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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11144	Gods blessing in blasting, and his mercy in mildew Tvvo sermons sutable to these times of dearth: by Iames Rowlandson B. in D. and pastor at East-Tysted in Hampshire.	Rowlandson, James, 1576 or 7-1639.	1623 (1623)	STC 21415; ESTC S116262	34,190	80

GODS BLESSING IN BLASTING AND HIS MERCY IN MILDEW TWO SERMONS SVTABLE TO THESE times of Dearth By IAMES ROWLANDSON B. in D. and Pastor at EAST-TYSTED in Hampshire ESAY 30.20 Though the Lord giue you the bread of aduersitie and the water of affliction yet shall not thy Teachers be remoued into a corner any more but thine eyes shall see thy Teachers LONDON Printed by Iohn Haviland for William Bladen at the great North doore of PAVLS 1623. TO THE WORTHIEST GENTLE-WOMAN AND MOST vertuous Matron M ris ANNE BILSON the true widow of that famous and most learned Prelate my L. BILSON late Bishop of Winchester and one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuie Counsell my sometimes most louing Patron and thrice honoured Lord all the graces of Gods Kingdome in this world and the glories of it in another I Cannot more abhor flatterie than your selfe will flie at the very shadow of it as Moses at the sight of the Serpent But giue not backe it is no such terrible obiect which here I offer to your eies It is but a rod and that a gracious one Gods blessing to our Nation euen in Blasting and his mercy in Mildew This I haue somewhat ouer-boldly aduentured to cast in your way before ye were aware of it But you know to take it vp by the true end which it to testifie mine vnfained reuerence and respect both to your selfe and to the memorie of that most honourable man that is gone before vs into his Masters ioy I could not satisfie my selfe if in the dedication of these my first labours of this kinde I did not charge them in the first place to visit that Familie to which as Gods instrument I must referre the greatest part of my worldly encouragements or vndergoe the censure of the nine that returned not with thankes Two poore mites these are o● which neither the Lords treasurie nor your selfe haue any such need but that they might well be spared yet he that accepted the Widowes giues me hope that neither he nor the Widow will reiect mine I speak not this in confidence of their worth for slender they must needs be that are spunne most out of mine owne meditations but in regard of his goodnesse that hath giuen you yours and by his mercifull acceptation of our smallest endeuours done in truth teacheth vs not to despise one onothers seruices or offices of loue That Ocean of his neuer exhausted bounty likes it well that to his glorie we should refund whatsoeuer good we haue receiued by his grace be it lesse or more The smallest drops of such raine when they fall into that sea finde no lesse welcome than the deepliest charged riuers You desire I know to imitate the heauenly Father of whom we must all be followers if we will be approued children and euen in this Therefore I feare not to present you with this small paper-retribution It is all and the first gift that euer I tendred either to your selfe or to any other a poore one God wot yet a demonstration of my thankfulnesse Gold and Siluer I had none or had I offered for your fauours and my Lords either before or after that I felt them I am perswaded that the repulse would haue beene shamefull Acts 8.20 and that too with S. Peters detestation Now also euen this my testimonie of your goodnes towards me is more as little as it is than you expected than you desired so abundantly doe you content your selfe in the sole secrecie of doing well And yet me thinkes it is pittie that vertue should be so modest as to loue obscurity vnwilling to haue it selfe knowne when vice is growne so impudent as not to feare the light If painted visages visards rather dare bazard the censure of a publique view should natiue beauty blush to shew its face Yet your retirednesse is commendable but your contentednesse with it much more in that hauing liued sometimes in the open eie of the world so worthily you can now thus cheerefully deuote your selfe as it were to a more priuate not lesse pious course of life Heb. 13 4. 1 Tim. 5.3 your former condition was honourable amongst all men and none saue they that either know not the Apostles precept or your selfe but will say that your present is as much to be honoured The ancient of daies giue you fulnesse of many and happie yeeres with the abundance of his blessings that you may continue to be as you are a gratious president of pietie and grauitie to your sex a long liu'd mother in Israel the great comfort of your vertuous children of whom you may say more truly than Cornelia of her Gracchi Haec sunt ornamenta mea These are my Iewels these my abilements Such be they long to your comfort still to Gods glory whose vnerring spirit of truth conduct you and them with vs all through this wildernesse of sinne to our promised Canaan And so I rest Your Seruant in Christ Jesus IAMES ROVVLANDSON GODS BLESSING IN BLASTING AND his mercy in Mildew THE FIRST SERMON HAGGAI 2.17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with haile in all the labours of your bands yet yee turned not to me saith the LORD TWice I finde this Text in Scripture and in the same words almost here and in the Prophet Amos chap. 4. vers 9. Amos 4.9 Here they mention a correction vpon the Iewes after their returne from Captiuitie there a iudgement vpon the reuolted Israelites or the ten Tribes Here the Iewes were thus afflicted for not building Gods house there the Israelites for schismatically leauing the worship of God house Hence thus inferre by the way if you please It can be no lesse fault to abandon the Church than not to build it Nor deserues it a less● affliction not to repaire to the Temple than not to repaire it Vnderstand it thus He that obstinately refuseth to come to the Church be he a recusant Papist or Schismaticke offends no lesse if not more than the churle or miser that holds his hand from contributing to it when there is need For the buildings and materials of the Temple are but the body of it but the soule of the Temple is Gods seruice in i● And surely were not the couetous man an Idolater as well as the Recusant I should less● blame him for shutting vp his purse than other● for cutting off their persons from the Temple But it is hard to say whether is the worse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Both so bad that there is no great choise Yet the Iewes here in my text though beaten with the same rods of Blasting and Mildew wherewith the Israelites were smitten in Amos sinned not after the like manner The Temple was yet standing when Amos prophesied to the Israelites which happened in the daies of Ieroboam the latter Amos 1.1 the sonne of Ioash the thirteenth King of Israel two hundred forty six yeeres before the desolation of it by the Assyrians or thereabout