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A10033	The patriarchs portion or, the saints best day Deliuered in a sermon at the funerall of Sir Thomas Reynell of Ogwell in Deuon. Knight, Aprill. 16. 1618. Wherein may be seene, 1 The shortnesse of mans life. 2 A Christians combat against 1 Sathan. 2 The world. 3 The flesh. 4 Sinne. 3 A preparation to die well. 4 The reward of glory after warfare. By Iohn Preston, preacher of Gods word at East-Ogwell, in Deuon.	Preston, John, minister of East Ogwell.	1619 (1619)	STC 20282.3; ESTC S114305	28,466	80

feare God IIII. His hatred of Mammon COuetousnesse Contentednesse can no more agree together then fire and water how could he but bee content whose delight was in the Lord which as Dauid saith wil bring a man his hearts delight Godlinesse is great gaine with contentation not if a man can bee content for that brings contentation with it wheresoeuer it comes And as impossible it is for a Godly man not to bee contented as it is for a contented man to be couetous his feare of God therefore frees him from this breeding sinne of couetousnesse Couetousnesse is cruell so was not hee but kind hearted towards all What Tenant can complaine that hee did ouer rack their rents what neighbour can iustly accuse him that hee did ouer-beare them in their right or ouer-burden them with his might Couetousnesse is alwaies complaining of some thing that it wants so was not hee but most thankefully acknowledged Gods goodnesse for that hee had Couetousnesse keepes no hospitality hee did and that not onely vpon good dayes like some that will kill an Oxe or two at Christ-tide that scarce kill a Sheepe all the yeare after but all the yeare long yea many yeares together without euer seeking to liue in some corner of a City to saue charges as too many far more able then he daily doe Couetousnesse is ●unning and crafty so was not hee but like a true Nathaniel in whom there was no guile hee louing nothing better in others nor practised nothing more carefully in himselfe then plaine downe-right honest dealing V. His loue of the Truth ANd this is not ouely the worde of truth as the Gospell is called as heere it is taken that is true dealing both in word and deed Hee who knew that Dauid would not endure a lyer to tarry in his sight and that God will not suffer a lyer to come in his kingdome made it his Christian 〈◊〉 that neither his tongue might belie his heart by speaking otherwise then he thought nor his hands belie his tongue by doing otherwise then hee spake Li● not one to another saith the Apostle for you are members one of another VI. His loue ANd indeed such was his loue to his fellow mēbers that he took as tenderly what did touch thē as if himselfe had felt it his sympathie fellow-seeling of his brethrens wrongs made him ready to heare any poore mans complaint and to helpe them if hee could sometimes speaking for them sometimes writing for them with his owne hand alwayes in his heart pittying the poore and oppressed Hee knew how fatall it is for members of the same bododie to fall out amongst themselues and therefore hee was alwaies busie in that blessed worke of making peace Composing controuersies and ending sutes of Law sometimes by faire words intreating sometimes by giuing counsell aduising sometimes by plaine and and pregnant places of Scripture conuincing the wilfull there were not many dayes in the whole yeare excepting the Sabbath wherein hee was not sought vnto and many times would hee sit from morning till night hearing and examining such matters as came before him being demanded by some why hee would sit so long so tyring out himselfe spending his spirits and endangering his health his answer was that by his place and calling and good of his countrey hee was to doe it and for himselfe hee said hee was as a Candle wasting himselfe to giue light to others disquieting himselfe to quiet others and troubling himselfe to free others from trouble To conclude this particular there are more then many that can witnesse that as it was said of Iob so wee may say of him that he was eyes to the blind feet to the lame a father to the poore and a friend to all Finally for his good name the sweet sauour of it spread it selfe further then himselfe was knowne and begins now after his death to grow stronger and stronger Iacobs body was neuer embalmed with so sweet spices as this mans name and memory is seasoned with the sauour of his vertues and euer shall be honoured with variety of fresh praises which not only his godly life which you haue heard but his gracious death which in a word you shall heare will alwaies afford It is the nature of naturall motions that the nearer they come to their