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A09675	A sermon, vpon the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie, Epist. 1. Chap. 4. vers. 8 Preached at Litlecot, in the Chappel of the right honourable, Sir John Pompham, knight, lord chiefe justice, of England, before his honourable Lordeshippe, and to the assemblie there, the 17. of Iulie, 1597. By Charles Pinner, minister of the Church of Wotton Basset, in North-Wiltshire.	Pinner, Charles.	1597 (1597)	STC 19945; ESTC S114276	13,808	48

that is to come But here groweth a question what it meaneth then that euen vngodlinesse it selfe hath or seemeth to haue our portioÌ„ at least in the things of this life present of which Dauid in the seueÌ„teenth Psalm speaking maketh his praier thus Psal 17.13.14 Vppe Lord saith he disappoint him cast him down deliuer my soule from the wicked with thy sword froÌ„ men by thine hand O Lord from men of the world who haue their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thine hidde treasures their children haue enough and leaue the rest of their substance for their children Where hee speaketh as he meaneth of the wicked namelie that they haue their portion in this life and no where else and that they haue already as much as they shal haue in this life present for in the life to come they haue no portion Answerably vnto that that Christ also warned those good almes-men forsooth in the 6. of Matthew which trumpetted the thing for the praise of men Therefore saith hee when thou giuest thine almes thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee as the hypocrites do in the Synagogues in the streets to be praised of men Verily I say vnto you they haue their reward That is they haue already that they desired to witte the praise of men and this is all they shall haue for besides this verilie they shall haue nothing And what then shal it profite the vngodly that they were wise and rich and honourable and had peace and prosperitie in this life when this life is gone and their portion ended nothing remaineth for the life to come the bitternes of which estate answered his doubt who in beholding the prosperitie of the wicked had almost denied providence till at the laste in acknowledgement of that which here is taught Claud. he saith Tolluntur in altum vt lapsu graviore ruant They are lifted vppe aloft to haue the greater fall As Dauid to expresse his greatest misery saith He taketh me vp and casteth me downe againe Psal 102. Euen as that we lift vp to cast downe we dash all in pieces And the beggers wo is nothing to the Prince his want But as he saith Sen. Theb. In servitutem cadere de regno graue est Of king to become a caitife that cuts the heart Yea but the wicked and vngodlie of the world haue wealth and welfare and while they haue it will some say they are wel and happy But this their happines what euer they haue in spite of all the wicked we deny for first it should be knowen how they haue any thing Not by promise for that pertaineth vnto godlines by testimony of our Text which saith significantlie that godlines hath the promise and not vngodlines How them without promise O miserable theues robbers which haue an heape of goodes so ill gotten Psal 24. v. 1. For the earth is the Lords he hath promised the same vnto the godlie and againe Math. 5.5 Blessed are the meeke for they shall inherit the earth And everie creature of God is good 1. Tim. 4.5 nothing to be refused if it be receaved with thanksgiving For it is sanctified saith the Apostle by the worde of God and prayer But who giveth thankes and who so receaueth the good creatures of God as good and lawfull and â€¦ ome are they sanctified by the ordinance and will of God but to those as before he saith which beleeue and know the truth that is the godlie For all the vngodlie of the world are yet in their pollution and are deprived of all the creatures of the earth polluting to themselues everie good creature of God in the abuse liue in the verie vse of them and polluting theÌ„selues I say not now because stricto iure as they say by direct law they haue no right in them So Naboths vinyard was good 1. King 21. Levit. 25.23 Num. 36.9 seq 1. King 21. and Ahab had it But because he was not of the tribe besides the intrusion the forgerie periurie and murther committed hee defiled himselfe in the vnlawfull vse of it And this is the case of all the vngodlye who because they are not of his tribe who hath the right of inheritance in all these thinges besides the manifold abuses they put them vnto after they euen defile themselues in the having of them And so not this and that as in the former division of the legal pollutioÌ„ which taught vs that out right in all thinges through our attainder was so taken away that by touching almost and taking wee defiled our selues in them but even the breath of their bodies their life it selfe all things are defiled to them because to speake the same thing againe as light is