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A01344	Ioseph's partie-colored coat containing, a comment on part of the 11. chapter of the 1. epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians : together with severall sermons, namely, [brace] 1. Growth in grace, 2. How farre examples may be followed, 3. An ill match well broken off, 4. Good from bad friends, 5. A glasse for gluttons, 6. How farre grace may be entayled, 7. A christning sermon, 8. Faction confuted / by T.F.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 11466.3; ESTC S4310	83,852	200

King 18. 16. For Senacharib no sooner received his money but hoc non obstante persisted in his former enmity and hostility against the Iewes and as it followeth in the very next verse sent up his Captaines to besiege Ierusalem 3. If there be no fault in the inchoation Examine hath there beene none in the continuance of your friendship hast thou not committed many sinnes to hold in with him If so then it is just with God hee should forsake thee Thus Tyrants often times cut off those staires by which they climbe up to their Throne Yea good Princes have often times justly sacrificed those their Favorites to the fury of the people who formerly have been the active Instruments to oppresse the people though to the enriching of their Princes Hast thou not flattered him in his faults or at least wise by thy silence consented to him If so God hath now opened thy friends eyes he sees thy false dealing with him and hath just cause to cast thee out of his favour When Amnon had defiled his sister Thamar the Text saith 2 Sam. 13.15 that the hatred wherewith hee hated her was greater than the love wherewith hee loved her Poore Lady shee was in no fault not the cause but onely the object and the occasion of her brothers sinne and that against her will by his violence Now to reason A minore ad majus If Amnon in cold blood viewing the hainousnesse of his offence so hated Thamar which onely concurred passively in his transgression how may our friends justly hate us if haply we have beene the Causers Movers and Procurers of their badnesse If wee have added fewell to the flame of their ryot played the Pandors to their lusts and spurred them on in the full speed of their wantonnesse deserve wee not when their eyes are opened to see what foes we have been unto them under pretended Friendship to bee spit in the face kik't out of their company and to bee used with all contumely and disgrace 4. Hast thou not idolatrized to thy friend hath he not totally monopolized thy soule so that thou hast solely depended on him without looking higher or further Tu patronus si deseris tu perimus Thus too many wives anchor al their hopes for outward matters on their husbands and too many children leane all their weight on their Fathers shoulders so that it is just with God to suffer these their woodden Pillars to breake on whom they lay too much heft 5. Hast thou not undervalued thy friend and set too meane a rate and low an estimate on his love If so God hath now taught thee the worth of a Pearle by loosing it And this comes often to passe though not in our friends voluntary deserting us as Achitophel did David yet in their leaving us against their wils when God taketh them from us by death But here this question may be demanded whether is one ever againe to receive him for his friend and to restore him to the old state of his favour who once hath deceived and dealt falsely with him Many circumstances are herein well to bee weighed first did hee forsake thee out of frailty and infirmity or out of meer spight and maliciousnesse Secondly hath he since shewed any tokens and evidences of unfained sorrow hath hee humbled himselfe unto thee and beg Gods and thy pardon If hee hath offended mischievously and persists in it obstinately O let not the strength of thy supposed charity so betray thy judgement as to place confidence in him Samson was blind before hee was blind the lust of Dalilah deprived him of his eyes before the Philistims bored them out in that once and againe being deceived by Dalilah hee still relyed on her word But if hee hath shewed himselfe such a Penitent and thou art verely perswaded of his Repentance receive him againe into thy favour Thus dealt our Saviour with Saint Peter Marke 16.7 But goe your way tell his Disciples and Peter Peter especially Peter that had sinned and Peter that had sorrowed Peter that had denyed his Master but Peter that went out and wept bitterly 6. Sixthly and lastly it may bee God suffers thy friends to prove unfaithfull to thee to make thee sticke more closely to himselfe Excellent to this purpose is that place Mica 7.5 Trust yee not in a friend put yee no confidence in a Guide keepe the doers of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome For the Son dishonoureth the Father the Daughter riseth up against the Mother the Daughter in law against her Mother in law a mans enemies are the men of his own house But now marke what followes therefore will I looke unto the Lord I will wayte for the God of my salvation As if hee