end the swifter they are surely we may easily imagine that this mans motion to heauen was come naturally such haste he did make thither now towardes his end Hence it was that he professed that he was wearie of this world wherein he neuer found any sound comfort or content that hee was desirous to goe to his owne home for here hee sayde he was but a stranger and pilgrim not long before he fell a sleep he cited two verses of the 39. Psalme The words are these Heare my prayer O Lord and hearken vnto my cry keepe not silence at my teares and with those wordes wept for I am a stranger with thee and a saiourner as all my fathers were stay thine anger from me that I may recouer strength before I goe hence and bee no more seene What shal I say of his humble Confessiō that hee was a great sinner his strong Considence in Christ his Sauiour that sweete peace of conscience which hee did finde in his foule by the assured remission of his sins and that infallible assurance of saluation that hee should l●●e for euer with God of which and other points he sweetly discoursed fiue dayes before his death not without sighes and teares the true messengers and best Orat●rs of a penitent soule Thus might he at his death make as bolde a profession as that good Bishop I haue so liued that I am neither affraid to die quickly nor ashamed to liue l●nger hee need not indeed for a good life is the forerunner of a good death As I●r●● saith I haue not read nor heard but that hee who liued well died well Thus wee know this Worshipfull Knight and worthy Gouernour in his Country liued and thus we doubt not but he died in the Lord and liueth with the Lord. The Lord grant vs all grace to liue and die in him Amen FINIS a Iob. 1. 1 b Iam. 5 11 c Iob. 1 ●1 d Iob. 14 1 e Gen. 47 9 f Gen. 25. 7 g Gen. 35 28 h Iob. 10. 28 i Iob. 1 12 k Ver. 4. l V●● 17. m Iob. 2 7 n Iob. 2 9 o Iob. 16. 2 p Heb. 9 27 q Iob. 14 5 r 2 S●m 12 18 s Gen. 5 27 t Eccl 3 12 u Gen. 15 13 x Exo. 12 41 y Psal. 77 19 z Gal. 4 4 a Ioh 8 59 b Ioh. 11 57 c Ioh. 18 4 d Mat. 28 6 e Gen. 8 22 f Iob. 14 16 g Psal. 39 4 h Mat. 10 30 i Gen. 4 81 k Gen 7 21 l Gen. 19 24 m Num. 15 36. n Iudg. 19 29 o Iug. 16 30 p Luk. 13 4 q Iug. 4 21 r 1 King 13 24 s 2 King 2 24 t Luk. 23 39 Vse 1. u Act. 23. 12 x Den. 34 5 y 1 Kin. 2 10 z 2 Chro. 〈◊〉 12 Use 2. a Mat. 10 29 b Amos 3 5 c Deut. 28. 21. 3 Vse d Iob 14. 14. e Phil. 3. 21. f 〈◊〉 Kin 6. 23. g Eccles 7. 4 h Ioh. 16 21 i 1. Sam. 2. 6. k Phil. 1. 23. l Heb. 13. 14. m 1 Pet. 2. 1. n Psal. 39. 12 o Gen. 18 27 p Psal. 22. 6. q Rom. 6. 23 r Iob 30. 23 s Iob 4. 19. t 2 Cor. 5. 1. 4 u 2 Tim. 3. 12. x Acts 14 22 y Iug. 9 54. z 1 Sam. 31 4. a 2 Sam. 17. 23. b Mat. 27. ● 5 c Luk. 12. 40. d Isa. 38. 〈◊〉 e Psal. 51. 4. f Rom. 12. 18 g P●o. 1. 24. h Eccles. 12 1. Doct. 2. i 1 Pet. 5 8 k Gen. 3. 1 l Mat. 4 3 m Luk. 4 2 n Eph. 6. 15 o 1 Pet. 5 9 p 1 Iob. 5. 4 q 2 Cor. 16 13 r Luk. 22 31 s Rom. 1 16 t Heb. 4 11 u Psal. 119 105 x Tim. 3. 15 y 2 Kin 20 2 z Iona. 2 1. a Psal. 50. 15 b Luk. 18. 13 c 2 Tim. 4 10 d Iam. 4 4 e 1 Ioh 2. 15 f Luk. 1 52 g Psal. 1 3 7 8 h 1 Ioh 2 19 i Iob. 1. 10 k Ioh 14. 1● l Ioh. 16 8 m 1 Cor. 1● 20 n Ioh. 17 9 o Ioh. 18. 36 p Rom. 12. 2 q 1 Cor. 7 31 r Gal. 5 17 s Pro. 16 32 t 2 Pet. 2 19 u 1 Pet. 2. 11 x 1 Cor. 9. 27 y Col. 3. 5. z Rom. 7. 25 a 2 Cor. 5. 21 b Iosh. 10. 27 c Reu. 5. 5. d Heb. 2. 14 e Iug. 16. 3. f Iude 23. g Acts. 15. 9. Vse 1. h Matth. 24. 42. i Mat 26. 4 k 1 Cor. 〈◊〉 34. l 1 The. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Mat 26 46. n Reu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o Pro. 8. 33. p Isa. 32. 18. q Mat. 26. 38. r Luke 12. 40. Use 2. s Gen. 7. 23. t Gen 19. 24. u ●ug 16. 21. x Ion. 〈◊〉 ●5 y Lu● 12. 1● z 1 Thess. 5. 3. a Reu. 2. 17. b Reu. 2. 26. c Reu. 2. 7. d 2. Tim. 4. 7 e 2 Tim 2. 34. f 1 Cor. 9. 25 g 2 Cor. 4. 17. h Psal. 66. 12 i Nah. 1 12 k 2 Cor. 1 7 l Esa. 38. 1 m Ioh. 14 〈◊〉 n Re. 16. 10 o Mat. 3 12 p Iob. 10 21 q Heb. 10 17 r Reu. 9 20 s Reu. 20 10 t Iudg. 1 6 u 1 Tim. 2 8 x Mat. 22 13 y Reu. 〈◊〉 6● z 2 Tim. 4 8 a Iam. 1. 12 b 1 Pet. 5 4 c Gen. 5 29 d Iob. 21 15 e Rom. 6 23 f Rom. 1. 6 g Eph. 2 8 h 1 Chro. 29 14. i Rom 11. 35 k Coll. 1. 10. l Acts 26. 20 m Tit. 2. 14 n Ioh. 15. 5● o Iam. 3. 13 p Heb. 10. 24 r Pro. 1 7 s Eccl. 12. 13 t Eph. 4. u Iob 24 15 16.

