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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09676	[A sermon at Marlborough on 1. Tim.iv.16.]	Pinner, Charles.	1596 (1596)	STC 19945A; ESTC S119185	18,821	51

out of the most pure fountaines of the holy Scriptures the Devill will creepe in another waie even as be hath alreadie beguiled the mindes of manie by mulciplying a generation of hearers amongst vs of whom the Apostle in the fourth of the second to Timothie foretold saying The time wil come when they will not suffer wholsome doctrine but having their cares it ching shal after their owne lusts get them an heape of teachers and shall turne their ears from the trueth shal be given vnto fables The skum of Atheists so sold vnto pleasure and whose mindes are so beguiled with loue of thēselues the lusts of their sin are so deare vnto them that rather then they will indure wholsome doctrine which hath salt in it to season their putrified soules bring them what vntrueth fables you will a religion I think cōpact of Iudaisme Gentilisme Panisme any pelfe most certaine poison of the soule they will take it for the deliverye if it bee fine enough you touch not their lustes but leave them to them selues to liue as they list Provided that they heare not one but ouce if they may haue their willes their eares are so itching their taste but so be served with new teachers till they haue even heaped them to themselues in their owne desire though not in fact alwaies as the Apostle saith of them having itching eares shall heape vnto thē selues teachers according to those their peculiar desires And because the times will not suffer that any tables or vntruth shall now bee taught them the truth it selfe must bee so attempered vnto the taste so delivered in Thesi not medling with their manners or matters as they call it that if anie haue plaied the poet and Oratour and philosopher well and for a shew of divinitie hath borrowed some morals of the fathers to hee is a Preacher and the only fine fellow for ●●e or other as the humour serveth so they divide vs as the sectaries in the Church at Corinth and one saith I am Pauls another I am Apollos and a third I am Cephas a fourth is a plaine fellow and will none of them all and hee is Christes And shall I saie it because wee see it this kind of hearers hath begotten a kind of Preachers which haue learned their lesson of the people touching whome the Lord in the thirteenth of Esaie commandeth the Prophet thus Now goe and write it before them in a table and note it in a booke Isa 30.89 seq that it may bee for the last day for ever and ever that it is a rebellious people lying children children that would not heare the lawe of the Lorde Which say vnto the feers see not and to the Prophets prophecie not vnto vs right thinges speake flattering things vnto vs prophecie errors depart out of the waie goe aside out of the path muse the holy one of Israell to cease from vs. For either they preach 〈◊〉 at all and play the good-fellows and do as the people doth or els they speake placeut●a pleasing things vnto the people as if Christ had not saied of vs as he said indeede ye are the salt of the earth Mat. 5.13 to season mens soules from the corruption of their sins but lyee are the sugar of the worlde to sooth men in their sinnes to the destruction of their soules Whereby it is come to passe that though the falles both of Church and common-wealth are grievous and their mounds almost deadlie yet the complaint in the Prophet Ieremie is true of vs my brethren which looke no better vnto our doctrine Curant cour it i●o●●●● filia popule me● secūdum cura●●●●●● mali levi●ul● dicendo Ier. 8.11 pax pax et si nulla est pax They heale the bruze of the daughter of my people according to the cure of a light hurt saying peace peace though their be no peace Where a similitude is taken from litle children which fall oft and lightly and take little harme and when the nurse taketh them vp and ●loweth the hand and saieth peace peace the hurt is healed Thus the Prophets of that people as some preachers now stopped the crie of repentance in the harts of the people and warranted they should take no harme saying peace peace though there was no peace but famine pestilence and the sword hanged over them even as over vs also this day for the grievous falls and deadly ●ure which we all haue taken as Esaie deseri●e thin the 1. chapter Isa 1.6 From the sole of the foote vnto the head● her is nothing whole therin but wounds and swellinges and sores fall of corruption And this will goeth on so fast that we cannot but exclaime with the Proph● Ieremie in the fifth 〈◊〉 peer Res stupend● h●rr●●●la ●i● in terra 〈◊〉 Ier. 5.31 A wonderfull and horrible thing is done in this land The Prophets prophecie falsely the Priests be are rule by their meanes 〈◊〉 〈…〉 and my people loue it well and what will yee doe at the last as if hee should say wh●●er will your sinnes goe if you should 〈◊〉 bee bridl●● and those plagi●●s fall upon you which I haue threatned Thus the outrage and licentiousnesse of wickednesse in the worlde and this sea almost of sinne which is fallen in vpon vs will not bee stayed but by the heavie hand of God and his revenging power and all because the people will bee flattered and the Preachers will not reprooue for feare of offending and loosing their praise and profite Forturne the edge of the sword and