come into the world men loue darkenesse roote the light Ioan. 3 19. so liberty is come into the world and men loue bondage more then it and the grace of adoption whereby we become sonnes and if sonnes saith the Apostle from a ground of their law for in the Civell law of the Romans all the sonnes succeeded together then heyres and heyres annexed with Iesus Christ is refused of the vngodlie and vnbeleevers who if they haue no part in Christ Heb. 1.2 who is the heyre of al thinges as the Apostle teacheth to the Hebrewes how woulde they haue right in any thing and not still remaine as children and heires of the first Adam cast out of Paradise with his children the verie blessing of the earth this day being turned into a curse vnto them euen because they haue no part in the second Adam Wherefore let all the vngodlie of the world here learne to looke west vnto their theevish handes care how to haue their hartes purified by faith Act. 15.9 2. Tim. 3.12 to liue godly in Iesus Christ that so they may be heires of the promise and that in the rich vngodlie especiallie it may be seene for a wounder to the world how the camel creapeth through the needles eye and that which is impossible with men Psal 22.30 is yet possible with God the prophesie of Davis in 22. Psalme beeing fulfilled in them All the fat of the earth those that are filled with earthlie felicitie shall eate as being nourished in the Church vers 28. and shal bow themselues As before hee saith All the endes of the earth shall remember theÌ„selues and bee turned vnto the Lorde all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him Which lowly submission vnto Iesus Christ and to the septer of his worde in the kingdome of his Church if once we might see in the greate vngodlye of the world Lord how manye sinnes also would so be cut of which dailie are committed in the good thinges of God through the manifold abuse of them vnto sinne and wickednes And if wee see it not as to seldome in deede is

SERMON VPON the wordes of Paul the Apostle vnto Timothie Epist 1. Chap. 4. vers 8. PREACHED AT LITLEcot in the Chappel of the Right Honourable SIR IOHN POMPHAM Knight Lord chiefe Iustice of England before his honourable Lordeshippe and to the assemblie there the 17. of Iulie 1597. By CHARLES PINNER Minister of the Church of Wotton Basset in North-Wiltshire 1. Tim. 6. verse 6. But godlinesse is greate gaine with sufficiencie Printed at Oxford by Ioseph Barnes and are to bee solde in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Bible 1597. TO THE WORSHIPFVL Master IOHN SIMS of Charde in the Countie of Somerset grace and peace from God in Iesus Christ SIr it may be marveiled of some if not of your selfe that I should bee thus familiar as you see cannot but be seene of many Whom I pray to take this for my excuse which vnfainedly I speake and from my very hart That a desire conceiued now a good while since engendered by a report of your godly friendes mine is now come vnto the birth by speech with your selfe and this it was that I wished once to know you as novve in part I do and shal I trust more fully in time to come For why should you depriue mee of the farther fruite of that and call it I must your godlinesse by the very name which so tasted in part already I could not but forth with tel and testifie vnto others also that so great zeale of true Religion hath seldome bin planted in so tender yeares and I looke to the time of the first report For the watering and groweth whereof as much as my poore penne pensil can performe herein behold againe the gaine of godlines presented to your eie and yet vnpresented for what pen or pensill can deliuer her as shee is whom as Cicero saith of vertue their vertue a weake shadow therof if with the eies of our body wee might beholde it woulde make vs to loue her not without wonder But we must tarry the time till we see her and him togither of whom S. Iohn saith Dearely beloued now are we the sonnes of God Ioh. 1.3 but yet it appeareth not what we shall be howbeit we know that when he shall appeare we shall bee like him for we shall see him as he is And then and there also shall we see this godlinesse which wee desire which till that appearing and now in this age of so great vngodlines whose spreade hath overshadowed so much of this land so little appeareth that shee dareth not almost be known by this her name of godlines for fear of the flouts which without fear do flow so fast from the vngodly of which this is not the least when they say to anie person whom they most despise O you are very godly Whose mouthes must be stopped which speake prowde thinges as Iude saith hauing mens persons in admiration Iude. 16. because of aduantage And to stoppe their mouthes or if not that to open the mouth of godlines to speak for her selfe I say not how praise-worthy she is vnto whom al praise is due but how profitable vnto vs I then preached now haue published this litle Sermon Accept it as you finde