first comfort the godly in that their liues lie not in the power of men or malice of Satan for these indeed would swallow them vp quicke when they are displeased at them and the godly neuer want the wicked or the Diuels displeasure you shall see some of the Iewes band together and binde themselues by an oath that they will neither eate nor drinke till they haue killed Paul but their plot shall bee preuented and Paul preserued till the time appointed of God Tyrants may take away the life of the godly but they cannot cut off the lappes of their coats nor touch the skirts of their garments without Gods permission and he will neuer permit them before the appoynted time Pharaoh would haue taken away Moses his life often but God had not appointed it so for Moses died in the land of Moab Saul thought to make sure worke with Dauid when he ran at him with a speare but God had appointed that Dauid should die a naturall death in his bedde as he did wee see such men as are grieuously wounded oftentimes doe not die as on the contrary the cutting of a corne doth kill some what is the cause but the performance of Gods appoynted time in both Asaph was but sick in his feet farre from the heart he ●…s to seeke helpe of the Phisition yet dies of the disease Hezechiah was sicke at the heart and at the poynt of death yet liues many yeares after because his time determined by God was not yet come when he should die though in regarde of his disease in the sight of man the day was come that hee should die One lies long sicke yet recouers because his time is not come another as hee walkes in his chamber or sits in his chaire drops downe and neuer riseth because his time is come To conclude this Vse for the comfort of the godly though their enemies that seeke to spill their blood be many and those mighty and malicious withal yet all these cannot diminish one day of this life which the Lord hath decreed Secondly this may serue for reproofe of such as dreame dote only vpon second causes and neuer looke to Gods councell and decree This makes these men cry out and say when their friends are taken away Oh it was for want of learned Phisitians about him yet died of no dangerous diseases while hee looked to second causes and not to the Lord without whose appointment nothing can come to passe A Sparrow cannot fall to the ground without Gods guiding prouidence nor a bird fall into a snare where no fouler is In the pestilence they cry out of the infection of the ayre in consumptions of sorrow and griefe in feuers of cold in famine of foule weather in warre of the malice of the enemies but Moses would haue men to looke to a higher hand in all these For it is the Lord saith hee that shall smite men with consumptions and with the feuer and with the burning ague and with feruent heat and with the sword and with drought with the mildew The second causes I know that is such meanes as God hath appointed for the preseruation of life must not bee despised yet they must not be doted vppon vse these carefully but commit the successe to God who onely can blesse these meanes and will whensoeuer they may serue for the performance of his purpose and his time appointed which can by no meanes be either preuented or auoyded Thirdly this may teach vs to waite with patience expecting when our changing shall come It is not for vs to know the time and season the yeere or moneth of our appointed time which God hath kept secret to himselfe It is comfort enough and powerfull to perswade a patient expectation of our change to thinke how happy a change we shall haue Christ shall change our vilde bodies that they might be like vnto his glorious body when we haue the world at will and nothing comes crosse vnto vs we can be content wee say to liue as long as the Lord hath appointed but when we are pinched with pouerty or surcharged with sickenesse or vexed with sorrow and griefe then most impatiently we pray and wish that wee were out of the world and wee will not waite the Lords leisure but with the King of Israel we wickedly resolue be hold this euill is of the Lord what should I wait for the Lord any longer In these cases we can alledge Scripture that it is better to die then to liue because Salomon saith that the day of death is better thē the day of our birth Salomon doth not say that the day of death is good simply but by way of comparison better then the day of birth and yet this may seeme in humane sence and reason to be absurd for there is ioy when a man is born into the world The number of the children of God is increased life is the gift of God How thē can the day of death be better then the day of life The meaning of Salomon is that life is attended with many miseries for we are borne to labour and trauell subiect to sickenesses and sorrow and sinne nothing but death can deliuer vs from all these and therefore better is the day of death then the day of birth yet be it neuer so good be it better then life yea be it best of all to be with Christ Though we haue here no abiding Citie Though we be strangers and pilgrimes Though soiourners as all our fathers were Dust and ashes Wormes