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spirit_n	bear_v	son_n	witness_n	5,359	5	7.9501	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18050	The wise King, and the learned iudge in a sermon, out of the 10. verse of the 2. psalme: lamenting the death, and proposing the example, of Sir Edvvard Levvenor, a religious gentleman. Preached vpon a lecture-day at Canham in Suffolke. By Bezalell Carter.	Carter, Bezaleel, d. 1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 4693; ESTC S118631	28,180	76

to discerne and iudge of things counting al things in this world riches pleasures beautie as losse and dung for the excellent knowledge sake of Christ Phil. 3. 8. Secondly as wise to preuent danger rather willing to loose any thing then his owne soule Thirdly as wise to prouide and lay vp treasures in heauen Luk. 12. 33. yea his conuersation was in heauen Phil. 3. 20. his affections mounting and aspiring vpward And whereas others of his ranke are wont to make this world their Paradise one making a god of his belly another a goddesse of his Herodias one hunting after honour another after wealth one consuming all his precious time vpon dogges another at the dice one in an humour of cloaths a second in an humour of building all drownd and drunken with the loue of vain pleasures c. neglecting the good of their soules you all knowe that his delight was like Ieremies in the word of God and that was the ioy and reioycing of his heart Ier. 15. 16. His delight was like Dauids in the house of God and reioyced when they said Come let vs go to the house of the Lord Psalm 122. 1. His ioy was like Pauls in the free preaching of the Gospell Phil. 1. 18. His delight was in the companie of the Saints and those which are excellent Psalm 16. 3. And as for that mad mirth spoken of Eccl. 2. 2. and the reioycing of the vngodly spoken of Iob. 20. 5. might he not haue taken vp Salomons words I said of laughter thou art madde and of ioy what is it that thou doest Eccl. 2. 2. Secondly was he not also learned yea 2 Learned take the word in what sense you please in regard of humane or diuine learning If I should report how well skilled hee was in the tongues in arts and sciences how cunning he was in the Scriptures how powerfull hee was in disputation how strongly he would refel a falshood how quicke he was of inuention how ready to perceiue c. I should speake no more then euerie man knowes alreadie that were any whit of his acquaintance The truth is that for strength of wit and naturall parts as Iunius said of that famous Vrsinus I see not what was wanting in him that may be found in a man Well me thinks I may say of him with a little alteration of the words as one writes of that blessed and worthy King Edward the sixt Aderant enim illi gratia linguas enim multas callebat Anglicam natalem Latinam non expers vt audio Grecae c. non illi dialectica deerat non naturalis Philosophiae principia c. Cardanus as an other holy diuine wrote of the same Prince the same may also bee said of him There wāted in him no promptnesse of wit grauity of sentence ripenes of iudgment and ouer and besides these notable excellencies and other great vertues in him adde moreouer skill and knowledge of tongues and other sciences whereunto he seemed rather borne Fox pag. 1547. then brought vp But had I Moses learning Act. 7. 22. were I as eloquent and mighty in Scriptures as Apollos Act. 18. as full of knowledge as a full vessell is full of liquor or the sea ful of water yet all were nothing Thirdly 〈◊〉 obedience without obedience Speake we therfore in the next place of his practicke and operatiue learning of his sanctification and righteousnesse for as all sinne is either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vngodlinesse or vnrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18. so all the obedience that God requires of vs consists in the practise of these two things 1. Holinesse 2. Righteousnesse And whosoeuer can finde in himselfe a concurrence of both these a care to serue the Lord in holinesse and to deale iustly with men is truely regenerate Luk. 1. 73. Tit. 2. 12. Begin we then with sanctification His holines which generally discouers it selfe by a godly life 1. Pet. 1. 15. 16. Leu. 19. 2 3. and more particularly by these fruits of sanctification 1. zeale for Gods glory 2. frequency in prayer 3. a care to draw others to God 4. a care to honour Gods name 5. care in the choise of godly seruants 6. almes-deeds 7. progresse in grace to name no more all these are fruits effects and companions of holinesse See Psal 66. 9. 119. 139. Act. 10. 1 2. c. Hos 6. 1. Ioh. 4. 28. Deut. 5. 11. and by all and euery one of these it plainely appeares that this godly Gentleman was truely sanctified For first with the Prophet Elijah he His zeale was very zealous for the Lord of hosts 1. King 19. 10. and like Dauid accounted the wrongs done to God as done to himselfe and hated the enemies of God as his owne enemies Psal 139. 21. and as Dauid speakes Psal 119. 48. I will speak of thy testimonies before Kings and will not be ashamed so let this be published to his eternall praise that he was not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ Rom. 1. 16. but wheresoeuer hee came and amongst whomsoeuer such was his zeale for God that he could not like many temporizers and time-seruers and formall professors that walke in a middle temper and are neither hot nor cold sit still and heare men plead for carnall libertie and say nothing or heare the name of God blasphemed or preaching auiled or profession or professors of the Gospel spoken against and neuer vnfold his lips for God or his brethren like many neuters and night-professors Ioh. 3. 2. But as he was learned knew how to speake so also he was zealous and resolute and would not spare to speake for Christ and for his Gospel 2 In prayer often Secondly how holy was hee in his morning and euening sacrifice in his more priuate and publike deuotions twice a day reading the word and praying in his family except some minister of the Gospell whom like another Obadiah he fedde at his owne table were present to performe that duty neither did he read his prayers vpon a booke or tied himselfe to stinted formes which I condemne not in those which haue not the hard gift of prayer beeing like some man newly recouered of some sicknesse that cannot goe except they be supported by another mans hand but he prayed freely according to the motion of Gods spirit and how skilfully and zealously there are many of his religious family to beare witnesse I remember what I read of Iob Iob 1. 5. when his sonnes were banqueting in their houses Iob sent and sanctified them and offred vp burnt offerings for them and the text addes moreouer that he did it dayly and constantly Thus did Iob euery day The like may be said of this worthy seruant of God that he offered vp his sacrifice of praise and prayer to God euery day a morning and euening sacrifice and that so dayly and constantly that his greatest and waightiest employments were none