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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73905	Three sermons preached by that learned and reuerend diuine, Doctor Eedes, sometimes dean of Worcester, for their fitnesse vnto the present time, now published by Robert Horn ...	Eedes, Richard, 1555-1604.	1627 (1627)	STC 7527; ESTC S100344	78,692	109

greater wisedome is required of vs and must be vsed by vs for our auoiding of the infection of that corrupt fellowship and misgouernment that like venome sheds it selfe vpon all that come neere it So farre off we must be because the dayes are euill from being euill as they are that wee must take the more paines and heede to be good And here we should rather goe alone in the narrow way then follow a multitude to doe euill Exod. 23.2 If it be of the fashion to be euill we must be like vnto Christ and resemble good Christians who doe not fashion themselus like vnto this world Rom. 12.2 but are in their Masters fashion and conforme to him But some will doe as the world doth and goe whither the most lead them and whither is that euen to the house where the dead are Pro. 9.18 and what to doe to be mad with the company to be baited with their allurements and to eate of such things as please them but no example should preuaile so farre though of thousands that so doe as to draw vs into wayes of wickednesse with follies children and if we would not be damned with such mates we must not follow their damnable wayes their pipes of smoake and pots of excesse Againe some feare not the contagious aire of any companie why what is their confidence No company say they can doe vs hurt Can it not and why can it not hurt them Is it because they are already so bad that no company can make them worse or haue they forgotten what company was able to doe against Peter himselfe a farre holier man then themselues in Caiaphas hall Mat. 26.70 72 74. Likewise how it preuailed against righteous Lot vertuous Ioseph and Dauid Gods owne King If these were intangled shall they goe free if these carried with them a smatch of the company that yet they liked not shall they that runne desperately vpon the sharpe of this worldly fellowship and take pleasure in it keepe their state still It cannot be and therefore to make my end here I beseech you remember your great danger and forget not your holy calling in these euill dayes so euill that you may not bee moued from your hope for this cause take vnto you the whole armour of God that yee may be able to resist in the euill day and hauing finished all things stand fast Eph. 6.13 The God of power giue you to bee so minded and to this God the Father with his holy Sonne Christ Iesus and the Spirit of both three persons in Trinitie one God in vnitie be rendred all glory dominion and honour now and euer Amen FINIS THE SHORT PROSPERITY of the Wicked AND THE HAPPIE ESTATE of the IVST PSAL. 37. Ver. 35 36 37. I haue seene the wicked in great power and spreading himselfe like a greene Bay-tree Yet he passed away and loe hee was not yea I sought him but he could not be found Marke the perfect man and behold the vpright for the end of that man is peace I Haue seene the wicked strong c. There are two things obseruable in this Scripture the vnstable prosperity of the wicked vers 35 36. and the certaine and constant felicitie of the righteous vers 37. Albeit that the wicked man be neuer so strong and in the pride of his heart spread abroad like a greene Bay-tree neuer so faire yet hee suddenly passeth and is little marked he vanisheth speedily and is as little remembred whereas the iust and vpright man though his life be a kinde of warfare on earth findes peace at the last and after his red euening a faire day followeth Mat. 16.2 This is the sum and scope of these three verses A point if euer necessary now most needfull for our present times and state and such as can neuer be too much vrged or enough considered specially since it is a thing incident to the best to looke but on the outside of things and to measure the secret iudgements of God with the scant yard of his outward blessings whereas indeede his very chastenings are blessings and that which we account blessing but a fatning to the slaughter for not to say any thing of meere flesh and bloud who say in their hearts there is no God Psal 14.1 or at the best no Prouidence of God Quòd malis benè est bonis malè seeing it goeth well with those that are euill and ill with those that are good it is a temptation greater then the very children of God can ouercome or resist as long as they are cloathed with this earthly and mortall tabernacle to see the wicked so greatly and high to rise aboue the head of the righteous and to haue not a large measure but such an ouer-measure of these commodities and blessings that they so much want whose godlinesse notwithstanding hath the promise of the life present and not onely of the life to come 1 Tim. 4.8 for albeit godlinesse be great of it selfe I doe not say riches but gaine and haue enough in it selfe to commend it for it selfe to all that are godly-wise yet I know not how it commeth to passe that we praise the thing but labour for the reward and stand more vpon the fruit then the conscience of a good worke We can be content with the old people and children of Israel to giue an eare to the Commandement of louing the Lord and of fearing him and swearing by his name as we finde it of record in Deuteronomie chapter 6 8. but our chiefe respect and speciall eye is to the promises there spoken of as the prolonging of our dayes in the Land our increase therein and prosperitie in the blessings thereof our hauing of Cities which we builded not houses full of goods which wee filled not Wels which wee digged not Vineyards and Oliue-trees which wee planted not Deut. 6.2 3 10 11. We can be content to seeke the Kingdome of God and his righteousnesse Mat. 6.33 but not in the first place and with our first care and our zeale will soone waxe cold if all other things be not added to vs. In a word we can be content to thinke that godlinesse is great riches but if the promises which it hath of this life be not presently performed to it we thinke wee haue clensed our hearts in vaine and washed our hands in innocencie Psalme 73.13 Howbeit the want of these outward things in the godly though it be a tentation very grieuous doth not so much trouble them as that they are poured out in so great plenty and fulnesse vpon the wicked for howsoeuer there are to be found that haue so farre profited in the Schoole of the crosse that they can suffer many things for Christ and for his name and testimony with great patience and sound ioy yet who is hee that is not moued beyond his patience and afflicted euen aboue the measure of his affliction to see the wicked not onely free from troubles in the