of the earth Though wee were worse then all these yet we must wait Gods appointed time Though the euer-liuing God hath condemned mankinde to death which is the wages of sinne and to the graue which is the house appointed for all the liuing yet may we not either hasten our death or digge our own graues and descend into them before we be dead Though our bodies bee but houses of clay earthly houses or tents rather yet may wee not pull downe these houses ouer our heads or remoue these tents before our Generall giue command but waite till our changing come In a word God hath determined that we must die and therefore death should be welcome when it doth come but he hath determined withall when we must die and therfore nothing should make vs weary of waiting till it doe come Fourthly this point duly considered may reprooue such that goe about to shorten their liues these men presume to appoint their own time with a fals key to open this prison of their body and let their soules depart before God call for it or giue them any commission vnto it It is true that God hath appointed this time for these mens deaths in his secret counsell but it is more then they know and for ought that they see they might liue longer if

men Commonly the meats that are forbidden by the Phisitian are a kind of sauce to prouoke appetitite in the patient most of all to desire these meats As swelling waters the more they are barred their course the more they rage and swell and ouerflow and beare downe all before them so the more the Law doth seeme to barre and bolt the current of committing sinne and to set the bounds which they should not passe the more is sinfull mans nature enraged and the more the swelling waues of wickednes do ouerflow make their fultide the more shold be our care courage to encounter it and set our selues to fight against it Of our selues indeed we cannot ouercome it but if we follow our Captaine Christ Iesus it shall neuer ouercome vs. Saint Paul had experience both of his conflict with sinne and conquest ouer sinne O wretched man that I am saith he who shall deliuer me from the body of this death I thanke God through Iesus Christ our Lord He it was that was made a sacrifice for sinne as Ioshua shut vp Kings and Princes in Caues of the earth and rolled great stones on the mouth of the Caues So sinne shutteth vp greatest Emperours prisoners and rowleth stones and layeth great stumbling blocks in their way and as none could ouercome the roaring Lyon but the Lyon of the tribe of Iuda So none could free men out of the prison whereinto sinne had cast them but onely Christ For this cause Christ tooke flesh vpon him that so hee might die in his flesh through death destroy death and him that had the power of death that is the diuell So that Christ hath carryed away the gates of death as Sampson sometime did the gates of Azzah and hath by his power preuailed ouer those vncircumcised Philestims euen sinne and death and the diuell and hell and though we be too weake of our selues to conquer sinne yet we must follow our Captaine Christ as fast as we can and as farre as wee may First by flying from sinne Secondly by dying vnto sinne Thirdly by hating all sinne yea the very garments spotted with the flesh Fourthly by true faith for that doth purifie the heart And thus much for the fourth Enemie now take a view of all these together consider their malice their might and the multitude of souldiers which fight vnder them and we shall plainly see the truth of the point proposed that while we liue in this world wee must looke to fight and prepare our selues for this Warfare A preparation how to die well The first Vse is for instruction in that we haue so many Enemies to stand vpon our guard let vs keep watch and ward continually let vs be as carefull to resist as our aduersaries are to assault A carefull watch is the chiefest point in Warre and therefore this is often commanded in the Word of God Watch for you know not what houre your master will come VVatch and pray Awake to liue righteously Be sob●r and watch Vnto this command God had for our incouragement annexed a promise of no lesse then blessednesse Blessed is the seruant whom the Master when he commeth shall finde watching Blessed is he that watcheth Blessed is the man that watcheth daily at my gates Christ will cause them that watch to sit downe at Table with him where they shall be at ease from paine at rest from labour full without hunger healthy without sickenesse and haue fulnesse of ●irth and solace without any mixture of sorrow or mourning God is the Center of the soule as euery thing doth rest in his Center so our soules shall rest in God My people saith God by his