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A08356	Eight sermons publikely preached in the Vniversity of Oxford the second at St Peters in the East, the rest at St. Maries Church. Begunne in the yeare 1595. Decemb. XIIII. Now first published by Sebastian Benefield ...	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1614 (1614)	STC 1868; ESTC S101614	129,711	164

his heart from any ioy he was great and encreased aboue all that were before him in Ierusalem yet when he looked on all his workes that his hands had wrought behold all was vanity and vexation of the spirit Eccles 2.11 Of such a spirit was S. Paul iudging all the things of this worlde to bee drosse for Christs sake yea he desired to be dissolved and to bee with Christ Phil. 1.23 He saw a law in his members rebelling against the law of his minde leading him captiue vnto the law of sin which was in his members which made him to cry out O wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Rom. 7.24 As for the Epicures and carnal men who making n Philip. 3.19 their belly their God admire the things of this world and thinke it farre better to be a o Eccles 9.4 living Dogge then a dead Lyon not caring how abiect and vile soever they be so that they may liue they may know that it shall advantage them nothing p Matt 16.26 to win the whole world because they destroy and loose themselues for it they may beleeue that whosoever will saue his life shall loose it and whosoever shal loose his life for Christs sake the same shall saue it for he that is all truth hath said it Luk. 9.24 4 The careful breeding of a man from his childhood shal bee much available to the denying of himselfe To doe or to suffer whatsoever contrary to the sence of the flesh shall bee very easie to him that hath beene taught and accustomed in his first yeares to keepe vnder and to bridle his affections It is good for a man that he beare the yoke in his youth saith the Prophet Lament 3.27 for so when afflictions grow greater his patience also by experience shall be stronger Here all governours to whom the oversight of the younger sort is committed may remember themselues of their duties Plin. lib. 7. cap. 2. reporteth of a nation in India called Pandora that the inhabitants thereof haue * Ctesias tradit gentem ex his quae appellatur Pandorae in cōvallibus suā annos ducentos vivere In juvētâ candide capillo qui in senectute nigres cat hoare hayres when they are young but blacke when they are old I would it might not be reported iustly of this place that many schollers young gentlemen others come to our Vniversitie as it were with hoare hayres well nurtured full of tokens of sobrietie modesty which staying here but a short time haue blacke haires such is the contagion of this place their manners are lost the tokens of their modesty and sobrietie are no more to be seene For the better wiping away of this blot it were to be wished that all they who are any way in place to governe remembring that q Prov. 29.15 a child set at liberty maketh his mother ashamed and that wisdome is giuen by the rod and correction would bee no lesse carefull to teach the young ones vnder their rule to walke in truth then was that noble Lady to teach her children 2. Iohn 4. It remaineth that I should come to the second precept but that with the last I must omit because of the shortnesse of the time 1. Sam. 6.10 Here therefore I will conclude As the Philistines shut vp the calues at home whilst the two milch-kine caried the arke of the Lord to Bethshemesh because the crying of the calues should be no stay to the kine even so let vs that liue here on earth as pilgrims travailing towards our owne home shut vp as it were al things wherein we haue delighted let vs deny our selues let vs not giue eare to the cryings of our Fathers Mothers or of any our wretched companions that they bee no stay to vs in this our iourney and then as these kine went on till the Lord brought them where the arke should rest so shall we goe on till the Lord bring vs where our rest shall bee To which rest of blessednes the Lord of his infinite mercy vouchsafe to bring vs all for the loue of his only sonne our Saviour Iesus Christ THE SECOND SERMON ON LVKE CHAP. 9. VERS 23. And he said vnto all if any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and take vp his Crosse dayly and follow me THat a Zach. 5 1. flying booke which the b Zacharias sonne of Berechiah saw in a vision c Zach. 5.2 bearing in length 20. cubits and in breadth 10. cōtained d Vers 3. that curse which then was gone forth over and yet is continuing vpon the face of the whole earth For every one that stealeth shall be cut off as wel on this side as on that and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as well on this side as on that and every one that maketh light of the law of his God shall be cut off as well on this side as on that Of this curse flying about with this booke the LORD of hosts hath said e Vers 4. I will bring it forth and it shall enter into the house of the thiefe and into the house of him that falsly sweareth by my name and it shall remaine in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the timber thereof and with the stones thereof When not long since I began the vnfolding of this peece of Scripture which I haue now read vnto you containing a perfect doctrine or an exact rule sufficient for the teaching or guiding of all that will follow Christ then in part I declared the meanes by which we might be so qualified that the curse of this flying booke might no way take hold of vs or any our houses Then in this Scripture I considered First the vniversalitie in these words And he said vnto all Secondly the necessitie implyed in the condition in the words following if any man will come after me Thirdly the doctrine it selfe divided into 3 praecepts in the last words let him deny himselfe and take vp his crosse dayly follow me You heard then that this doctrine was vniversall for that Christ delivered it vnto all yet to all not simply but to all with a restraint to al the elect not to any one of the reprobate And then likewise you heard that this doctrine was necessarie for that every one that would not harken to the same was to look for no better then to be cast into olde deepe and large f Esai 30.33 Tophet whose burning is fire and much wood kindled with the breath of the Lord as with a river of brimstone And then last of all I spake of the third praecept wherein you heard that the whole nature of man was reiected and disallowed together with all the powers and desires thereof as farre vnfit to bee in any of Christs Disciples therefore that a necessitie was laid vpon vs to renounce all fleshly delights to

