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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03444	A sermon preached at Saint Buttolphs neare Aldersgate, the 26. of Februarie, 1609. By William Holbrooke. Entitled No gaine to this	Holbrooke, William.	1609 (1609)	STC 13565; ESTC S119074	19,867	57

neither feede thy selfe with vaine hopes and perswasions that thou canst to heauen without this the common barre that keepeth and nusleth men still in prophanenesse and stoppeth them from entring into the way euerlasting and from tasting to see how good the Lord is Auoid these diuellish and carnall insinuations weigh the former motiues and ioyne prayer therewith so mayest thou bee truely godly and a great gainer Godlinesse is great gaine The false teachers before made the doctrine of godlinesse a gainfull arte and thought all was wel gotten that was gotten but he teacheth otherwise that gaine must suite with godlines else all is naught from whence we learne Doct. No gaine is tolerable and lawfull but that which is inned by godlines that was the cause that made Paul to cleare himselfe from any goods gotten vnlawfully Act. 20.33.34 2 Cor. 12.16.17 by guile pilling of them or craftie dealing with them And a vsuall thing it is with the holy men of God to free themselues from the same and therfore Zaccheus offered yea appointed part of his goods to make restitution if he had inned any thing by forged cauellation Reas And surely this is plaine by reason if we well perpend euery thing for this warrant wee must shew or else all will bee nought when it will bee demaunded Who required these things at your hands If we cannot shew godlinesse for a warrant how we came to our riches we shall proue no better then theeues and if we speed better it is beyond all expectation and possibilitie Not so much to bragge and boast of Vse 1 what we haue got as how truly we haue got it according to the rule of godlines For it is not much but goods godlily gotten that maketh thee rich and if thou haue thousands but it came in by vsurie false ballances swearing and forswearing lying and double dealing it were better thou hadest nothing but werest as poore as Lazarus and as bare as Iob for the more thou hast and vnlawfully gotten the greater shall be thy account and punishment Diues must giue account for his white clothing and delicate feeding the rich man for his large and stuffed barnes Hereby may wee see the miserable Vse 2 estate of all worldly and wicked men who haue no right or title to any thing and therefore what they haue gained is but stubble laid vp for the fite of Gods wrath to consume and gathered together by meere vsurpation They are for their misdemeanor towards the Priuie Councellours of heauen Father Sonne and holy Ghost banished and made vncapable till they bee in Christ of the right and title of any earthly much more of heauenly benefits With sufficiencie out of the first exposition of the same we learne Doct. Godlinesse in whomsoeuer it is maketh the partie in whom it is contented with that he hath he counteth that sufficient which he possesseth be it more or lesse Genes 12. This made Abraham contented at the command of the Lord to take the next way to beggerie if he had consulted with flesh and blood to leaue his countrie and kindred And to doe more then that which was against nature and who but he that belieued God could haue done it namely to sacrifice his first borne Isaak yea his sonne in whom the promise was made Philip. 4.11.12.13 Paul was contented hauing this gaine first and assured thereof to want and abound and to be content with euery estate good report and euill report he patiently endured being counted a deceiuer and yet true and Ioseph all contempt imprisonment and iniuries causelesse And howsoeuer this is strange to flesh and blood and the naturall man cannot attaine hereunto but is alwaies carping and caring yea pining himselfe away with griefe and excessiue care for an earthworme he is Yet that the godly man should be sutable to this truth Reas it will appeare by plaine reason drawne from the ground of Diuinitie namely godlines altereth and changeth the peruerse and greedie mind of man and so maketh it like to Gods mind and will so that Gods will is his will and he is affectioned like vnto him resting contented with that he hath as best for him not daring to resist the will of God who hath by his ouerruling prouidence bequeathed him such a legacie as he possesseth so much and no more Which we find Iob to verifie vnto vs contented with much with abundance of cattell children seruants and the like and contented with all these yea when he was spoiled of all these by enemies which hee testifieth when hee saith The Lord giueth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the name of the Lord. This is more then nature and the natural man can attaine vnto as that example of Pharaoh sheweth and experience teacheth if we cast our eyes vpon the godlesse and prophane of our daies who if matters answere not their expectation sweare murmure and grudge against God yea accuse God of follie So that godlines changing the discontented will of man it must needs follow that in whomsoeuer it is there is contentednes that which they haue is accounted by them sufficiencie And besides this Reas it needeth not to seeme strange vnto vs if we consider by what tenure or seruice the godly hold that portion they haue surely their tenure is in capite which is Christ Iesus whereof they are alwaies sure and in possession and so rest contented with their tenure which made Dauid to say from a feeling soule that he found more ioy in the light of Gods countenance that is that he had a tenure in capite Christ Iesus then all earthly minded men which he meaneth by they in that place had or could possiblie haue of their encrease of wine and oyle holding it not in capite as he did Of which mind Paul was not much differing from him nay altogether agreeing with him when he said and no otherwise then he thought That he counted all things dung in respect of the excellent knowledge of Christ Iesus Which doe plainly shew vs the force of this reason that for as much as Gods children are assured of Christ whereby they hold all they haue they therefore are contented with whatsoeuer portion God bestoweth vpon them and count that sufficiencie and enough and can say that their heritage is a goodly heritage To make this a touchstone and triall Vse 1 what godlines there is in vs by this namely by thy contentednes for without question according to our contentment is our growth in grace and answerable thereto is our proficiencie in Christs Schoole and that we may not bee deceiued hereby I will lay downe some few infallible notes of true contentednes in whomsoeuer it is First there is in the truly contented a submission of his will to Gods will and this is to bee obserued at two seuerall times namely in the daies of prosperirite and aduersitie in the daies of prospiritie when all things flow in apace canst thou then submit thy will