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A18963	Foure sermons The two first, of godly feare: on Hebrewes 4. verse 1. By Robert Cleauer. The two last. Of Christian loue and life. On Canticles 2. verse 10. By Richard Webb.	Cleaver, Robert, 1561 or 2-ca. 1625.; Webb, Richard, preacher of God's word. aut	1613 (1613)	STC 5381; ESTC S108059	69,327	96

cary away all the preferment and yet when the question is concerning the chiefe preferment of all which is to be a found Christian they put euery body before themselues they are content that others shall be Kings but they will be vassalls vnto sinne and Sathan What folly or rather madnesse is this Doe they imagine that they shall not come to iudgement as well as others Doth not experience manifest vnto them that age creepeth vpon them as well as vpon others That sicknesse taketh hold of them as well as of others That horrible vexations and terrours doe sease on them as vvell as on others And why then doth it not enter into their hearts that damnation belongs vnto them as well as vnto others if by speedy repentance they doe not preuent the same Now as some doe fondly and falsly conceiue that they shall be boren vvith in regard of their greatnesse so doe others hope in regard of their meanenesse to be dispensed with We are poore day-labourers and seruants say they who are to be imployed in worldly affaires and to spend our whole time that way I hope it is not required of vs that wee should be skild in the scriptures be able to conceiue prayer able to admonish offenders c. And therefore either they absent themselues from the Church altogether or els are carelesse and negligent and sleepie when they are there and if they be called to an account and examined vvhat they remember they make answere that they are wearied out with labouring in the weeke dayes and therefore they must haue rest vpon the Sabbath day That they were hired for their worke and that they will doe and no more they will not be examined nor catechized nor be held to any such strict orders But doth not the Lord in his holy word require obedience of poore men and of seruants as farre forth as of any Doth not he in the fourth commandement enioyne them to obserue not a bodily rest alone as beasts doe but an holy rest And whereas they say that they are so toyled out with worke that they cannot listen to Gods word that is but a fleshly and diuellish excuse for vvhen the Sermon is ended they are fresh and liuely enough to follow after their sports and sinnefull recreations if they may haue libertie so to doe and can take more paines that way than they haue done in their callings all the weeke before and therefore these vaine shifts shall not serue their turnes Gods threatnings are denounced against them and his iudgements haue beene executed vpon such as they are heeretofore and so shall they be still profane seruants and sinnefull poore men were not spared in the destruction of the olde world and of Sodom and Gomorra and wee reade in the Gospell that at the comming of Christ those that are labouring in the Field Mat. 24.40.41 and women that are grinding at the Mill shall be some of them cast off vnto destruction as well as others are receiued vnto saluation But all seruants are not of so meane a condition as some but there are a second sort that haue another pretence for their casting off of Christ his yoake and they are such as are followers of great men who alledge that it is not for their Masters honour for them to be religious or as they tearme it precise but to be proud and quarrelsome to be ruffians and roisters to be swearers and blasphemers to be drunkards and whore-Maisters these they thinke be for the credite of the house vnto which they appertaine and by these practises they hope to be-please their Masters But when they haue spent their daies in these courses can their Masters saue them from perdition which by their leudnesse they haue iustly deserued no surely the holy Ghost speaking of the mighty ones of the world sayth Psal 49.7.8 that they cannot redeeme their brother nor giue his ransome to God they cannot procure their naturall life to be prolonged one day nay nor one moment much lesse can they purchase the redemption of their soules that they should liue for euer and that in perpetuall blisse and happinesse Others there are that thinke they may haue a tolleration to be vaine and sinnefull because they are yong especially if they haue this resolution that when their youthfull bloud is spent and the vigour of their bodies gone they will betake themselues to more sober courses and repent for that which is past but till that time if they take their libertie vpon the Lords day and liue in idlenesse and profanenesse euery day you must pardon them but will God pardon them doth not he say Remember thy creatour in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12.1 whiles the euill dayes come not nor the yeeres approach wherein thou shalt say I haue no pleasure in them And if they will not take his aduise marke what he sayth in another place Reioyce Eccles 11.9 O yong man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth c. This they can well like of be too ready to put in practise but what followeth But know sayth the Lord that for all these things thou must be brought to iudgement Dauid found that the sinnes of his youth lay heauy vpon him and therefore prayeth God would not remember them Psal 25.7 and shall we make so light of them Paul admonisheth Timothy a very sanctified and mortified yong man to flie the lusts of youth and shall we let loose the raines thereunto as if they were matters of nothing ah let vs not be so foole-hardie vnto our owne ruine and ouerthrow but considering how fearfully the Lord doth iudge many young men that giue vp themselues to fornication and adulterie and theft and all manner of vile and sinfull behauiour as namely that some of them die an vntimely death being either brought to the gallowes or some other way strangely cut off and that others hauing great reuenewes left vnto them are notwithstanding cast into extreme miserie and necessitie and that some others being well descended are for all that branded with egregious infamie and reproch considering I say these and the like extraordinary tokens of Gods heauie displeasure against sundrie lisencious yong men let vs take warning by their example and consecrate the first fruits of our yeeres vnto him by spending our time religiouslie and profitablie in some good course or other Secondly Vse 2 sithence the care of saluation pertaineth vnto all indifferently let Ministers hence learne to deale equally with those that are vnder their charge and not know any man after the flesh to respect him more or lesse for that hee is rich or poore high or low or the like but giue euery one their due portion of spirituall food which they in the wisedome of the Spirit iudge to be most fit for them let them not feare to administer an admonition or reprehension to the greatest and wealthiest neither let them