Prophet shall dwell in the Tabernacle of Peace and in sure dwellings in safe resting places Thirdly as we haue precept to watch and promise of blessednesse if we doe watch so wee haue a patterne and example of watching worthy to be imitated for it is Christ himselfe What Souldier will not be glad to watch with his Captaine what Christian will not runne to watch when they heare Christ thus kindly calling them Could ye not watch with me one houre VVatch Behold the easinesse I bid you not fight for mee or die with me but watch onely and that an houre Behold the easinesse not a yeere or a weeke or a day but an houre Lastly by watching as wee follow Christs patterne so we shall be prepared hereby for Christs comming which will be in an houre that we know not The second Vse serues to teach vs to cast off all carnal security seeing we haue so many enemies to encounter withall The Diuell is another Herod the World is a flattering Pharasie the Flesh a treacherous Iudas and Sinne a seditious Iebusite And therefore little cause haue wee to walke without our weapons or sleep in security Whē the old world was secure it was drowned When Sodome and Gomorrha were secure they were burned Whē Sampsō was secure his eyes were put out When Ionah was secure and slept in the side of the ship hee is shaken with the waues and the lo● doth designe him to bee cast into the Sea When the rich man was secure his soule was taken from him As Bankrupts neuer care to pay their debts till the Serieant bee vpon their backs so many secure men neuer thinke how farre they runne daily in arrerages with God till they be arrested by death at the suite of the great Iudge and so be cast into prison This security is the Mother of negligence and high way to destruction for as the oxe when he is driuen to the slaughter goeth willingly because his hope is if I may so speake it that he shall goe to grasse in some better pasture and neuer feare till the axe be ready to fall vpon his head or as a foole when he is led to the stoak● goeth cheerefully and neuer shrinketh vntill his feet bee fast snared therein euen so many men goe securely forward wandring in the broad way without remorse of conscience perswading themselues they are safe when indeed they are secure and neuer perceiue their owne folly till they be insnared in destruction many are carefull for others but secure for thēselues they looke on other mens faults with both eyes but scarcely with one on their owne either they will not see their sinnes or if they see them they wil slightly passe them ouer without any serious consideration They cry Peace Peace when destruction is at their doores They that finde themselues in good health neuer seeke or send to the Phisitian and they also that are soule sicke and dangerously diseased but feele it not doe neuer cry after Christ they seeke little after him and set lesse by him Thirdly the hope of a happy reward should encourage vs to wage Warre against those our enemies He that neuer comes forth to fight

help doth come they will cut off our hands that wee shall not lift them vp in prayer vnto God as the Apostle exhorteth They will pull out our tongues that we shall not speake to God in prayer and they will binde vs hand and foot that we shall not be able to helpe our selues or goe to other to seeke for helpe Thus wee haue seene the quality of mans daies how they are sharpe The second generall point notes the quantity of our dayes that they are short in these words Are not his dayes as the daies of an hireling The Christians Crowne of glory after warfare ARe not his dayes as the dayes of a ●ireling an hireling hath a time appointed and limited how long hee shall labour and then to haue his wages so man hath a time appointed to warre and fight and then to haue his reward which is promised by him that di● neuer deceiue any the grand Captaine Christ Iesus who will confesse such as serue him before his Father and before the holy Angels an hireling looketh and waiteth when his day will end that hee may haue his hire so the godly desire to bee dissolued and to bee with Christ that they may receiue the Crown of glory prepared for thē Many profitable points might hence bee collected but the time will not giue me leaue to stand vpon all onely this I will briefly vrge That man shall then receiue his rewarde when hee hath ouercome when he hath done his worke God will not denie his wages this rewarde is not carnall but spirituall not earthly but heauenly not mans but Gods not merited but giuen of mercy This reward is layd vp and it is a Crowne not of thornes as on Christs head nor of gold as on earhly Kings heads but a Crowne of righteousnesse so Paul cals it a Crowne of