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A45115	Bios epoyranios, or, The character of an heavenly conversation being the substance of a sermon lately preached in Yorkshire / by John Hume ...	Hume, John, 1634 or 5-1692.	1670 (1670)	Wing H3661; ESTC R20200	22,249	34

Lord Jesus may have the preheminence that all the kingdoms of the earth may be the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and that the House of the Lord may be established upon the tops of the mountains and all nations may flow thither Isa 2.2 2. The Devil spends his time in enticing men to sin he hath his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his depths and devices as the Scripture speaks Rev. 2.24 Quos non detinere potest in viae veteris coecitate circumscribit decipit novi itineris errore Cypr. de unit Eccles he can suit himself to all humours and dish up meat for every palate he hath an Apple for Eve a Grape for Noah a Bag for Judas and changes of Raiment for Gehezi Rather then men shall keep the even way he will draw them to some extream or other either make them lean to an old superstition or cheat them with a new light or revelation or cause them to be given up to a ranting licentiousness but let us not be the Devils journey-men in alluring men to sin we have transgressions enough of our own and had not need to have the bloud of others to answer for therefore let us not put the bottle to our neighbour nor say Come cast in thy lot amongst us or lay a stumbling block as Balaam did Si ta●ta mercedis est à morte eripere carnem quamvis morituram quanti est meriti à morte animam liberare Gregor but let us rather induce men to holiness by our savoury counsels and pious examples Let us see if we can stop the furious Jehues in their march towards Hell and eternal Damnation See if we can make the Shunammite return and hast the Prodigal home to his fathers house knowing that he who converts a sinner from the errour of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins as it is Fames 5.20 3. The Devil is a slanderer an accuser Scias hoc tempore esse opus Diaboli ut servos Dei mendacio laceret gloriosum nomen falsis opinionibus infamet us qui conscientiae sua luce clarescunt alienis rumoribus sordidentur Cyprian Epist 52. for so his name imports hence he is stiled Rev. 12.10 the accuser of the brethren who accuses them before God day and night he spoke evil of Job to God and told him if he touched his flesh he would curse him to the face Thus he calumniated Joshua the high Priest and the Church of Israel till the Lord rebuked him and to our shame be it spoken many come too nigh Satan in this particular they strive continually to defame their brethren and to make their names which should be as a pretious ointment like the snuff of a candle altogether offensive and unsavoury All their Arithmetick is to reckon their neighbours crimes all their business to observe the Errataes of mens Conversation and are Chymists onely in this to extract the sweetness out of their associates reputations Thus the Primitive Christians were abused with nick-names and words of reproach by men of Belial all their holy actions mis-interpreted Sic pontificii accusahant protestantes Sander Stapleton Fevarden vide R. P. Morton in Antidot contra merita cap. 20. sect 2. which made Tertullian Justin Martyr and others write their defensive Apologies and as it was then so now none can go without a censure If a man be of a quiet and sedate temper he passes for a Lukewarm Laodicean if he be active and stirring then he is a fiery Zelot if he seem to stand up for the doctrine of Justification by Faith he is accounted a Solifidian and if he be inclined to good works and alms-deeds Detractores sunt canes Diaboli gregem ejus custodientes c. Paral. de vitio ling. lib. 2. Tractar 9. then he is for Papistical merit But let us beware of this and exercise Christian Charity which thinketh no evil but beareth all things and hopeth all things Let us not make blots where there be none magnifie Peccadillo's as if they were gross impieties and if our brother should offend let us not trumpet out his sin and shame it behoves us rather with Sem and Japheth to cover his nakedness and if we can restore him with the spirit of meekness considering as the Apostle says that we our selves may also be tempted Gal. 6.1 4. The Devil is full of pride So far as we can see that was his Primitive sin and so much seems to be intimated in the 1 Tim. 3.6 Cornel. à Lapide Piscat in locum Ait Augustinus Diabolum elatione inflatum voluisse nominari Deum in quaest vet nov Test where it is commanded that a Bishop should not be a novice that is one newly come to the faith lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil and this he retained after his Apostacy Surely it was his haughty humour led him to contest with our blessed Saviour and to dispute with Michael about the body of Moses though it may be other ends too were proposed in these altercations And thus he remains a defier of God an opposite to Jesus Christ and a sworn enemy to the sons of Adam But let us avoid this sin And first let us take heed of an Atheistical pride Some live as if they were Independents and were not obliged to the glorious God with Pherycides they laugh at a Deity esteem the exercises of Religion as a piece of the Kingdom as if they were delusive Doctrines and the most Romantick fooleries But this pride will be humbled ere long God sometimes takes them to task here and makes them fired Beacons of his indignation that others may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly and if such be not met with presently yet He whom it may be with Julian they call the Carpenters Son will provide a Coffin and a worse thing too for them as the holy man predicted Sozom. lib. 6. cap. 2. 2. Others have a spiritual conceitedness they look upon themselves as the Grandees of Religion the great Monopolizers of Grace and Piety the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof they look on others as punies and underlings and vaunt it with the Pharisee God I thank thee I am not as other men are If a man have been brought up at the feet of Gamaliel or with Moses be skilled in the learning of the Egyptians they shake their heads at him as an Epicurean or a Stoick As if spiritual graces and natural acquirements could not reside in one and the same subject If there be another that strives to be an active Christian rather then a talking one they hoot at him as a ceremonious Legalist and pass their rash censures upon the soberest Saints as if they were acquainted with the counsels of Heaven and knew who were Apostles and who Apostates but know God hath not