it and my selfe by it The Lord Iesus preserue you encrease in you the graces of his holy spirite Amen From Wotton Basset the 23. of Iulie 1597. Yours in Christ CHARLES PINNER 1. Tim. Chap. 4. vers 8. For bodilie exercise profiteth litle but Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come OF the wound cure of sinne or rather of the death of sinne in the soale the life of righteousnesse by Iesus Christ His Lordships Chaplaine that day preached of such matter Iohn 5.15 we haue heard alreadie Of the which our Sauiour saith in the 5. of Iohn Verilie verilie I say vnto you the houre shall come and now is when the dead shal heare the voice of the son of God and they that heare it shall liue And wee haue heard and beleeued and liue in God Of the course of which life in godlinesse and the blessed benefite of the same wee haue nowe to heare farther out of this sentence of the Apostle which depending on the former as a reason of his exhortation there vnto Godlinesse containeth doctrine admonition Doctrine for the whole Church as admonition likewise for the same but properlie for Timothie a man and a minister young in yeares but graue and austere in manners verie much if not too much hauing alwaies before his eies that dutie which this our Apostle himselfe otherwise embraced 1. Cor. 9.27 where hee saith I beate downe my body and bring into subiection least by anye meanes vvhen I haue preached vnto others I my selfe should bee reiected Yet missing the rule of too much superstitioÌ„ or too little descretion in going too far as Nimium and Parum Too much too litle are still in our way for every godly duty the Apostle calleth him back as els where by special admonishment to look vnto his stomacke so here by these generall wordes Bodily exercise profiteth litle and lesse in deede he meaneth then Timothy took it Wherein to bleare his eies a litle who stared to much on it he setteth before him another obiect so much more greate excellent that because it swalloweth vp the first wee also will stay our selues in the coÌ„sideratioÌ„ of this in these words but godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come Wherein wee haue two pointes a doctrine and the same assured by a reason to vs the doctrine in these wordes Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges the Reason in these as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come Of the which wee may note first how the Apostle speaketh which is abstractive as they say in the Abstract and not in the concrets schoole-rearmes but of easie vnderstanding the one noting the qualitie alone and by it selfe considered the other the subiect or person with the qualitie or in whome is that qualitie And this no doubt also but the Apostle meaneth namelie that the godlie person hath the promise and yet hee both not so speake but saith that Godlines hath the promise and why because the godlie person for his godlinesse and not else but godlinesse for it selfe it being such a thing and so like vnto God himselfe that hee cannot but blesse it euen now in this life present especiallie in that that is to come and thereof hath made and given his promise to vs that wee not onely shoulde haue it and take it when it commeth but also shoulde hope and waite for it even when we haue it not From whence ariseth the truth of this sentence or proposition that Godlinesse is profitable vnto all thinges as that which giveth vs al thinges either

in present possession or expectation Many dispute many thinges many desires purposes haue wee but in nothing our mindes more corrupt destitute of the truth then in this if without or beside godlines wee count any thing to be gaine or profite Whose minds notwithstanding are so corrupt so destitute of the truth that any thinge almost we account gaine profite without godlines or at the least all the godlines we haue or doe besire is gaine profite For if other gaine we haue we haue godlines enough though we haue none in deede yet haue as much as wee desire Men of this making altogether this out Apostle painteth out in the 6. Chap. of this Epist the 5. 6. verses whome he saith to bee men of corrupt mindes 1. Tim. 6.5.6 destitute of the truth which thinke gaine to be godlines What is that in wit this their godlines or al the godlines they care for is gaine according to their corrupte mindes destitute of the truth embracing any in the world as good profitable and letting godlines alone of which the passe not a pin and care nothing of it as nothing worth if so they may attaine their other desires And that this is the meaning it is plaine in that the Apostle contradicteth it in these wordes following but saith he Godlines is greate gaine Not onely gaine but great gaine and if we will haue that expounded too the Apostle saith in our Text that Godnes is profitable vnto all thinges Wherfore we neede goe no further for weapoÌ„s to slay the madnes of Atheisme that is vngodlines it selfe which setteth godlines