beade the power of that rodde against the worlde which God gaue vnto Christ and Christ vnto vs saying As my father sent mee Ioan. 20.21 so sende I you and the prophecie of Esaias shall bee fulfilled Hee shall smite the earth with the rodde of his mouth and with the breath of his lippes shall hee ssaye the ungodlye Isa 11.4 For the hearts of men shall melte with repentaunce for their sinnes or their thoughtes shall accuse them and their condemnation shall bee sealed within themselues the lust shall bee guided in the wayes of righteousnesse and ●he wicked shall not make vs stumble because the shame and reproofe and the chastisemente of their sinne shall bee vppon them noe mourning soule in Syon but shall bee comforted no Dake so stronge in Basan no Cedar so ●aule in Libanus noe hearte so harde and stonye no minde so high and haughtye of anie mightie Potentate but shall bee humbled before the Lorde For what sayeth the Lorde by the Prophete Ieremie in the three and twentith Chapter Ierem. 23.29 Is not my woorde like fire sayeth the Lorde and like the hammer that breaketh the stone And in the same Chapter speaking of the Prophets whom hee reproued before he saith If they had stād in my counsell and had declared my words to my people Vers 22. and had declared my words to my people

are manie as if wee were the ●●●●ui●als they squine and hang the lippe yea they are so wicked as the servant saied of Nabal that a man cannot speake to them no 1. Sam. 25.17 not their owne wiues A meane the people of the Parish if anie haue that Zeales as manie no doubt haue maie not saie ●o ●nie of them sin whie do you sol I pray preach ofter For then they shall hee presenced for Puricanes And this I hope the Court will loohe vnto and take order for it if anie bee so busie with their bus bandes But rather indeede I would they would herken or because wee would some out seede in the best ground do you harken my brethren which yee continue to this counsail of continuāce ing●●d life and Iearning that so you may continue vnto the ●●d For he that cōtus●●●● vnto the end shall be saved and saue other a a●so 〈◊〉 in the promis●● following and without commi●●●ance is will not bee because our adversaries the devill ●he worlde and the flesh are continuall in their worke to come vp our planning to blot out our writinge to breake downe our building before our eies so soone as wee plucke our hande frō the worke as too often is seene And the importunitie of sinne is greate and rusheth in in hast so soone as it ge●teth the least advantage and afterwards ge●teth strength and will not bee tamed but by that instant preaching which the Apostle before requireth and it is the reason wherefore hee requireth it As nothing indeene but this assiduitie can make Archippus fulfill his Minis●●●ie Besides that it wil be our great rebuke to ●u● discontinuance to haue i● saied as Paul saieth to the Galathiane Gal. 5.7 Yee did runne well who or what did 〈◊〉 you Yet manie lets I confesse if wee leap not over them to breake vs of ●●●owne proclivitie as hee sa●●th 〈…〉 ad libidnum from labou●●●●●s● or leasure the vngracefullnesse yea the stubb●rnesse rebellion of our he ar●●● Come le● vs conspire against Ieremie Ierem. 18.18 let vs s●●●te him with the tongue and let vs not giue heede vnto anie of his woordes But ●●ne 〈◊〉 this the cold comfort that wee haue of those which raig●● over 〈◊〉 and are as the Apostles in 〈◊〉 and office to see h●● onlye to them selues but also to others as Paul 〈◊〉 vnto 〈◊〉 These shoulde bee called as the prophet before saith Quercia ●●stu●a oakes of righteousnesse and parternes of al diligēce in their doctrine Isa 61.3 that for if need required as children we might go by their hands light our candles at their to the●● But what are they what do they I need not tel psares 〈◊〉 ●●ter the thing doth speake Yet I must say nothing and you must see nothing but we al must heare what they say as those in Ieremie the three and ●●●●eth Who hath stand in the counsell of the Lord that hee hath perceived and heard his woordes who hath marked his word Ierem. 23.18 and heard 〈◊〉 ●s if they should say who but Ierem. 18.18 wee For the Lawe shall not perish from the priest nor counsell from the wise no● the worde from the prophet But by their leaves I will say as Christ in the sixteenth of S. Luke saieth where having preached against covetousnesse Luke 16.13.14.15 and concluded thus saying Yee cannot serue God and riches it is added by the Evangelist All these things heard the Pharisies also which were coverous and they mocked him 〈◊〉 hee saied vnto them yee are they that iustifie your selues but God knoweth your hartes Yea men know your harts by the briberies open briberies and corruptions of your handes They eate saieth the Lord by the prophet Osea The sinne of my people Hosea 4.8 that is the sacrifices for sinne therefore everye one lifteth vp his minde to their iniquitie And wee now also haue sacrifices for sin and sinne offeringes For they commute Penances the paine is past when the pennie is paide and so they eate the sinne of the people they feede and are fat and in good liking and so are theirs for Of a prince that harkeneth Proverb 29 12. vnto lies saith Salomon all his servāts are wicked Therefore as Ose saieth everie one lifteth vp his minde to their iniquitie For sinne bringeth sacrifice and sacrifice is sweete and hence is this wincking at yea