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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02030	The bread of life, or Foode of the regenerate A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12177; ESTC S121351	21,732	40

THE BREAD OF LIFE OR Foode of the Regenerate A Sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincolnshire By THOMAS GRANGER Preacher of Gods word there IOHN 6. 48. J am the Bread of Life LONDON Printed by T. S. for Thomas Pauier and are to be sold at his shop in Yuie lane 1616. TO THE VVORSHIPFVLL and my very good friend Master EDVVARD LEVENTHORPE Sonne of Sr. IOHN LEVENTHORPE Knight T. G. wisheth increase of all true happinesse VVorshipfull Sir THe remembrance of former times when I liued at Shingle-hall the house of the good Knight Sir Iohn Leuenthorpe your Father where aboue my desert J found gratious acceptance and entertainment hath mooued mee as in duety to your selfe I am also bound to make speciall choise of you to whom I might dedicate this little worke but most pretious matter The Bread of life Earnestly beseeching the Lord that as you are a flourishing Oliue branch originally sprung from a noble roote and truly honoured stocke so it would please his goodnesse so to water you with the dewes and raines of spirituall graces and with this liuely bread so to strengthen and increase you as that you may accordingly bring forth fragrant pleasant fruits plentifully to God our heauenly father Amen Your worships to command in the Lord THOMAS GRANGER From Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincolnshire 1615. THE BREAD OF Life IOHN 6. 27. Labour not for the meat that perisheth but for the meat that endureth to eternall life which the Son of man shall giue vnto you for him hath God the father sealed IN these words two things are generally to bee considered the Occasion and the Scope Concerning the Occasion Our Sauiour Christ had done a cure vpon a man that had been diseased eight and thirty yeeres and that vpon the Saboth day Heereupon the enuious Iewes tooke occasion to accuse him of the breach of the Saboth but after some reasoning with them he went ouer the sea of Galile or lake of Genezaret together with his Disciples And seeing a multitude to the number of fiue thousand following him he asked Philip to proue him where bread for such a multitude might be had He answered that two hundred penniworth would scarcely afford euery one a little Then Andrew spake and told him of a Boy in the company that had fiue loaues and two fishes These Iesus commanded to be brought and hauing giuen thanks he gaue them to the Disciples to giue to the people and euery one being satisfied there remained twelue baskets full of broken meat The people seeing this miracle said of a truth this is the Prophet that should come into the world Wherefore they consulted to make him King but he withdrew himselfe into a mountaine alone leauing his Disciples who when euen was come went ouer a corner of the lake by ship toward Capernaum And when they had rowed about three miles or more he appeared to them walking on the sea and after that he ascended into the ship they were by and by at land Now the people remained on the further side all the night waiting for his comming from the mount but seeing neither him nor his Disciples they also went to Capernaum the next day being sure as they supposed that Iesus was behinde vnlesse he passed by them inuisibly And when they had found him there they said vnto him flatteringly Master whence camest thou hither By which words they intimate vnto him that they had in admiration the manner of his comming thither which they knew to be either by flying in the ayre or by walking on the sea This they said by insinuation to sooth him and to procure his good will as though Christ respecting his owne worldly glory by the fame of his miracles should haue beene respectiue and also beneficiall towards his welwillers and furtherers in that behalfe and so consequently to them But Christ not arriding this clawing insinuation as sinfull men vse to doe that are tickled with the itch of vaine-glory in stead of a fauourable countenance and pleasing answer giueth them a sharpe reproofe in the discouery of their hypocrisie verse 26. Verily verily I say vnto you yee seeke me not because of the miracle that thereby you might haue been mooued to beleeue in me and to hunger after the Gospell but because that by meanes of the miracle you ate and were filled But labour not for meat that perisheth Concerning the Scope These words are the proposition or substance of the Sermon of Christ in the words following to the end of the Chapter And it hath two parts viz. a Dehortation and an Exhortation The dehortation is in the former words Labour not c. wherein three things are to be considered the Order the Matter the Equity Concerning the Order It hath a sharpe reproofe before it and a gentle exhortation after it The one sheweth his hatred of their sinne the other declareth his loue to their persons First he correcteth their hypocrisie because they sought him not for himselfe but for some other thing than himselfe as it is the nature and very essence of hypocrisie to make profession of following Christ not for the loue of Christ as Mary Magdalen followed him but either for feare of losse or hope of gaine which the Gospell bringeth with it or for some worldly aduantage which may be occasioned by the Gospell or wrought out of the profession thereof Therefore in time of temptation and day of triall as God doth sundry wayes proue the hearts of all men liuing they vanish away as smoake all their former profession being but as a blast of winde Yea for the most part such wicked hypocrites become vtter enemies of the Gospell and professors thereof when time serueth like to Iudas and Alexander the Copper-smith Secondly hauing shewed his hatred of their sinne he seeketh redresse and amendment thereof therein shewing his pastorall care by dehorting them from that carnall course and practice of theirs and also his loue to their persons by exhorting them to be renued in mind in heart in conuersation by faith in him and obedience to his Gospell This is the course order and method of Christ in teaching Hen ce we learne what ought to be the practice of euery faithfull shepheard First to discouer sinne and hypocrisie the minde of man is full of darknes that is of the ignorance of God of his will and wayes The heart of man is a world of euills it is deceitfull aboue all things who can know it It is the fountaine and seede of all euill yea from this little handfull of corruption proceede all the euills that are done vnder the Sunne Mark 7. 21. 22. The conscience of man is large and broad hauing little feeling or remorse for sinne in it and selfe-loue couereth all sinnes Therefore the word of God is to be applied in particular that therein as in a glasse not onely all men but euery man in particular may see his deformity which otherwise