at naught and teacheth men to mocke at it as a thing of nothing and a thousand things we desire as good profitable but godlines with thousandes is good for nothing And Religion though it selfe honourable yet if as it hath the nature so the name of goodlines euen as this is her name also for what is religion but godlines and what is godlines but religion yet in this other name of hers wee cannot abide her and religion in the name of godlinesse is a derision For I tell you he hath a fine wit and hitteth his neighbour home as he thinketh which can hang the lip and say O you are very godly O tempora Ã´ mores Ã´ times Ã´ manners saith he who saw the discipline of the city of Rome so weake that one Catelin a seditious rakehel could sit and be seene in the Senate amongst them And we must swallow our griefe and say nothing to see the Church of God defiled with thousandes of those sitting almost in the Senate and chiefest roomes amongst vs who not only secretly vndermine but euen bid open battaile almost vnto the name of godlines these being I feare the times of which Peter by a special remeÌ„brance vnto the faithful foretold saying 2. Pet. 3.3.4 This first vnderstand that there shall come in the last daies mockers walking after their owne lusts and saying when is the promise of his comming such as even stowted the Lord and grieued the godly and gaue complainte before vnto the Prophet Malachie in the 3. Chapter Your wordes haue beene stoute against me saith the Lord yet yee saie Mal. 3.13.14.15 what haue we spoken against thee ye haue saide it is in vaine to serue God and what profit is it that we haue kept his commandement and that we walked humbly before the Lord of hosts Yea now we counte the prowde blessed euen they that worke wickednes are set vp and they that tempt God yea they are deliuered And they had euen wearied the Lord herewith as the Prophete complaineth in the former Chapter Mal. 2.17 Yee haue wearied the Lorde with your wordes saith he yet yee saie wherein haue we wearied him in that yee say euery one that doth euill is good in the sight of the Lord and hee delighteth in them or where is the God of iudgement and these haue euen wearied the Lord and vs as many as at this time embrace godlines and yet they saie wherin haue we wearied you in that ye say and say lowdly and lewdly with the greatest skorne we are foolish and busie fellowes But the vomit of these men is loathsome and we will leaue it and for the praise and price of godlines wil come to the proofe of that which the Apostle hath saide of it as we haue heard namely that Godlines is profitable vnto all things And this proofe is coÌ„tained in the words next following implying a reason of the former speech or senteÌ„ce in these words as having the promise of the life present and of that that is to come And this reason is strong from a sufficient division of all thinges For all thinges are contained in this life present and in that that is to come And therefore godlines must needs be profitable vnto al things sith nothing neither here nor heereafter can be wished which it bringes not with it For though the Apostle only saieth it hath the promise of this life that life he meaneth as also he speaketh in the 17 of the Actes Life and breath Acts 17.25 and all things and as the Philosopher speaketh all things ad benÃ¨ beateque vivendum to liue well and blessedly For life else were nothing if wee shoulde want those things that pertaine to blessednes And though some maie thinke that the Apostle commeth short of the matter speaketh not home enough saying that godlines hath the promise not the thing yet this is al one in deede coÌ„sidering who is the promiser God that cannot lie Tit. 1. â— as other where he saith And because wee cannot haue al our happines at once but some is here in this life present and more hereafter in the life to come for assuraÌ„ce of the whole we haue his promise which is alwaies as good as performaunce it selfe For whosoeuer saith the sonne of Siracke trusted in the Lord and was confounded Eccle. 2.11 O then who is wise wil be rich and honourable and haue true strength and beauty and health peace and blessednes with God euen the man that is godly which walketh with God yea and talketh with him as it is saide of Henoch Gen. 5.22 6.9 17.1 Noah and Abraham that they were iust and vpright men in their time and walked with God Euen as this is the ende of our deliuerance that we Luke 1.74.75 as Zacherie saith being deliuered out of the hands of our enemies might serue him without feare in holines righteousnesse before him or in his sight all the daies of our life that wee should walke and talke with God and hauing our delighte in the lawe of the Lorde Psal 1.2 shoulde meditate therein day and night that we should loue feare and honour him in all our waies and so wante nothing which we would should haue either in this life present or in that

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