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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15797	The sincere preacher prouing that in whom is adulation, auarice, or ambition, he cannot be sincere. Deliuered in three sermons in Dartmouth in Deuon, vpon I. Thes. 2. 5.6. By Walter Wylshman, Mr. of Art, and minister of the Word there.	Wylshman, Walter, 1571 or 2-1636.	1616 (1616)	STC 26058; ESTC S114199	31,536	100

not from his wealth but from God that puts loue into mens hearts Thirdly thou Lord rewardest euery man according to his worke teaching that God lookes to our works not to our wealth when hee comes to iudgement sinne then shall haue shame and sinceritie saluation whatsoeuer our wealth hath been riches deliuer not in the day of the Lords wrath but righteousnes deliuereth from death riches then cannot helpe why therefore should we so much couet them Thirdly consider how little will contēt nature we brought nothing with vs into the world and we shall carrie nothing out If therefore we haue Iacobs wish food and raiment let vs therewith be content Nay we haue warrant to craue no more then Agur craued Feede me with food conuenient for me Prou. 30. 8. therefore our Sauiour taught vs to pray on this manner Giue vs this day our daily bread that is bread for our substances or such bread as is sufficient to preserue our liues And that God is displeased at mens ouer greedie crauing much hee would haue vs to learne by his allowance in the wildernesse for there hee fed his children from heauē with Mannah Exod. 16. 20 sufficient for the day and if any in greedinesse would bring in more he caused it to putrifie and to be full of wormes to teach vs that he accurseth al that we craue more then he alloweth vs. Fourthly consider that whatsoeuer we haue if but meane fare if but poore rags but a ruinous cottage yet it is farre better thē we deserue bread or water is too good for the best of vs our sinnes can challenge nothing but sackcloth to couer vs and if we had our desert our houses should be hell And therefore striue to haue a sense and feeling of the want of Christ and to see our damnable estate in our selues without him and then though a man were couetousnesse it selfe this will be a meanes to turne his heart from the pelfe of this world and to seeke wholly after spirituall and heauenly things For the consideration of our owne miserie in our selues and a liuely sense of the need we haue of Christ will make vs hunger after him and his righteousnesse aboue all things in the world We finde by experience that many are endued with good gifts of knowledge of ioy in the Word of zeale in good things c. who neuerthelesse in their callings are ouercome with this foule sinne of couetousnesse and the reason is because they were neuer throughly touched with any sense or feeling of their neede they had of Christ and therefore they neuer thought with S. Augustine Quid prodest si omnia habes eum tamen qui omnia dedit non habere What profit is it to haue all things and to want the giuer of all things without whom all possessions and possessors are vile and miserable The consideration whereof made Moses when he came to yeeres to ●eb 11. 26. entertaine affliction esteeming the rebuke of Christ greater riches then the treasures of Egypt because hee had respect to the recompence of reward So did wee beloued see out vilenesse without Christ and made once to hunger after him thē euery one would begin to say with S. Paul I esteeme all things as dung ●hil 3. 8. in regard of Christ and with Dauid As the Hart brayeth after the riuers ●sal 42. 1. of waters so thirsteth my soule after thee O Lord. This is the counsell of Christ First seeke the kingdom ●at 6. 33 of God and his righteousnesse Wee must in our selues bee as the wounded man that lay in the way that Christ Iesus the true Samaritane may come by vs to supple our wounds and to poure his owne pretious blood into our soules for as Mary said God filleth the hungry with Luk. 1. 53 good things but the rich hee sends empty away Thus you see that the feeling of the want of spirituall grace makes men contemne or to set light of earthly riches Finally consider the special wise and fatherly prouidence of God in disposing and gouerning the things of the world hee hath riches enough in his hand for all If then it doe not seeme good to his wisedome to giue thee more or better things know assuredly that that is best for thee who can chuse better for thee then thou for thy selfe for hee is a most wise caruer and Psa 34. 10. faithfull Creator and can denie no good thing to them that feare him the consideration whereof made holy Iob to praise God in wealth and woe saying The Lord Iob. 1. 22. hath giuen and the Lord hath taken blessed be the name of the Lord. And Dauid comforted himselfe vpon this speciall prouidence of God acknowledging that the Lord being his shepheard hee should want ●sa 23. 1. nothing and therefore finding this Lord to be the portion of his inheritance and of his cup he was sure hee would maintaine his lot and confesseth that the lines are fallen salm 16. 5. 6. vnto him in pleasant places yea that he had a faire heritage Thus if with Dauid any one can once make the Lord his portion he cannot but bee full of contentation For how can he want any thing that hath for his portion the Lord the guider and giuer of all things THE THIRD SERMON 1. THES 2. 5. Neither sought we praise of men nor of you nor of any others HEre is the third fault which the Apostle laboureth to remoue from himselfe to proue his sincerenes by namely ambition either for praise or profit of which he laboureth to cleare himselfe in the sequels by his and his fellowes practice and assures himselfe that if he can free himselfe and them from this and the two former vices that he shall sufficiently confirme his assertion of their sincerenesse not only in doctrine but also in the manner thereof In handling of which fault of Ambition I will obserue the same order that I did in the former two of Adulation and Auarice For I will follow these foure circumstances I will first shew what Ambition is 2. How manifold and what are the parts of it 3. How foule and dangerous a sinne it is And 4. that the Minister that is ambitious cannot deale sincerely in his doctrines and finally these heads being handled I will draw out some vse that we are to make of it and some remedies thereof For the first what Ambition is our Apostle saith in my text wee sought not praise of men nor of you nor of any other Where our Apostle seemes to import that ouer-greedy seeking an ouer-griple desire of the praise of men is Ambition and so doe the very words themselues in the Originall signifie if wee well consider them for Ambition is a Latine word deriued of the verbe Ambire which is to goe about to sue seeke and keepe a quoile in the world for praise and promotion to which the Greeke word φιλοτιμία agreeth which signifieth ouer great