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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21043	A counterpoison against couetousnes in a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse, May 23. 1619. By Ier. Dyke minister of Gods word at Epping in Essex.	Dyke, Jeremiah, 1584-1639.	1619 (1619)	STC 7412; ESTC S116229	36,623	67

me and hath embraced this present world How easie is it to make him the diuels Priest that is once Mammons Chaplaine What religion or false worship will not that man embrace that hath once embraced this world The world is like the whores of Midian with whom no sooner an Israelite can be familiar but he shall be entised to the sacrifices of the dead to the sacrifices of Baal-Peor To marrie the daughter of a strange god is a grosse transgression of this Law And yet how many sticke not to wed to the Canaanites so get not thornes in their sides but in their consciences and all because their hearts are first wedded to the world 3 Commandement Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine Alas the couetous man thinkes this a very vaine Commandement Now fie vpon such precisenesse What! may not a man for his aduantage to put off his commodity helpe him selfe now and then with an oath He thinketh this needlesse scupulositie Nay and yet behold a worse abomination then this Paul calleth couetousnesse coloured couetousnesse or the cloke of couetousnesse 1. Thess 2. 5. Now though in the former Commandement it sticketh not for gaine to corrupt religion yet here for aduantage it will paint with religion and put on a religious cloke or habite Thus did the couetous Pharises prophane Gods holy name while they deuoured widdowes houses vnder the colour of long prayer Math. 23. 14. There was couetousnesse coloured with religion Certainly Gods holy name is not more abused by profane couetousnesse when it must be made a broker to helpe off base commodities then it is by seeming-religious couetousnesse when men vse religion for a siluer hook professe it as the Shecemites receiued circumcision Gen. 34. 23. Shall not their flockes and their substance and all their cattell be ours So shall not their custome and their countenance be ours Onely let vs make a shew of their religion for this is a maine principle in a couetous mans Catechisme that gaine is godlinesse 1. Tim. 6. 5. and therefore cares not to make a shew of godlinesse to bring in gaine that so in a profane sence he may say with himselfe Godlinesse pretended is great gaine But such with the Pharises shall receiue the greater damnation 4. Commandement Remember thou keepe holy the Sabboth day The couetous man is of Pharaohs religion He thinkes religion maketh men idle The people are idle therefore they crie Let vs go sacrifice saith Pharaoh Exod. 5. The couetous man thinketh the rest of the Sabboth to be but idlenesse It is a day lost in a weeke seuen weekes and an halfe in a yeare Oh how it grudges the wretch to spare God so much time Therefore they crie Amos 8. 5. When will the Sabboth be gone that we may sell corne Nay he hath not the patience now to stay so long He cries not now When will the Sabboth but when will the Sermon be done Couetousnesse was modest in Amos his dayes it would then stay marketting till the Sabboth were done It is now growne more profligate and impudent and dares impropriate as Gods tenthes in the second so Gods seauenths in the fourth Commandement What makes many keepe their Sabboths in their saddles and not so much as to keepe Sabbatum asinorum in the bare rest from labour but their couetousnesse What is the reason that many Lawyers chambers are in Sabboth afternoones better filled with Clients then many countrie Churches are with people but couetousnesse This this is that sinne that turneth Gods Sabboths into Sabbatum Tyri the Sabboth of Tyrus Nehe. 13. 16. that brought fish and all wares and sold on the Sabboth Ierusalem was troubled with fish-merchants on the Sabboth And many townes and cities in this kingdome are troubled with flesh-merchants wine-merchants ale and beere-merchants cup and tap-merchants and what breedeth these trouble-townes but couetousnesse He that is greedie of gaine troubles not onely his owne house but a whole towne a whole citie And was it better in this your honourable Citie till your worthy Nehemiahs opposed these Tyrian Sabbatarians set themselues religiously and zealously to the suppression of Mammons solemne seruice in the publike shambles and priuate temples of Bacchus Now honoured be their memories that first begun that good worke and no lesse theirs that do and shall continue it What greater honour can this renowned See and famous Citie haue then in their ioynt care and zeale to preserue Gods holy Sabboths from those foule profanations which couetousnesse and the loue of filthy lucre hath inuented Those Iewes Amos 8. cryed When will the Sabboth be gone that we may sell there was some kinde of honesty yet in their couetousnesse But there is a broode now that crie When will the Sabboth come that we may sell ale beere and tipling commodities They long for the Sabboth not that they might enioy God in the publike assemblies of his Saints but that the sonnes of Belial may haue their assemblies and guzzeling Randevous in their houses and cellars Now compare the sinne of Amos his times with the sinne of ours and it is but light in comparison of ours They broke the Sabboth but in thought and desire in word at most but our men grosly profane it by making it both Sabbatum Tyri and Sabbatum Bacchi at once a marketting and a iunketting a selling and a swilling day both And yet as light as their sin was see what an heauie threatning is denounced against them Am. 8. 8. Shall not the land tremble for this and euery one mourne that dwells therein And shall the land tremble for the lighter and not much more for the heauier sinne How great cause haue we to beg of God to giue all such whom it concerneth whether gouernours of the Church or commonwealth zeale and resolution to maintaine Gods honour in this point that in stead of trembling and mourning there may be ioy and reioycing to all good hearts in the flourishing of Gods ordinances Let me adde one thing that may adde encouragemēt to this work Nehemiah after the report of his care for the Sabboths reformation prayeth on this maner verse 22. Remember me ô God concerning this Lay Nehemiahs Memento to Gods Memento lay Gods commandement Nehemiahs prayer together Remember thou keepe holy the Sabboth saith God Nehemiah remembers it and then prayeth Remember me ô God They with comfort and confidence may pray to God to Remember them who with courage and conscience Remember him and his Sabboths But if we forget his Sabboths then God hath sworne by the excellencie of Iaacob Surely he will neuer forget any of these workes Amos 8. 7. 5. Commandement Honour thy father and thy mother That which Moses speaketh of Leui in a good sence Deut. 33. 9. He said to his father and mother I haue not seene him may be said of him in an ill sence He hath an euill a blinde eye that will not see and a deafe