had said is the world at this bad hand is it come to this bad passe That one must bee farre from trusting their neerest friends it is well then I have one fast Friend on whom I may relye the God of Heaven I must confesse these words of the Prophet are principally meant of the time of Persecution and so are applyed by our Saviour Mat. 10.21 However they containe an eternall truth whereof good use may bee made at any time Let us therefore when our friends forsake us principally relye on God who hath these two excellent properties of a friend first he is neere to us so saith the Psalmist Thy name is neere and this doth thy excellent workes declare They have a speedy way of conveying Letters from Aleppo to Babylon sending them by a winged Messenger tyed to the legs of a Dove but wee have a shorter cut to send our prayers to God by sending our prayers by the wings of the Holy Spirit that heavenly Dove whereby they instantly arrive in Heaven As God is neere to us so hee is ever willing and able to helpe us On him therefore let us ever relye and when other Reeds bow or break or run into our hands let us make him to bee our staffe whereon wee may leane our selves A GLASSE FOR GLVTTONS ROM. 13.13 Not in Gluttony THese words are a parcell of that Scripture that converted Saint Augustine He as hee confesseth of himselfe at the first was both erroneous in his Tenets and vicious in his life when running on in full carreare in wickednesse God stopt him with his voyce from Heaven Tolle et lege take up thy Book and reade and the first place which God directed his eye to was these words in my Text and after this time being reclaymed hee proved a worthy Instrument of Gods glory and the Churches good Now as those receipts in Physicke are best which are confirmed under the Broad Seale of Experience and set forth with the priviledge of Probatum est so my Text may challenge a priority before other places of Scripture because upon Record it hath been the occasion to convert so famous a Christian Neither thinke that the vertue of these words are extracted by doing

deceased and cannot but be delighted with their Goodnesse let us labour to fashion our selves after their frame and to erect the like vertues in our owne soules Godly Children occasion their Parents to bee called to memory Saint Paul beholding Timothies Goodnesse is minded thereby to remember his Mother and Grand-mother Eunice and Lois they can never bee dead whiles hee is alive Good children are the most lasting monument to perpetuate their Parents and make them survive after death Dost thou desire to have thy memory continued Art thou ambitious to be revenged of death and to out-last her spight It matters not for building great houses and calling them after thy name give thy children godly education and the fight of their goodnesse will furbish up thy memory in the mouthes and minds of others that it never rusts in oblivion Which dwelt first That is which was an Inhabitant in their hearts Faith in temporary Believers is as a Guest comes for a night and is gone at the best is but as a Sojourner lodges there for a time but it dwelleth maketh her constant residence and aboad in the Saints and servants of God Grand-mother Lois and Mother Eunice Why doth not Saint Paul mention the Father of Timothy but as it were blanch him over with silence First it is probable that Saint Paul had not any speciall notice of him or that hee was dead before the Apostles acquaintance in that Family 2. Likely it is he was not so eminent and appearing in Piety the weaker vessell may sometimes be a stronger vessel of honour yea the Text intimateth as much Act. 16.1 Behold a certaine Disciple was there named Timotheus the sonne of a certaine woman which was a Iewesse and beleeved but his Father was a Greeke Let women labour in an holy Emulation to excell their husbands in Goodnesse it is no trespasse of their modesty nor breach of the obedience they vowed to their husbands in marriage to strive to bee Superiours and above them in Piety 3. Eunice and Lois the Mother and Grand-mother are onely particularly mentioned because deserving most commendation for instructing Timothy in his youth as it is in the Chap. 3. ver. 16. Knowing of whom thou hast learned them and that from a Child thou hast knowne the Holy Scriptures For the same reason the names of the Mothers of the Kings of Iudah are so precisely recorded for their credit or disgrace according to the goodnesse or badnesse of their sonnes Let Mothers drop instruction into their children with their milke and teach them to pray when they beginne to prattle Though Grace bee not entayled from Parent to Child yet the Children of goldy Parents have a great advantage to Religion yea that five-fold 1. The advantage of the promise yea though they come but of the halfe blood much more if true borne on both sides if one of their Parents bee godly 1 Corinth 7.14 For the unbeleeving Husband is sanctified by the unbeleeving Wife and the unbeleeving Wife is sanctified by the Husband else were your Children uncleane but now they are holy 2. Of good