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A19091 A vvedding sermon preached at Bentley in Darby-shire vpon Michaelmasse day last past anno Domini. 1607. Wherein is set forth the bond and preseruation. ... By R. Abbot ... Abbot, Robert, 1560-1618. 1608 (1608) STC 55; ESTC S100549 22,610 74

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father is mercifull l Ephes 5. 1 be ye followers of God as deere children and walke in loue euen as Christ hath loued vs m 1. Pet. 1. 15. as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conuersation as it is written n Leuit. 11. 44. Be ye holy for I am holy o 1. Ioh. 3. 3 Euery one that hath this hope purgeth himselfe euen as he is pure On the other side p 2. Cor. 6. 14. What fellowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse sayth Saint Paul What communion hath light with darknes what concord hath Christ with Belial c. Wherefore come out from amongst them and separate your selues sayth the Lord and touch no vncleane thing and I well receiue you and I will be a father vnto you and yee shall be my sonnes and daughters saith the Lord almightie This is our accord and agreement with God he is cleane and therefore will not haue vs to touch any vncleane thing What shall we say then of those parti-colored Christians and worshippers of God who will be one where cleane and another where vncleane who haue faire faces and foule feete who on the one side shake hands with God and on the other side with the Diuell yea lift vp the left hand to praye to God and throwe stones at him with the right hand who pretend by faith to knowe God by their works deny him who offer vnto Christ a sponge of hollow profession and giue him therein to drinke the vinegre of euill conuersation who as Saint Austin sayth q August in Psal 40. Worship God for the world to come and the Diuell for this present world They go about a thing impossible to ioyne together those things which can by no meanes stand together heauen and hell God and the Diuell Christ and Belial true faith and wicked life What can two walke together except they be agreed Can there be true faith to saluation where there is that life to which God hath certainly threatned destruction can there be one foote in heauen with God when the other foote is with the Diuell in hell Let no man deceiue himselfe either let him make himselfe a whole burnt offering to the Lord as well in workes as in faith as well in conuersation as in religion or else God will wholly reiect him hee agreeth not with God and therefore God will haue no company or fellowship with him 10 It remaineth now to speake of humane societie wherein wee walke together one with another according to those diuerse bonds of coniunction wherewith God hath tied vs to be respectiue each to other To which societie God hath so framed the nature condition of man as that concerning temporall life it were better for a man not to be at all then to be alone Of the benefit whereof Solomon instructeth vs when he saith r Eccles 4. 9 Two are better then one for they haue better wages for their labour if they fall the one will lift vp his fellow but wo to him that is alone for he falleth and there is not a second to lift him vp also if two sleepe togither there shal be warmth but to one how should there be warmth and if one ouercome him two shall stand against him and a threefold coard is not easily broken In which words he giueth vs to vnderstand that whether we respect commoditie for wealth or help for weaknes or comfort for cherishment or defence against violēce all these benefits are yeelded vnto vs by societie and company but being alone are bereft of all Ratio oratio reason and speech which are the two things wherby the nature of māso much excelleth all the creatures of the world what vse haue they especially our speech if wee haue none with whom to reason to whom to speake Those excellent vertues of prudence patience iustice mercy fortitude and the rest what do they serue for if there bee not society of life for the emploiment thereof yea the rule of christian life which is directed vnto vs from God wherein standeth it for the most part but in precepts of charity and loue and of yeilding help comfort each to other So doth Saint Paul instruct vs ſ Phil. 2. 4. Looke not euery man on his owne things but euery man also on the things of other men and hereof proposeth himselfe for an example t 1. Cor. 10. 3. Euen as I please all men in all things not seeking mine owne profit but the profit of many that they may be saued Thus againe he teacheth vs u 1. Thes 5. 11. Exhort one another and edify one another admonish them that are vnruly comfort the feeble minded beare with the weake be patient towards all men So doth the Author of the Epistle to the Hebrewes x Heb. 10. 24. Let vs consider one another to prouoke vnto loue and to good workes not forsaking the fellowship that wee haue amongst our selues but let vs exhort one another c. And thus we see in the gospel that our Sauiour Christ at the last day shall specially recount those good workes of charitie and compassion the vse whereof is in the societie of men and which without society haue no place y Mat. 25. 34. Come ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome prepared for you c. I was hungry and ye gaue me to eate I was thirsty and ye gaue me drinke I was naked and ye clothed me c. Thus is sociall life commended vnto vs as the fittest course wherin to bestow our selues that we may come to God 11 The more may wee wonder that so many so great mē haue bin possessed with that superstitious admiration of eremiticall and solitarie life as the only diuine heauenly state by which notwithstāding they forsooke the fellowship which the Apostle commendeth withdrew themselues from those good offices and dueties which God requireth to bee performed to other men As if they were wiser then God in determining to themselues a more excellent kinde of life then that which God had commended in the exercise of brotherly loue As if they were better then the Patriarches the Prophets the Euangelists the Apostles who all liued in the societie and frequency of the Church As if it should be a good answer vnto Christ at that day to say Lord we haue not done those workes which thou speakest of but left the same as fitting men of more weake vnperfect state and went our selues into the wildernes where wee could do good to none but onely afflicted our selues and z Col. 2. 23 spared not our bodies by watching fasting and lying on the ground What we had we left it at once vowed neuer to haue any thing againe so that though thou shouldest starue for hunger and thirst or perish for cold yet we would thenceforth haue nothing to releiue or succour thee a Mat. 25.