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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17927	A sermon preached in Oxford-shire; by Nicholas Cantrel, Master in Arts. Published at the request of Sir Richard Blunt	Cantrell, Nicholas.	1624 (1624)	STC 4588; ESTC S118531	21,341	42

to the roofe of his mouth strikes his messenger dumbe and all to heape vengeance upon them that he might set the dumbenesse of his prophet upon the score of the peoples sinnes Eze. 3.25 Micah thinks it enough to keepe a Levite in his house to be his Priest for ten shekells of silver and a suit of apparell by the yeare he thinkes the Lord will be well-pleased with him for this But what was the Lord ever a whit the better pleased with him for this No Micah had a house of gods and therefore the Lord sends him a wandering Levite fit for a wicked Idolater Iudg. 17.10 Well then to returne and make an end of all Whosoever he is that would be the true servant of God must thus thinke of himselfe that hee is a member of that holy and invisible Church w th hath none in it but good men none but gratious and godly men therefore such as these hee must embrace with a loving entire affection to these he must joine unite himselfe yea he must not contemne the faithfull messengers of the Lord but have them in singular regard for their workes sake As for wicked men that make but a mock of grace these he must fly from as from serpents they are onely set as snares in his way to keep him from the service of God and from the performance of religious dueties Thus right Honorable and Beloved you have heard the summe and substance of those points delivered and handled which are included in this pithie and godly protestation of Ioshuah First from the connexion of my text what constancie resolution there is should be in those that are the true servants of God Though all the world revolt yet they must cleave unto God Secondly from the high estate of him that protesteth here you have been taught from hence that God requires of them for whom he hath done most in this world that they should bee most zealous for him And lastly from the extent of it you have heard that the true servants of God will keepe none in their houses but such as joine with them in the true worshiping of God You have heard these points handled and prosecuted at large I must not dwell upon particulars Onely give mee leave to end with a word or two of exhortation As Ioshuah in the beginning of his speach sought to stirre up the Israelites unto the feare and obedience of the Lord by rehearsing what God had done for them So may I with as good reason lay the same ground of exhortation in the closing up of mine Now then by the tender mercies of our God by all the benefits which we have received of him which are infinite in number inestimable in value by our great and manifold deliverances not as the Israelites from the downe-right violence of Perizzites Iebusites but from the furious and treacherous conspiracies of more subtile more cruell more politicke more malicious more inhumane enemies By the sweet peace and quiet prosperitie of our countrie By this blessed and free passage of the Gospell of peace which doth everie where display its pure and celestial beames being hid in none but in them that perish By those better things which God hath prepared for his servants in the life to come even the joyes of heaven such as no eye hath seene no tongue can relate nor ever have entered into the heart of man O let this stirre up in us a readinesse a resolution a zeale to this dutie To feare God to love God with all our heart with all our strength with all our might To referre our actions wholly unto the glorie of our God To serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the dayes of our life But if such unspeakeable bountie such heavenly goodnesse cannot winne our earthly and wretched soules yet know this there is a Hell and there be damned and torments in verie deed such as no patience is able to beare no date of time weare out If yee care not for his mercies yet feare his judgements Neverthelesse why will wee tempt and provoke his justice who is so rich in mercie O rather since there is mercie with God therefore let him be feared This it is which should make us cheerful in the service of our God which should make us performe willing obedience to our Lord Knowing that if we serve him here wee shall raigne with him hereafter if wee set our delight upon him here wee shall be satisfied with his presence hereafter if wee give glory unto him whilst we live here hereafter wee shall triumph with him and be received into glorie Now the God of heaven c. Soli Deo sapienti gloria FINIS

dutie of man the Epitome of all profitable learning Luk. 10.42 Col. 12.13 2. Tim. 3.15 which is only able to make us wise to salvation These are those bookes which thou shalt be put unto upon the greatest tryall that ever can befall thee even upon life and death not this temporall of the bodie but that eternall of soule and bodie before the Almightie Iudge of the world In the twentith of the Revelation and the 12th I saw the dead saith Iohn both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke vvas opened which is the booke of life and the dead vvere iudged of those things vvhich were written in the bookes according to their vvorkes Well the seeond rule that I will propose to be practised for the right performance of this duetie to God is this If thou thy house wouldst serve God so as you ought to serve him then know that God hath set apart one day of the weeke for his service He allowes