life so Iames names it a Crown of glory so Peter stileth in yea a Crowne incorruptible and euerlasting When thou hearest of a Crowne conceiue a triumph for Crownes are layde vp for them that after victory triumph ouer the enemy There is no garland where there is no gole to runne to there is no victory where there is no enemy there is no hire where there is no labour and there is no happinesse where there is no tryall by temptation and rather then such as fight the Lords battels against sin and Sathan the world and the flesh shall want either Credit or Comfort God himselfe shall be their Crown In that day shall the Lord of hostes be for a Crowne of glory and for a Diadem● of beauty vnto the residue of his people Esa. 28 5. So runne that you may obtaine this Crowne Such as wrastle or runne in a race will diet themselues before hand and endure much when they come to fight or runne euen sweate and pant and blow and bleed how much more should Christians in this course conflict of Christianitie especially considering the enemies with whom wee are to fight and wrastle are farre mightier for they wrastle but with men made of the same mould and mettall that wee are wee with principalities and powers and wicked spirits the time that we are to fight is farre longer they but for an houre or two but we al the daies of our life the Crowne for which wee striue is farre better they did wrastle for the applause and commendation of men or for a garland of flowers which did fade in a day we for an incorruptible Crowne of glory which God shall giue vs in his kingdome Let no man looke for his reward in this world but in the end of the day that is after death then the wages shall bee paid when wee rest from our worke As L●…ch called his sonne Noah because he should comfort him and make all his labour and sorrow to eease and end Euen so all iust and righteous men may call death their Noah the sonne of their rest and end of there labours and sorrowes and sicknesses and sinne and shame for then these and all other miseries shall bee done away and shall neuer be againe and then shall hee be crowned that hath ouercome This may serue to let Christians see what a gracious Master they serue who will not see their worke vnrewarded The wicked indeed in a pow●ing and repining humour will say as Iob settes it downe VVhat is the Almighty that we should serue him and what profit should we haue of we pray vnto him But the Christian will gladly confesse that their wages is farre beyond their worke for if wee ouercome the Crowne is not due of debt heauen is no purchase of ours but a free inheritance giuen to the godly for Christs sake Eternall life it the gift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord Euery man shall receiue according to his workes but not for the worth and merit of his workes The Crowne is of mercy not of merit and where there is need of mercy as what man doth not need it there is no standing vpon merit The Apostles reason in this point is plaine If saluation bee of grace it is no more of workes for else were grace no more grace and if it be of workes it is no more of grace for else were workes no more workes But saluation is of grace as the same Apostle hath plainely deliuered By grace are you saued through faith and that not of your selues it is the gift of God not of workes least any man should boast Indeed we are created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes that wee should walke in them as it followes in the same place that we should walke in them not that we may merit by them For good workes are the way wherin wee must walke to the Kingdome of Heauen but they are not the cause that wee are Crowned when wee come there Good workes wee all know proceed from the grace of God and therefore God cannot any way be indebted to vs for his owne which he giues vs. Doth not Dauid say all things come of thee and of thine owne hand we haue giuē thee Who hath giuen vnto him first and hee shall be recompenced We are borne to doe good and our whole course must be to walke in Gods commandements and a speciall commandement is to bee fruitfull in good works As hirelings are busied all day so must wee as long as we liue here exercise our hands vnto good works These are the best apparell of Christians and their most durable riches and treasures What one point doth God more presse vs vnto then this duty of doing good workes bring forth workes worthy amendment of life Be zealous of good workes And this wee cannot be till we be in Christ without me saith our Sauiour ye can doe nothing As a graft can bring forth no fruit which is not set into a stocke so no man can possibly turne his hand to any thing that is truely and