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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

giue to the poore chose rather to leaue Christ then forsake his riches for Christ Yea it is a thing impossible for such couetous Churles to runne swiftly in the way to life It is easier for a Cammell Mat. 19. ●4 to goe thorow the eye of a Needle then for a rich couetous Carle to enter into the Kingdome of Heauen Nemo potest Dominis rectè sur●ire duobus Poet. Id est No man can serue two Masters no man serue God and Mammon God and riches Hee that hath his treasure in earth cannot haue his conuersation in Heauen For where Mat. 6. 21. the treasure is there will the heart bee also If therefore riches increase let vs not set our hearts vpon them Let vs vse this world as though wee vsed it not let vs hold all dung for the gaining of IESVS As Christ said in the Gospell of Iohn That his Kingdome Ioh. 18. was not of this world So should wee say that our delight is not in this world but our hearts are altogether in the world to come Let vs take no care what wee shall eate or what wee shall drinke or wherewith wee shall bee arrayed After all these things the mu●kewormes of this world the Pagans Infidels and Heathen people seeke that haue neither knowledge of God nor feare of God before their eyes but let vs cast our care on the Lord 1. Pet. 5. 7. Mat. 4. for the Lord onely careth for vs Therfore as Peter and Andrew left their nets to follow Christ And as Elisha 1. King 19. ●● left his Oxen and his Plough to follow Eliah the man of GOD Se should wee leaue whatsoeuer is in the world to follow the Sonne of God to Heauen We reade of Crates Thebanus that ●r●● ● because hee could not apply himselfe to the study of Philosophy in regard of his riches hee tooke his money and cast it into the Sea saying Ego perdam te ne tu perdas me id est I will destroy thee lest thou destroyest mee So if we finde that our wealth or any other thing in this world is an impediment to our Christian race let vs cast them from vs not as Crates did into the Sea that were a fond and foolish thing But let vs cast our Eccl. 11. 1. bread vpon the waters that is bestow them on the poore as Christ did wash the young man in the Gospell of Matnew Thus therefore should wee empty our selues of sinne within and vnburthen our selues of the cares of this wicked world without if wee will runne swiftly in the High-way to Heauen So runne that yee may obtaine Text. Thirdly if we will run to obtaine we must runne Pers●ueranter Perseuerantly and continually holding out to the end of our Race Those that runne in a race though they runne neuer so directly though neuer so swiftly yet if they giue ouer before they come at the ●nd they lose their reward Euen so if we perseuere not in the race of Godlinesse to the end of our liues we shal fayle of the Kingdome of Heauen He that diggeth in a golden Mine till hee commeth within fiue or sixe fadomes of the gold and then giue ouer is not all his labour lost and all his cost in vaine A Traueller that hauing taken vpon him a long iourney and in the end giueth ouer within two or three miles of his iourneys end is not all his labour lost and are not all his paines likewise in vaine Euen so Nihil prodest cursus bonae vitae 〈…〉 cons●●m●tur bo●o ●in● id est The Race of a Godly life profiteth nothing vnlesse it bee finished with a godly end If a man had liued in the profession of the glorious Gospell of Iesus for the space of twenty thirty or forty yeeres and then proue an Apostata back-sliding from the same hee is so farre from obtaining saluation as the end of him is worser then the beginning So that there is no hope of happinesse without perseuerance for as the tree falleth so it lyeth whether it falleth towards the South or North And as a man dyeth so shall hee be adiudged If in the Lord then shall he haue his portion with Saints if in impenitency then shall hee haue his portion with diuels The Souldier is not guerdoned with spoiles before hee hath obtained victory no more shall we be crowned before wee haue been more then Conquerers in Iesus Christ Well therfore saith one Sinullus esset hostis nulla esset pugna si nulla pugna nulla victoria si nulla victoria nulla denique Corona i. If there were no enemy there were no fight ●f there were no fight there were no victory if there were no victory there were no Crowne Nam nemo coronab●●ur 2. Tim. 2. nisi qui le●u●●e cert●●●rit id est For n● man shall bee crowned but hee that figh●eth lawfully Ideo homines tentantur vt tentati resistant resistentes vincant vincentes coronentur Men are for this cause tempted that being tempted they may resist resisting they may ouercome and ouercomming they may be crowned So that the perseuerance is all in all The woman of Canaan by perseuerant crying after Christ got her Daughter to bee dispossessed of the Mat. 15. Diuell The man that had ghests come late to his house by his perseuerant knocking got bread for them of his neighbour at mid-night So by perseuerance in the Race of Godlinesse we shall obtaine the bread of life Christ Iesus that reigneth at the right hand of his Father in glory for euermore Chrysostome speaking of this spirituall Chrysostome Race sayth thus Incipere multorum finire paucorum id est Many will beginne to runne in this godly Race but few there are that will hold out to the end Rome began well and imbraced the Gospell of Christ willingly but with the dogge they returned to their Pro. 26. 11. former vomit of Idolatry and with the Sow that was washed they wallowed againe in the mire of iniquity So that Fryer Mantuan reporteth thus much in commendation of their Citie Heu Romae nunc sola pecunia regnat Mant●●n exilium virtus patitur vrbs est iam tota lupa●ar id est Alas alas Couetousnesse is Queene of Rome all godlinesse is banished from thence the whole Citie is become a Stewes And herevpon he giueth this Caueat to all Christians Viuere qui sanctè cupitis discedite Roma Poet. Omnia cum liceant non licet esse bonum Id est All you that vvill liue a godly life depart from Rome for all things are there suffered saue godlinesse Oh it had béen better for this vvhorish ● Pet. 2. ●1 City neuer to haue knovvne the vvay of Righteousnesse then after they haue knovvne it to turne from the holy doctrine giuen vnto them For 〈…〉 ●he latter end is worse with them then the beginning according to that in the Gospell If S●tan be cast out