early in the morning and spring of our days let us not sacrifice to our lusts and Satan the flower of our youth and give the Almighty the lame and blind offering of our decrepit age Let us be like Obadiah who feared the Lord from his youth remembring that under the law God would have the first fruits of the ears of corn as well as of their riper grain and that a young Timothy a Solomon and a Samuel have ever been the greatest favourites of the King of Heaven 2. Let us obey our God willingly and freely Miles in castris animo ocu is auribus paratus ad omne imperium intentu ●idem nobis sit in hâc militia sequantur alacres pleno gradu quocunque vecantem imperatorem Lips de Const lib. 1. cap. 14. not as the slave that is afraid of the lash of his Master and so tugs at the Oar let not a slavish fear but a holy love be the incentive to our duty let us serve our great Sovereign as well out of choice as necessity let our tempers and dispositions in this particular comply not with the sturdy Oak but the bending Willow that when God says seek my face our ingenuous souls may eccho out the Psalmists respond Lord thy face we will seek 3. let us serve our God indifferently not to pick and chuse of his precepts minding onely those that are most feasible and least repugnant to our sensual appetites Let us meekly perform even a difficult commandment and with Jacob endure the heat of the day and the cold of the night let us be willing with Abraham to sacrifice the Son of the promise if God call for him and to go to Calvary and Moriah as well as Olivet if it be the injunction of Our Heavenly Father 4. Let us serve God constantly let him have the morning and the evening sacrifice the daily tribute of a pure devotion and if a day have passed wherein we have not yielded unto God our bounden duty let us mark it in our Calendar as the Roman Emperour Non dormientibus provenit regnum Coelorum nec otio torpentibus beatitudo aternitatis ingeritur Prosp with diem perdidi this was a piece of lost time Let our loyns be always girded and our lamps continually burning that the Son of man may not find us idle As the Heavens do not cease their motions nor the sun to pace it through the Zodiack and the fountains of water to send forth their refreshing streams so let not Christians give over their spiritual exercises let them not erect their Hercules pillars but let their motto be plus ultra we press forward toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus Phil. 3.14 5. The Angels in Heaven lead a conversation full of abstractedness from the world and all its enjoyments Angels are not taken with our sensual pleasures and earthly delights the plenty of the fields the income of the flocks and the fruit of the vine to them are insignificant the most Epicurean dainties are by them despised If Heliogabalus were to make his feast and Cleopatra to brew her cups with the most orient pearl they would be as an insipid thing to the Angelical palate Let us kill a kid for thee says Manoah to the Angel but he replied though thou detain me yet I will not eat of thy bread Judg. 13.15 16. So we let us shew our Conversation to be heavenly by our undervaluing of earthly things let not the world be our beloved Delilah neither let us idolize a creature enjoyment Let not our hearts long after the fleshpots of Egypt nor say to the wedge of gold thou art my confidence Let us consider these things are unsuitable to our immortal souls which are buds of Heaven and blossoms of eternity bubbled from the fountain of spirits and which cannot be truly satisfied till they center and repose themselves in God the onely complement of real happiness and felicity Besides earthly comforts are inconstant and uncertain and so not fit objects for our love there is a deal of imposture in sublunary contentments and they have their flux and reflux like the floating Euripus You shall see one to day upon mount Pisgah and by and by he takes up his lodging in Hadadrimmon the vale of tears 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says the Apostle the fashion of the world passes away 1 Corinth 7.31 Locutio desumpta est à thentro Grot. in locum Noli huic tranquillitati confidere momento temporis mare evertitur eodem die in quo luserunt navigia absorhentur Sen. Epist 4. The best Emblems we can set out the world by is a dying Taper a fading Meteor or an Abortive which in one day fills the Calendar both with its birth and dissolution Such a fickleness in these terrene acquirements that Alexander made a sword to be portrayed upon a table within a wheel intimating that what he had got be conquest was subject to be changed and altered by the wheel of fortune And Sesostris having his Chariot drawn with four captive Kings observed one of them ever and anon to look behind him being asked the reason said Foelices enim vel nos vel filios nostros non divitiae terrenae faciunt aut nobis viventibus amittendae Deus est qui foeaut nobis mortuis à quibus nescimus vel forte à quibus nolumus possidendae lices facit qui est mentium vera opulentia August de Civit. Dei lib. 5. cap. 18. cogito de mutabilitate fortunae I am meditating of the alterations of fortune for that part of the wheel which is the highest is presently again the lowest which to me is an emblem of the inconstancy of earthly joyes Let us also take a survey of their uselesness as to the help of our afflicted bodies a velvet slipper cannot cure the gout nor the gold of Ophir ransom us from a distemper All our affluence cannot repair a breach in our clay cottages but we lie and die upon our languishing couches notwithstanding worldly assistances Neither can they in the least advantage our souls all the oyl in the world cannot smooth the face of a galled conscience Nec fortuna nec solitudines protegebant quin tormenta pectoris fateretur Tacitus nor all the wine exhilarate the spirit of a guilty criminal T is said of Tiberius that all the divertisements of the Empire were not able to secure him from inward scourges and as for the redemption of our souls we know that cannot be with corruptible things as silver and gold but onely with the bloud of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.18 Therefore let us live by faith and not by sight Sic tenete quae sunt hujus mundi ut non teneamini in mundo terrena res possideatur non possideat sit res temporalis in usu aeterna in desiderio Gregor Homil. 14. in Luc. mind those things that are eternal