aduersaries of our common mother the Church of England to gaine appetites and affections to Rome Many words are thought too few much eloquence too little and the rowling of all stones not enough to this end If therefore Croesus his dumbe sonne could speake when he saw one offering violence to his father Homo ne intersicias Croesum saying O man kill not Croesus then no maruell if we that are speaking sonnes of our deare Mother doe plead her cause and redeeme her credit from the slander of strangers yea of her vnnaturall children It was a militarie law of old that the souldiers who had not killed an enemie should not be girded with a girdle but with an halter and surely me thinks the law were good to be executed vpon them who haue not maintained the Church their mother as they are able To auoid this censure I haue done my best as I could in a word and if I meet with a heauier censure for doing what I haue than if I had done nothing my comfort is that I haue vsed my talent with an honest heart and therefore am not altogether out of hope that I may be a little blast in Gods mouth a little to consume the Man of Sinne in them that cannot search either more large or learned bookes There is but one thing aboue the rest which breedeth preiudice in mens minds and keeps them from making vse of our writings and that is this A politike perswasion by cunning leaders that we preach a new doctrine and walke not in the traces of our forefathers But if either of these could be iustly fastned vpon vs we should hate our selues our doctrine our course As for our doctrine we heartily confesse that it is impossible that sauing truth should be kept vp in a corner and not disclosed till latter dayes It neither stands with Gods loue who willeth that all men should be saued and come to the

that we may be afraid to abuse our consciences for this we may be assured of that though our consciences be calmed for a time yet as Nycippus his sheepe brought forth a Lion which portended to tyrannie so our consciences which seeme to be as quiet as lambes will at the last bring forth roaring as a presagement of our eternall thraldome Soli Deo gloria THE HID MAN OF THE HEART VPON 2 CORINTH 5.17 By ROBERT ABBOT LONDON Printed by John Haviland for Nathaniel Butter 1623. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR HENRY BAKER Knight and Baronet and to the Lady KATHERINE his religious and louing Wife Grace in this world and glory in the world to come through CHRIST our LORD RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL The rule is not more old than good Ingenuum est fat●r● per quem prof●●cris That it is an ingenuous thing to confesse by whom we reape profit Hauing therefore by good proofe found your hands not to be sealed vp to me though I beg no new fauours because through Gods mercy I haue learned to want and to abound and in all estates to be content yet I humbly beseech you to giue me leaue freely to acknowledge your loue vnto me It was not wi●hout your charge that I came first to settle in this Cou●●ry neither haue I here continued without the inlargement of my Librarie by your Bookes bestowed vpon me What therefore can I render vnto you besides my publike Ministerie but some such poore acknowledgment as this is A plaine Sermon I confesse it is yet such an interpreter of my heart that I hope you shall plainly see my honest desires to lay before you a picture of your together with the rest of Gods peoples gratious estates It was a vse in rich mens feasts Herodot lib. 3. amongst the Aegyptians of old to appoint one who should shew a wodden carkasse of a man liuelily cut out to euery guest and to say to this effect So eat drinke and delight thy selfe as withall thou cast thy eye vpon this which sheweth thee what thou shalt be when thou art dead It may be this spirituall anatomie which I offer vnto you may haue as good a vse to call backe our ouer-lauish loues from the delights of this world by shewing vs either what we are or what we should be What though it be rudely cut yet when I remember a worthy speech of your owne What care I for a young man who can talke of genus and species and other logicall and philosophicall subtleties giue me an experienced Preacher who can speake to the heart I cannot doubt of your louing entertainment of this my homely worke I know you neglect not any humane Arts prouided they doe prepare and not imprison our wits from more noble imployments Modo praepareat no● detinc●●t ingentum it hath beene your glory to be well seene in some of them yet when I doe consider what S. Augustine saith if my memory faile not Surg●●● 〈…〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 ●●●or●● tr●●●●●● 〈…〉 The vnlearned arise and take heauen by violence whereas great Doctors are thrust into Hell and when I see that many thriue in grace who haue no learning but Scripture and no eloquence but what conscience doth dictate I cannot but humbly pray to God that you may alwaies be of that minde which you d●e d scouer in that gratious speech I know right well that they are to be found in the world who will lay other draughts of holinesse before you than you shall here finde They will tell you of Masses of haire-cloth of whippings of pilgrimages and other penances and were it not that God hath taught you already to discouer the hypocrisies of these and to see that to stop the mouth of conscience for a time they may be practised by the wickedest wretches they might haply preuaile with you being gilded ouer by the subtleties of Antichrist But blessed be God your soules are from amongst Lions and I hope you haue beene longer trained vp in Christs schoole than to be so gulled with such impostures My care and prayer to God for you shall rather be that yee may adorne the profession of the Gospell which yee haue vndertaken There are too many in the world who with Caius Curio are singularly eloquent Lin. vitae ex vell Pat●r● lib. 2. and wittily wicked but how much better is it to haue a flower tongue and a duller braine with more true godlinesse and honestie Goe on I humbly beseech you to be recluses from the world and from the wickednesse of it And because there are many who are like Copronimus of whom it is said Ne● Christianū nec Iudaeum nec Paganum fu●sse sed colluui●m quandam impietatis that though he would be called a Christian yet he was neither Christian nor Iew nor Pagan but a very sinke and puddle of sinne th●refore how will it honour such persons as yee are to redeeme the c●edit of the Gospell f●om obloquie and to honour God by sincere and constant practises of pietie They lay a kinde of disgrace vpon God as well as vpon the Gospell that would be accounted Christians and yet are not good If a King should send with instructions for the presenting of his person and will to another Prince such a messenger as could not execute it did it not lay this disgrace vpon him that he is not able to chuse a fit person to doe his businesse So is it disgracefull to God to send such an one into the world in his name and with the honourable title of his seruant yea Sonne who doth the errand of the world the flesh and the deuill rather than of him whose name he beareth That therefore the censure of the Cynick vpon the common people who did highly extoll those that contemned money and yet were very money-mongers themselues may not fall vpon you let it be your glory and your reioycing not onely to praise and countenance the vertuous but also as you haue begun to be of the same knot and blessed societie I know that this must be effected by a spirituall death vnto the world and sinne but if it were a comfort to be put to death with Phocion 〈…〉 because Phocion was innocent and well-deseruing of the Common-wealth then how much comfort may it be vnto vs to haue fellowship in the death of Christ to our death vnto sinne and in his resurrection to our rising vnto newnesse of life This Sermon shall through Gods blessing a little helpe you forward in this gracious worke in which respect my humble suit vnto you is that you would be pleased to vse it as your owne I was loth to let you passe amongst my publike acknowledgments of others loues though I cannot at thi● ti●e giue you what place you haue and I would be lot● that now I doe shew my selfe vnto you I should not giue you that content which I desire To end in a word SIR let me put you