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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

walke no longer in the flesh but in the spirit or good way of life and lanch foorth Luke 8.22 or saile forward as a Ship gone out of the Hauen from the shore of the new birth to the Hauen of our peace in death Many are at a stand in knowledge and rather goe back-ward then forward in the way of grace Such grow but vntowardly and prooue dwarfes and not men of any stature in Christ But in viâ virtutis non progredi est regredi in the way of true vertue not to goe on is to goe backe and as it cannot be a member of a growing body that groweth not as the body doeth so neither can it bee any liuely member of a true Church that prospereth not as that Church doth with the increases of God All non proficients therefore in the degrees and schoole of regeneration are bad Christians and not members growing into Christ but members pro forma that is for fashion onely and so are as farre from the end as they fall short of the meanes of being as it followeth An holy Temple in the Lord c. For how can that bee a fit Temple or habitation for God by his Spirit to dwell in which groweth not into a building What man can conueniently and will contentedly dwell in a house that is but begun to be built and before it haue any either roofe or couer And will the high God dwell in any house in his Ierusalem below whose neither wall is builded nor roofe couered but to proceede the words that follow haue two points in them of speciall consideration as the qualitie of this Temple it must be holy and the reason thereof it is the habitation of God by his Spirit It is called a Temple by allusion to the Temple that was at Ierusalem which was a type of the spirituall Ierusalem and Church of Christ and this is either of all the stones together which is the Church framed with the corner-stone which is Christ or of the stones considered separately by themselues euery one of which makes a singular temple as all together makes an vniuersall in Christ So many Christians therefore so many liuely stones toward the building of the generall Temple and yet euery true Christian is a Temple to God 1 Cor. 3.16 6.19 And this Temple both the whole and euery stone in it must be holy that is endewed with holinesse and purged from the lust of concupiscence which was the lust of those which knew not God 1 Thes 4.4 5. which worke of reformation though it shall be hindred by many as the second Temple at Ierusalem had many aduersaries Neh. 4.1 2 7 8 2.19 20. yet shall it proceede to the perfection of the body of Christ as that other building went forward and was finished notwithstanding all that either malice or craft could doe against it Onely let vs not hinder it our selues by liuing in vncleannesse and by neglecting to purge our selues that wee may be a peculiar people to God zealous of good workes Tit. 2.14 And what we beleeue let vs practise wee beleeue a holy Catholique Church let vs therefore practise holinesse that our practise be not against our faith Let vs labour to be holy as hee is holy that hath called vs. 1 Peter 1.15 16. And seeing hee hath washed vs who hath giuen himselfe for vs let vs not plunge our selues againe in the mire Ephes 5.25 26. to wit in the mire of our first corrupt nature VERS 22. In whom you all are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit FOr who will prepare for a great man his friend in a foule house or lodge him in a stable And is any person greater or friend better to vs then God Or is any house or roome of the house fowler then an vnpurged conscience And what stable is more loathsome then the loathsome stable or rather stie of a wicked heart But how doeth God dwell in vs Resp Ministerially by his Word and Sacraments and principally by his Spirit For his Word therefore seeing hee dwelleth in vs by it wee must resolue to giue to it as to himselfe our best entertainement lodging it in the best roome of the house the heart and not in the out-house of the eare And for the Sacraments chiefely that of the Supper the chamber must be trimmed wherein Christ will eate that Sacrament with his Disciples Marke 14.15 16. And for that which is chiefe and expressed in my Text the Spirit seeing it is the Spirit of God and very God wee must take heed how wee sinne against it that is the good motions of it in our hearts wilfully and dispitefully for that is a sickenesse to death for which there is no Phisicke by repentance This is a sinne of men enlightned with the trueth The Gentiles without God cannot commit it neither the Iewes that are without Christ A sinne wherein a man falles away generally and malitiously from God yea for euer and vtterly from him in all the effects of a reprobate heart and heart that cannot repent This is that great sinne which Satan hath so blacked that it can neuer bee made white a sinne that shall not bee forgiuen to a man either in this World or in the World to come that is neuer Mat. 12.32 Quest But is not the sinne against the holy Ghost a sinne against the Father and Sonne as well as him Ans This sinne if we consider the person of the holy Ghost it is no more against it then it is against the persons of the Father and the Sonne but because the holy Ghost immediately both conuinceth conscience and enlightneth it therefore when we sinne against knowledge and the light of our hearts we are said properly and directly to sinne not against the Father or Sonne but holy Ghost But a Christian may sinne against the Spirit though in a farre lesser degree of sinne against him then by this which is so bitterly offensiue against all his graces in our hearts To know how wee must first know how and in what respect the holy Ghost may be said to dwell in a Christian or God by him And this is not in regard of substance for the whole substance of the holy Ghost which cannot bee diuided cannot bee shut vp within the body or soule of man but in respect of some particular worke or operation Now a Christian may sinne against this worke of the Spirit in him either when grace is offered and not accepted of or accepted of and not well vsed For example grace was offered to the old World by Noah and hee warned them for a hundred and twenty yeeres by preparing the Arke but they had neither eares to heare it nor hands to receiue it and so the Arke that is the time of repentance offered by it condemned them Heb. 11.7 Sodom was exhorted to repentance by iust Lot and a pleasant land yet shee reiected the Spirit that spake by these vnto her 2 Pet. 2.6

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