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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60325	The practices of persecutors delivered in a sermon on the fourteenth verse of the foure score six Psalme / b Mr. Archibald Skeldie.	Skeldie, Archibald.	1645 (1645)	Wing S3932; ESTC R20904	44,206	68

to be towards God their heavenly Master whom Augustine bringeth in thus speaking (y) Ille meus minister eris qui non audire quod voluerit paratus est sed velle quod audierit August in Psal 118. He shal be my servant who is ready no to heare what he willeth but to will what he heareth Which a Christian must carefully look to not only in the abstaining from things that ought to be avoyded but likewise in doing things that ought to be performed the one because they are forbiden the other because they are commanded of the Lord for thereby a Christian giveth testimony of his sincer obedience in the sight of God according to the saying of Augustine (z) Verus obediens non attendit quale pracipitur sed hoc contentus est quia praecipi tur Aug. ibid. He that is truly obedient doth not consider what sort of thing is commanded but with this he is only content that it is commanded Secondly That a Christian may set God before him it is not only required that he look to the will of God as the rule but likewise that he looke to the glory of God as the end of his actions for in this is the fidelitie and sincerity of the servants of God manifested who shall obtaine their Masters approbation in the day of their reckoning for then a Christian may be said to look to the glory of God as the end of his actions when he so zealously tendereth the bonour of God that he will not doe any thing to dishonour him though thereby he should make never so much profit and commoditie neither will hee omit any thing whereby God should bee honoured though by doing of it he should incurre both skaith and ignominy We reade of the servants in the parable of the talents that they so respected their Masters honour that they rendered into his hands both the talents they had received and those they had gained committing the distribution of their rewards to their Masters discretion Happie is that Christian that can say with Christ * Iohn 17.4 that in finishing the work which God hath given him to doe he hath glorified God upon earth for he may be well assured * 2 Sam. 2.30 that as they that dishonour God shal come to shame so they that honour him shall be honoured of him * Iohn 12.26 If any man serve me him shall my father honour saith our Saviour in the Gospel upon which words Augustine saith (a) Sic ministrantem Christo honorificabit pater cius honore illo magno ut sit cum filio cius nec unquā deficiet faelicitas eius Aug. tract 51. in Ioan. So shall the Father of Christ honour the servant of Christ with that great honour that he may be with his Sonne neither shall his happinesse at any ty me faile or fall away 3. He that setteth God before him must be led by the light of his word spirit for the word of God * Psal 119. Is a light to our feet a lātern to our paths * Luke 1.79 It giveth light to thē that sit in darknes in the shadow of death * Psal 27.19 The prophet David intreateth the Lord * Iohn 2.20 To teach him his wayes to lead him in a right path because of his enemies The Scripture telleth us * Iohn 16.13 That the holy Spirit is the unction that teacheth us all things * And leadeth us in all truth which is not to be understood of extraordinar but ordinar revelations when he maketh us to understād the true meaning of the writtē word of God that we may flee the evil which is to be avoyded follow the good which is injoyned and commanded Fourthly He that setteth God before him must remember God in the fore-named properties in his ubiquity justice and power he must consider that God is all where present to take notice both of the inward and outward conversation of men whither it be good or evil Therefore Augustine saith (b) Deustotus oculus est quia omnia videt manus totus est quia omnia operatur totuspes est quia ubique est Aug in Psal 120. That God is all an eye which seeth all things all hand who worketh all things and all foot who walketh every where He must likewise remember that the righteous Lord wil neither suffer the evil doing of men to be unpunished nor their good doings unrewarded of the one the Church saith in the booke of the Lamentations * Lament 1.18 The Lord is righteous for I have rebelled And of the other the Apostle saith * Heb. 6 10. God is not unjust to forget your work labour of love Lastly he mustremember the power of the Almighty God * Psal 135.6 Whereby he doth whatsoever he wileth in heaven and earth And can do all that he can will without impediment according to the saying of Tertulian (c) Deiposse velle est non posse nolle est Tertul. in apologe To be able with God is to will and not to be able is not to will Whereby likewise he can punish sinners for their iniquity notwithstandsting of their greatnes amōgst men the multitude wherwith they combine in the course of sin by which power likewise * Psal 91.1 He protecteth his Saints in their greatest danger and difficulty and comforteth strengthneth them * Colo. 1.11 in their greatest trouble and calamity * Ephes 3.20 satisfieth their desire exceeding abundantly Now there are three reasons wherfore a Christian should carefully labour thus to set God before him First There are three reasons wherefore a Christian should always set God before him because amongst many other differences this is one most remarkeable betwixt the Elect and the Reprobate betwixt men in the state of nature and in the state of grace Spirituall men like David * Psal 16.8 set God alwayes before them but wicked and worldly men like the enemies of David doe not at all set God before them but live in the world * Ephes 2.12 without hope and without God and by their carriage declare to the world * Psal 36.1 That they are void of the feare of God but when Christians set God before them this is an evident note of their effectuall calling * Acts 26.16 Whereby they are turned from the power of Satan unto God * Colos 1.13 And translated from the power of darknesse unto the Kingdome of the Son of God * 1 Pet. 2.9 And are called out of darknesse unto the marveilous light of Christ 2. If we consider the happines of such as set God before them and the misery of those that set not God before them the happinesse of the one appeareth in this that as they set God before them so he setteth them before him For in all reciprocall offices betwixt God and man that is in those things