Precepts some taught them in their Infancy so that they can easier remember what they learned then when they learned it Gen. 28.19 For I know Abraham that hee will command his children and his Houshold after him to feare the Lord 3. Of good Presidents Habent domi unde discant whereas the children of evill Parents see daily what they ought to shun and avoyd these behold what they should follow and imitate 4. Of Correction which though untoothsome to the palat to taste is not unwholsome to the stomacke to digest 5. Of many a good prayer and some no doubt steept in teares made for them before some of them were made Filius tantarum lachrymarum non peribit said Saint Ambrose to Monica of Saint Augustine her son Disdaine thou then out of an holy pride to bee the vitious sonne to a vertuous Father to bee the prophane Daughter of a pious Mother but labour to succeed as well to the lives as to the Livings the Goodnesse as the Goods of the Parents Yea but may the Children of bad Parents say This is but cold comfort for us and they may take up the words of the Souldiers Luke 3.14 And what shall wee doe First if thy Parents be living conceive not that their badnesse dispenceth with thy duty unto them thou hast the same cause though not the same comfort with good children to obey thy Parents this doe labour to gaine them with thy conversation It was Incest and a fowle sinne in Lot to bee Husband to his Daughters and beget children on them but it would bee no spirituall Incest in thee to be Father to thy Father to beget him in grace who begat thee in nature and by the Piety and Amiablenesse of thy carriage to be the occasion by Gods blessing of his Regeneration and what Samuel said to the people of Israel 1 Sam. 12.23 God forbid that I should sinne against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you so God forbid thou shouldest ever leave off to have thy knees bended and thy hands lifted up for the conversion of thy bad Father Moreover labour more especially to shun and avoyd those sinnes to which thy Father was addicted and chiefly such sinnes the Inclination whereto may depend from the temper and constitution of the body so that a pronenesse thereto may in some sort seem to be intayled to Posterity Was thy Father notorious for wantonnesse strive then to be noted for chastity was hee infamous for Pride Labour thou to be famous for Humility And though thou must not be dejected with griefe at the consideration of the badnesse of thy Parents yet mayest thou make a Soveraigneuse thereof to bee a just cause of Humiliation to thy selfe If thy Parents bee dead and if thou canst speake little good of them speake little of them What Sullennesse did in Absolon 2 Sam. 13.22 Hee spake to his Brother Amnon neither good nor bad Let Discretion do in thee seale up thy lips in silence say nothing of thy Parents He is either a Foole or a mad man who being in much company and not being urged thereunto by any occasion will tell others My Father lyes in the Fleet my Father lyes in Prison in the Counter More witlesse is hee who will speake both words Vncharitable and Vnnaturall concerning the finall estate of his Father in an eternall bad condition And I am perswaded there is a three-fold kind of Perswasion whereby one may be perswaded of good in another man 1. The perswasion of Infallibility and this onely God hath Act. 5.18 Knowne unto God are all his workes from the beginning of the World hee alone searcheth and tryeth the hearts and reines And they also have it to whom God immediately reveales it Thus Ananias knew that Paul was a true servant of God after it was revealed to him Act. 9.15 For hee is a chosen

Much lesse able are wee in the spirituall growth to adde one inch or haires bredth to the heigth of our soules Then vvhat vvas pride in the Builders of Babel vvill be piety in us to mount and raise our soules so high till the top of them shal reach to Heaven Amen HOW FAR EXAMPLES ARE TO BE FOLLOVVED RVTH 1.15 And Naomi said behold thy sister in Law is gone backe unto her people and unto her gods returne thou after thy sister in Law IN these words Naomi seekes to perswade Ruth to returne alleaging the example of Orpah who as she saith was gone back to her people and to her gods where first wee find that all the Heathen and the Moabites amongst the rest did not acknowledge one true God but were the Worshippers of many gods for they made every attribute of God to be a distinct Deity Thus in stead of that attribute the wisedome of God they fained Apollo the God of wisedome in stead of the power of God they made Mars the God of power in stead of that admirable beauty of God they had Venus the Goddesse of beauty But no one attribute was so much abused as Gods Providence For the Heathen supposing that the whole world and all the creatures therein was too great a Diocesse to bee daily visited by one and the same Deity they therefore assigned sundry gods to severall creatures Thus Gods Providence in ruling the raging of the seas was counted Neptune in stilling the roaring wind Aeolus in commanding the powers of Hell Pluto yea