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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01935	Certaine sermons preached upon severall occasions viz. The vvay to prosper. The vvay to be content. The vvay to vvell-doing. A summer sermon. A vvinter sermon. Vnknowne kindnesse. The poore mans hope. By Iohn Gore Rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex.	Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Way to prosper.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Way to be content.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Way to well-doing.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Summer sermon.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Winter sermon.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Unknowne kindnesse.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Poore mans hope.; Gore, John, Rector of Wendenlofts, Essex. Oracle of God.	1636 (1636)	STC 12071; ESTC S120526	199,234	334

out of the water thus it fares with an hypocrite saith Iob when he is taken as it were with the Angle of God I meane with some mortall sicknesse that God begins to pull at his soule and twitch it out of his body whether he will or no then quaenam spes where is the hope of the Hypocrite alas his hope is gone The like expression you have Luke 12. 20. God Almighty saith to the rich man Thou foole this night they shall fetch away thy soule as if he had said I know thou art loath to part with thy soule loath to forgoe it but that shall not serve thy turne there will come those that will take it by force and fetch it from thee whether thou wilt or no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they shall never aske thee leave but shall wrest and wring it I am thee into such a place such a company such a condition as I am afraid to mention I have not now time as the Greekes say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beate this Oake for any more Acornes nor to sift my text for any more observations onely in a word If you desire to die contentedly let your care and endeavour be to live conscionably then let death come when it will it shall be no otherwise than a mid-wife a● Naz. speakes to deliver you and helpe you out of the paines of earth into the joyes of heaven then when you die you shall live when you goe from men you shall goe to God when your eyes are closed on earth they shall be opened againe in heaven Thus according to my weake ability I have done with my text and shewed you the way to be content God of his mercy give a blessing unto it for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be given and ascribed all honour and glory be done and performed all service and duty this day and for ever Amen FINIS THE Way to Well-doing OR A SERMON OF FAITH AND GOOD WORKES Preached in the Chappell of Buntingford in the County of Hartford at the beginning of their publike Lecture By John Gore Rector of Wenden-lofts in Essex Printed at London by Thomas Cotes for Thomas Alchorn and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Greene-dragon 1635. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Master John Mountford Doctor of Divinity and one of the Residentiaries of Saint Pauls my most worthy friend and Benefactour Right Worshipfull I Remember a Motto of your owne which was this Lunae radijs non maturesc●t Botrus That the beames of the Moone are too weake and too invalid to ripen a tender grape and bring it to maturitie unlesse the sun also adde his heate and cast his vitall beames upon it How well this sutes with men of my ranke that are Inferioris subsellij sacerdotes J shall not neede to tell you Alas what are all a poore mans labours in the ministry but as the Beames of the Moone some light they may give in a darke place but to ripen any worke for the publike good or to gaine any credit or estimation in the world they are farre too weake and unsufficient unlesse some man of worth that is instar solis in stead of the Suune to so poore a starre will be pleased out of his owne goodnesse to cast some beames J meane some favour and friendly countenance upon him Vouchsafe me therefore your gracious aspect upon my weake endeavours and the God of Heaven preserve your life that you may continue like Eliakim Esay 22. 23. As a fastened naile in a sure place still to doe good workes in Gods Church on earth till you be received up into glory with his Church in heaven Thus prayes Your poore unworthy Servant IOHN GORE THE WAY TO Well-doing Titus 3. 8. This is a faithfull saying and these things I will that thou affirme constantly that they which have beleeved in God might be carefull to maintaine good workes these things are good and profitable unto men NOT to trouble you with any preface it being not Ta●ti not worth the while may it please you to observe in the Text three generall parts which may be reduced to three Heads and bee thus expressed 1. The Preachers direction 2. The peoples duty 3. Every ones desire As thus This is a faithfull saying and these things I will thou affirme constantly there is the preachers direction 2. As many as have beleeved in God must bee carefull to maintaine good workes there is the peoples duty 3. These things are good and profitable unto men there is every ones desire for that which every man desires that which every man aymes and drives at in his calling and in his course of life is to doe those things that may redound to their profit and their good and therein my text complyes with every mans desire assuring them that these things are not onely good and pleasing to God but good and profitable also unto men God hath onely the glory of our well-doing the profit and the good is all our owne In the first generall part observe two particulars 1. A commendation of the text this is a faithfull saying 2. A command to the Teacher these things I will that thou affirme constantly 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is a faithfull saying I suppose you beleeve there is not a saying in all the booke of God but it is a true and a faithfull one all proceeding from the mouth of him that is a true and faithfull God a God that cannot lie nor alter the thing that is gone out of his lips yet some sayings in Gods booke are by way of Eminence or of excellence called by the name of faithfull sayings it pleaseth the Holy Ghost himselfe to set that note of dignity upon them either because God would have us in a speciall manner to build our faith and our affiance upon them as if he should say whatever other saiyngs of scripture ye doubt of never make any doubt of these for they are faithfull sayings you may pawne your lives and soules upon the truth and certainetie of them or rather as I take it they are termed faithfull sayings because they are such as doe more neerely concerne the faithfull then any others being purposely directed and intended Omnibus Christi fidelibus to all Christs faithfull people wheresoever for as Saint Paul said of Timothy Phil. 2. 20. I know no man like minded who will naturally care for such matters as these Tell a carnall or a worldly man of faith and good workes surdo canis you doe but as it were tell a tale to a deafe man he minds not what you say if you will talke to such a one you must tell him of the prizes of corne the practise of husbandry the rising and falling of the markets or perhaps some forraine or Domesticall newes then he understands you you speake to him then in his owne Idiome in his owne language but tell