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A44502 The reward of the wise: and the fruitful Christians future blessedness Opened at the late funeral of that piously wise and faithful, fruitful servant of God and our Lord Jesus, Mr. Thomas Moore of Whittlesey, interred at the church in Coleman-Street July 8. 1672. By John Horne of Lin-Regis in the County of Norfolk. Horn, John, 1614-1676. 1672 (1672) Wing H2807B; ESTC R217009 105,848 247

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sake forcing men to forbear those ways by which they might attain wisdom and righteousness or in which they might practise them and compelling men to practise unrighteous matters Such as walk in Pharohs course who would not let the people have liberty to wait upon and worship God but put other burthens upon them to take up all their time that they might not have leisure for that whither Masters of Families parents or higher powers Ezod 5.17 18. Or do like Jeroboam set up devises of their own and compel all men to conform thereto and thrust out those who would more rightly serve God 2 Chron. 11.14.15 13.9 with 1 King 12.28 31 32 c. Or like Ahab and Jezabel that threw down Gods Altars and killed his Prophets Or like Nebuchadnezzar who threatned the fiery Furnace to them that would not do unrighteously in bowing down to and worshipping his Image Dan 3.5 6. Or like the Princes and Presidents of Babylon under Darius that procured a Law to forbid the practise of Gods worship also for a time upon pain of being cast into the Den of Lyons and prosecuted it against Daniel for not observing it Dan. 6. Or like the Jews and Pharisees who made a Law to put out of their Synagogues any that would confess Jesus to be the Chpist John 9.22 12.42 Or the Council that afterwards upon severe penalties forbad the Apostles to preach in his name punishing those that do wisely and righteously according to God and those that endeavor to bring others to do so likewise Acts 4.18 21. 5.28 40. Or like the Beast or the false Prophet that setting up an Image or form of Religion of their own devising compel all to submit to ●…t and cause the refusers to be killed And such as will not some way or other acknowledge and submit to their unjust doings that they shall neither buy nor sell trade nor traffick Rev. 13.15 17. these are greatly faulty in so doing As we find the Apostle Paul divers times aggravates his own sin of this nature whilst a Pharisee and ignorant of Christ judging himself for it the chief of Sinners the least of the Saints unworthy the ●…ame of an Apostle c. Because he through ●…he ignorance of his unbelief practised after this sort to persecute and be injurious to the Church of God Persecuting them to death and delivering them both men and women into Prisons punishing them oft in every Synagogue and compelling them to blaspheme And being exceedingly mad against them he persecuted them into strange Cities Acts 22.4 26.10 11. with 1 Tim. 1.13 14 15. Eph. 3.8 1 Cor. 15.10 11. Oh then how great is their guilt and sin that wickedly and wilfully against light and knowledge do such matters how sad their case and how heavy and dreadful will be their judgment They that forbid men to speak to others that they may be saved and persecute them that do so because forbidden by them and take away by such acts and ways of force from men the Key of knowledge the Gospel Doctrine and neither enter into the Kingdom of God themselves nor suffer those that would Upon such wrath comes to the utmost not doing it in a●… false zeal so as to be excused in a measure by their mistake and ignorance Mat. 23.13 1 Thes 2.16 1 Tim. 1.13 But of that last mentioned charge others besides such persecutors may also be guilty As 2. They that being Teachers of or Preachers to the people seduce them from the truth and not only do not preach it but preach against it and traduce it Thus did the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites and the Lawyers too Luke 11.46.52 Lading men with heavy burthens and grievous to be born worse than Pharohs Task-masters while they put them upon getting such and such holy frames and lives such brokenness godly sorrow love and the like to be the grounds of their knowing Gods love to them as indeed are good and needful in their way and place but withold from them and preach against that discovery of the grace of God towards them as and while sinners and ungodly that should truly and genuintly effect them putting men upon getting them that they may be the foundation of their believing that the Gospel of the grace of God appertains to them or which is the same that Christ was sent and dyed and gave himself a ransom for them and God would have them saved which indeed are but the effects of those things first known and believed For it is the appearance of the love and grace of God to man that is the spring from whence all right frames and works do flow and by that they are taught Tit. 2.11 12. 3.4 5. But truly while men teach others that Christ died but for a few they know not who a secret number known only to God and they must all by an irresistible power be infallibly and necessarily brought in to God and for all the rest Christ having not died they must necessarily perish What do they but lay snares for men to render them careless of righteousness and of the knowledge of God and to reason as some do that if they be of the Elect they must needs be saved and cannot miscarry let them live at the present as debauehedly as they will or can and if otherwise what will all their seeking after God and breaking off from their sins avail them They can be but hypocrites and reprobates do what they can If it be said but the Elect may make themselves obnoxious to greater punishments here by sinning and the Reprobates by endeavouring to be good lessen their future punishments From their own Principals mistaking and perverting that that is right they that are skilled in their Doctrine may retort that to the Elect all things shall work together for good and their greater unrighteousness shall but the more commend the righteousness of God and the Reprobate shall have no less punishment than God hath decreed to them inevitably And so they that preach to men a necessity that those that are once brought truly to believe must abide in the love of God without any such If as Christ puts upon his Disciples when he saith If ye keep my Commandments ye shall continue in my love John 15.10 But they will go higher than our Saviour and say tush away with these Ifs here ye shall keep Christs Commandments and continue in his Love Or if ye break them as at other times they will grant for they read that David and St. Peter did so yet ye must be brought in again so as ye cannot possibly fail of Salvation and all those sins also shall work together for your good what do they but strengthen the hand of Sathan and corruption in cases of temptation to prevail with such as have high persuasions that they are Elect and true Believers to presume to sin and do unrighteousness as that that in the issue shall not hurt them nay