sheep had their Pan and Gardens their Pomona the Heathens then being as fruitfull in faigning of gods as the Papists since in making of Saints Now because Naomi used the example of Orpah as a motive to worke upon Ruth to returne wee gather from thence Examples of others set before our eyes are very potent and prevalent Arguments to make us follow and imitate them whether they bee good examples so the forwardnesse of the Corinthians to beleeve the Iewes provoked many or whether they be bad so the dissembling of Peter at Antioch Drew Barnabas and others into the same fault But those examples of all others are most forcible with us which are set by such who are neer to us by kindred or gracious with us in friendship or great over us in power Let men in eminent places as Magistrates Ministers Fathers Masters so that others love to dance after their Pipe to sing after their Musick to tread after their tract endeavour to propound themselves examples of piety and religion to those that be under them When wee see any good example propounded unto us let us strive with all possible speed to imitate it what a deale of stirre is there in the world for civill precedency and priority every one desires to march in the Fore-front and thinkes it a shame to come laging in the Rear-ward Oh that there were such an holy ambition and heavenly emulation in our hearts that as Peter and Iohn ran a race who should come first to the grave of our Saviour so men would contend who should first attain to true mortification and when we see a good example set before us let us imitate it though it be in one which in outward respects is far our inferior shal not our Masters be ashamed to see that their men whose place on earth is to come behind them in piety towards Heaven to goe before them shall not the Husband blush to see his Wife which is the weaker vessell in nature the stronger vessell in grace shall not the elder Brother dye his cheeks with the colour of vertue to see his younger Brother who was last borne first reborne by faith and the Holy Ghost yet let him not therefore envie his Brother as Cain did Abel let him not be angry with his Brother because hee is better than himselfe but let him be angry with himselfe because hee is worse than his brother let him turne all his malice into imitation all his fretting at him into following of him Say unto him as Gehazi did of Naaman As the Lord liveth I will run after him and although thou canst not over-run him nor as yet over-looke him yet give not over to run with him follow him though not as Azael did Abner hard at the heeles yet as Peter did our Saviour a farre off that though the more slowly yet as surely thou mayest come to Heaven and though thou wert short of him while hee lived in the race yet thou shalt be even with him when thou art dead at the marke When any bad example is presented unto us let us decline and detest it though the men be never so many or so deare unto us Imitate Micaiah 1 King 22. to whom when the Messenger sent to fetch him said Behold now the words of the Prophets declare good unto the King with one mouth let thy Word therefore I pray thee be like to one of them Micaiah answered As the Lord liveth whatsoever the Lord saith unto me that will I speake If they be never so deare unto us wee must not follow their bad practise so must the sonne please him that begot him that hee doth not displease him that created him so must the wife follow him that married her that she doth not offend him that made her wherefore as Samson though bound with new cords snapt them asunder as tow when it feeleth the fire so rather then we should be led by the lewd examples of those that be neere and deare unto us let us breake in peeces all their engagements relations whatsoever Now here it will be a labour worthy discourse to consider how farre the examples even of good men in the Bible are to bee followed For as all examples have a great influence on the practise of the Beholders so especially the deeds of good men registred in the Scripture the Kalender of Eternity are most attractive of imitation Wee find in Holy Writ nine severall kinds of examples First Actions extraordinary the doers whereof had peculiar strength and dispensation from God to doe them Thus Phineas in an heavenly fury killed Cozbi and Zimri Samson slew himselfe and the Philistims in the Temple of Dagon Elias caused fire to descend on the two Captaines of fifties Elisha cursed the children the children of Bethel These are written for our instruction not for our imitation if with Elisha thou canst make a Bridge over Iordan with thy cloake if with him thou canst raise dead children then it is lawfull for thee with Elisha to curse thy enemies If thou canst not imitate him in the one pretend not to follow him in the other When men propound such examples for their practise what is said is imputed to Phineas for righteousnesse will bee imputed to us for Iniquity if being private men by a Commssion of our owne penning wee usurpe the Sword of Iustice to punish Malefactors Actions founded in the ceremoniall Law as