thee sixe dayes to spend upon thy selfe but requires that thou shouldest dedicate the seventh day unto him and lest thou mightst forget it he bids thee Remember to keep it holy Oh denie him not so small a request as one day that hath given thee all Nor hath he for himselfe anie need of this from thee but for thy sake requires it of thee with manifold blessings to returne it to thee This day then thou must exempt from the vaine things of this world and spend it wholly in pious duties in religious exercises in the Word in the Sacraments in the workes of mercie and charitie Now thou must rouze up thy soule and all that is within thee to sing prayses unto the Name of the Lord in the congregation of his Saints Now thinke upon the glorious workes of the Lord the sweet hope of thy redemption the manifold benefites and consolation that thou enjoyest in Christ and then let thy ravisht soule burst forth into those glorious exultations of David It is a good thing to give thankes unto the Lord and to sing prayses unto thy Name O most High to tell of thy loving kindnesse in the morning and of thy truth in the night season Psal 92.1 A third Rule I adde and that is this As the Sabbath is appointed of God to be wholly consecrate unto his service so thou must let no day passe without a speciall remembrance of God The Heathens in their counterfeit Religion yet retained this principle A love princip●um to begin the day and whatsoever they undertooke by first calling upon their gods and shame it were for Christians to be more negligent in performing this service unto the God of heaven the true God than Heathens were in performing it unto their Idols which by nature were no gods Therefore if thou wouldest be the true servant of God thou must everie day call upon him every day pray unto him privately by thy selfe publikely with thy family joyning together with one heart and with one spirit with reverence with diligence with fervencie This Rule wee may learne from the Apostle Pray alwayes saith he with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit but how and watching thereunto with all perseverance Ephes 6.18 The common sort of Christians doe shew by their carelesse behavior that they are fouly mistaken what prayer is they thinke it enough to repeat the words and so the tongue be busie in speaking no matter what the heart is thinking thus they turn the chiefest means of grace into the foulest sin that is tempting the great majestie of God by their rash presumption But if we would pray as we ought we must come unto this dutie with a reverent preparation behaving our selves as in the sight of God For this is an high heavenly duty which makes us as it were familiar with God whereby wee come into the presence of God and are vouchsafed being but dust and ashes to conferre with that glorious majestie of God and therefore unlesse we meane to pull downe a curse upon our selves we must take heed how wee perform so weightie and divine a dutie carelesly formally and coldly I speake this with griefe of heart and to our shame no garish toy no companie so vile and hatefull in the sight of God but is able to cause us to omit this duetie and to break it off What my beloved doe we thinke that God stands in such need of our devotions that when wee have served the flesh and the world he will be contented with the refuse of our time and affections Oh no! we may learne farre better things of the Heathens Ignavis precibus fortuna repugnat Fortune say they resisteth cold and sluggish prayers And shall that service bee thought meet by Christians for the true and everliving God which Heathens thought unmeet for their blind their false their imaginarie goddesse Farre be this from us wee have not so learned Christ A fourth rule to be observed that wee may bee the true servants of God is to withdraw our affections from worldly vanities wee must take heed that these get not the possession of our hearts if they doe all that service which wee should performe unto God will soone vanish and come to nothing Love not the world saith S. Iohn neither the things that are in the world If anie man love the world the love of the Father is not him 1 Iohn 2.15 For indeed where the heart is taken up with vanitie what roome can there be for pietie There cannot bee two such different masters as are the God of heaven and the god of this world And our Saviour plainely tells us that no man can serve two masters without hating the one of them Yee cannot saith hee serve God and Mammon Wee must therefore according to that rule of the Apostle so use the world as if wee used it not so use it that we fall not in love with the vanities of it that we be not ensnared with the deceitfulnes of it A fift and last rule to be observed of us if wee would shew our selves zealous in the service of God is first that wee should love and affect good men cherish them and encourage them keepe them with us and converse with them A true friend saith the proverbe is a friend also to him that loves his friend I may extend the nature of this proverbe to the true servants of God they that serve God sincerely themselves will make much of the servants of God And David puts it for one of the characters and markes of him that shall rest upon the holy hill of God to make much of them that feare the Lord Psal 15.4 On the contrarie those that be ungodly and prophane that deride all pietie and religion such as those are thy soule must hate and abhorre David could tell no better way whereby to make proofe of his zeale unto God than by such an affection Doe not I hate them saith he that hate