this warming of sinne iniquitie And how shall wee continue to beate downe sinne which they set vp yet these are the onlie Timothies in the world and who but these but as our Saviour addeth in the place before alleged Luk. 16.15 That which is high and loftye with men is abhomination in the sight of God Yea and damnation too if they take not heede betime For salvation is for them that doe take heede For so it follweth in the second last generall part of this Text which is the Promise in these wordes For by doing this thou shalt saue thy selfe and them that heare thee A greate Promise and a high speech of the Apostle to saue our selues and them that heare But hee meaneth it passiuelie that wee shall bee saved and it is resolved into the actiue t●●s that because the Gospell i● called the Gospell of our salvation Ephes 1.13 in the first to the Ephesians and in the first to the Romans Rom. 1.16 the power of God which bringeth salvation to everye one that beleeveth and the preaching of this Gospell is committed to vs 2. Co. 5.19 and so is ours as Ministers and so called by the Apostle in the second to the Romans where speaking of God he saieth who shall iudge the secretes of men by Iesus Christ according to my Gospell Rom. 2.16 and in the fourth of the second to the Corinthians 2. Cor. 4.3 If our Gospell bee hidde it is hidde in them that are lost therefore the Ministers of the Gospell of salvations are here saied to saue themselues and others And so the Apostle speaketh of himselfe in the eleventh to the Romans and fourteenth verse Ro. 11.14 1. Cor. 9.22 and in the first to the Corinthians the ninth chapter and two and twentieh verse● which places for brevitie I n●ow omit But this I cannot omited shall wee in deede bee saved and saue others also by doing this and doing it vnto the end Then faint not thou faithfull and painefull labourer in the woorde of God for loe thy labours as the seales of a double salvacion thine owne and others and a greate crowne of righteousnesse remaineth for both And shall wee noe bee saved nor none of ours if wee do it not or lightlye and without continuance as a flourish and no more Then loe Hel-fire alreadye kindled and a double damnation prepared alreadie for al ignorantes which cannot all ●arelesse Ministers will not and doe not fulfill their Ministerie For they are guilty not onlie of their owne sinnes and damnation but of the sinnes and damnation of then people also Wherefore to daye if yee will heare his voice my brethren harden not your hartes that you and your people and we with you may bee all as wee desire populus salutis the saved of the Lorde The last point with which I end is this touching the people whome here in the mention of their salvation hee calleth hearers And why For whosoever calleth vpon the name of the Lorde saieth the Prophet Ioel shal be saved Ioel. 1.38 Rom. 10.14 But how saieth the Apostle shal they call on him in whome they haue not beleeved and how shal they beleeue in him of whome they haue not harde heare therefore good people and so bee saved harken and your soules shall liue But take heede Isa 55.3 Mark 4.24 as Christ warneth what you heare that is how you heare and profit in that you heare and beware of those hearers in the three and thirteeth of Ezechiel whome the Lord describeth to the Prophet thus Also thou sonne of man Ezech. 33.30 et seq the children of thy people that talke of thee by the walkes and in the doores of houses and speake one to another every man to his brother saying come I pray you and heare what is the word that commeth from the Lord they come vnto thee as the people vseth to come and as my people sit before thee and heare thy wordes but doe them not though with their mouth they make them most sweete their hart goeth after their covetousnesse And lo thou art vnto them as a plesaunt song of one that hath a sweete voice and can sing well for they heare thy wordes but doe them not Such hearing is heere condemned contemned of all men and hath no promise of blessing from God but that which is ioyned with peace with puritie with reverence and humilitie and with true obedience of that we heare Iam. 1.19 et seq as Iames most amply ehorting saith Wherefore my deare brethren let every man bee swift to heare slowe to speake and slowe to wrath For the wrath of ●an doth not accomplish the righteousnesse of God Wherefore laye apart all filthinesse and superfluitye of malitiousnesse and receiue with meekenesse the woorde that is graffed in you which is able to saue your souls And bee yee doers of the woorde not hearers onlye deceiving your owne selues For if anie heare the woorde and doe it not hee is like vnto a man that beholdeth his naturall face in a glasse for when hee hath considered himselfe hee goeth his waie and for getteth immediatlie what manner of one hee was But who so looketh in the perfect Lawe of liberty and continueth therein hee not beeing a forgetfull hearer but a doer of the woorke shall bee blessed in his deede Thus blessed are they and saved shall they bee and onlye they which heare the woorde of God Luk. 11.28 and keepe it And as manye as walke according to this rule Gal. 6.16 peace bee upon them and mercie vpon the Israel of God To god even the father and to Iesus Christ with the Holy Spirit one immortall invisible and onelie wise God bee rendred all glorie and praise dominion and maiestie both now and ever Amen