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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 portiō at least in the things of this life present of which Dauid in the seuēteenth 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 frō 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 … 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 thēselues 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 pollutiō 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 thēselues 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

is to come but of this life present also And the performance is good But everie promise is kept as it is made And though this promise here is meant vnto the godlie yet the same in precise tearmes is made vnto godlinesse as at the first was noted That so the godlie might bee taught to assure them selues of the truth hereof onely with Quatenus and clause of restraint and no otherwise to wit thus so far as the are godlie because the godlie do want of their godlines And as Paul saith of knowledge which is a part of godlines our knowledge is in part 1. Cor. 13.12 so much more is it true of the whole that our godlines is in part it were a dangerous dreame to thinke otherwise Wherefore wee accuse not the purietie and sincerity but the perfection of godlines and the most godlie wee say againe doe want of then godlines So far therefore as wee are godlie and doe keepe with God so far he keepeth with vs but when we breake with him as too often we do this altereth the case with vs but yet not with God For then he taketh the rod in hand which otherwise should lie long enough but for very neede and so that godlines might go with all his delighte is in the prosperitie of his servants Oh saith he in the 48. of Esaie Oh that thou hadest harkened to my commaundementes Isa 48.18 then had thy prosperity bene as the floud and thy righteousnes as the waues of the sea That is they should haue followed one vpon the other as one waue of the sea followeth an other and gone alonge together as companions vnseperable And in the fourskore and first Psalme Oh that my people had harkened vnto mee and Israell had walked in my waies I woulde soone haue humbled their enemies and turned my hand against their adversaries the haters of the Lorde shoulde haue beene subiect vnto him but their time to wit time of the prosperitye of his people this their time should haue endured for ever And God would haue fed them with the fatte of wheate and with honey out of the rocke woulde I haue satisfied thee But if wee harken not vnto God walke not in his waies what then 〈◊〉 then thus and it is inchided in the condition of the promise vnto David and all the faithfull in the fourskore and ninth Psalme thus But if his children forsake my law and walke not in my iudgementes if they breake my statutes and keepe not my commandements dementes I will visite their offences with the rodde and their sinne vvith scourges Neverthelesse my lovinge kindnes will I not vtterly take frō him not suffer my truth to faile So that even hee which also punisheth our vngodlinesse is true in his promise and his loving kindnesse remaineth still with it shall I say yea in it Heere is a mysterie and yet no mysterie vnto the godlye which feele and finde their vngodlinesse so to bee chastened by the hande of God with such a fatherlie good will and care of them that hee turneth them hereby from their vngodlines to stād fast in the covenant and al that furthereth this intent is therefore blessed Blessed is the sickenesse blessed are the sores blessed are the woundes of such a friend Prov. 27.6 yea better then the kisses of an enemie This I take it is the meaninge of that league and Covenaunt in the second of Hosea And in that day saith the Lord will I make a Covenant for them Hos 2.18 with the wilde beastes and with the fowles of the heauen and with that that creepeth vpon the earth and I will breake the bow and the swoord and the battail out of the earth and will make them to sleepe safely Not that there shall not bee annoyances to these confederates in heauē in earth aboue below rounde about them nor that the sword shall not be whet bow bent the battail set against them in all the earth for who in the earth more afflicced then wee but that the intent of the enemy shall be defeated these instrumēts of mischiefe prepared for their hurt shal be found in the end to do them good O Ashur the rod of my wrath saith the Lord by the Prophet and the staffe in their handes is mine indignation Isa 10.5.6.7 I will sende him to a dissembling nation and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoile and to take the pray to tread them vnder feete as the mire in the streete But he thinketh not so but hee imagineth to destroy and to cut of not a few nations The purpose of the Lord his worke was by the rod of the Assirians in iustice iudgement to punish the sinnes of Ierusalem Iuda for their amendment as Ieremie saith Let thine owne wicked correct thee Ierem. 2.19 and thy turninges back reprooue thee know therefore behold that it is an evill thing and bitter that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God and that my feare is not in thee saith the Lord God of hostes But the bent of the Assirian was barely to destroy and to set vp his great name by mighty destructions Thus the enimies shall whet their swoord and bend their bow make readie the battail for our destruction they shall kill and leade captiue devide the spoiles yet no harme doone for the Prophecie of Esaias shall be fulfilled Isa 11.9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in al the moūtaine of my holines The reason For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters that couer the sea This plentifull knowledge doth keepe all safe Which Paul also ascribeth to our loue of God who cannot but loue him after that we haue knowen him and his loue towardes vs according as hee hath chosen vs before and called vs with an holy calling ● Tim. 1.9 to know loue and honour him in all true holines Wherefore in the 8. to the Romans most comfortablie most plainely to this purpose he saieth Also we know that all thinges worke together for the best vnto thē that loue God Rom. 8.28 euen to them that are called of purpose Where doubtlesse the Apostle meaneth not so chiefelie of the thinges which properlie are good as of those which might be hurtfull if the purpose of men and the nature of the things should be respected But such is the worke of godlines or rather of God for the godly whome he hath loued called according to purpose they know him loue him serue him in holines that for their sakes according to the warking as the Apostle saith Philip. 3.21 whereby he is able to subdue all things vnto himselfe to comaund the light to shine out of darkenes 2. Cor. 4.6 he also subdueth vnto himselfe his the nature of these evill thinges and turneth them vnto their good so