liued long enough to know how to be saued and as for seruing of God they haue had a good deuotion euer since they were borne and they trust they haue as good hearts to God-ward and as good a beleefe in him as the best of them all that can talke so much of the Scriptures Alas poore silly people their case is lamentable whatsoeuer they imagine for all the while they intertaine so good a conceit of themselues they cannot possibly flie vnto God for mercy in Christ Iesus Ephes 2.2 but are strangers from the couenants of promise and howsoeuer they brag of their hope of eternall life yet as the Apostle sayth they are without hope and without God in the world and therefore if euer they looke to be cured by the great Physition of our soules Christ Iesus let them labour to see their spirituall maladies for he came not to heale those that thinke themselues whole but such alone as feele themselues to be sicke and doe esteeme it a singular benefit to haue a through cure wrought vpon their soules Secondly the promise is forsaken through infidelity when men thinke it to be bootelesse for them to apprehend the same and that there is not therein vertue sufficient to bring them vnto heauen whence it comes to passe that if they be set vpon by feares and terrors they sinke vnder the same as Iudas did notwithstanding all the sweet promises which hee hard from his Maister And as for their soules so for their estate if they be poore and behinde hand or any other way distressed they imagine it to be a folly for them to cast their care vpon God and to rest vpon his promise who hath said that hee vvill not faile nor forsake those that depend vpon him they will neuer put him to it nor try what he will doe for them as wicked Ahaz professed when hee was in danger of the enemy Isa 7.12 but they will rather shift for themselues and vse falshood and lying whatsoeuer ill meanes they can deuise for the releiuing of themselues this also is to reiect the promise Thirdly they also are guilty of the same crime that doe preferre earthly things before heauenly Luk. 14.26 Hee that doth not forsake father and mother wife and children lands and goods and all that he hath or might haue for Christ his sake and the Gospels Luk. 14.24 is not worthy of him And therefore were they reiected as vnmeete guests for the heauenly banquet who made more account of their farmes their oxen and such like outvvard things than they did of those spirituall comforts which the Lord offered vnto them And in like sort shall they be iudged and condemned as contemners of the promises of life who doe more greedily seeke after gold and siluer and perishable substance than they doe after the treasures of a better life which are permanent and euerlasting Indeede Gods people are oftentimes ouercaried with an immoderate affection towards the things of this world and lust breaketh in vpon them but they giue no harbour nor lodging therevnto in their hearts neither doe they loue these lying vanities more than grace and godlinesse but would willingly giue the Maister a place aboue the seruants though they as rude and vnmannerly guests doe striue for the chiefe roome in their soules they would gladly preferre the glory of God and the meanes of their saluation before all the kingdomes of the earth desire these outward things onely as helpes and furtherances thereunto And thus wee see how the promises may be reiected Now a second vse of this point shal be for our instruction Vse 2 that seeing the hearing of the promises is not sufficient for the procuring of our eternall happinesse but the apprehending and applying of the same is also required of vs therefore wee should with all earnestnesse take hold thereof and by faith make them our owne preferring them before all that this world can afford vs and being content to relinquish whatsoeuer wee possesse for the purchasing of this precious pearle And when once we haue obtained it Math. 13. let vs hide the same within our hearts and keepe it as our very life neuer making shipwracke of a good conscience least thereby our saith and comfort in the promises be much weakened and diminished but holding on a constant course in the wayes of pietie that so our inward ioy and assurance of Gods fauour may be still continued and dayly increased And for the same end let vs be often meditating and conferring of the promises and be willing to hearken vnto others that either in publike or in priuate doe their best endeuour to adde further strength vnto our faith Thus if vvee can doe wee shal be sure of a portion in the heauenly promises vvhen others shal be punished for refusing of the same Of entring into his rest That is into eternall blessednesse in the heauens and the assurance of enioying the same here vpon the earth according to that in the 3. Verse Wee that beleeue are entring into rest Whence wee may learne this doctrine that The state of Christianity is a state of rest Doct. 6 The land of Canaan Christianity is a state of rest whereinto the children of Israel entred after their long and tedious trauell in the wildernsse was a tipe thereof and therefore is it called Gods rest but he doth not so greatly stand vpon that because reprobates were admitted into it as well as his chosen people but he putteth vs in minde of a better rest euen the state of grace and of glory which his elect and they alone shall haue the fruition of our Sauiour confirmeth this point vnto vs where he sayth Come vnto me all yee that are wearie and laden Matth. 11.28 and I will ease you Take my yoake on you c. and you shall finde rest vnto your soules Heere wee see what an happy case they are in that betake themselues vnto Christ for reliefe and comfort submitting themselues vnto his holy gouernment though they haue manisold troubles and aduersities without yet they haue quietnesse within so long and so farre as they can disburden their soules of all their sorrowes and cares by casting them vpon Christ Iesus as hee would haue them all that while they are euen like men that inhabite in a strong and inuincible Castle who in the middes of blustering stormes and windes that are round about them and of violent aduersaries that doe lay continuall seige against them are merry and cheerefull and fall to their foode and betake them to their rest without any feare and distraction at all as knowing that they are safe and sure how soeuer they be assayled and opposed against such is the case of all godly men what outward trials soeuer they haue their consciences are at quiet within as being confidently assured that nothing can befall them for their hurt for indeed euery sanctified Christian is as safe from all mischiefe