minds as that they thinke all externall fact al outward observance altogether needlesse And thus haue they thought because they find that many haue beene said to haue done the will of God to haue walked in his waies to haue done iudgement and iustice to haue kept their feet from treading in any evill path and so to haue beene reputed for Saints who notwithstanding haue manie waies and most grievously fallen For they can tell you of Peters deniall of Lots incest of Salomons Idolatry of Noahs drunkennesse of Davids murther of Sarahs lie of Rebeccahs perswading her sonne Iacob to beguile his owne father of the theft of Onesimus of the many Concubines of the patriarchs and the like of whose obedience to the will of God we may not doubt because we may not doubt of their salvation Which opinion of theirs as I may not altogether reiect so will I not simply allow of for wee haue two propositions of certaine truth 1 Externall obedience is necessary to the doing of the wil of God and therefore that which they thinke is not simplie to be allowed 2 The fulfilling of the wil of God consisteth chiefly and especially in our hearty and earnest desire of doing it and therfore what they thinke may not altogither be reiected That outwarde obedience is necessary for our doing of Gods will is so plaine that it needs no proofe For to whō gaue God his commandements to be done Was it not to man Now who knoweth not that man consisteth of a body as well as of a soul The body then is bound to obey as well as the soule The inward desire serues not the turne outward obedience must be practised Outward obediēce I say not perfit for that is impossible do we all we can do we shal be vnprofitable servāts yet I say outward obedience must be practised And therefore S. Paule hath beseeched you to giue your bodies to God Rom. 12.1 shewing that your bodies should be Gods servants as wel as your souls Both are too little one cannot be enough Will you glorifie God in your souls you shal do wel but glorifie him in your bodies too 1. Cor. 6.20 Do your hearts beleeue yet that is not enough your monthes must cōfesse too Rom. 10.10 your tongues must be kept from evill and your lips that they speake no guile too Psal 34.13 your eares must heare too Matt. 11.15 your eies must behold the right too Prov. 4.25 your hands must be lift vp to his sanctuary too Psa 134.2 your feet must be removed from evill too Prov 4.27 The summe of all is you must giue your bodies a sacrifice to God Now a Sacrifice as you know is wherein all the members are offered together Levit. 1.9 13. Therefore must you giue your members also to God Your eies your eares your tongues your hands your feet with all the rest must be emploied in the service of God For he who commanded you to loue the LORD with al your soule and with al your minde Deut. 6.5 hath commanded you also to loue him with all your strength to teach you that the strength of your handes eies and eares and every other part of you must wholy be emploied in his service And therefore as we would be changed in our thoughes so must we also be changed in our wordes so must we be changed in our works we must be carefull that our tongues speake no more idely that our eies behold no more vanity that our eares heare no more folly that our hands worke no more iniquitie and as oft as we shall go about the service of God which we cannot do to oft everie one of vs should cal all his powers togither and saie with David Psal 103.1 My soule praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy name And thus much of the first proposition of the necessity of our outward obedience The second proposition if you remember was this The fulfilling of the will of God consisteth cheifly and especially in our hearty and earnest desire of doing it The proofe hereof is easy The chiefest part of man is his minde therfore the fulfilling of the Law especiallie consisteth in the desires and intents of the minde and it so consisteth in these affections that touching the elect who only beleeue in Christ and alone may be said to do Gods will God resteth contented with this inwarde desire as long as this flesh encombreth them All other imbecilities are not imputed vnto thē This godly purpose earnest desire of doing Gods wil stands them in steed For it is so gratefull to God as that he accepteth this begun obedience for most perfit And reckons of thē that are thus obedient as if they had kept the whole law which he so doth not for this their desire not for this their begun obedience but because by faith they are engrafted into Christ So chiefly the fulfilling of Gods wil consisteth in our inward obedience but not wholy I deny not but that Hezekiah trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Iudah neither were there any such before him for hee claue to the Lord and departed not from him but kept his commaundements which the Lord had cōmanded Moses for so we read 2. Kin. 18.5 6. yet we read also that this same Hezekiah did some things which pleased not the Lord 2. King 20.13 Neither may I denie but that Iosiah did vprightly in the sight of the Lord for so it is written 2. King 22.2 yet it is written also that this Iosiah would not obey the word of God 2. Chron. 35.22 Neither will I denie but that David fulfilled the will of the Lord for he is bold to saie of himselfe O Lord I haue refrained my feete frō every evil way haue not declined frō thy iudgements O Lord Psal 119.101 102. yet his notorious murther and adultery are witnesses of his not fulfilling the will of God So then of Hezekiah of Iosiah and of David I may say that they haue fulfilled the will of God because with integritie of inward affections they haue desired the fulfilling thereof but to say that absolutely and simply they haue done this will of God I may not I dare not open my mouth If thou O Lord shalt mark what is done amisse O Lord who is able to abide it Let this then be our resolution concerning this point the holy Scriptures by this speech by this phrase to doe the will of God doe signifie perfect obedience of the whole man towards God perfect obedience both of body and soule yet because the chiefest part of this obedience is rooted in the minde the Almightie by the same phrase signifieth that hee is willing to accept the readinesse of our minds if it bee ioyned with faith in Christ for most perfect obedience to the Law And I adde this howsoever the Lord will accept the integritie of our mindes when it is